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Slices of Life, From Punk Beginnings Onward: A Review of Ben Snakepit’s...
Since 2001, Ben Snakepit has drawn an autobiographical three-panel comic strip every day. Initially he self-published these comics in zine format before they were anthologized in book form. At the...
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Inertia, Inner Lives, and Musical Immersion in Boston: A Review of Louie...
This one’s a gusher, so you might want to keep in mind, as you read, that I’m totally the target audience/demographic for Louie Cronin’s debut novel. Her book is set in Boston, where I lived for ten...
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Rebirth in an Unlikely Setting: A Review of D. Foy’s “Absolutely Golden”
Earlier this summer some friends invited me to see Converge and Neurosis play Boston. I demurred, because I knew what I’d be getting myself into. Granted, the friends included a guy I hadn’t been to a...
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The New Old Noise: A Review, of Sorts, of “The Other Night At Quinn’s,” by...
Say we’re in Ithaca, New York. Or in a bookstore basement in Cleveland, folding metal chairs arranged in a loose semi-circle around an institutional podium. Or even a Chicago Sunday matinee, chairs...
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Musical Obsessions and Self-Delusions: A Review of Constance Squires’s “Hit...
The biggest music fans of Gen-X were also some of the biggest fuck-ups: the struggling, the wounded, the ones who couldn’t get their acts together. Those without the words to express turmoil leaned on...
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Beyond the Rock Novel: James Brubaker’s “The Taxidermist’s Catalog” Reviewed
In James Brubaker’s new novel, the titular Taxidermist’s Catalog is a long-rumored lost and final LP by folk musician Jim Toop, the sort of album that haunts fans’ existences, like a full-band...
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