Mapping Music Americans Like

Created by the New York Times and YouTube’s geo-coded streaming data, a series of fascinating maps tell the story of each US state’s taste in music. The popular music artists featured are everybody from Rihanna to Lil Uzi, Metallica, Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga. While some results might be easy to guess, it’s certainly interesting to trace who (and how much) people are listening to—for …

Sean Price + DOOM: Negus

In partnership with Adult Swim, iconic and mysterious rapper DOOM will be releasing a new song each week for the next 14 weeks in a new project called The Missing Notebook Rhymes. The first track, “Negus,” came out today and (posthumously) features Sean Price. The track sports DOOM’s familiar, idiosyncratic flow atop a dark and steamy beat.

Circuit des Yeux: Paper Bag

A delightfully eccentric experimental folk tale, “Paper Bag” is the latest from Chicago’s Circuit des Yeux. An official lyric video accompanied the release, and its contents—selected and edited together by Meg Remy—are just as delightfully baffling. The song takes an unexpected turn at 2:10. The video is a collision of evocative sequences, some fun and others simply strange. “Paper Bag” will appear on Reaching for …