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Mike "Duncecap" Petrow is a Brooklyn, New York-based director, editor, cinematographer, emcee, and we are the karma kids affiliate. As a director, Petrow has directed music videos for karma kids signees/affiliates BALD AFRO , BIG BREAKFAST, Blastmaster Baker , GooGiE, Gruff Lion , Impervious Machine, Lt Headtrip , MC Eleven, and OLD SELF . Mike Petrow has, also, directed music videos for artists such as ELUCID , The Front Bottoms, Mega Ran , PremRock, Quelle Chris , Tanya Morgan, and Uncommon Nasa . As an emcee, Duncecap has self-released two EP's and two full-length projects since 2011; as of Friday, December 6, 2019, Duncecap has returned with his next project before year's end. miserable then is a 5-track EP entirely produced by ELUCID (Armand Hammer, CULT FAVORITE, Nostrum Grocers, The Lessondary) and recorded, mixed, and mastered by Willie Green at The GreenHouse Recording Co. miserable then opener "Waste of Money" features scratches thro...

Soldier by A.M. Breakups A.M. Breakups is a New Orleans/Utica/Brooklyn -based multi-media artists, Polaroid photographer, beat-twisting producer, and Chief Production Engineer at Reservoir Sound , who, also, frequently goes by Marris Mielnick , Palmer Eldritch , and sometimes, Rust Martin . A.M. has affiliations with Backwoodz Studioz , we are the karma kids, Uncommon Records , and notoriously reclusive emcee Despot . Since about 2006, A.M. Breakups has released a variety of self-produced projects on Reservoir Sound & Backwoodz Studioz , plus, as part of 11:00A.M. with MC Eleven and CULT FAVORITE with Armand Hammer & Nostrum Grocers emcee E L U C I D . Although, his last proper "studio" album was 2011's The Cant Resurrection on Backwoodz Studioz , Rust Martin has quietly been self-releasing a slew of collections on his personal Bandcamp page. Most recently and most notably, in our world, at least, A.M. Breakups has painstakingly compiled and re-relea...

Not long after publishing my review of Henry Canyons' La Côte West EP on The Witzard a couple months ago, I was fortunate enough to speak with Henry on the phone; it was at this point, which we formulated a tentative roll-out plan to publish this very interview. Henry Canyons was kind enough to send em a private Soundcloud stream of his then-unreleased album, Cool Side of The Pillow ("Cool Side," for short) and needless to say, I haven't stopped listening to the album since. Cool Side of The Pillow has since been released on billy woods' imprint, Backwoodz Studioz and was received to wide-spread critical/fan acclaim across "Rap Twitter." I'll personally, go as far as to say, Henry Canyons and his long-time friend and producer Matt "Bones" Bowen cooked up a solid contender for 2018's Album of The Year. It's easily one of the most simple, easy-listening, yet complex albums I've heard in a long time. "Bones" effortlessl...

La Côte West by Henry Canyons Henry Canyons is an LA -based Brooklyn -bred emcee, who, as a self-described "Brooklinite-French-Jew," transcends your typical ideal of what Hip-Hop could and should be; from his training as a Jazz saxophonist to his teenage years spent in Brooklyn ciphers, his melodic style, and bilingual lyrical integrity, Henry Canyons isn't exactly your typical emcee. He evokes a laid-back, yet extremely impactful flow similar in style to one-time Stones Throw signee Jonwayne with a keen ear for heavy-hitting, slightly off-kilter beats akin to Homeboy Sandman . Over the course of his storied career, Canyons has shared the stage with the likes of Macklemore , Tash (Tha Alkaholiks,) Open Mike Eagle , Pigeon Jon, Homeboy Sandman , Blue Scholars, DJ Mo Niklz , and PremRock. Henry Canyons boasts label affiliation with Brooklyn -based "Dystopian Hip-Hop" imprint/collective Backwoodz Studioz , whose current roster includes Armand Hammer (o...

Since unveiling his latest album, Comedy of The Filthbeast , right here at The Witzard earlier this year, New York rapper-producer Lt Headtrip has let loose a series of bone-chilling video accompaniment including Raisi K.-premiered "Father, Father," "Neck Right," and lest we forget, his 40-minute full-album stream. Now, Lt Headtrip has returned to The Witzard to premier Comedy of The Filthbeast 's next music video treatment, "Three Dollar Watch." Headtrip and his creative cohorts fittingly describe "Three Dollar Watch" as "[within] the third video from Lt Headtrip 's self-produced album, Comedy of The Filthbeast , director Gary Blake captures the tension between a caged snake and its unguarded prey, set to a song about a naive young girl's relationship with her abusive father figures." "Three Dollar Watch" consists of rather chilling footage of a snake stalking his dinner (a little white mouse) filmed...