| Aphex Twin Opens the Vaults | February 5, 2015 |
Art by Stephen Robinson Peter Holslin is hooked on phonics It was the digital equivalent of buried treasure — 110 high-caliber tracks uploaded to Soundcloud by a mysterious artist dubbed “user48736353001.” This massive data drop got a lot of attention from music writers last week, as most experts strongly suspect the songs are the handiwork […]
| Temple of Boom: Burial “Temple Sleeper” | January 28, 2015 |
Peter Holslin jogs on a treadmill… in space Burial’s new song “Temple Sleeper” reminds me of the themes to those cheesy ’90s sci-fi TV shows that were awesome precisely because of the low-budget special effects and space-time continuum-warping plotlines. The white-label cut (out via UK’s Keysound) is upbeat by Burial’s standards, and what sets it […]
| Death by Audio: John Carpenter “Night” | January 14, 2015 |
Peter Holslin has come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass, and he’s all out of bubblegum The filmmaker John Carpenter is of course celebrated for a long list of murky, dystopian flicks from the ’70s and ’80s—The Thing, They Live, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, etc. But at this point he’s known as […]
| Premiere: Fantasma “Eye of the Sun Remix” | January 13, 2015 |
Peter Holslin adheres to a strict, mirrored-aviators-only code When it comes to South African hip-hop, the first thing that comes to mind might be Ninja from Die Antwoord mugging for the camera in ghoulish pitbull prosthetics. Coming in at a very close second, though, is the adventurous music of Spoek Mathambo. The Johannesburg-bred MC/songwriter/producer may […]
| Passion of the Weiss’s 2014 Movie Round-Up: 20 Film Recommendations | December 30, 2014 |
Because sometimes music writers go to the movies, here is the Passion of the Weiss staff on the best films of 2014. They've given all of these movies two snaps and a rewind.
| The Top 50 Albums of 2014 #25-1 | December 12, 2014 |
In the conclusion of a special two part series, the Passion of the Weiss staff crown their top albums of 2014 and learn the value of friendship, decency, and karate.
| I Represent Intellectual Violence: Andy Stott “Faith in Strangers” | December 8, 2014 |
Andy Stott's new album hits like a bowling ball thrown off a roof. Pete Holslin reports happily from the gutter.
| Fall Mixtape: Peter Holslin | December 3, 2014 |
Peter Holslin vows to be the first music writer to file copy from the International Space Station. I have a friend who has a toddler son who’s obsessed with the moon. He immediately grabs onto anything circle-shaped, and when the sun goes down, I hear once trotted out to the backyard to yell, “Moon! Moon!” […]
| The Corrections: Choubi Choubi! “Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq” | November 13, 2014 |
Pete Holslin revisits the Sublime Frequencies re-issue of Iraq's technicolor compilation
| Wordless Signals: Caribou’s Our Love | November 5, 2014 |
Peter Holslin looks good in a mustache It’s impossible to say who invented the four-to-the-floor beat. My guess is it dates back to a primordial age, when Homo neanderthalensis first realized they could bang rock to ground in an effort to convey the fire in their loins. Some 350,000 years later, plenty of dance music […]
