Shadowboxers Invade the Top 100 of 2009 (again)

The EP is coming y’all… Until then, two more Shadowboxer cuts made the Top 100 tracks of 2009 at the almighty conglomerate that is Bloggerhouse.  The #29 hip hop song of ’09 is “No Fury (Zilla Rocca Remix)”, which is the first cut off the upcoming Broken Clocks EP.  You can download the track for free [...]

Beat Garden Among The Top 50 Hip Hop Songs of 2009

Passion of the Weiss unveiled it’s annual Best Of year end list. MAGr (Al Mighty & Distant Starr) placed at #50 with their standout cut “Laminated Looseleafs” featuring Blu of the album No News is Good News.  5 O’Clock Shadowboxers came in at #31 with the recently visualized “High Noon”.  And Zilla Rocca contributed write-ups [...]

WORLD PREMIERE! 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers “High Noon” video

Directed by Zilla Rocca Produced by Curly Castro Filmed and edited by Jimmy Giambrone Co-starring Nico the Beast, Jawnzap7, and Liz Padova Taken from the 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers LP The Slow Twilight

Shadoxers + Beast = One of the Best Songs of 2009

In case you STILL haven’t check the 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers’ debut The Slow Twilight, fear not sleeping hip hop listener!  The good folks at Bloggerhouse have done you a favor and went ahead to list the track “Dead Queens” featuring Nico the Beast among the top 100 songs of the 2009.  Coming in at a [...]

Tonight We Celebrate The Life of Domenic Zarrella Jr.

Tonight is the most important event in the history of Beat Garden: the Benefit for Domenic Zarrella Jr aka Baby Beast. If you cannot make it out tonight and still would like to make a donation, please email Zilla Rocca for more information: zillarocca@gmail.com We appreciate all of your support! See you tonight!

Zilla Rocca Makes Top 25 Producers You Need To Hear Right Now

His Shadowboxer potna Douglas Martin was already ordained by Poisonous Paragraphs a few weeks back.  Now Zilla Rocca gets the “listen to this dude’s beats ASAP!” treatment at Poisonous Paragraphs.

Nico & Shadowboxers Crack The Top 100

Two of the three Beat Garden releases this year, Nico the Beast’s mixtape Dinner is Served and 5 O’Clock Shadowboxers LP The Slow Twilight, have made the list of the Top 100 Hip Hop Releases of 2009 So Far…by the esteemed blogger(house!) conquistador Dart Adams via Posionous Paragraphs! Head over to Poisonous Paragraphs to check [...]

Shadowboxers Press

“One of the best hip hop releases of the year”–Austrailian hip hop mag SCENE.  Skip ahead to pg 39 “If you enjoy a listen that pushes the envelope as Hip Hop continues to evolve, then what Zilla Rocca and Douglas Martin have offered up is right up your alley.”–Bloggerhouse In other Shadowboxer news, we’ll be [...]

We Bury Bodies in this Garden of Beats!!!!!

What’s good world. Here to give the 411 on another Beat Garden extravaganza…. This Friday, the 23rd of October, In South Philly, your boys are in the building, BANG BANG!!! Come witness some controlled Chaos!! (For 7 dollars of course) @ Saturnlian Mummer’s Hall 1811 S. 2nd St. Also be on the look out for “the Slow [...]

Reviews for the Khyber Show + New Pics

“That shit was tough..It started a fire within me (and others), and should only mean good things for the Beat Garden, Public Axis and RTD crews.  Thank you, Philly.”–Rock the Dub review of the Khyber show “Public Axis brought a nice collection of hungry, independent hip hop artists to the stage”–Phrequency.com review of the show [...]