As the New York rapper and Danny Brown buddy ASAP Rocky enjoys a meteoric and lucrative rise, the similarly named but altogether very different New York rapper and Danny Brown buddy Aesop Rock has…   Read Story »

This week's music-video MVP was whoever was responsible for researching New York signage in Kindness's "Cyan" video. That must've taken a lot of work! As good as that video was, though, it couldn't…   Read Story »

John Darnielle and Aesop Rock teamed up in the past to bring us a cut of "Coffee," and now it's a twist on Heretic Pride's sci-fi dropping "Lovecraft In Brooklyn." Darnielle himself explains it at…   Read Story »

Aesop turned some heads with his match-up of lyrical heavyweights cut "Coffee" from this year's None Shall Pass (pulling a last minute verse from Mountain man John Darnielle) and it's another round…   Read Story »

Doing for underground hip-hop what Run-DMC and Aerosmith, the Judgement Night soundtrack and Zach Galifianakis and the Bonny one did for the aboveground stuff, encyclopedic spitter Aesop Rock goes…   Read Story »

That Pitchforkmedia must be doing something right; 19,000 people a day hit up their Festival for 18 hours of music over two days, despite some serious heat and humidity. Whether that's a testament to…   Read Story »