It’s time again for another installment of the adventures of our favorite adolescent rock-star wannabes, “Heavy Metal Mechas,” by Vermont cartoonist Matt Aucoin. In this episode, the girls confront every musician’s worst nightmare: totally sucking.

When Seven Days cancelled its long-running, but slowly dwindling, “Pop Ten” feature a few months back, we promised the vacated section would be filled with an entertaining assortment of musical odds and ends, rants and raves, or “whatever the hell we feel like printing from week to week.” And we’ve delivered. From live reviews and extended profiles to interviews and the occasional opinion piece, the section — affectionately dubbed “The Hole” — is like a newsprint version of a mix-tape. That is, if people still made mix-tapes. But we digress.... Read more