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.”
Musings Rock is Dead. Long Live the Dirty Nil. By Blake Hester • March 12th, 2020 The Dirty Nil, in just one 39 minute album, is more intelligent, interesting and fun than most classic rock out there.
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.
Feature Excerpt Heavy Metal Hits the Tabletop By Tom G. Wolf • February 21st, 2020 For both metal and tabletop gaming, the allure of the forbidden draws in similar crowds.
Coaxing Out Creative Confessions By Levi Rubeck • February 13th, 2020 Hardcore is living, breathing music and this is a producer who understands that perfection is often the antidote to the swirling energy that swarms around good art.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – January 2020 By Noah Springer • February 4th, 2020 Noah checks out what the ’20s have in store.
The Usurper Noteworthy Metal – December 2019 By Astrid Budgor • January 12th, 2020 Astrid shares her favorite metal hits from 2019.
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.