For the show, he brought his Hail Mary Mallon bandmate Rob Sonic to fill things out. Aesop Rock at the Social Credit: Sierra Reese With both players on the same stage, they naturally couldn’t resist ...

The Uncluded is Kimya Dawson, of Moldy Peaches and “Juno” fame, and Aesop Rock, a hip hop emcee/producer whose rhymes and storytelling are legendary in independent hip hop circles. The lurking danger ...

Hip-hop has always cleared a little extra space in the attic for eccentrics—the rappers too weird for the mainstream but too in?uential to be ignored. Whether taking the form of Kool Keith’s unhinged ...

“I like rivers, I like rivers.” That’s how Aesop Rock opens “By The River,” his new song, and that line is not figurative. Aes, the veteran underground-rap eccentric, is getting ready to release his ...

Early this year Aesop Rock shared a one-off single called “Rogue Wave” — which inspired a response track by The O.C.-era indie rockers Rogue Wave called “Aesop Rock” — and a video game soundtrack ...

When rap fans decry the atomization of the genre, they usually focus on its negative aftereffects: a lack of crossover superstars, an irrevocable split between Gen-Z internet kids and boom-bap old ...

The sample that preludes Aesop Rock making his appearance in "Catacomb Kids" is a voice posing the question, "Why don't we jump?" It's meant to be rhetorical in a way and it's also meant to be the ...

Following up on 2019’s Malibu Ken project with TOBACCO, Aesop Rock has returned with his new EP, Music From The Game Freedom Finger. Clocking in at just over 20 minutes, the 10-track collection of ...

Nearly 25 years into his discography, the rapper born Ian Bavitz remains at the vanguard of indie hip-hop. His first offering in four years is something of a concept album; as the title suggests, ...

Dan Drossman has been making art since he was five years old. Over decades of dedicated practice, his style has developed into cartoon-esque, multimedia street art, often inspired by rap and hip-hop. ...

Forget for a second that None Shall Pass is Ian Bavitz sixth album under the Hip-Hop moniker Aesop Rock. Forget that 45-minute mix All Day that he was commissioned by Nike+ to create earlier in 2007 ...

While his Definitive Jux labelmate El-P is P.K. Dick-obsessed and fellow Caucasian rap-adours Buck 65 and Sage Francis delve into bloggish beatnik narratives, Aesop Rock seems like the last white ...