| The Return of Daedelus & Frosty: Adventure Time “Of Beyond” | February 11, 2015 |
Chris Daly dials M for monkey Not heard since 2003’s Dreams of Water Themes, it’s Adventure Time! With that in mind, c’mon, grab your friends, today we’re going to very distant lands. On Of Beyond, the L.A.-based duo of Daedelus, fancy lad producer extraordinaire, and Frosty, co-founder and creative director of dublab, have traveled past […]
| The Night is on My Mind: J. Vibes “Late Night Soul” | February 5, 2015 |
Chris Daly steals eardrums at midnight There’s that special time of night, well past sundown, with a few hours left ’til the sun goes and ruins everything. That time when the after after after party is in full swing. And if these are the hours you haunt, then you know damn well the perfect soundtrack […]
| Charades: First Word Records “Two Syllables Volume 11” | January 13, 2015 |
Chris Daly don’t know how to behave. If there’s a label out there today that better marries funk, jazz, hip-hop and soul into one gloriously decadent cosmic slop than First Word Records, I have yet to hear them. Others embark upon the some glorious path of pure amalgamation, but First Word continually produces concoctions of the […]
| Gimme That Beat, Fool: The Jack Moves “Doublin’ Down” | January 8, 2015 |
Chris Daly always bets on black If you’re into blue-eyed soul, 2015 looks to be a pretty good year. Folks rightfully awaiting Tuxedo’s self-titled joint on March 3 might want to keep their ears open to something else-The Jack Moves. While the work of Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne as Tuxedo is not to be taken […]
| Life of Crime: Guilty Simpson & Small Professor “Go” feat Elucid & Castle (Zilla Rocca Remix) | December 23, 2014 |
Chris Daly got a heater with a mute button To say there was anything “missing” from the original “Go” from Guilty Simpson and Small Professor’s Highway Robbery would be to imply the track wasn’t smoking in the first place. This would be untrue. Spitting over horns, wavering keys and taut snares taken to chiptuned extremes […]
| The Top 50 Rap Songs of 2014 (All) | December 18, 2014 |
The Passion of the Weiss staff present the first volume of the compilation album "Best Rap of 2014: 25 Shots to the Dome"
| Santa’s Got a Bag of Soul: Tuxedo “Wonderful Christmastime” | December 10, 2014 |
Chris Daly battled Mall Santa with the lyrics from “Christmas Rappin” in 1983. Regardless of your propensity towards being bad or good, Jake One and Mayer Hawthorne don’t judge. The power couple also known as Tuxedo is playing Santa by sharing a little holiday cheer in the form of some downloadable love. Here’s their take on […]
Chris Daly can crack crab or lobster Depending on where you hang your hat in the country, you may well already be through with snow and winter, which is particularly a bitch in light of the fact that winter doesn’t even officially start for another couple of weeks yet. With all the powder so many […]
| Strong Island Wildin’: De La Soul x Chuck D “We The People” | December 2, 2014 |
Can’t believe Chris Daly used to be Steve Austin on the mic Naturally, all eyes and ears are pretty much focused on the Wu-Tang’s latest opus, A Better Tomorrow, but if old head hip-hop truly is your bag, don’t let the latest single, “The People,” from De La Soul, rap’s true G.O.A.T band, pass you […]
| Furious Five: Friends of Friends “5oFof” | November 26, 2014 |
Chris Daly is a Scorpio In the scheme of musical career longevity, five years hardly amounts to half of a blip on the radar. Most bands are lucky to get two, maybe three albums out in that time frame, and labels are lucky to even exist half that long. Seemingly every other cat with a […]
