hip hop
Ho99o9 Bring Mutant Hip-Hop/Punk Rock to the Bowery Ballroom (Live Report)
Ho99o9’s high-octane hip-hop/punk rock fusion hit New York’s Bowery Ballroom last Saturday with eclectic support. Read our live report.
Naïve Magic: A Dungeon Synth Digest #8—Dungeon Rap
This edition of Dungeon Synth Digest travels further into the weeds and examines the existence of dungeon rap.
"We Get What We Deserve": Guerrilla Ghost's Heavy Electronic Hip-Hop (Album Stream)
We venture into the growing bustle of heavy hip-hop artists that are bridging genre gaps and cutting new edges — one is duo Guerrilla Ghost, and we’re streaming their kickass new album now.
Deconstructing Interference #2
Metallic outer music, including evil hip-hop and an album played on a washing machine
Damage Inc Meet The Bomb Squad: Why I Listen to Heavy Metal and Hip Hop
Two of the most controversial genres of popular music have more in common than their respective fanbases might think
Trap Them's Ryan McKenney on Judgment Night
A tribute by the movie and soundtrack’s #1 fan
Mike Smith's rap album
Did you know that Suffocation drummer Mike Smith made a rap album? Neither did I until recently. As “Grimm Real,” Smith made Demise of the Clone in 1999, when he was out of Suffocation. Here’s an excerpt from an interview from several years ago. I’m a lyricist so I had a lot of time on […]
Alex Ross - Bring the Noise
NY critic, musician Tonight I went to a roundtable discussion involving John Rockwell, former New York Times music critic; Alex Ross, current New Yorker classical music critic; and Linda Ronstadt, who needs no introduction. The mean age of the audience was at least 40. It was like “Inside the Actors Studio,” but for music, and […]
3 Inches of Blood, Fugazi, Ministry, and more
3 Inches of Blood Some new writing up – at Metal Injection, I have reviews of film buffs/metalcore-rs Killwhitneydead and Relapse retro thrashers Dekapitator. At Stylus, I have a look back at Fugazi’s most underrated record, Steady Diet of Nothing, as well as reviews of the Speed Kills…Again compilation on Heavy Artillery, metal-obsessed rapper Necro, […]
Jedi Mind Tricks & Ill Bill - Heavy Metal Kings
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_BeP4i6w2s] My metal artists feature at Stylus today highlights Larry Carroll, who did the covers for Slayer’s Reign in Blood, South of Heaven, Seasons in the Abyss, and Christ Illusion. He’s also doing the cover for The Hour of Reprisal, the upcoming album by Ill Bill of Non Phixion fame. It’s no coincidence that the […]
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