Sep
13

Free Zombie

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqnQC3RODl0 In the hopes that a co-sign from Sean Carter and Willow Smith’s dad will suddenly stir your desire to cop a half-dozen coasters that you can illegally download via the magic of Google search, Knitting Factory Records has made an MP3 of “Zombie” available to you, discerning blog readers of the galaxy. I have… Continue reading »

Sep
13

Cracked Skulls and Angry Machines

Dibiase “Skullcrack” from Alpha Pup on Vimeo. Nate Patrin dented the skull of Machines Hate Me with a 5.8 for Pitchfork and I can’t knock his reasoning, even the score is too low by a point and change. At times, the record smacks of endearing but Gotcha! 8-bit flips that were fresh when Dibiase first… Continue reading »

Sep
13

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Big Troubles Have Little to Worry About

Douglas Martin is twee as fuck. I’d understand why you might dislike Big Troubles based on general principle: Too many bands in the past three years have used early-period Jesus and Mary Chain as a jump-off point. And what kind of next-level Internet irony are they trying to pull with their Angelfire-hosted website? Why should… Continue reading »

Sep
10

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: A Genre-Whore’s Guide to No Age

With Everything in Between– the excellent new record from No Age (easily my favorite band formed within the past five years)– set to hit shelves in a scant three weeks (as well as damn-near every fan of the band losing their minds to the leak right now), certain writers have feebly trying to make the… Continue reading »

Sep
09

The Gaslamp Killer’s Troubled Mind

Several days late linking to my RA feature on The Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer, but things have been hectic at Passion of the Weiss HQ. In attempting to get my kitchen both spic and span for Rosh Hashanah, I’ve squandered countless hours attempting to figure out how to incorporate the cooking dance with the Jewish New… Continue reading »

Sep
09

Beautiful Death: The Last Mary Anne Hobbs

The choice of Claro Intelecto’s “Beautiful Death” as the penultimate song on the last Mary Anne Hobbs show was intended to send a message that needn’t be explicitly articulated. The doyenne of dubstep is far too bright and self-aware to crow about how important she’s been to its ascent. Besides, she has plenty of others… Continue reading »

Sep
09

Sach O: An Appleblim day keeps…

My horrible puns aside, Appleblim’s impact on Dubstep and bass music over the past few years has been immeasurable. While former Skull Disco partner Shackleton got the techno love and Villalobos remixes, Appleblim veered a course towards looser, funkier and slightly lighter terrain planting him firmly in bass music’s sonic center. Think of them as… Continue reading »

Sep
09

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Public Strain’s Infectious Inscrutability

Douglas Martin is delighted that putting the word “band“ in parenthesis makes Women far easier to search on Google. As I alluded to in my review of “Eyesore”, the near-perfect closing track of the band’s sophomore record Public Strain, Women are a band that thrives on inscrutability. In an age where everyone from garage-punk shit… Continue reading »

Sep
08

Oil and Pollyn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0cNQHXfdPU Like fossil fuel shortages, rappers in the future will be hard-pressed to think up new ways to describe being rich. American manufacturing is dying and having “nanotechnology money” lacks the linguistic panache of being filthy oily rich. Brandon Davis money. The supergroup that will never come to fruition because Dan Auerbach can’t even make… Continue reading »

Sep
08

The Hippest Trip in America

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Vutb1OgXdQ Over the weekend, Pop & Hiss ran a Q&A that I did with Don Cornelius, the ex-host of Soul Train.  If you’re interested, we talk his tenure at the greatest dance show ever, his initial reluctance to play hip-hop, and why I would be willing to wear polyester to have lived through the 70s.… Continue reading »

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