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The Top 50 Albums of 2012

December 24, 2012

On a Previous Episode of the Passion of the Weiss: The Top 50 Albums of: 2011; 2010; 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 50. House Shoes – Let it Go [Tres] No best album list is complete without something from Detroit. Nowhere else is as no frills and unvarnished. It operates as a palate cleanser to remind […]

By Jeff Weiss

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The Top 50 Albums of 2012 (#50-26)

December 20, 2012

By Jeff Weiss

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POSTED IN 100s,4NML HSPTL,Aaron Matthews,Ab-Soul,Action Bronson,Adam Wray,Alex Piyevski,Ascent,Black is Beautiful,Black Moth Super Rainbow,Blockhead,Breakthrough,Captain Murphy,CAR,Chris Daly,Cobra Juicy,Control System,Curren$y,DaVinci,Deniro Farrar,Doc Zeus,Duality,Fiona Apple,Flying Lotus,Four Tet,Hair,House Shoes,Hype Williams,I'm Still A Hitta,Ice Cold Perm,Interludes After Midnight,Jeff Weiss,Jonah Bromwich,Kenny Dennis EP,Kill or Be Killed,Let it Go,Lil Durk,Lonerism,Lucifer,Martin Douglas,Matt Shea,Max Bell,Open Mike Eagle,Pangea,Peaking Lights,Pink,Priest Andretti,Rare Chandeliers,Regal Degal,Release,Renato Pagnani,Serengeti,Shady Blaze,Six Organs of Admittance,Slava P,Son Raw,Tame Impala,The Gaslamp Killer,The Idler Wheel,The MOEna Lisa,Tosten Burks,Ty Segall,Until the Quiet Comes,Veritable Who's Who,White Fence,Wrecking Crew,Wu-Tang Pulp

Beat Traps: The Gaslamp Killer’s “Breakthrough”

September 18, 2012

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 […]

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