Issue #66 July 2015 by Reynaldo De La Fuente

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GRASS STAINS: The Hassle’s Free Outdoor Show Series Join us this summer for GRASS STAINS, an outdoor show series. It’s FREE and it aims to leave a mark. Although each show comes and goes like any other, the STAIN will remain. Our nonprofit, BRAIN Arts is committed to doing outdoors events, booked through Boston Hassle, to remind you that this city is ours for the taking. So take it! The 6 shows we are producing during these here warmer months of 2015 are taking place in a different location each time. In May we took Ringer Park in Allston and last month we celebrated the sights and sounds of the Boston underground at the bandstand at Jamaica Pond in JP. And we will continue leaving a colorful splash of culture on otherwise underutilized spaces in Greater Boston until

the weather says “no more.” This month we’re bringing the magic up to REVERE BEACH on 7/18. We can’t yet say who will be playing but they will challenge your mind through your ears and surely make you move about. This will be the first time our shows step onto the North Shore but it won’t be the last. We like it up there. Especially during JULY. Let’s organize a carpool shall we? Several carpools. Take advantage of the precious New England nature that surrounds you as we marry it with music and performance from our realm, for just one day. The commitment is low (literally a day at the beach) and the reward is great: knowing that you are really living. That is what free, outdoor shows mean to us. GRASS STAINS TIP #1: ditch the pants and jump in the ocean. -Sam Potrykus

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Happy 6th Birthday KLYAM! 6th Anniversary Party 7/1 @ Mid East

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Sweety’s is a radical curatorial platform that prioritizes and promotes creatives of color. Run by Julia Pimes Mata, Bryan Rodriguez, Ximena Izquierdo Ugaz and Eduardo Restrepo Castaño, these sweeties’ goal is to make a home for marginalized makers through flexible programming that blurs the lines between formal and informal. How fucking sick is that tho!? You can catch Sweety’s Radio (live monthly podcast) in the final stretch of their residency in sübSamsøn (@ Samsøn Projects on Harrison Ave, DOWNSTAIRS) @ SoWA’s First Friday on 7/10, around 6:30p. And head over to sweetys.info/ + check out previous podcasts, sets by DJ Eartha Clit, upcoming events and more. Stay woke. -XXXO GG

CAMBRIDGE QUEERS THE TANGO

Ballroom dancing is one of the gender-normativiest activities out there: men lead, women walk backwards, and so on. QUEER TANGO BOSTON reminds us that it doesn’t have to be that way. If you’re into tangoing, or want to learn to tango, but could do without all the heteronormativity and cissexism, you’ll want to stop by the Democracy Center in Cambridge on Mondays at 7:30 PM. There are relatively affordable lessons for beginners and a space to practice into the evening. Stop by on July 7 for the open house and a free class! We all know it takes two, but tangoing doesn’t have to be so binary. -Josie Grove

DECIMATE YOUR EARS 7/17

If you’re like me, you’ve resorted to looking for noise in all the wrong places: AM radio, heated conversations with telemarketers, and relentless sliding of nails on a chalkboard. But the grit, and the decibel levels of these don’t cut it. Luckily, the Hassle’s ongoing series, SCORCHED EAR, has made the search much easier. This series is fully dedicated to the heavy & loud, bringing bands together from all corner of the under world. Join us Friday 7/17 w/ Sissy Spacek, Eaten, Vehement Caress, Mayor Daley, Sediment Club, Negative One and more @Elks Lodge 7:30pm All Ages $10-$15 sliding scale. It is sure to offer that delicious punishment you are after. -Rey De La Fuenta

Kids Like You and Me (KLYAM) is one of the most reliably fun labels and resources in Boston. If most bands operate on the X,Y coordinate plane, then KLYAM artists add a third axis which we could call the “bounce” axis, emblematic of a certain head-nodding, hip-shaking verve. This is true of even of the heavier bands on the label. KLYAM began its lifetime during the pits of the Great Fuzz Recession of 2009. Now, with their 6th anniversary show 7/1 @Middle East (up), they celebrate the vitality of the movement and the reversed future of the local fuzz economy. Whether the folks of KYLAM are employed I cant say for sure, but they are definitely doing their job. And we thank them. -Pete Steele

South End Coop Co-Working Space Seeks New Members! MAKE SHIFT Boston: South End Coop Co-Working Space Seeks New Members! Are you an artist without a studio, a writer without a desk, an activist without a place to gather your peeps? Make Shift Boston is looking for new members—people like you! We’re a cooperatively-run workspace centrally located at 549 Columbus Ave. We’re also a gathering, community and events space. Members are a diverse cast of artists, activists, and creative types from across disciplines. Sliding-scale dues get you access to the perfect spot to work, party, or hatch your next creative business idea. Find out more about our membership options at makeshiftboston.org/join -Jonah Rapino

UNDER THE UNDERGROUND: REPRESENTATIONS Hollywood might have the money, the distribution, and the star power, but they’re still sorely lacking when it comes to giving voice to the voiceless. In that interest, Boston Hassle and Under the Underground, the first in a series of screenings of film and video work by local artists outside the white/male/heterosexual mainstream. Screenings will be followed by performances by Alyssa Kai and other local musicians. Doors open Friday, July 10, at 9:00PM, at Out of the Blue Too Art Gallery in Cambridge. Admission is a $5-$10 sliding scale, along with a respectful and supportive attitude. –Oscar Goff

JP Porchfest Is Back! 7/11 @ Everywhere (JP) The arrival of Summer brings warm weather and the humming of a/c units in neighborhood windows. You might even notice an abundance of residents hanging out with friends and family on their porches. That summertime tradition will soon serve another purpose, as at least 72 porches in JP turn into stages. JP Porchfest will celebrate its second year Saturday 7/11 from Noon-6pm. Whether you make a day out of it or just pass on by, you can enjoy the sound of music, spoken word, storytelling, theater and more fill the air of this vibrant neighborhood. Details at JPPorchfest.org -Ethan Long

Weird/ Exp. HIP HOP, METAL, & GRAFFITI Content Advisors/ Contributors WANTED In our continuing mission to highlight the various potent aspects of underground culture here in Boston, New England, as well as nationally/ internationally, we are actively seeking the help of those more knowledgeable than we about the above mentioned areas of underground culture. Help us develop content and eventually more for each and help us to better cover and understand the amazing things that are happening in the wild spheres of exp. hip hop, metal (of all kinds and makes), and graffiti (we so NEED to point some cameras at the awesome local work that is happening). thehossboston@gmail.com - Dan Shea

GRCB City Feed Community Day

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& SUMMER SESH SHOWCASE 7/25

Do you know the next Siouxsie? The next Joan? Then check out GIRLS ROCK CAMPAIGN Boston! This righteous volunteer led nonprofit helps young women ages 8-17 build confidence and express themselves through music. Over a week, girls learn to play, form bands, and write and perform original songs LIVE at the end of the week. SUMMER SESSION #1 begins July 20th with a showcase @Brighton Music Hall 7/25. Support this awesome org by scoping the showcase and by buyin fresh goods at CITY FEED AND SUPPLY on 7/2nd when 7% of all proceeds go to support GRCB! This summer truly rocks - Emma D

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Wednesday 7/1 4-9:45pm FREE Admission @ MFA // Every Wed 6-7pm [Gallery Talk] Herb Ritts @ MFA Thursday 7/2 -----------6-9pm [Reception] TBD @ Aviary 7-10pm Art Is Life Itself @Haley House Bakery & Cafe (Roxbury) // Every Thurs 5-9pm FREE Admission @ ICA Boston // Every Thurs Friday 7/3 -------------[Free Fun Fridays] Free Admission @ Berkshire Museum (Pittsfield) @ Boston Children’s Museum

Sunday 7/5 -------------FREE Admission @ RISD Museum (PVD) 5-9pm Return of the Night Flea… @AS220 Black Box (PVD)

[ O p e n i n g Reception] COVE: Interactive Art @ Georges Island (Harbor Islands)

Time TBD Saturday 7/11-8/23 This reception will kick off this summer’s awesome Isles Arts Initiative installation called COVE. Completely unprecedented in New England, 15 regional artists will transform Georges and Spectacle islands into interactive art and music pieces. Georges Island is home to the centuries old war fortress, Fort Warren. Exploring the endless tunnels and ruins of the Fort and the artistic transformations of the space is already making us drool. Initial line up of artists includes: PAT FALCO, JAMIE HOGAN, PEAT DUGGINS and COLIN DRIESCH Located just a ferry ride away from Boston, get outta town this summer (but not really). www.BostonHarborIslands. org -Farrell Mason

Thursday 7/9 -----------5-7pm [Opening Reception] Gianna Stewart and Lydia Harris @FPAC Gallery (Fort Point) 7/2-8/31 6pm [Curator Tour] Anicka Yi: 6,070,430K of Digital Spit @MIT List Center Now-7/26 Sunday 7/12 ++++++++++++ 11am-5pm [Performance] Friday 7/10 ------------ Sandrine Schaefer @ ICA Free Fun Friday: Free Boston $15/Free for Admission @ Danforth Art Students Museum (Framingham) 5:30-9pm SoWa First Friday 7/17 Fridays @ 450 Harrison Free Fun Friday: Free Ave Galleries (South End) Admission @ MFA @ 6-8pm [Reception] Boston Fitchburg Art Museum Young Contemporaries @ 7/17 & 7/18 808 Gallery (BU) 7/10- [ F e s t 8/21 i v a l ] 6-8pm [Reading] Privacy ART BEAT Salon: The Anthology of @ Davis Surveillance Poetics @ S q u a r e Nave Gallery Now-7/25 (Somer-

ville) [SoWa 1st Friday] 6pm M A R G U E R I T E Wanna get loopy? Starting ZORACH, DAHLOV the third weekend of IPCAR & WILLIAM July, Davis Square will ZORACH transform into a hub of @Samsøñ Gallery creative expression with

Reception: 7/10, 6-8pm On view 6/19 – 8/22 Artistic talent runs in the blood of the Zorach family: Marguerite (a native Californian with an affinity for European art and travel), William (a Lithuanian-born, Cleveland-bred painter and sculptor) and Dahlov (a contemporary painter and illustrator living in Maine). The collaborative duo Marguerite and William brought their European tastes to the New York art scene via

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Monday 7/20 ------------- Monday 7/27 --------------------------------------7:30pm [Pop up] Lies 11:30 [Opens] The Enamelist Society @ 301 Gallery, Are Fine @ Industry Lab Montserrat College (Beverly, MA) (Cambridge) Thursday 7/30 ------------------------------------Wednesday 7/22 ---------- [Opens] New New England @ Gallery 263 (Cambridgeport) 6-7pm [Talk] In Relation: 7/30-8/29 Contemporary Art with Maggie Cavallo @ MFA Friday 7/31 --------------------------------------Free Fun Friday: Free Admission @ ICA @ Cape Cod Thursday 7/23 ----------- Museum of Art @ Wenham Museum

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ART BEAT. Over 75 craft vendors, dozen musical acts, dance troupes, and food carts will fill the streets for this twoday event. This year’s theme is Loops or things that go in the circular fashion. This can span from musical loops, fiber loops, dancing in circles, or hell even Fruit Loops, representing all artistic expressions and media. Check out the area’s largest art festival for all around good time! -Krystle Brown Saturday 7/18 ----------3-4:30pm [Performance] Curious Spectacle of Vast Proportions and Global Impact @ outside ICA Boston Sunday 7/19

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7/23, 7pm Free every Thurs. after 5 Artist-technologist-DJweb developer-curator RICARDO DE LIMA’s ongoing work with Spectacle Boston and the dance night Picó Picante is about creating space for interaction between different groups. De Lima’s ICA exhibition, “Another Spectacle,” continues in that vein, creating “third spaces,” public places where people can interact outside the context of home or work. De Lima will use the gallery space to facilitate conversation and collaboration across cultures and disciplines, through a series of sculptural installations. The installations will display other artists’ work, and create spaces where people can have conversations. The pinnacle of this collaborative exhibition will be the ALL VISUAL BOSTON slideshow on 7/23. BATHAUS will perform alongside a digital slideshow of lens-based moving and still images that deal with the theme of collaboration, collected from an open call for work. This event coincides with the ICA’s free Thursdays, so you won’t have to pay a dime for this heaping helping of art. www.ICA.org -Josie Grove

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Now-7/11 Above the Fold: Alumni Works in Design @ Bakalar Gallery, MassArt (Mission Hill) HackCycle @ Nave Gallery (Somerville) Now-7/18 Maria Malatesta; Marking Time @ Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) Now-7/19 Wanderlust @ Uforge Gallery (JP) Now-7/25 Survey Without Surveillance @ Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) Now-7/26 Mark Rothko’s Harvard Murals @ Harvard Art Museums Anicka Yi: 6,070,430 of Digital Spit @Reference Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Central) Eva Koťátková: Out of Sight @Hayden, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Central) Now-8/1 The Human Diorama @ 555 Gallery The Lonesome Crowded: Work by Kirk Amaral Snow @ The Distillery Gallery (Southie) Now-8/2 24 Hours in the Life of a Swiss Cuckoo Clock @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Drawing Ambience: Alvin Boyarsky and the Architectural Association @RISD Now-8/9 Jesse Arn Green: Ärztliche Zimmergymnastik @ Harvard Art Museums Fifty Works for Fifty States @ Harvard Art Museums Meleko Mokgosi @ICA Boston (Fort Point) // Free Every Thurs after 5 The 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize @ ICA Boston // Free Every Thurs after 5 Now-8/28 More Than Words: An Illustration Exhibition @ Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown) Now-9/7 Arlene Schechet: All at Once @ICA Boston (Fort Point) // Free Every Thurs after 5 Now-9/12 Jim Cambronne:: Where what is? @ Proof Gallery (Southie) 7/11-9/5 Ethan Murrow @ ICA 7/28-10/25 Lina Viste Grønli @ MIT List Center +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunday 7/12 Sandrine Schaefer performs @ ICA Boston $15 Adults/Free 4 Students

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----------------------ÑUĠS ÖƑ KNØWLẸƉGĒ Grab some grass and park it downtown for an intense edition of SHAKESPEARE ON THE COMMON with local acting heavyweight Will Lyman playing the title role of KING LEAR. From 7/22-8/9 the storm rages and the kingdom gets divided in this epic tale of power plays, family and politics, as an aged king can’t let go. FREE and open to the public // Tues-Sat 8pm, Sun 7pm www.CommShakes.org The HALLSPACE DRAWING PROJECT is back for another year offering artists the opportunity to fill a blank 28 page book with drawings, keeping in mind the concept that the book is a “container of ideas.” Deadline for submissions is 8/29. The actual show will be up 9/5-10/10. Details at www.HallSpace.org Legendary English playwright Tom Stoppard continues to challenge our everyday thoughts and conceptions in his new play THE HARD PROBLEM which focuses on the question, “What is consciousness?” From 7/17-7/19, as part of Arts Emerson’s LIVE ON STAGE series, you have the chance to watch a broadcast of the production from London’s National Theatre. Worth the $18 www.ArtsEmerson.org

7/17-1/3 Get a glimpse of the fresh talent studying textile design at RISD and see how Friday 7/24 ------------their minds travel from Free Fun Friday: Free Central Sq’s art space staple, MOBIUS has an open call for work going out for one the past to the future. Admission @ Arnold minute long solo movement pieces which will be performed 9/25 & 9/26. The timing is For the fourth edition Arboretum @ Fruitlands strict and this should be a finished work. Deadline is 8/15. Details at www.Mobius.org of this biennial exhibit, Museum (Harvard) the students are allowed 7-10pm [Reception] Let your eyes and mind wrap around some Rothko at the HARVARD ART MUSEUMS. to comb through the RISD Portrait of a City: New The artist was commissioned to make these large scale murals for Harvard back in the Museum’s expansive Asian Landscape Paintings by early ‘60s but have been hiding in their storage since ‘79, including one mural that has textile collection to Adam O’Day @ Woodman/Shimko yet to see the light of day. MARK ROTHKO’S HARVARD MURALS will be there find inspiration for their G a l l e r y ( P r o v i n c e t o w n ) along with some other works Now-7/26. $15 Adults/$10 Students/FREE to Cambridge own textile design. Their 7/24-8/6 residents/FREE Sat 10am-noon www.HarvardArtMuseums.org hand drawn and computergenerated design will This month the WORCESTER ART MUSEUM welcomes an extensive private folk art be displayed with the collection based in Central Mass. These pieces from 1800s New England were created original source of and kept as keepsakes rather than collectible art and include works by John Brewster inspiration, which range and Ruth Henshaw Bascom among others. AMERICAN FOLK ART, LOVINGLY from a Kohistani infant COLLECTED will be on view from 7/15-11/29 so hop on the commuter rail or catch a headdress to a Chinese ride to the Heart of the Commonwealth. palm-fiber raincoat. Every Sunday the museum is free ART ON THE MARQUEE is taking submissions for their 15th round of 30-second to the public, so hop on videos, animations, or computer-generated motion works. Deadline to submit is 9/7 and the commuter rail and those selected will be screening on the 80-foot, 3-sided LED screen for Southie to see :) regularly this Fall. Details at www.ArtontheMarquee.com/call-for-art/ make a day of it. www.RISDmuseum.org -CEEK -CEEK ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Intl./ 4AD (2015)

Let’s get this out of the way first and foremost: As of this exact moment, nearly halfway through 2015, Holly Herndon’s Platform is, hands down, my favorite album of the year. This will not be an objective and critical appraisal of the work at hand. I am here to gush, and gush I will. In a musical landscape littered with retrofuturist, cyberpunk/vaporwave PC Music detritus and escapist, curatorial examinations of bygone eras reminiscent more of Civil War reenactments than genuine musical movements, Herndon has done the unimaginable: She’s broken through the music-as-cosplay formula and made a record that is thoroughly, undeniably modern.

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This album is a tribute to the inescapable influence of the Internet as both a tool to drive us apart and to bring us together. It’s an examination of where this very intimate part of ourselves, the screen through which we see the world, intersects with both commerce and government. There are samples of household appliances, Skype sessions, YouTube clips, and more. Listening on Spotify, there were one or two moments where I was unsure if I was hearing the service’s rather abysmal advertisements or the artist’s satirical commentary on them. It’s hard not to

Nonetheless, this is no Luddite, Kaczynski-esque damning of technological advancement: Outside of the obvious fact that this is largely a laptop-based, electronic album, Herndon has also used technology to open up her creative process for this record to various collaborators more than ever before—not just audio and visual artists, but poets and theorists. Holly started her musical trajectory in choirs in Tennessee, followed by a long period in Berlin’s minimal-techno scene, before she moved to her current home of San Francisco, where she studies as a doctoral candidate at Stanford’s Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics. These varied influences meld beautifully on Platform. Issues of class inequality and surveillance are explored with exceptional depth and deftness. “Lonely at the Top,” in particular, takes techniques from ASMR to a place that is over-the-top and unsettling to the average person, but which seem like they would be almost natural to the “intended,” elite one-percenter audience. It’s like a purely aural episode of Black Mirror. In interviews, Herndon has made it abundantly clear what her personal opinions are in regards to surveillance, capitalism, and monoculture. I encourage you to seek them out, as I couldn't possibly summarize in this space the depth and breadth of thought that goes into creating a work this detailed and intense. All I can do is implore you to listen. Records this timely and important don’t happen frequently enough. Platform is available now from RVNG INTL. and 4AD.

- John Bittrich

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Face Records (2015)

Thee Oh Sees’ new album Mutilator Defeated at Last (Castle Face Records) is a beautiful beast. Several tracks are among the band’s heaviest shredders, but they’re also less blunt, more fluid, than many of the hard hitters on Help (2009) or Floating Coffin (2013). It also marks the return of longtime member Brigid Dawson on keys.

The first three tracks, “Web,” “Withered Hand,” and “Poor Queen,” along with middle track “Lupine Ossuary,” stand out as the most distinctly Oh Sees thanks to their swaggering grooves and fuzzed out guitars. "Withered Hand,” in particular, sinks its hooks deep, blazing through a deafening and grungy guitar line broken up by brief solos at turns dreamy and twisted.

The near seven-minute slow burner “Sticky Hulks” moves back and forth between a retro-sounding electric organ and delayed guitar, eventually climaxing in an epic but brief solo before flaming out into a carefree night. On the mellower side, there’s the instrumental “Holy Smoke,” which features a rare acoustic guitar but no lack of momentum, and the hushed falsetto and clean reverb of closer “Palace Doctor.”

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Damn. This band rules so much. Originally I discovered them through their glue-sniffing Northwest Indiana punk rste Theke Tonbrethren BIG ZIT. Totally punk r E traeger (2015) and totally weird at the same time. DEVO is an obvious band familiar, but there’ve been many bands since those Ohio freaks exploded the scene whose sounds ooze out of these electronic punk spasms made by THE CONEHEADS (GERTY FARISH, JAY REATARD, PARASITES OF THE WESTERN WORLD, and THE GIRLS and (NEW ENGLAND) PATRIOTS, the latter two of Boston, to name a few). But these Indiana people do it like only they can do it. Just like all those bands I just mentioned did it like only they could do it. THE CONEHEADS are making some really interesting punk in 2015.

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Wharf Cat (2015)

Joey Pizza Slice, sometimes known as Son of Salami, embodies everything it means to be an underground weirdo musician. No, really– if you’re into lo-fi weirdo pop music, homegrown in the moldy basements of New England (mainly Burlington, Vermont), this guy is your idol. His music is bizarre but brilliant, much of it having been produced via “eraser headless tape recording”: a method where the eraser head from a cassette recorder is removed so sounds can be dubbed over one another. It’s crude, and maybe it wouldn’t be so compelling if Joey wasn’t such a generally mysterious human and brilliant songwriter. “Pretty Girls”, from A Study in Eraser Headless Tape Recording was created using this method and is, almost conclusively, his piece de resistance. “Pretty girls are a waste of time/’cause they’re boring, and they don’t have to try…pretty girls are a motherfucker! Happiness is a motherfucker!” he laments, to a catchy-as-hell pop beat.

“Pretty Girls” is so definitively Joey Pizza Slice that it almost seems Mutilator Defeated is as compositionally dynamic as Drop (2014) and strange that any other band would try to cover it. But Parquet Courts Floating Coffin, but also captures the psychotropic haze and nocturnal (indie rockers who hail from Austin but have been known to inhabit warmth of earlier albums, an atmosphere that had thinned on recent L.P .1. aka “14 Year Old High School PC-Fascist Hype Lords Rip Off Devo some of the same clubs and basements as Joey on occasion) nail it on recordings, which turned to a more high-octane, more manic direction. for the Sake of Extorting $$$ from Helpless Impressionable Midwestthis split single. Maybe it’s a little strange to hear a guitar line for this What makes this album great is how it brings these qualities together ern Internet Peoplepunks L.P .” came out earlier this year, just one of a song instead of fuzzy bleep-bloops, but it really works, and so do the into something as heavy as a neutron star but also smooth and graceful. rash of releases by THE CONEHEADS in the last eight months. These calculatedly apathetic vocals. -Damon Hastings guys are simply doing their thing, and I like it. “Waste of Space” is a top performer. Reatard vibes in some of the chord changes with a great “ooh On the flip side, Joey Pizza Slice puts his own strange, occasionally This ooh”–type of section and a demanding early rock ’n’ roll synth stab. “Big newest record from barely-intelligible spin on Parquet Courts’ “Picture of Health”. It’s a surCity Baby” represents a different sound of sorts, a punk rock ’n’ roll that Portland-by-way-of-Detroit synth maestro prisingly rocking track for Joey– he uses guitar samples, seemingly from makes me think of ALTERNATIVE TELEVISION or something. The weird Matthew Akers is Lacerate b/w O.B. a the original song– but it’s a great foil for his distinctive, nasal falsetto. punk is very special to me and always has been. Out on Erste Theke two-track lathe released in an edition of Pretty Girls/Picture of Health has been getting some attention, likely Tontraeger, a label out of Tübingen, Germany. Stay weird you CONE70 earlier this year as part of the second because Parquet Courts, who have gained a healthy national following, HEADS . . . and you gotta play Hassle Fest 7, ’kay? round of releases on Syncro System haven’t released any new music in a while. But for us appreciators of the -Dan Shea weird music scene here in New England, it’s thrilling to see an underRecordings. While releases like the phenomenal Tough To Kill LP or the cassette A History of Arson show ground icon get some recognition. Let’s watch Joey Pizza Slice take over M. Akers in more familiar territory, soundtrack worship ranging from the films of Brian De the world. Palma to low-budget action films, Lacerate b/w O.B. instead finds him delving into the world of Detroit tech-Sarah Moylan MATTHEW AKERS no. The a-side sounds more directly like a Kraftwerk song set to an almost bouncy techno beat, while the b-side moves k L acerate b/w O.B. into full-on Detroit techno area sounding a lost track from one of the Belleville Three or, more likely, Eddie Fowlkes. Hopefully we can expect more releases in this vein from M. Akers, but in the meantime keep your eyes peeled for the slab. Hopefully a few copies are still available. A number of Akers releases, including Whitest Hunters Blackest Hearts, are coming f S yncro System Rein the near future, so if you missed out on Lacerate b/w O.B., don't miss out on what's next. -Chris Defalco

cordings (2015)

In the late 1970’s a popular uprising known as the Sandinista movement overthrew the oppressive Samosa dictatorship in Nicaragua. The new government set up social programs for the impoverished Nicaraguan population including literacy training, hydroelectric power, and efficient wood stove technologies in rural villages. The Sandinistas established an inclusive form of government where women were involved in political organization as well as the armed forces.

In the Cold War political climate of the early 1980s, the Reagan Administration denounced the people’s uprising as a form of socialist government that would eventually ally with communist forces; not to mention that American industries profiting from the extraction of Nicaragua’s raw materials were adversely affected by the fall of the Samosa regime. Consequently, the United States government sold weapons to Iran and used the profits to arm the counter-revolutionary military forces in Nicaragua without public knowledge or Congressional approval! When these facts came to light, they became a rallying point for political activists.

On July 4th, 1984, one such Boston-based activist, Carl Kurz, traveled to Nicaragua with a vision of providing the people with bikes —not bombs. Kurz understood that in developing nations when automobiles become the dominant form of transportation, many people wouldn’t be able to afford their own cars. Bikes on the other hand, if made readily available would provide a safer, more accessible alternative. As a result of his visit, Kurz and fellow activists founded Bikes Not Bombs. Through a partnership with the Organization of Disabled Revolutionaries, they began distributing donated bicycles, teaching bicycle maintenance, and establishing bike shops to create viable transportation infrastructure and economic opportunities for Nicaraguans.

Since their inception, Bikes Not Bombs has evolved into a multi-faceted organization, “using the bicycle as a vehicle for social change”. Their initial focus working with international partners to collect used bicycle donations and ship them to the Global South has expanded to include programs here in Boston, which “provide skill development, jobs and sustainable transportation” for urban youth. The Bike-a-thon annual fundraiser garners support from the greater Boston community, galvanizing the collective efforts of diverse social activists and cyclists alike. If you enjoy hanging out with awesome people and getting involved with a worthy cause, check out a volunteer night from 7-10 PM every Thursday at their Hub location in the Brewery Complex of Jamaica Plain! Scott Mizrachi • This Month in Boston Counter-Cultural History

"A WHITE HOT NIGHT OF HATE - IT'S PURE IMPACT!" Fresh from their Mexico tour the pogo never stops! Boston based pogo machine WHO KILLED SPIKEY JACKET? will be embarking across the US this month with Tokyo Street Punks THE ERECTIONS. You can catch them on their Boston date July 9th at Hardcore Stadium in Cambridge with a bill of solid locals. July 10th UK Punk legends ACTIVE MINDS play at Boston's newest DIY space Non Factory with THISCLOSE(scotland), LOTUS FUCKER(dc) and PEACEBREAKERS (Ask a Punk!). Can't get enough of PEACEBREAKERS? Catch them the following day at the Boiler Room supporting NYC's VANITY. PURE DISGUST(dc) comes through the Boiler Room July 22nd with support from Western Mass's DEPTHS OF REALITY. Speaking of UK Punk legends, STIFF LITTLE FINGERS will be playing July 12th at the Sinclair in Harvard Sq. On the darker side of Boston Punk SADIST will be performing at The Satanic Temple's Baphomet statue unveiling party in Detroit on July 25th along with WOLF EYES and OhGr of SKINNY PUPPY (transportation is available for interested parties, get in touch!) and HUMAN BODIES will be gearing up for a 6 week full US tour. IGNORE ROCK'N'ROLL HEROES will be having it's grand opening this month of our private shop as well as organizing Punk community events around the city. Keep your ear to the ground! Have a band, label, zine, distro or other Punk/Underground project in town and want to set up consignment with IRRH? Contact: SuffocatingMadness@gmail.com We Buy/Sell/Trade New, Used and Rare Punk/Undergorund/DIY/Occult/Outsider/Unique music, literature and gear. Get in touch!

CINDERBLOCK MEMBERS: (???) INFLUENCES: UK82 and Oi! LYRICAL CONTENT: Anti Police, violence, animal liberation and nuclear disarmament. We still believe in anarchy. RELEASES: Cinderblock 6 song demo 2015 tape.

FUTURE: We have recently recorded a 7" single of our song "Voiceless" as well as various covers of vegan crust songs played in our own Cinderblock style. This release will benefit the vegan outreach group The Humane League. We are also finishing up songs for an LP that we plan to tour on. CLOSING STATEMENT: The bricks we use to build are the bricks we use to destroy. Cinderblock. Oi!

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com  August Submission Deadline 7/19  For last minute shows and changes check out the Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com and follow us on Fascistbook. Whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there.

Friday 3 Get your weekly dose of weird as Jobs come in from Brooklyn with their experimental postcore noise. With ominous guitars and anxious textures that are sure to melt your brain. Home Body bang out intense, shimmery electronic jams with pulsating beats, sequencers, and Korgs that teeter on the edge of implosion. Straight aural chaos going down @The Brick House (Turners Falls)  One of Boston’s first contributors to the booming early nineties shoegaze scene, the Swirlies, return with their loud, jangly guitars and ethereal vocals. Alongside overdriven noise pop Bostonians Kudgel, these two bands have been cranking out ear-blistering tracks since before anyone now in high school was even born. Get earplugs and check out these local legends @Great Scott 9PM 21+ $12-14  AWKPOP: Salty Speakers Presents: Rick Rude, Bunny’s A Swine, Kiss Concert, Ramblin Sal @Hotel Vernon (16 Kelley Square, Worcester MA) $ome Cost Saturday 4 It’s time to celebrate the declaration of indepenDANCE! The sonic fireworks begin with some fuzzed-out garage punk at the first annual Lower Allston Rock and Roll Speedtrial with Nice Guys, Dinoczar, Black Beach, Miami Doritos, Pucker Up, Charlie, Ian, Grave Ideas, and Johnnie & the Foodmasters. Location?? Well, trust me, you’ll be able to hear it all the way from 1776. And if you’re looking for an alternative to the busy Boston 4th and that weird hotdog smell that permeates the general area (seriously, what IS that?), then you’ll want to load up on the three B’s – bands, beer and BBQ at the RATSKELLAR, featuring a mellow, smokey rib rack of music with Rick Rude, Bunny’s A Swine, Comma and Little My @Ratskellar, 5pm All Ages Sunday 5 Holy Crap fer-Realzies? I thought Death Grips wuz dead like Snake Pliskin (er..I guess they wuz) aaaand of course, “Sold Out,” already @Paradise Rock Club as I write this… KHAAAAAAAAAAN!!!  Okay. Deep breath. No problem. Sexy, Sexy, and I mean “SEXY” party-party little lover tonight over @Great Scott with Earthquake Party, The Nude Party, Secret Lover and Little Spoon. Cheap too… a’ight… FU Death Grips. 9PM 19+ $5 Monday 6 Glub, glub, glub. I can’t breathe. I’m underwater and I forgot my scuba gear. Good thing Dick Diver is bringing a spare tank from Australia along with some music and instruments. Cool, I’m feeling a lot better now. I am no longer going to drown. I will breathe underwater now and listen to the rest of the show. Locals, Minidresses, American Echoes, and Germ House will play music for me and I will be underwater listening. A great night of pop and rock and music. Underwater. @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10  If I wanted to stay overground and not go underwater, then I would definitely go and see Black Beach. They would make me feel really heavy and my neck would feel heavy and I would swing my head back and forth quickly. I would also do this while Idiot Genes, Trunkweed, and Puzzle Mansion were playing. It is a good punk show and everyone will

donations welcome.  GRANITE AND ROLL: Salty Speakers Presents: Rick Rude, Little My, and Feral Jenny @Zuzu 21+ $ome Cost  EXPERIMENTEEZEE SQUEEZY: The Modern Voice, Fable Grazer, Gamma Pope and Ghoul Eyes @ Midway Cafe, 8pm, 21+, $5 Tuesday 7 Guitars get chopped up and fed through the proverbial meat grinder as locals the Channels bring their choked, strained hairballs of sound to Out of the Blue Too tonight. Montreal distortion wizards Harsh Reality and the Blooms, an offshoot of the buzzing basement dwellers Rosie and the Rosies, will join them for what promises to be an extremely visceral evening. @Out of the Blue Too 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  Elsewhere, we’ve got a cacophony worthy of a summer afternoon thunderstorm as Katie McShane brings together the acrobatic and operatic strings of Meaner Pencil (NYC), the noodled acoustics of Brittle Brian, and the corrosive sludge of Worcester’s OJ, and the Andy Miami Ensemble to celebrate the First You’sday of the month @Midway Cafe 8pm $5 21+  LOCALLY-SOURCED ROCK CANDY: Allston Pudding Presents: Holiday Music, Sneeze, Chandos, Soft Fangs @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $8 Wednesday 8 What happens when our musicians make it? Well, they move away… but often enough, they come back and play sweet tunes for their hometown homies. Let’s welcome back Americana darling Eilen Jewell, tonight with Dietrich Strause @Sinclair 7PM 18+ $20  Fling yourself into storytelling tonight, or whatever other weird shit only you can do like you do. Believe you me friend, Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer is a welcome wagon of weird frontiersfolk. Also, FREE WIFI!!! @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free  REGGAEPHONE: Fulah and Rebel Alliance @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 Thursday 9 Summer’s in full swing, so when you’re done soaking up the sun why not pack up your beach shit and head to a couple shows like this delectably delicious head bangers’ ball put on by Illegally blind where LA thrash rockers Meatbodies will be joined by local stalwarts Kal Marks, tight trifecta Zip Tie Handcuffs, and the fun-loving lofi garage psych of Midriffs @Mid East Up 8PM 18+ $10-12  Fuck your sunburn, there is just too much awesomeness happening tonight to sit at home in an aloe bath, so buck up and go see chunky grunge rockers Life Partners play with

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Thursday 2 It’s Christmas in July as the Symptoms release their new album “Lens,” a gift to the world if you will, and they’re celebrating with a good ol’ fashioned release party hosted by Illegally Blind alongside ethereal electra-folk duo Skinny Bones and BUFU Records’ Tall Juan. Treat yo delf @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10  There’s another crunchy option for your brain matter tonight as your dear friends here at the Boston Hassle bring down surreal popsters Grape Room from my old stomping ground in VT alongside fellow Green Mountaineers the Lentils and NYC’s Jobs. Come early and make some friends or check out the art, its rad @Out of the Blue Too Gallery 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  GENRE PAINT SPLATTER: The Hotelier, Adult Mom, Eye Witness, Greg Mckillop @ Flywheel Arts Collective  EXPERIMENTAL PSYCH PUNK SESH: Salty Speakers Presents: Gnards + Walrus + Waco Sparkler + Bellwire @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost

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Wednesday 1 Our very very favorite Fagettes fallout-band the Barbazons plays tonight with the undeniably Nice Guys plus Atlantic Thrills AND G. Gordon Gritty. Let’s just say, somebody has been planning this locals-only punkfest for a while (I’m looking at you KLYAM!) @Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $10  No no no no no… NO! This is NOT GBO! (actually, it’s every bit as dope tho.) MFA kicks off its summer music series with Ghost Train Orchestra (NYC) supported by Debo-homies Wax & Gold. Think experimental N’awlins Jazz meets World, virtuosos all around @MFA 7:30PM all ages $30 ($24 w/memb. card)  HOOKED ON LYRICS: Elisa Ambrogio, the Lentils, Grape Room @13th floor music lounge 9PM 18+ $6-9  GURU of JUJU: King Sunny Ade @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $28-35  THE BIG KAPOWSKI: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free

the always crazy, always catchy, always celestial Planet of Adventure. It’ll be an experience @The Plough and Stars 10PM All Ages FREE!  POPPY PUNK WITH AN EDGE: Salty Speakers Presents: Tied To A Bear + Cool Parents + Charles @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost  SHOEGAZEY POP ROCK: Infinity Girl, Lubec, Guillermo Sexo, Havania Whaal @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10  NOISE EXPLOSION: Sonic Osmosis #2: Improvised Noise from a Free Assembly (A Monthly Series) @Out of the Blue Too Gallery, 7pm, All Ages, $3-10 Sliding Scale  PSYCH EXTRAVAGANZA: Eye Design Summer Showcase w/Magic Island, Horsehands, Doug Wartman (last show as a local) Cookout on the patio till 10PM! @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8  NEW TUNES AND OLD FAVES: Boston Hassle Presents… The Forgotten Jam tape release, Streight Angular, Steep Leans, and maybe Gracie @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10  HARDCORE EXPLOSION: VIOLENT PARTY VOL. 75 The Erections (Tokyo spiky punk), Who Killed Spikey Jacket?, Sunshine Ward, Video Filth, and Eastern Bloc @Cambridge Elks Lodge 6:30-10:30pm All Ages 21+ with ID to drink  INSTRUMENTAL NOISE: L. Lewis (PVD), Xerome (PVD), Dinnerss @SBC 9pm All Ages $5 Friday 10 Negative Insight Productions presents ripping fast, edgy punk rock and hardcore in Roxbury… do you need another reason to be here? It’s a UK invasion as poli-punks Active Minds and thrashy dudes Thisclose drop in to make your ears (and their fingers) bleed. From our side of the pond, Peacebreakers slap you in the face with their old-school Boston Hardcore. Baltimore’s Lotusfucker embrace the hard, fast, East Coast aesthetic with brutal riffs and bare-knuckle aggression @Non Factory, Roxbury 7pm All Ages $1  Back and rested from EU-tourin’, Mr Airplane Man (absolute SICKest OG-blues-duo locals) head this brash-blues-garage-trifecta with the Monsieurs and Party Pigs @Cuisine En Locale 8pm All Ages $12 adv $15 dos.  INDIEPOP WITH CLASSIC VIBES: Lord Jeff + tba @13th Floor Music Lounge  THE GREEN RIVER FESTIVAL: Chuchito Valdes, Maku Sound System @Green River Festival (Greenfield, MA)  CANADIAN FOLKROCK: Martha Wainwright, Zs (outdoor show) @ ICA 6:30PM All Ages $25  CONNECTICUT COOL SHOW: Idm Theftable, Bromp Treb, Montana Big Boys Reunion and more @Willimantic Records (CT) 6pm All Ages FREE INSTORE! So please bring funds for the band and buy records!  INFECTIOUS BEATS: Bok Bok, Jam City, Fens @Good Life 10PM 21+ $10

Tuesday 14 The bands on Illegally Blind’s bill tonight are so stylistically aligned they could be conjoined quadtuplets. Heaters (MI) pitch choppily sunny guitars and luscious harmonies over an enticing lo-fi murk, while Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion! would have been the perfect soundtrack to a vintage Bond movie if Bond wore exclusively Hawaiian shirts instead of suits. Wakes and Future Spa will also be in attendance. Come out tonight to witness the synergy of four groups that could probably finish each other’s songs, to very satisfying effect @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10  Quirky popexperimentalists Every Kim Parcell head up a show with arts-and-crafty Atlantean guests Faun And A Pan Flute and psychedelic siblings Alosi Den @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $5-10  NonEvent presents: Arian S @Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5  Spitting Black, Arbor, Axe Hoarder, Movie on the Way Down 9PM 21+ $7  RI GIG: Sissy Spacek (LA), Clean, Pool, Tinnitus Stimulus, Sarin Addict (debut of new noisegrind project with members of Suffering Bastard and Kintaan) @Penny Gaff Wednesday 15 A rare glimpse of the Creature From Dell Pond is foretold tonight by the Fortean Times! No shit Holmes, if you dig locals like Lair and Count Zero, then you’ll be wanting to check this show backed by Oshwa, Prof. Caffeine, Ivory Wax, Fools Rush @O’Briens 8PM 18+ $8  There’s a good chance you’ll see somebody tonight who’s gonna make it on some wit-com or irrationalityTV show one day… an’ IT COULD BE YOU!!! Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free Thursday 16 Art is fulfilling, people! It’s good for the soul, and when you add music to the mix that shit is bound to explode in a veritable torrent of good vibes. So get up and come out to to witness the party rock rhythms of Jaill who are prepped to tear it up at OOTB2 with Boston’s post punk shredders Lady Bones, the echoey garage gems of Blinders and the ‘60s-style jams of the geographically confusing L.A. Jeff (from Cambridge) @Out of the Blue Too Gallery 8PM 18+ $10  For a more lowkey, yet still all around feelgood time, go check out Elvis Depressedly, who have dragged their scuffling, earnest lofi pop up from North Carolina to fill a kiddie pool with tranquil sincerity for us to jump into. Joining them at this serene snafu is Don Giovanni’s solemn and inspirational Mitski plus the percussion heavy, electronically infused pop rock of Eskimeaux @Cuisine En Locale 7PM All Ages $12-14  BACKWOODS INDIE FOLK: Salty Speakers Presents: Lisa/Liza + Amanda Glasser + Peter Squires + Little My @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost Friday 17 Some crazy shit goes down in Central Square on a Friday night, but none of it compares to Sorched Ear presented by Boston Hassle. A night full of straight head-pounding noisecore and blastbeats featuring Sissy Spacek, Eaten, Vehement Caress, Mayor Daley, Sediment Club

Saturday 18 Tonight in Providence, it’s psychedelic sound in the round with Yonatan Gat. Cozy up to their center stage and let the international trio take you out into space, then back into the center of your mind, then out into space again, then to some tripped-out place no one even has a name for yet. With them are Good Lord, Twin Foxes, and the Hurt Ensemble @AS220 (Providence!) 9pm All Ages $7  Meanwhile, a little closer to home, our very own Hassle is putting out a night of trancey ambient noise guaranteed to put you among the rings of Saturn for a lot less than NASA’s going rate – and with a much better record collection at hand (because really, who wants to listen to the Blue Danube Waltz again?). It’s World Cup, Goodwill Smith, Eartheater and Jazz Massagers @Deep Thoughts 8:30 pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Sunday 19 Ahhhhh The Forgotten Jam, freshly returned from TGD’s Fare Thee Well in Chi-town, no doubt are gonna be high as kites and kickin’ out jams tonight like NEVER before. Come see them play with surf-ambient soulmates Viewers Of, Nomen Novum (GA) and Total Discharge (PA) @Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ $ome Cost. With luck, the spirit of Jerry will be with us all tonight. Don’ be late. Monday 20 No matter how much fun you had during the last weekend, it is now Monday and you’re bummed and I’m bummed and who knows if the next weekend will ever come. Sulk through this Monday if only to save energy for what promises to be a high energy rampage. Those pesky (N.E.) Patriots keep coming back, despite numerous cease and desist letters. Toupee brings the heat with psychedelic punk (that’s right, I said it and I mean it) from Chicago. Guerilla Toss comes back to Boston (don’t be too harsh on them for moving, they are still great people) with their axes sharp, though maybe stinky the harsh smell of NYC garbage. Who caps off the night but the always tight, always rowdy What Cheer? Brigade bringing the cool marching band vibes from Providence. Wow, cool show. @Middle East Upstairs 8PM All Ages $8-10  Really great music not your scene? What about other really great music? OK cool thank you for compromising. Gracie gears up to release the new record on BUFU with some other local buddies Jim Leonard, Steep Leans, and Mini Dresses. Wow cool, two shows in one night how will you ever decide? @Charlie’s Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5 Tuesday 21 Time for some pre-show calisthenics. Take leg and lunge it out. Farther… just a little farther… Bam! You stretched all the way to Pawtucket, RI! It wasn’t that far after all, and now you’re limbered up and ready to dance to the bonkers noise of Black Pus, Container, Sun Foot, Ice Balloon, and Dungeon Broads @Machines With Magnets 9pm All Ages $ome Cost  Epic-Alert! Epic-Alert! HCmetalpop heroes Planes Mistaken for Stars with Dirty Bangs. True ‘nuff, this show shoulda been All-Ages, but 18+ is mostly what you can get @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10 Wednesday 22 You can’t make new Bugs Bunny ‘toons no more. It jus’ don’ work! Similarly, nobody these days seems to be able to make sweet funky ‘70s love with the guitar like Shuggie Otis @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $20-22  Hey there W. MA! You got plenty of groovy local shit to listen to. We all know it. Tonight you also get not only Chicago’s art-surfy Toupee, but also our Southern cousins Sediment Club...you lucky ducks! @John Doe Jr. Bookstore (Greenfield) WEIRD ‘N WILD: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free  THE OTHER TWINS: Mr. Twin Sister, Moon King @The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA)  GWAR’S HORNS!: Revolutionary Snake Ensemble with guest Jason Palmer @MFA 7:30PM All Ages $ome Cost Thursday 23 Get ready, pop tart, because two-time traveling dream weavers are coming to Boston to sprinkle some airy, delicate audio blossoms on our sweaty brows. Mr. Twin Sister bring their brand of funky, experimental ‘80s tinged industrial pop to the party alongside the fine and feathery offerings of Canada’s Moon King @Mid East Up 8PM 18+ $14  But don’t forget it is in fact Thursday which means our bro’s Salty Speakers have a little hootenanny for us north of the border in NH, where Texas hardcore heroes Drug Dogs will slam you to the ground in the pit (with love of course). New Hampshire’s darkwave demons Teratoma will keep things lighter alongside Wootown pyschsters Secret Lover and the sweet jams of Everets @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost  GUITAR GURU: Shuggie Otis @The Iron Horse (Northampton) Friday 24 It’s Friday night… let the beat control you as Boston Hassle and Open Loop host SCANNERS, your best bet for the freshest subterranean booms and blips Boston has to offer.

Join Davey Harms (Mincemeat) for this record release and get corrupt with the syncopated rhythms and sultry harmonics of Dinnersss, Sitting Adult and DJ Wont @Deep Thoughts 9pm $5-$10 sliding scale.  Up with Punks! Yeehaw! (no, I mean, that is the band’s name), Just Friends (tour kickoff), “Perspective, a lovely hand to hold” (NH… also, the band’s name-phrase), Choke-Up, and Hoover Flags @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $7-$10. No Drugs. No Alcohol. No dummys. Respect each other. Respect this awesome space.  FOLKY JANGLES: Pupppy, O-Face, Stove (mem Ovlov) @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8  LO-FI GARAGE: Mystery Train Records (Amherst) INSTORE w/ Shrinnirs, Estey Organ (ron schneiderman), Colby Nathan (pats), and Tom Kovacevic @MT Amherst 5:30pm All Ages Free (Bring donations for traveling bands) Saturday 25 July in Boston is a funny time. When the air is so thick you can barely breathe and it feels like you’re walking around under a heavy blanket at all times, possibly while doing a job interview (hence the sweat), there’s no better place to be in the middle of the woozy day than at a show where the action is hot and heavy and the drinks are cold. At the Midway Cafe we’ve got a sludgey, hard-hittin’ night with Sounds of the Fallen, Dive Into the Sun, Blood Knife and the Drop @Midway Café 4pm 21+ $7  Noise rock legends are coming together to worship aggressive grooves and let loose as Boston Hassle presents the Channels, Doomsday Student (RI), Cellular Chaos (NYC), and Bukkake Moms (Denton, TX) @First Baptist Church (JP) 8-11pm All Ages $10  MONSTERS OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK MEGA TOURRR: Primus, Dinosaur Jr., The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger @ Blue Hills Bank Pavilion 7PM $35-65 Sunday 26 Tonight appears to be “bands by another name” night @Midway Cafe with Dwight Snake (aka Township?), Charlie Davidson and the Chuck Wagon Gang (aka Slim Jim ATMC?), plus Jeremy Moses Curtis (aka Jeremy Moses Cur...oh, wait, that’s like, his real name I think). Fer real tho, these are some fucking musicians playing here tonight, 9PM 21+ $7. Monday 27 Awesome, your sister’s exboyfriend dropped out of Reed College and is back in town selling shrooms. Reduced rate? Score! Now’s a chance for you and your friends to “really figure it out.” We’re all leaving next year. I’ll miss you guys so much. You have been like family to me. Really, I mean it. Let’s all see one last show for old time’s sake. Beat Awfuls, Jovantes, Herbcraft, and Bong Wish are playing. Whoa they sounds so cool okay I will go will it be psychedelic and will I have good visuals to this music? Yes. @ZUZU 9PM 21+ $5-10 Suggested Donation Tuesday 28 In general, WMass is the bucolic ying to Boston’s bustling urban yang, but tonight flizips the scrizipt as the frenetic Philly crew known as Dark Thoughts are primed to demolish whatever TBD spot ends up hosting them. Two of Western and Central Mass’ own most illustrious shredders, Rogue Trooper (from Hadley) and Kiss Concert (Worcester), join them for the aural equivalent of taking a hairpin turn at full speed. This is a GUT FREAK GIG  MONSTERS OF ALTERNATIVE ROCK MEGA TOUR II: Primus, Dinosaur Jr., The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger @Mountain Park (Holyoke, MA)  Bombino @The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA)  Marriages, Creepoid @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10 Wednesday 29 If you need a check in your “world music” category in order to keep your Renaissance Person licence from expiring, let this be the show that does it. North Africa’s answer to Jimi Hendrix comes to town. Bombino @ Sinclair 7PM 18+ $20-22  Bent-vocals impresario Jeff Burke brings the garage-pop fondue tonight so bite down on that spork and run on over to Allston son, there’s cheese in dem dar hills! Radioactivity, Casanovas In Heat, Laika’s Orbit, Conmen @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8  VAUDEVILLE MINI: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free Thursday 30 Your choice is an easy one tonight as there are two unique experiences waiting for you to dive into, the first being the oh-so-special, oh-so-recurring Salty Speakers spectacular featuring the experimental, psych folk wanderings of Vesper plus the always appealing sonic arrangements of Oh, Oh, Ecstasy, the swaying smoothness of Tommy and the Dreams and the spastic Lulu Moolah @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost  Do you know what an ampersand is? Fun fact, it’s the symbol for the word “and” but it’s ALSO a concert series put on by WMBR and the Visual Arts Center that is happening TONIGHT with poppy percussion folksters Cuddle Magic and the jazzy jams of Tom Greenberg. Expand your horizons @MIT Bartos Theatre 8PM All Ages $3 Friday July 31 It’s almost August; get yourself drenched in sunny, trebleridden indie rock with Philadelphia lo-fi innovators Clap Your Hands Say Yeah. These dudes mastered the shrewd use of the internet to leverage a grassroots following before most people even had a Myspace. Props. Currently on tour in support of the tenth anniversary of their self-titled debut album @Brighton Music Hall 7PM $18+ $20  Yikes! This is how I always WANTED Latin music to sound like. I am dead curious which hall @ICA they are gonna throw this dance party in. It better not be the amphi. That’d be a damn shame. Picó Picante Presents: Otto Von Schirach & more 6:30PM all ages $20

Monday 13 If you hate gender as much as I do, you should be getting excited about this show. Forget what they taught you in school, and prepare yourself to cross your legs and nod your head like a human. Adult Mom, Purchase, NY waterdrinkers, are hauling over their bedroom pop popping all over the bedroom and every room in the house. Lady Queen Paradise, Pasture Dog, and Judy Chong all bring lo-fi confessional solo tunes to the kitchen table. Oh, and Ellen from Palehound will be playing songs too! With this show couldn’t be any better. @Grandma’s House All Ages $8  Anyways, if you DO like your gender, you could go see a bunch of men and women playing rock and roll. Park Slug has curated a show with some of Boston’s best men and women playing just that type of music for the evening. Bent Shapes, Babydriver, and Cheat Sheets will play guitars and drums and basses and instruments and they will play them and they will play rock and roll @ Charlies Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5

and Negative One and more. More sludgy thrash than Cambridge can handle. This isn’t a joke; your ears will literally be scorched beyond repair after a million short songs and brutal screams @Elks Lodge $10-$15 sliding scale All Ages 7:30pm  For something just a little lower key, go across the street as Illegally Blind Presents the unpredictable and angular songs of Boston’s sweethearts Pile. Joining them and bringing all flavors of freakbeats, reverb, and psychedelics are Creaturos, Vundabar, Stove and Milk @Middle East Downstairs 8PM 18+ $12  ARKANSAS COUNTRY FOLK: Iris Dement @The Iron Horse (Northampton, MA)  POPPYCHILLWAVE: How to Dress Well, Buke and Gase @ICA 6:30PM All Ages $25

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Sunday 12 Things just been plain ‘ol cra-cra up in the TT lately. Pixies would have to play a surprise show there when I’m outta the country. Nevertheless, some undead bear still seems to be haunting the ol’ cave and shows keep a comin’. Tonight, Boston’s answer to ZZ-Top: The Dead Trains, plus Peachpit, Idiot Genes, The Dying Falls and Handsome Mansion @TT the Bear’s 8:15PM 18+ $10 So… is this, like, a punk-pop squat now?  Quite often, the best punk you can hear is when OG-punks come to town. Stiff Little Fingers has been rockin’ Belfast, Bath and Beyond since most punks you know were wearing diaper pins... in their diapers. Latest album bodes well for this show with The Warning Shots and Trophy Lungs. Do you like The DKMs? They’ll prolly be at this show, moshin’ up a storm. @Sinclair 7:30PM 18+ $20

Saturday 11 It’s that time of year again. The Green River Festival is happening in Greenfield MA and Tune-Yards, J. Mascis, Antibalas, Charlie Parr and so many, many more will be tearing it up all weekend. $99.99 for tickets to the full weekend of mind-bending music, food, beer and wine and hot air balloons. Float away at the Greenfield Community College from July 10-12. But maybe you’re not a floaty balloon-river person. Maybe you need something a little dirtier and grittier and mumblier and rain-sodden. Maybe you need something a little more… Seattle. If that’s the case, then the grungey jams of Mudhoney are probably more your speed. They’ll be getting the fuzz on with openers White Dynomite @Brighton Music Hall, 8pm 18+ $25

issue #24 JuLY 2015 tardyeagle.com submissions / ?s / etc.: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com

by KEIRA HOROWITZ and CRONOS (TIMELORD)

I have trouble getting rid of my old, gross bras that don't even fit. What does this mean?

You need advice. Ask Keira & Cronos: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com or anonymously at tardyeagle.tumblr.com/ask

"What do you mean, some people have eggs inside them? Then why can't I buy them at the store?" - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

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CRONOS: In the future this will become a major problem for DNA security. Cells harvested from internet underwear will be used to seed crops of clone people. Your dad will ask you to visit his summer home to discuss a secret project he was involved with in the fifties. Do you have a sister? What happened to her underwear? Why does it always smell like Marlboros in here? Unless you want to be woken up by hologram calls in the middle of the night from genetically parallel doppelgangers, CRONOS suggests finding an alternate mode of income generation.

We are v interested in taking a look at & possibly printing your 400 words-ish brain blobs, your black & white drawings, your dumb Photoshops, games, puzzles, you know, printable stuff. Deadline for August issue = 7/15 but we do take things on a rolling basis.

CRONOS: Sentiment is the refuge of total turds. David Letterman isn't sentimental, and he's been in the business for well over 80 years. Do you really want to be a Leno? Or even worse, a Daly? Or even worse, that babywoman on Kathie Lee and Hoda who gives them Twitter updates? That asshat cries on the train home from work. Kathie Lee is so mean. Does Hoda really like it? Did Regis?? No. Be the whip, not the bitch.

KEIRA: Eh, why not? Use that old box of bras. Send this note with each one: "This bra once belonged to a young girl with cheap rent and big dreams." Fill the rest of the note with the lyrics to "Somewhere Out There" from An American Tail.

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KEIRA: Take the bras and put them in a box under your bed. Save your pennies if you can and go to that bra whisperer store or some other fancy lingerie place (there's one in Harvard Sq. that I like). Drink one glass of alcohol if you want before, but not more than that. No matter how awkward you feel, let the ladies do the fitting stuff. If there is a heavily pregnant and or older employee, go to her. Only buy one bra (or none if you are broke). Memorize the brands and sizes and buy them on eBay. Oprah was so fucking right. A bra that fits is going to make you feel like a million bucks. You will never touch the box of old bras.

Should I just sell my underwear on the internet? I want to stay in my neighborhood but my rent's going up. A gal only has so many hours in the week that she can secretary.

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local COMEDY PICKS! Fine Line Comedy

WEDNESDAY, JULY 1 AT 9:30pm Bella Luna/Milky Way • 284 Amory St., JP $5 • 21+

We like Fine Line Comedy because it encourages risk-taking comedy, like, no jokes about yappy wives and lack of blowies. The Fine Line team curates lineups including the most interesting comics in the area. Hosted by the hilarious and delightful Casey Malone, this month's show features standup from Zach Armentrout and Chris Nakis, and improv from Me Me Too Too (Ari Stern and Shawn Musgrave) and Bald Eagle (Amy Click and Mickey McCauley (they are moving obv go see them pls)).

stadium comedy

TUESDAYS AT 8pm

Beach Ball

God's Tongue

Gorga, Lord of Slime

Starfish

A Cool Rock

A Towel

Binky, Demon Overlord

Bossy Child

Pool Noodle

Stadium • 1495 Hancock Street, Quincy Free • unscenecomedy.com

HEY take the Red Line to Quincy Center and see this TREAT of a show hosted by the hilar Shawn Carter of UnScene Comedy. You'll get a variety of perspectives: from the freshest new local comics to the national headliners who pop in sometimes. The show is followed by a wonderfully off-the-wall debate where anyone in the room can enter, but only one can leave as debate champion. And you get a prize. Get there early; the room is packed every week.

Pavement Comedy Night

Muscle Hunks

Clown Lifeguard

A Dead Elf

Surfing Dog

Seashell

Ritual Sacrifice

Bottlecap

Ed, My Beef Butler

Duckie Float

Steely Dan Discography

FRIDAY, JULY 17, 6:30-8:00pm Pavement • 736 Comm. Ave., Boston Free • Donations Welcome All ages, but content may be mature ;)

Start your weekend right at this new monthly show that includes some of life's greatest treasures: comedy and coffee. Pamela Ross, purveyor of a brainy/silly brand of humor that we just luv, hosts a just dynamite lineup of standup comedians that she has picked for you.

FEATURED FILM EVENT TRAILER TREATS 7/16, @BRATTLE HTTP://WWW.BRATTLEFILM. ORG/2015/07/16/TRAILER-TREATS-4/

The trailer is an art form, condensing 90-minute films into two minutes of pure insanity. What started as a showcase for the Brattle’s prodigious collection of 35mm trailers has, slowly but surely, become an annual highlight of the Boston cinema scene – a full-blown summer extravaganza, complete with free barbecue, great tunes, and

animated interludes. Best of all, however, is the Trailer Smackdown: each year, the Brattle comes up with a title for a fictional film, and invites local filmmakers to create a trailer to sell the hell out of it. This year’s title is Surrender. Cheap Trick jokes abound! - Oscar Goff

2 A SWEDISH LOVE STORY

(1970) dir. Roy Andersson @MFA A pair of dewey-souled Swedish teens, flattered and feathered by a sort of Ivory Soap soft-focus, subsists on an amorous colloquy of hums, chuckles and coos, in precarious refuge from the middle-aged, middle-class anxieties that press in around them.

CINE-THOUGHTS ON SCREENINGS. YOUR SCREENINGS.

In naught but a couple of months we’re going to be complaining about how short the summer was (talking to you naysayers of the heat and rain). Do you have a backyard? Do you like movies? More importantly, do you make movies? Film is meant to be seen (not on your laptop) so let’s commit to hosting as many outdoor screenings as we can! Last month, I hosted three. Now it’s your turn. But what does it take? Borrow or rent (or Craigslist) a projector and a PA (MUSICIANS: Help us out!). Jerry-rig a screen (read: tape a white sheet to the back of your house or clamp it to anything). Tell people to BYOB (blankets, beverages, and so on). Stay tuned, I want to screen STARSHIP TROOPERS before the month is done.

PRO: Smoke and watch with impunity CON: Telling guests not to chat too loud (get a Taser) -Ari Shvartsman

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NVOCATIONS OF THE LUMINIFEROUS ETHER: EXPANDED CINEMA BALAGAN SCREENING 7/11, @ICA HTTP://WWW.ICABOSTON.ORG/ PROGRAMS/FILM/BALAGAN_FILM_ SCREENING/ In keeping with the spirit of Expanded Cinema, this double-bill challenges the notion of film as

something static and rooted in the past by introducing elements of chance and performance to the flickering mix. First, local filmmaker/musician duo Magical Approach (Brittany Gravely and Ken Linehan, who’ve previously performed together as Architecture of the Sun with Jenn Pipp) present a new multi-projector piece with live sound from an upcoming series of “cinematic tarot cards,” acting as a collaboration between the filmmakers, the stars, and the audience. Then, San Francisco-based filmmaker Paul Clipson mines the depths of our collective unconscious with his oneiric imagery, paired to some fresh noise by local electronic experimentalist Brendan Murray (in his first performance in several years.) Don’t let the noon start time keep you away – this next Balagan show is more than worth skipping lunch for (or breakfast if that’s your thing...) -Stefan Grabowski

7/6 THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, PART 1 (1981) DIR. PENELOPE SPHEERIS @COOLIDGE

Raging, candid, and full of some of the best punk and hardcore that ever happened this is a must see (especially in the theater, as it rarely screens). Ron Reyes doesn’t disappoint getting caught on film during his short stint fronting Black Flag. There’s riots. Dukowski talks. Lee Ving looks menacing. Darby talks and cooks. Find him a fucking beer. Why don’t the club owners book the Germs anyway? How many glasses has Darby broken? What kind of peanut butter does he use for smearing on his skin? And Spheeris (pre-Wayne’s World) gets everyone

talking and comfortable, explaining their punk lives for the camera.

(1986) dir. John Hughes @ SOMERVILLE

weird and narratively ambitious, Images excavates the shards of a shattered self (Susannah York, fragile and brilliant) embedded in a minefield of mirrors.

Ostensibly a film about playing hooky, but also looking over the precipice of adulthood…and saying eh, not today. Hughes 25 BLUE VELVET (1985) dir. David Lynch @SOMERVILLE yet again effortlessly captures “Heineken? Fuck that shit! the loneliness and joy of being Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!” Though its a teenager, with laughs and most famous line may imply a antics to spare. Save Ferris! JAWS (1975) dir. Steven Spielhumorous film, this David Lynch 23 THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES classic is more like a proto-Twin berg @BRATTLE (2009) dir. Jose Campanella Peaks... just with half the cutesy There’s nothing more Ameri@ICA quirkiness and twice the hellcan than a big budget summer bent evil. 2009’s Oscar winner in the blockbuster, and this Indepenforeign film category, this legal dence Day weekend screening thriller, set in the twilight years 26 3 1/2 MINUTES, 10 BULLETS is all the more potent for (2015) dir. Marc Silver @ of Argentinian quasi-fascism, showing less than 100 miles COOLIDGE is a slickly somber, high-toned from Martha’s Vineyard, the Two parents recount the murder mystery that aspires real-life stand-in for the fictional murder of their 17-year-old son, to a Scorsesean gravity. Failing Amity Island. Jordan Davis, by a gun-wielding that, it keeps its plot-pot on Also screens 7/4. racist at a Florida gas station in high boil. 2012, while seeking legal justice THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS WHITE DOG (1982) dir. Samuel for Jordan and others who face 24 (1991) dir. Jonathan Demme @ Fuller @HFA anti-black violence in the US. COOLIDGE Documentary. A team of three Angelenos, As catalyst for igniting our two professional trainers and Lucia McBath, mother of Jorcultural fascination with serial one actress solitary, tries dan Davis, in person killers, this film is required viewto break the bloodlust of a ing. Watch an FBI starlet delve stray “white dog,” trained by 27 SEVEN SAMURAI (1954) dir. into the shadowy corridors of Akira Kurosawa @COOLIDGE a white supremacist to attack a killer’s lair aided by the silblack people, in this highly You’ve gotta see this. A semver-tongued cannibal Hannibal implausible but provocative inal film of world cinema, this Lecter in delicious 35mm. Bon genre-bending oddity. Japanese films is a masterclass appetit! @fter Midnite! Also of storytelling, adventure, screens 7/11. IMAGES (1972) dir. Robert characterization, emotion and Altman @HFA outstanding directing. Watch it ROCK ‘N’ ROLL HIGH Underseen compared to 3 and you’ll realize why the name SCHOOL (1979) dir. Allan Women -- blame its lack of a Kurosawa is synonymous with Arkush @SOMERVILLE celebrated eccentric on the impeccable moviegoing. The joyous, punk rock anarchy order of Shelley Duvall or Sissy of the Ramones is perfectly Spacek -- but about as deeply captured in this goofy Roger Corman comedy. The band’s, uh, acting chops can be overlooked in light of the cartoonish absurdity, as well as some killer concert footage. Mice beware!

INDEPENDENCE DAY (1996) DIR. ROLAND EMMERICH

12 HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955) dir. Samuel Fuller @HFA

Take your run-of-the-mill noir, add some romance, and pour it into US occupied Japan. Despite story flaws, it’s a visual treat to see a country’s rich traditions clashing with the beginnings of Western influence and the devastation left by war.

13 MONTY PYTHON & THE

HOLY GRAIL (1975) dir. Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam @COOLIDGE

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE

The most amazing original punk rock film document is this film right here. It doesn’t get better. Flag (pre-Rollins), Germs (pre-Nirvana), Fear (pre-the film, Clue), Jerks (post-Flag Morris), as well as X (at their pinnacle), Alice Bag and the Bags, and Catholic Discipline (who know one remembers for good reason). There were of course other punk scenes that rivaled L.A.’s in 1979-1980, but none of them were put to film like this.

18 FERRIS BUELLER’S DAY OFF

“Bring me... a shrubbery!” “Ni!” “I’ve had worse.” “Well, that’s no ordinary rabbit.” If those phrases mean nothing to you, you have an entire childhood to catch up on. Start with this surreal medieval quest featuring your favorite Pythons.

7/3 @COOLIDGE Celebrate the Fourth with this historical drama about the day President Bill Pullman bravely, heroically welcomed the aliens to Earth. THE DECLINE OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION, PARTS 1 & 2 (1981/88) DIR. PENELOPE SPHEERIS

14THE BIRDS (1963) dir. Alfred Hitchcock @GREENWAY

Just in case Hitchcock’s avian horror weren’t already frightening enough, this month you can watch it outside surrounded by winged friends. Just don’t bring along any sunflower seeds or peanuts and you’ll be fine.Outdoor screening – sponsored by COOLIDGE!

17 TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSA-

CRE 2 (1986) dir. Tobe Hooper @COOLIDGE

It makes me love this film even more knowing that the film’s title might be a reference to Lester Bangs’ 1970 review of The Stooges’ Fun House for Creem magazine, which is legendary punk document in and of itself. The first of three Decline films, and easily the best of the bunch. - Dan Shea http://img.rp.vhd.me/4631606_l1.jpg

The buzz is back. America’s favorite family returns to cook up mayhem and chili in the sequel to the iconic original. The comedy is played up way more, but the signature horror doesn’t dissipate and neither does Dennis Hopper. Also screens 7/18

7/6 @COOLIDGE What could possibly be better than spending Mothers’ Day with the biggest, creepiest momma’s boy of all time? LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL MassArt Film Society - MASSART Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theatre - SOMERVILLE

Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, shoot us an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com

NEW RELEASES (7/3) INFINITELY POLAR BEAR (2014) dir. Maya Forbes @COOLIDGE (7/10) BATKID BEGINS (2015) dir. Dana Nachman @KENDALL (7/31) IRRATIONAL MAN (2015) dir. Woody Allen @COOLIDGE (7/31) THE LOOK OF SILENCE (2015) dir. Joshua Oppenheimer @KENDALL More new releases not available at time of printing. Stay up to date with www.Coolidge.org or www. LandmarkTheatres.com/Boston/ Kendall-Square-Cinema/ and support independent cinema.

Knight Moves 1402 Beacon St, Brookline, MA An entirely unpretentious and conceptually brilliant gem located mere steps from the center of Coolidge Corner in Brookline. It’s simple; Knight Moves is a gaming cafe. They serve coffee, they serve snacks, offer ample seating for small and large groups, and they have approximately 1,000 games and counting- appealing to both the hardcore gamer and the n00bs of the tabletop. There is an entrance fee of $10 (Thurs-Sun) and $5 (MonWed) that grants you full access to the game library and free tutorials on ramon hernandez any that you might be shaky with- the staff knows their stuff and are happy to share their knowledge on any and all available games. Here’s the kicker… The place is open until 2AM on Friday and Saturday, and (a little elf told me) is BYOB, with a 5$ "uncorking" fee (Brookline baby!!), so what the hell are you waiting for? That pristine copy of “Mice and Mystics” isn’t gonna play itself! - Nick Branigan

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Sam Potrykus MANAGING EDITORS Caitlin Kenney, Katie McCarthy, Dan Shea, Oscar Goff, Emma Leavitt HERE BE THE SHOWS WRITERS Warren Lowell, James Moore, Emma Diamond, Michael Achille, Peter Steele, Justin Kelleher and James Coarse FILM FLAM CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Marisa Bulkeley, Rebecca DeLucia, Oscar Goff, Stefan Grabowski (Boston Viewfinder), Matthew Martens, Alex Schab, Dan Shea, Ari Shvartsman, Pablo Torroella EVENT COMPILERS Michael Achille, Dan Roche, Anthony Genello, Caitlin Kenney, Oscar Goff, Sam Potrykus COPY EDITORS Nausicaa Renner, Dan Roche, James Moore CREATIVE DIRECTOR Ipek Cav DESIGN TEAM Peter Kazantsev, Allison Bako, Katie McCarthy, Ellie Steever, Sophie Chou CONTRIBUTING ARTISTS Driton Krasniqi, Keven Lareau, Brian Connolly PRODUCTION MANAGER WE NEED ONE. YOU?? SUPPORT COORDINATORS Dan Dabek, Ashley Carroll, Mario Epstein DISTRIBUTION COORDINATOR James Moore

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