Jeff Weiss
I won't deny it. Things started spiraling rapidly downhill the moment I started compiling mixtapes of my favorite non-hip hop songs released this year. Vampire Weekend? Santogold? Hercules & The Love Affair? I kind of wanted to kick my own ass or at the very least give myself a wedgie. Of course, music is music and it's stupid to let one's natural “hater” inclinations stop them from enjoying something good, regardless of how stupid their haircuts and/or facial hair are (save for arguably Man Man). Still, there's something deeply troubling in my nagging suspicion that these muxtapes were compiled by someone in a Fruity Loops hoodie, a pair of $2 neon green sunglasses and a mustache lustrous enough to be the toast of Echo Park.
So snipe away in the comments section if you will. You can even call me that increasingly meaningless* perjorative, “hipster.” All I can really say in my anti-hipster defense is that I still eat hamburgers at In-N-Out, can dunk a basketball and am hitting .368 with a .680 slugging percentage in my Saturday hardball Baseball league (Go Buzz). Now if you'll excuse me it's time to put on a headband and cut my hair in fashionable yet unflattering manner. Good day.
* The word “hipster,” of course, only being meaningless when used to potentially describe me.
Weiss' Muxtape #5: The Best “Indie” Songs To Get An Asymmetrical Haircut To (Part 1)
Weiss' Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2)
(Track listing After the Jump)
1. Hot Chip – Hold On
2. The Hold Steady – Sequestered In Memphis
3. Vampire Weekend – I Stand Corrected
4. Fleet Foxes – Mykonos
5. Cloudland Canyon – Krautwerk
6. Hercules and Love Affair – Hercules Theme
7. Times New Viking – Drop-Out
8. Crystal Castles – Crimewave (Crystal Castles VS HEALTH)
9. Lykke Li – I'm Good, I'm Gone
10. Black Mountain – Wucan
11. Santogold – Say Aha
12. The Black Keys – So He Won't Break
Passion of the Weiss Muxtape #6: The Best Indie Songs To Get An Asymmetrical To (Part 2)
1. Erykah Badu – The Healer
2. The Kills – Tape Song
3. Muslims – Extinction
4. Mezzanine Owls-Ghost Ship
5. No Age – Ripped Knees
6. The Raconteurs – Carolina Drama
7. The Mae Shi – Run To Your Grave
8. King Khan & the Shrines – Torture
9. The Raveonettes – Aly, Walk With Me
10. Islands – Creeper
11. Wolf Parade – Fine Young Cannibals
12. My Morning Jacket – Touch Me I'm Going To Scream Part 2
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