Madlib

Dream Pop Pop Psychedelics Rock 

Triptides Announce New LP Shapeshifter 

April 18, 2025April 18, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Flatiron Recordings, Glenn Brigman, Madlib, More Than A Friend, Shapeshifter, Tame Impala, The Stepkids, Todd Rundgren, Triptides

Listen to latest single from LA psych-pop outfit “More Than A Friend”; album out June 13th

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Hip Hop 

Madlib’s Home Burns Down in L.A. Fires

January 13, 2025January 14, 2025 Ron Hart 0 Comments Black Star, Eaton, Fire, Freddie Gibbs, Los Angeles, Madlib, Madvillain, MF Doom, Palisades, Wildfires

The legendary hip-hop producer and his family are safe

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Hip Hop Rap 

WATCH: The Manifestation of Wildchild

March 15, 2022March 15, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Big Daddy Kane, California, Fat Beats, Georgia Anne Muldrow, Guilty Simpson, Hip-hop, Lootpack, Madlib, Manifestin', Miles Brown, Murs, Omowale, Oxnard, Police Brutality, POS, Ras Kass, Sadat X, West Coast, Wildchild

The onetime Lootpack MC recounts his police brutality experience on first single off his new album Omowale

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Music Journalism 

Rock & Roll Globe’s 40 Best Albums of 2021 

December 30, 2021January 1, 2022 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 0 Comments 2021, Aimee Mann, Armand Hammer, Billie Eilish, Burnt Sugar, Converge, Duran Duran, Four Tet, Garbage, Halsey., Juliana Hatfield, L'Rain, Little Simz, Mach-Hommy, Madlib, Olivia Rodrigo, SAULT, Taylor Swift, The Alchemist, The Armed, Weezer

Aggression takes center stage as a means of coping with the second dumpster fire of a year

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Electronics Hip Hop 

Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ Is a Triumph of Hip-Hop Beatmaking, With a Little Help from Four Tet

February 11, 2021February 11, 2021 Justin Joffe 0 Comments 2021, Four Tet, Kieran Hebden, Lyn Collins, Madlib, Madlib Invazion, Otis Jackson Jr, Sound Ancestors, Young Marble Giants

What the samples chosen for Madlib’s ‘Sound Ancestors’ teach us about his genre-bending, boom-bap brilliance

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Hip Hop Rap Remembrance 

Eulogy For A Supervillain 

January 4, 2021January 5, 2021 Zachary Corsa 0 Comments 3rd Bass, ALL CAPS, Daniel Dumile, DJ Subroc, Doom, King Geedorah, KMD, Madlib, Madvillain, Madvillainy, Metal Face Records, MF Doom, Operation: Doomsday, RIP, Viktor Vaughn

Celebrating the life of British American rap icon MF DOOM, gone at 49

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Records 

Rock & Roll Globe Presents The 30 Best Albums of 2019

December 31, 2019January 1, 2020 Rock and Roll Globe Staff 10 Comments 30 Best Albums of 2019, Aldous Harding, Bill Callahan, Billie Eilish, black midi, Freddie Gibbs, Harry Styles, Jenny Lewis, John Kilzer, Kingfish, Lee Scratch Perry, Lizzo, Madlib, Madonna, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Purple Mountains, Raphael Saadiq, Rock and Roll Globe, Solange, Starcrawler, The Comet Is Coming, The Highwomen, The Muffs, The Specials, The Who, Trupa Trupa, Vampire Weekend, Versus

Our definitive list captures the full scope of supreme sounds closing out the second decade of the 21st century

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