| Nocando’s “Tits & Explosions” Mixtape | May 14, 2013 |
I host a podcast with Nocando, so it’s pretty easy for me to take for granted that he’s a great rapper. He didn’t listen to my advice to call this mixtape, 85% Tits and Explosions, but everything else here is certified. There will be a review of this sooner than later. In the meantime, soak […]
| The Metaphysical Wanderings of Milo | March 22, 2013 |
Review courtesy of the Uber Max Bell. Milwaukee’s Milo has a “big brain”– like Jimmy Neutron if he talked about Nietzsche’s Übermensch instead of science. Think of Milo as a more introspective and well read Ab-Soul for fans of Vonnegut and Phillip K. Dick. Allusions aside, he’s an intelligent, unabashedly horny ’90s baby with an inexhaustible store of knowledge (high/low […]
| The Post Hoc, Post-Hop of Milo | December 7, 2012 |
Milo is from Milwaukee. He raps like a man on verge of a nervous breakdown and his allusions suggest that he’d catch the Almodovar reference. Milo named himself after a fictional character, which he says, “says a lot about my mental health and various barriers.” I assume he means the boy from The Phantom Tollbooth, […]
| Nocando Does The Money Dance | September 19, 2012 |
Trap music bled into beat music and now it’s coming back around again. Music in 2012 is a ouroboros. Nocando has a birthright to this, considering he’s the been the resident rapper at Low End Theory since people were still chopping up soul samples thinking that was all it took to be Dilla. Everything is […]
| The Cleen & The Kleenrz: Self Jupiter’s New Group | July 11, 2012 |
Max Bell values cleanliness before Based Godliness. Kenny Segal and Self Jupiter are, respectively, the hip-hop equivalent of Pulp Fiction’s Marcellus Wallace and Winston Wolf. And not solely in their physicality. Together, they are the new and notable avant-rap duo—The Kleenrz. Self and Kenny have crafted, at least with “Filthy,” the single off of their […]
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| Nocando – Miyamoto Musahi | March 14, 2012 |
Instead of offering some pop culture metaphor du bore, Nocando contrasts himself with Miyamoto Musashi, one of the greatest Samurais in feudal Japan. The analogy is no accident, as Low End Theory is about to terrorize Japan. Someone needs to book a Nocando and Nacho Picasso “Nerds with Swag” tour. Do it, booking agents. Do […]
| Flash Bang Grenada ft. Riddlore & Verbs – “Teleport Remix” | February 7, 2012 |
Flash Bang Grenada top Spock at his own game and teleport alongside Verbs and Riddlore. The latter is a Project Blowed O.G. and one-time member of Chillin’ Villain Empire (CVE). You should be aware of him, but you are likely not. This is a good place to start.This remix tweaks the original “Teleport” from last […]
| Ugandan Warhorns and Eagles | February 6, 2012 |
Dear Internet, Remember that one time when a bunch of you gave money to foot the bill for the weed carrier in Animal Collective to travel to Mali to play a concert and buy all sorts of exotic sandals. Well, this time I have an even better and less culturally noxious offer for you. Mike […]
| Nocando’s Zero Hour FreeEP | January 12, 2012 |
You already know the company line on Nocando. In consecutive songs on his new Zero Hour EP, he spits hard as Hell(fyre) double-time raps referencing Oedipus Rex. The next song is called “Westside Rentals” and finds him dreaming of a “house with a pool on the Westside with a black Betty Page sitting deckside.”It’s smart, […]
