Should you not follow me on Twitter (the horror), you may not have noticed that I am hosting a new weekly podcast on the ferocious Ear Wolf network (Comedy Bang Bang, SklarBro Country, Totally Laime). My co-host is the irrepressible Nocando of Low End Theory and Hellfyre Club fame. The latest episode is live now, […]

This is the best new rapping you’ll hear all week other than someone whose name rhymes with Schmendrick Fumar (That’s his Spanish sobriquet). Busdriver, Nocando, Open Mike Eagle. Grizzly Men. From Busdriver’s Arguments with Dreams EP See Also: The Road to Hellfyre is Littered with Self-Medication

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 […]

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 […]

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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 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 […]

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, […]

Nocando’s new video for “Hollywood”. Starring: balloon animals, souvenir shops, cigarettes, derelicts, beehive hairdos, noir-sunshine dialectics, Ripley’s Believe it Or Not, Elmo, the Low End Theory, Frank the Bouncer, doleful reggae, hoodies, popcorn, Union Station, cheap champagne, Pistol McFly, Sierra Nevada, and rap music. Nathaniel West and Weiss approved. Says James McCall, a.k.a. Gold Roger:  […]

I will probably scream until I’m Blu in the face that the Hellfyre Club deserve a fraction of the attention that other LA rappers receive. But it’s cool. I am as tired as you of rap writers getting agog that people will pay for Wale records but won’t support their personal favorite subterraneans (mine is […]