The Sugarland Express (1974) dir. Steven Spielberg
If there’s one thing I appreciate about The Sugarland Express (1974), other than its outlandishly talented direction, is the way it complements…
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POWER TRIP – NIGHTMARE LOGIC
Texans Power Trip return with their second album, Nightmare Logic, released earlier this year on Southern Lord. Opening with an industrial rumble,…
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2013) dir. Sophie Huber
There’s something strange about Harry Dean Stanton. It’s something I wish I could neatly articulate, but as I sit here contemplating the…
CRAWLING AROUND MY BRAIN: FRESH SOUNDS FROM THE GLOBAL UNDERGROUND #3
ADVENTURES IN WILD RECENTLY RELEASED SOUNDS.
IMPALERS – CELLAR DWELLER
This week, the new lp, Cellar Dweller, from Texas’ d-beat masters Impalers dropped on 540 Records in the US and Static Shock…
Mirror – Universal Dismay
If you have your ear to the ground, looking for new punk records, then you’re going to want to know about the…
Vacations — “Fall In Love”
Were you one of the lucky few shaking your butt to the dulcet and dancy surf-punk tunes of Texas’ Fungi Girls at…
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…
Fungi Girls — “Swim Dogs”
Last week, Allston’s SBC hosted one of the most energetic, ass-shakingest garage rock shows I’ve seen in a long time. The culprit?…
Parquet Courts/Joey Pizza Slice — Pretty Girls/Picture of Health split
Joey Pizza Slice, sometimes known as Son of Salami, embodies everything it means to be an underground weirdo musician. No, really– if…
Shit and Shine — 54 Synth-Brass, 38 Metal Guitar, 65 Cathedral
This has been a terrific year so far for Rocket Recordings. Anyone who caught my review of the new Gnod triple album…
Rabit — Baptizm
Grime has been making a big splash in the past year or so. The raucous, staccato style of urban dance music has…
