Brogawd’s “Civilians Buildin’”: Boom Bap With a Blueprint
What happens when the underground stops talking about the work and starts laying bricks? Rochester, New York, meets Paris on “Civilians Buildin’,” the...
Roisin Quinn’s Beauty From Ruins: Turning the Wreckage Into Art
What if the parts of your life you’re trying hardest to hide are the very things that make your art worth hearing? There’s a particular kind of honesty that...
Burton C. Bell & The Void: The Future Sounds Heavy
Can a voice that helped define industrial metal build something just as dangerous outside the machine it helped create? Burton C. Bell is about to put that question on...
Dead By Wednesday: Thrash Never Learned to Behave
How hungry metal veterans keep the underground loud, heavy, and gloriously unpolished. Can a band with old-school metal DNA still hit like a bar fight in a scene...
MalikTheRogue x Glenn Dale Turn Up the Darkness on “GOHAN”
Is boom bap still dangerous when it stops trying to impress you and starts swinging for the jaw? MalikTheRogue x Glenn Dale are moving with that kind of energy on...
XHOSEN x Vince: The Quiet Pull of Plugg
Some rap demands the room. Plugg knows how to take over your headphones without asking for anybody’s attention. There’s a particular kind of late-night...
TEGA Makes Waves
What happens when the world gets loud, the pressure rises, and somebody decides to speak instead of sit quietly on the sidelines? TEGA’s “Bubble in the...