Compass #54 July 2014 by Boston Compass Newspaper

BOSTON, SUMMERIZED

Thank you for picking up Compass #54! If you are reading this it means you’re here; you’re present. It’s a good way to be, and if you’re present-ly reading this rag it means you’ve taken an interest in the vast cultural wonderland known as Greater Boston. Welcome. Summer is a very special time of the year in Boston, one that contains unique shifts in population, temperature, and community. Most of these changes are due largely the mass (Mass.) exodus of college students that have such an impact on our city throughout the fall and spring semesters. Only those who stick around all year (yes, YOU) can fully appreciate the transition. July is a time for celebration in Boston. Not just because the weather is optimal for unfettered human interaction

at nearly any hour, but because it is truly the only month that isn’t crazed by the academic year. It’s something that affects us all whether we like it or not, but in July, we can’t be bothered. No fleets of moving trucks, no finals, midterms, applications, or deadlines preventing us, or our friends, or our friends’ friends from experiencing nature and culture on a regular basis. We’re left with just our big beautiful city, full of the die-hard artists, organizers, and year-round inhabitants who make it so exceptional. There’s a definite change of pace around here in the summer months, so embrace it! To all of you reading the Compass in July, THANK YOU for staying true to Boston and making it as rad as it is. This one’s for you (and August too). - Sam Potrykus

ART BLAST........................................................PAGE 2

Arts Factor Report comes out, guns blazin’. We go to New Zineland.

FILM FLAM.......................................................PAGE 3

A Summer of Love: The French, Fritz Lang, and Body Horror

SHOWS.......................................................PAGES 4-5

Ryan Power/Cloud Becomes Your Hand Tour, ARKM Foam, WUME

THE TARDY EAGLE.........................................PAGE 6 Robert Smith, Innovation for the Elderly, Quack, puuuuuuuzzle

BOSTON HASSLE BRIEF.................................PAGE 7 The Channels, Obnox, Greg Kelley and Jason Lescalleet, Chrome

COMICS............................................................PAGE 8 The Bridgewater Triangle and a Fat Creeps-loving airplane

THE DEAD ARE LOOKING SO CHILL—Horror at the Coolidge

Meet Your Musical Neighbors at JP’s First Annual Porchfest!

FAT CREEPS Drop New LP and “Do Tour” with THE LENTILS

NORTHERN ROUTES NEW MUSIC FESTIVAL Digs into New England

The heat is on and many are already turning into sun zombies, all passed out on the docks and stuff. But now is the time to shake a leg (just make sure it doesn’t fall off) because the Coolidge Corner is planning a blowout, zombie film series in August. POSTMORTEM: A MIDNITE EXAMINATION OF THE MODERN ZOMBIE features the bone-crunching stylings of ZOMBIE (1979), 28 DAYS LATER… (2002), RE-ANIMATOR (1985), NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD (1968), and SHAUN OF THE DEAD (2004), all in pristine 35mm. You can get your pass to all 5 films for just $28. Check THE INTERNET for details. - Ari Shvartsman

Area heartthrobs FAT CREEPS drop their first Long Player this month via do-no-wrong label-of-record Sophomore Lounge. In celebration of this radical fact, or perhaps just in expression of pure fun and friendship (it’s summer now dude, get excited), the creeps will join VT think-alikes THE LENTILS (ex-Happy Jawbone) for a nice couplaweek tourski down the ol’ eastern coast (7/14-28). What more perfect merger of zoned-out rock and roll shamanism could you have summoned? Facebook-official title at press time is “Jet Funnies/Spiked Candy Tour 2002” and it’s a really funny joke that we don’t get to get. Figure it out. - Zach Peckham

This month Jamaica Plain introduces a new and long-awaited summer shindig to the hood, offering up its porches and hospitality for the first annual JP PORCHFEST! With its exceptionally green landscape and diverse population, JP is a first-rate location for a musical porch party. 50+ bands will jam on 30+ porches in a slew of genres, bringing locals together on the street. Folks can walk from genre-specific porches to mix ’n’ match jam porches tapping into nearly every musical variety. Inspired by the success of Somerville Porchfest this grassroots event will be held Saturday, July 19th Noon-4pm. Get out there! JPporchfest.org - Abby Ringiewicz

The air we breathe here in New England is loaded down with more histrionic magic than you can shake a dowsing rod at. And while the rest of our country’s got it going on too, there’s just something about HERE that’s damn special. NORTHERN ROUTES defends that golden truth, uniting some of our homezone’s most far-out psychophonic voyagers for three days of weird conjuring on the banks of the mighty Quabbin Reservoir. Behold Glenn Jones, Juan Waters, MV&EE, Zzones, Matt Krefting (and more!) chilling with ghosts in Turners Falls and New Salem, MA 7/31-8/2. 1794meetinghouse.org. - Zach Peckham

New Guerilla Toss Tape Emanates 7/15 via Infinity Cat

Keep your ears peeled next month for 367 EQUALIZER, the newest effort from Boston’s own psychedelic punk-funk maestros GUERILLA TOSS. It’s the second in a bi-monthly cassette series coming out of INFINITY CAT RECORDINGS,curated by Casey Weissbuch of DIARRHEA PLANET. The title track layers GTOSS’s characteristically chaotic, noisy guitar and high-pitched vocals over a relentless Latin-esque groove. If you’re not sure whether you want to dance, headbang, or trance out, this is the band for you! Don’t miss it when the tape drops July 15 via Nashville’s raddest DIY imprint. - Justin Campbell

Get to Worcester 7/15 to Show Candidates that Arts Matter

Yo! It’s time to rally! Quite literally. Massachusetts is getting a new governor come November and we need the candidates to recognize the role arts and culture can (and does) play into driving our economy and strengthening our community. Our guardian angels, MASS CREATIVE are makin’ it happen (as per usual) by hosting a GUBERNATORIAL FORUM ON ARTS, CULTURE AND CREATIVITY @The Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts in Worcester at 6pm on Tuesday, 7/15. If you can’t make it, check out www. MASS-Creative.org/CreateTheVote to get in the know. More details in our Art Blast calendar on page 2. - CEEK

Brown Rainbow Art Critique Sounds Cool, Also “Weird”

I’ve been pressing this idea into ears a little lately. An art group with a “lay critique.” Passive voice suggestions on mid-day terms with deeper-than-your-average thinkers. A holy place beyond scholar, & sweetheart. Maybe it’s about art, or maybe you’re free associating. Make a statement? Ask a question. Kinder than cool--weirder than school. Be free, freely! Free from free form... It’s free. Anything presentable is permissible. Bi-weekly on Sundays 12-3 PM @Smokey Da Bears Luke Jumes

Pretty Sound Advice: Please Don’t Text And Drive Friends!

It occurred to me while cruising at 60mph and simultaneously trying to share a cute text moment with my sweetheart that THIS SHIT CAN WAIT! It was an epiphanic moment, glancing back at my dear friends and tourmates asleep in the van, and considering the fact that I, as the driver, was responsible for their lives at that exact moment. Don’t get me wrong - the thought had crossed my mind before, but this time was the last time. I hereby pledge to no longer attempt texting while driving, not on tour, not ever. It’s silly and dangerous. Please consider this Compass PSA and stay safe out there! - Sam Potrykus

STARLABFEST V adds Film, Art, Comedy to All-Ages Music Fest Look around you. How did you get here? How did this paper get here? You probably didn’t get this rag by mistake. Someone put this paper in a bar, club, or cafe just so you YES ONLY YOU, YOU ARE SO VERY SPECIAL could pick it up and read it. Are you feeling present yet? Don’t you want to help spread that zen shit to those who know what the fuck is up in Boston? Without people distro-ing the Compass around town, you wouldn’t be so self-aware right now. Center yo’ self and email whateveremailwereusing@gmail.com for more details. - Harrison Bralower

Saturday, July 19 from 10AM to 9PM, Somerville’s Union Square will be abuzz with the happy glow of STARLABFEST 2014. An annual celebration now five years in the running, Starlabfest turns the ordinary parking lot of the old Starlab studio (@32 Prospect St--next to Union Square’s famous radiator farm!) into a steaming cauldron of musical goodness. This years acts include Blinders, Nice Guys, the Dazies (and 9 others), as well as comedy, short films and art at the NEW Starlab (@453 Somerville Ave) just a half-mile walk away. $10 entry gets you entry, free grilled eats (and veggie options), and don’t forget flea markets at both locations. ALL AGES. Starlabstudios.com - Jonathan Donaldson

ROSE PARRY

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA 6-9pm Drawing in the Galleries @MFA Every Wednesday 6pm/6:30pm/7:15pm TALK: The Diana Automation: A Self-Propelled Drinking Game @Gallery 144 6-7pm GALLERY TALK: D is for Design @Sharf Visitor Center 6:15-7:15pm TALK/TOUR: Highlights of the Museum Collections Every Wednesday

5-9pm DOWNTOWN LOWELL FIRST THURSDAYS @Downtown Lowell, MA // Monthly 6-9pm OPENING RECEPTION: Capture Fields: Yola Monakhov Stockton @Aviary 7/3-8/3 WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR OUR DREAMS @MOBIUS (CENTRAL SQ) Opening 7/4 7pm // On view 7/2-7/18 BYOP—bring your own pillows!! Mobius artist in resident KEVIN CLANCY will be hosting a two-week long nomadic slumber party this month. Extending beyond the gallery, this exhibition will ask upon a series of collaborators to make work around the idea of collective dreaming with an eye towards utopic visions. Stop in to see his 20’x20’ structure that functions as a blanket fort/tent/picnic blanket as it transforms over the duration his residence. On view through 7/18. www.Mobius.org -Caitie Moore

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DIY ART PARTY @CASA DE IRMA (WATERTOWN, MA) 7/13, 3-10pm Local artist NORA HAYDON opens her Watertown apartment to share some art and creative energy out in her neck o’ the woods. Explore the works of five varied Massachusett-based artists (MERK THOSE, DANNY DIAMOND, MARIA LACRETA, GREGORY RUBIN, and HAYDON herself) whose skills range from graffiti to mixed media, each with something different to say. Bring some friends to mix and mingle with a part of our creative community you might not already know and get inspired. You wanna have an art show? So have one. - CEEK

LAST DAY Arlene Shechet: Meissen Recast @RISD Museum (Providence) Now-7/6 FREE Every Sun 10am-5pm

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1pm WORKSHOP: Daytime Drawing Class @BPL (East Boston) Every Monday

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA 6pm/6:30pm/7:15pm TALK: “This I Accomplish,” Harriet Powers’ Pictorial Quilt @Gallery 237 6-7pm TALK/TOUR: She Sells Sea Shells: Commerce, Trade and Industry in Coastal New England @Sharf Visitor Center

6pm DISCUSSION: Collecting and Identity @MIT List Center (Central Sq)

12-4pm Family Day: Peculiar Portraits @MIT List Center (Central Sq)

1pm WORKSHOP: Daytime Drawing Class @BPL (East Boston) Every Monday

GUBERNATORIAL FORUM ON ARTS, CULTURE AND CREATIVITY @HANOVER THEATRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS (WORCESTER, MA) Reception 4:30pm // Forum 6-7:30pm CREATE THE VOTE puts our next Governor (and a bunch of losers) on the spot to discuss the future of arts and culture in Massachusetts. The expectation isn’t government handouts (although none will be turned down), but the hope that we can start utilizing wasted resources (i.e. vacant buildings) and putting them to use by the useful to better our community. Moderated by straight-shooter and Champion of the Arts JOYCE KULHAWIK, this is a chance to know what’s up and even get your two cents in there. If you are an MBTA pawn... no worries, there will be buses shuttling people to Worcester! RSVP at www.Mass-Creative.org/Forum and find out more. - CEEK

6:30pm WORKSHOP: Recycled-Bin Books @Boston Public Library (Uphams Corner)

OPENING: CONTAIN, KEEP, CRADLE @NAVE GALLERY Opening 7/10, 6-8pm // on view 7/12-7/27 CONTAIN, KEEP, CRADLE is a show that will make you think about and question beautiful details of life that most people overlook in their everyday lives. DENA HADEN, KATHERINE VETNE and LORETTA ADAMS work is mesmerizingly intricate. The works of these three artists string together like the veins in the human body. The art in this show is made from found objects such as latex glove fingertips, pasta and yarn in a way that mimics biology. www.NaveGallery.org - Adrienne Pizzo

FIRST FRIDAYS 5:30-7:30pm OPENING: Justin Kimball: Where We Find Ourselves @Carroll and Sons Gallery 5:30-8pm OPENING: Lynda Schlosberg: Zero Point Field @Kingston Gallery 7/2-7/27 6-9pm POP UP: Eleanor Aldrich @Find & Form 6-8pm OPENING: Maggie McCauley @Galatea Fine Art 6-8pm Alix Pearlstein @Samsøñ Now-7/26 6-8pm Roy Perkinson and Sarah Kahn @Soprafina Gallery

FREE FUN FRIDAYS

10am-5pm FREE Admission @Peabody Essex Museum (Salem, MA) 9am-9pm FREE Admission@JFK Library & Museum (Dorchester, MA) 10am-4pm FREE Admission @Fruitlands Museum (Harvard, MA)

GRAPHIC DESIGN: NOW IN PRODUCTION @ RISD MUSEUM (PROVIDENCE) Now-8/10 // FREE Sun. 10-5pm & 3rd Thursdays 5-9pm Design nerds rejoice! The RISD MUSEUM has caught the design bug and is celebrating design from the past fourteen years in their latest show GRAPHIC DESIGN: NOW IN PRODUCTION. Including an archive of magazines, newspapers, books and posters, branded-designer produced goods and unique typefaces. This show is wicked graphic to say the least. Take a trip down for some serious #designporn in your face. www.RISDmuseum.org - Caitie Moore

1pm WORKSHOP: Daytime Drawing Class @BPL (East Boston) Every Monday

FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA

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6-7pm TALK: Jamie Wyeth @Sharf Visitor Center

Ammo for the Arts! ArtsBOSTON’s 2014 ARTS FACTOR REPORT Did you know that Boston has more arts and cultural organizations per capita than any other metropolis in the states? Neither did we. But at the rate of 50 organizations for every 100,000 citizens, our city beats out the likes of New York City, Chicago and LA. That’s just one of the many surprising statistics presented by ArtsBOSTON in their new initiative, THE ARTS FACTOR. The team at ArtsBoston has been collecting and analyzing data that examines how cultural organizations contribute to and enhance our city’s economy. The result is an impressive argument, organized into their 2014 ARTS FACTOR REPORT. With last month’s proposed budget cutbacks to the arts and cultural sector, the Arts Factor project is a vital resource for local non-profits who could really flourish with state funding. The report, broken into four key messages (identity, vitality, innovation and transformation), shows how the state can, in turn, profit from advocating for the arts. These organizations buoy our economy by creating jobs, encouraging tourism, promoting local businesses and engaging the community. The report is especially relevant to the upcoming Gubernatorial Forum on Arts, Culture and Creativity, scheduled to take place in Worcester on 7/15. Hosted by Create the Vote, the forum will provide an opportunity for the 2014 state governor candidates to discuss their plans to support MA’s arts and cultural programs. We hope to see you there! www.ArtsBoston.org - Scout Hutchinson

NEW ZINELAND

6-9pm CLOSING RECEPTION: Capture Fields: Yola Monakhov Stockton @Aviary 7/3-8/3

FREE FUN FRIDAYS 7am-4pm FREE Admission @Arnold Arboretum (JP) 10am-3pm FREE Admission @Cape Cod Museum of Art (Dennis, MA)

FIGMENT @ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY 7/13, 3-10pm Art meets performance meets science. FIGMENT is an international, interactive art fair coming to Boston for the fifth year. Over two days, artists share and collaborate with the public everything from knitting to performance art right out in the open. Come to FIGMENT if you’d like to see some amazing projects, play some wacky games, watch some live social transformation! Visit Boston.FigmentProject.org/Event_Details to find out more. - Dana Maple

Sergei Tcherepnin Exhibit 15 OPENS 30 FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA @MIT List (Central Sq) 7/15-10/19 6-7pm GALLERY TALK/TOUR: The Creative Process in Modern Japanese Printmaking 16 FREE AFTER 4 WEDNESDAYS @MFA

17 OPENS Adam John Manley: Staying Put @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) 7/11-9/6 7-11pm OPENING RECEPTION: Janky Donuts @Lot F Gallery (Downtown) 7/11-8/28

FESTIVAL Festival Betances @Plaza Betances (South End) 7/18-7/20

The AMADEUS kids have got one foot on each coast as they bring forth choice words, images, ideas, and inspiration from The Inspired, and they’re laying it out in zine form. The sequel to their new quarterly magazine (of the same name) is coming out later this month and it’s gonna be siiiick. Back in March, they released Issue #01 which is almost 40 pages you’ll want to revisit again and again. The artwork and pics alone make this a go-to for perusal, while the conversations and features will engross you with stories of insight and influence in the creative process. Needless to say, we’re pretty stoked for ISSUE #02 featuring creativity catalysts along the lines of... GIANNI ARONE, DANA WOULFE, WILL WILSON, WITCHORIA, L.A. WITCH, TSONS OF TSUNAMI, EMILY LUBANKO, HELEN POPINCHALK, MORGAN GRENIER, KEELY MURPHY, KELLY RULE, MATT ZAREMBA and KATE MITCHELL. On 7/26, they’ll be unleashing all this goodness with an affair to remember @Lilypad in Inman Square, 7/26, 7-10pm with Tsons of Tsunami there to stimulate your auditory glands. Make sure to grab your own copy of Amadeus #02 for $10 a pop. It’s worth it. www.Amadeus.com - CEEK

Lil Nugs of Knowledge

OPENS Jamie Wyeth Exhibit 6pm/6:30pm/7:15pm TALK: A Modern Portrait: Van Gogh’s “Postman Joseph Roulin” @Gallery 255 6-7pm TALK: Samba Spirit: Modern Afro Brazilian Art @Sharf Visitor Center

OPENS Folk @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) 7/17-8/30

10am-10pm Revere Beach National Sand Sculpting Festival @Revere Beach 7/18-7/20 6-10pm FESTIVAL: ArtBeat: Somerville Arts Festival @Davis Square 7/18 & 7/19 FESTIVAL Festival Betances @Plaza Betances (South End) 7/18-7/20

FREE FUN FRIDAYS 9am-5pm FREE Admission @Mass Audubon’s Boston Nature Center (Mattapan, MA) 9:30-5pm FREE Admission @Sandwich Glass Museum (Sandwich, MA) 10am-4pm FREE Admission @Ocean Explorium (New Bedford, MA) 10am-9:45pm FREE Admission @MFA times vary FREE Admission @Springfield Museums (Springfield, MA)

11am-6pm FESTIVAL: ArtBeat: Somerville Arts Festival @Davis Square 11am-afternoon INTERACTIVE ART: Pickwick Independent Press Event @Congress Square Park (Portland, ME) 2pm CURATORIAL TOUR: Sergei Tcherepnin @MIT List Center (Central Sq) 7/15-10/19 FESTIVAL Festival Betances @Plaza Betances (South End) 7/18-7/20

@Sharf Visitor Center 6-7pm GALLERY TALK: Genius of Rickenbacker: Early Electric Instruments @Musical Instruments Gallery 103 (MFA)

Chosen Art Listings Now-7/7 Engendered @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) Now-7/13 9 Artists @MIT List Center (Central Sq) Now-7/13 Ross Gronvold, Solei, and Heather Macali @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) Now-7/19 Rob Roy: American Road @Hallspace (Dorchester) Now-7/19 Bjorn Schulke @Burlington City Arts (Burlington, VT) Now-7/26 Hannah Burr: Stand In & Gail // Samuelson: Fluid Terrain @555 Gallery (South Boston) Now-7/27 Bradford Rusick: Joyland @Voltage Coffee & Art (Kendall Sq) Now-8/2 Zine Show @Lincoln Arts Project (Waltham, MA) Now-8/2 Rituals: Artwork by TJ Kelley III @Lincoln Arts Project (Waltham, MA) Now-8/13 A Brief Stay: Print & Paper Show @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Now-8/14 Nathan Miner: The Long Now @Montserrat Gallery (Beverly, MA) Now-8/31 David Buckley Borden: Wild West @Bodega (Back Bay) Now-9/1 Jim Hodges: Take More Than You Give @ICA FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm Now-9/5 Katie Bell: Face Off @Space Gallery (Portland, ME) Now-11/2 Ragnar Kjartansson: The Visitor @ICA FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm

BOSTON CYBERARTS premieres CYBER CINEMA, an online cornucopia of new media art related videos to educate and stimulate ya! www.MovieMeetingHouse. # com/neighborhood/112 Shake a leg (and bring some dough) to Lower Allston on Saturday, 7/19 to scour thru a vintage and vinyl paradise from 10am-4pm. Wardrobe stylist/vintage collectors/record collector TAG SALE w/ tarot card readings by visionary vixen CARMEN O’CONNER @11 Kinglsey St (Lower Allston) Inman Square’s volunteer-run, self publication preservation powerhouse PAPERCUT ZINE LIBRARY faces homelessness! Read the facts in our new column PURE IMPACT’s Call to Action on page 7 of this here rag. ART APP BOSTON+ and ARTMORPHEUS take us on a tour of the faces and spaces defining creativity in Fort Point. Meet up at the Fort Point Art Community Gallery @300 Summer Street (South Boston) on 7/13 at 2:45pm $10adv/$15door Grab your floaties and surf the Blue Line out to the REVERE BEACH NATIONAL SAND SCULPTING FESTIVAL to soak up some sun and scope the seriously skilled out there giving form to the seemingly formless. 7/18-7/20, 10am-10pm. Word is that DEREK HOFFEND is curating the next show at the DISTILLERY GALLERY late this month with sound sculpture and multimedia work by VIC RAWLINGS, JASON SANFORD (Neptunes) and himself. Stay tuned to the www.DistilleryGallery.com for exact dates. Looking for a sweet, new release? Pack your needles and head on down to the Boston Public Library in Jamaica Plain every single Thursday from 6:30-8pm and complete the KNITTING CIRCLE.

FEATURED FILM SERIES

THE 19TH ANNU AL BOST ON FREN CH FILM FEST IVAL

@ M FA 7/ 1 0 7/ 2 7 FEATURED CIN-EVENT 12th ANNUAL TRAILER SMACKDOWN 7/17 @BRATTLE Finally, a reason to buy your popcorn before the previews. The Brattle elevates the oft-maligned, movie-marketing clip to an art form unto itself. Honestly, how often should a shitty movie have just remained the kickass trailer it was no doubt conceived as? (I’m looking at you, SNAKES ON A PLANE). Aspiring filmmakers will be given nothing more

THE 19th ANNUAL BOSTON FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL 7/10 - 7/27 @MFA Vive la France! Not only do our Frankish friends on the other side of the Atlantic have great cuisine, nude beaches, the Louvre, openly adulterous politicians, and robot DJs, but they continue to make one cinematic treasure after another. The tradition ensues as the best of France’s modern filmmaking industry will be shown at the Museum of Fine Arts all through Juillet. Some of the highlights include MOOD INDIGO, a romcom from the visually arresting Michel Gondry, AYA OF YOP CITY, a vividly animated story told during the 1970s in the Ivory Coast, and A SUMMER’S TALE, a 1996 classic crafted by a legend of the French New Wave, Eric Rohmer. Of course, that’s only a taste, and like fine French wine the entire festival deserves to be sampled by those who want to indulge their filmic palate. So don your berets and come on down. - Pablo Torroella

than a title (this year’s: THE LIBRARIAN) and a few, self-selected parameters as they construct full-fledged trailers from scratch. Submissions will be screened in competition at the annual Trailer Treats BBQ, along with a slew of other weird, obscure, and otherwise memorable movie previews. Want to enter the smackdown? Register online for $10 at BrattleFilm.org by 7/4. - Jon Meyer

With their monthly screenings of low quality film we love to hate, Trash Night Video hosts a hell of show. We’re deep in the middle of their CYBER SUMMER, so let’s get wavy and watch a cyborg dog do stuff.

http://www.bostonviewfinder.com

the Weimar Republic, he fans the flames of stock market speculation, currency devaluation, and moral decadence. Lang is not interested in power so much as the forms it takes, and he draws upon all the available tools of cinema to conduct his perilous examination. Lang would eventually direct two more Mabuse films (1932’s THE TESTAMENT OF DR. MABUSE and 1960’s THE THOUSAND EYES OF DR. MABUSE), and the trilogy as a whole offers an unsurpassed view of the twentieth century as seen through its primary symbols and anxieties. - Max Goldberg

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE SCANNERS (1981) dir. DAVID CRONENBERG 7/11 & 7/12 at 11:59pm, @COOLIDGE The late 70s and early 80s were a magical time for genre films. Special effects had really come into their own and nothing was digital yet! The film industry was at a place where mavericks could still run free. Romero, Coppola, Friedkin, Dante, Lynch, Carpenter, Cameron, Waters, Spheeris, Cohen, Hill, De Palma, Ashby, Argento, Cox, Scorsese, etc.; in and out of the system, these directors did their thing, their way. Of all the wonderful directors to have worked through that period of time making Psychotronic pictures, only one has remained regularly active and consistently great to this day. That director is David Cronenberg. His 1981 cerebral sci-fi shocker SCANNERS has a midnight screening this month at the Coolidge. It may not be his best film, but it would easily be the best film of many

lesser directors. SCANNERS is the first Cronenberg film where you can feel the director gaining complete control of the queasy, otherworldly environment that he creates on film. Michael Ironside is menacing as Darryl Revok (one of the great villain names), a very powerful mutant “scanner.” Scanners have the ability to make people’s heads explode via telepathy (it’s better if I avoid the full explanation). Is there a better environment to see this film in than in a place like the Coolidge @ midnight? The answer is no, my friend. Will Mayo and I love this movie so much that we even named our monthly underground, electronic night after it. Check it out sometime: (7/2) SCANNERS @SBC w/ Jerome (of Lazy Magnet fame), Impersonator, DJ Won’t and hopefully at (8/1) SCANNERS w/ Container @CLUBBOHEMIA (a.k.a. the basement of Central’s Cantab Lounge). - Dan Shea

JAWS (1975) dir. STEVEN SPIELBERG @BRATTLE The best summer movie ever made is a New England treasure. And, at its heart, it’s a story about friendship. So grab a Narragansett and hop on board the Orca with your pals Brody, Quint, Hooper, and everyone’s favorite man-eating shark. Also screens on 7/3.

BOSTON VIEWFINDER DR. MABUSE, THE GAMBLER (1922) @Brattle dir. FRITZ LANG 7/27 - 5PM, @HFA Fritz Lang’s visionary silent epic introduces his single most enduring emblem of modernity: the criminal mastermind Mabuse, whose total control over time and space makes him a harbinger of totalitarianism as well as a dark twin of the film director. The character is first seen shuffling a set of cards displaying his many disguises, ingenious costumes that allow him to slip by unnoticed as, apropos concurrent events then overtaking

TRASH NIGHT PRESENTS: CYBERMUTT (2003) dir. GEORGE MILLER @BRATTLE

SNOWPIERCER (2013) dir. JOON-HO BONG @BRATTLE Crippling social inequality glides along on a high speed train in Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s sci-fi actioner, where a huge international cast are stuck together and class divisions are falling apart at the seams. All aboard! Screens through 7/10.

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BED AND SOFA (1927) dir. ABRAM ROOM @THE SPACE This silent film was deemed controversial by the Soviets – too much focus on relationships instead of the State and Party. A woman caught between a sour marriage and an affair that sours quickly. Live piano accompaniment courtesy of HFA veteran & composer Yakov Gubanov.

MOOD INDIGO (2013) dir. MICHEL GONDRY @MFA Tatou and Duris star as a young couple, living in a charmingly surreal Paris, whose marriage is turned upside down after she is diagnosed with a rare illness caused by a flower growing in her lung.

A SUMMER’S TALE (1996) dir. ERIC ROHMER @MFA Part of Rohmer’s “four seasons” cycle, this placid examination of youthful relationship ambiguity is seasonal for July. A beachy moodiness reigns. Released in 1996, but looks and feels smack in the middle of his 70s “moral tale” examinations. Also screens on 7/23. BLAZING SADDLES (1974) dir. MEL BROOKS @COOLIDGE Brooks has admitted recently that this is probably his funniest film, and nobody worth their plate of beans would disagree. Alarmingly crude and epically offensive, it could never be made today. See it in all its button-pushing, horse-punching, fourthwall-breaking glory.

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(1927) dir. FRITZ LANG @HFA If all you know about METROPOLIS is the sexy robot lady, you need to get to the HFA pronto. Lang’s vision of a futuristic dystopia is still impressive nearly 100 years later, and the Archive will have live musical accompaniment!

A HARD DAY’S NIGHT (1964) dir. RICHARD LESTER @COOLIDGE Back for its 50th anniversary in a gloriously restored B&W print. Your favorite lads at the zenith of Beatlemania. A big part of the appeal is the early, vague discontent you sense in the fab four—and their self-conscious mugging. SCANNERS (1981) dir. DAVID CRONENBERG @COOLIDGE Tired of merely blowing minds, Cronenberg graduated to scattering brains in this film, a broodingly paranoid parable which opens with a public demonstration of psychic powers gone horribly, decapitatingly wrong before developing into a muddled but gratifyingly weird war between the sinister and the deranged. Read more in this month’s Psychotronic! Also screens on 7/12.

THE KIDNAPPING OF MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ (2013) dir. GUILLAME NICLOUX @MFA The September 2011 disappearance of controversial French novelist Marcel Houellebecq ignited a media firestorm sparking countless conspiracy theories. Fact and fiction collide as Houellebecq, himself, stars in this genre-bending, tongue-in-cheek account of what might have happened. Also screens on 7/20.

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CHICKEN (1966) @SOMERVILLE dir. ALAN RAFKIN Has there ever been a greater cinematic presence than Don Knotts? The answer is obviously no. Watch the master tangle with the supernatural… THE INCREDIBLE MR. LIMPETT (1964) @SOMERVILLE dir. DIR. ARTHUR LUBIN ...and a sassy talking fish, all for the low price of $3! No discount for showing up in costume, but you’ll have our undying respect.

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THE DEVILS (1971) dir. KEN RUSSELL @COOLIDGE

Russell at his best is Grand Guignol cinema at its most deluxe: vivid unto garishness, nerve-racked and overwrought, riven by eruptions of subterranean impulses. One poet of delirium meets another in an adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s novel of witch-hunting hysteria in 17th century France. Oliver Reed and Vanessa Redgrave head the dream-cast. Also screens on 7/19. HARAKIRI (1962) dir. MASAKI KOBAYASHI An immaculately framed mystery set in feudal Japan, this period piece is a slow burn that offers a scathing indictment of samurai social norms. Let’s just say “honor among thieves” is a phrase that doesn’t just apply to criminals.

25 M (1931) dir. FRITZ LANG

@HFA A child murderer is loose in a German city, and the police and criminal element are in a race to bring him in. Pretty strong stuff, even before the mind-blowing visuals and a performance by cinema’s original super-creep: Peter Lorre.

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7/2 - BEGIN AGAIN (2014) dir. JOHN CARNEY @Coolidge 7/4 - AI WEIWEI THE FAKE CASE (2014) dir. ANDREAS JOHNSEN @KENDALL 7/11 -A COFFEE IN BERLIN (2012) dir. JAN OLE GERSTER @Kendall 7/14 - BORGMAN (2014) dir. ALEX VAN WARMERDAM @Kendall 7/25 - YVES SAINT LAURENT (2014) dir. JALIL LESPERT @Kendall LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Lowell’s Mill No. 5 - MILL NO.5 Museum of Fine Arts - MFA

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Tuesday 7/1 Rowdy Maine gang RSO (ME) lands @Midway tonight to raise hell with some noisy bluesy rock and roll. They will be joined be Big Buck Hunter, Con Tex and the Forgotten Jam, Cemetery Girl, Rosie and the Roses. Should be a solid night of Americana roots rock meets noisy idgaf. 9pm $5 21+  Kaleidescopic crews of New England are having a music gathering and we are all invited. Hector 3 will put you in an experienced psych-rock aura which is quite blissful (especially if you bring your ear plugs) and Man Beard rears it’s head for the first time in some time, both of whom would make any Providence noise vet proud. They be playing host to New Haven crew Tinniens (featuring members of Landing) and having one hell of a time @Machines With Magnets, worth a trip to Pawtucket!  Electronic beats and ambient sounds abound thanks to Saint Pepsi, Sevnth Wonder, A Sol Mechanic, ABSRDST and Tokyo Megaplex @TT the Bear’s 8pm 18+ $10  Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! Boston’s ONLY weekly punk DJ night every Tuesday night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover Wednesday 7/2 SCANNERS has been growing its reputation for being a fuckkkkin pahty. Which it is. A party with experimental electronic music, huge beats, dancing and good vibes. This night is monthly, look out for it and shake your butt to wherever it lands. Tonight Open Loop and BOW Shows are bringin’ it to the basements of Allston (it’s a state of mind) w/ Lazy Magnet man JEROME now based out of NC, Impersonator (YDLMIER tapes), DJ All Joker’s LTD (AKA Nathan Christopher Trites) and DJ Won’t @ESSBEESEE mhmmm get it! 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation  pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS night is always tight. The PS crew is open minded and purveyors of all kinds of music but you bet your ass they especially like rock and roll. Well tonight is a full blown rock show with Brooklyn’s NANCY, our very own NICE GUYS and Burlington pop nuts Spaceman Saturday Night @Middlesex as usual (first Wednesday of the month dawg) 10pm 21+ $3  Nasty NJ’s Knights Templar are in town and they’ll be down in the dumps with local goth, rock, noise, industrial and electronic groups such as Gondoliers, Teacher Mother Secret Lover, Spreaders and Death Shephard. Cool show thanks to Park Slug! @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8  Dreamhaus dream pair Emily Reo and Cuddle Formation share electric love with local Omnivore @MWM (Providence)  Plus Joe Turner and the 7 Levels is celebrating their “Girls Get Drugs for Free” CD release @TT’s w/ The I Want You, Easy Reasons and Slowdim 8:30pm 18+ $9 Thursday 7/3 The FMLY Family is in town as Emily Reo and Cuddle Formation’s epic month+ tour come to a close in JP with local lo-fi lovelies Liana’s Fire and Via App playing host on this night @House That CD-r’s Built 8pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale suggested donation  Get busy with Gods Dogs @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate  Downtown Boston rarely gets to see a show this weird but Marianne Toilet And The Runs, jingle jammers Cotton Candy, Hammer And Snake, Night Slice and Mickey PG Music will be making weird sounds and such @McGann’s Pub 7pm 21+ $5  Big old rock show in Allston tonight with A Sunny Day In Glasgow (Philly) our very own SNEEZE (breathing new life into grunge) and Catenine @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10  Mmmmaven presents Mindpendence: NJ via LA producer/sound artist extraordinaire Todd Edwards is in town with our own local beat mongers Coralcola and Baltimoroder @Middlesex 10pm 21+ $10 before 11pm/$15 after  Sweet show out in Sudbury today w/ Flag Day, Phaze, Veal, Limelight, Kommonwealth and 9 Swords @Ian’s Haus, hit us up for deets!  Plus MILK, Rick McGuire (of Pile), The Taxidermists and Underwater Bear Ballet get real @Church thanks to Illegally Blind 8pm 21+ $8  And finally, Forthwanderers, People Skills, Hayfever, Tall Horse @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 9pm 21+ $ome cost Friday 7/4 For some reason it can be a challenge to find something truly radical to do in town on the 4th of July. Maybe it’s because all the true heads bail out and find a more scenic place to celebrate their freedom. Well, this year nothing has changed. The dopest gathering is going down @Haydenvilla in Western Mass and if you want in, yer gonna need a lift out. If you’re truly down to toss reach out to us, we will actually help you organize a carpool to this, no joke. It’s an all day sort of thing featuring MV&EE (VT), The Lentils, Sunburned Hand of the Man, The Grudges, Home Comfort, Many Mansions, Gods Dogs, Hurricanes of Love, Fat Creeps, DJ Herbcraft and many more and A POOL. Be there, be square or go to a beach somewhere. Happy 4th! Noon All Ages Bring your towel. Saturday 7/5 House and Techno show yo: Dan DeSumthn, Dj Dende & Dj Mystina, DJ Reverence, Hokilla, Mike SkillZ, Sine Language, Baltimoroder, Harlock, Shimoda and Sean Caron @BLEND 10pm 21+ $10 adv  Jonee Earthquake, Dead Elect, Wet Dress @Sonnys (Dover, MA) 9pm 21+ $ome cost  Sounds From The Basement, Kerri Kelly & the Outliers, Black Cactus Freedom, Animals & Shapes @Club Bohemia 9pm 21+ $10 Sunday 7/6 Straight up monumental heavy show in Worcester tonight w/ Thou (New Orleans), The Body (Portland, OR), Rozamov and Forn mbridge @Firehouse. Total brutality 8pm Power @Ca n ya R All Ages $5-10 donation  Meanwhile 7/12 Elks Lodge in Boston totally rad rock bands Native America and Caddywhompus are in town from New Orleans joined by local heavies Krill and The Sharpest @Lilypad thanks to Boston Hassle 10pm All Ages $5–10 Sliding Scale Suggested Donation Monday 7/7 The first Monday of July proves itself to be quite rewarding. For one thing, the incredibly unique percussive experience known as Man Forever returns to us with So Percussion, JP’s Animal Hospital and another Oneida related project (all of which are SICK) Dust Commander @Middle East (Up) 8pm 18+ $10  The radical Fast Apple night has Providence/Boston dreamers Littlefoot, Kassie Carlson (she of Guerilla Toss who makes out of this world pop music on her own), Fleabite and Mini Dresses @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5  And the punks take a bite out of the newest All Ages venue to open it’s arms to Boston’s DIY music community with Violent Party 61/Distort Till Deafness 78: CRESS (UK), THOU/THE BODY (Nola/Pdx), APPALACHIAN TERROR UNIT (W. Virgina), SANDWORM (Providence) and CURMUDGEON @Cuisine en Locale 8pm All Ages $10-15 Sliding Scale  The Series continues with former Forest Wizard synth zoner Matt Muslin @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages Donate  And down the block our homies at Rad Castle keep doing it right with one hell of a local pop/rock show. All of these bands be top notch groups in the world of underground rock, if this interests you then you best be there — The Fagettes, Bozmo, Spirit Kid and Beach Toys @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free

Tuesday 7/8 Can you feel it coming in the air tonight? If so, why then come on and feel the noise (wowe kool song refs I blew it). ARKM Foam is making his signatured sounds of whatever and everything ever over @Cafe Fixe on the very edge of Brookline tonight, presented by ever-splendid Non-Event at 8pm All Ages $5  The Kills and Thalia Zaidek rock sensually @Paradise 7pm 18+ $25  Out in verdant and vivacious Worcester, MA ascend a very steep hill to experience SUPER TWOSDAY: a duos-only microfest w/ Pony Bones (ex. Graph/Speedy O., Kendra) Black Norse (NH), Motel Mattress, DOT GOV (Worc), OJ (Worc), Talchemyst (Worc), olivegarden (Steph Lak + T. Hagan of Fat Creeps/ New Highway Hymnal) @Distant Castle (Worcester, MA) 8pm All Ages Donation$  Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! punk DJ night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover Wednesday 7/9 Grease up your jellyroll (which is totally not a euphemism for anything other than primpin’ yer dang hair ya jerk) and immerse thyself in the rockabillied punk rock abilities of The Egos, The Boglins, and Bad Movies @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $5  A wide penumbric “rock” show goes down in Awlston, Mash ft. I Made You Myself (CHI), Street Eaters (SF), Fleabite, and Congratulations @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8. Mmmmmmmkay? Thursday 7/10 BOW Shows keeps it up to par with a buncha folk freaks from here and not here. Gracious Calamity, Slight Birching (Vancouver), ACLU Benefit, Jasmine I’m Jazzed Jazzy Jazz, Jesus “Pizzaman” Vio + Jonah “Krillman” Krillman, Erich Haygun, and Scott Mizrachi @The House that CD-Rs Built 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale donation  Similarly chillaxed acoustics bubble up via Harborwalk Sounds: Grey Season @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  Down in the harmonious wonderland that is Providence, RI you can roll up your trouserlegs and get to quahoggin’ with an all-duos lineup packed with Street Eaters (CA), Yabeautifuls, Nice Guys, and Demimonster at DIY bastion of love @Spark City (PVD) 9pm All Ages Donate. I can’t wait to see you pay drums.  Tommy and the Rats, Jeff Beem, Kafari, Jon Lessard @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 9pm 21+ $ome cost Friday 7/11 Slip into your weekend mentality and let loose at one of these heavy rock shows. In Jamaica Plain our show-throwing cousins B.O.W. Shows spins heads with heavy riff lickers Robot Death Kites (NYC), wispy electric folk dreamer He’s Narrator (NY), jangle crazed pop spliffers Amadels (NY) and (probably) Boston’s newest noise punk scroungers CHARLIE and others @Neverland 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation  Grip something a little more blasted, a lot more aggressive down in Providence, where Fucking Invincible got a release show going with Boston metal meatgrinders World Is Shit and fellow Providence punks Ratstab and Wokling @AS220 9pm All Ages $ome cost  Cambridge’s Doctor Fidelity get that Caucasian funk flowing with others TBA @Club Bohemia (Cantab Lounge) 8pm 21+ $10 Saturday 7/12 If yesterday’s show listings weren’t quite your bag, rest assured you’ll find a sweet ear pleaser for your Saturday soirée. Boston Hassle plays with fire as they host Vermont horndog pop export Ryan Power and crew, sprawling gonzo psychedeliacs Cloud Becomes Your Hand (NYC), luminous synth powerhouse Cool Memories (Chicago) and JP songstress IAN @Cambridge Elks Lodge 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  Get downtown for that fresh throwback shuffle - Social Studies celebrate a year of ‘Label Takeover’ with a night curated by venerated Chicago label Dance Mania, who helped pioneer that raw crunch of ghetto house back in the late 90’s. Booty shaking originators DJ Deeon and Robert Armani bring it back @Good Life 9pm 21+ $10  The professional envelope-pushers at Non-Event strike an admirable balance in their show curation between renowned international artists and highly talented local performers; tonight’s show falls into the latter category. Jesse Collins (Deleuzer, Funny Money) plays with the fickle, temperamental quality of brass and woodwind instruments, working with analog feedback in a free improvisation approach for a richly rewarding experience. Hear for yourself @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5  If you’re still hankering for something teetering on the cutting edge, stuff some more wild free improv down your cranial crevices with Tim Albro & Grizzler @Washington St Arts 7:30pm All Ages Donate  Queer power duo Fur Purse, garage gugglers Royal Wedding, squaking psych rockers Planet of Adventure and new percussive-focused groovers E featuring Thalia Zedek, Jason Sanford & Alec Tisdale take over @Midway 9pm 21+ $ome cost  Catch a bit of that dark and brooding vibe at this Providence showcase, featuring the return (from Africa) of Clox King, DJ Lucas, God’s Wisdom (w. MA), FEAR.com (aka Englewood) and Vibe Police. Gonna be a real weirdo ripper @Kristina’s World 10pm All Ages $5  Beat that summer swelter with this all-female garage rock shindig where the beats are steady and the choruses are oh so catchy with Banditas, Kitschenettes, Heather Weapon and Thrust Club @Cuisine en Locale (Somerville) 9pm All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation (we hear there is food and drinks if you go early)  Computer Beach Party @Sonnys (Dover, NH) 9pm 21+ $ome cost Sunday 7/13 Get your cerebellum stewed all slow and thorough till it slides off your spinal chord like so much melted butter. Boston’s legendary noise-smiths Neptune play one of their infrequent shows with dingy brooders Windmills by the Ocean, melancholic atmospheric conjurers Owlfood, and pickled spaced psych mystic High Aur’d @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10  The UK has still got it when it comes to scintillating, spine-tingling house and techno that somehow still tows the line between insulated obscurity and photocopied schlock. Mr. Jon Hopkins currently leads the pack, and he shares the goods with NYC-Providence rhythm wrangler The Range @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $15adv/$18dos  B.O.W. Shows leads mesmerizing drone wanderer WUME (Chicago) to the verdant depths of JP, where he’ll collide with Seattle’s pastoral folk pop heroine Julie Byrne, sparse sound collage trio Adam Lempel & Sunatirene (Baltimore) and Boston shifting screw-driven grifters LAIR @The House that CD-Rs Built 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation  Ryan Power brings his singular lounge pop back home to give melodious voice to unconscious desires of the libido with kookie tour buds Cloud Becomes Your Hand @ArtsRiot (Burlington, VT) 8pm All Ages $ome cost Monday 7/14 Mondays continue to challenge our installed notions that going out and having fun are activities reserved primarily for the weekend. In Harvard Square, Fast Apple hosts those enfants terribles The Channels, who bang away something noisy with New York agitated punk anglers Big Neck Police and pop punk harmonizers Bluffing @Charlies 9pm 18+ $5  Down the street and around the corner, England’s Wild Beasts peddle some pulsating synth pop with homegrown electro-folk soothsayer Mutual Benefit @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $18adv/$20dos  Lexington’s Ma Turner (ex-Cross) interrupts the narrative with blasted experimental sound collage. He’s joined in JP by Clear People, Nathaniel Earl Bowles, Hurricanes of Love, and Dark Rodeo @The House that CD-Rs Built 9pm All Ages Donate  Boston’s top garage pop trio Fat Creeps kick off their July tour with traveling buds and perennial heartbreak pop meisters The Lentils (featuring members of Happy Jawbone) @The Future (Brattleboro, VT) 9pm All Ages Donate  Somerville is inhabited by an unknown number of soft spoken musicians (often of a folk and americana bent) who rarely venture far out of their cozy neighborhood, but here we have Subpar Co-star @Weirdo Records dribbling out his melodious, ambling folk with a light sprinkle of ‘freak’ 9pm All Ages Donate Tuesday 7/15 Seems like every time you turn around, venerable brass musician Steve Norton is off collaborating with someone new, and always with a clever or willfully obscure band name to go with it. Tonight he jumps in with experimental guitarist and

composer Lucio Menagon as LMNo! They’re joined by another acronym-named duo KTB, which features members of Guerilla Toss and Bugs & Rats churning up those dark feeling with a stark, brutalizing sound. Should be fun @Ask a Weirdo 8pm All Ages Donate  Thomas Fec has been churning out music that converges pop sensibilities, love of twisted samples and a desire to get people moving with overcharged psychedelic grooves, first as frontman for Black Moth Super Rainbow and lately solo as Tobacco. He’ll be in town with aptly named Stargazer Lilies @Brighton Music Hall 9pm 18+ $13  Local quick riser St Nothing drifts in dreamy, melodious loops and dribbles of synth @Great Scott with Goldbloc 9pm 18+ $8  If you’re in the mood for something mellow and easy to inhale, take a hit of whispy pop Americana with Funeral Advantage, Mini Dresses, and Springsteen @Middle East Upstairs 18+ $10  Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! punk DJ night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover Wednesday 7/16 Violent Party is a great series of punk shows that pack a real wallop. Tonight’s 62nd installment features all-fem Texans Kurraka going hard with Rash Tongue, Animal Mother, Stranger, more TBA @Bathaus 7pm All Ages $7 sugg. donation  On a more experimental, sonically far out tip, catch Extremely Casual 2 @Arts of the Armory with cacophonous birdcall whisperers Duck That, astral beat technician Erich Hackgun, synth crasher (with a touch of twee) Goat of Arms, and Heather Weapon of Weather Weapon 7pm All Ages $ome cost  Or take a break from listening to music and talk about it instead. Local promoter Illegally Blind hosts a networking night for local musicians and their kin. You might just meet some interesting characters and, who knows, maybe book a show. Don’t forget those business cards @Church 8pm 21+ Free Thursday 7/17 Fans of emotionally resonant, challenging yet oh so fun pop music, take note of this show. Two of Boston’s best — Krill and Free Pizza — collide on the slippy slide of painfully self-aware angst and propulsive positivity. They welcome poetic wunderkind Frankie Cosmos (NYC), who’ll unravel your heart by giving voice to emotions you’ve always intuited but never named, and Warehouse (Atlanta) @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8  Vermont invades JP with a trio of bands to lower eyelids and expand souls. Wren and Mary rolls slow with lethargic acoustic folk, Alpenglow takes it up a notch with full band and expansive perspective like a smokey mountaintop view. Paper Castles takes you from dreamy depths to ecstatic heights, carried by unusual melodies that can’t help but stick. Local straw-funk soothsayers Old Wave and solo garage pop strummer Feral Jenny complete this homespun show @The House that CD-r’s Built  Fast and heavy rock is the M.O. tonight @Middle East Upstairs with raucous goblins Gondoliers, Z*L, Guillermo Sexo, M. G. Lederman 8pm 18+ $10  Popular producer Matthew Dear(Ghostly Int’l) currently rides the crest of pop-laced minimalist techno. He plays to an intimate crowd for Make It New @Middlesex 8pm 21+ $ome cost  Seminal hip-hop group De La Soul need no introduction, but be sure to check their Wikipedia page if ya need a refresher. They play @Paradise 8pm 18+ $25  Harborwalk Sounds is a series of outdoor shows @ICA. Behold the beauty of the bay while listening to the wafting melodies of Wambura Mitaru and Annette “annieSoul” Oduor @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  Flatswamp, Onslo, Little My, Sun Lions @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 9pm 21+ $ome cost Friday 7/18 Inimitable duo Tonstartssbandht (NYC) have built a dedicated following through the years with their wild live sets and genre slipping style that somehow re-energizes various contemporary stains of experimental rock. They play @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate  Eye Design hosts a night of straight-forward rock without distractions or pretensions. Dan Webb & the Spiders, Midnight Reruns, The Sun Lions, & Flat Swamp @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8  Kenyan singer-songwriter Wambura Mitaru serenades passing crowds with her sultry, soulful R&B along with Annette “annieSoul” Oduor as part of Harborwalk Sounds @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  Garage goons CreauroS display their love of fuzz with reverb-washed NYC pop delight Boytoy. Faux-italo 13-piece band Tredici Bacci add some sultry spice as they revel in that lounge-exotica romanticism @Great Scott  If you really want to dance (and not just bump skin to top 40’s) then get a little cumbia, a little salsa, a little latin flavoring with Pico Picante night @GoodLife Saturday 7/19 There is so much damn music tonight it baffles the mind. Question not our good fortune, and embrace this city’s many splendored options for musical entertainment. Fans of that industrial clang in electronic music - take note. 3TEETH, Theologian (NYC), Massdirge, Kintaan, and DJ Brian L (WZBC’s Industrial Factory) churn and chop sine waves into crushingly delightful power electronics @Cambridge Elks Lodge  Union Square recording studio Starlab used to throw some great shows back in 2012. Though that’s mostly ended, they’ve continued to throw theyre great summer fest. This years performers include The Young Leaves, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Abadabad, Lunglust, Blinders, The Dazies, Stephen Konrads & The Eternals, Nice Guys, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth, Animal Mother, Congratulations, and Future Spa. There will also be comedy, film screenings, free burgers and veg options and an expansive flea market, all at @Starlab 10am-9pm All Ages $10  Starlab isn’t the only fest packed into this Saturday. Somerville experimental tape label YDLMIER celebrates their 50th release with a whole host of microtonal manipulators, psychedelic shamans, electric gizzards and free improv dabblers, including Life Partners, Quits, TVE, Matt Krefting, Article Collection, Wilted Woman, Michael Rosenstein, Patrick Emm, Alan, Gesso,Solid State Entity, Mares Laig, Gay Shapes, Via App, Nick Neuberg, Morgan Evans-Weiler, and Zerfallt @Washington St. Arts 2-11pm All Ages $ome cost  Here is a real special one so pay attention. Seminal Japanese band OOIOO, led by Yoshimi P-We of Boredoms, is in town for a super rare visit (have they even been to Boston before?). Similar in approach to Boredoms, but a shade more melodic, this all-female group swims in an amorphous stream of off-kilter rhythms and wild percussion. They’re aptly paired with Black Pus, the solo project of noise rock denizen Brian Chippendale of Lightning Bolt @The Red Room, Cafe 939 8pm All Ages $18  Cheap Seats is a monthly series unlike any other in the city. Maestro and WFR resident Erich Haygun hosts this radical open-form event in which artists of all varieties (music, poetry, performance art, comedy, et. al) play rapid-fire, with no set stage to demarcate the constructed separation of performer and audience. Grab a chair @Cambridge YMCA 7-10pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  Last but not least, JP takes a page out of Somerville’s book, as the multi-colored porches come alive and myriad amateur musicians expose their talents to the public for the very first Porchfest @Jamaica Plain 12-4pm All Ages Free Sunday 7/20 Blustering hardcore punks Ceremony (CA) descend on Harvard Sq, blasted Philly noise funnelers Nothing, brutal Seattle two-piece Iron Lung, and Providence beloved brass happy political progressives Downtown Boys @Sinclair 7:30pm $12adv/$14dos  Down Mass Ave a fair ways @Cambridge Elks Lodge in Central, catch another night of vicious power electronics and brooding industrial noise as Voidstar Productions presents IVardensphere, Cervello Elettronico, Statiqbloom, Raab Codec and Pattern Behavior 7:30pm All Ages $10 Monday 7/21 Do you like words? What about mouthsounds and the ideas contained within? How are these vagueries treating you? Nice. All or none can be had tonight at Cambridge institution of higher burgering @Charlie’s Kitchen where Fast Apple breaks from the rock mold to roll your innermost mind with assorted readings and ramblings from a fundamentally radtastic lineup of local specters. Step up at 9pm 21+ $5  If the mindful is too much a mouthful, then instead step down to Allston for an evening of scathingly doomified metal courtesy of Churchburn (RI), Bädr Vogu (CA), Rozamov, Grue @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8  Can’t go wrong with some female fronted garage rock; Shepherdess & The Ovens (NYC) play @Midway 8pm 21+ $ome cost  Sensible psychedelia of The Fresh & Onlys and The Shilohs is at @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10adv/$12dos  The Holy Series has jack-of-all-bullshit Matt Robidoux (mem./ex-mem. Graph, Pony Bones, Speedy Ortiz, mwchins, Hidden Temple Tapes, Rubadub Industries, et al.) doin’ who knows what @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages Donate. Think about it. Tuesday 7/22 Your exceedingly diligent friends at Eye Design present a night of weird phreakness. Gondoliers, MILK, Creature From Dell Pond, and Juan Bond rock @Middlesex 10pm $5 21+  A furious punk rock and hardcore show is firmly planted down in New Bedford with Sweet Jesus, Waste Management, GIVE (DC), Fell To Low (CA), and Native Sun @Gallery X 5pm All Ages $8 NO drugs or alcohol!  Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! punk DJ night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover Wednesday 7/23 Deep hXc punk rippers cont’d. in a v. serious way w. serious roster: Boston Strangler, Straight Razor, GIVE (DC), Fell To Low (CA), Combat Zone, Death

Injection @Hardcore Stadium Cambridge Rock’o’clock All Ages $10  JP’s affable rambler Frank Hurricaine speaks truth to honkies as Gangstas of Love with Special Guests @Midway 9pm 21+ $ome cost  Other things might happen too. You are the boss of you. Thursday 7/24 Hot nights necessitate smooooooth jams. Or so my pappy always said. Whether or not you believe it the same is available by way of Harborwalk Sounds, where LowTone Society is bringing it at @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  Grappleth with heaviness in its varying forms by catching Wrought Iron Hex, Gut, Truman Highway, and Grizzled @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7 Friday 7/25 More of that sludge stuff keeps seeping into your zone. Ya got a real earful in Mount Salem (CHI), KYOTY (NH), Kind, and Grave Ideas presented by Temple of Doom Productions and Grandmother Web @Dragon’s Den 8:00PM All Ages Donate  Deep in darkest Cambridge, find the punkish clatterings of Bent Shapes, Southern Femisphere (SC) plus one more TBA @Lilypad show’o’clock 21+ $ome cost  You better bet there’s more going down this night than is suggested at this here time of press time. We’re all about solutions, so why don’t you hit up bostonhassle.com on your spacephone or similarly conceived-of device to find out what’s good in your hood?

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mona maruyama Saturday 7/26 Summertime Saturdaes. Specially designated for grillin’, chillin’, altogether illin’. My pappy also said this. Local org du mond Park Slug is fully aware of the good word here and so is throwin’ together this baller of a daytime BBQ hangonstration. Therein find the rocking kerrangings of Video Teeth, Kiss Concert, and more TBD @O’Brien’s 21+ $10 which includes a buncha free weinahs you can eat without chewing in order to save your currency for other things like buying stuff from bands and/ or drinking beers on a hot and luxurious day. Might need a nap after, though  Mere hours later journeyman showsmith SealbeardS will add another installment to the super serial SONIC SIESTA series (this’un being SSIV) featuring The Modern Voice, Goddard (Woosta), Dumb Waiter (RVA), Night Idea (RVA), and The Leagues again @O’Brien’s Pub 7pm 21+$8. Just spend the whole day @O’Brien’s! Come on, you’ve always wanted to  If you’ve got better things to do then go ahead and seek the sick release party for Amadeus mag issue #2, featuring overtures by Tsons Of Tsunami and loads of other unnamed killer surprises @Lilypad 7pm 21+ $5 $10 ishes  Afterwards, stick around and catch Martin Bisi and Black Fortress of Opium @Lilypad 7pm All Ages $7  Jazzercize with Burton Greene and Adam Lane @Outpost186 (Cambridge)  B.O.W. Shows and Deep Thoughts are curating a night of absolutely flooring noise with Good Willsmith (CHI), Sugarm (CHI), Lowell MA staplers Los Condenados, and Worcester juggernauts Looks Realistic @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale donation  Or ya know, go to the beach and sleep at the beach. Unless it rains. Don’t go to the beach if it rains. And definitely don’t sleep at the beach if it rains. Or do. It’s your life. Sunday 7/27 Day of rest. Last of the weekend. Unless you work in foodservice or have some other non-normal schedule in which case maybe it’s your Friday. Consider it your pennance, being able to chuckle at us reggo schlubs going to bed early and draggin’ ass into work tomorrow morn. If in fact you are DTFun, then B.O.W. Shows gotcha covered as yooj: I I’M EYE MY (Philly), Death Shepherd, Shy-Tech, Muddy Wires and Huff Daddy comin’ atchya with that off-kilter electronic psych steez like it’s actually still the weekend @Neverland show’o’clock All Ages $ome reasonable cost  Up on Harvard Ave in idyllic Allston get H.A.R.S.H. with effed up ear ruiners Hive Mind (LA), Redrot (Det, MI), Shredded Nerve (Cinncinn, OH), Scant (RVA), and Winterline @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10 Monday 7/28 Hey look it’s another week where you get to be alive! And not just alive, but alive in BOSTON!! (Unless of course you’re reading this elsewhere or perhaps live elsewhere, in which case we’re very glad you’re alive and dually invite you to come hang as soon as is agreeable to your schedule). Lucky you. Come celebrate your new week’s inception by welcoming your all-time fav band (depending on your taste and stuff) Fat Creeps home from their funny funny tour with The Lentils. Catch’ ‘em both plus Bugs and Rats squarely centralside @Middlesex 9pm 21+ $ome cost court.  Eye Design The Series @Weirdo will come to outlive us and all of our dumb friends, surely. Tonight it’s got Lowell noisemakers Walter Wright & Stephanie Lak twiddlin’ and scroddlin’ right at 8pm All Ages Donate!!! Tuesday 7/29 Look inward, not outward. Clean your room and make some plans. Hang loose and relish quietude. Come to appreciate the whole of your existence in spite of its myriad annoyances, disappointments, flubs, and flaws. Consider fears. Consider joys. Know yourself. Truly. Or sit on the internet and figure out what’s actually crackin’ down tonight since we don’t have much to list right now. Just don’t get distracted while you’re there. Life is short.  Or you can always listen to some punk at Punk’s Dead. Long Live Punk! weekly DJ night @Ramrod 10pm 21+ No Cover Wednesday 7/30 Hubbah hubbah HUMPDAY is for lovers and haters alike. In fact everyday is for everybody so whatever. Don’t let no one fool ya or get ya down. Come on out in force and dog the sonorous nuages of Hospitality, Porches, and Frankie Cosmos @Sinclair 8:30pm 18+ $12adv/$14dos.  July edition of Treat Yo Self is a treat indeed. Got a tape release show materializing for local weirdos The Channels on BUFU Records plus similarly-minded peeps Shade (ATL), Gobby (NY), and Curse Purse (Robidoux/Lee project/experiment). Local artist Courney White will be selling her stuff, and Rose Parry will have tiny zine offerings @Middlesex show’o’clock 21+ $5 Give it to yourself. Thursday 7/31 Tonight is the opening night of the one and only NORTHERN ROUTES FEST, a deep celebration of the good, the beautiful, and most of all the indelible nebulous weird that surrounds our souls here in ghostly New England. Devoted to the highest of freaky freakers currently freaking our zone, sounds gon’ get maked by such notable BFGs as MV&EE, Zzones, Doug Tuttle, and so so many more across a wide and varied spectrum of sounds and sensibilities. The fest runs three long days, breaking ground in Turners Falls and New Salem on the haunting/haunted banks of the old Quabbin Reservoir (AKA the four towns that were flooded in 1938 so Boston could drink water). Catch one or all three shows, pendant ‘pon your pref. @Rendezvous (Turners) & @1794 Meetinghouse (New Salem). Full details at 1794meetinghouse.org  Wanna stay in town? You can stay in town. Make the rounds and hit up Harborwalk Sounds: Latimbop @ICA 6pm All Ages Free  The ever-inspiring Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, gut punching Chain & The Gang, and Mr. Rick Rude cause a raucous @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 9pm 21+ $ome cost  There’s a snippet of uncle wisdom out there in the world which posits that at a certain point within the earth’s crust the ambient temperature is always a stable 55 degrees Fahrenheit. You gotta dig down to uncover the truth in this. Or you can circumvent that level of effort and opt to just go hang out in a basement which will likely be cooler than the sweltering summer hellscape in process outside. B.O.W. Shows will help you acheive just such a goal: sweet subsurface ripper a-happenin’ with Mannequin Pussy, Saralee, Free Pizza +1 @Bathaus show’o’clock All Ages Donate. Peace!

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Native America (New Orleans),

Caddywhompus (New Orleans), KRILL, The Sharpest @Lilypad

7/12

Ryan Power (VT), Cloud

Becomes Your Hand (Brooklyn), Cool Memories (Chicago) and Ian

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Southern Femisphere, Bent Shapes, TBA @Lilypad

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TREAT YOURSELF JULY

w/ Channels (tape release),

Shade (Atlanta), Gobby, Curse Purse // art from Courtney White and Rose Parry @Middlesex

Robert Smith’s Microsoft Outlook Calendar by BEN POTRYKUS, Assistant

Monday, July 7 8:00am - 8:30am

Today may be blue or black. In either case, don’t care.

11:30am - 12:00pm

Allow others to fall apart.

1:45pm - 3:30pm

Allow others to hold their heads.

4:00pm - 4:30pm

Send Out-of-Office notice for tomorrow and Wednesday.

Tuesday, July 8, 8:00am - Wednesday, July 9, 11:59pm Observe how grey it is, have a mild coronary, have your heart broken, stay in bed.

Thursday, July 10 8:00am - 8:15am

This day probably won’t even start. If it does, follow the itinerary below.

8:35am - 9:10am

Develop complete apathy towards the day. Or a certain person.

10:00am - 7:26pm

Do not look back.

8:12pm - 11:37pm

Watch the walls.

Friday, July 11 All day

Do not hesitate—you are in love (Repeats: Weekly, On: Friday).

9:00pm - 10:43pm

You may see others dressed up to the eyes, and/or see their shoes and spirits rise as they throw out their frown and smile at the sound, and—as sleek as a shriek—spin round and round. In any case, times are approximate, as this would be a (admittedly wonderful) surprise.

Saturday, July 12 12:00am - 1:45am

Go see if anyone is eating anything, preferably by taking big bites. Gorging gorgeously, as it were.

10:25am - 2:08pm

Wait.

Sunday, July 13 8:00am - 8:15am

Acknowledge that the day has come too late.

10:00pm - 11:00pm

Prepare barely-tolerant demeanor for tomorrow’s hungover coworkers.

STARS AMONG ME by TD SIDELL

HEY BACKWATERERS, 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 Peter Wolf getting his clothes re-blacked or whichever white dude is mayor now eating roast beef 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.

ELVIS COSTELLO The Street, SOHO

My girlfriend (sorry people who would like to bone based on these dumb columns. I’m taken and also you’re a weirdo) pointed out a kind of lumpy old dude walking down the street with a very young child and we had to debate for a minute before we agreed that it was the owner of the best SNL performance ever. As we vocalized this, we noticed a tall, bearded, gray-haired man enjoying our conversation. He eventually laughed and told us that he hears this all the time. It took us a block or so before we realized that we had not only seen Elvis Costello but also his bodyguard and THAT ELVIS COSTELLO HAS A DAMN BODYGUARD. I mean, I get it that people might get pissed at him because he seems to have his records reissued once every five years or for his completely insufferable talk show or for just making jazz records now or all the other dumb things he’s done to ruin him in my mind. (Actually, I’m kind of down with him doing whatever he wants now that he’s an old dude but that talk show WAS THE WORST and he should not be allowed to interview people on TV just because he made, let’s be honest, three really great records and then a bunch of ok ones.) But I don’t think anybody will rumble him for that. Besides, if Elvis Costello can’t take down the average Elvis Costello fan, he probably shouldn’t go out in public anymore.

The Chosen One

by CHRISTINE AN, Playwright

DAD No, Edward. This isn’t about your grades. We both know that you try so hard. ED I would hope so since I study all the time. Is this about me not having a social life? I talk to people you know. Every day. I talk with many people, in fact. Five people.

THE DWIGHT EISENHOWER Spend days at a time mowing down everyone in your neighborhood who deserves it, with incredibly realistic and accurate 1940s weapons! This light, flexible stand-alone video game can be held in your palm or attached to your glasses. Critically acclaimed sound & visual effects that give you all the blood, Japs and screams you’ve been waiting 50 years for. Now with a new nukes module! THE MICHAEL LANDON This amazing app is also a hearing aid. Just hold it up to your ear & turn every annoying 90s movie reference into the appropriate words of Jesus! Now who’s got just one set of footprints in the sand?

THE WC FIELDS These smart contacts don’t just correct your vision. They’re bifocals that magnify every object that comes within a focus triangle 300 times, and also significantly lighten the skin color of everyone the viewer sees! A perfect gift that’s entirely alcohol free. THE DONNY OSMOND This adorable, soft robotic cat is also a computer advisor, there 24 hours a day to answer all your questions about how to install an email, play a pdf or download the internet. Not only that, Donny will call every fire department in the state if you slip in the bathroom! He even sings the phrase “I’m a Little Bit Rock ‘n’ Roll” every 30 minutes while the real sequins on his outfit light up! 

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DAD We know how much you want to be a cardiologist, Edward, but you were born to be a superhero. ED Born? Oh, I thought I got my superpowers because mom accidentally forgot me during a tour of a radioactive power plant when I was three.

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MOM I’m really sorry Edward, but we want you to make the most of your unique gifts. DAD We even came up with some superhero names you could use last night. Here, take a look. ED (reading from list) X-ray Man, The Roentgen Ray Man, Mr. X … gee, thanks for doing this, Mom and Dad, but I really don’t want this. You have a gift.

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Fine. I’ll consider it.

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Do thin skin, liver spots, hip fractures or sags keep you from enjoying retirement community swinging to it’s fullest? Forget body suits or expensive surgery! This wheeled walker changes at the touch of a button into an occulus rift sex swing that could be the answer to your prayers! No trip to the subdivision laundry room is complete without one.

ED Not this again. I’ve told you, I don’t want to be some dumb superhero. I want a normal life.

DAD Well, just take a look at these brochures when you get the chance. There are camps where special youths like you can train your talents.

Tiny EDITORIAL:

THE ELIZABETH TAYLOR

Is your baby-booming loved one a former longhair straight out of Haight Ashbury? Dementia can be debilitating and confusing, but this hologram visor adds eye-popping acid trails and blurry colors to everyday hallucinations, so that your dear ones can truly go back and relive their days of free love and free people once more. Wild happiness is never more than a moment away.

MOM Edward, we sometimes feel that medical school is not the best path for you.

Jenny Slate seemed really excited to be in this elevator I was in with her. Maybe she was just excited about life and that happened in the elevator. WE’LL NEVER KNOW.

Matthew Barney drinks shitty yet expensive gin and that makes total sense. 

THE COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH

ED Is this about my grades? I’m really sorry about the D in organic chemistry. And the D in physics. And the D in Calculus.

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MOM Edward, your father and I have something very important to talk to you about.

ED Well, okay. So I thought having x-ray vision was one of the reasons why I should become a doctor. Right? I mean, I can’t really use x-rays to fight crime. What am I going to do? Give bad people tumors?

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Thank you, Edward.

ED DAD

MOM Maybe you could go to night med school. 

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Beer On The Rug (2014) LOOKS REALISTIC may sound synthetic, but the Worcester duo’s electronic compositions display an easy naturalism. The bleeps and bloops on their new full-length tend to The Channels bear more similarity to rain, birdsong, wind in the trees, mammalian chattering or cosmic background radio waves than to a fritzed-out R2D2 Lo Fruit unit (although there’s some of that in there, too). All 9 of the tracks here are good, but LOOKS REALISTIC really shine when they stretch things out. Longer tracks like “Holderness” and “111812” Bufu Records (2014) have proper time to breathe and evolve and come out at the end, the clear highlights of an album full of highlights. THE CHANNELS. You know those guys from On VA/A, Joe Bastardo and Ryan Mulhall have pulled toGUERILLA TOSS, AYKROYD, and DESIGNER gether their best collaboration to date: a lush, beautiful who got together in the basement of the Whitehaus collection of laid-back abstract experimental music and immediately hit the nail on the head with their that is perfect for an afternoon spent 3-D printstrange and limb shakin’ take on post-punk and noise rock ing copies of ancient mystical artifacts, uploadand new wave? These guys play music that meanders into ing your consciousness into a modded Play- several of the different nooks and crannies available. Somestation or you know, just kickin’ it on your times bright and bouncy, sometimes dark, energy sucking black porch with a good book. VA/A is avail- holes of song. THE CHANNELS have a full record here recorded able now from BEER ON THE RUG. with FAT HISTORY MONTH’s wonderful Mark Fede, The songs do - John Bittrich not have names, rather numbers, and the album they’ve been drawn together to create is called LO FRUIT (BUFU RECORDS). “7” is a deviant country number of some kind off of LO FRUIT. It features a buzz saw bass, and percussion intoxication! These guys have/ had, count ‘em, TWO DRUMMERS!!! And they both play/ played standing up!! Rory sings this song, and for my money it’s fun as hell to listen to, especially in the live setting where there are other people getting the opportunity to discover the exact same thing about this track at the exact same time as you!!! I look very much forward to spending more time with this album that is set to have a tape release in the near future on 7/30 @ Middlesex w/ Gobby, Shine (ex-Bird Names), and Curse Purse (ex-Speedy Ortiz). Find out about the whole live band part of their equation at that show. Ask you’re mam what she thinks. I know what her answer is going to be. The Lemons - Dan Shea

Hello We’re The Lemons Gnar Tapes (2014)

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Louder Space 12XU (March 2014)

King of Spades Records (2013) Anyone familiar with CHROME knows pretty much what to expect from 2013’s HALF MACHINE FROM THE SUN: THE LOST CHROME TRACKS ’79-’80, released on KING OF SPADES RECORDS: experimental rock blending elements of proto-industrial rock, noise rock, psychedelic rock, and punk/post-punk, among other things. The 18 tracks of this album, financed through PledgeMusic, feature material recorded between their magnum opus Half Machine Lip Moves and Red Exposure and previously thought to be lost. Recorded at the apex of Chrome’s career, Half Machine From The Sun Greg Kelley and features music more or less on par with Alien Soundtracks. Jason Lescalleet These tracks find themselves locking more into a groove than many of more texturally focused tracks on Half Conversations Machine Lip Moves. Think less the industrial cacophony of early Swans and more along the lines of the rhythmic noise rock grooving of local heroes GueGlistening Examples rilla Toss. Tracks like “Looking For Your Door” (2014) have an almost Devo feel to them. Nearly every song is a strong cut, with the blue-y post-punk Well, well, well, another damn noise rager “Something Rhythmic” being as good collaboration between two face-meltas just about any track the band recorded. ing musicians? I mean, its not entirely While not a great entry point for new lisnovel, but hell, I’ll take it over the new teners, Half Machine From The Sun is Ellie Goulding. Just kidding. This record an essential release for fans. Those rules. Here’s some background. Greg Kelley new to Chrome may be better off blows the trumpet in Nmperign and has played checking out The Visitation(draswith pretty much everybody (Jandek, Keiji Haino, tically different from what came Kevin Drumm, your mom). Jason Lescalleet plays later and lacking Helios Creed, in the one-man Jason Lescalleet band and has also but Chrome’s first record, collaborated with your mom, your dad, Drumm, Aarsounding something like on Dilloway, and a million other people. Both of these a space rock/prog rock musicians represent the fantastic New England noise Santana), Alien Visiscene with strength and vigor and we love them for it. So, tation, and/or Half Lescalleet and Kelley went off and made this record, right? I Machine Lip Moves. told you earlier – it rules. It’s called Conversations and its out on - Chris Defalco Glistening Examples now. The tracks recorded in Maine (at Lescalleet’s studio, no less) are on the approachable side of drone – more serene and lovely than most of what we hear from these musicians, they exhibit a perfect pairing of Lescalleet’s tape manipulations and Kelley’s unique trumpet style. “Intercourse” is a whole nother monster though: taken down live on a two-track tape machine, the track forwards a harsh drift that is molded consciously by both musicians, seering, sneering, and gasping for any opening. “Intercourse” climaxes (ha!) with a wall of noise that could bring down Jericho. Stream (almost) the whole thing below. - Matthew McBride (Just this month Boston said “sayonara” to Greg Kelley, as Seattle proclaimed “hello”. He will be missed. - DS)

I always struggle to find a way to describe a band’s sound withOhio’s Bim Thomout sounding like an asshole or unas aka OBNOX has been coaxing these necessarily comparing them to anears for a few years now, slathering other band, which is why I feel lucky on his singular blend of filthy gathat I can just take The Lemons’ pretty rage punk with deranged R’n’B. accurate self-description from their FaceA veteran drummer of midbook page: “Not too fast, but still kinda rockin.” west punks Puffy Aerolas, The Lemons err more on the side of lemon drops than This Month in and the latest LP LOUDER SPACE is a slobbering, sprawling jumble that leaves a sweet metallic taste in the straight citrus, if that makes any sense– their music is Bassholes, Thomas has mouth. Like an animated mound of refuse, this improbable creature seems to almost dissemble amongst mostly sweet and tuneful pop candy with just the slightof late been making its jagged parts. Yet its relentless momentum keeps it bounding forward. The brutal, pugalicious riffs and est tang of rock ‘n’ roll(check out the rockin’ first couple of bars of “Elephant”) to keep things interesting. And you’ll find disarmingly direct crashing drums are pleasingly tempered by a more serene ‘I’ve seen it all - let’s just get stoned’ attitude. an occasional surf lick, like the one in “Kool Aid Box”, lurking brain bashers Single ‘Molecule’ chugs like a rusty chainsaw, with Thomas’ bombastic weed-warped refraining riding here and there as well. Youthful and cheery unison male-female while chilling high over a simple overblasted beat that slobbers all over you like a dog in heat. This aggressive exubervocals, jingly guitars, and light-hearted lyrics make Hello, We’re as a stay- ance is contrasted with ‘How to Rob,’ a mid-tempo high stepper about being a boss and the joys of taking The Lemons a good candidate for a summer sing-along cassette. at-home advantage of the clueless. The tension between these countervailing tendencies, coupled with Thomas Note to Burger Records fanbabes and fanboys: you should definitely give d a d . cutting lyrics, keeps Louder Space buoyed above the fray of noise-raddled garage punks and their tired The Lemons a taste. Here’s my only complaint: these songs are too short. H i s refrains. Clasp your mangy paws on OBNOX’s latest LP LOUDER SPACE off Austin, TX label 12XU. “Ice Cream Shop” is my favorite song on this album– it’s catchy as hell, upbeat, - Chris Collins and it’s about ice cream– but it’s 27 seconds long. In fact, the longest song here is a minute and a half. I hope The Lemons feature longer versions of these songs on As always, for streaming vids, tracks, and even entire albums of the future releases, since it’d be fun to hear them in a more developed form.Wanna hear music mentioned above, and TONS more… look no further than it? Stream it at thelemons.bandcamp.com, then grab the tape from Gnar Records. - Sarah Moylan

W W W. B O S TO N H A S S L E .C O M ! ! ! !

On July 23 2004 the 19th annual Veterans for Peace convention was held at Emerson College on Boston Common. At the event, seven attending veterans who served during the 2003 invasion of Iraq founded the organization Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW). Since its inception IVAW has steadily grown in membership, with chapters forming across the US and abroad. Employing a decentralized cooperative leadership model, individual members and chapters have worked for peace through a variety of methods. These range from traditional advocacy, such as the Right to Heal campaign to ensure traumatized soldiers receive exemptions from additional tours of duty, to creative activism and community-building projects. In the street theater piece Operation First Casualty, veterans in combat gear patrol city streets and detain citizen (actors) to bring to the fore of public consciousness the frightening reality of urban warfare. Veterans seek cross-cultural dialogue and reconciliation in the Enemy Kitchen, where veteran and Iraqi chefs collaborate to provide Baghdadi meals, recipes and cooking lessons. IVAW’s Burlington, VT chapter initiated the Combat Paper Project to help veterans process their wartime experiences. Veterans cut their combat uniforms into small pieces and reduce them to pulp to make paper for artwork, poetry and journaling.

CALL TO ACTION:

In this month's PURE IMPACT we turn our attention to PAPERCUT ZINE LIBRARY. Please follow their situation and get in touch to see how you can help! Who is this? Papercut is a lending library in Cambridge which features over 15,000 zines. Volunteers have run the library for over 9 years, opening it to the public 4 days each week and offering workshops and other events as well. What's up? Papercut is on the lookout for a new location. Because of this, we'll be putting a freeze on check-outs (effective immediately) and ask that anyone with zines out bring 'em back asap!

Following the 2011 American withdrawal, Iraq has been in a perpetual state of violence and lawlessness. Although the 9-year occupation has ceased, IVAW’s work has not. The flourishing of their veteran community has inspired a fartherreaching vision of change:

What can you do? Watch our blog for updates, contact us if you want to help or have any ideas or resourc“We strive for a world free of unjust war – a world without the political and economic conditions allowing militarism to exist, es to offer. We look forward to hearing from local zinesters on what you want to see in Papercut's new location! and without structural forces pushing our youth, our poor and those facing incarceration into the military… We strive for a society that holds political leaders, profiteers, and war criminals accountable for the consequences of their actions… We strive for a political culture…committed to building peace and preserving life...[and] that acknowledges our nation’s moral PCZL.org // Papercut@RiseUp.net // 617-871-ZINE responsibilities to the people of Afghanistan, Iraq, and all civilians adversely affected by U.S. military intervention.” Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

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billy mcshane

morgan jesse lappin

THE BRIDGEWATER TRIANGLE It's too hot. I'm stuck on the Red Line at rush hour at Park Street; they can't get the doors shut, and I'm surrounded by sandal-wearing German tourists carrying towels and talking excitedly of der Strand. I think both of our cultures could use more foot-based shame. For those of us who prefer the darker months, all the laughter and joy of summer in Boston can be a lot to put up with. Luckily, we can to escape to somewhere much gloomier! Massachusetts is home to a shadowy region called the Bridgewater Triangle, an alleged hotbed of paranormal, extraterrestrial and criminal activity stretching between the towns of Abington, Rehoboth and Freetown. It's known for frequent UFO and ghost sightings, and also features many creatures. There are several spooky spots to check out in the triangle. If you want to dive right in, why not bring a picnic and a virgin sacrifice to the Freetown Forest? You wouldn't be the first and Satan will love it, especially if you bring a small Aryan boy! Amateur cryptozoologists will want to visit the Hockomock Swamp. The high density of the swamp's vegetation means it's an easy place to hide, and bigfoot is a shy guy. The swamp is purportedly home not only to bigfoot, but to gigantic snakes and thunderbirds…and no one knows what's lurking under the water. Finally, those interested in mysteries will want to check out Dighton Rock, a very special boulder with a dedicated museum and park. Dighton Rock is covered with ancient symbolic carvings whose meaning has never been deciphered, and origin has never been discovered. Only one thing is for sure—it's creepy, but it’s not as horrifying as strangers in flip-flops. - Rose Parry

david beyers

nick shea

sylvain delzant

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sam Potrykus MANAGING EDITORS Caitlin Kenney, Ari Shvartsman, Dan Shea, Katie McCarthy LAYOUT TEAM Rose Parry, James Staub, Anya Kanevsky, Mona Maruyama, Ev Dimmig PRODUCTION MANAGER Jay Mobley SHOW BLURBS Chris Collins, Zach Peckham ART BLAST CONTRIBUTORS Scout Hutchinson, Dana Maple, Caitie Moore, Adrienne Pizzo FILM FLAM CONTRIBUTORS Oscar Goff, Sydney Kinchen, Matthew Martens, Jon Meyer, Charlie Thaxton, Pablo Torroella TARDY EAGLE CONTRIBUTORS Christine An, Chris Braiotta, Nick Branigan, Patrick Bryant, Keira Horowitz, Angela Sawyer, TD Sidell COPY-EDITORS Jonathan Donaldson, Mick Theebs, Jeremy Marx, Drake Sherman, James Moore