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….
John Bittrich’s New 52
Gotta say, up until I started compiling this list, I felt like I hadn’t listened to as much new music this year…
BLACK PUS/OOZING WOUND – SPLIT LP
Black Pus and Oozing Wound: ew. But also: AWESOME! Providence institution Brian Chippendale’s BLACK PUS offer up two new blood-boiling drum noise…
THE SOFT PINK TRUTH – WHY DO THE HEATHEN RAGE?
THE SOFT PINK TRUTH is Drew Daniel, one-half of the Baltimore-based experimental electronica duo MATMOS. On “Why Do the Heathen Rage?”, Daniel…
MASSACOORAMAAN — “WIJD”
Feast your eyes on this trippy ketamine-vision of ocular candy. Portland resident and Fade to Mind affiliate MASSACOORAMAAN hits it outta the…
ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE & THE MELTING PARAISO U.F.O. – ASTRORGASM FROM THE INNER SPACE
A few months back, Japan’s masters of far-out progressive psychedelia ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE returned for another go-round as THE MELTING PARAISO UFO,…
PULSE EMITTER – PLANETARY SCALE SYNTH HYPNOSIS
Planetary Scale Synth Hypnosis is a 2-CD retrospective of the cosmic ambient synth output of one Daryl Groetsch of Portland, Oregon. As…
