Chris Daly is without question the greatest writer named Chris Daly ever to grace the pages of Passion of the Weiss. He was one of the first music bloggers ever to address Nigerian speed rap, an accolade which doesn't get him laid, even in Nigeria. Over the years, he has written for such varied outlets as this one, Odd Bloggings, Les Enfants Terribles, Rollo & Grady, Big Yawn, Jedi News and a really bitching piece on bed bugs for Hotel Management.
Daly claims to be the only PotW writer to have seen Tupac as a back-up dancer for Digital Underground, Heavy D. (when both he and all the Boyz still were alive and kicking), Slick Rick (before he went to jail) and the original 3 Feet High and Rising Tour. When not perfecting his beat boxing skills, he enjoys cosplaying his two kids in 80s B-Boy and B-Girl finery. Daly really hopes this blogging thing eventually pays off, as he is not looking forward to the chiropractic bills sure to arise from all the dookie chains he keeps heaping on his offspring.
Currently Listening:
D'Angelo and the Vanguard - Black Messiah
Steely Dan - Aja
Mecca: 83 - Ain't Done Too Bad
Two Syllables Volume 11
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Currently Watching:
Star Wars Rebels
Adventure Time
Steven Universe
Regular Show
Agent Carter
Samurai Jack
Cowboy Bebop
Gravity Falls
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Currently Reading:
Inherent Vice by Thomas Pynchon Huck Finn's America: Mark Twain and the Era That Shaped His Masterpiece by Andrew Levy Let's Go Crazy: Prince and the Making of Purple Rain by Alan Light Hip Hop Family Tree 1975-1983 Gift Box Set by Ed Piskor Batman: The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller| Beat Traps: The Good Work of BADBADNOTGOOD | November 18, 2011 |
Chris Daly is prettyprettygood. And here I was thinking Tumblr was only good for Star Wars nerds, boobie aficionados and proving Drake has fucking lost it. Toronto jazz trio BADBADNOTGOOD have been using it to feed the world some oh so tasty hip hop jams. Dropping covers of J. Dilla’s “Fall in Love” and Gucci […]
| R.I.P. Heavy D: 1967-2011 | November 10, 2011 |
Chris Daly co-wrote the “In Living Color” theme song. The Overweight Lover has left the house. The Jamaican born, money earnin’ Mount Vernon-raised, Dwight Arrington Myers, passed away earlier this week on November 8th, 2011, apparently due to “respiratory distress.” While he may not have been regularly heralded as one of the all-time greats of […]
| Beat Traps: Seekae’s +Dome | September 30, 2011 |
Chris Daly owns at least four Traci Lords albums. Look, I’ll be honest, I was initially kind of disappointed when I learned I was going to review the new Seekae album and not the new Seka album. Let’s be honest, it’s not every day that a 70s/80s porn icon makes a beat album. Apparently, it’s […]
| Beat Trap: Falcons – Indian Summer | September 20, 2011 |
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 […]
| Beat Traps: My Philosophy – Kone’s “The Tracatus” | September 12, 2011 |
Chris Daly can’t say the word “syllogism” without giggling. Listening to The Tracatus by Kone is heady stuff, indeed. Not only does the title reference the great work Tracatus Logico-Philosophicus by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, but vocal snippets throughout quote Nietzsche and espouse the tenants of logical positivism. Now, I’m more of an existentialist […]
| Beat Traps: The Third Eye of Free the Robots | September 1, 2011 |
Chris Daly has eyes in the back of his dread. It has come to my conclusion that Free the Robots is not the moniker of one alleged Chris Alfaro, but is, in fact, a prime directive from a funkily deranged Mother Ship floating just above the planet’s atmosphere. Think I’m lying? If his latest Alpha […]
| Beat Traps: Rapping with Paul White | August 29, 2011 |
Chris Daly brings the Rocky Road while others bring vanilla. There are those of us of a certain age who recall with fond clarity the early heyday of rap, waaaaay back in the 80s. Pull up a chair, kids, because I’m about to give a lecture. In some of its earliest incarnations, hip hop had […]
| Beat Traps: MOCHIPET “CHICXULUB” | August 17, 2011 |
Chris Daly still can’t pronounce this album’s name. Look, I’m only human. As much as I try to keep strict editorial rules in place when I get ready to review an album, if I find out ahead of time that it’s a concept “soundtrack for an animated novel in which the Dinosaurs make their way […]
| Beat Trap: The Bad Vibes of Shlohmo | August 9, 2011 |
Chris Daly prefers this to “Good Vibrations.” I was conflicted when I first received a copy of Shlohmo’s Bad Vibes. Earlier this year saw the release of his Places EP, which had spawned the eponymous track that remains one of my favorite jams of the year. Was the kid going to come through with a […]
| Beat Traps: Pregnant’s “Life Hard: I Try” | July 27, 2011 |
Chris Daly has seen Akira 76 times. Daniel Trudeau and I have something in common. While I cannot attest to whether or not he shares a similar fondness for uber-obscure, Asian, ninja-zombie movies, I do know that both of us recently fathered our first child. Not together or anything, but we’re both daddies now nonetheless. […]
