To the uninitiated, Madlib and Freddie Gibbs getting together to release Pinata via the former’s Madlib Invazion label might seem out of character

Carla Bozulich’s work has always been filled with an amorphous dread regarding such things as addiction, intimacy, and mortality, and on Boy, there's

This Is Where We Are is really sexy if you like women in cardigans. The riffs on the instrumental opener could be Zeppelin-esque, if they weren't played

Cities Aviv (real name Gavin Mays) has been one of rap music’s most intriguing voices ever since he dropped the single “Coastin’” back in the summer of

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Here are a few highlights from my year of listening, in approximately chronological order.

A$AP Rocky on Late Show with David Letterman
I’m responsible for about 1,000 of those 20,000 YouTube views. This happened way back in January 2013 (feels like three years ago), and I’ve come back to this again and again. It’s delirious, intimidating, invigorating and… Holy shit! It’s Araabmuzik!…

It was a brutally hot Friday afternoon, and I’d just purchased a $7 burrito from a lazily named food truck (The Burrito) after narrowly avoiding a hula hoop that escaped from some young hippie’s undulating waist and flew at my head. It was my first time at the Nelsonville Music Festival, and I thought I knew what I was in for. I made my way …