The acclaimed writer in '00s mode: "a start-to-finish Sunday during those depressive years. The groggy late morning wake ups where I'd sip coffee, spin record sand study the Los Angeles Times"
Having written almost exclusively about rap music for the first decade of my 'career', Jeff Weiss is a king in my book. I recently analyzed his Pitchfork story about Frank Ocean at Coachella in a uni class on music journalism. The rap section (tracks 28ff.) of this playlist has some serious gems I am looking forward to revisiting!
I forgot i had written about Spears before: "People are deliciously anachronistic purveyors of taste, and the more unexpected, the more thrilling. I remember reaching out to meet Robin Carolan, founder of the then-new record label Tri Angle in 2011 whose sludgy and ominous releases would become what was tagged “witch house" by many. I was a big fan of what he was doing and asked him something banal like what he was listening to. Robin preceded to mow me down with a two-paragraph treatise on the greatness of Britney Spears’ 2007 album Blackout. I was sort of spun out by this, expecting something more obvious from the heavily bearded gothic man before me, but was comforted by his sincerity and enthusiasm. It also showed why he was such a good a&r person in that he wasn’t limited by the underground “taste world” circles he traveled in." https://herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sundays-53-w-david-marx
Having written almost exclusively about rap music for the first decade of my 'career', Jeff Weiss is a king in my book. I recently analyzed his Pitchfork story about Frank Ocean at Coachella in a uni class on music journalism. The rap section (tracks 28ff.) of this playlist has some serious gems I am looking forward to revisiting!
Wow, need to revisit that too
I forgot i had written about Spears before: "People are deliciously anachronistic purveyors of taste, and the more unexpected, the more thrilling. I remember reaching out to meet Robin Carolan, founder of the then-new record label Tri Angle in 2011 whose sludgy and ominous releases would become what was tagged “witch house" by many. I was a big fan of what he was doing and asked him something banal like what he was listening to. Robin preceded to mow me down with a two-paragraph treatise on the greatness of Britney Spears’ 2007 album Blackout. I was sort of spun out by this, expecting something more obvious from the heavily bearded gothic man before me, but was comforted by his sincerity and enthusiasm. It also showed why he was such a good a&r person in that he wasn’t limited by the underground “taste world” circles he traveled in." https://herbsundays.substack.com/p/herb-sundays-53-w-david-marx