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The Great (DIY) Venue Hunt 2015 The amount of radical, under-the-radar bands starting in and coming to our region has increased dramatically in the past year, as has the need for more DIY venues. Read into the acronym however you like, but when I say DIY, I am talking about an alternative to the institutionalized and sanctioned performances spaces known as “bars” and “clubs”. By and large, these places exist to serve their owners and operators, not the community that fills their space (or avoids it) on a nightly basis. It may seem sad, but it is in line with the sad state of the modern world; a place where money equals means. Money is a part of life you can’t really get away from, but you can fight back against its nastiness and spit in its ugly face. If we band together as a united front, WE--the alternative communities that believe in advancing the culture of the outsider, could actually give these bars and clubs a run for their.. uh... ahem, you know.

Here’s the proposition: discover/cultivate an alternative performance space, and either share that information with a show-throwing friend, or just Do It Yourself! Galleries are often a good look, because they’re already an outlet for artists. See if your local gallery would host a music show or a film screening. Talk to your boss about using that empty office or showroom for a pop-up art show or intimate performance. Stop into that tire shop on your block and see if the owners would be interested in hosting a day-time BBQ and show some afternoon. Who knows, maybe they hate The Man, too. Remember to explain how organized our communities are, and how serious we are about our culture and respecting the spaces that are willing to host our various endeavors. Spaces like Video Underground, Out Of The Blue, The Lilypad, Green City Growers, dozens of churches, private residences, VFW Halls and other alternative spaces have all taken the plunge and stooped to our level. Let’s keep asking. Let’s ask every business in the city if they want to be part of this cultural movement. The worst they can say is “no.” -Sam Potrykus

ART BLAST.................................................................................PAGE 2 Lurker Lou, Black Market vendor sign up, & James Montford talks Identity in Art HASSLE BRIEF & PURE IMPACT.....................................................PAGE 3 Timeghost, Tomboy Prurient, Nü-klē-ər Blast Suntan, Honey Radar and Brain 4 Ever PI: REJIEM HERE BE THE SHOWS................................................................PAGE 4-5 Frankie Cosmos, Olivia Neutron-John, Chastity Belt, QUILT, Blevin Blectum, Broken Water and way more THE TARDY EAGLE........................................................................PAGE 6 Exercise Tips for Buff Bods from a Muscle Hunk, How to Staycation, Comedy Highlights, Etc. FILM FLAM.......................................................................................PAGE 7 Stoned detectives, bald prostitutes, and teenage Costanzas, plus Altman, Fuller, Bergman, Andersson, and more! COMICS.........................................................................................PAGE 8 Head In The Cloud Bubble, Woozat Shrimp?, A D.L Palindrome and Kurt’s Contribution

BODY POSITIVE UNDIES PARTY 6/11 @ DEMOCRACY CENTER (HARVARD SQ)

CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS: THE SPACE BETWEEN @ AERONAUT BREWERY

Human beings come in all shapes and sizes, but not all of them get celebrated equally. Local champion of sex positivity PLEASURE PIE continues to further the cause with another installation of her EXPERIENTIAL GROWTH SERIES. This is all about learning to love your natural self and becoming comfortable in your own skin through group discussion and straight up practice. The party is in the Rosa Parks Room @ the Democracy Center in Harvard Sq. on Thursday 6/11 at 7:30pm, where attendees will be in their skivvies (or at least partially clothed). Oh, and there will be pie. All genders welcome! www.PleasurePie.org -CEEK

Sound, silence, art, technology, the universe, spaces, and people. These concepts all come together in CURIOUS SOUND OBJECTS: THE SPACE BETWEEN, the third installation of the Cambridge-based collaborative sonic arts show. The Curious Sound Objects shows are all about selfexpression through sound, building a community and showcasing the interactions between art and science. Come interact with universal music @Aeronaut Brewery in Somerville 6/27 from 6pm to midnight. More information – and the ability to submit your own sound objects for upcoming shows – can be found on curioussoundobjects.com -Emma D

MAKE SOME NOISE: MAKE MUSIC BOSTON RETURNS 6/21 @ EVERYWHERE

BOOZING, BOWLING, & ‘ZA 4 UR COMMUNITY @ FLATBREAD PIZZA (SOMERVILLE)

Now entering its second year, Make Music Boston returns with a supersized Porchfest vibe and it’s coming to your hood (or maybe you’ll bring it to someone else’s hood?) Taking place in over 700 cities worldwide this year, Make Music is an opportunity to take over streets, parks, plazas, waterways, and anyplace else in the Boston metro area with the sounds of music! This event is open to all ages, skill levels, and walks of life so if you’re interested in playing, donating your spot for a performance, or just lending a hand hit up www.makemusicboston.org for more details! - Harrison Bralower

Is there a more noble endeavor than improving your community by way of tasty, delicious pizza? (Scoff) I should think not. Each month or so, New England’s own FLATBREAD PIZZA COMPANY hosts a benefit night for a local nonprofit of their choice at their Somerville spot. This time around the NAVE GALLERY will be getting a piece o’ the pie sales on 6/30 from 5-11:30pm (take out or eat in). Treat your Tuesday night right with candlepin bowling, booze and fresh pizza made with locally sourced ingredients. This kind of initiative and community rallying is just what makes Boston so special. Fill your belly and support! -CEEK

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THRIFTY TIMES ZINE You like thrift shopping? I do too! It’s a daunting task in Boston, with the numerous markets, tiny hidden shops, and picked-over Allston warehouses. Here to help us out is THRIFTY TIMES, focused on thrifty tips and vintage finds. Covering topics from decorating small spaces to the creepy, Jello-based recipes of the 50s to cheesy romance novels of yore, the Thrifty Times Zine can be purchased at www.etsy.com/ shop/ThriftyTimesZines - or follow them on Twitter to find out where to snag a free copy. Also check out SERIOUSLY? YES! - ridiculous true stories, brought to you by the folks behind Thrifty Times. - Emma D

2’SDAY w/ W00DY: ALBUM RELEASE X TOUR KICKOFF INTERVIEW IN BRIEFS Weirdo Records closed last month. You know how we know? Cause we were there. Every month. You probably were too, dear reader, because you get it. A lot of stupid blogs around here tried to get a posthumous interview with Weirdo but having never mentioned the store ever before were DENIED. That’s why we are lucky enough to present the EXCLUSIVE Weirdo Records closing interview with Angela Sawyer. Enjoy. In 5 words… Q:Why did you close Weirdo Records? A: I needed a vacation In 3 words… Q: What are you gonna do now? A: Seeya Inna Basement In 2 words… Q: What do you have to say to the community that is now realizing it didn’t appreciate Weirdo Records enough while it was around? A: Thank you

If you’re still sleeping on the dreamy sounds of W00DY, wake up! June 16th she’s dropping her album RNBW, comprised of gems written/ performed over the past 2-3 years. This is the kind of music that makes your atoms buzz + yr body shake (in a good way!). @ 8:30p yr gonna want to head over to Deep Thoughts in JP for SCANNERS pt. 1 w/ Solid State Entity + W00DY + Sonitus Lux (GA) + DJs + You + Me + Yr Friends. Let’s DANCE! Hosted by Hassle & Open Loop/ALL AGES/$5/SEE U THERE. -GG

BETTER OFF DEAD: TUESDAY NIGHTS ON WMBR Tuesday nights belong to the punks. Tune into BETTER OFF DEAD on 88.1 WMBR, hosted by Olga and Anna, for your weekly dose of old and new. An hour of unrelenting three-chord-shredding anger at the world, leaving you high and dry and wanting to break a bottle over someone’s head. That’s BETTER OFF DEAD, Tuesday nights from 10-11p.m. MIT is on break, but WMBR and Better Off Dead will be crushing that dial all summer long. Call in Tuesday nights at 617-2538810 or get in touch via betteroffdeadradio@gmail.com - Emma D

Mark your calendar! Smash it Dead Fest will be celebrating its 5th birthday this June in Cambridge. The fest kicks off Friday June 19th at the Democracy Center where local legends Curmudgeon will play their last show ever alongside Hard Nips, +HIRS+, Ursula and more. Saturday and Sunday of the fest will be taking place at the Cambridge YMCA and will include workshops during the day and performances from bands from all around the country like Aye Nako, Malportado Kids, Street Eaters, The Breathing Light, Olivia Neutron-John, Marge, Mal Devisa, Trophy Knife and many more. Last year the fest raised $5,800+ for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center and this year we hope to raise even more with your help. Suggested donation is $10-20 a day and 100% of the proceeds go directly to BARCC. Help us make this year’s fest the best yet. For more information search “Smash it Dead 2015” on Facebook. - Ali Donohue

12-1pm CIC Arts Week: Tinym o House Talk/What I Make Workshop n w/ Miranda Aisling Hynes @CIC Cambridge 6/1-6/5 3-7pm [Performance] POP-UPS: Reliquary: An Exhibition of Performance and it’s Remains ft. Garett Yahn @Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/16/5 5-7pm CIC Arts Week: Kickoff Exhibition Party @CIC Cambridge 5-7pm [Performance] POP-UPS: t u Reliquary ft. Joanna Tam @ e Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/1-6/5 12-1pm CIC Arts Week: Noon Knit w e @CIC Cambridge d 4-9:45pm FREE Admission @MFA // Every Wed 6-7pm [Performance] POP-UPS: Reliquary ft. Michelle Lacombe @Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/16/5 12-9pm [Performance + Reception] t h POP-UPS: Reliquary ft. Tony u Schwensen @Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/1-6/5 5-7pm [Reception] Joanne Kaliontzis and the FPAC Sparring Club Crew @FPAC Gallery (Fort Point) 6/4-6/26 6-8pm [Portfolio Walk] The Personal Portfolio: Todd Danforth, Nasser K, Neal Rantoul @555 Gallery (South Boston) Now6/20 7-10pm Art Is Life Itself @Haley House Bakery & Cafe (South End) // Every Thurs f 5-9pm First Fridays @SoWa r i Galleries (South End)

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Whatever your talent or trade is, Black Market is the place to put it out there with table space going for only $15-$30 a pop. Get those projects in motion and your stock levels high cause the Boston Hassle & Ignore Rock*n*Roll Heroes will be returning to the colossal quarters at the Cambridge Community Center (5 Callender St) on Sunday 6/21 from 11am-5pm with $1 suggested donation at the door. Products pushed in the past include... Z i n e s * J e w e l r y * V i n t a g e * V i n y l * P r i n t s * Crystals * Metalwork * Homemade * Bodycare * Books * Baked * Goods * VHS * Handb l o w n G l a s s * N e w & U s e d * P a i n t i n g s *Leatherwork * Tea * Chapbooks * Music * Astrology Readings * Woodwork * Whatever Bring your work to the table and get to know your creative community. Sign up to be a vendor at BostonHassle.com/BlackMarketVendorForm

Launch Party] This Moment : Missives from another world thirty years of performances photographed by Bob Raymond

5:30-7:30pm [Opening Reception] t h think small: a juried photography u exhibition @ Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore) 6-8pm [Portfolio Walk] The Personal Portfolio: Nasser K, Gail Samuelson, Jeffrey Heyne @ 555 Gallery (South Boston) Now6/20 6-10pm Ten Years of Prints: The Posters of Dan McCarthy @ MassArt 6:30 & 7:30pm [Performance Art] Vela Phelan - Obscurus Novenas: V. Obscurus Ipsum @ ICA Boston // Free After 5 Every Thurs @ Samsøn Projects (South End) 7-9pm [Reception] POP-UPS: No Shake, 5-8pm Not Here @ Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat A visual and oral history of MOBIUS through College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/8-6/12 the eyes of its own. The 10x10 book being released includes 70 images taken by local artist and photographer BOB RAYMOND, a fixture at Central Sq’s performance art powerhouse Mobius from 1983 to his passing in 2012. Not only does this book document almost thirty years’ worth of work happening in the space, it also includes essays and stories from the featured artists themselves. Learn your local history! @ Nave Gallery (Somerville) -CEEK w Opening: 6-8pm 6-7pm [Gallery Talk] The MFA e d On view 6/11-7/11 Garden and Japan @ Sharf Visitor As technology continues to move forward, Center (MFA) t it leaves behind it a whole wide world of 4-6pm [Reception] POP-UPS: Field h wires, bits, bytes, and other e-waste. NAVE u Days: New Craft Artists in Action GALLERY has put together a show of all these (NCAA)@ Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat odds and ends as they’ve been reimagined College of Art (Beverly, MA) 6/22-6/28 into works of art by local hands. While found 6pm [Curator Tour] Eva Kotátková: Out of art and assemblage will be prevalent, there Sight @Hayden, MIT List Visual Arts Center will be no limit to how electronics can be (Central) Now-7/26 reused or reinterpreted in this show curated f various time FREE Fun Fridays @ by MELISSA GLICK. These savvy salvaged ri Worcester Art Museum @ MIT projects are on display every (non-holiday) Museum @ Peabody Essex Museum weekend through July 11th. 6-8pm [Opening Reception] Survey www.NaveGallery.org Without Surveillance @ Nave Gallery Annex -CEEK (Somerville) 6/26-7/23

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@Find & Form (South End) 6-9pm The always active SMFA grad and local photographer SARAH POLLMAN sets two of her projects against another other to see what they say. Love Notes pairs handwritten notes with photographs to create a personal history, while her series Father and Mother features grave stones/markers using anonymous names found throughout New England cemeteries. The intimacy of the artist’s own history set against the cryptically memorialized past lives of those buried bring up new questions of lineage and commemoration. Another strong show at this monthly pop-up spot located steps away from the SoWa galleries. www.SarahPollman.com --Johanna Bonger s 10am-6pm Coolidge Corner Arts a t Festival @Devotion School, 345 Harvard Street (Coolidge Corner) 12-6pm South Boston Open Studios @The Distillery, 555 East 2nd St., @555 Gallery 516 East 2nd St., @King Terminal Studios 570 East 1st St. (Southie) 12-6pm River Festival @long the Charles (Cambridge) 1-3pm Arboretum Inspiration: Image and Word Photographs @Arboretum (JP) 1-4pm Picasso Gaglione: The Art of the Flux Box @Mobius 6/6-6/8 2-5pm [Portfolio Walk] The Personal Portfolio: Lucas James, Jeffrey Heyne, Jane Yudelman, Stefanie Klavens @555 Gallery (South Boston) Now-6/20 4-9pm [Opening Reception] Hibernaculum by David Buckley Borden @Innovation and Design Building (Seaport District) 6/5-6/30 4:30-6:30 CIC Arts Week: Closing Exhibition Party @CIC Boston (Downtown)

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Gertrude’s Artists Salon : You and Identity in Art [Discussion]

@ Mills Gallery (BCA) 6:30-8:30 Artist JAMES MONTFORD leads an audience of artists and art appreciators in a discussion on Identity in Art. Learning from each other’s experiences and hearing one another’s ideas is the name of the game here, whether you’re interested in participating or just absorbing, this should be interesting either way. Explore the full range of Montford’s talents and gain some insight into his own perspective at the first retrospective survey of his work, JAMES MONTFORD: Carboards by Lurker Lou PERSUASION 1990-2015, on display now through June 21st @ the Mills Gallery at the Boston @ Orchard Extension Gallery (Allston) Center for the Arts in the South End. This powerful show will add some context to the convo. 8-10pm // 21+ It’s all cards on deck for NYC skater/artist www.BCAonline.org LURKER LOU’s latest exhibit featuring work -Johanna Bonger from his ongoing @card_boards project. Explore three rooms worth of skateboard decks covered in collages made up of various cards — from ID to credit to sports and movie trading cards. We’re talking Pete Venkman, Boba Fett and other classic characters from

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Now-6/13 Intersomatic: Contemporary Metalsmithing @ VanDernoot Gallery (Lesley University, Cambridge) The Creative Process @ NAC Now-6/17 CzarFace @ Lot F Gallery (Downtown) Now-6/20 Naked @ Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) The Personal Portfolio @ 555 Gallery (South Boston) Now-6/21 James Montford: Persuasions 1990-2015 @ Mills Gallery, BCA (South End) Now-6/24 Blokhedz: Music, Magic & Mayhem @ Hutchins Center (Harvard) Now-6/26 Pop-Ups @ Montserrat Gallery (Beverly, MA) Now-6/28 COLLISION: Stealing from the Real: Simulation and Sense Making @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP) Now-6/29 Density Atlas: Measuring Urban Density @ BSA Space (Downtown) Now-7/5 Joan Jonas: Selected Films and Videos 1972-2005 @MIT List Center Golden Glamour: The Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt Gerry Collection @RISD (Providence) 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 Kotátková: Out of Sight @Hayden, MIT List Visual Arts Center (Central) 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 The Dorothy and Harbert Vogel Collection: 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-9/12 Jim Cambronne:: Where what is? @ Proof Gallery (Southie) Now-9/13 Gonzalo Fuenmayor: Tropical Mythologies @MFA // Free After 4 Every Wed 6/10-9/7 Arlene Schechet: All at Once @ICA Boston (Fort Point) // Free Every Thurs after 5

ALL VISUAL BOSTON is taking submissions for their next pop-up and you’d be wise to get in on this. Not only is it free to submit your image/ lens-based work to this sporadic and inspiring project but this edition will be featured within RICARDO De LIMA’s “Another Spectacle” gallery at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART BOSTON as part of the 2015 JAMES AND AUDREY FOSTER PRIZE SHOW, which happens to be one of the best tickets in town this summer. All Visual Boston (AVB) was initiated back in 2012 by Western Masser TREVOR POWERS taking his cue directly from All Visual LA. Essentially, this is a travelling series of one-night-only digital slideshows that with live music accompanying the visuals. These events celebrate (and help bridge) the local artistic community while being free for artists to submit to and free for anyone to attend. Appropriately enough, the theme for this AVB is work that “celebrates, explores, questions, and demystifies collaboration” BATHAUS will be performing to serve as the soundtrack. Deadline to submit is July 3rd, 2015. Full details at www.allvisualboston.org/upcoming -CEEK

' ˚' «~≥'"*≠∆."˘·∕ ∕ ˝NUGS OF KNOWLEDGE *-,.+''‡ˇ⁄∑…´''^»¯¯· Cambridge’s AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE (A.R.T.) is one of the best in the country and they happen to have daily deals for students to enjoy their pricey programming. From now to June 6th, you have a few chances left to see CROSSING, an American opera based on Walt Whitman’s diary from the Civil War. Directed by Diane Paulus this has the potential to be a soul-shaking show. www.AmericanRepertoryTheatre.org Only two weeks left to see LEONARDO da VINCI and the IDEA OF BEAUTY @ MFA. Take in this rare collection of intimate drawings by one of the most capable draughtsmen and curious minds of all time. Leo gives age its dignity and women their mystery. On view now-6/17 and FREE every Wed after 4pm. www.MFA.org PIG PEN THEATRE CO. has been garnering lots of hype over the years with their signature blend of live music, film and theatre. They’re rolling through town with their latest touring show, “With You Won’t” on Wednesday 6/17 @ Arts at the Armory in Somerville. $20 to find out if this folk foray through theatre is a phony or a find. www.ArtsattheArmory.org From Friday 6/26 to Friday 8/28 and all Fries in between you can bank on free fare to a bunch of Bay State museums thanks to the HIGHLAND STREET FOUNDATION and their annual FREE FUN FRIDAYS. This month it kicks off @ the Worcester Art Museum, MIT Museum, Peabody Essex and more. Go to www.HighlandStreet.org to see what’s on the docket for the rest of the summer. Are you crafty? Do you wanna be? Bring your current project over to Central Square’s OUT OF THE BLUE TOO GALLERY any Thursday night from 6-10pm for some camaraderie while you craft. OPEN CRAFTING Thursday run along side Open Mic night for some entertainment while you work. All FREE. www.OutoftheBlueArtGallery.com -CEEK −.∫|¯¸Ð!' ˚ ˝ßł ¨^a_\\‰≈´„ √ Ł`. ∂.∙ ï &µ˙ˆ* © £∞ πº¦¿. ¾·¡°¶¨±;:¢‹

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TH IRD UN CL E RE CO RD S (20 15) Honey Radar is channeling the spirit of Lou Reed on their dreamy, washedout release Chain Smoking On Easter. With bending, unstructured, bursts of saturated jangle-rock inspiration, Chain Smoking On Easter sounds like it could have been sampled straight from an old Velvet Underground demo. That is not a bad thing. A bedroom project started in Philadelphia by singer and guitarist Jason Henn, Honey Radar has released several collections of unpredictably structured songs on Indianapolis label Third Uncle Records. Henn’s signature short song lengths average out at under two minutes making each one feel more like a quick burst of noise than a song. It’s kind of like Honey Radar is releasing demos; a collection of Henn’s inspirations for moments in music. Each song has a distinct end, but they all run together like one long continuous recording. A wave of lo-fi, saturated guitar fizzing and loose crashing drums engulfs all of Chain Smoking On Easter. The songs fluctuate between dreamlike, psychedelic wisps and louder, crunchier rock jams. Bright, lightly strummed chords and slight drumstick tapping are made just slightly more kaleidoscopic by sitar sounding guitar picking on “Circuit in the Sunlight.” Chain Smoking gets a little raucous on songs like “Alabama Wax Habit” and “Rainbow Lollipop,” where eroded, fuzzed-out humming and turbulent drumming layer over the still good vibes of Honey Radar’s sound. Chain Smoking On Easter is like an assemblage of awesome musical moments from the mind of a fuzz box. Fifteen fragmented sounds all developed just enough to be roughly one minute long songs. Chain Smoking is the definition of short and sweet; just fifteen quick bursts of perfect hazy rock. -Emma Buchanan

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FR OZ EN NIAGR A FA LLS PROFOUND LORE (2015) If you’re not already aware (and you really should be) Prurient is the main alias of the insanely prolific Dominick Fernow, keeper of several other aliases including Vatican Shadow and Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement and played in groups and projects including Ash Pool and the mighty Cold Cave. This undisputed titan in the electronic noise/experimental field has new releases out constantly, under various names and in various formats including tapes, EPs, singles, splits, and collaborations. Frozen Niagara Falls, a double album, is the spiritual successor to 2011’s game-changing Bermuda Drain. On that album, Fernow reinvented the Prurient moniker by blending influences from across his other projects: the pulsing techno of Vatican Shadow, the synth-pop sheen of Cold Cave, the blasphemous black metal exorcisms of Ash Pool, and the straight-up feedback and distortion noise blasts of earlier Prurient were synthesized into an excitingly consistent, well-thought-out whole. While still far from accessible, it definitely brought a lot of new listeners with it. This new record is, if anything, even less accessible at points than its predecessor. The lyrics touch on religious themes, sacrifice, self-harm, drug dependency, and loss. However, these themes are never used for shock value. The music may be often abrasive, but the underlying core of the record comes from a place of beauty. There is a raw emotional quality to the screaming, an honesty which can be much more provocative than some aggressive, blustery, macho thing. The more ambient synth interludes, when they do manage to rise above the fury, are gorgeous and majestic. In an absolutely massive catalog, full of massive noises and bold statements, it may be that Frozen Niagara Falls is Fernow’s magnum opus. -John Bittrich

In the face of persecution from Catholics during the 11th Century Crusades, the Ashkenazi Jews of the Rhine River valley in Western Europe fled east, farther into Germany, and there formed autonomous, insular communities. Once removed from outside influence, a unique culture took shape and with it a new language – Yiddish. A surprising mixture of Germanic, Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Slavic and Romance languages, Yiddish became the primary spoken language of millions of Jews for nearly a millennium. By the age of mechanical reproduction written Yiddish journalism, literature and poetry was also thriving.

In the 20th Century the Holocaust nearly eradicated the Jewish population in Europe. The Nazi genocide aimed to eliminate all traces of Jewish cultural and economic influence. Much of their art, music and literature was stolen or destroyed. Following Germany’s surrender in 1945 many Holocaust survivors sought refuge in the US. Wishing to leave the trauma of the Old World behind, most carried with them few if any Yiddish books. Assimilation took hold - the old tongue remained a mystery to the survivors’ Americanized offspring - and after one generation Yiddish was near extinction. One member of that second generation, Hampshire College student Aaron Lansky, began in 1973 to learn, speak and read Yiddish in order to better understand the rich but increasingly obscured pre-Holocaust Jewish culture. He traveled to New York City and elsewhere interviewing elders, hearing their stories and collecting their Yiddish books, which were often discarded by next of kin. By the 1980s Lansky had amassed a huge collection of books and recordings, and in 1989 he received a MacArthur Genius Grant in support of his dedicated cultural preservation initiative. In June 1997 a permanent facility for the Yiddish Book Center opened to the public on a 10-acre site at Hampshire College campus. In addition to housing over 1 million Yiddish texts, the Center offers workshops, courses, fellowships and publications on the Yiddish language and Jewish culture, and presents film screenings, art exhibitions and musical performances by artists of the Jewish Diaspora. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

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Brian 4 Ever, poet/singer/songwriter/ motivational speaker, collaborating with Amanda Burgess on accordion, is creating music that will make your ears perk up and your heart beat. Creating a strange but relatable soundtrack to your life on the East Coast, Brian and Amanda are a dynamic duo. If you haven’t seen them perform live, you need to. Perhaps, your life will make a little more sense afterward. Lyrically heavy and poetically indebted, on his 2014 release of Sole Bellow, Folan sings of love, existentialism, suppressed memory, pop culture, and death. Blending altrock, noise, and hardcore poetry, on the fourth track he cries a laundry list of issues and then upon some self-realization/editing, leading into a rousing chorus, sings, “…this is way too cathartic, not enough rock ‘n’ roll, you wanted an anthem, oh-kay…” Utilizing every and any instrument at his disposal (i.e. vox, keyboard, guitar, sax, drums), Folan paints pictures with pained breaths and incites cliffhangers with brief pauses. The tonal qualities of Burgess’ accordion are pushed, lending their dramatic notes to the overall story line of Folan’s lyrics. The April 2015 release of Jacob 4 Ever, heard through the Brian 4 Ever Bandcamp, is devoted to friend and AS220 Live Arts director, Jacob Nathan. Friends are important to Folan as is the issue of money or lack thereof, which was addressed at AS220’s Resident Gallery in Providence, in his mixed media show “$$$$$$$$$$” in May. Burgess has her own show, with an opening on June 6th. -Sarah Samways

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Easily my top record of 2015 so far, Prophetic Visions, the second album from Nü-klē-er Blast Suntan, finds the band at their strongest amid a move from Georgia to Oregon and a lineup change bringing in a new bassist and singer. The record continues both SPHC’s commitment to excellence and to releasing some of the wildest hardcore going. Nü-klē-er Blast Suntan’s mix of crustcore and psychedelia sounded fully formed on their debut lp, Blot Out The Worthless Sun, yet Prophetic Visions pushes it exponentially further. Featuring arguably the band’s best production and fullest sound, the record also boasts their best songwriting. The more straightforward fury of their two 7”s is channeled into the Hawkwind-esque psychedelic rock of the first album to make something unique. Just how unique is difficult to put into words, but hey who needs words when you have Bandcamp? Stream it below. And keep your eyes peeled for more classics on the way from SPHC. -Chris Defalco

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Providence’s TIMEGHOST is the main project of Adam Morosky, a musician and performance artist that I have seen do some wild and freakish things all in front of an audience. He experiments with sound, being capable of creating a thumping techno and a highly off-putting, deviance-dripping bit of electro-acoustic creep, one right after the other. Morosky’s performance demands to be seen (lucky for you he’s from around here), as he is one performer who, in his live performance, goes well beyond what he may have committed to posterity in the form a recording. Live, the electronic signal of the performance transmits not just through his speakers but through an array of strobing lights and even through his own body via prosthetic devices. A dark worldview is Morosky’s. Obsessions with the cellular signals coursing through our bodies, and the meeting of electronics and our very own flesh give an even darker hue to the glitching and throbbing electronics of the other. The other being Morosky. And finally we get a full-length from the longtime nightmare-soundtracking Rhode Islander. CELLULAR is fitting title for this modern-sounding and hair-raising 8 song offering. “Cellular Automata” gets right down to it, using sounds of cellular interference as part of its rhythmic stew. This is the first time, but not at all close to the last time we hear that eerie and familiar crackling noise. TIMEGHOST is the work of an electronic musician who has accepted and wholly embraced digital electronic music making, and also loves to completely fuck with it. “Dissection Theater” is a negative industrial encounter. It plays out like a thudding, harrowing electronic punk meltdown, which if you think about it, is just inherently really fucking awesome. CHONDRITIC SOUND and LOAD RECORDS have released this seriously intoxicating electronic music statement. They knew what was up. I am very happy to be listening to this right now. It will stick with you if your ears are open. Dan Shea

**NEVERMIND ENDLESS SUMMER… HERE'S PURE IMPACT!** By the time you read this two of Boston's newest, young Punk bands HEADLESS RATS and REJIEM will have just finished their brief East Coast tour. June 10th EASTERN BLOC (ex. DRY HUMP) will be having their debut gig at everyone's favorite local, The Boiler Room, along with 2X4 and CONTINGENT celebrating the CHAIN RANK lp release/tour kickoff. SADIST will be touring mid-month on the Out From Shadows 2084 West Coast Campaign. Montreal's PARASYTES will be playing June 17th at a new, undisclosed location. UK Punk legends GBH will be coming back around the following day playing the Middle East Club. The IGNORE ROCK'N'ROLL HEROES home shop will be having it's "soft opening" this month (ask a Punk!) and Boston's BIGGEST Underground Music and Art market the BLACK MARKET will be returning to the Cambridge Community Center Sunday June 28th. To close out the month we will be celebrating 3 years/saying farewell to Boston's only weekly Punk DJ Night at Ramrod's Punk's Dead. Long Live Punk! DJ night which will also be the after-party for Montreal Dark Punk band DETHFOX.

REJIEM MEMBERS: Mattie, Mateo, Roberspierre INFLUENCES: We are influenced by bands such as Discharge, Gism and Zyanose LYRICAL CONTENT: The lyrics express or struggle with mental health, our personal views on why the system is broken, and the inhuman acts committed by others.

RELEASES: We currently have our 6 track demo out, and a split with Headless Rats FUTURE: We have a split coming out this summer with Kuon from CA and another split with DoomsDay from Columbia in 2016 CLOSING STATEMENT: Thanks for the interview, you can contact us through the band camp where the demo is free to download! * www.REJIEM.bandcamp.com

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com

(NYC),

Harmoos

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Claire Cottrill @Cambridge Elks Lodge 8-11pm All Ages $10

6/6

The

Craters,

Beth

Israel

(Austin), True Neutral/Signor B and Whip Appeal @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

6/7

Boston

Hassle

Promotions (CT),

Tredici

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And

presents

Butwill Currents

Bacci,

KAGERO

Particulars

Out

the Blue Too 8pm All Ages $5-10 Donation

6/11

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E A R LY S H O W ! L i s t e n i n g Wo m a n , Les

Rhinoceros

Pensado, Lilypad

Fat

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Randy

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6/14

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Scouts,

Pucker

Up,

body

(Denver)

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Home-

Sunshine

Out Of The Blue 8pm All Ages $5

6/17

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Chastity

Minidresses

Belt

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Elks

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Find the BOSTON UNDERGROUND SUMMIT , SCANNERS Pt.2 & More at bostonhassle.com/hassleshows

Lentils alongside noise delinquents Wicked Riot, the solo serenades of Ramblin Sal and Boson’s groovy Jarvaland & the Sharkbag Collective. Netflix can wait. @Distant Castle 8PM All Ages DONATE cuz, you know, support.  EXPERIMENTAL METALLIC POST ROCK: Salty Speakers Presents: Dreadnaught and fiveighthirteen @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $5  COLORFUL PSYCHOSIS: Full Tang and Old Wave @Lizard Lounge 9PM 21+ $ome Cost  CLASSICAL BRILLIANCE: Callithumpian Consort performing music by Helmut Lachenmann and Chaya Czernowin @ Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 7PM All Ages $ome Cost  GRUNGY POST PUNK DCDR Resi-dency Night 1: DCDR, In the Meantime, Sea of Storms (RVA), Currents @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8 Friday the 5th Hey punk. What the hell are you doing tonight? If the answer is NOT going to the positively k-i-l-l-e-r benny (that’s BENEFIT, not an egg) for Smash It Dead Fest that just so happens to boast a veritable cross-sectional survey of most all of punk rock’s varied corners and pockets, spikey and un(ahem: Witches With Dicks, Casanovas In Heat, Laika’s Orbit, Conmen, Bad Boys) going down @Democracy Center tonight then guess what? YOU’RE WRONG. 7PM All Ages $7-10  Vibes in another direction, from another dimension, ones of transcension, these instead present themselves to you, traveler, at a nice house in JP. The folk-ish, psych-ish, tasty-dish stylingingings of ones David Greenberg, Julian Cartwright, Loaner Sunstone (w/ full band!) and DJ Field of Sheep seek to make themselves known @Sunnyside 8PM All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donny  SYNTHS FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE: Blood Club (Tape Release Show) with Little Spoon, Los Greys, YRRAPYRRAP @Gridlock H.A.M (Allston) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  VICEROYS OF NICE NOISE: Jooklo Duo (Virginia Genta & David Vanzan), Chris Pitsiokos & Weasel Walter Duo @Lilypad 7PM All Ages $15  A ZONE IN A CROWD: Nothing, Merchandise, Cloakroom @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $15adv. Saturday the 6th All the excitement of the river without the river, the Cambridge Arts River Festival has MOVED to the Central Square but that hasn’t interrupted its flow. Feat. The Barbazons, The Dazies and many, many more @Central Square Cultural District 126PM All Ages and FREE!  On the same night, a Sophie’s Choice presents itself as few streets over as the trusty Hassle presents a warm, fuzzy and lo-fi kinda night with FRANKIE COSMOS and PORCHES, playing with locals Harmoos and Claire Cottrill @Cambridge Elks Lodge 8pm All Ages $10. Hey, it’s Saturday. Why not do it all?  HASSLE NIGHT:

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Monday the 1st So begins the month of June and your long courageous walks around all parts of this wonderful city in search of tunes and friendship. Find your friends at the weekly freakfest at Zuzu, as always presented by Rad Castle. The Marty Kings kick off the month with just the most rotten garage rock you ever did hear. Fake pop squad, The Lentils, and the wishy washy Jim Leonard kick the night all the way into July @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  What is that I hear? Is it the bird’s chirp? Is it the birds chirping away waking me up from my May slumber? NO. It is the Greek freaks, Idea Fire Company, bringing you some sexy avantgarde acid house that you never knew you needed. Experimental dream synth from Quicksails, Northampton ruler of hypnagogic pop, Sam Gas Can, and carbonated ambient man, Brett Naucke, join the party. The bird party. @Brick House in Turners Falls 8:30PM All Ages $5-10  DARK THUMPY CONSTRUCTIONS: Holly Herndon @ Brighton Music Hall 7PM 18+ $15  DANDELION HEAD ORNAMENT FOLK: Katie McShane Presents: Gracious Calamity, Lisa/Liza, Kateboard, Abby Swidler @ Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  CLENCHED FISTS AND BOY MASCARA ROCK: OJ, dot gov, edhochuli, Radium Girls and BREAD & PUPPET @The Shop, Worcester 8PM All Ages donate Tuesday the 2nd “Pink Flag” was the best British punk record released in 1977. Bold statement, but it holds up better than most of its contemporaries and it’s one of the most plagiarized-from records in music history. After releasing this impressionistic abstract of modern life communicated in minute blurbs about war, consumerism, desperation, and sex, Wire settled into a career of machinelike artistic production. You can compare most of their stuff favorably against anything by The Fall, Gang of Four, etc., and they’ve continuously brought intriguing and strange ideas to the fore. Evidently no supporting acts; three hours of Wire! @Sinclair 7PM 18+ $20 - 22  PUNK’S DEAD: Boston’s ONLY Punk DJ night @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10PM 21+ No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs  NOISE VORTICES: Hurricane Irene, Cat Tongue, Steph Lak, Matt Luczak, Spreaders, Super Hide @Distant Castle, Worcester 8PM All Ages donate  PSYCH SOUL: Unknown Mortal Orchestra @ Brighton Music Hall 9PM 18+ $15  experimentalexistentialism: Brett Naucke, Quicksails, Belarisk, Soft Target @ Thee Eldrich 10PM All Ages $5-10 Sugg. Donation  DREAMPOP: IAN, Alicia Walter(Chicago), Sun Young, Joss, Cale @Slimy Bulky Crumb 8PM All Ages $5-10 Sliding scale  STONER GARAGE FUZZ: Tyler and the Names, Pet Sun (Canada), All Talk @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  POLITE, ERUDITE INDIE ROWK: Prawn, Yeehaw!, Trophy Lungs, Districts @ Middle East Up 8PM All Ages $10 Wednesday the 3rd Like a giant cartoon robot with long hair, tatts and an enormous fucking guitar, Richmond supergroup IRON REAGAN finds members of Cannabis Corpse, Municipal Waste and Darkest Hour interlocking limbs and hilariously laying waste to the monsters of your boredom “And I’ll form THE HEAD!” tonight, with Angel Du$t and Noisem @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $15  Seriously though, West-MA-via-Maine’s ephemeral CRANK STURGEON does not flop onto Boston shores very often these days. You need the right bait son! Howzabout Chicago puppetmasters Ben Billington (Quicksails) and Brett Naucke? Yup! ‘At oughter do it. Hell, even Peter & Bobby (duo of Guerilla Toss’ drummer and Oneida’s keyboardist) wouldn’t miss. For deepest heads only @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $5  DEATH OWL SCREECH: Enabler, Meek is Murder, I am Become Death, Los Bungalitos, Animals @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  INFLATED, HIGH-n-TIGHT: New England Patriots, Mike Mountain, CxOxD, Digital Manure @I’m Floored House 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  ROYAL ROLLERCOASTER: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free  CALLING ALL AMOEBAS: Sonic Osmosis: A Night of Shared Art and Performance! @Out of the Blue Too 7PM All Ages $3-10 Sliding Scale  GUITARISTOTLIAN VIRTUE: David Greenberg, Julian Cartwright, The Wes Buckley ‘n Pancho the Kid Duo @Mystery Train (Amherst) 6PM All Ages Free Thursday the 4th Long, warm summer nights mean it’s time to get out and see some SHOWS (one of which the fine people at Park Slug were nice enough to put together for you). Jagged guitar trio Bruise threw their gear in the van and drove all the way from NY to bestow their brand of gnarly alt-rock, while Roz and the Rice Cakes drift on up from Providence aboard their dreamy cloud of pop prowess. We got localz comin to the party too! Gracie Jackson will drop some of those ghostly bass lines and take us to the stars where Digital Prisoners of War will be waiting to greet us with a brick wall @Lilypad 9PM All Ages $8-10 Sliding scale  That’s not the only stop tonight. Throw some fuel in your gas guzzler and shoot to Distant Castle in Worcester for BUFU bros’ The

The Craters, Beth Israel (Austin), True Neutral/Signor B and Whip Appeal @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  CELEBRATE: Break the Chains/Evan’s 30th Birthday Party @Make Shift Boston 6PM All Ages $10-20  SHOW MOM COLLECTIVE PRESENTS: Facility (NJ), Burglary Years, Trophy Knife and TBA @Whut Hut 9PM All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Donation  UNDERGROUND GARAGE ROCK A-GO-GO: The Woggles, Muck and the Mires, and The Forz @Middle East Upstairs 7PM 18+ $10  AURAL DELIGHTS: Royal Wedding, E, Fur Purse, and Planet of Adventure @Thunder Road Music Club 9PM $ome Cost  INDUSTRIAL DANCE NIGHTS: Corrosion feat. DJ Brian L and Devil’s Advocate @Brighton Music Hall 10PM 21+ $5-10 Sunday the 7th An honest to goodness stylistic hodgepodge hath been conjured by the Boston Hassle and Butwill Promotions with only a simple tangent of alacrity and musical acumen featuring the deftmetal Currents (CT), Japan’s jazzpunks KAGERO, powerhaus italopop Tredici Bacci, and the particularly fuck up party band jams of Particulars @ Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $5-10  This night offers concentrated succor of a mellow sustainability devoutly to be wished. Cemetary Girls & Bathaus commix their ‘tronix to bring us the regal & revered Palace, Ruby Luna and Squirrel Flower (whose album Early Winter Songs from Middle America I’ve been streaming with a fervor) dream weave amongst the evening airs which will hang heavy with the powered ballads Mal Devisa will stomp, pluck, loop and belt out with all the intimacy of a small batch, single-cask, just-kidding-I-really-actually-baked-this-in-mykitchen-just-for-you-so-share-it-with-someone-you-love-and-maybe-thatsomeone-is-me jam tart @Aviary Gallery 7:30PM All Ages $5  RYTHMIC eSTRUCTURES: NonEvent: Pole with MFO + Lucy Lewis @Middlesex Lounge 8PM 21+ $15 Monday the 8th Do what you’ve been doing every Monday for forever and check out Rad Castle at Zuzu. Surprise, surprise, it’s another banger of a thing. A duo consisting of nothing but dynamite, rad Wisconsin weirdos The Hussy crank out scuzzball subterranean-fi idiot rock with stank and panache in the grand tradition of Teengenerate, the Mummies, the Rip-Offs, and other trashball cromags. Go here at this time and be another notch on their bedpost @ Zuzu 10PM 21+ FREE (Donations/beer & smokes for The Hussy)  WE GOT THE NEUTRON JOHN: Ding dong. I hear someone at the door of the White House. Oh no wait it is not just one person but many people. They’re all coming to see the same show, and it’s a good show, and that’s why there are so many people at the door. All at once. Every Kim Parcell, Boston’s own sweet, sour, and sticky jangle-out-rock troupe will surely bring the house down. Not before Olivia Neutron John (DC) does an impression of the girl from the exorcist underwater with a drum machine and synthesizer (in a really good way). Wandcarver (VA) and Voidgod kick off a night that’s sure to get your remembering some really bad dreams you had recently @Whitehaus 8-11PM All Ages $ome Cost  UNSTABLE DIRT GRUNGE: Yahkel, Big Mess, Brother Gruesome, Sneeze @ O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $6  SAD AND EXCITED AND BUMMED OUT: MALPARIDO ROCQUE: Nana Grizol, Uh-Huh, Mal Devisa, River Wrought @The Firehouse, Worcester 8pm all ages $5-10 Tuesday June 9 Prolific songwriter Merritt has collaborated in many a project over the years, so who knows what he has in store for tonight. We’ll probably be treated to obscurities from his highly literate indiefolk-pop lollapalooza. Stephin Merritt and Sam Davol (both of Magnetic Fields) will be joined by local favorite ACLU Benefit… Not2Bmissed @ Sinclair 8PM 18+ $33  Doug Wartman (mem. King Orchid) don’t play often enough. There, I said it. So, bearing this in mind, you might wanna bum-rush that stage yo. DW joined by a straight-up blues ‘n bummerbadass lineup: Soft Fangs (NYC), Roz Raskin (PVD), Saccharine, Lee Preston, Chris O’Toole @O’Briens 8PM 18+ $5-10 Sliding scale  SONICK MASONRY: NonEvent: Morgan Packard @Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5  FUNNY SHIT: Extremely Casual Comedy with Angela Sawyer and Gilmore Tamny @Aviary Gallery 7-9:30PM All Ages Free  PUNK’S DEAD: Long live PUNK!!! Boston’s ONLY Punk DJ night @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10pm 21+ No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs Wednesday the 10th Putain de merde you are in for a treat tonight! Virtuose de la guitare psychedélique G.R. (of France’s Gunslingers fame) coaxes our strangest woodland creatures out to play under a gibbous moon. I’m talking ‘bout Soft Eyes (NH), DOG, and Magic Shoppe y’all @ Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $5  Unstoppable weirdo Angela Sawyer has probably enriched your life. You might not even have known it was her butterfly-wing-caress that started the perfect storm of awesome you experienced, but it was. Come closer. To be seen is to be loved. Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free  WIRE AND TAPE RIGS: OJe11y and Joe Bastardo @Aviary 9PM All Ages $5 Sugg Donation  EIRE APPARENT: Mickey Rickshaw, Loser’s Circle, Whoopi Sticks, Go Blank! @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  LE PUNK EN FRANÇAIS: Crabe (Montreal), Nightmom, Secret Lover, Taskmaster @ Tate II (PVD) 9PM All Ages $5-10 Thursday the 11th It’s time to live free or die! Which means we’re headed to one place, Peterborough NH where there are TWO-- count ‘em-TWO shows by The Thing in the Spring (that collection of awesome going on this month) waiting. Start the party surrounded by the literary greats of past and present as Don Giovanni’s California X shred the chords, not the pages, alongside Easthampton’s fuzzy Kindling, who’ll be sure to calm you down after Longings knock everything off the top shelf with their deafening brand of post punk. But there’s more! You also get some of Curse Purse’s dreamy experimental psych and the always gritty garage jams of NH’s Rick Rude sprinkled on top @Toadstool Bookshop 7PM All Ages $10  Knowledge is good….but after parties are better. Wash down the musical buffet you just inhaled with a cold pint and chillaxed set by Somerville folk-star Dan Blakeslee, supported by the bluesy roots rock of Modern Fools @Harlow’s Pub 8PM 21+ $8  LIGHTNING SING-A-LONG PUNK DCDR Residency Night 2: DCDR, Never Got Caught, The Digs, The Caught Flies @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  ART NOISE DUB: EARLY HASSLE SHOW: Listening Woman, Les Rhinoceros (DC), Andrea Pensado and Fat Randy (CT/MA) @Lilypad 6-9pm All Ages $5-10 Friday the 12th Holy crap dude. We have a show tonight. Thas right. Tonight’s lights spell out the words “oddly heavy”. Boston Hassle presents the imitable Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (BTM) with Tropical Trash (Louisville), LUST (Ithaca) and Ursula @Cambridge Elks Lodge 8PM All Ages $10. I feel nice just thinking about it but I don’t think I did anything nice today  If that ain’t sufficiently weird for ya then 1.) who are you anyway? and 2.) I guess you could go to another ripper instead. Slurp up the noisily scronked and fwonked-up jams of Boston classiques

awesome all at once? Aw heck! Let’s get started. Attention Girls Rock Camp Graduates! Since you probably missed the dancing vegetable yuru-chara back in the day, there will be a makeup exam @Middle East (Downstairs) tonight featuring Shonen Knife and CJ Ramone. 7pm 18+ $15 - $18 Attendance is mandatory  Dr. Blectum. Paging Dr. Blevin Blectum. You are needed in surgery STAT! Nurses Joss and O. Je11y to attend. DJ Recepticide, please restrain the patient. Ready? <deep breath> Scalpel please. SUBSTRUCTURE NIGHT @Midway 8PM 21+ $5  NO(mercy)IS(my)E: Destruction Unit (AZ) and Creepoid (Philly) @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10-12  GIANTS OLD AND NEW: Glenn Jones with Matt Azevedo and Jesse Collins @Waterworks Museum 7PM All Ages $10-15  GIANTS DEFINITELY OLD (despite the name): ADOLESCENTS with The Weirdos and Laughing Stock @Brighton Music Hall 8PM 18+ $17  STRIKE A PROSE: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free  PULCHRID PUNKTITUDE: Tenement (WI), Big Zit, Urochromes, California X, Demon Brother @Flywheel Arts Collective (Easthampton) 7PM All Ages $7 Thursday the 25th In case you haven’t heard, Boston’s post grunge rockers DCDR (that’s Dead Cats Dead Rats) have been set up every Thursday at Allston watering hole O’Briens laying down their viscous riffage alongside a slew of amazing bands and tonight they are saying adieu with one final set alongside recent Rumble winners Zip Tie Handcuffs, sick nasty Shatner, and the savagely delicious Fake Boys. Send a shout out and make sure a successful residency finishes strong @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  Also happening (albeit a bit farther away) is a set sure to make you smile. A veritable mood tonic presented by Salty Speakers where bands from here, there, and everywhere are prepared to rupture your eardrums. The sweeping, ethereal Narrow/Arrow hails from Ohio and isn’t afraid to shatter the sound barrier after they lure you into a false sense of calm. New Legs lay down their cymbal heavy, gets-stuck-in-your head, emotional pop punk alongside Florida’s Sea Cycles (obviously waited for the snow to be gone) and lowest-fi campfire-folk, punk trio Lilith @ Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $5  POST-WAVE: Lushes, Casanovas in Heat, Band to be decided @tba  CLASSIC YELLING: Meat Puppets, Soul Asylum, Mean Creek @Middle East Down 8PM 18+ $25  VOCAL TRIBUTE: Valerie Stephens, Athene Wilson, Yma Arrington, Sympli Whitney, and U-Meleni Mhlaba Adebo @Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge) 7PM All Ages $25 Friday the 26th Crowbar, Battlecross, Lord Dying, Handsome Bastards, It Destroys and Kills. This will be a dirty show full of men with beards and outof-control party habits in sweatshorts. Scumrock führers Crowbar are coming up from New Orleans with their ugly, drudgy, Corrosion of Conformity-styled droney blastbeatery to vanquish any last vestige of optimism or goodness left in you. They’re playing with a bunch of other metal mongos @Palladium Upstairs in Worcester, MA at 6PM, All Ages, terrifyingly enough, $19  SEXY ZOMBOID ROCK: The Humanoids, The Horny Bitches, Give Up! (LAST SHOW), Silver Screams @Midway Cafe 8:30PM 21+ $8  MEZCAL DEATH BOOGIES: KLYAM Presents: Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Whip Appeal, Jim Leonard, 1 More TBA@ Club Bohemia 8PM 21+ $8  NO JOY FOR BAD BOYS: No Joy, Guerilla Toss, Bedroom Eyes @Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $10  EXPENSIVE SOUNDS: Solid Sound Festival June 26-28: Wilco, Cibo Matto, Jessica Pratt, Mac DeMarco, Parquet Courts, and 25 other bands @MASS MoCA in NW Mass All Ages $65-$99 per day  ROCK AND ROLL FOR A PORTION OF THE NIGHT: Kiss Concert, Narrow Arrow (OH), Sea Cycles, New Legs @Distant Castle 8pm All Ages donate Saturday the 27th It’s Friday – no wait, give me a minute, it’s Saturday. It’s Saturday and you’re just rolling off whatever you slept on last night and ungluing your eyelids and heading to paradise to get some melodic sludgey guitars and growling vocals pounded into your head by THE MELVINS, with garage punks from the golden gates of Guadalajara THE BUTCHERETTES

intended) tonight as classic (dare I say legendary!?) street punk band GBH take the stage to say fuck you to us AND the establishment declaring PUNKS NOT DEAD to the world. Also keeping the dream alive are hardcore heavyweights Total Chaos and Boston super group The Welch Boys (members of Slapshot and the Blue Bloods), whose members have called the Boston punk scene home for years. History is important friends. @Middle East Downstairs 8PM 18+ $15-18  Ooooor, how about we all chill the fuck out for once and rejoice in dark psych pop bliss with QUILT, Gracie and Squirrel Flower @Cambridge Elks Lodge thanks to Boston Hassle 8pm All Ages $1  PUNK CENTRIC SPEED ROCK: Dillinger Escape Plan, Mutoid Man, Primitive Weapons @Royale 7PM 18+ $20  NOISE INDUCED EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC: Boston Hassle Presents: SCANNERS Pt.1 featuring Solid State Entity & W00DY (tour kickoff), In Sonitus Lux (GA), DJs @ Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $5  UPBEAT GARAGE POP: People Skills (NH), Lady Bones, Snoozer (PA), AD.UL.T @ Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $5-10  PSYCHY BEDROOM POP ROCK: Halfsour, Romantic States, Feral Jenny, Digital Prisoners of War @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $10  ELECTRONIC MULTINSTRUMENTAL HIP HOP: Futurenoise featuring Block Nation, JPRiZM, and Black El @Cafe 939 8PM All Ages $10-12  HARD AND POPPY POST PUNK WITH A SOFT EDGE DCDR Residency Night 3: DCDR, The Tenefly Vapors, Insubordination, Outer Stylie @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  AMBIENT MINIMALISM: Colin Stetson & Sarah Newfeld @ Arts at the Armory 7:30-10:30PM All Ages $20  ELECTRONIC SYNTH DREAMSCAPE: MSHR, Looks Realistic, LEANDA @The Firehouse 8PM All Ages donate  MAINSTREAM FUN: Spoon, Viva Viva @House of Blues 8PM All Ages $27.50 Friday the 19th DAY ONE of SMASH IT DEAD FEST, which, if ya didn’t know, is a two-day total-jammer of hardcore and punk rock, workshops and readings from hither and yonder assembled to raise awareness and funds for the Boston Rape Crisis center. Bands are totally brutal. You are totally going. Tonight’s got Curmudgeon, +HIRS+, Hard Nips, and Ursula @ Democracy Center All Ages Go spend all your money there :)  I made a 4-line haiku-thought-tag-cloud about this show in Allston tonight. It goes like this: ”saves the day/the good old days/slave to nothing/but my shitty feelings” who wants to publish my chapbook? Catch Choke Up (Tour Kickoff), Foreign Tongues, Save Ends, Old Days @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8  YO LISSEN UP: Last minute shit is mos def going down this weekend...could be TONIGHT, could be next couple nights check your fave website for deets, talkin’ possible outdoor show and/or SPEEDY ORTIZ and a mess of dope noisy bands. Be Informed.  RUDE TUNES, D’TUNED: Charlie, Mike Mountain, Picnic Lunch @TRAPHAUS Saturday the 20th Afromantic Chicago punkers ‘The Breathing Light’ headline day-2 of SMASH IT DEAD preceded by Aye Nako (NYC), Street Eaters (Oak), Katherine, Birth Defects, Chemiplastica and DAME. Hear a cavalcade of sick visiting acts knowing your dollars are going to an important cause @Cambridge YMCA start:2~4PM-ish? All Ages Charity Donation  So, this show, is just weird...but in a way that means I’m prolly gonna hunt it down. Several bands are named Drug Dogs and Hellrazor so, that’ll be a surprise. No matter what though, with locals Nice Guys, Spook the Herd and Trespasser we will rock that mystery joint @ll TBD  LOOPY FOLKS: Audrey Ryan and Thick Wild @Store 54 8PM All Ages $10  EURYTHMIA: Lower Dens and Jamaican Queens @ Sinclair 9PM 18+ $14  BLUE COLLA HOLLA: Answerman, Surprise Party, Too Early to Tell (NY), Evan and Will (mbrs. The Four Point Restraints) @Cantab 9PM 21+ $8  TO BE DETERMINED: Boston Hassle’s Boston Underground Summit 8 is being planned for this night..or the 19th maybe. Lookout! Sunday the 21st The varied scope of the liberal bubble in which I reside lends itself to often forgetting who is blaspheming whom on a day to day. While en route to a much anticipated and highly celebrated purchase of a 40 I heard both attempted character diminishment by way of assigning some dude lady parts, as well as one dog owner’s projection of homophobia; the modern marvel of a pit bull with aggressive gaydar. If you’re lucky enough to forget that this shit is literally everywhere there’s a good chance no one ever announces your gender when you pick up a guitar. Celebrate your capacity to choose to be more during the final day of SMASH IT DEAD FEST with the star-fuckingstellar lineup of Malportado Kids, Olivia Neutron John, Moor Mother Goodness, Mal Devisa, Trophy Knife and- YES, AND- so many more @Cambridge YMCA 6PM All Ages Charity Donation  Catch some real live jazz for the new Willennium with percussionist Chris Corano, saxman Paul Flaherty and trump pup Forbes Graham scoot doodling over @The Green Room 7:30PM All Ages $15  HIP CRUSHING: Liturgy @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  INDIE TWINZ: Blonde Redhead, Talk in Tongues @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $23  PNUT BRITTLE BOP: Underground Railroad to Candyland, Benny the Jet Rodriguez @O’Brien’s 8PM 18+ $8 Monday the 22nd What a big bummer of a day. The dog has gone missing, and you just spent the last hour looking for him. He is your best friend. Your mom is blaming you, and you feel a tough pressure in your chest. What will you do without him? On your search, wander til you reach the tunes @Charlies Kitchen. It’s a night of bummer tunes with Brazil, Animal Flag, Clearance (IL), and Palm Spring Life. 830PM 21+ $5  Rad Castle has waxed the floors just in time for the squeaky clean sounds of Eternals, Wilder Maker, and Long Time. In the reflection of these long form folk-pop tunes you can feel free to check your hair and make-up. Or just close your eyes and imagine yourself floating over a lake somewhere where people go camping. During a big old full moon. @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free Tuesday the 23rd Jessica Pratt learned how to play guitar by listening to “Electric Warrior” over and over and over, so I immediately loved her right off the bat, but mostly people compare her to a really weird Joan Baez. She’s cool, like generally more personality and good song ideas than you’d hear waiting in line at Starbucks. Check out “Back, Baby,” chick’s got chops. Jessica Pratt and Ryley Walker @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  Sloppy Chicago garage punks Flesh Panthers slouch into town tonight to rip shit up, kiss people, and drink too much. You know you love ‘em, just like you love Gymshorts and Dinoczar who’ll reppin’ da Bean at this hodown @Out of the Blue Too 9PM All Ages $5-10  PUNK’S STILL DEAD: Boston’s ONLY Punk DJ night @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10PM 21+ No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs Wednesday the 24th Why God Why? Why everything

They cover an Alkaline Trio song. Boilerman (Chi.), Notches and Little My (both NH, album releases), Gravel (MA) @Red Door (Ports-mouth) 8PM 21+ $5-10. Wednesday the 17th LA’s foremost p u p p e t e e r preacher David Liebe Hart (of Tim and Eric AS,GJ fame) comes to town tonight to tell us all about religion, aliens, women and trains and stuff while flunky bleeps and bloops ensue. So dope, Gymshorts, The Monsieur Ki... ahem, excuse me, I mean The Marty Kings and Black Beach all hadda get in on the act @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12  Tonight it’s “Night of The Living Bummedead” @ Out Of The Blue Too as Seattle’s CHASTITY BELT joins forces with likeminded locals Bong Wish and Minidresses before Fedavees finish it off psychedelic garage style. 8PM $10 All Ages  So, So, Non-Event to host the longawaited return of Asher Tuil (aka Asher Thal-Nir) to live performance like “Hey. No big deal really. More of a gathering than a party. Maybe you could come out? Oh, yeah, and also there’s this Franco-Aussie percussionist. Will Guthrie, or something? Yes yes, runs Antboy Music and collaborates with everybody. That one.” @Washington Street Arts Center 8PM All Ages $1015  FRUIT FROM OUR MIGHTY TREES: NEC-BSoM kids - Wendy Alembic, John Cushing, Brittany Karlson, Secret Rodg (Matt Deligatti solo) @ Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  COURTE INTRIGUE: Kings Open Mic hosted by Angela Sawyer @Kings Bowling Alley 9PM All Ages Free Thursday the 18th Are you ready to freak out?! King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard are gonna grab their wands and cast a distorted spell of garage psych over our unsuspecting cerebellums. Creaturos will help keep our eyes blissfully glazed, yet alert, with their chunky riffs alongside the oozy hooks of my favorite name changers, The Barbazons (formerly The Fagettes), and the low key, laid back lullabies of NightimeSunshine @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10-12  The Middle East must have met up with Doc Brown because it’s #TBT hardcore (pun

Gondoliers, Conduct, and Charlie @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $6 beep beep hello? Saturday the 13th If you were like me in high school, you spent your Saturday evenings breaking into your parent’s schnapps, reading pulp comics and dancing around your room alone wearing sunglasses. If you want to recreate that vibe but also want to be way cooler than me at sixteen, you’re gonna want to pull your cheetah-print foil jumpsuit outta your closet (I know you have it in there) for EX HEX, with Nova Scotian wonders NAP EYES and local monsters THE MONSIEURS @ The Sinclair 8PM 18+ $15  But if you prefer to start your Saturdays with your ears bleeding and your face shredded, that’s just what’s gonna go down @MID EAST UP with In My Eyes, The Rival Mob, The Boston Strangler, Think I Care, Stand Accused, Invasion, So Be It, New Lows, and Labeled. 12PM All Ages $20. Show is SOLD OUT, so start searching for those secondhand tickets.  POETRY IN MOTION: Papa M, Myriam Gendron, Animal Hospital @UU Church 7PM All Ages $15-20  TRASHPUNK: Trash Birds, Kiss Concert, Vomitface, I Eat Rock @O’Brien’s 8PM 21+ $6  YOU TALKIN TO ME?: Taxi Driver, Honest John, The Pink Parts, Spo @Middle East Upstairs 6:30PM 18+ $10  ILLEGALLY BLIND: Mike Adams at his Honest Weight with Blinders and Slowdim @Lilypad 10PM 18+ $10  HUNGRY FOR PUNK: Miami Doritos, Chandos, Deep State @ Grandma’s House  HATEFUL NOISE: FFF, Vehement Caress, Video Works by Frankie Symonds @Cement Hole 8PM All Ages $5-10  PUSH THEM GENRE BOUNDARIES: Ed Schrader’s Music Beat, Funeral Cone, Malportado Kids, Albert Demuth @Aurora (Providence) 9PM All Ages $ome Cost Sunday the 14th Well you guys, as I sit here two days away from the big 2-4 and an Oreo birthday cake, I refuse still to point the hull of this vessel t’ward the dawn of adulthood with income associated opportunities as my existential propulsion. Instead I sail on with just this evening on the periphery of my longview. Illegally Blind neo-psychs the whole lot of us with Jacco Gardner, Calvin Love, Doug Tuttle, and the delightful Twin Peaks cover band Littlefoot playing a few of their originals @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12  Resident artificer of audio free form and crafter of comic wit Angela Sawyer mics her insight tonight @The Comedy Studio 7PM All Ages $ome Cost  AVANT POST-POP: Pucker Up, Homebody (Denver), Sulk Scouts, Sunshine @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $5  DON’T-YELL-AT-ME: Michael Hurley, Elisa Ambrogio, Matt Valentine, Tropical Trash @Bass Hall 2PM All Ages $15-20 Monday June 15 th Joe’s totally Rad Castle has been rocking Central Sq’s world even since it emerged pale and wet from the husk of NOTLD. Tonight he welcomes local garage greats Future Spa and The Dazies @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  Over thayAH in tha sqayAH we gots Witches With Dicks (wieners of the coveted most-audacious-punk-band -name prize) back from an awfully extended hiatus. Warming up The Kitchen for them, the inimitable Boilerman and Bundles, who I hope is an adorable cat that plays guitar, but might be a rock band from Quincy @Charlie’s Kitchen 8PM 21+ $5  ROCKIN METAL: Coliseum, Child Bite, Chrome Over Brass, Raw Blow @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10-12 Tuesday the 16th Wow, wild bill, Obliterations are nasty Poison Idea-style hardcore punk, one ugly, aggressive, adrenaline-charged motherfucker of a band. White Lung are all over the music papers so you’re probably familiar with them too (Rolling Stone was giving them writeups, ew) but Narduwar likes them so, what the fuck. White Lung and Obliterations @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  Leap of Faith are an ongoing collaboration of purely improvisational, atmospheric noise that may contain a cello, two cellos, a saxamophone, a theremin(!!!), and any number of other alien elements. I had my ears blown out by this ish a few years ago, if you’re into experimental noise you should check these guys out because they’re genius. Steven Norton with Leap of Faith @ Lilypad 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  XXtra AWESOME: Viet Cong (Calgary), Girl Band, Palehound @Sinclair 9PM 18+ $15  PUNK’S DEAD, YOU’RE NEXT: Boston’s ONLY Punk DJ night @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10PM 21+ No Cover/ Free Pool Downstairs  Boilerman have that Latterman/Flowers and Cops gritty pop punk thing going on.

@Paradise Rock Club 8pm 18+ $17  Do you like you existentialist philosophy dripping with gore and pummeling your face at bpm’s you can barely conceive? Please welcome Upheavel, a brutal death outfit from Paris, quiet these last years, but they won’t be quiet tonight. Joined by Brooklyn’s darkly contemplative Insect Ark, ever-sludge-tronic Sewer Goddess and Cemetery Dave, we are grinning like flaming skulls on a rollercoaster @O’Brien’s 8PM 21+ $8  LOCAL RAP-ROCK Uuuuhhh: Bad Rabbits, Hayley Kiyoko, The Metro @Middle East Down 6PM All Ages $20  NEW JOINT 2 CHECK: The I Want You (rec. release), Hands & Knees, Psychic Dog, Four Point Restraints @Firebrand Saints 10PM 21+ $5 Sunday the 28th Kick off your Sunday shoes and get ready to cut a rug you stiff, self-conscious little cherub. The Pro Breaking Tour & Sanctioned by UDEF come to celebrate the passage of a time chunk unparalleled by that of any project you’ve ever attempted to halfheartedly breathe life into with the FloorLords 34 Year Anniversary Tour. To observe this traditionally opal-laden occasion is the United Styles 11 3 vs. 3 Competition with cash prizes surely transcending the scope of your rent this month, with a special performance by Reks @Middle East Downstairs 3PM All Ages $20  DONT MISS OUT THIS TIME: Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock N Roll Heroes’ BLACK MARKET @ Cambridge Community Center Monday the 29th If you consider summer and chirping birds your mortal enemies, SCANNERS has a dose of nocturnal chilliness straight to your aorta. Profligate’s five alarm drones are the soundtrack to the robot dance parties that tear up the factory long after the humans have left. Savannah’s Boy Harsher were what you put on the mixtape for that ghost you were crushing on, and Slendermen make strange sounds illuminated by the full moon. @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $5  Alternatively, head to Rad Castle and drink in the ragged orchestra that is Malaysia’s Furniture. Their tuxedos may be frayed but they play a tasteful marimba, which is no mean feat. The cradle-rocking serenades of locals Babydriver and lilting front porch-core of Old Wave round out the evening @Zuzu 10PM 21+ FREE  Caustic Bathwater BURNS SO GOOD: Stumpf, Underwater Bear Ballet, Feral Jenny, and Alosi Den @Charlies Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5 Tuesday the 30th Beverly PINS are a Manc UK foursome of women who play a Jesus and Mary Chain, Amphetamine Reptile-ish style of druggy groove punk (listen to “Say to Me,” you’ll hear what I mean). I don’t know if it’s on purpose or not, there aren’t too many 1991 revivalists around but the immediate pre”Nevermind” era produced some good tunes (J&MC, early Muffs, Surgery, Mudhoney… etc) and PINS sorta fit right in with that forgotten genre. I don’t know who Beverly are, I’m sure they’re cool too. @ Great Scott 9PM 18+ $15  RETURNING RIPPERS: Boston Hassle Presents… JOSS, Ian (tour homecoming show), Broken Water (Olympia) and Phantom Rides @Out Of The Blue Too 9PM All Ages $10  LAST EVER PUNK’S DEAD: Punk DJ night @Ramrod 1254 Boylston St. 10PM 21+ No Cover/Free Pool Downstairs

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SUMMER fitnessing

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Hey there, beach bums and pool jockeys. Summer is just around the river bend and you know what that means: SWIMSUIT SEASON! Yes, it’s that special time of year that falls between Way-Too-Horny Season and Bed-Cookies Season. Regardless if you’re trying to fit into your two-piece, three-piece, or Swimtux, these exercises are guaranteed to give you the tone you crave. Whether you need to skim some fat or you want an ab, the following routines should get your body powdered in time to hit the agua.

Summer is here and you know what that means: endless days and nights of sweltering heat and jealousy while sifting through your friends’ internet pictures of lake houses! But the joke’s on them because you know what’s more fun than being with your best friends and also someone you have a ton of sexual tension with but haven’t slept with yet and getting a bunch of groceries and beer and eating pie in cutoffs and laughing until your throat hurts and then stopping for a sec and the trees are so tall and then you look down and when you look up you guys kiss (not everyone but just that person from earlier with the sexual tension)?

PUSH AROUNDS

ROOSEVELT CIRCLES

Equipment Needed: Wrist weights Muscles Targeted: Dimtim & Propotisus

Equipment Needed: Rolling Chair Muscles Targeted: Limploids & Flapendos

Lie with your body flat on the ground and feet together. Strap two weights to each wrist and position your hands at shoulder width, but flat on the ground about 7 inches above your head. Flail each arm as if your pushing someone in a mosh pit. Do 3 sets of about 9 flails, resting with a book in between sets.

Position yourself in the rolling chair with your feet on the foot rests. Without moving your legs, move around the room in the rolling chair. Complete as many laps as you can in 30 minutes. Rest and intern the Japanese.

HAM SANDIES

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A STAYCATION!!!!!!!

Equipment Needed: None Muscles Targeted: Flivums, Shatners, and Dikloins

SEATED REVERSE KEGELS

A staycation is a great way to save money, time, and brain space because you won’t have as many memories! No matter where you live, there’s always something fun you haven’t tried right in your own backyard! Here are some fun ideas for those extra days you have to spend mostly alone.

Stand with your feet shoulder width apart, your knees together and locked and with your feet facing North. Squat down, making sure not move your legs or change the altitude of your head until you can feel your pincers quiver. Repeat for 10 minutes at 350°.

KNOCK EM DOWNS Equipment Needed: Buckets, sand, and small child Muscles Targeted: Pleetuls and Armoirs Position the small child with buckets and sand within arm’s reach. Instruct child to build a sand castle. Nothing fancy; we don’t need̊ a sand fucking palace. Once completed, extend your right arm forward in a swooping motion to knock the sand castle over and exclaim, “What, is my house not good enough for you?!” Rest between sets while child rebuilds sand castle. Be sure to hydrate and remind the child to hurry the fuck up or you’ll call Santa and have his toys burned. Repeat with left arm.

CUMSHITTERS

Equipment Needed: Average chair Muscles Targeted: Hoiners, Bleetles, and SoftBones Sit in the chair with legs apart. Identify your pelvic floor muscles by cinching the muscles you would to stop urination midstream. Gradually release these muscles, pushing them as far apart as you can. Release of urine is expected; release of blood or bile is desired. This is exercise is good if you have an excess of blood. Repeat until bloodless.

NORWEGIAN PRESS Equipment Needed: Veënthøvűșę Muscles Targeted: Iblemhiers, Shotskys, and Tainters Stand with your lower body in the Veënthøvűșę, your belly button resting above the lbringen. Place your hands on the fặbẽnchen, and slowly tug until hard. You should be raising the fặbẽnchen upwards towards the vertical yỗrtlửrỳỳ until you feel a slight strain, then lower gradually. For that extra burn, attach any fịŁjōųg you have lying around. Do 5 sets, decreasing 15, 13, 11, 9, 7, resting in between for 30 metric seconds.

HORSE-OFFS Equipment needed: Horse Muscles Targeted: Biltleys, Mutalis, and Hoovers Stand facing horse. In one f luid motion, hop on top of the horse. Hold brief ly, then dismount horse. Repeat until horse grows agitated. 

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Court Jed, the shy cashier at Walgreens. He always wants to help you and you always say no! Try saying yes and reap the benefits— which are lots and lots of rewards points on your Walgreens card! Also sometimes when he’s restocking birthday cards his true nature is revealed and it’s mostly repressed anger—but that could be kinda fun for a lunch date type of thing!

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THURSDAY, JUNE 4 AT 9PM

ImprovBoston • 40 Prospect St., Cambridge $12 • Students: $10 w/ ID

Explore your world. Take a walking tour of your city’s downtown area and write down the names of all the hideous building from the 70s and find out the architect who designed them and talk about them to people who don’t care! Nurture your green thumb. Try potting some plants- but that only takes about twenty minutes—so then you can make sun tea and think about going to a movie later maybe. Get back to basics. Write a nice long letter—over and over again! Rewrite it with your non-dominant hand, the Palmer Method, some bubble lettering, emoji, or just plain blood. Surely something will get through to The Devil! Reset. Make up a new WiFi network name that best represents your quirky sense of humor and then blow your brains out! Unwind. Ultimately, a staycation should be about relaxation. Mimic what you see other people do to relax and see if it works for you! Epsom salts, having a partner who respects your needs, and farmer’s markets are all great places to start! As you can see, there’s no right way to spend a staycation because they aren’t really an actual thing so much as just not going on vacation! Enjoy your time away from work and other humans because soon enough it will be Thanksgiving and you have to go to Ohio! HAGS! 

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Here’s some comedy juuuust outside of the city that you gotta check out!

Local wackos Sam Ike and Conor Allen unite to present to you their terrifically SUNDAY, JUNE 7 AT 8PM weird sketch comedy. In Bad Art, Jamie AS220 • 115 Empire St., Providence Loftus becomes art, um, legends Thomas $8 online / $10 at the door Kincaid, Lisa Frank, and Ed Hardy right before your eyes! Hosted by kickass standup Every person your editor has met who has performed on this show (including herself) Christa Weiss. will tell you it is one of the best shows in which they’ve ever participated. And as it sells out nearly every month, audiences TUESDAY, JUNE 9 AT 7PM agree it’s one of the best to watch! Every Aviary • 48 South St., JP month, this high-octane variety show Hosts Angela Sawyer and Gilmore Tamny features sketch comedy, music, burlesque, invite you to let it all hang out at the latest standup, and more at one of the coolest edition of Extremely Casual. You’ve got venues in New England. This month’s music, comedy, and more! This month: Kofi theme is Crime & Punishment. They have Thomas, Andrew Abrahamson, Dead Letter a pic of Judge Judy on the Facebook event & Kathleen, Andrea Pensado, John Staley, page just so you know how on the level this and a visit from the Pope of JP. Leisurewear show is. strongly encouraged.

Empire Revue

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Phoenix Landing Comedy TUESDAYS AT 9PM

Phoenix Landing • 512 Mass. Ave., Cambridge $0 • 21+

Producers and comics extraordinaire Kevin Quigley and David Thomas present to you some of the most interesting local funny people every dang week. One of the most fun new shows around!

Seasonal Affective Comedy

FRIDAY, JUNE 19 AT 9:30PM

Cape Ann Cinema • 21 Main St., Gloucester $10 • All ages but content may be ~MATURE~

The Cape Ann Cinema is changing hands soon :( so go catch a flick in this goddamn gem of a place. It's also the home of one of our favorite shows in the region. This month, one of our favorite silly people Nonye Brown-West hosts.

FEATURED FILM SERIES THE FILMS OF ROY ANDERSSON 6/10 - 7/2 @MFA www.MFA.org/Programs/Series/TheFilms-of-Roy-Andersson

YOU, THE LIVING (2007) dir. ROY ANDERSSON (6/11 & 6/12) @HFA

Actually, love means never having to say much of anything, at least according to Roy Andersson’s A Swedish Love Story (1970), whose dyad of dewey-souled spring chicks gets by on colloquies comprised of hums, chuckles, coos, and other close-cuddle cluckings. As embedded in an all-show, no-tell tale of middle-class families pervaded by status anxiety and loneliness, it serves as a kind of salute to one of our most popular consolations. The MFA’s presentation of Andersson’s features traces the punctuated arc of his persistent humanism from its beginnings in granular melodrama to its more recent orientation in gently absurdist formal experimentation, culminating in 2014’s A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence. - Matthew Mar

“Sam once said to me,” Jim Jarmusch recalls in a 1996 documentary on Samuel Fuller, “”When you start your script, if the

first scene doesn’t give you a hard-on, throw the damn thing away,”” counsel given fullblooded embodiment by the films showing at the HFA this June. THE NAKED KISS (1964), PICKUP ON SOUTH STREET (1953), and THE CRIMSON KIMONO (1959) each begin with a noirful bang styled after a tabloid broadsheet’s high-strung pop, offset in turn by the gravitas of a secreted dick scouting for truth. Such filmic mannerisms-as flamboyant and lovable as his own-- echo Fuller’s professional beginnings in journalism and pulp fiction and invigorate this set of lusty, groundbreaking genre films following troubled outsiders, hyper-clever women and men alike (his heroic antis, if you will) through their urban travails, parsing the interplay of virtue and status, duty and ethics, truth and testimony. - Rebecca DeLucia

BOSTON VIEWFINDER

http://www.bostonviewfinder.com with well-known professional actors (Viggo JAUJA (2014) Mortensen in the central role of Captain Didir. LISANDRO ALONSO nesen, speaking Danish) and in the construct 6/12 - 6/15 @BRATTLE of a late-1800s period piece set in the Patawww.BrattleFilm.org gonian desert, Alonso creates a film that has been defined by some as a ‘Western’. Yet anyone expecting The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, is likely to be sorely disappointed. Jauja seems more in line with Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff (2010), a film which attempted to portray the West as not a place of surprise and suspense but of trance-inducing monotony. While touching on themes For a director that’s known for his slow, of colonialism, Jauja’s main focus is the interruminative, nearly wordless features star- nal workings of a person experiencing loss, ring non-professional actors, Jauja by Ar- reflected in the wide-open landscape, which gentine filmmaker Lisandro Alonso may is as much a character in the film as Dinesen. seem like a move (if ever so slight) toward - Stefan Grabowski the mainstream. Working for the first time Altman regular) if you’re new here. Even if this film had been straight and mundane (an impossibility for a 70s Robert Altman film to be sure) we would have had this legendary female pairing to draw us to this film. Actually, I’m not sure it’s possible for a film with both of these actresses in it to ever be mundane; each woman capable of (at the time, anyway) projecting their weird inner radiance upon everything around them. Duvall is Millie. Spacek is Pinky. They work together out in the desert @ a rehabilitation center, eventually becoming roommates. And then the women’s personalities begin to wander off into some kind of Lynchian, dream reality. The film’s stunning, unsettling, and regularly encountered murals somehow elicit a sense of wonder, and of dread, all at once. In the film the murals are painted by Willie (the third woman), while in real life an artist named Bodhi Wind brought the costarring murals to life. The film’s score further reinforces the strange vibrations set into motion by Altman, Spacek, and Duvall in this film. And it is these strange vibrations that may take hold of you if you choose to watch Robert Altman’s dream vision play out across the haunted desert. - Dan Shea

dir. RODNEY ASCHER

FIANCÉS (1963) 6 THE dir. ERMANNO OLMI

@HFA This very early entry in Olmi’s decades-spanning career is a work of neorealism on a par with De Sica, a fragmented yet utterly grounded narrative about a Sicilian couple whose engagement is challenged by separation when Giovanni is offered an unturn-downable, depressingly distant steel-industry job. THE LONG GOODBYE (1973) dir. ROBERT ALTMAN @BRATTLE Watch Elliott Gould’s career peak and Robert Altman’s coast at its majestic early ‘70s altitude in the first (probably) and finest (arguably) mumble-noir ever made, in which a washed-up, washed-out Philip Marlowe sleepwalks his wisecracks across a sunsoaked LA steeped in the usual sin. SHORT CUTS (1993)

8 dir. ROBERT ALTMAN

@HFA Medflies descend on Los Angeles, where our darlin’ director plops (sprays?) us into the fray of nine households whose stories, adapted from Raymond Carver, are expertly interwoven, portrayed by one blast-away cast (Lily Tomlin, Tim Robbins, Tom Waits, etc., and there’s even a fucking cameo by Alex Trebek).

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE

3 WOMEN (1977) dir. ROBERT ALTMAN 6/13, 7:00PM @HFA HTTP://HCL.HARVARD.EDU/HFA/ A lesser known film in the Altman canon, 3 WOMEN, is perhaps the strangest film that Robert Altman ever made. The legendary director is known for many reasons, but the making of somewhat hallucinogenic, waking dream character studies is not one that is usually mentioned. Despite this, his 3 WOMEN exists, and it is an intoxicating experience to be had. Here Altman cast two of the most atypically beautiful, and just plain amazing actresses of all time opposite each other. That’s Sissy Spacek and Shelley Duvall (an

THE NIGHTMARE (2015) @BRATTLE From the director of Room 237 comes another mindbending, genre-defying documentary. This time, the subject is the utterly terrifying phenomenon of sleep paralysis, complete with reenactments of actual sufferers’ hallucinations. Good thing it’s at midnight, because you’re not sleeping afterwards. Also screens 6/6

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THE COMPLETE SAM FULLER 6/19 - 8/30 @HFA http://HCL.Harvard.edu/HFA/

AMERICAN DENIAL (2015) dir. LLEWELLYN SMITH @MFA An outstanding scholarly lineup featuring Michelle Alexander, Danielle Allen, Vincent Brown and others marks this sobering yet lively exposition of Gunnar Myrdal’s 1944 study, The American Dilemma, and the lineage of post-bellum social, legal, and institutional racism in the US from Reconstruction to the present. Director in person!

MAN (1984) 9 REPO dir. ALEX COX

@BRATTLE The all-time classic of gonzo punk-rock sci-fi noir is back! Punk-as-fuck Emilio Estevez bores of his hardcore lifestyle and joins a team of unscrupulous repo agents. Intrigue ensues, including dead aliens, flying cars, Harry Dean Stanton, and the Circle Jerks. A PIGEON SAT ON A BRANCH REFLECTING ON EXISTENCE (2014) dir. ROY ANDERSSON

@MFA Andersson’s so-called Living Trilogy concludes with a chapter as winningly off-beat and off-kilter as its predecessors, a tender mind-bender about a pair of novelty salesmen that won last year’s Golden Lion at Venice, and little wonder: it’s a salve for the self-sick soul.

13 DARKMAN (1990)

26 THE BURNING (1981)

dir. SAM RAIMI @BRATTLE Before he was Oskar Schindler, before he began kicking asses and taking names in Taken, Liam Neeson was a disfigured vigilante out for justice in Sam Raimi’s first foray into the superhero genre. Fear the man who can’t feel pain.

THE DEMON (1978) dir. YOSHITARO NOMURA @HFA Two women, one a wife and owner of a printing press and the other a barely-kept mother of three, confront the deadbeat man who binds them, leaving the children exposed to the ravages of interpersonal mayhem.

(1983) 19 ANGST dir. GERALD KARGL

@COOLIDGE Disturbing and technically innovative, this unique art house/exploitation relic boasts impressive cinematography that portrays a recently deinstitutionalized psychopath. Upon release the film shocked audiences throughout Europe and was quickly banned, but has since undergone reappraisal as “well done” cinema. Also screens 6/20

dir. TONY MAYLAM @COOLIDGE You know the drill: summer camp caretaker is burned and left for dead, horny counselors start gruesomely dying. What set this one apart is the embarrassment of pre-stardom turns. Come for the Tom Savini effects, stay for teenage Jason Alexander! Also screens 6/27 KIDS IN THE HALL: BRAIN CANDY (1996) dir. KELLY MAKIN @COOLIDGE Rather than take the SNL route of padding a skit to 90 minutes, the Canadian troupe’s feature debut is a pitch black comedy of shady pharmaceuticals and flipper babies. They never made another, but we’ll always have Cancer Boy.

INHERENT VICE (2014)

DIR. P.T. ANDERSON 6/5 @ BRATTLE Joaquin Phoenix is dopey PI from Lalaland trying to crack the case in another idiosyncratic gem from the Californian auteur.

LOSING GROUND (1982) dir. KATHLEEN COLLINS @BRATTLE THE NA KED KIS One of the first feature-length S (1964 ) films written and directed by a black woman-- lauded as a “fiercely independent,” “nearly-lost masterwork”-- depicts DIR. SAM FULLER a professor of philosophy at 6/22 @ HFA the decision points of her caA reformed prostitute settles reer and personal life. Harduncovers the twisted secrets to-find, therefore unmissable! of Everytown, USA. Both Reissue premiere! John Waters and David Lynch clearly took notes. Screens through 6/21

24 THE SEVENTH SEAL (1957)

dir. INGMAR BERGMAN @BRATTLE One of the most hailed movies of all time, Ingmar Bergman’s rumination on life in the face of death has aged superbly since it was first seen and is not just required viewing for the upper middle class dinner party.

25 WILD STRAWBERRIES (1957)

dir. INGMAR BERGMAN @BRATTLE Another masterpiece from the height of Bergman’s career, Wild Strawberries’ insightful truths about past regrets and learning to be at peace with oneself at the end of a long life has made the film lost none of its timeless power. THE LIFE AND CRIMES OF DORIS PAYNE (2014) dir. KIRK MARCOLINA & MATTHEW POND @MFA Wildly successful octogenarian jewel thief Doris Payne is a con artist, sure. But maybe also a hero? To hear her tell it ... well, you really ought to hear her tell it. The selfstyled Dorothy Dandridge of the jewel heist demimonde gained the confidence of her filmmakers -- why not yours? Directors in person!

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NEW RELEASES NOW - HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT (2015) dir. JOSH & BENNY SAFDIE @KENDALL 6/5 - LOVE & MERCY (2015) dir. BILL POHLAD @COOLIDGE 6/12 - LIVE FROM NEW YORK (2015) dir. BAO NGUYEN @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. LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Institute of Contemporary Art - ICA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theatre - SOMERVILLE Managing Editor: Oscar Goff Contributing Writers: Rebecca DeLucia Oscar Goff Stefan Grabowski (Boston Viewfinder) Matthew Martens Dan Shea Pablo Torroella Proofing: Oscar Goff

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Boston’s Unofficial Little Tokyo The Shops at Porter 1815 Massachusetts Ave Cambridge, MA 02140 Little Tokyo exists in Boston! It’s unofficial, the size of an alley, and located in a Porter Square mall. The Shops at Porter hosts a collection of mom-andpops serving specialized Japanese cuisine. These aren’t fancy fusion restaurants with encyclopedia-sized menus. No – these pocket-sized establishments serve only the items they do best. These restaurants do not compete, but rather create a real cultural experience where you’ll find Japanese patrons feeling at home. You’ll find this enclave steps from the MBTA stop. A tour of foods is available including tempura, sushi, hamburg, ramen and moshi. Each establishment has several tables where you’ll be seated adjacent to the counter where your food is prepared. Cash is king in Boston’s unofficial Little Tokyo so don’t forget to hit an ATM before visiting. This is food for the people, by the people. Everything is affordable, with lunch specials starting at $6. An interesting eat is the Japanese Hamburg at Café Mami. This take on Salisbury steak dates back to the western influence in 19th century Japanese ports. If you venture into the alley, you’ll find excellent donbori, ramen and tempura. Finally, the Japonaise Bakery & Cafe (temporarily closed) provides amazing desserts. For $1.50, you can eat mochi flavors like green tea, pistachio and coconut. Boston’s unofficial Little Tokyo has a kind of magic that we risk losing if our cities become playgrounds for the rich. This is food made for the working class. It’s food made with character, hard work and pride. — D. Dabek

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