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Video: Spaceships – “Ghost” 27 Aug 2013 | 03:22 am
Spaceships “Ghost” from Spaceships on Vimeo. For their first video from their impressively chill debut LP, Cool Breeze over the Mountains, Spaceships confront the very serious question of what happen...
Darkside of the Muse 27 Aug 2013 | 02:53 am
When I interviewed Nicolas Jaar, he professed an unapologetic love of Pink Floyd and psychedelic music. In retrospect, it should seem unsurprising. You can hear the woozy patience of Meddle in the moo...
Mini-Doc: The Life and Fast Times of Black Hippy 26 Aug 2013 | 10:05 pm
Max Bell’s skyline is the clearest. Jay-Z’s second annual Budweiser Made In America Festival is this Labor Day weekend. Somehow Black Hippy aren’t at the top of the bill. Perhaps to rectify this (an...
Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: This is Your Bloody Valentine 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Douglas Martin was made to realise. Fate didn’t choose me. I could have seen My Bloody Valentine’s first Seattle date in god-knows-however-many years. I could have flown to another city to see them. ...
V for Vandetta 24 Aug 2013 | 03:02 am
For those who judontknow, I still scrawl the Bizarre Ride column at LA Weekly. I try to keep the worlds separate in the style of G. Costanza, but occasionally, there’s the need for crossover. This wee...
Ty Segall, From the Slaughterhouse to the Sleeper Hold 23 Aug 2013 | 08:00 pm
Duncan Boyd once beat a man insensible with a strawberry. It’s been roughly eight months, which means it’s time for another Ty Segall album. Fresh for 2013, it’s Sleeper, an album that again brings a...
Question in the Form of An Answers: An Interview with Spark Master Tape 23 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
You know when someone derisively describes something as “tumblr rap”? (You’re reading Passion of the Weiss, so of course you do.) What they usually mean is that the music, tumblr rap, is very stylish ...
Ka, The Dark Night Returns 23 Aug 2013 | 04:07 am
Ka is the only artist whose music our staff collectively refused to pirate. Such is the respect for a O.G. who went from Natural Elements to the firehouse, to having the best late career renaissance t...
Shots Fired Episode 43: “Control” and the Return of BEeFF 23 Aug 2013 | 12:16 am
Before I let Kendrick finish, I need to point out that Janet Jackson’s “Control” remains the best “Control” of all-time. Joy Division probably is hanging tough at number two. For the latest episode of...
The Underachievers – Leaving Scraps 22 Aug 2013 | 10:30 pm
Tosten Burks can’t decide if CJ Spiller is the new Brian Westbrook or the new DeAngelo Williams. I don’t know what I’m looking for in the evolution of Lex Luger, but I guess this will do. Boisterous ...
