Compass #60 January 2015 by Boston Compass Newspaper

Tomorrow’s Dream>Changes>FX Every large and ongoing creative endeavor needs a physical space in which to incubate, and The Compass is no exception. However, it is unique in that it simply wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for its birthplace, home, and office for the last five years: The Whitehaus. If you aren’t familiar with this hub of creativity, it’s an eight-bedroom house in Jamaica Plain that has hosted hundreds of events and housed countless creative minds over the last several years. I attribute most of my artistic development and adult maturation to this place, and the incredible roommates I have had there. Immediately upon moving to Boston and meeting this radical crew of (mostly) Cape Cod kids, I was encouraged and filled with inspiration. The seeds of The Compass were already being planted and watered regularly in my brain years before the newspaper itself--a 1-page zine at first--came to fruition. When I discovered the nascent collective of artists living in the neighborhood I had just moved to, I wasted no time getting to know each and every one of them. This enthralling courtship went on until I knew everyone in the haus, and they welcomed me into their burgeoning community. The scope of my mission continued to widen and evolve a great deal over the years, as new creative

friends took up residence there. I can’t logistically list all the astounding people in this limited space (see Nods) but I want to thank them all for inspiring me to start this project, and to continue it all this time. I am so grateful. 2015 will see myself and The Compass moving out of The Whitehaus. While it’s sad in some ways, it’s also a great opportunity for The Compass to continue to develop in a more accessible space. The myriad responsibilities of the newspaper have already been shared amongst all of us volunteers for the past few years. Now even the major responsibilities, like finding and maintaining a physical space in which to do our thing, are shared as well. Starting in January, we will be meeting every Monday at 7pm at The Democracy Center in Harvard Square. The Center is an historic community meeting space and has functioned as a hub of radical activity for years now. We are thrilled to continue our mission in this new environment, a true public space that’s equally as inspiring as our project’s beloved birthplace. So stay in touch, be inspired, and know that you have more support than ever to express yourself in Boston, however you do it. For the extended version of this thing check the website man. Listen to Volume 4. - Sam Potrykus

ART BLAST.............................................................PAGE 2 Otto Piene prevails and Boston needs to Find & Form Space for art

HASSLE BRIEF & PURE IMPACT.........................PAGE 3 Kal Marks, The Pheromoans, Michael Christmas. PI: CONTINGENT

HERE BE THE SHOWS.....................................PAGE 4-5 New Radical Monthlies plz: BREAK THE CHAINS & PINK NOISE

THE TARDY EAGLE..............................................PAGE 6 Household tips from people you feel weird about & Seltzer

FILM FLAM............................................................PAGE 7 Top Hits from 2014, A Glimpse of Iranian Cinema, & Dystopian Futures

COMICS.................................................................PAGE 8 Pizza time, tru stories about selling tapes & the Brattle Theatre

The Boston Compass is produced by the BRAIN Arts Organization Email us at ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com Visit us online at www.Brain-Arts.org

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I need you. All types, all experiences. The Story: In a futuristic Jewish society where pigs are made illegal, teenagers start drinking pigs blood to get high. The blood breaks down into psychedelicdelirient drugs in the gut and when they inhale each other’s farts they have out of body experiences. Shooting Fall 2015. We need actors, performance artists, visual artists, sound artists, filmmakers, & lots of production people. You, basically. Send an introduction, resume, & portfolio (if you got one) to lukejumes@gmail.com. - Luke Jumes

So You Want

To Be A DJ?

MMMMAVEN PROJECT (mmmmaven.com) is one school in Cambridge you might not have heard of yet. Cofounded by TOGETHER FESTIVAL alums David Day and Alex Maniatis, MMMMAVEN has been churning out House-Ready DJs at a steady clip, with focus on industry-standard gear and software. By end of semester, students have uploaded tracks and will debut live at MIDDLESEX LOUNGE. The program attracts overseas students and offers a great jump-start for anyone who is having that dream. You know the one. Lights in your eyes, vinyl under your fingertips, music pulsing and the waves of love just keep rollin’ in from that raging sea of groove. - James Moore

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Boston Hassle meetings are moving! After a long tenure at the biggest white house in JP, BRAIN Arts Organization (née BOSTON HASSLE) is moving its weekly meetings to Harvard Square! Starting on Monday, January 5 BRAIN will be meeting at the DEMOCRACY CENTER (45 Mt. Auburn St.) at 7:30PM. If you never figured out how to ford the river Oregon Trail-style or are looking for a new hobby for the New Year, now’s the perfect time to join us! Want to help produce the Compass, write about underground music and film, showcase your art, or espouse your particular brand of DIY on our hot new website? Come on down! Newbies should arrive at 7PM so we can pick each other’s BRAINs and get you oriented before the regulars show up. - Harrison Bralower

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Buckle up little babies, because Art Blast is rebooting online to make Boston art more visible and accessible to one and all. We’re talking about a clickable calendar of art events and ongoing exhibits, a directory Special thanks to of local spaces (including hours, CHOICE sponsors of directions and links), and even a Boston Hassle Fest! section of local opportunities for artists/curators/writers/whatever. So keep your browser tuned into www.BOSTONHASSLE.com/ART for your perpetual guide to the schools, museums, galleries and spaces keeping Boston art on its toes all year round. Wanna help keep our coverage current? Let us know about your events/projects/ zines at CompassArtBlast@ gmail.com! CEEK

Worcester: Paris of the 80’s, birthplace of the smiley face, oral contraceptives, H. Jon Benjamin, and DISTANT CASTLE, a 1910 Victorian nestled aside a hill of an ungodly grade, collectively owned and operated since 2006 and host to innumerable shows & soirees. January 1st-ish will see the second annual compiling of bands and projects flourishing in the Furthest of Fortifications. Scope previously unreleased tracks from SECRET LOVER, THE TERRIBLES, KISS CONCERT, and EATEN, as well as chart toppers from OJ, STYK, SET, DOT GOV, GRANNY FROST & more. There’s even an extensive bird report. Download or preorder the cassette at DistantCastle.bandcamp.com. - Anthony Richards

Spooky Town Tapes Increases Their OUTput Spooky Town is a swell, swelling bubble of strange, peppy pop porridge hovering above our northwesterly neighbor Brattleboro, VT. It’s hot and it’s cool. It’s been hangin up there for 5 years now, drippin just enough freaky sound on us New Englanders to keep us satisfied. But according to the contents (and mere existence) of their brand new E-newsletter, The Spooky Town Tribune, they got more to pour on us than ever before. Yes! Scope their new dot com and releases of Brattleboro’s beloved unsettling soft rockus Tall Boys (co-release with Gnar Tapes) and Grape Room (comforting wails built by Great Valley). I’ve come to learn that each turn they’re churnin is worth gettin servin, or at least observin. SPOOKYTOWNTAPES.COM - Sam Potrykus

THANK YOU to the following individuals for inspiring the creation and/or continuation of Boston Compass over the past 5 years: Brandon Plumert, Greta Merrick, Lindsay Clark, Greg Moon, Brian S. Ellis, Shane Don, Kate Lee, Adam Foam, B. Law, Morgan Shaker, Casey Rocheteau, Shane Myrbeck, Emily Shisko, Jon Deuce, The Cups, Joe Deignan, Abigail, Fern, RED, Lenny Symczak, Greg Sun, Michael Collins, Edgar Evan Foudray, Shai, Jimmy Hugs, David Villanueva, Mark Johnson, Frank Hurricane, Conrad, Santiago Cardenas, Pancho The Kid, Ian Kovac, Wes Kaplan, Greg Tellier, Jesus Vio, Shawnie Brando, Mr. Dickens, Jonah Furman, Kofi Thomas, Max, Papa Hagan, Nini, Jasmine Taibi, Briana Cervantes, Bev, Nick Rasputin, Mona Maruyama, and Fee Kürten. Shout out to Gobby, Kal Marx, Nimai, Chris Cross, Kung Fu Charlie, our neighbors over the years, Aight Steve, and anyone who has ever worked for City Feed, Boomerangs or SOP. See you all around, no doubt.

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OTTO PIENE & ELECTRONIC ART in N.E. @Boston CyberArts Gallery (JP) OPENING: 1/9, 6-8pm ON VIEW: 1/10-2/15

30 UNDER 30

Take a knee and show some respect to a true blue pioneer. Living local legend, OTTO PIENE’s career since moving to Boston over 40 years ago has literally established New England as a breeding ground for art in technology on an international level. This exhibit celebrates his work from 1967 to 2014 which he began at MIT as one of the first Center for Advanced Visual Studies (CAVS) students, a program he ended up being director of for 20 years. Catch up on his videos, projections, photos and other ephemera which will span the man’s most important moments/projects. Stay tuned to BostonHassle.com/Art to find out about the TBA Wednesday evening series of (free!) symposiums regarding Peine’s history and work. www.BostonCyberArts.org - CEEK

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FRIDAY FIRST FRIDAYS IN THE SOUTH END 5:30-8pm A Department of Makers: University of New Hampshire Studio Faculty @Kingston Gallery (South End) Now-2/1 6-8pm OPENING RECEPTION: Jane Paradise: This is Your Future: Women and Aging | Hilary Tait Narod: Couplings | United South End Artists @Galatea Fine Art (South End) 1/2-1/31 6-8pm OPENING RECEPTION: Treacy Ziegler: Sea and Sky: New Work @Chase Young Gallery (South End) 1/2-1/31 6-8:30pm Lyell Castonguay: “Feathery Devils” | Wendy Wolf: “Examined Repetition @Bromfield Gallery (South End) 1/2-2/1

SATURDAY

1-3pm COLLAGE WORKSHOP: Paper Cuts/The Urban Environment with Silvia Lopez Chavez @Mills Gallery (Boston Center for the Arts) // FREE // Registration preferred 8:30pm CLASS: Ways of Looking: Contemporary Film & Video @New Media Gallery, RISD Museum (Prov) // FREE w/ Registration // Future dates 2/19, 3/12 & 3/19

Let your mind go where it may as artist MADELEINE ALTMANN takes your senses on a walk (and maybe a swim) through the serenity of Nature. Expect to be swallowed upon entrance by Altmann’s imposed environment in the small but powerful space that is MOBIUS, as it‘s been digitally transformed with 16 monitors and an 18 Ft projection taking you to and fro. If you can’t make it today, don’t miss the chance to meet the jetsetting local artist for extra insights on Sunday 1/25. www.MadeleineAltmann.com // www.Mobius.org - CEEK

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free after 4 wednesdays @mfa 6-7pm CURATOR TALK: Court Ladies or Pin-up Girls? Chinese Paintings from the MFA @Sharf Visitor Center (MFA) Now-7/19

THURSDAY

5-7pm Ariel Freiberg and Filiz Emma Soyak: Chora @Fort Point Art Community Gallery 1/8-2/19 6:30-8:30pm Members Art Show @French Cultural Center (Back Bay) 1/7-2/2

The Power of Negative Thinking @New Art Center (Newton) OPENING: 1/16, 6-8:30pm ON VIEW: 1/16-2/21

FRIDAY

5-8pm CLOSING RECEPTION: Sketchy Sculptors @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) Now-1/11 6pm OPENING RECEPTION: Brian Zink: Figure/ Ground @Miller Yezerski Gallery (South End) 1/9-2/10

Ever feel like the people around you are too happy? Curator MICHAEL GAUGHRAN has created a special art show just for you- an exhibition of glittering artworks that explore pessimism in all its glory. Surrounded as we are with commodified happiness, this show promises to be a breath of fresh air. www.NewArtCenter.org - Coorain Devin

ALLISON CEKALA: SALT MOUNTAIN @Howard Art Project OPENING: 1/9, 6-8pm ON VIEW: 1/9-1/29

Ruining your suede boots but saving your bum from a slippery fall - salting Boston’s icy roads is something most people don’t think about. ALLISON CEKALA based her MFA thesis exhibition on where exactly the city gets is copious amounts of the rock. Using photography and video, Cekala takes the viewer on a transcontinental journey to the Atacama Desert in Chile to find the birthplace of our road salt. The imagery conveys a world vastly different from the wet winters of Boston, noting the dusty hot winds of the Chilean desert. The show will also be on display at the Museum of Science from Jan 31st-March 31st. www.HowardArtProject.Wordpress.com - Krystle Brown

SATURDAY

8pm MFA in Visual Arts Graduate Exhibition @Washburn Hall Auditorium, Lesley University (Porter Sq) 1/12-1/17

WEDNESDAY free after 4 wednesdays @mfa 5:30-8:30pm DEMO: Ceramic Art @Classroom 159 (MFA) 6-7pm TALK: Playing with Paper: Japanese Toy Prints @Sharf Visitor Center (MFA)

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LUTHER PRICE @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard U) HOURS: Wed-Sun 12-7pm Harvard’s CARPENTER CENTER FOR THE ARTS is smart. That’s why they create more opportunities by filling their space between larger exhibits to show some kind of pop-up exhibit called the Interstitial. The Interstitial this time ‘round is Revere born, MassArt grad, artist LUTHER PRICE. In this exhibit, he frankensteins throwaway footage from old documentaries, home movies, how-to tapes and porn, then alters them with paint, ink, scratches and markings. Let the light shine through the end result and you’ll find explosions of color and texture reimaging the original scenes. Catch the light. CCVA.fas.harvard.edu/Price-interstitial -CEEK

@Mobius (Central Sq) MEET THE ARTIST: 1/16, 2-7pm // 1/25, 12-5pm ON VIEW: 1/16-1/25

12pm LECTURE: Vera Grant, Director of Harvard’s Ethelbert Cooper Gallery—Geneva: Keys and Doors @Cooper Gallery (Harvard) // RSVP required

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5:30-7:30 Geotagging Cambridge: Street Photography in the Digital Age Exhibition @CCTV Now-1/28

MADELEINE ALTMANN VIDEO INSTALLATIONS

SATURDAY

3:30pm Drop-in Knitting @BPL (West Roxbury) 6pm WORKSHOP: Financing Your Small Business @BPL (Copley Sq) 6-8:30 Open Life Drawing @AS220 (Providence) Every Tues // $6 9pm Open Sewing Circle: a night of making things @AS220 (Providence) // Every 1st Tues

5:30pm OPENING RECEPTION: Self Portraits not #Selfies @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore Sq) 1/15-3/16

5:15-7pm Free Writer’s Workshop @AS220 (Providence) // Every 1st Sun

This is your chance to get familiar with 30 relatively new, local talents while frequenting a cool part of town you probably neglect. Hop on the 86 or the 88 bus to Watertown for 30 UNDER 30, a schmorgazboard of varied artists and their work. These sort of shows breed new ideas and instigate future collaborations. Bring your aesthetic appetite and feast. For a list of all participating artists check it out at www.ArsenalArts.org/Visual www.BostonHassle.com/30under30 -CEEK

5:30-6:30 CLASS: Ways of Looking: Contemporary Film & Video @New Media Gallery, RISD Museum (Prov) // FREE w/ Registration // Future dates 2/19, 3/12 & 3/19 7-9pm OPENING RECEPTION: It Was Pretty Violent by Caitlin Duennebier @Thomas Young Studio (South Boston) // 1/15-2/21

10am-5pm Docent Day: FREE Admission @RISD Museum (Providence)

@Arsenal Center for the Arts (Watertown) OPENING: 1/22, 5:30-7:30pm ON VIEW: 1/8-2/20

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THURSDAY

5-8pm CLOSING RECEPTION: Sketchy Sculptors @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) Now-1/11 6pm OPENING RECEPTION: Brian Zink: Figure/ Ground @Miller Yezerski Gallery (South End) 1/9-2/10

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6:30pm LECTURE: Huma Bhabha @Morse Auditorium (BU)

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5-7pm OPENING RECEPTION: Permanent War: The Age of Global Conflict @Mrs. E Ross Anderson Auditorium & Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery (SMFA) 1/29-3/7 5:30-7:30 RECEPTION: Maud Morgan Printmaking Pop-Up Show @Cambridge Arts Association 1/21-1/29 6-8pm OPENING RECEPTION: Dignity: Tribes in Transition @BUAG 1/1-3/29/15 7-9pm An Evening with Kip and Vanilla Chip @New Art Center (Newton)

ONGOING LISTINGS Now-1/10 Lisie S. Orjuela: Clouds Parting @Gallery 263 Vault of Silver Tears @Distillery Gallery Now-1/11 Triggering Town: Details of Subtle Significance @Mills Gallery (Boston Center for the Arts) Now-1/15 Reading Time: Visual Timelines, Texts and Canons @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Now-1/19 Goya: Order and Disorder @MFA (Fenway) Samuel Guerin and Rebecca Ness: Where Is My Cow? @Gallery 5 (BU) Now-1/24 Olivia Plimack Mangold and Robert Ryman @Barbara Krakow Gallery (Back Bay) Rhoda Rosenberg:ВСЕ В PОДИНІ (All in the Family) @HallSpace Goods & Services @Space Gallery (Portland) Now-1/25 Faculty Exhibit: Imaginal/Imagining The World @Adams Gallery (NESAD) Now-1/30 Purloined Letters: Literary Correspondence and its Unintended Recipients @BPL (Copley Sq) Now-1/31 Pamela Reynolds @35 Channel Center Now-2/2 Small Worlds: Through a Small Glass Window: Josh Falk @Arnold Arboretum (JP) Now-2/6 Cynthia Brody: The Subject of Women & Nancy Dewey: My Peruvian Quest @Multicultural Arts Center (East Cambridge) Now-2/8 Norman Rockwell @Worcester Art Museum Now-2/16 Truth and Beauty: Pictorialist Photography @MFA // Free after 4pm every Wed D is for Design @MFA Now-2/22 Circus: Prints, Drawings and Photographs @RISD (Providence) // FREE every Sun Now-3/1 Shinique Smith: Bright Matter @MFA Polly Apfelbaum - Nevermind: Work from the 90s @Worcester Art Museum // $14/$12 stu dents/FREE 1st Sat 10am-12pm

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Now-3/8 Hollywood Glamour: Fashion and Jewelry from the Silver Screen @MFA // Free after 4pm every Wed Rose Video 05 | Gillian Wearing @Rose Video Gallery, Rose Art Museum (Brandeis U) Now-3/14 Soon This Will Not Matter @SPACE Gallery (Portland, ME) FREE Now-4/15 Adriana Varejao @ICA Boston // FREE Every Thurs 5-9pm Now-4/26 Aslı Çavuşoğlu: In Diverse Estimations Little Moscow @RISD (Providence) Now-4/26 // FREE Every Sun Now-5/25 StereoType: New directions in typography @BSA Now-5/31 Africa’s Children of Arms @Worcester Art Museum (Worcester) // $14/$12 students // FREE 1st Sat 10am-12pm Now-8/7 Producing Subjects @Dean’s Gallery (MIT LIST Center) 1/6-3/1 Eve Fowler: A Spectacle and Nothing Strange @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard U) 1/15-2/4 Underneath It: Performance Series @Mission Hill Gallery (SMFA) 1/15-3/15 Petrochemical America @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) 1/15-2/14 CHROMA @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) 1/17- 9/13 Gordon Parks: Back to Fort Scott @MFA 1/7-1/3/16 Nature, Sculpture, Abstraction and Clay: 100 Years of American Ceramics @MFA // Free after 4pm 1/22-5/17 OPENS: Images Were Introduced: An Exhibi tion of Film and Photography by Michael Nyman @Tisch Family Gallery (Tufts U) 1/29-2/19 Stephen Paine Scholarship Exhibition @Suffolk University Gallery (NESAD) 1/22-4/19 OPENS: Manna Remix @Koppelman Family Gallery (Tufts U)

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FIND & FORM SPACE proves that some nineto-fivers are cool. While the company Find & Form builds mobile and web apps for the digital world, the place where they work is actually located in the South End’s SOWA district, mere steps from a swarm of galleries and artists’ studios. Recognizing the opportunity to utilize this amazing thing they have - a physical space - they became instant contributors to the Boston art scene by turning their workplace into a pop-up contemporary art gallery every first friday of the month joining SOWA’s FIRST FRIDAYS. They also host talks, panel discussions and performances to keep the creative community activated. Exhibition Director and local artist KEVIN FRANCES is responsible for the primarily local and always interesting programming happening @524 Harrison Ave. The last show was a rough cut screening of artist Marisa Williamson’s short film, HEMINGS IN PARIS, where the artist plays Sally Hemings during a 2 year period spent in Paris with Thomas Jefferson, concurrent with the city’s contemporary black diaspora. The screening was followed by an artist Q&A regarding her personal project. The idea to utilize spaces during off-hours is exactly the kind of resourceful, low-budget initiatives that not only Enable - both artists and viewers - but could easily happen in spaces all over town. Boston needs to see more of this, so make sure to support the people already doing it! Space.FindandForm.com - CEEK

NUGS OF KNOWLEDGE Somerville’s NAVE GALLERY turns theatre from 1/16-1/31 for a two-act drama by the PORPENTINE PLAYERS (www.porpentineplayers.com). The play itself COPENHAGEN written by Michael Frayn is a conversation which occurs after death for it’s three main characters Werner Heisenberg, Niels Bohr and Margrethe Bohr. Tickets are $14 // Thursdays are pay what ya can. www.NaveGallery.org

Looking to refine your figure drawing skills? Well every Tuesday, Providence’s epic AS220 hosts an OPEN LIFE DRAWING. Bring your own supplies and they’ll provide seats and a model. // $6 www.AS220.org

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS @Nave Gallery Annex in Somerville’s Teele Square is looking for artwork inspired by or using found objects (sculpture, installation, altered books, collage, mixed media, photography video, etc…). The deadline to submit for This Into That: Found Object Art, Assemblage, and Other Transformed Work is January 31st and the exhibit will show from 3/4-3/28 www.NaveGallery.org - CEEK

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KAL MARKS needs no introduction; the trio has become a fixture of the Aritomo is a prolific multi-instrumental wizard from Japan. Tic-Tic. Picking up the torch from where Boston music scene with their heavy rhythms, chaotic crescendos and When he’s not busy playing guitar for psych-pop collagers Das Racist left off, an’ straight out da Bean, brilliant song writing. They just released their latest EP, JUST A LONELY Mamitori Ulithi Empress Yonaguni San, he records slightly MICHAEL CHRISTMAS premiered his FART, out now on EXPLODING IN SOUND Records and it is heavy. quieter solo albums. He was disappointed in his fifth LP mixtape IS THIS ART? last spring to plenty o And not just in droning guitar chords and crashing percussion. Just like — so much so that he threw away all his extra copies and trill claps. A lot of beat producers and guest last year’s “Life is Murder,” these guys enjoy reveling in the negative, apologized to everyone who bought it. Since then, though, rappers jumped in on this project, though cultivating a slightly “doom and gloom” aesthetic that tips down toward he has “made up [his] mind... to make really splendid music.” collaboration is the name of the game in the the all-consuming spiral of existential dread. But in the best way possible. When Aritomo makes up his mind, he follows through. rap biz. Regardless, it’s a good sign for an up“Just A Lonely Fart” is a fast three songs that swirl around you in a The commitment to splendidness pays off in spades on and-coming young artist and helps to keep haze of pounding drums and base lines, technical guitar squeals and La Flor De Mi Tulpa, Arimoto’s latest and greatest (he things fun and fresh. Breakout hit from this tape frontman Carl Shane’s voice morphing into a haunted, etherial howl. calls it his “best masterpiece”). La Flor , which translates is clearly track 3, Michael Cera, which spawned There is a lot happening here for just three dudes, but also a lot of approximately to “The Flower Of My Magical Phantom,” is one funny-ass video. There’s quite a lot of selfspace in these songs – little pockets in between all the beautifullygleaming with highlights. Energetic melodies switch off over effacing humor weaving through these tracks, disordered noise and talented arranging that let you crawl in as if a a riot of dallying flutes, drum tumbles, and muttering bass. with Taco Truck and Dr. Christmas M.D. being secret hideaway to watch the music swirl around you. Dramatic pauses, distorted bridges, jangly buildups, and good examples. Sprinkled in as well, are glimpses These guys know how to synch together, building a song like its a impassioned multi-tracked chants somehow cohere into a into family life that bring welcome notes of honesty physical thing, and it makes for a powerful effect. Though they take narrative while keeping your ears guessing. There are whole in amongst the braggadocio. their time with each track, playing up and around each other, until life cycles spun into two-minute songs, and the album as a Since the mixtape dropped there’ve been they all join force in an instrumental aggression. It’s cathartic to be whole leads us through several stages of evolution. new works appearing on his SC page that deserve dragged along with their pure energy, every song an emotional and Arimoto’s earnest, off-kilter vocals, as well as the overall mention: Salty, and Thermostat, plus collabs and melodious release. If only it weren’t over so quickly. sense that you’ve stumbled into a technicolor forest, invite remixes with folks like TUNJI IGE. Fair warning, - Kristin Toussaint comparisons to freak-folk, but there’s so much going on, it’s there’s loads of swaggerdick frontin’ up in some of hard to pin it to that board. La Flor might be better shelved these tracks, but Michael’s sly wink seems to offset with late 60s kaleidoscope epics like Love’s Forever any insult. Like he points out to his mom, “…and Mom, Changes — or better yet, kept on a special shelf all on its if you hearin’ this, I’m just actin’, this theater shit. And own and watered once per day. - Cara Giaimo it don’t happen for no reason, for no reason everybody PHILIP CORNER need some poison in their lives to keep ‘em breathin’. Something to believe in. Tic-Tic..” - James Moore

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In some ways it is, but in others it’s not. glass drop is called a Prince Rupert’s Drop – and it is the bizarre scientific production or professionalism here just throws too much of a curve-ball for On Satie Slowly, Corner plays piano pieces by the 20th century phenomenon that inspired PRINCE RUPERT’S DROPS band name. The any mass college-rock appeal–despite the UK-based group’s abundance of composer and absinthe fiend Erik Satie. To ears today, Satie might sound psychedelic songs on Climbing Light sound like science experiments, lyrical skill, atmosphere, song-craft and very possibly magic. What does it really accessible and traditionally beautiful, especially if you’re tuned in to using a formula that takes simple guitar-driven songs and adds in acidic, take, you know? noise. But in his time, Satie was a break from Romantic extravagance. trippier elements. The instruments are poured and patched together, Singer Russell Walker is your tour-guide on the band’s latest HEARTS OF When opera was still considered popular, Satie upset expectations. His with choppy guitar lines that come in over drawn-out droning sounds. GOLD (released this past July on Upset the Rhythm) as he monotones with some minimalistic piano compositions stripped things down to slow chord The songs are grounded by the steady, fairly unmoving baselines preoccupation through an inspired and lyrically-dense collection of songs. Under progressions, repetitive motifs, and sharp volume contrasts, creating and the drums that shake along with the same determined rhythm, the bubble of a creative spring that seemingly can’t be turned off, the band are free somber and highly atmospheric pieces. heavily punctuated with maracas and cymbals. The psychedelia to fumble in the dark like drunks, creating little homes for Walker’s words where ever Towards the end of Satie’s life (he died in 1925), he hung out with the comes out in the diverse range of guitar noise and the faded, vintage they might be found. Dadaists, who also inspired Fluxus. The Dadaists, like many modernists, sounding vocals. The album as whole just as experimental, each Working from primarily an early 80’s post-punk/amateur-rock template (Birthday were fascinated by the busyness of the modern city. In an era where song taking on a different vibe. Songs like “Follow Me” aim for a Party, the Clean, etc), the Pheromoans immediately distinguish their sound on HEARTS culture moves at light speed and there’s millions of things competing lighter, dreamier sound, using vocal harmonies and echo to create OF GOLD with the beautiful blending of hardware store guitars into chords so ingenious for attention, tempting us to go faster, the contrast between cultural the image of a scenic walk down a mystical river. This song is that they possibly couldn’t be intended by these knuckleheads, as well as a bass that can cacophony and the slow restraint that makes Satie pretty is an ultimately more wistful and nostalgic, an ode to remembering. barely be pawed at (despite the near soulful perfection of the bass-lines), and clueless interesting constant between centuries. As the title suggests, Corner Other songs, notably “Dangerous Death Ray”, are faster and keyboards that dance across the arrangements from dream-pop choir sounds to buzzing plays Satie’s pieces the way Satie wanted, slowly. grittier. There is an urgency caused from the change in tempo, rhythmic pulses like some kind of secret ingredient that can’t bother to be remembered. - Damon Hastings and these songs create more of a hectic feel. When placed That doesn’t even bring up their songwriting, which sticks unidentified objects like Asian together all of these songs take on a heavier, darker feel and scales and minor dirges into the mix–cleverly placing timely naiveté and atmospheric sounds though the album may be climbing toward the light, but it has aplenty in the same sphere. As alwa a lot of weight to carry with it. - Jonathan Donaldson ys, visit www.B vids an Climbing Light is available now on BEYOND BEYOND ostonH d stre IS BEYOND RECORDS based out of the band’s home base albums ams of all th assle.com fo r e profile d here artists and of Brooklyn. ! - Mary Kate McGrath

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In 1900, the textile mills of Lawrence, MA produced a quarter of all woolen cloth in the United States. The industrialists who financed Lawrence’s development profited greatly from this productivity, partly due to wise capital investment but also through the exploitation of immigrant labor. Most were young female immigrants and their children – desperate people with no economic alternatives – who faced miserable conditions at work and home. Exposure to harsh chemicals and stagnant air in the mills literally poisoned the workforce; crowded and unsanitary tenements spread diseases; and wages were so meager that proper nutrition was unattainable. In addition to profits, this system produced a culture where most women died by age 25 and many of their children died on the job.

Despite substantial returns, on January 1 1912 wages were cut after a law was implemented reducing working hours for women and children from 56 to 54 per week. To the owners’ surprise, after the first wages were issued on January 11 1912, the women and children walked out of their jobs together. They demanded not only bread, but roses too – a living wage, and to be treated with dignity and respect as human beings. Thus began the Bread & Roses strike. By the next day 25,000 workers had taken to the streets. To declare the truth of their plight and their pressing needs, strikers held signs, hung broadsides, distributed pamphlets, and sang the protest anthem “Bread & Roses.” Word spread to the International Workers of the World (IWW) who descended upon Lawrence and assumed a leadership role in negotiations and organizing. Donations of food and money from sympathizers across the Northeast poured in to sustain the strikers. Authorities employed severe measures in an attempt to subdue the strike. Police, militia and even university students from many cities and towns joined local forces. Demonstrators were beaten, arrested and several were killed. The Federal government sat idly by as unrest persisted until a February 24 Lawrence train station incident made national headlines. Reports of police brutalizing a group of mothers as they attempted to spare their offspring from starvation by sending them to volunteer host families in Philadelphia struck a chord with the greater public – it could no longer be denied who was in the wrong. A Congressional investigation of the textile industry commenced and shortly thereafter the strikers’ demands were met. The settlement was matched across industries as owners feared further strikes and government intervention. Over the next six decades Lawrence was subjected to a propaganda campaign to erase from public memory the brave refusal of the Bread & Roses strikers. An annual “God & Country” parade framed the events of 1912 as an unfortunate disruption initiated by the anti-American IWW outside agitators, which was overcome by a legion of patriotic Lawrence citizens. Not until the 1970s, when the New York painter Ralph Fasanella came to Lawrence with an historian and journalist to resurrect the people’s history through an exhibition at the public library, did the Bread & Roses narrative that’s now celebrated annually in Lawrence return to the fore of public consciousness – a true testament to the power of art. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

**ABORT BABY NEW YEAR IT’S PURE IMPACT!** ====================== PRESKOOL DROPOUTS is making shaven headlines, as is the new NEVER WAS TURNED HAS BEEN zine which I have yet to actually see a copy of. NEGATIVE INSIGHTSs follow up issue has far surpassed the Punk scenes expectations, though is exactly what I would expect from the minds behind this project, and it includes a studio outtake ep from CHAOS UK. Video Filth’s demo is out now and features the best Boston Crust vocals since Disrupt. Sadist/ L.O.T.I.O.N. USB dangler earrings are out now. Punk is Hell. ====================== Top Ten of 2014 in complete disorder Blazing Eye tapes, ep and live at Labyrinth, Anasazi live at Labyrinth, Boston Strangler at the Boiler Room and everything else at the Boiler Room, Meatbag, Poikkeus live, 1984 live, Stranger, Tom and Boot Boys gig even considering I mostly only saw The Unseen and August Spies, L.O.T.I.O.N. demos, Schizophasia “5000” lp. ====================== CONTINGENT Members: We have Kevin on guitar, Jack on bass, Brady on drums, and I’m singing. (Mark) Influences: Criminal Class / Mau Maus / Skeptix / Blitz / Motorhead / Violators Lyrical Content: Some examples: The need for the Death With Dignity law, cops killing cops (the country watching Chris Dorner get burned alive in a cabin), and the ever growing expansion of colleges/student population in our city. Releases: A demo which has been out for a while now. Future: Should be an LP in the not so distant future. Closing Statement: You can send all hate mail to 16 Chilcott Pl # 3 Boston Ma, 02130 ====================== R.I.P. Michael Brown, R.I.P. Eric Garner R.I.P. Countless Victims All Power To The People March To The War Beat ====================== www.IgnoreRocknRollHeroes.tumblr.com

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New year, new you, right? No one buys that mid-century positive psychology BS anymore, so just do what you do best: go to shows! Ditch the blitzkrieg yup brunch; the perfect hangover cure awaits you in Portsmouth, NH, where stoned Simpson-loving freakazoids Teacher Mother Secret Lover serve a potent dish of boiled brain stew with a side of frenzied, demented hardcore. Local metal doomsayers Green Bastard and garage surf slicker Jimmy Farquhar pile it on for an appetizing (and perhaps transformative?) soirée @Red Door 9pm 21+ $5 suggested donation u Swing over to Wormtown a more melThursday 1\1

low but no less festive affair, what with the optimistic strumming and harmonic hummings of Western Mass collective Mallory, Tall Girl, Judy Chong, Ghost Guest, plus spoken word poet Cat Thumbs. Keep it sober @ Starship (Worcester, MA) 8pm All Ages Donate

Friday 1\2 On this first full day back in the world from celebrating the inception of 2015, resolve to try new and different things. Hiding like a hotdog in a haystack is the Fancy Lad 3 video premier @Spontaneous Celebrations in our show listings. Watch as these East Coast gnarcisists bring you their unique brand of skateboarding perspective to the world. Cool. Crisp. Refreshing. Like any good hotdog should be. 8pm All Ages FREE admission and FREE BEER w/ ID u Funeralistic metal is the thing in Allston tonight as Forn, Summoner, and Wormwood form a bill with a DJ set from Wolfrid @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 u WORCESTER PUNK: Derive, Yippee!, Cuban Rebel Girls, Superjerk, Suadade @Sublevel 58 Worcester, MA 8pm All Ages Donate u NORTHERN HISS: Wakes, The TeleVibes, Black Beach, Dirt Naps @Modern Gypsy (Manchester, NH) Show O’clock All Ages $3-5 sugg. don.

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Saturday 1\3 First Saturday of 2015! Here we go! I suggest you start this year off off with a group of veteran New England noiseniks doing mostly, but not limited to, soothing guitar-based numbers in the folk tradition. Glenn Jones, he of 90’s Boston greats Cul De Sac, will pick your brain apart with beautiful 6 string technique. Retribution Body (Matt Azevedo) will allow the deep drones of his mind to sprawl out all over the room and everyone in it, cludin you. And not-new local dude Rob Noyes will be doing his relatively new thing and what a mesmerizing thing it is. A mesmerizing guitar thing. You get it. Go get it tonight @Aviary 8pm All Ages Donate u Over in Allston Spirit Kid is back from LA for a quick lay. Laying down his tight pop sounds that is. Joined by sassy glam fam The Fagettes, NY friends Rivergazer and the delightfully hooky and happy rock society Hands and Knees this promises to be one solid night of tuneage @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $10 u For something darker, CORROSION continues on the first Saturday of every month @Brighton Music Hall. Corrosion featuring the best Industrial, Goth, Power Noise, EBM, Synthpop, and everything else dahk. There’s a huge dance floor space, multiple bars, pool tables, skee ball, and plenty of lounge space. Featuring DJ Brian L. and Devil’s Advocate, Lighting and Visuals by A Curious Production and photography by Golden Lion Photography. 10pm - 2am 21+ $5 before 11pm, $10 after dat u Hightail it to Inman as we kick off 2015 @Lilypad with a delectable assortment of raucous rabble rousers for Hassle Night! 10pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale u UndergR’n’Round: Black Beach, Sexy Girls (Amherst), Midriffs, Poor Posture and Puzzle Mansions @Theives Grotto 7pm All Ages $5-10 Donation u TU 4 The TECHNO, GODFATHER: Sweet Shop x Social Studies present Derrick May (Detroit) w/ Matt McNeill (SS), Brendan Wesley (CSC) @GoodLife 9:30pm 21+ $15 adv/$20 dos u Aggressive Indie: Derive (Amherst), Hold Ups (Milford), Districts (Lowell), Nashoba @The Freezer (Lowell, MA) 8pm All Ages donate u MFing EMO: When All We Love Is Lost, Soundtrack To Sleep, Scout, Del Paxton, Two O’clock Courage @O’Brien’s 7pm 21+ $8 Sunday 1\4 Allston Pudding dazzles us once again with german folktronic pulsar Emperor X (who, as I noted in last month’s ish, hand crafted a blindingly eloquent movement about radiation detecting cats specifically for episode 114 of design podcast monolith 99% Invisible. Let me let them help usher you toward a more just, verdant, and peaceful future. For the next 10,000 years.) with like-minded Man Diego, indie rockers Babydriver, and the mystic shore pop of Beach Toys @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 Monday 1\5 Congratulations! You’ve made it to the first Monday of the year! Pat yerself on the back for

getting through a whirlwind of a weekend and mosey over to @ZuZu for Rad Castle’s first showcase of 2015! Cozy up with a coupla solo sets from Chris Warren (mem. Viva Viva) and Spenser Gralla (of CreaturoS). 10pm 21+ Free u JAZZMATAZZ: Lunch Cult (ME), Salt People (NYC), Luxardo (Tredici Bacci frontman), Listening Woman, Lord Nathaniel (DJ set) @Midway 9pm 21+ u HOWL’N’ROLF: Matt Chaves’ Storytime @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation

Tuesday 1\6 Here. A show: Sports Coach, Aerobics! (mem. Math the Band, ACLU Benefit), Funeral Cone, Nate Ventura. Positively bizzaro New England punk ripper @Midway 9pm 21+ $5 u Deep down in shining Providence Rhode Island is a one o’ them upper crust DIY warehouse times that make you remember it’s OK to be alive. Contents are Mal Devisa, Joe Degeorge Sax Machine, CJ, Wydyde @Spark City (Providence, RI) 9pm All Ages $6 sugg. don. Wednesday 1\7 Expect the expected with Brooklyn trio Lazyeyes, a group that swims in a opaque soup of jittery surf pop with sweeping radio-friendly refrains and riff-filled estuaries. Boston’s Black Beach tackle similar sounds with aggressive gusto and a crushing bite. Providence’s Gymshorts complete this show with a laughing sneer and infectious amplitutde @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $9 u If you haven’t yet experienced the bastion of all ages fun that is the Lilypad, then allow us to politely admonish you for being out the loop. Redeem yourself by checking out night one of Nighttime Sunshine’s month-long Wednesday residency, where space manager and all-around swell bloke Jesse Gallagher unleashes his psychedelic sweet alter ego; astral projections and numinous experiences to follow. Loose and easy flowing Gill Aharon Trio contribute some jazz-friendly jams @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome cost

Don’t listen to those downers and naysayers, DIY is alive and well in Boston. Take a toke of some disjointed joints courtesy of heavy hitters Grave Ideas, Worcester smarmy punk rippers Gnärds, snarling seisters Trash Birds and Dead-friendly fatherly freaks Headband @A Spot in Brighton 9pm All Ages Donate u Did you know it’s only an hour or Thursday 1\8

so ride from Boston to Portsmouth, NH? So buy your vehicularly endowed friend some gas money and take a trip up north for another Red Door goodie. Billy Raygun reunite after a good break with fastidious and fast bebop rock. Worcester’s best-named group Kiss Concert deliver the power trio punk whiplash (pyrotechnics not included), while Boston pop punks The New Warden and North Shore mysterios Damp show up to play @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 7pm $5 u JP SONGWRITER OF NOTE: Doug Linse @Midway 8-10pm 21+ $ome cost

Afro-Latin, reggae and rock sounds to make you dance to the movement of rebellion. Plus Myriam Ortiz & Kazi Toure (swiftly becoming the official Break the Chains house band), local musicians and activists working to free all political prisoners; Qusharia Perry, up and coming singer/songwriter from Hartford, CT; AND spellbinding revolutionary singer and guitarist Marta Rodrigues (Puerto Rico) + more TBA. Live music followed by DJ spinning awesome music to dance to. Break The Chains is a semi-monthly all ages, all gender, all genre liberation dance party headlined by nationally touring queer and trans performers! This month @Make Shift 6pm-10pm (*seriously*) All Ages and $10-20 sliding scale suggested donation for the touring acts. No one turned away or given dirty looks for lack of funds. Youth, low income, etc. $5 suggested. u RAWK STOMP: Grass Is Green, Big Mess, Dead Wives (New Haven CT), Harmoos, Rosie and the Rosies @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 u WEIRD WARD: Jesus Jim (ex-Blanche Blanche Blanche), Moth Eggs (ex-Happy Jawbone), Skimask, Lair and Sneaks @Deep Thoughts 8:30pm all ages donate u TALL-ELUJAH!: Tallahassee, Hallelujah the Hills, Parks, Cask Mouse @The Sinclair 8pm 18+ $12 Sunday 1/11 Allston Pudding sets loose on the world their Winter Localz Only Mixtape with a reception of sheer brilliance featuring the unbridled enthusiasm and alternative pops of Streight Angular, the shoegaze sextet with an angle all their own, Bent Knee, and an either/or era nibble at your ear from Soft Fangs @O’Brien’s 18+ 7pm $8 Monday 1\12 Krill! Krill! Krill FOREVER! Krill, Swings @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $9 u DE RIFF’EUR: Rad Castle: Player 2, Big Buck Hunter, Rosie & the Rosies, Steam Traktor @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free u BUSKER DU: Ryan Lee Crosby @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation u CLANG ’n’ TWANG: Wet Dress, The New Warden, Elephants (cassette release) @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Tuesday 1\13 Man, is Non-Event the greatest or what, man? Time after time, again and again, these unmatched curatorial empresarios of the weird de la crem constantly and consistently manage to deliver the abso-finest in singular performances from our wider zone’s most topmost experimental heavyweights. Tonight they present Worcester improv sensei Mickey O’Hara of Gay Shapes/LEAN fame @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5. Tears. Wednesday 1\14 Jammer in JP this evening as the dungeon poet Alosi Den unleashes a shimmering storm of exalted psychedelia with humor and surprising restraint. Riff peddlers Underwater Bear Ballet revel in that rough and tumble garage sound with prog-meetspunk Cousin Clyde (Syracuse NY). They join in some

Tonightski, those seemingly unencumbered introverts Kal Marks set by to slam the proverbial skins with peers Palehound, Ladybones, and Puppy from NY @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 u Also, you can find that American style rockstuff in JP with M.O.T.O., Jay Allen & the Archcriminals, Classic Ruins, Andy California (mem. Monsieurs) @Midway 9pm 21+ $5. Bring your favorite condiment. u FUNK ETERNAL: Cosmo Baker, Michael the Lion, Amy Douglas @GoodLife Friday 1\9

10pm 21+ $5 before 11pm / $10 after u SWIRL OF MATHS AND SONGS: Willow (PVD), Skinny Bones, Soft Fangs (NYC) and Holiday Music (MA) @News Cafe (Pawtucket, RI) 9pm All Ages?? $5 Saturday 1\10 The first of this Deleuzer residency over in Somerville will certainly set the tone for the month. It will set countless tones actually, in all kinds of arrangements and orders (or disorders) that one might call experimental. IT’S SICK IMPROV jams inspired by all kinds of music, I’m sure. “One or two things - for a long time”opening reception will feature Deleuzer and solo performances from the ensemble including Morgan Evans-Weiler (violin), Howard Martin (reeds), Jesse Kenas-Collins (trumpet, reeds, feedback objects), Peter Gumaskas (modular synthesizer), Michael Rosenstein (amplified surfaces and oscillators), Chris Johnson (laptop), and Dan Wick (keyboards) @Washington Street Arts Center

BREAK THE CHAINS this month features Taina Asili (Puerto Rico) and Gaetano Vaccaro, a vocal/guitar duo who emit an energetic fusion of 8pm All Ages Donate u

witchified rituals @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $5 u Nighttime Sunshine continues his midweek treat of hypnagogic odes and softly melodic pop alongside improvised jazz cosmonauts Gill Aharon Trio @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome cost Thursday 1\15 If you prefer the comforting to the challenging, charming melodies to searing riffs, and light-hearted atmospheres to the dark and deranged, well feast your ears on this trio of local do-gooders:

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dances a catchy jib with twinkling guitars and steady drums. Sunny swooners Abadabad and Somerville slickers Soft Pyramids show you don’t need an out-of-town act to draw a crowd @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 u If you skipped over the above listing after the 5th word, well then stop here and read closely you speed reader. Distraught and deviant ear-bleeders Sediment Club return to the surface for more semi-public consumption, channeling that no-wave spirit with punches of feedback and an unpredictable snarl. New York’s twisted rhythm slinkers Show Me The Body (NY), dissociative punk twisters

THE SHOWS

HE SHOWS The Taxidermists (w. MA) plus Providence drum-heavy mind melters Dog Hospice @Funky Jungle (PVD) 9pm All Ages $5 Suggested Donation u BIG, BLACK, RAW AND WET: Black Norse, Big Mess, Raw Blow @Red Door, Portsmouth, NH, All Ages 9pm $5 Friday 1\16 Illegally Blind, purveyors always of that most psychedelic and/or garagey and/or ya know stuff et. al. have for you a largish helping of just that very thing: Magic Shoppe, Guillermo Sexo, Milk, Moon Tower are all hands-in-the-gravy @Middle East (Upstairs) 9pm 18+ $8 u Whaddaya know about Cheap Seats? A whirling swirlpool of multidisciplinary performance(s) art(s) rapid-fired roulette style in the musty interior comfort of a public establishment. All around acceptable. Thoroughly approved by all camps @Cambridge YMCA 7-10pm All Ages $10ish sugg. donation u REVERB PARTY: Kids Like You & Me Presents: The TeleVibes, Future Spa, Ben Tan, and more! @Cantab Lounge (basement)/Club Bohemia 8:30pm 21+ $8 u AT A RADIO STATION: Secret Lover, Banned Books, Granny Frost @WCUW, Worcester, MA Show O’clock All Ages Free u TRANCE’N’MENTAL: Get thyself to JP for a heady ripper brought to you by those surreptitious show throwers at BOW Shows… Zs (NYC), Particulars and Trigger (Simon Hanes’ new band) throw down @ Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Saturday 1\17 Sludgy NY crew Show Me The Body, gnarly Western MA rock duo The Taxidermists, brand new duo and refreshing dose of reality Trophy Knife and more TBA will be @Lasthaus and you will behave yourself at this noise-laden and often minimal punk vibin’ gathering 6pm All Ages Donate u Legendary Scotland duo The Vaselines smear their way into town with friends of our, Amanda X from Philly. Pairing up for a whole string of dates actually, pretty sick. Tonight they’re at that huge place @Brighton Music Hall 6pm 18+ $16 u GOOD CAUSE BASE MINT: Palehound, Bad Boys, Alice (NYC) and Trace Mountains (NYC) partial benefit for Smash It Dead! @A Spot, ask All round Ston u POP INDIEED: Lost Film (formerly Orca Orca, from W Mass), Funeral Advantage @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $8 u FOLK YEAH, PUNK! + HC: Holy Shadow, Stolen Pizza, Shakusky, Bad Idea, Spam, Lost Wolves @ CapsuleCorpsAllston 6pm All Ages Sober donate u POSTOFFICE, POST-HARDCORE GOING POSTAL: Bad Motherfucker, Headless Nixon, Gaskill, Pals @Firehouse 13 (PVD) 8pm All Ages $5 u WEEID MOODY HAHD ROCK STUFF: Banned Books (Philly), Gracie, Granny Frost @Deep Thoughts all ages 8:30 donate u EXCEPTION THAT IMPROVS THE RULE: “One or Two Things, For a Long Time” Deleuzer performs compositions by Nick Hennies and Mike Bullock @Washington Street Arts Center 8pm All Ages Donate u POP THAT GARAGE PUNK BUBBLE: Lesser Knowns, Talk Boys + more TBA @PA’s Lounge 8:30 21+ $10 Sunday 1\18 Shoooot, so y’all seen Weak Teeth’s Choking Victim cover set? No? Me either, but I’m lamenting my own absent butt for not catching Paganos & Sons giving Stza and the CRS7 the “what’s what,” last quarter. Anyway, they’re micro-touring in support of their new slab of d-beaty screamo “So You’ve Ruined Your Life” with Ordinary Lives (PA), who boast ex-members of emo obelisks Seatia and Bridge & Tunnel. Fleshing out a full bill will be the heavysets of Big Kill, Slow Mover, and Life Problem @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 u If you’re feeling out the flip side of the sonic scale, COACH brings you a folky showcasing of female-fronted finesse featuring Paige Chaplin, Julia Maree, Arielle Vakni, and the dulcet, low key swing of KB KB @The Puppy Palace 9pm All Ages $5 suggested u FIDDLE FLAM – notloB Music Presents renowned fiddler Brittany Haas and Nic Gareiss @Carriage House Violins of Johnson String Instruments (1039 Chestnut Street Newton Upper Falls, MA) 2pm $15/$10 for students & seniors Monday 1\19 Slide into Central and slurp down the psych-pop sleaze of Toronto popster Slim Twig who rolls into town with glam-pop chanteuse US Girls @ Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10 u LAUDABLE POP SHOW STOPPERS: Rad Castle: Babydriver, Andy Sadoway, DigiP.O.W. @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free u CROON YOU TO THE MOON: Whistle Jacket @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation Tuesday 1\20 Do your fucking dishes. I’m sick of it. Wednesday 1\21 Something wicked this way comes, as Albert DeMuth (Aaron from heavy rippers Cottaging) takes a soft-spoken approach, with listless, dreamy guitar arrangements to make Mr. Lynch weep. He’s joined by House Red (Reba from punk stalwarts Whore Paint), new fiends on the block Trophy Knife and astral synth projectionist Blood Club @Haus That Eats MP3 Playas 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale u Don’t forget about that Wednesday wonder @Lilypad, where Jesse Gallagher (Apollo Sunshine) switches into a darker, more brooding mode as Nighttime Sunshine and joined by standby improvisers Gill Aharon Trio @ Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome cost

That figure known only as Keytar Bear had a very funny 2014. This costumed bear quickly skyrocketed to internet fame with his endearing and funky renditions of songs old and new, making faces smile across MBTA stations. Despite several assaults (good job Boston) the bear has not forsaken us, instead buoyed by a strong show of support and a successful crowdsource funding campaign to replace broken instruments. Catch him tonight @Midway and decide for yourself whether this is more than a clickbaitable meme. Followed Rick Rude, Notches (NH), Trash Birds, Pet Sounds @ WIlder Zangcraft, Lowell, MA 8pm All Ages donate by QUEERAOKE! 8-10pm 21+ u SEMI WEIRD LATIN POP: Helado Negro @MASS Moca 8pm All Ages $12adv/ $18dos $ome cost u Garage rock goons CreaturoS Thursday 1\22

lead a raucous night of bodacious organ riffs and tubular tones with celtic-inspired stark psych folk bard Weyes Blood (NY), Mmossified dream weaver Doug Tuttle and tangential astrologer Nighttime Sunshine decode the stars at this sweltering séace @TT the Bear’s 9pm 18+ $10 u BLEAK TONE INNOVATORS: Dave Seidel/mysterybear, Vehement Caress, Fable Grazer, Hard Rugs & JAWZWA @Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $7 u HEART-BREAKING STRUMMING: Liza/Lisa (Portland, ME), Joey Pratt (NH), Little My (NH), Blake Joseph Seale Jr. (NH) @Red Door, Portsmouth, NH 9pm All Ages $5 Friday 1\23 Esthetic diversity. Eclecticism. Oft maligned, but when aligned, marvelous things can happen. I don’t think that’s copyrighted. If’s copyrighted. I didn’t mean it. It’s not. I’m sorry. Point in case: Fake Boys, Sleep Crimes, Harris Hawk, Martyrs @Democracy

Hey look at this one(1)! “One or Two Things, For a Long Time” - it’s Deleuzer in collaboration with Lean Shapes, which I’m pretty sure is Gay Shapes + Lean and therefore >/= noise + awesome @Washington Street Arts Center 8:30 all ages $ome Cost u HASSLE TASSEL: Get to Inman as Center 7pm All Ages $ome cost u

we slug a jangled ripper yer way with Bent Shapes, Immigrants, Heaven For Real (Halifax), and CUFFS @ Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 u LOOK AT YOUR SHOES THEY’RE OK: Harmonic Blue, Lesser Animals, Horse Jumper of Love @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 u DIFFERENT SPELLS: Kid Mountain, Sexy Girls, Neutrinos, Midriffs @ Midway 9pm 21+ $5 Saturday 1\24 Imagine you’re out shopping for some shit and discover the melodic fucking punk aisle. That’s what it will be like tonight @O’Brien’s with local vets Pile and Choke Up, PA vets Captain We’re Sinking, new crew Raw Blow and Loom 9pm 21+ $8 u ArtsEmerson’s ROCK & ROLL WEEKEND may be a pretty weak name but nevertheless they’ve got our dear friends and super sick psych band QUILT playing downtown with Julia Easterlin @Jackie Liebergott Black Box Theatre at the Emerson/Paramount Center 9pm 18+ $10 adv. $12 door artsemerson.org for tixu

One hell of a show right here. Western Mass busy body Robert Robinson (of Sore Eros and a million other sick bands you’d be like “really?” if I told you he played with em) & The Connecticut River Band, Cambridge guitar gawd Doug Tuttle, strange Mainer Colby Nathan and Jarvaland will all contribute to an evening of swirling rock and roll delight @Deep Thoughts 8:30 all ages donate u Keep yer ear

to the ground as your friendly neighborhood Hassle doles out the deets on a most righteous and much anticipated gig for Sacramento synth-pop savant Pregnant at an as of yet undetermined location. Ya dig? u All Punks Have Loud Night VOL. 3 (Benefit show for ill friend) Aspects Of War, Necklacing, Compassion Fatigue, Rejiem, Headless Rats @Democracy Center 7pm All Ages $7-10 u GODFORSAKEN ROCK: Kids Like You & Me presents The Monsieurs, Atlantic Thrills (Providence), Feral Jenny, ACLU Benefit @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $7-$10 Sliding Scale. u EXPERIMEN-

TALLY STABLE: Daniel Levin, Joe McPhee, Chris Corsano @Outpost 186 8pm All Ages $20 u ROCK N STUFF:

For last minute shows, additions and changes, follow our Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com and on da Boston Compass FascistBook page whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there.

Sunday 1/25 Hate to break a fourth wall, but it’s Christmas Eve (as of this writing), I’m the only one home, and there’s a 12 week-old kitten waking up from a nap on my lap. No listings for this night’s goings on have been posted to date, so find your own lap kitten equivalent and work on you tonight ;) Monday 1\26 Holiday Music, Sneeze and Twin Foxes @Middle East (Upstairs) 8pm 18+ $7 u A PLACE AND THE SUN: Rad Castle: Sun Lions @ZuZu 10pm 21+ Free u WHIRLED SERIES PLAYERS: Con Tex & J Adams @ Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages $5 sugg. donation u WINCE NOT WHEN WEST: Scrap Kids (PA), Inspector 34, Gabby Lash @Wilder Zangcraft, Lowell, 8pm All Ages donate

A real electron-centric mind-expander unfolds in JP’s cleanest record store basement this night as Boston Hassle + Open Loop present a v. special Scanners with Xerome (NC), Drippy Inputs (NC), Homeworld PLUS back-2-back vinyl DJ sets from Ali Berger, Andrew Gallagher, and Oscar Huang Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages Donate Tuesday 1\27

Wednesday 1\28 It’s chilly out, your roommates forgot to pay the heat bill, and those mice in your room insist on having their friends over, so could you please stay somewhere else tonight? No problem buddy, Boston in your oyster, and while there’s probably a lot to distract you from your rodent problem, from our perspective (way back in December 2014) we only see one pearl: a psychedelic soiree in Cambridge’s coziest all age venue, featuring the sagacious pop drone maestro Nighttime Sunshine and fatherly funk jazzercists Gill Aharon Trio opening up new aural zones for you to warm your bones @Lilypad 9pm All Ages $ome cost Thursday 1\29 We get it, you like your rock fast, loud, and straightforward. Well there’ll be no fuzz-chugging interludes, just a bunch of grisly riffs, served medium rare. Grab a plate and cut yourself a piece of what Choke Up, Ladybones, and Zauberhexe (NH) have cooking @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) All Ages 8pm $5 u If you’re sticking around the Charles, you can catch an eclectic mix of locals with boisterous preppies Me In Capris, irreverent orchestral pop reveler Surf Vietnam, top-notch singer-songwriter Doug Linse, and throwback prairie crooner Lee Preston @O’Brien’s 21+ $8 Friday 1\30 In Allston, perched gently upon the very cusp of a February’s eve, Bent Knee, Something Like A Monument, Left Hand Does, and Endation shall supply thee a sweet lullaby ‘pon which to slide thee into a month of new doings @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8 Saturday 1\31 Badass night with a mission: It’s PINK NOISE and whether you feel it, wear it, hear it or scream it, this night is bringing electronic music and hip hop made by women into focus each and every month. It’s a queer, feminist dance party and all are welcome to have your minds widened and your attitudes checked. Enjoy the jams of choice of JPs own DJ DAYGLOW plus special guests this month MFing MCing babes Magzilla and SAX. Be there! @Milky Way 8pm 21+ free but donation collected for local nonprofits u Ah I see we are between a rock and a hard place. Dan Webb is the rock. Local and stable, this dude is a regular player on the scene and tonight he and The Spiders release a new album into your ears. The hard place is the new @ Starlab Studios, a place where heavy and well played music comes to chill and thrash about, whatever it feels like. And so, in between we have ourselves, Nonpareils (who too share the joy of having a fresh record out there) and the tenured-rocker stocked Blinders. RNR4EVA SEND SUBMISSIONS TO: ThatBostonCompass@ gmail.com February Submission Deadline 1/22

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Chances are epicures, connoisseurs, and the general lay-guzzler have been more than hipped to this season’s nor’easter of hearth-side seltzer flavors purveyed by Worcester’s own Polar Beverages at this late date. Big ups in their direction for deviating from a palate of strictly sweets (Boston Cream Pie, Butter Rum, Fudge Cheesecake), though I’m sure we’ll look fondly upon those bubbly days of yore once shrouded in the mists of time. This season’s crop hosts more fruits than ever before (almost exclusively, depending on your understanding of the coconut. Turns out it’s a drupe, also known as a stone fruit). Here’s to the rearview, the review, .our health, and weird shit

PERSPECTIVES by RYAN DOUGLASS and KEIRA HOROWITZ You need advice? Prob. Ask Keira & Ryan: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com I don’t really like paintings. Do I really have to pretend? KEIRA: No. I think you might not be giving paintings a chance. Or maybe you just haven’t found the right painting. Did you see that scene from the first Batman where the Joker goes to the art museum? I don’t know why I’m telling you that, but it feels relevant here. My only real advice is to be careful who you say “I don’t really like paintings” to. Boston can be a pretty .pretentious city sometimes RYAN: Yes, of course. Listen, no one understands paintings. No one gets sculpture. There’s not a person alive who could tell you what quilts are doing. But we have to pretend to understand them, because if we don’t, then The Right has won and we’re all fighting for guns, wondering why poor don’t just work harder, dating blonde cyborgs who just regurgitate those same epithets until all we are is dead in the ground with capital to pass on to loved ones who never knew us well enough to love us back. Now go back and try to .find something in those Wyeths I don’t really like my friend’s baby. Do I really have to pretend? KEIRA: Yes. Treat this situation as if your friend has a lame boyfriend/girlfriend. If you want to stay close to this friend, you are going to have to be cool around the kid. If you can manage it, quietly find another friend that also doesn’t like this baby. Then you can both be like, “Ugh that ”.baby is such an asshole

CRANBERRY CLEMENTINE I’m still vying hard for the inculcation of Ginger Lemonade as a permanent powerhouse on an updated year-round roster. Its running mate? CranClem. The clementine isn’t just a canny attempt at taking steps toward ‘cross the board alliterations (though it’s totally appreciated). The sweet tang of this tiny fruit pairs just fine with the tried and true cranberry base. A Mass. distiller makes a rum-based cranberry liqueur. Drink this with that, plus one twist from every .citrus fruit in the house

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RYAN: Nope. Honestly, we really need to be a lot more open about our hatred of babies. Liking a baby is the equivalent of saying “Congratulations!” to a recently married couple. You don’t get a pat on the back for giving up and looking for common core life achievements. Babies and marriage are the reasons none of us get paintings. 

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A surprising rerun from last year’s offerings. A full-strength Brie could overpower all this mildness. Try instead: a slate of butter or salted .milk

GINGER APPLE My mother was not a fan. All identifiable flavors are overrepresented like a plus-sized apértif ham-fistedly mixed under the table at Ruby Tuesday. Best bet for a straightforward afternoon .nap cocktail by the fire. Pair with: ginger brandy

TOASTED COCONUT CRÈME Another repeat and the last holdout from the sweet-toothed flavor masons at Polar. Resist the urge to double-down on candied burps and opt for a more sophisticated sweet/savory coconut split. .Pair with: tom kha gai soup

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BLACKBERRY BERGAMOT Sampling this might be your only chance to make sure you can really, actually identify bergamot, as it is widely available but rarely discerned. Toting a beverage with an oblique flavor note could engender candor and clarity with regard to your wants and needs at any familial jubilee—you are a cool dude, you have car payments to make. Diversify your desk beverages and sharpen your palette: have a cup of seltzer and a cup of Earl Grey tea; compare. No need to spit.  Get your mirror or glass surface extra shiny!“ Instead of using paper towels, use a crumpled ”.piece of newspaper Former coworker who mostly only spoke to you via the Spider-Man figurine on his desk Instead of lugging your huge bottle of laundry“ detergent to the laundromat, pour the amount you ”.need directly into the clothes in your laundry bag Date who barked at you to get away from an open pizza box you were standing over because date was afraid you would “exfoliate” onto the pizza You don’t need to buy a garlic press. Just press“ the clove with the side of your chef’s knife and ”!mince away Man who wrote a poem positively comparing you to a cabbage When you wear a hat, it confuses the angels.“ ”.Angels are very attracted to women’s hair Customer at job you’ve been at for much, much too long you can ,0$ Need some cheap dishware? For“ use the dirty ones you have piled up in your ”.room, fuckface Know-it-all roommate -

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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 Jerry Remy smoking in the walk-in of one of his terrible sports bars or that dude who just dances for The Bosstones coming out of hip replacement surgery 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

MICKY DOLENZ and PETER CRISS ,The lobby bar of a Hilton Garden Inn Phoenixville, PA

The holiday season brings on a lot of travel for your intrepid starwatcher—but that doesn’t stop these eyes from seeing famouses out and about in the world. On the night of Thanksgiving, after a wonderful meal at my girlfriend’s dad’s house, we retired to our hotel to find two aging rockers in the bar. Apparently my favorite Monkee (sorry Peter Tork and Ghost Davy Jones and person who doesn’t care Mike Nesmith) and the former drummer for KISS (who stink) were in town to do a book signing at the Target across the street for out hotel and OH BOY IS THAT A BUMMER. It was a nice reminder though that no matter how high you fly—either as a drummer for a band that is made up for a TV show but then becomes so much more, or as a drummer for a band that stinks, or a simple celebrity spotter whose writings are quickly rocketing him to the top of the entertainment industry—it can all come crashing down. All in all, Micky seemed to be in okay spirits when we rode in the elevator together; I couldn’t hear him audibly sobbing, which I what I would have been doing in his situation as I thought about my past glories in a silent mid-market hotel elevator on a holiday that is about family as I waited to go to my lonely room. GOOD FOR YOU, MICKY.

LEONARDO DICAPRIO Art Basel, Miami

I was at an art fair and was politely asked to move out of the way by a bodyguard so Leo could look at art. He was dressed all inconspicuous but the whole bodyguard thing kind of blew that for him. 

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BOSTON FESTIVAL OF FILMS FROM IRAN 1/16 - 1/25 @MFA WWW.MFA.ORG

FISH & CAT (2013) dir. SHAHRAM MOKRI (1/17 & 1/21) @MFA

Iran has boasted one of the world’s most robust national cinemas for a few decades now. Despite ongoing problems with censorship and other forms of state intervention -- some filmmakers (eg. Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof) have been banned from making films, sentenced to jail or house arrest, or else forced into exile and cut off from the source of their stories and sensibility -- its film industry has achieved numerous crossover successes, arguably culminating with Asghar Farhadi’s 2012 Best Foreign Film Oscar for A SEPARATION. This month’s festival highlights seven new (or very recent) examples of Iranian cinema, featuring at least one of its biggest names (Rasoulof, with MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN) alongside a few of its most promising newcomers, such as Shahram Mokri, on hand to discuss FISH & CAT, an atypically zany-looking vehicle in which participants in a kite-flying competition stumble into conflict with a pair of cannibalistic cooks. - Matthew Martens

means you’re likely either looking for some decent date material or some bitter counter-programming. Either way, the Brattle’s got you covered with their six-week salute to some of the most twisted love stories committed to celluloid. Those sick of the standard rom-coms will have their choice of car crash fetishism (Cronenberg’s CRASH, 1/10), supernatural terror (POSSESSION, 1/17), congenital deformity (FREAKS, 1/24), biblical revenge (THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES, 1/31), occult crime (PERDITA DURANGO, 2/7), and office S&M (SECRETARY, 2/14). Bring a date – or a lack thereof! - Oscar Goff

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http://www.bostonviewfinder.com as a justification for some high-flying aceXistenZ (1999) tion sequences and a nu-metal soundtrack, dir. DAVID CRONENBERG David Cronenberg’s EXISTENZ (released 1/30 & 1/31, 11:59PM @COOLIDGE the same year) used a similar premise to explore the complex psychosexual nature of our relationship with technology. Here, when a person plugs in, it’s more ‘squishy orifice’ than ‘USB port’. The film fits right in with a lot of Cronenberg’s earlier works that are often described as “body horror,” with lots of ambiguous, fleshy imagery to make you uncomfortable. It can also be seen as Back in 1999 when THE MATRIX was re- a loose thematic sequel to VIDEODROME, leased, adolescents everywhere had their using video games rather than television to minds blown by its almost prescient vision scrutinize the fogging of reality within our of a world in which humanity has become culture. Though often overlooked, it’s well so reliant on technology as to literally meld worth checking out. Coolidge @fter Midnite! - Stefan Grabowski with machine. But while that film used its lightweight, beginner’s guide to philosophy

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE

THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971) dir. ROBERT FUEST 1/31, 11:30PM @BRATTLE Is there a better actor, so closely associated with horror films, than Vincent Price? I think not. This true renaissance man’s acting powers extended far beyond the genre (his heel turn in LAURA being the prime example), but after the early 1950s he rarely exercised them elsewhere on screen. His decision is lauded by a psychotronic legion. Price’s work in the horror genre runs so deeply that his filmography can be broken into three distinct periods spread across five decades: his 50s & pre-50s films (THE FLY,

THE TINGLER, etc.), 60s films (HOUSE OF USHER, THE RAVEN, WITCHFINDER GENERAL, etc.), and 70s & post-70s output. The latter would last until Price’s death in 1993 at 82. This period bears witness to a declining robustness of roles for our hero, though his greatness is such that even in more minor roles he could never fail to leave his mark: his narration of THRILLER, his kindly mad scientist in EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, and even his bit part in DEAD HEAT. The early 1970s offered Price his last batch of choice roles, the best being his turn as Dr. Phibes in two films. The original Phibes film, THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES (1971), easily bests its sequel and features what is Vincent Price’s last great starring role. Phibes, an erudite Phantom of Opera-esque madman who, with the help of his silent female assistant Vulnavia, is bent on avenging the death of his wife. How? By killing the team of doctors that were charged with her care of course! The great Joseph Cotten appears as one of the doctors hunted by the really weird, theatrical Phibes in this very colorful cult classic that literally screams: Vincent Price! - Dan Shea

@BRATTLE Master surrealist Alejandro Jordorowsky relates how his planned science fiction masterpiece failed to materialize, giving anecdotes about the Hollywood system, casting Orson Welles and Salvador Dali, and the passion a true artist needs to create something truly spectacular.

WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL? (2013) dir. SION SONO @BRATTLE A Yakuza boss gets an amateur film crew called the Fuckbombers to film a clash with a rival gang. Also features a dim-witted lover pulled in to direct, a pop-star femme fatale, and a tune that’ll be stuck in your head for weeks. Screens through 1/4.

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DUNE 27 LASER MISSION (1989) 16 JODOROWSKY’S dir. BJ DAVIS (2013) dir. FRANK PAVICH

TRAILER APOCALYPSE! @COOLIDGE A hand-selected assortment of the most politically incorrect, mind-blowing, borderline illegal trailers from the classic grindhouse era are spliced together for one epic experience. It’s Times Square before it was castrated by Disney. Also screens 1/3.

TALE OF THE PRINCESS KAGUYA (2013) dir. SATOSHI KON @BRATTLE Something to be grateful for: Studio Ghibli’s other old master hasn’t quit yet. His latest hand-drawn fantasia, sumptuously scored by Joe Hisaishi, concerns a young girl found growing in a bamboo shoot who yearns to return to her home on the Moon. Screens through 1/5.

VANYA ON 42ND STREET (1994) dir. LOUIS MALLE @COOLIDGE Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory teamed up a decade after MY DINNER WITH ANDRE for this eccentric adaptation of Chekhov’s trenchant and moving Uncle Vanya, filmed as a staged rehearsal after three years of workshopping by its exceptional ensemble cast.

SNOWPIERCER (2013) dir. BOON JOON-HO @BRATTLE A tale of class stratification and the revolution it leads to, all trapped in a claustrophobic train hurtling through the snow filled ruins of civilization. Clunky as it sounds, the end product is a sleek and compelling thriller.

METROPOLIS (1927) dir. FRITZ LANG @BSA Bask in this monumental film: its mammoth Tower of Babel, its sweeping landscape of the future, and the timeless conflict between the bourgeois and proletariat. This science fiction epic was one for the history books and still it stands proud.

10 ONLY LOVERS LEFT ALIVE

(2013) dir. JIM JARMUSCH @COOLIDGE Forget TWILIGHT – leave it to Jarmusch to make vampire-romance cool again! Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston play a pair of Nosferatus who love great poetry, old records, quality blood, and each other. One of the best hang-out movies in years!

dir. JENNIFER KENT @BRATTLE A widow and her child encounter a creepy book and its monster. Relying on the philosophy of “less is more” rather than cheap jumps, the tone here reminisces on classic horror and the film is all the better for it.

MANUSCRIPTS DON’T BURN (2013) dir. MOHAMMAD RASOULOF @MFA A masterpiece of brooding suspense that oscillates between howl of rage and despairing wail. As in Jon Stewart’s ROSEWATER, it tells the story – based on true events – of a writer hunted down and persecuted by Iran’s authoritarian regime. Also screens 1/21.

23 BLADE RUNNER (1982)

UNDER THE SKIN (2013) dir.JONATHAN GLAZER @BRATTLE What does it mean to be human? It’s a question worth pondering while watching Scarlett Johansson’s incognito alien carry out a mysterious mission to seduce and destroy men. A haunting soundtrack and stunning cinematography complete this otherworldly look at humanity.

14 THE BABADOOK (2014)

PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959)dir. ED WOOD @COOLIDGE Before THE ROOM, before TROLL 2, this was the original Best Worst Movie. Flubbed lines, cardboard spaceships, unconvincing doubles, Tor Johnson, and more create a perfect storm of cheesiness. “Future events such as these will affect YOU in the future!” Coolidge @fter Midnite! Also screens 1/17. THE CONGRESS (2013) dir. ARI FOLMAN @BRATTLE Robin Wright plays herself as an actress who sells her identity to the studio who will digitally use it in movies. How could this go wrong? Picture a dystopian future where people exist in a surreal, collective, and animated hallucination.

@BRATTLE dir. RIDLEY SCOTT Initially disfigured by studio execs and misunderstood by most, subsequently revered by a cult fan base, and now seen as one of a kind. Scott has since gone back and restored his futuristic film noir to match his original vision. Final Cut! Also screens 1/24.

24 FREAKS (1932)

dir. TODD BROWNING @BRATTLE One of the most infamous, controversial, insanely perverse horror films of all time! Join a cast of actual sideshow freaks for this tale of betrayal, mutilation, and pinheads. A central influence on everything from The Ramones to AMERICAN HORROR STORY.

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Round up your friends for another gem in this month’s installment of horrible movies brought to you by Trash Night Video. It’s got explosions! It’s got Brandon Lee! It’s got the KGB (and terrifyingly bad accents)! The one thing it ALMOST has none of? Lasers.

THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA (1974)

1/9 @COOLIDGE Sink your teeth into this Hammer classic, Sir Christopher Lee’s ninth (!) and final time as the world’s most famous bloodsucker!

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1/2 - A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT (2014) dir. ANA LILY AMIRPOUR @COOLIDGE 1/9 - INHERENT VICE (2014) dir. P. T. ANDERSON @COOLIDGE 1/16 - 2014 SUNDANCE SHORTS: FICTION/DOCS @COOLIDGE 1/16 - 2014 SUNDANCE SHORTS: ANIMATED @COOLIDGE 1/23 - BELOVED SISTERS (2014) dir. DOMINIK GRAF @KENDALL LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Boston Society of Architects - BSA Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL MassArt Film Society - MASSART Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Managing Editor: Ari Shvartsman Contributing Writers: Oscar Goff Stefan Grabowski (Boston Viewfinder) Matthew Martens Alex Schab Dan Shea Pablo Torroella

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THE BRATTLE THEATRE @40 Brattle Street Cambridge, MA It is 2014. Video stores are nearly dead, and independent movie theaters are not very far behind as you scan the endangered business model list. A place like the Brattle is a survivor, a fighter. A place like the Brattle fights a daily battle, year in year out, in order to continue on providing the experience of going to the movies for people who love adventurous cinema, classic cinema, and just plain interesting movies. Clearly, enough people agree with the Brattle’s mission to keep this cinema afloat, and thank goodness for that. Pause for just a moment though, and appreciate the efforts behind keeping an artistic portal like the Brattle Theatre up and running. I’ve had so many good times at the Brattle, I’ve learned so much and seen so many things there, it’s hard to imagine a world without it. Go to the Brattle. Buy a membership. Bring your friends there. Support the place so that it remains with us forever. I was recently at the Brattle with (almost) my entire family. This living Harvard Sq. film museum is one of the very few artistic institutions in the Boston area that all members of my family are capable of enjoying. That right there is worthy of celebration. They are to be commended for the perfect balance they are constantly able to strike between art films, Hollywood popcorn fare, and out and out weirdness. I. Love. This. Place. - Dan Shea

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