Cabin Fever Hip Hop Benefit for Salvation Farms

Collective Rhymes and Salvation Farms presents an annual Hip Hop benefit concert for Salvation Farms. It will take place on Thursday, April 2nd at Club Metronome at 188 Main St, Burlington, VT. Doors open at 8 PM and show starts at 9PM. It's a 21+ show and $5 at the door! It is a fundraiser, so we are accepting more than $5 for the cover charge! We have an amazing line up of local hip hop acts! Learic of the Aztexts, Wombaticus Rex, Self Portrait, Mic Plante, Bless The Child, Loupo, Notation, Owen Kinlund aka Rubix, DJCrunchee (Productions), cworner stwore, beat boxer extraordinaire Simmy B, Caveman, Rhythm Riderz Crew, Mycelium MC, and special guests! There will be an All-Star freestyle set that the DJ's, beatmakers, emcee's will improvise the soundtrack and dialogue to a silent movie! This is a hip hop show that can't be missed! See you there! Peace

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.

Milo x Wombaticus Rex @ Jenke Arts, August 24th

Milo * Safari Al * Wombaticus Rex * Face One

This is a rare treat: Milo is awesome. Saturday night, baby. Doors open @ 8:30. Suggested donation of $5-10.

"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.

NEKtones & Wombaticus Rex, Signal Kitchen, Oct. 19th

Backwoods boys going big: the mobile party unit known as The NEKtones will be headlining at Signal Kitchen, a studio / bar / venue that feels like Europe or something. If you haven't checked it out, this gig would be the best excuse to do so. For those of you on Big Blue: Facebookery

Wombaticus Rex - Colby Stiltz - Somewhere in the Solution - Set Up City - Greta Frost

We got Friday night covered. Swing through. Triple Stax.

VERMONT HIP HOP IS BACK

I'm sorry I was gone so long! Blame the Navy.

Here's what's been going on since I left: first and foremost, The Loyalists have a new album out and it's nothing less than FUCKING AMAZING. Caps lock, swears and all. Every single track is a gem. Hardly anyone in hip hop makes an album like that. I'm sure Loyalists would like to be known as Cali hip hop now that they've left Vermont but we'll always know where they started from, and they're still the best music VT has ever produced.

I'll be doing a whole post on their new album, with links to buy it, in the next couple days.

I was also extremely impressed with the Algorhythms EP, which is Wombaticus Rex emcee Thirtyseven collaborating with Boston-area producer (superproducer?) Dr. Quandary. This was an experience: I had myself a sizable joint, sat down and gave this my full attention, and it's still in heavy rotation three weeks later. The lyrics are out of control and Quandary is on some outerspace funk shit with this EP. Very, very tasty music -- and it's free.



Of course, the new Aztext album has been out for awhile, but it's stood the test of time. I still bump The Sacred Document all the time, especially ROLL CALL. I wake up to that jam!

I'm just getting back into the swing of things, trying to reconnect with people...what's up with Rhythm Ruckus? I'm always worried that my favorite acts are going to retire. More updates coming!

IF YOU'RE DOING HIP HOP IN VERMONT, GET AT ME. Let me know what you're doing, let me know about upcoming shows. Again, I'm really sorry to get this started off and just let it die, but I'll stick to it now. Vermont needs this and I'm sure not giving up the name to someone else.

PEACE!

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