YEAR ENDER: John Bittrich’s Top 500 Tracks of the Year
Elevated Near-Normalcy: Reflections on 2020 & the Top 500 Tracks of the Year Say what you will about 2020, it made the…
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‘VILLE COMMUNICATION 4: THE WEIRD TALE OF HAZEL HEALD
It’s hard to imagine storytelling in the last century without Weird Tales. From 1923 onward, the magazine completely changed the way people…
‘VILLE COMMUNICATION 3: SOMERVILLE BUSINESSES LOST TO COVID, RANKED
Parting ain't always such sweet sorrow
‘VILLE COMMUNICATION 2: GIVE BOBBY “BORIS” PICKETT A MEMORIAL IN SOMERVILLE
I was perusing the city of Somerville website a few weeks back, when I noticed an item which caught my attention. It…
‘VILLE COMMUNICATION 1: LICENSE TO ‘VILLE
Let’s talk about Somerville.
Deeper than Life: The Top 600 Tracks of 2019
Wooo, boy. 2019 was a weird one. I lost a brother. The world at large vacillated between merely absurd and completely infuriating….
Mystery and Terror in New England, or: How I Survived 2016
Hi, Hassle readers! Been a minute! As the stresses and terrors of 2016 piled up around me, I found myself moving from…
Gobby – “The Dishwasher”
Just over two years ago in my very first review for this site, which also happened to be a Gobby video review,…
The Repos — Poser
Poser is a first class ripper from the long-running Chicago band Repos, because you can’t spell Poser without Repos, donthcaknow? This “album”…
Cobalt — Slow Forever
For the past several years, having the label Profound Lore attached to a record has been a surefire sign that said record…
Puce Mary — The Spiral
With a name that evokes both the vile and the virginal, Puce Mary, aka Frederikke Hoffmeier, has proven herself over the course…
The Body — No One Deserves Happiness
It has been a joy to watch decidedly un-joyous avant metal duo The Body grow and evolve over the years. From their…
