| 2013’s Most Overlooked Albums | January 7, 2014 |
Max Bellwas once traded for Pau Gasol. Some pale and anemic soul slumped behind a computer will soon devise an algorithm compiling a list of all the lists on the Internet. Said meta-list will be outdated the minute it goes up; that is unless there’s some automatic refresh built-in. Until that ominous day the Mayans […]
| Douglas Martin’s Dirty Shoes: The 2013 Dirty Shoes Awards | January 6, 2014 |
What, you thought you weren’t gonna see Douglas Martin? He’s the Osiris of this shit. I’ve been away, but I’ve been watching. This is not going to be a long preamble to acknowledge what I’ve been watching while I was out of the office, because I’ve been running this column for almost five years; I’m […]
| Son Raw’s Grime Top 30 for 2013 (#15-#01) | December 26, 2013 |
Son Raw’s continuing look at the instrumental Grime scene. Ya ‘dun know. Part 1 here. 15 – Bloom Bloom fucked with everyone’s head in 2K12 and kept the madness rolling this year with choice remixes and a release on Visionist’s Lost Codes label. His music wasn’t pretty but it damn sure was effective thanks to […]
| The Top 50 Rap Songs of 2013 | December 24, 2013 |
Even the Wet Bandits agree with this list. Do as they say, not as they do. Wealth was attempted to be spread, so as this subjective litany isn’t identical to the Best Album list. There is no Drake because the executive board of this website has a long-standing grudge with his family dating back to […]
| The Passion of the Weiss Top 50 Albums of 2013 | December 17, 2013 |
50. Camp Lo – 80 Blocks From Tiffany’s Part II [Self-Released] Retaining the same style and artistic narrative for 17-odd years is either maniacally stubborn or an extraordinary feat of consistency. In the case of Camp Lo, one of rap music’s longest-tenured novelty acts, the devil lies in the quality of their production. When equipped with […]
