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Jack’s Sax

Jack’s Sax

Jacks’ Sax By Jim Slimedog   He comes in fifteen minutes before he’s supposed to do his set. He carries his saxophone swinging behind him. He’s in an old, dark suit, tall and thin, graying sideburns and he’s of the Afro-American persuasion. His eyes look flat [Read More]

Last Call

Last Call

Last Call (A story by Jim Slimedog)   “Just as long as none of this gets out, no one hears a word of this,” she says to him, sitting next to her at the bar, she’s known Billy for nearly twenty years, “You promised.” “You got my word,” he smiles or maybe [Read More]

Episode 13: Jimmy Takes A Trip

Episode 13: Jimmy Takes A Trip

Episode 13: Jimmy Takes A Trip (An excerpt from The Chronicles of Jimmy Thrash by Andy Bang)   It’s Saturday morning and Jimmy’s up early. Normally he doesn’t venture too far from his bed until noontime. But, today he has to make a special trip [Read More]

Episode 25: Jimmy goes to the Opera

Episode 25: Jimmy goes to the Opera

Episode 25: Jimmy goes to the Opera (An excerpt from The Chronicles of Jimmy Thrash by Andy Bang)   Jimmy hears a knock on his apartment door. He shouts, “Hang on I’m comin’.” He walks over to the door and opens it. It’s his good buddy, [Read More]

Episode 37: Jimmy goes to the Ballet

Episode 37: Jimmy goes to the Ballet

Episode 37: Jimmy goes to the Ballet (An excerpt from The Chronicles of Jimmy Thrash by Andy Bang)   It’s 10 AM and Jimmy is still sleeping. He’s very tired after playing a gig in Lawrence at the Rusty Crevice. Jimmy’s band, The Scrumptious Scrotums [Read More]

Go Ask Mary …

Go Ask Mary …

Go Ask Mary … (A Short Story by Andy Bang)   It’s crazy hot, my AC is busted and I’m already late for a gig across town. I’m headin’ out to review a punk show at a club I’ve never been to before. I’d say its around 90 degrees [Read More]

Fake Fireplace

Fake Fireplace

Fake Fireplace (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog)   They push through the crowds of the 9-5ers on their way home from work — from one prison to the next, from a job that’s a life sentence to a spouse and kids as the same.  But not for these two, Janice is [Read More]

More Than Even Heroin

More Than Even Heroin

More Than Even Heroin (Heroin Romance) (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog   The club’s shut down and he’s long been paid, behaved himself at least to get through the sets without seeming too depraved. Of course, that’s some of the ticket, some of the show, why people [Read More]

Firecracker Flo

Firecracker Flo

Firecracker Flo (A Short Story by Jim Slimedog)   “Yeah, buy me one of those firecrackers, hon,” Flo says to Joey beside her. She’s swaying to the music of the jukebox playing some oldie from the seventies best forgotten. But it doesn’t take much to get Flo [Read More]

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Live Fast Die Fast – “Snakes In Disguise”

Live Fast Die Fast – “Snakes In Disguise”

Live Fast Die Fast – “Snakes In Disguise”   Every New York band that TNB has written about in [Read More]

Miracle Blood – “This Message Contains No Content”

Miracle Blood – “This Message Contains No Content”

Miracle Blood – “This Message Contains No Content”   I recently saw Miracle Blood perform for [Read More]

Wrought Iron Hex – “Wrought Iron Hex”

Wrought Iron Hex – “Wrought Iron Hex”

Wrought Iron Hex – “Wrought Iron Hex”   One of my favorite things about writing about bands and [Read More]

Triggered – “Piss You Off”

Triggered – “Piss You Off”

Triggered – “Piss You Off”   Triggered is a fairly new band upon the local Boston scene. I [Read More]

A Bunch Of Jerks – “Shart Topping Hits”

A Bunch Of Jerks – “Shart Topping Hits”

A Bunch Of Jerks – “Shart Topping Hits”   A lot of people rightly accuse TNB as being “a [Read More]

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