Sep
22

Frank N Beats: Mary Anne Hobbs’ New Superstar Mix Platform

Aaron is still going to be Frank. You can still be Garth. Here at Passion of the Weiss’s Good Time Shamanitorium and Produce Emporium, we’re not shy about showing our respect and admiration for British DJ Mary Anne Hobbs. While her long-running BBC show quickly became a platform for introducing new artists and labels, her… Continue reading »

Sep
22

Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: Only in Dreams and the Coming Down of Dum Dum Girls

Douglas Martin once went by the name Ray Ray Nickel. Dee Dee Penny is nowhere near as divisive as she could be. She’s the rare musician in indie rock to seemingly have it all. The unfettered admiration of the lo-fi/garage sticker set and the intrigued curiosity of mainstream-alternative media. She’s an outstanding curator of influences… Continue reading »

Sep
21

Otto Manic Presents: Israeli Psych Funk

Rosh Hashanah is one week away, which means it’s about that time for secular Semites to start dipping apples in honey (dipped spliffs) and spell checking how to spell Rosh Hashanah. How would I know how to do that? I dropped out of Hebrew School to take private lessons with a West Virginian reform Rabbi… Continue reading »

Sep
21

Win Butler Stole My Charity Basketball Game

TBJ Rock the Court: Win Butler vs. Matt Bonner from The Basketball Jones on Vimeo. In which I take back every negative thought I’ve ever had about Win Butler and The Arcade Fire. The man can play ball. Dude must have destroyed people on the courts of Sarah Lawrence. All credit due to my favorite… Continue reading »

Sep
21

Video: Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire ft. El-P, Danny Brown, Das Racist, Despot – “The Last Huzzah”

1. Bonus points for the homage to the “Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)” 2. Lucky Charms are delicious and are a severely underutilized rap video resource. 3. Despot doesn’t look like a Despot. Maybe Fielding Melish. 4. Das Racist will probably never be my thing but the guy in the group with the Rozay beard… Continue reading »

Sep
20

Beat Trap: Falcons – Indian Summer

Chris Daly once dressed up as Falcor for Easter. FALCONS are a weird bird, to say the least. Whereas many of their contemporaries look to myriad sources for inspiration, I believe the Vancouver/ Oakland-based duo of TightMike and KayleoStocko is possibly one of the fww to adhere to the tenants of the world weary Bud… Continue reading »

Sep
20

Dam-Funk – Inafocuseddaze

Is there anything better than a new free Dam-Funk EP? No, there is not. More gorgeous PCH-ready modern funk, with Dam tweaking the formula ever so slightly. Make no mistake, at heart Damon Riddick has a musically omnivorous bent, with an equal ardor for soul, metal, jazz, techno, disco, and rock. Ask him about Prefab… Continue reading »

Sep
20

The Endless Nights and Weekends of Zilla Rocca

When I was in college, one of my best friends regularly employed the slogan, “every day is a Friday.” It was a myopic mantra only able to ring true for four years — tops. Or forever if you live the life of sloth and indolence that we practice here at Kramerica Industries. Barring an existence… Continue reading »

Sep
20

Shlohmo Flow’s Remarkable

Over at the Times, I call Shlohmo the Clayton Kershaw of the Los Angeles beat scene. The analogy fits because they’re both ostensibly too young to have such stellar production. I’m not sure if Henry Laufer is left-handed, but I might have to ask. We may have to form a baseball team — I haven’t… Continue reading »

Sep
20

Sach O: TRC – The Leak

Sach O wonders if a producer will ever empty out his hard drive and call it “the dump.” And the flood of free beats does not abate. If this were an era in which music required physical discs of plastic to be distributed, I’d bust out the old chestnut about being buried alive in the… Continue reading »

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