The new site is launched and A3C is back like BLA-DOW! Now, we ain’t tryin’ to high-post on ya, but the lineups for this year’s three night free-for-all are, overall, the best work we’ve done to date, enabling us to drop names like…oh, let’s see, like…Black Milk, Cool Calm Pete, Mayday!, Giant Panda and... [+] Read More

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Building on the rapping style of eccentrics Kool Keith and Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Def Jux headliner Aesop Rock became one of the hottest MCs in the post-millennial underground. After a pair of self-released LPs (Appleseed, Music for Earthworms), he recorded Float for Mush in 2000. The former Ian Bavitz then issued a pair of singles -- "Coma"... [+] Read More

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With a sound distinctly New York City, Brooklyn's Jaymanila, Cool Calm Pete, and DJ Pre, Babbletron create human hip-hop narratives -- at times conversational, at times broad and cynically political -- but always underscored with dark samples and a dry sense of humor. Babbletron got down to business in a well-hidden Bushwick warehouse. With... [+] Read More

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You can hear things differently from the left side of the train tracks at 4 a.m. on a morning in Queens, New York. Your thoughts mix with the sounds of a city waking up, systems recharging, bread trucks and milk trucks and garbage trucks, tai chi in the china town projects; everything seems clearer at the break of day. Bisc1 finds that sound,... [+] Read More

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