AVERAGE C*CK, PILE, FAX HOLIDAY, BAD HISTORY MONTH, KAL MARKS, FLAT SWAMP @ MIDDLE...
BERFEST celebrates it’s 10th anniversary with a 3-day bender of choice local music. SIX of our finest rockers take the stage tonight…
post-punk
WENT THERE: THE CHANNELS @ HASSLE NIGHT @ Lilypad 1/4/14
THE CHANNELS are a bit of a Boston underground and/or noise rock super-group featuring members of GUERILLA TOSS, DESIGNER, and AYKROYD. They…
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…
8==D~BOYS TOP TEN YEEHAWS OF 2013 [yeehaw] by Designer
DESIGNER are a band of mainly/ completely Jamaica Plain based D BOYZ. They are a fantastic batch of just the best dudes…
The Best Show-Performance That Happened In 2013 by Simon Hanes
Simon Hanes is originally from San Francisco and, despite knowing him for several years now during his time in Boston, I just…
POTTY MOUTH – HELL BENT
After my first listen to HELL BENT (BC, Old Flame Rec.) I went back and read Ben’s review last year of POTTY…
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,…
GUERILLA TOSS – “Pink Elephant”
Guess who is getting mad press these days?? That would be the one and only GUERILLA TOSS. And when bands get hyped…
SYNTHETIC ID – APERTURES
Synthetic ID are a San Francisco based band who have seemingly emerged from a 30 year old time capsule to help provide…
FAUX FUR – s/t
It seemed like Calgary-based Women were bound to become a fringe phenomenon, considering their ability to cohesively meld post-punk and noise rock…
CAT POWER (SOLO), NICO TURNER @ PARADISE
Head on out to The Paradise tonight for an pretty darn sweet show to warm the cackles in your cold heart. The…
GUERILLA TOSS “Trash Bed”
They keep releasing new material, so we keep writing about them. Though, all we have right now to share is the first…
