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Aesop Rock

  • Blogs

    May 3, 2012

    Q&A: Blockhead On Public Access, The Baby Show, And Learning About Sex From Channel J

    "Public access was a platform for the weirdest New Yorkers who had any sort of gumption to create," says Blockhead, a hip-hop producer whose new album on the Ninja Tune label, Interludes After Midnight, is named in homage to a late-night show on channel 35 that just so happened to be hooked around t ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    May 4, 2011

    Aesop Rock

    "Public access was a platform for the weirdest New Yorkers who had any sort of gumption to create," says Blockhead, a hip-hop producer whose new album on the Ninja Tune label, Interludes After Midnight, is named in homage to a late-night show on channel 35 that just so happened to be hooked around t ... More >>

  • Music

    October 13, 2010

    Linkin Park Made Their OK Computer

    All hail A Thousands Suns, the finest dystopian fusion a major label can buy

  • Blogs

    October 4, 2010

    The 10 Greatest Rap Songs About Video Games

    ​Def Jam Rapstar is the latest attempt to merge the worlds of hip-hop and video games. In the past, this has involved shoehorning playable rapper characters into cliched genres -- a Wu-Tang Clan beat-'em-up! 50 Cent's first-person shooter! -- or rappers licensing a few throwaway songs to the l ... More >>

  • Music

    August 18, 2010

    Camu Tao Gets His Due

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    The Week of Obama Odes. Plus, Kool Keith, Still Batshit and Pervy

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

  • Music

    October 15, 2008

    Murs Hits the Big Time, If 'the Big Time' Even Exists

    The departed rapper's King of Hearts is hard to hear and harder to ignore

  • Music

    May 27, 2008

    The Official Guide to Twee Outdoor Summer Dance Parties

    Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2008

    The Singles Column: Coldplay, DJ Khaled, Ting Tings

    Stock up on deodorant, and gird yourself for another trip down the ol’ Slip N Slide

  • Voice Choices

    March 18, 2008

    BLIP OUT

    Experimental hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium reunite

  • Blogs

    March 7, 2008

    PLUG Award Winners 2008: The Ones I Remember

    Experimental hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium reunite

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2008

    Seven Questions For John Darnielle of the Mountain Goats

    Experimental hip-hop group Anti-Pop Consortium reunite

  • Unknown

    January 15, 2008

    Maybe We Shouldn't Do This Anymore

    The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2008

    Emo-Rap Discovers the Mixtape

    The perils and absurdities of rock criticism as a career in 2008

  • Music

    August 21, 2007

    Time Waits for One Man

    More occasionally inscrutable tales of Long Island delinquency from Aesop Rock

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2007

    Live: El-P Really Isn't All That Irritating

    More occasionally inscrutable tales of Long Island delinquency from Aesop Rock

  • Music

    March 13, 2007

    No Sleep for Brooklyn

    Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2006

    Status Ain't Hood Interviews the Mountain Goats

    Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

  • Blogs

    September 30, 2005

    French Rappers Pretend to Be Rappers

    Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

  • Blogs

    September 22, 2005

    Scary Demonic Rapper Grows Up

    Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2005

    Jay-Z Vows to "Air Out" Joe's Pub Bouncers

    Indie-rap fireplug El-P returns, as bombastically bleak as ever

  • Music

    June 21, 2005

    The Cotton Club

    Black-conscious hip-hop deals with an overwhelmingly white live audience

  • Music

    March 22, 2005

    Career Opportunity

    Alt-rapping Perceptionists trade their black vocals so they can share their black lives

  • Music

    October 5, 2004

    Your Guide to CMJ 2004

    Alt-rapping Perceptionists trade their black vocals so they can share their black lives

  • NYC Life

    August 24, 2004

    Listings

    Alt-rapping Perceptionists trade their black vocals so they can share their black lives

  • Home

    February 3, 2004

    The Personals

    Alt-rapping Perceptionists trade their black vocals so they can share their black lives

  • Music

    January 6, 2004

    Music

    Alt-rapping Perceptionists trade their black vocals so they can share their black lives

  • Music

    December 30, 2003

    MLK Fever

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • NYC Life

    December 30, 2003

    Listings

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • NYC Life

    November 4, 2003

    Listings

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    October 14, 2003

    Music

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • NYC Life

    September 30, 2003

    Shortlist

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    May 27, 2003

    Music

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    December 31, 2002

    Music

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    October 1, 2002

    What the Geezer Saw

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    July 9, 2002

    Tigers in a Spotlight

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • Music

    June 25, 2002

    Here Comes a Regular

    Bill O'Reilly, we salute you, now please give us all our frankincense and myrrh back

  • NYC Life

    March 5, 2002

    Show Me Your Undies

    Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

  • Music

    November 13, 2001

    Salaam

    Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

  • Music

    October 2, 2001

    The Anti-Bling Kings

    Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

  • Music

    April 3, 2001

    Music

    Local Record Labels Strip Down to Just the Essentials

  • Music

    April 11, 2000

    Genius Rap

    Out in the Burbs and Boonies, Hip-Hop Connects With Its Inner Weirdo

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