The year is 1996, I was 11 years old, and I was having a sleepover with a good friend from around the block. With a little help from my parents, we moved all of our furniture out of the living room and set up a tent right there indoors. It was fucking dope. The evening’s chosen entertainment? Resident Evil, beginning to end Continue reading
Will Resident Evil 6 Save (or Kill) the Franchise?
29 SepThe SHH’s Recommendations for a Night on the Town in Albany, NY
27 Sep
The premise of this article: a friend from college reached out to me, an Albanian (the capital of New York, not south of Kosovo), for ideas/suggestions for plans if he was to meet a lady friend Continue reading
Plants and Animals on The End of That
27 Sep
Interview originally posted on Pop ‘stache.
Plants and Animals, the Montreal three-piece of Warren Spicer Continue reading
Reid – Year Zero
21 Sep
Year Zero by Rob Reid (2012)
Originally published on Pop’stache
The premise behind Rob Reid’s first novel, Year Zero, is a music-centric universe that has been bankrupted by Earth’s copyright laws due to boundless piracy. Earth is subsequently targeted by certain biased alien races who believe that encouraging our self-annihilation might be the only way of saving Continue reading
Grizzly Bear – Shields
19 Sep
Review originally posted on Pop’stache
Since its conception, Grizzly Bear has a seen a tremendous evolution. The eerie, lo-fi bedroom musings of leading man Ed Droste were appropriated for their debut Horn of Plenty with the aid of drummer Christopher Bear. Grizzly Bear’s second release, Yellow House, saw an unexpected and exponential sonic expansion with the admission of multi-instrumentalists Daniel Rossen and Chris Taylor. With the ante upped and Continue reading
How to Turn a DMV Letter Into a Setlist
15 SepAny journalist who is worth their weight in salt (or shit for that matter) should have a notebook, journal or at the very least a pen with a pad of paper. I have attended upwards of a dozen live shows this year and it wasn’t until a month ago that Continue reading
RIP Special Agent Seagate
6 SepLife is filled with stress and many of life’s most stressful moments are a result of the loss of loved ones – the loss of a spouse, the loss of a parent, the loss of a child, the loss of Continue reading
Animal Collective – Centipede Hz
6 Sep
Review originally posted on Pop’stache
Animal Collective has clown shoes to fill following 2009’s stellar Merriweather Post Pavilion on their ninth proper album, Centipede Hz. The Collective: Avey Tare (David Portner), Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Geologist (Brian Weitz) are rejoined by fourth founding member Deakin Continue reading
An Architectural Bike Ride: Part 2
31 AugI will try to explain The Big Dig in the simplest of terms. Officially beginning in 1982, the Big Dig buried the six-lane, elevated portion of I-93 that ran directly through downtown Boston and replaced it with a park system. There was once a tangle of steel, cars and smoke and now there are flowers and merry-go-rounds . . . seriously.
A discussion about The Big Dig and Continue reading
An Architectural Bike Ride: Part 1
22 AugI woke up early on Saturday August 11th with a mission. I was going to ride my bike across the city to explore and document two of Boston’s newest architectural additions. One a recently completed Massachusetts College of Art high-rise dormitory designed by architecture firm ADD Inc; the other Continue reading
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