Food Justice For All - A Hip Hop benefit concert for Salvation Farms

            Collective Rhymes presents an evening of Vermont independent hip hop to raise money for Salvation Farms (http://www.salvationfarms.org), a gleaning organization that gets fresh produce, that would of otherwise been wasted, to those in need.  
            It will take place at Parker Pie Co. in West Glover, VT on Saturday, January 10th from 8-11PM. Performances by Face-One, Mavstar, Maiden Voyage, Owen Kinlund, Caveman, Dusty Swamp, and special guests. Your host of the evening will be Mycelium. There will be a freestyle cypher and dancing to end the night. Cover charge is a suggested donation of $5-$500 and there will be a raffle with lots of cool local items! For More Info mcmycelium74@gmail.com

VIDEO: "Barton Fair" - Freddy LeClair

New product from NEK emcee Freddy LeClair. This is a cut of his upcoming album, Vermont's Boy, and it's filmed on a location that I'm way too familiar with. While there's not a lot of cuts, the explosive fall colors make up for it.

WORD!CRAFT IN HARDWICK LIVE ON TV

                          WORD!CRAFT-Experimental Art Rhymes

A traveling, monthly, participatory, spoken word/hip hop event for all ages! It will take place on Friday, June 27th at The Municipal Building (on the corner of Church St. and Bridgeman Hill Rd.), in Hardwick, VT from 6:30-9:00. Sign-ups start at 6:30. This is an alcohol free event. This will be filmed for Hardwick Community TV. This month’s theme is “Media”, so whatever that means to you, bring it in written and/or improvised verse. You can also just come to listen and support lyrical artists.

The schedule for the night consist of:

6:30-7:00- Sign ups and DJ Crunchee playing beats for MC’s to get warmed up

7-8- Spoken word portion of the evening

8-19- Hip Hop portion of the evening- (written pieces and freestyle cyphers with word play games)

This is going to be an exciting evening of spoken word and hip hop that has never been seen before. This is not your average open-mic!

POSTS

"Pedestrian" - Wombaticus Rex

Does the world need another a-capella, spoken-word, free-verse rap-thing? Almost definitely not. That didn't prevent me from making one, however. This is dedicated to the 217.

Wombaticus Rex - "Live from Vermontistan"

This was recorded on Burke Mountain, October 26th 2013. Thank you to The NEKtones for having us play, thank you to Walter Westinghouse for flawless engineering, thank you to Louis Mackey for hauling up to the Northeast Kingdom to back me up and rap some raps.

This show is a collage drawing on Wombaticus vintage material, Algorhythms psychedelic jams, Hump Jones party sex, and abundantly pilfers from No Humans Allowed, my project with Louis Mackey. There is a ton of unreleased material here; it will all be out eventually.

Thank you to Vermont for always supporting a weirdo.

Hump Jones x Dr. Quandary - Breakup Music

A Labor Day release many years in the making. Burlington rapper Wombaticus Rex doing a concept cinema EP with Boston producer Dr. Quandary.

"Suicide Artist" - Wombaticus Rex

Live from the NEKtones release party for "Proof of Concept." Suicide Artist is unreleased so far.

The NEKtones - "The Wait and See" ft. Wombaticus Rex

Definitely one of my favorite tracks I'll be on in 2013. The NEKtones are a 5 piece "blue eyed soul" outfit from the Northeast Kingdom. They were generous enough to let me rap on this beautiful slice of sex funk. Their (very) Kickstarter-funded debut album, Proof of Concept, is dropping in July...on 135g vinyl, no less...and you can pre-order now at NEKproof.com

Cover art is courtesy the NYC photographer & artist Tobias Katz.

"Been a Long Year" - Wombaticus Rex

World Around Records is releasing a "lost album" from Wombaticus Rex, circa 2004. Northeast Kingdom hip hop trio Wombaticus Rex consisted of emcees Thirtyseven & Chris Dizzy over producer DJ Multiple Sex Partners.

This release is a prelude for lots of new 2013 material. My next release will be a single off the new NEKtones album, Proof of Concept.