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| Premiere: Mystery Cave and the Supernatural Mind | March 30, 2015 |
Stalactites bloop and Stalagmites bleep, come to death row
| Where the Buffalo Roam: New Toro y Moi | March 13, 2015 |
Chaz is back with two new singles off of his upcoming album "What For?"
| Chromatics are Disco Ball Magicians | March 9, 2015 |
Johnny Jewel's outfit releases a new single ahead of the forthcoming "Dear Tommy"
Laser-synths and geometric raps put Ghana on the map
| An Interview with Clipping.’s Daveed Diggs: on Playing Thomas Jefferson and Marquis de Lafayette in a New Musical | February 24, 2015 |
Get to know our history through a current lens, thanks to Daveed Diggs's new starring role at the Public Theater in "Hamilton."
| Aphex Twin Opens the Vaults | February 5, 2015 |
Art by Stephen Robinson Peter Holslin is hooked on phonics It was the digital equivalent of buried treasure — 110 high-caliber tracks uploaded to Soundcloud by a mysterious artist dubbed “user48736353001.” This massive data drop got a lot of attention from music writers last week, as most experts strongly suspect the songs are the handiwork […]
| Temple of Boom: Burial “Temple Sleeper” | January 28, 2015 |
Peter Holslin jogs on a treadmill… in space Burial’s new song “Temple Sleeper” reminds me of the themes to those cheesy ’90s sci-fi TV shows that were awesome precisely because of the low-budget special effects and space-time continuum-warping plotlines. The white-label cut (out via UK’s Keysound) is upbeat by Burial’s standards, and what sets it […]
| Destination Unknown: Sleater-Kinney “No Cities to Love” | January 23, 2015 |
Peter Holslin needs a new pair of Sauconys I remember being at some guy’s house some time in the early ’00s. It was San Diego somewhere. It was around 9 o’clock at night, quiet, in a big house where loud music was bound to reverberate off the hardwood floors. I noticed a copy of Sleater-Kinney’s 1999 […]
| Master of Saharan Guitar: Mdou Moctar “Anar” | January 22, 2015 |
Peter Holslin will never forget peanut butter It’s hard to dispute the dopeness of a guy like Mdou Moctar. A Tuareg guitarist based in the city of Agadez in northern Niger, he specializes in a style of loose, droning Saharan desert rock that goes over well at wedding parties but also feels warm and welcoming […]
| Death by Audio: John Carpenter “Night” | January 14, 2015 |
Peter Holslin has come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and he’s all out of bubblegum The filmmaker John Carpenter is of course celebrated for a long list of murky, dystopian flicks from the ’70s and ’80s—The Thing, They Live, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, etc. But at this point he’s known as […]
