Compass #62, March 2015 by Boston Compass Newspaper

5 Straight Years Of Bending Your Ears Thanks for picking up Compass #62! March is the Compass birth month and this March marks our monthly’s 5 year anniversary. We are proud of each edition and the time and energy it takes to produce every one but 5 years is such a serious milestone that we feel compelled to pause and reflect on it for a moment. No doubt about it: We are ecstatic to have made it this far and we couldnt have done it without you, dear reader. Something about the winter of 2010 put it in my head that if there was a tangible, reliable resource for outsiders around here (and if it stuck around long enough) it just might do some good in the music and art community. It was inspired by the people here, the scattered crews of active yous, and the desire to be their glue. After 5 years of this project I am convinced that we are in the middle of a

cultural movement. I’m working the door at this show here at the hostel in Chinatown for Frank Hurricane and Little Howlin Wolf, sitting here with Foam daddy and Conrad. Nausicaa is helping me edit as I write and Ipek is hoping we get done so she can submit this damn thing on time. It’s all of us: me with my fingers on the keyboard, you with your eyes on the page and everyone in the region (us included) creating art like there is no tomorrow. We are talking about cultural activism here, what’s going on in New England is truly extraordinary. The Compass is yours. Let it be your resource, your springboard and your portal. This project is all about YOUR projects. It would not exist without you. So use it! Contribute! Go see stuff! Participate! But most of all, enjoy yourselves out there, my friends. Thanks for 5 awesome years and here’s to many more. - Sam Potrykus

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HASSLE BRIEFS & PURE IMPACT......................PAGE 3 EATEN, Prefab Messiahs, Laika’s Orbit, & Venom. PI: Leather Daddy

HERE BE THE SHOWS....................................PAGE 4-5 Punk Night, Break the Chain, Myriad, Rad Castle, Pink Noise & More

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

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Soaked in the scummy bilge-sewer where hip hop, noise, drone, broken electronics, and punk rock may perchance swirl together floats the disembodied head of a specter muttering its own name. Listen: “K… T… B…” Bled from a capillary branching off that experimental, post-formal hip hop–ish vein where sickle cells like Death Grips and B L A C K I E hath heretofore flowed, this duo (soon to be trio(?)(!)(I dunno we’ll see)) of Guerrilla Toss and Bugs And Rats members churns utterly pissed and discordant guitar/machine/tom/vox arrangements whose roots reach some untouchably harsh, dirty, and primal places. Sheesh. Go: Cassette release w/ Father Murphy, OMEI and Ursula @Deep Thoughts 3/16. - Zach Peckham

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While the majority of us good, goddamned alt-cherubs wish to be chaste and dutiful with one another, it’s quite the crystalline lightning bolt straight to the tip of your spine to dip your toes into that wayward creek. To offer up the next charge that’ll get us through this fallible human disaster through which we walk is the nascent LITTLE DEATH RECORDS. Tim & Trav of WAKES & NEW HIGHWAY HYMNAL, respectively, will be co-fathering cassettes in hand-screened encasings, petites éditions style. Watch for their inaugural release with dream-pop duo MINI DRESSES hitting shelves 3/10. “Not ostentatious, but chic.” LittleDeathRecords.com - Anthony Richards

Prefab Messiahs back with New Record after 30 Years!

Let the BOSTON TAX HELP COALITION help retrieve some of your hard-earned money from Uncle Sam’s greedy claws. Located in centers all over town, from Allston to South Boston, offering FREE one-on-one tax preparation, filing and a financial education for future reference, from now until 4/15. If you’re employed and read the Compass, you probably qualify (<$53K/year). Go to BostonTaxHelp.org to find out where to go and what to bring. Gotta tip our hat to Mayor Marty Walsh for pushing this program to demystify tax breaks for those who need them most. - CEEK

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After the month of blizzards, I’d just like to take a ladylike moment here. I’ve done a lot of shoveling lately and I’m pretty tired. But I want to thank those who kept it together. Thanks to all who helped a neighbor, drove carefully, worked overtime, remained patient, or stood aside on a treacherous sidewalk. But mostly, I’d like to say to the snow, did you want to marry me now? Are we at least going steady? Because boy, I have never met a dude anywhere who made so wet, and so sore, for so many weekends. - Angela Sawyer

Feelin’ Yrself Shout out 2 all the women/queer folks from outta town bringing their talent 2 boston dance parties this winter: Venus X + Mike Q @Together NYE, Princess Nokia @Pico Picante, DJ Sprinkles @Make It New, DJ OHSO @Pvrple, The Black Madonna @Social Studies, and any others i’ve missed. even bigger shout out to the talented women and queer djs, producers, and performers who are constantly overlooked in this town and everywhere. and a shout out so big it makes u humbled to stand beside it to all the post-trauma babes who use yr spoons to come out and move yr unconventional bodies and express yrselves in risky capitalistic spaces. u brave af. much respect. PINK NOISE is featuring MALPORTADO KIDS @The Milky Way on 3/28. - XOXO DAYGLOW

SATURDAY 3/7 get ready for an EAT THE LIFE RECORDS Boston takeover. Blowing in from the Windy City MUSCLES PLANT will be bringing their version of fast hardcore with obnoxiously catchy leads. Pick up their new demo at their gig @The Boiler Room. You’ll have to ask a mutant freaker for more details. Across town @Boylston Church NYC’s NANCY will be rocking/rolling with Nice Guys, Gymshorts and Robot Death Kites. Both gigs are All Ages and will be all kinds of fun. Can’t get enough of EAT THE LIFE? Head to their webstore and treat yourself to something loud: eatthelife.bigcartel.com - Ali Donohue

Join The Movement And MARCH FOR THE ARTS If you’re reading this rag, it’s assumed you give a shit about the arts. Well, MASSCreative is asking you to walk the walk downtown on Wednesday 3/25 from 9am–2pm. Meetup is @Citi Wang Theatre where there will be speakers and performances followed by a march to the State House to meet with our legislators. The House and Senate are gonna be announcing the 2016 budget this spring, so there’s no time like the present to demonstrate your dedication to the creative and innovative thinkers that make up our cultural landscape. Go to www.Mass-Creative.org/AMADrsvp and show support! - CEEK

People Are Still Making CDs Up in VT - Beautiful Music CDs! CD buffs: dust off your boomboxes and take note: Vermont folk hero/musician Joey Pizza Slice and his partner-in-crime have unveiled BEAUTIFUL MUSIC CDs, Burlington’s own CDR-based label. Proving already to be the stuff of glimmering, off-beat eminence, BMC’s growing list of releases span genre, decades, maybe universes? We’ll see. Artists include Puerto Rican/Vermont post-punk, goth-adjacent duo The Dead Souls, one-man synth magician Facebat (with his inaugural release), as well as now-defunct weird-pop duo Lawrence Welks & Our Bear to Cross. Keep your sights set on our northern musical friends and the wonderful sounds they continue to create. beautifulmusiccds.blogspot.com - Dana Burns

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*New Dance Night* 3/19 MYRIAD Surfaces @Goodlife, Goes Late Those dedicated fools behind Open Loop and Boston Hassle shows (the very same DIY show booking concerns who collectively brings you SCANNERS night) is throwing another funky monthly dance party in the mix. It’s called MYRIAD and it will command your hips with INTERNATIONAL jams, both live and spun, in the killer, cozy basement nightclub of @Goodlife downtown. This brand new monthly party of ours will be celebrating the universal language of getting weird. The first installment features afrobeat/ funk unit Opposite People and Atlanta’s experimental/psych children Aalborg Group. Plus resident DJ Won’t spinning international disco, funk, post-punk, no-wave, house, dub, & beyond… 9:30pm–2am 21+ $5 - Sam Potrykus

Total Fucker and Smash Art finally offer a soundtrack to your favorite subculture comic, LIFE IS POSERS. Destroy Poserton Volume 1 is an international, inter-generational compilation featuring 14 of the best obscure punk bands out there! Don’t collect vinyl? Who cares? Buy it for the cover art! DPV1 comes in a beautiful, full black & white sleeve featuring original Life is Posers artwork. Also included is 14-page zine with contributions from each band, as well as a screen printed beer bag. GET IT: lifeisposers.bigcartel.com For Destroy Poserton wholesale contact: pantyhuffinghardcore@gmail.com - Smash Art and Total Fucker

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1-3:30pm [Workshop] Coffee Mandala Workshop @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 3:30-5pm [Artist Talk] Bite @Nave Gallery

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Monday

6:30pm [SMFA Lecture] Robert Solomon Lecture on Joseph Stapleton @Riley Seminar Room, MFA

Wednesday

7:30pm [Artist Talk] ATNE Salon: Andrew Neumann @Boston Cybertarts Gallery (JP) 4-9:45pm FREE After 4 Wednesdays @MFA // Every Wed

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SATURDAY WEDNESDAY

12:30pm [SMFA Lecture] Four Visitors: Painting Ambreen Butt @Alfond Auditorium (MFA)

6-7pm [Gallery Talk] Women in French Art @Sharf Visitor Center

SATURDAY

12-1pm [Artist Talk] Students Curate Students: Some Assembly Required @SMFA Courtyard Gallery 3/78/16 2-5pm [Tour & Screening] Katrín Sigurdardóttir: Drawing Apart @MIT LIST Center 6-10pm [Reception] The Fabled Hare and a March Tale @Washington St Arts Center (Somerville) 3/7-3/28

NEW ENGLAND EXPRESSION SESSION: A NIGHT OF SURF ART AND SILENT AUCTION

@Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) Opening: 3/4, 6-8pm 3/4-3/28

@Arts at the Armory 3/14, 7-10pm

Making art in a sense is transforming an idea into reality. “This Into That” focuses on how actual physical objects found and discovered can be reinterpreted into artwork. These objects can be found on the streets or at consignment shops, gifted to the artist or simply given as a family heirloom. What each of the 28 artists do with their found object is based on their own narratives and unique expression. Come by NAVE GALLERY through March and pretend like you are “window shopping” at a sweet yard sale! - Krystle Brown

THURSDAY

11:30am [Artist Talk] Fritz Klaetke & Susan Battista @ Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 5-7pm [Reception] Sharon Freed, Andrew Neumann and Walter Kopec @FPAC Gallery (Fort Point) 3/5-4/16 5-9pm FREE ADMISSION @ICA Boston Every Thurs 5:30pm [Workshop] Memoir Writing Workshop @BPL (Brighton) 3/12 6-8pm [Lecture] Wangechi Mutu @MassArt Tower THURSDAY Auditorium

BLESS THIS MESH: Boston Printmakers 2015 @Thomas Young Studio (South Boston) Opening: 3/5, 7-9pm Closing: 3/28 On view: 3/5-3/28 You got two chances this month to celebrate a bunch of Boston’s most prolific printmakers and collectives coming together in this South Boston exhibit. Expect a full range of local talent and technique curated by Trifecta Editions co-founder and Simmons printmaking professor, HELEN POPINCHALK and local printmaker/designer and MassART educator JAMES WEINBERG. Based on the long list of gifted participants (including Brian Butler, Dan McCarthy, Kenji Nakayama) this will undoubtedly be dope. If Southie is foreign land...the gallery is a healthy walk from the Redline’s Broadway stop or a short walk from the #9 bus. www.ThomasYoungGallery.com - CEEK

FRIDAY FIRST FRIDAYS IN SOUTH END Ariel Kotker: His Room as He Left It @Find & Form Space Artists Diaries on China @Laconia Gallery Now3/22 At Home with Ourselves: Sage Sohier @Carroll and Sons Gallery Now-3/28 Julie Graham: If it’s not one thing @Kingston Gallery 3/4-3/29

SATURDAY

6-9pm [Reception] George Shaw and Marjorie Kaye: Inner Investigation/ Hidden Truths @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) 3/6-3/28 12-6pm Pulp & Press II @Mill No. 5 (Lowell)

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5:30pm Memoir Writing Workshop @BPL (Dudley) // Every Mon

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9am-2pm ARTS MATTER ADVOCACY DAY @Citi Wang Theatre and Mass State House (Downtown) 12:30pm [Lecture] Four Visitors: Moving Image - Craig Baldwin @Alfond Auditorium (MFA) 6pm [Curator & Artists Talk] Action Kits @Mills Gallery at BCA (South End) Now-4/5

Thursday

6pm [Lecture] Business and the Creative Process with Joe Quackenbush @MassArt (Mission Hill)

[TALK] HUEY COPELAND: TOUCHED BY THE MOTHER @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard) 3/26, 5pm The HARVARD BLACK HISTORY / ART HISTORY PERFORMANCE AND LECTURE SERIES considers the ways histories are represented to critically reimagine how blackness, race, and art can be engaged with. This year’s final speaker, art historian HUEY COPELAND, will be coming to Carpenter Center to speak on his recent work, including his 2013 book Bound to Appear: Art, Slavery, and the Site of Blackness in Multicultural America. Engaging with queerness, feminist thought, black motherhood and both black artistic production and the responses to it, this is bound to be interesting. - Drew Zeiba

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6:30pm [Lecture] Auditorium (BU)

Tuesday

6:30-7:15pm [Talk] Exposed: 10 Tips and Tricks to Getting Your Art Seen and Sold @BPL Fields Corner (Dorchester)

1-4pm [Workshop] The Mind blowing test no one knows about: ACE @Mobius (Central Sq) 5-9pm Black Box Barber-Flea Market @AS220 Black Box (Prov)

SATURDAY

1-5pm Todo Bajo Control | Vernal Equinox @AS220 (Prov) 3-6pm [Opening Reception] Ric Haynes: Where Am I? @HallSpace (Dorchester) 3/21-4/25

I know it’s hard (or like... impossible) to imagine, but somewhere in the world right now, people are enjoying a beautiful, sunny beach ' still day. While that’s a distant dream for New Englanders, A Night of Surf Art and Silent Auction is offering us the chance to get our summer on prematurely. With over 20 local artists, the event includes live art, short films, and music by Squirrelly Bird. Cowabunga, indeed. - Sara Selevitch

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6pm Reading Group Imaginary Houses @MIT LIST Center 6:30pm [Panel Discussion] Think and Drink Series: What’s Disrupting our Traditional Understand of: Authority @Space Gallery (Portland, ME)

THURSDAY

11:30am [Artist Talk] Tugboat Printshop @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA)

FRIDAY

5:30-7:30pm [Reception] Guitar Heroes: Photographs from Behind the Six String @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore Sq) 3/20-6/9 8pm-12am Todo Bajo Control @Mystery location (Prov)

[PERFORMANCE SERIES] PHANTOM PHANTOM @The Green Room (Somerville) 3/20, 7pm This new experimental performance series promises to intrigue on many levels. Each event in the series features 3 varied performances. This month includes readings from PETER COVINO, social worker turned RI-based poet and professor whose empathetic nature discovered a new outlet in poetry. This is followed by Boston-based playwright WALT McGOUGH, whose aptitude for finding laughter and utter fearlessness to write a play about anything and anyone of interest, places him up there for local playwrights to watch. Rounding out the night is holistically-inclined, all-lady theater ensemble THE CLEARING who specialize in connecting with their audience through movement. Make a night of it in boozy and bustling Union Sq, mere minutes from Cambridge’s Central Sq. www.PhantomCollective.tumblr.com - CEEK

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While artisan trades have become trendy of late, MEREDITH KASABIAN and JOSH LUKE have found their own unique niche in this market. How often do you take note of the signs hung outside your favorite coffee shop, local bar or tattoo parlor? If the sign was created by BEST DRESSED SIGNS, it’s safe to say it would be pretty hard to miss. Their iconic signs - with vintage Victorian-inspired fonts, colors that pop and lettering hand-painted with a flourish - have been showing up all over Greater Boston for the past five years. One of their favorite projects to date is the Kingsboro Park mural in Jamaica Plain. Commissioned by Michael Dupuy, owner of Streetcar Wine & Beer, the bright red and yellow mural adorns the brick wall outside his store. “The layout of the mural is inspired by a 19th century color printing technology called chromolithography,” Kasabian explains. “As a whole, the mural celebrates public art as a medium that's available to all and uses the history of technological advances in printing and music to make that point.” The same sentiment lies behind Kasabian and Luke’s side project, the Pre-Vinylite Society. The PVS blog collects articles and essays about sign painting, murals, public art—anything that might affect and improve our urban landscapes. Essentially the goal is to encourage communities to “take pride in their neighborhoods by creating, commissioning, writing about, and appreciating quality signage and art.” Read more about the duo and their upcoming mural on Missio Hill this Spring at www.BostonHassle.com/CompKetchup/ BestDressedSigns

- Scout Hutchinson

THE OTHERSIDE CAFE: A PHOTO BOOK Imagine a Boston where Back Bay was once a cool place to hang out - where you and your friends could chainsmoke on a porch with good beer and people watch for hours on end without being hassled. Cue the OTHERSIDE CAFE: a local institution with one of the best beer lists in town, bangin’ vegan/veggie food options, and rotating local artwork on display regularly. The staff was always tuned into what was happening in town because in one way or another, they were all part of the scene here. The location allowed the JP and the Cambridge/Somerville kids an equidistant meetup spot that helped bridge those crowds and let the music scene flourish. Until wistfully, after years of false alarms, their building was finally sold in 2012 to an overpriced furniture store (puke) ending their reign as one of the best places you could hang in Boston. Sorry if you missed the glory days of Back Bay, but at least local photographer/Cambridge barfly MATT TEUTEN was there to capture what was going on. Right now he’s putting together a beautiful bound book documenting some mammals and moments that made the Otherside Cafe thus. Teuten’s gotta sophisticated eye and a knack to track the fleeting. This guy’s work will make you appreciate where you live. www.Matt2ten.com No question this book is gonna be worth owning. Stay tuned to www.BostonHassle.com/Art for a release date and purchasing info. - CEEK

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6pm [Screening & Panel] nat. Brut Issue Five Release @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard)

Sunday

1-4pm Artists and Environmentalists Confront Climate Change @Mobius (Central Sq)

Monday

11:30am [Artist Talk] Oren Sherman @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA)

ONGOING LISTINGS Now-3/14 Leah Peipgras @HallSpace (Dorchester) Now-3/15 Connecting Threads: Karen Weinhaus & Sarah Kahn @New Art Center (Newton) Now-3/16 Randy Stevens: Follow My Instructions! @William Morris Hunt Memorial Library (MFA)

Self Portraits not #Selfies @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore Sq)

Now-3/27 The Beatles are Dull and Ordinary @Sherman Gallery (BU) Now-3/28 Seven: A Performative Drawing Project @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly) Now-5/25 StereoType: New directions in Typography @BSA (Downtown) Now-5/29 Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba @Cooper Gallery, Hutchins Center (Cambridge) 3/4-4/19 ALBUM @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard) 3/19-4/25 Beverly Semmes & the Carwash Collective @samsøn projects (South End)

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CALL FOR WORK - If you’re a photographer who celebrates humans in their purest form (au naturel) then perhaps you should submit to NAVE GALLERY’s upcoming show NAKED. $15 entry and deadline is April 12th. More info at navegallery.org/ wp/naked-cfe The Friends of the South Boston Branch Library are back with their bimonthly book sale, this time on Saturday 3/14 from 10am-4pm @BPL in South Boston. A regular treasure trove for the random and resourceful. This sale features some cheap AV materials as well as lots of books. www.BPL.org March 14th marks the first day of the MUSEUM OF FINE ART’s new exhibit on iconic American fashion photographer, HERB RITTS, whose work from the 80’s and 90’s you’ll be sure to recognize. His bold style and love for the figure elevated the public’s view of fashion as art, while his portraits helped establish cultural icons. Stop by any Wednesday after 4pm to get a free peek. www.MFA.org Thanks to some mysterious, generous donor we’d all like to know better, the RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN MUSEUM (RISD Museum) is offering FREE MEMBERSHIP for one year to all Rhode Island-based artists/designers. If this is you or a friend, hop on this gravy train while it’s around in 2015. Use Discount code: RI-ARTIST www. RISDmuseum.org If you’re looking to sharpen your skills in the figure drawing department, head over to LIFE DRAWING with DAVID LEE @Outpost 186 in Inman Square (Cambridge) any Sunday from 10am-1pm. Bring your own supplies and $15 for the model. All are welcome. www.Outpost186.com

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DEMO SELF RELEASED (2015)

If you happen to know CT-based guitarist Loren Connors from his more avantgarde work, you might be pleasantly freaked out by the rerelease of his 1999 solo guitar album Airs. This album came out quietly back then, but has since developed a small following and contributed to Connors wider renown as a master guitarist capable of performing a wide variety of styles, from experimentally-inflected Delta blues to droning noise alongside Kim Gordon.

Laika's Orbit introduce themselves with "we are from space!" But one listen to the New England four-piece's first demo proves they're down-and-dirty earthlings, full of messy, relatable feelings and ready to express them with three or four well-placed chords. Laika's Orbit have a timeless setup — two guitars, bass, drums, vocals — and a splashy, messy, aggressive sound, edged into sweetness by exuberant solos and Shane Dupuy's voice, which is so earnest it might actually crack once or twice.

This 41-minute tapestry of slow and silky but finely detailed electric guitar improvisation flutters with a natural ease. Listening to it is like taking a deep breath and transforming into a calm breeze above the wide open spaces. Connors weaves careful pauses and ringing chords with fleeting melody, gently tugging the listener by the hand through feelings at once restrained and expansive, conveying a sort of calm rustic quality. Each track may seem short, but they flow together so well the album seems more like one long piece. -Damon Hastings

The demo has a classic setup, too. Hooky opener "Just Perfect" sends us tumbling into album standout "Cirumstance" (fast and clipped, with Dupuy yelping like a tiger cub). These two songs are followed, and balanced, by a trio of variously paced, reverb-soaked power ballads. Closer "Dead at 22" has a singalong chorus and a spacey fadeout. You can visualize the band pulling another classic move — quietly setting down their instruments and stalking out of the room before the feedback fades.

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DEPRAVED SELF RELEASED (2014) Grindcore from Massachusetts. These are most of the undeniable facts about Worcester/ Cape Cod’s EATEN. Add to that list the fact that the band released one of the heaviest, gnarliest records of 2014. That album is the above mentioned DEPRAVED. And, you can’t judge a book by its cover, but, more or less, you can get a grip on the basics that are coming at you when a band called fucking EATEN releases an album called DEPRAVED. 12 tracks on this tape. They blast back and forth between towering sludge coated riffage and a lightning fast grind assault. Guttural vocals and insane drumming round out the whole package. These guys can play and their un-ornamented music is as ugly as any of us ugly persons could ever hope for; and idiosyncratic enough to cause this picky, amateur metalhead to stand up and pay attention. The longest of these 12 sonic barrages is 1:42, the shortest is :09 (that’s “Wolf Bite”, and well, fuck). “Chaos Coffin” is where I am at. This ones got an undeniable chugging metal groove that has to fight its way into existence, and then breaks to pieces before the track’s time is finally up. I am damaged post-listening (I stand, damaged, pre-listening too, but I am without question, more damaged, after listening to this monster band’s transmissions). I had this tape sitting in my bag for months before I managed to listen to it. Then I finally pulled it out and this shit almost broke my walkman. But I never wrote about it. Well, now I finally have, and all is good. Peddlers of seriously heavy from right here in MA. -Dan Shea

As always, visit www.BostonHassle.com forvids and streams of all the artists and albums profiled here!

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This immediate familiarity is the band's blessing and its curse — the record feels like a lost rock treasure, but there are no moments, lyrics, or decisions that give it its own particular glitter ("I don't know what it's like to be me," Dupuy sings on "Probably Might," and it comes through a little too well). If Laika's Orbit can grow up a little and keep that youthful glow, its next album could really be something special. Until then, we can happily rock out to this, as though we've been doing it forever. -Cara Giamo

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VAI! VAI! VAI! ASTRAL SPIRITS (2015) Tredici Bacci. Where do we begin? What once seemed like a very entertaining and well-executed gimmick now seems like it could be the forefront of the Italian Lounge Revival movement. Which, to my knowledge, is not yet a thing, but Tredici Bacci’s fresh, energetic approach to a genre that was accumulating some dust makes you wonder if maybe it should be. In case you aren’t familiar, Tredici Bacci is the brainchild of ex-Guerilla Toss member Simon Hanes, who serves as the composer/conductor and electric guitarist for this nearly 20-person orchestra. Vai! Vai! Vai! is the sultry, Ennio Morricone-style soundtrack to a fictional 1974 Italian film. It runs the gamut from uptempo (“Papa Schizzare”) to straight sexy (“Coda”) without missing a beat. Importantly, Vai! Vai! Vai! fully embraces the campiness of the time and place it alludes to without mocking it—possible only because of how talented the musicians, and composer, behind Tredici Bacci are. This skill is proven beyond doubt by Tredici’s spot-on cover of Morricone’s own “Metti Una Sera A Cena.” Vai! Vai! Vai! is streaming on the Hassle site and is available on cassette from Austin’s Astral Spirits label. It’s paired with the (more avant) ENPSE: Concetti EP on the cassette release. Bonus material: Boston Hassle’s Keeley recently interviewed Simon Hanes about all things Tredici Bacci, Luxardo, G-Toss, and beyond. Read it @ bostonhassle.com. -Sarah Moylan-

A true story, The American Heroine premiered at Boston’s Federal Theater on March 26, 1802. The performance featured Deborah Sampson as her daring alias, Private Robert Shurtliff of the Continental Army. Sampson’s show toured throughout Massachusetts and New York, captivating audiences with her harrowing tales of combat, and brushes with both death and the discovery of her cleverly concealed identity. A woman dressed in a soldier’s uniform was a rare sight for theatergoers but even more fundamentally novel was the notion of a woman on a public speaking tour. Never before had this occurred in America.

Sampson grew up in poverty in a broken home and entered into indentured servitude at age ten. At age 22 “Shurtliff” served in the Revolutionary War as a means to support herself and experience the country beyond Massachusetts’ South Shore. In 1782 she received a bullet to the inner thigh during a skirmish in Westchester County, NY. Rather than allow her true sex to be revealed to the medic, she treated the wound and resumed her duties despite agonizing pain. She managed to evade detection for some 18 months into her service before falling ill in Philadelphia, and upon examination while unconscious the attending doctor noticed the cloth binding her breasts. When she had fully recovered the doctor informed the commanding officer of her secret. Although impersonating a man was technically illegal the officer granted her an honorable discharge and commended her for her bravery, albeit privately. Following the honorable discharge receiving back pay proved difficult, as it was for many veterans at the time. She was once again in the familiar position of being broke. After a nine-year bureaucratic battle she successfully petitioned for her back pay. Somehow from this petition her unique story was leaked to the press, who painted her as an American Heroine. Capitalizing on her newfound celebrity she commissioned a biographer and published The Female Review in 1797, later selling copies by the dozens on her groundbreaking speaking tour. Sampson was repeatedly denied a Federal pension often rewarded to wounded veterans who could prove financial need. In 1804 her friend, neighbor and esteemed Patriot Paul Revere wrote a letter to Congressman William Eustis on her behalf, stating in part, “I have no doubt your humanity will prompt you to do all in your power to get her some relief; I think her case much more deserving than hundreds to whom Congress have been generous.” Her pension was granted shortly therafter and today Deborah Sampson is the official Heroine of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

KEEP YOUR STUPID DREAMS ALIVE BURGER RECORDS/ KID LIKE YOU AND ME RECORDS (2015) The universe inhabited by Worcester's own Prefab Messiahs resembles one of R. Crumb psychedelic posters - there's plenty of room for cartoon characters, bright colors and it also feels as if there's a slight whiff of madness to it all. "Keep Your Stupid Dreams Alive" - their first record since the original breakup in the early 80s - kicks off with "Ssyddarthurr", a tale of an idealistic kid (or rather a grown-up who never managed to grow up) that is peppered with cartoon sound effects and Halloween-y synth sounds. "Weirdoz Everywhere" opens up with a distorted riff that almost screams "Ramones!", but dives straight into psychedelic 60s pop instead (complete with sunny harmonies and singalong choruses). "Orange Room" sounds like a secret tribute to Doors/Rolling Stones (or maybe not so secret, since sources of inspiration are easy to recognize), while "College Radio" pays tribute to....well, its namesake. Then there are also tributes to cars ("Bobb's Psychedelic Car"), rich girls ("Booshwa Sally"), dealing with being an adult (title track) and, finally tribute to the band itself ("Prefab Flashing", which manages to squeeze samples from both Trio's "Da Da Da" and "Sssyddarthur" into a track that lasts under a minute). What separates "Keep Your Dreams Alive" from a legion of garage/60s revival records is its emphasis on catchy hooks and melodies. Its the kind of record makes you question why those songs aren't all over the radio, since so many of them beg to be played again, again and again. =Ilya Sitnikov

VENOM

FROM THE VERY DEPTHS SPINEFARM RECORDS (2015) 14 albums into their career, UK metal legends VENOM are clearly no longer releasing music as revelatory or influential as the records they made during their early 80’s heyday. From the Very Depths is a far cry from their incendiary debut Welcome to Hell, the genrespawning followup Black Metal or 1984’s epic At War With Satan. In fact, it would be easy for a cynical metal fan to accuse singer/bassist Cronos (the band’s sole original member) of simply cashing in lazily on the name recognition and reputation he helped establish decades ago. However, I don’t think that accusation holds up to much scrutiny.

For one thing, even on weaker records you can always tell that these guys are having an absolute blast playing. Cronos said in a recent interview that he takes the idea of his band being a BAND very seriously. His newer, younger collaborators are equal partners, encouraged to bring fresh ideas to the table when it comes to songwriting and production, lest VENOM become just another black metal solo project. Secondly, if Cronos was merely trying to capitalize on peoples’ fondness for the band’s classic material, he’d keep making records that mimic exactly the sloppy, high speed raw punk spirit of the first two. Ever since the prog influenced 20-minute title track on their third album, VENOM have attempted to stay contemporary, to stretch as musicians and challenge themselves to try new things. -John Bittrich

**IN LIKE A LION... IT'S PURE IMPACT!** BOSTON PUNKS TO THE EAST AND THE WEST! WHO KILLED SPIKEY JACKET? embark on a spattering of gigs en route to MANIC RELAPSE FEST in Oakland (3/6-3/8) where they will be met by ASPECTS OF WAR and National and International Hardcore Punk Heavyweights APPENDIX (Fin), TERVEET KADET (Fin), WORLD BURNS TO DEATH (tx) and more for 3 days of spikey-hair, beer swilling, sweaty pogo sunshine debauchery! PRIMITIVE PACT (UK82 in NYC15) will also be hitting some West Coast dates with Sacramento's SSYDROM en route to MANIC RELAPSE. Meanwhile on familiar shores STRANGER and COMPASSION FATIGUE hit the road to play some gigs in the DC area (3/13-3/16) and will have with them a new mixtape of Boston area bands. Looking for a place to spend your St.Patty's day completely void of the DKMs? Join DJs Ghost and DaveShay at RAMROD's weekly Punk Night for a night of LOUD Punk and Metal tunes with 0% chance of bagpipes! CELTIC FROST not Celtic Punk!! Never forget Joe Sly, Never forget Boston Punk Zombie! Stay vigilant Punkers! Never Sleep//Never Forget! LEATHER DADDY

DJ NIGHT EVENTS FOR MARCH

Members: Anna on guitar, Sophie on drums, Cecelia on bass, and me (Lauren) on vocals.

3/3 The Inaugural new monthly Punk Night hosted by DJ McMahon spinning her favorite Punk, Post Punk, 80s and more! Don't forget your dance shoes! 10pm/21+/No Cover/Dancefloor and Free Pool at RAMROD. 3/10 POGO TIL YOU PUKE with DJs Ghost and Prof.Falcon spinning Punk, Punk Rock, Pogo Punk, Street Rock and Oi! for Punx! 10pm/21+/No Cover/ Free Pool at RAMROD. 3/17 PUNK and METAL night with DJs Ghost and DaveShay. The name says it all. Loud Tunes for Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers!! 10pm/21+/No Cover/Free Pool at RAMROD 3/24 It's Fucking Punk Night! with DJ Ghost 10pm/21+/No Cover/Free Pool at RAMROD (guest DJs wanted: SuffocatingMadness@gmail.com) 3/31 CRUSTCRUSHER Night a night of RAW TUNES for TOTAL FUCKERS!! International Crust and Raw Punk night with DJs Ghost and Sweets at RAMROD 10pm/21+/No Cover/Free Pool

Influences: Clitboys, Neg FX, SSD. and Nog Watt for me. Lyrical Content:

Anything grumpy or crabby

Releases: 2 demo tapes from 2013 and 2014, and a 7" that just came out. Future: Planning a late summer tour for 2015 and possibly another tape soon. Closing Statement: Girls rule. GIG IN MARCH: 3/14 Violent Party gig vol.69: Asylum (RVA)/Sunshine Ward/Animal Mother/ Symptom at the Democracy Center. 7-11pm. $7

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Sunday 3/1 Rob Noyes, Allysen Callery, Ryan Lee Crosby, Michael Hutcherson @Aviary Gallery 8-11PM  Kevin Micka (Animal Hospital), Taiga, Queen Elephantine, WORKING @Machines with Magnets 8:30PM  STYK, Rick Rude, New Legs @ Distant Castle, Worcester, 7pm All Ages $Donate  XFest: Phurrne, Curse Purse, Steve Norton & more @Gateway City Arts, Holyoke, 1pm All Ages $Donate Monday 3/2 The multi-instrumentalist multiinstrumentalist group Animal Hospital comes together for an all too rare local appearance with Taiga and Geoglyph @ZuZu’s Rad Castle first Mondays of March. Beware the Ides 10pm 21+ *Free*  Quite literally around he corner are solid pop unit Palehound who do just what they oughta make sweet, catchy songs cool to view for me and you. They will be joined by Nicholas Nicholas and a bit more out-there sounds from Gamma Pope @Middle East (Upstairs), good stuff. 8pm 18+ $10  Oh gee Allston’s Nice Guys are making an appreance in JP! I see a trend starting. Likewise we are excited to have NH’s Rick Rude visiting Boston’s southwestern neighborhood plus Damp and more NH seacoast homies Are We Elephants? @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5 Tuesday 3/3 Hey! You! Yeah you! It’s Tuesday! This means yer boy Con Tex has First You’s Day goin’ on down in JP. While it is every loser’s goal to have lived a balanced and examined life once the end of the trail is met, I’m gonna veer sharply away from the Fecal Scab, have Thigh Master, have Andrew Prouty @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5. Have a glass of water and go to bed you dummy.  If transcendent jams ain’t your slam, cram a slice of pure terror into your hungry earholes with confectioner’s sugar and measuring cupfuls of the following: Raine Raine, Ursula, BLKBX, Blood Club, Trophy Knife @Whut Haus 8pm All Ages Donate  FRE[(E)/(AK)] JAZZ: *Shining Wizard*, Sunk Heaven, Yerri, Barrens @Tate II, PVD 9pm all ages $5  The Inaugural new monthly Punk Night hosted by DJ McMahon spinning her favorite Punk, Post Punk, 80s and more! Don’t forget your dance shoes! Dancefloor and Free Pool @RAMROD 10pm 21+ No Cover

Boston and the greater Northeast has a hefty amount of feel good folksters, but what about our friends across the pond? Try a slice of England’s Beans on Toast, a verbose singer-songwriter with an upbeat, direct approach and certain savory feel to keep your belly warm. Wednesday 3/4

He’s joined by banjo bumpkin Dan Blakeslee, earnest activist Jeff Rowe and folk punks Jason Bennett and the Resistance @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  Or traverse the Charles and mosey down to JP for another americana-heavy show, this time with fluttering heartfelt crooners Box of Birds with experimental pop-smith Adam Amoroso, the soothing Lay Low Moon plus Rue Snider & No Strand and Michael Mirra @Midway Cafe 21+ 8pm $5

Thursday 3/5 No surprise tonight at one of the oldest rock venues in town, it’s all about rock rock rock. So much rock. No pebbles here. Local stone heads Milk are celebrating their record release with this banger, featuring their boulder sized buddies Ravi Shavi, Crushed Out, and Blinders thanks to Illegally Blind @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  They may be smelly but you love those damn Gymshorts for always being ready for a sweat soaking. Tonight be no exception. These providence garage mongers are launching out on another punk ass tour and they are inviting homies Big Huge, Atlantic Thrills, and Neutrinos to light it up with em tonight for the kickoff. Come get burned with sick jams or get burned by missing it @The Salon (Providence) 9pm, all ages $5  PUNK METAL SMASHY DRUMS: Idiot Genes, Black Norse, Notches, Me In Capris @Red Door, Portsmouth, NH, 8pm, $5 Suggested Donation  YELLING THRASH N’ QUALITY ELETRONICS: TRASH TALK, RATKING, Lee Bannon @Sinclair, 7pm, all ages, $18.50 Friday 3/6 Sometimes, it’s nice to be reminded that we live in a universe where truly horrifying experimental music is, well, not commonplace, but in place. Enough that it’s haveable if you want to have it. And that’s a gift. Here. Go to this show and forget we said anything: KTB, Craow, Clox King, Fear.com @Technodrome/Dimension X 8pm All Ages Donate. Yikes  In turn, let the cosmos flow through you and a host of diversified rock and roll experiences will be sure to come your way. Down in the 02130-zone, your opportunity herein

is golden and brimming. Catch Mannequin Pussy, Degreaser, Kal Marks, Puzzle Mansion @JP Drive-In 8pm All Ages $5  EVENTFUL NON-EVENT: O+A (Bruce Odland + Sam Auinger) lecture/performance /discussion @District Hall 7:30pm All Ages FREE (RSVP requested)  YOU GUYS LIKE REVERB?!: New Highway Hymnal, Hallelujah the Hills @Black Box Theater at Emerson/Paramount Center 9pm 18+ $12  HOUSE SHOW SWEETNESS: Hit Home, Stolen Houses, Leaner (mem. Yeehaw!), snowhaus @Ol Yeller (Allston) 6:30pm All Ages $5 Saturday 3/7 This Saturday was doomed from the get-go. I mean, after a February like that the first Saturday of the next month closer to spring was bound to be SHOCK FULL of RAD SHOWS. So here goes: Every first Sat you have Hassle Night @Lilypad - tonight sees the reunion of Men and Volts, a Boston band of the 80s which features the father of a prominent contemporary of ours, see if you can guess which one and which son! They will be joined by current genrepushing rock pack The Channels, goddamn threat of a new band influenced by kraut rock - Lair and a new duo from Baltimore, Slendermen which features Boston ex-pats Stone and Dane. Lovely monthly night here 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  BUT WAIT The crazy crew of the Hassle has more in store - they are competing with their own monthly night just to bring you a garage rock soiree of epic proportions: Joining together with Kids Like You And Me, Boston Hassle presents Nice Guys, true rock lifers Nancy (Brooklyn) our buddies Gymshorts from Providence and good old Robot Death Kites (Brooklyn). This show is associated with the BURGER REVOLUTION which is the simultaneous throwing of rad shows uner the Burger umbrella all over the world on 3/7 - be part of the rev. @Boylston Church in JP 8pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  TOP QUALITY, LEGENDARY NEW ENGLAND FOLKS: Glenn Jones, Damon & Naomi,Marissa Nadler, @Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theater at Emerson/Paramount Center 9pm 18+ $12  BREAKIN IN NEW SPACE: Guillermo Sexo, Linear Downfall, Beach Toys @Firebrand Saints (Kendall Sq) 9pm 21+ $5  LESIONREAD BACK IN DA HAUS: LESIONREAD, PARTY WATERS AND THE COLLEGE TOUR, TROPHY KNIFE (W/ LESIONREAD), THIGHMASTER, PRINCESS MOON CHAN, MIS RED, +MORE TBA @ WHUT HUT 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  DAZAM? DIZAAM? DZEEEEAAAAAM? BUFU: mannequin pussy + ben katzman’s degreaser + way out + sad family @Spark City (PVD) 9pm All Ages $6 Sunday 3/8 Boston Hassle and Ride The Snake presents... Casanovas in Heat, Blessed State (ct/w. mass), Worn Leather (ct), and Phantom Rides @ Industry Lab 7pm All Ages Donate  Ladies Rock Camp Boston Showcase @TT The Bears 9:00pm, $10 8:00pm doors 18+ $15 proceeds benefit Girls Rock Campaign Boston  After The Fall, Trophy Lungs, Remnants, Bearchild, Tied To A Bear @ The Middle East (upstairs)  WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS SACRED HARP CONVENTION // @ Gateway City Arts (92 Race St, Holyoke, MA 01040) (day 2) Monday 3/9 Ultimate Painting seem legit. Pretty, chill, and pretty-chill rock vibe here from the guys from Mazes and Veronica Falls if you know those bands. I dont but it doesnt matter cause this is some Velvets homage shit and I like it. See the also chill Slowdim, and the chilly spooky pop whisper of Feral Jenny. Chill bill. Thanks to Illegally Blind. I move they change it to Chillegally Blind but what do I know, I’m just a newspaper @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $10  Actually no joke tho there is a serious threat of chill rock around the corner too cause Erik is back from LA for a minute and he’s got solid area heads bringing CHEAT SHEETS back in to the folder. As this is a Rad Castle night it is no surpised that Erik and Co with be paired perfectly with the fine pop penned by Bent Shapes drummer and local good nice guy Andy Sadoway on his own, right?! Very tight. Also well likes funny man Eric Mearns mixes it up with Comedy Time @ ZuZu 9pm 21+ FREE  INDIEMO, NOW A WORD: Yeehaw, John Galm (of Snowing), Burglary Years, Shampoo @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8  PRONOUNCE WORCESTER. LIKE THE SAUCE: Kiss Concert, Gnards, Eureka California, Elephants @Distant Castle Worcester 8pm All Ages $Donate Tuesday 3/10 Something of a fuzzy, psyched out flavor is up in Cambridge tonight with Cool Ghouls, Creaturos, Atlantic Thrills, Black Beach @ TT the Bear’s 9pm 18+$10  MIXED BAG OF RAD: Illegally Bind presents The Televibes, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth, Midriffs @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10  POGO TIL YOU PUKE with DJs Ghost and Prof.Falcon spinning Punk, Punk Rock, Pogo Punk,

Street Rock and Oi! for Punx! Free Pool @RAMROD 10pm 21+ No Cover  HEADY DREAMBOAT CAPITANS: Of Montreal, Deerhoof, Yonatan Gat @Paradise 7pm 18+ $20

Wednesday 3/11 Yeah, fucking heavy industrial noise and stuff. Good, dark: Voidgod, Vehement Caress, Mold Spores, FRKSE @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5 donation suggested  Montreal spinners TOPS come down for their biannual jaunt. These Arbutus crooners spin a sticky web of hypnagogic new wave that’ll leave you disoriented but your heart swollen. Boston-based St. Nothing works a little sultry goth into his synth sweetness, and riff riders Mini Dresses keep the rockers rolling at this, another swell Illegally Blind show @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10  Avant-garde luminaries Non-Event continue to impress us lovers of exotic sounds and textures, and we can’t thank ‘em enough for it. Cologne-based sound artist and producer Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Fiepblatter, Lithops) shares “fumbly, peripatetic rhythms emerging from a haze of muffled bass and overdriven synth textures,” while fellow multimedia innovator Andy Graydon explores intersection between audio-visual stimuli and audiences’ participatory imagination @ Goethe Institute 8pm All Ages $15 suggested donation

Thursday 3/12 Eccentric pianist BJ Snowden is putting up some real entertainment with drummer and guitar duo Edible Duet (NH) (get it, theres 2 of them. DUET). Teretoma (NH) is playing also. Look up Teretoma its FUCKED. It all goes down @Red Door, 107 State St. Portsmouth NH 8pm $5 suggested donation  GROOVY ROCK: The Cultured @Plough & Stars 21+ 10pm *Free*

Friday 3/13 Come out and see land before time XXXVII featuring local extraordinary rock band Littlefoot. Puzzle Mansion is bringing the psy-chedelic punk, See Through Dresses and Big Buck Hunter got your rock fixins. GET UR MILK N COOKIES ON @Grandma’s House 7:30pm All Ages $5-7 donation  All up in Allston, your friends at the Pudding + Boston Hassle Present: Krill’s “A Distant Fist Unclenching” LP release w/ local buddies Kal Marks plus faraway New York herofriends Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Great Scott 10PM 21+ $8 adv./$10 dos  BUFU ON ICE: Winter Chill Tour kickoff w/ Degreaser, Nice Guys, Jellyfish Brothers (Miami), Rosie And The Rosies @Lilypad 10pm all ages $5-10  PROG STACHE: Tape Eater, Bolo Santosi, Lazertüth @ No Problemo (New Bedford, CT) 10pm 21+ Free  PUNK NIGHT: Boston’s ONLY punk DJ night + Free Pool Downstairs @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10pm 21+ No Cover

Saturday 3/14 The punk scene is the strongest music/art community in Boston. Deal with it. VIOLENT PARTY VOL. 69: Asylum (RVA), Sunshine Ward, Animal Mother, Symptom. @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $7  Bodies Of Water Shows continues into its second decade of getting wild in the domicile. Tonight hey got slightly-out bedroom turned stadium pop St Nothing, top space pop Outer Spaces visiting from blessed Baltimore and new lo-fi folk duo Rawhunny who know how to woah you. See it all in the crudest room @The Womb 8pm All Ages Bring A Dozen Donate $5-10  KILSLUG STILL ILL: The Humanoids, Kilslug, Gaskill, Give Up! @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $8

Sunday 3/15 Craft Spells, The Bilinda Butchers, Funeral Advantage @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10  FIREHOUSE GIG: Sons of an Illustious Father, Bella’s Bartok, Flame n Peach and the Liberated Waffles @ Firehouse (Worcester) 8:30pm All Ages $donate  UP IN SALEM: Sonorium: w/FATHER MURPHY (Italy) - Euro Psychedelia, MY BROTHER DANIEL (Rockport, MA) -Northshore Electronica, SECRET BOYFRIEND (Carrboro, NC) - Noise Performance, ERIC DAHLMAN & ERIK NUGENT DUO (Boston, MA)Experimental / Ethnic / New Jazz / Electronics @Gallows Hill Theatre (Salem) 8pm All Ages $10  Violent Party gig vol.69: Asylum (RVA)/Sunshine Ward/Animal Mother/Symptom @The Democracy Center. 7-11pm. $7  Boomerangs Benefit Show: Trophy Knife, Blood Club, Ursula @ Boomerangs (Central Sq) 7pm All Ages $5-10 donation

Monday 3/16 Frickin sickenin - KTB reveal their new lineup but will surely retain their heavy, hip, nod, tick beats and gnarly guitar shock agitations. I mean, if they don’t they will be killed by the audience, at their own record release show no less. That would suck. Also our secretly sweethearts but totally evil goth friends from Italy FATHER MURPHY are back and they are sure to put you in one hell of a mood with their brooding noise and at times melodic industrial spit-up. Kickin it off like a kick in the crotch is shit punk awe some

Tuesday 3/17 With. Out. Fail. The masters at Non-Event will always supply us underlings with focus doses of output from the very most formidable creative minds in our zone and beyond. Behold, as expected, Rob Noyes channeling 6 heavy strings worth of powerful, reflective American artforce on our feeble brainpieces. Just be there. Maybe even on the early side so you can drink some nice coffee. Have fun @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5  Lying shortly to the south, scope this major BREAK THE CHAINS! party with a whole lotta Bloomington in tow ft. Defiance, Ohio, Evan Greer & Friends, Myriam Ortiz & Kazi Toure, Sonia Espinosa & Dario Geurerro, High Dive, Purple 7 @ Spontaneous Celebrations 7:30pm All Ages $10-20  PUNKSCAPE TRACE: Trophy Lungs, Two Houses, Mr. Fahrenheit, Fucko @O’Brien’s Pub 8pm 21+ $8  TALKIN WEIRD DUDE BLUES: Wes Hazard @Weirdo Records 8:30-11:30pm All Ages $5  PUNK and METAL night with DJs Ghost & DaveShay. The name says it all. Loud Tunes for Beer Drinkers and Hell Raisers!! Free Pool @RAMROD 10pm 21+ No Cover (guest DJs wanted for the next FUCKING PUNK NIGHT! Tuesday, March 24th : SuffocatingMadness@gmail) Wednesday 3/18 Heavy goes the reverb, heavy goes melodic riffs as Julius Earthling shares stage with infectious fuzz-poppers Laika’s Orbit, slipshod garage punks Grave Ideas, and New Hampshire bulldozers Digital Prisoners of War invade ya brain @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7  Boston Hassle continues its takeover of Inman with another show at good old @Industry Lab. Enjoy the combustible sweet sounds of avant-jazz marauders Candy Truck, raucous brats Charlie, bleak noise rock rough riders Killer Bob (Brooklyn), plus disjointed and ragged experimental rock from Gaius & Cenobia 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  PROGADELIC WARPAINT PUNK: Ben Levin group & Special Guests @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Thursday 3/19 Our boys BURGER Records are releasing a record for our boys The Prefab Messiahs. AINT NOTHIN RONALD MCDONALD ABOUT THIS SHIT THIS SHIT IS STRAIGHT 5 GUYS. Throwing this banger is the always awesome Illegally Blind and KLYAM Records crews. Come check out the resurgence of a capital 80’s psych band, OUR capital 80’s psych band. Plus The Fagettes, Magic Shoppe, and Fedavees comin out to make it a full on rock n’ roll evening. It all happens @The Middle East (Upstairs) 8pm 18+ $10  Deeply incredible guitarist and songwriter Ruth Garbus is performing live! Also enjoy Western Mass hard-guitar head Bill Nace of Body/Head, a rare appearance by deep, moody Baltimore gang Lower Dens, and Sunatirene make this a totally stacked lineup. Grab your black cats and walk under some ladders on your way to the 13th Floor Music Lounge 9pm and some cost that will surely be worth it NEW NIGHT WITH WORLD SCOPE: Open Loop and Boston Hassle present: MYRIAD w/ Opposite People & Aalborg Group @Good Life 9pm 21+ $5  FOLK-ROCK A ROLLIN: Allston Pudding: Avi Jacob, Molasses Jones @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8  EMOTIONAL FOLKOTIONAL: Unraveler, Koala Tea Time, Very Nervous, Jon The Archivist, Daephne @Sublevel 58 (Worcester) 7pm All Ages $5-10 Friday 3/20 Coach Presents a heapin friggin helpin of poppity pop pop punk rock and roll or whatever you wanna think that all should be demarcated as within the greater emo-diaspora obscura courtesy of the Broken World Media flamily plus local and faraway friends Trashlord (Seattle), Yeehaw!, Loose Tooth (Philly), PALTH (it’s an acronym look it up ya nerd) @Democracy Center 6-11:30pm All Ages $10  Barely further away in that selfsame burg of Cambridge, some totally wild MA improvisers will shake out whatever and then let it be what it is. Witness the (un)holy science of Lowell’s Germaine-Wright Duo with Mat Maneri, Eliot Cardinaux, Hugo Abraham, and Kresten Osgood @Outpost186 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Saturday 3/21 What better way to spend a Saturday night that at an underground dance night. And one that specializes in experimental techno and far out electronic sassafras? That’d by SCANNERS brought to you by Open Loop and The Hassle. Tonight they have Pure Matrix (NYC), Solid State Entity (tape release) plus all-vinyl DJ sets by Ali Berger, Andrew Gallagher, & DJ Won’t to keep the night alive. Please to chill with ease. @Deep Thoughts 9:30pm $5-10 sliding scale  Better Days, is an inspirational artifact of kind words of understand. For even rad local cat Craig Lewis writes fantastic helpful books on punk rock and mental illness. His better understanding of this notoften-talked-about epidemic check out A Mental

Health Recovery Workshop with Craig Lewis @ Democracy Center 4-6PM suggested donation $1030 So rad.  EXPERIMENTATION IN SOUND: Open Sound presents: Jack Wright / Matt Samolis / Eric Rosenthal, Carte Noir, Oa, & Pyramid and Shoe @ Third Life Studio, Somerville, 8 pmAll Ages $ome cost  MELLOW ELBOW WHERE INDIE MEETS ROCK SHOW: Coach Presents: Sports., Sleep In(NJ), Fossil Youth (OK), Daephne and Terror Eyes @The JP DRIVE IN 9pm All Ages $5  MY BIG FAT GREEK VENUE: Lesser Knowns, Whistle Jacket, Spectral Bat, SadBeard @Greek Social Club (Somerville) 830pm All Ages $7 Sunday 3/22 Improvesario Steve Norton and nearly a half a dozen lovelies will be ripping through a few pieces with uncanny deftness & acuity & I’m shocked & I’m not surprised & I’m anticipating wildly, a display as divine as such. See Steve, Morgan Evans-Weiler, Howard Martin, Chris Johnson, Michael Rosenstein and Jesse Kenas-Colins @Mobius 8pm All Ages $10 donation accepted  Once at Savers in Nashua, the preferred shop spot of one of my favorite haul video “stars” Arielfan1991, I overheard a mom singing The Eagles’ mid-summer ’‘72 hit “Take Iit Easy” stopping only to remind her rouge-cheeked progeny “you guys love this song!” which they contested as an inaccurate assumption. Few genres prove to be as mildly divisive as DAD ROCK with its innocuous riffage and unrelenting denim, and as such, DJ will be spinning all the classics @ Indo Fourth 6-10pm 21+ Monday 3/23 Go where w00dy goes. There are few performers in our zone who tweak and shriek out electronic beats to get you out your seat. See it. Joined by hip hop leanin electro batterie machines Osiris Fire, John Pon(d) Scum and Théo Mode. And mixing it up for sure with Summervillains. Should be a good one! Get OUT there! @Midway Cafe 8-1:30pm 21+ $5  More to love from Rad Castle night: Sun lions, Dying Falls, Furs @ZuZu 10pm 21+ *Free*

At the time of typing, this individual typer can only hope, while hoping against hope, dreaming against wish, thinking against crouton, that walls of the frozen hellglobe currently encapsulating our Bostonly realm may have all but evaporated in a gentle cloud of steam by this date. Tuesday, March 24th 2015. Chances are it hasn’t and at best we’re dealing with rivers of salt-slush punctuated by jetties of sorrow and supermountains of blackened snow-salt filled with dead rats, lost bikes, discarded Bruins jerseys, chairs, recycling bins, vaccuum cleaners, strollers, and all the rest of everyone’s stupid ass space-saving paraphernalia. Note to future self: If you are reading, if you can still read, I want you to do one thing for me. Please. In the future, smell the dirt. Just stop and smell the dirt. I know it sounds dumb, but you haven’t smelled dirt in, like, 6 months. Dirt has an important smell. Tuesday 3/24

Wednesday 3/25 That home of the humble and unsung show, the Midway Cafe hosts another mind-fried showcase for all those with twisted ears. ResoXnator manipulates hard-blown horns into echo-chamber nightmares. Machine Machine wraps doo-wop samples into modular synth mayhem. Fable Grazer brings the flourishing array of free-form jazz psychedelia. Add some dark drone-scapes from the Penguin Pilots, frenzied punk from Mike Stand Productions and frayed solo electronics from Nathaniel Scaffidi, and you got one hell of a show @Midway 8pm 21+ $5  Epic metal show for the heavy headbangers this night with Torche, Nothing, Wrong @Great Scott. Sadly as of this writing the show is already sold out, but we figured you should know. If you wanna go bad enough, fate will intervene 9pm 18+ SOLD OUT Thursday 3/26 SO we have an out of control show here.. Fucking Invincible, Dropdead, Tinnitus, and V-Sect are coming together to deliver the a real dosage of hardcore. Get your thrash on @Hotel Vernon (Worcester) 8pm 21+ $8  Green Bastard from parts unknown is coming to provide New Hampshire with some stoner metal. Don’t forget yer bong. The rips don’t stop there either. It’s Not Night: It’s Space. Psychedelic group Walrus (Halifax) and duo Lisa/Liza (ME) provide additional vibes for the night. @Red Door (NH) 8pm 5$ suggested donation  GROOVIN JAMS: The Cultured @ Plough & Stars 21+ 10pm *Free* 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.

Friday 3/27 Somehow, against all odds, you have made it this far. If I could, I would give you a pat on the back. But I’m a paper. And you’re a person. It’ll never work out! I’m sorry. Hey while you’re here, I think you should go to this really really great show tonight @Deep Thoughts. Particulars, Fire Death (OH), Gay Shapes, Death Shepherd, LSDV. 8pm All Ages $5-10 donation. Take it from me. I’m a paper, dude  Hardcore punk to major sludge ratio rager tonight @Middle East (Up) where Cancer Bats (ON), Fall victim to a super heavy duty 2:2 Exalt (ON), Gozu, and Rozamov repave the place 8pm 18+ $10  PUNK BANDS YOUR MOM WOULD JUST LOVE: Yeehaw!, Shakusky, Everything Ever (NJ), Fall Risk @Yer Mum’s House (Allston) 8pm All Ages $5  THE SICKEST 10-WAY INTERSECTION IN WORCESTER: Fox Fires, Eaten, Cuban Rebel Girls, Superjerk @Hotel Vernon 8pm 21+ $some Saturday 3/28 There must be more in store for this last Saturday of Feb but for know we’ve got two shows in print put on by people who obviously had their shit together by the compass deadline: OTP, Psychic Dog, The Caught Flies (Day Show) @Midway Cafe 4pm 21+ $5  Lady Bones, Spelling, Rye Pines, Brown Lasers @Lilypad 9:30PM All Ages $7-10 sliding scale  Bridging The Music presents A Local Band Showcase (Day Show) @ Midway Cafe 4pm $TBA  Hard hitting beats and lyrics challenge gentrification, racism and a broken system turning every party into protest. Pink Noise featuring Malportado Kids from Providence, RI. DJ Dayglow plays disco and girl rap. @Milky Way in JP 21+ *FREE*  shakusky, yehaw!, sports, storm, jon the archivist @starlite, southbridge 7pm all ages $5-10  Abadabad, St. Nothing, Skinny Bones, The Symptoms @ Middle East - Upstairs 8:00 PM 18+ $10 Sunday 3/29 It would seem your very own daily debasement has been brought home acutely with episodic swells of inched intensity compliments of Khione’s crystalline cuticles. Whether it’s her snowy, reach around a third rail, rationing of places to plop a car overnight (though the consolation prize of a swank new seat, to those bold enough to view adhoc placeholders as just one form of urban furniture recycling, cannot be overlooked) or just the disheartening single Fahrenheits slowing your roll, shit can only be put off for so long. Illegally Blind has rescheduled this powerhouse roster of Boston pops that were cut down by that V-Day powder dump, and on this very night bring you Abadabad, the saintly solo St. Nothing, soft collage duo Skinny Bones, and the slow-burning electroitch of The Symptoms @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  Have you never been to The Town of Southbridge? Get ready to scratch this CT adjacent city’s moniker (yeah, it’s a city despite being one of fourteen municipalities in the commonwealth that officially have “The Town of…” in its name) off your bucket list because the twinkling stars above are to be mirrored by this emo-darling display of various temperaments including Amherst’s Shakusky, Worcester’s Jon the Archivist, Boston’s Yeehaw! and Sports., as well as the doomy psych duo Storm @Starlite, Southbridge, MA 7pm All Ages $5+  FINAL SHOWDOWN: Bridging The Music presents A Local Band Showcase (Day Show) @Midway Cafe 4pm $TBA  ‘MERICANA: William Joseph & James In Residency Night #5 with special guests: TBA (Night Show) @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5 Monday 3/30 March is going out with a BANG at Rad Castle night - they have glammed out garage queens Fagettes, basement bong rock authorieis Miami Doritos and true bizarro super gyro Gangbang Gordon @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free  Quite literally around the corner from Zuzu you will find a solid metal bill, ain’t talkin about no silver dollar Elder, Worshipper, SET and Leather Lung @TT the Bears 9pm 18+ $10adv/$12dos Tuesday 3/31 Tuesday again. We’ve all been here before. I hope you feel great. If you don’t feel great, that’s OK. It’s gonna be OK. I’m still proud of you. Besides you’ve got April to look forward to. I hear she’s nice. At compiling time there’s only one show on the darn list, and it’s but a pike jaunt out of our fair city in shining Worcester MA. All the way up from the deep south, All People (NOLA) bring their raw, horn-adorned (add-horned?) punk rock n’ roll n’ rock to the world’s biggest DIY space basement accompanied by emotive slobs Kiss Concert and deftly tuneful synth-hangry punks UhHuh @Firehouse  CRUSTCRUSHER Night a night of RAW TUNES for TOTAL FUCKERS!! International Crust and Raw Punk night with DJs Ghost and Sweets Free Pool @RAMROD 10pm 21+ No Cover

WHAT?! An April blurb in the March Compass?! This ain’t no April fool’s joke, we just want to give this show some love: THE FROGS are being channeled by the odd pop and rock of Life Partners, the bizarreness of local freakazoid Donna Parker, and then made a fool by the serious cool of Rob Noyes. Everything is upside down on April 1 dude! Don’t believe anything! Even this! @The Midway 9pm 21+ $ome cost

two some URSULA. It feels that way cause it’s over before you know it and there’s a delay before you start to feel the sting come on. But I guess its not like that because you’d want a kick in the crotch at every heavy show you go to.... naw. Plus up from the most hated of New England states is the dark pulse of OMEI (CT) swatting that hatred back at the world in the form of ambient, industrial noise. Thanks BOW for a fucked up nasty bill at the beloved @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages Don’t hate, donate  The weekly rock gods are good to us, they gave us RAD CASTLE night and for this one they’ve got Dan Webb and The spiders @ ZuZu Mondays of March Beware the Ides! 10pm 21+ *Free*  DIVERSE ROCK: Mines of Paris, Handler, Gina Alibrio, Night Slice @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5

Wednesday 3/32

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HASSLE NIGHT

Men & Volts, The Channels, Lair, and Slendermen (Baltimore)

@ Lilypad 9pm All Ages $5-10

KIDSLIKEYOU&ME

Nice Guys, Nancy (BK), Gymshorts (Providence), and Robot Death Kites (BK) the burger revolution show

@JP Church 8pm All Ages $5-10

RIDE THE SNAKE

Phantom Rides, Blessed State, Worn Leather (CT), and Casanovas In Heat

@Industry Lab 8pm All Ages $5-10

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A L L S T O N P U D D I N G

Krill, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, and Kal Marks

@Great Scott 10pm 21+ $8-10

- 3 / 1 4 St Nothing, Outer Spaces (Baltimore) & Rawhunny

@The Womb 8pm All Ages $5-10

- 3 / 1 6 KTB (Record Release), Father Murphy (Italy), OMEI (CT) and Ursula

@Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10

- 3 / 1 8 Charlie, Candy Truck, Killer Bob (BK), Gaius and Cenobia @ Industry Lab 8pm

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$5-10

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w/ Aalborg Group from Atlanta & Opposite People @Good

Life

9:30pm

21+

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S C A N N E R S

w/ Pure Matrix (NYC), Solid State Entity (tape release), plus all-vinyl DJ sets by Ali Berger, Andrew Gallagher, & DJ Won’t

@Deep Thoughts 9:30pm $5-10

STARS AMONG ME by TD SIDELL

HEY BACKWATERERS, In case you forgot, TD Sidell moved to NEW YORK CITY, and therefore has seen many celebrities. He figured that you guys were sick of trading stories about seeing that bear with a keytar on the T or that dude who dresses up like a yeti or whatever and that he would ENRICH YOUR LIVES with some tales of all the amazing celebs he got to see with his own eyes RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE. This list should appear monthly or until all celebrities leave New York.

ALISON PILL

The East Village, Manhattan GUUUUYYYYZZZZ, so sorry I took last month off. I know, I know—you had a whole month with no famous person news—IT MUST HAVE BEEN HORRIBLE. What did you guys do? Read books? Talk to your nonfamous friends? WHAT A NIGHTMARE! Well, wring out your sad hanky and throw it right in the trash (why wring it out THEN throw it in the trash? Because wet garbage is gross!) BECAUSE I’M BACK AND WITH MORE FAMOUS HUMANS THAT I SAW. Alison Pill was on that show that stunk (The Newsroom). She was the lady whose character was smart but repeatedly told she was stupid and then went to Africa for a minute and then cut her hair and dyed it red? You know who I’m talking about? Well, she was really in a hurry one night in the East Village and totally jaywalked. I failed to make a citizens’ arrest.

ADAM BRODY

The Place I Work, Williamsburg Dudes, I work in a new place now! Adam Brody, the guy who was the “nerd” on The O.C. (never watched it) ate there with his wife who is also a famous? Let me check, yes! She is also a famous! BOOM, two for one DAWGZ! Her name is Leighton Meester apparently! She was on another show like The O.C. or something and made what I’m sure was terrible music! They had dinner and did nothing of note!

AZIZ ANSARI

A Bar, Williamsburg I was just popping into a bar to see a friend and there was Aziz Ansari! He was sitting with some people and didn’t look happy! So I LEFT! Feel better, Aziz! 

tiny editorial Hey jogger, you really need to shove people out of the way on this busy, icy, one-foot-wide sidewalk during this, the time of the Snowpocalypse, huh? I’d say you should shovel something for GoOd cArDiO instead, but actually just fuuuuck you forever and ever. - Katie McCarthy

Advice from a Veteran New England

Stand-Up Comic by LILLIAN DEVANE

First of all: hey bud, if you’re reading this, you’ve already failed. You should be in a Nissan on your way to New Hampshire for a gig. Since you clearly need a professional clue, let me give you some advice on what it takes to be a successful comic. Success means different things to different people. To some, it means destroying everyone’s fucking mind at Kowloon Komedy. To others, it means getting that extra $50 from a booker when the guys at the legion hall laughed so hard they spilled their goddamn Rolling Rocks all over the mini bocce ball court. Whatever your definition, it’s important to make a solid goal for your comedy career so that when you are 17th on a list at an open mic you can walk around with the confidence of a Dice Clay when maybe you’re just a Tosh. Haha don’t worry you can get to Bill Burr if you stay with it, my man. After you have your comedy goal, it’s time to cut the cord. By that I mean break up with your girlfriend (or boyfriend lol gay), lose the family dinners and become a roaming,

BOSTON comedy!!!!! As of this writing, Boston has basically transformed into a bunch of giant, filthy snowbanks. Reader, we pray by the time you are reading this that it’s become manageable. You prob need to laugh in the presence of other human beings for your health. We are grumpy and sore anyway. Here are a few shows we have hand-selected that are worth your while to check out.

Monsters at the Midway WED. 3/11 AT 9PM

Midway Cafe • 3496 Washington St, JP • FREE

Guitler Raphael is a treasure and he is leaving Boston. Aside from having the best giggle in the game, the vividly-told stories of his standup tend to the absurd and probing. He is hosting a show with the hilar Riley Knispel that features some straightup juggernauts of Boston comedy: Tim McIntire, Bethany Van Delft, Ken Reid, Lillian DeVane, Kofi Thomas, and Kylie Alexander. You have zero excuses to miss this show, pending health emergencies, natural disasters, if you are stranded in an Orange Line car for the duration of the show, or your shitty work schedule. Quit that job and see this.

suffering, pain machine. I see my Aunt Bethany once a year and I make her beg me for it. Don’t ever stop driving to Rhode Island, but if you do, shove a loaded burger in your mouth, write a set list on the wrapper, and get the hell back out there. You need CODY PETTENGILL this edge so you can unconvincingly rant about the economy and do high-pitched “women” impressions. Roll down the windows, turn up The Band, and put the load right on the audience in Pawtucket. That’s your Nazareth. TAKEAWAY: Put a bullet in your brain if you blow off a show to visit your mom. You ready for the final brick in the wall of professional comedy? You gotta do everything I just said, every day, for twelve years and then maybe someone will look you in the eye and call you a comic. If you get tired or sick by all means take a day off. But remember that for every day you don’t do comedy, some other guy is and he’s one phone call away in the mind of Seth Meyers, and Seth Meyers doesn’t wanna see you cry like a fucking bottle baby because you didn’t pay your dues. Lenny Bruce is playin’ the pipe for you man—all you gotta do is follow him down the road to Legend Town. Enjoy the journey; it’s gonna blow big time. 

Lee Camp

FRI. 3/13 AT 7PM

Great Scott • 1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston $12 PRE-SALE / $14 NIGHT OF SHOW. 18+ greatscott.com

“[Lee Camp] is like Howard Zinn after 12 beers,” says David Swanson. The comedian and activist takes over an evening at Anderson Comedy’s weekly standup show with his fearless and fresh style. Check out his podcast and YouTube webseries, Moment of Clarity.

Stand Up at Starlab

SAT. 3/21, DOORS AT 7:30PM

Starlab • 453 Somerville Ave., Somerville • $5

Follow the glow of the Union Square Market Basket to one of the most fun new nights of comedy! Funnymen Conor Allen and Sam Ike host a lineup of the sickest local acts. This month, the undisputed Queen of Boston Comedy Sam Jay headlines. She’ll be joined by Ryan Chani and even more folks TBA.

PERSPECTIVES by KEIRA HOROWITZ and CRONOS (TIMELORD) You need advice? Ask Keira & Cronos: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com or anonymously at tardyeagle.tumblr.com/ask

I’m a terrible cook. How can I get started learning without ruining my life?

KEIRA: You are not a terrible cook. OK, maybe you are. But telling yourself that isn’t going to get you anywhere. Call up friends and ask if you can come over to cook something together. You get a free cooking class, they get a meal and you both get the joy of human companionship. I think everyone is really good at cooking one thing. If you can find your one thing, cook the fuck out of it for everyone who helped. I found two things and held a series of dinner parties in 2003 titled “Smoothies and Quesadillas at Keira’s.” Some of my friends from that time still talk to me.

CRONOS, TIMELORD: The most significant aspect of the complex art of cooking is TIME. You must first begin training in time-value sensation recognition. Cronos, Timelord recommends the following basic exercises designed to stimulate evolution of the basal ganglia and parietal lobes of your human brain: • Go to an open field. Walk for five minutes, blindfolded, making use of a digital timer. Repeat 15-25 times until you can walk for five minutes unaided by use of the timer. • Engage in the repetitive action of opening and closing your hands for periods of one minute, aided by timer. Repeat until you can accurately predict the passing of one minute, without timer.

Only once you begin to feel time accurately will you be able to manipulate it. Once you are able to manipulate time, go suck a dick b/c you can’t i’m the only one who can do that (insert picture of dog with wings) (Yes, Timelord. - ed.)

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

What it is about driving a car that makes me such an angry person all of a sudden?

CODY PETTENGILL

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KEIRA: I’m stumped. Two reasons: I’m a well-known cool cucumber and I’m not what one would call a “driver.” And maybe that’s your answer. Lose the car, man. But don’t get on public transportation until you’ve purchased headphones and learned the fine art of leaving your body just enough that you can’t smell or feel others, but you still remember what stop to get off at.

CRONOS, TIMELORD: What is it about your anger that makes driving a car so difficult? Isolate the part of your “self” who is angry. Use advanced time-grapple hook to force the transmuted matter of this energy into a small, black cube. Burn or offer up to the sky. 

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tiny editorial Snow is Boston’s Herpes. - Nick Ortolani

FEATURED FILM SERIES

3 LOST HIGHWAY (1997)

dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE

BLOODY FANTASY 3/13 - 3/16, @BRATTLE WWW.BRATTLEFILM.ORG Much has been made of Game of Thrones’ decidedly unsanitized fantasy world; in a time when cinematic fantasy is defined by the lush, family-friendly panoramas of Peter Jackson’s Tolkien films, the graphic violence and nudity of Westeros feels like a breath of fresh (if slightly icky) air. But what a lot of people seem to forget is that, not that long ago, fantasy films were basically the Wild West when it came to blood, boobs, and beasts. In the heady, pre-PG-13 days of the 1980s very few holds were barred in cinema’s various fairy kingdoms. Just in time for the GOT premiere, the Brattle’s got the cream of the unseemly crop: John Boorman’s dark, Arthurian Excalibur; the traumatizing Disney epic

The first in Lynch’s ‘90s-’00s series of increasingly fractured narratives. Bill Pullman is arrested for possibly killing his wife… whereupon he suddenly turns into teenage mechanic Balthazar Getty. Features a clown-faced Robert Blake in one of Lynch’s creepiest scenes ever.

4 MULHOLLAND DRIVE (2001) dir. David Lynch @BRATTLE

Dragonslayer; schlockmeister Albert Pyun’s awesomely bonkers The Sword & the Sorcerer; and, of course, the original, R-rated, Ahnold-starring Conan the Barbarian. Winter may be coming, but Crom will always rule all. - Oscar Goff

A twisting, turning, calculated collage of plots and time lines converging around one woman's doomed dream of becoming a Hollywood star. A tough film to digest, but, with the proper mindset, it stands as one of Lynch's greatest works.

FEATURED CIN-EVENT NEW LATIN AMERICAN CINEMA 3/4 - 3/18, @MFA WWW.MFA.ORG A relaxed sampling rather than an exhaustive inventory, the MFA’s annual excursion south of the border reliably delivers a selection of intriguing, beautiful, or otherwise fine films. With the exception of Chilean director Cristian Jimenez’ Voice Over - a gimlet-eyed look at one woman’s attempt to live an unplugged year - this latest slender but salutary survey consists entirely of films from Argentina and Brazil. Besides the new Piñeiro (see calendar), promising titles include Benjamín Naishtat’s brooding environmental thriller History

5 LEFT FOOT RIGHT FOOT

(2013) dir. Germinal Roaux @ COOLIDGE God bless the Swiss! Come see this new film featuring Francophone punks in the middle of IT! A young woman is drawn like a moth to the flame of wealth and opulence. How will her world react to her dangerous choices?

of Fear and Gregorio Graziosi’s Obra, in which the discovery of a secret cemetery disinters dirty laundry from Brazil’s recent past. - Matthew Martens

HISTORY OF FEAR (2014) dir. Benjamin Naishtat @MFA Tensions rise with the thermometer in a suburb of Buenos Aires, and the power outages and strange events in town only heighten the paranoia and worry of the residents. A passive look at the sociological phenomenon that is fear. Also screens 3/13 & 3/18.

BOSTON VIEWFINDER

http://www.bostonviewfinder.com BRÛLE LA MER (2014) DIR. NATHALIE NAMBOT & MAKI BERCHACHE 3/5, 7:00PM, FREE! @EMERSON BALAGAN AND FILM ORGANICS PRESENT...

WWW.BALAGANFILMS.COM

Through a fortuitous set of circumstances, Boston gets an opportunity to see a beautiful

new documentary on 35mm before it returns to Europe from a mini-tour of Toronto and New York. "Burn the sea," as the title translates from French, refers to the transcendence of national borders as it is lived and imagined by Maki, the film's 26-year-old subject and co-director, who left Tunisia for France after the chute of his country's government. Through personal testimony, diaristic recordings, poetic visual compositions and verse, the filmmakers construct a gentle (self-)portrait that speaks as much to the immigrant experience in general as it illuminates a specific political situation into which we in the U.S. have so little opportunity for personal insight. Maki became involved in filmmaking after meeting Nathalie Nambot (co-director) and Nicholas Rey (director of photography) at L'abominable in Paris, a unique and inspiring collective film lab where 16mm and super8 footage was painstakingly developed by the filmmakers before being blown up to the gorgeous 35mm print that will be projected at Emerson's gem of a screening space. - Mariya Nikiforova

SOUL: THE DOOMED 6 LOST JOURNEY OF RICHARD

Put an idiosyncratic auteur in charge of a big-budget island shoot filled with dozens of elaborate makeups and add the infamously unpredictable Marlon Brando. What could possibly go wrong? Everything, as seen in this doc on the ill-fated Wells adaptation. Also screens 3/7. Coolidge @ fter Midnite.

11 HARD TO BE A GOD (2014) dir. Aleksey German @BRATTLE

“His hands are in blood and he is in blood.” So says one schmutz-spattered gladiator of another in German’s posthumously completed magnum opus, a hyper-violent, ultragrueling SF allegory set on an alien planet mired in a permanent simulacrum of Medieval darkness. Also screens 3/12.

I love writer/ director Larry Cohen. He’s one of the great independent psychotronic film makers of the 70s and 80s, well known for his gritty, socio-political movies full of police procedural elements that often stray into fantastical territory. The Stuff (1985) is what got me into Cohen’s world (after consuming it of course), but it’s God Told Me To (1976) that’s screening this month in Brookline. It’s not a lot to go on, but when (more) killers (than normal) are giving, “God told me to” as the excuse for their actions, someone should look into it. Tony Lo Bianco does the honors in this one, playing a Catholic cop with “some problems of his own” who begins to put the pieces together. His hunt for the source of the senseless & bloody madness that is plaguing NYC (more than 1970s normal) is the meat and potatoes of this thing. The film goes off the rails at times, getting a little lost in it’s march toward it’s finale, but I assure you: thing get weird!! And who’s that going on one of the killing sprees? Ahh yes, Andy Kaufman in his first film role! I’ve never seen this one in the theater so I will definitely be in attendance, as should you be if X-Files, Larry Cohen, or just plain weird movies is your thing. Can someone please make me a shirt that reads: “Watch Larry Cohen movies”? Just send to the Compass. I’ll get it. - Dan Shea

gious Sundance Film Festival will be screened all through the month of March at the Institute of Contemporary Art, showcasing both fictional and documentary genres. Also screens 3/21.

17 AVENGERS GRIMM (2015) dir. Jeremy M. Inman @BRATTLE

The latest “mockbuster” from The Asylum – the studio infamous for Snakes on a Train and Sharknado! Merlin assembles a supergroup of fairytale princesses to fight Rumpelstiltskin. Similarities to The Avengers or Once Upon a Time may not be coincidental.

20 IT FOLLOWS (2014) dir. David Robert Mitchell @COOLIDGE

Can a horror film be an art film? Survey says… YES! This widescreen tromp through suburbia follows a young woman who inherits a supernatural pursuer that can take any human form. It doesn’t sleep. It doesn’t give up. It follows… Also screens 3/21. Coolidge @fter Midnite.

POLLOCK (2000) dir. Ed Harris @MFA Already looking eerily just like the master abstractionist himself, Ed Harris also delivers an impressive performance and a damn good film as director of this tragic biopic about the volatile artist with a dripping paintbrush, Jackson Pollock.

25 RECORDS COLLECTING

DUST (2015) dir. Jason Blackmore @SOMERVILLE Here we are still scrambling to acquire our individual holy grails on vinyl. But what is the definition of such a sacred object? A musician and filmmaker takes us on a tour of the artists whose memory may only exist on melted wax.

19 WHILE WE’RE YOUNG

(2015) dir. Noah Baumbach @BRATTLE Be the first kid on your block to see the latest bemused snapshot of how we live now (some of us, in New York, with money, and careers in the arts) from the director of Frances Ha (2012) and Greenberg (2010). Director in-person!

30 BLADE RUNNER: THE

2014 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: LIVE-ACTION SHORTS @ICA Forget flying to Utah, the cream of the crop of short films from this year’s presti-

FINAL CUT (1982) dir. Ridley Scott @COOLIDGE A retired detective finds himself on one more job: to track down four android-like replicants hiding out in 2019 LA. The hunt leads him through the grimy, corporate-controlled future and some deep pondering on the meaning of humanity.

PRINCESS OF FRANCE (2014) DIR. MATÍAS PIÑEIRO

STANLEY’S THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU (2014) dir. David Gregory @COOLIDGE

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE GOD TOLD ME TO (1976) DIR. LARRY COHEN 3/13 & 3/14, 11:59PM @COOLIDGE WWW.COOLIDGE.ORG

gressive for its time, the film is now a bonafide classic.

A TALE OF WINTER (1992) dir. Eric Rohmer @BRATTLE The late-bloomer inheritor of the French New Wave presents a wintry tale will excite your hearts in the frigid world that Boston has become. See this cinematic philosopher at his best as his single mother protagonist struggles with the possibility of happiness. Screens through 3/16.

16 ARSENIC AND OLD LACE (1944) dir. Frank Capra @COOLIDGE

Cary Grant is a drama critic whose family is comprised of well mannered, homicidal lunatics in this dark comedy adapted from a hit stage play. Morbidly hilarious and trans-

This beguiling palimpsest nests a production of Shakespeare within a tangle of loves belabored and lost by its participants.

3/14 @MFA

THE LIES OF THE VICTORS (2014) DIR. CRISTOPH HOCHHÄUSLER

3/22 @COOLIDGE Lobbyists are truly the scourge of our era; in this German thriller, they are shown as both vile and engrossing. 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 website BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, shoot us an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com

NEW RELEASES (NOW) SHE’S BEAUTIFUL WHEN SHE’S ANGRY (2014) dir. Mary Dore @COOLIDGE (NOW) BALLET 422 (2015) dir. Jody Lee Lipes @KENDALL (NOW) SONG OF THE SEA (2014) dir. Tomm Moore @KENDALL (3/6) THE SECOND BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (2015) dir. John Madden @COOLIDGE SPECIAL NOTE: At time of printing, there was little information available on new releases. Please check the websites of Coolidge Corner Theatre and Kendall Square CInema for more information.

BRAIN Arts Org's Future Community Space @Near Future Street Greater Boston, MA I'd like to introduce you to BRAIN Arts Org's space. It doesnâ€™t exist yet. It has a capacity of 100â€“200 people and is located in a lived-in area not too far from the train. It hosts live music, art, film events, & performances 7 days a week, offering affordable performance space for all kinds of Boston area music and art performers to hone their craft while entertaining/frightening the local gathered masses. There are art openings all the time, with rotating shows. Workshops and classes in skills such web design, printmaking, illustration, video editing, and sound engineering (to name a few) are offered as part of programming. The space is all ages, but those of age are welcome to imbibe in an area sectioned off just for them. There's even food for sale! This space is also the headquarters for BRAIN Arts Org, the local non-profit that publishes this paper, runs the Boston Hassle website, and currently throws 100+ shows/concerts, art events, artist markets, and festivals every year (*without* a space of our own). I am one of the directors of the BRAIN Arts Org non-profit. Help us make this space a reality. Get in touch. Use SPACE as the subject: bostonhassle@gmail.com -Dan Shea

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