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The Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and Marathon, known together as Boston SciFi, is an 11-day cinematic event held at one of those reel important film institutions of ours, The Somerville Theatre from February 6th to the 16th. This month’s edition marks the 40th anniversary of this odyssey, the oldest genre fest in America. I still feel my nose wrinkle in disbelief at the freakish dedication to freakdom this landmark event stands for. The significance of SF40 goes well beyond the sci-fi realm. The fact that Somerville Theatre (and The Orson Welles before it) are willing to host such a large batch of imaginations in this special way speaks to the potential for legitimate institutions to work with independent thinkers and artists of all types. Arrangements like this are all too rare but they do happen, carving out a wedge of the pie (11 days in this case) for us true believers. The closing portion of Boston Sci-Fi is The THON, a 24-hour-long group binge on far-out flicks, new and old, carefully chosen to provide a flow conducive to heavy viewing of paranormal and futuristic cinema. Surround this big, historic screen with hundreds of fans, blankets, aluminum hats, and a full circle rotation of coffee, beer, popcorn, soda, and coffee, and you’ve got yourself a very unique experience. The THON is all about vigorous appreciation. It is a rare comingtogether of minds to celebrate their amusements and expressions in such a complete way. The existence of such an event is avocation advocacy in and of itself. It is recognizing the relevance and even gravity of discovering life’s simple pleasures in art, music, film, sleeping out on the sidewalk to be first in line, what have you, and occasionally getting drenched in them. - Sam Potrykus

Liquid Art of America

House, and Being

Rob Collin’s Glimpse a Better White Ally

HASSLE BRIEF & PURE IMPACT..........PAGE 3 Human Plenty,

Bodies, G.L.O.S.S, Burnt Ruth Garbus & more.

Envelope, Lower PI: Video Filth

HERE BE THE SHOWS......................PAGE 4-5 EYEHATEGOD, Jaw Gems + World Cup, Herbcraft, Ariel Pink + Jack Name and a ton more

THE TARDY EAGLE.................................PAGE 6 Where the Comedy At, Oscar Buzz, A Drawing of a Demon, Tru American History and more

FILM FLAM.............................................PAGE 7 February is for Masters Lynch, Kubrick, AND Cronenberg; a Long Lost Film; and Sci-Fi Marathon!

COMICS.................................................PAGE 8 King Fu Video & DVD’s relation to Boston’s underground hip-hop scene & art for your eyeballs

The Boston Compass is produced by the BRAIN Arts Organization Email us at ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com Visit us online at www.Brain-Arts.org

Local Experimental Group Deleuzer Very Active, Rad

Somerville Winter Farmers Market, Every Sat. til March You lucky Somervillains have local produce on lockdown every Saturday from now through March over at the Center for the Arts @ The Armory from 9:30–2:00. They’ve got an epic list of vendors including farms, bakeries, wineries, cheese companies and a rotating cast of characters selling specialty items and services. Make sure to grab a Life Force Juice while you’re there and remind your body of what it really craves. Curious about the market? Peruse www.SomWinterMarket.org and explore their interactive map to find out who’s there and when. Buy food from the people who helped grow it, for your sake and our planet’s. - CEEK

Filmmaker Mak es fART A screenplay I’ve developed is moving toward production. It’s about a Northeast US community created by a Jewish messiah. Pork becomes unregulated food & a black market springs up. Some teenagers discover they get high by drinking pigs’ blood & inhaling each other’s farts to have out-of-body experiences. They discover pictures of people “huffing” simultaneously, their feet coming together in a swastika. Have they uncovered celestial illumination or are they in a losing battle with God? We need actors, crew, & lots of production people. Anyone can apply. Send an introduction, portfolio (as needed), & resume to lukejumes@gmail.com. - Luke Jumes

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Boston OG Supriya Gunda has been ripping it up on stage with Hats & Glasses, Thousands, Bent Shapes, and Lost Twin for years, but Casually Defying Physics, recorded by Justin Pizzoferrato (Thurston Moore, Speedy Ortiz, Krill) represents a landmark of sorts. Her first official solo release under the DigiPOW moniker, it’s a perfect introduction to her songcraft, with titles like “béla bar talk” and “kill whitey,” as well as excellent drumming by both Emmett Jefferson “Murph” Murphy III of Dino Jr. and Cynthia Koch of Lost Twin/Sweet John Bloom. Read a full review and have a listen on the Hassle site! - Ben Potrykus

Western Mass Scene Report Franklin County, Massachusetts, neighbor to Northampton and Brattleboro, VT, has been undergoing some exciting changes. At the nexus of Turners Falls and Greenfield, the zone has been hosting more quality independent arts events than ever. At the TF Brick House Community Center, Mike Jackson and the board have been setting up shows for Palberta, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Chris Weisman, Bromp Treb and loads of others. Across the river in Greenfield, Scott Seward (John Doe, Jr. Records) and I are running a series called JDJR that will soon see Caethua, Taboo, Father Murphy, Killer Bob, Frank Hurricane, and Little Howlin’ Wolf just to name a few. Franklin County also excels in other areas: nature, food, drink, shops, affordability, so please visit! - Matt Robidoux, Dept. of Tourism

Look at the shows page. Now back to me. Now back to the show page. Did you notice all those kind and wonderful supporters of the Compass on the sidebars? Our volunteer-run, non-profit rag runs EXCLUSIVELY on those support spots and we need your help feeding the beast! You find local businesses and events that want to promote themselves, we put these pages in your hands monthly. If you’re studying advertising or marketing we can offer internship credit (plus real-world experience and good times). Interested? Open up your Googlewebs and write us at thatbostoncompass@gmail.com. - Harrison Bralower

How about a head trip? Boston has a world-class experimental jazz community, and you shouldn’t miss a chance to see one of its best ensembles. Deleuzer wraps up a residency with a show 2/1 @Washington Street Arts Center (321 Washington St. near Union Square in Somerville). Abstract strings, horns, electronics all improvising together, showing off extended performance techniques and playing pieces written especially for them by local composers. Then on Feb. 25th the band heads out on tour to Hadley, MA; Philadelphia; Baltimore; Washington, DC; and Providence, RI. Don’t miss ‘em! - Angela Sawyer

FUNKE AT FORTY: Fashion Drenched In Funk

A wiser man than myself once said, “Fashion is fabric’s lovesong.” Soon after, he was fired from his job at Banana Republic. Come 2/13, the good people @40 South St. (JP’s premier vintage boutique) are aimin’ to prove that poor man right. From 3:30 - 8:00 you can stop by and squeeeeeze into this hot spot for smooth tunes jockeyed by local great John Funke, sexy drinks, and sailin’ sales. Last-minute shoppers/boozers/movers/shakers can stop in for Valentine’s Day Eve bargains. What better gift for a lover than a maroon corduroy smock or a pair of decommissioned bowling loafers? Be there, baby. - Wheat Pullman

Prefab Messiahs back with New Record after 30 Years! This March 10, Burger Records/KLYAM will be putting out the long awaited new release (10”/cassette/CD) from Worcester neo-psych kids, the Prefeb Messiahs. Not so much “kids” anymore — but still ever-youthful as evidenced by the ageless Kris “Trip” Thompson (he of 1,000 Boston shows) — the Messiahs recorded this new joint with fierce fans/friends Doug Tuttle and Jesse Gallagher on the top floor of the Lilypad building before mixing it at singer Xerox’s homestead in rural New York. A lot of love and years in here. Don’t miss them 3/19 @The Middle East (upstairs). - Jonathan Donaldson

2/8 SOUPER BOWL 7 @Haley House Bakery Café Holy helpers HALEY HOUSE ask us to grab a bowl at their annual fundraiser for their South End Soup Kitchen that has been handing out home-cooked food to those in need since 1966. For $35, you select your own handmade ceramic bowl to keep (via MassArt’s Clay for Change program) then use it to sample soups from 12 top local chefs. More than a dozen bus lines go directly to Dudley Square (including the 1, 10, 42, & 66), so take one of ‘em on Sunday 2/8 from 2–6 PM to get fed and support the cause. Read more about MassArt’s Clay for Change program on page 2. www.HaleyHouse.org - CEEK

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If you look at the end of our show listings you will find the show submission deadline for next month’s issue. It’s there for you, the show throwers and goers. It’s the Compass’ north star, guiding you with its naturally occurring brilliance toward ultimate exposure to the freak-base your event is designed to stimulate. Don’t take your eyes off it. Let it remind you to solidify that date, book that last band, finalize that venue, have a poster made by that artist friend of yours, and submit your show all in time to get it printed (and possibly blurbed) in your city’s show paper. - Sam Potrykus

MONDAY

12:30pm [Artist Talk] SMFA faculty Bill Burke and Bonnie Donohue @SMFA

WEDNESDAY

11:30pm [Artist Talk] Christopher Mir @Montserrat College of Art, 23 Essex St, Rm 201 (Beverly, MA) 12:30pm [SMFA Lecture] Four Visitors: Moving Image Mati Diop @Alfond Auditorium, MFA 4-9:45pm Free After 4 Wednesdays @MFA // Every Wed 6:30-8:30pm [Reception] Béla Kalman: Paris et Provence @French Cultural Center (Back Bay) 2/4-3/2 7:30-9:30pm [Panel Discussion] From the Archives @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)

/[Writing Workshop /] How To Be A Better White Ally With Your Words (And Actions) @ A S 2 2 0 Performance Space 2/4, 8-10pm If you have a brain and believe racism to be wrong, then it’s your duty to get familiar with terms like white privilege, white supremacy, and systematic/institutional racism. It’s easy for anyone to take what they have for granted, that’s not being white, that’s being human. But we’ve reached a point where ignorance can’t continue and those who are unaware of contributing to this type of oppressive mindset need to be made aware, and held accountable. Accountability is the name of the game here, folks. This workshop - which is geared towards anyone interested in writing or speaking out against racism - is about fighting it by educating each other on racism’s everyday antagonists and updating our own vocabulary as writers. Hop on the commuter rail to Providence and bring some of your writing to share. www.AS220.org -CEEK

FRIDAY

7pm [Performance] Action Kits @Mills Gallery, BCA (South End) 2/23-4/5 7-9pm [Artist Talk & Reception] Likely Stories: paintings by Boriana Kantcheva @13 Forest Gallery (Arlington) 1/16-2/20 7-9pm [Reception] Joanna Tam: Standard Practice @ Schlosberg Gallery at Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 2/6-3/5 7-9pm [Artist Talk & Reception] Christopher Mir @ Montserrat Gallery at Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 2/2-2/6

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Iceland native Katrín Sigurdardóttir displays two of her most recent projects @the MIT List Visual Art Center. Her architectural sculptures play with the viewer's perception of space and scale, blending real locations with the abstraction of memory. In her project Ellefu, she uses miniature, abstracted interior renditions of her childhood home, noting how our memories are often hard to pin down. The project Unbuilt Residences in Reykjavík, 1925-1930 uses unrealized architectural drafts of houses to then destroy and build back together. This perception-bending show is on view through 4/12 and isn't to be missed! -Krystle Brown

FRIDAY

7-9pm [Artist Talk & Reception] Adam Miller @Montserrat Gallery at Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 2/9-2/13

SATURDAY

10am Valentine’s Day Book Sale @BPL (South Boston)

/[Graphic Novel Tour / Joel Christian Gill's Tales of the Talented Tenth @Lesley University (Porter Sq) 2/17, 10am New Hampshire-based writer/artist/historian JOEL CHRISTIAN GILL is telling true tales of unknown black pioneers in his graphic novel Strange Fruit and his series Tales of the Talented Tenth. These books are filled with inspiring verbal and visual narratives that are as engrossing as they are attractive, with his dynamic color palette keeping the brain happy. These are stories of African Americans throughout the years fighting against slavery and racism to become something more than they were told they could be. Grab a coffee and a copy and start your day off with something to motivate you. www.FulcrumBooks.com -CEEK

/[Reception]/ Seven: A Performative Drawing Project @Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) Every Fri 7-9pm, 1/12-2/27

WEDNESDAY

' /[Opening Reception /] KATRIN ' SIGURDARDOTTIR: Drawing Apart @the MIT List Center (Central Sq) On view 2/13-4/12

Sheila Pepe, Brandon Walker & Rebecca Doughty @Carroll and Sons Gallery 2/2-2/14

11am-5pm Valentine Boutique & Jewelry Fair @StoveFactory Gallery (Charlestown) 12-6pm A Little Bazaar: Love Buzz II @Mill No. 5 (Lowell)

TUESDAY

11:30am [Artist Talk] Nick Criscuolo @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6pm [Workshop] Getting Started in Business @BPL (Copley Sq) 6:30pm [Lecture] Stefan Sagmeister @Morse Auditorium (BU) 6:30pm [Curatorial Tour] Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict @SMFA Now-3/7 (Fenway) 6:30-9:00pm [Film Screening & Discussion] Please Don't Eat the Daisies @New Art Center (Newton)

Larry C. Volk: The 4 Questions & Jill Weber: New Paintings @Bromfield Gallery

SATURDAY

Head to the SMFA to hear PEN awardwinning poet STEVE DALACHINSKY read from his collaborative project with artist Sig Bang Schmidt, pieces of which are featured in the SMFA’s ongoing exhibit, PERMANENT WARS: THE AGE OF GLOBAL CONFLICT. Dalachinsky lends his sparse, devastating words to Schmidt’s digitized, colorized images of World War I, together creating haunting narratives around the war that was supposed to end all wars. Dalachinsky’s poems are sure to be even more moving when read out loud, so get there early and prepare for heartbreak. -Sara Selevitch

suNDAY

12pm [Colloquium] Elio Rodriguez - Corridas y Venidas @Thompson Room, Barker Center (Harvard)

WEDNESDAY

6:30-8pm [Panel Discussion] Think and Drink Series: What's Disrupting our Traditional Understand of: Race @Space Gallery (Portland, ME)

THURSDAY

5:30-6:30pm [Class] Ways of Looking: Contemporary Film & Video @New Media Gallery (RISD) // Free w/ registration

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/ Poetry Reading /] Steve Dalachinsky @SMFA 6:30pm

6pm [Panel Discussion] Voices Beyond Bondage: An Anthology of Verse by African Americans of the 19th Century @BPL Central

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4-5pm Free Writer's Workshop @Annex Room, AS220 (Providence)

[Pop Up] Gross Girls @Find & Form Space Ésxatic Photo @Samson Projects Now-2/28

Calling all drawing enthusiasts! Interested in more than just what artists are making? Come and see how seven diverse artists work! These artists will be spending a week each, using one of the seven walls in the gallery as their canvas; redefining a wide variety of mark making in their processes. The “open studio” atmosphere will be as exciting for the artists as it is for the viewers. www.Montserrat.edu -Hanah Perduta

SATURDAY

3-6pm [Opening Reception] Leah Piepgras @HallSpace (Dorchester) 2/7-3/14 5-8pm [Reception] Under Astral Skies @555 Gallery (South Boston) Now-2/14

THURSDAY

10:30m [Workshop] Thursday Morning Sewing @BPL (Allston) 5:30-6:30pm [Reception] The Way THURSDAY We Live Now, Modernist Ideologies at Work @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard U.) 2/5-4/5 6-8pm [Grand Opening] BFA Alumni Exhibition @Lunder Arts Center, Lesley U (Porter Sq) // Registration Required 1/29-3/22 7-10pm Art Is Life Itself @Haley House Bakery & Cafe (Dudley Sq) // Every Thurs

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LIQUID ART HOUSE

A hand-blown Murano glass chandelier floats above the circular bar. A graffiti mural serves as its backdrop. The walls are covered with art from around the world, there is a lounge dedicated to rotating design installations and nearly everything FRIDAY 20 you see is for sale. From your plate to the walls to the furnishings and light fixtures, you’re constantly 5-7pm [Reception] Timothy Bouldry: A Landfill Life @ taking it all in -- truly a feast for the eyes. Welcome Marran Gallery, Lesley University 1/19-2/22 to LIQUID ART HOUSE, the Back Bay’s new hybrid 6-8:30pm Pity Party @New Art Center (Newton) art-gallery-restaurant-design-showroom. Its slogan? 7-9pm [Artist Talk & Reception] Mark Hoffmann @ “Eat your art out.” Montserrat Gallery at Montserrat College of Art (BevL.A.H. was founded by former Wall Street investerly, MA) 2/16-2/20 ment banker RUTA LAUKIEN (once a Wall Street SATURDAY investment banker), who came up with the concept 21 while in law school. Fifteen years later, Laukien 9am [Opening] BPL’s newly renovated Central Library turned her attentions away from investment banking @BPL Central (Copley Sq) and focused on her passion for art, food, design 1-3pm [Reception] The Invented Landscape: Paintings and entrepreneurship. Her team consists of awardby Nancy Sableski @Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall, winning chef RACHEL KLEIN (Top Chef’s Stacy Arnold Arboretum (JP) 2/21-5/29 Cogswell also recently joined the kitchen), designer 5-7pm [Reception] It Was Pretty Violent: New and reDARTAGNAN BROWN and art director SILVI NACI, cent work by Caitlin Duennebier @Thomas Young Galamong others. lery (Southie) Now-2/21 So what makes L.A.H. different from any other restaurant with art on its walls? Well, a lot. Along Wide Angle Vision: a glimpse of america with rotating exhibitions, the space features live art @Orchard Skate performances and pop-up shows. But the real trick is Shop (Allston) Open- in creating a fluid dialogue between exhibition, menu ing 2/21, 8-10pm // and atmosphere. Just as in a well-prepared dish or a painted canvas, all elements complement each other 21+ Head to Allston for a without overwhelming. “As we rotate the exhibits here,” says Naci, “I cross-country skate trip with local photog- work with the chefs and bartenders to curate menu rapher/skater ROB items that will reflect the artwork on display.” Each COLLINS. This past member of the team takes a cue from the pieces summer, Collins and that adorn the walls and rework their interpretahis brother packed up a tions into special plates and imaginative cocktails. car and hit the road for Naci describes the process as a “seamless dance,” in which all elements maintain a precise but exhilarat7 weeks, shacking up ing balance. with friends and cruisRead the rest at BostonHassle.com/Art ing cool skate destinawww.LiquidArtHouse.com tions along the way. Sites aside, it was the people -Scout Hutchinson he encountered that affected him the most. This show is a current view of America most of us probably won’t get to experience, so catch it while ya MASSART’S CLAY FOR can — especially, if you haven’t been to Orchard’s CHANGE PROGRAM gallery yet. PBR aplenty. 21+ www.OrchardShop.com Kudos to MassArt’s CLAY FOR CHANGE program -CEEK which uses student-made pottery to help feed the MOnday hungry. The idea behind their “Empty Bowls” initia23 tive is that they donate beautiful handmade ceramic 12:30pm [Artist Talk] SMFA faculty Claire Beckett and bowls to a community organization that works to Ken Hruby @SMFA fight hunger, then guests make a cash donation to eat some soup and keep the empty bowl. All proceeds WEDNESDAY 25 go to the org. 10am-5pm [Artist Talk] Joanna Tam @Montserrat ColThis month, it’s happening over @Haley House Baklege of Art (Beverly, MA) ery Cafe in Dudley Square on 2/4 from 2-6pm. Only 12:30pm [Lecture] Four Visitors: Moving Image - Ernst $35 for a handcrafted piece of pottery and soups Karel @Alfond Auditorium, SMFA (Museum of Fine from some of the top chefs in town? Nice. All $35 Arts) goes to Haley House’s Soup Kitchen, a safehaven for the hungry and homeless since 1966? Even nicer. 5:30-8:30pm [Demo] Hollywood Fashion Design @ -CEEK Classroom 159 (MFA) // FREE After 4 Every Wed

FRIDAY

7-9pm [Artist Talk & Reception] Nadia Westcott @ Montserrat Gallery at Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 2/23-2/27

saturDAY

[Artist Talk & Reception] Susan Lyman: The Body of Nature & Julia Shepley: Locus @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) 2/25-3/29

ONGOING LISTINGS Now-2/14 CHROMA @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) Now-2/19 Chora @Fort Point Art Community Gallery Now-2/20 30 Under 30 @Arsenal Center (Watertown) Now-2/21 Two Spaces in One - Bridging the Distance @La Galería (South End) The Song Cave: Boston @Kijidome (South End) It Was Pretty Violent @Thomas Young Gallery (Southie) Second Selves @The Distillery Gallery (South Boston) Boston Does Boston @Proof Gallery The Power of Negative Thinking @NAC (Newton) Chuck Holtzman @NAC (Newton) Now-2/27 Jamie O’Neill: Between the Lines @Lot F Gallery (Downtown) 2/23-4/30 Berlin Walled @Liquid Art House // 5pmmidnight

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CALL TO ARTISTS & CURATORS: The New Art Center (NAC) in Newton is accepting public proposals for their CURATORIAL OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM. This chance to put together your own exhibit offers you some admin/marketing support, a stipend and their 2,500 sq-ft gallery to put up a show. Deadline is 4/6. Go to www.NewArtCenter. org for all the details... If you haven’t been to Portland, ME you’re a fool and should take a $20 bus, make a day of it. Actually, make it 2/18 and catch the first installment of this year’s THINK AND DRINK discussion series over @Space Gallery. Each month, the community is invited to grab a hard drink and have a tough but necessary discussion with a panel of pros. This month’s talk is on What’s Disrupting Our Traditional Understanding of: Race. 3/18 is Authority, 4/15 is Art and 5/20 is Gender. All events are FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. Why isn’t Boston doing this? www. Space538.org

Another trek out of town that seems totally worth it: LADYFEST HAMPSHIRE IV. This estrogen extravaganza is happening 2/14 & 2/15 over @Red Barn, Hampshire College. This has been going on four years strong and promises skillshares, live art, music, performances, discussions, exhibits & more. Live free or die, ladies. -CEEK

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On NO LIFE, demoniac local trio HUMAN BODIES follow up on their initial demo with a six song, twelve minute gut punch of grimy hardcore punk-influenced black metal insanity. The recording here is a bit better than their previous demo and the songwriting has improved somewhat as well. The style hearkens back to classics like Darkthrone but with a grinding, noisy aesthetic that’s much more in line with the modern basement show scene than just a carbon copy of something from the 1990s. Short and not very sweet, NO LIFE exudes a raw, ugly and downright disturbing blackened punk ethos. There are no punches pulled and no quarter given in this blasphemous and bile-filled EP. The songs, short though they may be, are extremely dynamic, especially when the tempos change up a bit on tracks like ‘Covenant’ and ‘Exhibitionist’. The winter solstice may now be behind us, but let’s not kid ourselves here: the northeast will continue to be a cold, dark and inhospitable place ‘til pretty much April. NO LIFE is exactly the right kind of soundtrack for the soul-sucking icy months ahead. Turn it on and rip it up! -John Bittrich

RUTH GARBUS JOULE EP

The hardest, toughest, meanest hardcore punk demo of 2015 may already be here and it’s femme, trans-inclusive and queer as hell. G.L.O.S.S. (aka Girls Living Outside Society’s Shit) are based in Olympia and feature members of some old Boston bands including Parasol and Peeple Watchin’, but the sound is much fiercer and noisier and more explosive than anything either of those bands ever accomplished. The G.L.O.S.S. demo is pure hardcore rage, sometimes leaning d-beat, other times more classic US hardcore, with lyrics that tackle, headlong, the simmering frustrations of being a genuine outcast. While these frustrations are sometimes born of normal “straight” society (the desire not to be “straight and repressed/emotions grotesque/ready for war and the cubicle desk”) they are just as often a product of the macho, male-dominated DIY hardcore scene itself, with lyrics declaring that “the straight male canon is a royal bore” and “trendy mutant skinheads can jerk themselves off”. Let me be clear on this point: none of this seems like a gimmick, and it doesn’t feel in the slightest bit like an attempt to be confrontational to draw attention to their band. The sentiments ring as honest and true as any I’ve heard in a long time and the music will draw plenty of attention on its own. Their shit is FUCKING TIGHT. It would be a great first statement from a hardcore band comprised entirely of straight, white boys. But it’s an INCREDIBLE first statement because it isn’t that at all. -John Bittrich

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OSR TAPES (2014) Gently intoxicating. Know this about RUTH GARBUS’ latest record, JOULE EP, and really, all of Ruth Garbus’ music, ever. This daughter of Brattleboro, she does not court attention of any kind, in the grand tradition of the denizens of Brattleboro. And yet they, and she, do not toil away inconsequentially. No. However, maybe you find out that they released a record (online album/ 7") some 8 months after they actually did so. Maybe. Garbus is one of the quietest performers I have ever seen play, so remember when you mob her next live performance: be quiet, ok? But on record? On record, the “studio of our minds and her imagination” has her back, and her songwriting soars above our/your head, and there’s some whistling, and pitch shifted guitars, and you’re all like, “Bedroom pop, wasn’t that the 90s? But Syd Barrett happened in the 60s?” And yet here is Ruth Garbus. Here she is. “Hippies cash flow is strong, Stopped at Walmart just to buy a bong” How does Ruth know what I’m thinking? Why won’t she give us more than 5 songs? Ruth, if you are going to make 5 songs that creep the corridors of my mind, reminding me of good memories all the way through. If you are going to make 5 songs that my whole family: my wife Meg, my son Zachary, myself, that we can can all enjoy. A 5 song album that ends with a fantastical guitar bliss-out called ‘June’, and that features quite possibly the New England underground pop song of the year in ‘Certain Kind.’ If you are going to do that, you are going to be leaving a whole bunch of people wanting more, because I can’t be the only one! So, totally, on my end of year lists (that I just posted). Happy 2015. Also available as a 7" on the potent OSR Tapes. -Dan Shea

BURNT ENVELOPE is one of the many projects of W.Mass’ Tony Pasquarosa (SQRM, World Domination, Crystalline Roses, etc). In a similar vein to his Gluebag project, Burnt Envelope plays punk influenced in part by both classic rock and folk rock. ALIEN NATION: COLLECTED SINGLES THUS FAR collects 14 of these tracks, from seven unreleased singles by the band. Covers of tracks by the likes of The Doors, Lazy Smoke, and The Ramones (a particularly great cover of ‘Poison Heart’) give you an idea of what you’re in for. The nearly spoken vocals and hazy guitar give these songs a feel somewhere between campfire songs and lo-fi bedroom punk. Again, the only real comparison that comes to mind for Burnt Envelope is Gluebag, only more intimate and chilled out, although there are moments that sound like they could be from the spacey psych-punk of a World Domination track too. While KBD-punk should be viewed as a frame of reference for this music, these projects’ overlap and multiplication show an immensely personal vision built more on an evolving musical cosmos than the influences and traditions they grow from. These may or may not still be available from Tony on his new label Burnt Out Tapes. -Chris Defalco

SELF RELEASED (2015) LIFE/THRILLS BEDROOM SUCK RECORDS/ MEXICAN SUMMER (2014) It’s no big secret that Australia has a mean music community, one that consistently surprises. Exhibit A: Melbourne-based LOWER PLENTY. Named after the Melbourne suburb, this quartet is comprised of members of other great Aussie acts UV Race, Deaf Wish, Total Control, and The Focus. But unlike those aforementioned groups, Lower Plenty takes a turn away from the harsher, aggressive towards something softer but no less impressive. Here, the band’s brand of folk rock is sleepy but poignant, their compositions a shambling mass of soft whistles and steady strumming, arranged in beautifully disjointed patterns. Their latest release LIFE THRILLS, being brought to the US by Mexican Summer via Brisbane’s Bedroom Suck Records, is a minimal but impactful album, one that sets out to prove that few instruments can be transformed into large sound. The songs are composed primarily of steady, rambling acoustic guitar and a medley of quiet percussion. This lends a kind of unraveled feel to these songs, as if once the instruments and vocals were put together they were then deliberately unwoven. This gives the album a lightly frazzled and meandering tone, every song initially heading in one direction only to get lost and wander off in another. ‘Lower Plenty’ capture the kind of erratic emotions that inspire the lyrics to these songs. In contrast to the quirks of the instrumentation, the vocals are more straightforward. With throaty and warm voices and harmonies, the songs achieve the sentimental and nostalgic mood one could savory for hours. Keep surprising us, Australia. -Mary Kate McGrath

Somewhere, beyond the western reaches of commuter rail, sits a haus of unquestionable importance that marks perhaps the most distal grasp of Boston’s underground scene. This is the DISTANT CASTLE of Worcester, and in celebration of the artists they’ve hosted, and will continue to into the new year, they’ve dropped a comp of fresh tracks–mostly from Worcester artists– to ring in 2015. LIVING AFTER MIDNIGHT 2015 includes bands you’ve likely heard of, like Worcester’s own Secret Lover performing the brutally honest ‘Sometimes Wine Becomes My Lover’ along with ones you haven’t, like Granny Frost (also from Worcester) doing their weird-fi pop tune ‘Golden Opportunities’. Of course, it wouldn’t be a New England comp without a dose of some doom, provided by (but not limited to) tracks from Eaten, OJ, Tremarche, The Terribles, SET, and Talchemist; and some unexpected peculiarity, provided by A. Reid in ‘Harriet Hemenway’s Bird Report,’ which is, remarkably, exactly what it says it is. Rounding out this comp is a fitting tribute to none other than Polar Seltzer (‘I Love The Way U Sparkle’), perhaps Worcester’s most recognized export. It’s a multi-layered, multi-part, and most importantly, weird, treat that’s representative of this collection of tracks as a whole. The lesson? Those of us who live in Boston might be too quick to characterize Worcester as a cultural dead zone. Cheap rent and post-industrial grit does wonders for keeping the DIY ethic alive. Living After Midnight makes a strong case for us Bostonians to embark on a leftmost train this year and visit our musical brethren in a land far, far away only in Massachusetts terms. Though, the bus is probably cheaper. Keep an eye out for a cassette edition in February. Meanwhile, download it for free on Bandcamp. - Sarah Moylan

Shadrach Minkins was born into slavery in Norfolk, VA circa 1814. On May 3, 1850 he escaped his enslavers and fled to Boston. There he found refuge in the free black community on Beacon Hill, a job waiting tables at Taft’s Cornhill Coffee Shop, and support from the Boston Vigilance Committee, founded in 1841 to “secure to persons of color the enjoyment of their constitutional and legal rights.” Meanwhile, the Nation and its leaders polarized around the issue of slavery. Following Mexico’s surrender to US armed forces in 1848, the newly acquired Southwestern territories promised to upset the balance between Free and Slave States. Fearing an opposing political majority would threaten their rights and interests, each side braced for civil war. To avert such disaster Congress passed the Compromise of 1850, a bill that made concessions to both North and South regarding slavery and the new territories. The Fugitive Slave Law was a controversial provision, which mandated that Northern authorities and citizens aid Southern slave owners in recovering their missing property. The Boston Vigilance Committee criticized the Fugitive Slave Law as a Federal imposition upon State’s rights, and for being immoral and unconstitutional. Blacks accused of fleeing slavery were not entitled to a fair trial, nor was any proof of ownership required for arrest, simply the word of the slaveholder. Furthermore, penalties for aiding fugitive slaves or for refusing to cooperate with authorities were severe, including stiff fines and prison sentences. Despite the dangers, the Vigilance Committee published articles, distributed pamphlets and hung broadsides throughout the city criticizing the law and warning blacks and their allies to be wary of the police. On February 15, 1851 US marshals apprehended Shadrach Minkins while at work, arresting him to the nearby courthouse to await his return to Norfolk. The Vigilance Committee was quick to the scene, surrounding then occupying the courthouse with an angry mob, overrunning the marshals and stealing Minkins away in the melee. Minkins hid in a Beacon Hill attic until he was safely smuggled aboard the Underground Railroad to Montreal where he lived free for the remainder of his days as a husband, father and barber. President Millard Fillmore was livid over the insurrection in Boston, sending in the National Guard to cap mob violence and enforce fugitive slave captures. The President demanded that the Vigilance Committee be condemned for Minkin’s escape. Nine members were indicted but charges were dropped against seven before trial. The remaining two defendants, black Abolitionist attorneys Lewis Hayden and Robert Morris, were tried for treason. However, both men were acquitted by a Boston jury resentful of the military occupation, and unsympathetic to the Southern slaveholder and the Federal effort to preserve a Union at the expense of the principle of Liberty. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

**NEVERMIND THE FROZEN NORTHIT’S PURE IMPACT!** The Punks are fucking settling in! Tucked away in their frozen bunkers, mending their gear and preparing for the thaw. The buzz around the block is that KROMOSOM will be paying a visit on their East Coast tour this Spring with Boston by way of NH/Cape Cod US D-beat masters ASPECTS OF WAR. SYMPTOM is in the process of recording their debut ep. The DESTROY POSERTON lp international Punk/HC comp compiled by Rufio of Life Is Posers and co-released by Total Fucker/Smash Arts will be hitting the streets later this month!. POGO AND WORK is still running strong the last Sunday of every month at Zuzu as is the weekly PUNK NIGHT Tuesdays at Ramrod in the Fenway! Cheers! VIDEO FILTH Members: Sweet Brian: Vocals Sour Brian: Guitar Lester: Drums Storm Cloud: Bass Influences: UK Punk, Totalitar, Japanese Hardcore. Lyrical Content: Reptilian overlords, the ruling class, being seen but not being able to see them. Releases: We have a demo tape out. Future: Play some more local shows, do a tour and an ep. Closing Statement: Video Boys out!!!!!

What Up & Welcome to this simulacrum of a life in which you have earnestly engaged. We applaud you & laud you for taking to our tactile imprint to guide you left, right, or center of where your stately being longs to let loose day after turgid day, eve beyond listless eve. Furs up, Sunday 2/1

us Boston Hasslers present to you Jerry Paper’s jauntily layered pop tunes, Jayyce’s upbeat digital treats, Trophy Knife’s chirp-riffs and Luxardo’s exotic intrigue (which were incidentally engineered to sound two degrees east of dope when played simultaneously), and DJ Spencer Gilley @Industry Lab 8pm All Ages 8pm $ome cost  Gravity wins and everything must come to an end. Diminish yourself to a level more palatable, or at least flammable, in the name of the Viking-styled funeral that is to set forth as “One or Two Things,’ the monthlong residency of experimental noise ensemble Deluezer, comes to a close @Washington Street Arts Center 8pm All Ages $ donate  RAW unitarian MEETinghouse ~ a meeting of the Mark Johnson appreciation society ~15 minute sets. 5 minute breaks. RAW VIBES ~ featuring (in alphabetical order): Cave Bears, Company Fuck (Australia/ Germany), Gordon Marshall (poet laureate of the world), MTNSHRK, A. Campbell Payne, Andrea Pensado, Preggy Peggy & the Lazy Babymakers (Angela Sawyer, weirdo), Stupidiapersoftime, Nate Ventura and Waxy Tomb @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM sharp All Ages $5 donation Monday 2/2 You know what they say, noise will be noise. Or is it noise begets noise? Either way this Monday is SOLID if you like to listen outside the box. Check out a nice mix of digital, analog, electronic and acoustic experimentation from Allston’s Solid State Entity and W00dy, area weirdo ensembles New Language Collaborative and Fable Grazer, plus Terra Friedrichs and Somerville’s Mike Stand Productions all @Midway Cafe, 8pm, 21+, $5  Rad Castle Presents an open mic with a mission: INVITED MIC will feature “wide open” solo sets from homies you usually see kick it filthy and furious in gnarly band gangs. But who will really be there? Only one way to find out, be @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free  MIDI-EVIL: Ancient Origin at The Series @Weirdo Records (weekly in-store!) 8pm All Ages $5 Suggested Donation Tuesday 2/3 The Midway Cafe in JP is cool. Tonight, in a series and as part of a series, it has guitars. Czech it: First You’s Day 4 w/ Harmoos, Dark Rodeo, Absolute Paradise, The Forgotten Jam @ The Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5. Rock bands. Bands that rock. K?  Deep in darkest Berklee, a couple of NYC songwriters bare their wares in the shape of Anthony D’Amato and Michaela Anne @Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $10 adv/$12 door  LOUD NIGHT: Punk DJ Night 10pm 21+ @RAMROD 1254 Boylston st. Boston No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs Wednesday 2/4 Swing over to Providence and pierce the veil with a night of twisted post-punk featuring top creeps Cottaging, shred slimers Finished, Buddy’s Boys and processed noise spelunker Sunk Heaven @Dusk 9:30pm 21+ $5  Sludge yourself with some industrial metal stew courtesy of Ammonia Booking and Crossroads Presents. New Orleans longhairs EYEHATEGOD grind the proverbial meat with Boston screamers Sexcrement and Salem’s LIVVER @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $20adv Thursday 2/5 Have you visited the Gardner yet? This lovely gem of a 19th century mansion and museum features an impeccable collection of art throughout the ages, a classic garden in bloom year-round, and the occasional live performance. This evening features piano studies and live electronics from Paavali Jumppanen, Jeff Means, & Hans Tutschku @Isabella Gardner Museum 7pm all ages $5-15  Take your garage pop, add a fair amount of power and a whole lotta dirty pickup, and whattaya got? a fun time, that’s what. Keep it sweet and trashy with Laika’s Orbit, Salem Wolves, Grave Ideas, Julius @Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $8  HEAVY GRIPPERS: Chandos, Charles, Spook The Herd, Are We Elephants? @Re  A MELLOW BREEZE: Semicircle, White Violet, Lilith, People Like You @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8

Friday 2/6 Without romance, this stupid life would be unlivable. Get out from under despairrocks and head to Somerville where Keynote Company presents wistful rockers Alex G, Teen Suicide, Palehound and Daphne @Cuisine En Locale 8pm All Ages $12 adv/$14 doors. Bring your smoochin’

shoes  If you believe in life after song structure, then they’re lookin’ for ya in Central Squre: drone and experiments via Molt Corps, Patrick Emm, My Brother Daniel @Mobius 8pm All Ages Donate  INDIE ROCK TRADE SCHOOL: Sidekicks, LVL UP @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $10  FUZZ N STUFF: The Dead Trains, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Idiot Genes, People Like You @TT the Bears 9pm 18+ $10  FORKFUL O’ FOLK: Damn Tall Buildings, The Western Den, Nemes @Cafe 939 8pm all ages $8 adv/$10 door/$5 Berklee students Saturday 2/7 This Saturday is like a miniOlympics of underground shows... for one night... in Boston. Whatever dude, just check out this musically diverse batch of shows that are taking over our city (whether they know it or not) in a GOOD way this evening. Ya know, come to think of it.. there are often 4-5 killer shows at reputable venues on any given night around here. Your city rules, deal with it.  Weirdo Records Turns 6 - the birthday party of a beloved record store. This blowout celebration will feature an eclectic mix of performers that are undervalued by buzz words like “poetry” “jazz” “comedy” and “noise.” They are: Matt Chaves, Wes Hazard, Ethan Parcell, Ethan Marsh, John Paul Rivera, Eric Dahlman, Katie McCarthy, Terence Pennington and Seamus Williams. Let’s just call it entertainment that doesn’t suck @ HI Boston Hostel (19 Stuart St in Chinatown) 8-11pm All Ages Donate  HASSLE NIGHT is a monthly commitment. It’s a monthly promise to the community that the volunteers of Boston Hassle make,

“Yo, we will put on at least one sick show a month, every first Saturday at Lilypad, and it’ll be thoughtfully curated and put on with good vibes in mind.” Tonight is kind of an odd, blissed-out sayin’

pop kind of promise featuring at least a remote possibility of meeting some other New England freaks, which is exactly the point: Grape Room (supertroupe from Brattleboro featuring Peter from Great Valley plus frickin’ Luke and Nehemiah!), plus The Lentils (XHJFB) and a rare duo set from our satellite soul siblings Secret Lover (Worcester) @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  AL IS STILL ILL: Al’s 55th Birthday Extravaganza w/ Dropdead (Providence, with special guest SIEGE drummer Robert Williams, performing Siege songs with the band for the final time), Fuck You Pay Me, Shattered Silence, Stranger and 1 TBA @ Elk’s Lodge 6pm All Ages $10  SICK SHOW/FLICK: Park Slug presents Nick Pagan, Hanna Silverstein, Nicholas G Ward, Eric Schermerhorn (Fax Holiday) then DJ set by Crisis Actor VISUALS? MOVIE TBA and free food and drinks (while supplies last!) @Industry Lab 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation  DARK NIGHT AT DARK SITE: CORROSION: A Goth, Industrial, and Power Noise, EBM and Synthpop Club Night With: DJ Brian L and DJ Devil’s Advocate @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 21+ $5 before 11 $10 after 11 Sunday 2/8 Get your holy swerve on in All-ston w/ the provincial Pudding presenting a taste-in-ashowcase of their hott new Localz Only Mixtape featuring the verby lite pop of Palm Spring Life, some bucking beats from Horsehands, and a synth bath drawn by Wolf Blitzer. And let me tell you, il fait chaud. Il fait tres chaud. @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8  Climb in the club house down south in Providence to peep the plinkity bleeps of Samantha Vacation and Wilted Woman, the tapestrial electronics of Jahilyya Fields (NY) as well as DJ Container @Aurora (PVD) 9pm 18+ $8  Music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Schumann performed by Paavali Jumppanen, Jeff Means, & Hans Tutschku @ Isabella Gardner Museum 1:30pm All Ages $ome cost Monday 2/9 It’s Monday so appreciate those WEEKLIES won’t you? One is THE SERIES, the weekly in-store at beloved bastion of bizarre @ Weirdo Records where its proprietress Angela Sawyer will join beard-wearin’ western Mass men Ted

Lee (Feeding Tube Records, Zebu, Curse Purse) and Arkm Foam (Peace Loving, Canada Goose Tapes, Bang Bros) in a trio called TOUCH SENSITIVE that is sure to freak your zone in the best way possible 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation  Another is RAD CASTLE night @Zuzu. This night is more restrictive in some ways but more free in other ways.. This week they have KLYAM involved so expect a barrage of garage from The Fagettes, Fire Retarded (from Madison, Wisconsin, featuring members of The Hussy!), Miami Doritos and Gangbang Gordon 10pm 21+ donations accepted  PRE-VALENTINES RnR PARTY: Pioneer Valley Pioneers, White Pages, Triple Thick and Crooked Mirror @Charlie’s 9pm 21+ $5 Tuesday 2/10 I feel stupid in public. Here’s the best show happening in the entire state: OJ, Ski Mask, Buttercup, Ursula @Distant Castle (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $ donate  The art of Asha Tamarisa seems to barrel over every hill of of A/V, sound, movement, and concept in its journey through technology and existence. Non-Event has her @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5  INTERNATIONAL DREAM MACHINE: The Mary Onettes, Alex Calder @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $9  LOUD NIGHT: Punk DJ Night 10pm 21+ @RAMROD 1254 Boylston st. Boston No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs Wednesday 2/11 When you’re sick of that rehashed ‘EDM’ slop and ya yearn for something with a bolder taste, take the stairs to the proverbial basement with SCANNERS, Boston Hassle and Open Loop dungeon dance party. Feel steamy jungle pounce vibes of Providence’s L. Lewis, the minimal crunch tonic of Berlin’s Wilted Woman, psycho-sweet slicer Isakleksr plus resident DJ Won’t chopping up the the sound waves @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale donation  Contemporary jazz takes many forms, and its experimental spirit is alive and well in JP this evening with the sultry smooth stylings of Wendy Alembic, the absurdist storytelling wobble of Preggy Peggy (Angela Sawyer), sonic gymnasts Every Kim Parcell (tour kick-off; feat. members of Cowboy Band, Particulars), and the mysteriously flippant Sacred Clowns @ Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5  CHORD RIFF HEAVEN: Pet Sun (Canada), Lesser Knowns, Tyler And The Names, LA Jeff @ O’Brien’s 8PM $8, 21+  SURREAL ELECTRIC TWISTER: Steve Norton & Andrew Neumann @ Lilypad 8pm all ages $ome Cost  GYPSY JAZZ PEDDLERS: Rhythm Future Quartet @ Regattabar 8pm all ages $20 ($15 students) Thursday 2/12 Boston’s favorite party punks Nice Guys celebrate the release of their new EP “Chips in the Moonlight” @Cantab Lounge with fellow snarling garage raunchers The Monsieurs, Baltimore barn-burners Slow Jerks and dark wave riders Black Beach. Presented by Illegally Blind and hosted by one Jamie Loftus 9pm 21+ $8  New Hampshire show-throwing experts Salty Speakers keep Portsmouth weird. Prime example: hosts a night of bare emotion and interlocking chords with Mass rollercoasting dog rockers Palehound, folkish sad swooners Little My, Pseudomonas and the debut of Teratoma (NH) @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8pm all ages $ome Cost  BROODING DOOMERS: Grayskull Booking presents Downfall of Gaia, VYGR, Upheaval and SEA @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 adv/$10 dos  GHOSTLY DANCE DRIP: Beacon, Lord Raja, Grammar @ Great Scott 9pm18+ $10  CELLO WORKOUT: Neil Heyde performs works by Lachenmann, Xenakis, Sculthorpe, Gorton, & Bach @Harvard Kirkland House Junior Common Room 4pm All Ages $ome cost Friday 2/13 It’s Friday night and I feel alright. How do you feel? How about this? Looker, Electric Street Queens, DJ Just Joan @Milky Way Time 9pm Ages $7  If ya dig vintage threads, then head to 40 South Street’s Valentines Eve party this afternoon. 20% off all clothes, 3rd item half off! A sexy punch will be served and there will be M.A.D. sales for you to leverage in impressing that “date” of yours tomorrow. The venerable DJ John Funke presiding @40 South Street (JP) 3-8pm All Ages

There is no better cause going then a benefit for SMASH IT DEAD FEST which is a weekend of shows, readings, and workshops that raises money for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. Support the shows that make the fest (coming next month!) possible. Punks and rockers alike come together through grassroots mobilization to help a good cause and take a stand against oppressive behavior and inequality everywhere, it’s righteous. Plus the organizers just book all the raddest bands like FLEABITE // DISCIPLINE //and PHANTOM RIDES // Have fun and respect one another! @Lasthaus 7pm All Ages SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com Donate Deep! March Submission Deadline 2/19 Saturday 2/14

With the vagaries of nature at play, one can only invest existential stock in so much. D&Ts aside, plan for heartache and roommates’ dishes atop an assurance of something to do tonight. Illegally Blind curates a pow-

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erhouse roster of Boston pops including a band, Abadabad, the saintly solo St. Nothing, soft collage duo Skinny Bones, and the hey-could-ya-take-alook-at-this slow-burning electro-itch of The Symptoms @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm 18+ $10  An evening of whack circuitry and tensile frequencies hails true with an animated and heartfelt cloacal kiss on the cheek from Turners Falls’ Bromp Treb, a digital bilgescape a’woven by Luke Moldof, presentations prepared by the simply ungooglable Pool and Horoscope, and Joey Molinaro kicks off his Sunday shoes in favor of a footwear conducive to his clomp-along, bow-a-song interpretation of the chaotic good that is grindcore @Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket) 8pm 18+ $5 (before 9pm) $8 (after 9pm).

Monday 2/16 Totally tight and unexpected (at least to this show compiler/blurber) bill @Midway tonight with way-out Dead-worshipping noise degradation group The Forgotten Jam, Portland Maine gang Great Western Plain, Kassie Carlson (of GToss) and freakish beat ish HOMEWORLD 9pm 21+ $5  Old school soul + futuristic funk = contemporary jams with that everlasting spunk. You can blame JAW GEMS for that. This Portland crew will wow you, serving beats prepared live, with their hands, hold the jive. They return to Rad Castle night @Zuzu this evening to get with groove dealer World Cup who plays the drone card so smooth you won’t even notice it slipping down to the dance floor from up his sleeve. Plus truly fat synth-pop from CONDOR. So zip up those dancing booties and get out there already, you fresh young thing 10pm 21+ Free  And forget me not, Compass, for I am The Series @Weirdo Records and, although speech usually escapes me as merely the name of an in-store performance every Monday night in a towne called Cambridge, you give me a voice and I have something to say: “Come over and see local yet out-there jazz ensemble Grizzler get down with fellow veteran improv weirdos (and in all likelihood Grizzler members, at least for the evening) Duck That! featuring an array of actual duck calls and anything in the room they coerce by mouth to behave like a duck call. 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation

Tuesday 2/17 Here’s a thing. Just for you. Eye Design + Bob Records present Rye Pines (EP release), Nice Guys, Zip-Tie Handcuffs and Something Sneaky @Middle East (UP) 8pm 18+ $8. Done. Easy. Bye.  LOUD NIGHT: Punk DJ Night 10pm 21+ @RAMROD 1254 Boylston st. Boston No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs

Open up those doors of perception and experience top notch psychedelia in a kaleidoscopic array of tempos and hues. Maine drifters

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Herbcraft lay down the mellifluous, meandering folk drones while flowerpower dazed-chainers Soft Eyes (NH) keep that twinkle in your drowsy eyes and pedal-heavy rhythm grippers Creaturos shred endlessly, all washed in beautiful visuals by Wax House A/V @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate

Thursday 2/19 Educate yourself on the people’s history of labor and the factory. Labor activist Joey L DeFrancesco explores the relationship between slavery, early capitalism, child workers, and the resistance and solidarity of the workers in early 19th century America. The lecture is followed by a unique performance by WORK/DEATH, inspired by the Great Textile Strike of 1934 and incorporating machinery sounds @Slater Mill (67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02862) 7-10pm all ages $9  If ya missed em in Boston last night, do yourself a psychedelic favor and drive out to Florence in western Mass to enjoy the shimmering astral folk drones of Herbcraft (ME), hypnagogic heartbreakers Soft Eyes, lysergic trippers Black Sky and New York’s Pigeons @13th Floor Music Lounge 8pm $6 for 21+ / $9 for 18+  DARK & UNSETTLING: Itasca, Tropical Rock, more TBD @186 Carpenter (PVD) 8pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  HIP-HOP HEART ATTACK: Dre Day 2015 feat. Granite State, Human Speakers, Jamal Cooley, Cody Pope @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost

Friday 2/20 I like rock ‘n’ roll as much as the next stooge, but this show is something else entirely. RTT Presents and Boston Hassle bring you: Reports (10 year anniversary), Halfsour, Laika’s Orbit and Mark Robinson @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $8. You’ll like it, come on  Post-structural explorations exude from a place on Beacon Hill, as thingNY, Matt Sharrock, and Patchtax duke it @ Advent Library 8pm All Ages $ome cost  WEIRD SHIT, SOMEWHERE ELSE: Picniclunch, Baylies Band, Nodule, William Contois +1 TBA @The Hangar (New Bedford, MA) 8pm All Ages Donate!  BEAUTIFUL, CRUSHING NOISE: Labor History + Work/Death @Slater Mill (67 Roosevelt Ave, Pawtucket, RI 02862) 7-10pm all ages $9

Saturday 2/21 Ariel Pink is chill and all, and we do suggest you go see him play at that huge place @The Paradise. Just be certain to catch JACK NAME play before him. We’re talkin’ wicked eclectic low-fi pop and rock straight-up simple and ever-so-twisted, he makes it sound easy. Honestly, it wouldn’t be as much the shit, tho, if it weren’t for those dangerously catchy-ass jams he’s pummeling in, with pleasing choices in timbre, fidelity and styyyyyyyyle, so pay close attention to those. Originally called MUZZ go find the Jack Name’s tape LIGHT SHOW on discogs and float to a cooler place from wherever you at. 8pm 18+ $17 But really though, fuck Live Nation affiliations.

Wicked radical party BREAK THE CHAINS returns to do a number on your hip, heart and soul. Tonight this semi-monthly, all ages, all gender, all genre liberation dance party will feature The Shondes (Brooklyn, NY), Evan Greer and Friends (a rare electrified full-band set from Boston’s own genderqueer riot-folk troubadour), garage rocker Hailey Wojcik (Brooklyn) and Myriam Ortiz and Friends (local Puerta Rican singer/ songwriter and activist) leading revolutionary singalongs in English and Spanish. PLUS a dance party DJ’d by DJ DayGlow of Pink Noise! @Make Shift Boston 6pm - 10pm All Ages $10-20 sliding scale suggested donation for the touring acts. No one turned away or given dirty looks for lack of funds. Youth, low income, etc. SERIOUS WEIRDOS: Non-Event 

presents Rene Hell, Blevin Blectum, Howard Stelzer @Goethe-Institut 8pm All Ages $ome undetermined cost  CROSSTOWN RIFFAGE: Streight Angular (Single Release), The Nickel and Dime Band, Horse Jumper of Love, Arlen, Baxter Hall, w/ Monty’s Lobster @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10  ATA-HOUSE: Sun Young, Al Marantz & The Piffs, Big Buck Hunter and Stumpf @Jim’s Deli (downtown somewhere idk, fu) 7pm All Ages Donate  ROCK INDIE-ED: Foreign Tongues, Vitamin Sun, In Angles (New Jersey), Tiny Fractures (Members of Native Wildlife/Paper Skeletons, first show!) and Bad Actors (members of Juneva, first show!) @The Monkey Palace 8pm All Ages Donate!  JUST NASTY: Fucking Invincible (ex-Voices Forming Weapons), Gaskill (Old School New Bedford Crossover), War Emblem (PA Hardcore Fuckups), V-Sect (Your Old RIX Friends’ New Band) @Gallery X (169 William St. New Bedford, MA 02740) doors at 5 show at 6 all ages $8 sliding scale

Sunday 2/22 I’m sure you’ve endured a long and varied phase of Aquarius and are looking forward to what celestial bull may come next. These paltry few days have brought numerable offerings but none as effed as what Wormwood Joint evacuated unto a paper bag and set aflame upon thine front porch. Check SoCal’s Retox, fuzz’d slackers Whores, PVD’s unflappable deafeners Fucking Invincible, and hometown heroes I Am Become Death @Middle East 8pm 18+ $10  Also, heads up, I watched Sleater Kinney being interviewed by Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the creators and stars of Comedy Central’s Broad City. Listen, if you know the band you’ve already got tickets. Allow me, as a male identified fuck, to beg your pardon and crave your indulgence when I suggest that Broad City is everything you ever wanted but never got out of Girls. It can be both a veritable feast for the senses and largely too real. Phone, Keys, Wallet. Remember it. Oh yeah, Sleater Kinney is @ House of Blues 7pm All Ages $o Much

Armed with super wicked (read: evil) and challenging electronic tendencies Providence’s Lucy Lewis continues to stomp all over New England and the North East with Germany’s Wilted Woman. Tonight, and for a Monday 2/23

handful of dates they’ve also teamed up with NY noisenik Nick Klein plus TinnitusTimulus and Automatic Lover, all @Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket) 9pm 18+ $5  Rad Castle knows how many days there are in February, so even though its only the 23rd they made sure that this month goes out with a bang. And with Blinders, Psuedomonas and Minidresses, it ain’t no thang. It’s dreamy pop-rock goodness is what it is @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Tuesday 2/24 Here’s that American primitive/ comedy/noise show you was lookin’ fer: Boston Hassle presents Hurricanes Of Love, Little Howlin Wolf, Illusions Of Porpoise, and Preggy Peggy @Hostel International (downtown) 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale suggested  You guys like Pile right? Pile and (New England) Patriots @Great Scott

9pm 18+ $8  LOUD NIGHT: Punk DJ Night 10pm 21+ @RAMROD 1254 Boylston st. Boston No Cover/ Free Pool Downstairs Wednesday 2/25 Dying for something different? Never fear, for this surreal show has just appeared, featuring four acts that resist easy characterization: Rob Jacobs of Chicago nu-trance devotionalists Wei Zonhgle goes solo, diving into the deep end of the pop format for a true transcendental trip. NEC-bred italo-lounge ensemble Tredici Bacci laugh at the devil (and release a new record). Vermont atomic pop outsider Ryan Power explores the dark side of sensuality, and - whats this? - the return of spaghetti western deconstructionists Cowboy Band @A Spot 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale donation. Email us for the address!  You know that saying, “Those that can’t do, teach”? Rock N Roll Community College aka Berklee School of Music lets its teachers outside the classroom for Writes of Spring - no, not the 80’s emo punk band but an annual showcase of professorial talent @Berklee Performance Center 8pm All Ages $12 Thursday 2/26 BOW Shows presents a night of strange and wonderful music. Trumpet player and electronics aficionado Forbes Graham leads his Ensemble into uncharted territory along with Maine’s atavistic symbolists Taboo, itinerant trailblazer Nate Ventura (mem. Buttercup) and Providence wildmen Suicide Magnets all adding to the thick and misty psychic atmosphere @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Suggested  Awesome Brunswick, NJ punk label Don Giovanni is taking their bands on a tour of the states and tonight they stop in Boston thanks to RTT. Diligent and industrious heavy hitters Screaming Females dice it up with DC’s Priests, Wisconsin’s Tenement and Vacation ripping it up @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12  ROCKING IT RIGHT: Salty Speakers presents Rick Rude, New Legs and Lady Bones @Red Door (Portsmouth, New Hampshire 03801) 8pm all ages $ome Cost  OPERATIC FLUIDITY: Opera Humanities Seminar: Brigid Cohen (NYU) presents “Yoko Ono’s Fluxus Operas” @Davison Room at the Eda Kuhn Loeb Music Library (Harvard) 5pm All Ages Free Friday 2/27 Did you forget there’s a whole rest of the state? It’s OK. You can make up for it by lurching your corpse over to the utterly ripping XFest 2015 featuring Steve Norton, Flandrew Fleisenberg, Matt Azevedo, Scott Prato and Mia Friedman @Gateway City Arts (92 Race Street, Holyoke MA) 9:15pm All Ages $ome Cost. Duh  If ya wanna make a to-scale model frontier town outta mud you gotta start with the dirt. Murder By Death and O’Death @Paradise Rock Club 8pm 18+ $18 adv/$24.50 dos

HASSLE SHOWS

Bodies Of Water Shows are up to their old-ass tricks again. They’re putting up post-kraut spazzn-shout duo LAIR at a crib in their own hood, but just for the night. It’s more about showing Turn To Crime from Detroit a good time. These dudes will be churning out hazy psych garage in a way that few venture to do around here. And then there’s Andy California (of Tunnel Of Love and The Monsieurs). This despicable turd crawled out of the ass of the blues, forced through Time’s rectum with only his sickeningly catchy songs to protect him from the plumbing department. The world is his toilet bowl, and tonight it’s overflowing with rad jams @The Womb 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Saturday 2/28

2/1

Jerry Paper, Jayyce, Luxardo, Trophy Knife and DJ Spencer Gilley DJing btwn sets @Industry Lab 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale 2/7

HASSLE NIGHT

Grape Room + The Lentils (Brattleboro) and Secret Lover (Worcester, rare duo set 1!) @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 2/11

SCANNERS w/

L Lewis, Wilted Woman, Isakleksr and DJ Won’t Visuals by LSDV @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate

 Damn near around the corner in Allston, MA show throwers Eye Design have brought together the local sickness of Bent Shapes, Chandos and FUCKO to host Charity Bliss from NY. All told, you will be left wasted from these dudes’ catchy, energetic and crunchy rocking at you all night. @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8  STRANGE WITHIN RANGE: Boy Harsher, Granny Frost, Sam Gas Can @ Distant Castle (worcester) 8pm All Ages $donate  IF THE SHOW FITS, WHERE IT?: Coach & Sons Olde Time Family Booking Presents Posture & The Grizzly, Brightside, Yeehaw! and Born Without Bones @ Wafflehouse $5-10 Sliding Scale For The Touring Bands  EXPERI-(MENTAL)-ENCED: Open Sounds presents Christine Wright, BOLT, Lou Bunk, & The Unified Field Quartet @Third Life Studio 8pm All Ages Donate!

2/20

RTT and Boston Hassle Present REPORTS 10 Year Anniversary show w/

Halfsour, Mark Robinson and Laikas Orbit @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $8 2/24

Hurricanes Of Love, Little Howlin Wolf, Illusion Of Porpoise and Preggy Peggy

Show Submission Deadline: 2/19 For last minute shows and changes check out the Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com and follow us on Fascistbook. Whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there.

@HI Boston Hostel 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

BOSTON comedy!!!!!

THIS MONTH’S SHOUTOUTS: (Both of these shows are FREE. However, you

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WEIRDO is 6

SATURDAY 2/7 AT 8PM

Hi Boston Hostel 19 Stuart St., Boston More info at weirdorecords.com Come celebrate our favorite lil record shop’s 6th birthday party with comedy and music! Let standup comics Matt Chaves, Wes Hazard, Ethan Marsh, John Paul Rivera, Katie McCarthy, and Terence Pennington guide you to laffs. Let Ethan Parcell, Eric Dahlman, and Seamus Williams guide you to the sick sounds.

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TUESDAY 2/10 AT 7PM

The Center for Arts at the Armory 191 Highland Ave., Somerville More info at unscenecomedy.com Host Christa Weiss flips the usual gender ratio in comedy in this monthly standup showcase, but that’s not the only thing that sets it apart—the lineups are stacked! This month includes headliner Kate Ghiloni, and features Mariel Cabral, Christine An, Tooky Kavanagh-Martin, Ted Pettingell, and Thom Crowley. PSSST WANT MORE LOCAL COMEDY? Here are some places on the internet that The Tardy Eagle trusts: • unscenecomedy.com/shows • reddit.com/r/bostoncomedy • thecomedystudio.com • andersoncomedy.com

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Remixes

to “Ignition (Remix)”

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It’s the remix to obstetrician pregnant lady physician giving you some advice before your baby’s emission

It’s the remix to my kitchen I’ve remodeled my kitchen Everyone will be jealous Of my remodeled kitchen

It’s the remix to Rich Nixon klepto campaign tactician after Watergate broke resigned of his own volition

It’s the remix to commission to allay your suspicion no one will ever believe it was controlled demolition

It’s the remix to mortician cryogenics technician we’ll be freezing your body death is only remission

It’s the remix to your position a period of transition we’re shaking up this department you don’t have any ambition

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the Tardy Eagle’s Historical Speeches of Import series

Ronald Reagan AT THE 7-11

RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA JULY 3, 1996, 3:12am (transcription by katie mccarthy) I’ll take 2 scratchies—your pick, buddy— and this fudge cube, please. Say, why don’t you have Chapstick available in a non-cherry flavor? Fruit gives some of us the runs. “Mr. President?” No—please! I prefer that people call me “Ron” even though it sounds so serious —and that’s not who I am. Which brings me to my next topic: I’ll betcha can’t smell anything underwater. Otherwise, fish would all die if they knew what they smelled like (bad.) And that would be a probably smellier situation if that happened! I hate smelling things. Yeah, I would be really happy if I could be in a place with one less thing to have worried nightmares about because I’ve peed on through all our sheets and Nancy says we can’t buy anymore.

ELLEN BOJANEK

I wonder what it would be like to live in the sea. I wonder if anyone is a person and fish at once. Nancy, please, let me finish; I know the word for it. Stop breathing near me. Okay, yup, fine. Guess you’re right and Tony

Scalia lied to me (it’s not “chunderfucks” but “mermen.”)

I’d love to be a merman. Ronnie the Merman. Merman Ron. Hmm, I don’t think I could give up air, so I could stick my head above water sometimes. But mostly I would be in water. Maybe a nickname I could have when I was above water would be “Airguy” and when I was below: “Waterguy.” That’s really funny. I can’t stop laughing.

I’ve finished laughing. I want my tail to be green. In China, green is a sexy color. Should probably swim around China when I’m a merman. Because they would not try to catch me because I’d be too handsome. Maybe they’d take a picture or blow a kiss but that’s just the price you pay when you are a seahunk. Plus, no one would try to eat a merman because our bones would be too tough. I feel like you’d get extra strong bones with the constant exercise. Plus a man with tough bones gets instant respect.

Being a merman would be great also because I’d get to be barechested more (which was one of my resolutions for 1989; never followed through with it though!) Bet I would have if I had shiny gills to show off instead of nipples.

I need how much more for the credit card minimum? Nancy, it’s your turn to pick out a jerky. I’m tired of being the one who always has to decide. 

FEATURED FILM SERIES DAMN FINE CINEMA: THE FILMS OF DAVID LYNCH 2/23 - 3/5, @BRATTLE BRATTLEFILM.ORG Lynch has been less than prolific lately; next year's TWIN PEAKS reboot will be his first sustained narrative since 2006's INLAND EMPIRE (if "sustained narrative" can even describe either). Yet, he seems more present than ever. He's kept himself busy: opening a Transcendentalist meditation college, releasing two (surprisingly excellent) albums, and marketing a (unsurprisingly excellent) signature coffee blend. Moreover, his influence can be found everywhere: in filmmakers Jonathan Glazer and Nicolas Winding Refn; TV shows TRUE DETECTIVE and HANNIBAL; and musicians Chelsea Wolfe and Lana Del Ray. Chalk it up to the fact that weird times call for weird art. Lynch’s fractured narratives, existential nightmares, and obsessions with lumber fit the bill. Or, maybe, it’s just easier to revisit TWIN PEAKS on DVD and Netflix than VHS and reruns. - Oscar Goff

FEATURED CIN-EVENT THE FILMS OF STANLEY KUBRICK 2/4 - 2/28, @MFA MFA.ORG There’s Stanley Kubrick, and then there’s everyone else. A provocative, intellectual, and experimental perfectionist, he was truly one of a kind, working in a variety of genres – war, science fiction, crime, horror – leaving an undeniable impression on them all. No shot, word, or detail wasn’t mulled over by this demanding filmmaker, causing stress to his crew and sublime cinema for us. The MFA will be screening the entirety of his canon the way it was meant to be seen: in 35mm! Witness every iconic moment in its original format, from the appearance of the starchild floating in space set to Thus

Spoke Zarathustra to hundreds of loyal slave soldiers screaming “I am Spartacus!” to save their revolutionary leader a terrible death. - Pablo Torroella

a shelf somewhere, even if that somewhere is Harvard University (though maybe more often than one might imagine, considering the extended print of the original THE WICKER MAN (1973) was uncovered there last year, making you wonder what else they're hiding). It's also particularly remarkable when said film is in decent condition despite being on highly unstable and wonderfully explosive nitrate film stock. It's quite lucky that Robert Flaherty's A NIGHT OF STORYTELING (OIDHCHE SHEANCHAIS) (1935) even exists, let alone is being shown (on 35mm) after the last known copies went up in flames more than 70 years ago. Though it's only 11 minutes, it holds the distinction of being the first Gaelic-language sound film and stars the cast of Flaherty's famous, feature-length MAN OF ARAN (1934), which screens right after it. - Stefan Grabowski

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE 40TH ANNUAL 24 HOUR BOSTON SCIENCE FICTION FILM MARATHON 2/15, 12:00PM - 2/16, 12:00PM, @SOMERVILLE BOSTONSCIFI.COM This year will be my 19th attending what I consider, at this point, one gnarly American tradition: The 40th Annual 24 Hour Boston Science Fiction Film Marathon. Science fiction goes way back, with the more recent development of the Sci-Fi film delivering its message with particular exuberance. From Fritz Lang’s METROPOLIS (1927), and James Whale’s FRANKENSTEIN (1931), on through Rod Serling and 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), and beyond... Science fiction delivers on being the most philosophical of genres – “a literature of ideas” according to Pamela Sargent. Here in Boston exists the oldest genre film festival in the world! It, of course, is a celebration of the best genre that exists in this world of ours: SCIENCE FICTION. Lester del Rey said “there are no easily delineated limits to science fiction” and this is precisely why it’s the pinnacle of all genres. SciFi will often surprise and expand the minds of its consumers. These consumers, in turn, often come away from it with new ideas; a beautiful exchange

In this wrenching WWI film, Kirk Douglas is a French officer defending his troops against a mutiny charge and imminent execution. An earlier Kubrick, this film contains hints of his bleak view of humanity. See it for the final scenes alone. Also screens: 2/6.

6 ACTRESS (2013)

dir. Robert Greene @BRATTLE A Cassavettian documentary in which Brandy Burre, yeowoman actress and veteran of HBO’s THE WIRE, plays (and is) herself: a suburban housewife and mother of two who, somewhat to her own surprise, finds she’s eager to revive her career. Screens through 2/11. Director in-person 2/9!

7 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick @MFA

Perhaps the film to prove that a big-budget Hollywood blockbuster could also be an arthouse classic, 2001 remains as heavy as it was in 1968. It’s also the film for which Kubrick won his sole Oscar – for special effects. Screens through 2/27. dir. Sam Raimi @COOLIDGE

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It's not every day a long-presumed lost film by a legendary filmmaker just happens to turn up on

dir. Stanley Kubrick @MFA

9 EVIL DEAD 2 (1994)

BOSTON VIEWFINDER A NIGHT OF STORYTELLING (OIDHCHE SHEANCHAIS) (1935) DIR. ROBERT FLAHERTY 2/15, 7:00PM, @HFA HCL.HARVARD.EDU/HFA/

5 PATHS OF GLORY (1959)

if there ever was one. Come celebrate the genre with film. Join in on this singular, stellar, annual event. A real Boston experience. Davis Square is a great place to hang out in for 24+ hours. Tell Garen that the Compass/Hassle sent you. This year’s line-up includes: THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL (1951), 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY w/ special guest Douglas Trumbull, THIS ISLAND EARTH (1955), THEM! (1954), MOONRAKER (1979), and many more! Max ups to the DICK MILLER FAN CLUB. - Dan Shea

Following the misadventures of everyman Ash Williams, this sequel dials up the gore and camp. Evil spirits, demonic trees, chainsaw arms... what's not to love? This screening features expert Steven Schlozman speaking on just why we enjoy these gruesome films.

20 BARRY LYNDON (1975)

dir. Stanley Kubrick @MFA

23 NE ME QUITTE PAS (2013)

dir. Sabine Lubbe Bakker & Nils Vans Koevorden @BRATTLE Meet Bob and Marcel, Belgian drunks (I mean, farmers who drink) whose sad, funny, sometimes stupid adventures are liable to put you in mind of a sodden, stumbling Beckett. Bakker’s second doc confirms her gift for sympathetic, slightly gonzo character studies. The DocYard presents! Directors via Skype!

24 TWIN PEAKS PILOT (1990)

dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE The now iconic tale of murder and mystery in a sleepy, eccentric logging town has captivated audiences over the past 25 years. Though an amazing production through-andthrough, the feature length pilot achieved a height that later episodes only scratched at. FREE!

25 ERASERHEAD (1977)

dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE Henry is horrified to discover he has a baby, but then again “they’re not really sure it is a baby.” In this oily black & white horror, Henry X cuts through his fatherly insanity with visions of the lady in the radiator. N.B. it’s a 35mm print. EYES WIDE SHUT (1999) dir. Stanley Kubrick @MFA A strange, most eerie dive in the dark depths of sexuality – the final aria in a body of incredible work. A perfect swan song for Kubrick who died still working on this journey into cults, masquerades, and eroticism.

SHORTS PROGRAM (1966 1970) dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE Did you know that, before making fucked up features, David Lynch made fucked up student films? It’s true! These shorts go back to the very beginning of Lynch’s career, including THE ALPHABET, THE GRANDMOTHER, SIX MEN GETTING SICK, and more!

27 DUNE (1984)

dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE Okay, okay, we’re all heartbroken it wasn’t Jodorowsky’s and everyone pans this film as awful. However, if you’re willing to sit through this horribly long film, you can expect to be rewarded with a truly surreal vision of Frank Herbert’s opus. MAPS TO THE STARS (2014) dir. David Cronenberg @COOLIDGE The filmmaking madman of The Great White North will be in attendance to discuss his most recent movie concerning celebrity culture, familial inferiority complexes and scar tissue. In other words, Cronenberg doing what he does best. Also screens: 2/28. Director in-person!

28 BLUE VELVET (1986)

dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE A deviant and incendiary mystery set in the wholesome Pacific Northwest, this whodunit has lost none of its power decades later in its ability to disgust, enrapture and cause awe in regard to its surreal craft and ballsy artistry.

RABID (1977) DIR. DAVID CRONENBERG

Famous for its technical achievements, this 18th century epic follows the fortunes and downfall of the roguish Barry. The grand historical sweep makes its characters feel like toy soldiers: “… good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now.” Also screens: 2/21. DEAD RINGERS (1988) dir.DavidCronenberg@COOLIDGE Jeremy Irons plays twin gynecologists involved with the same woman. Body horror, psychodrama, terrifyingly outlandish medical implements, and tearful monologues about cake ensue. The centerpoint of the Cronenberg Venn diagram – contains both respectable, well-acted drama AND squirm-inducing anatomical creepiness! Also screens: 2/21.

2/6 @COOLIDGE Let the dreaded truth be told: morphogenetic neutrality is a lie! Alas, the plague's work is done. New flesh or old, bio always equals hazard. A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (1971) DIR. STANLEY KUBRICK

21 THE SHINING (1980)

dir. Stanley Kubrick @MFA “HEEEERRRREEEE’S, JOHNNY!!!!!” Actor Jack Nicholson cemented his status in pop culture as a flawed father who begins a downward spiral when he agrees to look after a secluded hotel. Warning: keep baseball bats and axes away from this guy. Also screens: 2/22.

22 HOME FROM HOME -

CHRONICLE OF A VISION (2013) dir. Edgar Reitz @COOLIDGE A vast tale of a village in the Rhineland, where destitute farmers make a choice between their homeland and emigrating to Brazil. A harrowing plot, with an epic scope, the film is noteworthy as part of a four-decade saga of films and for it’s 3h 44min length. Goethe-Institut presents!

Feel like a bit of the old ultraviolence? Pop into Kubrick’s then X-rated but now revered classic. LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL MassArt Film Society - MASSART Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theatre - SOMERVILLE

Please see our sister site BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM VOLUNTEERS BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com

2/28 @MFA

NEW RELEASES (2/6) LEVIATHAN (2014) dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev @KENDALL (2/13) HUMAN CAPITAL (2014) dir. Paolo Virzi @KENDALL (2/20) WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (2014) dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi @ KENDALL (2/27) SHE'S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE'S ANGRY (2014) dir. Mary Dore @COOLIDGE (2/27) BALLET 422 (2015) dir. Jody Lee Lipes @KENDALL (2/27) SONG OF THE SEA (2014) dir. Tomm Moore @KENDALL

Kung Fu Video & DVD 365 Washington St # 2 Boston, MA Situated along a boring stretch of Washington Street in downtown Boston (above a jewelry marketplace) is Kung Fu Video & DVD, a niche video store focusing on a wide range of martial-arts, anime & Asian films on DVD. They exist, against all odds in an area of Boston (downtown) that has for years been experiencing a severe leaching of anything and everything that is interesting or of a sociologically independent nature. How, you might rightly ask, does a store remain viable selling martial arts dvds in a brick and mortar in 2014? Well, they also sell glass, and all manner of related product is the answer of course! Beyond serving as a resource for the 2 very important aforementioned pursuits, KUNG FU VIDEO & DVD, also offers itself up as a hub of Boston area hip-hop and related music. Stop in and get caught up on what is happening in your city. In fact bring your stuff down, hip hop, or not. This is a place that celebrates community. Make it part of yours, ask them to sell your art/music. The folks who run this store are long time supporters of the Compass who I give my absolute, 100% stamp of approval to. Give them your business. May more small businesses open up that are run by people like the ones Pat Chaney behind this downtown oasis. Dan Shea

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