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What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
A CONVERSATION WITH ALEX WALTON
“Alex Walton makes inventive, exciting and emotionally faught music that mixes rock ‘n’ roll forms with noisy electronics. But you ask them, they might say they’re the same as all pop songwriters: a plagiarist who’s just playing the blues.”
- Owen Murray
A CONVERSATION WITH DAN O’DAY OF THE RIVER CITY REBELS
“MULTI-INSTRUMENTALIST DAN O’DAY HAS PLAYED IN MANY BANDS SINCE 1999, most notably, The River City Rebels. After touring the world and releasing seven studio albums the band is currently on hiatus — for how long, nobody knows. I had a chance to speak with Dan about the Rebels, how bubblegum-pop has influenced him, and what he has been up to.”
- C. Marlo Feinberg
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
REVIEW: I LOVE MY DAD (2022) DIR. JAMES MOROSINI
“Catfishing is not my favorite plot scheme. Part of the reason is that it feels like an outdated act, one that feels like it should have died out when the landscape of social media and digital literacy evolved into different platforms, multi-factor verification codes, and other concerns (such as emotional scammers). There is a possibility that I could be out of tune with what’s actually happening (after all, Catfish: The TV Show is still technically running), but at the very least, I think we now carry a mental handbook of security steps we’d follow to ensure that the person on the other side of the screen is real.”
- Anna Hoang
REVIEW: RESURRECTION (2022) DIR. ANDREW SEMANS
“Resurrection is a deceptively precise entry into the rape and revenge genre. Although rather minimalist in comparison to the brilliant schlock that the genre traditionally offers, this isn’t to say that the movie is without design, without a distinct visual eye. If anything, there’s almost an excess of orderliness here, a terrible neatness that Andrew Semans’ imbues in his movie, both visually and narratively. And it escalates not so much with a flourish but with a tightness, like a vice slowly turning until cracks appear and a shatter seems imminent.”
- Nick Perry
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Arts and Culture Section
NEW HIP-HOP MUSICAL EXAMINES WHY OPPRESSION “JUST KEEPS HAPPENING”
“What does it mean to reconcile the past and the present? Come to Pass is a new musical that explores how the principles that founded America failed and continue to fail women of color. The show features 18 original songs written by some of the top talent in Boston’s local hip-hop scene.”
- Dakotah Kennedy
DISPLACING THE DISPLACED
“As I take a picture of Revere’s gritty, faded Ocean Plaza storefront, which blends into Angkor Thom Market, an older Moroccan man strikes a pose and says with a big smile “Yes, take my picture please!” I laugh and ask if he speaks Shilha, Riffian, or another Amazigh language. Boston (specifically East Boston and the surrounding areas) has the largest Amazigh community in the US. Rapid new settlements along the Blue Line are erasing these communities, stop by stop.”
- Prakhya
Hassle Flea News!
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