Compass #56 September 2014 by Boston Compass Newspaper

En MASSe. THE PARTICIPATORY NATURE OF NEW ENGLAND

Thanks for picking up Compass #56! Whether you’re scanning the rag for the first time or this is a routine reading sesh, you should know that you’re crawling around in a boundless web of culture spun by countless participants, just by virtue of being in New England. That’s how it works here and we are proud to be part of it. Our mission statement: To foster an innovative, compelling, and interconnected music, art, and film community in greater Boston and beyond through grassroots, inclusive, participatory culture. Arguably, the indispensable word in that mouthful is PARTICIPATORY. It’s not only the crux of our organization, as we work to publish the Boston Compass newspaper, run the Boston Hassle websize, and present nearly a dozen shows a month with the Boston Hassle show booking concern, it’s been the key to the success of the entire New England arts scene. We are all volunteers, with no budget or compensation. None! We began as individuals, gained momentum as a collective, and continue to answer our calling, now as a full-blown autonomous non-

profit organization. This is the natural evolution of participatory culture. Although your mind may already run wild at the mere utterance, the breadth of activities that hunker under the umbrella of this fancy phrase are, at least with regard to the Hassle, even more vast than you might imagine. Allow me to parade an array of scenarios before you. If you show this paper to your friend, you are participating. If you widely distribute this paper, or other flyers, you are participating. If you throw shows, draw, play in a band, make art, compile a zine, or volunteer your time to furthering the arts in any capacity, you are participating. By HAVING IDEAS you are participating. Those who contribute $2 a month to our Patron 21 reader-support platform, even if they never leave their apartment? They, too, are participating in keeping this organic organism alive. In fact, if you’re reading this right now, you are participating. The trickle-down effect of even the most mellow involvement in a scene such as ours can’t be underestimated. It’s simply invaluable. Celebrate the wonders of participatory culture and get busy with yourself. - Sam Potrykus

ART BLAST..........................................................PAGE 2

Skools r back—learning opportunities for 1 and all! Woah, photo shows.

BOSTON HASSLE BRIEF...................................PAGE 3

LAIR, Beth Israel, I’d M Thfft Able, YDLIMIER050, Degreaser & More!

SHOWS........................................................PAGES 4—5 NEUMF 2014, Boston En Masse, Felix Kubin (Germany), Apache Dropout (IN)

THE TARDY EAGLE............................................PAGE 6 Guided Meditation, Comedy Showz, Historical Play, Disappointment

FILM FLAM.........................................................PAGE 7 Travel the World: Films in NYC, LA, Germany, Montréal, Japan, China

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

Zoárd’s Puncs, some salacious shrimps and scary monsters

The Boston Compass is produced by the Boston Hassle Email us at ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com Visit us online at BostonHassle.com

PATRICK BRYANT: SLOUCHING TOWARD SOMERVILLE CD So, Somerville sports a print newspaper especially for elderly residents. Each week the paper prints a page of reader complaints culled from a telephone answering machine. PATRICK BRYANT of WMBR then re-enacts these ultralocal concerns over lounge instrumentals on his radio show. Learn about dogs and their business, traffic regulations, yuppies and Canadians, trash in yards, what to do with boobs, which bars are gay, how to wear pants, park etiquette, and other burning political issues made small. Just released on the spectacular local label Teenbeat (sending great sounds to your ears since 1984). Get it at Weirdo. - Angela Sawyer FLUNK SCHOOL, JOIN FILM FLAM School’s back in session and it can be, as our friend Ferris points out, “a little childish and stupid.” So pretend you have a stomachache, lick your hands, and call in sick. You: a dedicated person who loves movies as much as candy and wants to write about them for the Hassle. Us: the Hassle. We’ll help make your dreams come true. More than 100 films play Boston monthly and you can help make sure that people see as many of them as possible. Interested? Email us at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com and we’ll get back to you in no time. - Ari Shvartsman “IAN” BY IAN: GIVIN’ YOU ALL THE FEELS What is it about wobbly words of longing spun wispily over a pounding, melodic-ass rock band that causes the spine to melt into sweet pools of lardjuice? Us muggles may never know, but IAN understands the magic. A pop trio til death, the band emanates a deeply heartfelt ethereal material the likes of which you mighta found when sneaking downstairs to watch MTV2 at 4 AM before your parents could catch ya, ca. 1996. ‘Cept crookeder, sadder, tenser, cathartic-er. They got a new tape named “IAN” out on JP publishing haus of repute, BUFU records. Also eyyunn.bandcamp.com. Get it and start feelin’ like you miss somebody. - Zach Peckham 4TH ANNUAL HARBORARTS FESTIVAL Head to Eastie for an aesthetic feastie! Experience the Boston skyline in all its glory while soaking up some local culture for FREE on Saturday, 9/20 from 12pm-12am thanks to HarborARTS! We’re talkin local artists/artisans pop-up shops, street art, live music, DJs, street theatre and local food aplenty. The fest aims to promote awareness of climate change by bringing in some pros in the know to share their wisdom and clear up any queries you may have. All within walking distance of the Maverick T station on the Blue line. Interested in helping make it all happen? Check out HarborArts.org/Festival for info on volunteering. - CEEK

RIDE THE SNAKE 5 YEAR SHOW, NEW SPACE UNEARTHED Boston Hassle is co-throwing the 5th YEAR ANNIVERSARY SHOW for impeccable local label and friends RIDE THE SNAKE RECORDS Saturday 9/20! In doing so we are simultaneously excavating a new All Ages show space located conveniently right beside Stony Brook Station in JP. This celebration of local outpouring will be fueled by RTS greats such as Phantom Rides, Life Partners, Saralee, Foul Swoops (from DC), Halfsour, Reports and CUFFS! If you don’t know what’s up with top jangle pop and strange punk change in Boston, well, pal, now you shall. 6pm ALL AGES $5-10 sliding scale suggested donation. - Sam Potrykus

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Accelerating fruits have proverbially been wont to prompt discourse and promote awareness of that which is awesome (see: Newton, Gallagher) and fittingly so, Boston booking staple FAST APPLE nestles into its birthright with the launch of label/distro MINA’S WORLD. This nascent entity has already plopped out a killer tape by fuzzpunks SICK THOUGHTS, with an LP by BUTTERCUP on deck. Also to materialize will be a straight up zine clearinghouse with the likes of BRIAN CONNOLLY in the docket. Some out-of-this-world oddities are set to emanate from this down to earth diy op--keep yr eyes peeled. facebox.com/MinasWorld - Anthony Richards

FEEDING TUBE RECORDS’ RELOCATION FEEDING TUBE RECORDS, a name of high renown, obtainer of one of the finer collections of obscure and experimental LPs, books, tapes and CDs in the whole USA is moving from its 90 King Street space in Northampton. After 4 marvelous years and shrimpinati shows untold, the brick and mortar side of the operation is relocating to the Brushworks Arts and HASSLE PRESENTS NEW ENGLAND UNDERGROUND MUSIC FEST Industry Building in nearby Florence (ETA sometime in November). Performances are slated to continue, most likely on the lower side of the volume. Label operations will proliferate as usual, so make sure to NEUMF.com frequent FeedingTubeRecords.com! - Matt Robidoux

6:00 Black Beach (MA) 6:20 Brown Lasers (MA) 6:40 Gracie Jackson (MA) 7:00 Soft Eyes (NH) 8:00 Worn Leather (CT) 8:20 Lair (MA) 8:40 World Domination (MA) 9:00 Video Nasties (ME)

9:20 Mincemeat or Tenspeed (RI) 9:50 Los Condenados (MA) 10:20 Jerome (RI) 10:50 The Lentils (VT) 11:20 NE Pats (MA/ME) 11:50 Minibeast (RI/MA)

3:00 W00DY (MA) 3:20 Jesus Vio (MA) 3:40 Bong Wish (MA) 4:00 Gay Shapes (MA) 4:20 Grape Room (VT) 4:40 Rick Rude (NH/ME) 5:00 Curse Purse (MA) 5:20 Phemale (CT) 5:40 Grizzler (MA) 6:00 Suicide Magnets (RI) 6:20 Neutral Fixation (MA) 6:40 Phantom Rides (MA)

7:00 Florida = Death (CT) 7:20 Moron (MA) 7:40 Jon Eriksen (CT) 8:00 Belarisk (RI) 8:20 High Spirits (ME) 8:40 Rob Noyes (MA) 9:00 Glitter Pen (VT) 9:30 I’D M Theftable (ME) 10:00 Unicorn Hard-On (RI) 10:30 Gary War (MA) 11:00 Timeghost (RI) 11:30 Sunburned Hand of the Man (MA) 12:00 Black Pus (RI)

MONDAY

OPENS: Back to School: Geography in the Classroom @Boston Public Library (Copley Sq) 9/1—1/25/15

6:30-8:30pm RECEPTION: Revisiting Monet’s Garden @French Cultural Center (Back Bay) 9/3—9/29

TUESDAY

free after 4 wednesdays at the mfa

OPENS: Undergrad Showcase @808 Gallery (BU) 9/2—9/28 7:30-8:30pm LECTURE: Media Arts: Alejandra Carles-Toira @AS220 Industries (Providence, RI) 7pm Tight Spaces @BU Art Gallery Annex 9/2-9/21

5:30-8:30pm Artist Toolbox Cart: Marble Sculpture @Gallery 233

excellent swiss design @Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery (MassART) On view: 9/10-11/22

WEDNESDAY free after 4 wednesdays at the mfa 6-9pm: Drawing in the Galleries @MFA // Every Wednesday 6:15-7:15pm TALK/TOUR: Highlights of the Museum Collections // Every Wednesday 6:30-8:30pm Artist Toolbox Cart: Painting

EXCELLENT SWISS DESIGN celebrates innovation in contemporary communication, fashion, furniture, interior, product, and textile design. Featured pieces from the biennial Swiss Award put forth a sweet amalgam of traditional and modern materials. SWISS DESIGN will warm you up with reminders of your favorite old styles while stirring your fancy for ones you never imagined existed. Come to glimpse the new age of cuddling in wooden armchairs and sipping your morning coffee in orange, tree-patterned jumpsuits. - Dana Maple

thursday

5pm RECEPTION: New Student Salon Show @SMFA (Fenway) 9/3—9/15

todd hido: excerpts from silver meadows @Boston University Art Gallery (BUAG) Reception: 9/4, 6-8pm On view 9/5—10/19 Photographic giant TODD HIDO is coming to BU this September with a knockout exhibition. Hido’s work bridges on the sublime, referencing cinematography and film noir, he evocatively pieces together a dark narrative around the alienation and dislocation of suburban America. No doubt his work will haunt you long after you’ve left. Additional programming continues 9/17 w/ local favs LINDSAY METIVIER and Houseboat Press’ DAN BOARDMAN for a convo on the importance of the photographic book, starting 6pm. - Caitie Moore

FRIDAY

10am-10pm SOUTH END ART HOP @Various Spots in South End 9/5—9/7 7pm Progress in the World of Fantasy—Mothergirl and Whitney Allen @Mobius (Central Sq)

first friday in the south end 6-9pm POP-UP: Season IV: Cody Justus & Samara Pearlstein @Find & Form Space 5:30-9pm Jennifer rosa solo show @Laconia 9/5—9/21 6-8pm Bernd Haussmann: The Lost Paintings @Chase Young Gallery 9/3—9/28 // Artist Talk 9/18, 7pm 6-8pm Becky Kisabeth Gibbs @Galatea 9/5—9/28 6-8pm Suzannah Sinclair @Samsøn Gallery 9/5—TBD

SATURDAY

OPENS: Mel Bochner | Popolo @Barbara Krakow Gallery (Back Bay) 9/6—10/18 10am-10pm SOUTH END ART HOP @Various Spots in South End 9/5—9/7 12-6pm A Little Bazaar: The Flea @Mill No. 5 (Lowell) // Every First Sat TBDpm RECEPTION: There’s Always Tomorrow: Gilded Glass and Shadowboxes @Hallway Gallery (JP) 3-6pm RECEPTION: HallSpace Drawing Project @Hallspace (Dorchester) 9/6—10/11 5-8pm RECEPTION: Global Warning @555 Gallery (South Boston) 9/4—10/4 6-9pm RECEPTION: Numinous: In the Spirit of Things @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) 9/6—9/30

SUNDAY

10am-10pm SOUTH END ART HOP @Various Spots in South End 9/5—9/7 11am-1pm BRUNCH/RECEPTION: Student Loan Art Program Exhibition @MIT List Center (Kendall) 2-5pm RECEPTION: Deborra Stewart-Pettengill: Zephyr | Sarah Meyers Brent: Living Paint | Tim McDonald: it rises into wide open space @UMASS Amherst 9/2—9/30

TUESDAY reverb: new art from greece

@SMFA (Fenway) Reception: 9/9, 5-7pm Performance: 9/10, 12pm @Newbury St Talk & Tour: 9/11, 12:30pm @Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium (SMFA) on view 9/9—10/18 Turn off the tube and get an insider’s perspective on the recent turbulence in Greece. While the media and politicians have their own spin on things, REVERB lets 11 Greek artists use photography, video, painting and mixed media installation to depict their personal experience as citizens dealing with the reverberations of unstable social, political and economical systems. Head to the Fenz on 9/11 for a TALK & TOUR from the curators, SMFA alumna EIRENE EFSTATHIOU and independent curator EVITA TSOKANTA. Consider someone else’s reality...it’ll make you a much more interesting person. www.SMFA.edu/Reverb - CEEK

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FRIDAY

5:30-7:30pm RECEPTION: 70th Fall Salon @Kathryn Schultz Gallery & University Place Gallery (Cambridge) 9/5—9/26 TBDpm RECEPTION: Bradford Washburn: Vintage Photographs @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore) 9/12—TBD 7:30pm RECEPTION: Collision21—More Human @CyberArts Gallery (JP) 9/13—10/26 // Artist Talk 9/24, 7:30-9:30

SATURDAY

4-5pm CURATOR TALK: Ground Cover @Kingston Gallery (South End) 9/3—9/28 7pm Body Language: An Interactive Installation Exploring the Impact of Trauma @Mobius (Central Sq) // 9/14, 2pm

SUNDAY

2pm Body Language: An Interactive Installation Exploring the Impact of Trauma @Mobius (Central Sq)

MONDAY

5:30pm Memoir Writing Workshop @BPL (Brighton)

OPENS: Table of Contents | Exchange of Culture | [ME]mentos | Home Memory Space @SMFA 9/18—10/10 4-7pm RECEPTION: Reading Time: Visual Timelines, Texts and Canons @Gallery 360 (Northeastern U) Now—12/21 5-7pm RECEPTION: Artists and Their Sketchbooks: Process Visible @Suffolk U. Art Gallery (Downtown) 9/4—10/10 6-8pm RECEPTION: Artists in the Arboretum: A Juried Exhibit @Arnold Arboretum (JP) 9/18—10/19 6-9pm RECEPTION: Numinous @Atlantic Work Gallery (East Boston) 9/6—9/30 7-10pm CHEAP SEATS @Cambridge YMCA // $10 7pm ARTIST TALK/RECEPTION: Bernd Haussmann: The Lost Paintings @Chase Young Gallery (South End) 9/3—9/28

wednesday

OPENS: NESAD’s Master of Arts in Graphic Design Thesis Exhibit @Adams Gallery (Downtown) 9/17—11/2 6pm TALK: The Photographic Book with Lindsay Metivier & Dan Boardman @Boston U Art Gallery

free after 4 wednesdays at the mfa 5:30-8:30pm Artist Toolbox Cart: Furniture Design @Gallery 134 6-7pm TALK: American Stained Glass

ASSUME THE POSITION Art Blast seeks ‘Culture Vultures’ of the proactive persuasion! It’s been only a year since Art Blast, Film Flam and the Tardy Eagle joined the roster of the Compass...and we’re still growing! We’ve got opportunities in bulk for people of all sortsa talents and skillsets to exercise their muscles and gain valuable experience in their fields of interest. Whaddaya say? Wanna go for a ride with us? Art Blast seeks writers, copy editors, Goers and Do-ers to help improve our coverage and elevate our content. We offer INTERNS hands on experience and portfolio quality work in graphic design, illustration, photography, journalism, writing, and eventually curatorial opportunities. We need VOLUNTEERS for writing, copy editing, event coordinating, creating flyer art, event compiling, etc…

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collision21—more human @Boston CyberArts Gallery (JP) Reception: 9/12 Artist Talk: 9/24, 7:30-9:30pm On view 9/13—10/26 Art + Technology collide in Jamaica Plain! This group show examines the human need for self-modification, man’s modification of our environment and what the two say about one another. Brought to you by ART TECHNOLOGY NEW ENGLAND (ATNE) and featuring art from the COLLISIONcollective (established in 2002 by MIT students) who have continued to explore the evolution of technology in relation to creating new and innovative art. Take the orange line to Green St and walk next door (literally) for a DISCUSSION W ARTISTS on 9/24, moderated by BILL TREMLAY. RSVP for the talk to info@atne.org www.ATNE.org - CEEK

12pm-12am HarborARTS FESTIVAL @HarborArts Shipyard Gallery (East Boston) 10am-5pm JP OPEN STUDIOS @JP 9/20 & 9/21 11am-5pm SOUTH END OPEN STUDIOS @South End // 9/20 & 9/21

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NUGS OF KNOWLEDGE If you’re new to town, OPEN STUDIOS is the way to get familiar with the faces and places of Boston art, one neighborhood at a time. Just a few stops apart on the orange line, the artists of the SOUTH END and JAMAICA PLAIN will be putting out what they’ve been putting down, if you’re interested in picking some of it up... happening the weekend of 9/20 & 9/21. www.USEABoston.com www.JPOpenStudios.com Give your karma a boost and be a part of the 5th annual MASSACHUSETTS INDEPENDENT COMIC EXPO (MICE) happening @Lesley University in Porter Square on 10/4 & 10/5. Making two days worth of panels, workshops and about 150 artists/creators’ work available to the public for FREE is a tall order and requires a lot of manpower. VOLUNTEER some of your time towards the zine scene and scope the talent while you’re there. Email MICEvolunteers@gmail.com for info on how to help. www.MICExpo.org YO! Table space is still available at the 4th annual and bankably awesome JP ROCKS AND ROLLS RECORD & ART FAIR happening @Spontaneous Celebrations in Jamaica Plain on 10/5. If you’re looking to sell your art, crafts, records, food, clothing, jewelry, soul, whatever...just loo for Vendor Sign Up at: www.JPRocksandRolls.com Artist LIZ NOFZIGER’s interactive outdoor installation BOUNCE is begging to be played with. A re-configured, oversized community Ping Pong court stands ready for action @BCA Plaza (South End) with paddles n’ balls available 24/7 and a structure that demands for the rules to be broken - just keep it clean, people. Recess ends 10/15. - CEEK

WEDNESDAY 5:30-8:30pm Artist Toolbox Cart: Silver @Gallery 132 6-7pm TALK: Paying Attention: How Contemporary Art Draws Us In @Sharf Visitor Center 5:30-8pm DEMO: Mobile Art @Classroom 159

SATURDAY

@Various Locations 9/20&21, 11am start The South End is alive and kicking with the OPEN STUDIOS. Head down and see what one of Boston’s most vibrant art communities has to offer. Wander 12 buildings, buy art directly from the artists and watch live artist demos. Down @Wareham St, KIJIDOME’s got “Willie Stewart: The Love You Withhold is the Pain that You Carry” and @sweety’s kicks off the fall season with a performance showcase curated by the one any only ANTHONY GREANEY welcoming PAUL PESCADOR and CELESTE MARIE. Ya dig? - Caitie Moore

MONDAY

6pm LECTURE: Ben Davis, “Art and Class” @Mrs. E Ross Andersen Auditorium (SMFA)

@700 Beacon St, Boston (Lesley U) Reception: 9/18, 5pm On view 9/4—10/30 Craving mysterious smoky landscapes and nostalgic night skies? Get filled with luscious photo goodness at the opening reception of RINKO KAWAUCHI’s show AMETSUCHI (meaning “Song of the Universe”). Kawauchi’s tantalizing prints tease out the complexities of time and memories thru the poetic juxtaposition of constellations and the Japanese countryside. Invigorating prints of Buddhist and other religious rituals flavor the show with striking inquiry into traditional concepts of time. Ametsuchi will be singing its song for two months, come soak it up! - Dana Maple

SUNDAY

10am-5pm JP OPEN STUDIOS @Various Spots in JP 11am-5pm SOUTH END OPEN STUDIOS @thru out South End 5-6pm Discussion w/ Susan Erony @Trident Gallery (Gloucester, MA) 9/5—10/5

rinko kawauchi: ametsuchi

thursday

OPENS: Fragments of Engagement @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) 9/11—10/11 12:30-2pm CURATORIAL TALK & TOUR: Reverb: New Art From Greece @Mrs. E. Ross Anderson Auditorium (SMFA) 9/9—10/18

thursday

4-6pm RECEPTION: 4 Painters 2014 @William Morris Hunt Memorial Library (MFA) 9/18—12/12 6pm TALK & TOUR: with Joanne Lukitsh on Todd Hido: Excerpts at Silver Meadows @BUAG 9/5—10/19

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COMPASS KETCHUP If you haven’t had the pleasure, then prepare to meet the artist/activist/educator MARGARET BELLAFIORE, who has been making her presence known in the Boston community for over 20 years now. Bellafiore made her way to Boston from her Staten Island hometown while studying at SMFA. After graduating in 1993, she became involved with MOBIUS and has been a Mobius Artist Group member ever since. “Mobius is a unique organization, as we run the space ourselves,” remarks Bellafiore, “and that is a daunting undertaking in these difficult economic times for artists. Daunting, but supportive of each other and each other’s art practice.” Over the years she’s collaborated on a number of experimental projects with the non-profit arts org, participated in their artist exchange program to Macedonia and Croatia and exhibited a broad range of work in its Central Square location. Her first installation at Mobius was the award-winning “On Becoming My Great Grandmother,” a collection of anecdotal histories that attempted to capture the little of what individuals heard or remembered about their great grandmothers. Since then, the scope of her work has expanded to investigate an array of social, political and environmental issues. 2008’s sound installation “Combat to Campus” featured interviews with veterans returning to Bridgewater State (where Bellafiore is currently a professor of fine art) while “The New Earth” addressed global warming and subsequent natural disasters. (By the way, she’s also a Climate Reality Leader, after having completed a training program initiated by Al Gore.) You can learn more about the artist for yourself at her upcoming exhibition “BODY LANGUAGE: AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION EXPLORING THE IMPACT OF TRAUMA” @Mobius (55 Norfolk St, Cambridge) 9/13 & 9/14. This collaborative project with writer and activist CHRISTINE CISSY WHITE attempts to communicate our emotional and physical reactions to severe stress, and explores “how the brain/body responds to trauma.” www.Mobius.com - Scout Hutchinson

DeGreaser- Rougher Squalor Ever/Never Records (2014) It takes a deft hand and a solid ear (not to mention a rounded scoop of chutzpah) to dress up a familiar genre in new clothes. In the past few years we’ve seen Big Mess give Delta blues a doomy makeover, we’ve seen Cowboy Band bring the chaps and stirrups into the garage – there are plenty of other examples – and now Brooklyn’s Degreaser is adding a bit more grit to the all-denim getup of yesteryear’s psychedelia. This powerhouse trio has its roots deep in oldschool psych-rock: the fat bass tone, the blistering staccato guitar on the interludes, and the squelching off-kilter wah effect make you feel like you’re spacing out in the trunk of a VW Microbus (RIP) lost somewhere in the middle of a corn field. But the knick-knacks inside that beastly bus are modern, harsher: the gang vocals are eerie and edgy; slicing tritone riffage lunges at you with enough force to break a rib; the song-structures are chaotic and the bands gets its jollies stalling on high-tension chords backed with thunderous drum build-ups. And the production is the perfect package for Degreaser’s sound – fuzzed just enough to make those booming mega-chords menace just the right way, wrapping the whole ensemble in that organic single-coil buzz. “hole in my head” offers a perfect example of Degreaser’s ability to blend the old and the new: the band takes a nothing-but-punk powerchord rant and casually slides it into a Hendrixesque chord-n-lick freakout. Snag the full LP from Ever/Never Records and keep this New York caravan on your radar! - Dean Antonio

BOSTON HASSLE BRIEFS

Beth Israel – Dental Denial Dull Tools (2014) A duo with only a s/t cassette to their name prior to this release, their music vibes homemade concoction far more than studio product. A 4track collage feel snakes throughout the entirety of DENTAL DENIAL. This is no song after song deal. Instead each song (there’s 11 here) comes across as a hand crafted and labored over composition. Rock music, but no mere rock songs. Songs reek of experimentation. Synthesizers flow. “Dead Bodies” is one of the standouts on this record. Bass and guitar lead the way, telling us we’re in for a jangle pop rock number, but then a hook laden synth pushes its way in. So great. Dark jangle synth pop (I don’t write those words out, in that sequence, very often). Vocals recall Boston underground heroes of the recent past KID ROMANCE. Then we get to “Statue In The Car” and all hell breaks loose. The guitar riff melody is one of my tops of the year it must be said. The interplay between drums, bass, and guitar during these riff sections is some kind of sublime. Easy going, but with enough forward momentum to keep em boppin’. What does this remind me of? I'm not sure, but this song is a classic straight out of the gate. I have played this one for my little baby boy Zachary several times, and you know what? I’m going to continue to do so cuz he loves it. Big time repeat pressing motivation. Go to the site! LISTEN YOURSELF! - Dan Shea

V/A - YDLMIER 050 Ydlmier (2014) Back in July I witnessed a wild and woolly midsummer’s melding of the minds featuring many of the area’s greatest weirdos. The reason for the season? The release of YDLMIER 050, the fiftieth (!) release by Somerville’s YDLMIER label, a neatly-packaged DIY box set comprised of three whole cassettes’ worth of Recent kick-ass. Now here we are about a month later, which is about the amount of time it actually takes to really properly take in so much music, and I’m finally ready to profiles tell you all about it. from While an outsider’s perspective on “out” music might www. be as something cold and unapproachable, maybe even downright hostile, there is very little of that attitude on boston display here. That hostility can definitely be a part of the hassle noise scene, but the bubbles and gurgles, laser sounds, .com laptop explosions and contact mic weirdness that take up much of YDLMIER 050 sound warm and inviting to my ears. Perhaps this is because of the nature of the project itself: 50 projects celebrating 50 releases by a man who's devoted much of his life to exposing people to sounds they never even knew they needed to hear. What could As always visit be LESS hostile than that?! www.BostonHassle.com I could tell you about the standout tracks. About how Side B is start-to-finish perfect and Greg Kelley‘s track for vids and streams of all the artists and is a beautiful tribute to New England now that he’s left albums profiled here! us for the left coast. But the project is best taken as a + If you think you know whole. Dive in and feel refreshed. - John Bittrich something about contemporary music, or simply want to GO FOR IT, send us an email and we’ll get you in the mix, stat! Interviews, album profiles, video content, show reviews, your totally shocking and groundbreaking new idea…

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Lair – S/T Surveillance Investments (2014) Lair, spawned from the lives of Alek Glasrud and John Moxley, is a grooving and phantasmagoric locomotive of a duo with a huge sound. They’re characterized mostly by Moxley’s repetitive flowing rhythms à la krautrock and Glasrud’s looping synthesizer/guitar copulations. The band’s polychromatic compositions cycle a variety of weird realms, each one fresh in comparison to the last. The first track, Galactic Agent, opens with a wonky drone that quickly transitions into a medley of bubbling synth and guitar fanfare. Its an intro that sets the tone well for the rest of the album, oscillating as it does between smooth grooves, tense ascensions, and playful vitality. The juxtaposition between side A closer “Valentine Michael Smith” and side B opener “Chameleon” is probably the most clear illustration of this dynamic, with the tensionbuilding loops and nervous harmonies of the former track resolving into the flowing krautrock-y rhythm and chill feel of the latter. - Damon Hastings In Boston on September 25 1690 independent journalist Benjamin Harris published the first newspaper printed in the American Colonies. Harris introduces the 4-page publication, Publick Occurrences, Both Forreign and Domestick, by describing his intention to “furnish…an account of such considerable things as have arrived unto our notice,” so that “people everywhere may better understand the circumstances of public affairs, both abroad and at home.” The domestic news from September 1690 includes several accounts of conflicts between New England pioneers and Indians, missionary work with Indian villages, the abatement of a small pox outbreak in Boston and other public health matters, a dramatic suicide in Boston by an elderly man, and news from battlefronts with French-Indian forces in New Hampshire, Maine and Canada. British Empire battlefronts in the Caribbean and Ireland are summarized, and foreign news is concluded with a bit of scandalous gossip on the incestuous French royal family. The final page is left blank so readers may handwrite amendments to the news stories and introduce new ones before redistributing.

I’d M Thfft Able - I Suck Am The Eye Suck In The Sky Suck Brise-Cul Records (2014) Cathartic new transmission from the Portland, Maine’s own I’D M THFFT ABLE, here re-configured to I’d M Thfft Able. I Suck Am The Eye Suck In The Sky Suck just got unleashed on Montreal’s Brise-Cul Records on a sweet little C23 in a batch including tapes by Vertonen and Echo Beds. “865” occupies the A-Side, with the theftable in full-on digital/ collage mode. His sound finds the bridge between classic concretists like Pierre Schaeffer and newer data-processors like D/P/I and Ahnnu. Snatches of pop music deteriorate over broken radio transmissions and tonal drone. Most of the “news” segments that interject relate to age and birthdays. On the B-side-length title track, age is addressed in an absurdist session of live performance group therapy. As far as I can tell, this was recorded in concert, with Mr. Able leading the crowd through a march of “I suck” and “Fuck It” chants. Some of these self-annihilations become specifically oriented towards the mirror of the internet – seeing your body, aging, digitally, noticing things (weight, skin) that you might not have before. It all has the air of D/P/I’s equally absurd (and beautiful) Elliot Hulse-rework “Depression Session,“ but moves the magic off of YouTube and into a communal, physical space. - Matty McBride

British law prohibited independent publications of any kind. Within four days the Governour & Council issued a declaration that Harris “presumed to print and disperse a pamphlet…without… authority,” and ordered “said pamphlet…be suppress’d and called in; strictly forbidding any person…to…print without license first obtained from…the Government.” Every undistributed copy was confiscated and destroyed. The one known surviving copy is now housed in the British Library. Harris had previously served jail time in London for publishing seditious material. After fleeing to Boston he operated a coffeehouse and bookstore, which served as a popular meeting place for political discourse, surely inspiring and informing the short-lived Publick Occurrences. He later returned to England and continued to publish without a license.

Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

The Ovens – Melters (2014) Tony Molina has garnered a great deal of acclaim over the last couple of years as some of the recordings that he made under his own name began to find their way into the hands of a larger circle of ears, leading eventually to MATADOR RECORDS. I first heard his solo stuff somewhere along that timeline leading to MATADOR, and a ways back Maxwell Parrot wrote about his DISSED AND DISMISSED record. He was also in the band VIOLENT CHANGE that we’ve written about as well, (though not anymore it would appear). I am into the straight TONY MOLINA brand of pop, and if you are too you probably should check out THE OVENS. Molina’s pre-solo band is what the record label (MELTERS) is saying about the band in reference to the X they just put out by them, spurred on no doubt by Molina’s recent success. The X is only called , and the reason that more thought wasn’t put into the name probably stems from the fact that the tracks were recorded back in 2005 by the band, but are only seeing the light of day for the first time right now with this MELTERS release. XXamounts to the fourth release by THE OVENS, a now defunct part of Tony Molina’s history, but nevertheless an amazing band for the right kind of listener. I really love this band and their music. I mean, I also love the first two Weezer records. And I also have a great story that makes the band special to me too. Wanna hear it? Check out full review on the Hassle site for my way cool story! - Dan Shea

Back To School. «Achtung, sieg heil, double time step//X more miles. //Feel the pain the blood on your feet// shouldn›t have been caught out in the street// Left in the hall without a pass//neglected to attend your class. Get in line for punishment// you›ll be buried in cement.//Your mother came home and you left, your right Nazi school, nazi school//left, right, left, no regiment or rule //Nazi school, nazi school// March to the beat, don›t be no fool. Ein,zwei, drei, vier the headmaster seeks to domineer//The lesson learned is obedience// fresh meat clings to the barbed wire fence Nobody hears, your stomachs wretch//better draw your final breath All that you hope all that you dream//nothing left but your silent scream. Your mother came home and you left your right//Nazi school, nazi school//left,right,leftthe regimental rule//Nazi school, nazi school// March to the beat, don›t be no fool

Don›t be a stupid fool! Left,right,left,right,left,right,left,right//They lock the door throw away the key//From this day on you›ll never see your family Nazi school, nazi school//left, right, left- the regimental rule //Nazi school, nazi school// Don›t do that, Don›t do that//Sieg heil, sieg heil, left, right, left, //Sieg heil, Nazi school, nazi school //na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-nazi school Nazi school, nazi school left, right, left- the regimental rule Nazi school, nazi school March to the beat, don›t be no fool Sieg heil!»// Cracked Actor - Nazi School (1982)

Monday 9/1 Monday night is outta sight, like a freak, every week. One such standby is THE SERIES, a weekly in-store at the most weirdo record store on Mass Ave. This week they have Worcester noisewurst Mickey O’Hara & his strange friend Seamus Williams making (sound) waves @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation • Down the street find Rad Castle night, the rad weekly @ZuZu, playing host to such rootsy and soulful groups as The Leveetoppers, So Sol and Old Hat 10pm 21+ free

SURPRISE if we don’t zoom out to a non-Boston show for a sec. Worry not, as there be plenty goin’ on in town, but sometimes jammings outside our city limits prove to be most most MOST intriguing. Ex: Burlington’s Tuesday 9/2

NNA Tapes (+ friends + family) present an undulating mass of brass. Pedants in the house will note the SAX is a friggin’ WOODWIND instrument, but whatever. Point is NNA’s got that terrifying pile of forced air known as BATTLE TRANCE (all tenor sax quartet, man) crumbling the very foundation of @Jenke Arts way way up in Burlington, VT w/ Greg Davis 8pm All Ages $8. Go there if you dare. It’s far • Stickin’ in town? Full- and part-time punks alike might dig upon the forward-joggin’’ likes of Vancouverites White Lung + Mormon Crosses. They roll through to play with local melodiers Sweet John Bloom @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10adv/$12drs. • Cruudeuces, Saviour Self, Alto Jeffro, Isa X @Firehouse Worcester 8pm All Ages donation • Adrian Orange (Thanksgiving), R. Ariel: Quiet Music Night @The Shop Worcester 8pm All Ages $5 • Horse Jumper of Love, Grace and the Carnivore, Gretchen & The Pickpockets, Community College @TT the Bears 9pm 18+ $9 • WFR: Con Tex & The Forgotten Jam, Billy’s Boys, Dinnersss @Midway 9pm 21+ $5

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Wednesday 9/3 One of the most solid independant residencies in town, pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS offer a fuzzy rock treat each first Wednesday. Tonight they got Middleboro garage groungers Black Beach, psych-pop blisters Underwater Bear Ballet, and blasted stoner punks Miami Doritos @Middlesex Lounge 10pm 21+ $3 • Total mix of wild shit in Central Squeeze tonight with Baby Names (dance party of a man Andy Menudo, forcing your hips to shake), Reindeer, all female rock powerhouse Shepherdess, variety show prog rock pule Planet of Adventure and Rural Squirrel (Andy Bonner of PIEBALD) @TT the Bear’s 8:30pm 18+ $8 adv/$10 dos Thursday 9/4 The subterranean freaks come out to play tonight underneath the Cantab @Club Bohemia as Boston Hassle and Open Loop do their monthly freak beat dance night SCANNERS. This installment will also act as the COMMENCEMENT RITUAL for NEU MF 2014. Featuring non-New England guests from the Czech Republic, DVA incorporating toy piano, banjo, sampling and more for a hyperactive dance attack like only those Euro fools can. Homeworld and local buds OJE11Y, W0AT, Los Greys, Nick Neuberg, Lord Nathaniel and Joey Pizza Slice all add to the alien exotica landscapes with blips and bloops to make your head all loopy 9pm 21+ $6 • Get up and go pop punk is what you’ll get with Worriers (NY), Dan Webb & The Spiders, Fucko and Notches @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $ome Cost • Dear Creek, Jad Fair (Half Japanese) and Danielson (of Danielson Family) @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12 adv/$15 dos

Boston Hassle presents night ONE of the unflappable NEW ENGLAND UNDERGROUND MUSIC FEST 14’ (NEU MF ‘14). What is this monstrosity? Well, aside from being a totally overwhelming conflagration of pummeling sound, NEU MF is a heaping fest dedicated to all the beautiful, all the weird, and all the beautifully weird music lurking below the detectable surface here in magical New England. Friday 9/5

40+ acts that span ALL N.E. states into particular pockets of pissed off shit-city punk rock, woodland-dwelling psych, freakish noise from hither and yon, coastal rock and roll without a care, and everything between and beyond that makes this little pocket of the world so special. Too many to name. Finest in the game. Scuse me while I wipe a single tear from my eye. Bask in the glory @Cuisine En Locale 6pm

ALL AGES $12-15 slidin’ • Underpass | KT Spit | Liana’s Fire | Couples Counseling @WHHHH (JP) 8pm donate • Soft Pyramids (Album Release), Dead Trains, Peachpit, and Al Marantz & The Piffs @TT the Bear’s 8pm 21+ $8 • Cayetana/Save Ends/Bundles (record release)/Matt & Adam @O’Brien’s Pub 9pm 21+ $ome Cost

Boston Hassle presents NEW ENGLAND UNDERGROUND MUSIC FEST 14’ featuring 40+ choice acts across genres, burnt into the future memory of New England. Among them: Black Pus (RI), Sunburned Hand Of The Man (MA), I’D M Theftable (ME), Rick Rude (NH), Florida = Death (CT) and Glitter Pen (VT) to name just 1 from every state. Isn’t New England great? @Cuisine En Locale 3pm All Ages $12-15 Sliding Scale Saturday 9/6

• Elsewhere in Somerville find some true outsiders making strange sounds. such as Party Waters & The College Tour [studies in how to make a woman scream], Immanent Voiceless [drones, subtle and unsubtle], Fable Grazer [accident/mutation/power struggle] and Chadley [lofi shoegaze dance jazz bass swing music] @Third Life Studio 8pm All Ages $5-10 Donation Requested • Sonorium Series: Palimpsest Duo, Magick Windows No. 3, Samara Lubelski (MI) and Firemen Have Homes In The Woods @Griffen Theatre (Salem) 8pm all ages $10 • Old Wave and many more at 4th Annual JP Music Fest @Pinebank Field next to Jamaica Pond 12-7pm • Foxfires, Mountain Man, City Limits @Distant Castle (Worcester) 8pm donation • Blue Hat, Yeah! @Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis 8pm All Ages $12

Mornin’ sunshine! Late night? Let us cast our bleary visages off to a new tomorrow today, this very morning, with some old fashioned commerce exchange for salers and bargaineers alike . The SOMERVILLE ROCK + ROLL YARDSALE featuring Sunday 9/7

Reindeer, Michael Tarbox, Chris Monti, and Keith Justin George McCurdy is happening @Union Square 11am • Lookin’ like we’ve got a str8 up triptych of trash, thrash, and tacit nods to pogo you simply mustn’t forgo with the old folks of Funeral Cone, the authoritative Power Masters, and Sediment Club stepping up to messing up in a fashion most regal @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages donations • The Double Buscemis, Reppin Hex and Hartiman @Lilypad 8pm $5 All Ages Monday 9/8 Hit it hard in Harvard Square tonight with post-nasal, melodic punk angst pros SNEEZE, local hc/punk supergroup of sorts RAW BLOW and fairly new crew Courage Cloak @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 • Down Central find Rad Castle night turning up the ambient psych of 28 Degrees Taurus, shoegazey feels of Light Foils and Private Fortunes @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free • Ron Gittens’ Long Blond Wig for The Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation • Punch (CA), Some Nerve, Shrew @Cuisine En Locale 9pm All Ages $10-12 Tuesday 9/9 As always, Non-Event is busy finding new and strange ways to bring it. Catch the sublime and sparse compositions of Akiko Hatakeyama @Café Fixe 8pm All ages $5 • For something a little more, uh, structured? divide your attencion ‘tween Chi-town’s dreamy Wedding Dress, local synthetarians Earthquake Party, and Man Diego @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $ome Cost

• Larry Owen, Janey Doe, Eggy Benedict, The Heavies, The Dead Elect, Lee Preston @O’Brien’s Pub 9pm 21+ $ome Cost Thursday 9/11 One SCANNERS per month just isn’t enough, so The Hassle and Open Loop added some Re-Scans to delve deeper in that psychedelic electronic heap. From the dark depths of North Carolina, Prolifigate whips those broken beats about with Florida’s gutpunch groover Outmode (FL) along with local techno trash heathens Via App & DJ Won’t @Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge) 9pm 21+ $10 • An eclectic rock workout awaits you in Allston with scorched earth psychers The New Highway Hymnal, wordy burly rapper Boogie Boy Metal Mouth and slip-shod punks Zip-Tie Handcuffs @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7 • The Callithumpian Consort performs new compositions by John Zorn, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Franco Donatoni, & Davide Ianni @Calderwood Hall, Gardner Museum 7pm All Ages $12-27 • Make It New @Middlesex 9pm 21+ $ome cost Friday 9/12 Step into the avant garden and absorb the sweet things that litter the forest floor. All shall remain strange and heady as ever @Church of the Advent Library in Beacon Hill tonight, where improvisarios Ricochet (duo of Steve Norton - reeds, and Noel Dorsey - voice), Jesse KenasCollins (trumpet), Dei Xhist/Matt Samolis, Tom Pisek and more keep the weird dreams a-conjuring at 8pm All Ages Donate • Riffs abound in Cambridge, where Illegally Blind sets up shop with Nik Turner’s Hawkwind, doom overlords Witch Mountain (PDX), and Hedersleben @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $13 • Josh Jefferson (woodwinds) | Tatsuya Nakatani (percussion) | Forbes Graham (trumpet, electronics) @Cambridge YMCA 8pm All Ages $12 • Drekka, Lean, space cadet fuzz, looks realistic @Firehouse Worcester 8pm All Ages Donationz • Profligate, Unicorn Hard-on, Spiritual Recess, & Craow @Machines with Magnets Pawtucket 9pm All Ages $8 Saturday 9/13 Holy Moley what a packed Saturday! We can’t possibly describe them all so you might have to do some research to find the perfect outing for you and yours tonight. Don’t be scared though, it’s within your reach. Start with an early one (2pm doors!) in Allston as Ride the Snake + Boston Hassle present The Young (Austin, Matador Recs), California X and Ancient Filth @O’Brien’s 3-6pm 21+ $7 • Then mosey over to Harvard Square for one BUFU ass show with BUFU Records recording artists Free Pizza, The Lentils, IAN, Littlefoot and Gangbang Gordon @Democracy Center 7-11pm $5-10 • THEN get over to JP where BOW Shows is throwing a sick twisted noise punk banger @The Neverland! Thrash with Lechuguillas (Austin), In Heat (Providence), Lair, Gangs (Shawnie from Bugs and Rats), 100% Black. Totally nasty show. 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale • Non-Event: JUDY DUNAWAY, INEDIT (Joe Burgio, et al), PARTY WATERS & THE COLLEGE TOUR (Angela Sawyer, Nick Neuberg, Ethan Parcell) @Washington Street Art Center 8pm All ages $10 •DJ Kon @Middlesex 10pm 21+ $10 •Lyres, Nervous Eaters Cal Cali Band, Les Envahisseurs (Montreal) @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $12 • WMBR presents Pipeline! with Baby’s Arm, Berlin Airlift, The Dogmatics, The Neats’ Eric Martin & Friends, Stranglehold, The Turbines @Cuisine en Locale 6pm •As Built presents: Elephants, Bellwire, Everything and Everyone, The Original Cowards @O’Briens 9pm $8 • Pawtuckaway Takedown Festival w/ Nat Baldwin, Joey Pratt-Kendy Gable, Tell Stories, Family Planning, Wooden Dinosaur, Paper Castles, Comma, Pile, New Legs, Rick Ride, Flat Swamp in Nottingham, NH $20 • Pleasure Leftists (Cleveland), The Ukiah Drag and Finished @95 Empire (Providence) • Kobold (Laurence Cook, percussion, Tom Plsek, trombone and Steve Norton, reeds), XBOP [NYC] (Daniel Carter, Will Arvo, Jon Roberds & Brandon Miller) and more @119 Gallery (Lowell) 8pm All Ages $donations Sunday 9/14 Whoops Whoops. That’s the sound of everyone you love stumbling through their conscious allotments, coming up short, messin’ it up, doing they thang. Oops oops. It’s Sunday, a prime time to realign. Luckily, Lawrence Krisna Parker, better known as KRS-One, is set to lay it down thick @Middle East Downstairs 9pm 18+ $20adv/$25door Woop Woop. • Over in Allston the arable waves of independent rock illuminate & liberate for the

Wednesday 9/10 If ya buggin’ for a house show with some whacky characters, reach beyond the hedges and your ears shall surely prickle to the extravagant shake down pop of traveling bamblers Tracey Trance & Savage Young Taterbug whippin processed tapes and demented guitar with some skittering sweet locals @A Spot 9pm All Ages Donate • Locally minded promoter Illegally Blind join true blue DIY label KYLAM Records for this ever-so-sick show. Featuring Mel of garbage bin bangers Fagettes, The Electric Street Queens cut rock down to size with a pure, minimal style and biting two-tone attack. They celebrate their new KYLAM release with smooth reverb rippers CreaturoS, punchdrunk sweetheart punks Nice Guys and Fur Purse @Church 8pm 21+ $8 • Andre Obin, Miss Geo and St. Nothing bliss out @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8

intimate & libate with Counters, Salem Wolves, and Rusty Shovels cranking their tunage @O’Brien’s Pub 10pm 21+ $ome Cost Monday 9/15 Monday is a GOOD NIGHT for radical music in Boston. Take for example Steve Norton & Matt Samolis surely performing some wild shit that will surely be free of all musical conventions at The Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation • Crazy sick local garage punk convention at Rad Castle night with Allston’s Nice Guys, Middleboro’s Black Beach and Boston via Laguna Beach, CA’s Dinoczar @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free • Alex Body (Iowa City psychedelic synth pop homie - tape on Night-People), FRKSE, Homeworld (Will Mayo), and Dinnersss @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm donate • Lesser Knowns, Spectral Bat, L.A. Jeff @Charlie’s 9pm 21+ $5 • Brooklyn’s Naomi Punk, Chandeliers, W Mass noise heavy rock Psychic Blood and Flat Swamp @O’Brien’s Pub 9pm 21+ $ome Cost Tuesday 9/16 Positively SICK night of diverse emotivity and driving punk stuff, psychedelic sensibility and general rockingness in the JP sector this evening as Rat Columns touch toes upon our shores all the way from Australia where everything’s upside down, so you know they got a cool perspective on shit. Boston’s Major Stars join, along with RI heavies Whore Paint, local puunnkkss Tomboy @Midway 8:30pm 21+ $ome Cost • Up nawth a ways, you can take solace in a riff or two with Black Cobra, Lo-Pan, Lunglust, Hepatagua, and Sea of Bones @TT The Bear’s 8pm 18+ $10 • Shit gets weird and stays that way @Weirdo Records in Central Sq. Go find out. •Particulars, Cellular Chaos and Steam Tractor @16hundo PA ave. 9pm donate.

Sometimes the best shows are outside of Boston, so bug your friend with the van and head out to Worcester for inimitable power duo Saralee with OJ and Ramblin’ Sal of Secret Lover @Distant Castle 8pm All Ages Donate Wednesday 9/17

• Bombastic prog maestros Ben Levin Group bring musical theatre to a new level. Muddy Wires plays processed colors, New Orleans looper Sundog plays breezy sample pop, and Cemetery Girl wraps her soulful laments in dark and brooding beats @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $ome Cost • Cellular Chaos ft. Weasel Walter get heavy with PVD shredders Whore Paint and post-punks Finished @AS220 (Providence) • Yeehaw (ft. Dylan Ewen), Vundabar, Houseguests, @TT The Bear’s 8:30 18+$9

Trimtab, a new regular series of lectures and performances, continues @Aviary with Jonathan Sterne, a professor at McGill interested in the intersections of disability, technology and perception 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Thursday 9/18

• Existence Establishment & Annihilus always brings the harsh noise and vicious power electronics, and tonight’s no exception with MK9, Omei, Whorld, Bereft and Bitchneck @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10

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Mutual Benefit and Ricky Eat Acid @Middle East Downstairs 9pm 18+ $13adv/$15dos • Ethan Marsh Comedy with Ethan Marsh @The Armory Cafe (Somerville) 9pm All Ages Free • Illegally Blind’s Boston En Masse begins with The Monsieurs, NICE GUYS, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth and Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser. In association with Bufu Records and Boston Hassle @Church 7pm 21+ $10

Boston Hassle uplifts with necessary pop doses tonight. Scott & Charlene’s Wedding are in town all the way from Australia, local longers Halfsour support, plus Baltimore janglehorses Expert Alterations @Cantab Lounge 9pm 21+ $5-10 Sliding Scale Friday 9/19

• Pipeline!, a consistently weighty WMBR vehicle with a clear focus on local goodness throws an appropriately hefty show up in Somerville with The Grambuilders, Mistle Thrush, Nisi Period, The Pods, Purple Ivy Shadows, Someone & the Somebodies, Tracy Bonham @Cusine en Locale 6pm All Ages $20 • *SOLD OUT* Allston Pudding presents Ty Segall with La Luz, BoyToy @Great Scott 9pm • Wormwood: Elder, Rozamov, Summoner, Set @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10 Saturday 9/20 Boston Hassle & Ride the Snake Records presents RTS’s 5th Anniversary show! This event will be breaking in (not breaking into) a new venue right in the heart of JP @Stony Brook Church (next to Stonybrook T) w/ Phantom Rides, Life Partners, Saralee, Foul Swoops (from DC), Halfsour, Reports and Cuffs! If you aren’t familiar with this positively CLUTCH local label here is a perfect chance to a well-rounded introduction at a brand new DIY All Ages show space. swoooon. 6pm ALL AGES $5-10 sliding scale suggested donation • Meanwhile over in Allstonia Lupine Gatherings and Boston Hassle have got metal and punk brutality twisted to and fro thanks to local crushers The Proselyte, Drunk Dad (PDX, Jose fr Protokoll/ The Mules’ band), Honduran (PDX) and Jack Burton vs David Lo Pan @O’Brien’s Pub 9pm 21+ $9 • Dirt Merchants, Fertile Virgin, The Gravel Pit, Honeybunch, Mary Lou Lord, The Sheila Divine @Cuisine en Locale • Illegally Blind’s Boston En Masse continues, in association with Vanyaland, with Color Channel, Goldbloc, St Nothing, Avoxblue and Pale Hands @Church 7pm 21+ $10

• WMBR’s Pipeline! advances their quarter-centurian observation celebration with the reuniting alt-er boys Anastasia Screamed, The Flies, punkers The F.U.’s / Straw Dogs, Men & Volts, and The Nervous Eaters @Brighton Music Hall 4pm 18+ $22 •Plus BOW Shows has It Must Be Love (mems of Gunk and Ugh God from Philly), Snoozer (Philly), Dust Witch, LAIR, NE Pats and Motel Mattress @TBD location 8pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale. Monday 9/29 Two exceptional experimental music shows at two exceptional experimental music stores tonight! How about that? Jack Wright (saxophone), Ben Bennet (percussion) & Ilan Manouach (saxophone) Trio with Hard Rugs (Jesse Collins and Keith Waters, saxophones) plus more local improvisers @Deep Thoughts in JP 8:30pm donate • And Eric Dahlman is playing The Series @Weirdo Records in Cambrdige 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation • Beyond that you have a fuckin nasty rock show in Harvard Square as ONSLO celebrate their new tape’s release with Sneeze, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, and more tba @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm $5 21+ • And the always tight Rad Castle night has got The Televibes and Wakes @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free Tuesday 9/30 Well, ya made it. It’s Tuesday. You’re fine. Hows about you go on out and find something to celebrate? The weather’s probably pretty nice right now. If it’s not, then I’m not sorry. I can’t predict the future, dude. All kinds of improv in process with Jack Wright (saxophone), Ben Bennet (percussion) & Ilan Manouach (saxophone) Trio with Hard Rugs (Jesse Collins and Keith Waters, saxophones) plus more @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages Donate! Bye.

Sunday 9/21 Australia’s Gooch Palms air out their shitpop for all attuned to next-level grooves, providing an oh so fine A ∩ B in the venn diagram that the riotous White Pages and unwavering Bummed have sketched up @O’Brien’s Pub 8pm 21+ $5 • Queerstock: a Fundraiser for Queer Women In Music – Boston, showcasing Thalia Zedek Band, Fur Purse, Kitschenettes, and the premiere all-female Queen cover

Hope you haven’t packed away your culottes with your tankinis & flip flops just yet because a bona fide tidal wave of surfy psychedelias & star-crossed pops breaks upon band Gunpowder Gelatine goes down with a raffle to boot @TT The Bear’s 8pm 18+ $10adv/$12door •

Cambridge with Trabants, Crushed Out, Televibes, and The Dazies @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10 • Illegally Blind’s Boston En Masse continues @Church tonight, in association with Allston Pudding this time. They got Vundabar, Coke Week, Cult Fluorescent and more comin atcha 7pm 21+ $10 Monday 9/22 In addition to your regular Monday offerings (Weirdo, Charlies and Zuzu) there are a handful of other must see shows tonight. Two bad we’ve only got so much room in the retina.. Anyway Fast Apple and BOW shows have got psych wonderment covered all over the heaviness spectrum with Doug Tuttle, Apache Dropout (IN), Hag Face (TX), Nice Guys and Phaze @Neverland 8pm All Ages Donate • Illegally Blind continues their sick show streak (not naked) this week with League Podcast to bring you Shonen Knife, Petty Morals and our very own SARALEE @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $15 • Michael Chapman (UK psych folk legend who released his debut on Harvest Records in 1969. Fun fact: David Bowie stole Mick Ronson from Chapman’s band!) plus more tba... @Deep Thoughts 8pm All Ages • Rad Castle night has Today Junior, Fantastic Liars and Ryan Walsh @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free • Matt Somalis @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation Tuesday 9/23 BOW Shows has a nice little guy down in JP. The kilterless yet soulful R&B of Brooklyn’s Ava Luna and their smooooooooooth as heck oddball popfriends Celestial Shores are playin’ @The Beach 8pm where there’ll probably be some other bands booked that don’t suck. The show will also likely start around showtime and cost some suggested amount of currency. Sheeeeeyit just go look at bostonhassle.com and keep your ears open. It’s gonna be fine. Don’t worry • Legendary WA drone outfit Earth are @Great Scott with their friend King Dude starting at 9pm 18+ $15 • Amethyst and Aphrolove @Johnny D’s 8:30pm All Ages $6 Wednesday 9/24 Open Loop and Boston Hassle hosts a real special RE-SCAN tonight with legendary producer of ambient and dub techno Fluxion (Greece), as well as Ricardo Donoso, vet of Boston’s experimental electronic scene, and resident mind spacer DJ Won’t @Middlesex Lounge 9pm 21+ $10 before 10:30, $15 after • Or tone it down with some mellow folk and blues from Singer-songwriter Diane Cluck, Passerine (Petersborough) and Thick Wild (NYC) @The Loft (Somerville) 8pm 21+ $5-10 suggested donation. • Mission Creep (ft Steve Norton on reeds) plays with free-improv friends @Midway Cafe 8:30pm 21+ $5 Thursday 9/25 BOW Shows and Deep Thoughts go in cahoots to host two deeply disturbed Australian noise rock bands: xNoBBQx & X Wave plus the return of locals Buttercup (Nate Ventura and Lee Halpin) & post noise blasters CHARLIE @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm donate Friday 9/26 Way out in verdant Worcester, renowned radical marching supergroup/microorchestra WHAT CHEER? BRIGADE assemble to throw down at @Firehouse 8pm All Ages Donations Plz • Non-Event is gonna make a night out of tonight, ya see, with Felix Kubin performing “Paralektronoia” and Western MA flailer Bromp Treb @Goethe-Institut Boston (170 Beacon Street, Boston) 8pm All ages $15/$10 students & Non-Event members • Super Drum Boy, Happy Little Clouds, Unstraight, Bad Movies @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $ome Cost • Psychic Dog (Record Release), Supersona @PA’s Lounge 8:30pm 21+ $7-$10 • Darklands, Burglary Years, Kiss Concert, Broads @AS220 9pm All Ages $omething Saturday 9/27 Now normally we don’t even bother listing shows that cost more than $20 bucks cause hey that’s just nutty sometimes. In this case.. you decide for yourself. WMBR’s Pipeline! continues their 25 year anniversary of celebrating local music on the radio by reuniting a humungous slew of legendary area bands. This time its freakin BARRY AND THE REMAINS (yes the same Boston band that totally rules and opened for the Beatles on their first US tour), Cardinal and The Downbeat 5. WOAH @Regant Theater 7:30pm $28-$45 All Ages Sunday 9/28 Ad hoc architects of sonorous obelisks and sentimental jams Shellshag are back in town with rock outfit California X, poppy poppy Pretty Pretty, and sasspunks Tomboy @The Beach 8pm All Ages $throw down somethin • A bulging briefcase of various sensory powers unlatches & unloads with a showcasing of metal-minded harsh noise & ambient excursions at the supple paws of Gates (Toronto), Ramlord, Sewer Goddess, Xiphoid Dementia, Eerie, and Hospital Bomber @O’Brien’s 1pm 21+ $5 For last minute shows, additions and changes, follow our Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com & on da Boston Compass FascistBook page whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there.

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• • • • • 9/4 • • • • • NEUMF SCANNERS DVA (Czech Republic), Homeworld, OJE11Y, W0AT, Los Greys, Nick Neuberg, Lord Nathaniel, Joey Pizza Slice @Club Bohemia (aka Cantab basement) 8pm-1:30am // $6 21+ • • • • • 9/11 • • • • • Re-Scan w/ Profligate (NC), Outmode (FL), Via App, & DJ Won't @ Club Bohemia 9pm. $5-10 donation. 21+ • • • • • 9/19 • • • • • Scott & Charlene's Wedding, Halfsour, Expert Alterations (Bmore), Secret Lover @Cantab Lounge 9pm, $5-10 Sliding Scale • • • • • 9/20 • • • • • Ride The Snake 5th Anniversary shows (Tomboy record release also) @ Stony Brook Church w/ phantom rides, life partners, saralee, foul swoops (from DC), halfsour, reports and cuffs! 6pm ALL AGES $5-10 sliding scale suggested donation • • • • • • 9/20 • • • • • presented w/ Lupine Gatherings The Proselyte, Drunk Dad (PDX), Honduran (PDX), Jack Burton vs David LoPan @ Obriens 8pm 21+ $9 • • • • • • 9/24 • • • • • presented w/ Open Loop RE-SCAN Fluxion (Greece) & Ricardo Donoso @ Middlesex 9pm 21+ $5-10 Sliding Scale 5

Guided Meditation

CODY PETTENGILL

by KATIE MCCARTHY

Take three giant breaths and gently lower your eyelids (but keep them open enough so you can read this). Picture this. You are standing on a verdant hill at dusk. Pink swells in the sky and the horizon is sort of... yellowy. Breathe. On your shoulder, you feel the clutch of a bird’s claws. A small yet majestic bird of green and red raises his wings and kind of gets a feather in your ear.

“Hello,” he says. “I’m Chippers and I have many things to show you. Trust in me as we take a journey to places you have yet to spiritually mine.” Feel the tiny body raise you up and float you through the night sky, releasing you from the binding of gravity kind of not really. Look, just roll with it. Above glows a giant clock in the sky with a smiling face. What time does it display? Friends is on at 8; that’s the only reason I ask. Breathe. Feel your body swing forward as Chippers swoops you down into a giant computer screen in which MS Paint is open. Feel the static electricity of information enliven you. He says, “I want you to visualize the essence of your life’s troubles. Now visualize yourself erasing them bit by bit. You can use your hand if it makes it feel more real!” Doesn’t that feel good? Sorrows dissipating pixel by pixel! But it’s time to move on. Chippers tries to lift you again but instead you find yourself dropped into an open window of Google Chrome. Suddenly, you happen upon an internet archive of Clay Aiken commemorative pins. Look! Remember the time he played in Western

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New York? Moreover, the zucchini sticks at the Holiday Inn? How many pins can you fit on your mind’s body? You can’t fit any more! You have attached them to every surface on your clothing. Can you attach pins to pins? Fuck, you don’t want the NSA to find out about this. Punk, you give yourself a hasty eyebrow pierce with the Fun Bus Tour 1999 pin and find you are suspended in two moments in time, the other being the body piercing and tattoo tent at Lollapalooza, 1995.

Scenes from an Ancient Egyptian Afterlife

And oh my god, it’s the Mighty Mighty Bosstones. Imagine you are their trumpet. Feel the joyous breath of the universe enliven you. Feel the spittle of the universe. I think that was a chunk of anchovy there. You didn’t tell me about fish allergies beforehand so I can’t be held accountable.

R IV: Father? Wow! Geez, I didn’t think I’d run into you here.

STEVEN SPIELBERG

Rowdy Hall, East Hampton, NY The summer is slow for seeing the fames out and about in the city since everyone goes on a thing called vacation (what do you guys call it up there?) I did, however, see a super famous while in the Hamptons for my amazing girlfriend’s amazing art show. I figure he is super famous enough to be worth devoting this entire column to; this super famous dude was (and I assume still is) STEVEN SPIELBERG! We were grabbing some food at a place before the opening and I was sitting with my back to dude who made Jaws (which is awesome but then maybe ruined movies forever?) when I was informed that the dude who made Jaws (but I guess he made two really great Indiana Jones movies too; sorry, Temple of Doom kind of stinks and that last one does not actually exist) was sitting right behind me. I, of course, had to get personal confirmation so I walked into the bar part of the restaurant to pretend to look at the sports on TV so I could sweep by his table and get a good look (I CAN’T BELIEVE I’M GIVING AWAY ALL MY CELEB SPOTTING SECRETS). Much to my humiliation, Steven Spielberg totally busted me, giving me the “I know you are trying to confirm that I am a famous with your pathetic maneuver and I am not just a famous but a Super Famous, so enjoy it while you can, plebe.” look while all I could do was hang my head in shame rather than reply with a look that said, “Thank you for making Jaws and it is awesome to see you in a place where there could be a Jaws. But seriously dude, stop making Indiana Jones movies. Harrison Ford looks like an angry sack of old steaks and people who wear dumb hats don’t need any more encouragement.”

Ramses IV: Where am I? Ramses III: Ramses IV? Is that you? I can’t see through all of these stupid bandages.

R III: You were the one, weren’t you? To assassinate me. R IV: Oh, come on, father, don’t be silly. Everyone knows that you accidentally fell into the Nile at the hungry crocodile spot.

Transfer your consciousness to singer Dickey Barratt’s forehead muscle. Tense with joy until you remember the time you passed gas in the middle of your first communion mass. Fuck. Humiliating. Dammit dammit dammit my butt is a stupid idiot. Tony Miles never let you forget that moment - well, until he fell into that quarry in 1988. Haha. Oh fuck that is a terrible thought to have. You are so awful. Fuck fuck fuck fuck.

R III: I see. Well then, I just want you to know that the irritated hippopotamus in your bedroom was probably a mere coincidence.

KYLIE ALEXANDER

Now release. Breathe again. Chippers tries to lift you away to a field nearby the festival. But instead he smashes you into a dump truck. Instead of dying, you become part of it. Feel the burden of debris and rock in your back as you lurch forward. Cool, you have wheels. Feel them rotate in sync with the turn of the universe. But there is something squishy under your front left wheel. You have just run over a cat. Move a little forward and dump the stuff on it. No one will ever know what happened. They’ll just think the cat ran away and didn’t love them enough to come back. You’ve been dealing with too much today and maybe it’s time to cut this off I’m so sorry I’m so so so sorry.

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PERSPECTIVES by RYAN DOUGLASS and KEIRA HOROWITZ with guest advisor KATIE MCCARTHY (we had to fill a tiny amount of space)

Need advice?

Write to Keira and Ryan: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com. Q: What is the top piece of advice you have for a person who is new to Boston? RYAN: Read the Boston Herald horoscope and dictate any and all decisions based upon the short two sentence synopsis from Howie Carr’s study of the stars. KEIRA: Look both ways when you cross the street. Trust no one. KATIE: If you are with one or more other people and you are standing on the sidewalk, leave space or move over so people can pass you. I can only assume it is different in other places, but sadly, you can’t walk straight through a human body in Boston (YET; hint, hint, MIT). This also applies to the guy I saw doing pushups in the middle of the Mass. Ave. bridge sidewalk. I wish I could have walked through you so you would have just been my hallucination instead of a real guy doing pushups in a busy urban walkway.

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Don’t Be Caught Dead Without ‘Em!!!!!!!! Q: The dude in the apartment below mine leaves our shared front door open constantly. Telling him about the crime in our neighborhood did nothing. What the fuck? RYAN: Start dating his sister. Be good to her and stay loyal. Marry her. Then never tell him the bathroom in the chapel at your wedding doesn’t lock. If he doesn’t figure it out after that, then he’s probably too dull to hold onto a lease too long and he’ll be out of your hair in less than two months. KEIRA: Forgive my assumptions, but I’m picturing your neighbor as a horrible human who argues that keeping the door closed is “not cool, man.” He owns a collection of unusual intruments, none of which he can actually play. Your safety is worth more than this idiot. Tattle to the landlord if you have the kind of landlord that is on top of these things. It also occurs to me now that maybe you are just looking for support and not solutions. There I go again, problem-solving. This guy sounds awful. What the fuck-yes! How are you feeling? Whatever happened with that other thing you were telling me about? KATIE: Put something in front of his door. Like, nothing dangerous or gross; maybe some dolls or something. Ask him if someone keeps putting dolls in front of his door because it keeps happening to you and how weird is that. Maybe he’ll get creeped out and stop? Eh, worth a shot. 

YESSSSS LOCAL COMEDY Strange Behavior (1st and 3rd Sundays) ZuZu, Central Sq., 10p, Free

TUESDAYS Standup++ (2nd Tuesdays) East Meets West, Cambridge, Free It Just Got Weirdo (4th Tuesdays) Weirdo Records, Central Sq., Free

WEDNESDAYS Wednesday Night Comedy Middlesex, Central Sq., 7p, Free Fine Line Comedy (1st Wednesdays) Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, 9:30p, $5

Extremely Casual (2nd Wednesdays) The Armory, Somerville, 7p, Free Extra Helpings (3rd Wednesdays) Milky Way, Jamaica Plain, 9:30p, Free

THURSDAYS Castle of Comedy The Armory, Somerville, 8:30p, Free

FRIDAYS The Gas Great Scott, Allston, 7:30p, $5

SATURDAYS The Mendoza Line The Dugout, BU East, 9p, $5

R III: I’ve always loved all your brothers equally more. R IV: Oh, I’ve always known that. R III: Is that why you assassinated me? Because you thought I didn’t love you enough? R IV: Oh, no. Seriously, that was an accident. You were really really drunk that night at the boat party. R III: Aha! But I bet you had an assassination under way. R IV: Nope. I was just trying my best to make you proud. R IV: Um . . . did the hippopotamus thing really happen? You tried to get rid of me?

If you’re new to Boston, ~*WeLcOmE*~! Our town has been the breeding ground for some of the most exciting and innovative comedians out there probably because it is extra challenging to make people who are sad from being cold all the time laugh? Maybe? Here is a small sampling of some of our favys. Come laugh at your neighbors.

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R IV: Oh, really? By the way, father, they never did retrieve your leg. The embalmers got a kick out of that!

R III: Wow. I guess I was wrong about you.

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R III: Well, you know how Nile river creatures are. Pretty dangerous and unpredictable. Let’s let bygones be bygones, son. R IV: I don’t know . . . R III: I appoint you my favorite son in the afterlife. R IV: Really? That’s so cool! Can I get a hug? R III: Yeah. I’d love to, son, but you know how tightly they wrap the linen nowadays. R IV: Aw . . . I don’t think we’ve ever hugged in a father-son sort of way. R III: Alright. Listen, I’m hugging you with the sound of voice. Can you feel it? R IV: Yes. I think I can. 

Things you can Do with $2 • Liiike, you could play a few rounds of Buck Hunter. • Chances are your date will ditch you early and then you will find out she collects a lot of weird dolls. • Your editor speaks from experience. • Stop using online dating sites. • Just meet someone in real life. • Anyway donate the two dollars to Boston Hassle. Boston Hassle is a non-profit providing you with this, The Compass, the best underground arts coverage in Boston. If everyone reading this donated just $2 a month, it would help us sustain and grow our arts community.

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patron21.com/users/bostonhassle FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS The Nightcap ImprovBoston, Central Sq., 11:30p, Free

TUESDAY-SUNDAY The Comedy Studio Harvard Square, 8p, $10-$12

TAKE SOME SPECIAL TRIPS!

Tuesday 9/9 at 8pm Premiere Screening: We Bombed on a Train Stadium, Quincy Center, 8:30p, free Six comics threw an impromptu show on the Red Line. You can imagine some strange stuff happened. Luckily, they recorded it. Screening followed by live standup. Saturday 9/6 at 9pm Summer’s Over, Hosers! Cape Ann Community Cinema, Gloucester, 9:30p, $10 Check some of the most wild comics in the region in this gem of a theatre that has COUCHES and also really great beer and treats. It is above Mystery Train Records. Also, fuckin’... couches. If we missed something you think should be here, just yell at us at tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com and also: sorry! :( 

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FEATURED CIN-EVENT MADE IN WEST | EAST GERMANY: WWI 9/15 - 10/1 @GOETHE You’ve probably heard that the First World War -- AKA the Great War, the War to End War, etc. -- had a big birthday this summer. Happy 100th, you old bloodbath, you! Scholars continue to debate the various timelines, the proper apportionment of blame, and the correct way to understand the conflict’s consequences. Anglos have long cast the German Reich as lead villain,

but revisionists contesting that narrative are legion. This month, the Goethe-Institut provides an opportunity to explore the sources and fallout of the 20th century’s gestalt-making shit-show as seen by German filmmakers. The six-film series - half West German, half East - focuses on psychology and society rather than strategy and tactics, and features works by Michael Haneke and Margarethe von Trotta, among others.

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OUTRÉ MONTRÉAL (1966) @Brattle dir. VERA CHYTILOVÁ 9/18, 7:00PM, @PARAMOUNT Considering the relative proximity of our city to its cool francophone neighbor to the north, we would hope for more cultural exchange between the two. There is one development in particular that has piqued our attention in recent years: Double Negative, a fully-functioning, anti-establishment collective of experimental filmmakers in Montréal. Housed until recently in the apartment of one of its founders, Daïchi Saïto, with all the requisite analog filmmaking equipment, processing chemicals, and the like, the collective has finally decided to occupy an unused city building and to host

screenings in a nearby park. When the city tried to remove their materials, Double Negative persisted and re-occupied the space. Things have progressed to a kind of truce and now the goal is to legitimize the space. We cannot wait to hear about the latest developments and to see cutting edge work from collective members and their friends, on 9/18, when Daïchi Saïto and colleague Eduardo Menz will present a program of 16mm, 35mm, and video works at Emerson’s Bright Family Screening Room in the Paramount Center. Co-presented by Balagan Films, Bright Lights, and supported by the Québec Gov’t Office in Boston, this event is FREE to the public. - Mariya Nikiforova

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE TRASH NIGHT PRESENTS: THEODORE REX (1995) dir. JONATHAN R. BETUEL 9/2, 8:00PM, $7 @BRATTLE Trash Night. The miscreants behind this monthly wallowing in cinematic filth were kind enough to answer some questions that I directed their way amid their many video research sessions in which they “prescreen out a lot of total horse-shit garbage trying to find the good stuff.” Better them than us, right? THEODORE REX is on tap for September, meeting Trash Night’s base criteria for the films they screen: “It is completely ridiculous, not entirely unwatchable, and not already well-loved.” Not sure that the love faucet will ever be turned on for this despicable 1995 Whoopi Goldberg dinosaur buddy cop turd, but you never know... and gawsh, I love Trash Night for making the case for it to be so! The gentlemen behind this monthly junk purveyor “aim to provide people with

a positive, alternative-reality oasis they can escape to mid-week.” I can vouch for their success at squeezing fun INTO the “NoCult/F-grade,” pants shit dreck they roll out every month. And they don’t just show horrible films for mocking/heckling in public (crowd interaction quite encouraged), they also insert their homemade absurdo-video collages in between doses of the film. It’s a chance to get wild and free within the confines of a respectable cinema. The Brattle even sells beer to aid you in this effort! I will leave you with some final advice from the Trash men to other weirdos & malcontents with extreme niche movie series aspirations: “Find something that interests you, start doing it, do not stop, and eventually unexpected and amazing things will begin to happen to your project.” THEODORE REX cost 33 million dollars and Whoopi had to be sued into making the movie. Trash Night. Yes. - Dan Shea

THEY LIVE (1988) dir. JOHN CARPENTER @COOLIDGE Before Shepard Fairey turned “OBEY” into a brand, John Carpenter used it as satire on ‘80s materialism in one of his most fun films. “Rowdy” Roddy Piper dons sunglasses which reveal hidden alien messages. Asses are kicked; bubble gum is chewed. Also Screens: 9/6. THE CONGRESS (2013) dir. ARI FOLMAN @BRATTLE Robin Wright plays herself in this film about a not too distant future where actors are completely digitized and taking special substances transforms the world into an animation. A kaleidoscope meditation on the dangers of perfect and total entertainment. Screens through 9/11. EXPEDITION TO THE END OF THE WORLD (2013) dir. DANIEL DENCIK @MFA A new semi-documentary from Denmark, the film follows a crew of scientists, philosophers, engineers, and artists aboard a schooner as they sift the unexplored and rapidly-melting glacial Greenlandic seas, meditating on human existence and extinction. Screens through 9/18. SPICE WORLD (1998) dir. BOB SPIERS @COOLIDGE If you grew up in the 90s, the words Scary, Sporty, Baby, Ginger, and Posh are much more than words -they’re your entire world. This Beatles-esque musical comedy proves the Spice Girls have their own hijinks. Also Screens: 9/13. AGE OF CANNIBALS (2014) dir. JOHANNES NABER @COOLIDGE It’s dog-eat-dog out there in corporatopia -- which is to say, where we live, right alongside Naber’s cynically corrupt trio of profit-hunters who occupy a series of luxury hotels in developing nations, creatively disrupting local economies and eating themselves alive.

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FILMS AT THE GATE 9/12 - 9/14, 7:30pm @CGATE FilmsAtTheGate.org One of the greatest joys I’ve ever experienced was watching my first martial arts film. I think it was RUSH HOUR 2 (2001). Don’t laugh, read on. Since 2006, the Asian Community Development Corporation has presented FREE, outdoor screenings of Kung Fu and classic Chinese films – all just a minute from the iconic Chinatown Gate. This month, three films will screen nightly at 7:30pm or dusk, preceded by a martial arts demonstration at 6:30pm. First, it’s FEARLESS HYENA (1979), directed by and starring the lovable Jackie Chan, on 9/12. Next, on 9/13, catch THE WOMAN KNIGHT OF MIRROR LAKE (2011) – the biographical story of feminist revolutionary Qiu Jin. Finally, on 9/14, don’t miss COME DRINK WITH ME (1966) – actress Cheng Pei Pei kicks butt in one of the best films to come out of Hong Kong. Take the Orange Line to Chinatown, have a dope dinner, and catch a movie under the stars. - Ari Shvartsman

ANNIE HALL (1977) dir. WOODY ALLEN @BRATTLE How does a nerdy, neurotic, overly intellectual New Yorker attract so many women? Beats me. But, Woody Allen’s biographical romantic comedy is innovative and timeless in its thoughts on life, relationships, and love of the Big Apple’s uniqueness. Also Screens: 9/3. NORTE, THE END OF HISTORY (2014) dir. LAV DIAZ @MFA Crime, punishment, and their ramifications are the themes du jour in this lauded Filipino drama. When a man commits a murder and another is blamed, the tragedy courses through many lives – including the man who got away with it. Screens through 9/6.

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CHINATOWN (1974) dir. ROMAN POLANSKI @BRATTLE

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown. Jack Nicholson stars as a private detective who gets a whole lot more than he bargained for in this classic Polanski tale. Water and politics, murder and lies… What’s not to love? REPO MAN (1984) dir. ALEX COX @BRATTLE

JOE(2011) dir. WIL27 KILLER LIAM FRIEDKIN @HFA A clan of Texans scheme to have their mother killed in order to collect her insurance money. Unfortunately, a corrupt lawman you DO NOT want to trifle with makes things complicated. Director in-person. ARYANS (2014) 28 THE dir. MO ASUMANG @GOETHE

While surveying the history of Aryans and “Aryanism” -- both in actual fact and in the fanatical perversions of myth-hungry demagogues -- Asumang confronts notorious racists, interviews real-life, mild-mannered Aryans, and sets various records straight.

A young Emilio Estevez and a grizzled Harry Dean Stanton star in a bizarre mix of science fiction, comedy, and social commentary centered around a mysterious car trunk that vaporizes people. Awesome, right? LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF (2004) dir. THOM ANDERSON @BRATTLE This legendary, long-unavailable film documents the history and character of the City of Angels, by way of clips from the hundreds of films that use it as a backdrop. Finally getting a proper release after a decade of legal purgatory! Also Screens: 9/15.

5 (1997) dir. CHRIS 18 LEVEL MARKER @BRATTLE Seventeen years after its initial release, yet somehow right on time, LEVEL 5 finally arrives stateside and proves to be a characteristically elusive and compelling meditation, semi-fictional in nature, on video games, virtuality, and the Battle of Okinawa. Screens through 9/28. ROCKS IN MY POCKETS 26 (2014) dir. SIGNE BAU-

MANE @MFA The first feature from this Latvian animator is a funny story about depression. Placing hand-drawn characters onto photos of paper-mâché sets, Baumane (who narrates and sounds strikingly like Isabella Rossellini) creates a world that would be at home in the Codex Seraphinianus. Screens through 10/2. WAYNE’S WORLD (1992) dir. PENELOPE SPHEERIS @COOLIDGE The movie that made us believe in DIY journalism and the spirit of rock n’ roll. Grow out your hair and tune in to the show: Wayne’s World! Wayne’s World! Party time! Excellent! Party on, Wayne. Party on, Garth. Party on, Boston. Also Screens: 9/27. SORCERER (1977) dir. WILLIAM FRIEDKIN @HFA A giant of 70s “New Hollywood” filmmaking, Friedkin followed up his classics THE FRENCH CONNECTION and THE EXORCIST with the blueprint for the modern international thriller—all with a soundtrack by Tangerine Dream. Director in-person.

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NEW RELEASES (NOW) - THE ONE I LOVE (2014) dir. CHARLIE MCDOWELL @COOLIDGE (9/12) - A MASTER BUILDER (2013) dir. JONATHAN DEMME @KENDALL (9/19) - LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM (2014) dir. RORY KENNEDY @KENDALL (9/26) - TAKE ME TO THE RIVER (2014) dir. MARTIN SHORE @KENDALL LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Chinatown Gate - CGATE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Goethe Institut - GOETHE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Paramount Theatre - PARAMOUNT Choice Spot - SPOOKY-CORRAL

sik fliks playing outdoors through october @SPOOKY CORRAL

9/3 DOUBLE FEATURE: Grey Gardens & The Beales of Grey Gardens 9/9 DOUBLE FEATURE: Back to School & Ferris Bueller’s Day Off 9/20 MIDNITE MOVIE: Dr. Strangelove 9/30 DOUBLE FEATURE: The Bride Wore Black & Last Year at Marienbad

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sam Potrykus MANAGING EDITORS Caitlin Kenney, Ari Shvartsman, Dan Shea, Katie McCarthy LAYOUT TEAM Rose Parry, James Staub, Anya Kanevskaya, Mona Maruyama PRODUCTION MANAGER Jay Mobley CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Patrick Maloney, Ciara Wright, Amit Yehuda, Ellen Adams, Stephen Hrycenko, Ian Matthews, Sam Malabre, Ipek Cav, Peter Kazantsev SHOW BLURBS Chris Collins, Zach Peckham, Anthony Richards ART BLAST CONTRIBUTORS Scout Hutchinson, Dana Maple, Caitie Moore FILM FLAM CONTRIBUTORS Oscar Goff, Sydney Kinchen, Matthew Martens, Mariya Nikiforova (Boston Viewfinder), Alex Schab, Charlie Thaxton, Pablo Torroella TARDY EAGLE CONTRIBUTORS Christine An, Chris Braiotta, Nick Branigan, Patrick Bryant, Keira Horowitz, Angela Sawyer, TD Sidell COPY-EDITORS Ben Potrykus, Jonathan Donaldson

Jamaica Plain A neighborhood of Boston. Whether you have lived in the Boston area for years, or whether you're just walking on these history-filled streets for the first time, there's much to do, and many neighborhoods to explore all around you. Fall is coming though, and it is no doubt followed by winter, so if you can appreciate wearing a single layer of clothing and the things that you can do in such while out of doors, then now is the time to act. Your opportunities are on the wane. With this in mind why not pay us a visit in Jamaica Plain? I say us, as I've lived in this neighborhood on the Orange Line for years, and while we have volunteers from all over Somerville, Brookline, Cambridge, and Boston, it is Jamaica Plain that birthed the Compass and the Boston Hassle more than any other. Grab a sandwich, or some Little Lad's popcorn @ one of the 2 City Feed markets, or Harvest Co-op markets in JP. Then order some ice cream, made with dairy (JP Licks), or not (FoMu), to maw on while you take in the open sight lines of Jamaica Pond, or the tree filled paradise of the Arnold Arboretum, or the urban parkland of Franklin Park. The Milky Way's pizza, Deep Thoughts for records, Video Underground for movie rentals (?!?), the Midway and many house venues all over for shows (grab a flier, ask a weird or a punk). And movies in the woods? Or so I hear... JP. Visit, and get sucked straight into the black hole of wonderful. - Dan Shea

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