Earlier this year, the former Das Racist rapper Kool A.D. released two solo mixtapes, 63 and 19, on the same day. And in the new Weird Days-directed video for the 19 track "Jaleel White" -- named for…   Read Story »

Native American-rooted production team A Tribe Called Red from Ottawa have released "Indians From All Directions," a track they had collaborated with Das Racist. The track would have been featured on…   Read Story »

Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy changed a lot of things, but it didn't change this: Stephen Norrington's 1998 masterpiece Blade is, at least in my estimation, the best superhero movie ever made.…   Read Story »

If you are even vaguely in the mood to listen to the former Das Racist rapper Kool A.D. today, you are in luck, because Kool A.D. just released so much free music. The man has two new mixtapes, 63…   Read Story »

The former Das Racist rapper (it hurts to type those words) Kool A.D. has a new solo album called 19 coming out, and first single "Eroika" is more or less a Lil B parody, and a pretty good one.…   Read Story »

Each September, we recognize 40 new bands we look forward to listening to for years to come. And each December, we salute the veterans who've decided to pack up their knives and never ever get back…   Read Story »

When we posted the 10 Best Indie Christmas Songs we limited our list to yuletide jamz that actually exist. Animal New York took a different tack, imagining what holiday songs would sound like if they…   Read Story »

Over the weekend, the New York rap group Das Racist, in a messy and roundabout sort of way, announced that they were no longer a group. This is a shame! Das Racist were really good and important in…   Read Story »

Earlier this year, Das Racist rapper Kool A.D. released his Bay-centric 51 mixtape. And now the spare and laconic "Manny Pacquiao," one of the standout tracks from the tape, has a video in which Kool…   Read Story »

Considering that New York City -- the place where most of the indie label/publicist/writer infrastructure calls home -- spent the entire week in a state of Deep Impact disaster, it's remarkable how…   Read Story »