Buck 65

Download: Big Boi Mixtape For Dummies And The Rammellzee Tribute Elegy for a Gothic Futurist

​Between these, your BBQ playlist is covered: Big Boi's self-released offering (available here) is fairly self-explanatory and pretty stupendous; this blog-born Rammellzee mix, though, is equally essential for anyone looking to explore the dearly departed NYC hip-hop icon's back catalog beyond ... More >>

More SXSW 2009 Bands Announced

SXSW 2009: the sound of a thousand Babydick jokes cracking. Full list, with arbitrarily bolded highlights, below.

SXSW's 2009 Partial Performers List: If You Can Afford to Go, You Must Be Running a Ponzi Scheme

Dark Meat at last year's SXSW, photo by Rebecca Smeyne See, it's totally lame, don't worry, you're not missing a thing South by Southwest just firebombed everybody's inboxes with a partial list of names playing this year's barbecue-and-booze blitz. A quick scan reveals the midsize marquee names to ... More >>

Letters 10.29.08

Atmosphere's When Life Gives You Lemons . . .

Ostensibly mature indie-rappers woo baristas, unconvincingly

Track 18 Wins Again!

Major-Label Hip-Hop Records in Burying-Best-Tracks Shocker!

Confusion Is Sexy

More kool, confounding things from Canada's most ambitious alt-rapper

Devils We Know

Serge Gainsbourg, Lara Croft, blue-collar rapper, Saharan exile—meet Cops

A Month on the Town

The man who's reviewed 12,000 records reviews 32 shows in 30 days

Outdoor Concerts & Music Festivals

Dean's List

Wishahouse

Great white Northerner never-weres make a mountain out of a prole hill

Tom Waits for Someone, Boozy Brooklynites Suggest

Career Opportunity

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

He'll Eat Anything

Waggish, gravel-talking Nova Scotia rube Buck 65 quenches his hip-hop hunger pains

Harmonies and Abysses

Across the sky sheet the impossible birds in a steady illiterate movement homewards

The Dean's List

The Personals

Rousing Constituencies

Old dogs singin' slow songs and fairygodmotherfuckers for discerning dilettantes

Golden Shower of Hits

Queer Eyes for the Great White North Sip That Yellow Snow

Shadows in the Cave

Escape Claus

Throw Your Hands in the Air

Live and Erect

Rock And Rap Shows Bed-Spring Into Action

Genius Rap

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