Noise Pollution returns with a look at new ones from Blake Mills, Tom Misch & Yussef Dayes, and more.
Will Schube takes a look at Ariel Pink's Saturday night lament, "Another Weekend."
You don't even know what dreaming can be until you listen to Regal Degal
What's an Artiste to an Artist? What's an Artist to an Auteur?
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The Dirty 30 of 2014 | December 23, 2014 |
Douglas Martin chose thirty great songs for 2014. THIRTY! (c) Danny Brown
| The Top 50 Albums of 2014 #25-1 | December 12, 2014 |
In the conclusion of a special two part series, the Passion of the Weiss staff crown their top albums of 2014 and learn the value of friendship, decency, and karate.
| Who to Follow: Ariel Pink “pom pom” | November 26, 2014 |
Will Schube’s high school football team hired E-40 as their new offensive coordinator Ariel Pink has always been an artist rife with tensions, and pom pom, his latest work, stands both as an image of, and in direct opposition to, his persona. pom pom is Pink’s most nuanced, carefully crafted, cohesive, and layered record to […]
| Strip Club Etiquette with Ariel Pink | October 23, 2014 |
Peter Holslin relaxes to hardcore avant-garde improv jazz. Ariel Pink’s recent interview with The New Yorker reads like a master’s thesis in the art of trolling. In the span of just over 800 words, he manages to joke about suicide; compare Twitter controversies with the Rwandan genocide; proclaim love for pedophiles and necrophiliacs; diss his […]
| I Get the Five to the Six, Seven Digits: Ariel Pink “Put Your Number in My Phone” | September 26, 2014 |
Will Schube got something for the honies For all his oddities, Ariel Pink has settled into a consistently straightforward aesthetic over the course of his last three releases (and, not coincidentally, these are by far the best albums he’s ever made…it’s not even close, really). Bordering the periphery of silky smooth 70s AM radio and […]
| Ariel Pink & Jorge Elbrecht’s “Called to Ring” | December 6, 2013 |
Ariel Pink so chill that he’s included bro in the name of his new duo with Jorge Elbrecht. The group is officially titled, “Jorge Elbro,” and I can imagine Ariel Rosenberg smirking about the name through the smoke. As in the case of many legitimately brilliant talents, Pink seems to get less love from the […]
