Music nostalgia tends to move in 20-year cycles, so early 2000s rap is unsurprisingly leaving a mark on today's new rap music. Here are 25 albums from that era that hold up especially well today...
This week we pulled inspiration from 'Master of None' with songs from the soundtrack: Arthur Russell, Sparks, Father John Misty, The Cure, X-Ray Spex, The Durutti Column, Lou Reed David Bowie, Digable Planets, William Onyeabor, Brian Eno, Aphex Twin, and lots more.
Would you call it Weird Roots? Madlib and Doom aligned in 2004 to form Madvillain. Their debut LP Madvillainy for Stones Throw included the song "Accordion"...
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A new Madvillain track, "Papermill," is online to stream and download. The Madlib's wirey '70s cop chase sample and top-form wordplay from DOOM are both good signs that the pair is putting in some serious effort to follow-up 2004's Madvillainy...
DOOM @ Pitchfork Fest in July (more by Joseph Xu)"...A visual always brings a first impression. But if there's going to be a first impression I might as well use it to control the story...