Peter Holslin is a freelance journalist, music writer, and musician originally from San Diego, Calif. He was born in 1986. He is super chill, can make a fine cappuccino, enjoys a good hike, often makes up words, and prefers goat meat to every other kind of meat.
Though he spends much of his time tearing his hair out and punching himself in the face trying to perfect his writerly craft, he also occasionally makes weird beats and songs. Hit him up on Twitter - https://twitter.com/peterholslin.
Currently Listening: Kamasi Washington - The Epic Ahmad Jamal - At the Pershing: But Not For Me Charlie Parker - The Complete Verve Master Takes Charlie Parker and friends - Complete Jazz at Massey Hall Earl Sweatshirt - I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside Too $hort - Get In Where You Fit In Richie Rich - Don't Do It Young Thug - Barter 6 The Coup - Genocide & Juice Erykah Badu - New Amerykah Part 1 (4th World War) Nosaj Thing - Fated Sam Cooke - The Complete Specialty Recordings Funkadelic - Maggot Brain --------------------------- Currently Watching: Jazz (Ken Burns) Game of Thrones Silicon Valley Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story ---------------------------Currently Reading:
Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Black Music by Amiri Baraka Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 by Simon Reynolds The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper| The First Mixtape of Spring — Peter Holslin | April 17, 2014 |
Peter Holslin ate nachos for breakfast Lately I’ve been spending lots of time staying up late, watching television, playing online chess, and planning out my future. I’ll be lying there on the couch, iPhone in hand, typing little messages into my yellowed digital notebook—things to do, daily goals, weekly goals, hard deadlines, soft deadlines, reminders […]
| Pushing That Boulder: The Heady Electro-Rap of Sisyphus | April 10, 2014 |
Peter Holslin lives in a top-secret mountain hideout You know how, in some jazz performances, there’s a song where every member of the band gets to play a solo? The saxophonist will stand up, toot out some fancy lines, then he’ll sit down, and then the trumpeter will stand up, show off a little, sit […]
| Getting Lost With The War on Drugs | March 31, 2014 |
Peter Holslin wrote this on PCP Depending on whom you ask, The War on Drugs are either a mashup of Tunnel of Love-era Bruce Springsteen and Disintegration-era The Cure, a dad-rock version of Spacemen 3, a peyote vision quest featuring Tom Petty, or the inventors of a new genre called “Bossgaze.” But this Philly outfit […]
| How to Dress Well – “Words I Don’t Remember” | March 14, 2014 |
Peter Holslin wrote this in a top hat and tails Has Tom Krell stepped out from the darkness? Have the tears dried, the grey clouds lifted? Four years ago, on his 2010 debut Love Remains, the How to Dress Well mastermind was like an R&B ghost haunting a vast cavern, his stunning falsetto caked in so much echo […]
| Little Red Katy B | March 11, 2014 |
Peter Holslin rocks a Civic with 20-inch rims Some guys might feel self-conscious bumping the glossiest dance-pop bangers in the car while driving city streets with the windows down. Not me, though. Not when Katy B is on the stereo. A vision of nightclub finesse in a digital blue dress, the 24-year-old English singer offers […]
| Question in the Form of An Answer: An Interview With Mac DeMarco | February 14, 2014 |
I quit smoking five years ago, but when I first heard Mac DeMarco’s “Ode to Viceroy”— an exquisite song about the budget Canadian cigarette manufacturer — I was so stricken by its charms that I started to feel the itch again. DeMarco is just that good. Hailing from western Canada and now living in Brooklyn, […]
| Winter Mixtape: Peter Holslin’s Dirty Underground Mix | February 12, 2014 |
Peter Holslin plays jazz flute on the side Most people know San Diego for its chill vibes and nice beaches. Also, Ron Burgundy. What they might not realize is that this lovely Southern California city also has a long tradition of fostering incredibly weird, noisy music. This mix features some of my favorite tracks from […]
| Into the Deep: Drexciya’s High-Pressure Funk | January 17, 2014 |
Peter Holslin sunk your battleship Nearly twenty years ago, reports surfaced that a mysterious society of highly advanced mutant humanoids was waging war on the high seas of the Atlantic. They were called Drexciyans, and according to legend, they were descended from pregnant slaves thrown overboard during the transatlantic slave trade. Using the Bermuda Triangle […]
| Kill Your Darlings: The Gaslamp Killer’s Meditation Mix | January 16, 2014 |
Peter Holslin spent New Year’s on Nibiru Homeopathic practitioners tend to make shitty DJs. Yoga, acupuncture, deep-tissue massage—that’s all good stuff for the body. But what about the music, man? Unless it’s run by a Burner with a record collection, a place of holistic healing is likely to be filled with ambient schmaltz. Think MIDI […]
| El Origen of Mexico’s Los Macuanos | December 11, 2013 |
Peter Holslin invented seapunk Los Macuanos is probably the grooviest band I’ve ever heard that makes music about politics, corruption, narco violence and urban decay. Their Latin rhythms are murky and vaguely threatening, but their digitized hand drums bang plenty hard, too. Their horn samples are suffused in ghostly echo and reverb, but these ghouls […]
