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Heavy Metal Kings Conquer New England

Anyone who caught the HEAVY METAL KINGS show at Brighton Music Hall a few months back would agree it was a headbanger's ball, something like...
By Chris Faraone | July 18, 2011

With Retail Stores Closed, Fat Beats Soldiers On...

The bad news is that both Fat Beats retail shops – on Sixth Ave in Manhattan and Melrose in Los Angeles – are officially out...
By Chris Faraone | September 23, 2010

Mr. Incongeniality

The night before this interview, Bomshot pulled what might go down as the most boneheaded stunt in Boston hip-hop history when, in the middle of a crowded Slaine and Ill Bill show at Harpers Ferry, he attempted to cheap-shot the former from behind.
Bomshot makes a better MC than neighbor
By CHRIS FARAONE | May 28, 2010

Ill Bill + Slaine at Harpers Ferry

Brooklyn rapper Ill Bill marries heavy guitar riffs with rhymes as if it were 1994. No wonder Bill - né William Braunstein - is a...
By webteam | May 12, 2010

Ill Bill with Labseven, Brzowski, Sandbag, Slaine and the Anti-Valentines Day Ball with Gothic Maine at Asylum

An all-star crew of local hip-hoppers, including Labseven, Brzowski, and Sandbag, open up for Ill Bill, who's currently part of Everlast's supergroup La Coka Nostra,...
By webteam | February 10, 2010

Ill Bill + Slaine

As the ringleader behind the legendary New York underground outfit Non Phixion, Ill Bill helped establish a new brand of hardcore hip-hop that now serves as a...
By webteam | February 03, 2010

A long time comin'

Says Slaine, "When I get high I want to get higher, and when I get low I just want to get lower. I can't seem to find that place in the middle."
La Coka Nostra's been prepping this debut for a minute
By CHRIS FARAONE | July 17, 2009

New FREE La Coka Nostra Mixtape

As I've been mentioning all over Facebook and Twitter, I have a major feature on La Coka Nostr...
By Chris Faraone | July 08, 2009

Some Rap For You

New York and Boston rappers ILL BILL and SLAINE (both of whom are members of the hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra) will join local MC...
By webteam | June 17, 2009

MP3: La Coka Nostra (Slaine, Lethal, Everlast & Ill Bill) Reveal Debut Album Track List, Leak Bun-B Collabo

DOWNLOAD: La Coka Nostra, "Choose Your Side (Feat. Bun B) [mp3] I won't lie; I was recently excited...
By Chris Faraone | June 01, 2009

Slay anything

Boston's Irepress weren't supposed to be an instrumental band. What they've evolved into just happens to be too stylishly sinuous to lend itself to lots of words.
Words fail the post-everything epics of Irepress
By BARRY THOMPSON | February 09, 2009

Mass Movements | The Album

Imagine if you scouted Boston's pre-eminent hip-hop artists — from the grimiest coke-slinging corner cats to the roughest coke-sniffing bar rats — and teamed them up with virtually every underground MC who's made noise in the past three years.
Leedz Edutainment/Traffic (2009)
By CHRIS FARAONE | February 09, 2009