The King Khan & BBQ Show — “Illuminations”
If you like your rock n’ roll pure and undiluted, influenced mainly by the pre-hippie era of rock n’ roll, soul, and…
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Isolde Touch — Step of the Cat
Isolde Touch is the performing moniker of multimedia artist Asha Sheshadri. On Step of the Cat, the SoCal native and onetime Boston…
Human Bodies — Demo XXMV
Local wreckers Human Bodies are currently out on the road, taking their frenetic brand of punk-influenced black metal on a sprawling 35-date…
Sigh — Graveward
Ten albums deep into their illustrious career, Japanese avant-black-metal crew Sigh continue to surprise and confound. While their earliest efforts were in…
Institute — Catharsis
As the Hassle’s resident reviewer of pretty much all things Sacred Bones, you better believe I’ve been enjoying the hell out of…
Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary — The Female Form
Loke Rahbek (known for his work with Lust for Youth, Vår, Croatian Amor, and Damien Dubrovnik, among others) and Frederikke Hoffmeier, aka…
Barnett + Coloccia — Weld
Two years after their debut, the Chicago and Washington-based duo of Barnett & Coloccia have finally seen fit to unleash Weld, their…
Jenny Hval — Apocalypse, Girl
On Apocalypse, Girl, the fifth album by Jenny Hval, the Norwegian art-rock chanteuse picks up right where she left off with previous…
Mastery — VALIS
VALIS. The vast, active living-intelligence system which Phillip K Dick claimed telepathically downloaded a massive store of occult information directly into his…
Slug Bugs — Wanna Be Slug Bugs?
Wanna Be Slug Bugs? I kinda do! I can’t find a whole lot of info on this Columbus-based Casiopunk four-piece, but I…
Holly Herndon — Platform
Let’s get this out of the way first and foremost: As of this exact moment, nearly halfway through 2015, Holly Herndon’s Platform…
Dott + Night School — Carousel
As I was sitting at Grass Stains at Ringer Park this past Saturday, absorbing the lovely sounds of Bathaus, Gerty Farish, and…
