Staff Picks is dedicated to surfacing the best music, film, and art downloads on the Internet; digitally handmade by BitTorrent Publishers. Read on for this week’s finds. In this edition of Staff Picks: A New York hip hop staple preps a new album and drops his new single on BitTorrent Bundle. Jeru the Damaja first broke…

Somewhere Else is also right here. The electronic duo shares unreleased tracks, video, and art back with fans. Zeds Dead is DC and Hooks: a Toronto-based electronic production team who build bass, and drops, and basically, their own scene. What started in free shows — BassMentality, before it was A Thing — is now something…

A new documentary examines the life and work of Aaron Swartz, and the digital freedoms worth fighting for. In partnership with the filmmakers: a first look. Every conversation about the Internet’s post-surveillance, post-neutrality days is heavy and haunted. The web we built has been, in some ways, fundamentally lost. The toll the FCC is debating…

It’s killa season. Almost. It’s been five years since Cam’ron released his last studio album. Not that he’s been gone. His Instagram is required reading. His face is (still) on socks. His work is what’s debated in thinkpieces on The State of Hip Hop: “waxing hyperbolic about Cam’ron’s greatness has become a sport in and…

Gramatik is back. In the producer’s new Bundle: a life’s work, exclusive new “Get a Grip” remixes, and an all-access look at the music video for “Brave Men”, featuring Eskobars. Brooklyn via Slovenia producer/DJ Gramatik has always made his intentions clear: free music by making music free. He’s removed the restrictions, giving fans the option…