Shabazz Palaces: The Don of Diamond Dreams review – alchemy in a world of algorithms
Divided between familiar territories and intangible unknowns, Ishmael Butler proves fascinatingly elusive on this uneven record
September 2017
Autumn arts preview 2017
Miley, Morrissey and Marnie the opera: the essential pop, classical and jazz for autumn 2017
Liam goes for broke, St Vincent bounces back, Nico Muhly gets Hitchcockian, Taylor Swift defends her reputation, and Peggy Seeger pens her memoirs
August 2017
'We feel like aliens': Shabazz Palaces, the hip-hop duo beamed in from another planet
Following a pair of futuristic concept albums, rap’s oddest group talk about the rise of the robots, their Sub Pop mentality and feeling like outsiders in Trump’s America
July 2017
Shabazz Palaces: Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star review – magnificently eccentric
Alexis Petridis's album of the week
Shabazz Palaces: Quazarz review – hip-hop futurists hit their sweet spot
September 2015
Music blog
Flying Lotus unveils supergroup with Shabazz Palaces, Thundercat and George Clinton – listen
Have a listen to The Lavishments of Light Looking by Woke, and let us know what you think
August 2014
Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler: 'Starry is a way I can kind of describe myself'
Butler, one half of the hip-hop duo, tells the Guardian about gutting an old brewery and his favorite kind of #cake
July 2014
Music blog
Five albums to try this week: Shabazz Palaces, Jenny Lewis and more
Here are four great pieces of hip-hop – and one crushing disappointment from one of the scene's biggest names
August 2013
Shabazz Palaces' Ishmael Butler becomes A&R for Sub Pop
Rapper has a desk in Seattle label's office and wants to sign acts that are 'imaginative' and 'daring'
March 2012
One to watch
One to watch: THEESatisfaction
The feelgood sensation of this year's SXSW festival, hip-hop duo THEESatisfaction talk to Hermione Hoby about the jazz, R&B and rap music that inspired their fresh new sound
November 2011
How I wrote ...
Shabazz Palaces live session: How we wrote ... Bronny on a Breakaway
Palaceer Lazaro and multi-instrumentalist Tendai Maraire bring their unique brand of dark hip-hop experimentalism to the Guardian's studios
August 2011
SBTRKT Q&A, plus listen to an exclusive remix
SBTRKT - Wildfire feat Shabazz Palaces & Little Dragon (Drumma Boy remix) - audio
July 2011
Shabazz Palaces: Black Up – review
The work of an ex-member of Digable Planets, Sub Pop's first hip-hop album is cutting edge and cryptic, writes Kitty Empire
June 2011
Shabazz Palaces: Black Up – review
Sub Pop's first hip-hop band present a thrilling, space-age vision of the genre. By Charlotte Richardson Andrews
May 2011
New band of the week
Shabazz Palaces (No 1,025)
This rap veteran is bringing hip-hop to Sub Pop with an album of dark Odd Future-istic anthems
