Boston Compass #44

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Thanks for picking up Compass #44! This is our second eight-page edition, having expanded last month to cover art and film events in addition to killer music shows. The Compass is made up of an enthusiastic group of volunteers, collaborating on a daily basis to expose the realest independent culture this city has to offer and to unite the people who are hustling to make it happen. As always, we encourage our dear readers and all Boston newcomers to join up and empower yourselves by dedicating some time to making this newspaper the best that it can be. Now, we always take this opportunity to remind you all of how important it is to get involved and support your local independent press but this month we’d like to also take this time to suggest that you EXPLORE THE NEIGHBORHOODS of Boston!

The 20+ neighborhoods that make up the city of Boston often go underexplored by the neighbors who surround and even inhabit them. Unless it’s on the way to school or work we might not even notice the essential sweet spots our city has to offer. We highly recommend you spend some time wandering around the neighborhoods you don’t live or work in. Here are a handful of tips: Charlestown’s navy yard, Ron’s in Hyde Park, Mattapan’s epic cemeteries, North End’s Christopher Columbus Park, Roxbury’s overlook ruins, West End’s Thoreau Path, South Boston’s Castle Island, the waterfront Downtown and the dozens of art galleries in the South End. Go forth and enjoy yourselves--this is your city!

- Sam Potrykus

 OUR SUPPORT 

The Compass is in need of TECH HEADS. We’re talkin’ InDesign, Photoshop, Wordpress and Plug-ins and shit. The newspaper needs reliable, creative minds to get the layout done by deadline every month. The Boston Hassle website needs savvy trouble shooters to help us navigate the messy path towards creating the sickest music blog in New England. If you’ve got these skills and want to help the cause please reach out! We need you! It will also be good if you have some serious time to spare, it all goes towards making this city a better place to get busy in. BostonCCC@gmail.com

New England Patriots and Skimask are off to Louisville this month! The terrible two will be heading down to Cropped Out, the annual festival held by our KY comrades, which brings together like-minded sickos from all over the country for one very special weekend of gnarliness. This year they’ve got Blues Control, Orcutt/Corsano Duo, CAVE, Lambchop, and Wolf Eyes to name a few.

Pats/Skimask tour kicks off Friday the 13th in JP where you can get your hands on a tour only split cassette, recorded by none other than the infamous Doug Demay! Noise, meet punk, son -SP

SARALEE are one of the most crucial underground bands to emerge from the Boston area in the last heap of years. But you probably already know this. In a scene packed full of noise rock and punk bands, Saralee showed up with a steady beat, some jangling chords, and a unique voice and lyrical perspective to turn the idea of underground rock in the Boston of now on its ear. I want to call them an indie pop band, because it seems to fit on the surface, but there is so little twee to this duo that the tag just doesn’t stick. Underground pop at it’s finest sounds way better. And now there’s an LP you can buy to prove your love! The Saralee LP has been released by the awesome people at Cambridge’s Ride The Snake Records. Go get it. Go on now. - DS

Been digging on the nascent sounds of FUMEHOOD recently. Hypnotically weird electronics and shamble pop laced with the former is what comes through my speakers from their soundcloud. I haven’t seen them live yet, but I’ll be there soon enough. With my lighter. Shakin’ my head in havin’ fun agreement. - DS

There’s a new green business on the block and they’re doing something truly special. Glenwood Garden is an L3C with a social mission ~ to help nonprofits gain new sources of recurring revenue by being an online conduit for sales of goods and marketing, with all profits shared 50/50. They’re starting this exciting new venture with sustainably made food! Their goal is to connect people who value the local food chain with real farmers, purveyors, and artisans that are producing food the right way. Check out glenwoodgarden.com and their FB page (/glenwoodgarden) for more. Support your local musicians, artists, record shops and producers of organic, non-GMO food! -SP WE WANT YOUR LIVE VIDEOS!!! Over @ www.bostonhassle.com we are starting to work a new kind of post into our repetoire, and it shall be called: WENT THERE. These posts will feature live videos taken by Hassle members and members of the community. These posts can simply be video of a particular song or set, but they could also include a review or commentary of the song/set/show by whomever submits the video. It’s up to you!!! Send us vids from the shows you attend! And look for WENT THERE posts to start popping on Hassle site any time now!! - DS Worcester Art Museum earned some points for bridging current and historical cultural relevance. If you dig the Beastie Boys, these guys come from the wombs of some pretty radical women. Mike D’s motha Hester Diamond, known for an extensive art collection, just donated a very imp. renaissance painting to WAM. You can see her latest art gift starting September 21st! In the meantime, check out the Winogrand show - featured in our art blast section - because who doesn’t like a challenging show? Esp when the content is controversial, heteronormative and still fucking beautiful. More info @ hassle.com/art - NV The newly expanded Compass FILM SECTION seeks contributors and an editor. If you’d like to shape how the Compass (and its website sister Boston Hassle) covers Boston area film, then this is your chance! We have a small team making this section happen right now, but we need your help, and maybe even your leadership! Join us in arguing about movies! Get into movies for free!

Write about what you care about! FILM! Reply to bostonccc@gmail.com with FILM SECTION in the subject. - DS

The Compass Seeks Distribution Co-Coordinator! We hate waste. We’re always trying to reduce the amount of paper wasted each month and find better homes for them, but our crew is maxed out! We need a fresh head. We need a special and capable person at the helm of this imperative honing process.

Talkin’ initiative, organization, good communication skills and perhaps a knack for Greater Boston’s best haunts. This distro shrimp role (roll?) is a VOLUNTEER position. Not down? How about some feedback then? Tell us if our distribution sucks or not; we want to know: BostonCCC@gmail.com Blanc Agency has done it again. Coming this September, from the people who brought you Blanc Gallery, their newest project space: GUILD, a community habitat for creative minds. Opening night is Thursday September 26th that’s hosted by Aint-Bad Magazine. Projections, live music all night, refreshments. $10 suggested donation. Guild is a private event space, PLEASE RSVP online-- more info on that in the Boston Hassle @ www.bostonhassle.com/art Welcome Guild to the family! Featuring exclusive studio workspace as well as a shared gallery/venue that caters to support local artists and musicians; they’re at 169 Norfolk Ave, Boston. Entrance on Cedric Street. - NV Hey COMIC freaks! Scope the 4th annual Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo! MICE is an occasion for local independent comic artists to show and sell their work to the public. Over 125 exhibitors will be on hand, from the Boston area and beyond, celebrating the art and fun of comics and graphic novels.

This two day event, brought to you by Boston Comics Roundtable and AIB, will also include panel discussions and creative workshops! MICE will be held Sept 28 and 29 @University Hall (Lesley/AIB). in Cambridge, next to Porter Square.

More info micexpo.org -SP We are pleased to tell you about The Beehive Mystic Social’s Freak Inauguration! The Beehive is a new, unique social event being held @The Armory in Somerville every month starting in September. The details remain to be fully seen and will no doubt be realized in time, but it will be a mystical union of sorts, parsing out friendships in a greater community of weirdos & radicals.

There will be workshops, discussions, dancing and performance for sure. So be there! September 22nd @The Equinox 7:30pm All Ages and Donations only!

More info: EyeBeehive.blogspot.com -SP The Boston Counter Cultural Compass is produced by Boston Hassle

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Art Blast

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Highlights and Listings of the Boston Arts Scene REALITY CHECK @Sandra & David Bakalar Gallery (MassArt) 9/9 - 12/7 Learn to trust your eyes again. With the growth of digital technology in photography, it has become easier and easier for audiences to dismiss incredible images as having been altered or manipulated. This exhibit showcases the work of seven photographers (Matthew Brandt, Daniel Gordon, Stephen Mallon, Chris McCaw, Christina Seely, Angela Strassheim, Gastón Ugalde) whose work appears to be falsified in some way. In reality, these artists have used long, tedious, non-digital processes to create and capture extraordinary moments. Go celebrate people using old school methods to literally conduct beauty in our world.

- CEEK

IN/FIN/ITE PRESENTS: A SONG FOR ECHO @Museum of Science 9/26, 6:30 and 7:30pm New York-based artist Julie Nymann and Boston-based musician Ricardo Danoso are taking over the Museum of Science’s planetarium with a collaboration named for Echo, the nymph of Greek myth fame. Danoso’s “soundscapes” will accompany Nymann’s video projections on the planetarium dome. The piece examines the dichotomies explored in the “Echo and Narcissus” myth, and attempts to study how the dualities in that myth are reflected in human existence.

- Rose Parry

WINOGRAND’S WOMEN ARE BEAUTIFUL @Worcester Museum of Art Now-11/10 A collection of photos by a debatable Perv.

Criticized by many for exploiting women, Garry Winogrand was an innovator of the candid photo. Using a wide-angle lens on his Leica M4 camera, he captured everyday subjects interacting with their environment. This exhibit includes 68 photographs from his 1975 book of the same name. The pictures featured may be evidence that there is genuine beauty in what some have deemed inappropriate, commanding the eyes not to linger out of decency. Take a ride on the commuter rail and allow your eyes to loiter awhile. Sexy or Suspect, you decide.

- CEEK 27th ANNUAL SOUTH END OPEN STUDIOS @570 East First Street #2 9/21 and 9/22, 11am-6pm Spend $0 to see over 200 artists’ work and where they make it. The South End is a workplace for both established and emerging artists, covering a huge array of mediums (painting, sculpture, photography, glass, pottery, textiles, etc.). Throughout the weekend, the public will have the chance to shoot the shit with the artists and poke around their studios and also the neighborhood galleries. Printed guides available @BCA and @corner of Wareham & Harrison St. EVERYONE will find something they like. All you have to do is show up and EXPLORE. - CEEK

STEVE LOCKE: “THERE IS NO ONE LEFT TO BLAME” @ICA on view Now-10/17 The show features works that Locke has been working on for the past few years. Paintings of male heads with and without their tongues sticking out are embedded into the wall as well as protruding off the wall. Locke is also displaying his more recent sculptural elements for his paintings that act like a body for the headless portraits. A neon sign on the wall spells out the title of the show in all lowercase letters. Locke states that he wanted the statement to seem like it was in the middle of a sentence.

The show has been a great hit at the ICA with it being one of the most crowded rooms this season.

- GoldPizza PEDIGREE @Newton Arts Center on view 9/16-10/14 “A Curatorial Opportunity Program” exhibition curated by Elizabeth Devlin titled Pedigree. Described as “Prescient and nostalgic, spectacle and critical, Pedigree blurs the lines between craft and fine art, questions art historical and social hierarchies and re-conceives the work of the Masters” -- the show is staged to deliver a tall glass of refreshing work for this outer borough establishment. Really excited about the participating artists-- Caleb Cole, Liz Sheperd, Christina Pitsch, Berio Gizzi, Chris Fitch to name a few. Worth the trek if you can make it -- see you there!

- Chad Nova BILL THOMPSON @Barbara Krakow Gallery Opening 9/26 3-5pm, on view 9/10-10/19 Do not fear the extraterrestrial slime oozing out of the gallery walls--it’s just urethane on polyurethane. Ipswich-born sculpture artist Bill Thompson creates abstract sculptures with organic curves that create the illusion of liquid or plasma in motion.

Some pieces seem to mirror the look of water droplets flying through space, while others look like the dappled surface of a pond. Thompson’s forms are in great juxtaposition with their shiny, candy-colored plastic exteriors--the effect of much of his work can make you feel like you’re caught in time in the midst of a goo explosion on another planet.

-Rose Parry THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE: THE ART OF SCIENCE FICTION @Uforge Gallery Opening: 9/5, 6-8pm, on view Now-9/15 Geek out on some intergalactic art. This exhibit showcases the kind of work that usually doesn’t get the time of day in art galleries. If robots, aliens and space bandits rev your engine then get out to JP for an interplanetary adventure of the weird persuasion. Featuring work by Kent Archer, Maria Bablyak, Jill Barry, River Cortes, Miles Donovan, Jerel Dye, Travis Gibbs, Alex Kittle, Heather M. Morris, James Pearson, Kristilyn Stevenson, Brian Yen. - CEEK

A CALL TO THE BOSTON ARTS COMMUNITY

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Attempting to cover the behemoth that is Boston’s art scene is a daunting task, but a role that needs to be filled. We reach out to you with no other agenda than to put Boston art into the hands of the public and celebrate it, goddamnit!

And we want your help to accurately represent the wide scope of art happening all around us.

The Compass is now relevant to more neighborhoods than ever before, zones that cater more to galleries and art crowds. But we sure as shit aren/t hitting them all yet. So If you have a space or know of any that you’d like to see the Compass

carried in, let us know and we will get it there by way of our sexy Toyota Sienna.

Artists! Collectives! Galleries! Art Schools!

Cafe’s! ETC! Tell us about any art related events going on in your world. If we can’t fit it in the paper, it’ll be up on our sister site www.BostonHassle.com (complete with the event description, address, hours and even links to both the artists’ and space’s websites).

GET IN TOUCH at CompassArtBlast@gmail. com! We are here to support YOU! - CEEK

BAHAR YURUKOGLU: MELTING NORTH @301 Gallery (MCA) Opening 9/18, 6-8pm, on view Now-9/22 To say that the contemporary color photography aesthetic can be banal is an understatement. Thank god it doesn’t apply to Bahar’s work though- “Melting North” is sure to turn you on, It’s certainly turned me into a puddle of giddy excitement from her use of color and fantastic imagery- the fucking use of material and balance of concept and formal qualities is more than I can take. The work activates and engages in a number of different mediums- creating an inclusive environment that immerses the viewer into the icelandic landscape (where the work was made).

Sophisticated. Sexy. Smart. Cool.

You need to see this.

- Nabeela Vega HARBOR ARTS FEST @Boston Harbor Shipyard & Marina 9/21 from 12-7pm When was the last time you hung out in East Boston? Almost never? This underrated neighborhood wants to meet you- and offers a very rich cultural community. In its third year, the HAF (Harbor Arts Festival) is set to invite Boston to come discover what it means to “East your Art Out” with the HarborArts Shipyard Gallery & Festival. The gallery opened in 2010 with one of the largest collections of public art in the area, curated in partnership with the UrbanArts Institute of MassArt and juried by Randi Hopkins of the ICA. This year’s festival also marks the closing of the summer exhibition of ephemeral works by Studio’s Without Walls: “OccupyING the Present.” (6/29 - 9/21).

Enjoy the current collection of artwork and take in the view of Downtown Boston with live music, local food, drinks, & fun shit to do.

- Nabeela Vega

Wanna know what it takes to make your dreams come true? Just ask professional ‘creatives’ Josh Falk and Dana Woulfe. Learning how to make a living as artist is no small feat.

This takes time, self-discipline, passion, courage and sometimes simply having the opportunity to seize. The right cards came into play this Spring, when Falk and Woulfe (along with long-time friend and collaborator Jay LaCouture of AntiDesigns) grabbed some tools and set to work on converting a 4,000 sq ft open space into a massive five person studio equipped with a darkroom, wood-shop, and even a “spray room” to control fumes.

As of July, 570 East 1st Street operates as headquarters to Falk and Woulfe’s new collaborative effort Studio Fresh, along with three other full-time visual artists LaCouture, Nick Z and Jeannie Vincent.

The Studio Fresh duo are evolving artists, constantly seeking new ways to communicate visually. Already having conquered large-scale murals, painting, photography, and design amongst other things, Falk and Woulfe show no signs of slowing down. Boston is lucky to have people like this calling it home.

A write up this size could never do justice to careers as inspiring and extensive as these.

Check out the full article at www.bostonhassle.com

- CEEK

HELP US REPRESENT THE BOSTON ART SCENE TO THE FULLEST! SEND US YR LISTINGS & TIPS! Join the Art Blast Team! compassartblast@gmail.com Visit the Art Blast Online! http://www.bostonhassle.com

LISTINGS

See more on the Calendar @ bostonhassle.com @13Forest Gallery Scheherazade, tell me a story Now-9/13 @Aviary Watercolors by Sarah Coyne Now-9/30 (Opening: 9/5, 6-9pm) @Ball Square (Somerville) Circles and Squares 9/28, 10am-2pm @Berkshire Museum PaperWorks: The Art and Science of an Extraordinary Material Now-10/26 @Blue Glass Cafe Group Show Now-9/30 @Bondir Restaurant works by Josh Falk @Boston Sculptors Gallery Convergence Now10/31 Ben Cariens: Interiors 9/4-10/6 Fates & Furies: America by Hannah Verin 9/4-10/6 @Brickbottom Artists Association REFRAMED: History, Memory, Place 9/6-10/19 (Opening: 9/8, 4-6pm) @Bromfield Gallery Unlikely Pairings 9/4-9/24 (Opening: 9/6, 6-8:30) @Carpenter Center (Harvard) Visiting Faculty Show Now-9/29 (Opening, 9/12, 5:30-6:30pm) @Carroll and Sons Gallery Rania Matar: L’Enfant Femme 9/5-1026 (Opening: 9/6, 5:30-7:30pm) @Chase Young Gallery Jeff Chase 9/4-9/29 (Open ing: 9/6, 6-8pm) @Christopher Columbus Waterfront Park Boston Arts Festival 9/1, 12-8pm @Currier Museum of Art Visual Dispatches from the Vietnam War Now-11/11 Africa Interweave: Textile Diasporas 9/28-1/12 @Flour Bakery (Back Bay) work by Josh Falk @Fourth Wall Gallery Street Diamonds 2 Now-9/7 @Galatea Fine Art Betty Glick, David Bouchard, Lisa Jeanne Graf Now-9/29 @Gallery 360 Synaesthetics: Paintings by Isaac Camp Now-9/25 Celebrity Type Now-9/25 (Opening: 9/5, 4-6:30) @Gallery Kayafas Bruce Myren: The Fortieth Parallel DATE TBA @HallSpace Wayne Hopkins: Ruminating Now-10/5 (Opening: 9/7, 3-6pm) @ICA Mary Reid Kelley Now-10/27 @Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Composite Landscapes: Photomontage and Landscape Archi tecture Now-9/2 Tiny Taxonomy Now-9/2 @Kathryn Schultz Gallery (CAA) 69th Annual Fall Salon Show 9/6-9/26 (Opening: 9/12, 5:30-7:30) @Kingston Gallery Gifted 9/4-9/29 (Opening: 9/6, 5-7:30pm) @Laconia Gallery Open Studios Group Show Now9/30 @LaMontagne Gallery Aaron Williams Now-9/30 @LotF Gallery Conflict & Resolve: Dana Woulfe Opening 9/13 @Maud Morgan Arts Inventories and Other Things & In Motion/In Progress 9/5-10/11 (Opening 9/22) @Myers + Chang work by Dark Clouds & Kenji Nakayama @Micro Museum Invisible Cities Now-10/11 @MIT List Visual Arts Center Student Loan Art Pro gram Exhibition and Lottery 9/3-9/15 @MFA Bruce Davidson: East 100th Street Now-9/8 Riley Howard: Fields and Stripes Now-10/27 Hippie Chic Now-11/11 Rembrandt the Etcher Now-2/17 Holland on Paper: The Age of Art Nouveau Now2/23 @Nave Gallery Somerville Toy Camera Festival 9/79/28 @Out of the Blue Gallery S.T. Gately solo exhibition begins 9/21 @Panopticon Gallery Dress Up Now-9/10 Harold Feinstein: A Coney Island Summer Now-9/10 On First Contact 9/13-1/14 @SMFA Boston Dilated Biography: Cuba 9/10-10/19 (Opening 9/10, 5-7pm) @Samson Projects Aaron Stephan 9/6-10/19 @Springfield Museums Jam Session: Music in Prints Now-9/8 Worn to be Wild: The Black Leather Jacket Now-9/22 Prints for the Peopole: Japanese Ukiyo-E and Currier & Ives Now-11/17 Skin Deep: Tattooed Warriors and Fantastic Beasts Now-12/15 @Stone Gallery (BU) Lazy River: Leidy Churchman 9/6-10/20 (Opening: 9/5, 6-8pm) @Toscanini’s Water Photos by J. Shia Now-9/30 @Union Square Plaza Doilies of Fluff 9/7, 10am-2pm @University Hall (Lesley/AIB) Massachuesetts Independent Comics Expo 9/28-9/29 @Voltage Coffee & Art MassWax Encaustic Group Show Now-10/5 @Waltham Commuter Rail Station Dana Woulfe executes a 200ft Wall Mural late Sept.

Film Flam Compass-filtered Boston-area Film Culture FEATURED FILM SERIES

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THE COMPLETE ALFRED HITCHCOCK @Harvard Film Archive until 9/25 A man running for his life from a crop duster.

A pervy Jimmy Stewart watching his neighbors.

These iconic scenes were visualized by one man; an overweight, patronizing Brit whose name is synonymous with nail biting suspense. Alfred Hitchcock is nearly unavoidable when discussing great cinema, his narrative and technical innovation amazed then and still influences filmmakers to this day. For the rest of the month classics and work from his earlier years will be screened at the Harvard Film Archive, all in their original 35mm format. The month begins with the lesser known Murder!, where a juror who has second thoughts about the verdict begins his own private investigation. Later on this month the movie which made everyone get nervous around a flock of seagulls (in addition to the band), The Birds, is given its due. Hitchcock’s final film, Family Plot, will also be presented and is a necessity for devotees of the auteur who are interested in seeing how his career came full circle. This is a rare chance to see a pillar of the filmic medium, how they were meant to be seen.

- Pablo Torroella

A LETTER TO MOMO @MFA (2012) dir. Hiroyuki Okiura 11-year old Momo is catapulted into a bucolic supernatural adventure as she attempts to make sense of an unfinished letter bequeathed to her by her recently deceased father.

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THE BIRDS @HFA (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock One of Hitchcock’s most wildly strange and out there films. Stone cold killer bird classic.

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AN EVENING WITH SUZAN PITT @HFA Plunge down the rabbit hole into the surrealist psycho-sexual splendor of acclaimed animator Suzan Pitt as she screens her luscious hand-crafted films at the HFA

AMERICAN 13 AN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL

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I DECLARE WAR @Brattle (2012) dir.

Jason Lapeyre War games get serious in the collective unconsciousness of a group of 12-year-olds.

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THE HARDER THEY COME @HFA (1972) dir.

Perry Henzell A poor Reggae singer turns outlaw as he’s ensnared in the corrupt music industry.

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Amos Sefer

Hitchcock gets super psychoanalytic in this tale about a man with a dubious past. Salvador Dalí even collaborated on the film.

Four freedom seeking hippies.

Murderous mimes. Killer Sharks.

A goat. Utterly bizarre and incredibly rare.

STRANGERS ON A TRAIN @HFA (1951) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

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Another Hitchock film, and a Compass fave. A carousel, tennis, and some kind of ambiguous at best pact add up to murder. Robert Walker in one of the great villain performances of all time. Beautiful in black and white.

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ECHO-SYSTEMS: OUTDOOR FILM + MUSIC @Norman B. Leventhal Park 9/22 (rain date: 9/29), 7:30pm, Free - donations welcome!

If you’ve known where to look, we Bostonians have been privy over the past several years to a prolific supply of homegrown cinematic art from Robert Todd, Associate Professor in the Visual Media Arts Department of Emerson College. Regarded as a treasure amongst a fortunate bunch of adventurous Boston film students, Todd, who shoots almost entirely on celluloid, rarely puts a human face in frame, and has never met a furry creature or leafy green he didn’t feel compelled to photograph, has amassed a body of work that stands heroically against current technological and stylistic trends in both mainstream and avant-garde filmmaking.

He often shoots in and around his Jamaica Plain residence, filming mundane happenings and natural phenomena in bright sunlight, but his cinema nonetheless feels part of another world – an alien atmosphere built of familiar textures made foreign and subtle shifts of light. There’s no better way to get acquainted with Todd’s work than in the very environment he so radically reconfigures, and as such this screening of Todd’s latest film, Echo-Systems (with a live score by NY-based Ai Isshiki), in the Norman B. Leventhal Park of Boston’s Financial District is a no-brainer.

- Carson Lund

SPELLBOUND @HFA (1945) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

Jean Luc-Godard

A documentary over 40 years in the making, the film takes towering French directors from the nation’s most creative era and examines American involvement in Vietnam.

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Piñeiro explores the tortured history of Argentina through a sensuous mystery in a rural house full of twenty-somethings.

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MEMENTO @Coolidge (2000) dir. Christopher Nolan, w/ neuroscientist John Gabrieli

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POPULAIRE @Kendall (2012) dir.

Régis Roinsard Rose is an inept secretary, but her boss Louis is determined to turn her into the world’s fastest typer.

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WHEN COMEDY WENT TO SCHOOL @Kendall (2013) dir.

Mevlut Akkaya and Ron Frank

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER @UMASS Boston (2013) dir. Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin

Revisit the golden era of comedy at the Catskills to get a sense of how the likes of Jerry Lewis, Sid Caesar, and Jackie Mason made it big on the Borscht Belt first.

Nadia, Masha, and Katia’s storis are told through family interviews and court footage, letting audiences into the human side of a trial that raised questions that still deserve heaps of attention.

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@Coolidge (1977) dir. David Lynch

@HFA (1943) dir. Alfred Hitchcock

David Lynch’s first feature length film and one of the most famous films tied to the midnite movie phenomenon.

Watch this strange and grotesque surrealist masterpiece unfold on the Coolidge’s giant screen. The industrial setting and claustrophobic nature of this film will find their way inside your brain. As will the lady in the radiator and her song. More weird and incredible than you remember.

Hitchcock’s personal favorite might also be one of his most personal. Paranoia, distrust, and fear enter the lives of a suburban family over the course of this coast-hopping murder mystery.

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE You may have noticed that this is no longer just a Midnite Movie article. It will regularly discuss Midnite Movies, but the net has been widened to include Midnite-type movies, or Psychotronic flicks. Psychotronic movies. If you don’t know what that is: Look it up. Film writer Michael Weldon coined the phrase and pretty much set the wide parameters for what constitutes as such.

We here will take the term from him and use it to describe a similar but, well, different, perspective on the art/not art of the underbelly of film. We start at the HFA with AN EVENING WITH SUZAN PITT on 9/2, a celebration of the surrealist animator and artist Suzan Pitt. If you are into psychedelic or surrealist animation and/or music you are not whole until you’ve seen ASPARAGUS, her short animated film that toured for 2 years on the U.S. Midnite circuit with ERASERHEAD. Ms. Pitt will be in attendance! Over at the Brattle they are showing THE HARDER THEY COME on 9/5. It’s the 40th anniversary of this raw Jamaican weed/ Reggae gangster film starring Jimmy Cliff, and it’s a newly remastered version. You have to see it in the big screen! AN AMERICAN HIPPIE IN ISRAEL is one I haven’t seen before. On 9/13 & 9/14 I’ll get my opportunity over at the Coolidge @ Midnite. It’s been a Midnite hit in Tel Aviv for years, now’s our chance to see why. Widely considered “worst film of all-time” (not by me) TROLL 2 screens on 9/27 over @ the Coolidge @ Midnite. Stupid and hilarious in almost every way you could want it to be (and not featuring a single troll). Best seen with a crowd.

- Dan Shea

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A masterful story told in reverse about a man with serious psychological deficiencies searching for his wife’s killer.

THEY ALL LIE @MFA (2009) dir.

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THE LEGEND OF COOL “DISCO” DAN @MFA (2012) dir. Robert Gastman and Joseph Pattisalli Set in the 1980s this documentary chronicles the growing mystery around Washington D.C. graffitti artist Cool “Disco” Dan set against the backdrop of a crime riddled, city on the verge.

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by Wong Kar Wai @Kendall 9/6 - SALINGER (2013) dir Shane Salerno @Kendall 9/6 - TERRAFERMA (2011) dir Emanuele Crialese @Kendall 9/20 - MONEY FOR NOTHING : INSIDE THE FEDERAL RESERVE (2013) dir Jim Bruce @Coolidge

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LISTINGS NOTE Below is the theater abbreviation key: Brattle Theater - Brattle Harvard Film Archive - HFA Coolidge Corner Theater - Coolidge Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theater - Somerville Due to space limitations we can’t give you those sweet showtimes. Please see our sister website www.bostonhassle.com for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info.

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Brian Connolly NOTHING MATTRESS.COM Sunday 9/1 Get yer sick punk fix @O’Brien’s tonight with the infamous Ancient Filth, Varix (MN), (the return of?) The Epidemic, Cleansing Wave and The Outciders 8pm $7 21+ RECOMMENDED  Our awesome friends at Open Loop present a top notch show of an experimental nature: Pedestrian Deposit (long-running duo of Jonathan Borges [Emaciator] and Shannon Kennedy from California), Katze (Morgan Evans-Weiler and Noell Dorsey) and Corephallism @ Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Suburban Living, Infinity Girl and Polaroids @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8  Plus Sub Pop’s Supersuckers are playing in Providence @ Fete w/The McGunks, Hellbound Glory, Mighty Good Boys, Dog Day Afternoon 8pm All Ages $12 Monday 9/2 You got some sweet options tonight friends. Our badass noise sculpting friends THE DREEBS will be in town from Brooklyn to play with fellow freaks GUERILLA TOSS, Designer and Thighmaster @Charlie’s Kitchen thanks to Fast Apple 9pm 21+ $5 Get with it and be here The Series (the weekly instore performance) @Weirdo has Bob Vyllain 8pm All Ages Free Just down the road another weekly mainstay, Night Of The Living Deadhead, presents some alternative songwriting playas Wrong Shapes, Emerald Comets and Ryan Lee Crosby @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Or if you’re up for a nice drive, a fantastic psychedelic show awaits you @Feeding Tube Records with Richard Youngs, Magik Markers and Dredd Foole & Ben Chasny 9pm All Ages Free Tuesday 9/3 The Whitehaus Family Record continues it’s monthly night (first Tuesdays) @Midway Cafe w/Ray Brown (NYC), Doug Linse, Jonathan Donaldson, Julian Crocoma and Con Tex for a night of good tunes 9pm 21+ $5 Over in Allston Open Loop presents prolific musical mind Richard Youngs (UK), local greats Damon & Naomi and Mad Nanna (Australia) @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12 ◆ A radical sounding show @O’Brien’s has PowerSlut, Thrust Club, Atomic Savants and Rotating Strawberry Madonna going at it 8pm 21+ $8 Punk as fuck hang out/DJ night where you can be yer studded self: Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! @Ramrod (Downstairs) 10pm 21+ No Cover SVVIM is a dance night, they chose their DJs carefully. So, although they are still TBA you can be sure they will be bringing the house (and techno) down @Middlesex 9pm 21+ Free For you improv heads out there the NEC Jazz and Improv Studies Dept presents Opening Night curated by Eden MacAdam-Somer. The CI department opens the academic year with a faculty showcase, featuring performances by Ran Blake, Hankus Netsky, Anthony Coleman, Dominique Eade, Eden MacAdam-Somer, Jerry Leake, and many others @Brown Hall 8pm All Ages Free ◆ Plus there’s A 2 x 2 Reading of Poetry @Lorem Ipsum: Diana Arterian (LA), Janaka Stucky and Anna Deeny 7pm All Ages Free but bring ca$h for books.

Wednesday 9/4 Hey you! Know about your first Wednesdays! pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS are a crew of dudes who specialize in 60s/70s psychedelia as well as what’s currently going on in the Boston underground music scene. This is the night of the month where these two worlds collide @Middlesex. Live music guests sure to be determined, DJ sets sure to be awesome 10pm 21+ $3 This sick band Salted is in town from TX, playing their dark, woozy punk riffs with The Modern Voice and CGS @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $7 If you’re looking for a reason to check out the gnarly noise happening down in Providence, there’s a show worth going to tonight @Black Box (at AS220) with Finished (mems of Dead Air), Suicide Magnets, Hector 3, Aykroyd and Cottaging - a line up dense with fuzzy grooves and attitudes 9pm All Ages $5 or so probably.

Thursday 9/5 B. Mez members of legendary Boston band Birdsongs of the Mesozoic will be whiling out some Loop and electronics based improvisations with special guest, Ethiopian sax master Danny Mekonnen of Ethiopian funk masters DEBO Band @Outpost186 8pm All Ages Donate some dollas New night on the loose! - Circle Sky is beginning tonight and continuing on odd Thursdays @ The Lilypad For their first edition they got a mix of garage and indie rock and roll from Today Junior the The Rattlesnakes (Portland, ME) and Swym 10pm All Ages $5 Posi-pusher Jason Anderson will be spreading good vibes @Great Scott w/ New England strummers Bryan McPherson, Lenny Lashley’s Gang of One (Lenny from Darkbuster) 9pm 18+ $8 If you’re trying to get wild and dance in good vibes The Brain Trust presents Schlang (Live), Moduloktopus and Drunken Doja Monkey @Mid East (Down) 10:30pm 18+ $10 Friday 9/6 Some fierce rock shit @Jacques tonight. See Fur Purse, Whore Paint (Providence) Weather Weapon and Shepherdess kicking it off right at 9pm!

21+ Bring some bucks for the bands Saul Conrad, Mike Greensteen and Jim Hobbs’ Hoss And The High Lonesomes are @Video Underground (JP) All Ages Donate Garage rock mongers be aware, Reports and Halfsour play host to The Rudy Stoned Band (NY) @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 And WZBCs Flyweight presents Moontowers, Heliotropes, Ghost Modern and Sleep Studies plus DJ Rav of Flyweight & projections by Video Joe Turner! @TTs 8:30pm 18+ $10 – Saturday 9/7 Get outside! Go to the JP Music Festival @Pineback Field and enjoy an outdoor music festival with local bands and local sponsors! Noon-7 All Ages Free Later on in the evening go see Ho-Ags final show, going out with a bang - BIG DIGITS, PILE, Young Sexy Assassins and improvised interludes by Animal Hospital @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $10 HASSLE NIGHT @Lilypad Will be a FUNDRAISER for Boston Hassle’s Non-profit Application Fees. That’s right, those dudes are really making an All Ages space happen in Boston in the near future, help em go legit! Bong Wish (mems. of Fat Creeps) and Free Pizza are on deck to entice you to boogie down. BOSTON DIY 4EVA First Biennial Festival of Performance Art and Sound Art (Day 1) has Zachary Hofmann, Viktor Lois, Jeffu Warmouth, Ellen Wetmore, Karen Dolmanisth, Flandrew Fleisenberg, Walter Wright and Andrea Pensado, BUMPR and Evian Ziporyn doing some excellently mind altering performance for ya’ll @The Quarry out in Acton, MA All Ages 1-8pm $20 at the gate, $15 in advance and discount with Contemporary Arts International membership Plus Dave Crespo’s After Party, Strangers With Knives, Dylan Sevey & The Gentlemen (RI), Big Bad Bobby & The Shoehorns, Giantist, Milkbread(RI) @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $10

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Sunday 9/8 First Biennial Festival of Performance Art and Sound Art (Day 2) has a killer lineup of experimental performers such as Geoffrey Koetsch, Robert Saulnier, Jeff Huckleberry and Vela Phelan, Dei Xhrist/BiRdOrGaN, Reuben Son, Jed Speare/Tim Feeney/Ernst Karel and the powerful modular synth sorcerer Keith Fullerton-Whitman @The Quarry out in Acton, MA All Ages 1-8pm $20 at the gate, $15 in advance and discount with Contemporary Arts International membership Or a night of folk and rock and roll awaits you @Middle East (Upstairs) with Anjimile, Grey Season, Box of Birds, We Avalanche (heavily influenced by noise, pop and old-time) 9pm 18+ $8

Monday 9/9 Hey September 9th, why you gotta be so good to us? Enjoy a night of eclectic drone music @Store 54 featuring Date Palms (On Thrill Jockey from Oakland,) and their psychedelic/cowboy drone, Good Willsmith (Chicago) and our homie Caustic Rainbow doing his mighty minimalist drone 7pm All Ages $10 suggested donation at the door Across the street you will find Violet Machine, Plumerai, The Veldt, The Dying Falls and The Dazzling Dooms @O’Brien’s Pub 21+ Free For the scary garage rocker inside us all, look no further than Harvard Square cause Fast Apple has The Monsieurs and Miami Doritos @Charlies Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 For absolutely life changing odd pop mastery get weird with the nomadic Tracey Trance, his bud The Taterbug, Vermont king of za Joey Pizza Slice, his Boston counterpart Ronnie Nordac and our very oawn Arkm Foam @ Batty Batty Bathaus 8pm All Ages Donate If you’re a Central Square dweller you owe it to yourself to see what’s up on Mass Ave every Monday and we’re here to tell you that there are two must-check-outs: 1. The Series weekly in-store @Weirdo Records which features Peter Gumaskas this week 8pm All Ages Donate and 2. Night Of The Living Deadhead has the cosmic rockers Heavy Petals, James Maple and Samantha Harlow (Nashville) @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free!

Tuesday 9/10 Open Loop presents two Sacred Bones’ recording artists; first Pharmakon (NYC) bringing her industrial squelch a few hours north for the evening, and second Arizona’s Destruction Unit making plenty of noise with their rock instruments all on a noisy weird bill w/ Sewer Goddess, and the killer Ukiah Drag @O’Brien’s Pub 8:30pm 21+ $10 So you like listening to punk records and drinking, but don’t know where to do it in public? Don’t be an idiot: Punk’s Dead.

Long Live Punk! @Ramrod (Downstairs) 10pm 21+ No Cover West Coast indie rock mainstays Pinback, and Deathfix, a band of D.C. hc guys gone otherwise, are @Brighton Music Hall 9pm 18+ $20 Non Event presents sound explorer, sound scientist and composer Katarina Miljkovic @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5 Erica Azim performs the music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe on the ancient mbira, w/ South African ethnomusicologist Patricia Sandler @Pierce Hall (NEC) 4pm All Ages Wednesday 9/11 Allston Pudding presents British indie rockers The New Lights, Wilder Maker, Lay Duo, and one of our favorites Skinny Bones @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Violinist K Ishibashi is in town with his psych-chamber music ensemble Kishi Bashi w/ Elizabeth and the Catapult @Royale 8pm All Ages $15adv/$18dos Laugh it up with Union Square Round Table as they riff on Ted Talks and so on @Middlesex 8pm 21+ $ome cost Thursday 9/12 Let’s all thank The Brain Trust for bringing Planet Mu recording artist Chrissy Murderbott and his Chicago juke flavored electronic business to our zone w/ Sojobo (US premiere), Drunken Doja Monkey @Mid East Down 10:30pm 18+ $10 Joey Shithead & D.O.A. were there at the beginning of hardcore and they’re still fucking here, and they’re way more real than any band with Flag in it’s name w/ Disaster Strikes, Opposition Rising, The FU’s @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $15 Psychedelia infected pop is the name of the game when it comes to the long running and Spacemen 3 torch bearing, Spiritualized w/ Guy Blakeslee @Paradise 9pm 18+ $22 RnB soul revivalists doing it hard, and dirty, and right, that’s Black Joe Lewis. w/ Tallahasee @Royale 8pm 18+ $17adv/$20dos ◆ @Cantab Lounge catch languid dreamers So Sol, play with the Freeways, Jeff Beam and Moontowers 9pm 21+ $7 NEC Jazz & Improv dept present: Eden MacAdam-Somer Walking Between the Worlds. MacAdam-Somer is one of the most exciting and versatile young musicians performing today. In this concert, she uses her entire body as a sounding board, performing original works and re-compositions for solo performer, with guitarist and banjo player Larry Unger (her duo partner in Notorious), and students and faculty from the New England Conservatory @Jordan Hall 8pm All Ages Free Friday 9/13 Bodies of Water Shows has a hilariously sick show @Supper Club tonight, it’s the release show of Spooky Dangerfield (Billy Mcshane) and Sam Lisabeth’s (of Cult & Leper) split CD and they’ve got a bunch of nuts to share with you: Spooky Dangerfield’s Long Lost Revival Band (mems of C&L and Cowboy Band), Sam Lisabeth, Simon Says Smut and Colby of NE Pats doing his funny stuff be there and laugh with your friends. 8pm All Ages Bring a dozen donates Crash Safely is an annual multi-night event benefitting the National MS Society and Bike MS. Tonight is Night #1 w/ DJ/VJ Craig MacNeil (Videodrome Discotecque),The Upper Crust, John Powhida International Airport and Parlour Bells @Oberon (Cambridge) 8pm 18+ $15 Anjimile brings the indie pop for a show w/ Faux Farewell, Vital Sign @Jason’s Place 9pm All Ages $5 Sugg. Donation Hot and Call Me Doxy are @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $10 Resilient Bastard presents the furious guitar lead underground rock n roll spectacle that is New Jersey’s Screaming Females w/ Waxahatchee, Tenements, Fagettes @ Mid East Down 9pm 18+ $12adv/$14dos Post-rock duo El Ten Eleven let their groove hand out w/ Eliot Lipp @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $15 Experimental pop heroine (and yet another Sacred Bones artist) Zola Jesus has crawled out of the lo-fi ghetto and performs with recent album collaborator Foetus’ JG Thirlwell and the Mivos String Quartet @ICA Boston 7:30pm $20 All Ages Saturday 9/14 Boston Hassle & BOW Shows present a fiery sorceress of indie/ garage rock that has continually put out record after record of, at times scorching at others intimate, recordings. And you should know her name: Scout Niblett.

Fellow Drag City artists Dope Body (MD) bring the noise (rock) w/ the heady and psychedelic Residual Echoes (LA), and the furiously awesome Bugs And Rats @Cambridge Elks Lodge All Ages $ome Cost The Boston Festival of Indie Games celebrates independent game development in New England and neighboring regions, and tonight they augment their festival w/ a night of video game and chiptune music w/ Video Game Orchestra, DJ Cutman, Control Group, Darren Korb (Bastion), deadbeatblast @Middle East (Downstairs) 7pm 21+ $ome Cost Mad sound maker and noise magician Crank Sturgeon applies his wizardry to the basement w/ Hot Date, and Cave Bears, conjurer of a million larfs @SBC All Ages Donate Crash Safely continues with Night #2 featuring The Nickle & Dime Band, Township, The Duckbills (The Figgs), Mount Peru, Tsunami of Sound @Davis Sq. Theater 8:30pm 21+ $12 One of Boston’s great rock hopes are the fellows in Pile. Catch them in one of their layovers amidst their relentless touring schedule! w/ The Cattle Walk, Something Sneaky, Rye Pines @Uncle Ted’s Palace All Ages Free Boston pop rockers Soft Pyramids are having a record release tonight! Celebrate this w/ These Wild Plains, and Marconi a great band working the pop rock angle themselves @Radio 9pm (age restriction unlisted) $8 Lofty, nay, gargantuan Cleveland art punk legends Pere Ubu grace us with their strange magnetic presence armed with a deeeeep back catalog and recent controversy. w/ Gagarin @Brighton Music Hall 9pm 18+ $17

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by SAM GAS CAN Sunday 9/15 Matador Records’ Magical Cloudz are able to create their own sonic world with a minimal electronic backing track and a very up front vocalist.

Catch them now on their upward trajectory w/ Moon King, Kid Mountain @ Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Gloomy folk songstress Chelsea Wolfe teams up with churning, densely psychedelic Relapse artists True Widow for a heady evening of charming negativity @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $13 It’s time once again for one of Boston Hassle’s & B.O.W. Show’s signature events, the round robin style BOSTON UNDERGROUND SUMMIT 6. The sixth event in this ongoing series brings together a large handful of awesome and upcoming locals to play one song at a time, one after another, until everyone’s played. Then the process repeats until the evening is over. It’s a great and unique way to see a show. w/ Goat of Arms, Funeral Cone, Sleep Crimes, Secret Lover, Skinny Bones and more TBA @Elks Lodge 7pm All Ages $7-$10 sliding scale Japanese rockers The Wemmer are blasting into the US, and Pawtucket, Rhode Island is as close as they get to us w/ OSS, The Baylies Band, Weld Square, Patrick Simas @Machines With Magnets machineswithmagnets.com Legendary and ripping Providence political punks Dropdead stop into Boston again to tear it up. w/ Ruidosa Inmundicia, Coke Bust, Tinitus @Democracy Center 5pm All Ages $10 Monday 9/16 Montreal shoegaze popsters No Joy are going to be very loud w/ Alex Calder @TT the Bears 9pm 18+ $9 The Series shambles onward w/ Amherst Mystery Train Records/Frozen Corn picker Josh Burkett @Weirdo 8pm All Ages Donate Fast Apple keeps the gripping grunge going hard with Nashville’s Fancytramp and local punks Funeral Cone and Dungeoneers @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Non-Event presents experimental guitarist/cellist Charles Curtis @Goethe-Institut 8pm All Ages $15 ($12 for students) Big time Atlanta indie rock heroes Deerhunter venture to downtown Boston w/ guitar goddess Marnie Stern, and Mas Ysa @Royale 8pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos Comm Ave. is going to be all fuzzy and swirl after you get a dose of Portland, OR psych-heads Grails. w/ Wrekmeister Harmonies, Lilacs, & Champagne @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10/$12 Plus Night of the Living Deadhead has Adrian Emberley & Friends @ Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free.

Tuesday 9/17 Goddamn punks with their music and party lifestyle… Punk’s Dead.

Long Live Punk! @Ramrod (Downstairs) 10pm 21+ No Cover The psych-pop of Youth Lagoon makes is pretty weird and interesting for a band of their buzz level and popularity. Fat Possum knows how to pick em w/ Pure X @Sinclair 8pm 18+ $16adv/$18dos Catch JP psychedelic surf metal People Live Here, Hounds Basket (Brooklyn) and organ bass drums trio Manor play @Midway 8pm 21+ 5-10 sliding scale Wednesday 9/18 Terry Malts err on the early indie rock side of garage punk, setting them apart from their many amazing contemporaries in the contemporary San Francisco garage rock scene. Hear them live and in person @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $9 Thursday 9/19 The Brain Trust presents celebrated NYC turntablist DJ Shiftee, DJ Lay ZBoy, Drunken Doja Monkey @Middle East (Downstairs) 10:30pm 18+ $10 ◆ For some mellow country-fried strumming, enjoy the soothing sounds of Marc Pinansky, Dan Blakeslee and Jonah Tolchin @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5 Friday 9/20 Crash Safely continues on with Night #3 of their fundraisers for the National MS Society and Bike MS w/ Titanics, Cortin Ashley, The Unholy III, The Phil Aiken Army, Lenny Lashley’s Gang Of One @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $10  ◆ Quilt’s Shane Butler has an amazing psych-folk side project that he calls Olden Yolk. Somerville denizens, he’s sitting in your lap tonight w/ the like minded Lisa/ Liza who will make the trek down from Maine just for you, Acid Smoker, and Yohuna @Radio (Downstairs) 8pm 21+ $7 Bringing an upfront experimental approach to upright bass playing, Nat Baldwin is nothing short of a New England treasure. See what this member of the Dirty Projectors has up his solo sleeve w/ The Points North, Sophie Dickinson @msg notkatelee@gmail.com for address 9pm All Ages Donate Leedz Edutainment presents gangsta rap godfather Kool G Rap, alongside Wu Tang Clan associates Killarmy who are celebrating their reunion @Mid East Down 9pm 18+ $20 Smoke weed. 10 Ft. Ganja Plant (rec release), Destroy Babylon @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $17adv/$20dos Flag are one of two Black Flag related outfits currently on the touring circuit playing Black Flag hits and featuring legit alumni. They don’t have the rights to name Black Flag though (that’s what Greg Ginn calls his band play BF songs) , so simply Flag it is. With Keith Morris up front I’d have to choose this band over Ginn’s (even if they’re probably not going to play stuff from Damaged or beyond). But I think I’ll just listen to Damaged instead. w/ TSOL @The Paradise 8:30pm All Ages $30 Saturday 9/21 Grab a slice of Boston’s hardcore punk history with The FU’s still kicking it in with Kermit’s Finger, The Dimwits and Bad Sex @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 Adventurous listeners should open their ears to Open Sound, the premier purveyors of experimental and free improvisation in Boston. Tonight they host Garrison Fewell, Ricochet, Glynis Lomon/Yedidyah Syd Smart/Joan Green, Barbara Lieurance @Third Life Studio 8pm All Ages $8 MS Benefit bash Crash Safely comes to smashing close with some exuberant power pop courtesy of Sidewalk Driver, Gene Dante and the Future Starlets, My Worst Enemy, The I Want You, Cotton Candy @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $10 Get your belly aches in Gloucester tonight with the Pal Around Of The Century Comedy Show @Cape Ann Community Cinema All Ages $10 ◆ And in Providence RI, check out Random Gear Fest, in which Preggy Peggy (Ms. Sawyer of Weirdo Recs) and lots of other experimental freaks improvize on - you guessed it - a table of random gear.

Should be interesting @Dungeon C (Providence, RI) 8pm All Ages $ome cost.

Tuesday 9/24 Many other yet unforeseen shows will surely populate this evening, but for now rest assured you can get your nasty, scrappy fix with long-running DJ night Punk’s Dead, Long Live Punk! @Ramrod (Downstairs) 10pm 21+ No Cover And for the live punk experience tonight check out Strict Agnostics, supporting Dirty Fences (NY) with Boston garage pop babes FAT CREEPS! @ Roggies 9pm 18+ $5 Wednesday 9/25 Cambridge punk peddlers Painkiller Records celebrate their 10th birthday with a furious feast Hardcore rippers and dippers, including Hounds of Hate, Violent Reaction, No Tolerance, Waste Management, Mfp, Violent Future, and Prisoner Abuse @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7pm All Ages $10 Thursday 9/26 Cheap Seats - a bafflingly beautiful experiment in open-source performance organized by hyperactive Mr. Haygun - celebrates its tenth iteration with 20+ local artists of all shapes and sizes. Maybe you’ll be one of them? @Cambridge YMCA Theatre 7-10pm All Ages Donate For some slick dreamy pastoral pop, you’ll find a lot to like in Virginia’s Wild Nothing playing @Middle East (Downstairs) 7pm 18+ $15adv/$17dos Then afterwards catch a late night of psychedelic bass bumpers courtesy of Philly’s DJ Suga Shay with DJ Knife and Drunken Doka Monkey, hosted by The Brain Trust again @Middle East Downstairs 10:30pm 18+ $10 (Ladies free all night) Veteran Anglo-Dutch experimental pop act Legendary Pink Dots have been going strong since 1980, and they’re back in town with Colorado dream fuzzies Orbit Service and local synth duo Ruby Ridge @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $20 Friday 9/27 There’s lots of wild music for you to shake out those weekday blues, so take your pick. Those nasty noise boys in Designer scronk it up with Gondoliers, Squirty Worm, Crinkle Face @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7 Denmark’s Ice Cream Cathedral roll through with that too cool pensive synth pop; catch ‘em with like-minded locals Avoxblue, Lucretia’s Dagger @PA’s Lounge 9pm 21+ $10 Existence Establishment consistently blow us away with brutal power electr onics and dark industrial drones, and tonight will be no different with Migrations in Rust, As All Die and Goodbye Cruel World @Radio 9pm 21+ $8 Fenway Recording hosts Montreal’s ethereal electronic upcomers BRAIDS with DJ Carbo getting weird and wild @Middle East Upstairs 7pm 18+ $12 Get that warm fuzzy tingle with indie kiddies The Dodos and aquatic guitar looper Dustin Wong (formerly of Ponytail) @Paradise 9pm 18+ $15 Much loved 80’s underground ‘college rock’ sensations The Feelies are back from the dead, finally playing (rescheduled from April) @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $20adv/$22dos Saturday 9/28 Trust in Non-Event to curate an evening of intelligent experimental music. Tonight they host Ebbs, a trio of open trumpet Brigit Ulher, analog electronic Ernst Karel and interactive animation-sound magician Bill Hsu, along with deconstructionist electronic composer Betsey Biggs @Goethe-Institut 8pm All Ages $10 Country-bred crooner Sean Hayes shares some positive vibes with San Francisco’s mellow The Blank Tapes @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $17adv/$20dos Fans of dubby jams with a certain psychedelic swirl would be wise to check out the UK’s Ott, playing with ‘psybient’ producer Bluetech and downtempo singer Anomie Belle, all thanks to the Brain Trust @Middle East Downstairs 9pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos NYC club-rap phenom LE1F gets those hips gyrating hard with Antwon, Lakutis @Brighton Music Hall 11:30pm 21+ $15 B.O.W. Shows presents Boston’s masters of grueling freak funk Guerilla Toss, Providence noisy sludge punks In Heat, and one more TBA @Video Underground (JP) 10pm All Ages $5-$10 sliding scale. Show is tentative - check in @ www.bowshows.org for updates.

Sunday 9/29 Over in Cambridge, catch industrious locals Guillermo Sexo play jumpy upbeat pop rock in support of their new record, along with noise rapper Boogie Boy Metal Mouth and Doze, hosted by Illegally Blind & Vanyaland @ Mid East Up 8pm 18+ $10 If hip-hop is your game, you’ll probably wanna catch Big Boi (of Outkast, duh) and fellow ATLien Killer Mike spit truth to power @ Paradise 8pm 18+ $25 Monday 9/30 If you missed him last Monday, catch multi-instrumentalist free improviser Howard Martin perform again (this time solo) for The Series @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages Donate Fuzzy garage lovers Fast Apple continues their (hopefully endless) residency @Charlie’s in Harvard Sq with prankster Kepi Ghoulie, sunny pop soothers Miss Chain Broken Heels and greasy pub punk locals Unnatural Axe 9pm 21+ $5 Night of the Living Deadhead get all dark and mysterious with slow burn ghouls Mooncusser and Northampton slinky synth pop weirdos Home Body @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Across the Charles, find Mississippi off-beat pop monger Dent May getting loose and silly with heavy fuzzballs Dead Gaze @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Or catch a whiff of Oakland with rockabilly punks Lecherous Gaze (ex-Annihilation Time), and Brainoil, along with sludgy doomers FORN @O’Brien’s 7pm 21+ $10 SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: BostonCCC@Gmail.com Submit art and support materials by the 20th of each month.

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Sunday 9/22 Come out to the Beehive, a new monthly mysterious mystical social event of cheering, jeering, and endearing interactions. Make some friends and experience something new @The Armory (Somerville) 8pm All Ages Donate Monday 9/23 You should never be bored on Mondays with all these three solid show series. Fast Apple is killing it as usual over in Cambridge w/ Providence’s wild bastards of noise rock Tinsel Teeth, Finished, plus 1 TBA @Charlie’s 9pm 21+ $5 Down Mass Ave catch another installment of The Series with some free improvisation courtesy of electronics wiz Michael Rosenstein and multi-instrumentalist Howard Martin @Weirdo 8pm All Ages Donate Deadhead keeps it mellow with Atlanta dream poppers Suno Deko and Tantrum with Audrey Ryan and Chris Robley @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free

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CELEBRITY INFORMATION

by TD Sidell HEY BACKWATERERS, The Tardy Eagle is produced by the Union Square Round Table, a comedy collective you can see places including the 2nd Wed. monthly at the Middlesex Lounge in Cambridge at 7:30p. This month, that falls on the 11th and we’re doing an unauthorized TED talk. c00l!

SEARCH RESULTS FOR “SAD” IN MY INBOX, PAGES 1-3

by Alex Feinstein

I was sad that day and he hoped I was ok Bon Jovi is sad About how sad I was that the summer is basically over already I love him as the chiropractor. When he put his chin on her shoulder.

Anyway it was pretty sad So this makes me sad Who’s sad about having a roommate now :/( That’s sad Pinocchio I started feeling really sad Horrified and sad for them This is a sad tale But also I would have delivered it with a similar sadness LIKE A SAD OLD TOMATO AFTER THE FROST Sad story: boo hoo hoo!

Not actually sad And then I realized it wasn’t my house and was just sad It makes me sad to think about so I don’t really And I was sad Which I am sad about You would be sad if I ate meat and I don’t think that would solve either of our problems Throat sad about that This game is sad And I felt sad Sad Sad And he would be sad

THIS MONTH

by Chris Braiotta

THE DUMBEST THING I MISHEARD OVER A PUBLIC ADDRESS SYSTEM THIS MONTH: MAYOR RIGATONI. WHAT WAS ACTUALLY SAID? Mayor Curtatone (Italians).

THE PETTIEST THING I THOUGHT THIS MONTH: “I WONDER HOW MANY OF MY FRIENDS I’LL HAVE TO WRITE OFF WHEN THEY DON’T COME TO MY BENEFIT CONCERT?”

WORST SANDWICH I ATE THIS MONTH: A BLT that was cooked all the way through, including the MAYO AND THE LETTUCE. WHAT? At lunch, ordered a BLT. After she finished making it, the lady asked me if I wanted it toasted. I said yes. I figured maybe she had a machine that could cook just the outside? She didn’t, because that doesn’t exist. I didn’t yell at her or anything. It’s a fucked up cooked lettuce world out there and all we have is our empathy for each other y’all.

DUMBEST RESTAURANT IDEA I HAD THIS MONTH: YARD OF CHOWDER. WHAT IS THAT? It’s a restaurant that serves a yard of ale, but instead of beer it’s thirty-six inches of gluey hot soup.

You have to finish it in one go. If you don’t, they’re disappointed and are bad at hiding it.

WHY DID I THINK IT? I got a call from my wife that our house was possibly on fire.

She was headed home to see whether our house was actually being on fire. I thought

by Caitlin Roy THING I SAID THAT GROSSED MY about what would happen if WIFE OUT THE MOST THIS MONTH: we lost all our belongings, I CAN’T WAIT UNTIL I’M SO OLD and this leapt to mind because you can’t let your THAT MY THING IS JUST LIKE A DRY OLD guard down. Postscript: our house was not on CRINKLY PIECE OF SCOTCH TAPE. fire. Apparently our smoke detectors mistake WHY DOES SHE LOVE ME STILL? She is a moisture for fire? lenient person.

THE MOST WARREN G. HARDING THING I DUMBEST REASON I DID DRUGS THIS BOUGHT THIS MONTH: A STRAW BOATER MONTH: I really just wanted a brownie and all (HAT). we had was medicinal pot brownies.

WHY DID I BUY IT? Had to stand out in the sun, DOES IT MAKE ME OLD THAT I SAY “POT” and last year I got my first top-of-head sunburn.

INSTEAD OF “W33D”? Yeah, probably.

Big brown dry patch on my harline. Felt like the Declaration of Independence. So now I look like fat Gatsby. The Great Fatsby.

NIETZSCHE’S GAY SCIENCE OF DATING

(OR HOW TO PICK UP YOUR SISTER IN 6 EASY STEPS):

by Angela Sawyer and/or Patrick Neil Bryant

God may be dead, but there’s no reason that your dating life should be too. And that’s where Friedrich Nietzsche can help. Nietzsche (or “Nietzsche” to his friends) is not usually read for his insight into sexuality. His own sexual experience was remarkably limited, and may well have consisted of only a few youthful visits to a whorehouse and a dalliance with his sister.

But what he lacked in sexual experience or morals, he made up for it with bravado. If you don’t believe in objective reality, then there is nothing to hold you back from procuring your object of affection. Just look the sexy confidence on display when Nietzsche asks, “Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman? And who can wholly comprehend how strange man and woman are to each other?” Just imagine all the bloomers and bustiers that became dripping wet when he said that.

It’s time to make your own new normal and do what makes you happy. So take some dating advice from a man whose childhood nickname was ‘the little preacher’, and who, again, likely fucked his sister.

(Noah Hart)

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PENN GILLETTE. Mr. Gillette had a really good season last year on Celebrity Apprentice All-Stars, making it all the way to the final, only to lose in the “Superbowl” of Trump Productions Shows to Trace Atkins. Penn’s first name reminds me of Penn State, which is bad, but his last name reminds me of Gillette Stadium where the Patriots play, so that is good. I look for Penn to build on his success from last year and have a terrific 2013.

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MALVIN BEYON-CESNEWHAIR. Beyon-Cesnewhair quoted the Grateful Dead’s “Terrapin Station” for his high school yearbook quote—a fact that did not go unnoticed in the Texas Tech A&M locker room his freshman season.

He was ridiculed so bad for being a Dead-loving candy-ass swing-troll that the only way to survive was to develop thick skin. Well, develop it he did, going on to be the Ragin’ Aggies all time leader in long snaps. It was no surprise the Blue Raiders took him in the 7th round as they envision him

TUNDE ADEBIMPE (Manhattan Ave., Just a regular afternoon) This dude is famous, but he’s lived in Brooklyn forever so he doesn’t really count. He is the dude from TV On The Radio (not the white one and not the mean one.) He really just walked by me on the street.

MICHAEL STIPE (Kitchen Gala Afterparty, El Capital) Michael Stipe has gotten fat--not in like a Chris Christie way but more like a just like an old dude fat way. I think that since he doesn’t do that weird dance from the “Losing My Religion” video anymore, he probably hasn’t kept up on his cardio. Anyway, everybody I know in New York says that seeing Michael Stipe is a pretty regular thing and that he is kind of annoying which stinks. Whatever, he was dressed alright but his teeth were WEIRD. THE GUY THAT JUST QUIT PORTRAYING DR. WHO (The Place I Work) When you are in the service industry, every now and then a famous person will come in to your place of employment. You may or may not give them free stuff--WELL, I IMPLORE YOU TO STOP DOING THIS. You might think that a celebrity, after receiving the $7 value that you have provided them, will whisk you away to their all-famous-people cronut party on their golden polo horse or what have you, but SORRY DUDES, THIS WILL NEVER HAPPEN. Giving famous people free things is like when a baseball player throws a foul ball to the kid in the front row. THAT KID COULD GET A MILLION BASEBALLS, JUST LIKE THAT FAMOUS PERSON GETS PAID LOTS OF MONEY FOR THEIR JOB AND COULD AFFORD A MILLION BUDWEISERS WHICH IS A DUMB THING FOR A FAMOUS PERSON TO DRINK. Also he left nothing on the bar--more like Time And Relative Dimension In Shitty Tipping, right?

helps one through many a dreadful night.

2. Musicians are always traveling, and their wives are always pretty, but lonely.

3. In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man.

4. If we live together with another person too closely, what happens is similar to when we repeatedly handle a good engraving with our bare hands: one day all we have left is a piece of dirty paper.

5. It is the most sensual men who find it necessary to avoid women and to torture their bodies.

But I, I want to have fences around my thoughts and even around my words, lest swine and swooners break into my beautiful, lush garden! I conclude: stay away from Methodists.

6. You remind me of my sister.

1. The thought of suicide is a powerful comfort: it

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ICKABOD RUNDLETON. Coming off a rather uninspired 2012 season where he literally could not find his way out of the Atlantic Falcons practice facility, Rundleton looks to build upon his experience from last year. “At first I thought they were joking”, the 6’ 2” wide receiver out of Akron noted, “but none of the doors were clearly marked as EXIT. I didn’t wanna take any chances man, like, you know, like open a door only to step out into a vortex, or have an army of raccoons mad with rabies come dashing at me. I mean, you never know what could be out there. I played it safe, and if that meant living inside the practice facility, that’s exactly what I’d do. I was never late for practice and Coach Dondelilo looooved that!”

In case you forgot, TD Sidell moved to NEW YORK CITY and therefore has seen many celebrities. He figured that you guys were sick of trading stories about seeing Dennis Lehane returning a Zipcar or Alan Dershowitz hanging his sock garters to dry or whatever and that he would ENRICH YOUR LIVES with some tales of all the amazing celebs he got to see with his own eyes RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIS FACE. This list should appear monthly or until all celebrities leave New York.

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tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com Q: I live in a shaky house. My roommates have been fucking so hard/ much that my speakers and their shelves fell off the wall. What do I do?

Keira: Infatuation is exciting, consuming, and basically makes you the worst roommate EVER. Take your breakables off the shelves and get a white noise machine. I think it will pass, or at least calm down a bit. If it doesn’t, you’ll have to find a way to say “hey, stop sexing so hard.”

Ryan: everything...it’s all just another hollow experience after another. and then another. and it’s all sex and killing time. and killing time for what? killing time to just kill time.

Q: What is up with the T? Keira: Take a deep breath and choose to believe there’s hope. That there really is an empty train right behind this one. (But know the reason that one car is not crowded is because the air conditioning is broken.)

Ryan: this song i’m listening to just said “I-69 in 2002.” i had a car break down on 1-69 in.... 2006. nevermind, that’s not a story at all. i spent a night in a junkyard run by these monster car freaks in fremont indiana.

Send your questions for Keira & Ryan to tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com.

by Louie Berceli

The Boston Hassle Brief Recent band profiles from www.bostonhassle.com

Missing Monuments MISSING MONUMENTS Dirtnap Records 2013

MISSING MONUMENTS are back! MISSING MONUMENTS ARE BACK! Led by Louisiana legend KING LOUIE, this band is responsible for writing the most seriously infectious power pop n roll shit and this new album is absolutely no exception. You should be listening to this in your old shitty car, whilst lighting off fireworks, or drinking Night Train. It certainly sounds southern somehow, although not in a Skynyrd sort of way, I just can’t imagine this coming from anywhere but the land of bayous. The bubbly straightforward tracks on this are my favorite but the slowed down stuff is incredible too. Go ahead and make one more pair of cutoff shorts this summer, buy this album, and keep your fingers crossed that they’ll come to Boston when they tour this spring. Out on DIRTNAP on CD and available for digital download currently, on vinyl soon.

- Christine Moore

Eric Copeland JOKE IN THE HOLE DFA Records 2013

ERIC COPELAND is one twisted, groove loving weirdo. Having already given one of his album’s my favorite album title of all time (ALIEN IN A GARBAGE DUMP), and having been a major part of album after album of music landscape altering noise and electronic music hi-jinx with BLACK DICE, what more can be asked of the man?

His solo records have taken us on crazy rides through noise speckled electronic pop crud, pop flecked black holes of noise, and even doo-wop flavored art damaged songs. He cuts his music making material up, stretches it out, submerges it in mysterious fluids and then lets that shit dry out in the sun. I can very honestly say that the music that he makes as a solo performer and with BLACK DICE has greatly changed my purview of music in general, opening up doors into deep deep musical realms that I was either oblivious to or unable to find my way properly to before inserting their musical data into my noggin. I’m always psyched to hear what ERIC COPELAND will do next, because I’ve come to trust that he’s going to make art. He’s going to be engaged in the process of making interesting music, whatever the seed approach may be.

And here in mid-2013 that brings us to JOKE IN THE HOLE, Eric’s new record recently released

by DFA RECORDS. A song like “Grapes” is just about as eccentric as serious groove music can get.

Psychedelic collage funk sounds horrible but it works. When this jam hits that fried bass breakdown at around 3:10, I’m like, “What?!” And that is truly the overall feeling of this entire affair. This is strange, magical music, experimental and hypnotic, and legitimately worthy of some alien dance floor. For these reasons I think this record will find itself a sizeable audience in these times of the American noise underground turning itself inside out as a new and exciting kind of American electronic dance music underground. I mean, this is the kind of music I would be hoping to hear if I stumbled upon some underground dance party. One of my favs of the year for real.

- Dan Shea

Street Gnar THE SHRINE EP

Atelier Ciseaux 2013

The gifted popster behind Street Gnar has spent some time living up this way, but is usually found brewing his sweet stuff in the great city of Lexington, KY. I first fell in love with Street Gnar while on tour, spending hours on end burning up highways and trying to let my mind pass the time rather than the clock. His music does just that: it takes you out of the rigid reality of life and gives you a pleasant glimpse into a world where everything is chill. Pretty, whirling synth tones and gentle guitar progressions take you down familiar roads, but somehow offer a whole new view. The tunes are fluid and they flow so naturally, track-by-track and throughout each album, that you forget they’re propelled by a drum machine. Gnar’s is an elixir so sweet that it’s easy to get hooked on the stuff, and the new Shrine EP possesses all the same qualities that made his previous three records so drinkable. What you get is repetitive, retro’d and refried pop tunes that vary between upbeat beachy rock jams and introspective dreamy chillers--both of which I have a wooden leg for. There’s a mysteriously psychedelic feel to Street Gnar’s music. It’s not overtly tripped-out, but it’s definitely trancey enough to get you out there. The dude is using the same old stuff, but has somehow come up with something that you can’t get anywhere else, and so help me--I’m addicted. The Shrine EP is out October 1 on limited edition vinyl via Paris label Atelier Ciseaux. Take a sip.

-Sam Potrykus

At one point while chilling with Shawnie to prep for this piece, he starts naming fans, counting them off on one hand. To drive his point home, he pops in a DVD of a UMass Boston show from the early days. Most bands will find the scene familiar - there’s Bugs and Rats playing their asses off to a handful of indifferent randos, Kellzo in particular playing drums with the intensity of a short distance runner 10 meters from the finish line. Along with Shawnie (guitar/vox) and Radek (bass), Bugs and Rats toughed it out like this for eight years. Clearly things have changed in the past two.

I first caught them at last year’s Homegrown. The Dreebs had been stirring up a droney mist so thick you could choke, the whole Elk’s basement swollen to the brink with apocalyptic dampness. You couldn’t have contrasted a better band. Literally the second their set ended, Bugs and Rats blasted from the opposite stage, Shawnie screeching like he’d taken a beaker of acid to the face, puncturing the nightmarish ambience with urgent physical rawness.

Ever since Kellzo left Boston for Philly, the distance seems to have factored as heavily as anything into their desolately minimal approach. “We write like the minute before we record. There’s no time to really work shit out,” explains Shawnie (guitar/vox). Their entire creative process, from rehearsal to recording happens in the space of the few afternoons the band is able to meet throughout the year.

In addition to playing drums, Kellzo engineers and produces every record, crafting a unique sound for each while following Shawnie’s simple directive of “make my car mirrors shake.” Whereas Get That Fucking Light Out Of My Face contrasted jangley guitars with cavernous drums and bass, demos for the next full length point toward a turn for the surf (if surfing the wake of a spilt garbarge island in January is your thing, that is). And get this; at least a couple tunes will feature vocals by Kassie of G Toss, fans of whom may appreciate the album’s working title Mark Johnson. Make no mistake, Shawnie would have you take it as a genuine tribute; “Mark’s always like ‘you gotta do it man, if you don’t see other people doing it, you gotta do it.’”

Read the rest @ bostonhassle.com!

Gun Outfit

HARD COMING DOWN Ppm Records 2013

Even in the extremely fertile Olympia DIY scene, Gun Outfit have managed to stand out. After Milk Music, they are the band that has garnered the most national attention, and deservedly so. Gun Outfit seem to have mastered the organic and fluid instrumental interplay that can only come from hours upon hours of basement jamming and should make musicians of any genre jealous. Though the songs rarely pass midtempo and are filled with relatively lengthy instrumental passages, Hard Coming Down is still intense, taut, and attention-grabbing. The album is divided between slow-burners (a format that Gun Outfit has all but mastered) and more speedy, yet still somehow laconic (in the Young-esque way) tunes, with a male and a female vocalist trading songs, and sometimes verses within songs. Despite the rather lofty pretensions that can accompany rather “affecting” music like this, Gun Outfit exist solely as a rock n’ roll band that have stumbled upon something meaningful and pure. The warm and slightly distorted guitars churn and effortlessly play intertwining melodies while the excellent rhythm section keeps the songs moving forward rhythmically and harmonically, all functioning as a perfectly tuned yet remarkably organic unit. Though Gun Outfit’s sound is certainly their own and is a bit hard to place, it reminds me of a mellowed out early Dinosaur Jr., Up On The Sun-era Meat Puppets, Milk Music, Neil Young, and the more “low-key” (whatever that means) strains of post-punk, garage, and psych; something along the lines of Michael Yonkers Band, Dead Moon’s dark garage, or maybe a pinch of Sonic Youth’s more melodic tunes; with all of the aforementioned filtered through a folk music lens.

Pick it up from PPM Records.

- Greg Witz

Speed Ortiz MAJOR ARCANA Carpark Recs 2013

Speedy Ortiz’s new album MAJOR ARCANA is not a straightforward album of immediately catchy hits. With frequent tempo changes and opaquely poetic lyrics, these songs do not immediately lend themselves to heavy head-bopping. Repeated listenings however, reveal a treasure trove of indelible melodies that rip into the heart with an endearing, supercharged spirit. This rocking 4-piece, led by singer Sadie Dupuis, channel the angsty urgency and guttural grunge grooves characteristic of mid 90’s ‘college rock’ (the album is produced by Justin Pizzoferrato, who worked with Dinosaur Jr. and Chelsea Light Moving), but jarring, angular sound, complex compositions and Dupuis’ charming, gravely voice clearly distinguish them from their alt-rock forefathers. Jagged, angular guitar riffs snarl and bite with a muted viciousness that is only occasionally let off its leash, while as a burly yet sullen bass thumps along to steady, forceful drums. Yet Dupuis’ singing stands out as the star of the record. Cuttingly insightful lyrics about personal isolation, disappointment and disturbing specters carry a sombre, melancholic tone throughout the album. The songs often oscillate between icy cool and a restrained, hesitant exuberance punctuated by noisy breakdowns and soaring solos that never stray too far. But this is no downer album - the songs jump forth with a hard hitting, vigorous energy, and Dupuis’ robust, varied delivery adds a searing emotional depth that can’t be shrugged off. Although this record may initially seem a bit off-putting, the intriguing off kilter melodies and elaborate lyrics will slowly seep into your unconscious, disturbing your thoughts, demanding to be explored but never fully unravelled - like a sphinxian riddle or a dark haired beauty with a perplexing glimmer in their cloudy eye.

-Chris Collins

On September 28, 1829 Bostonian David Walker published the Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World. The Appeal condemns slavery as immoral and barbaric, and calls for immediate abolition. Historian Herbet Aptheker heralds the Appeal as “the first sustained written assault upon slavery and racism to come from a black man in the United States.”

Walker, a devout Christian, charges the white Christian establishment with hypocrisy for supporting a de-humanizing fundamentally unchristian system, and demands repentance. He denounces the American Colonization Society’s plan to re-locate American free blacks to a new colony in West Africa, which was championed by Thomas Jefferson and other leaders, as a guise with the true intent of distancing potentially incendiary free blacks from the ignorant enslaved. Most urgently Walker appeals to his “afflicted and slumbering brethren” to “remember your freedom is your natural right,” and to assert “you are men as well as they.”

Walker owned and operated a used clothing store near Faneuil Hall where he sewed copies of the Appeal into the linings of garments, which were worn by traveling agents into the slave slates. There the pamphlets were covertly distributed and read aloud to the primarily illiterate slave population. The Appeal was threatening to slaveholders who feared slave resistance and uprising. Walker’s agents faced harsh penalties for possession of the Appeal in slave states, including in Louisiana life imprisonment or death. Likewise Walker became a marked man in Boston with Georgia offering a $10,000 bounty for his capture. Walker’s death the following year is attributed in public record to “consumption” from tuberculosis, a common public health problem at the time, however there is speculation that anti-abolitionist conspirators poisoned him for his radical literature.

Walker catapulted the Abolitionist movement that eventually achieved emancipation in 1863. His impassioned prose has informed and inspired African-American leaders such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Malcom X, and today’s Dr. Cornel West who honors the Appeal as “the most powerful theological critique of slavery from the black Christian tradition.”

HorskyProjects.com PIERS PARK, EAST BOSTON WATERFRONT September is closing time for summer. But we’re still talking about the vast majority of this month falling into the summer weather category so as far as I’m concerned, it’s still summer! So, one more summery thing to do before Fall has us fully in it’s wonderful clutches. Go to East Boston. A directive sure to cause most Boston area residents, long-time or brand new, to pause. East Boston is exotic, or something like that. You must take the Blue Line train, surely Boston’s most mysterious (and shitty). Then what? Eat Italian or Latino food, that’s what! Or go to the airport, but I digress. We’re talking about going to East Boston to hang out in East Boston.

And the gateway drug for any East Boston neophyte should be Piers Park, on Boston Harbor. Take that Blue Line to Maverick. Once in Maverick Square walk toward the waterfront. You’ll come upon the completed portion of the East Boston Greenway, also ripe for relaxing and exploring, and just beyond that Piers Park. The park is located just next to the Jeffries Point neighborhood, and it probably offers the best views of downtown Boston and the overall harbor. This park is unique in that the best part of it actually extends well into the harbor upon a large former pier. There are trees and historical information, and several small buildings all on just the pier portion of the park. You could hang here.

But do so soon, while the breeze is inviting!

- Dan Shea

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Virgo

Last month you were organizing sock drawers, this month you’re cleaning floors.

And vacuuming carpets. No spot is safe from you, neurotic virgo, antomize the deepest of your dwells. If green is in the eye of the beholder, then let jealousy be your match.

Turn those moments of desire and despair into inspirational situations of possibility. If your dandruff is coming back, show some midriff. with pride, use head and shoulders.

Libra

Libra’s are always pretty. You’re saggy pants always work and the socks you thought you left at mom’s house might turn up in your washing today. Get your nails done this month. You are nails this month, sheen of gold, shiny as the something. You’re number this month is one. One is the loneliest number. You’re the sign of the scales, both objectively and metaphorically. Have a measuring unit.

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