Do You Lack Direction? There’s An Instrument For That We source a resource. Actually, this here monthly rag provides many resources, ones that are still being realized in our 6th year. It was created as an events listing, but it’s more of a complete cultural resource now; not just listing events from music, art, and film communities here, but also reporting on news and issues that affect the culture at large. We brought back horoscopes, we’re debuting missed connections this month... you get the idea. But beyond the content we offer, there is another way we can act as a resource for the independent artist - through volunteerism. Although we talk about it often, especially since getting our 501 (c) (3) status, volunteerism has never really been thought of in the same way (FREE and FOR YOU) as the news and events listings are. Volunteerism is known to be the way the paper is produced and distributed, and we try to be very clear that NO ONE makes money in our organization, but I realize now that as a result of that transparency, volunteerism is more often
700 Black Beach 720 World Cup 740 JOSS 800 Cave Bears 820 Listening Woman 840 Gauche
900 Urochromes 920 Home Blitz 950 (New England) Patriots 1010 Free Pizza 1040 Downtown Boys
1110 Whip Appeal 1130 PC Worship
1200 Sitting Adult 1230 Homeworld
600 Dent 620 The Channels 640 Mini Dresses 700 Unguent 725 Cloud Becomes Your Hand 755 Dreamcrusher
825 Battle Trance 855 Unicorn Hard On 925 Pile 1025 Screaming Females 1145 Via App (18+) 1230 Container (18+)
3 Lesser Knowns 320 Curse Purse 340 Los Condenados 400 Pucker Up 420 Jake Tobin 440 Sadist 500 ONJ 525 Dan Melchior 550 Palberta 620 -1
630 Obnox 700 Heathen Shame 720 Ben Hersey 740 Guerilla Toss 810 Serengeti 840 Ono 920 Tyondai Braxton 1000 Flipper 1145 Pure Matrix (18+) 1230 Terrence Dixon (18+)
considered a BURDEN than an OPPORTUNITY. Yet it’s an incredible resource--a wealth of resources, even-- for artists near and far to take advantage of. Just 3 hidden wonders of volunteerism: Freedom, Experience, and Flexibility. Freedom to do a good thing, without the burden or responsibility of making money, or needing money to do it, is literally invaluable. Speaking of which... Experience. Invaluable experience. The opportunities to volunteer with our organization are nearly inexhaustible and all of which provide experience that is difficult to get anywhere else. Lastly, the flexibility of it all; Unlike an internship or JOB, you can volunteer in any capacity your time allows. Get on board, and get off any time you want, with skills and experiences that will carry you far away from here. Do some good in this perverted world. Take advantage of the myriad opportunities a started-from-scratch, entirely volunteer-run, and multifaceted org like ours can provide. If you lack direction, use the compass to find your way--it could point you towards the path you’ve been looking for. - Sam Potrykus
Boston Hassle Fest 7 IS NIGH! Nov. 5-7 @ Elks Lodge, Out of the Blue, Brighton Music Hall It’s time for our biggest gathering of the year, Boston’s Underground Music Fest, Boston Hassle Fest 7. HF7 is bound to inspire and empower us all in one way or another, with bands like FLIPPER, TYONDAI BRAXTON, SCREAMING FEMALES, PILE, ONJ and TERRENCE DIXON on the bill. A true celebration of the worldwide independent music and arts freak scene, BRAIN Arts Official Nonprofit Collective Fellowship is proud to present a diverse lineup of 50+ artists this year for your visual and aural pleasure. Check out the full lineup below and consider what it took to make this happen - mad volunteers and support from people in the community like YOU. So, good job.
HASSLE ARTS..........................................................................PAGE 2 A durational performance, the first of two feminist shows, Curator talks, etc. HASSLE BRIEFS.......................................................................PAGE 3 Wolf Eyes, Brittle Brian, La Misma, Taxidermist, Atlantic Thrills, Dreamcrusher, Free Pizza interview HERE BE THE SHOWS........................................................PAGE 4-5 Surf fueled psych punk, Hassle Fest 7 PLUS En Masse, also ethereal space popping, and groovy experimental noise TARDY EAGLE...........................................................................PAGE 6 Best gravies, How to stay motivated during the cold, Shows to laugh at, etc. FILM FLAM...............................................................................PAGE 7 Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman comes to town, the Boston Jewish Film Festival, Grrl Haus Cinema, & more! COMICS & OTHER FUN.........................................................PAGE 8 NOTHING MATTRESS returns, brings familiar friends. DEBUTS: Alaina’s Horoscopes and Missed Concertnections
The Papercut Zine Library is OPEN: NEW LOCATION @ 10 Ward St, Somerville So you’ve gone to workshops and developed your own zine, but that only scratched an itch. Now you just can’t get enough--you want to see what else is out there. The PAPERCUT ZINE LIBRARY has opened in its new location for all your comparative, competitive, and just-plainboredom-inspired reading needs. The Papercut Library is open on Sundays from 2pm-7pm. Celebrate the library’s new home with them on the 1st, and drop by any Sunday after that to get your zine fix. --E.D. Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 @ the ICA Long before Europeans ever reached Massachusetts, cities nestled into hills and roads spanned the wilderness. Three major native nations - the Mohegans, the Mohicans, and the Wampanoag, were thriving here. The first couple Thanksgivings would have been an extremely bad scene without them: imagine clutches of frozen, joyless puritans growing progressively bonier before eventually withering away. That may not be the dominant narrative these days, but hopefully you cringe when you reflect on the elementary school spin on the topic. Especially during this time of year, consider how native people have factored into your personal history, and visit the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness at mcnaa.org. -E.D. Get Your History Right: Native American Heritage Month Long before Europeans ever reached Massachusetts, cities nestled into hills and roads spanned the wilderness. Three major native nations - the Mohegans, the Mohicans, and the Wampanoag, were thriving here. The first couple Thanksgivings would have been an extremely bad scene without them: imagine clutches of frozen, joyless puritans growing progressively bonier before eventually withering away. That may not be the dominant narrative these days, but hopefully you cringe when you reflect on the elementary school spin on the topic. Especially during this time of year, consider how native people have factored into your personal history, and visit the Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness at mcnaa.org. -Peter Steele Boston En Masse RETURNS @ Middle East Upstairs & Great Scott Nov. 18-20 Allston, Back Bay, Cambridge, Dorchester, East Boston, Framingham, and hoods G-Z, now is the time to come together! Follow the man from Mass Ave, Jason Trefts of Illegally Blind fame, to a meeting of the minds Nov. 18 + 20 at the Mideast Up and Nov. 19 at Great Scott. Featuring artists from every corner of Boston’s musical mosaic, Trefts says “the goal of Boston En Masse is to bring people together to celebrate a few of the many talented artists that often play shows locally and, hopefully, to also introduce people to new bands and friends.” The event features hometown heroes Guerilla Toss, IAN, Mal Devisa, and so many more bands you’ll want to become besties with! --Harry B
THE LONG NOD
Earlier this month the Pru displayed “ART HUB” which one of the city’s hardest-working drummers, TJ Horn, proclaimed a “big middle finger” to working artists. He asked the question: “Which part?” Don’t listen when they talk about Boston becoming a world-class city: it isn’t. At least not right now. It has the potential, but until those doing the heavy lifting to make this city great can afford to live here, the “world-class” designation is out of reach. The cost of living in Boston is too high; most young adults in the city will tell you this. We shouldn’t be surprised by stories of overcrowded apartment buildings when officials are unable or unwilling to provide some sort of viable alternative. While the city has been working with colleges and universities in the area to plan towards the future, with on-campus housing as a key goal, it needs to be stressed that the main housing crises in Boston isn’t about attracting new residents with higher-quality student housing, it’s the affordability of the housing that already exists. Working artists new to the area quickly figure out that the city hasn’t given them many options. Of course, the many artists with day jobs understand that even getting paid a decent wage is a struggle in this city. How ironic that while baby boomers, with the kids out of the house, move into the city to be closer to culture and the arts, they’re pushing out the very people who would be enriching that experience. The Boston Redevelopment Authority has created affordable artist spaces, but gaining access to one is easier said than done. A vetting process “to ensure that only artists occupy artist spaces” necessitates an application with samples of art the interested party has produced, “3 letters of recommendation from artists and/or arts professionals,” and proof that the applicant has had “formal training in the arts,” all of which are submitted to a review by committee. While there are artists out there who do take classes and obtain degrees, there are others who see the entire process as a financial gamble beyond their reach. To require “evidence that the artist has presented his/her work in exhibition, performance, readings or comparable public program” further limits the aspirations of those artists who are not already firmly established within “the industry”. In addition to a lack of affordable housing for working artists, this city has also seen a decline in the number of spaces in which art can be experienced in all its various forms, including theater, music, and the visual arts. Without the general public’s support, the few artists that do have spaces in which to live and work won’t be able to afford rent anymore. It’s not enough anymore to say that neighborhoods need accessible all-ages venues. Now, more than ever, there must be a push to find those able to buy and operate units with the purpose of housing art and artists, or we risk losing some of the most vitally important resources Boston has. Want to find out more and speak your mind on these issues? On November 19, the Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism will be hosting a community discussion, “The Crisis in the Creative Professions,” at the Community Church of Boston in Copley. The forum is open to the public.
SUNDAY - 11.1.15 2 - 7pm • EVENT • Performance Workshop @ Brickbottom Artists Association (Somerville)
Monday - 11.8.15 performance!
monday - 11.2.15 7:30pm • CURATOR TALK • Black Chronicles II Symposium @Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art (Harvard) MARILYN ARSEM: 100 WAYS TO CONSIDER TIME @MFA Long time performer, winner of the Maud Morgan Prize, and founder of Mobius, Marilyn Arsem will be exhibiting her newest performance, 100 Ways to Consider Time, at the MFA for six hours a day, for 100 days, running November ninth through February nineteenth. Arsem has been a central figure in the world of performance art, and has worked to maintain its’ recognition in the Boston area for much of her career. The performance will be taking place in the Linde Contemporary Wing. Make it a point to see a prolific artist in action. // http://www.mfa.org/exhibitions/marilyn-arsem // On view 11.9 - 2.19.16
thursday - 11.5.15 reception!
VIEWFINDERS 6-8pm • @The Griffin Museum (Arlington) A photographer making photos about photography, Meggan Gould’s work is often about vision and how we look at the world, and photography’s place in how we see. In her solo show Viewfinders the subject is the camera itself, specifically the viewfinders in film cameras, and how histories are present in the glass in the form of dust and scratches. Gould says about the work: “Viewfinders are meant to be looked through, what happens if our vision is arrested at these thresholds? Each camera becomes a miniature universe.” http://www.griffinmuseum.org/blog/the-griffinmuseum-at-digital-silver-imaging // Photo courtesy of meggangould.net // On view 10/1512/31 5:30-7:30pm • Reception • Drawing=Thinking @Suffolk University Gallery (Downtown) 6-7pm • artist talk • Futurefarmers, a farm sailed away and came back a garden @Carpenter Center (Harvard) 6-8 pm • CURATOR’S TOUR • Rosa Barba @MIT List (Cambridge)
FRIday - 11.6.15 6-8pm • Reception • Abstracted @Uforge Gallery (JP) 5-8pm • Reception • Margaret Swan: Color Constructs @ Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) 5-8pm • RECEPTION • Dan Wills: Making Tracks @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) 6-8pm • Reception • David Brewster @ Chase Young Gallery (South End) 6-8pm • Reception • Hilary Tolan: Shadowland @ Kingston Gallery (South End) 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Jane Lincoln: All About Color @ Kingston Gallery (South End) 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Sally Lutz: Relics: Between Sea and Sky @Bromfield Gallery (South End) • SHOW OPENING • Decoys and Devices @ Newton Arts Center • SHOW OPENING • Maurice Freedman: Time and Place @ACME Fine Art (South End) • SHOW OPENING • E. Ambrose Webster: Selections from the Kenneth Stubbs Collection @ACME Fine Art (South End)
SATURday - 11.7.15
1-3pm • RECEPTION • Drawing Trees, Painting, and Landscape: Frank M. Rines @Arnold Arboretum (JP) • SHOW OPENING • SPELLBOUND : A WORLD IN FLUX @555 Gallery (South Boston)
Sunday - 11.8.15
tuesday - 11.10.15 6-7pm • ARTIST Talk • Natalie Czech: Open Seminar @Carpenter Center (Harvard) 6-10pm • EVENT • ICA College Night @ICA (Watefront)
thursday - 11.12.15 6-8pm • Reception • White on White: Churches of Rural New England @BSA Space (Fort Point) 6:30-8:30pm • artist talk • Feelers @Mills Gallery (BCA) 7-9pm An experimental exhibition of cloth in and as performance @Godine Gallery (MassArt)
FRIday - 11.13.15 6-9pm • Reception • Scapes x3 @Stove Factory Gallery (Charlestown) All Day • EVENT • Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art: Public Art and the Commons @MIT List (Cambridge) 5-8pm • Reception • Joe Fig @Carroll and Sons Gallery (South End)
saturday - 11.14.15 reception!
6-8pm • Reclamation 1&2 @Nave Gallery (Somerville) The first of a two-part exhibition at the Nave Gallery, Reclamation I is a collection of emerging female artists and makers reclaiming what is considered to be feminine. These powerful ladies are following in the footsteps of women’s rights activists, leaders and makers, reclaiming the domestic, reclaiming the right to create, and reclaiming feminism (hell yeah). Show curators Yosra Emamizadeh, Vanessa Marcoux, and Cory Munro Shea have created a show of 32 women artists working in the Boston area. Stay tuned for Reclamation II in December! http://navegallery.org/wp/reclamation // On view 11.7 - 11.22 All Day • EVENT • Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art: Public Art and the Commons @MIT List (Cambridge) 8-10pm • EVENT • Open Sound @Third Life Studios (Somerville)
sunday - 11.15.15 artist talk!
• SHOW OPENING • Hannah Cole: Caring for Surfaces @Sherman Gallery (BU)
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12pm • 19th Century Black Fashion @Nave Gallery (Somerville)
Founder of Boston Fashion Week, Jay Calderin will be speaking at the Cooper Gallery of African and American Art in regards to the incredible fashion, style, and costuming that is seen in the exhibit “Black Chronicles II”; a rare look at the presence of Black subjects in 19th Century Victorian culture. Calderin will be speaking on his personal experiences with African and African American fashion, and how the stylings exhibited open up discussions about identity and perception in the late 18th and early 19th century. The conversation will be held with the Director of the Cooper Gallery, Vera Grant. http://www.coopergalleryhc.org/new-events/
tuesday - 11.17.15 6-7:30pm • ARTIST TALK • Lorraine O’Grady @Carpenter Center (Harvard)
thursday - 11.19.15 6-7:30pm • show opening • BLUE New England Biennial @Cambridge Art Association 7-9 pm • SIM BIG SHOW • @Pozen Center & Godine Gallery (Massart)
saturday - 11.21.15 7-10 pm • PERFORMANCE • Jed Speare Rob List & Nate Speare @Mobius (Cambridge)
sunday - 11.22.15 4-6pm • reception • Predictions @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 4-7 pm • PERFORMANCE • Jed Speare Rob List & Nate Speare @Mobius (Cambridge)
FRIDAY - 11.27.15 reception!
Kudzanai Chiurai: Iyeza @RISD Museum (Providence) Zimbabwean-born multimedia artist Kudzanai Chiurai’s video work Iyeza will be showing at the RISD museum in Providence starting in late November. Chiurai’s work tackles some of the most pressing and stereotyped issues facing the African continent today, from government corruption to xenophobia and displacement. The 11-minute video Iyeza reinterprets Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper, replacing the painting’s subjects with contemporary African identities. http://risdmuseum.org/art_design/exhibitions/71_ kudzanai_chiurai_iyeza // On view 11.27-5.5.16
The Zine Scene Good Habits by Danielle Freiman was a zine that I happened to pick up at a local shop in Davis Square. I flipped through and landed on a page that included a letter to Oprah. I giggled and was immediately interested. This is a zine put together by Freiman that appears to be a self-care booklet that includes topics such as self-love and actively participating in friendships. Tucked inside this zine is a small recipe card for Freiman’s Grandmother’s Homemade Biscotti recipe. Before that is a letter from Freiman’s Grandmother, Ethel, writing to Oprah, “If you could get this to Pillsbury for their next contest, I could use the money to pay for baking supplies and to share with family and charities.” The innocence and sincerity makes me wish the letter actually reached Oprah's eyes (It didn't). The bottom of the recipe card has a note for the reader to send photographic biscotti results via email to Freiman. The interaction between the reader and zine fosters almost a romantic connection. This was someone so close to the author and I want to be a part of that connection. This biscotti recipe is a step in that direction. This zine is a gentle reminder to take care of oneself. Life can be difficult but the people we surround ourselves with are crucial. This is the perfect zine to read on a day when you feel less than spectacular. My favorite page would be The Radiant Friendships Manifesto which is noted to
be updated and revised as one grows. As someone who has difficulty being kind to herself, this zine was something I needed and I believe others can connect with it too. Good Habits is available at Magpie Gifts in Somerville. — Liz Bolduc
YOU OUGHTA KNOW: Monthly First Friday Plug: The best time to see the most art? First Fridays! Find a plethora of artists’ receptions, good food, and stimulating conversation across the city the first Friday of every month, this time on November 6th! The entirety of SoWa galleries and studios are open, as well as openings in JP, Newton, and more! Bundle up and get your monthly allotment of what the Boston Arts world has to offer. MassArt’s SIM major (Studio For Interrelated Media) puts on their annual showcase BIG SHOW at MassArt November 19th. The event includes an exhibition of multi-media and cutting edge work done within the major in the Godine Gallery, as well as performances in the Pozen Center at seven. As far as SIM goes, anything goes, and BIG SHOW never fails to disappoint. Past performances have included music, sound art, puppets, performance art, stand-up, like I said; anything goes. Just Go. The ICA will open its’ doors on the tenth for their first annual College Night. The party will feature a live DJ, a over-sized game room, a photo-booth, artist talks, and free food. Best of all, it’s free with a college ID. If you’re still in school, head down for the night. Definitely an event guaranteed to be sick. CALL FOR ART: The MiddleGray Gallery/Cafe in Brookline is looking for abstract and nonrepresentational work for an upcoming show. Anything thought provoking; The unknown, the unusual, and the ambiguous. Deadline is November 10th.
The ICA’s biggest exhibition to date; Leap Before You Look; Black Mountain College opened last month and will be on view through January 2016. The show is about the liberal arts college in North Carolina that was open from 1933-1957, and was occupied by some of the biggest players in the modern and contemporary art world. The show also features current multi-disciplinary art students performing dance and performance pieces created by the Black Mountain College students during their time in the school. The show is a collection of work by these artists while they were undergrads, and is an incredible chance to see the early work of the modern masters.
Don't miss it! 9/26 - 11/7 • Whoop Dee Doo @Space Gallery (Portland) 9/22 - 11/8 • Resa Blatman: Tempest @Lunder Arts Center (Lesley) 9/1-11/23 • Karel Martens: Monoprints @ Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard) 10/15-11/30 • Tom Phillips: Pages From A Humument @Gallery 360 (North Eastern) 8/1/-11/30 • Andrew Klein @Fort Point Arts Community
ongoing! 9/10-12/1 • Think Small @Panopticon Gallery (Newton) 9/24-12/4 • Willie Cole: AQUAHALLIC @808 Gallery (BU) 9/2-12/11 • Black Chronicles II @Cooper Gallery (Harvard) 9/17-1/2/16 • Through The Lens of History; Selma & Civil Rights @Grand Circle Gallery (Fort Point) 10/23 - 1/3 • Rosa Barba: The Color Out Of Space @List Visual Arts Center (MIT) 10/2 - 1/31 • Martin Boyce When Now is Night @RISD Museum (Providence) 5/14/-12/31/16 • Stickwork: Patrick Doherty @ Peabody Essex Museum (Salem)
for more check out BostonHassle.com/Art
DREAMCRUSHER ADORE FIRE TALK (2015)
Defining music as “noise” is as absurd as describing a square as a “shape”. Of course it’s a shape– it’s a square! Of course it’s noise– it’s music…right? Perhaps that’s why noise seems to be the catch-all classification for any music that doesn’t quite neatly fit into any other genre, or in some cases, combines elements of noise, like static and bleeps and bloops, with pieces of more universally digestible genres– like pop. Dreamcrusher‘s “Adore” fits the latter description to a T. It’s a moody pop song, or maybe even one of those inexplicably creepy jingles you’d hear at a midsummer carnival, in shadows behind a thick curtain. It’s one part drone and one part morose electronic pop tied together and wrapped generously in static. What the hell are the lyrics he’s trying to sing? What instruments are those, exactly? Who knows? And that’s the point, really. We can only comprehend everything in shadows, because life is not a perfect, crisp pop song. “Adore”, streaming below, comes from Dreamcrusher’s forthcoming (out at the end of this week) Hackers All Of Them Hackers LP via Fire Talk Records. Boston friends– Dreamcrusher will also be playing at Hasslefest 7, in just a couple of weeks, at Brighton Music Hall. -Sarah Moylan
BRITTLE BRAIN BONY FRENCH CATHEDRALS SELF-RELEASED (2014)
ATLANTIC THRILLS BED BUGS ALMOST READY RECORDS (2015) Through neon-streaked smoke billowing along the sidewalk and stale booze-breath conversations, a howling anthem prowls the night. Bed Bugs is the new 7” from Providence’s Atlantic Thrills, a showcase of what’s to come on their soon-to-be released LP on Almost Ready Records, and a follow up to their self-titled debut from 2014. The Ocean State boys inject surf rock with their unique garage sound, peppered with a healthy dose of the Shondells and the prepunk magnetism of The Seeds, topped off with the grime of being tied down to their urban abode. This is the surf sound of a city dweller, and it’s a lot less about hitting the beach in this batch than it is catching up with your sunburned friends after they get back; you show up just in time to miss the sun and ignite the evening. Bed Bugs collects all the momentum you need to make the perfect, searing nightsizzle. It drags you down and up the east coast into the center of a dive bar dance party where you might not know anyone now, but you sure as hell will in time, and by morning no ones gunna remember a thing anyhow. And maybe that kind of forgetting is why there’s a sense of reminiscence and melancholy under all the exuberance. B side “Sugar Sugar” burns sweetly, coming down off the high energy of “Bed Bugs”. Opening with a row of shimmering bells, a crunchy acoustic creates the bed for an astounding vocal that melts over everything with hushed vibrancy. Echoing the electric subtlety of the Velvet Underground, “Sugar Sugar” is a testament to how far Atlantic Thrills can go — from garage psych mayhem to a willowy ballad soaked in ethereal splendor. -Jon Rizzo
LA MISMA
TAXIDERMISTS
KANIZADI
HONESTY BOX
LA VIDA ES UN MUS DISCOS (2015)
SELF-RELEASED (2015)
The NYC punk scene is always thriving, but in the last few years, the city's music, as exemplified by labels like Katorga Works and Toxic State, has been in a real renaissance. The DIY spaces of Brooklyn are producing top-notch examples of everything from terse, violent classic hardcore to noisy mutant slop to goth/industrial-influenced but no less raging deathpunk. Now, releasing their debut full-length Kanizadi after a few demos and EPs, we can add to this growing list of coexisting micro-genres... whatever La Misma is! This four-piece stands apart from a lot of their contemporaries. The anthemic guitar leads, rumbling, distorted bass, and rousing, pogo-friendly drumming bring to mind more of a UK82 sound, with tempo changes, starts and stops, and a general looseness that give you the sense that everything could go off the rails at any given second. But what really sets them apart are the high-energy vocals (sung in Portuguese) of Nay Vieira-Rosario, one of many NYC underground luminaries with roots in Boston. The caffeinated, manic energy of Kanizadi is a welcome counterpoint to the more aggressive, masculine energy lots of hardcore bands exude. Don't get me wrong, it's aggressive. It's still a hardcore punk record, with nine tracks blasting by in just over 20 minutes, but it's an emotive and honest anger. No posturing here, just pure release. You might not be able to understand what Nay's saying, but you'll be able to understand what she's feeling, and that's powerful enough to transcend language barriers. -John Von Bittrich
CORE RAP WITH KEELEY CORMAC Are you lost? Melancholy? Up to the brim with feelings? Then Brittle Brian, AKA Victoria Rose’s September 2014 release, Bony French Cathedrals, is sure to be a hit with your weakened heart. Laying down some experimental folk, straight from a tape deck in a faraway bedroom, Rose is the ingénue that got away. Tackling things that pull at the heartstrings, (ex. missed connections, low self-esteem, budding femininity, and the Internet), Cathedrals is a beautiful, haunting confessional. “Bad Liar” is definitely the track to beat on this album. Like stolen thoughts from a private diary, Rose laments on a complicated love with lyrics like: “I’m a bad liar/I’m too afraid to look at you/I know that you have noticed/That I am made of computer screens/And dirty sidewalk cum,” and “I don’t why you take me out/I’m never any fun/I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry…” Maybe it’s her, maybe it’s the lover in question, maybe it’s both of them. It’s a song that’s heavy, young, and dying. Other gems on the album are “The Internet,” a short ethereal hum of clicking keys and gospel-like chants, (it’s funny/sad and you know it), “Dust,” a guitar whisper of desperation, and “Jamie and Charlie (Goose Version),” which brings listeners into a true pastoral state of mind. Plus geese, and that’s cool. Brittle Brian’s latest album Verisune, along with this one, can be purchased via her Bandcamp page. - Sarah Samways
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A notable absence was felt in Boston music last December when BUFU bad boys, Free Pizza, moved south to Miami before their rock pilgrimage to Berlin, Germany. But now these friendly n'fun punks are back touring the U.S. and playing our very own Hassle Fest 7!! Before they come back to share their happy, positive, and easily applicable art-punk, they've talked to us about their new member, what's up next, and spreading the sass. Boston Hassle: First off, how has it been in Berlin? Have you been able to spread the shred? Free Pizza: Our time in Berlin was an incredible period of personal growth and fun times. We played a handful of sick shows and made a lot of new friends. We actually focused more on spreading the sass. We're leaving the shred for Ben to spread when he makes it to Europe. BH: What is the art/music scene in Berlin like? FP: It was good. Seriously there is a strong electronic / club scene there, lots of people from that community were very open to us. Also we met Canadians and New Zealanders (kiwis) and Australians. Our first show in Berlin was at this huge apartment building that was all artist studios, it was like a giant 8 story building version of the Whitehaus. It wad called the Green House. BH: Is there are new member of Free Pizza? FP: No. JK. Yea! Rory from Designer (R.I.P) also plays in a sassy band called The Christ 4. Rory is a Gemini, just like our previous drummer, bad boi Nick Rasmussen. Nick joined our sister band, Ben Katzman's degreaser, another Aries-Gemini-Gemini power trio. Rory is a sassy little boy he wears a diaper jk. BH: Is there anything in particular you miss about Boston?
FP: A list of Boston things we miss in no particular order: 1. Same Old Place 2. Arboretum 3. Countless amazing inspiring bands + shows 4. Blizzards 5. Boomerangs 6. Twin Donuts 7. Twin Donuts 8. All our friends 9. T. Charlie Card. 10. All the parks. 11. Chilling on the porch. 12. (see lyrics to Boston, MA) BH: Where would you say most of the inspiration from Free Pizza’s music comes from? FP: Joy, kissing, reflection/introspection, sadness, good pants, QTs (romance), Spongebob, anxiety, the road, high fives, metronome, baby sinclair, novelty. BH: What are you most excited about for Free Pizza’s future post-Berlin? FP: Recording, touring, making more friends + meeting new crushes! BH: Can a Free Pizza release be expected in the near future? FP: Expect a 12" of something new recorded in Berlin, out on BUFU Records, Spring 2016
CATCH FREE PIZZA'S RETURN TO BOSTON AT HASSLE FEST 7 ON NOVEMBER 5TH @ CAMBRIDGE ELKS LODGE!
I’m a sucker for fluctuations in volume. Loudquiet-loud-quiet-loud: I am there. But most bands bring little nuance or invention to this effect: usually just some fingerpicking and soft crooning juxtaposed against a distortion pedal and screaming. Then there are Taxidermists. Honesty Box, the latest release by the Western Mass band, is a massive fit of downtuned guitars, sporadic drumming, and jacked-up song structure. Their music reminds me of Sonic Youth: cacophonous weirdness that somehow manages to be catchy. Except Sonic Youth used four people to create all that noise, and the Taxidermists pull it off with just two. (The band members are Salvadore McNamara and Cooper B Handy. The album was released on Telegraph Harp.) Honesty Box opens with a perfect introduction. “Be 1” is an explosive combination of plucky cleans and crumbling dirties. Static buzz layers over sporadic drumming and soft, spoken vocals. An album that could easily be construed as pure noise rock is shot through with surprisingly catchy guitar riffs. The bright, punchy sliding at the start of “Tight Rope” wouldn’t be out of place at a beach party. But it’s the wild instability, the fluid fluctuations between mind-melting volume and intimate sing-song, that really pleasure my ears. Listening to the closing track, “Rel Young,” I almost thought my speaker had cut out. And Taxidermists demonstrate some genuine classic rock guitar chops here. The solo on “Big Enough for The Truth” is nothing short of rad, as I’m sure that Wayne and Garth would agree. With the disorienting change-ups of volume and intensity, the vocals remain largely mellow. That’s another similarity with Sonic Youth, although I’d argue these guys do it better than Thurston Moore. Taxidermists play madly with traditional song structure, turning every song into an experiment. One second you’re being pummeled by noise, the next you want to dance. This is a band named for people who stuff dead things. But in its unpredictability and audacity, their music is very much alive. -Emma Buchanan
WOLF EYES ENEMY LADDER B/W DULL MURDER TWO THIRD MAN RECORDS (2015) I debated writing “trip metal” two hundred times over instead of an actual write-up here, but opted against it. Instead: Hailing from Ann Arbor, Michigan, WOLF EYES has been assaulting our ears for nineteen years with their industrial/noise throughout their various lineups and phases. One of Wolf Eyes’ greatest strengths, shared by fellow long-running noise ensemble SISSY SPACEK, has been their ability to shift and evolve over the years, embracing their own distinct trajectories instead of popular trends. The upcoming I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces LP, to be released on JACK WHITE’S Third Man Records on October 30th, is the latest phase of the band. The most trip metal release yet, and finally a distillation of their phenomenal 2015 tour. The music is hard to pigeonhole but is an immersive, and deceptively simple, blend of reverbed vocals, churning guitar, noise bleets, and a drum machine blasting away an almost tribal rhythm. These elements combine to form something resembling the bastard offspring of SAVAGE REPUBLIC and NEU!. “Enemy Ladder” comes across as a sort of mosh-metal post-industrial BIG BLACK wet dream. A perfect soundtrack for irradiated strip malls and 7-11 nachos. Long live Trip Metal. -Chris Defalco
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 1 Last night was Halloween man! Take a rest, sheesh….or hey, here’s an idea, fancy yourself a writer? Put down the candy and email us to see YOUR WORDS….RIGHT HERE... NEXT MONTH! It’s like magic. NOLA BOUNCE NIGHT. Y'ALL GET BACK NOW: Big Freedia Bounce Shakedown Tour w/ Begbick, Boyfriend & DJ Carbo @ Brighton Music Hall 7:30pm, 18+ $20
Hey you guys like rock bands with THREE people in them? Do you want to watch FOUR of those in a row? Great. If you’re into one word band MONDAY NOVEMBER 2
names though - sorry pal we’ve only got one of those. If you’re not too hip for EXTRA SYLLABLES then check out the dream pop of Painted Zeros but before you look down at them shoes look up at Slight and see if the singer looks kind of like the Dead Milkmen guy or just sounds like a better singing/playing version of him, don’t miss Big Buck Hunter who are back from WHEREVER to give you a good rockin’ time and of course Rosie and those Rosies of hers will provide some riffs for you to headbang to until your head floats away on a nice cloud of overdrive n’ reverb @Out of the Blue 9PM All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale ■ Or get on down to MILHAUS for some sunny guitar riffs, dreamy vox, and BOPPY BASS from Seattle from IJI and Mega Bog along with the sounds we can’t get enough of from local dudes IAN and dreamy bandcampers (yet very rockin’ live) We Can All Be Sorry @ Milhaus 7PM All Ages $5-10 For Touring Bands ■ WILDLY WICKED WEEKLY Rad Castle Presents: Doug Tuttle Band, Fedavees, Germ House @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free TUESDAY NOVEMBER 3◆■ Deafheaven, the nextwave heavy metal band from San Francisco who combine chunky vintage era Metallo-riffage with blackened Northern recorded-in-a-blasted-outcathedral atmospherics, will send intelligent D&D enthusiasts headbanging at this one. Stay tuned if this is your thing. They’re playing with longtime Tokyo killers Envy (late of H.G. Fact, one of the world’s best record labels) and the uber-duber heavy Swedish metal band Tribulation to round out a United Nations of hevvy focken metal night @ Royale 8:30PM 18+ $22 ■◆Or you could of course get down and dirty with some firecracker electro pop from Keep Shelly In Athens and the chill, electro experimentalism of Different Sleep@Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10 ■◆MOAR METAL: Yob, Black Cobra, Sea of Bones, Lord Almighty at the Brighton Music Hall in Allston, MA 8:00 pm/$15/18 plus ■◆PARTYPRATYTRAPY: Monthly Fem Showcase: YRRAPYRRAP, Birthing Hips, Cassandra, The Ladles @ Midway 9PM 21+ $5 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4 ■◆Excuse me while I skip down the street in slow motion with a smile on my face...that’s because Coke Weed just came on my iPod and I’ve entered a blissful state of self awareness. I’m one with my inner hippie and you should be too so why not head to Allston and see them in the flesh alongside the zenful rock of Steep Leans. What’s that? The sexy, surf fueled psych punk of Drugs Dogs is at the party too?! Fuck skipping, time to run to @O’Brien’s 5PM 21+ $8 ■◆Up the street there’s also the calming sensations of mid-aught indie darlings Ra Ra Riot supported by local pop tarts Bent Shapes. But you’ll have to beg for a ticket to this one @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $old out ■◆NOISE NEBULA Sonic Osmosis featuring Steve Norton, Thadd Comstock, Walter Wright, Kristen Dye, Joshua Hahn, David Kontak, Emilio Gonzalez, Jonah Sacks and Kevin Dacey @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $Donate$ THURS. NOVEMBER 5 ■◆AMERHYTHMICS: She Keeps Bees, Last Good Tooth, Elephants @ONCE (Somerville, 156 Highland Ave.) 7PM $ome cost ■◆5AD LABEL PROSPECTS: Ariadne, Asha Sheshadri (aka Isolde Touch) @Bartos Theatre 7:30PM All Ages $ome Cost ◆SICKEST SHOW 2DRIVE2: Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Omnivore, Minibeast, Host @Machines with Magnets (PVD) 8PM All Ages $8 FRI. NOVEMBER 6 ■ MORE LOONEY THRASH: Tinnitus, Vein, Mass Decay, Goolagoon at the Democracy Center in Cambridge, MA 7 pm/$5-$10 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 ◆■ For some swirling,
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Are you going to Hasslefest opening night, or are you weeping jaggedly in a nearby alley, wishing you were inside? It all comes down to whether they still have
a ticket or not I guess. Let’s hope it’s the former and you are warmly welcoming back Free Pizza joined by Downtown Boys, (NE) Pats and a host of our favorites including Black Beach, Home Blitz, JOSS, LISTENING WOMAN, PC Worship, Urochomes, and World Cup @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7PM then @Out of the Blue from 11:30 PM, all ages, donate on indiegogo for tix. For the more intellectually-minded listener we also have a treat tonight as local chamber musicians re-create works of famed German experimental composer Helmut Lachermann @ Goerthe Inst. featuring a film (6PM) on his contributions to muzik konkrete followed by performance (8PM) all ages $10 FRI. NOVEMBER 6 Here be the lineup for Hassle Fest Day 2 in le order alphebétique: Battle Trance, The Channels, Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Container, Dent, Dreamcrusher, Form a Log, PILE, SCREAMING FEMALES, Unguent, Unicorn Hard-On, Via App @ Brighton Music Hall 6PM all ages until 11:30PM, 18+ after donate on indiegogo for tix SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7 Hassle Fest Day 3: Dan Melchior, FLIPPER, Guerrilla Toss, Obnox, Ono, Palberta, Pure Matrix, Serengeti, Terrence Dixon, Curse Purse, The Lesser Knowns, Tyondai Braxton @ Brighton Music Hall 3PM all ages until 11:30PM, 18+ after donate on indiegogo for tix
fuzzy gaze, catch Dead Leaf Echo and the jangly four guitar dreamyness of Magic Shoppe. S.S. Cretins and The Silver Mirrors round out this killer lineup @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $8 ◆UP DA PUNKS: Sweet Jesus, Casanovas In Heat, Blessed State, The Loading, Conmen @Hardcore Stadium (Cambridge) 7PM $10 ■◆AWK POP: F+F & NNA Presents Cloud Becomes Your Hand, Sundown, Sci-Fi, Grass Mansion @The Sink 8:30PM All Ages $5 ■◆MOSHFEST: La Armada, Atruth, Opposition Rising, Nothing But Enemies, Laughing Stock @Wreck Center (Boston) 8PM $3-$5 ■◆POSTHXC: Banquets, Foxfires, Great Lakes USA, In The Pines @O'Brien's 8PM 21+ $8 ■◆SKATEPARK BENEFIT: Villain (Last Show!), Streetsweeper, Beartrap, Big Bad Wolf, East Beast, Good Times, Cinderblock, Direct Impact @Rad Skatepark (Mendon, MA) 4PM All Ages $10 ■◆OCCULT BLACK METAL: Mortuary Drape, MGŁA, Sangus @Middle East Upstairs 6PM 18+ $20 ■◆MORE PUNK: Mickey Rickshaw, Jonee Earthquake Band, Whoopi Sticks,The Martians, Backhand @Cantab 8PM 21+ $8
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 8 ■ Tonight! Show Mom Collective and Coach & Sons are bringing you the divine crunch of Rosie and the Rosies with Brooklyn’s rockin rollers Bethlehem Steel and Cold Sweats @Some Spot 7PM All Ages $7-10 $ugge$ted Donation ■◆ Looking for a little more thrash in your evening? After the Fall, in all their melodic hardcore glory, are making their fall tour pit stop to Boston along with Choke Up, Raw Blow, and Youth Funeral @O’Briens Pub 8PM 18+ $8 ◆■ ART ROCK PSYCHEDELIC: Django Django, Wilde Belle @Royale 8PM 18+ $20 ◆■ VARIETY SHOW: Open Mic Night with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard @Midway Café 9PM 21+ Free ■◆INDIE POP: Natalie Prass, Loamlands @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $17 ■ HARDCORE PUNK: Blind Justice, Break Away, Lost Souls, Threshold, No Way Out @Club Oasis 4PM $10 ◆ PUNK METAL: Fucking Invincible, Some Nerve, V-Sect @The Café in Newport 3PM All Ages MON. NOVEMBER 9 ■◆If you’re feelin’ kinda down we understand. It’s dark out at 4 and your jorts are just an old friend you barely remember anymore. It’s also Monday. Maybe you could get on a YACHT and DANCE away the gloomy November Mondays. The boat band will make you wanna sing along about kooky stuff as you wiggle to some electronic beats. They’re gonna be joined by mr. LARRY GUS who will also get those Monday feet moving with some FUNKY samples and soulful falsetto @Sinclair 9PM 18+ $18 ■ ◆Now drive that yacht north and get off in SALEM for some SUSHI with a side of punk @ KOTO. There will be a nice sample menu of different kinds of punk: Pop punk from City Mouse, punk from Scotland ala The Murderburgers, a 90’s alt sound with The Fake Boys, and lo-fi garagey punk rock from Horsegirl 9pm 18+ $5 ■ ◆DREAMSCAPE: Rad Castle Presents: Land of Enchantment and U4IA (ex Moontower)@ Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free TUESDAY NOVEMBER 10 Tonight, Non-Event presents Ed Osborn, a Guggenheim sound artist who creates these dense and textured audioscapes that sort of hypnotize and sway you, they’re easy to get lost in. If that’s your thing, check it @Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5 WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 11 Close your eyes and picture yourself...you sway in and out of a collective consciousness and feel one with everyone around
I'm not talking about taking LSD, I’m talking about seeing Frankie Cosmos live and in person TONIGHT. Her lo-fi lullabies make you appreciate you, warm and at home…
life itself. Also up to bat are All Dogs who’re here from Columbus to keep us bouncing and enveloped in that pop rocks sweater plus the hypnotic and time defying Brittle Brian. Float on over to @ Cambridge Elks Lodge and thanks to the Hassle for this 8pm All Ages $10 ■◆Of course you can also get your pop punk on at a Coach and Sons show tonight where Run Forever will rock the rafters alongside the delightful Daephne and the lo-lo-fi of Puppy Problems PLUS Kitner’s power pop smoothie @A Spot(ask around) 6PM All Ages $ome Cost ■◆EARLY AUGHTS INDIEED: Minus The Bear, Murder By Death, Aero Flynn @Paradise 7PM 18+ $28 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 12 ■ Time to
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the fuck out! Local visionaries Illegally Blind are bringing together some tried and
true fist pumpers TONIGHT at Cambridge mainstay Middle East. Wand lays down funky time signatures and earthquake inducing metallic riffs over fuzzy vox and just enough glam rock to complete the sundae. Ghost Box Orchestra is there to keep the pop people happy taking things in a chiller direction and of course, local trio Midriffs always keep the party upbeat with wiry solos and loose base lines. Come check it@ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12◆■ Of course if you're a fish that likes to swim in the mainstream then head over to Allston and check out the synth sanctified pop rock of Brooklyn’s Small Black and the West coast electro pop of Painted Palms@ Brighton Music Hall 8PM 18+ $12 FRIDAY NOVEMBER 13 ◆■ This is YOUR CHANCE to LIVE the Gathering of the Juggalos. If you’ve always been too weak, too feeble, too febrile, in a
fin de siecle for Western Civilization sort of way, to haphazardly smear on clown paint, terrorize a suburban strip mall, spray Faygo all over your prealgebra teacher, gloomily brood at Panda Express, and immanentize the eschaton via mongoloid rapmetal, now is your chance friend, step right up to the Dark Carnival; Insane Clown Posse, POD, and Stitches are playing tonight, get pregz and smoke on cigarettes, take your shirt off @Palladium in Worcester 6:30PM $28 ■◆No in all seriousness though your Compass will be at Nobunny, Nice Guys, The Monsieurs, and Gymshorts, a par-tay thrown by our friends at Illegally Blind. All of these bands rule, be here. @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $15 ■◆LE ROCQUE GARAGE The King Khan and BBQ Show, Milk Lines, Residuels @Middle East Downstairs 8PM 18+ $15 ■◆PYSCHOPUNKATRONIC: Yonatan Gat, Alosi Den, Jo Passed (Montreal), Kiss Concert, Crispy Lips @Trixie’s Palace 8PM All Ages $5-$10 for touring bands! ■◆AVANT-NOIZE FROM NICE BOYS: John Zorn’s Simulacra performed by John Medeski, Matt Hollenberg, & Kenny Grohwoski @ICA 8PM All Ages $25 ■◆POP JUNQUE: Lady Bones, Wild Moth, Courage Cloak @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $10 ■◆SKINNY ALLEZ: Pink Noise: Frida Precariat and more TBA plus DJ DayGlow @Milky Way JP 10PM 21+ FREE ■◆PLANET GROSS: Diarrhea Planet, Music Band, Rebuilder @Great Scott 10PM 21+ $15 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 14 ■ Explosive. You’ll be subliminally lured into using this adjective when you get a blast of the mutant hair metal/punk/ noise that Diarrhea Planet drops into your ears. Music Band is coming up from down south to sling you some straight up classic vibe psychedelic rock & roll, and Boston’s beloved fuzz monsters Vundabar ensure your vibrating all night long @Great Scott 9PM 21+ $15◆■ There’s always something outside the box happening in JP, like tonight’s European free-noise improv rock chaos provided by Chalaque (UK). Things get trippy as Boston ex-pat Gary War brings his face melting weirdo experimentals back from New Zealand, but first, The Modern Voice tickles your brain with shards of glass @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $Donate ■◆SOUND EXPLORERS:Splendid Ibis, Tony Pasquarosa, Prints, Josh Burkett @Mystery Train Records 4PM All Ages $ome Cost ■◆FUZZY: Providence Garage Fest featuring Eric and the Nothing, The Nebulas, Future Spa, NEUTRINOS, Gavage, The Worried, Black Beach, Party Pigs, + More TBA @AS220 5PM All Ages $ome Cost ■ ◆CLASSY: Cambridge Philharmonic Presents: Female Composers Night @Paine Hall (Harvard) 5PM All Ages $ome Cost ◆JAZZY: Duck That with Steve Norton and Joe ■Burgio’s Ensemble Inedit @Third Life Studios 8PM All Ages $10 ■◆TRASHY: GWAR @The Palladium 6PM All Ages $25 ■◆NOISEY:The Saddest Landscape, Vattnet Viskar, Aneurysm @Middle East Upstairs 7PM All Ages $12 ■◆OG HXC: Killing Time, Boston Strangler, Colin of Arabia, Violence To Fade, Firewalker, Prison Hit @Hardcore Stadium (Cambridge) 6PM $20 ■◆DIRT FLOOR: Genocide Pact, Backslider, Fuming Mouth, V-Sect (Killing Time aftershow) @ Boiler Room ?PM $5 ■◆EXPERIMENTAL: WMBR Presents: Matthew Shipp and Martin Bisio @Outpost 186 8PM All Ages $ome Cost SUNDAY NOVEMBER 15 ■◆The groove is strong with this one. Come worship with the grungy gospel of Mail the Horse backed up by Soft Eyes, Rick Rude, and Footings @3S Artspace (NH) 7PM All Ages $10 vI An American girl in Toronto is coming to Boston. U.S. Girls is giving you the chance to immerse yourself in the soul of a grey cloud, filled with the lightning of cassette pop and thunder of contorted drum machines. With ESCAPE-ISM, Halfsour, and Mini Dresses @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $12 ■ INDIE PUNK ROCK: Diarrhea Planet, Music Band, Downtown Boys @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $15 ■ INSTRUMENTAL COMPOSITION: Non-Event Presents Tetuzi Akiyama, Jason Kahn, Bryan Eubanks, Toshimaru Nakamura, Anne-F Jacques, Tim Olive @School of the MFA 8PM All Ages $15 ■ GOOD TIME VARIETY: Open Mic with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard @Midway Café 9PM 21+ Free ◆■AVANT GARDE METAL: Scott Kelly (of Neurosis), Bruce Lamont (of Yakuza) @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12
Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com & on da Boston Compass FascistBook page whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there. SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com December Submission Deadline 11/17 ■◆EXPERIMENTAL ORCHESTRA: WMBR Presents: Ensemble Intercontemporian perform John Cage & Pierre Boulez @ICA 3PM All Ages $25 ■◆ROCKIN ALTERNA-FOLK: The Creepers (NYC/Baltimore), Nudie Suits, Alec K. Redfearn & The Eyesores (RI), Easter @Out of the Blue Too
■ ◆SICK ART PARTY: DJ DayGlow @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum All Ages 6PM $15 ■ ◆FUN FILM NIGHT: Angela Sawyer MC’s GRRL HAUS CINEMA@Brattle Theatre 9PM All Ages $ome Cost ■ ◆THANK YOU SUB-POP: Eugene Mirman, Derrick Brown, Josie Long @Paradise 18+ 8PM $20
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FRIDAY NOVEMBER 20 ■ ◆Boston En Masse Day 3. No daily lineup (but you saw that already on the last two days!) so check that complete lineup and call a few friends, by process of elimination YOU KNOW WHO’S PLAYING TONIGHT! That’s like math right there...but don’t hurt yourself, just round out this amazing localz charged fest @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 ■ ◆ Or if you’re in the neighborhood come fuzz out and participate in a gritty garage gangbang as Future Spa, Johnnie and the Foodmasters, The Roccoco Bang and The Double Buscemis splatter our souls with that good ol fashioned rock n roll @Out of the Blue Too 9PM All Ages $5 ■ ◆ELECTRO SYNTH POP: Grimes, Nicole Dollanganger @Paradise 7PM All Ages $StubHub ■ ◆GRINDING METALCORE: Skinless, Abnormality, Scalpel, Dysentery @Brighton Music Hall 8:00PM $20 18+ ■ ◆AMBIENT MIXED INDIE ROCK: Horse Jumper of Love, Bay Faction, Bron Don @ Cafe 939 8PM All Ages FREE
MONDAY NOVEMBER 16 ■ Hello my name is Ms. Blurby Blurb and I am a guitar riff addict. And you know what? I love FUZZ pedals too. Turn that tone knob all the way up, baby. If you’re like me, you can get your fix of overdriven love tonight @Sinclair. Local fuzzters Zip-Tie Handcuffs will get ya moving with their punky surfy style, Walter will bring it a little more towards sludge town, and Mr. Ty Segall and FUZZ will finish blowing your mind with riffs upon riffs upon riffs of the good stuff you need 9PM 18+ $20 ■ ◆If you’re NOT like me then you might be so over the whole guitar riff thing that’s been going on for kind of a long time at this point. In that case, Deep Thoughts has got you covered with some artists from a different planet of sound. EMBARKER (Philly) can provide you with that whole electronic experimental deal, ambient at times, noisy at other times, also there will be some great keyboard with the vintage Italian pop sounds of Luxardo, along with some animal stuff: goo from a whale’s stomach called Ambergris, and Cave Bears 8:30PM @ Deep Thoughts JP All Ages $Donate$ ■ ◆TIME TO DANCE WEIRD: !!! @Middle East Downstairs 8PM 18+ $15 ■ ◆FUTURE ELECTRO Rad Castle Presents: Condor @Zuzu 10PM 21+ FREE
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 17 ■◆I don’t know who Bile Sister (Toronot) is, but I guess they’re headlining with New Chance, Jack Topht, and $5.99. It sounds like omega-level Casiotone fucking around and mashing every effects pedal available, so there’s like this epileptic robot slob rap thing going on. OK fine I know what it is and it’s good @Out of the Blue 9PM All Ages $ome cost. ■◆Or let your eyes roll back in your head and enter the nightmarish electronic party atmosphere enveloping Midway as Molt Corps, Citrusphere, Palace (MA), Vehement Caress, AND Soft Target (woah) lay down the violent, yet subtly hypnotic ambient trance we’ve all come to hear in the back of our subconscious. Do what that little voice in the back of your head is telling you @Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ $5
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 18◆ ■ Boston En Masse Day 1. Need I say more?! We’re talking everything and anything Boston people!
Localz, localz, and more localz, laying down the killer punk, psych, garage, pop, acoust-folk,
experimental, noise...you get the idea. This city is a veritable cornucopia of musical intensity, so why not start off this three-day jaunt right and take a tasty bite outta some of these jaw dropping acts including: Guerilla Toss, IAN, Ursula, Milk, Mal Devisa, Abadabad, Radclyffe Hall, Skinny Bones, Harmoos, Anjimile, Peachpit, Littlefoot, So Sol, STL GLD, Horse Jumper of Love, W00dy, Gracie, Rick (from Pile), Dent, Jaw Gems, Lady Bones, and Castle Danger. Day lineups are still a secret but who cares? It’s all gold people! @Middle East Upstairs 8PM All Ages $12 ◆ ■ Or perhaps you’re nostalgic? Looking to the past is awesome, and it’s important to remember where we all came from so if you’re a fan of new wave AND ska, look no further than the fuckin Beat; or as we yankees call them, The English Beat. Grab your best checkered jacket and come join the circle, cause they’ll be skanking till the moon is high @Brighton Music Hall 7:30PM 18+ $35 ■ HAHA WHAT’D SHE/HE/THEY SAY?! Angela Sawyer @Comedy Studio 8PM All Ages $ome Cost ■ OUT THERE AND ECLECTIC Shamir, HANA @Sinclair 9PM 18+ $20 ■ CTIC Shamir, HANA @ Sinclair 9PM 18+ $20
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 22◆◆ ■ Do you ever wish there’d be a great show early enough in the day that you don’t have to miss the other great show you want to go to later? Well you might have wasted your three wishes on all that other shit, but this one’s on us. Come out for this glorious matinee featuring the noble beast rockers Elephants, the pepto glitter of Jesse R. Berlin, Kiss Concert’s toxic sludge along with the one and only Classic Dave @Midway Café 4PM All Ages $7 ◆ ■ You might ask yourself at a late Sunday afternoon matinee show, “where later this evening can I find all the best music, performances, poetry, comedy, and miscellaneous unfathomable talent Boston has to offer?” Why it’s right where you stand! After checking out Elephants, Jesse R. Berlin, Kiss Concert, and Classic Dave, stick around for Open Mic Night with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard @Midway Café 9PM 21+ FREE MONDAY NOVEMBER 23 ◆ ■ Today is a day of very important birthdays. Happy Birthday to Miley Cyrus, SNOOKI, Boris Karloff, the drummer from Lamb of God, and hey maybe even you or your mom or one of her FRIENDS? Maybe you can take that MOM-FRIEND out for a drink and a show @ Great Scott. Mom-friends are usually pretty good DANCERS so you’ll get to watch her bust a move to the funky basslines and GROOVY LOOPS of Atlas Lab. If she’s more of ‘a folker’ then Hunter will light her fire with their acoustics. Chill indie rock mom-friend? Well perfect cause WEMF Presents: The Fantasy Echoes. Get mom and her pals ready by 9PM 18+ $8 ■ ◆Rad Castle Presents: Nightime Sunshine, Beyond Mass, Aniverter @Zuzu 10PM 21+ FREE TUESDAY NOVEMBER 24 ◆ ■ King Diamond is playing with satanic frash metal mugs Exodus, just in time for Thanksgiving! Whilst thine family are clasped hand in hand around the table praying their gratitude for their earthly blessings, you will still be so amped up from this show that you will slash at yourself with butter knives, bludgeon your elderly aunt with the gravy ladle, slash the turkey to bits and devour its tender flesh, festoon yourself with its skin and perhaps fashion it into a stylish vest on which to sew the odd Celtic Frost or Bathory patch, and erect a ghoulish pentagram with its bones to
WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 25 ◆ ■ Delightful is the first thing that comes to mind when it comes to the one two punch of Surfer Blood and Lighthouse & The Whaler. Don’t let the former’s name fool you. Less scary surf and more upbeat pop rock, Surfer Blood walks the line between a modern and classic aesthetic. Lighthouse & the Whaler blow off steam and craft electro pop pulsars with thumping back beats and catchy choruses. Come fall in love and sing along @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $15 ◆ ■ Or we could listen to our forbears and check out the rockabilly proto punk of the Flamin’ Groovies. Part Velvet Underground, part Bob Dylan, part sleepy CCR… yeah, that’s a fuckin cocktail right there my friends. There’s also Boston glam rockers Fireking and the gritty, 60’s injected garage gems of Muck and the Mires. You also get DJ Carbo keepin it real all night. New and old, it’s all the same… great tunes is great tunes @Brighton Music Hall 7PM 18+ $20 THURSDAY NOVEMBER 26 ■ Dooooo..be-doopy dooo..Doo doooo..be-doopy dooo….! Doop doop doop doop doop doop doop. BORK! BORK! BORK! Hej der dee-eye-whysters. Svedisch Chef here ya? Un why donutch ya takey a nitey offey ya? Have sum tuurkey wit da famy-famy!
PVD FREAKSHOW / Ratstab / Kids 11.7 SET Having Kids / Feedback Aurora Psychosis $5 Odwalla 88 / Russian Tsarlag / James K / Valise / RRLEW / Rawl Linbry $5
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11.14 Eric & the Nothing, The Future Spa, AS220 Nebulas, Black Beach, Party Pigs, The Midriffs and more...
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 27 ■ ◆These late-month listings are fun. It’s like looking into a crystal ball sometimes. The spooky-spooky spirits are speaking to me. They foretell you will bang your head tonight to the hardcore metal overdrive of Twitching Tongues, Harm’s Way, Homewrecker, Malice At The Palace, Fuming Mouth, and J.H. @Middle East Downstairs 18+ 7PM $15 SATURDAY NOVEMBER 28◆ ■ Ok, Nega’ ‘proach released the most crucial 7” in hardcore punk history with the Detroit rumpathumpa they’re justly famous for. You know what this is or you don’t. Can’t tell no one. Negative Approach, Night Birds, Casanovas In Heat, Conmen. Brannon is giving out free skinhead haircuts @Middle East Upstairs 7PM All Ages $10, but you’re always left with nothing. ■ BOSTON HARDWOODIES: Tree, Never Got Caught, See This World @Sinclair in Cambridge, MA 8PM 18+ $20 SUNDAY NOVEMBER 29 ■ Come in from the cold won’t you? Be among like-minded folk who want to share their easy listening alien rock with you. Elvis Depressedly is back in town for a onenight-only event featuring the likes of Brittle Brian and Cooper Knights @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $14 ■ ◆The core is mighty hard for this lunch hour picnic. Pennsylvania punkz Cold World will be tearing into town for a sweaty matinee hootenanny. There ain’t no rest on this seventh day with War Hungry, Build and Destroy, and Free Will @The Burren Somerville 12PM All Ages $15 ■ ◆MIX N MATCH: Open Mic Night with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard @Midway Café 9PM 21+ Free ■ ◆INDIE POP PUNK: The Front Bottoms, The Smith Street Band, Elvis Depressedly @Royale 7PM All Ages $18 ■ RUMORED RAGER: PALM and BETH ISRAEL are in town tonight. If you dont know who these bands are check em. They be playing at Out Of The Blue with some surely-tight locals. Be vigilant on the internet for more on this. MONDAY NOVEMBER 30 ■ Rock people… it’s what’s for dinner! Weeklies man, how do these people do it?! I’ve given up questioning the radness of Rad Castle and just go with the flow, so join me TONIGHT as these dudes give us the gift of free jams. Earthquake Party! is exactly that…
thunderous riffage splits open the earth beneath your feet and allows ethereal and melodic keyboard karate to punch its way into your inner brain space. Jim Leonard (the Rad Castle Resident) also emerges as part of this tectonic tumult bringing that daunting voice and sludgy riffs to scare the shit out of us. The sheer gravity of awesome you get for FREE is immeasurable @Zuzu 10PM 21+ FREE
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THURSDAY NOVEMBER 19 ■ ◆WOW...Just... WOW. I can’t believe I bought early plane-tickets to fly home for Thanksgiving holidays and now I’m gonna miss this (a second for this month) incredible music festival. CURSE YOU PEAK TRAVEL PRICES!!! Boston En Masse Day 2. At press lineup is unformed, but check yesterday’s listing for examples (see previous listing yoyo) @Great Scott 8PM 18+ $12 ■◆ It is seriously WHATDUDES? NIGHT in Boston tonight what w/ DJ Dayglow at ISG, Girl Haus at Brattle and check this sick lineup @O’Brien’s, bringing together local talents of diy-popsters Leigh Cheri and freeform-eclectic superstar Every Kim Parcell, plus Anjimile (pronounced like “indubitable”, cuz they iz) and Birthing Hips. 18+ 9PM $8 ■ ◆SKATE THRASH: H20, Angel Du$t, Give @ Middle East Upstairs 18+ 7PM $20
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 21 ■ ◆Deep in the season of pumpkin spice everything, you need a break from all that basic shit. Good thing we always have a place for you to get your ears molested. Trudge through the sea of orange to check out blistering left coast punk trio together Pangea and the loud crunchy melodies of White Reaper. Psych nerds Dinosaurs open it all up @Middle East Upstairs 6:30PM 18+ $12◆ ■ If blips and beats are more your jam there’s the groove-centric entrancing drum and synth of Baltimore's Wume. Get there early to catch the metronomic tunes of JOSS that resemble the sound of a drum machine and a 8-bit video game making out. Joined by mellow masters World Cup and Alek (from Lair) @ Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $Donate$ ■ ◆SURF SCENE: Future Spa, Johnnie and The Foodmasters, Squash, The Lonely Machines @ Wilder Zangcraft (Lowell) 9PM All Ages $Donate ■ ◆CHILL VIBES: Stephin Merritt @MASS MoCA 8PM All Ages $35 ■ ◆EASY ROCK:Paper Castles, Doolittle Family, Rick (from Pile) @Harlow’s Pub (NH) 9:30PM 21+ $8 ■ ◆EARLY SHOW: Stray Bullets, Warning Shots, Oh The Humanity, Whoopi Sticks @Middle East Upstairs 1PM All Ages $8
display in the front window of your suburban home as a warning to all who would enter, a warning that yours is now a HOUSE OF INFAMOUS DEEDS. Your Dad will be like, hey, cool it, and you will decapitate him, bathe yourself in his blood, and wail classics from “Don’t Break the Oath.” After all, isn’t this what Thanksgiving is really about, family? The most evil Thanksgiving ever seen starts @Orpheum 8PM $33.50 666+. Don’t be late. ■ ◆THE GOOD SHIT: Dirty Dishes, Stove @Middle East Upstairs 8PM All Ages $10 ■ ◆INDUSTRIAL NOIZE: HEALTH, Pictureplane @ Brighton Music Hall 8PM 18+ $13 ■ ◆WAMPY INDIE ROCK: Okkervil River @Royale 9PM 18+ $27
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FRIDAY 11/6 AT 7:30PM
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FRIDAY 11/13 AT 7:30PM at Great Scott, Allston
Goddamn, there are so many excellent comedy shows this month. Here are some of them.
The Ranger Zone
SUNDAY 11/1 AT 10PM
at ZuZu, Central Square • Free
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Kick off the month with the always excellent Ranger Zone! Host Aimee Rose Ranger has curated quite the lineup: Jere Pilapil, Wes Hazard, Andy Ostroff, Pat Regan, Pamela Ross, and Xander Blackwell, world famous ghost hunter!
at The Midway, Jamaica Plain
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Sam Ike and Laura Clark are two completely different people with completely different perspectives on every single thing. Their show is a brutally honest look at pop culture, love, society and some weird stuff. Don't sleep on this.
The Dope Show
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Street Meat, A Variety Show
SATURDAY 11/7 AT 9PM
at Charlie’s Kitchen, Harvard Square • $5 • 21+
We are looking forward to this. We love Guitler Raphael and Bethany Van Delft. They corral some standups and other funny weirdos for a one-of-a-kind variety show where anything can happen. Catch music from Manor, standup from Dana Cairns, Nick Chambers, Langston Kerman, Peter Martin, Dave McDonough, Casey Salengo, and Blair Socci. Sarah Cronin, Andrew Durso, Ethan Marsh, Shaun Connolly, and Quentin James will do hilarious who-knows-what.
MONDAY 11/2 AT 8PM
Music and comedy: UNITE. Hosts Guitler Raphael and Riley Knispel present to you some tunes (c/o Gravel, Joey Unis, and Pocket Tanya) and some laughs (c/o Nick Chambers, Will Smalley, Ethan Marsh, Mark Gallagher, and more.)
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Anderson Comedy's weekly showcase has some real treats for you this month. Start writing your Congressperson now: on the 6th, the despicable Neil Hamburger soils the art of comedy before your eyes. Nasty. On the 13th, standup legend and Simpsons writer Dana Gould returns to the Gas as part of the Boston Comedy Festival (BCF runs from 11/6-14 btw). Anyway don't miss either of these.
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Scandinavians approach their seasons of horrific cold with a sense of "hygge,” a Danish word that roughly translates to “coziness.” Good company, comfort, and warm beverages are paramount. Who cares about
SATURDAY 11/7 AT 11:30PM ImprovBoston, Central Square • $5
See Boston’s best as they attempt new bits that are way, way out of their comfort zone. From sketch to standup, character work to karate, and everything in between.
The BFF Show
TUESDAY 11/10 AT 8PM Laugh Boston
Tawanda Gona’s besties headed to LA and he needs replacements. This funny dude is auditioning comedians in the hopes of filling those Sam Jay and Mike Mulloy-sized holes in his heart. Competing are John Baglio, Zardon Richardson, Chanel Ali, Jordan Handren-Seavey, and Nick Lavallee. You should go because it will be really good, but if that doesn't convince you, maybe at least out of pity? It's kinda sad.
Boston Comedy Chicks
SATURDAY 11/14 AT 8PM Doyle’s, JP • $10
SUNDAY 11/15 AT 8PM
Laugh Boston, Seaport District • $15
Boston's only all-female showcase is always a blast. On the 14th, you can check out local heavy-hitters at Doyle's in JP. Follow that up the next night with some amazing up-and-coming out-of-towners at Laugh: Anna Phillips, Regina DiCicco, Shelly Colman, Samantha Ruddy, and Katie Hannigan.
The Kerfuffle
THURSDAY 11/19 AT 9PM ImprovBoston, Central Square
Hosts Jackie Arko and Hannah Foell have no idea what will happen from Kerfuffle to Kerfuffle; they have only the titles of each performer's act prior to the show. But what always happens tends to the absurd, raw, tender. This utterly original showcase packs the theater each month for excellent reason. Your 400 words-ish brain blobs, your black & white drawings, your dumb Photoshops, games, puzzles: WE'LL TAKE A LOOK AT LEAST? Deadline for Dec. issue = 11/15 but we do take things on a rolling basis. them though. To help your heart during the Boston cold, we here at The Tardy Eagle Cold Weather Council have some helpful messages below that you can cut out and look at. Suck it, Denmark!
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THE COOLIDGE AFTER MIDNITE HONORS LLOYD KAUFMAN 11/06–11/28 @COOLIDGE
http://www.Coolidge.org/Events/Coolidge-After-MidniteHonors-Lloyd-Kaufman
For over a decade, the Coolidge Corner Theatre has bestowed their annual Coolidge Award upon a wide variety of cinematic luminaries, from Meryl Streep and Jonathan Demme to cinematographer Vittorio Storaro and editor Thelma Schoonmaker. But what about the oddballs, the cultish weirdos lurking in the fringes? This year, the Coolidge bestows the very first Coolidge After Midnite award to Lloyd Kaufman, the bowtied, hyperactive mouthpiece of the legendarily schlocky Troma Entertainment. The choice is fitting: with its gross-out humor and consistently inspired titles, Troma has served as a gateway for generations of budding cinepunks, and no one embodies that spirit like the studio’s president and lead director. Throughout the month of November, the Coolidge will hold midnight screenings of such joyously profane Tromasterpieces as TROMEO AND JULIET, CLASS OF NUKE ‘EM HIGH, and POULTRYGEIST, plus the all-time classic TOXIC AVENGER, at which screening Lloyd will graciously (?) accept his honor. - Oscar Goff
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BLOOD FREAK (1972) dir. Brad F. Grinter & Steve Hawkes It’s Thanksgiving evening. Your more conservative kinfolk are lulled into their psychosomatic tryptophan comas, leaving you and your interesting relations to program the entertainment. But Eli Roth still hasn’t gotten around to making THANKSGIVING, your parents’ wi-fi can’t handle the Shout Factory MST3K Turkey Day marathon, and THANKSKILLING is a little too ironic-Netflix-queueselection. So what to watch?
12 THE TIN DRUM (1979) dir. Volker Schlondorff @ GOETHE // Günter Grass’s wildly imagistic reckoning with
the catastrophe of Nazism is also, in this adaptation, an iconic classic of New German Cinema.
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BOUND FOR THE FIELDS, THE MOUNTAINS, AND THE SEACOAST
(1986) dir. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi // 11/15 @HFA– Director in person! http://HCL.Harvard.edu/ HFA/Films/2015SepNov/ Obayashi.html While much has been written about Nobuhiko Ôbayashi’s manically warped HAUSU (1977) since it’s US release by Janus Films more than thirty years after it’s original release, Ôbayashi remains an incredibly obscure filmmaker outside of his native Japan. Yet, his significance as a filmmaker there is irrefutable. Beginning in the 50s and 60s, Ôbayashi was one the pioneering experimental filmmakers working in the country, and established a longstanding relationship with the Art Theater Guild – a group dedicated to the production and distribution of radical and avant-garde cinema and associated with other such luminaries as Toshio Matsumoto, Susumu Hani, and Shūji Terayama. While Ôbayashi went on to make many commercially successful features later in his career (and is still an active filmmaker), he never abandoned his anarchic style or surrealist leanings. In simple terms, BOUND FOR THE FIELDS... is a rare chance to see more work from the legendary filmmaker and perhaps get some perspective on what kind of mind could produce such a film as HAUSU.
-Stefan Grabowski
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Unsurprisingly, BLOOD FREAK is not on any major streaming service, but you can find the awesome Something Weird DVD release pretty cheap on Amazon, which also includes a bevy of short subjects tangentially related to drugs, Jesus, and turkeys. - Oscar Goff
02 ROMEO IS BLEEDING (2015) dir. Jason Zeldes @BRATTLE // Donté Clark writes poetry while the world around him falls to shit. Director Jason Zeldes documents a DIY Shakespeare production in Richmond, CA, where the courage of community organizing takes hold thanks to the efforts of Clark and Co. Director in person! 03 THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) dir. Orson Welles @BRATTLE // Come see the second feature of boy genius Orson Welles about a super rich turn of the century Midwestern family caught up in social changes due to the advent of the automobile. Screening will be followed by an analytical discussion. Elements of Cinema – Free screening! 06 EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE, ZOOPRAXOGRAPHER (1975) dir. Thom Andersen @HFA // A key figure in contemporary documentary filmmaking discusses the work that established his career, a fascinating, obsessive study of a fascinating, obsessive man, who may or may not have invented cinema but indisputably killed his wife. Part of an ongoing retrospective. Director in person! 09 MARTIN (1977) dir. George Romero @HFA // If you thought horror maestro George Romero was only competent at the zombie genre, you’d be dead (wink, wink) wrong. A young man living in a depressed Pittsburgh suburb claims to be an 84 year old vampire. But is he? 13 FRIDAY THE 13TH DOUBLE FEATURE (1980/1986) dir. Sean Cunningham/Tom McLoughlin @ROCKYWOODS // Ch Ch Ch Ch, Ha Ha Ha. Get the ultimate Friday the 13th experience by watching two of the films from the iconic series back to back in an actual campground. Wandering alone and having premarital sex are not advised. Outdoor screening – Sponsored by Coolidge! 14 THE FORBIDDEN ROOM (2015) dir. Guy Maddin @HFA // Come on, who can resist entering a forbidden room? Strictly smug survivor types, I surmise. Shrug off their all-too-reasonable caveats and follow the cool kids lining up to check out living legend Guy Maddin’s brand new extravaheadfuck of irony-laden neo-surrealism. Director in person! 15 PROJECTIONS OF AMERICA (2015) dir. Peter Miller @MFA // The “Greatest Generation” produced documentarians as well as foot soldiers, you know. Many were recruited during WWII to deploy our ultimate weapon--cinema!--in an effort to reassure newly liberated populations of the spotless character and noble intentions of the American people. Director in person! 16 HOUSE (1977) dir. Nobuhiko Obayashi @HFA // A summer trip to an aunt’s house goes awry for a girl named Gorgeous and her six friends when strange things begin to occur -- namely, random household items attacking. Ridiculous, horrifying, and full of cheesy effects. Director in person! 18 FADE TO WINTER (2015) @BRATTLE // Face it, winter rules, and if you don’t agree, get ye to Florida already! This film follows a bunch of skiers who love winter so much the followed it around the world, trekking and shredding from Japan to New England. 19 RUSHMORE (1998) dir. Wes Anderson @COOLIDGE // Wes Anderson and a few of his regulars tell the story of a love triangle unfolding at an elite private school. Quirkiness abounds (this is Anderson, of course!), but so do real emotions and meaning. 19 GRRL HAUS CINEMA @BRATTLE // Join Grrl Haus for another showcase of short films from notable local and national female filmmakers, from narrative to documentary to experimental-- and beyond! Filmmakers include Anastasia Cazabon, Caitlin Duennebier, Cara Kuball, and more, plus musical performance by Mini Dresses!
How about a turkey-themed, anti-drug, pro-Christian, ‘70s splatter film? Shot in the wilds of Florida, BLOOD FREAK (1972) is a staggeringly weird grindhouse oddity, and perfect counterprogramming to the Macy’s parade. Herschell, a wayward Christian biker, takes refuge at the home of a nice, pious girl (literally named “Angel”). However, Angel’s sinful sister Ann takes a shine to Herschell, and seduces him with the dread marijuana! Instantly addicted, Herschell takes a job at the sisters’ father’s turkey farm, where he volunteers to test a new turkey growth hormone (?), which, naturally, turns him into a were-turkey (!) with a thirst for junkie blood (!?!). The ensuing rampage would be upsettingly violent if it weren’t so incompetently staged, and also performed by a man in a papier mache turkey mask. Oh, and did I mention the onscreen, chain-smoking narrator? Priceless.
02 VALERIE AND HER WEEK OF WONDERS (1970) dir. Jaromil Jires @HFA // As magical as its eponymous protagonist’s evil priestfighting earrings, Valerie is the strangest, most exquisite jewel in the crown of the Czech New Wave, a counterculptural parable crossing fairy tale medievalism with psychedelic feminism. What it wants from you is sweet.
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THE BOSTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL 11/04–11/06@ASSORTED VENUES http://www.BJFF.org
It’s tempting, in composing an opening for this unpaid ad, to invoke, by way of instant context, the outbreak of intra-Semitic bloodshed in Israel in recent weeks, but to do so would be regrettably reductive, not to mention offpoint. For one thing, the five films featured in this latest installment of the MFA’s long-running annual showcase-which takes place, coincidentally or not, just after the museum’s Palestine-focused fest--cover plenty of extra-Israeli ground. France, Iraq, Australia, the United States, Ethiopia--they or their representatives all put in appearances in a series of films, docs and features both, engaged with questions of identity, history, persecution and preservation. -Matthew Martens
21 THE TOXIC AVENGER (1984) dir. Lloyd Kaufman & Michael Herz @COOLIDGE // The flagship outing from Troma Entertainment is every bit as lovably tasteless as you remember from your local video store, with all of its head crushing, deliberately cheesy acting, and glorious New Jersey location shooting. Stand with the Monster Hero! Kaufman in person! (See featured article) 23 THE CONVERSATION (1974) dir. Francis Ford Coppola @ COOLIDGE // A surveillance expert is hired to track a young couple – but the tables turn when he begins to suspect that he is being surveyed himself. Soon, he is driven into paranoia and fear for the safety of the couple. 23 GREASER’S PALACE (1972) dir. Robert Downey Sr. @HFA // The elder Downey tells the story of Jesus Christ as it was truly meant to be told: as a raunchy, vaudevillian, existentialist Western starring Allan Arbus, Herve Villechaize, and a cigar-chomping Holy Ghost. Somehow, it’s even weirder than it sounds. 30 THE CONFORMIST (1970) dir. Bernardo Bertolucci @ COOLIDGE // A troubled man’s quest for normality drives him into the service of Fascism in Mussolini’s Italy. He treads a dangerous and deceitful path as an agent of the stecret police, though who he is really fooling may just be himself. More new releases not available at time of printing. Stay up to date with www.Coolidge.org or www.LandmarkTheatres.com/Boston/ Kendall-Square-Cinema/ and support independent cinema.
NEW RELEASES NOW SUFFRAGETTE (2015) dir. Sarah Gavron @KENDALL 11/13 SPOTLIGHT (2015) dir. Tom McCarthy @COOLIDGE 11/20 TRUMBO (2015) dir. Jay Roach @COOLIDGE
13 GHOST IN THE SHELL: THE NEW MOVIE (2015) dir. Kazuchika Kise, Kazuya Nomura @COOLIDGE // Straight outta Japan, one of the best animes ever made gets another installment. Get lost in its cyberpunk majesty
LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Goethe Institut Boston – GOETHE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA
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On days when the road construction detours inspire you to stop at Dunkin on your way to work, have ‘em make your coffee the way you’ll truly want it -light and sweet, with two pumps of Draino. Compatible with: Taurus Lucky Show: GWAR @ Palladium Magnets Compatible with: Scorpio Lucky Show: Flipper @ Hasslefest Night 3
Lucky Show: The Monsieurs @ the Middle East
At the moment Scorpios everywhere are a little unclear as to whether they’ve actually seen An Inconvenient Truth or just March of the Penguins twice. Compatible with: Aquarius
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Compatible with: Capricorn Lucky Show: Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ Machines with Magnets
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Any Staples employee will tell Virgo that when the fucks machine is out of service, the ability to send fucks decreases significantly.
Why look up? Every phase of the moon makes Gemini crazy.
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PIPERS CONCERT IN LINCOLN NH. YOU WERE
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Brian Connolly
Compatible with: the baked potato Lucky Show: Myriam Gendron @ Lily Pad Mike Kadomiya “LIFE IS POSERS”
- TAURUS If you haven’t used a trophy as a hammer lately, then you should try to finish in the top 3 a little more often.
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TAKING PICTURES, WEARING A BLACK KILT AND BLACK SHIRT, GRAYISH BLOND
Liz Bolduc
You can catch more flies with a floppy ol’ kombucha mother rotting in your cupboard than with well-sealed jar of dry rice but Sagittarius scores the most flies by being a piece of shit. Compatible with: Leo Lucky Show: John Zorn’s Simulacra @ the ICA
Vickie Smalls “NOWHERE CITY COMIX”
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For Libra, “you would really like so’n’so,” generally translates to “so’n’so would immediately become attached to you in a rather unpleasant manner, but you’re into that sort of thing, aren’t you? Creep.” Compatible with: so’n’so
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Leo is definitely patient and community-minded but if you hit on Leo’s current crush on Facebook chat, her inner beast will smash your shitty one-sided self-released cassette with a hammer (or a scathing review). Compatible with: Aries Lucky Show: Neil Hamburger @ Great Scott Lucky Show: Wume @ Deep Thoughts
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Remember when you found that cat under a car and brought it into your disgusting party house, where it later lapped up ecstasy from the floor? And now it’s four years later and it’s missing teeth and yowling at the demons that haunts its calcified brain? High times, Pisces, way to go. Compatible with: Gemini Lucky Show: Wand @ the Middle East
Now that you moved into an Allston bedroom with styrofoamy drop ceilings, coffeecolored stains billowing from the tile corners, you’re gonna have a bunch more sexy night terrors about taking the SATs. Compatible with: Cancer Lucky Show: PC Worship @ Hassle Fest Night 1
DROPPIN’ THE ‘SCOPE
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If Cancer ate reproductive organs with the regularity and carnal fervor that it eats Cheetos, the world would be a healthier, happier place.
Compatible with: any of the other signs
Lucky Show: W00DY @ Boston En Masse Day 3
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Don’t let Aries whine to you about wanting strong coffee and where can he get a nice light roast and this drip is too watery for him; Aries wouldn’t know strong coffee if it scalded his bean sack. Compatible with: Libra Lucky Show: Chalaque @ Deep Thoughs
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LAST SCANNERS AT DEEP THOUGHTS. I DON’T EAT FISH BUT I’D LIKE TO GET UNDER YOUR C.
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PRESENCE RUSHES IN; WASHING OVER ME. I RELISH THOSE MOMENTS.
PONY TAIL. YOU WERE HANDSOME.