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Sustainably Moving Toward an Ideal Boston Corporate mainstream culture assaults all of our lives on a constant basis. To not be lulled into complacency by this cold, calculated data & product barrage is a victory unto itself. We here at the Compass (and our sister project Boston Hassle) want to and feel the need to reject this ugly widespread money grab. We aim to pry Boston area music and art culture from the hands of the corporate mainstream’s representatives and others who take OUR culture’s money, and give little or nothing back. Ours are the people who are distinctly Boston--the folks who buy the beers and food sold in these places of business; the folks that pay the owner’s salary. So many of us have responded by going underground. And rightfully so. This is what, if nothing else, unites us punks, weirds, rockers, electronic freaks, zinesters, and whatever you want to call your community of artists and musicians, or rabble rousers of whatever nature. Underground music and art venues will always exist. They are a natural outcrop of any

healthy artistic or philosophical ecosystem. What we are severely lacking here in Boston however, are much in the way of legitimate venues (or businesses, period) with agendas sympathetic to the various underground strategies that are out there. These places do exist, but we need far more of them!!! Start a band, or artistic endeavor, but don’t book yourself or your friends into unsupportive venues. Open a business that actively supports our shared culture. Start a collective, and find strength through numbers. Find out how the law works in your city and figure out how to create change by removing what restricts your culture. Politics and business are a quagmire, but they have mechanisms like everything else. The Compass and The Hassle are here to create positive social change through music and art, valuing freedom of artistic expression over material and financial gains. Join us in working to bring Boston closer to the free, and inspirational ideal that we know it can be for music, art, and thought. - Dan Shea

We’ve rearranged our page order to increase compass calendar hang-ability. Pages 2-7 and 4-5 are our “hang ups.” We hope you hang them up, too!

ART BLAST.............................................................PAGE 2 Pop-ups, performance, and a parade of self-published projects.

BOSTON HASSLE BRIEF......................................PAGE 3 Particulars EP, Patriots/Palberta Split, Moth Cock, Future Spa & More!

SHOWS..............................................................PAGE 4-5 FUZZstival, Gnarwhal (Nashville), Zine Fest After Party, GYMSHORTS!

THE TARDY EAGLE..............................................PAGE 6 How Sad Are You? And more stuff that will make you a better person.

FILM FLAM............................................................PAGE 7 Mischief and Madness - Thrills, Chills, Zombies, & the Czech New Wave

COMICS.................................................................PAGE 8

Chill out with the Vegetables of Strangers, Feel XMas Feelings.

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What’s Cooler Than Cold Brew Delivery? Nothing, Probs. Not everybody digs coffee, but for some of us the sweet, life-giving nectar is simply crucial to our daily function. If you’re in the latter category, then pay some dang attention to 1369 Coffeehouse. The Central Square beanjuice drippery is running their ICED COFFEE DELIVERY SERVICE all summer long--transporting GROWLERS (64oz.) of cold-brewed black gold via bicycle to near-any location in Cambridge, Somerville, or Back Bay for LE$$ than a weekful of daily purchases. Some science: cold brew coffee, having never been heated, is empirically proven to be smoother than smooth, colder than cold, coffeeier than coffee. Perhaps. Order at 1369coffeehouse.com. - Zach Peckham

Sat 8/16 New England Zine Fest @Cambridge YMCA

PUNK ROCK SWAP MEET In JP, Every Sunday in August

Zine fiends UNITE at Boston Hassle’s first annual NEW ENGLAND ZINE FEST! Guaranteed to be a veritable buffet of self-published morsels and monuments. It’s FREE so you can trade more paper at 30 tables worth of personal, creative print endeavors. Learn from local DIY dignitaries PAPERCUT ZINE LIBRARY, TRIFECTA EDITIONS, and NOTHING MATTRESS’ BRIAN CONNOLLY as they lead rad workshops. And find the ZINE QUEEN’S Make-Your-Own-Zine workshop up in the balcony of this enchanting venue. Sit down and read into a daydream or breeze around and browse the scene. Either way it’ll be serene being ensconced in New England zines. - CEEK/SP

August is the last month to bandy over the loot turning over at the weekly PUNK ROCK SWAP MEET in JP. The spot and thus, the goods, are squirreled away nearby @Green Street T. LOOK for SIGNS. Buy! Sell! Trade! Free spots for vendors. Bring a table if you want. You’ll find Zines, clothing, gear and other useful refuse. Plus new local and international punk and hardcore items (records, patches, posters) every week! Bring food to grill and share! All are welcome. Every Sunday until Sept. Starts ‘round noon, ends ‘round 6. Don’t miss out. IRRH.storenvy.com

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LAIR is a guitar and drum duo salvaged from debris of that most towering of prog-flavored Boston noise structures, Arvid Noe. Building ripping, riffing, challenging yet lush experimental rock with a heavy dollop of the ol’ electrified sauerKraut on top, LAIR is exciting as all getout to nerd-denizens of the weird rock and roll realm and beyond (me, us, and you, boo). A self-titled LP is out this month via Surveillance Investments, recorded by the ever-disarming Mark Fede. Find LAIR’s Debut de S/T and details of a Tour de U.S. on SI’s site: iaoiaoiao. storenvy.com or on the phasebook. - Zach Peckham

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Able, Idle Hands, We Got Some Tasks For You To Grasp Sediment Club Slays the Rare Beast: Full US Tour in Aug. Our cadence laden detritus trio SEDIMENT CLUB are taking their tottering gut punches and dissonant digs on the road for a full-on August & change. How blowes the winde, Syr? Up, down & all around goes it, with a veritable criss-crossing, apple-saucing of our governing body’s bio-parameters, coming to near-fruition 9/7 @DEEP THOUGHTS. A pledgore us; may they stand, slouch, writhe & deliver in the waning days of sleepaway camp. Access The Club’s blogging spot for the completist’s collection of dates & locales. - Anthony Richards

The entirely volunteer-run organization that produces this newspaper, along with the comprehensive underground music and area nightlife blog Boston Hassle, AND organizes over a dozen DIY shows a month could actually use more creative, dedicated minds to make these great things happen. WHAT WE LACK: Artist Coordinator (managing and commissioning visual artists to get busy), Funds Wrangler (scheming to keep the newspaper from folding), Promo Pusher (spreading the word about upcoming shows), Street Team Lazer Beam (plan and carry out a campaign of turning people on, in the streets) and more. Idle hands, reach out and hang on. - Sam Potrykus

Rethink the phrase “in a tight spot.” The Compass aims to be in EVERY tight spot, every month. Could be a sweet retail shop, a nice cafe, a venue of some kind, any place the culture hungry freaks frequent. But wherever they be, to truly be all up in the right joints every month we need more hands on deck. Make it your thing, meet friendly folks, get to know the city and all that. It feels good to connect with people out there and this is one heck of a way. Do you live in JP? Allston? Cambridge? or Somerville? Hey me too! Let us unite our neighborhoods with free, independent press. - Sam Potrykus

>>> FREE EVENTS CALENDAR >>>

FREE FUN FRIDAY 6:30pm PERFORMANCE: Commonwealth Shakespeare Company @Boston Common Free Admission All Day @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway) @American Textile History Museum (Lowell, MA) @The Discovery Museums (Acton, MA) @Concord Museum (Concord, MA)

4-8pm POP-UP: Southern New England Tiny Print Encounter @AS220 (Providence, RI) 6-9pm POP-UP: Tim McCool: Look No Further @Find & Form (South End) 6-11pm POP-UP: National Poster Retrospecticus @Stone Gallery (BU)

OPENS: William Daley @Society of Arts and Crafts Gallery (Back Bay) 8/2-10/25 7-10pm RECEPTION: Me and My Friends Make Art III @Washington Street Arts (Somerville) 8/2-8/30 RHODE ISLAND INDEPENDENT PUBLISHING EXPO (RIPEXPO) EXPO & PANEL DISCUSSIONS 8/2 & 8/3, 12-6PM BOTH DAYS @PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY // 150 EMPIRE ST (PROVIDENCE, RI) ENTER THROUGH 225 WASHINGTON ST ENTRANCE This weekend belongs to Providence...and you, there! Hit the road or the (commuter) rails and peruse this literary palace of self-published prizes. Hear from the people making it all happen and then go carousing after dark with FREE PIZZA, GUNTIT and more! When you’re not hunting through this printed paper paradise, go gathering information and inspiration from a band of autonomous minds, including Mothers News spokesperson JACOB KHEPLER, artists SUZI X, MICKEY ZACCHILLI and LALE WESTVIND to name a few. Now get the hell outta Boston and visit your sister city, will ya? RIPExpo.tumblr.com - CEEK

OPENS: Juror’s Choice @Uforge Gallery (JP) 8/7-8/31 6-9pm RECEPTION: Orangbeg Press / John O’Toole @Aviary (JP) 8/7-8/29 7pm PERFORMANCE: Jamie McMurry, Julie Andree T. and Vela Phelan @Mills Gallery (South End) Now-8/24 10:30am-1pm RHD Artist Free Open Studio @AS220 (Providence, RI) // Every Tues & Thurs 7pm GALA: The Boston Biennial Project Retrospective: 40 Years of Our Art: Special Gala Reception (black tie encourage) @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) 5-8pm RECEPTION: Twelve Nights @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) 8/6-8/24

FREE FUN FRIDAY Free Admission All Day @Boston Harbor Islands National Park, @Clark Art Institute (Williamstown, MA), @Wenham Museum (Wenham, MA), @The Greenway Carousel (Downtown), @Fuller Craft Museum (Brockton, MA)

6-10pm RECEPTION: Mirror / A Self-photography Exhibit @Piano Craft Gallery (South End) 7-9pm RECEPTION: 20 Minutes or Less by Aaron Dana @Voltage Coffee (Cambridge) now-9/7 8pm TALK: A Conversation with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge @AS220 (Providence, RI) OPENING RECEPTION: INTERIORES @GALERÍA SALARRUÉ AT CONSULATE GENERAL OF EL SALVADOR (EAST BOSTON) 8/8, 8PM Welcome back GALERIA SALARRUÉ with the opening of INTERIORES, a dynamic group exhibition that brings together the work of eleven Salvadoran artists from the U.S. and beyond. Curated by ÓSCAR DIAZ, an independent curator, artist and original member of ¡Qué Lástima!, a Boston Latin@ art collective. This much awaited exhibition will feature site specific installation and video, photography and sculpture. Cruise out on the blue line and step inside a slice of El Salvador. 8/8-TBD - Caitie Moore

ARTISTS’ TALK: IF TO DRIFT 2014 @MOBIUS (CENTRAL SQ) 7PM Step into the intimacies of the creative process at IF TO DRIFT. In the project’s third year, artists MARILYN ARSYEM, SANDRA JOHNSTON, TONY SCHWENSEN and more dove into an inquisition of the performance process, human scale, and everyday actions in art work while residing in an experimental space on the beautiful Maine coast. Come hear the artists break down their findings and demonstrate the process of living and working together in an inspiring out-of-town residency site. Be provoked into your own explorations as they bring it all down to extremely accessible Central Square. www.Mobius.org - Dana Maple

FREE FUN FRIDAY Free Admission All Day @Fitchburg Art Museum (Fitchburg, MA) @ICA Boston @Museum of Russian Icons (Clinton, MA)

12-6pm NEW ENGLAND ZINE FEST @Cambridge YMCA (Central Sq) 1pm GALLERY TOUR: Sergei Tcherepnin exhibit @MIT List Center (Cambridge) now-10/19 2pm SCREENING: Maximum Overdrive @MIT List Center (Cambridge) 5-7pm POP-UP: Dance Museum @Winthrop Park (Harvard Sq)

9am-2pm Electronics and Ham Radio Flea @MIT Albany Street Garage (Cambridge)

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6:30-8pm MEETING: All Art Feedback Session @Cambridge Arts Council (Central) OPENS: Punctuated Equilibrium: Cubic Catenary Confluence@Nave Gallery (Teele Square) 8/20-9/28

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA 5:30-8:30 Artist Toolbox Cart: Marble Sculpture @Gallery 155 6-7pm GALLERY TALK: Gold and Gods: Jewels of Ancient Nubia @Sharf Visitor Center

6-9pm RECEPTION: Boston Biennial 3 @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) 6pm ARTIST TALK: Twelve Nights @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End)

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10am-5pm Graphic Design: Now in Production @RISD (Providence, RI) Now-8/10 // Free every Sunday

JEFF HUCKLEBERRY: THINGS ABOUT RAINBOWS @MILLS GALLERY (SOUTH END) Performances by ALASTAIR MACLENNAN and SANDRA JOHNSTON: 8/4, 7PM Performances by JAMIE MCMURRY, JULIE ANDREE T, and VELA PHELAN: 8/7, 7PM On view now-8/24 Behold MILLS GALLERY as a stage with their current performance-based series centered around the work of JEFF HUCKLEBERRY. The Boston-based artist’s performance pieces involve an array of materials (buckets of paint, lumber, balloons, beer, wind chimes, white noise, nudity, a clown nose, etc) and simultaneously evoke humor, frustration, play and struggle. The two performances feature artists who have previously collaborated or studied with Huckleberry, but each promises a transformation of the gallery space and a unique experience in and of itself. - Scout Hutchinson

FREE FUN FRIDAY Free Admission All Day @Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield) @Boston Children’s Museum @Emily Dickinson Museum (Amherst, MA)

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Ignite! A Fire and Street Food Festival After 9 6-10pm Dark @Union Square Plaza (Somerville) LAST CHANCE: Graphic Design: 10 10am-5pm Now in Production @RISD (Providence, RI)

FESTIVAL: ART WALK IN THE PARK @UNIVERSITY PARK (MIT) 8/24, 11AM-5PM Cambridge Arts Council rolls out a new initiative and ongoing project this month called Art City. They are hosting exhibitions, meetings and events while bringing together the creative community. Head over to University Park on Saturday and Sunday, 8/24 for Art Walk- Dozens of our finest local artists will be popping up with tables, live drawing and art activities to engage and inspire you, so bring your sketchbook! Rain or Shine. - Caitie Moore

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image: JeffHuckleberry.com 6:30pm TALK: on Twelfth Night @BPL (South End) 12pm WORKSHOP: Watercolor Workshop with the MFA @BPL (Grove Hall)

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA 5:30-8:30 Artist Toolbox Cart: Furniture Design 6-7pm TALK & DEMO: The Sarod of North India @Gallery 10 6-9pm Drawing in the Galleries // Every Wed 6:15-7:15pm TALK/TOUR: Highlights of the Museum Collections // Every Wed

Now-8/13 A Brief Stay: Print & Paper Show @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Now-8/14 Nathan Miner: The Long Now @Montserrat Gallery (Beverly, MA) Now-8/15 Perma F(R)AIL @Howard Arts Project (Dorchester) Now-8/16 The Hovering Life @Kijidome (South End) Now-8/16 Winter @Nave Gallery Annex (Davis Square) Now-8/17 Students Curate Students: The Things We Carry: Objects in America @Courtyard Gallery (MFA) Now-8/22 Boston Young Contemporaries @808 Commonwealth Gallery (BU) Now-8/29 Inter Lithics @SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) Now-8/30 Folk @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) Now-8/31 David Buckley Borden: Wild West @Bodega (Back Bay) Now-9/1 Jim Hodges: Take More Than You Give @ICA (Sea Port) // FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm Now-9/5 Katie Bell: Face Off @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) Now-9/6 Under Full Steam @Grand Circle Gallery (Fort Point) Now-9/7 Paintings by Kathy Rubado and Carol Schweigert @Arnold Arboretum (JP) Now-9/12 Tag (you’re it) @13 Forest Gallery (Arlington) Now-9/30 CRLS Alumni Photo Show @344 Gallery (Central Sq) Now-10/18 Public Space? Lost & Found @ACT Cube (MIT) Now-11/2 Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitor @ICA (Seaport) // FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm

Look up and look forward as Boston continues to establish itself as a Boss in public art innovation. Juxtaposing art with commercial and informational content via an 80-foot-tall LED multi-screen is ART ON THE MARQUEE, a public art project that screens multi-media work by local artists and students on a daily basis @the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center. For the full enchilada, head to Southie on a Sunday from 8-9pm to watch the entire collection of art on loop or go to their website. This is one of the first urban screens in the country and a very conscious attempt to create more platforms for digital art in public spaces. Of course, muchos gracias are due to the Dream Team, MASSACHUSETTS CONVENTION CENTER AUTHORITY and BOSTON CYBERARTS, for making these kind of projects/opportunities a reality for our city. “By broadcasting this amazing media art as part of our marquee content, we hope to provide a model for future signage and urban screens in both Boston and North America – pushing the marquee content in new and unexplored directions that will please our guests and events while helping establish this program as one of the most creative and iconic in the country,” -James E. Rooney, executive director of the MCCA If you’re a new media artist, get submittin’ those thirty-second videos/animations/computer-generated works to the marquee’s eleventh call for new media art! The deadline is Sunday, August 31st at midnight. www.ArtOnTheMarquee.com - CEEK

Nugs of Knowledge If George Costanza is your spirit animal you might want to bring a date and head over to the JAMAICA PLAIN BRANCH RENOVATION MEETING on Monday, 8/4 at 6pm to learn the lingo from project architects about their plan to revamp the JP Library and give them your feedback www.BPL.org

6-8:30pm POP-UP: Tinsley Hammond @Liberty Hotel (Downtown)

MEETING IV: A NEW HOPE (FOR BOSTON AREA CREATIVE WORKERS) @ENCUENTRO 5 (DOWNTOWN) 6:30-9PM Leave your whining at the door and bring your proactive self downtown to discuss how the creative community can overcome the economic precipice that is being an artist in Boston. This is the fourth installment of the “GETTING BY IN BOSTON” ongoing discussion that is looking to instigate some much needed change, whether you’re designing buildings, sets for plays or logos, this is about improving your quality of life! Meet @9A Hamilton Place (Downtown) to get in on the plan, Stan. - CEEK

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If you’re a sower of sentences (or want to be) head down to Providence and plant yourself in the FREE WRITER’S WORKSHOP @AS220 on 8/3 from 5:157pm where you can share your work, get feedback and maybe grow some new ideas. All people and genres welcome.

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6-8pm OPENING: Magic Without Tracks @Nave Gallery Annex (Davis Square) 8/27-9/20

OPENS: Student Loan Art Program Exhibition and Lottery @Reference and Hayden Galleries (MIT List Center) 8/30-9/7

FREE FUN FRIDAY Free Admission All Day @Griffin Photography Museum (Winchester) @Norman Rockwell Museum (Stockbridge, MA) 6:30pm SCREENING: The Human Scale @Assembly Row Amphitheatre (Somerville)

Pack a picnic and park it at SHAKESPEARE ON THE COMMON. Watch as she becomes a he, only to be loved by her, who, in turn, is loved by his brother in Billy Shakespeare’s comedy TWELFTH NIGHT. Now8/10 // Tuesdays-Saturdays at 8pm, Sundays at 7pm. FREE & Open to the public. Seriously. When was the last time you saw a play? Bring that junk you’ve been hoarding back to the world of the working at the UNION SQUARE FIXER FAIR in Somerville on Saturday, August 16th from 3-7pm. Local businesses and jacks of all trades will be in attendance to perform on-site repairs and teach you how to dismantle, maintain and repair your neglected belongings. www.FixerFair.org WORCESTER ART MUSEUM is running ART + MARKET every Saturday from 10am to 2pm through September 20th @the Trinity Lutheran Church parking lot (Worcester, MA) Free & Open to the public (like the rest of this page). The theme changes each week but you can always catch some live music, swap out your summer reading at the Book Exchange and shop the local market for art, crafts, vino, fresh produce, honey, herbs, and more! - CEEK

BOSTON HASSLE BRIEFS Recent band profiles

from www.bostonhassle.com In School Praxis of Hate 7” Kill Test Records (2014) After an exciting demo last year, New York›s powerful hardcore luminaries IN SCHOOL have returned with this absolutely essential new 7». They take their name from a Die Kreuzen song but, though you can hear the influence of that band›s off-kilter, chaotic rhythms and esoteric guitar work, In School are a bit more straightforward and grounded due to the frontwoman BIDI CHOUDHURY›s gruff and furious vocals. All six of these tracks are burly, pounding anthems with some truly great moments; check the more melodic end to the already extremely catchy «Conquest» or the tumbling rhythm of «Knocked Out.» «Apocryphal Scum» is another high point, with its rollicking down beat and Choudhury›s wordy, spat-out and passionate vocals. In School›s music is definitively rooted in hardcore, but something about their sound is still hard to pin down; they seem to be drawing from a large body of influences which makes each of these six songs sound distinct and gives this 7» great replay value. So pick it up today from Kill Test Records. - Greg Witz

Indian Twin s/t self released (2014) It’s hard to believe from the five hyper-retro songs on Indian Twin’s self-titled EP that this band is just getting their start. Using the formula of jangly pop songs from the 50’s and 60’s, the band made a handful of sunny songs that have the spirit and energy of the expert musicians that they are inspired by. Don’t let that neat production fool you, though. INDIAN TWIN still have a bit of ruggedness, putting some garage rock grunge into their pop songs. That comes out in the guitar, which mixes a jingling old-fashioned style with a fuzzier, punk sound. The vocals by SOUBHIK BARARI play with the same balancing act, to some extent mimicking the distinctive vocal styles of vintage sounding music, but at time reaching points that are more growling and intense. Those vocal moments that are a little rougher give the music a contemporary edge, while the songs remain lined with retro touches, and there are still old-fashioned “oohing” vocal harmonies set behind. It works, and the band has managed to piece together a distinctive sound by delving into the 60’s rock and pop history books. Sometimes the bands that are unafraid to take inspiration from what has already been done end up creating the most unique and new sounds. Throw in charming lyrics about love and carnivals and other colorful subjects, and the band is creates some seriously crafty pop songs. Surfy, bluesy and jangly, hopefully this album is just the first minutes of fun retro sounds to come from Indian Twin. - Mary Kate McGrath

Future Spa ZZZZZ La Parca (2014) Future Spa is the title of a 1979 pinball machine manufactured by Bally, notable for being their first machine to feature continuous background noise during play. This cutting edge ambiance consisted of your standard arsenal of early arcade era blips, bloops and pew pew laser cries. FUTURE SPA also happens to be the name of a Somerville based garage punk group, notable for their abrupt songs that tend to resemble amphetamine fever dreams. This Future Spa may not be the first of their kind, nor their namesake, but their brand of continuous background noise is sure to leave a much stronger impression on you than the pinball sci-fi fodder from 35 years ago. ZZZZZ is essentially the cassette release of 2013’s My Aunt Brian, with a few track-list alterations, courtesy of local label LA PARCA. Ripping through 8 tracks in roughly 15 minutes, the bulk of this album clocks in well over the speed limit and well below common fidelity standards. Laden with fuzz fucked pounders like “My Aunt Brian”, “Knowage” and “Turn on the Action”, ZZZZZ regularly evokes the sensation of recklessly careening down a straightaway on a bike without brakes, the peripheral too blurry to decipher, the headrush too heavy to form forethought. The largest outlier comes in the form of “Sonic Youth,” an appropriately titled instrumental that harbors a surprisingly spry guitar hook and would fit right at home as a Goo demo. - JP Galeotalanza

Palberta/(New England) Patriots Special Worship split LP Feeding Tube Records (2014) New York’s PALBERTA unveiled their deconstructionist post-punk last year with the abrasive and freewheeling “My Pal Berta,” covering a lot of sonic ground and showcasing an insular and experimental unit dabbling in everything from US Maple‘s fractured anti-rock to the eccentric pop leanings of Deerhoof and the mutant punk-funk of James Chance. Meanwhile, Boston’s own (NEW ENGLAND) PATRIOTS have been terrorizing our little town from the ashes of the inimitable ARVID NOE with manic prog-inflected noise-punk, alternately rocking and mystifying audiences. Their split release SPECIAL WORSHIP, out now on Northampton MA’s FEEDING TUBE RECORDS, is a fine introduction to each band’s brand of freak-punk. Palberta’s bizarre humor and creative spirit is evident from their side of the split, which alternates between supershort outbursts and more intricate songs. Highlight “Susan” starts off with a gloomy, ominous bassline punctuated by short stabs of atonal guitar that get more twisted as the song moves along. The song reflects the half-confident/ half-uncertain mantra of “When I go, I won’t be scared” as it alternates between tranquility and paranoia in equal measure. (New England) Patriots’ side of the split is covered in fuzz, feedback, snaky guitar leads, and the paranoid effected vocals of singer COLBY, all culminating in a disjointed and abrasive, almost Beefheartian vibe. The pairing of these two experimental punk groups couldn’t be more fitting, as they both display a playful idiosyncratic mentality to their noise-making and a tendency for violent outbursts and free-spirited energy. - Chris Villon

Moth Cock Twofer Tuesday Hausu Mountain (2014) MOTH COCK, the Kent, Ohio based electroacoustic duo of DOUG GENT and PAT MODUNGO, have been bringing their oblique, richly textured improvisations on tour throughout the Midwest and Northeast for a few years now, tickling and pleasing the eardrums of fans of underground noise, freejazz and electronic rhythmic music alike along the way. This tape, released on the Chicago based label HAUSU MOUNTAIN is a ripe new document of the band’s electronic experiments, and provides a good sense of what the band’s recent live shows might

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KOWARD and GREEN BERET are heading west in support of KOWARD›s new EP DESPERATE on Side Two. Label mates COMBAT ZONE›s LP is finally out along with SAVAGEHEAD›s debut EP on Twerp Records and FLACCID›s on Nothing Is Real. To navigate this incestual fuck-fest I highly recommend NEVER WAS TURNED HAS BEEN fanzine. A comprehensive guide to the New cropped-top Undergound! BAND TO WATCH OUT FOR: SYMPTOM Members: Mark plays drums, Alec guitar and Vocals, Gabe bass and vocals Influences: noisey Japanese stuff like Gloom, Disclose, Zouo, etc. ‘80s UK crust. Also, a lot of metal in general. Lyrical Content: Misanthropy and self hate, betrayal and revenge, typical straight white cis-male problems. Releases: A demo tape out now and a couple tracks coming out on various splits and comps...a 7» EP will be coming out in the very near future. Future: Taking a poop in this truck stop bathroom. For the latest in Local and International Hardcore Punk: www.IRRH.storenvy.com - Ghost

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Particulars s/t EP self released (2014) Hypnotically moving and shaking its limbs as it emerges from the punk rock & experimental music rabbit hole that is Boston’s underground music scene of today, PARTICULARS is, in a way, the ultimate kind of band when viewed in the context of the world of the Boston Hassle. In this land of Hassle, genre is never the destination, rather simply a marker along the road of life where music is digested and made sense of (perhaps). Particulars are a band that no genre tag is going to be appropriate for. Drummer/ composer NICK NEUBERG has brought this collection of purely heady music experimentalists together, and it is him then that we can thank for this new band. Challenging music does not often get this groove oriented, or for that matter, fun. On “Knock Knock,» wisps of Asmus Tietchens float through the air. Saxophones get involved. A guy walks by and shouts something as an unsettling feeling sinks in. Sax and synth trade barbs. An island vibe takes us out, McSHANE’s sax there to remind us that we have not switched channels (bandcamp sites). This song uses a pile of different synth sounds (some skweee vibes) and it all works. You might fall in love with this band and this EP if you are an adventurous listener and you’ve found your way here. EP is only on bandcamp now, but if there is any righteousness left in this multiverse then that won’t be the end of the tale. In case you can’t tell, I think that this is a really wonderful album. - Dan Shea

be like. During a Moth Cock set, Modungo characteristically applies live processing through effects and loop-pedals to Gent’s clarinet playing and his own trumpet playing, which results in the broken and oddly groovy sonic zones that the group is known for. The two sidelong improvisations that grace this tape certainly don’t stray from that formula. Some of the angular beats that drop in during the madness really spice things up, and kind of seem like the weird hip-hop that might fuel

the dance-floors of alien societies. This tape for the most part is pretty rhythmic, but there are some “ambient” moments (particularly on the second side) that are kind of, um, beautiful. Some samples make appearances on the second side as well, and this I think might be new territory for these guys but either way, both the sounds and the playing on this recording are really good. As a whole, this is an experience that really sets a vibe and paints a landscape, if you know what I mean. Listen in, trip hard. - Nick Neuburg

In 1765 British Parliament passed the Stamp Act imposing a tax on all printed materials produced in the 13 Colonies, including newspapers, permits and legal documents. Colonists considered the tax a form of censorship and oppression that limited free expression, trade and justice to only those who could afford the tax. On August 14 1765 the first public protest of the Stamp Act occurred in Boston at what is now the corner of Washington and Essex Streets. There stood a tall and broad elm tree from which the protesters hung an effigy of local Stamp Officer Andrew Oliver and a British cavalry boot painted as a grimacing devil, within which was a scroll labeled “Stamp Act.”

Following the protest an organized mob ransacked Oliver’s house, threatened his life and forced him to resign his position publicly at the same tree, effectively making the Stamp Act unenforceable. With this victory the tree was heralded as the Liberty Tree, and became the primary outdoor public meeting place and site for protests and broadsides in the years leading to revolution. During the British occupation and siege of Boston in 1775 a group of Loyalists led by Job Williams cut down the Liberty Tree for firewood to signify the Revolution’s failure. Nevertheless, the symbol of Liberty endured. Trees in cities and towns throughout the Colonies were given Liberty Tree status and functioned as rallying points for organized rebellion. Liberty Tree emblems adorned flags at Revolutionary battles and the remaining stump became known as the Liberty Stump. In 1872 a banquet hall was built at the site of the Liberty Tree. Embedded into the third story Washington Street façade of this building, now the Registry of Motor Vehicles above the Chinatown T-stop, is an impressive painted bas-relief carving of the Liberty Tree with the text: Sons of Liberty 1766; Independence of their Country 1776. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

Friday 8/1 Hello dear reader, welcome to another month packed with shows in the Boston and greater New England area. Summer is some of the best time to see shows, and damn does it show. Inimitable Somerville label Ride the Snake Records will make ya sway something stupid as they host Connecticut post-punk dreamers Estrogen Highs, Kiwi garage burners Civil Union (NZ), pop bruisers Half Sour and Phantom Rides @Plough and Stars 9:30pm 21+ $ome cost  Right out the box Boston Hassle has something delectable to tickle your fancy. This month’s psychedelic dance party SCANNERS features our true Providence pal Container, warping minds with overpowering madhatter rhythms. Max Eilbacher of Baltimore’s drum droners Horselords plus DEV/ NULL and resident DJ Won’t take over Central Sq @Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge) 9pm 21+ $10  Downtown is rapidly changing, but you can still catch a good beat @GoodLife. Tonight, Bassic presents vet UK drum and bass producer Amit with resident beatsmiths Scotch-1, C-Dubs, & Damian Silva 9:30pm 21+ $10  Seminal psychedelic funk phenom !!! (chk chk chk) have never been the same since the departure of John Pugh, but they still know how to put on a show. Local ecstatic pop slayers Bearstronaut open @Great Scott 7pm 21+ $18  Out in western Mass near the impressive Quabbin Reservoir there is an equally impressive music festival called Northern Routes, and you should seriously consider catching a ride. Today marks the first day, and what a day: Glenn Jones, Marissa Nadler, Glitter Pen, Matt Weston, Trevor Healy, Bunwinkies, Twilight Tipi, Passerine and Matt Krefting offer a mind boggling range of sweet sounds and textures @1794 Meetinghouse (New Salem, MA) 4pm $20 day $35 wknd  Dive below the sheets with bedroom dream beats courtesy of Sax Syndrum (Montreal), Lord Nathaniel, Couples Counseling and Full Color @What Happened? haus 8pm All Ages $5–10 sugg. donation  Clean out that clocker of yours with this brutally awesome punk show featuring Cleansing Wave celebrating their record release with Ancient Power, Ratstab and Xatatax @Hotel Vernon (Worcester, MA) 9pm 21+ $8 Saturday 8/2 HASSLE NIGHT is Boston Hassle’s monthly attempt to bring the best bands on the East Coast (and beyond) together for a dirty motherfucker of a show. Right here, in your face. Well, they’ve really done it this time with DC’s subversive rock charmers CHAIN AND THE GANG fronted by patron saint of the underground Ian Svenonius and backed by a powerful gang of hot to trot groove pushers. Their spells will be matched by psycho-simple concept crushers Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, of our unofficial sister city Baltimore, forcin’ it down with bass and drum. Plus noisy space-pop cave ravers Los Greys will kick it off. At the goddamn @Lilypad THIS IS NOT A FAD. 10pm All Ages $5–10 Sliding Scale  You can start your day (shortly after noon) by immediately immersing yourself in gnarly rock at Illegally Blind’s Boston Fuzzstival! IB gives a shit. They’re putting Boston’s psych, garage, rock, surf, ambient and noise misfits all under the FUZZ umbrella tonight: 28 Degrees Taurus, Abadabad, Atlantic Thrills, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion!, Black Beach, Creaturos, Dinoczar, Doug Tuttle,The Fagettes, Fat Creeps Ghost Box Orchestra, Gymshorts, Magic Shoppe, The New Highway Hymnal, The TeleVibes @Middle East Upstairs 2pm 18+ $20  Arbiters of the brutal end of the spectrum (including but not limited to industrial, power electronics and harsh noise) Existence Establishment are subjecting people to the tune of Murderous Vision (OH), Pauline Lombardo (OH), The Vomit Arsonist (RI) and Power Monster @The Eternal Sword of Being (email egan@existest.org for address) 7pm All Ages $5  Over in JP, local MC Lewis M. gets busy with Caitlyn Pozerski, JunkFoodKingz, D Ruff, and DJ DEF DINGO @Neverland 8:30pm All Ages FREE (donations welcome)  Soothin’ tunes be croonin’ on South Street thanks to Milo Jones (BK), Toromiro (BK) and Cedar Point (BK), with the @Aviary Gallery playin’ host. 8pm All Ages $5 donation  NEW ENGLAND GIGS: RIPExpo presents Enormous Door, Guntit and Nandas @AS220 (Providence RI) 9pm All Ages $5  Northern Routes New Music Festival, Day 2 has Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders!), Juan Wauters and many more @1794 Meetinghouse (New Salem MA) 2pm $20 day $35 wknd  AND The Lentils, Dust From 1,000 Years, Bad History Month, Hallowed Bells and Peters Window are thinkin’ and singin’ about the future @The Future (Brattleboro VT) 8pm All Ages donations welcome Sunday 8/3 Copacetic & concise list the keels of our good lord’s listings today. Surely bake sales abound and brunches spill over into twilit bacchanalia but to you, dear reader, we simply have to offer the folk-adjacent duo The Humminbird (Chicago), joined by ethereal dreamers Hallowed Bells (Philly) and Couples Counseling, the lo-fi lifts of Liana’s Fire and the multimedia experience collab of Folie a Deux (Baltimore) @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $5 Monday 8/4 Monday night shows are either stiff competition or complementary options for the open minded show goer; it’s all about your attitude. LET’S GO! Officer Susie features free form fuckery from local tweakers Matt Delligatti (of absolutely sick new group Particulars) and Connor Baker (of jazz rippers Nick Sanders Trio). Tonight, they play the fabulously cozy Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation  Fast Apple keeps up, with ease, bringing back Dust From 1,000 Years and Bad History Month from an epic tour and setting the heavy mood @Charlie’s Kitchen with help from Allston rock artistocrats Kal Marks and The Craters 9pm 18+ $5  And completing Cambridge’s Monday night trifecta, Rad Castle presents Pale Gloom, The Lady Comes First and Courtney Swain @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free  JP peeps encouraged to get down to some potentially technical rock from NH crews Foreign Tongues and Notches plus Lilith and Ghosts of Sailors at Sea @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Tuesday 8/5 Tuesday. Tues. Twos. 2. A numerical glyph. Second value following one (1) in standard counting paradigms. One times two is two. But two times one is also two. And that’s the point. Anyway, tonight’s Tuesday helping is heaping beyond your wildest, ya hear? Check first your local cats BUFU Records. They of the fun-loving, good-vibe-propagating (preferably whilst rocking out most joyously) ilk, have assembled a veritable sundae (read: tuesdae) of sonorous C.R.E.A.M. for your ears and soul to imbibe. Those decidedly unharsh priests of good fortune The Lentils will be gracin’ us with their psychic healing powers all the way from verdant Brattleboro, VT, along with Los Cripis, a group of pretty/dissonant/pretty dissonant garage-flam mages flung all the way our way from Buenos Fucking Aires, plus Semi-Slaves @JP Drizzle All Ages 9pm $5  If the mellow basement tribe ain’t your vibe, head instead upward and inward to our fair city’s interior outskirts, where eternal stoner metal heroes Boris (Japan, duh) will destroy that dainty lil’ structure known as @Paradise Rock Club with Subrosa and The Atlas Moth at 7pm 18+ $18  Meanwhile a straight up unstoppable hardcore show is in process with Lovechild, Gross (FL), Neat Freak (FL) and Some Nerve @Miami House 8pm All Ages $5  If for some reason you’d prefer your punk recorded, the perennially undisputed PUNK’S DEAD is on tap @Ramrod w/DJs Ghost & Mr. McMahon. It’s on at 10pm 21+ NO Cover  Out in Northampton, Bang Bros! release their 121212 record, that one a collection of ‘cordings transdispersed via electronic paraphernalia during their epic effort to break a world record and play 12 cities in under 24 hours on 12/12/12. Tonight they’ll share a roomful of sound thingies with Unguent and others TBA @Feeding Tube Records starts at show’o’clock All Ages $ome cost Wednesday 8/6 So, when were you going to start having fun, exactly? Was it going to be this WHENsday, perhaps? I mean, I’m really sorry for all these day-puns. They’re just danglin’ here like little gemstones hidden in an unassuming apple orchard. Only a fool’s

fool’s fool would pass up a clear chance to leap up and pluck such an enticing little shiner from the branches overhead. Come. Let us find out what SHOWS are on your calendré tonight. Some, you suppose. Indeed. pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS has the trippy electronix on lock as usual, bringing elated jammers World Cup, smooth Portland, Maine brain benders Jaw Gems and versatile experimentationeers Press Pause, Restart to @Middlesex 10pm 21+ $3  Down in prominent Providence, RI, TWO kool shows occur: The first is a second helping of The Lentils + freaky friends Los Cripis (BRA, brah), PVD gothwads Way Out, surf bummer rock devotees Gym Shorts, and sax-o-phonic punks Gavage @The New Funky Jungle 9pm All Ages $5  Numero dos: Philly rockers SGNLS are doing weird stuff with aggressive postpunks Finished, experimental synthetarian Time Ghost and shoegazing Boston denizens Lend Bias @Machines With Magnets show’o’clock All Ages $omething something it’s always something with you! Thursday 8/7 B.O.W. Shows provides yet again for the true weirdo rippers as post-punk synth SGNLS (mem. Bugs & Rats) gets rough and tumble with SBC schizo-beat dabblers w0at, propulsive psych funk trio Cordaro Giles & Stronge and angular noise pop inverters Earthquake Party! @The House that Eats Instruments 8pm All Ages $5–10 Sliding Scale Donation  Did you know that there’s more to this city than just the blistering urban spawl and towering yup-rises? The Harbor is clean and pretty these days, so take a stroll along the concrete coast and catch singer-songwriter Sarah McKenzie @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  If you’re bored with music, why not try some open-mic storytelling with Storyclub Boston @ImprovBoston 6pm All Ages Free Friday 8/8 We got a regular day of reckoning on our hands. Fetch your holy tome. Salt all your victuals. Fill that water pale to the brim and meet us up in the hills. It’s a regular Friday here in Boston, Massachusetts, and there’s just too much g-dang sweetness to absorb. We’ll try anyway. First you should internalize and memorize and pocketplannerize the super rad fundraiser going down tonight to benefit Yes All Women Boston. The lineup is a’simply dopissimo with the variated songstressing of violetpedal, radical rocking of Sacred Hearts, pop-punk outfit Atomic Savants and heady riffers Sleep Crimes @ Jacques Underground 8pm 21+ $8  At the same time, reunited Merge Records indie rock syndicate The Rock*A*Teens join up with The Thalia Zedek Band and CUFFS for a night of popwards melodies served in a sharing portion @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10 Adv./$15 Drs.  Full of friends of fun and friends of friendship, Worcester MA is the place to be if you’re looking for the primest of basements to chill in. Up a steep and glorious hill you may just uncover Secret Lover, Super School Year, Abdul H. Sherzai, Kam Kama, and 28 Degrees Taurus playin’ in the dusty downstairs of @Distant Castle 8pm All Ages $5–$10. If you can make the trip, you should  Southish and down, your Rhode Islander comrades in PVD have something resembling a nice rock and roll show with Baylies Band, Mike Mountain, Coma Coma, and Six Star General @DUSK 9pm 21+ $5 Saturday 8/9 Allston sisyphus (tormented rock pusher? idk) Kal Marks throws down with Philly’s Marietta, indie punk outfit Big Awesome, Brightside (PA/CT), Lions, and Burglary Years @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $10  Later on in the evenin’ Who Even Cares? (Boston/Cleveland) is back for a ripper with Beauchene Skulls, Mount Gomery (on tour), Douglas Thomas (on tour) and Muddy Wires @The Bunker 9pm All Ages Free  Bumpin’ jams be pumpin’ down on Boston Harbor thanks to Brooklyn duo Tanlines gettin’ down by the water @ICA 7–11pm 21+ $10 mem+students, $15 non-members  Over in Cambridge La Parca presents Mother’s Children (Ottawa), The Little Richards (Salem) and Lady Pilot @Lilypad 7pm early show All Ages some co$t  In Allston, Bob Colby Presents APPLE BETTY/MY OWN WORST ENEMY @Store 54 8pm all ages $10 Suggested Donation  And down in Providence is a crazy good line up for FOO FEST @AS220 w/ Psychic TV, Guerilla Toss, Doomsday Student, Container, Alec K Redfearn and the Eyesores, Malportado Kids, In Heat AND MORE! 1pm–1am All Ages. $7 adv/$10 @ door Sunday 8/10 Shit Almighty, have you realized how many weeks of summer we have left? I can count on one hand the number of people I’ve kissed on the lips COMBINED with the number of beach trips to which I’ve borne witness since June kicked off. Get living & certainly get notional on this marginally agenda’d day with a dip, a trip or a quick-pick, and make sure to swing through to check out the holy droning of Caroline Park, Beth McDonald, and Matt Samolis @Aviary Gallery 7pm All Ages Monday 8/11 What’s the opposite of mundane and exhausted? Mondays in Boston! Well, Cambridge really, but ANYWAY Boston Hassle and Fast Apple combine curses (the curse of being addicted to booking rad bands) to present MA heavies Big Mess, wild men from Nashville GNARWHAL, their touring bros PINECONES (Atlanta) and newish scary noise rock band Candy Truck. Should be a hoot @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 18+ $5  Rad Castle presents a massive wave of surf tinged garage-rock and pop at the tip top of the crop–Spirit Kid, Beware The Dangers Of A Ghost Scorpion! and Beach Toys @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free  Plus LA rapper/producer K-the-I??? returns to The Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation Tuesday 8/12 Weeknight bummerdom is a fool’s game. Simple as that. Don’t be swayed by naysayers who’d rather have you flopping around listlessly in bed watching Hulu or sobbing in your underwear trying to beat yourself at Uno all night instead of going out and having a good time. The goodest one is here to be had courtesy of B.O.W. Shows and it’s just as heavy and weird as your feelings about going to work tomorrow. Noise rock supergroup The Channels are joined by abrasive pervs Bukkake Moms (TX), LOADIN (10-minute metal band), and anger connoisseurs Teacher Mother Secret Lover @The Beach 8pm All Ages $5–10 Sliding Scale  Up in Brookline, Non-Event has woodwind/feedback improviser-about-town Jesse Collins channeling something else @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5  You can drink some beers and listen to some goddamn punk rock at PUNK’S DEAD, forever in the game @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover/FREE POOL Wednesday 8/13 After pummelling Boston, noise punks Bukkake Moms take on Providence with Texas tour buds Load-In, where they meat nihilist grippers Finished, broken psych-folk deep feelers Suicide Magnets, Ded Library and Txoka Txoka all getting very dark and ominous as per usual @DUSK (Providence, RI) 9pm 21+ $ome cost Thursday 8/14 Maryland’s prominent punk brawlers Multicult bring that gut wrenching, skull crushing groove with Boston speed demons Ancient Filth, the fractured industrial bellows of KTB (members of Bugs and Rats/Guerilla Toss) and Spruce Ha! from Cleveland, all oh so good you’ll be grinning like a damn fool @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate  For some cerebral sonic collages, get to Inman Square and dig on Harriet Mom-Teknum @Lilypad 9pm All ages $ome cost  Or head to the harbor and watch the seagulls sail along with the unabashedly lounge-loving jazz ensemble Song Yi Jeon Quartet as part of the Harborwalk Sounds series @ICA 6pm All Ages Free Friday 8/15 Dang. Helluva night right here. So very helluva, in fact, that we’re gonna have to get right down to it in order to conserve some copy space. So, like, sorry for the lack of bullshit, man. First up B.O.W. Shows is keepin’ the ‘dallions in sway with your pal Alex

whitty whitmore Saturday 8/16 ToDAY Boston Hassle presents the first annual NEW ENGLAND ZINEFEST @Cambridge YMCA 12pm–6pm All Ages Free  Later on in the evenin’, Boston Hassle & Allston Pudding host the OFFICIAL ZINE FEST AFTERPARTY with crooney New York dudes Ava Luna, beloved local trio Krill, quality pop crew Pretty and Nice and Infinity Girl @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $8  The DJs On The Harbor series continues with LE1F (dj set) @ICA 7–11pm 21+ $10 mem+students, $15 non-members  Killer MA pop veterans Hands and Knees got a fresh new record out and tonight they will BRING IT along with Coo and Howl and The Invisible Hours @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $8–10 sliding scale  Mission Creep, Last of the Independents, and The Heartsleeves are @McGann’s Irish Pub 8pm 21+ $10 at the door, $7 if you say you are attending on the Facebook event page Sunday 8/17 Taking woodwinds to boisterously binary heights is Bobb Hatt (Columbus), joined by dexterous groove-babe Arian Shafiee, with the promise of more to come @Washington St. Art Center (Somerville) 8:30pm 18+ $ome Cost  Both confident & true swings the hammer of Boston alt rock with Illegally Blind bringing together Boom Said Thunder, The Suicide Dolls, Slowdim and The Devil Twins @Church of Boston 8pm 21+ $10  Oh but wait there is more and you had better believe it. Skky Phoenix & The Armadillos drop their ambitious new country-infused rock document with the active support of Adam PC, The Okay Win, The Sound Down Cellar @Middlesex Lounge 8pm 21+ $6  Alvarius B (AKA Uncle Jim AKA Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls) throttles God herself using nothing but an acoustic six-string, with Sam Shalabi to boot @Johnny D’s 8pm 21+ $15  Finally, in the most central of Masses, Worcester (the plumb geographical pindrop of the Bay State’s epicenter winks lovingly from Rutland, but close enough) offers the blues, the grass, and the wradically folksy fare of My Gay Banjo (NY), the return of semi-recently transplanted sibling Sister Mary (NC), Evan Greer, and Calliope of the Future (CO) @Firehouse (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $5–10 Monday 8/18 Monday comes around again and good grief are there a lot of viable options for you to sink your ears into. Beyond the Cambridge trifecta, which we’ll get to, the hell-raising and punk-hazing VIOLENT PARTY, VOL. 63 continues in JP with Gainesville, Florida’s D-beat powerhouse Process (ex-Mauser, ex-Ectoplasm) and reverb-soaked punk Vermin (ex-Hellkontrol, ex-Firing Squad) swarming into town to fuck your shit up with Aspects of War, Sunshine Ward and Rash Tongue @BAT HOUSE 6pm All Ages 8 BONES  That trifecta we keep talking ‘bout includes The Series @Weirdo Records, featuring the excellently named Chill City Icon 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation  Rad Castle nights got Steep Leans in the house with some To Be Announced homies @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free  Fast Apple hosts Non-Event Benefit with the Gromfins (L.A. punk cover band), The Ramones (members of Tomboy, Potty Mouth, Animal Mother Bad Idea) and Vic Rawlings! @Charlies Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Tuesday 8/19 Hey y’all, it’s Tuesday again. That means PUNK’S DEAD, LONG LIVE PUNK! is tonight @Ramrod. Boasting cheap drinks, no friggin’ cover whatsoever, and more free pool than you can shake a regulation-weight cue at, Boston’s only weekly punk rock DJ night is more reliable than most of your friends when it comes to making sure you have a good time and get outta that pesky noggin of yours for a little bit. Whatever you do, do it because you can. Enjoy your freedom. It’s yours. 10pm 21+ Free Wednesday 8/20 The mid-week has never been so packed. First off, catch a special performance from Boston’s premiere Ethiopian funk beast Debo Band performing for the Rosenfeld Concerts in the Courtyard @MFA 7:30pm All Ages $30  Across the Charles, Wormwood Joint presents a heavy, heady psycher show with Dama/Libra (members of Silkworm/SUNN), High Aura’d, Owlfood and Awaas @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  If you dig the lighter, poignant pop vibes, just hop next door @TT the Bear’s. Jangle jumblers Bent Shapes and Wakes join a pair of female-fronted BUFU bands; soulful swayers Littlefoot and sad-girl groovers IAN rock their tour kickoff 9pm 18+ $8  Around the corner slip into the Deep Field for a cosmic stew. Will Mayo aka DJ Won’t and Andrew Gallagher spin deep house, tweaked minimal techno, dubs italo and more— all strictly on wax @ZuZu 9pm 21+ Free  Or lend your ears to the absurd comic insights of Wes Hazard and friends for another installment of It Just Got Weirdo @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation  And back in Allston it’s a solid blast of good ol’ local rock with Greys, The Dirty Nil, Sneeze, Blessed State, all presented by Illegally Blind @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Thursday 8/21 Down in Jamaica Plain, enjoy a quartet of humble yet highly talented solo artists: Wes Kaplan (of the Channels), Max Kennedy (of Big Fuzzy), Jake Estner aka Don’t Come, and Providence poet Serena Putterman @Aviary 7pm All Ages $5  Or grab some rays and watch the waves @ICA with illustrious produced pop charmer Oylinda for Harborwalk Sounds 6pm All Ages Free

punk rock show coordinators - RTT and Park Slug. They are tossin F*CK Fest at us, an all-day/all-night BBQ and party showcasing the likes of Faces In The Floor, Harris Hawk, Z*L, Chandeliers, Wrong Body, ONSLO and more! @O’Brien’s 2pm 21+ $10–15 sliding scale with food included! Also bring food to share if you got the means. Sunday 8/24 Head strong into the penultimate summer Sunday, at least as far as institutional semesters may reach. For those on the flip side of the syllabus, get amped for more of the same. But a better same. And a better you? True the bow of those salmon cords you sliced up into a garment most conducive to airflow and tick exposure toward the horizon of both your heart and all things sweaty until the friggin’ windchill factor forces your calf tats to ensconce themselves in the more comprehensive teaches of denimology. Many raspberry’d dawns are to be upon us still, so breathe deep the remaining dog dayz and lock into some r e a l shit.  B.O.W. Shows, BUFU Records and KLYAM present a veritable haystacking of both acronyms and oh so x-plicit monikers. In rolls the tide of garage-style rockings both jangly and ambitiously on-point with Cumstain (CA), Gangbang Gordon (BUFU tape release!), White Pages, and Free Pizza @JP Drive-In 8:30pm All Ages $5–10  Over yonder, Joey Molinaro (Pittsburgh) slips off his Sunday shoes and into some hard-soles to clomp-a-long and bow-a-song, channeling the chaotic good that is grindcore on his violin, along with Los Greys and Seagulls Trio @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages donations  The lovelies of the Boston Hassle & Open Loop bring you SCANNERS RE-SCAN, an evening of beat dropping, hard chilling & shit losing w/ Golden Donna (WI), Sweet William, Coralcola, & DJ Won’t @Middlesex Lounge 8pm 21+ $3-10 suggested donation  Shit gets buck with local punks DRAIZE, Death Injection, and upper-province powerviolence from Vile Intent (Montreal) @Democracy Center 5–9pm All Ages $7 suggested  WMASS mainstay Mystery Train Records gingerly unfurls the in-store of this calendar page and what a pennant that waves! Kath Bloom and Tom Hanford drop by with their true-to-form folk refrains, as well as Frozen Corn and Kate Lee @Mystery Train (Amherst) 5pm All Ages donations Monday 8/25 Western MA churning lo-fi folk artiste Mal Devisa is as special as a guest gets at The Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation  Miami Doritos, still hott from their midwest trot and 2 or 3 very special friends will bring the garage to the upstairs of Harvard Squares @Charlie’s Kitchen and they’ll be leavin the door wide open 8pm 18+ $5  Back down Central Square (that’s right, towards the Charles), Rad Castle presents ferocious rock cinder block Gondoliers and Pragnus Gray @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free  Around the corner, Bowery Boston has Titus Andronicus, the fucking sick NJ punk outfit Liquor Store, and Wicked Kind @Middle East Upstairs *NOTE 7pm doors All Ages $15  And shit if you just can’t leave Allston, no problem, raw rock power trio Kiss Concert plays host to U SCO (PDX) and Slowshine (NY) along with Massachusetts’ own Salem Wolves @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Tuesday 8/26 Turns out it’s SunRob Thomas’ 40th Birthday Extravaganja tonight. Call it a super surprise of sorts. DJs and psychedelic light shows are hence poised to pay tribute to the birth of a Boston Musical Legend @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome amount of currency  PUNK’S DEAD! has DJ PeePee spinning loud tunes @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover/Free Pooooooooool Wednesday 8/27 The month is almost out but the shows just keep coming. Boston Hassle & Eye Design do their monthly Treat Yo Self thing, fusing together live music with compelling work from local visual artists and occasionally snacks. Tonight catch the topsy-turvy jangle poppers Monomyth and folksy bluesers Nap Eyes, both from Halifax), plus Liam Betson (Ex-Titus Andronicus) and the inimitable local favs Krill @Middlesex 9pm 21+ $5–10 Sliding Scale  Have you noticed? Lately some of the best (and increasingly popular) garage and punk bands are led by take-no-sass women. Tonight’s show @Sinclair is a fine example of this seismic shift with Wales’ fierce and moody Joanna Gruesome, breakneck noise punks Perfect Pussy, western Mass’ Pottymouth along with Chicago’s Love Is Everything 8pm All Ages $12adv / $15 dos  Or stick around verdant JP and get loose with some insightful poetry ACLU Benefit, Nick Szydlowski, Whirlpools (mems of Young & Old), Fashion Snake and Rick Maguire of Pile @Midway 8 pm 21+ $5 Thursday 8/28 There surely be many more shows happening tonight, but we’re not sure what yet. For now you can catch the last of Harborwalk Sounds @ICA with all-female sultry prog funk ensemble Common Thread 6pm All Ages Free Friday 8/29 HEY. It’s the freakin’ weekend. You know the rest. Boston Hassle’s got a slayer of a ripper or a ripper of a slayer or some kinda lobster of a show going on in Cambridge’s perennially dependable-for-a-nice-sandwich Inman Square tonight. It’s Providence surf-punk sensation Gymshorts, Brooklyn burger-pop sensation Fletcher C. Johnson, local self-loathing sparkle-rock sensation Dylan Ewen, and local country-punk sensations Free Pizza @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $5–10 Sliding Scale. Wow.

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Marantz and the Piffs!, Dr. Paul (Lexington), Soft Eyes (NH), and S.S. Cretins (ME) for some overall lower-fidelity psych vibes sure to smooth out your woes. Ask a head for that sweet psych spot!  On second thought, fuck your woes. Go to a goddamn punk rock show. ZEX, St. Ripper and more @BatHaus JP showtime All Ages $ome cost  BIG effin’ hip hop rager on tap up in Allston with the STL GLD (Moe Pope x The Arcitype) album release featuring Dutch ReBelle, John Robinson, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth and Latrell James @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $13  Coach And Sons presents The Aliens Probably Do Exist Tour Kickoff w/ Yeehaw!, Everything Ever (NY/NJ), Juneva, Flat Swamp @ The Monkey Palace 8pm All Ages $5

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SCANNERS - An Electronic Dance Party: Container (RI), Max Eilbacher (From Baltimore’s Horse Lords) plus DEV/NULL, and DJ Won’t @Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge)

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HASSLE NIGHT Chain & the Gang (DC), Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (Baltimore) & one more @Lilypad

8/16

First annual New England Zinefest! @Cambridge YMCA 12pm-6pm All Ages

8/16

Boston Hassle & Allston Pudding OFFICIAL ZINE FEST AFTERPARTY: Ava Luna, Krill, Pretty and Nice, Infinity Girl @Great Scott

8/27

Boston Hassle & Eye Design: TREAT YO SELF w/ momomyth, Nap Eyes (both fr Halifax), Liam Betson (Ex-Titus Andronicus), Krill @Middlesex

8/29

Gymshorts, Fletcher C Johnson, Dylan Ewen and Free Pizza @Lilypad

Saturday 8/30 The ICAs pretty rad DJs on the Harbor series comes to a close (for August anyway) with Pico Picante & Que Bajo?! @ICA 7–11pm 21+ $10 mem+students, $15 non-members  And lookout for Ancient Filth throwing down with Born Wrong (Toronto hc) and probably one more chunk of Boston punk @TBD, hopefully an accessible basement show time All Ages $Donate for goodness sake, wherever it takes place

Friday 8/22 Widely, tonight is one for the off-kilter here in Boston. Not like it’s ever really not like that, but this night is kinda different. You’ll see! Ahem. @Middle East Upstairs finds Black Helicopter (Ecstatic Peace!), E (feat. members of Thalia Zedek band and Neptune), and the brooding jams of 13 Billion Years starting at 8pm 18+ $10  Up in Medford, unearth a good-hearted and wild night of improvised experimentation, collaboration, and artworks to which you will otherwise never be exposed with Angela Sawyer, Los Greys (members of Fume Hood), Mutual Beef (members of LSDV), Woat (W00dy + Solid State Entity collab), Telesphore, plus art by adults living with developmental disabilities @Outside The Lines Studio 6pm All Ages $5  Garage rock is the password to get into @Midway, where Muck and the Mires, Watts, Electric Mess, and The Black Cheers go on at 8pm 21+ $ome cost  Maximum emotive spazzfolk rock freaks Frog Eyes will follow a set by Skinny Bones @Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $12 Saturday 8/23 Those moody fucks EARRING are in town from Chicago doing an ideal idgaf rock thing akin to them Fat Creeps or somethin, tight. Plus they have Katrina Stonehart (he of Baby Birds Don’t Milk fame, Midwest legend) with them and the local support is sure to be dynamite cause this a BOW joint, man. They should get Dark Rodeo and maybe even the Frumpy Chumps themselves…we’ll see @Wye Tao Hiss. Get with it. 8pm All Ages $5–10 sliding scale suggested  Out in Worcester, Bad Canoes, new PA/NJ band featuring mems of Screaming Females, test the MA waters amongst the consequential combustion of Providence’s Downtown Boys, Worcester punk scum Gnards and the incessant barrage of loud fun Funeral Cone has to offer @Firehouse 9pm All Ages $5 suggested!  Salute the steadfast dedication of two punk, rock and

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Quiz of the Month by CHRISTINE AN, Sadness Associate

1. Where is your happy place or where do you feel the closest to being not sad? a. At the workplace, or when I am hanging out with my family.

4. Are you crying right now? a. No b. On the outside? No. On the inside? Not really. c. I’d like to be crying, but no. 5. What do your friends say to you the most often?

c. At a picnic alone on a misty, desolate beach with fresh Wellfleet oysters and a bottle of Moet.

d. Is everything okay?

c. You always make the best fake sad faces! 6. What motivates you in life?

b. My mother and the hope that one day I will find the perfect companion. c. The possibility of achieving an ultimate happiness through sadness.

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c. I might tear up a few times when I listen to sad music or read a sad book, but I rarely cry.

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b. Just once, right after I eat breakfast.

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a. Every time I see or experience something poignant or beautiful.

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a. My big, beautiful dreams of changing the world one child at a time.

d. The possibility of sleep and having these really adventurous dreams.

a. sunshine blue

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2. If your sadness were a color, what shade of blue would it be?

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d. Yes, or I would if I could.

b. At the theme park, or when I am eating breakfast.

d. At that one time I managed to fall asleep at 9 PM and woke up at 6 AM to see the sun rise, and I felt refreshed, and my back did not hurt.

PERSPECTIVES

Q: My dad is turning 50 and I want to throw him an amazing party. How can I make sure it’s the best party ever? KEIRA: Accept that “amazing party” means something different to you and your Dad. When I was in high school, my Mom went to California to visit her sister during the week of my Dad’s birthday. She left me money and told me to take him somewhere nice, “his choice.” He requested Taco Bell and Carvel. I was horrified and convinced myself I had failed at birthdays. But we didn’t have to wait for a table, nobody had to dress up and everything was delicious. Later we went home to watch the Knicks-Rockets play game 5 of the NBA Finals, but instead were transfixed by a slow-speed Bronco chase (Google it, kids). That night was my Dad’s “amazing party.” He still talks about it. RYAN: Cocaine, depression, and Fiona Apple. 

WASTED LIFE:

My Time in the Underbelly* of Life,

Vol. 1

by LILLIAN DEVANE Things I’ve done on drugs (not even just pot) 1. Barfed. 2. Realized that I should be nicer and let go of my anger. 3. Emailed my boss with some assignments before they were due. 4. Called my dad and asked to be cut off financially because I knew I could be independent. 5. Bought a harmonica at a grocery store.

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6. Opened a public bathroom door on an elderly man who was mid squat, exposing him to the crowded lobby during intermission at a Baroque music concert. To this day, I face serious repercussions from my actions. I’ve paid my own rent and bills for ten years now and it haunts me every night as I edge into a fitful sleep. As does the harmonica that no one will buy at any yard sale I’ve ever had. Doing drugs affects not only you, but whoever pays your cell phone bill and probably your roommate when you come out of your room and act all weird but you’re just getting some cereal what’s up. So learn from my mistakes. One wrong bite of a mushroom and you could wake up like me, a woman in her late twenties who isn’t even in PR or graduate school. Shit is fucked.  *a vacation in Key West, a park, scattered apartments in Cambridge

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HEY BACKWATERERS, In case you forgot, TD Sidell moved to NEW YORK CITY, and therefore has seen many celebrities. He figured that you guys were sick of trading stories about seeing Ric Ocasek tweeting or Kevin Lemanowicz getting his teeth whitened or whatever and that he would ENRICH YOUR LIVES with some tales of all the amazing celebs he got to see with his own eyes RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE. This list should appear monthly or until all celebrities leave New York.

DASCHA POLANCO

Tick Tock Diner, Midtown This is the woman who plays Dayanara (the preggo lady) on Orange is the New Black and she was totally eating by herself at a super crappy diner right by Penn Station. There are probably a lot of good reasons why she could have been doing this; there are a lot of studios around there or maybe she just wanted to not eat in Penn Station before boarding a train. But I chose to believe that she was there doing a fame test (kind of like when Sally Field goes to the shopping mall in Soapdish. What? You don’t remember Soapdish? How you could you forget he screwball antics between Field and an in-tip-top-form Kevin Kline? Or the strange sexual chemistry of Cathy Moriarty and a pre-rehab Robert Downey Jr.? HOW COULD YOU FORGET THE FINEST PERFORMANCE OF ELISABETH SHUE’S CAREER? You guys are monsters). Anyway, if you’re going to do one of those, I suppose a diner close to major transportation hub is as prime a spot as you can pick. There were many backpacked youths and fannypacked adults picking at lifeless fries. Not a one approached Dascha’s table though. Sorry girl. Diner people don’t approach unless you’re network.

SAM SMITH

The Place I Work, Williamsburg This dude is apparently super super famous now. I had to be informed of his celebrity by a customer who went all goo-goo eyed when she recognized him. I guess he’s a singer person from England? All I know is after I figured out what he sings, it’s the only thing I hear in Duane Reades across the city.

ELEANOR FRIEDBERGER A Bar, Williamsburg

Eleanor Friedberger is not super famous but I recognized her immediately. She is way better without her annoying brother and very very pretty, even as she is drinking a maybe unwanted shot of Mezcal. 

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FEATURED CIN-EVENT B.O.W. SHOWS PRESENT: LATE NITE CINEMA ROLL @SPOOKY CORRAL We can all rejoice now that our friends at B. O. W. Shows are projecting outdoor, latenight films weekly at the most mysterious, zoological site in town. Already successfully screening films varying in style from John Waters’ FEMALE TROUBLE (1974) to

POSTMORTEM: A MIDNITE EXAMINATION OF THE MODERN ZOMBIE Now - 8/30 @COOLIDGE While the zombie craze refuses to die, there’s no denying that it’s contributed some of the scariest, funniest, and most balls-out insane genre films of the past fifty years. Enter the fine folks at the Coolidge, who are serving up tasty 35mm prints of undead masterpieces all August long. First up is Lucio Fulci’s gross-out classic ZOMBIE (8/1 & 8/2), which features the first-ever zombie-vs-shark fight (as well as cinema’s unluckiest eyeball). Next is Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER.. (8/8 & 8/9), which reinvigorated the genre with its track-star ghouls. RE-ANIMATOR (8/15 & 8/16) is an ‘80s “splatstick” comedy classic, which provides a sickeningly literal interpretation of “getting head.” No introduction is necessary for George Romero’s NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (8/22 & 8/23), the 1968 film that birthed the entire genre. The series closes with SHAUN OF THE DEAD (8/29 & 8/30), Edgar Wright’s zom-romcom blockbuster. Don’t get bit! - Oscar Goff Buñuel’s UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929), the after midnight (or before) treats of LATE NITE CINEMA ROLL are proving to be the best follow-ups to a night of loose abandonment in town. Next up is Hitchocock meets Nietzche in this movie based on a play, based on a true story. ROPE (1948) screens as the afterparty to the show @the House that CDRs Built on Thursday, 8/7. - Ari Shvartsman

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DAISIES (1966) @Brattle dir. VERA CHYTILOVÁ 8/27 - 5:30pm & 9:30pm, @BRATTLE DAISIES, the most well-known film of the late Věra Chytilová (who died this past March), is an uncompromising and radical manifesto scrawled in broad technicolor strokes and heavily bound in absurdity and wry humor. The film follows two cartoonishly juvenile and self-absorbed heroines who decide that, because the world is becoming “spoiled,” they should too. What ensues is a loosely connected series of episodes in which they taunt older

male suitors, slice up a variety of phallic symbols with scissors, and stuff their faces with nearly everything they can find. The dedication superimposed over aerial footage of bombed-out buildings at the end of the film – “to those who get upset only over a stomped-upon bed of lettuce” – is a veritable call to arms. But the film is as radical in it’s visual style as it is philosophically, utilizing a number of experimental techniques to keep the viewer alert, compounding with the fun of the chaotic revelry. - Stefan Grabowski

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE SORCERER (1977) dir. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN 8/8 & 8/10 @COOLIDGE First of all, if you haven’t seen Henri-Georges Clouzot’s WAGES OF FEAR (1953), then go ahead and get that done pronto. Leave it to William Friedkin to remake* the great French psychotronic film director’s most well known movie, AND to pull it off (list the great film remakes on both hands... bet you can’t make use of all of your fingers). Friedkin is one of America’s great film mavericks. Famous for films like THE FRENCH CONNECTION (1971) and THE EXORCIST (1973); dig a little deeper into his oeuvre and you come upon films like CRUISING (1980), and SORCERER, which are just as gritty, and equally as good as the aforementioned classics. I was lucky enough to catch a screening of SORCERER several years back @HFA. Friedkin appeared in person and engaged the audience in one of the most meandering, entertaining, and wonderful “director

talks” that I have ever to witness. He spoke of SORCERER, its soundtrack composer’s Tangerine Dream, and essentially had to be pulled from the podium to end the talk. The man is a rare artist. The film follows four truck drivers transporting highly volatile explosives through 200 miles of South American jungle. Like its filmic predecessor, it is insanely tense. Unlike its predecessor, however, it is filmed in violent (at times hallucinatory) color, and delves more deeply into the existential crisis of its protagonist (Roy Scheider in his finest role outside of JAWS (1975). Harrowing and wild, psychedelic and heart pounding, SORCERER easily deserves a seat at the table with the likes of STALKER (1979), APOCALYPSE NOW (1979), AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD (1977), and FITZCARRALDO (1982). Digitally restored. * For the record Friedkin claims that this film is not a remake, but rather a separate adaptation of the source novel, LE SALAIRE DE LA PEUR. -Dan Shea

SCARLET STREET (1945) dir. FRITZ LANG @HFA Luckily for us, Lang fled to Hollywood to escape fascism. Now we have this tense noir, which replaces the standard gangsters and detectives with a lonely, aging man who is exploited by a mistress and her boyfriend till he snaps.

28 DAYS LATER (2002) dir. DANNY BOYLE @ 20 COOLIDGE Imagine waking up in a hospital bed and discovering that everyone you have ever known and loved has been turned into a zombie. Not just any zombie, though – a FAST zombie. Such is life in this tense masterpiece. Also screens on 8/9.

PAPRIKA (2006) dir. SATOSHI KON @BRATTLE If you thought INCEPTION was mind bending, this surreal animated masterpiece from Japan about exploring the sleeping subconscious will leave you floored with its kaleidoscopic visuals, exotic soundtrack, and sci-fi/meta narrative. Sweet dreams.

STREET FIGHTER (1994) dir. DIR. STEVEN E. DE SOUZA @ C-HARRIS-PARK What’s better than a great movie under the stars? A terrible movie under the stars! Okay, maybe not. Nevertheless, James Mullan and Matt Kona screen this notorious flop at Somerville’s Chuckie Harris Park. Free popcorn and soda – heckling encouraged! HANNA (2011) dir. JOE WRIGHT @BRATTLE

CLOSED CURTAIN (2013) dir. JAFAR PANAHI & KAMBUZIA PARTOVI @MFA This film examines suicidal thought in the surrealistic story of a man struggling with depression by the Caspian Sea. The latest out of the Iranian New Wave film movement, shot in secret by acclaimed filmmakers Partovi and Panahi, the latter suffering from depression during production. Also screens on 8/15, 8/16, 8/21 - 8/24.

GHOST WORLD (2001) dir. TERRY ZWIGOFF @ BRATTLE The story of quirky people growing up in the sterile world of small town America is a timeless one, and GHOST WORLD captures those suburban blues just right. Equal parts angst and comedy, and maybe all too relatable for some. EXPOSED (2014) dir. BETH B @BRATTLE Underground and alternative Burlesque takes center stage in this iconic No Wave filmmaker’s titillating new documentary, which profiles eight men and women who brazenly bare all to challenge “normal” notions of body, gender, and sexuality.

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Lynch’s debut is one of cinema’s greatest nightmares, filled with deformed babies, industrial drone, parental anxieties, and man-made chickens. If you’ve never seen it in a late-night theater filled with like-minded weirdos, you’ve never really seen it. Go now!

28 MANAKAMANA (2013) dir.

STEPHANIE SPRAY @BRATTLE An immaculately framed mystery set in feudal Japan, this period piece is a slow burn that offers a scathing indictment of samurai social norms. Let’s just say “honor among thieves” is a phrase that doesn’t just apply to criminals.

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RICHARD AYOADE @ BRATTLE Fully demonstrating his acting chops in this psychological comedy from Dostoyevsky that looks like it was made by Kafka, mild-mannered Simon (Eisenberg) is ignored by everyone. When his charismatic doppelganger appears things get even worse.

Devastated by the sudden death of his girlfriend Beth, Zach is an emotional wreck. When Beth mysteriously returns from the grave, Zach sees it as a second chance to amend his past pitfalls in love... zombie or not... Also Screens: 8/16 - 8/18.

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An ex-CIA father trains his daughter Hanna as an assassin in the snowy woods of Finland. The Chemical Brothers accompany with a score in thumping, funky electro-beats for a thoroughly stylish and original action thriller.

LIFE AFTER BETH (2014) dir. JEFF BAENA @BRATTLE

29 CONTEMPT (1963) dir.

JEAN-LUC GODARD@HFA The endless hell of a bad breakup is on full display in Jean-Luc’s personal account of artistry versus commercialism in the film industry. Starring an over the top Jack Palance, Fritz Lang as himself, and Brigitte Bardot’s derriere.

THE PARALLAX VIEW (1974) @BRATTLE dir. ALAN J. PAKULA The middle film in Warren Beatty’s hat-trick of “New Hollywood” classics from the first half of the ‘70s is perhaps best known now for providing Slavoj Žižek with a book title. A stillheady admixture of potent paranoias, it’ll paint you into a corner you’d have sworn was a door.

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Now - MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (2014) dir. WOODY ALLEN @COOLIDGE 8/8 - CALVARY (2014) dir. JOHN MICHAEL MCDONAGH @COOLIDGE 8/8 - MOOD INDIGO (2013) dir. JAN OLE GERSTER @KENDALL 8/15 - THE DOG (2013) dir. ALLISON BERG & FRANK KERAUDREN @COOLIDGE

8/22 - SIDDHARTH (2014) dir. RICHIE MEHTA @KENDALL 8/22 - FRANK (2014) dir. LENNY ABRAHAMSON @KENDALL LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Chuckie Harris Park (Somerville) C-HARRIS-PARK Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theatre - SOMERVILLE SECRET SPOT - SPOOKY-CORRAL

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SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY GROWING CENTER Sometimes it seems like summer is almost over as soon as it gets here. Why not check out some great outdoor spaces nearby while we’re right in the middle of it? There’s nothing wrong with spending your days by Jamaica Pond, the Charles River or any of the jah-mazing beaches of the North and South Shores respectively, but for this article, I’ve chosen a spot that is truly a hidden gem in our own backyard. The Community Growing Center is nestled into the corner of Summer Street and Vinal Avenue, just a short walk from Union Square in Somerville. This unique urban oasis is a welcome green space in the often dense and industrial surrounding areas. After the junior high school that previously occupied the space was torn down, the neighboring community came together, uniting local artists, activists, and city officials to take part in a planning process that would eventually result in one of most beautiful outdoor spaces in the Boston area. The garden itself is a peaceful harmonious place to relax in the midst of the Beantown buzz. With terraced beds of herbs, flowers and vegetables on a sloping hillside, and a gorgeous miniature amphitheater, you can spend hours on end connecting with your natural self and other like-minded folks. The garden is open to the public every Saturday from 9 a.m.-12 p.m., or get involved as a volunteer for unlimited access! The Growing Center also hosts a litany of seasonal programming, including educational workshops and musical performances. - Scott Mizrachi

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