As Dr Dre’s 2001 vaingloriously carved out G-Funk’s epitaph, three young Americans from Cincinnati were signing the birth certificate of a whole other type of rap. cLOUDDEAD, an eponymous compilation ...

The Clouddead album garnered great critical acclaim at home and abroad. It became something like the calling card for the entire alternative hip-hop scene to the U.K., where Clouddead played to ...

cLOUDDEAD poses this rhetorical question in their opening “Pop Song,” off their inspired, ambitious, and devastatingly gorgeous second album “Ten.” We might want to ask MCs Why?, Odd Nosam and Doseone ...

“Like in a dream, everything seemed to be on the point of vanishing but at the same time ablaze with persistent reality." Cesar Aira – Dinner translated by Katherine Silver Too many scenes and genres ...

Between Public Enemy's rage, De la Soul's daisy age and DJ Shadow's flotsam and jetsam, hip-hop has visited some very strange places but perhaps none quite so oblique as that explored by San Francisco ...

Hip Hop IS 25 years old in 2004. That's if you make the starting point the 1979 releases of 'King Tim III (Personality Jock)' by the Fatback Band and 'Rapper's Delight' by the Sugarhill Gang, rather ...

The happening that was cLOUDDEAD’s millennial Mush Records output had both positive and negative effects for experimental hip-hop in the subsequent years. On one hand, the six EPs/movements ...

Hymie's Basement is the joint project of cLOUDDEAD's Why? (aka Yoni Wolf) and Andrew Broder (aka Ninja Tune ... Save this story Save this story Hymie's Basement is the joint project of cLOUDDEAD's Why ...

Music fans disappointed by a lusterless display of the unbridled genre-mashing they’d assumed implicit in the 21st century–those listeners possessed of an appetite not sated by Pink’s new one, that is ...

If, like NME, you had cLOUDDEAD pegged as dry, cerebral beatz mechanics, ‘Dead Dogs Two’ is cause for immediate reassessment. Part They Might Be Giants (in a good way), part Grandaddy, part DJ Shadow… ...

Named, somewhat appropriately, after a meaningless knock-knock joke told by the younger sister of one of the band members, cLOUDDEAD’s not-quite-skiffle-hop collages and skits sound on first listen ...