The Japanese concept of mono no aware, roughly translated as “the pathos of things,” has gone on a curious journey through the music underground. Invoked almost two decades ago by William Basinski to describe a […]
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DJ Muggs: Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley
After landing a series of crossover hits, Cypress Hill turned to Indiana Jones for inspiration. Where their early records pulsed with blunted humor and buzzed paranoia, 1995’s Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom was slower […]
Earl Sweatshirt / The Alchemist: VOIR DIRE
Earl Sweatshirt, rap’s professor emeritus of dread, has inspired a whole subgenre of rusted, wavy, micro rap songs best absorbed on headphones with a hoodie pulled over. That Earl would become one of the many […]
Diego Raposo: YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ
Dominican multi-instrumentalist Diego Raposo plays with contrast on YO NO ERA ASÍ PERO DE AHORA EN ADELANTE, SÍ. Melding jungle breakbeats, fuzzed-out electric guitar, and frantic bass with melancholy downtempo production, Raposo’s new LP, which […]
Osees: Intercepted Message
It’s always a toss-up which style of guitar music John Dwyer and his rotating cast of Osees collaborators will lean into with each new album. Last time it was hardcore, but sometimes it’s prog or […]
Worm Found in Woman’s Brain Has Zero Chill
In January 2021, a 64-year-old woman from New South Wales, Australia went to a local hospital for abdominal pain, diarrhea, dry cough, fever, and night sweats. Her symptoms worsened, and by 2022 included forgetfulness and […]
Ron Jeremy Accusers Sue Sunset Strip Bar for Negligence in Alleged Attacks
Former porn actor Ron Jeremy has been in a California mental health hospital since February after a judge ruled him incompetent to stand trial for sexually assaulting 21 women. Now, two of his accusers are […]
On the Ground at Creators’ Biggest Night
What better place than the 2023 Streamys for Dream — the masked Twitch streamer now signed to Mercury and Republic Records — to do a second face reveal? After struggling to read the teleprompter because […]
Loved Ones Mourn Victims Killed in Jacksonville Shooting: ‘I Am Broken’
In Jacksonville, Florida, the community is in mourning after three people — all of whom were Black — were killed by a white man who entered a Dollar General store on Saturday and opened fire […]
jaimie branch: Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war))
Midway through “burning grey,” from her riotous third and final album Fly or Die Fly or Die Fly or Die ((world war)), jaimie branch issues an exhortation that could serve as her artistic mission statement: […]
A Giant Dog: Bite
A Giant Dog’s Bite, the Austin, Texas, group’s first batch of new material since 2017’s Toy, bills itself as a concept album, but Avalonia (the invented realm in which the action takes place) bears little difference […]
ovrkast.: RESET! EP
Oakland rapper-producer ovrkast. thrives on elegant beats that split the difference between hazy, traditionalist boom-bap and the wavy, loop-based production that’s taken the rap underground by storm since Madlib’s Quasimoto days. After years of Bandcamp […]