Consider Pollyn something like the Tom Tom Club covering Portishead. But Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth never met Roc Marciano, the latest impeccably chosen gollywopper to grace the Los Angeles band’s remix series. To re-acclimate ourselves, let’s tick off the artists they’ve recruited to re-invent the remix: Nosaj Thing, Debruit, Blue Daisy, Freddie Gibbs, James […]

Like fossil fuel shortages, rappers in the future will be hard-pressed to think up new ways to describe being rich. American manufacturing is dying and having “nanotechnology money” lacks the linguistic panache of being filthy oily rich. Brandon Davis money. The supergroup that will never come to fruition because Dan Auerbach can’t even make the […]

Brevity is in today because it is a Friday in August and that’s reason enough. At Pop & Hiss, I do the Q&A treatment with Adam Weissman of Pollyn, who are rapidly becoming my favorite new LA band that employs guitars (on occasion). The harvest is a remix of “Other Side,” done by Nosaj Thing, […]

Pollyn plays tonight at Spaceland. They go on at 11:30 p.m.  There are eight of them in homage to Dick Van Patten.  These days, Pollyn may be more hip-hop than B.O.B. Granted, they play guitars and keyboards and there is no rapping involved, but they just recently enlisted Sid Roams, the go-to beatmaker for Prodigy […]

Like Topper Harley forced out of his Buddhist hermitage to save a squadron of Iraqi hostages,  Passion of the Weiss Presents Part Deux is going down next Saturday, May 8th at Spaceland. Expect Freddie Gibbs and DaVinci to supply me with the requisite ammunition, performance-enhancing drugs, and unsavory women to complete the mission. After all, […]

In nearly five years of blogging, the number of bands I’ve written about following unsolicited submissions hovers at a rate of approximately one a year. Pollyn, a local dream-pop three-piece, is the exception. For those shopping your demos in overheated cars,  here’s how they beat the odds. First of all, it helps when your producer/”sound […]