The Beat Box The Beat Box – DOOM By Noah Springer • July 29th, 2022 Bouncing around microchips as a micro-man or walking around a 2D dungeon, rolling hits on a gelatinous blob felt like child’s play to the splattering gore of Doom.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – A Kendrick Lamar Retrospective By Noah Springer • June 24th, 2022 Coupling Kendrick Lamar’s recent album release and Unwinnable’s tenth+ year, Noah charts the critically acclaimed rapper’s rise over the 2010s.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – May 2022 By Noah Springer • May 27th, 2022 In anticipation of Kendrick Lamar dropping his first album in five years this month, some of the top rappers in the game decided to put on a hip hop clinic.
Sigurd Springer’s Music Box By Noah Springer • April 26th, 2022 In correspondence from a temporarily quiet battlefield, Private First Class Sigurd Springer writes on the premier melodians of 1872.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2022 By Noah Springer • March 25th, 2022 Things are happening! Noah brings us some fresh new records for March.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2022 By Noah Springer • February 24th, 2022 After a brief hiatus, Noah returns with five new albums for a sleepy February.
Exploits Feature The Radium Age By Noah Springer • January 10th, 2022 Science fiction from the early 20th century is often neglected. The Radium Age series seeks to fix that.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – December 2021 By Noah Springer • December 29th, 2021 Noah takes a stab at putting his fingerprints on the 2021 hip hop canon with a look at some favorite albums from the year.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2021 By Noah Springer • November 29th, 2021 They say if you play Mozart in the womb for your kid, they come out smarter. But what happens when you play them Wu-Tang on their first day of life?
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2021 By Noah Springer • October 31st, 2021 Noah doesn’t review Donda.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2021 By Noah Springer • September 22nd, 2021 And now for something a little different.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2021 By Noah Springer • August 23rd, 2021 Noah goes mainstream!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2021 By Noah Springer • July 30th, 2021 Chill beats to do stuff and improve one’s life to.
Exploits Feature Substack Dracula By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021 The horror of Dracula, right in your inbox.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2021 By Noah Springer • June 30th, 2021 Noah moved this month but he still put this together for us all. What a guy!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – May 2021 By Noah Springer • May 31st, 2021 Noah looks back 20 years ago to 2001 and all the hits.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – April 2021 By Noah Springer • May 3rd, 2021 Noah dives into more beats for April.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2021 By Noah Springer • March 22nd, 2021 You’ve got to hunt for these albums!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2021 By Noah Springer • March 1st, 2021 Hey you guys! Noah is doing album roundups again!
The Beat Box RIP MF DOOM By Noah Springer • January 29th, 2021 Just remember ALL CAPS when you spell the man name.
Noteworthy Hip Hop Rediscovering 24-Carat Black By Noah Springer • December 22nd, 2020 Noah talks to Zach Schonfeld about his new book on the overlooked legacy of funk and soul band 24-Carat Black.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2020 By Noah Springer • November 27th, 2020 Fresh hip hop for you!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2020 By Noah Springer • October 21st, 2020 Last year, I was overwhelmed by all the quality drops over the full season, and this year, September 25 seemed to mark the beginning of the season with an amazing selection of releases I just can’t do justice.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2020 By Noah Springer • September 23rd, 2020 In honor of the new old Tony Hawk game, we’ve got hip hop to grind to.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2020 By Noah Springer • September 1st, 2020 “We’re still in quarantine, and I’m still listening to beats and rhymes.”
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2020 By Noah Springer • August 7th, 2020 These are some revolutionary times we’re living in, so this month, Noahs dives into a few albums that match that vibe.
The Beat Box Music for the Revolution By Noah Springer • June 18th, 2020 Noah highlights some new hip hop albums well suited for our moment in history.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – April 2020 By Noah Springer • May 8th, 2020 Noah finds a bit of normalcy in hip hop when that quarantine paranoia begins to set in.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2020 By Noah Springer • April 8th, 2020 Noah celebrates this column’s one-year anniversary with some great new albums.
Exploits Feature Modernism and Auto-Tune By Noah Springer • March 20th, 2020 “I see auto-tune playing the same role in hip hop in the last two decades as photography played in art in the 19th and early 20th century.”
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – February 2020 By Noah Springer • March 6th, 2020 This month’s column includes one of the more powerful albums Noah’s heard in a while.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – January 2020 By Noah Springer • February 4th, 2020 Noah checks out what the ’20s have in store.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – December 2019 By Noah Springer • January 12th, 2020 Noah says “goodbye” to 2019 by saying “hello” to a few albums he overlooked during the year.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2019 By Noah Springer • December 3rd, 2019 Fresh November beats!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – October 2019 By Noah Springer • November 7th, 2019 Just like a white girl’s cup filled with pumpkin spice, Noah’s ears runneth over with great hip hop this month.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2019 By Noah Springer • September 30th, 2019 Noah alternates between the unknown and known with this month’s hip hop.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2019 By Noah Springer • August 29th, 2019 Noah’s endlessly fascinated by the deep range and mutability of hip hop’s subgenres.
Open Letter to Legion By Noah Springer • August 16th, 2019 My beautiful, heady, unwieldy love – what am I to do with you?
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – July 2019 By Noah Springer • July 31st, 2019 Noah’s got another month’s worth of fresh beats and wants to hear if you’re digging his tastes.
Feature Excerpt Springfield Forever By Noah Springer • July 22nd, 2019 Some mobile games are only entertaining for a few hours. For Noah, The Simpsons Tapped Out has proven fun for nearly a decade.
