Exploits 2010 – 2019 By Stu Horvath • December 1st, 2020 Do not party like it’s 2019. Wear masks. Be socially distant. Stay home.
Seventh Son of a Seventh Son, Side A By Stu Horvath • November 27th, 2020 We’ve reached the promised land: the best Iron Maiden album of all time!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2020 By Noah Springer • November 27th, 2020 Fresh hip hop for you!
Feature Excerpt Keep Calm with a Cup of Coffee By Katiee McKinstry • November 24th, 2020 Katiee McKinstry chats with developer Andrew Jeremy about the joys of chilling out in coffee shops.
Somewhere in Time, Side B By Stu Horvath • November 20th, 2020 At least this album ends on a good note.
Somewhere in Time, Side A By Stu Horvath • November 13th, 2020 The show moves on to cover Somewhere in Time, because that is the next album chronologically!
Another Look Sing It Out By Yussef Cole • October 30th, 2020 Lovers Rock, one of the films in Steve McQueen’s brilliant new “Small Axe” anthology about the UK’s West Indian community from the 1960s through the 1980s, is full of a palpable and irresistible energy.
Powerslave, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 30th, 2020 Don’t look now, but there are only two minutes to midnight!
World Tour Indonesia By Oluwatayo Adewole • October 23rd, 2020 That’s why Gone With the Wind is/was revered and why we’re inundated with period pieces that refuse to meaningfully interrogate the class/colonial violence that this splendor is built upon.
Piece of Mind, Side B By Stu Horvath • October 23rd, 2020 From the band’s classic, “The Trooper,” to the bonkers lyrics of “Quest for Fire,” to the book report about Dune that is “To Tame a Land,” this album side is all killer, no filler.
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.
Piece of Mind, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 16th, 2020 Eddie gets a lobotomy, Icarus gets torched and Iron Maiden sees their best response in the US so far.
The Number of the Beast, Side A By Stu Horvath • October 2nd, 2020 Six! Six six! The number of the beast!
Killers, Side B By Stu Horvath • September 25th, 2020 KILLER! BEHIND YOU! *wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-wiggedy-woooooo*
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.
Killers, Side A By Stu Horvath • September 20th, 2020 Stu and Ed discuss Side A of Iron Maiden’s second studio album, Killers!
Maiden Voyage By Stu Horvath • September 12th, 2020 Welcome to the launch of the Maiden Voyage, a podcast about every single Iron Maiden album!
World Tour England By Oluwatayo Adewole • September 4th, 2020 Oluwatayo starts his tour on his home turf of England with the film Bait and the latest album from Charmpit.
Revving the Engine No Straight Roads: Rock Will Never Die By Stu Horvath • September 1st, 2020 Unwinnable chats with co-founder Daim Dziauddin about Metronomik’s new, rockin’ adventure: No Straight Roads.
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.”
Feature Excerpt Talkin’ ‘Bout Bugsnax By Melissa King • August 28th, 2020 A look at how Kero Kero Bonito came up with gaming’s happiest bop of the summer.
Sound Cycles – The Re-Re-Invention Of JRPG Soundtracks By Michael Weber • August 24th, 2020 “We have to make even further developments from here on, but I would like to strive for the mix of “haphazardness” and “inevitability.”
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.
Casting Deep Meteo No Home for Petals By Levi Rubeck • August 6th, 2020 “Given the trajectory we’re on, perhaps it’s too soon for 2020 comeback stories. And yet I’m charged by the germination of long-term plans of cosmic revival, hopefully to flower as soon as possible.”
Truth Cult’s Sermon of Swagger By Levi Rubeck • June 18th, 2020 If the first song from Off Fire doesn’t sway you, well, there ain’t much else to bring you aboard. But for those open to receive their chained melodies and swirling dialogues, Truth Cult stands and delivers.
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 Sound of Protest (And What Happens if TikTok Disables it) By Amanda Hudgins • June 4th, 2020 We lose a lot in silence. TikTok’s preferred method of dealing with copyright violations is to simply remove the offending audio altogether, leaving the video behind as a kind of digital tombstone.
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.
Feature Excerpt In the Suburbs I: Stardew Valley and Arcade Fire By Alyssa Hatmaker • May 4th, 2020 No matter what artists might be trying to convey in their music, we inevitably tailor their message to fit ourselves.
Musings Code Orange and the New Reality By Blake Hester • April 10th, 2020 Code Orange’s newest album feels like the group’s most cohesive product to date.
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.
