HASSLE NIGHT – CELLULAR CHAOS (NYC) THE CHANNELS, TINSEL TEETH (PVD) @ LILYPAD
Got yer fill o’madness this past NYE? No?.. Then you best come out to the first Hassle Night of 2014. CELLULAR CHAOS…
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CELLULAR CHAOS – ‘Adviser’
You are a leeetle junky-fly buzz-buzzin’-”OH? What’s this? Over in that deserted outdoor swimming pool..it’s some freaky alien plant-life, all eyes and…
PILE, Gnarwhal, Wei Zhongle, (N. E.) Patriots, Woozy, Unicorn Fantasy, DJ EMO G @...
Its a new year! I know you got all that crazy out last night with the NYE celebrations, and you’re probably hungover,…
Armageddon’s Best of 2013 by Cliff, Jamie, Ben, and Chris
Armageddon Record Shop has been an institution in Providence over on Broadway since 2001. Specializing in punk, related musics, and in general just…
MIAMI DORITOS — SCOOP DREAMS
If you ask me, there are two ways to use the lo-fi aesthetic as a tool: you can use it to mask…
CCR HEADCLEANER – CCR HEADCLEANER
I remember stumbling onto this band several years ago on some random online mixtape. The track was some ugly noisy garage rock…
TONY MOLINA – DISSED AND DISMISSED
Tony Molina’s album Dissed and Dismissed is a personal favorite to emerge out of the onslaught of year-end lists. “I got to…
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,…
LUMPY AND THE DUMPERS – SEX PIT
St Louis’ Lumpy And The Dumpers have put out one of 2013’s most essential records in their debut 7”, Sex Pit, out…
SUNSHINE WARD, LEATHER DADDY, KNIVES, ANIMAL MOTHER, NEGATIVE IMPULSE, SPITTING EARTH @ DEMOCRACY CENTER
Do you know about The Democracy Center? This unassuming one story house near the heart of Harvard Square is one of the…
Top 10 Massachusetts Demo Tape Offerings of 2013 by Krystina Krysiak
Krystina Krysiak is a Boston-based musician (Curmudgeon, Bad Idea, Terminal Crisis), tape distro proprietor (Sour Tapes) and compulsive record collector. When not…
I Hate ‘Best Of’ Lists by Derek Desharnais
DEREK DESHARNAIS plays guitar and sings in SNEEZE, and is the drummer of MASK OUT. He was previously in the band L’ANTIETAM,…
