Apr
30

Sach O: Komodo Dubs, LD and Katana-step

Photo by Jonathan Clark While Montreal’s club scene mostly remains the domain of muscle-shirted cretins and vapid-eyed skeezers* gorging themselves on bottle service to the rhythms of Euro-House and cheese-trance, the city has also spawned a wonderfully diverse selection of bass-music events over the past few years. Everyone has their niche from Boudah Slinky’s student-centered… Continue reading »

Apr
29

Mary Anne Hobbs — Volcano Refugee Party in L.A. ft. Daedelus, Ras G, Take, Teebs & Tokimonsta

Let the record show that this is the only volcano that I fuck with.  Eyjafjallajokull, Krakatoa, and Joe Vs. can get the finger — what finger? The middle. As the LA Weekly reported earlier this week, Mary Anne Hobbs has decamped to the city of the Angels for the next month, to duck the travel… Continue reading »

Apr
29

Taking the Summit

Take “Incredibright” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo. Aaron Frank has never climbed a mountain nor played an electric guitar. However it happened, Take had a right to be irate that Only Mountain leaked a month early. A driving force behind the underground LA beat scene for the last decade, Sweatson Klank’s debut not only evidences… Continue reading »

Apr
29

Passion of the Weiss Presents Part Deux: Freddie Gibbs, DaVinci, Pollyn, Hanni El Khatib

Like Topper Harley forced out of his Buddhist hermitage to save a squadron of Iraqi hostages,  Passion of the Weiss Presents Part Deux is going down next Saturday, May 8th at Spaceland. Expect Freddie Gibbs and DaVinci to supply me with the requisite ammunition, performance-enhancing drugs, and unsavory women to complete the mission. After all,… Continue reading »

Apr
28

Getting to Know, Alex B

I’ve been meaning to write about Boulder-based Alex B’s excellent Moments for the last month, but a Low End Theory appearance finally compelled me to do a post about it at Pop & Hiss. For fans of my most Cam’ron-purple prose, here’s what I had to say about “Getting to Know You,” the latest leak… Continue reading »

Apr
28

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: There’s Something Rumbling Under Echo Lake

Douglas Martin can see the woods for the trees.  Jeremy Earl is a busy man. As the mastermind behind Woodsist, he’s quietly pushed the tiny, DIY, Brooklyn-based label to the forefront of the indie-rock landscape, spearheading the new wave of lo-fi bands flooding the marketplace and incubating for some of underground rock’s big-name groups (Vivian… Continue reading »

Apr
27

Beat Mining With the Loop Digga

Despite the ersatz Molotov-Ribbentrop pact  inked in 2006 between Passion of the Weiss and Stones Throw,* I have yet to hear the fifth volume of Madlib’s Medicine Show. According to the Stones Throw promo page, it compiles various flotsam and jetsam made by Madlib in the years between his work with the Likwit Crew and… Continue reading »

Apr
27

This is How Shlohmo Does It

Shlohmo recently re-tweeted the acquired wisdom that when in doubt, play 90s R&B. Considering he’s about 12-years old (or 20, if you’re on that whole “factual accuracy” trip), I suspect he would file his remixes of Khia’s “My Neck, My Back” and Montell Jordan’s “This is How We Do It” under the umbrella of classic… Continue reading »

Apr
27

Black Sands and Bonobos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wxJu-X0zVo During the four year-break between Bonobo albums, a seismic shift occurred in the world of bass music. Dubstep went from a minor blip bubbling up from the bongs of London to a widespread virus infecting beat music. As recent efforts from bass veterans Breakage and Autechcre displayed, it’s almost impossible not to note the… Continue reading »

Apr
26

A Feast of Caribou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiSa7THgxrI If I was blessed with unlimited financial and temporal resources, I’d devote a few thousand words to dissecting Caribou’s phenomenal Swim, released last week on Merge. Alas, I don’t and can’t squander a day straining for esoteric adjectives to describe guitar tones. Besides, I suspect it’s a lot more interesting to read this fascinating… Continue reading »

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