positivelyBLEAK Grinning back into the abyss.

30Mar/103

Shut Up, Shoe Shopping is Totally Metal

For me, shoe shop­ping is a little like a man­hunt. Sometimes I go it alone, as a med­i­ta­tive expe­ri­ence, and some­times I hunt in packs, where we com­bine our indi­vidual expe­ri­ence to become an unstop­pable force. ♠ Continue reading…

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25Mar/100

How to Make Friends at a Metal Show

Everybody needs a bestie. Sometimes it’s hard to find new friends, whether you’ve just made a big life change like moving to a new place or have just grad­u­ated from col­lege, or even if you just want to meet some new people to shake things up a little. ♠ Continue reading…

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20Mar/104

Me, Oreo, & Equinophobia

Today was Thunderhorse Day, and it was a beau­tiful day to over­come a baseless-​but-​longstanding fear. ♠ Continue reading…

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18Mar/100

Birthday, Dethday

Happy birthday to me! ♠ Continue reading…

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16Mar/103

The Quarter-​Life Crisis & Facing Fear

I’m turning twenty-​five on Thursday. The more I remember where I thought I’d be at this age, the more the number looms over my head – which is kind of hilar­ious when I con­sider that I’ve got a full-​time job on my career path, a pretty sweet apart­ment, enough time and fun money to do what I want most of the time. I’m not dying of any­thing and I get to hang out with my kickass friends, a dashing boyfriend, and a cat that couldn’t give two shits about me but is awfully cute. ♠ Continue reading…

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11Mar/100

CAREERS IN ROCK: Anderson Mar

Anderson is a self-​described child prodigy gone hor­ribly wrong, as well as a local musi­cian, band man­ager, pro­moter, booker, musician’s rights defender, talent and cat lady. (Seriously, she has the cutest cats.) In addi­tion to pet­ting cats and rocking out, she also runs Dark Sky Productions and estab­lished the New England Punk, Goth & Metal Fest. She was kind enough to give me a writeup of how she got started and her best tips and tricks for get­ting started in the industry from both sides of the story. ♠ Continue reading…

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9Mar/102

HATERS GONNA HATE: Groupies

Go ahead and roll your eyes; if you’re not in a band, then you prob­ably don’t like groupies. They’re up there on the stage in their tiny skirts while you’re down with the groundlings in the mosh pit. They get back­stage, sup­pos­edly purely on the merits of their appear­ances, and get to sip away at free booze until the head­lining act decides that they want to break off a piece of that. You might grumble about it under your breath when some huge guy knocks into you and dumps your $8 cup of Budweiser down the front of your shirt. ♠ Continue reading…

4Mar/103

The Very Best of YouTube Headbanging

It’s been a hell of a week for me, between my soul-​crushing day job and busily plan­ning for my birthday (I’m turning 25 on the 18th!!!), so I wanted to do a quick, JWZ-​style video run­down of one of my most favorite ways of burning off frus­tra­tion: head­banging. ♠ Continue reading…

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2Mar/100

Fashion For Metalheads: The Stoner & Doom Set

The eter­nally head­banging Steff Metal has a run­ning fea­ture called Fashion For Metalheads, where she gives a break­down of the styl­istic dif­fer­ences between genres – but I haven’t seen one of my per­sonal favorites, the droney, swampy, reverb-​y world of stoner and doom metal, fea­tured yet, so I inquired about writing a con­tin­u­a­tion on her theme and got the OK…here goes, you red-​eyed, swaying masses! ♠ Continue reading…

   






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