| Nocando’s Up in the Air & The Low End Podcast XXIII ft. Gaslamp Killer & Cut Chemist | December 12, 2012 |
I co-host a podcast with this fellow (oh judontknow), so I am absolving myself of all critical objectivity. This is the new single, “Up in the Air” from Nocando’s forthcoming Jimmy the Burnout. I don’t watch George Clooney movies so I have no clue about its veracity. I dig the song though. In other 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, […]
| Video: Nocando – “Where’s The Money” | November 7, 2012 |
“Where’s the money? – ” German Nihilists & Nocando. Smashing CRT Monitors is the new smashing guitars. Shot and Directed by Los Hermanos Casey.
| The Road to Hellfyre is Littered With Self Medication: Open Mike Eagle, Busdriver & Nocando Go Something Something | September 26, 2012 |
Open Mike Eagle’s “Self Medication Chant” is a rosary for the downtrodden and dizzy, the sarcastic and the sneering. Those who find themselves disenchanted for vague reasons but find that their votives go unanswered. To those stressed and overworked and angry. It is dedicated to his friends losing his minds. It is a Howl and […]
| 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 Kleenrz – “Mr. Sandman” | August 13, 2012 |
Max Bell is a bully on the blog. Everyone’s favorite comedian, Steven Wright, once sang, “Wind chimes are for stupid people so they’ll know that there’s a breeze.” A young Self Jupiter a.k.a. “Mr. Sandman” broke his parent’s wind chimes as he tore the silver lining out of the coloring book he used to practice […]
| 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 […]
