Sept. 2016
FREE #79
Outside the Walls: Three public art projects to go to
BIG 3
NIGHT TRAIN
This month, rather than picking a singular exhibition to highlight, I’d like to invite readers to go out and think specifically about public art, what defines it, and what makes it powerful. In particular, three recent artist-driven projects show a desire for increased local access to art outside of traditional institutions, work that, in fact, requires separation from interiors to be successful. For that is the tricky aspect of “public art” – is it just work that has been moved outside, or should it directly engage passers-by in either a participatory or challenging manner? Large, spectacle-driven installations make up so much of our public art, but do they leave a lasting impression on the community? With these questions in mind, I encourage you to go out and see the following work. Emergence: What does hope look like? is the result of Chanel Thervil’s public art residency at the Boston Center for the Arts. A question and response project, Thervil invites public participation to develop a collective voice of hope. Public Trust, an interactive artwork created by Paul Ramirez Jonas, will be occurring throughout September between three Greater Boston locations. Ramirez Jonas will be working with performers and volunteers to share conversations on the meaning of a promise in the turmoil of this election season.Finally, The Meeting House, by Los Angeles artist Sam Durant, staged in Concord MA, considers a difficult past and present built upon slavery and its many unheard voices. This text-based installation will also include a series of programs to build a dialogue and connect communities.
NIGHT TRAIN Saturday, 9/3, 7:00PM ‘til morning – $12 from Harvard Film Archive - It is very difficult – and this author has tried – to call to mind a number of great films that don’t feature a train at least once. It’s harder still to provide examples of films that are not enhanced, brought more to life, by the iron horse. The Harvard Film Archive knows this, and as such have dedicated their annual all-night marathon this year to movies which center around trains. The six films span the majority of film history, from the beloved Howard Hawks deep cut Twentieth Century to the forever-doomed-to-be-underrated Snowpiercer. In between are films from the United Kingdom, India, and a downtown-bound Pelham subway car. The movie camera has formed an eternally fruitful bond with trains. Perhaps the bond draws from the license the train gave to artists, from the Lumiere brothers on down, to play around with depth and framing. Or it could be in the train’s physiology, all linear and mechanical motion, flattering cinema’s unparalleled potential to replicate moving bodies both metaphorical and literal. Or maybe the camera loves the train because they are two modern era machines in symbiosis, each responding to the unique needs of a modern society. The train, by its very nature, brings people from disparate places into places they need to be, much like the narrative of a film inducting a viewer into a sustained internal world. And both the camera and train do so in flickering motion, passing by and moving away. Anyway, while that idea is getting workshopped, you should def go to this event. Twelve bucks for six good movies is a steal.
- Maggie
- Nate Fisher
D-SAGAWA interview
PURE IMPACT
1. Members: Jess:Vocals Jon: Bass Mark Useful: Drums Larry: Guitar
with Ghost Hello to new readers and old. (Hi Elaine!) Back at it after a brief hiatus... It’s PURE IMPACT! Friday September 2nd there’s an all local benefit gig with Sunshine Ward/Ancient Filth/St.Ripper/Rejiem and more at Harvard Square’s Democracy Center. Also at the DC Sept. 4th is the return of the Boston Punk Flea Market featuring local vendors including M39, Twerps Records, Life Is Posers, Last Revolution distro and more selling records, zines, leather gear and anything else PUNK! Stick around after and check out the New Band Showcase with 5 brand new Boston area Punk bands. All Ages/$5! Wednesday Sept. 21st, PDX’s PMS84 and NYC’s Conspiracy play the Middle East Upstairs with boot stompers Savageheads, Contingent and Cinderblock. Sept. 23rd we have Philly’s Pollen and Green Beret (details TBA). September 25th at the Cambridge Elks marks the latest installment of Boston’s biggest underground/DIY music and art market, the Black Market, co-organized by The Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock’n’Roll Heroes. Stick around after to catch Japanese garage-Punk veterans The Slomotions downstairs!
NOTES FROM THE CREW
2. Influences: Green Beret, Bloodkrow Butcher, Zipperhead, Anti Cimex, Mob 47, Anti System, Riistetyt, D-Clone, Disclose 3. Lyrical content: The lyrical style is inspired by Mayhem’s Deathcrush Album, ‘Dead’ Era Mayhem and also how pissed off Jess is 4. Releases: We currently only have one demo out on m39 Distribution called I want To die Suffering 5. Future: For the future we have a couple splits planned with Disclone from Austria and Boston Locals Life Asylum as well as another EP and a weekend tour 6. Closing Statement: In closing, my whole life is a dark room. Slug life. Got a Punk gig or event you want featured in Pure Impact?
TAKEDOWN FEST
Takedown Music and Art Festival! featuring Palehound, Hello Shark, Nat Baldwin, Brett DesChenes, & Peter McLaughlin Trio, Sam Moss, Dr. Gasp, Heavy Pockets, Soft Eyes, Lisa/Liza, Footings, Comma, The Landladys, New England Bluegrass Band + so much more! @Rock Maple Woods Farm, Strafford, NH, 12pm, All Ages, $Donate$ Grab your sunglasses, pack a cooler, and get ready to carpool, ‘cuz Summer ain’t over yet, folks. This month we suggest you head up north to Strafford, NH, where the 7th annual Takedown Music and Art Festival is set to go down on Saturday, September 17th. Of course we champion any amalgamation of music, art, and good vibes, and as the season winds down, there is no better place than Takedown. In their own words, “The Takedown Music Festival honors the woods, it praises music, it uniquely frames performance and visual art, but above all it celebrates the relationship of these creative expressions with community.” C’mon, how are you not sold already? Well, let me give you a little more of a run down on the tunes: Ex-Boston bedroom rockers Palehound, the ethereal Soft Eyes, Portland avant-garde folksters Lisa/Liza, NH alt-rockers Footings, Boston singersongwriter Sam Moss, pop punkers Heavy Pockets and soooo many morrreee. Plus aerial performances (whatever that entails), puppet shows (fun for all ages, natch) and local art installations facilitated by our brothers in arms at Wrong Brain. Srsly ppl….hitch a ride. - Michael Achille
PLACES YOU CAN HANG: BOCA STUDIOS John Shakespear The north-of-Boston district known as Camberville is home to no shortage of practice spaces, recording studios, and practice-spaces-that-are-also-recording-studios. Some, like Central Square’s WEMF, are vast labyrinths made up of separate spaces. Others give smaller number of artists more space to spread out and create a community. Boca Studios, nestled in East Somerville near McGrath highway, is one such rad Place You Can Hang. The studio was founded by Mathieu Cunha and Parker Crane and built from scratch (with a little help from friends) in 2014. Today, the space is run by audio engineer Dan Thorn, who regularly records artists of all genres and keeps everything running smoothly for the several bands that using it for weekly rehearsals. Amps, guitars, synths, reel-to-reel tape machines, and an old Teischord organ line the walls and shelves along with posters commemorating past shows by Boca’s bands. There’s a PA system and a wide array of microphones. For a reasonable rate, the space is open to new bands who want a place to rehearse or record, as well as engineers who are interested in using the studio’s gear. Thorn says that the studio is designed to let artists “seamlessly integrate their rehearsal and recording processes.” “So many musicians want to record themselves, and know how to,” he explains, “and I want to maintain a cool and well-equipped practice space with better tools for either self-recording, or recording with an engineer, than individual bands might otherwise be able to access.” If you’re interested in checking out Boca, or becoming a part of it, get in touch via the studio’s Facebook page or email Dan at contact@bocastudios.com.
Welcome back to September reality! We’ve got updates…. First, we have revived our READER SUPPORT campaign, which failed when the start-up that hosted us failed – so now we’re hosting it our own damn selves! Please visit bostonhassle.com/supportthecompass and sign up to give as little as $2 a month to ensure the production of this independent arts rag does not end abruptly with moths flying out of our empty pockets. Help! Ya. Second, we started a label! Hassle Family Tapes dropped a compilation of Hassle volunteers’ noise, rock, pop, and nonsense called SPF420 last month, and we’ve still got copies available. The sky’s the limit really, so holler if you wanna help run a label! Third, we got some fresh blood and it’s spilling all over the place! Earlier this year, Maggie Jensen joined the Hassle family as the Editor-in-Chief of our arts section. She’s changing the face of our org to better see and spew about art happenings in town. We are also bolstering the ranks of our shows crew and fundraising team, now is a good time to join as things coalesce. However! Still seeking an editor-in-chief of the website, an incredible opportunity to manage a powerful platform for independent culture in our city and beyond. Step up. Volunteers make this all of this happen and you could be one of them.
Sam P
And lastly, Hassle Fest 8, our annual fall festival, is coming together nicely with SILVER APPLES, GIRLPOOL, and WOLF EYES on the hook thus far. Stay tuned for more, particularly about our fundraising efforts. Help us make this fest a reality and get all these sick bands paid! Have fun out there, and thanks for reading the rag!!
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Sat 9/10 Sixth Annual JP Music Fest featuring American Echoes, Thalia Zedek Band, Hallelujah the Hills, Tredici Bacci, and many more! @Pinebanks Field (JP) 12pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 9/10 Long Neck, gobbinjr, Claire Cottrill, Looks Like Mountains @Trixie’s Palace 7pm All Ages $7-10 Sat 9/10 PowerSlut, Viva Gina, The Land of Enchantment, & The Very @ONCE 8pm All Ages $10-14 Sun 9/11 Violent Soho, Meat Wave @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12
MUSIC Thu 9/1 Naan Violence, Death Panels, Nightime Sunshine (featuring the legendary Biff Rose) @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Thu 9/1 Thalia Zedek Band (Record Release) w/ Minibeast, Black Helicopter, Positive Negative Man @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Fri 9/2 As Built Presents: Guillermo Sexo, Gold Muse, Brown Lasers, Elephants @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8
Thu 9/8 B-Side Nights: Parks and The Furniture @Innovation and Design Building 6:30pm All Ages Free Thu 9/8 Full of Hell & The Body, Gas Chamber, Empty Vessels, Campaign Committee @Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $12-15 Fri 9/9 Worshipper, Zip-Tie Handcuffs, The Devils Twins @ONCE 7pm 18+ $11 Fri 9/9 Scanners “Back-2-School Scan” w/ Bookworms, Via App, & DJ’s @Middle East, 10:30pm 18+ $10 Sat 9/10 Boston Comedy Chicks w/Angela Sawyer @Doyle’s Cafe (JP) 8pm $ome Cost
Fri 9/2 Allston Pudding Presents: The Veldt, Dyr Faser, Your 33 Black Angels @ONCE 8pm $9-12
Sat 9/10 Baby Names, sister, Andy California, and more TBA @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $ome Cost
Fri 9/2 Fat Creeps and Alaina Stamatis Comedy Ritual @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10
Sat 9/10 The Channels, Earring (Chicago), Department Of Everything (Record Release Show!), Queen With A Megaphone (NYC) and JOSS @Ames 8pm All Ages *A Boston Hassle Effort*
Sat 9/3 Allston Pudding Presents: Elvis Depressedly, Teen Suicide, Nicole Dollanganger @ONCE 7:30pm $13 Sat 9/3 Starlab Fest w/ Screaming Females, The So So Glos, Bloodshot Bill, Mini Dresses, The Furniture, Gymshorts, Ascend/ Descend, Save Ends, Animal Flag, Adam PC, Nick Chambers, Emily Ruskowski Comedy, Sam Ike @10 Poplar St Somerville 12pm All Ages $15 Sat 9/3 Thrust Club, Fur Purse, the Empty, Coping Skills @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 Sun 9/4 Something Sneaky, The Owens @ Atwoods Tavern 10pm 21+ $5 Sun 9/4 Ricecrackers, Lung, Birdwatching @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Sun 9/4 NOX, Makutu, Bugjar, Jarva Land @Midway Cafe 4pm 21+ $5 Mon 9/5 Vaepors, Immanent Voiceless (NYC), Fable Grazer, VAT @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Mon 9/5 Allston Pudding Presents: Adam Green & Puppy Problems @ONCE 7pm All Ages $14-17 Tue 9/6 Illegally Blind Presents: Ian Sweet (LP Release), Horse Jumper of Love, iji, Kal Marks, Lina Tullgren @Middle East Upstairs 7pm All Ages $12 Tue 9/6 Non Event Presents: Oren Ambarchi + F/I/P + Donna Parker & Vic Rawlings (duo) @Le Laboratoire Cambridge 8pm All Ages $10-15 Tue 9/6 Monthly Fem Night returns! featuring Listening Woman (return from tour) + dee;diggs, Hot Dirt, and !@#$% @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Tue 9/6 A night of video and multimedia performance: “Ain’t Nothing Like Being Free” a film by John Meyer, Oracle Plus, Dungeon Bronco Vidz 2016 and locals TBD @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Wed 9/7 Marduk, Rotting Christ, Carach Angren, Necronomicon @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $20
Discover the Others
Sun 9/11 Gang Green, Antagonizers Atl, the Warning Shots, Blood Stained Brindle @ Middle East Upstairs 1pm All Ages $15 Sun 9/11 Somerville Rock and Roll Yard Sale w/live music by Allysen Callery and more! @Union Square Plaza 11am All Ages Free Mon 9/12 Dust From 1000 Years, Vivian K., Mo Troper, Alosi Den @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8 Mon 9/12 Listening Woman, Sauna Youth (London), Earth Heart and G. Gordon Gritty @Zuzu 9pm 21+ but FREE *A KLYAM, Rad Castle and Boston Hassle Joint Effort* Tue 9/13 Non Event Presents: Michael Rosenstein and ARKM FOAM @Café Fixe 7pm All Ages $5 Wed 9/14 Peaches @Royale 8pm 18+ $22 Wed 9/14 Tenement, Dusk, Me in Capris, Notches; and “Circumstances” zine by Taylor Barclay release party @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, NH) 8pm All Ages $10
Thu 9/15 Illegally Blind Presents: Mystic Braves, The Dream Ride @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $12 Thu 9/15 +DOG+ (long-running noise act, originally from CA, not the rock band from the Bronx), Purgist (Poland), PCRV, Jay Randall @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Fri 9/16 The Feelies @Sinclair 8pm 18+ $20 Fri 9/16 Cymbals Eat Guitars, Wildhoney @ Great Scott 10pm 21+ $12 Fri 9/16 Temporal Currents: Experimental Film and Sound @Metropolitan Waterworks Museum 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 9/17 Cold Cave, TR/ST @Middle East Downstairs 8pm 18+ $20 Sat 9/17 Car Seat Headrest, Lucy Dacus @ Sinclair 8pm 18+ Sold Out Sat 9/17 Magic Shoppe, Dyr Faser, Violet Nox @Lilypad 10pm 21+ $10 Sat 9/17 Stories to Scenes w/Angela Sawyer @Riot Theatre (JP) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Sat 9/17 Sonorium featuring Bonnie Kane, Mon.Ark Ammo, Mother’s Day, Angelsbreath @Gallow’s Hill Theatre (Salem) 8pm All Ages $10
Sat 9/17 Takedown Music and Art Festival! featuring Palehound, Hello Shark, Nat Baldwin, Brett DesChenes, & Peter McLaughlin Trio, Sam Moss, Dr Gasp, Heavy Pockets, Soft Eyes, Lisa/Liza, Footings, Comma, The Landladys, New England Bluegrass Band + so much more! @Rock Maple Woods Farm (Strafford, NH) 12pm All Ages $ome Cost Sun 9/18 Allah-Las, Tops @Brighton Music Hall 7pm 18+ $13 Sun 9/18 Rock ‘n Lowell Fest featuring Patrick Evans, Spoke Card, Settler, The Fall is Shorter Than You Think, Dios Trio, Idle Pilot, SUPERSONA, oldsoul, The Womps, Horse Mode, Harbor Lights, Shiloh @ UnchARTed 2pm All Ages $5 Mon 9/19 Birthing Hips, Ronnie Vega (Philly), Pink Navel and One For @Filene’s Basement 10pm All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Joint* Mon 9/19 Against Me!, Potty Mouth, Frameworks @Royale 8pm All Ages $25 Mon 9/19 Satan’s God, Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth, Fat Shuggy @Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$ Mon 9/19 Major Stars, Animal Hospital, Phantom Rides @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Mon 9/19 Shaves, A Story Telling Show w/ Angela Sawyer @Ang’s New House (ask for address) 8pm All Ages $ome Cost Tue 9/20 Angel Olsen, Alex Cameron @ Sinclair 7pm 18+ $17 Tue 9/20 Diet Cig, Free Cake for Every Creature @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $13 Tue 9/20 LVL UP @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12-14
RI: 9/3 Agent Orange, FEA, Held Hostage, NH: 9/17 Takedown Music and Art Festival! CT: 9/15 Built to Spill w/ Hop Along and Alex Timecop Beach, Party Field Day(Dag Nasty featuring Palehound, Hello Shark, Nat Baldwin, G at College Street Music Hall (New Haven, WMASS: 9/1 Dirty Dishes (NYC), Digital Prisontribute) @Firehouse 13 (PVD) 8pm All Ages $12-15 Brett DesChenes, and Peter McLaughlin trio, CT) 7pm All Ages $25 ers of War, Grist, Maxi’s World @Flywheel Sam Moss, Dr Gasp, Heavy Pockets, Soft eyes, RI: 9/9 The Huntress and Holder of Hands, Tara Jane CT: 9/28 LVL UP w/ Pupppy and Spit-Take @ Arts Collective 8pm All Ages $5-7 Lisa/Liza, Footings, Comma, The Landladys, O’Neil, Thalia Zedek @Columbus Theatre (PVD) 9pm BAR (New Haven, CT) 9pm 21+ Free New England Bluegrass Band + so much WMASS: 9/3 Basement w/Ovlov @Palladium All Ages $12-14 NY: 9/2 Summers End Music Festival featurmore! @Rock Maple Woods Farm (Strafford, (Worcester) 7pm All Ages $15-18 RI: 9/17 Black Beach, Poppies, Edgar Clinks, Derek Knox @ ing Sonnymoon, Milo (Rapsmith), Guerilla NH) 12pm All Ages $ome Cost WMASS: 9/15 Dyke Drama // Pines // AS220 9pm All Ages $8 Toss, Pill, Honduras, Mal Blum, yours ME: 8/9 And How! (NC), Severed Fingers Laika’s Orbit // Loone // Beautiful are the only ears, Tall Juan, Beth Israel, RI: 9/17 The Body, Gobby, Work/Death, Lingua Ignota, Houseboy (NC), The Very Reverend @CENTRAL Woman @Flywheel Arts Collective gobbinjr, Peaer, Kississippi, Emily Yacina, Houseband @Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket) 9pm All Ages GALLERY (Bangor, ME) 7pm All Ages $5 7:30pm All Ages $8-10 Maxo, Surf Rock is Dead, Sports., $ome Cost CT: 9/7 Dinosaur Jr. w/ Cloud Nothings @ Madam West, Psymon Spine, Vinegar WMASS: 9/17-9/18 Kitchen Garden NH: 9/2 Uni Ika Ai, Abbie Morin, (more TBA) @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, College Street Music Hall (New Haven, Mother, Goodman @Aviv (Brooklyn) Farms presents Chilifest: Bella NH) 8pm All Ages $5-10 CT) 7pm All Ages $28-30 7pm All Ages $10-30 Bartok, Great Smokey, Atlas Lab, NH: 9/7 If You Put A Bag Over His Head: Objectifying Men in the Age of Lonesome Brothers and more @ CT: 9/9 Mal Devisa / Zanders / SpillNY: 9/9 IAN SWEET Record Release Terror; by Phoenix Mayet: Zine talk & slideshow @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, Mike’s Maze Sunderland, MA 12way / Jelani Sei / Animal Flag @The w/ Florist, Horse Jumper of Love, NH) 7pm All Ages $5 5pm All Ages $5 Kids $10 Adults Dome (Winsted, CT) 7pm All Ages Hovvdy @Shea Stadium 8pm All $10 Ages $10 NH: 9/9 Badfellows, Teratoma, Long Neck, gobbinjr @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, NH) WMASS: 9/23 Black Beach, 8pm All Ages $5-10 Where’s Walden?, Pronoia @ NY: 9/24 LVL UP Record Release w/ Amherst VFW Post 754 8pm OVLOV and Vagabon @Market NH: 9/14 Tenement, Dusk, Me in Capris, Notches; and “Circumstances” zine by Taylor All Ages $ome Cost Hotel (Brooklyn) 8pm All Ages $12 Barclay release party @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, NH) 8pm All Ages $10
Tue 9/20 The Renderers (New Zealand) @ Deep Thoughts JP 8:30pm All Ages $ome Cost
Ongoing Public Art Installation: Sam Durant’s The Meeting House @The Old Manse, Concord, MA
Sat 9/17 FROM THE CLOUDS TO THE RESISTANCE (1979) Dir. Straub-Huillet @ HFA
Wed 9/21 Angel Olsen, Rodrigo Amarante @ Sinclair 7pm 18+ $17
Ongoing Alex Da Corte: Free Roses @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Didactic neo-realism meets the dialectical sublime
Wed 9/21 Weird Turn Pro: ambient / jazz led by Mike Effenberger @Wrong Brain HQ (Dover, NH) 7pm All Ages $5-10
Sun 9/18 CAMERAPERSON (2016) Dir. Kirsten Johnson @COOLIDGE
Thu 9/22 Tiger Army, Creeper, Tijuana Panthers @Middle East Downstairs 7pm 18+ $22
Sun 9/18 TRON (1982) dir. Steven Lisberger @ SOMERVILLE
Thu 9/22 The Gala, Lady Pills, Analog Heart, Fur Purse @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $10 Fri 9/23 Dreamscapes #6: Stormy, Mario Epstein, TBA @Hope Central Church 8pm All Ages $3 Fri 9/23 Illegally Blind Presents: Morgan Delt @Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $12 Fri 9/23 Bong Wish, Pigeons (W Mass), and Matt ‘MV’ Valentine @The Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 *A Boston Hassle Effort* Fri 9/23 Fitz Fest II featuring Funeral Advantage, Steep Leans, Saccharine, Du Vide, and Twen Furs @O’Briens 7pm 21+ $10
Visual memoir-critique on art & ethics
Ends 9/11 Exhibition: Susan Carr: How To Do Art? @How’s Howard? Sun 9/11 Gallery Talk: Marcie Begleiter on Eva Hesse @Institute of Contemporary Boston, 2pm Thu 9/15 Discussion Series: Overgrowth in Conversation, Between Wonder and the Monstrous @deCordova, 6:30pm Ends 10/16 List Projects: Ethan HayesChute @MIT List Visual Arts Center Ongoing Exhibition: Vision and Justice: The Art of Citizenship @Harvard Art Museums Tue 9/13 Artist Talk: Leo Villareal on Light Matrix @MIT List Visual Arts Center, 6pm
Fri 9/23 Lee “Scratch” Perry w/Subatomic Sound Systems, Dub Apocalypse, DJ Carbo @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $25
Thu 9/15 The Artist’s Voice: Nicolas Nixon and Abelardo Morell @Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 7pm
Sat 9/24 Break the Chains queer dance party w/ The Shondes! @Make Shift 6pm All Ages $10-20
Fri 9/16 Reception: ¡Capicú! Let Them Eat Cake @Distillery Gallery, 7-10pm
Sun 9/25 Hallelujah the Hills, Marissa Nadler @Brighton Music Hall 6pm All Ages $20 Sun 9/25 BLACK MARKET @Elks Lodge 11am-5pm All Ages $1….*A Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock ‘n Roll Heroes Joint Effort* Tue 9/27 Buzzcocks @Royale 7pm 18+ $29 Tue 9/27 Death Valley Girls @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $10 Wed 9/28 Mild High Club @Middle East Upstairs 7pm All Ages $12 Wed 9/28 Jeff the Brotherhood @ONCE 8PM $12
Sat 9/17 Saturday Open Studio: Pulp to Paper: Contemporary Papermaking @The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 11am4pm Mon 9/19 Reception: Encircling the World: Contemporary Art, Science, and the Sublime @Massachusetts College of Art and Design, 6:30-8pm Thu 9/22 Exhibition Opening: Beyond Words: Italian Renaissance Books @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Groundbreaking arcade classic
FILM FLAM Thurs 9/1 EVA HESSE (2016) Dir. Marcie Begleiter @MFA Documents the iconic sculptor and antiminimalist
Metaphysical, meditative space thriller 70 mm!
Classic anime fairy tale
Wed 9/21 MOMMY (2014) dir. Xavier Dolan @FCC
Double feature w/ KIKI’S DELIVERY SERVICE – also screens 9/3
Fri 9/23 FASTER, PUSSYCAT! KILL! KILL! (1965) dir. Russ Meyer @COOLIDGE
The filthiest movie alive
Arguably feminist, indisputably badass
Sat 9/3 FREAKS (1932) dir. Tod Browning @ COOLIDGE
Fri 9/23 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968) dir. Stanley Kubrick @SOMERVILLE
Gibble Gobble One of Us, One of Us !
Cryptic science-fiction classic
Fri 9/9 JFK (1991) dir. Oliver Stone @HFA
70mm!
Something fishy happened on November 22, 1963
Sat 9/24 ERASERHEAD (1977) dir. David Lynch @COOLIDGE
Fri 9/9 THE DESTRUCTION OF MEMORY (2016) dir. Tim Slade @HAM
Parental anxiety mixed with celluloidsurrealism
Documentary exploration of cultural identity & war
Sat 9/24 HIERONYMUS BOSCH, TOUCHED BY THE DEVIL (2015) Dir. Pieter van Huystee @MFA
Director in person!
Ends 9/24 Exhibition: Fifty Photographs, @
Mon 9/26 ROCKY (1976) dir. John Gavildsen @COOLIDGE Tough guys’ classic For more in-depth coverage of the Boston cine-scene, check out http://www. BostonHassle.com/Film-Flam Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributors: Kyle Amato, Kyle Brunet, Nate Fisher, David Frederick Jr., W. Logan Freeman, Oscar Goff, Sarah Lawson, Matthew Martens, Pablo Torroella LISTINGS NOTE: Below is the venue abbreviation key:
Fri 9/30 Non Event Presents: Ernst Karel/ Bhob Rainey and Caroline Park @Boston City Hall 6:30pm All Ages Free
Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE French Cultural Center – FCC
Sat 10/1 75 Dollar Bill, Major Stars, one more very exciting act TBA…@Deep Thoughts 8:30pm All Ages $Donate$
Fri 9/2 Performance: Antiworlds – Antibody Corporation and Andrew Braddock @ Mobius, 7-9pm Thu 9/1-Fri 9/2 Interactive Public Art Project: Public Trust @Dudley Square, Sat 9/3-Sat 9/10 @Kendall Center, Sun 9/11-Sat 9/17 @ Copley Square Tue 9/6 Reception: Urban Ecology: Silvia Lopez Chavez @Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, 6-8pm Wed 9/7 Reception: Materials Witness @ Atlantic Wharf, 6-8pm Thu 9/8 Artist Talk: The Living Room Project @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, 1-3pm Sat 9/10 Performance: TREE Performance @Powderhouse Park, 1-3pm Sat 9/10 Gallery Talk: Maria Molteni on Community Arts Initiative: Second Hands @MFA Boston, 12-1pm
Satanic painter’s creative process Screens through 10/2
Fri 9/30 Barbazons EP Release (and last show!!) @Middle East Upstairs (openers, cost and time TBD)
Fri 9/2 Reception: Second Skin @Lens Gallery, 6-8:30pm
Really messed-up coming of age
Fri 9/2 PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) dir. John Waters @COOLIDGE
Fri 9/30 Scanners-Central Scan: Underground Electronic Music @Zuzu 10:30pm 21+ $5
ART
70mm!
Thurs 9/1 MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO (1988) dir. Hayao Miyazaki @BRATTLE
Fri 9/30 Vanyaland Presents: Vundabar, Midriffs, Bat House, Lady Pills @Brighton Music Hall 8pm 18+ $12
jpmusicfestival.com
Seminal end-of-the-western western Tue (9/20) INTERSTELLAR (2014) dir. Christopher Nolan @SOMERVILLE
Thu 9/29 Allysen Callery, Karen Zanes @ The Plough and Stars 10pm
Pinebank Field at Jamaica Pond Food Trucks Kids’ Activities
Mon 9/19 THE WILD BUNCH (1969) dir. Sam Peckinpah @SOMERVILLE
Screens through 9/10
Thu 9/29 Tacocat, Dude York @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $13
Saturday, September 10 Noon to 7 PM • Free!
70mm!
Harvard Art Museum – HAM Harvard Film Archive - HFA Metropolitan Waterworks Museum – WATERWORKS Carpenter Center, Harvard
Museum of Fine Arts Boston - MFA
Sat 9/24 Reception: The Action is the Juice: Ariel Danielle Norris @Outpost 186, 2-6pm
Somerville Theatre – SOMERVILLE
Ends 9/25 Exhibition: Placemaking Objects: BCA Artist Studios Building Exhibition @ Boston Center for the Arts Wed 9/28 Reception: Convergence Art Show @Artists for Humanity, 4pm-12am Fri 9/30 Dance: Raphael Xavier @Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, 8pm Fri 9/30 Study Center Seminar: The Future @Harvard Art Museums, 11am-12pm Ends 10/16 Exhibition: Nalini Malani: In Search of Vanished Blood @Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Ends 10/16 Exhibition: Liz Deschenes @ Institute of Contemporary Art Boston Ends 10/16 Public Art Residency: Chanel Thervil’s Emergence: What Does Hope Look Like? @Boston Center for the Arts Plaza Out of Town Fri 9/2 Reception: Don Voisine: X/V @ CMCA, 5-8pm, Rockland, ME Sat 9/17 Reception: Passenger with Horizon: Scott Lawrence @GRIN, 6-9pm, Providence, RI Ends 9/24 Exhibition: Peter Hutchinson’s The Nature of Language @Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, Cape Cod, MA
Sat 9/10 THE HOLY MOUNTAIN (1973) dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky @COOLIDGE Quintessential psychedelic quest for enlightenment
PREFERRED CARRIERS
You can find the Compass every month at the following locations: 1369 Cambridge
Sun 9/11 CHILD OF THE BIG CITY (1914) dir. Yevgeni Bauer @HFA
Lilypad Cambridge Tre Gatos
Jamaica Plain
Russian, older than even the Soviet Union itself!
Midway Cafe
Jamaica Plain
Mon 9/12 SNOWDEN (2016) dir. Oliver Stone @HFA
Bocca Studios
Somerville
Thrift Shop of Boston Roslindale
Hacker hagiography alongside its auteur. Director in person!! Thurs 9/15 HEATHERS (1988) Dir. Michael Lehmann @COOLIDGE Pitch black teen comedy Fri 9/16 CANNIBAL HOLOCAUST (1980) dir. Ruggero Deodato @COOLIDGE Granddaddy of all cannibal films Fri 9/16 TEMPORAL CURRENTS @ WATERWORKS Local experimental aquatic installation Sat 9/17 I DRINK YOUR BLOOD (1970) dir. David E. Durston @COOLIDGE Gonzo rabid-hippie gorefest
Out of the Blue
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Jamaica Plain
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Jen Epervary
This horoscopic season, everyone’s outcomes are exactly the same.
Citizen Vic
Brian Connolly
A planet with perfect conditions for sustaining life, easily referred to as Earth 2 or Blue Orb From A Different Glorb or even ~New House Show Basement in Allston~ is currently revolving around the star Proxima Centauri, four-and-ahalf light years away. “It is with great enthusiasm that I renounce my Earthlihood and ascend to the alien race,” everybody confidently responds in unison. “I have reviewed the details of a future on Earth and in light of the American police brutality cycle, the European race war cycle, the ISIS cycle, the misery-industrial cycles, and the dazzling pools of glacial death across Antarctica, it appears that my goals and priorities with regards to happiness and civility will be better matched on another planet that I will be able to reach in four and a half years. I’ll be just shy of thirty-five. I’ll still have a firm ass—” “No you won’t,” says Science. “Butt my squats are explosive!” “A light year isn’t a year. A light year is a wholly incomprehensible unit of measure.” “I’ll be forty?” “We created slightly reasonable dollops of distance called Astronomical Units, in which ‘astronomical’ is used literally. An AU is about 93 million miles. In the scheme of light, a beam can travel 93 million miles in approximately 8 minutes.” “...” “SO,” exclaimed Science, as though coming ‘round a mountain as she came, “there are 63,000 AUs in one light year. In the exact way that there are 63,000 inches in one mile. Orange you glad we didn’t adopt the metric system?” “Phew!”
Mike Kadomiya
“If the current space shuttle travels 3,094 miles per hour (outside of Earth’s orbit), a person can travel the distance contained in a light year in...216,746 years.” Science presses the button on the end of her pen and the tip recedes into the barrel with a click. She slides the pen into her breast pocket and begins walking away with intention. “I am pleased to retain my position on Mother Earth! And very excited to make positive contributions to all of the companies I keep,” Society yells in her direction. Society jogs after her, panting in pledge form. “While this second Earth may falsely give license to the powers that be to drain the current planet of its resources and evade conflict resolution, I will commit a portion of my lifespan to its betterment.”
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Science stops and turns to Society. She hands Society a Chowder’s Lavender gum. “It actually has sugar in it. Isn’t that amazing?” Society’s mastication commences. “Have you any vows with regards to buoying the happiness and civility of others?” “The work is exactly what I have been preparing and hoping to do.” A look of wariness narrows Science’s eyes. “I am eager to embark on this new journey--” Science frowns. “I promise not to get into fights in the comments section of Facebook events anymore. There are a million places my attentions are better served in real life.” “Bingo. Anything can be rocket science when your head’s up Uranus.” Lucky Show: Satan’s God @ Deep Thoughts JP