After a deluge of canceled or delayed tours, drive-in experiments, Bandcamp Fridays and bedroom livestreams, we’re finally here. Yay? It’s hard to celebrate much of anything in 2020. But one encouraging sign from the music industry has been the number of artists innovating on the fly — figuring out ways to sustain their careers through […]
Run the Jewels have shared a new remix that was done by British rockers Royal Blood for “The Ground Below,” which hails from the duo’s RTJ4 album. Featuring a smattering of guitars that are far heavier than the original sample, the “Royal Jewels” remix version features vocals from Royal Blood’s Mike Kerr. Listen to the remix below. […]
Run The Jewels shared their contribution to the Cyberpunk 2077 soundtrack, “No Save Point,” on Thursday, but waited to unveil its video until the Adult Swim Festival on Friday night. During their segment, El-P and Killer Mike discussed working on the highly anticipated new video game, and how that shaped the way they wrote the track. “I wanted to feel […]
Run The Jewels’ televised concert special, Holy Calamavote, now has an all-star cast of guests. The event, to inspire voter turnout, will see El-P and Killer Mike performing RTJ4 along with musical guests Mavis Staples, Zack de la Rocha, Josh Homme among many more. Due to a health scare in their crew that temporarily halted production, the […]
Run the Jewels want you to vote. And they’re about to make history to make it happen. On Monday, Killer Mike and El-P announced that their critically acclaimed rap group will put on Adult Swim’s first-ever musical broadcast as they perform their new record RTJ4. The “Holy Calamavote” performance — brought together by Adult Swim and Ben & […]
The one thing you can expect at this point from Run the Jewels is that their videos will be absolutely terrific. Their latest for “Out of Sight” is no different. Starring the cast of British comedy movie Get Duked!, the clip sees the actors break into a dimly lit house to steal the jewels — literally. Things […]
Having already worked together on RTJ2, Run the Jewels and Travis Barker are definitely not strangers at this point. So it should come as no surprise that they rejoined forces on another new tune in the form of “Forever.” Opening with Barker on the drums, which you can see in the mini clip below, Killer Mike […]
As if Run The Jewels’ latest lyric video for “JU$T” isn’t already a trip, wait until you watch it with their new cannabis line in hand. The hip-hop duo’s new visual for the track “JU$T” — featuring Pharrell Williams and Zack de la Rocha — hit YouTube on Monday morning, and El-P and Killer Mike also announced […]
Why now? Because — and there’s no reason to ignore the elephant in the room: SPIN stewardship has changed hands many, many times since we made the online jump — we got our chance. Because plenty of our favorite albums of the last 10 years could still use a boost. Because some of the already unanimously […]
Killer Mike has been quite vocal following the death of George Floyd at the hand of Minneapolis police officers last month, and on Saturday the rapper spoke out after another black man was killed by cops — this time in his hometown of Atlanta. On Friday, Rayshard Brooks was shot in the back and killed […]