About
Founded in November of 2005, The Passion of the Weiss is an online magazine edited by Los Angeles-based writer/journalist, Jeff Weiss. Typically focusing on music, The Passion has also broken ranks to cover television, film, and the occasional outing of closeted professional wrestlers.
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- Earl Sweatshirt, Lost and Found: An Investigative Report by Doc Zeus
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Listening
Jeff Weiss
- Chief Keef - Finally Rich
- Gunplay - Inglorious Bastard
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Six Organs of Admittance - Ascent
- Moon Duo - Mazes
- Wooden Shjips - West
- Goat - World Music
- Miles Davis - Live/Evil
- Zodiac - Zodiac
- Burial - Kindred
Sach O
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Preditah - Gears of War EP
- Ruff Sqwad - White Label Classics
- Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers Deluxe Edition
- Slew Dem - Playground
- Chief Keef - Finally Rich
- Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
- Captain Murphy - Duality
- Kendrick Lamar - Good Kid m.A.A.d. City
Douglas Martin
- Beach Fossils - Clash the Truth
- Grouper - The Man Who Died in His Boat
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Eat Skull - III
- Tyvek - On Triple Beams
- Lower Dens - Twin-Hand Movement
- Ex-Cult - Ex-Cult
- Sonic Youth - Dirty
- Emeralds - Does it Look Like I'm Here?
- Roc Marciano - Reloaded
Aaron Matthews
- Okkervil River - I Am Very Far
- Jelly Roll Morton - Birth of the Hot
- PW Best Of: The Best of Dam-Funk Soundcloud
- KA - Grief Pedigree
- The Walkmen - Heaven
- O.V. Wright - Eight Men, Four Women
- Fun - Some Nights
Doc Zeus
- A$AP Mob - Lord$ Never Worry
- Meyhem Lauren - Respect the Fly Shit
- My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
- Wrecking Crew - Wu-Tang Pulp
Max Bell
- Aesop Rock - Skelethon
- Freddie Gibbs - Baby Faced Killa
- Black Uhuru
- Gaslamp Killer - Breakthrough
- Roc Marciano - Reloaded
- The Doors - The Doors
- Buddy Guy - Stone Crazy!
- Albert Collins - Ice Pickin'
- UGK - Ridin' Dirty
Evan Nabavian
- Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Mo Kolours - EP3:Tusk Dance
- Starlito - Funerals & Court Dates
- Action Bronson - Rare Chandeliers Deluxe Edition
Tosten Burks
- Roc Marciano - Reloaded
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Q-Tip - The Renaissance
- Julian Malone - Enemy
- Quakers - Quakers
- Raphael Saadiq - Instant Vintage
Matt Shea
- Serengeti - C.A.R.
- Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
- El-P Cancer 4 Cure
- Serengeti - Kenny Dennis EP
- Ab-Soul - Control System
- Burn One - The Ashtray
- Alpine - A is for Alpine
- Chromatics - Kill for Love
- Curren$y - The Stoned Immaculate
- Grand Salvo - Slay Me in My Sleep
Slava P
- A$AP Rocky - Long.Live.A$AP
- Danny Brown - Danny the Uncanny
- Two 9 - A Two 9 Christmas
- King L - Drilluminati li>Chief Keef - Finally Rich
- Mike Will Made It - Est. in 1989 Part 2.5
- Wale - Folarin
Jimmy Ness
- Chief Keef - Finally Rich
- Mike Will Made It - Established in 1989 Pt. 2
- Deftones - Koi No Yokan
- James Taylor - Greatest Hits
- Joni Mitchell - Blue
Jonah Bromwich
- David Byrne and St. Vincent - Love This Giant
- Ryan Hemsworth - Last Words
- Nas - Life is Good
- Thee Oh Sees - Long Slow Dance
- N.E.R.D. - Seeing Sounds
- Flying Lotus - Los Angeles
- Flying Lotus - Cosmogramma
Adam Wray
- Burial - Truant/Rough Sleeper
- Andy Stott - Luxury Problems
- Hype Williams - London 2012
- Jeremih - Late Nights with Jeremih
- A Guy Called Gerald - Black Secret Technology
- Bone Thugs N Harmony - E. 1999 Eternal
Reading
Jeff Weiss
- Dashiell Hammett - Red Harvest
- Norman Mailer - Miami and the Siege of Chicago
- Vladimir Nabokov - Bend Sinister
Sach O
- Keith Richards - Life
- Rich Cohen - Tough Jews
Douglas Martin
- Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins
- Don DeLillo - Underworld
- Michael Azeraad - Our Band Could Be Your Life
- Leroy "Nicky" Barnes - Mr. Untouchable
Max Bell
- Richard Ford - The Sportswriter
- Charles Bukowski - Post Office
- Kurt Vonnegut - Godd Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
- Dashiell Hammett - The Glass Key
- John Updike - Rabbit, Run
Aaron Matthews
- Dan Charnas - The Big Payback
- David Thoreau - Walden
Slava P
- Common/Adam Bradley - Soon It Will All Make Sense
- Chuck Klosterman - Sex, Drugs, & Coco Puffs
- Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale
Jonah Bromwich
- Julio Cortazar - Cronopios and Famas
- Gay Telese - The Kingdom and the Power
- Italo Calvino - Cosmicomics
Doc Zeus
- Dan Charnas - The Big Payback
Adam Wray
- Simon Reynolds - Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture
- Raymond Carver - No Heroics, Please
- Evgeny Morozov - The Net Delusion
- John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Alex Piveysky
- HP Lovecraft - The Dream-quest of Unkown Kadath
Watching
Jeff Weiss
- Django Unchained
- Mad Men Season 3
- Parks & Recreation Season 4
Sach O
- Django Unchained
- Lincoln
- Skyfall
- Team America: World Police
- Anchorman
- The Men Who Stare at Goats
- Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels
Douglas Martin
- Looper
- Gangster Squad
- Rushmore
- Game of Thrones Season 2
- The Royal Tenenbaums
- Girls Season 2
- Mad Men Season 5
- Lost in Translation
- Parks & Recreation Season 5
- 2 Days in New York
Max Bell
- American Horror Story
- Bill Burr Stand-Up
- Django
- Django Unchained
- The Twilight Zone
- Bukowski: Born Into This
Aaron Matthews
- Simpsons Season 3-5
- Sleepwalk with Me
- The Critics Season 1-2
Evan Nabavian
- Django Unchained
- Everything or Nothing: The Untold Story of 007
Jonah Bromwich
- The DNC
- The US Open
- Lawless
- Samsara
- The NFL
Slava P
- Django Unchained
- The Hobbit
- Lost
- Archer
- The Art of Rap
Doc Zeus
- Bronson
- Breaking Bad
- Warrior
- The People vs. George Lucas
- WWE Monday Night Raw
Matt Shea
- Mad Men Season 4
- The Dark Knight Rises
- Birdsong
- Sorcerer
- To Live and Die in LA
- Extreme Prejudice
- Romancing the Stone
- The 13th Warrior
- Margin Call
- The Olympics
Adam Wray
- Zero Dark Thirty
- Django Unchained
- The Layover Season 2
Alex Piveysky
- Boxer's Omen
- The Hobbit
- Futurama Season 6
- Killing Them Softly
- Get A Life
Inner Sanctum
- 33 Jones
- AM 180
- A Human Vacuum (Alfred Soto)
- Analog Giant
- Bass is the Place
- Berkeley Place
- Bloggerhouse
- Broon's Tunes (Ali Broon)
- Budget Fashionistas (Douglas Martin)
- Byron Crawford
- Canned Thinking (Aaron Matthews)
- Clap Cowards (Zilla Rocca)
- Cooler Than That (Trey Kerby)
- Diving Off Docks (Renato Pagnani)
- Drop Tops & Stacey Lattisaw Tapes
- Flashes of Quincy (Tal Rosenberg)
- From Da Bricks
- Hip Hop is Read
- Ich Luge Bullets
- Metal Lungies
- Marathonpacks
- Mondrian's Sketchbook (Todd Burns)
- Odd Bloggings
- Problem World (Nate Patrin)
- Rock The Dub
- Screw Rock N' Roll
- Smoking Section
- So Much Silence
- Soul Sides
- The Assimilated Negro
- The Left Hand Path
- Up North Trips
- Way Cool Jnr
- World of Wumme
- Yours Truly
Miscellaneous Apostles
- 2 Dope Boyz
- 72 Ways to Suck At Dancing
- 92 BPM
- 900 Bats (Aesop Rock)
- Bass Music
- Bona Fide Darling
- Brooklyne Gipson
- Brooklyn Vegan
- Chickens Don't Clap
- Combat Jack
- Dallas Penn
- Ear Farm
- Elitaste
- Fake Shore Drive
- Fluxblog
- FWMJ's Rappers I Know
- Galactic Mystery Solvers
- Gorilla Vs. Bear
- Herohill
- Hidden Track
- Hipster Runoff
- I Am Fuel, You are Friends
- I Guess I'm Floating
- Intensities in Ten Suburbs
- Largehearted Boy
- Melophobe
- My Old Kentucky Blog
- Nah Right
- Nialler9
- Oceans Never Listen
- OnSmash
- Phat Friend
- Pinglewood
- Pop Headwound