Jeff Weiss

Tim Presley’s music — uniquely Californian in its casual eccentricity, drug-high beauty and feeling of permanent vacation — finds its natural setting in Big Sur. Stoned and crooked guitar riffs fitfully match the serrated rock cliffs. The misty redwood forests offer a portal into an ageless past. Here, the connection......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] Filipino-Americans are to turntablism what East Africans are to winning marathons or the Irish are to......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] It’s rare to be a legend without having been a star, but that’s to be expected......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] Sometimes, the name says it all. Dream Panther are part chillwave haze, part carnivorous attack. A......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] There are only so many things to do in Denver when you’re alive — especially when......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] The idea is simple: Listen to more jazz. And if you heed that advice, you need......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] The Knux were the most misunderstood rap group of the late 2000s. When the Lindsey brothers......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] A few thousand feet from Babylon Court in the Hollywood & Highland mall, a second Babylon......

[An L.A. native, L.A. Weekly columnist Jeff Weiss edits Passion of the Weiss and hosts the Shots Fired podcast. Find him online at passionweiss.com, follow him on Twitter and also check out his archives.] Coachella has thrived long enough to generate its own clichés: the bros named Sioux watching Warpaint......