Noah's Beat Box Smashing Pumpkins – Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness Vinyl 4LP Boxset By Noah Springer • April 10th, 2024 Of all the albums from the ’90s alternative rock scene, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is one of the most deserving for a deluxe treatment like this.
Noah's Beat Box Watching Kubrick on My Phone By Noah Springer • March 13th, 2024 To be fair, I have never seen a Kubrick movie in theaters, so this entire thing may be flawed from the get-go.
Noah's Beat Box Museum Piece By Noah Springer • February 15th, 2024 A pilgrimage to “The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” at the St. Louis Art Museum.
Noah's Beat Box Hip Hop at Fifty By Noah Springer • January 9th, 2024 After stepping back from the contemporary, Noah reflects a bit more on the different eras of hip hop and what they mean to him.
Noah's Beat Box Fine Philly Dining By Noah Springer • December 12th, 2023 Philly is known for all sorts of things – a bell, a boxer, a sitcom – but Noah knows it by reputation as one of the better food cities out there, specifically for sandwiches.
Noah's Beat Box Vamps – Otherwise By Noah Springer • November 9th, 2023 Repetition and transformation.
Noah's Beat Box All the Content Warnings By Noah Springer • October 6th, 2023 Comedy and horror truly reside next to each other in some off-kilter way, balancing the truly debauched with the truly buffoonish.
Noah's Beat Box An Adult Critique of Books for Children By Noah Springer • September 13th, 2023 You know what doesn’t get enough hate in Noah’s opinion? Children’s books.
Noah's Beat Box How I Learned to Stop Hating and Love Vanderpump Rules By Noah Springer • August 11th, 2023 “The Beat Box” is rebranding to “Noah’s Beat Box.”
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – June 2023 By Noah Springer • June 28th, 2023 It’s half-way through 2023 somehow, so it’s time to round up some notable releases from the first half of the year.
The Beat Box Enter the Wu-Tang By Noah Springer • February 24th, 2023 2023 marks the 30th anniversary of Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and something like the 18th anniversary of Noah listening to it.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – January 2023 By Noah Springer • January 24th, 2023 A little wrap-up of potential classics Noah overlooked last year.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – November 2022 By Noah Springer • November 28th, 2022 Noah shifts his focus from monsters and the hip hop of the past to focus on the here and now.
The Beat Box Aliens and Monsters By Noah Springer • October 24th, 2022 Aliens and monsters both have roots in the history of pop music, but it’s hip hop in which the two are combined most effectively, specifically in the work of Kool Keith and MF DOOM.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – September 2022 By Noah Springer • September 27th, 2022 1997 was a good year for hip hop and an even better one for Noah.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2022 By Noah Springer • August 30th, 2022 Well, it’s August and boy is it hot! But this column isn’t about the heat that comes from the atmosphere, just the heat that comes off these fresh drops.
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.
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.
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.”