Howie Abrams is a former music business executive turned author from New York City. He co-authored
Finding Joseph I: An Oral History of H.R. from Bad Brains with James Lathos,
The Merciless Book of Metal Lists with Sacha Jenkins, and
Misfit Summer Camp: 20 Years on the Road with the Vans Warped Tour with Kevin Lyman. Howie contributes to Noisey as well as Mass Appeal, and he co-hosts a weekly radio show called
Merciless with rapper ILL BILL.
Michael "Kaves" McLeer is an MC in the hip-hop/rock group Lordz of Brooklyn, a graffiti artist, and the author of Skin Graf: Masters of Graffiti Tattoo . He lives in Brooklyn.
Darryl "DMC" McDaniels is a musical icon and one of the founders of the groundbreaking rap group Run-DMC, which has sold more than thirty million singles and albums worldwide. He is the author of King of Rock and Ten Ways Not to Commit Suicide . He lives in New York City.