It's pretty ubiquitous lately, but Samin Nosrat's "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat" really lives up the the hype, and has become pretty indispensable since my partner got it for me- the fact that it's less focused on recipes, and more on technique is a huge benefit when, as many folks have stated, most recipes are available…

Imagine if this space was used to promote some of the MANY progressive left leaning extreme metal acts instead of just regurgitating a bunch of barely tied together anti-fa hand wringing. Fetishizing nazism is dumb as shit, but there's always gonna be folks in the metal scene that wanna do it (as pointed out in the…

From the prospective of someone who is tangentially connected to the music city in Austin, SXSW is super litigious, and wild petty. I know quite a few folks (myself included) that have been on the receiving end of a cease and desist letter from them for next to nothing. Every year they make ungodly amounts of money…

I mean, they are under no obligation to ask about her legally, but anchoring the interview on the dissonance of two dudes voicing a "white girl" and then not bringing up the actual girl that co-founded the character and now has (seemingly) been written out of the companies history seems like not a great look.

Look, I'll concede that, depending on your city, rap radio these days generally consists of a bunch of knock-off DJ Mustard beats (half of them still made by Mustard sadly) and heart-broken Canadians, but if you push past that just a little bit, it's pretty undeniable that the genre's just as sonically experimental as…

Why draw lines at all? Folks act like you need to police an art form for it to thrive, when obviously that would only stunt it's progress. Do you really wanna be the 2015 version of the crowd at the 95 source awards booing Outkast? Vital art stays vital by evolving, and I'd rather follow it to new and interesting…

I dunno. feel like the site's different, but certainly not worse. I think it's definitely traded in some if it's unified tone and maybe a little of it's edge along with that, which is a bummer, but it's really expanded its perspective. Almost every section has a much wider lens of coverage than it used to, and it's…

Try Melbourne, Florida by Dick Diver. They're from Australia and might be up your alley. Also maybe the Natalie Prass s/t record. And the new Courtney Barnett. I'm basically just listing the records from this year in my "won't offend or irritate co-workers or extended family members" pile, but I really dig all those.

Lol. I'm pretty sure some variation of that derision has been said about every era of rap since day one. Saying the next generations rappers aren't "hip-hop" ages about as well as saying that something's "just a bunch of noise" (which in my book is a compliment, but I digress)

I'm generally not too fond of any his work- IMO both Dangerdoom & Gnarls Barkley were pretty disappointing bland steps for artists I really dug, and The Grey Album was novel at best (at worst just another example of rock and roll "legitimizing" rap… not that I think that was his intention, but it was a pretty…

Yes yes yes yes yes

This looks pretty legit, even if it is slight. The Ego Trip folks have rarely let me down… even if the do skew a little more towards the four elements/ "real hip-hop" / "NY is the center of the universe" side of things than I care for. Especially stoked to see the segment about Dapper Dan- dude easily warrants his own…

Well, at least it's not another white dude

Kentucky Blood?

Definitely this. The west coast had a huge hand in shaping the evolution of southern rap. Master P got his start in the bay- No Limit started as a record store in Richmond before it was ever a record label, and early No Limit comps were split between west coast and southern artists. DJ Screw also played a huge part in…

I'm gonna guess that the venn diagram between Juggalos and people working fast food into their 30's+ may have just a little bit of overlap. (I don't say that to throw any shade on fast food employees of any age… just clowns in glass houses, etc. etc. )

Nope- that song is such a jam. Birdman seems like a truly terrible human, but I really dig him on a track still. Like Father Like Son is a hell of an album, and even his stuff on the Rich Gang record / the new Young Thug tape is pretty great.

I've only really been able to get into Pusha when he was paired w his brother. His solo stuff has always seemed to bring out his shortcomings to me more than anything sadly. The only track I really dug of My Name is My Name was Suicide, and that was mostly because of the Neptunes beat and Ab Liva balancing him out. I…

Such a brilliant album. Lord Willing is generally my go to when I listen to Clipse, but this is definitely the superior record. HHNF is just so consistently bleak and nihilistic, even when the lyrics are celebratory, that I have to be in a pretty specific mood to put it on- but when I am, it's pretty much perfect.

Seems like an oversight to not mention the early LA stuff as part of the genres roots… Groups like X, The Gun Club and The Flesh Eaters may not have fully embraced the aesthetic to the level that the Cramps did, but they definitely had a huge influence on the darker sound and feel.