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Counting Freedoms in a Month of Thanks This is the Compass. It’s a newspaper. A free newspaper. And ya know what else? It’s a buncha PEOPLE too! A bona-fide org-an-iz-ation. Mhmm. Yup. Very funny, depending on your outlook. Irrespective of your outlook (no offense, just wait) the one unflinching fact that makes this YOUR Compass is that without fail, this paper will always get into your hands for FREE. And I’m not just talking about the pop definition of “free” as in “no money,” like where you get a gift card for opening a bank account. Oh no, friends. That ain’t free at all. And actually a whole lotta resources (one being money, others being time, energy, and their circumstantial offshoots--mental/emotional stability, good nights’ sleeps, and general feelings of self-actualization) change hands across this hive of individuals hunched over computers and telephones and get launched into the ether before this little paper is finally pressed upon our minor world every and each month. This paper is free because you are free. I hope both stay that way forever.

THANK YOU to everyone who makes this pulpy slice of tree happen, who picks it up or drops it off, reads it or uses it to start a grill. Thank you to all involved in the organizational conjuring arm that is THE HASSLE, and to every radical soul doomed to magnetically spawn in the infinite push that is booking shows in New England; organizing tours, writing songs, making records, and birthing colors of every tint and shade onto the ever-bleakening landscape. You know who you are. Thank you for making it happen. Finally, HASSLE FEST 6. In and of itself HF6 is a gigantic thank-you as much as a you’re-welcome. To Boston, to New England, to the many volunteers donating their time and love, to everyone who shared that damn Indiegogo link, to every label and band involved, and to everyone who fits anywhere in the second paragraph. This round begetting itself ever more rounds-upon-rounds of gratitude, before we get stuck in an infinite thanksgiving feedback loop I better say goodbye. Look out for HF6 and come say hi. See ya out there, November! - Zach Peckham

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HF6 Affiliates: Cradle The Labels Who Set The Table THANK YOU to the incredible record labels who make our world go round. These are the organizations who, scraping to get by, represent and propel the bands, scenes and individuals of the underground music realm. The following (and more beyond them, who will be named next month) literally put it all out there. They donated records and gear to us here, to release onto you for FREE ya hear? That’s right, get to Hassle Fest EARLY for an opportunity to grab swag from the bag of NNA, OSR Tapes, Feeding Tube, Northern Spy, Sophomore Lounge, Bufu, Mexican Summer, Dull Tools, Thrill Jockey, Ride The Snake, K Recs, Goner, Underwater Peoples, Crash Symbols, Blood Oath Slumber Party, Faux Pas, Hidden Temple, Not Not Fun, Primordial Sounds, Ride The Snake, Rotted Tooth, Soundway, YLDMIER and more! Go on n support em. Go on! - Sam Potrykus

Abroad Guerilla Toss Studies The Holy Tossers are moving hand over fist, grass over piss-kettle, and blond over bong as they fly hiiigh over the pond to sow their wild oats all about the glorified peninsula that is EUROPE. While you’re unlikely to catch any of their sets in Spain, Portugal, Germany, France, the UK or Czech Republic, they’ve initiated some preparatory measures you may dig on: a new LP “Smack the Brick” is out on Feeding Tube, Gay Disco gets the NNA analog treatment, and some fine wares that have been tied & dyed in every size. Bless ‘em with a “bon voyage” @HASSLE FEST (11/7). - Anthony Richards

Hand Tattoos For Everyone. Visit Sad Clown City. Proficient in multiple styles and creative enough to take a list of words and construct an entire sleeve, we are all extremely lucky that ELIE FALCON has finally settled back in Boston. Elie is your guy if you want a really weird/ embarrassing body part tattooed OR if you want something really weird/ embarrassing tattooed on your body part OR if you just want to have the best tattoo in the whole world, he can make that happen. Elie will do anything and he’ll do it fast and well. He’s also very handsome. SadClownCity.com SadClownCity@gmail.com Do something you might regret, Jim. - TV

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to STORYCLUB BOSTON Once you know how to look at it, a painting or a shoe or even a bench has a story to tell you. My favorite thing just lately is a show called Storyclub Boston. Simple enough, it’s a show for telling stories. Twice a month KEN GREEN hosts local folks, some of whom have been on stage a lot & some who haven’t. There are stories of all kinds, short & long. A good one might make you snicker or just feel warm all over. One show is @Improv Boston (40 Prospect St., Central Square) at the beginning of the month on a Thursday & one is @Milky Way Lounge (284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain) at the end of the month on a Monday. They’re both from 6:30 PM - 8:00. There’s even an open mic, so you can show up & tell a story of your own. There are themes & little videos & all sorts of extras. So, what’s your story? Dates can be found at www.storyclubboston.com anytime, and there are always flyers at Weirdo too. - Angela Sawyer

ART BLAST.............................................................PAGE 2 Fairs n’ Sales, I’ve Been Everywhere, Man & Out of the Blue TOO.

HASSLE BRIEFS & PURE IMPACT.......................PAGE 3 Institute, Dusted Lux, Sean Nicholas Savage. Pure Impact: DISIPLINE

HERE BE THE SHOWS.....................................PAGE 4-5 Oozing Wound (IL), Priests (DC) and Quintron & Miss Pussycat return!

THE TARDY EAGLE..............................................PAGE 6 10 Things I Hate Right Now, Budgeting 4 TG, Celebs, Advice, ET PLUS

FILM FLAM............................................................PAGE 7 Cultural Meltdown – Documentaries & more. PLUS: FULCI’S THE BEYOND!

COMICS.................................................................PAGE 8 a psychotic palm tree gets crabs from a cactus, bikes away quickly

Death of Death By Audio: Brooklyn DIY Institution Says Peace! Brooklyn’s Death By Audio, a cultural bastion of the NYC, Northeast and entire USA is closing its doors. Originally home to the audio effects company of the same name, DBA started throwing music and art shows in 2007 and maintaining one of the best underground show situations in the city. It’s hallowed murals, hand-programmed video game consoles, smoky concerts and midsummer shows sansAC will not be forgotten! From the dust of great DIY venues come more great DIY venues, though it is hard to accept this impermanence comes with our territory. Death By Audio isn’t going quietly and has some incredible lineups in store to close out its legendary run, like on November 5th: Black Pus, Lair, Bugs & Rats and Pampers! - Matt Robidoux

GRAND OPENING 11/15 for art Co-op in Central For those not in the know, Central Sq’s long standing Out of the Blue Gallery lost it’s home due to the neverending local trend of drastic rent increases. Should be a crime...wait, isn’t it? Gallery owner TOM TIPTON joined forces with HOPE ZIMMERMAN to sow the hardened grave of Blockbuster and bask in the bounty of a brand new art Co-op: OUT OF THE BLUE TOO - ART GALLERY & MORE @541 Mass Ave. We’re talkin’ regular art/craft fairs, readings, classes, workshops, tons of programming for kids and soon enough all-ages shows. Space is sacred and this one’s grand opening is 11/15 11am-9pm. For more information check out the Art Blast on pg 2! - CEEK

Hassle Fest 6 FRIDAY 11/7 @Cuisine en

Locale 6pm All Ages $17-20 Sliding Scale (performance times subject to change) 6.00 Rosie and the Rosies (MA) 6.20 Pigeons (W. MA/NY) 6.40 Particulars (MA) 7.00 Pile (MA) 7.20 Nancy (NYC) 7.40 Burnt Skull (TX) 8.30 Debo Band (MA) 9.00 Inhalants (NYC) 9.30 Nautical Almanac (MD) 10.00 Guerilla Toss (MA) 10.30 Lescalleet/ Drumm duo (ME/IL)

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North Is Back Up Austin, Texas avant-garde folk musician, voracious tour reader and tea drinker RALPH E. WHITE is back on Feeding Tube Records for a second vinyl release. “Waltz Don’t Run”, comprised of all waltzes, ranges from nature waltz, traditional waltz to politico-waltz, like the “Wendy Davis Special thanks to Waltz”. White is a maverick even in the CHOICE sponsors of strange plains of Austin, as steeped in Boston Hassle Fest! Bluegrass as he is in African and Cajun musical tradition and well versed on banjo, kalimba, guitar and voice, at least two at a time. Picked by Feeding Tube for reissue from a recent trio of CD-Rs, this Ralph album is a treat. Grip at FeedingTubeRecords.com and see him live with (New England) Patriots vocalist/Laughable Recordings proprietor Colby Nathan for a slew of upcoming regional dates including 11/15 @Whitehaus (JP). - Matt Robidoux

11.00 No Joy (QC) 11.40 Chris

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Corsano/Bill Orcutt duo (W MA/ CA)

FEST EXTENSION AFTER PARTY @Secret Central Sq Location Hassle Fest wristband REQUIRED for entry! 1.00am Tellavision (GER) 1.20 Homeworld (MA) 1.40 Palberta (NY) 2.00 Free Pizza (MA) 2.30 Downtown Boys (RI)

Schedule! FEST EXTENSION AFTER PARTY @Secret Central Sq Location Hassle Fest wristband REQUIRED for entry! 1.00 Life Partners 1.20 IAN 1.40 Ryan Power 2.00 Bugs and Rats 2.30 Hunnie Bunnies

SATURDAY 11/8 @Cuisine en

Locale 3pm All Ages $17-20 Sliding Scale (performance times subject to change) 3.00 Pete Negroponte & Fat Bobby duo (MA) 3.20 Couples Counseling (MA) 3.40 Old Wave (MA) 4.00 Colin L Orchestra (NYC/MA) 4.25 Tomboy (MA) 5.05 KTB (MA) 5.25 CE Schneider Topical (NYC) 5.45 Jerry Paper (NYC) 6.10 Junkyard (Adam Dreebs) (NYC) 6.30 Quicksails (IL) 6.50 Khaki Blazer (IL) 7.10 Tredici Bacci (Italia) 7.30 Grizzler (MA) 7.50 Le Trash Can (QC) 8.10 Brandon Seabrook (NYC) 8.30 Horselords (MD) 8.50 Hyrrokin (OH) 9.15 Ben Hersey (W MA) 9.35 Blues Control (NY) 10.05 Bill Orcutt (CA) 10.35 Prostitutes (OH) 11.05 Devin Gary and Ross (w/ Kramer) 11.35 Body/Head (NY/CA)

SATURDAY

11am Learn to Knit @BPL (Faneuil Hall) 11/8 & 11/15 12-6pm OPEN STUDIOS @South Boston 11/1 & 11/2

SUNDAY

TUESDAY

6:30-8:30 RECEPTION: Soldiers and Chocolate: Memories of the Occupation @French Cultural Center Now-12/1

WEDNESDAY free after 4 wednesdays at the mfa 5:30-8:30pm ARTIST TOOLBOX CART: Furniture Design @Gallery 134 6-7pm TALK: Pure Souls: The Jain Path to Perfection @Sharf Visitor Center 6-9pm Drawing in the Galleries @MFA // Every Wed. 6:15-7:15pm TALK/TOUR: Highlights of the Museum Collections // Every Wed.

@Goethe-Institut Boston (Beacon Hill) 11/13-11/15

MUSICIANS ON THE ROAD @Nave Annex (Davis Sq.) RECEPTION: 11/6 6-8pm STORYTELLING: 11/12 7-9pm ON VIEW: 11/6-11/22

Man, the ICA has been upping their Free programming on Thurs nights and all you gotta do to take advantage is get there. Senior curator, JENELLE PORTER is as effortlessly cool as she is worldly (probably by default) and acts as moderator in this conversation with artists FAITH WILDING and BERYL KOROT whose installations are featured in her latest passion project, FIBER: SCULPTURE 1960-Present. These artists have been keeping the conversation current since the 1970s regarding women, art, material and even technology. Listen and learn at another absorbing edition of THE ARTIST’S VOICE. www.ICABoston.org - CEEK

FRIDAY

1-7pm Tinderbox: Amy Flaherty @Mobius (Central Sq) 1:30pm Fine Arts Speaker Series: Michelle Brown @Lesley University 5pm First Friday Art Walk @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 6-8:30 RECEPTION: Jocelyn Chemel and Mercè López Agustí @New Art Center (Newton)

FIRST FRIDAYS in the SOUTH END 5:30-8pm Staring Into Space @Kingston Gallery 5:30-8pm Just Gaming @Laconia Gallery 5:30-8pm Craig Drennen @Samsøn Now-11/30

8+9

freakin weekend

12-6pm OPEN STUDIOS @Allston Arts District

Among Boston’s most eclectic art events, this annual exhibition features the work of artists majoring in MassArt’s experimental Studio for Interrelated Media. The 26th installment of this student-run production will feature multimedia art including performance, sound, movement, installation, film, and other work in dimensions 2 through 4. SIM kids are known for their fresh, concept-driven, and sometimes controversial work; the evening is sure to bring some welcome surprises. SIM.Massart.edu - Melanie Bernier

LABOUR IN A SINGLE SHOT

I’VE BEEN EVERYWHERE, MAN:

@ICA (Fort Point) 7pm

ON VIEW: 11/13-11/2o

THURSDAY

ANTJE EHMANN and HARUN FAROCKI’s globetrotting workshop has produced almost 450 new student video works from 15 different cities around the world, all inspired by the first movie ever made, Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895 dir. Lumière brothers, France). These collaborative new works are consistent with the original film in theme and style but roam free otherwise, prompting new thoughts and perspectives to consider the very notion of labor - socially, historically, and logistically. Sit in on a revelatory convo with scholars and participants alike or check out an exhibit of selected videos from throughout the 3 year span of workshops. www.Labour-in-a-Single-Shot.net - CEEK

FRIDAY

1:30pm Fine Arts Speaker Series: Karen Dolmanisth @Lesley University 2pm CURATOR’S TOUR: Thea Djordjadze @MIT List Center Now-1/4 6-8pm RECEPTION: Illuminated: A Photographic Essay of Holiday Lights @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 6-9pm RECEPTION: After Itself @Fugitive Arts Project Space (Northampton, MA) 11/11—11/23

SATURDAY

11am-9pm GRAND OPENING PARTY @Out of the Blue Too Gallery (Central Sq) 12-5pm Fugitive Multiples Fair @Fugitive Arts Project Space (Northampton, MA)

sunday

1-6pm Art/Craft Fair @Out of the Blue Too Gallery (Central Sq) 11/30 1-5pm Wrap Around Sale @Nave Gallery (Somerville)

WEDNESDAY

OPENS: Adriana Varejao @ICA Boston 11/19—4/15/15

SMFA Lecture: Eva Lundsager @Alfond Auditorium (MFA) 12:30pm From afar, EVA L U N D S AG E R ’s oil paintings read like landscapes, vibrant in hue and collage-like in form. On closer inspection you recognize large swaths of color, clusters of dots and paint dripping in close rows. Whether in vivid yellows and pinks or more subdued tones, her paintings are rapturous, delirious interpretations of a curious world. Lundsager received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Painting in 2003; her work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Bomb and Art in America. SMFA welcomes Lundsager as part of their ongoing Visiting Artist Lecture Series. www.EvaLundsager.com - Scout Hutchinson

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA 5:30-8:30pm ARTIST TOOLBOX: Marble @Gallery 255 6-7pm TALK: Yankee Punch @Sharf Visitor Center

c h e c k o u t B o s t o n H a s s l e . c o m / A r t

COMPASS KETCHUP

@MassArt (Mission Hill) 7pm

times vary ARTIST RESPONSE: Bea Camacho on Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present @ICA // FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm 12:30pm SMFA LECTURE: Michael Bühler-Rose @Alfond Auditorium (MFA) 6-8pm RECEPTION: StereoType: New directions in typography @BSA (Downtown) 11/13-5/25

6pm OPENING: Craft & Modernity: Professional Women Artists in Boston @BUAG 11/7-12/19 6pm PERFORMANCE: Open Tunings: Brendan Fowler @List Reference Gallery (MIT) Now-1/4/15 6pm Grow Angry Slowly @Aviary (JP) 11/6-11/30 6-8:30 MCC Artist Fellows & Filnalists in Painting @New Art Center (Newton) Now-11/15

tALK: Faith Wilding and Beryl Korot

thursday THE SIM BIG SHOW 2014

5:30-8:30pm ARTIST TOOLBOX CART: Painting @Gallery 255 6-7pm TALK: Signs and Symbols in Medieval and Renaissance Art @Sharf Visitor Center

TUESDAY

Talk about a love/ hate relationship. Being “On Tour” is one of those magical adventures that musicians undergo as a rite of passage. Curator JENN H A R R I N G TO N brings together over twenty musicians’ memories and memorabilia from their touring times including photographs, video and live storytelling. If you are a musician, lover or (better yet) both, you’ll want to take this peek behind the scene. It’s all about the journey folks. www.NaveGallery.org - James Moore

free after 4 wednesdays at the mfa

12-6pm OPEN STUDIOS @South Boston 7-10pm ZINE RELEASE PARTY: Coming Soon #7 @Maverick Marketplace (East Boston)

WEDNESDAY

12:30pm SMFA LECTURE: Juan Williams Chávez @Alfond Auditorium (MFA)

20-23

u already know

10am-8pm SMFA Art Sale @First Floor, SMFA

friday

TBD Danny Cruz’s Scandalous Glampire @Fugitive Arts Project Space (Northampton, MA) 11/28—12/3

sunday

1-6pm Art/Craft Fair @Out of the Blue Too Gallery (Central Sq)

ONGOING ART LISTINGS

Boston cultural denizen, MONA MARUYAMA could be defined in so many ways...artist, photographer, illustrator, musician, designer, badass...but who wants to be defined by titles?? Besides, she’s got some selfies to help with that. This lady plays by her own rules and that’s just how we like it here at the Hassle. Her work as a show photographer and flyer artist help to visually define the Boston music scene and document part of what’s happening right now. These two tasks she regularly takes on are so vital, and yet possibly underappreciated as art forms. As a photographer, she consistently captures the raw energy from the band/crowd/space, all within a single photo. While an exceptional eye for composition and perspective aren’t hurting her, it’s her experience as a musician that’s got her so in tune with where to shoot and when. At the same time, her flyers help to get that crowd to go to that space & listen to that band a & create all that energy that needs capturing. Mind melt. Making a good flyer is more than meets the eye. This is communicating a lot of information in a clear and attractive way so that it stands out on a wall of a hundred other flyers trying to do exactly the same thing, while depicting the spirit of the event itself. Tuff stuff. Unless you’ve got an arsenal of artistic skills to help. It’s Mona’s fearless pursuit of different endeavors that may be the secret to the sauce here. Dare we say, by challenging herself and trying various mediums, Mona gets better at each? That sounds about right, and there’s no end in sight as she continues to explore her own boundaries (or lack thereof). To think of all that’s to come from this freshly minted 21 year-old San Diegan living in Jamaica Plain. Lucky us that she’s here now. www.MonaMaruyama.com - CEEK

@MFA FREE EVERY WEDNESDAY AFTER 4PM @ICA FREE EVERY THURSDAY AFTER 5PM Now-11/15 Great Acceptations by Pat Falco @GRIN (Providence) Now-11/22 PEOPLE OF EARTH! @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) Excellent Swiss Design @Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery (MassART) Cathy Wysocki: Suffer a Sea-Change @HallSpace (Dorchester) Now-11/25 Brian Knep + Natalie Andrew: Making Art | Doing Science @Suffolk U Art Gallery (Downtown) Now-11/30 Pure Souls: The Jain Path to Perfection @MFA Labour in a Single Shot @Mills Gallery (South End) Now-12/4 Mario Kon and Beverly Sky’s “Narrative/ Non-Narrative: Two Artistic Approaches” @Fort Point Arts Community Gallery Now-12/5 Big Picture II @Atlantic Wharf Gallery BULLICIOS Leonardo March @Villa Victoria Center for the Arts (South End) Now-12/6 Susan Metrican: Sun’s Hideout @Proof Gallery (South Boston) Now-12/7 Fore-casted @Gallery 360 (Northeastern U) Now-12/9 Bradford Washburn: Vintage Photographs @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore) Now-12/14 Convergence @808 Gallery (BU) Now-12/21 Simon Fujiwara: Three Easy Pieces @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard U) Now-12/28 Jamie Wyeth @MFA Now-1/4 Fiber: Sculpture 1960-present @ICA Larry Rivers: The Boston Massacre @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Jasper Johns: Picture Puzzles @MFA Now-1/15 Reading Time: Visual Timelines, Texts and Canons @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Now-1/19 Goya: Order and Disorder @MFA (Fenway) Now-2/2 Small Worlds: Through a Small Glass Window: Josh Falk @Arnold Arboretum (JP) Now-2/16 Truth and Beauty: Pictorialist Photography @MFA D is for Design @MFA Now-3/1 Shinique Smith: Bright Matter @MFA Now-3/8 Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen @MFA Now-6/14 Over There! Posters from WWI @MFA Now-6/30 Matthew Ritchie: Remanence @ICA Now-8/7 Producing Subjects @Dean’s Gallery (MIT LIST Center) ongoing Expanding the Field of Painting @ICA

BE PART OF OUR NEXT

BLACK MARKET w/ IGNORE ROCK’N’ROLL HEROES @Cambridge Elks Lodge Sunday, December 14th 1:30-7:30pm sell your art, zines, records, clothing, jewelry, crafts, music, prints, vintage, advice, tarot card readings, you tell us…

NEW HARVARD GALLERY

After four years in the making, the ETHELBERT COOPER GALLERY OF AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN ART opened its doors late last month in the heart of Harvard Square. Designed by world-renowned Ghanaian-British architect DAVID ADJAYE, the gallery sits behind a remarkable façade of vertical wooden planks, inspired by the forests of Ghana, in a repurposed commercial space tucked behind Peet’s Coffee. An extension of Harvard’s HUTCHINS CENTER FOR AFRICAN & AFRICAN-AMERICAN RESEARCH, the Cooper Gallery is the first Harvard gallery dedicated entirely to African and African American art. The inaugural exhibition, LUMINÓS/C/ITY. ORDINARY JOY: FROM THE PIGOZZI CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN ART COLLECTION, is co-curated by Adjaye and MARIAN IBRAHIM-LENHARDT, founder and curator of Seattle’s M.I.A. Gallery, and features the work of 21 artists from across the globe selected from the extensive Pigozzi Collection of Contemporary African Art, some of which have never been publicly seen. Be on the lookout for artist talks, lectures, and workshops as this new space unfolds and be sure to catch this ground-breaking show before it comes down on January 8, 2015! - Sydney Kinchen

NUGS OF KNOWLEDGE Expand your aesthetic literacy at one of the Boston Public Library’s BOOK SALES this month. 11/8 @BPL (Brighton) and 11/15 @BPL (Honan-Allston) from 10am-4pm. From art & reference books to collage materials, find what you weren’t looking for.

RIPExpo (Rhode Island Independent Publishing Expo) is taking submissions for their epic expo of 2015. If you’re publishing your own thing get submitting at RIPExpo.tumblr.com by 11/12 to join the fun @Providence Public Library 3/28 & 3/29. Do it.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY’s always relevant and thought-provoking CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS just began a two-year residence with MARTIN BECK called Program. This includes interventions, installations, events and publications all taking their cue from the school’s past exhibits and visual arts curriculum. Stay tuned to page 2 for details throughout Beck’s stay ending October 2016. CCVA.Fas.Harvard.edu/Beck-Residency

If you were a good boy or girl and read your News and Nods this month, you know that Out of the Blue Too Gallery @541 Mass Ave (Central Sq) is going to be having Art/Craft Fairs on the regular. If you’re a creative, crafty creature looking for a place to sell send three photos of your work to OOTBGallery@gmail.com. There’s a $5 one-time application fee. - CEEK

Recent band profiles from www.boston hassle.com

Doug Linse

Dusted Lux

Places We Used to Go

Neverended

self released (2014)

BOSTON E L S S A H BRIEFS

NEVERENDED is the Want to go on a road trip but don’t have time, funds, and/or a working vehicle? latest album of lush folksy Put on PLACES WE USED TO GO. The newest full-length from JP bedroom ambiance by DUSTED LUX, pop auteur DOUG LINSE, Places is a potent mixture of grand gestures and the solo project of Hartford, lofi closeness, like a long sunset through a passenger-side window. Linse’s got Connecticut’s LEE CAMFIELD. a classic rig — drum kit, guitars, multi-tracked harmonies, the occasional burbly Following 2012’s Canopy, Neverended synth — and a brain tuned to classic alternative. In these ten songs, he uses shows the artist continuing to refine and these touchstones to conjure up aimless freedom, slow-burning contentment, develop his aesthetic, which is now pretty and a generalized nostalgia for things personally unexperienced. singular. Sparse acoustic wanderings are Opener “All Falls to Pieces” slips through the door, eases the off-set by waves of static and other more erratic engine over, and backs out of the driveway as purposefully and quietbackground noises, like the sound of Camfield’s ly as possible — hitting the road with a snare brush, basically. When fingers on the guitar strings. Meanwhile, more tradithe song crescendos five minutes in, you can almost see the dew tional guitar melodies are enveloped in far out, organic streaming off the windshield. From there, we’re into the highway soundscapes. The dominant emotions on this album, namely freedom of “Causeway,” which takes the album from 15 to 90 peace and contentment, flit about with an easy grace like difand veers into a piano-pounding bridge, a choral break, and ferent colored dyes seeping through cotton, blending together an unexpectedly sweet acoustic closeout. and taking on new colors. What moments of tension exist tend to Other highlights include buzzy retro-ballad resolve into gentler tones. “Television Star” and slow-burning funk invocation One of the most surreal things about this album is the juxtaposition, “Happy?” — both take on well-trodden lyrical tercarried out with a delicate touch, between analog sounds and recurrent ceritory, but manage to leave behind shiny new lestial, electronic drones. The occasional visitation of Camfield’s voice, piano, oil slicks. Sometimes the best trips are the or rhythm section, even an organ towards the end of the album’s longest track ones you already took. “What is True,” give the album a free, ever-changing sort of fluidity. And speaking - Cara Giaimo of vocals, while they come out more boldly on the short titular track, they mostly take the form of a soft falsetto lurking about behind the instrumentation, lending a sense of finality to the album. Overall, it’s a gorgeous listen sure to please admirers of ambient music and drone. -Damon Hastings

Sean Nicholas Savage Bermuda Waterfall Arbutus Records (2014)

The latest album from prolific Canadian artist SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE, is a collection of ambient pop ballads with a clear taste for the 80’s. The tracks are smooth and nostalgic, full of longing and electric keyboards. BERMUDA WATERFALL begins with haunting vocal melodies layered over island-ready percussion. After a brief instrumental intro, the Institute aptly named song “Naturally” carries on the easy, rhythmic sound. Mellow and tender, the lead single sets the tone for the rest of the album. Giddy Boys 7” Prominent, clear vocals steer the lyrically strong “Heartless” farther from the beach. Accentuated drumbeats pave the way for a subtly harsher take on romance, as SAVAGE CreaturoS reflects on the effects of his “obsessive jungle pride.” Katorga Works (2014) The album dips a little further into despair with the song “Empire”. The track is Popsicle heavy with heartbreak but retains a groove that still feels light enough to move Jittery, tense, and unrefined, post-punk out of Austin is the short to. Savage’s empire may be falling apart, but the slow destruction echoed in his story of INSTITUTE. Brooklyn’s KATORGA WORKS, fine purveystraining voice is beautiful and an emotional high point on the album. Primordial Sounds (2014) ors of left of center punk & hardcore, do the honors for the latest It all ends on a hopeful note with the song “Somethings Never Die” SavNice move release by the band, the GIDDY BOYS 7″ (following in the wake age optimistically reflects, “Some things never die, beautiful things like from rock & rollof a 12” on Deranged and a cassette). Not much out there about you and I.” It’s affirming and upbeat in an airy, electric way that stays ers CREATUROS these guys, but really who cares anyway. More opportunity to true to the album as a whole. here to release an odds focus on the music. The new 7″ is a 3 song-er that you can listen to The dreamy album is SEAN NICHOLAS SAVAGE’s 11th since and sods cassette of some in full on the Hassle site. “Giddy Boys” is apparently a song good 2008, and like many before, was released by Montreal friends of their unreleased goodies enough for the band to name the 7″ after it, and I’m in agreement. ARBUTUS RECORDS. -Carrie McMahon from 2010 to 2014. Titled POPStarting of with a tumbling guitar line that seems like it could even SICLE (how Cosby-licious!), this go off in some Beefheart direction (it doesn’t), this song is of the collection of post-Doomstar work brand of post-punk that veers closer to punk rock, than any sort from the Boston foursome is much more *As always visit www.bostonhassle.com of alien variety of non-punk music. The drums sound awesomely than a lackadaisical afterthought and nicefor vids and streams of all the artists and crisp (martial in a total Crass manner), the bass sneaky as a fucking ly showcases the band doing some of their albums profiled here! + If you think you know snake. The guitar playing is interesting for sure and the vocals nondeadliest work on tape yet. As anyone who lissomething about contemporary music, chalant, for the most part( in a good way), getting a little more frentens to lots of classic rock can attest to, sometimes or simply want to GO FOR IT, send us zied when it is necessary. It’s that post-punk & punk thing. It’s not these random b-sides flavored collections can be an email and we’ll get you in the mix, one or the other. No orthodoxy here, so that will disqualify this as your favorite records. So there you go. stat! Interviews, album profiles, punk to many. 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MUSIC WRITING) “Weird Queen” offers sunken treasure mid-measure drum fills, twinkly har*** monies and spooky Who chords that reveal the musical talent behind the styled garage mayhem. Some Nuggetsy jams round out the set, such as the San Fran electric folkrock fuzz “Sunrise Wedding,” the butt-rockin fun of “Short Shorts” (pun intended), and the jingle jungle/4-beer delay of “Hand in my Pocket.” Without a doubt, CreaturoS is a band that would have had a big record contract in the ’90s, back when there was a proper *music industry.* Don’t let their semi-chill profile fool As I sit and try to arraign the 150 words this column is confined to I you into thinking they won’t destroy you. - Jonathan Donaldson

The Haley House was founded in 1966 in Boston’s South End as a soup kitchen with free lodging for the local homeless community. Over the decades their non-profit work has expanded to include affordable housing, organic farming, a food pantry, cooking classes and job training, and the Haley House Bakery & Café at 12 Dade Street in Roxbury’s Dudley Square. At the Café Bostonians enjoy delicious fresh food with ingredients from nearby farms. Meals are prepared by chefs from the Transitional Employment Program (TEP) to support those formerly incarcerated with their societal reintegration. The atmosphere is relaxed and inviting, with special pay-as-you-will meals, rotating exhibitions by local visual artists, lectures organized in partnership with Discover Roxbury on local history and culture, and Nina LaNegra’s jubilant and engaging Thursday night “Art is Life Itself!” music, poetry, open mic and discussion series. Every November since 1996, to finance their grassroots efforts addressing our society’s most pressing problems, the Haley House holds an Annual Thanksgiving Pie Drive. TEP trainees bake the pies from scratch in the Café kitchen. This year seven varieties are available including two gluten-free options, with proceeds benefiting TEP. Some patrons buy one or two for their Thanksgiving table while others purchase dozens and donate them to the food pantry. Still others volunteer to be Pie Captains, spearheading company-wide bulk pie purchases at their places of work. This year’s Pie Drive goal is 1,500 pies. Do your family, community and tummy a favor by driving some pie home, would you? Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

think “maybe I should write about all the amazing events I was able to be a part of this past month”. But really what good is that? Those moments have passed.

DISIPLINE

“If you want to be a Punkthan you have got to be a Punk.”

Members: Disipline Daddy: Vox Slam Pig: Drums Animal Mother: Bass Ronron The Dom: Guitar Influences: Misfits, Faggot, Laci Green Lyrical Content: All the songs are about sex or sex related things. Topics range from hot queer satanic sex, to examining/challenging social power structures we normalize around sex, e.g. Rape Culture, Fat-Phobia, Heteronormativity. Releases: We have a 5 song demo out, and just finished up recording a full length. Future: The Full length should be out early next year, and we should be touring around then too. Closing Statement: PRACTICE CONSENT! BE QUEER AND DESTROY! FUCK THE NORM!

Since we (the unpaid writer slaves of the Compass) broke (always) up the days we write, I consider myself lucky to get the first day of the month. Let me begin this month by addressing the month itself: Hello November, you chilly brat! Though your weather begins to nip us, we nip back, staying OUT despite old man winter’s taunting breeze. Mad shows. It’s madness, really. Lettuce begin: Boston Hassle presents HASSLE NIGHT @Lilypad w/ the electronic ruses of Foxes in Fiction (Toronto), Mister Lies (NYC), Emily Reo (NYC) and the beloved and much needed Couples Counseling 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Saturday 11/1

• Meanwhile, Hassle underground cohorts BOW Shows play host to brutal thrash-metal heads Oozing Wound, straight outta Chicago, scary topical hardcore hurricane Ancient Filth and the new, nasty beats of GANGS featuring two known and lowdown scene rejects @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation • ALL-CORE: Polysonic Joy, Gnärds (Worcester), Glazer (New Brunswick) @TT the Bear’s 3pm 21+ $9 • COVER YOUR FEARS: AjDIO of the Dead presents… lack Sabbath? (as Black Sabbath), AjDIO (Ronnie James Dio/ Rainbow/Heaven & Hell/Black Sabbath), Kicked in the Teeth (Bon Scott-era AC/DC) Rocket Queen (Gunsn’Roses) @Midway Cafe Doors at 8:30pm 21+ $10 • CRIMP ON IMPROV: Caroline Park + Asha Tamirisa, Austin Vaughn (solo percussion), David Shapiro (solo guitar) and more TBA @Washington Street Arts Center All Ages • BASS MINT ELECTRO ROCK: Volatile Colour (TX via Mexico City), Mini Dresses, Indian Twin, Holiday Music @The Womb 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale • NOISE JOY: Curse Purse, E (featuring Thalia Zedek and Jason from Neptune), Banditas and Gondoliers @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $9 • NEW HAMPSHIRE: Larkin Poe (Atlanta), Benjamin Cartel @The Red Room Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $12 doors $10 in advance • OUT IN WORCESTER: Shining Wizard (Montreal), The Grudges, Secret Lover (Worcester), Glazer (New Brunswick) @Distant Castle 8pm All Ages $5 • GOOD DUDE CELEBRATION: Plunge into Death (V1), Planet of (mis)Adventure, a bit o’ Scrapple, Choad Island, Screamies, Guest DJs by Rev Al & Sam. Maybe other stuff @Cambridge Elks Lodge Free 8pm Sunday 11/2 Turned on Science Friday just in time to catch some fresh findings: intelligence is strongly shaped by living in the world. Hmm. Turns out, so is the crafting of a cabinet of complicated curiosities, opinions and insecurities that make up the genetic hodgepodge you call a temple. But don’t take it for granted, it’s when shit starts breaking down that you wish you’d at least humored a multivitamin or passed over a crunch wrap or two of any flavor. Whether or not you and your body are on speaking terms, perhaps y’all should settle on one of a few enticing entrées we’ve got a la carte: All the reasons to weep you did not realize were inside of you will surely well up once caught in the sonic wave of Bedroom Eyes, Wing Dam (Baltimore), Bummed and Brown @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $7 • Aminals bring not only their A-Game, but a new record AND the cutest moniker in Bay State post-hardcore [citation needed], along with a short list of heavy rockers, incl. Actor/Observer, Black Elm, Shroud, and Grave Hate thanks to Eye Design @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 • Little Bazaar presents Winter Market: music, homemade, home aid, & artisanal goods from local farmers & producers @Mill No. 5 (Lowell) 10am All Ages

Monday 11/3 It is Monday. You can count on Monday. It’s consistent. Take Rad Castle Night @ZuZu for example. EVERY Monday there are top bands of the region playing in one of the most comfortable, welcoming bars in the Cambridge area with some sort of cool out of towner. Our spoon didn’t get the full scoop this month but check the Chosen Shows calendar online, cause they’ll probably be up there in no time. • Another ALWAYS for your monday night is The Series @Weirdo Records. Tonight they have Brittany Karlson & friends rompin around with sound, 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. • And just over one of them bridges, Allston Pudding presents a nice little indie pop and rock soiree with Brazil, Coke Weed (ME) and Mini Dresses @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $10 • GODDAMN ROCK: Coach presents... Luau, Alaska (NV) Twin Cities (NV), Districts (Lowell) and Secoue (NY) @TT’s 7:30pm 18+ $8 in advance, $10 at the door.

Tuesday 11/4 Get real. It’s not often us peons receive open invites to listen and chinstroke amongst the upper echelons of musical academy, so when one such opportunity presents itself we’re wont to pounce it like cheetahs in a rainstorm. That happens sometimes, right? Anyway, tonight an especially special performance is taking place down at the New England Conservatory with The Music of John Zorn: A 35 Year Retrospective w/ Q&A + performances by NEC faculty/student ensembles, headed up, as you’d guess, by none other than the Department of Improvisation. Literally. @NEC Jordan Hall (Gainsborough St., Boston) 7pm talking/8pm playing All Ages FREE • Down at JP’s residence of reticence, discover hidden meanings within the walls of @Midway Cafe utilizing Al Marantz and the Piffs, Phaze, Streight Angular, and Con Tex and the Forgotten Jam as psychic mediums starting at 9pm 21+ $5 • FACE THE RADIO: WZBC presents Coma Cinema, Potty Mouth, Ben Katzman’s Degreaser @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $13adv/$15dos • CLEAN THE GARAGE, KID: Eye Design presents Zip-Tie Handcuffs (record release), Nice Guys, Midriffs @Middlesex 9pm 21+ $5 • HISS YOURSELF: The Stasi, Cheri Love, Chemiplastica, The Holidays, AAA @Cedar Closet (Hadley) All Ages 8pm $donate$ • INDLY: Elephants, Swansea (PDX), Lady Pilot @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $7 • IT’S A METAL SHOW, DUDE: Wolvhammer (IL), Mortals (NYC), LIVVER, Stranger Presented in part by Ammonia Booking @TT’s 8pm 18+ $8 adv. online (no fee) or $10 dos. • Punk’s DEAD! Every Tuesday Night at RAMROD. Boston’s ONLY weekly Punk DJ night. Free Pool for the Punks! @Ramrod 10pm 21+ FREE

When you tire of typical shows and yer head holes yearn for something spicier, get off the beaten path and follow Non-Event down the mole hole into a subterranean world of eccentric sounds. Tonight Wednesday 11/5

they return to the beautiful and relatively little known @Waterworks Museum, where English experimental producer/composer Mark Fell plays a unique performance ‘long mix Boston among the mesmerizing acoustics of brass pipes and leaky faucets. Make sure to RSVP to info@waterworksmuseum.org or call 617-277-0065. 6:30pm All Ages $10 sugg. donation •Suck down another hot blast of raw punk power with VIOLENT PARTY VOL. 65 featuring post-punks Lost Tribe (Richmond, VA), Creeping Dose (NYC), plus sick locals Cringe, black metal bruisers Human Bodies, and Stranger @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7pm All Ages $9 •FREE-FORM CARNIVAL FULL OF CHAIRS: Cheap Seats 23 @The Y Theater 7pm All Ages $5-10 Thursday 11/6 If you’re still reading

this, chances are you’re searching for something a bit different. Peek under some Allston stones and you’ll discover some strange critters making sounds in the night.

Local yokels Big Buck Hunter and Sun Young are taking their idiosyncratic garage pop abroad, and they’re summoning ludicrous loungers Spooky Dangerfield and pop pleasers Harm @Ask A Freak 8pm All Ages Donate • Or you could hop across town to Inman Square and get your dose of weird pop with more electronic flavoring. JP mod-synth madman Dinnersss stimulates hidden senses, Couples Counseling delivers bedroom therapy session, Northampton’s Home Body startles with stark, soaring with twisted synths, and Citrusphere similarly stokes that inner fire @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $10 • CUT UP PUNK, HEAVILY TOSSED : Screaming Females, Pujol, Mean Creek, The Young Leaves @TT’s 8:30pm 18+ $12 • SUNNY SOOTHING STATIC SYNTH POP: Big Baby presents TV Girl, Millionyoung, Tellavision, W00DY @Whose Haus 8pm All Ages Donate • INFECTIOUS MINIMAL HOUSE: Make It New: Bob Moses @Mmmmaven 9pm All Ages $ome cost •HEADBANG QUICK AND EASY: Kal Marks, Notches, Lady Bones, Superdude @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8pm 21+ $5 • SULTRY SLOWBURN CROONS: Margaret Garrett (Mr Airplane Man), Police Kittens, Norman B @Mystery Train Records 6:30pm All Ages Donate • PEOPLE TELLING TALES TALL & SHORT: Storyclub Boston @ImprovBoston (40 Prospect st., Cambridge) 6:30pm all ages free • FLOURISHING FIDDLER & FRIENDS: notloB: The Katie McNally Trio, featuring Neil Pearlman and Shauncey Ali @ Carriage House Violins’ (1039 Chestnut Street, Newton Upper Falls) 7:30pm all ages $15 $10 students and seniors • AUTO-TUNRNT UP SMOOTH CROONERS: Mansions on the Moon @Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $15

Friday 11/7 Welp, here ‘tis. That thing we’ve been dumpin’ our lives into for the last fiscal quarter finally comes to fruition. Boston Hassle presents… ahem… HASSLE FEST 6!!! @Cusine en Locale w/ Chris Corsano/Bill Orcutt duo, No Joy, Jason Lescalleet/ Kevin Drumm duo, Guerilla Toss, Nautical Almanac, Inhalants, Debo Band, Burnt Skull, Nancy, Pile, Particulars, Pigeons, Rosie and the Rosies

• Right aft, slaketh thine thirst evermore with the HF6 FEST EXTENSION @Secret Central Square lowkeyzee w/ Life Partners, IAN, Ryan Power, Bugs and Rats, Hunnie Bunnies. My whole body hurts. • FUN N’ FILTH: Screaming Females, Whore Paint, Pujol, Downtown Boys @Spark City (Providence) 9pm All Ages $9-15 • HORRIFYING NOISE: Horror Vacui (Italy), Stranger, Sewer Goddess, Xiphoid Dementia @BatHaus JP 7pm all ages $7

OH SHIT. It’s the biggest day of the biggest fest and it’s happening right now! Boston Hassle presents… Boston Hassle Fest 6 @Cuisine en Locale with the humongous headliners of Body/Head (Kim Gordon, Bill Nace duo), Devin Gary and Ross (w/ Kramer), Prostitutes (Cleveland), Bill Orcutt (CA), Blues Control (Queens), Ben Hersey (W. Mass), Hyrrokkin (OH), Horse Lords (Baltimore), Brandon Seabrook (NY), Le Trash Can (Montreal), Grizzler, Tredici Bacci, Khaki Blazer (OH), Quicksails (Chicago), Junkyard (Adam Dreebs, NYC), Jerry Paper (Brooklyn), CE Schneider Topical (NY), KTB, Tomboy, Colin L Orchestra (NY), Old Wave, Couples Counseling, and Pete Negroponte & Fat Bobby duo. After that, from 1-3am @A Secret Location in Central Square, HF6 continues w/ Tellavision, Homeworld, Palberta (NY), Free Pizza, and Downtown Boys (Providence). You can only see the fest extension/after-party show with a wristband from that day of HF6 so ... do not fuck this up! 3pm All Ages $17-20 Sliding Scale Saturday 11/8

• If you just can’t get out of Providence (we’ve seen it before...) you’re in luck cause underground veterans Ampere (W. Mass) and Death to Tyrants (NH) are coming together to once again wreak rock havoc with Fucking Invincible and Weak Teeth @AS220 (Providence) 9pm All Ages $7 • DANCE? NIGHT! Mmmmaven: Pinch, Pangaea, Dr. Jeep, Damien Silva, Dumka @TBA 11pm All Ages $ome cost Sunday 11/9 And after the show (Hassle Fest) is the after parties. HF6 Rear End Pt. 1: All peaks & valleys with the lowest of fidelity and the highest of rock-tane lobbed over our fence from the yards of The Monsieurs (with NEW RECORD in tow), White Pages, and the old folks at Funeral Cone @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 & HF6 Rear End Pt. 2: Nate Young Regression Guide to the 86-Trillion Steps of Grieving, Secret Boyfriend, and the beat-based ‘tronics of Providence’s Craow and Father Finger @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $5-10 and after the party is the motel lobby ha ha, but no really, it’s just your friend’s porch in Brighton and you can’t spend the night because allegedly the landlord is coming by with a plumber in the morning and he already thinks there are too many people living here and he’s not wrong so peace & good vibes, doug. •PROG/’PROV/PROSE Dust Witch (W. Mass.), Horse Lords (Baltimore), Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth (W. Mass.) @Firehouse (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $donate$ •NEWT WAVE Ryan Power, The Hydrothermal Vents (Montreal) @Radio Bean (Burlington, VT) 10pm 21+ $5 •INDIE GO GO: Left and Right (PA), Jack F. Lloyd (Chi), Planet of Adventure, Electric Street Queens @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 •D.BEETE: Sex Dwarf (Sweden), EEL (PA), Aspects of War, Meatbag @Boiler Room 8pm All Ages $8 Monday 11/10 Let us remind you again that those crazy nuts over at Rad Castle night @ZuZu are holding back the specs of their Monday night series. But we are sure the bills are top notch cause

they always are ... it’s the only notch they know! • Anyway, definitely get down to The Series first to see A Campbell Payne @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested donation. Tuesday 11/11 TUESDAY 11/11 MAKE A WISH! Or don’t. Stay home cradled in the gentle arms of the internet for all I care. But if that sounds like the same kind of shit to you that it does to us, then head headlong into the city and revel in Punk’s DEAD! amongst a swatch of punk rock spun on every conceivable format and more beers and free pool than would otherwise make for a responsible adult weeknight. Come on. Let’s get outta bed and put our grownup pants on. There ya go, champ. @Ramrod 10pm 21+ FREE • Catch the soul-cleansing soundwaves of Michael Pisaro, performed by Greg Stuart + Joe Panzner, plus John Mallia/Latarina Miljkovic courtesy of Non-Event @Williams Hall (NEC) 8pm All Ages FREE

Ride that proverbial groove upon mighty high tides with this fearsome foursome. Chicago’s Crown Larks come through with motorik beats and dazzling and dizzying horns and keys, swirling like a psychedelic slow-mo sneeze. Local trouncers Big Mess cut it up with whacktastic surfscum Tsons of Tsunami and bewitching fiends Lair @TT’s 8:30pm 18+ $9

Wednesday 11/12

• If you like your live musical experience a little more laid back, perhaps with seats even, then mosey over to Cambridge to delight in the stringed harmonics of Nate Sabat and Elise Boeur/Sumaia Jackson and Friends. Presented by notloB @Outpost 186 8pm 18+ $10

Bring on the psychedelic vibes at this soft spoken party hosted by those molemen at B.O.W. Shows. Virginia based strummer Daniel Bachman conjures unspoken beauty, serenity, awe and so forth with steel guitar and some help from Basho and crew. He’ll contrast nicely with Portland, ME ramblin shamblers SS Cretins rocking that haywire freakbeat, plus slow mo flower poppers Soft Eyes. Peruse endless stacks of wonderful records if you need a break from socializing between bands at this psychedelic soiree @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation Thursday 11/13

• Have you discovered that Scottish oasis hidden in the heart of JP? Eat some haggis and collard greens, then stick around for a proper local pop showcase. Electric dreamweaver Couples Counseling and fuzzy heartbreaker IAN (going solo) get along just fine with lucid sing-a-long lover ACLU Benefit and hidden weapon Jonathan Donaldson @The Haven (JP) 10pm All Ages Free • CRUST COMES TO FENWAY: Visions of War (Belgium), Wrathcobra (PGH), Panzer Bastard, Ramlord, Ratstab (Providence) @Upstairs at Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. Boston 8pm 21+ $10 • ECLECTIC EARNESTNESS: Break The Chains 2: Bell’s Roar, Cihuatl Ce, Myriam Ortiz, Evan Greer @MakeShift Boston 6-10pm All Ages $10 • HEFTY CHORDS: Gnards, Tall Horse, Sun Lions, Edible Duet @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8pm 21+ $5 • GARAGE POP GOODYBAG: The Charms, The Love Me Nots, Bent Shapes, Greg Allen’s Fringe Religion @TT’s 8:30pm 18+ $10 Friday 11/14 Hey just ‘cause stuff is [mostly] acoustic doesn’t mean it can’t be [completely] weird. Cases in points: Soft Cat, Vio/Mire, Anne Malin, Horse Jumper of Love, Trashbaby @Lasthaus 8pm All Ages $5-10 mhmm mhmm yup yup mhmm • For something with a far more fuzzy and psychedelic slant, you can absorb Babydriver, Doug Tuttle, Abadabad @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $8adv/$10dos • CONCEPT IMPROV: HMQ, Fable Grazer, G.S. Sultan (Brooklyn), A. Campbell Payne @Somerville Armory Cafe 7pm All Ages Please Donate • SELF-SHREDVIDENT: Ben Katzman’s Degreaser, Sam Gas Can, Styk, Uhuh @Distant Castle (Worcester, MA) 8pm All Ages Donate

B.O.W. Shows host deep folkies Colby Nathan (Maine) and Ralph White (Austin, TX) at one of the few venues in town that still actively celebrates the traveling outsider folk in the underground noise realm. Saturday

11/15

There will surely be other local cats mellowing out with Colby, Ralph and their banjos and melodicas this night -- just you wait and see who. Bring dollars to donate and a bottle to pass around @The House that CD-R’s Built 8pm All Ages Donate for heaven’s sake

• And we can see that the net of awesomeness the B.O.W. Shows crew constantly throws over NE and beyond extends in the direction of fucked up electronic beats and noise as well, for they have PVD’s Mincemeat or Tenspeed, Unguent (Philly), Spiritual Recess (Providence), L. Lewis, Belarisk, W00DY (Baltimore), LSDV and Homeworld all making a POUNDtain of a ROLLhill @SBC 8pm All Ages $5 • SUPER GOOD IMPROV SERIES: Open Sound has Joe Burgio’s Inedit Ensemble @Third Life Studios 8:30pm All Ages $10 • WORCE FOR WEAR: Devil Eyes (Montreal),GNäRDS, dot gov @Firehouse (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $5

Capitol city no-wavers and two-year title holders for Most Reasonable Amount of Mustache By Volume in the fourpiece division PRIESTS return with hopes of a three-peat and receive the unwavering support from head-of-board Bashful Slasher, selectman hopeful Ursula and stand-alone sect Animal Mother. Sunday 11/16

Plus the Abominable Skimask might be lurking ‘round the square table. Some might call it a punk show but not us, we’d never @Boylston Church (JP) 8pm All Ages $7-10 • Do yrself a double and peep the punk of a previous period before heading to the polls with Mama Ladilla (Madrid), The Humanoids, The FUs, and Chin Strap pumpin’ out a matinee @Midway 4pm All Ages $6 Monday 11/17 Motherfucking VIOLENT PARTY VOL. 67 is going down not too far from you. If you aren’t familiar with the VP series, it’s the baddest fucking punk-of-all-kind series, put on by at least one deep head we know. Bravo. #67 is all about PDX legends Warcry, the blunt jab 2x4 (OH), the horror punk noise of Sadist and blaring hardcore crust of Symptom (OR) @Cambridge Elks 7pm All Ages $10 • And Zade Buti or possibly kooky poetry performance artist songwriter multiple hat wearer Zayde Buti will be @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation . Tuesday 11/18 A night of totally uncompromising electronic fuckery is in the cards as Vvaqrt, Profligate, Via App, Vehement Caress, and Solid State Entity gurgle and spew @SBC all ages $5 • Deep in darkest Brookline, Non-Event has Western Mass percussive envelope-pusher Jake Meginksy making sounds you have yet to imagine hearing @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5 • UNMUSIC OFFERING: It Just Got Weirdo with Wes Hazard @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation • STAY PUNK, PLAY POOL, IDIOT: Punk’s DEAD! Punk DJ night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ FREE TIMES & FREE POOL Wednesday 11/19 NYC’s Jacques Greene has been coming to Boston for some time now, serving fresh slices of pure disco funk gold wrapped in modern production. But tonight he performs a rare live set courtesy of Mmmmaven @Sinclair 8pm 18+ $16adv/$18dos • notloB Music hosts another night of mellow acoustics, this time with a mix of bluegrass, mandolin and more with David Grier, Michael Barnett & Dominick Leslie @Davis Square Theatre 8pm 21+ $20

Sometimes you gotta get outta the city for the true rager. Head out to Florence Mass for the sweet soft psychedelia of Sore Eros with loose and easy lo-fi fellahs Beat Awfuls (Lexington, KY), noise Hampshire kids LA NOIA plus Boston garage bruisers CreaturoS getting all sorts of silly @13th Floor Music Lounge 8:30pm 18+ $5.00 for 21+ $8.00 for 18+

Thursday 11/20

•Or head towards the Ocean State to experience nomadic wizard Profligate slices feedback and spliced tapes into whiplash grooves with a disturbing undertow. Mix in the industrial dreadnought berserker VVAQRT and you got yourself a party @Auruora Providence 10pm $ome cost • PUNCH YOUR EARS HAPPY: DCDR (Dead Cats Dead Rats), A Minor Revolution, The Digs, Zip tie Handcuffs @ TT’s 9pm 18+ $8

Listen, it’s gonna get weird before it gets better. And then when it’s better, it’ll be sufficiently weird enough for all of us. Some break-with-reality-inducing noise afoot: Coincidental Hour (“it will put a hole in your mind… and leave money inside it”), Rick Weaver (of Form A Log), Spiritual Recess, Ogg Myst (G Lucas Crane of Woods/Nonhorse & Alaina Stamatis) @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $ome Cost Friday 11/21

• Way north, behold an absolutely crushing evening of black-hooded doom and crust with Morne, Ramlord (NH), Xiphoid Dimentia, Mugwort @Geno’s (Portland, ME) Presented by Last Mercy Emissions in conspiracy with Grime Studios. 9pm sharp 21+ $7 God. Damn. Saturday 11/22 Do you know about SONORIUM? Their mission is, officially, to showcase Salem and the North Shore sound art, artists with recognized international careers as well as emergent local and out of state musicians. Their bills try to show the different trends coexisting today in the amazingly rich world of experimental music. In a word, they radical. Sonorium VII has incredible improv duo Ricochet (Steve Norton & Noell Dorsey) @ Griffen Theatre up in Salem, MA! dig 8pm All Ages $10 • Down Providence wavering dark pop killers SUICIDE MAGNETS play host to HUMAN ADULTS (NJ) with ALTARATLA and CORSO @some joint in pvd. figure it out! $5 wherever it be • EXPERIPUNKFOLK: TRAGWAG, Derive, Trash Birds, Spooky Future @UnchARTed (Lowell) 7pm All Ages $donate$ Sunday 11/23 Over some FM wavvves I heard about folks snapping a physical yet unremarkable photo, filing it away for an entire calendar page, then finding immense importance in that instance of yore upon its resurfacing. So today, if you may, recognize the fleeting minutiae in an earnest attempt to inject your existence with warm fuzzies that only a rose-colored ‘gram filter can attempt to conjure. Here’s you touching all fourteen of your cardigans at once. Oh, and here’s you eating toast over the sink. And lookie here, it’s your blessed visage taking in the zoundscapes felted & unfurled by Attila Faravelli & Rawlings/Meginsky Duo @Washington Street Arts Center 7pm All Ages $10 Monday 11/24 Indie rock is alive and well tonight in Allston with local shoegoozers Strange Mangers, emotive folk shiz Soft Fangs, Funeral Advantage, and our holy homie Holiday Music @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 • And for your weekly in-store fix check out Linda (Steph G.M. & A.Richards) all up close and personal-like @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 suggested Tuesday 11/25 Time and again, we wonder if Brattleboro Vermont really is populated solely by silvery pop magicians. That is how much of a gangly hubcap it really is. Some visitors from that very bastion come down to mingle in our neck o’ the treescape tonight, as The Lentils, Peter’s Window (of The Great Valley), Jarva Land, and the Sharkbag Collective pile into JP’s finest record store’s finest basement @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $ome cost • Quintron & Miss Pussycat @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 • Punk’s DEAD! @Ramrod 10pm 21+ NO COVER FREE POOL

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Wednesday 11/26

Friday 11/28 My favorite thing maybe in the whole world is that post-T-giving leftover bullshit sandwich. Actually basically anything with mayo all over it makes the shortlist. I’m an adult and I can do what I want. And ya know what? So can you! Today is your day. Just like any other. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Less cryptically, spread not thine doughballs across monolithic fluorescence retail-scapes, and instead hold ‘em out for the BLACK MARKET next month on 12/14 @Cambridge Elks Lodge, where you can take care of all that holiday knickknackery while supporting some amazing local Boston stuff-makers. I MEAN DUH WHAT WERE YOU THINKING • There’s also a Huge Boston Bike Messenger alley cat race in the afternoon ending @Midway Cafe for the after party with Big Kill, Idiot Genes, Off & On, Nonpareils and one more TBA. Sabertooth bakery will be there fishing out vegan donuts and you can try to win a raffle for tattoo/bike shop gift certificates donated by local shops! 7pm 18+ $7, donate more be entered in the raffles. Saturday 11/30 Local show throwers Park Slug are throwing a special post-Thanksgiving show with heavy dios mio rock trio Cordaro Giles & Long, indie punk lurkers Sleep Crimes, the fabulous Fur Purse and Z*L @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 • And without an extra page in this paper (where are you mysterious philanthropic benefactor??) to list the rad COMEDY events of our city, we on the shows page are happy to oblige for now… Get your belly down to Cambridge, for bursting at Battle Royale stand up comedy featuring Angela Sawyer @ImprovBoston (40 Prospect St. in Cambridge) 9pm all ages $12

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STARS AMONG ME by TD SIDELL

Things I Hate Right Now

HEY BACKWATERERS,

by GREGOR SPAMSA

1) Your face 2) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 3) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 4) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 5) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 6) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 7) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 8) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 9) Pirate-themed a cappella groups 10) Cabinet moths

10 Useful Tips For a Low-Budget Thanksgiving

by RYAN DOUGLASS and KEIRA HOROWITZ You need advice? Prob. Ask Keira & Ryan: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com

I think my nephew is on his way to becoming a serial killer. He’s 12, drinks muscle milk, collects old sewing needles, and wants to join the NSA. Everyone suspects him of killing a neighborhood cat. What should I do?

Pants can be used as napkins. The wraps covering your shriveled body can also be used as napkins. Return to your ancient rest, ya mummy.

by PETER KEMME

PERSPECTIVES

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Be like the Pilgrims and mooch off some well-off Native Americans. Later, tell all your friends you totally brought food and they were soooo thankful you came.

Turkeys are expensive and have baboon butts for a head. Ew! Pigeons are free and pre-seasoned with the sumptuous flavor of urban decay. This year, leave turkey off the menu and the pidgeON!

The high demand for pumpkin-spiced everything has made the pumpkin extinct. (Google it.) So, for dessert, read a book about the pumpkins that were. Fill your brain belly!

Ask yourself, “Is there really a difference between stuffing and packing peanuts slathered in gravy?”

Can’t afford cranberries to sauce up? Add sugar to ketchup. Can’t afford ketchup? Blood is free! No blood? Return to your ancient rest, ya mummy.

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Use an off-center piece on your meal table.

If you’re on a shoestring budget, eat shoestrings. Idiot.

When family members arrive, turn off all the lights and pretend nobody’s home. Eat your dinner-for-one to the dulcet groans of your hungry loved ones.

Don’t eat! Imagine you’re having a wonderful meal and that everyone you know isn’t long dead. Then, return to your ancient rest, ya mummy. 

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KEIRA: I’m not sure there is much that you can do. Regardless, your sibling is probably going to need a lot of support, so give them a call.

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This was a big one. Ever since the scene in Pretty in Pink where Spades plays the ur-80s asshole Steff and he is breaking up weed on his dad’s fancy desk I’ve thought that this was my dude. Even though now he is kind of weird and lumpy shaped and on a show whose subway station ads gross me out, he still looked cool as hell siting on a bench smoking a Marlboro Light. (Quick digression: what’s up with celebs and Marby Lights? It seems like every time I see a famous smoking it is always the most garbage of all major cigarettes. Is it easier on their voices? Do they think that they look cool? Have they not heard that they are the cigarettes of trash people?) Somehow—more than any other of his contemporaries—he’s made it through his career without even being terrible or notoriously on drugs or notoriously having sex with an underage girl on video. AND THIS WAS THE DUDE WHO ONLY PLAYED DRUG DEALERS AND JERKS! SPADES IS THE BEST!

This old dude came into the bar and ordered a lot of tequila shots. Not like five, like A LOT. I commented to my co-worker, “Hey, look at Mr. Fake Steve Austin drinking all the tequila over there.” (I’m Mr. Funny Joke at work.) Imagine my surprise when I later learned it WAS Stone Cold Steve Austin! I was moderately embarrassed!

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A fashion party, Williamsburg

Russell Westbrook is a famous basketball player who has a fashion line at Barney’s. He also has a mustache like Mick Mars from Motley Crüe had in the late 90s/early 2000s, so maybe Barney’s needs to rethink their investment. 

Walter the Toothless Shark by KATIE MCCARTHY and NICK ORTOLANI

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Shooting the dumb TV show that he’s on now, The streets of Williamsburg

The Place I Work, Williamsburg

Just got a new place and my old lady landlord lives upstairs and makes super weird ralphing noises every night at like 4 a.m. Bro, she smells so fucked up! Like, she speaks some language I never even heard of and said she met a pharaoh and shit. She must be like 3,000. I don’t want to move out til next month though, because she has this superhot redhead granddaughter coming over to visit every night. I always see that girl go up there and keep thinking I’ll catch her on her way back downstairs and I so gotta tap that. Dude, that girl’s booty gets more beautiful every time I see it, but somehow I always fall asleep or something and don’t see her come out even though there’s only one staircase. Also this stupid house has beetles everywhere and there is fucking red velvet wallpaper with little gold curly shapes and it is so fucking ugly it looks like it’s moving when you’re not looking at it. Do you think I should like, make my mom make a lasagna and take it upstairs to get in good with the girl?

RYAN: She knows something you don’t know. That’s obvious. You’re too busy watching CNN and freaking out about Ebola or worrying about ISIS that you don’t know where a single good source of knowledge is anymore. Find out about this pharaoh and let her lead you to a path of unseen enlightenment. 

JAMES SPADER

“STONE COLD” STEVE AUSTIN

RYAN: Wait, sewing needles? That’s your mark of a serial killer? Maybe you could just calm down and encourage him to pursue textile arts? I can’t tell you how many times I get a hole right in my pants and wish I had taken up sewing. It would save me a lot of aggravation and I imagine, if I were the murderin’ type, a lot of dead bodies.

KEIRA: No. You can’t talk about people this way. Neither of these women care what you think of them. Go home and make your Mom some lasagna.

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 Casey Affleck getting his cellphone plan upgraded or Robert Kraft having his cuff whitened or whatever and that he would ENRICH YOUR LIVES with some tales of all the amazing celebs he got to see with his own eyes RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE. This list should appear monthly or until all celebrities leave New York.

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11/14—11/23, @HFA To the past couple of generations, Angela Lansbury will forever be known as Jessica Fletcher, the kindly, ingenious mystery writer she played for twelve years on MURDER SHE WROTE. Yet this perception does little

justice to a remarkable six-decade career. On film, she has appeared in classics ranging from GASLIGHT to THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, and played one of cinema’s great villains in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE. This month, the Harvard Film Archive will present some of the actress’ best, culminating in a rare appearance by Lansbury herself, introducing one of her favorite roles in John Frankenheimer’s ALL FALL DOWN! - Oscar Goff

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the project. The film mixes archival material with footage shot during three trips to the DPRK (both sanctioned and not). Director in-person! - Stefan Grabowski

THE BEYOND (1983) DIR. LUCIO FULCI 11/21 & 11/22, 11:59PM, $10.25, @COOLIDGE Very excited to see that The Coolidge is screening Lucio Fulci’s THE BEYOND as part of their AFTER MIDNITE (AKA midnight movie) series. Singularly important to this writer is Fulci’s Louisiana set, ghostly gore film… the first midnight movie I ever attended! Anchor Bay (they were so good) had just released the film on DVD/ VHS and I’d bought the special edition that came in a tin box with a postcard of the film’s poster (and little more). Then one day, I was in Pipeline Records (Matt (Fat) Day’s shop, RIP) in Harvard Sq., and there next to a Biggie Smalls 12” was the film’s poster. It was screening at The Coolidge. At 17, sure, I knew about midnight movies. Having already consumed the Psychotronic Video Guide & Film Encyclopedia and various

LISTEN UP PHILLIP (2014) dir. ALEX ROSS PERRY @MFA When Schwartzman played Max in RUSHMORE, people fawned. When he played a writer turned self-employed detective in BORED TO DEATH, he really came into his own (IMHO). This new release has the man in similarly cynical, literate role—all signs are pointing to it being phenomenal. Screens through 11/12. EARLY LANG SILENTS @HFA The HFA fills in some of the gaps from their recent retrospective on German expressionist master Fritz Lang with two ultra-rare silent feature films: FOUR AROUND A WOMAN and THE WANDERING IMAGE, presented with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis! HOAX_CANULAR (2013) dir. DOMINIC GAGNON @Brattle Got any plans for the end of the world? This fascinating documentary from Quebecois filmmaker Gagnon is constructed entirely from Youtube videos of teenagers preparing for the increasingly-inevitable apocalypse. Get into your shelter, hunker down, and enjoy the fun! Director in-person! THE ABYSS (1989) dir. JAMES CAMERON @Coolidge Before turning his attention to romance on the high seas for TITANIC, James Cameron gave us this more sinister watery tale. When you gaze into THE ABYSS, Ed Harris, MIchael Biehn, drowning rats, and groundbreaking late’80s CGI effects gaze back!

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE issues of the magazine, I knew all about 42nd Street and related, but already ancient, in the flesh aberrant cinema portals. I knew about, and had been to The Coolidge as well (and was already attending the awesome, still extant 24 Hour SciFi Film Marathon the theater then hosted). But I hadn’t known that they did it like, “The Beyond @ MIDNITE!!” I rounded up my proto-deviant friends, and together we departed from Weymouth for Brookline. And so I became Midnite Movie Scum. The Coolidge’s programming is, and has been for some time now, the best it’s ever been in the 17+ years since I was first handed that midnight movie apple. Take a bite. THE BEYOND is easily Fulci’s most enjoyable film. Gory, weird, and inexplicable. Let Fulci show you the way to the gates of hell over on Harvard Ave. - Dan Shea

WINTER SLEEP (2014) dir. NURI BILGE CEYLAN @MFA Ceylan—a youngish Turk revered by many as heir to Tarr and Tarkovsky’s bleak Euro-austerity—returns with his longest, most lugubrious film yet, in which hangers-on at an off-season Anatolian hotel wax metaphysical, maudlin, and at length. Palme d’Or, Cannes 2014.

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North Korea remains an enigma to most of the world living outside of its secretive borders – a country whose ultra-nationalistic propaganda and militaristic rhetoric is nearly all we have on which to base our perceptions, other than occasional stories of human rights abuses from defectors. It is hard to comprehend the psychology of the average citizen who worships the head of state as a god. Yet, rather than making a simple indictment of a tyrannical regime or reductively defining the citizens as brainwashed, filmmaker Soon-Mi Yoo uses this film to explore the culture with openness and curiosity. Having been born and raised in South Korea, she is also attuned to the collective separation anxiety of a country arbitrarily divided as a result of Cold War era politics, and it’s this that brought her to

THIS AIN’T CALIFORNIA (2011) dir. MARTEN PERSIEL @BU Riding around on a fourwheeled wooden board— aka “skateboarding”—blew the hell up in the 80’s. In fact, as this documentary captures, its popularity propelled it over the Berlin wall, launching from its California homeland into the GDR.

HORNS (2013)

BOSTON VIEWFINDER SONGS FROM THE NORTH

11/5—11/17 @VARIOUS LOCATIONS 43 films over 13 days in a panoply of locations – including the Brattle, Coolidge Corner, the MFA, and West Newton Cinema – this year’s BJFF celebrates a cinema of diaspora, testifying once again to the plurality of Judaisms, from the ultra-orthodox to the frankly secular, that have taken root and found unique expression in diverse locations around the world. From New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft’s perhaps eyebrow-raisingly odd endeavor to found a professional football league in Israel (TOUCHDOWN ISRAEL) to a road trip that forces a Greek atheist and his Hasidic son (who also raps) to confront their divisions as they investigate their family’s fate in the Holocaust (MAGIC MEN), the BJFF presents a rich assortment of genres and styles, with many an Ophir (the Israeli Academy Award) winner or nominee in the mix. Check out the website for a full schedule and descriptions of all the films. www.BJFF.org - Matthew Martens

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HOT SCREENINGS IN YOUR AREA

ROSEWATER (2014) dir. JON STEWART @MFA Remember that sabbatical Jon Stewart took last year? He wasn’t just giving John Oliver the career-boost of his life -- he was making this movie, based on a true story, about journalism’s high political stakes in today’s Iran. Catch an exclusive advance screening! Director via Skype!

HIGHLANDER (1986) dir. RUSSELL MULCAHY @Coolidge Immortal swordsmen clash across centuries in an attempt to gain “the prize,” which basically means cutting off a lot of heads. In addition to possibly being immortal himself, Sean Connery co-stars as the wise mentor. Also screens: 11/8.

THE ASSASSINATION OF JESSE JAMES BY THE COWARD ROBERT FORD (2007) dir. ANDREW DOMINIK @Coolidge A modern Western classic, this sprawling epic captures the life and death of one of America’s greatest villains – and one of its most beloved folk characters. Casey Affleck, who played the coward Robert Ford, will be at the screening in-person.

AND HER SISTERS 10 HANNAH (1986) dir. WOODY ALLEN @Coolidge When Woody Allen comes up in conversation and you want to avoid the ugly stuff, try this handy commonplace: he writes great roles for women. As evidence, bring up this brilliantly affecting ensemble piece starring Mia Farrow, Barbara Hershey, and Dianne Wiest.

NATIONAL GALLERY (2013) dir. FREDERICK WISEMAN @MFA A high brow concept developed into a well crafted documentary, this film examines a cultural treasure of Great Britain and what makes it such a unique center for Western art. Director in-person on 11/16. Screens through 11/30.

SHOCK WAVES (1977) dir. KEN WIEDERHORN @Coolidge In the surprisingly abundant subgenre of Underwater Nazi Zombie Movies, this is perhaps the high water mark. Peter Cushing plays a former SS commander on an island inhabited by his brigade of undead shocktroopers. Tagline: “Once they were ALMOST human!” Director in-person! Also screens: 11/15.

REGARDING SUSAN SONTAG (2014) dir. NANCY D. KATES @ICA Essayist, political philosopher, social critic, director of plays in war-torn countries, lover of Annie Leibovitz, etc., etc. Sontag’s countless accomplishments are brilliant flashes of light in the darkness. This biopic is an homage to this conflicted, daring woman. RIP.

BOWIE IS (2014) 19 DAVID dir. HAMISH HAMILTON @Kendall In late September, an exhibition on the evolution of Bowie’s art across a plethora of media opened in Chicago’s MCA. Luckily for us on the east coast, Hamish Hamilton painstakingly made a documentary touring the exhibit. Long live Ziggy Stardust! One night only!

THE BEYOND (1981) dir. LUCIO FULCI @Coolidge Equally gorey and visually arresting, the film brings Fucli’s usual eye for nightmarish imagery to full force in arguably the best work of his career. Supernatural shenanigans are afoot in a sultry Louisiana estate. And no that isn’t gumbo… Also screens: 11/22. (Read more in this month’s Psychotronic Movies in Our Zone!)

MUPPET MOVIE (1979) 29 THE dir. JAMES FRAWLEY @Coolidge A road trip film, a brilliant musical, a cameo-driven laugh machine – all accurate descriptions of THE MUPPET MOVIE, yet none capture this film in full. For their big-screen debut, the Muppets hit the road for (where else?) Hollywood.

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Minuteman Commuter Bikeway (North Cambridge, Arlington Center, Lexington Center, Bedford Depot) Fall weather is perfect for biking! The cool air keeps you from getting too hot and sweaty and there's no better way to appreciate the fall colors than perched atop a comfortable bike cruising at 15mph. One of the best places to go for a ride, walk, rollerblade, or non-motorized scoot in the area is the Minuteman Trail. Stretching a comfortable (read: not too steep) 10 miles from Cambridge through Arlington, Lexington, and Bedford, the Minuteman offers gorgeous views of autumn foliage, quiet ponds, rustling fields, and poor fools stuck in traffic on I-95. The Minuteman is a fully-paved Rail Trail, meaning it was built over decommissioned railroad tracks, and is considered one of the best Rail Trails in America. If you're freaking out at how far away somewhere as exotic-sounding as “Bedford” must be, the Minuteman is conveniently T-accessible: Bring your bike on the Red Line (legal except during rush hours), hop off at Alewife, and the Minuteman starts right there. You can also get off at Davis and take the Somerville Community Path to Alewife. And once you get to Bedford there are additional trails and state highways (legal to bike on 100% of the time, seriously) leading to such places as Walden Pond, Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, Minuteman National Park, and even Lowell or New Hampshire if you're up for it. So hop on your favorite set of wheels and get outdoors before fall turns into winter and the roads turn into ice! -Harrison Bralower

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