"That's That" is basically exactly what you expect from an MF Doom song: Two minutes of frantic free-association over a chopped-up elevator-music loop, with no chorus and a quick burst of unbelievably hoarse Biz Markie-esque soul-singing at the end. But given that Doom, who just changed his name to (seriously) DOOM, hasn't released an album in a...

MF Doom has a new name now: DOOM. All caps. He insists. He also wants his album title spelled that way. So just to make sure I keep him happy, I'm going to write this whole news story in all caps. BACK IN 2007, THE INDIE-RAP ENIGMA SET OFF MASSIVE CONSIPRACY THEORIES... Jesus Christ. That's so annoying. I can't do it. Sorry. Back in 2007, th...

Last we heard from MF Doom here at Pitchfork, word was that he was not dead, not lip-synching, and not an imposter. The last couple of years have been relatively quiet for the man born Daniel Dumile, but a new song just posted to his MySpace, "Ballskin", kicks off the anticipation for Born Like This, the full-length expected this year on Lex acc...

The versatile producer brings in a ridiculously wide range of regional voices-- Freeway, Posdnous, MF Doom, Little Brother, many more-- as to prove he can back up damn near anyone's lyrics.read more

Photo by Chris WoodcockMadlib just keeps on pummeling us with more releases than we can handle, and yet, we try to handle them anyway. In his latest blast of tunes, Madlib has put together an even newer Beat Konducta album than the one that comes out on vinyl on November 11 (moved from October 28), as well as a companion EP to a forthcoming art ...