News broke on this a while back, but maybe not to this demographic. Aesop Rock has joined up with bassist Carson Binks and guitarist Allyson Baker of San Francisco indie rock outfit Parchman Farm to form Dirty Ghosts. Aes will handle the group’s drum programming and samples – unlikely he will be spitting out happy [cont.]

Well said.

Featuring interviews with Chuck D, DJ Q-Bert, Pete Rock, Afrika Bambaataa, Aesop Rock, Mix Master Mike, De La Soul, Danger Mouse and a bunch of stuffy lawyers, this documentary examines the history of sampling in hip-hop music, and how the legalities behind it changed the entire landscape of hip-hop music. Perhaps the best quote in [cont.]

Taken from Tame’s Acid Tab Vocab LP. –

You gotta love the balloons. Definitive Jux celebrates the 4th of July (or not) by teaming up with AmazonMP3 for a free sampler album, featuring new and classic tracks from Cage, El-P, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Chin Chin, Company Flow, Del, Rob Sonic, Hangar 18, Dizzee Rascal, and Murs. Cop that shit. – DJ Pizzo

For all of you Iphone people out there, Definitive Jux has released their all new, all different Jukiebox ap, which will provide you with regular news updates, twitter feed, up-to-the-minute tour dates, plus access to songs, videos, and photos of people like Aesop Rock. The new version promises “improved YouTube support”, and allows fans to [cont.]

Aesop Rock is back again, entering the fold with his third full-length LP for Definitive Jux, None Shall Pass. Employing his usual style of cryptic poetry laced with biting sarcasm, Aes’s latest is the perfect follow-up to Bazooka Tooth, but this time an old friend has come back into the mix. While Bazooka Tooth had [cont.]

      As perhaps one of underground hip-hop most revered new faces, Aesop Rock is an artist who purposely went against the grain, and in a rare occurrence, has seen strong success because of it. His vocabulary rich rhymes don’t always make sense, and as he has said in interviews, they aren’t always necessarily supposed to. [cont.]

     If Def Jux’s current line-up can be compared to the Wu-Tang Clan of ten years ago, than Aesop Rock is its Ghostface Killah. The two draw similar comparisons thanks to the fact that they both run in crews that feature a large amount of talent and unique personalities, backed by a producer that takes a [cont.]

There’s been a lot of talk about Aesop Rock ever since his early internet distributed discs, Music For Earthworms and Appleseed. With the release of Float, courtesy of New York abstract label, Mush, the buzz grew bigger and bigger, constantly selling out of record stores everywhere. Followed by an arguably classic album, Labor Days, everything came [cont.]

Who the fuck is Aes Rock? As he states on “Coma”, the self described “result of Dragonball Z / Speed Racer gene splicing”, is one of the most talked about abstract underground emcees on the rise, graduating from do-it-yourself discs to a deal with El-P’s Def Jux imprint. Aesop Rock is an obvious graduate of the [cont.]