Originally published in Verbicide issue 21
On a brief break in his tour schedule, amid tending to the gardeners and playing with his kids, Michael Diamond (the Beastie better known as “Mike D”) chatted us up — despite the band’s recent mute tendencies.
For their latest release, The Mix-Up, the Boys put down the mic and focused [...]

Originally published in Verbicide issue #20
The rise of Psalm One to respected rap artist isn’t what you’d call typical.
As an only child growing up on Chicago’s south side, Psalm — aka Cristalle Bowen — dabbled in music, picking up saxophone and singing in the church choir, but her real passions laid elsewhere.
Psalm wanted to [...]