Killer, Run The Jewels.
“Those who handlin’ damage control don’t wish us the best luck” Jaime Meline contends atop a raggedy throwback beat on the first gem to be unearthed from El-P’s newly polished escapades alongside...
View ArticleRunning This Town Tonight, Run The Jewels.
I’m finding it increasingly difficult to get all hot and bothered up about the collar over contemporary hip hop releases, although the work of El-P never fails to garner a heady response. So when news...
View Article24-Carat on a 36″ Chain, Run The Jewels.
Allaying all fears of getting carried away with El-P and Killer Mike’s Run The Jewels enterprise, we’re back with the transatlantic experimental rap titans as they dump down the hefting 36″ Chain. The...
View ArticleRun The Jewels, Blockbuster Night Pt. 1.
“Last album voodoo proved that we was fuckin’ brutal/ I’m talkin’ crazy – half past, the clock is cuckoo” spits Killer Mike as he and El-P combine once more for Blockbuster Night Pt. 1. A first to...
View ArticleRun The Jewels, Oh My Darling Don’t Cry.
From Fatima Al Qadiri to Tim Hecker; Giorgio Moroder to Mastodon, featuring Butthole Surfer Gibby Haynes – as well as a first all-new number from seminal dopesmokers Sleep in almost twenty years, it’s...
View ArticleRun The Jewels, Close Your Eyes (And Count To Fuck) (feat. Zack de la Rocha).
Thought the unholy rap matrimony that unites El-P and Killer Mike was already, well, killer enough? Well, the statesiders just upped the ante pretty significantly, with the excellently titled Close...
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Fest Bests: SXSW 2015.
For one reason or another, (although in all honesty, it’s always a question of money, isn’t it?) I’ve never made it out to Austin, Texas for the annual (largely) independent music mara-, (putatively)...
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Review: SXSW 2015.
Attempting to digest the Austin omnimedia blowout that is SXSW, and regurgitate even vaguely cogent thoughts thereon subsequently, is nigh on impossible, by dint of it being so difficult to stomach to...
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Fest Bests: Field Day 2015.
Last weekend’s Land of Kings felt rather a lot like a sort of watershed moment within the context of 2015, in the sense that it seemed to herald the beginning of the swiftly onsetting [a/f]estival...
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Review: Field Day 2015.
What a difference a day – or, in this specific instance, a night – makes, for although the Field Day 2015 ‘pre-party’ down The Shacklewell Arms may seem comparatively inconsequential, it makes the...
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Review: Queens of the Stone Age, Finsbury Park.
Having played host to such readily identifiable indie stalwarts as Arctic Monkeys, Oasis and Pulp, Finsbury Park (‘affectionately’ known to some by its backwards spelling of kraP yrubsniF) is no...
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