Atmosphere shares a space-rap song ‘Barcade’ with a posthumous verse from MF Doom; Black Country, New Road manage to get chaotic and groovy in the same song - 'Chaos Space Marine’; just some pretty folk-rock by Scout Larue Willis on ‘Love Without Possession’; Stammering share s math-prog song ‘No, Yeah’.

Deafheaven take an interesting and sharp turn with their new, melodic, non-metal song 'Great Mass of Color'; José González shares his new bassy single 'Head On'; Madi Diaz finds a sweet spot between Americana and indie rock on 'Woman in my Heart'; 'Dropout Boogie' is the first collaboration between Your Old Droog and MF DOOM, produced after YOD renewed his interest in hip-hop - after hearing DOOM; Slow Fire Pistol go from ambient rock to hardcore to ambient... in the span of two minutes on 'Who Decides'.

Navy Blue shares smooth jazzy psychedelic hip-hop 'Ritual' from his surprise-released new album; Curtis Harding shares a warm, conscious soul single with a pretty video for 'Hopeful'; Sa-Roc released s deluxe version of her last year's album, featuring new song 'Re-Birth' with MF Doom on the mic; Jade Bird's 'Different Kinds of Light' is just a nice love song; 'Like I Used To' is slightly 1980s-big-ballad song by Sharon Van Etten & Angel Olsen; Yoo Doo Right go enjoyably post-rocky on 'Don't Think You Can Escape Your Purpose'.

The great late MF Doom has been honored with a big new mural at Toronto street art supply store Toronto Collective in the city's Chinatown district. The mural was made by graffiti artist Moises Frank, who previously said "me and my toy friends would draw so much graffiti in our black books back then, we would listen to Doom and tried rapping over the special herbs albums all summer".

MF Doom's various projects had 25 million on-demand streams after the news of his death on December 31 was released, and in the previous week his music had pulled in 2.6 million streams, making for an 870 percent increase, Billboard reports. Also, in that week, 5,000 MF Doom songs had been purchased for download, which was a 2,879 percent increase from the sales in the days prior. There is also news about the new Madvillainy, Doom's collaborative album with Madlib, as there are 11 finished songs from it.

Pitchfork presents the career of the recently deceased rapper MF Doom with a selection of 10 of his best songs. It covers his beginnings as a teenage MC Zev Love X from 1989, his transition to MF Doom in 1990s, and his numerous collaborations - including the ones with Madlib and Sade, and identities such as King Geedorah and Viktor Vaughn. Here's a 2009 extensive interview with MF Doom where we discusses his identity, music etc.

Intricate and enigmatic rapper and producer MF Doom had died aged 49, his wife Jasmine Dumile revealed on New Year's eve, Pitchfork reports. The elusive rapper has however died two months ago, on October 31. The cause of death was not revealed. Born Daniel Dumile in London, raised in Long Island, he first rapped under the alias Zev Love X with the group KMD in the late '80s. Inspired by the Marvel character Dr. Doom, he rechristened himself MF DOOM and released several solo records where he spit bars with playful and twisted intricacy, grounded by his own classic soul- and funk-sampling production. He also released collaborations 'Madvillainy' with Madlib, 'The Mouse and the Mask' with Danger Mouse, as well as projects under aliases Viktor Vaughn and King Geedorah. He also produced tracks for Ghostface Killah and MF Grimm. In 2010 he returned to London where he found everything to be "all new, all fun". MF Doom's latest release was, as we now know, a posthuman collab with BadBadNotGood released two weeks ago. Brooklyn Vegan collected tributes to MF Doom from numerous artists, including Flying Lotus, El-P, Tyler the Creator, Questlove, Jay Electronica, Q-Tip, Denzel Curry, Westside Gunn, DJ Premier, Phonte, JPEGMAFIA, Ty Dolla $ign, Roc Marciano, Sa-Roc, Cordae, Playboi Carti...

BadBadNotGood are back where they left with Ghostface Killah - 'The Chocolate Conquistadors' with MF Doom goes totally into the psychedelic jazz-hip-hop territory; an interesting cover - a senior man named Frank Watkinson made a lovely folk-rock remake of Slipknot's 'Snuff'.

Danger Mouse shared a previously unreleased track that he recorded with Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous, before Linkous' death in 2010. 'Ninjarous' features the rapper MF Doom. “Mark and I worked on a lot of music together,” Danger Mouse said in a statement - “but the song we did with MF DOOM was always one of Mark’s […]