Caltrops Press
Fuck the noise. Get off the internet.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Weekly |
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| Issues | 140 | Founded | 3 years ago | Last Issue | 8 days ago |
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COVER REVEAL: Catch Us Before We Fall Off
Cover paintings by the incomparable Aaron Horkey [a.k.a. abuse]
The cover paintings are from the same period of time that abuse did the Hip-Hop Music for the Advanced Listener and Music for the Advancement of Hip Hop compilations. The...
BOOK RELEASE: Catch Us Before We Fall Off
Spanning two exhaustively researched and stylistically composed volumes, Catch Us Before We Fall Off: a [ch]oral history of anticon. is an audacious document of a pivotal moment in hip-hop history.
Release date: September 29, 2026.
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Caltrops Issue 30
CALTROPS ISSUE 30
ELUCID W[h]ending His Way: “I Guess U Had To Be There”
all photographs by E. Fortson
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ELUCID W[h]ending His Way
One enters the other world by breaking a shell: or through a door: through a partition: the curtains part or rise: a veil is lifted.
—R. D. Laing, from The Politics of Experience (1967)
We are condemned
to kill time:
so we die,
little...
RAPS + CRAFTS #45: Joey300
Photo courtesy of the artist
1. Introduce yourself. Past projects? Current projects?
My name is Joey300, representing my given nickname as well as my hometown. I’m a nineteen-year-old rapper/producer hailing from eastern MD, and I’ve fou...
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CALTROPS PRESS is writing about rap muse-sick & “art” & litter-ature & infinite texts from an insurrectionist perspective. Insurgent music journalism that isn’t music journalism. Fuck the noise, and get off the internet.
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