a tribe called quest

Today we follow up our albums of 2016 list with the much more interesting list of our 101 favorite songs of the year. Featuring a couple of inventive flips of Shangaan Electro and Tropicália samples in the top 3, the powerful opening missive from A Tribe Called Quest's first album in nearly 20 years, an old Radiohead love song, multiple jams each from Frank Ocean, Danny Brown, and Carly Rae, unden

As we woke up on Friday in a daze, hit by the gravity and bleak finality of one of the most unfathomably surreal and draining weeks of our collective lives, A Tribe Called Quest had just dropped 2016's most inspired and unlikely record. There was no way that this thing should even exist, much less be this fucking good, transcending far beyond all conceivable expectations of what a Tribe record cou

Photos by David. More shots of Q-Tip + the Cool Kids :: Live in Dallas after the jump... **********************************

Photos coming soon from last night's A Tribe Called Quest-heavy Q-Tip show, but in the meantime, here's a clip of the Abstract joining Lykke Li for a performance of a Tribe classic: ***************************

Alright, after "Gettin Up" and this new clip for "Move," I'm officially setting myself up to be disappointed by The Renaissance. Directed by Rik Cordero, and inspired by one of the most gangster videos of all time: *********************************************

vivian girls live on wfmu Vivian Girls stopped by the WMFU studios recently for a live session, during which they mixed in a few new reverb-laden girl group jams among tracks from their self-titled debut. Still can't get enough of those harmonies...