May
31
Kind of a big weekend for the hipping and the hopping (and conversely, the bipping and the bopping). As you are on reading this on the Internet, on a blog, I think it’s safe to say that you have been bumping Carter III and Wale’s Mixtape About Nothing for the past 24 hours. I’ll refrain… Continue reading »
I won’t deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of course, music is music… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVs0AQ2tX6Q The “Ice Cream” video. Because sometimes it’s a day that ends in “Y.”
Zilla Rocca once held a Backstreet Boys CD in the palm of his hand. It was directly after taking it out of the grasp of a knocked-out shoplifter. So what if it was a 13-year old girl, she was a thief. It was revealed last week that Lou Pearlman, the “mastermind” behind the Backstreet Boys… Continue reading »
One of the more frustrating things about hip-hop heads*, specifically those old enough to remember the first two Golden Ages, is the general groupthink that no hip-hop album made today can possibly be as great as anything made during 88-96. This is just how it goes. Nostalgia is a motherfucker and no matter how dope… Continue reading »
First El-P and now the Parson Redheads? All I need is a post on Ghostface to turn Tuesday into a referendum on which groups I’ve written about more than anyone else. But consider this less sheer Homerism than shameless self-promotion (get yr official Passion of the Weiss tee-shirts coming soon!) as I’ve written a feature… Continue reading »
Photo Via Timothy Norris (See More Photos of the Show at Play) There’s something primal about the Kills. Not some sort of cheap $2 voodoo either. They offer no gimmicks, or eye-popping flash or smoke machines to dazzle you. This is sound as dirt. Raw, blistering, fuck-you noise built off a devil’s deal between the… Continue reading »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoqWOOtlIbM Indeed. As is any compilation that features the song from the clip above, which you may remember from the opening credits of the very excellent Ghost World. Thanks to crate-digger and ex-Stylus alum Todd Hutlock, I’ve been listening non-stop to Doob Doob O’ Rama Filmsongs of Bollywood for the past 24 hours. Recorded in… Continue reading »
No, the three and a half (out of four) stars that I tossed to II Trill does not mean that I have resolved to only rock 22 inch rims and sip syrup in my candy-colored Caddy. Nor does it mean this blog is about to turn into a Paul Wall, Lil Flip or Mike Jones… Continue reading »
So I was at the gym today getting my ‘roid on. Y’know, snorting wheat grass, main-lining whey protein, lamping in the tanning bed, all that crazy stuff us bleached Cali folk do. When suddenly, the grimy nihilism of Screwball’s Y2K: The Album: burst onto my headphones. If you’re not up on Carl Hubbell’s favorite group,… Continue reading »
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