May 11, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Killer Mike of Run the Jewels is releasing a new solo album, simply titled MICHAEL, on June 16 via Loma Vista. Now he has shared its newest single, “Motherless,” via a music video, as well as an interconnected video for the album’s previous single, “Don’t Let the Devil.” Killer Mike has also revealed the album’s tracklist and cover artwork. More

Apr 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Killer Mike of Run the Jewels has announced a new solo album, simply titled MICHAEL, and shared a new song from it, “Don’t Let the Devil,” which features his Run the Jewels bandmate EL-P and thankugoodsir. More

Aug 11, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) made an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where they performed the song “A Few Words For the Firing Squad” from their most recent studio album, Run the Jewels 4. More

Aug 10, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Danger Mouse and The Roots frontman Black Thought have shared a new single, “Strangers,” which features A Rocky and Run the Jewels. It is the latest release from the duo’s forthcoming album, Cheat Codes, which will be out this Friday (August 12) via BMG More

Jul 05, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Killer Mike of Run the Jewels has shared a video for his new single “Run,” a collaboration with Young Thug. The video features an opening monologue by Dave Chappelle, and during Young Thug’s verse, a flag is displayed featuring the slogan “Free Thug, Protect Black Art, Free Gunna.” Young Thug is currently in jail after his May 9 arrest on charges of participation in street gang activity and conspiring to violate the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act. More

Dec 16, 2021 By Joey Arnone

To honor the 20th anniversary of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Stephen Colbert, a self-proclaimed LOTR diehard, created a rap video tribute titled “#1 Trilly.” The video features Killer Mike of Run the Jewels, Method Man, Jon Batiste, and Anna Kendrick, as well as Lord of the Rings cast members Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, Billy Boyd, Dominic Monaghan, Orlando Bloom, Andy Serkis and Hugo Weaving. More

Nov 12, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (Killer Mike and El-P) have shared a new song, “No Save Point.” It is taken from the soundtrack to the upcoming video game Cyberpunk 2077, an action role playing video game due out December 10 on various gaming platforms. More

Jul 31, 2020 By Jennifer Irving

Run the Jewels’ Killer Mike and El-P have teamed up with Blink 182’s drummer/producer Travis Barker for the new song “Forever,” the band’s second collaboration with Barker. They previously collaborated on 2014’s “All Due Respect” from Run the Jewels 2. More

Jun 05, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Mark Moody, Samantha Small, and Jake Uitti)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2020. And what a trying week it was. More

Jun 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) were scheduled to release their new album, Run the Jewels 4, this Friday via Jewel Runners/BMG, but they have surprise released it two days early because, as they say in a statement, “the world is infested with bullshit so here’s something raw to listen to while you deal with it all.” You can stream it here. More

May 12, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) previously announced their new album, Run the Jewels 4, and shared two songs from it, but details of its release were TBA. Now they have announced the album’s release date, tracklist, and guests, as well as sharing the album cover. More

Apr 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) shared a new song, “Ooh LA LA,” last month. Now they have shared a video for the song in which they party in a city’s downtown area to celebrate the end of capitalism, burning money and credit cards in the process. More

Mar 25, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) have shared a new song, “Ooh LA LA.” It features DJ Premier and Greg Nice. More

Mar 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) have shared a new song, “The Yankee and the Brave.” The band shared it to Instagram accompanied by a photo of the duo leaning out of an old school car with guns in their hands. More

Mar 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The last time there was a Woodstock festival was in 1999, to commemorate the original festival’s 30th anniversary, and it didn’t go so well, with reports of gang rapes, property destruction, violence, and fires, not to mention a fairly terrible lineup featuring Korn, Limp Bizkit, Bush, Kid Rock, Creed, and others. The organizers of Woodstock 50 are no doubt hoping for a more peaceful and loving event this time and the freshly announced lineup is noticeably less heavy, not a nu-metal band in sight. More

Nov 05, 2018 By Steve King

If you’re like me the last couple years have been… challenging. Public discourse is toxic and even the people on your side of the aisle are annoying the shit out of you. There are too many damn Nazis. Every other news story is about sexual assault. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

While it was a very healthy week for new album releases, so much so that we had eight runner-ups for this week’s Album of the Week, it was more of a challenge to find 10 new songs we felt worthy of this week’s Songs of the Week list. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Those who watched the new hit superhero movie Venom in the theater last weekend and stuck through the end credits for the two bonus scenes were treated to “Let’s Go (The Royal We),” a new song by Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P). More

Mar 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3), in January 2017 (well technically it dropped a little early, in late December 2016). More

Dec 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3), earlier this year (well technically it dropped a little early, late last December). Now they have shared a video for “Call Ticketron.” More

Jul 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3), earlier this year. Last night they stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform two songs from it: “Panther Like a Panther” (which featured Trina) and “Down” (which featured Joi). More

Jul 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3), earlier this year. Now the band has shared a video for “Don’t Get Captured.” It features claymation versions of Killer Mike and El-P as they ride a creepy and socially relevant amusement park ghost train ride that features riot police, an arrest, a trial, an execution, and more. More

Jun 30, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

As crazy as political life may be in the US, Britain has its own problems after voting a year ago to completely reshape the country by leaving the European Union. Lias Saoudi of Fat White Family and The Moonlandingz joins us this week to discuss Brexit before we throw in healthcare reform, travel bans, cancelled festivals, and Glastonbury. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Austin City Limits have announced the lineup of their 2017 festival to go down in the Texas capitol this October. The event is headlined by Gorillaz, The xx, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Martin Garrix, and Chance the Rapper. More

Mar 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) recently released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3). Now the band has shared a video for “Legend Has It.” More

Feb 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) recently released their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3). Now the band has stopped by NPR’s offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. More

Dec 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (the duo of Killer Mike and El-P) have long been teasing their third album, the appropriately titled RTJ3 (aka Run the Jewels 3), but now they have officially announced the details of the album, including the release date, tracklist, and cover art. More

Nov 10, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels’ new song, “2100,” was written months ago but wasn’t due for release right now. The duo of Killer Mike and El-P decided to share the song early in response to Donald Trump winning the election on Tuesday night. More

Nov 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Killer Mike, one half of Run the Jewels, was a very vocal supporter of Bernie Sanders in the Democratic primary, even interviewing him. More

Nov 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels recently shared a new song, “Talk to Me,” which was the first taste of the forthcoming third album from Killer Mike and El-P, Run the Jewels 3 (aka RTJ3). There’s no news on the exact release date for RTJ3, but the duo have now announced a bunch of tour dates for January and February 2017, which should indicate that the album may be out during one of those months. More

Oct 24, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels have shared a new song, “Talk to Me.” It’s described as the first taste of their forthcoming third album from Killer Mike and El-P, Run the Jewels 3 (aka RTJ3). More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Veils have announced a new album, Total Depravity, for release on August 26 via Nettwerk. The album was co-produced by El-P of hip-hop duo Run the Jewels, along with Atom Greenspan (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds) and Veils frontman Finn Andrews. El-P is an inspired choice, due to The Veils mainly being a rock band. More

Jan 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

A rally in Iowa City this Saturday in support of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is set to feature members of Vampire Weekend (also featuring Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth), rapper and Run the Jewels member Killer Mike, and Foster the People. The Iowa Caucuses are next Monday, February 1, the first chance the people get to vote on who the Presidential candidates will be, hence the timing and location of the rally. More

Dec 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Killer Mike (a solo artist and in Run the Jewels) has interviewed Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. Mike and Sanders talked in November at Mike’s barbershop. Now the full conversation between the rapper and self-proclaimed “democratic socialist” is online, posted to YouTube in six videos, which can all be watched below. More

Oct 05, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels have shared a brand new song, “Rubble Kings Theme (Dynamite).” It’s the last full on installment in this year’s Adult Swim Singles program. The song is available to stream below and can be downloaded here. More

Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

When it was announced that TV on the Radio and Run the Jewels would be doing some sort of collaborative performance together on the second week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert it was kind of hoped that they’d be performing a new collaborative song or even announcing a new joint project. Instead what we got last night was a Run the Jewels performance of Run the Jewels 2 cut “Angel Duster” with TV on the Radio as their backing band. More

Sep 09, 2015 By Mark Redfern

OutKast’s Big Boi and Phantogram (the duo of Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter) have teamed up as Big Grams. Their collaboration has been teased for awhile now, but today they have announced their debut EP, BIG GRAMS, a seven song collection that is due out on September 25 via Epic. More

Aug 31, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

On September 8 The Late Show with Stephen Colbert debuts on CBS, with Colbert taking over the show formerly hosted by David Letterman. More

Aug 19, 2015 By Julia Underwood

Last weekend Helsinki hosted Flow Festival. More

Aug 12, 2015 By Julia Underwood

Last weekend Katowice, Poland hosted the tenth annual edition of OFF Festival. More

Jul 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (aka El-P and Killer Mike) are to have their own show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station. It’s titled WRTJ, premieres tonight, and airs Fridays at 9 PM EST/6 PM EST. We have a clip from the show. More

May 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Run the Jewels (aka El-P and Killer Mike) recently teased their third album, but today they’ve released a new video for Run the Jewels 2 track “Early” (which features Boots). More

Dec 03, 2014 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

“I’m gonna bang this bitch the fuck out,” yells Killer Mike before the opening track of Run the Jewels 2. More