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.
Working for the Knife (and Being the Knife) By Sara Khan • January 12th, 2023 When I see Mitski for myself, I am tip-toed, leaning this way and that, reaching for an angle to see her over that glowing phone screen-sea.
Collision Detection In the Spaceship Over Glasgow With Mogwai By Ben Sailer • January 4th, 2023 Mogwai are often pigeonholed as the elder statesmen of post-rock. The real story about their roots and influences is much more interesting.
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.
Halcyon + On + On Keeping it in the Loop By Dan Solberg • November 9th, 2022 Electronic duo Orbital celebrate 30 years with a compilation of new tracks, self-reworks, and guest remixes of their classics. It’s more lively than most “greatest hits” albums, but can’t fully buck convention.
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.
Casting Deep Meteo The Meat Box: Four Quick Bites By Levi Rubeck • September 12th, 2022 With nary a word of acknowledgement, Levi casts such deep meteo he ends up mimicking Noah Springer’s “The Beat Box” column. Good picks, though.
Rookie of the Year I’m a Record Producer Now By Matt Marrone • September 9th, 2022 Until now, Matt’s musical credits have amounted to little more than a one-night-only metal taco performance at Mercury Lounge.
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.
Casting Deep Meteo Riff and Tear By Levi Rubeck • August 5th, 2022 Levi comes not to bury the DOOMs, but to praise doom metal.
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.
No Accounting for Taste Everything Old is New Again. And Then Some By Adam Boffa • April 12th, 2022 Thanks to one weird trick, the reboot has gotten a new lease on life.
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.
Collision Detection Pressing Pause By Ben Sailer • March 2nd, 2022 Ben gets his year-end wrap-ups from various entertainment services and has an unexpected epiphany.
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.
Rookie of the Year It’s a Beautiful Year to Stay Inside By Matt Marrone • January 6th, 2022 Look, Matt made you some content!
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.
Best of 2021 The Best Music of 2021 By Team Unwinnable • December 28th, 2021 Compared to 2020, 2021 was a not-nearly-as-terrible-but-still pretty-awful year. For musicians and their fans at least, it was a marked improvement.
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?
No Accounting for Taste Music and Memory in Midgar By Adam Boffa • November 12th, 2021 Final Fantasy VII Remake uses its music to dramatically reshape a familiar story.
Rookie of the Year The Summers Wind By Matt Marrone • November 8th, 2021 Sometimes nostalgia is a gut-punch from the past. Sometimes it’s a nice breeze. More often than not? It’s both.
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.
Here's the Thing The Lyrical Genius of Weird Al Yankovic By Rob Rich • September 1st, 2021 Rob talks about how “Weird Al” Yankovic’s goofy image belies an incredible talent for writing.
Rookie of the Year Folk On By Matt Marrone • August 24th, 2021 Matt goes outside, to a concert of all things!
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – August 2021 By Noah Springer • August 23rd, 2021 Noah goes mainstream!
Feature Excerpt On Orientalism and Exoticism in Videogame Music By William Dowell • August 18th, 2021 The insidious way that Orientalism exists in videogame music.
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!
Always Autumn Egress By Autumn Wright • June 3rd, 2021 Autumn explores cycles, hurtling towards the way out of things.
Exploits Feature Variations By Autumn Wright • June 1st, 2021 What these recordings offer in their canonization of different variations is a juxtaposition that glimpses lives and careers.
Exploits Feature Queer Black Manhoods By Oluwatayo Adewole • May 3rd, 2021 Black men in the West are offered two models for existing and neither have room for queerness.
’68 Releases a Menu Worthy of the Meal By Levi Rubeck • April 13th, 2021 This wasn’t a boast but a call-to-arms, and there are many who took on the charge.
portrayal of guilt’s Anthems Against False Hope By Levi Rubeck • April 5th, 2021 Anthems for sinking ships, as if the tide itself was a choleric spirit drawing you down to a lightless ocean floor.
The Beat Box Noteworthy Hip Hop – March 2021 By Noah Springer • March 22nd, 2021 You’ve got to hunt for these albums!