GO TO: 9/18 DEERHOOF @ Middle East Downstairs
DEERHOOF are still alive and kicking, and still sounding kind of weird many years after they first turned our heads and opened…
post-punk
GO TO: Tonight (9/5) HAPPY JAWBONE & (NEW ENGLAND) PATRIOTS @ MIDDLESEX
Have you heard this rockin’ band, HAPPY JAWBONE FAMILY BAND? What about (New England) PATRIOTS?? They are some critical rock N’ rollers,…
CHECK IT: FAT CREEPS EP
If you’re a regular reader of the Hassle (BTW thanks so much) or really any source of local-focused music journalism, its difficult…
FRESH VID: HOLOGRAMS
This band fucking rips. HOLOGRAMS is from Sweden and they play a detached, anthemic early 80s pop that is heavily informed by…
CHECK IT: PAPER MICE
Sometimes we find out about a band just a little too late. Such is the case with Chicago’s PAPER MICE. We here…
7/24 Guerilla Toss, Mayor Daley (Chicago), The Dreebs (Brooklyn), Arvid Noe and NOMS @...
Allston’s Butcher Shoppe, is easily one of the coolest venues in the Boston area. Night in and night out the most far…
CHECK IT: PERMACULTURE(NEW BOSTON DIY PUNK DEMOS PART 5(OF 5))
Boston/Massachusetts demos! Boston is currently the strongest that it has been in a long time. There’s been a good amount of turnover…
CHECK IT: WET HAIR – SPILL INTO ATMOSPHERE
Iowa-based Wet Hair are without a doubt one of the most hard-working and original bands in the US ‘underground’ scene of the…
CHECK IT: MULTICULT
Baltimore’s Multicult are steadily earning their place atop noise-rock’s Mount Olympus. Many have come before with guitars a-squealing but few have really…
CHECK IT: XYX
Mexican weird punk duo XYX have released records on SS RECORDS as well as their own NENE RECORDS. A drum and bass…
GO TO: (TONITE)3/28 BALACLAVAS(TX) @ Radio
Check out Houston’s post punk/goth punk BALACLAVAS at Radio in Somerville TONITE at 9pm. They’ll be the out-of-town meat in a local…
LISTEN TO: Horrid Red
Whoa! What if Joy Division’s Ian Curtis had, under the guise of an apparent suicide, instead secretly emigrated to Germany, where, from…
