WENT THERE: FREE PIZZA @ Whitehaus 1/4/13
Already one of my fav shows of the year, sure to be on my end of 2014 list, this Whitehaus affair is…
jangle pop
HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND – “D.R.E.A.M.I.N.”
Oh boy those Vermonters did it this time! I’m talking about HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND folks, and the new smash video for…
10 Live Videos That I Took, and That I Then Forgot Existed (2013 edition)...
Dan Shea is the co-director of the BOSTON HASSLE arts organization which runs the Boston Hassle website, publishes the Boston Compass newspaper,…
BENT SHAPES “Behead Yrself Pt. 2”
The latest vid from Boston jangle pop favs BENT SHAPES (formerly GIRLFRIENDS) showed up a couple weeks back as they were winding…
WENT THERE: THE BEETS @ THE HOUSE THAT CD-Rs BUILT
BOSTON LOVES THE BEETS. This is very very fresh evidence of the band’s most recent visit to Boston, their 2nd in the…
QUILT – “Tired and Buttered”
Another dispatch in advance of QUILT‘s upcoming new release on MEXICAN SUMMER, HELD IN SPLENDOR. This time the advance tune is called…
DANNY AND THE NIGHTMARES “Mentally Ill”
I’ve been a fan of Daniel Johnston‘s for a long time. Back in my “indie pop phase” (snicker away) this man’s music…
HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND interview
Happy Jawbone Family Band’s Luke Csehak requested a comic strip about the band from the Boston Hassle. But this is what he…
HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND – s/t
How do I love this cohesive, kooky, fun, sweet, twisted album? Too much. HJFB works as a perfect statement of everything the…
BOWERY BOSTON PRESENTS: MAJICAL CLOUDZ, MOON KING, KID MOUNTAIN @ GREAT SCOTT
Majical Cloudz is the latest project by Devon Welsh, alum of Montreal’s Arbutus Records, has a deep warm well of a voice…
HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND – “Everybody Knows About Daddy”
Our men and women in HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND are going full throttle right on into the pop stratosphere. Yeah, they have…
KRILL – “THEME FROM KRILL”
KRILL, yes KRILL, those nasty indie rock boys that Bostonians, and Cantabrigians, and Somervillians, and goodness knows folks from the suburbs and…
