I’m unsure what’s happening in the video for Gaslamp Killer and Dimlite’s “Seven Years of Bad Luck for Fun,” but if you like marrow and brain-blistering psychedelic head music, you will enjoy this. I recently wrote a 2,000 word cover story on GLK, so I probably don’t need to reiterate any more effusive adjectives. His […]

You don’t wanna’ hotbox with Chris Daly. Following a string of nearly incoherent gibberish, the first comprehensible words on The Gaslamp Killer’s Breakthrough are: “You understand what I’m trying to say?” That sums up his Brainfeeder LP debut pretty well. The work of an obviously febrile brain, the Los Angeles by way of San Diego […]

Out of all the artists on Flying Lotus’ Brainfeeder imprint, The Gaslamp Killer is the only one who makes music that sounds like he feeds on brains. Check the cover: half man, half machine, the mustache and mane shrouded in the darkness. We trippy. I’m working on a long feature about Willie the Kid, so […]

This site’s aesthetic is easy to describe. Dirty, dusty, drugged. Digital or analog, the drums ought to clap, the guitars should be sharp, the raps rugged, the fuzz should be ferocious. Okay, you get it. Unless, of course, the song is good and then all subjective preferences are packed off on a floating iceberg. Belle […]

GLK hit Amsterdam a few weeks ago, and we ought to have more than just aural evidence of his imprint in the land of clogs and kush. Some enterprising television producer needs to see the future and tab Will Bensussen to be the Anthony Bourdain of esoteric international weed strains and blunted beats. In the […]

Untitled from MOCHILLA on Vimeo. File under: Thundercat funk, Gaslamp Killer ferocity, Flying Lotuses, Mochilla, and Beat Scene evangelism. Tangentially related: Mike Eagle is giving away this collaboration with Blowed Vet Gajah and Ellul for free. As with anything Eagle-related, you will probably want to hear it. Sponge feat. Open Mike Eagle & Ellul (prod. […]

Do you really need to read another panegyric on the Low End Theory? No. What more needs to be said about a place that had surprise sets from Odd Future and Thom Yorke in consecutive weeks (my review of the latter is here for the interested). It’s been four months since the last podcast, a […]

Sometimes you tell yourself that you’re going to wait until 8 p.m. to smoke, and then other times the audio leaks from the Low End Theory takeover of DJ Muggs and Mr. Choc’s Soul Assassins radio show. Two hours of mixes from Daddy Kev, Nobody, and Gaslamp Killer. Roll it up, light it up, smoke […]

The Gaslamp Killer – DEATH GATE from (((∆))) on Vimeo.   Aaron Frank is not afraid of Death. They’re afraid of him — there was a falling out over a quibble concerning the proper amount of hair spray.  Previously down for his dynamic DJ sets and choices in facial hair, Willie “The Gaslamp Killer” Bensussen […]

Several days late linking to my RA feature on The Motherfucking Gaslamp Killer, but things have been hectic at Passion of the Weiss HQ. In attempting to get my kitchen both spic and span for Rosh Hashanah, I’ve squandered countless hours attempting to figure out how to incorporate the cooking dance with the Jewish New […]