My favorite sounds from the global underground (2018 edition)
2018 releases that split my head open with what I found inside them once I listened. Covering music made OUTSIDE of Boston and the New England states.
2018 releases that split my head open with what I found inside them once I listened. Covering music made OUTSIDE of Boston and the New England states.
These are dark times we’re living in. Fearful, uncertain and violent times. No one knows exactly what’s on the horizon but rest…
As the Hassle’s resident reviewer of pretty much all things Sacred Bones, you better believe I’ve been enjoying the hell out of…
On Apocalypse, Girl, the fifth album by Jenny Hval, the Norwegian art-rock chanteuse picks up right where she left off with previous…
Cheena is a brand-new New York five-piece signed to Sacred Bones. Their self-titled debut 7” record is seven-and-a-half energetic minutes of country-tinged, gritty…
For whatever reason lately, I can’t get enough of the whole “loner folk” thing—first Albert DeMuth’s self-titled came along, and now this album. Don’t…
JOHN CARPENTER is one of my personal heroes. He’s directed influential and groundbreaking movies like Halloween, The Thing, and They Live, as…
INSTITUTE is an Austin-based anarcho-influenced postpunk band who formed early in 2013. The group features members of WICCANS, BLOTTER, GLUE, and RECIDE….
On their newest album, Brooklyn dark punk/folk tour de force CULT OF YOUTH have produced their finest work to date. Headphones are…
They say you can never judge a book by its cover, but in the case of the disturbing, Hermann Nitsch-inspired artwork for…
Swedish-bred and Denmark-based synth project LUST FOR YOUTH (aka Hannes Norrvide) has made a name for himself by trading in cold, dark,…
Marissa Nadler is a Boston-based folk singer-songwriter known for a haunting and melancholy series of albums released since she attended and graduated…