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Living and booking house shows in Boston for several years was a good primer for the inherent difficulty and bullshit that will always be part of autonomous, self-determined cultural organizing: authorities want to shut you down, there are never enough resources to make things happen, people just burn out. It happens everywhere because the capitalist mess of a society that we live in wants us to fail if we care more about people, art and ideas than profit and bottom lines. In alternative cultural spheres we’re conditioned to feel like institutions are inherently bad, because as they stand, a lot of them are. But some institutions can be really important, especially when they create truly sustainable, accessible, safer spaces and/or generation-spanning platforms for sharing collective knowledge and energy. Of course, institutions will always need to be interrogated and sometimes destroyed. But we also need to build better ones from scratch in order to foster better futures. The Silent Barn, the all-ages collective art space where I live and work in Brooklyn with about 100 of my closest friends, is one type of creative response; an answer to the trying times that art and activism currently face, where the pressures of utter
commercialism seem inescapable. Sometimes it feels like one big collective push against it all, one big collective pull to open up space where it didn’t exist before. The Barn has been going in various forms for about 10 years, and is unique in its attempts to channel the spirit of DIY into something lasting; in 2013, the project signed onto a 10-year lease. On Sept. 25, the Barn suffered a bad fire that left the building severely damaged (mostly due to flooding throughout all levels of the building). All 12 of us who live there are displaced indefinitely, and multiple residents lost everything. Community support poured out on the internet. To be clear, the Silent Barn is insured, so while our rebuilding costs should eventually be reimbursed, our residents’ personal losses are not covered. We won’t be having any shows for about a month, and every day that we are not open, we are losing income, putting our sustainability at risk. We need donations right now, but in truth, spaces like Silent Barn always need donations; community projects always need community support. The Silent Barn sends love + gratitude to our Boston fam and all folks who are organizing and playing fundraisers; thanks for your support and we hope to see you soon <3
ART BLAST......................................................PAGE 2 Spooky Exhibits, Illuminus, Black Mt. College, & Fiber Arts Market!
HASSLE BRIEFS..............................................PAGE 3 That Michael Character, Palehound, The Britneys, Black Spirtituals, Os Noctàmbulos
HERE BE THE SHOWS...............................PAGE 4-5 Ethereal indie, post punk throw down, punky garage psych.
THE TARDY EAGLE..........................................PAGE 6 Where is the comedy, FRIGHT!!!!!!!, Teen Goths (maybe), More
FILM FLAM......................................................PAGE 7 Get spooky with witches, vampires, devil worshippers, and masters of avant garde Canadian cinema!
COMICS..........................................................PAGE 8
A Day in The Life of... BASKET CASE by Flying Blood Comics
Guest Editorial by Liz Pelly of Silent Barn
HASSLEFEST Indiegogo is Live!
You might have noticed a chill curiously descending over Central and Allston last month. Is it finally fall in Boston? Is it death coming for the tender souls of MIT and BU kids? Is it ALMOST TIME FOR HASSLE FEST 7 NOVEMBER 57 AT CAMBRIDGE ELKS LODGE AND OUT OF THE BLUE GALLERY AND BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL??? That last one’s pretty chill, right? Boston’s underground music fest is back in action starring Flipper (w/ David Yow of Jesus Lizard) and Screaming Females and SO MANY MORE BANDS! BRAIN Arts needs $10,000 in donations donations to make this festhappen, so avoid the inevitable sellout and get your presale tickets and other fest goodies online now ONLY at http://igg.me/at/hf7 before you get left out in the cold. -Harrison Bralower
Speedy Ortiz Hotline:
HELPING FOSTER SAFE SPACES
Have you guys seen the new Speedy Ortiz mandate to keep their shows safe? In an effort to provide a more inclusive space to show goers Speedy Ortiz has set up a new hotline that showgoers can call or text if they are being harassed or feel unsafe. It’s important to keep shows free from oppressive behaviors so everyone can have a good time! Remember to call or text (574) 404SAFE the next time you’re at a Speedy Ortiz show and feel unsafe in any way. Accountability is vital in these situations, so props to Speedy Ortiz for looking out for their audience! -Ari Ratner
J Rosemary’s Baby & Don’t Drink The Devil’s Blood 10/30 @COOLIDGE
There’s not much we really need to say about ROSEMARY’S BABY: it’s one of the best horror movies of all timeif not one of the best movies, periodand a 35mm midnight screening the night is an obvious nobrainer. What makes this screening really special, though, is that it will be preceded by the world premiere of DON’T DRINK THE DEVIL’S BLOOD, the spooky new short by longtime local staple and friend of the Compass, Coco Roy (Gone Bad, Electric Street Queens)! And did I mention it will screen on glorious Super 8? Your Halloweekend just got made. -Oscar Goff
Music as a Second Language
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MSL is a free monthly workshop series that explores the elements of music through collaborative improvisational games. Whether you’re an experienced musician looking to refresh your perspective, or you’ve always wanted to learn how to play, but never knew where to start, MSL could be just what for you’re looking for! Join the conversation at Spontaneous Celebrations on 10/4 from 35 pm. For more information contact: NoChops2Rok@gmail.com – Scott Mizrachi
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Satanic Panic Book Launch 10/4 @BRATTLE
The next time Fox News has got you down, remember that, just 30 years ago, mainstream conservatives were scared that literal Satanists were sacrificing actual babies in their own hometowns, under the influence of Ozzy Osbourne and Dungeons & Dragons. Join Kierla Janisse, author of HOUSE OF PSYCHOTIC WOMEN, for the launch of SATANIC PANIC: POP CULTURAL PARANOIA IN THE ‘80s, the latest anthology of essays from her Spectacular Optical imprint. As if that weren’t enough, stick around for a late night screening of Joe Dante’s classic suburban satire THE ‘BURBS (see PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE, p. 7)! -Oscar
BOOKS N’ BREWS!
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10/15 @ Aeronaut Brewery
I once tried to join a book club, but all I could think about over the finger foods, white wine and discussion of The Girl On The Train was how much better it would be if I had tons of beer and classic lit. Luckily, the Aeronaut Brewery is here to save the day with the launch of BOOKS N BREWS. The first meeting covers “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber”. Come for the firstever session of drinking and literary debate on October 15th all ages can join in on the discussion, but aspiring Hemingways need to be 21+ to drink. -Emma Diamond
Castle of Comedy! SPoOokY 10/15@Arts at the Armory Forgive me for this writing sin, but our bud comedian Ethan Marsh’s energetic, silly act is so WONDERFUL it is SCARY. Get it, like, scary because of Halloween but it has another meaning like awe and okay I’m sorry. I’ll see myself to the dumpster but I *will* emerge for his annual Halloween show. A variety of comedic delights on a SpOoOky theme: characters, standup, and Ethan serenading the audience (accompanied on piano by Joe Della Penna!) 8:30p, all ages (though may be some adult topics broached, also Halloween frights). Free, but donations are cool. Kick the Armory a few bucks awesome local brew selection and great treats! Contact ethanmarsh.net. -Katie McCarthy
Trigger Warning: Substance use No matter what time of year it is, some things plague year-round. One of those is self-medication, something that every community deals with. At least 1,000 people in Mass suffered opioid-related deaths last year. Friends, classmates, brothers, sisters, kids, parents, and neighbors. You don’t have to look hard to find someone who has been physically hurt or emotionally torn by addiction. Life can fucking suck sometimes. Its circumstances are different for everyone. We all make shitty choices. We all self-sabotage. We all want to disconnect. But, these temptations are only short-term solutions. Self-medication can get in the way of the life you were meant to live. Because of a law passed in 2012, neither a 911 caller nor the victim of an overdose can be charged with possession: immunity. The city of Quincy became the first in the country to mandate every police officer carry Naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, which helps reverse the effects of many harmful opioids. Boston EMS carries Naloxone, as do Boston University Police Officers, and Somerville PD. Mayor Marty Walsh ordered BPD officers to carry it, while Cambridge City Council is aggressively looking into giving it to all of their officers. CVS has also started to carry it in stores, not requiring a prescription to purchase. Note: Check out PunksInRecovery.com, a website created by Craig Lewis to help individuals, especially those in sometimes dysfunctional cultural scenes, realize that they’re not alone in struggling. He has two books for sale: a workbook based on his experience, and an anthology of stories called “You’re Crazy!” which, “compiles twenty-five first-hand accounts of people from the punk scene who live with mental illness, addiction and trauma. Love your friends. Take care of your friends. Love yourself, take care of yourself, because other people love you back.
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UFORGE Gallery is kicking off the spookiest month of the year with Weird and Wicked, an exhibit inspired by all things Halloween. The multimedia show, which will be up for the whole month of October, features the strange, the bizarre, and the macabre, with subjects ranging from traditional Halloween, horror movies, morbid humor, and lots of monsters! Even if you miss the reception, take the time to get your spooky art on this month! http://www.uforgegallery.com/exhibitions/
6-8pm RECEPTION Herb Greene’s Dead 50 Years @Griffin Museum (Belmont) 6-7:30pm RECEPTION Martin Boyce: When Now is Night @RISD Museum (Providence) 6:30-7:30pm WRITER'S NIGHT Boston Comics @Cambridge Public Library (Cambridge) 7-9pm ARTIST TALK Carrie Mae Weems: @Marran Theater (Lesley) 8-9pm PERFORMANCE Mobilize-JASON LIM @Mobius (Cambridge)
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8:30-10am ARTIST TALK Design Museum Mornings with Sarah Williams @Northeastern Center for the Arts 2-5 pm RECEPTION Gordon Parks Model Citizen @Robert Klein Gallery (Back Bay) 5pm RECEPTION Jorge Mujica Double Dribble @Steven Zevitas Gallery (South End) 9/3 - 10/17 5:30-7:30 RECEPTION Gohar Dashti Stateless @Ars Libri (South End)
sATURDAY
6:30-11:30pm FESTIVAL ILLUMINUS @Lansdowne Street (Fenway) 10/3 6:30 10/3-10/4
ILLUMINUS is back for its’ second year! This immersive festival includes installations and performances that utilize light, sound, and projection. Part of the “nuit-blanche” movement that started in Paris, this festival will take place for two nights. Admission is free and open to the public! You don’t want to miss this incredible show. http://www.illuminusboston.org/about/
3-5pm PERFORMANCE Kerry Tribe: Critical Mass @Sert Gallery (Cambridge) 10/3-10/25 3-6pm RECEPTION Tory Fair :: Heap @Proof Gallery (South Boston) 5-10pm PERFORMANCE & RECEPTION Nick Huff and Emile O’Hare @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard) 5-8pm EVENT Wild Things At Night @Gallery 555 (South Boston) 5-10pm PROJECTIONS Gallery 555 Exterior (South Boston)
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6:30-11:30pm FESTIVAL ILLUMINUS @Lansdowne Street (Fenway) 3-5pm RECEPTION Embracing Differences: Mending the Isms and Schisms @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 10/4-10/31
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Thursday
6-6:30pm PERFORMANCE Peacock - A performance by Butoh artist Sara Juna @BU Art Galleries 6-8pm RECEPTION 2014 Artists of the Year @Cambridge Art Association (Cambridge) 10/8 - 10/23 6:30-8:30pm ARTIST TALK A Conversation with Author Tatiana de Rosnay @French Cultural Center of Boston (Back Bay) 7-8:30pm RECEPTION Patrick Nagatani @Griffin Museum (Belmont) 7:30-8:30pm PERFORMANCE Sex/Body/Self; A Performance by Tim Miller @Northeastern Center For the Arts
6:30-11:30pm WEIRD AND WICKED @UFORGE Gallery (JP) 10/1 6-8pm 10/1-11/1
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6-7pm ARTIST TALK Your Brain on Art @Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge) 10/7, 6-7pm
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6:30-8:30pm OPENING The Sojourn @The French Cultural Center (Back Bay) SHOW OPENING Dan Willis & Margaret Swan @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End)
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RECEPTION YShahryar Nashat: Skins and Stand-ins @ Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard) 10/29, 5:30-7pm 10/29-1/10
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6-8pm RECEPTION 24th Drawing Show: Feelers @Mills Gallery (South End) 10/9 - 12/20 6-8pm RECEPTION Visaural: Sight, Sound and Action @Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) 10/8 - 10/31 6-8pm RECEPTION Honk! Around the World @Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) 10/8 - 10/31 6-9pm RECEPTION 71st Members Prize Show @University Place Gallery (Cambridge) 10/8 - 11/14
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11am-4pm MARKET New Blue Maker’s Market @Out Of The Blue (Cambridge) 12pm EVENT Punkin’ Fest @Lawn On D SHOW OPENING Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College @ICA
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SHOW OPENING Canstruction 2015 @BSA Space (Fort Point)
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5-7pm RECEPTION It’s Biological: Michelle Samour @Adams Gallery (Suffolk) 7-9pm RECEPTION Art/Book @Godine Family Gallery (MassArt) SHOW OPENING Tom Phillips: Pages From A Humument @Gallery 360 (Northeastern)
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The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts presents the first US solo exhibition of Berlin-based artist Shahryar Neshat. Neshat uses photography, sculpture, performance, and video to examine human bodies and the contrast between the fragility of human skin and the ideals of human perfection. Through this examination, he fixates on the concept and construction of prosthetics, and how those extensions can feed into the pursuit of perfection that has existed cross culturally and through the ages. http://ccva.fas.harvard.edu/shahryar-nashat
5:30-7pm RECEPTION Lorraine O’Grady: Where Margins Become Centers @Sert Gallery (Cambridge) 10/29-1/10 7-9pm RECEPTION Methods in Design and Production led by Robert Gainfortw @Godine Family Gallery (MassArt)
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SHOW OPENING Printer’s Proof: Thirty Years at Wingate Studio @Stone Gallery (BU) 10/30, 12-8pm 10/30-12/13
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1-2:30pm DEMONSTRATION Demo: Timothy Loraditch @Cambridge Art Association (Cambridge) 3-6pm RECEPTION Gabrielle Rossmer Rigid Mobility @HallSpace (Dorchester) 10/17 - 11/28 4-6pm ARTIST TALK Process Revealed: Discussion with Printmakers Coco Berkman and Nancy Popper @13 Forest Gallery (Arlington) 7-9pm RECEPTION Meat Stacks; A Curatorial Proposal Series Exhibition @Gallery 263 (Cambridge)
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6:30-8:30pm SCREENING Projections: Luke Fowler, All Divided Selves @Metcalf Auditorium (Providence) REGISTER ONLINE 7-9pm RECEPTION Gimcrackery @Godine Family Gallery (MassArt)
friday
1-3pm GALLERY Extinction I-VI : 6 Aphorisms @Mobius (Cambridge) 10/23 - 10/25 SUGGESTED DONATION $10 5-7pm RECEPTION Turning Wood: The Art of the WoodTurner @Arnold Arboretum Gallery (Jamaica Plain) 10/24 - 10/25 SHOW OPENING Rosa Barba: The Color Out Of Space @MIT List Visual Arts Center (Jamaica Plain)
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1pm PERFORMANCE Sara June, Extinction I-VI: 6 Aphorisms @Mobius (Cambridge)
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6-7pm TALK The Power of Tangible Things @Harvard Museum of Natural History
8/3/ - 10/12 First Issue @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) 2/2 - 10/25 Literary Landscapes: Maps from Fiction @BPL 9/11 - 10/25 Ariel Freidberg: Unquenchable Thirst @Sherman Gallery (BU) 9/12 - 10/17 Head to Head @Barbara Krakow Gallery (Back Bay) 9/12 - 10/17 Segments @Barbara Krakow Gallery (Back Bay) 10/1 - 10/25 Josiah McElheny: Two Walking Mir rors @Carpenter Center (Cambridge) 10/8 - 10/25 Damon Krukowski: NOT TO BE PLAYED @Sert Gallery (Cambridge) 10/11 - 10/30 Canstruction 2015 @BSA Space (Fort Point)
YOU OUGHTA KNOW: The MIT List gallery will be exhibiting the sculptures, installations, text pieces, and publications of Rosa Barba. Barba’s work examines the material qualities of cinema; the projector, celluloid, and projected light, as well as geological time and man’s impact on the landscape. Her new film “The Color Out Of Space” incorporates images of stars and planets observed at Hirsch Observatory. Open between the years of 1933 and 1957, Black Mountain College had huge influence of post-war culture. It was visited, attended and taught by some of the most influential and famous cultural figures, such as William De Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, and John Cage. The ICA’s newest exhibit, “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College” is the first comprehensive US look at how this small liberal arts college has shaped our culture in art, weaving, dance, film, and poetry.
In the South End, the first Friday of every month provides you with the opportunity to visit over sixty working artist studios, as well as gallery openings and boutiques. SoWa First Fridays are from 5-8pm, and are a great opportunity to talk to working artists and see what’s going on in the art world. Exhibitions of note are the Steven Zevitas Gallery, the Chase Young Gallery, and the Adelson Galleries. Come get your monthly fill of art of all shapes and sizes!
The Traveling Exhibit ‘Feminist Fiber Arts’ celebrates its last week at the Industry Lab with their first ever Fiber Arts Market! The Fiber Market will include zines, patches, stickers, as well as fiber pieces for sale! The event is close to Halloween, so expect lots of spookiness.The market will be running all weekend, with slam poetry and acoustic performances on Friday. https://www.facebook.com/events/1499631963691287/
SHOW OPENING Federico Uribe: At Peace @Adelson Gallery (South End)
DONT MISS IT!
The RISD museum is showcasing the first American exhibition of Scottish artist Martin Boyce. His scultpural and installation work explore modernist art and architecture, and how design impacts contemporary culture. Boyce has become one of the biggest names in contemporary art, and this exhibit will include drawings, sketches, and source materials that go into the making of his work. Spend a day in Rhode Island!
CLOSING RECEPTION FEMINIST FIBER ART @Industry Lab (Cambridge) 10/16, 12-7pm
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Head to Harvard to hear neurobiologist Margaret Livingstone and photographer Sharon Harper discuss the art’s effect on the human brain. Learn about the science and art behind seeing, perceiving, and creating images. This discussion will explore how light inspires artists, and if all people perceive art in the same way. Online registration is required. http://brain.harvard.edu/your-brain-artaam
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-MJK Boston University’s Stone Gallery is exhibiting a retrospective on Wingate Studio, founded by Peter Pettengill thirty years ago. The New Hampshire studio has been a working space to some of the contemporary art world’s biggest names, such as Sol LeWitt, Ambreen Butt, Louise Bourgeois, and Richard Ryan. The show will include 50 intaglio prints and books by over twenty artists. http://www.bu.edu/art/2015/08/10/printers-proof-thirtyyears-at-wingate-studio/
7-9pm RECEPTION Detangled @Cambridge Art Association (Cambridge) 10/27-11/14 SHOW OPENING Raul Gonzalez III: Regalo @BU
ONGOING LISTINGS 9/2-12/11 Black Chronicles II @Cooper Gallery (Harvard) 9/10 - 12/1 Think Small @Panopticon Gallery (Newton) 9/17 - 1/2 Through The Lens of History; Selma & Civil Rights @Grand Circle Gallery (Fort Point) 9/24 - 12/4 Willie Cole: AQUAHALLIC @808 Gallery (BU) 9/26 - 11/7 Whoop Dee Doo @Space Gallery (Portland) 10/2 - 1/31 Martin Boyce When Now is Night @RISD Museum (Providence) 10/15 - 11/30 Tom Phillips: Pages From A Humument @Gallery 360 (North Eastern) Now-11/25 EXHIBITION Islands on the Edge @Atlantic Wharf Gallery (Fort Point) Now-1/10/16 Crafted: Objects in Flux @MFA Boston Now-2/15 Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia @MFA Boston Now-2/15 In the Steps of the Master: Pupils of Hokusai @MFA Boston 8/29-2/15 @ICA FREE AFTER 5 EVERY THURS @MFA FREE AFTER 4 EVERY WEDS
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PALEHOUND
DO YOUR WORK
DRY FOOD
OUTSIDER 7"
SELF-RELEASED (2015)
EXPLODING SOUND (2015)
CROQUE MACADAM (2015)
From the first minute of opener “Molly”, the swirling mixture of contemplation and explosiveness that is Dry Food becomes apparent. Thealbumshowsaclearprogressionfrom2013'sBentNailEPwhich showcased Ellen Kempner's folk sensibility. The raw yet deliberate energy available on Dry Food (Exploding in Sound) feels right. The vulnerability found in her heartbreak is matched by the self-sufficiency of someone much older than 21. As Kempner says in “Healthier Folk” while the song swells “Drizzle honey on my salt wound / Mom said ‘Use a harpoon if I ever need a meal’”. No one is handing out fish these days so she adapts. The theme returns throughout. With so much to pick from, it’s not hard to miss out on certain stitches in the tapestry she weaves. Sleepy ballad “Easy” glides past a “clenched-teeth-home-security-system” out the door until the interlude’s ingeniously crafted guitar-vocal counterpoint. Turning around Kempner plainly states “Lately I’ve been thinking / that you’re never gonna love no one.” The stop-and-go “Cushioned Caging” is an energetic piece that like many others found on the album evolves beyond recognition. After a few listens, I found “Beautiful books with missing pages” to be particularly revealing. A well-worn metaphor, torn apart and redone. From start to finish, it is a work worth appreciating and coming back to when you need a meal. - Luis Esperanza
A year after releasing their debut LP, Corsica Garden, Paris garage rock group Os Noctàmbulos has put out a new record entitled Outsider. The two-track release keeps your adrenaline pumping, if only for a couple of minutes each. What the songs lack in length, they make up for in chunky rhythms and acidic licks. In both songs, the squeal of a Farfisa organ transports the listener back to the 60s. This overtone of retro psychedelia is joined by classic garage rock fuzz and abundant attitude, mostly thanks to frontman Nick Wheeldon’s characteristic sneer. The titular Outsider bursts into existence with a hypnotic organ and bass riff, accented by off-center guitar fills. When the drummer kicks in with the full kit, the track gets more amped up, though dissolutions into a trippier sound interrupt the straightforward progression. The second track, “Watching You,” follows a similar trend in its course. Especially striking is the organ work during the chorus, which takes on an eastern lilt. In addition, a catchy interlude riff spins on itself, increasing the song’s energy tenfold. The abrupt ending is childish, yet perfect for the spunky anthem and the brief album. The Outsider 7″ should hold fans over while Os Noctàmbulos works on their second full-length. The hyper-cool album artwork is also worth a mention. Completed by artist Martin Butler, the cover features a crazy-eyed eagle whose feathers meld into a city skyline. It’s not clear which induces more frenzy — the eagle’s expression or the fast-paced record itself. -Anjali Nair
In April of this year, James Ikeda (AKA The Michael Character), released “Do Your Work,” a folk punk anthem for the disenfranchised. It is an absolute necessity for your ears. For those of us who have spent our lives checking the “other” box, the title track is a god-send with lyrics like: “…And while we’re on the topic of what’s yours and what’s mine/My racial identity ain’t yours to define/’Are you white, are you Asian?/ Or both? Just decide!’/ Hey, I’ve got an idea/Go fuck off and die.” Anybody who has ever felt like they were fitting some sort of quota can relate to this one. With all this rage, Ikeda doesn’t just point the finger outwardly. Noting his own failures, he looks inward on “Confessions of a Deeply Ashamed Recovering Misogynist (or, the Feminist Song),”. Rants on the patriarchy and feelings of regret towards using women for sport in his college days are addressed: “‘I think I love you babe’ to ‘well, there, I came/So I guess I’ll see you around/And I will find you in my phone/ Next time I am horny and alone'”. Recognizing the double standard between men and women’s sexuality, Ikeda admits,”But no one ever called me slut/Except as a weird compliment.” Slam dunk. Buy his album via Bandcamp at the unbelievable “name your own price” price and blast it everywhere.
THE BRITTANYS BLACK SPIRITUALS
UNSE EN WORLDS (2014) 'IT'S WHAT IT IS'
LOLIPOP (2015) When has enough time passed that it’s appropriate to reminisce about an era of music, to create music in tribute of it, and to declare a “revival” when a collective group of people want to do so? The answer is, probably, when the kids who listened to that music through their youth have grown up enough to start their own bands. And so, while it seems strange and maybe a little too soon to herald an era of post-punk-revival-revival, consider this: The Strokes’ Is This It came out more than 14 years ago. Karen O, Julian Casablancas, Pete Doherty, and the guys from Interpol are in their late thirties or even early forties, and have somehow transitioned from the unlikely, brash twenty-somethings who disrupted the scene to respected elder statesmen of the alternative music world. Now it’s time for the once-preteens who idolized these bands to take on where their musical predecessors left off. This is where Bushwick, Brooklyn’s The Britanys come in. They aren’t shy about their influences; drummer Steele Kratt name drops The Strokes, The Libertines, The Hives, and The Vines, along with sixties garage pop, in an interview. ‘It’s What It Is’ is a recent single from the band via Lolipop Records that shows the effect of those influences. It’s laidback, garagey post-punk with bratty vocals that definitely recall those early-aughts alternative bands. Minimally produced and endearingly messy, there’s something about “It’s What It Is” that is so distinctly New York. And it’s hard to know exactly why, though maybe it’s because it sounds so cool without really even trying to. Watch out for a longer release from The Britanys on Lolipop Records coming soon. -Sarah Moylan
HIGH VIBRATION RESONANCE VOL. 1 - LIVE AT DISJECTA
SOFT EYES
THE TAPEWORM (2015)
STAY HOME
As the Tapeworm cassette case High Vibration Resonance Vol. 1 comes in says, “It has tits and lays eggs”. Plain and simple. High Vibration Resonance Vol. 1 lets us know that Black Spirituals aren’t tricksters but artists chipping away at a fathomed belief system. Truthful to the American improvisatory past, they work within a culminating palette and consider patience as a mood rather than a process. Wavering-to-sweltering electric drones and triangulated drum patterns constantly flip as the focus, the other accompanies as a satellite idolizing the other’s momentary gravitas. In a respect, Black Spirituals are like an exorcist, continually coaxing something from somewhere else. They dig into a consciousness and are notably devoid of illusion only because illusions come from disbelief. High Vibration Resonance Vol. 1 could just as easily be free jazz as it is noise. Two artists work disposable motifs into the ground and trash them with subtle nitpicking. The reward is listening to how each motif settles and either fizzles out or is plucked out. Either way, your soul will be exorcised, your mind breached and the click of the cassette ending will be the snap out of a hypnotic state. -Ian Forsythe
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EYE VYBE RECORDS (2015) The boogie is strong with Soft Eyes on their most recent album. With Stay Home, the New Hampshire outfit refines its sound, which the group describes as “devotional/bummer” music. That may be so, but there is also a certain “tale of two Soft Eyes“ at play here: in the live setting, the four piece achieves something closer to its self-described “vibe rock.” Case in point: early this summer, Boston Hassle covered the album’s advance single “(I Guess That’s All) I Can’t Remember.” That track very much describes a groove-oriented feeling that is central to the Eyes’ sound. It also defines one of the recurring themes of Stay Home — a certain interweaving/ interlayered exploration of instruments at a different level. See, for instance, “Big Sun,” where twangy guitar and harmonica revolve around one another to create a sound not unlike an electric hurdy gurdy which hasn’t been properly grounded, and as such seems to be shooting sparks here and there. The vocals are removed from the foreground, half-chanted and half-sung, and all of the power is upfront with the flanged guitars and that organ sound, harmonica weaving in and out. Real weight from that “in and out” boogie is felt on album closer “Sunshine Cats.” Indeed, the track most closely resonates with the live sound of Soft Eyes in its seven minutes of drone-inflected, kaleidoscopic imagery. Here, that hurdy gurdy isn’t merely shooting some sparks: it’s a fullon tower of power, wires dangling, electricity fully palpable. -Aaron Teixeira
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Mini Dresses: An Interview with Lira Mondal Lira Mondal, one-third of the Somerville-based dreamy indie-pop trio Mini Dresses, answered some question for this month's Compass. Read about the band's history, her favorite venues, and what she's gorging on this fall. Boston Hassle: How did the three of you get connected? Lira Mondal: Caufield and I met in college in Arkansas and started playing music with each other almost immediately. We started Mini Dresses in Austin in the summer of 2012, and moved to Boston in the fall of that year. The hand of fate, in the form of a craigslist ad, beckoned Luke to our threshold, and thus the current iteration of Mini Dresses was formed.
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BH: What sound or feeling would you most like to capture with Mini Dresses' music? LM: We strive for a sound of Pure Focus and Fantasy. BH: How did your relationship with Little Death Records begin? LM: Tim and Travis approached us at a show about their label and asked if we'd be interested in working with them. We knew of them through their respective musical projects, so we were only too happy to take 'em up on it. We love those guys, and consider them to be really great friends. BH: What are your favorite spots in Boston to play or go to shows? LM: Since we live near Davis, we usually hit up venues near us, like Charlie's in Harvard Square and Zuzu and The Middle East in Central. However, we hold in high regard all of the clubs, venues, and other dedicated music-making spaces in and around town, especially considering the challenges of running and maintaining an operational music venue.
BH: What is your favorite fall tradition? LM: Gorging on apple cider donuts, and I do mean GORGING on them. Like, eating wayyy too many of them at a time because they're so irresistible. Except there's no such thing as too many donuts, cider or otherwise, amirite???
Mini Dresses' latest album, FOUR, released 2015 is available from Little Death Records. minidress.bandcamp.com See them live this month: 10/17: Out of the Blue Too 10/29: Middle East Upstairs
Mini Dresses @ The Middle East Photo credit: Tim Oxton
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THURSDAY OCTOBER 1
It’s fall, so stuff is dying. Speaking of DEATH — Rough Francis is a nice eclectic punk band formed by two Burlington bros related to the proto punk band/feature of the best damn roc doc on Netflix. Check ‘em out w/ sides of emo Charles, quieter stuff from Family Plan ning, & the neato guitar pop of Yairms & Alhhla @Brick House (Dover, NH) 8PM $ome Cost ☻ Down in ole JP there’s gonna be some bands you wanna yell along to like Worcester’s cutest punks Gnards (P.S. there’s a bday boy in the band!), & neon dream band Streight Angular, as well as bands you wanna be yelled at BY: Linda (the crazy kind of screaming), Dent (epically emotional metal screaming), & Strep Torso (scream ing guitars!) @Whitehaus 9PM All Ages $Donate ☻ GARAGEY POWER POP: Illegally Blind presents Mike Krol, Hands & Knees, Neutrinos, Bruvs @ Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $10 ☻ BOUNCE N’ GROOVE: Math the Band, The New Highway Hymnal @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $9 ☻ VINTAGE INDIE: Built to Spill @Brighton Music Hall 9 PM 18+ $25 • DANCE HOUSE: Jacques Green @Middlesex 9 PM 21+ $10 ☻ EXPERIMENTAL GARAGE POP: Salty Speakers Pres: Rough Francis, Charles, Family Planning, Yairms & Alhhla @Brick House (Dover, HN) 8PM $ome Cost
FRIDAY OCTOBER 2
“Was it ok to have been me?” is the tacit query woven into the harmonic fabric of many a young versesmith, including the salable wares of the brother of an RV based, Jello shot slingin’ dinga-ling, & indie instudio staple of The Best Show with Tom Scharpling, Kurt Vile. Also touting proverbial tapestries are the non Swearin’ halfa the twin founders of the lategreat, moodypop P.S. Elliot, Waxahatchee, & alleged guitar owner Luke Roberts @Paradise 8PM 18+ $25 ☻ Things start looking up when folks start looking down; a swath of shoegazers sweep through town w/ Milwau kee’s Brief Candles, NEIV from Italy, & 28 Degrees Taurus @Lilypad 10PM $ome Cost ☻ VISION INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: Vomit Arsonist, Compactor, Abstinence,Insect Arc, Theologian, Author & Punisher @Brighton Music Hall 8PM 21+ $30 ☻ LOFI FOLK ROCK: Andy Lowery, Troll 2, Jake McKelvie & the Countertops, Billy Baldwin, Sonny Jim Clifford & The Shitkickers @Monkey Palace 8PM ALL AGES $Donate$
SATURDAY OCTOBER 3
Why are Fender Jaguars so cool? And melodic walls of sound? And hushed vocals? Because of Ride: one of the most influential bands of the 90’s shoegaze movement. They were doing it before you freshmen were even born. Recently reunited, Ride come to Boston for the first time in over fifteen years; these guys are straight legends. Joined by fellow reverb junkies Tess Parks and The Besnard Lakes. It’s going to be loud; bring earplugs @Paradise 8PM 18+ $32.50 ☻ For something a little less droning, get your weekly dose of shimmery pop/psych as Illegally Blind and Eye Design Present: BOYTOY, Go!Zilla, Beeef @O’Brien’s 8PM 21+ $10 ☻ EXPERIMENTAL DREAMY NOISE PIONEERS: Yo La Tengo @Wilbur Theatre 8PM All Ages $30 ☻ POST FUZZ GAZE: Burglary Year, Pleasure Gap, BDAY BOY, Prom Night @the ER 7PM Ask A Punk ☻ ABSTRACT EXPLORATIONS: Kar’Nam, Sound Shaman, Sun Rad @Mobius 9PM All Ages $Donate☻ PSYCH NOISE: Drug Dogs, Johnnie & the Foodmasters, The Shallow End Divers @Club Bohemia 9:30 PM 21+ $5☻ GERMAN MINIMALIST ELECTRONICA: Kraftwerk 3D Concert @Wang Theatre 8PM All Ages $59.50-$79.50 ☻ JAZZY: The Fretless Brothers CD Release show @Lilypad 8:30PM All Ages $10☻ CANON HARDCORE: Madball, The Greenery, Eternal Sleep @The Palladium Upstairs (Worcester, MA) 6PM $16 ☻ DARK VIBRATIONS: Voidstar Fest Day 2: Pattern Behavior, Cenotype, Mend, Tonikom, Aaimon, Statiqbloom, High Function ing Flesh, Enduser @Brighton Music Hall 8PM 21+ $30 ☻ INDIE GLAM ROCK: Burglary Years, Pleasure Gap, BDAY BOY, Prom Night @The ER 7PM ALL AGES Donate!
SUNDAY OCTOBER 4
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West Coast gear grinders Destroy Judas (with alumni of Dystopia, Phobia, and other scary bands) come to Non Factory in Roxbury to crush you crustlords with feedback tonight, with allons Trapped Within Burn ing Machinery from California, along with Boston blastomas Rozamov and Rat Trap @Non Factory All ages, 7pm, $10 donation for touring bands. Axe a punk for the address, respect the space, don’t be a mongo. ☻ ELECTROLAND: Autechre @Paradise Rock Club 7PM 18+ $22 ☻ RIVETING INDUSTRIAL: Voidstar Fest Day 3: Dead Voices on Air, Cervello Elettronico & more @Mid East Up 5 PM 18+ $20 ☻ ANARCHAMELEONS FOR THE UK: Chameleons Vox (UK), Avoxblue, and the Milling Gowns play tonight @Middle East Downstairs 7PM 18+ $15
MONDAY OCTOBER 5
Hoorah. Here they are. The people that make you feel things. Girlpool, Eskimeaux, Told Slant, and Ian. I hear they have things up their sleeves and melodies that will impress you. La la la la la. Dance the night away
@Middle East (Downstairs) 8PM All Ages $12 ☻ If that doesn’t interest you, maybe you can get a little harder. Curl up in a ball and show off your outer shell. We’re talking hard rock. Riff based bliss. Check out Wavves, Twin Peaks, Steep Leans @Paradise 7PM All Ages $20 ☻ FUNNY FREAKSHOW: Open Mic with Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free ☻ SPINNING HEADS AND RECORDS TOO: Autechre, Cygnus, Rob Hall (DJ set) @3S Artspace 8PM All Ages $18 ☻ TUBULAR TUNES: Rad Castle Presents: Marty Kings and TBA @ Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free ☻ TWEAKING DREAMS: Oberhofer, Honduras @ Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10 ☻ HARSH THRASH: Cattle Decapitation, King Parrot, Dark Sermon @ Brighton Music Hall in Allston, MA 6PM/$15
TUESDAY OCTOBER 6
Katie McShane is on a mission to bring you the best dang lineup you’ve ever seen with this edition of the Monthly Fem Showcase!! Where else are you gunna hear the ecstatic improvisation of a solo saxophonist and the rich layers that form when soul collides with folk all in the same place? Do your ears a favor and come EKP, Hollow Deck, Kate Mohanty (NYC), Mal Devisa, and Metal Vegans @Midway Café 8PM 21+ $5 ☻ Sometimes it’s hard to believe how good ya got it til it’s staring you in the face. Well here you have it with Illegally Blind presenting Girlpool, Eskimeaux, Told Slant, and Gracie @Middle East (Upstairs) 8PM All Ages $12 ☻ EXPERIMENTAL JAZZ: Steve Norton, Nathan McLaughlin, Seth Chrisman, Dave Gross, TBA @Washington Street Arts Center 8PM ALL AGES $Donate$
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 7
All tours must come to an end and road weary Bean town bands inevitably come drifting back into town on fumes with one more show left in them and TONIGHT you can catch Harmoos returning from tour and laying down their brand of glassy rock n roll alongside the experimental bedroom pop of Brittle Brian, the acoustic lofi love of Judy Chong, and We Can All Be Sorry @ Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $5-10 ☻ Or mix the shiz up a little and get clobbered with the classical creations of Phil Niblock performing “Ronet” and “Bag” with help on the sax from Neil Leonard PLUS splendid solo showstopper Byron Westbrook. Do you hear that? That’s your mind expanding @Metropolitan Water works Museum 6:30PM All Ages $15 ☻ SURF’S UP BRO: The Growlers @Sinclair 8PM All Ages $17 ☻ EXPERIMENTAL AMBIENT NOISE POP: A Place to Bury Strangers, Grooms, Mass Gothic @Middle East (Downstairs) 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ LO-FI EXPERIMENTAL ROCK: The Channels, Imelda Marcos (Chicago), Horsehands and Sadha @The Record Company 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale *A Boston Hassle Effort*
THURSDAY OCTOBER 8
If you’re in Allston tonight and you’re like me you’re gonna want all that cloning stuff to be legal like right now because you’ve got two sick shows and a clone bud would help. One features Dirty Dishes whose songs range from shoegaze to grunge pop to spacey chillwave to even folky stuff but the point is I LOVE ALL OF THEM along with the even harder to describe but equally cool cinematic funky sounds of Beauty Pill, plus the comforting slowcore of Soft Fangs and uke jams of Rachel Hael @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8 ☻ And if the cloning doesn’t work out you can just run down the street at some point to see some Swedish Shoegaze straight outta Stockholm from Makthaver skan along with Lower, if your preferred Scandinavian sound is Danish post-punk @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10 ☻ WEIRDO JOKES: Angela Sawyer Standup @The Riot Theatre 8PM All Ages $ome Cost ☻ HARDCORE PUNK: Salty Speakers Presents: Notches, Damp, Crystal Methodist, Caught Dead @Some house (Maine) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
FRIDAY OCTOBER 9
As we scoot headlong into the crispier corners of our peepin’ season we seek solace beyond that of a cable-knit cardigan or fleece-lined flannel in topicals and potables, in lotions, potions, and sundry notions. Find some equinoctial comfort in the harrowing and haunting drones of Babelfishh, Of Earth and Sun, FRSKE, and Khlyst @Deep Thoughts 7PM All Ages $6 ☻ Would you believe it, American Horror Story’s very own sweet & slow pop duo Widowspeak take time off from filling a Jessica Lange-shaped hole to tour through our ghastly hearts @First Baptist Church in Ja maica Plain 7PM All Ages $ome Cost ☻ BRUTALIST BLIPS: Non Event: Keith Fullerton Whitman performs “Redactions” @Boston City Hall 6:30PM All Ages Free ☻ HONK! Street Music and Art Festical 10th An niversary w/ twenty-eight bands from around the world! evening showcase @Johnny D’s 8PM All Ages Free ☻ ALL THAT JAZZ: Steve Norton with Symptomatic, Mitch Ahearn, Dave Menard @Flywheel 8:30PM All Ages Donation ☻ STONER METAL PSYCH ROCK: Clutch, Corrosion Of Conformity, The Shrine at the Hampton Beach Casino 8PM 18+ $26
SATURDAY OCTOBER 10
All these changing leaves got you yearning for some thing hazy and ethereal? Catch the mellowed out dream pop vibes of DIIV & get high off their endless
guitar trails. Pair that w/ some killer modern shoegaze courtesy of No Joy & the post-punk inspired Sunflower Bean, there’s no way you’ll leave without a shim mer in your ears @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $18 ☻ If you’re more into letting the beat control you, head to JP for SCANNERS: a monthly celebration of underground electronic music, featuring the entrancing elastic-tech blips of Providence/Berlin based Wilted Woman. More electronic booms and bops from Huff Daddy (tape release), Broken Celeb Drone (Berlin), and Coral cola will keep your head bobbing all night @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $5-10 ☻ DREAMY FUZZ: IAN, Woozy, Two Inch Astronaut, Rick (from Pile) @ Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $8 AMBIENT DARK DRONE: Of Earth and Sun, FRKSE, Vomit Arsonist, Power Monster @AS220 7PM All Ages $5 Donation ☻ ACTIVIST STREET BANDS: HONK! Street Music and Art Festival 10th Anniversary @Davis Square from 12PM - 9PM All Ages Free ☻ DREAMY POP: Luna @ Paradise Rock Club 8PM 18+ $25 ☻ TIGHT INDIE: Ned Porter (of Hap), Sebio @The Plough and Stars 10:30PM 21+ $5 ☻ PROTO-PUNK: Playboy Manbaby, The TeleVibes, Boompa, Able Days @the ER ☻ NEO JAZZ: Steve Norton with Symptomatic, Mitch Ahearn, Dave Menard @somewhere in Worcester 8:30PM All Ages $Donate$
SUNDAY OCTOBER 11
HONK! is an annual Somerville gathering of radical street musicians, so if you like cops & quiet hie thee to the hinterlands. This year’s festival promises visiting bands from Paris, Quebec, & all across America look ing to tootle their trumpets & deconstruct the hegemo ny. Just show up @Davis Square & you’ll not miss it, All Ages, Free ☻ SEMINAL SPEAKERS SHOW: Salty Speakers Presents: Doctor Gasp, Guy Capecelatro III, Best Girl Athlete @Studio (Dover, NH) 8PM $ome Cost ☻ I GUESS WE DO JAZZ LISTINGS NOW: Steve Norton with Symptomatic @Washington St. Art Center 8:30PM All Ages $Donate$ ☻ KILL EVERYONE SUNDAY: KEN mode, Life in Vacuum, Phantom Glue, Pile, Ascend/Descend @Mid East Up 8PM 18+ $12
MONDAY OCTOBER 12
It’s happening every week, but might as well men tion it here. It’s the weekly Open Mic funfest hosted by JP’s lovechild Angela Sawyer. What to expect? The unexpected of course. Music, jokes, fun, games, & maybe even some torture! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free ☻ Another thing that happens every Monday is the Rad Castle Presents experience! This week it’s another local love: Dinozcar. Featuring the psychedelic punk of Burning Itch, Playboy Manbaby, & Little Spoon @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free ☻ BEACH MOUSE: Mercury Rev @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $25 ☻ OUTSIDER RHYTHMS: So Percussion, Buke and Gase @3S Artspace 8PM All Ages $16 ☻ FALLEN ANGELS: Creepoid @Brighton Music Hall 8PM 18+ $15 ☻ Fistula, Ramlord (NH), Dutchguts (NJ), Lunglust and Leather Lung @O’Brien’s 7PM 21+ $10 ☻ DANCE DOOM ROCK: DJ DAYGLOW, CRUNCHY (Athens), Listening Woman, HALF ACID (Athens) & New Pope (mems of Oneida + Starring) @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $5-10
TUESDAY OCTOBER 13
And you thought you’d be stuck with those Tuesday blues? Kick em to the curb w/ Birdwatching, The Kickback, & the hook-tastic splendor of Bent Shapes. This indie-pop dance party is going all night so you hit hump day w/ the momentum to finish of this week in style @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $7 ☻ Rather walk through a shimmering lucid dream? You’re gunna want to head over to The Lilypad where S (Jenn Ghetto), Gem Club, Littlefoot (solo), & IAN (solo) will be there to lay you down with some chamber surf & heavy harmonies @ The Lilypad 9PM ALL AGES $10 ☻ ELECTRONIC DECAY: Non Event Presents: October Experimental Coffee House featuring Seamus Williams @Cafe Fixe 8PM ALL AGES $5 ☻ GARAGE PUNK: Protomartyr (Detroit), Growwing Pains (Detroit) @Middle East (Upstairs) 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ FOLK ROCK: Salty Speak ers Presents: Diane Cluck, Rick Rude, Sam Moss @ Buoy 8PM ALL AGES $ome Cost ☻ ALT COUNTRY FOLK: Blitzen Trapper, The Domestics @Sinclair 9PM 18+ $20
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 14
The arctic shark returns as beloved Boston psychsters Quilt get down and groovy tonight in Allston. If you haven’t yet climbed aboard the Quilt train you should. They’re infectious, 60’s inspired psych pop has just the right amount of Americana infused dream rock to take you to the stars. On top of their miraculous melodies, Swedish alt-rockers Dungen have traveled a long way from home to deliver some of their woodsy, haunt ing jams. Get ready to blissfully melt away @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12 ☻ Illegally Blind’s been going at it hard lately & stacking their bills w/ bangin headlin ers & copious amounts of local talent & tonight is no different as the crew brings together some pristine purveyors of pop. Sean Nicholas Savage & Promise Keeper lay down some low key electro pop w/ Skinny Bones’ experimental folktronica & the always creative Couples Counseling @Mid East Up 8PM 18+$12 ☻ OI! THE THRASHCORE: Menace(UK),The Clap, Sil ver Screams, Shattered Silence @Hardcore Stadium (Cambridge) 8PM All Ages $15
So believe it or not, & thank goodness, there are rock operas that don’t sound anything like American Idiot, & are actually cool. It might not be as fun without the eyeliner but Titus Andronicus is touring in support of indie punk r-opera, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, & Spider Bags, doing some garage rock sans opera, & reverb heroes Baked @Brighton Music Hall 6PM All Ages $20 ☻ And for something wicked diff go down the street & around the corner where Illegally Blind Presents some stuff ya can dance to! The Foreign Resort out of Denmark has got a straight up 80’s New Wave vibe & are joined by the spacey electro sounds of CMB (cosmic microwave background), & some nice catchy synthpop from Teenender @O’Brien’s 8PM 21+ $10 ☻ (!) H-CORE NOISE FREE JAZZ ROCK: Tiger Hatchery, Peter J Woods, Negative One @Deep Thoughts 8PM ☻ FAST N’ DEADLY: Cannibal Corpse, Cattle De capitation, Soreption at the Met in Pawtucket, RI 7PM All Ages $25 ☻ SWAN SONG FOR SHRIMP: Krill @ Great Scott [SOULD OWT]
On an undifferentiated sea of humanity it’s easy to miss entirely the ceremonious birthing of a new rock document, left to be noticed once it pops up as a suggested video on YouTube dot com in full. Ghost Box Orchestra celebrates the unveiling of a fresh full length w/ a host of psychy jammers of all stars and stripes including Boston vets Major Stars, Soft Eyes, and Boom Said Thunder, all swirling and saluting heavy & heady grooves until we all become one in fluid, in form, & in function @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ A holy & possibly one-off reunion of Bellingham’s slackery, melodic punk fuck-offery unit, Frogball, is all happening down in Worcester w/ emo big stars The Hotelier, McDonough Band, & The Furs @London Billiards 7PM All Ages $8 ☻ GLOBE TROT: Pico Picante @Good Life 9PM 21+ $10
SATURDAY OCTOBER 17
What can beat Saturday afternoon in the park? A stacked bill of gnarly bands helping you fend off the impending chill in the air! Join Brain Arts Organization for the latest installment of their outdoor music series, Grass Stains: Sweater Weather. It’s getting cold, so come out, enjoy the crisp air, & celebrate your local music scene (cardigans, hoodies, & all other outerwear welcome) @Franklin Park (Jamaica Plain) 7PM All Ages FREE ☻ Philadelphia’s quirkiest, The Dead Milk men, are in town to spread their sardonic punkabilly jangles with help from the eccentric and unpredict able musings of the self-proclaimed steamcrunk outfit Walter Sickert & The Army of Broken Toys @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $20-22 ☻ HEELTAP INDIE: Kal Marks, Left and Right, Rye Pines, Dinoczar, Milk presented by Coach @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8-10 ☻ HORRORPUNK LEGEND, CAT FANCIER: Danzig, Superjoint Ritual, Prong, Crumsuckers, Doyle & more @The Palladium 11AM All Ages $35 ☻ SUNNY DAY INDIE POP: Bent Shapes @The Loft (Somerville) ☻ JAZZ MAGIC: Steve Norton with Grizzler @Washington St. Art Cen ter 8:30PM All Ages Donation ☻ POSITIVE ENERGY: Crash Safely: A Benefit for the National MS Society featuring The Sprained Ankles, The Dents, Muck & the Mires, The Phil Aiken Army, and Gymnasium @Mid way Cafe 8PM 21+ $10 ☻ HAPPY EDGE DAY: Stand Hard Records Presents: National Edge Day featuring Stop & Think, Invasion, Mindset, Waste Management, No Tolerance, Stick Together, Freedom, Clear, Ancient Heads, Caught In A Crowd, Disengage, Violence To Fade, Break Away, Burst of Rage, Rage, Iron Edge, Spirit of Youth, True Love, Protester, Take Control, Todd’s War, New Vision, Direct Impact, Burning Fight at the Hardcore Stadium & the Middle East Upstairs in Cambridge, MA. All Ages. More info TBA at a later date. (this is kind of a sloppy listing of what appears to be a two-day fest so let’s return to this later STILL SLOPPY; CAN’T FIND ANY CONCRETE INFO ON IT (it’s Friday & Saturday) (Yeah; Jimmy Flynn, who does the HC Stadium bookings, the Bridge 9 message board, & my sXe friends are all equally confused & I wasn’t able to get any info from anyone else I checked with. That’s a long-ass festival listing. Your call I guess.) ☻ LAST 119 SHOW: ft. Loup Garou, Dent, Angela Sawyer, Crank Sturgeon, Drom For Du Dor, Gay Shapes and more @119 Gallery, Lowell 2pm All Ages $5-10
SUNDAY OCTOBER 18
Illegally Blind Presents brings Ringo Deathstarr to us on this day for a fix of buzzy, fuzzy alternative pop that would sound great in the Manchester, NH Newbury Comics circa 1994 whilst leafing through an article about Helmet in Spin Magazine and drinking a cool refreshing OK Soda. A Veruca Salt/Beat Happening/ AmRep sorta alternative rock sound. The Membranes are a legendary English band and they’re probably the real draw. Check out their Peel Session, it is on your internet tube. Very Volcano Suns/Burma flavor of postpunk. I have no feckin clue who Magic Shoppe are but they’re probably cool & their name makes me think about the head shoppe next door to the aformentioned Newbury Comics @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ GRIMEY PUNK POP: Shellshag, GNaRDS, Gravel, Drug Dogs @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8
MONDAY OCTOBER 19
They’re gone but not forgotten. Or gone. That’s right, Guerilla Toss is coming back to Boston (again). It’s a bit tiresome all of this hello & goodbye, but they are making more effort than my stepdad at least. And bringing me WAY sweeter tunes. On the bill are Buck Gooter, Ursula, and Phemale @Club Bohemia 9PM 21+ ☻ A parade of pretty catchy sound is making its way through the streets tonight when DRINKS (Cate Le Bon + Tim Presley of White Fence), join forces w/ Daniel Bachman’s masterful acoustic fingerpicking, Droor, & the psych-locals of Bong Wish @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ IRREGULAR TOMFOOLERY: Open Mic w/ Angela Sawyer @Deep Thoughts
TUESDAY OCTOBER 20
Tonight, Illegally Blind invites you to throw on your best gazing shoes for the heavy riffage of the smash ing, dashing, crashing Cheeatahs, blessing our fair city with their UK shoegaze and backed up by the local dream poppers Funeral Advantage and the lo-fi gloomrock of Horse Jumper @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ Looking to break out of the sway instead? Head on over to the Boiler Room and get sweaty in the police state with Rixe punkin’ all the way over from Paris. Savageheads will be helping tear out the pipes along with Contingent, snarling their way to the bottom @The Boiler Room, All Ages.
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21
My kinda show happening TONIGHT in Allston where local oasis O’Briens has brought together some riff shredding, head-pounding, fist-clenching psych and punk for our head holes. Ex-Cult will make YOUR fin gers bleed w/ their furious solo shredding interspersed w/ hulking drums, alongside Allstonian sludge punks Idiot Genes who keep it straightforward & covered in PBR. That’s not all folks, you also get melodic hardcore hunks Raw Blow & House of the Rising Fuzz club members Midriffs. Find a babysitter & come witness the power @O’Briens 9PM 21+ $8 ☻ Or you could head up the street for a decidedly quieter, more existential experience. Get enveloped in the ethereal space pop of Tasseomancy. Intimate, welcoming, and sincere, the Canadian quartet take you on a sonic sleepwalk. Then stick around & dance to the fun loving, lyrically complex & angelic Braids who’re winding down a North American tour. Come in tired, leave inspired @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10 ☻ BRASSY JAZZ: Non Event Presents: Tomas Korber and Konus Quartet @ Goethe-Institute Boston 7:30PM All Ages $8-10 ☻ EXPERIMENTAL NOISE: Duck That @Aeronaut Brewing Company 8PM $ome Cost
THURSDAY OCTOBER 22
You’ve had a lot of October by now, maybe you’re all rock-showed out. Maybe you can’t manage to even leave your mom’s house & I’m sorry. But if Mom’s driving you nuts & you want to do something that’s NOT a rock show... There is a guy who goes by Autre Ne Veut. He is really a guy & not just some kinda crazy non-English phrase. He sings! It’s kinda like if Prince got more experimental with his beats but less crazy as a human. Also GEMS will provide some sweet, sweet boy/girl melodies over relaxed electronic boom-boombooms that will bring you right back to oh so many childhood 80’s movie soundtracks @Mid East Down 9PM 18+ $15 ☻ Another idea is to do some laughing, or heckling. Check out Angela Sawyer @The Comedy Studio 8PM All Ages $ome Cost ☻ POP ART ROCK: Speakers Presents: Secret Lover, Little My, Luau, Surf Vietnam @TBA 8PM $ome Cost
all this POT I am smoking is really not helping. Well, maybe a good old stoner metal show will help that. Phew, looking at my local Boston Compass I can see that Acid King, Gozu, & Black Beach are playing @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $15 ☻ No no no stop right there! Take that hose out of your exhaust & do something PRODUCTIVE in your garage. Start a band? I know where to start. Dirt Naps, Rick Rude, and Teratoma @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free ☻ HERE COMETH COMEDY: Open Mic w/ Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free ☻ SAX MAGIC: Steve Norton with Solar Return (France) + TBA @Washing ton Street Arts Center 8PM ALL AGES $Donate$
TUESDAY OCTOBER 27
Something sinister is brewing in Cambridge this night. But that might just be what Steve Norton with Leap of Faith want you to think. They’ll be feeding your head a very special home-brew of free jazz hysteria along w/ Turbulence Wind Ensemble. Soak up the offerings of this shattered menagerie @The Lilypad 8PM All Ages $Donate ☻ Rather spend your evening over in sunny Allston w/ some smooth rockin rollers? Hot-blooded proto-punkz Marching Church are going to be menac ing the village accompanied by the tender acidity of Trans FX @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12
WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 28
Guess where I’ll be tonight?! At Mid East Upstairs which is exactly where YOU should be to see Welsh alterna-pop darlings, Joanna Gruesome having hopped across the pond to headline a STACKED show. The Gruesomes mesh rock, pop, & punk to craft a sound uniquely their own. With an energetic live show & a take-no-shit attitude, these kids are the real deal. Don’t miss out!! On top of that is the uplifting DIY punk of Aye Nako, King of Cats lofi under your bed experi ments & Boston’s jangly indie rockers Bent Shapes @Middle East Up 7PM All Ages $12 ☻ Of course there IS another show happening tonight & it’s also a stunner. (Damn you, hard choices!) Spanish garage rock quartet Hinds hasn’t released much more than a few demos & a split 7” but their lo-fi pop sensibility is contagious. Sharing the stage is Brooklyn’s new wave popsters Public Access T.V. Hold hands, jump, & sway @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $13 ☻ POST-INDIE: Edgar Clinks, Weird Medicine, Birdwatching @PA’s Lounge 8:30PM 21+ $5
THURSDAY OCTOBER 29
Get your costumes out early, because Illegally Blind’s throwing a killer Halloween Party featuring the spooky fuzzed out goodness of Creaturos & The Televibes. The dreamy vibes of Mini Dresses & Wakes round out for this stacked lineup @Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $10 ($7 with costume) ☻ Two Halloween parties; same night; same block. We love you Central Square. Nod your head to some underground hip-hop as Leedz Edutainment presents Kool Keith & heavy hitter Jus Allah (ex-Jedi Mind Tricks, Army of Pharaohs) @ Middle East Downstairs 8PM 18+ $16-18 ☻ FREAKS & CREEPS: Wings, B-52’s, Minutemen Cover Bands @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $7-10 ☻ ROCKABILLY SURF: Salty Speakers Presents: Jonee Earthquake Band, Greed Island, Jimmy Farquhar @Spun Records (Dover, NH) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost
FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 FRIDAY OCTOBER 23
What a week it has been or is going to be! Will it be a flight of leafed-up stairs that will finally sing thee to thy rest? Or perhaps a gut-busting from Illegally Blind engaging in what can only be described as show bill gavage? The S.A.F. psych troupe (New England) Patriots, VVIILLDD groove-punks NOTS, Hair Salon’s Ursula, & garage-sounding Germ House burrow deep into the reaches of @Club Bohemia 8PM 21+ $10 ☻ Jet fuel can’t melt steel beams. Anyway, Caspian postrockets their way through our collective blood pump as NPR’s beloved Circle Takes the Square and Dirty Bangs jam shit where it don’t belong @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $18 ☻ MS BENEFIT: Township, Watts, Unnatural Axe, & Fireking @ Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $12 ☻ SHOWERS, SHITS &: Shaves @Whitehaus 8PM All Ages $ome Cost ☻ POP’S PUNK: Masked Intruder, The Copyrights, Not Scientists, Bundles, New Warden @Cuisine en Locale 7pm $12
SATURDAY OCTOBER 24
We all need more late 70’s Netherlandish anarchopost-no wave punk in our lives... so you better get your fix while you have the chance as The Ex invade the states to pour their screechy guitars & weirdo syncopa tions down our square, American throats. Ken Vander mark rocks the sax & intricate free jazz, while Boston darlings Pile bring their signature flavor of angular indie rock w/ songs so unpredictable they’ll tie your tummy in knots (in the best way possible) @3S Artspace (Portsmouth, NH) 8:30PM All Ages $16 ☻ First-wave LA punk legend Alice Bag (of Bags) comes to Allston tonight to fill our east coast ears w/ readings from her new book & what’s sure to be a killer performance. Joined by art rock no-wave Bostonians Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, this is sure to be one to bump your cred a few notches. Presented by Allston Pudding @O’Briens 8 PM $8/$10
SUNDAY OCTOBER 25
Hands are really weird, sometimes people who aren’t me, smoke pot, go to metal shows, & think about their hands, so if you’re that sort of person, hey look Cruel Hand is playing! w/ the Amity Affliction, Chelsea Grin, the Secrets, & the Plot in You @Paradise 6pm $15. But the really important thing is some animals have hands, some animals have paws, what makes a hand a hand & a paw, a paw? ☻ BLOODSUGARSAXMAGIC: Debo Band @Great Scott 8PM 18+ $15 ☻ SYNTH WOMP: Here We Go Magic, Big Thief @Cuisine En Locale 8PM all ages $15
MONDAY OCTOBER 26
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We’re a lil light on the shows tonight (as of this midSeptember reporting), & fair enough, as most of us will be out egging ourselves, hexing jpegs of Donald Trump, & conjuring orbs. But a few nuggets pierce through the darkness that fills the sky like a knife made of ice. Youth Lagoon, whose latest vid depicts a romp ‘round the city with a masked fop that may just be allegory for all the tris & tribs of being stoned alone & features a pier’d dance scene that urged me to relive Urochromes’ moving “I Don’t Wanna Be Like Me” video single, will be live performing their movements w/ indie fuzz-cloud Moon King @Paradise Rock Club 9PM 18+ $18 ☻ Members of Elephants & Sleep Crimes will be mourning the killed bill that would’ve named “Roadrun ner” our official state rock song w/ a Modern Lovers cover set, with Ghosts of Sailors at Sea to cover Fugazi & Harris Hawk presenting us w/ a mixed bag of do-em-ups @Lilypad Needs Info
SATURDAY OCTOBER 31
Halloween is finally upon us! That ghastly day of the year when the veil between dimensions thins & ghouls are free to shamelessly binge drink themselves into oblivion at frat parties all across the land! Well hope fully some of the spirits that descend upon us this evening are fans of tight, melodic indie rock because Rye Pines are slinging catchy gems with the help People in Cars (DC) & their fuzzy intricate guitars. Loudness prevails all night w/ Gin War, Future Spa, & The Rococo Bang. Expect covers; expect costumes @The Midway 4PM All Ages $5 ☻ For some thrashy grrrl style noise, Ursula has you covered & the slimey synth punk of Quitter will make you want to wash your mouth out. Clamorous drone punks The Cavemen & fastcore surf grinders Pucker Up make sure things stay creepy @Grandma’s House 9PM All Ages $Donate ☻ TRICKS AND TREATS: Halloween Cover Show presented by Salty Speakers @Ratskellar (Dover, NH) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost ☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻☻
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All Ages 8PM Free ☻ NIGHTMARE NOISE: De struction Unit, Latisha’s Skull Drawing, The Furs, Far Corners @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $10 ☻ MORE METAL: Kylesa, Inter Arma, Indian Handcrafts, Irata at the Brighton Music Hall in Allston, MA 7:00 pm/$15/18 plus ☻ FREE FUN: Rad Castle Presents: Today Junior, Bruvs @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free ☻ EMO INDIE ROCK: Alaska, Districts, Charles, Vaulted @Charlie’s Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5
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So what's your definition of depression? We asked 5 young people as they were coming out of one of Allston's most popular European-style buttouching clubs at 1:35am.
The Court Stenographers of Comedy SATURDAY 10/3
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Four of our favy local goobers (Owen Linders, Adam Abelson, Sam Ike and James Huessy) have just started a show that features absurd and delightful sketch, standup, characters and surprises. You have two chances this month to see four of the most creative comics in Boston curate the good shit; don't fuck it up.
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Lillian devane's record release: Trophies for trying FRIDAY 10/16 FROM 7-10:00pm Lily Pad, Inman Sq., Cambridge • $5
"Are you the Uber driver? Are you going to ask me to go home with you or something? Ooh, look there's a taTAXI! TAXI!! TAX- oh, I guess he's not stopping. Oh, hey. Hi there. Are you maybe driving to Winthrop?"
Ghost of Pamela Lutmock (Your 3rd grade art teacher; damned to this form)
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Lillian DeVane (beloved Tardy Eagle contributor and standup extraordinaire) is throwing a party for her debut album. Trophies for Trying was produced by the incredidudes at Boston label pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS. Aside from her standup and other skit things, it has a gr8 song called "Dogbrella." FUUUUUCKIN' DOGBRELLA GUYS. The show also features wondrous comedy from Guitler Raphael, Ethan Marsh, and Sarah Cronin.
THE Mendoza line: halloween show SATURDAY 10/31 AT 9:00pm Dugout Cafe • BU East • $5
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ARE YOU A COMEDY NERD OR WHATEVER?
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We are v interested in taking a look at & possibly printing your 400 words-ish brain blobs, your black & white drawings, your dumb Photoshops, games, puzzles, you know, printable stuff. Deadline for Nov issue = 10/15 but we do take things on a rolling basis.
Imagine seeing people like Dave Chapelle, Maria Bamford, Paul F. Tompkins, and Pete Holmes for $5 in a lil bar? YEAH THIS IS KINDA GONNA HAPPEN!!! Well, usually every Saturday at The Mendoza Line, you can see some of the best comics from Boston and beyond tell their own jokes at this fun fun fun standup showcase hosted by Julia Claire, John Baglio, and Zach Armentrout. However, this Halloween, some of their favorites will be pretending to be their favorites. Oh yeah there's free popcorn at the bar too.
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THE SHARP AMNESIAS OF GUY MADDIN 9/25 - 11/14 @HFA A “sharp amnesia,” I suppose, might be thought of as the opposite of a fuzzy memory, in which case it serves as a cleverly apt archway through which to enter Guy Maddin’s memory-loss palace, a wonder constructed over three decades and on display in the full-splendour of its whimsically demented, nostalgia-free anachronism for the next several weeks at the HFA. This exhaustive retrospective of the Winnepegian filmmaker’s many enchantments, in which an occasionally coy, poetic preciousness is reliably undercut by absurdity, morbidity, and decay, peaks in November with a director-attended screening of The Forbidden Room, brand spanking new and out for half-forgotten blood. - Matthew Martens
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(10/10) FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) dir. René Laloux @BRATTLE Of all the trippy animated films to come out of the 1970s, this might just be the trippiest.
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75 YEARS OF FILM NOIR, PART 1: PROTO-NOIR (10/7-10/14) @BRATTLE Everything has a beginning. For a genre centered on dark stories of twists and betrayals, then turns, then an extra twist, they originate from a world healing after war before succumbing to societal depression. Films like the Expressionistic marvel The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari started the trend initially, before moving onto horror classics like The Invisible Man and The Mummy. Noir’s true style didn’t come about until the gangster and detective pics of the 30s, however, in titles such as Little Caesar, The Thin Man, Sabotage and You and Me. All had a hand in the crafting the unique tone that eventually culminated in the following decades of another global war and subsequent facade of social prosperity. That’s part 2. But for now the Brattle Theatre is celebrating the birth of the film noir genre with these films and more this month. Catch ‘em while you can. -Pablo Torroella
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THE ‘BURBS (1989) dir. Joe Dante 10/4 @BRATTLE Part of the SATANIC PANIC BOOK LAUNCH (see News & Nods, p.1) Maybe I’m crazy, but I have long thought that, if he had been alive in 1989, (10/31) 15th ANNUAL HALLOWEEN HORROR MARATHON Sir Alfred Hitchcock could have made THE ‘BURBS (he died in 1980). Yes, I @COOLIDGE regard this comic tale of suburban paranoia and satanic neighbors so highly Twelve hours of Samhain-set spookery! Films include TRICK ‘R’ TREAT and HALLOWEEN II, plus music, a costume contest, and more! that I think it is worthy of one of film’s all-time greats behind the lens. Maybe I’ve just seen SHADOW OF A DOUBT (1943) too many times? Joe Dante actually directed the film, and while he is no Hitchcock, he is still a legend of a kind, having given us both PIRAHNA (1978), and GREMLINS (1984). And THE ‘BURBS, his absolute pinnacle. In fact I would argue that THE ‘BURBS is the career pinnacle for all of its major contributors: Tom Hanks (definitely his best), Bruce Dern (never better), Rick Ducommon (barely ever heard from before or after), and screenwriter Dana Olsen (career went up in flames starting with writing MEMOIRS OF AN INVISIBLE MAN [1992]). THE FILMS OF STEPHEN BROOMER Dante’s career also pretty much fell into the shitter post-THE ‘BURBS, but 10/21 @MASSART birthed prior to these career implosions was a singular film that serves as a Toronto-based filmmaker, preservationist, and scholar Stephen Broomer has only been making films pillar of the “dumb friends involved in a mystery” genre. for roughly half a decade now but he’s already amassed as grand a body of work as some might hope Hanks, Dern, and Ducommun are an amazing comedy to over the course of several decades. Yet we aren’t left with the impression of filmmaker reaching team that in some alternate universe probably his zenith; each of his vivid, multi-layered films, while showcasing a distinct and singular vision, seems found THREE STOOGES-like success. Corey to move beyond the one made before it. There is a palpable freshness in his approach, through his Feldman is outstanding (?!) as the “meatball” embrace of old and new mediums as he moves seamlessly back and forth between video and film, neighbor kid who throws a party for viewing his often in a single piece, and through a general openness toward formal experimentation, combining a variety medium-specific techniques such as chemical treatment of the emulsion or digital compositing. neighbor’s hijinks. And look out for monologist Brother Theodore grimacing away as Reuben Stephen Broomer will be in person, for his first time in the Northeastern US, to show and discuss his Klopek. I’m not afraid to say it: THE BURBS is works – proudly co-presented by the Balagan Film Series and MassArt Film Society. -Stefan Grabowski one of my favorite movies of all time. LISTINGS NOTE - Dan Shea Below is the venue abbreviation key:
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Museum of Fine Arts 465 Huntington Ave Boston, MA & Punter’s Pub 450 Huntington Ave Boston, MA Bless’d be the art. Whether we’re talking vaporwave, tom petty, or 1000 pianos being tuned simultaneously at the B.S.O (that’s it?) it’s wicked based to remember that even frat boys have some taste & wisdom to impart – that is to say; don’t forget the whole spectrum. So g’head and get out of that moldy basement and get to the Museum of Fine Arts, or “MFA” (free for everyone Wednesdays after 4 & all the time for lots of local college students w/ID). Established s****** can be cool and the MFA is both. Even homegrown Bostonians gotta quit putting this one off. NOTE: Not “for tourisits.” So go see something physical & “fine.” If you’re like some of us & like to have drinks with your art, any art, then afterwards (or before...who cares anymore?) head across Huntington to Punters Pub. Later on, this spot fills up with North-Eastern kids with....taste & wisdom to impart...but while the sun is still out the stained glass windows will remind you where god really lives. A little window into the pizza shop next door provides you with the body & the blood comes in the form of $8 rolling rock pitchers – the pool table is uneven, the darts are small, and the guy pouring beers is mean – Hallelujah! Green Line E train to the Museum of Fine Arts stop, or the Orange Line to Ruggles. Or ride your bike it’s Fall. - James Coarse
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