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Three POC Artists You Can’t Sleep on This Year

By Andisa Bbymutha Hailing from Chattanooga, TN, Bbymutha is one of my favorite rappers in the game right now. She’s seriously dope. But as she’d tell you she’s just having fun. If you follow her Instagram (@Bbymutha) you’ll too discover that Bbymutha isn’t only a catchy moniker. Photos of her daughters, similarly adorned with her… Read more »

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Close Read: Frank Bidart’s “History”

Bidart’s poem becomes, by seemingly factual, autobiographical, and stark statements, totally emotionally descriptive, quickly. That’s hard. To tell a story without being explicit about how we’re supposed to feel, or how we’re supposed to think the character feels, but eventually, somehow, in some quasi-Lovecraftian way, there is no ambiguity at all. For Bidart, here, the… Read more »

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The Boring Shapes of Things to Come

Over approximately the past decade, Boston has been experiencing some of the most significant urban development in its entire history. You simply can’t walk or drive around anywhere and not run across a work-in-progress or newly completed structure, like One Dalton Street in Boston’s Back Bay, or the New Balance world headquarters in Brighton. Around… Read more »

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Bashful Slasher – Slack Jawed / Making Tea EP

Dann Lawrence going straight isn’t the ideal Johnathan Richman offers as a sorta trade up from Hippie Johnny who is always stoned & it’s hard to get things done when you’re always stoned (do you, of course no shame in my game look back at me) – more like giving up. Cause when you’re a… Read more »

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REVIEW: Knight of Cups (2016) dir. Terrence Malick

It was so exhilarating I almost felt insane. Really. I was sometimes distracted by how excited it made me, the potential that I would pull a Crispin Glover on the audience and get up screaming, “I’m strong!” It was so hypnotizing, so clean and momentous, cosmically emotionally fraught and, as we should know to expect,… Read more »

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Trouble Boys: The True Story of The Replacements

Over the years the Replacements have gained an almost mythical status. Saviors of rock and roll in the eighties they brought back a rawness and spontaneity to the music that felt nothing short of the second coming of the Rolling Stones (or maybe the Sex Pistols). Anyone that got to see them live back in… Read more »

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THE LOOP @ Arts at the Armory 2.25.16

Thursday, February 25th marked another installment of THE LOOP! a monthly singer-songwriter showcase curated by Max Bailey. The event takes place in Somerville at the Arts at the Armory on Highland Ave. This quaint café offers the perfect atmosphere for an intimate show between the audience and the performers–and you can get PBR there so… Read more »

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    Three POC Artists You Can’t Sleep on This Year

    Hassle Staff

    By Andisa Bbymutha Hailing from Chattanooga, TN, Bbymutha is one of my favorite rappers in the game right now. She’s seriously dope. But as she’d tell you she’s just having fun. If you follow her Instagram (@Bbymutha) you’ll too discover that Bbymutha isn’t only a catchy moniker. Photos of her daughters, similarly adorned with her… Read more »

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    Close Read: Frank Bidart’s “History”

    Robert Rice

    Bidart’s poem becomes, by seemingly factual, autobiographical, and stark statements, totally emotionally descriptive, quickly. That’s hard. To tell a story without being explicit about how we’re supposed to feel, or how we’re supposed to think the character feels, but eventually, somehow, in some quasi-Lovecraftian way, there is no ambiguity at all. For Bidart, here, the… Read more »

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    The Boring Shapes of Things to Come

    Ario Elami

    Over approximately the past decade, Boston has been experiencing some of the most significant urban development in its entire history. You simply can’t walk or drive around anywhere and not run across a work-in-progress or newly completed structure, like One Dalton Street in Boston’s Back Bay, or the New Balance world headquarters in Brighton. Around… Read more »

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    Meyers – Negative Space (1981–2014)

    Matt Reed

    Previous to stumbling upon this album I was (loosely) aware of the concept of negative space, specifically in relation to graphic design. As I understand it, it’s the technique used to make something that isn’t necessarily immediately visible the subject of a piece, or at least a significant part of it, rather than the object… Read more »

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    Homeshake – Midnight Snack

    Sara Mae Henke

    Montreal native and psych pop mastermind Peter Sager has released his newest album under his trusted solo moniker, HOMESHAKE. Midnight Snack went on sale back in September. It features lazy “beach” rock riffs similar to his former bandmate Mac Demarco, and melodies somehow similar to the latest Frankie Cosmos synth pop EP Fit Me In. Sager’s music differs from Demarco’s in that… Read more »

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    Eric Copeland – Jesus Freak

    Dan Shea

    ERIC COPELAND. 6 song EP. On L.I.E.S. Came out very end of last year. Nothing more to say. But I can’t help myself. “Jamaican Neighbor” really gets me. Is it the earthen noise dub? Is it the codeine stained n’ screwed electronic soul (talkin’ EXTREME ANIMALS zones)? Is it the sinewy distorto techno that underpins… Read more »