I have done much hemming and a little bit of hawing about Damon Reddick in the last 365, so I’ll spare the True Leimert Park stories. Besides, a video of the interview should be dropping soon. In the latest LA Weekly, I take a trip to Dam-Funk’s home studio and receive a tutorial on the […]

Only Internet rap critics complain about whether or not a rapper whom 99.9% of the world has never heard of is overrated. If there was a secret PR formula that Freddie Gibbs and his team possessed, he wouldn’t be living in the seediest part of Van Nuys, with overturned shopping carts littering the sidewalk and […]

Photo via Brand X The extensive Frank Fairfield feature previously promised here.  I’ll spare the redundancy– I am a fan of Frank’s music. Let’s keep it simple for once. LA Weekly: Frank Fairfield–“The Man Who Wasn’t There” Download: MP3: Frank Fairfield-“9 Pound Hammer” MP3: Frank Fairfield-“I’ve Always Been a Rambler”

Should you be too stoned to read or outright uninterested in clicking over to LA Weekly to read my diatribe against the Los Angeles City Council and their proposed ordinance banning medical marijuana dispensaries, the above clip neatly summarizes my sentiments. I can’t really add anything here, other than reiterating a phrase once employed by […]

I have a new column at LA Weekly. It is called Hits from the Blog. It is about what you think it is about.  The first installment is a woolly manifesto about what to expect in ensuing weeks, plus an interview with City Councilman, Ed Reyes, about the current state of medical marijuana in Los […]

Since sequels seem to be the operative theme of the week, I present the latest Brilliant Comrades-produced video, featuring footage shot in the course of our months-long jerkin’ odyssey (there had to have been a better way I could’ve phrased that.) In other jerkin’ news, The Pink Dollaz have released their first music video, further […]

Photo via Timothy Norris I waited all week to link to my Franz Ferdinand review over at LA Weekly. The idea was to write something in response to Maura’s request that “someone write a really funny and scathing critique of [hipster] culture, so often either rooted in stereotypes that are years and years old, or […]

While moronic major label meddling remains an inexorable part of blog culture, it’s comforting to know that my Feburary LA Weekly article about Blogger deleting posts made a minor impact. The details can be found here, but any way you look at it, it’s a small victory for the powers of complaint. Blogger, I was […]

Now is the time on Passion of the Weiss vhen ve dance. In addition to my daily routine of chopping o’s, smoking lye and Optimos, and conspiring to kill hip-hop via MF Doom appreciation, for the last three months, I’ve been reporting on the jerkin’ movement that’s swept Los Angeles (no vaseline). Perhaps you’ve heard […]

The Hedley’s are the only analogue for the Los Feliz household of Foreign Born lead singer, Matt Popieluch and his girlfriend, Glasser’s Cameron Mesirow. In addition to fronting one of Los Angeles’ best bands, he works as a groundskeeper for Coldwater Canyon arboreal preservationists, Tree People, plays with Glasser and Fool’s Gold, and manages Frank […]