Tape World: Evil Spirits S/T Cassette [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 28, 2023 Columns Tim's Proustian remembrance of Baltimore Past, spurred by a 2009 noise-sludge cassette "Warpig" by Anthony Neil Smith Nov 27, 2023 Fiction Warpig don’t care what you think of his mullet. People here in Minnesota call it “hockey hair” but Warpig never gave one shit about hockey except The Thanksgiving Truce Holds...for Now [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 21, 2023 Columns It is that time of the year again. The “last show for a while” local band shows have happened, the “in town for the holidays” one-off shows are Two girl poems by Anna K. Crooks Nov 20, 2023 Poetry These pieces come from girl poems, Anna’s debut collection and the first volume of the BRUISER Zine series. Preorders for girl poems are open NOW. BRUISER ZINE 001: girl poems by Anna K. Crooks Nov 20, 2023 Available for preorder NOW at store.bruisermag.com. Place time-sensitive holiday orders BY DECEMBER 15. BRUISER is excited to announce the release "Eve's Inner Witness is Not a Monster" by Dipti Anand Nov 17, 2023 Fiction On a winter night stitched together with dark clouds shrouding like funeral fabric, Eve shudders under a sizzling gas heater, intercepting the "The Stupid Railroad" by Addison Zeller Nov 15, 2023 Fiction I could complain, but it’s usually light work—not always, but usually: really, if we sat down, it’d be completely bearable, but we stand on this "Vicus Cracti" by Some Fool Nov 14, 2023 Fiction excerpt from The Latten Legend, Liber I When Should Your Band Break Up? [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 14, 2023 Columns Bands break up. Tim surveys the possibilities. "Tutto Passa" by Carson Jordan Nov 13, 2023 Poetry it’s a blessing and a curse to be moved by nothing haphazardly, my leasts come of it that night, I call up to the woman with the art deco "White Mercedes/Faith Healer" by Sy Holmes Nov 10, 2023 Fiction The white Mercedes was in the driveway, under the Catalpa trees. It was a muggy spring night, and the seed pods had been blown down all over "Goddess of fire" by Cait Quirk Nov 9, 2023 Poetry When Eve discovered fire, she rubbed her hands together with such force that the bark remnants of tree-climbing leisure ignited with a spark that "Shit We Don't Need" by SH Woodgeard Nov 8, 2023 Fiction Ginger brings us things. Things we don’t want. Things we don’t need. Carburetor parts. Costume jewelry. Bratz dolls. In the dim morning hours, See You at The Bean: Impressions of Tripper's EP Release Show [Anything for a Weird Life] Nov 7, 2023 Columns You know a Baltimore venue has come into its own when it has a nickname. "After not dying" by Alex Shiflett Nov 6, 2023 Nonfiction notes on surviving a bus crash "Four Men" by Noam Hessler Nov 3, 2023 Poetry Four haiku linked by a vignette Two stories by Sean Ennis Nov 2, 2023 Fiction "You Don't Own Me" & "The Old Rats" "First World Problems" by Jon Doughboy Nov 1, 2023 Fiction To every one of my complaints, usually about the noise of her son slamming Pogs on the coffee table or our shoddy brake pads shrieking to be changed Tape World: Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation [Anything for a Weird Life] Oct 31, 2023 Columns Tim remembers a 1989 cassette purchase All This Time You Thought I Was Good: Devin Lunsford and Mark Wadley in Collaboration Oct 30, 2023 Visual Art & Interviews Notes on photography and the grotesque from a long drive along the back roads to Sand Mountain, Alabama