The Cool Kids

Underground rap vets Little Brother released their first two new songs in four years, one produced by Pumah and one produced by Conductor Williams.

Michael Tedder’s book Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music is out now. Here is an excerpt from a section about the intersection of Myspace and emo in 2003.

The Cool Kids will release three albums this year, first a group album, followed by solo albums from each member.

The lineup also includes Schoolboy Q (playing ‘Oxymoron’), Wiz Khalifa (playing ‘Kush & Orange Juice’), Lupe Fiasco (playing ‘Food & Liquor’), a 2 Chainz/Ferg set, an Ab-Soul/Wale set, Danny Brown, Rico Nasty, and more…

If you have fond memories of partying in the mid-’00s to the sounds of Hot Chip, Justice, Soulwax, CSS, Simian Mobile Disco and others, you might be interested in Lina Abascal’s new book ’Never Be Alone Again: How Bloghouse United the Internet and the Dancefloor’

Three of this year’s best rap albums have come from artists who make dusty, psychedelic, vintage-sounding rap, and who have turned this sound from a niche into a movement.

Listen to new songs by Bully, Moor Mother & billy woods, Boldy James/Cool Kids, Neurosis’ Steve Von Till, Kath Bloom, Travis, Wax Chattels, Mattiel (Beastie Boys cover), Young Knives, !!!, Silversun Pickups, and more.

All the new hip hop and R&B we posted on BV this week, including The Weeknd, City Girls, Koffee/Gunna, The Cool Kids, Valee, and more.

Listen to new songs by The Cool Kids, International Teachers of Pop (ft. Jason of Sleaford Mods), Nero Di Marte, Alexandre Desplat, Cornershop, Koffee, and more.

Here’s all the hip hop we posted on BV this week, including Nas, Beyonce, Lil Baby/DaBaby, YBN Nahmir/City Girls, Lil Durk/Meek Mill, Conway/Eminem, A$AP Ferg, Murs/Rapsody, and more.