Whether or not Tame Impala’s already-booked tours with experimental brethren MGMT and Yeasayer will turn out well remains to be seen, but at the very least, we know the drugs will be good. After all, you can’t help but see the smoke in their superb full length, Innerspeaker, which positions the young Aussies to get […]

Aaron Frank did not name his column. The title stems from a certain editor’s penchant for bad puns and an affinity for both Frank and Dank and “There’s Something About Mary.” Ratatat may need a life coach. Not like I believe in life coaches per se, but there have been bad decisions of late. Like […]

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 […]

Despite his ardor for Baths and claw foot bath tubs, Aaron Frank does not wear Bathing Apes. Now that we’re several months into the new year, those December resolutions are slipping and I’m again regularly making poor personal decisions. This time it wasn’t answering my ex’s belligerent 3 a.m. phone calls, but rather skipping Baths […]

Introducing Aaron Frank, a new contributor to Passion of the Weiss. Originally from Louisville, Frank currently resides in Los Angeles. He is both decadent and depraved.   Over the last several months, PoTW has deservedly dropped a heap of praise on Flying Lotus and Four Tet, but nothing on Floating Points, the London producer eliciting […]