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August Riffage Deep in the summer slog we are. Starting and growing a nonprofit org from nothing is a slog in and of itself but then summer hits, the lights go up, the roaches scatter and us lifers are left out, spread thin and getting crispy. August especially leaves me feeling sloggish, and sluggish, I suppose. There are also just less people around to maintain the enthusiasm so the burden of cultural activism is lopsided for three solid months. The students of Boston by and large all go away for the summer and normal people (even show goers) take small vacations to cooler places. Despite the heat exhaustion and the temporarily dwindled crew good stuff is still happening this summer and I would like to tell you about it in no particular order. For one thing BRAIN Arts has identified a new and extremely important ongoing effort: making our community and the spaces we occupy safer for ALL people, especially those marginalized by mainstream society. Until we decide on an official name we’re calling it the Safer Space Initiative and we encourage you to join the conversation. As one of my fellow volunteers put it at our last meeting, if you don’t know what this means or why it’s important then you

especially should get involved and find out. Under The Underground continues its monthly film series highlighting the works of lesser-known filmmakers on 8/21 at Lilypad. Our grants team has applied for our second grant and we are looking to expand the effort. If you have grants/nonprofit experience please reach out! The Compass production crew has restructured to get more people involved in the process and we are currently seeking graphic designers with InDesign Skills, copy editors and any reliable people who want to make this project their own. Similarly the Hassle website team is continuing to grow and seeking more help covering ALL kinds of rad things happening in, around or affecting Boston. Even our show booking concern has restructured and stepped up the effort to cultivate more All Ages spaces for shows. Good stuff. We have a newsletter about all these fine happenings but i figured I’d just throw it all out there for you here, in brief. It’s too hot for anything but underwear right now anyway am I right? Thanks for picking up the rag and see you out there!

IT’S OUT! COMPASS RELEASE SHOW Calling all artists, musicians, and filmmakers! Starting in September, the Compass will be throwing a monthly show to celebrate the release of the paper. The IT’S OUT! show will feature music, art, film, and more, all chosen to show off the incredible diversity and talent of our community. We are holding an OPEN CALL for artists and filmmakers who would like their work displayed at the show. If you’re interested, send a sample of your work to thatbostoncompass@gmail.com, with the subject line “It’s Out submission”. The first It’s Out! show will be on September 5 @ HI: Boston Hostel! - Emma D

The Coolest Yard Sale of Summer!!

Sam Potrykus

Art Blast.............................................................Page 2 Sandrine Schaefer performs, Fiber Art and Feminism, and support your local Bodega!

Hassle Brief & pure impact.........................page 3 Ursula, day Music,

On the Road to Bummer City As the last stretch of summer begins there is but one recommendation, dear reader: plan your trip to Bummer City today. The Bummer City Historical Society consists of about twenty people whose main goal is to increase the number of accessible and inclusive events/spaces. If you have a song, poem, short narrative, dance number or whatever be sure to attend their monthly open mic @ Hostelling International Boston from 7:30p.m9:30 p.m. on August 20th featuring Lady Queen Paradise. Sign-ups start at 7 p.m. so be sure plan accordingly. This open mic is sure to provide a space in which you can express the strangest of your emotions! -Rey De La Fuente

Boys, Puce

Mamaleek, Mary. PI: Eastern

HoliBloc

here be the Shows.....................................page 4-5 Fuzzstival, New All Ages Show Spot Pops 8/7, 8/24 is just wow & GToss returns 8/28

The Tardy Eagle..............................................page 6 YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH ON THIS PAGE also some local comedy picks

Film Flam............................................................page 7 Lovecraftian Rock ‘n’

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Comics.................................................................page 8 Featuring many talented local artists new sweet STREET ART feature!

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Fundraiser! 8/6 We are your friends, you’ll never be alone again! Or at least from 4PM-8PM @ Friendly Toast in Cambridge on Thursday 8/6. The good folks at BRAIN Arts who produce this very paper and run BostonHassle. com and book Boston Hassle shows want to invite you to our Friendly Fundraiser where 20% of the night’s sales will go directly towards bringing you more music, art, film, culture, and ink stains on your hands! We’re trying to raise enough money to print an issue of the Compass, so if you’re hungry enough to help us reach our goal come on out to Kendall Square! But after 8PM you’re on your own again. -Harrison Bralower

Gettin’ Down at the School of Groove

Listen, I totally understand that you just *needed* to buy that $5 Spiderman land phone because one day you’re “definitely going to get a landline!” A banana slicer that is “literally shaped like a banana” is honestly an invaluable kitchen utensil. You’re “definitely going to get into pottery this summer!”, so really, that kiln is going to pay for itself. An alarm clock that not only tries to wake you up with a sound, but also shakes the bed to let you know that morning has arrived!? I get it, but do you ever feel like one of the hardest parts of being a grownup is coming to terms with the fact that you have too much stuff and not enough space? You’re in luck! On 8/15, come to the “Cool, Air-Conditioned, Monster Yard Sale” @ Manning Apartments in Central Square! Not only can all that cool stuff you got go to someone who can put it to even better use, but bonus: a portion of the proceeds benefit the Alliance of Cambridge Tenants, because everyone deserves to live comfortably. -Sophie Samul

Downtown Loke Rahbek

Maybe you always wanted to take music lessons as a young’un but never had the chance. Maybe you tried out the french horn but didn’t really dig it and your middle school band teacher terrified you. Regardless of what sidetracked your musical dreams, you should seriously consider taking classes at the School of Groove. They offer affordable private lessons on guitar, bass, vox, drums and more. Throw in free use of a practice space and the opportunity to join a band with other students and receive group instruction, and you’ve got an exceedingly cool learning opportunity. If you go to shows and ever wondered what it’d be like to be the cool cucumber up on stage, here’s your chance to find out. Don’t bystand, start participating! -Peter Steele

WaterFire is literally & figuratively hot & cool

Ever wondered how dozens of bonfires lit in the rivers of downtown Providence would look? Ponder no more! You’ve got three opportunities to see your greatest fantasies played out before your eyes on 8/1, 8/15, and 8/29, courtesy of Barnaby Evans’ sculpture WaterFire. Lighting is shortly after sunset, but it’s worth getting down an hour or two early to bask in the other art installations and the eclectic music program. And if you haven’t been down to the Ocean State recently, it’s just a super chill commuter rail ride away. $5 suggested donation, waterfire.org for more information. - Marisa Bulkeley

Dan Goldin and Dave Spak used to walk down Greylock; the sound of music got clearer and louder as you got closer. Venturing at night into the damp, dark, dank-smelling basements of Allston, watching locals play, or meeting acts rolling through the region. It was an enlightening experience that filled them with the desire to start a label; to give more people a chance to listen to the acts that they were seeing. Today, Exploding in Sound Records is one of the most exciting small labels in the country. Mr. Goldin has now booked three shows on August 22 and 23 in Boston as part of the label’s east coast “Thank You For Being A Friend” event. 8/22 @ The Sinclair: Krill, Big Ups, “Unholy Strength,” Stove, Palehound. 8/23 @ O’Briens Early: Vundabar, Washer, Zula, Swings, Great Deceivers, Lady Bones. 8/23 @ Great Scott: Pile, Kal Marks, Gnarwhal, Leapling and Bunny’s A Swine. I messaged a bunch of Exploding in Sound family members, asking them to describe the label in 10 words or less. Carl Shane of Kal Marks wrote: Kind, Dan, Dave, Exploding, Sound, Fun, Support, Party & On. Rick Maguire of Pile says that “Being on EIS is like having four elbows: advantageous.” Jesse Weiss of Palehound, among other bands, wrote: Home-brewed, Ground up, Heartfelt, Supportive yet Eclectic Burst of Audio. Finally, Dan Goldin, the legend: “Bringing good music to the people... or at least trying.” From Boston to the world, Exploding-In-Sound showcases inventive artists in a world saturated with the same old. I encourage everyone reading to get together with your friends and start something. Make a label. Help your friends release their music. You can do it, just set a goal and achieve.

Learn more about their label by going to http://www.explodinginsoundrecords.com/

-Ethan Long

Saturday - 8.1.15 10:30am–5:30pm • PERFORMANCE ART • Marilyn Arsem: Time Body Space Objects Part 4 @Spectacle Island, MA

Monday - 8.3.15 8pm • RECEPTION • Glenn Jones & Chuck Johnson @Aviary Gallery (JP)

TUESDAY - 8.4.15

curator talk 7:30pm • SUMMER SUMMITS: NOTES FROM FURTHER AFIELD @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Cambridge) Make your way to Harvard for an evening of inspirational discussion and informal presentations from the best and most influential voices in the Boston arts world. In the third installment of a fourpart series, the Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art at the MFA and the curators of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will be presenting about their summer travels and the inspiration they found, on the terrace of Le Corbusier's Carpenter Center. Dessert is provided; beer and wine is encouraged to bring! –MJK ccva.fas.harvard.edu/summer-summits-notes-further-afield

sunday - 8.9.15

performance 11am -5pm • SANDRINE SCHAEFER: EXERCISES IN ARCHIVING GIVING/LEAVING @ICA 2015 Foster Prize winner SANDRINE SCHAEFER will create a new work sited in and viewable from the ICA's waterfront, Founders Gallery. Wandering With the Horizon: A Body in Light consists of a series of 5 performances that leave traces and accumulation in the space, shifting the audience's sensorial encounter with the site. Schaefer is inspired by site, the relationship between accumulative action and endurance, and challenging the parameters of real time. Her work addresses the shared human experience of fitting in, both corporeally and conceptually, and explores the cycles of the invisible becoming visible. – GG SandrineSchaefer.com // www.icaBoston.org

This traveling exhibit will continue to pop up in community art spaces around Boston, with a slightly different group of artists each time – so be sure to not miss one! –Scout Hutchinson • www. WashingtonSt.org // On view 8/14-8/29, Saturdays, 12-4pm

BODEGA Bodega is known as Boston’s iconic sneaker and streetwear shop, but less known is their commitment to the community as a gallery and global platform for local artists. This sense of responsibility to the community is exactly what keeps Bodega so fresh; they are genuinely rooted in street art, instead of just capitalizing on it through fashion. By selling artist-designed apparel and featuring local artists’ installations on their walls they go beyond exhibiting local art; they are fostering its growth.

saturday - 8.15.15 10am-4pm • Book Sale • Summertime Book Sale @BPL (South Boston)

wednesday - 8.19.15 5:30-8:30pm • EVENT • Artist Toolbox Cart: Painting @MFA 6 -7pm • Gallery Talk • Modern Dance and the Visual Image @MFA

Thursday - 8.20.15 6-9pm • Reception • Doppelgänger @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) // Now- 8/20

Tuesday - 8.11.15

wednesday - 8.5.15 5:30- 8:30pm • EVENT • Artist Toolbox Cart: Painting @MFA 6 - 7pm • Gallery Talk • The Japanese Koto @MFA

Thursday - 8.6.15 5 -7pm • Reception • Holding Pattern @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) // Now - 8/24 6:30 -7:30pm Writer's Night (Comic) @Cambridge Public Library // Every 1st Thursday 7:30pm • Discussion • Boston Comics Roundtable Weekly Meeting @Cambridge Public Library 6 -8pm • Reception • Space, Object & Artifact @Nave Gallery (Somerville) // 8/1 - 8/22

FRiday - 8.7.15 (All Day) Free Fun Fridays: Free Admission @Boston Harbor Islands National and State Park @Springfield Museums @Concord Museum 5 - 8:30pm • Reception • The Enamelist Society @Montserrat Gallery (Beverly, MA) // 7/27 - 8/12 6-8pm • Reception • Who Might I Be? Pretending, Disguise & Elusion @Nave Gallery (Somerville) // 8/7-8/29

friday - 8.21.15

8pm • Reception • John Davis / Rob Noyes / Sam Moss @ Aviary Gallery (JP)

(All Day) Free Fun Fridays: Free Admission @Museum of African American History @The Discovery Museums @Emily Dickinson Museum

wednesday - 8.12.15

sunday - 8.23.15

5:30 - 8:30pm • event • Artist Toolbox Cart: Furniture Design @MFA 6 - 8pm • Gallery Talk • The Brilliance of American Glass @MFA 7:30pm • Curator Talk • Summer Summits: Notes from Further Afield with Alise Upitis & Trevor Smith @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard) FREE w/ RSVP

thursday - 8.13.15

artist talk 6-8:30pm • SPACE, OBJECT & ARTIFACT @Nave Gallery Haven’t you ever wondered what the spaces we occupy and the objects we possess reveal about ourselves? Do you think our personal belongings and spaces have the power to elicit emotional responses when shared with those unfamiliar with them? Have these questions answered and much more in discussion with Kate Benson, Carolyn Latourelle and Emily Manning-Mingle on the works in Space, Object & Artifact. -GG www.NaveGallery.org // On view 8/1 - 8/22

2-5pm • Artist Talk • Creator Talks: TBD @Studio 306 (Somerville)

Monday - 8.24.15 6-9pm • Artist Talk • Think About Climate Change, Dialogue #4 @Mobius (Central Square)

wednesday - 8.26.15 6 - 7pm • Gallery Talk • Made in the Americas": The New World Discovers America @MFA 5:30-8:30pm • EVENT • Artist Toolbox Cart: Marble Sculpture @MFA

Friday - 8.28.15 (All Day) Free Fun Fridays: Free Admission @Clark Art Institute @Mass MoCa @Griffin Photography Museum

11am -4pm New Blue Maker's Market @Out of the Blue Gallery (Central Square) // Monthly

saturday - 8.8.15 2-4pm • Workshop • Making Mini-Comics @561 Windsor St, Studio 306 (Somerville)

The next installation over at Bodega features local graffiti artist, SOEM. Check out his work at grafitti. org/soem. Stay tuned for more coverage of the installation at BostonHassle.com –Farrell Mason www.Shop.Bdgastore.com

new zineland: memory full Amateurs and “artists” unite in another edition of the MEMORY FULL zine series featuring phone photos aplenty. A pet project started by TREVOR POWERS (All Visuals Boston) back in 2011 which aims to put aside any artistic airs and make the art of making seem less exclusive. This time he’s teamed up with Easthampton, MA elite ESTHER S. WHITE of SISTER SISTER BOOKS, who will be publishing and co-editing the zine which features 63 local and international photographers. Celebrate our creative community at the release party on August 1st @ Captain Jack’s in Easthampton, with an outdoor slide show of the work and a live soundtrack by Certain Death and John Ward. If you can’t make it out for the show, get your copy online at HQpress.org. – CEEK

(All Day) • Festival • Boston Arts (Ahts) Festival @the North End

Monday - 8.31.15 (All Day) • Festival • Boston Arts (Ahts) Festival @the North End

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saturday - 8.8.15

“You have to build your own, you really have to find your own way because there’s no set industry here. There’s pockets of it but you have to hustle and find your way. That’s the strength. Within the lack is an opportunity, just figure out a way. Keeping a gallery or pop up art space mobile is a good option. […] The best art spaces I’ve seen are in people’s houses, you can put together a show and promote it with hardly any resources. It’s definitely feasible to start small and build up to something where you have overhead costs, like rent. As long as you build that network and keep stacking the chips.”

sunday - 8.30.15

friday - 8.7.15 5 -7pm • Dan Mazur: THE JERNEGAN SOLUTION @dwelltime (Cambridge) // 8/7-10/2 In the wake of Comic-Con, Bostoncomic extraordinaire DAN MAZUR unveils his newest comic The Jernegan Solution; a true tale of a gold-rush in 1890s Maine, August 7 at dwelltime in Cambridge. The exhibition will include comic pages, sketches, character designs and studies, as well as copies of the complete story. Take a trip for some coffee and the opportunity to see what goes into the making of a comic! • www.DanMazurComics. com –MJK

We sat down with Oliver Mak, one of the Bodega founders and former director of their Fourth Wall Project, one of the most relevant, inspiring (and successful) art galleries in town from 2009-2014. Oliver clued us in on how to Do-It-Yourself:

Now-8/10 MFA: (Low-Residency in Boston) Thesis 2015 @Bakalar & Paine Galleries (MassArt, Fenway) Now-8/20 • Closing Reception • Doppelgänger @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston) Now-8/21 Boston Young Contemporaries @808 Gallery (BU) Now-8/25 Stephen Holding @Frame 301 Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) Now-8/27 Just around the (Charles) Riverbend @University Place Gallery (Cambridge) Now-8/29 New New England @Gallery 263 (Cambridgeport) Now-8/31 Seeking Structures of Comfort @Fort Point Arts Community Gallery (Fort Point) Now-8/22 §üb∫amsøn: SWEETY'S @Samsøn Gallery (South End) Now-9/3 Arboretum Inspiration: Image and Word @Arnold Arboretum (JP) friday - 8.14.15 Now-9/5 Linda Leslie Brown: Mapping the Dorchester Way Part 3 @Medicine Wheel Gallery (South Boston) Now-9/13 Stratum @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) 5-8pm • FEMINIST FIBER ART EXHIBIT Now-Oct Martin Beck: Program @Carpenter Center @Washington St. Art Center (Somerville) for the Visual Arts (Harvard) Organized by IRIS NECTAR STUDIOS, the exhibit 8/18 -2/15/16 Made in the Americas: The New World showcases the work of local fiber artists, as well as Discovers Asia @MFA Boston that of international talents based in Iceland, Aus8/25 - 1/10/16 Crafted: Objects in Flux @MFA tralia and England. The opening “art crawl” starts at Boston WASHINGTON ST. to take in the exhibition, making a pit stop at the AERONAUT BREWING CO. before 8/26-9/26 Heidi Whitman: Lost Cities @Montserrat capping off the night at the ARTS AT THE ARMORY Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) for some live music performed by FERAL JENNY, EL- 8/27-9/20 Adam Shecter: New Year @Carpenter LEN SIBERIAN TIGER, and DENT. It’s also rumored Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard) that the bands will be donning some wearable art of 8/29-2/15 In the Steps of the Master: Pupils of their own making. Hokusai @MFA Boston

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You’ve only got 9 more days to catch holy HOKUSAI’s knockout exhibit over @ the MFA. Do not miss it. And just so you’re not suffering from withdrawal, the MFA is following it up with a show featuring his students. IN THE STEPS OF THE MASTER: PUPILS OF HOKUSAI is a testament to the versatility of the teacher and helps confirm Hokusai’s place as one of the most influential artists of all time. www.MFA.org Ride the commuter rails to the WORCESTER ART MUSEUM which is FREE 4 ALL the entire month of August! From the protective armor of Samurais and Knights to frightening truth in Africa’s Children of Arms, the museum is packed with paintings and pieces that will be well worth the trek. www.WorcesterArt.org If you’re a cartoonist or writer interested in meeting up with some like-minded folks to talk, collaborate or just bounce some ideas off of, head over to Harvard Square any Thursday at 7pm for THE BOSTON COMICS ROUNDTABLE weekly meetings @ Cambridge Main Library. All skill levels welcome! www.BostonComicsRoundtable.com These are the final four weeks of the FREE FUN FRIDAYS summer series, offering free admission to some spendy spots throughout MA including museums, zoos, and historical sites. All thanks to the Highland Street Foundation who puts this together every year. More details at www.HighlandStreet. org/FreeFunFridays.html – CEEK

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boston hassle briefs Recent band profiles from bostonhassle.com

Downtown Boys m

Full Communism

D on Giovanni Records (2015)

Understand, I do not say this carelessly: DOWNTOWN BOYS are unequivocally the most exciting punk act to have surfaced on the east coast of the United States this decade. This band is fun. This band is terrifying. This band is sincere. This band is edifying. Above all though, Downtown Boys are attractively political in their nature. Their second album Full Communism is a step up from their eponymous debut released a few years back, primarily in that it offers a more forceful type of polemic against systemic issues that have only started to be actively redressed. Frontwoman Victoria Ruiz fervently implores her listeners to recognize the pervasiveness of American oppression (especially for women, POC, members of the LGBT community) and the accompanying degree of ignorance it bred.

Via Dolorosa

T he Flenser (2015)

This is one really strange, in ways that I haven’t heard before, record. The two brothers that comprise the out-there black metal duo of MAMALEEK (San Francisco) have taken a leap of faith right into what, might, even be a modern rock (of some kind) masterpiece. VIADOLOROSA is filled with gorgeous jazz guitar playing, vocals that trade off between witchy blackened screeches and a pitched down speak-sing monotone, left turns into experimental electronic music (even hip hop beats) and industrial, ritualistic thud/ introspection. If someone was explaining this record to me, as I am to you, I would probably start looking away, confused, immediately running from the music being described (in my mind anyway). BUT! MAMALEEK is the exception in every way, successfully blending everything from ambient hip-hop, to experimental jazz guitar, to the organic industrial nature of the likes of FATHER MURPHY, with black metal. The latter genre only represented here by the earlier mentioned blackened vocals. The many feels successfully offered through the 9 songs of VIADOLOROSA give it that “next level” kind of album glow. “Nothing But Loss” feels like a blackened Eno rock song that then morphs into Young Marble Giants territory, only with pitched down, downer male vocals. “Pain As Providence” comes with a blackened Beefheart delivery. Belligerence, over a drunken jazz duo, the rumbling tones of a faint synthesizer hovering nearby, acting as if they don’t exist. Catch the groove on “What’s Left.” And the extended drone passage in “Xpiotos Latmiya”! Bashing beat, guitar meandering of a beauty rough, the sound of a night chase along the Seine… ending in madness obviously. Can San Francisco share some of their amazing eccentric, and exploratory metal bands with the rest of the country?? THE FLENSER is hording them! Another amazing release by that most innovative heavy music label (located, where else, in San Francisco). Will be a favorite of mine for a long while. -Dan Shea

The Female Form

P osh Isolation (2015)

Loke Rahbek (known for his work with Lust for Youth, Vår, Croatian Amor, and Damien Dubrovnik, among others) and Frederikke Hoffmeier, aka Puce Mary, an impressive figure in her own right who has built a reputation in the power electronics scene with three fulllengths, collaborative releases with Sewer Election, and a number of international tours, have reunited for their second collaborative album, The Female Form. It was released in April via Posh Isolation, the Copenhagen shop and label (which Rahbek co-runs with Christian Stadsgaard) best known as the flag-bearer for the Danish scene which brought us groups like Iceage and Lower. The Female Form is the second part of a planned trilogy, picking up where they left off with 2011’s The Closed Room. It was recorded in the duo’s shared studio space at the Mayhem complex in Copenhagen, as well as the historic EMS facilities in Stockholm. The record shows marked improvement since their last collaboration, but still has the sense of picking up essentially where that record left off in terms of concepts and aesthetic. Both records deal with with the deeply personal and provocative subjects of intimacy and the sometimes thorny relations between the sexes. They both also mine drone, industrial, and electro-acoustic influences to weave their demanding, unsettling tableau of intimate yet disembodied vocals and abrasive electronic noise. While far too corrosive sounding to inspire much in the way of a romantic feeling, this collaboration’s meditations on the nature of human interactions (especially interactions between men and women) are intriguing, emotionally resonant, and more than a little harrowing. Give it a spin. Just maybe not while you’re trying to seal the deal with that hottie you brought home.

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Real? b D isposable

America

Holiday Music sounds like the sign hanging over the CD aisle in a Hallmark store. In fact, it’s the name of a band that has nothing to do with seasonal cheer. Their new album Brainwaves Are Real? is a compilation of weird, slightly warped futuristic jangle pop that also manages to be—how do they do this?—a crowd pleaser. I’d recommend it to anyone with the faintest appreciation for pop music. Maybe I’ll hand it out as Christmas presents and hope people don’t think I’m messing with them.

Holiday Music are Boston-based, and Brainwaves Are Real? was released by the Allston-based record label and zine publisher Disposable America. Many songs on Brainwaves are catchy and often moving. But they’re also weird enough to be worth a grin and a head scratch. Consider the song “NO” (an all-caps title that presumably suggests something more profound than a keyboard glitch). “NO” is a soft, melancholy song that mixes gentle thumbed notes with bright popping high notes. But first there’s about ten seconds of curious water sounds (a rolling river? A draining bathtub?). “18514 Page Ave” features fractured, practically inaudible vocal sweeps that sound like what your parents must have heard when they played records backwards listening for messages from Satan. The final track, “Our Gimmick,” is my favorite. It makes me think of a musically gifted cult losing themselves in a melodious chant before being abducted by aliens.

Holiday Music reminds me of no one, but I can imagine them being liked by everyone. They are strange but not alienating, catchy but not banal. I’d love to see them live. Dance a little. Sway a little. Weird out. -Emma Buchanan

URSULA m C avegrrl b U RSULA

Bandcamp

(2015)

Bi-coastal punk duo Ursula is ready to rage. Putting out demos on their Bandcamp in the summer of 2014 ultimately culminated in their single “Cavegrrl,” a riotous middle finger to the patriarchy. Recorded with that peculiar lo-fi quality heard only in the most local of basements, Ursula’s music is frantic, ugly, and tailor-made for girls who just want to have fun. The girlish giggling on experimental demo tracks are mere appendages to the wild she-beast that is slowly building inside. They’re getting ready for something, even if listeners aren’t quite sure what that is.

The album is for sale at Don Giovanni Records.

Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary

m B rainwaves

(2015)

The songs are categorically "punk", but beyond this they incorporate elements of 1970s No Wave, dance-music and protest folk song. Downtown Boys are a true motley of social-political activists, with a resolute impetus for change. The opening track, "Wave of History" best demonstrates their enterprise: "I can't hear maybes...on the wave of history you can't look back”. The most electrifying song though is "Monstro" - its blend of optimism regarding racial identity in America and lurid xenophobic imagery has become a hallmark for bands like Downtown Boys. Moreover, live performances of the song are unmatched in rousing a unique air of compassionate frustration amongst show-goers. These moments expose the band for what they really are. Revolutionary.

-Jero

Holiday Music

Mamaleek

KNOW YOUR CONTEMPORARY UNDERGROUND MUSIC??? punk, free jazz, rap, grind, experimental electronic, noise, power pop, garage rock, death metal, musique concrete, noise rock, underground pop, psychedelia, outsider music, black metal, power electronics, hardcore, proto-punk, industrial, post-punk, improv, free folk, weird metal, guitar soli, rhythmic noise, WEIRD, exp. hip hop, doom metal, techno, modern composition, folk rock, psych-pop, dbeat, STRANGE, lo-fi, grind, indie pop, ETC.

It’s no matter, because they plan to rip you to shreds anyway. “Motherfucker, motherfucker, motherfucker,” they chant as the drums build momentum in “Cavegrrl.” This is premature revolution music, just before punches are thrown in a mosh pit. Guttural, it’s classic riot grrrl because yes, at this point there are motifs, even in this genre. Ursula is making music that we need now, that we’ve always needed. A deranged guitar, a time-sensitive drum, and two females who are ready to fight the world on behalf of womanhood equal Ursula, a band making a stand every time they walk on stage. Are you down? Let’s go. -Sarah Samways

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"Nevermind the deadlines - here's Pure Impact!" eastern bloc

Members: Christian - vox, Nelson - guitar, Brian - bass, Chris - drums.

Influences: UK82, Dutch, and Swedish HxC.

Lyrical Content: Politics, politics, politics, sex, sex.

Releases: 5 song demo by mid August Future: Savageheads/Eastern Bloc split 13" on Negative Insight. Closing statement: I'm a punk, he's punk, she's a punk, cause we're all punks, hey!

The Female Form is available now via Posh Isolation. -John Bittrich

SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com  Sept. Submission Deadline 9/19  For last minute shows and changes check out the Chosen Shows calendar on BostonHassle.com and follow us on Fascistbook. Whether you LIKE it or not, it’s out there.

8/7

Bugs and Rats, Chat Logs (NYC), Devil Music, DENT and Negative One @The Record Company 8pm All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Effort*

8/8

Trinary System (Roger Miller’s band), US Girls, Minibeast and TBA @ Out of the Blue 9pm All Ages $10

8/11

Rick ( from PILE, solo), Footings (W Mass), Digital Prisoners Of War, Bashful Slasher and Warren (of LUST) @ HI: Boston Hostel 8-11pm All Ages $5-10

8/15

GRASS STAINS: HERTER PARK w/ Stream Traktor, Forbes Graham, Whip Appeal, Blood Club + more! 12-6pm All Ages FREE

8/19

Trigger ( featuring Guerilla Toss founder Simon Hanes), Wei Zhongle (Chicago), Gizzards (1st show!) and Joel Roston (of Big Bear) @Midway 8pm 21+ $5 *A Boston Hassle Effort*

8/20 LISTENING @ Lilypad... An

irregular evening of music, poetry, and radiophonic art. ALL AGES10pm - 1am $5-10 sliding scale *A BRAIN Arts and Boston Hassle effort*

8/21

SCANNERS @ Deep Thoughts JP w/ Ali Berger (tape release), Sun Rad, Radio Skotvoid, & DJ Won’t) *An Open Loop and Boston Hassle Joint*

8/228/23

Exploding In Sound “Thank You For Being A Friend” Extended Weekend BOSTON SHOWS

8/22

Krill, BIG UPS, “Unholy Strength”, Stove and Palehound @The Sinclair 8pm All Ages

8/23

Vundabar, Washer (NY), Zula (NY), Swings (DC). Great Deceivers (IL) Lady Bones and Coaches @O’Brien’s Pub 1pm (matinee show) 18+ Pile, Kal Marks, Gnarwhal (TN), Leapling (NY), Bunny’s A Swine @Great Scott 8:30pm 18+

8/24

Sheer Mag (Philly), Royal Headache (Australia) and The Channels (Return from tour show) @Great Scott 8pm 18+ $10 *A Bowery Boston & Boston Hassle Joint Effort*

8/28 Guerilla Toss, The Lentils

and Gracie @First Baptist Church (JP) 8-11pm All Ages $10 *A Boston Hassle Effort*

Cause tonight KYLAM and BUFU present one coleslaw-caliber shredder of a show in Central Square’s “most killing it”-est show space. Behold: Nice Guys (BUFU tape release show), (New England) Patriots, Power Masters (PVD), Jim Leonard, G. Gordon Gritty, and all the mayo-soaked rock-slop you could ever want @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $7  Stoned banana-hammock swingers Honey Radar (Phil) head up a (presumably) sickadelic bill of Dark Tones, and TBD bands tonight with warped lo-fi appeal. How do we know this? We’re booking it! Or, have done so by the time you are reading this. So, stare into our web-face and we will whisper to your eyes, sweet sweet tidings from your future @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $5-10 sliding scale  HARD TO GOOGLE NICE TO SNOOGLE: Arm Candy, Ursula, Bad Boys, 2% MILF @ Grandma’s House 8PM All Ages $5

Sunday 8/2 We are in the thick of it. The humidity is thick, the summer growth is thick, and the hair on my legs is sticky. This show provides some thick layers of fun. Local krautrock killers LAIR, join forces with gothic Providence punks Way Out, garage cruisers Far Corners, and the heavy sludge boys you know and love, Dinoczar. This show will be like hopping into a pool full of Jello. Better than nothing! @Out Of The Blue

OR if Jello freaks you out, like it does me, you can go to another show that has nothing to do with Jello. That’s right, NO Jello.

8PM All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Effort* 

Just two legendary rock and roll heroes coming to your town. Are you going to sit around and miss it? I hope not. Thurston Moore Band and Chain and the Gang will be giving a live history lesson out in Harvard Square. @Sinclair 7:30PM 18+ $16  SQUEALING SQUEEZERS: Bear Trap, Demonbrother, Lord Snow, Youth Funeral, Stressors @The Democracy Center 5PM-9PM All Ages $8  RUNNING AROUND WITH YOUR HAIR ON FIRE: Chris Weisman, id m theftable, Curse Purse, Colby Nathan @Buoy (Maine) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost Monday 8/3 Want to start your week with something chill? Eye Design has just what you need. Rye Pines rocks inspired guitar-driven indie with dissonant, entrancing riffs that make you feel warm and queasy. Solid rhythms and a heavy hand on the reverb knob, Today Junior (record release) pump out modern, catchy surf jams. Fantastic Liars bring a unique blend of folk and pop with saxophone… promise it doesn’t sound like ska. Peach Pit turns up with catchy summertime sounds. @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $10  For some top-drawer indie pop with substance check out Rad Castle, featuring the bubblegummy gems of Parks. Julie Karr (FL) peddles subtly nuanced songs dripping with hooks. Andrew Saturday slings plenty of upbeat melancholy and bluesy guitars. You’ll never go wrong showing up for Rad Castle @ Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  ROUGH PUNK EXPLOSION: Mocoso, Neutron Rats, Gay Mayor, Hell to Pay @tba  EXPERIMENTAL AVANT-GARDE INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDS: Fable Grazer, Off Land, New Language Collaborative, Forensic Files, Become Lovable Problem Child @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  DARK DRONING NOISE: Phemale, Underwear, S. Nicaenum, Vehement Caress @Cement Hole 7:30PM All Ages $7  OPEN MINDS & GOOD VIBES: Whitehaus Open Mic featuring YOU! Music, skits, spoken word, rants, expression whatever! @Whitehaus (JP) 7PM All Ages FREE  DIRT FLOOR FASTCORE: Leather Daddy, Gas Station Girls, VCR @The Boiler Room All Ages (Boston) $ome Cost

For some obfus-cosmic reason, this appears to be the busiest Tuesday night of the year for shows. Tuesday 8/4

Firstly, outta that wild west of MA comes Amherst's brilliant superstars And the Kids to curate the first of three weekly Tuesday Residency Nights @Great Scott, tonight with Horse Jumper of Love (winners of the “Most Elliott Smith-esque band in Boston” Award) and the glam-tastique PWR BTTM. And The Kids are deeply lovable, as is their latest release, AND they made sure all you 18yo-yos can come on in and wave your dayglow bracelets in the air to some beauty pop tunes tonight. 9PM 18+ $9  Feeling a little more dark and indefinable (or not voting age yet)? Hey. We got you @Out of the Blue Too 9PM All Ages $5-10 gets you in to see art/metal/bluesauteurs Dent, who head up an experimental-heavy-mathy bill with Horsehands, Sunshine, and Sadha.  POSSIBLY THE COOLEST SHOW: Land of Enchantment (???), Harmoos (!*!), Steep Leans (///), The I Want You (IvU) @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $6  A NIGHT OF SONIC EXPERIMENTATION: Extant (BLT), Dream Junk (ditto, hold the mayo), Anda Volley and O. JE11Y @Sparkling Big-ass Cat (ask a… um… er… person? ...who knows ...stuff?) 8PM SHARP!! All Ages Donate!  NEC/BERKLEE JAM: Monthly Fem Showcase! featuring Brittany Karlson, Sarah Hughes & Kirsten Lamb, Anastasiya Dumma @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  DRUM AND BASS SAX: Steve Norton with Leap of Faith and TBD @Lilypad 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  WHAT'S IN STORE 4U? WEIRDNESS!: Angela Sawyer, Allysen Callery, Sam Gas Can, Lilli Jean, and

Josh Brr @Mystery Train Records (Amherst) 5:30PM All Ages Free (Donations welcome)  HOTEL V (Punk and HC included!): Detestados (ATX), Mocoso (TOR), Cleansing Wave, Animal Mother, Video Filth @Hotel Vernon (Worcester) 8PM All Ages $ome Cost Wednesday 8/5 Sometimes you just gotta let loose and scream; make a ton of noise, flail around, get your spazz on, know what I’m saying? And sometimes you gotta express those diffuse emotions through tunes, so come see the maniacal offerings of Sonic Osmosis #3 at Out of the Blue Too. This shit’s all ages so bring yer kids @Out of the Blue Too 7PM All Ages $3-10 Sliding Scale  Surf’s up bro! Time to get down and boogie to some salty Boston beach bums TONIGHT at O’Brien’s (where else?!) Shepherdess, Weather Weapon, and Howlo are coming to this playdate bringing surf rock, post-riot grrrl, folk rock, and… what’s this?? Some straight up fahkin hahdcore kid as Radium Girls punch their way up from Pittsburgh to round out the bill and get the crowd all rowdied up. Eclectic doesn’t even describe it. Be there or be square yo @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8 Thursday 8/6 Boston’s premier midsummer religious revival, Fuzzstival, wastes no time getting into the sting of things as Day 1 unleashes Ghost Box Orchestra, The Migs, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion!, The Mystery Lights, Herbcraft, Mini Dresses, Bong Wish, and Soft Eyes on a quavering populace. The distortion gods will be wellappeased and the saccharine byproducts will send tooth decay skyrocketing in and around Central Square. It’s a hot ticket so get there early @Middle East 6PM All Ages $12  Things are getting hairy elsewhere in the Greater New England-sphere too. Comma brings a booming, static-addled take on big-tent alternative to Portsmouth, where they’re joined by the stately crush of Sleeping In, the ramshackle anthems of Apartment 3, noisemonger Matt Robidoux, and the warped lushness of Florida’s Ylang Ylang @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH)  MAKE IT RAIN FOR THE BRAIN TRAIN: 20 percent of all food proceeds at the Friendly Toast from 4-8pm go towards BRAIN Arts, the Boston Compass’ loving parent org. The food is divine and cool tunes will be DJ’d. See NODS section on front page for more deets @Friendly Toast (Kendall Sq.)

Champagne? Fuck that shit! Christen this new venue with blood and echoes. Come join Boston’s anarchic Friday 8/7

ne’erdowells Bugs and Rats as they challenge Chat Logs (NYC), Devil Music, DENT, and Negative One to an all-out fight club of a show @The Record Company for 8PM All Ages $5-10  Day 2 of Fuzzfestival picks up where we spent the night sleeping off the effects of Day 1: Whoah, my head hurts. Where am I? Whose clothes am I wearing? What? The Monsieurs are playing tonight? With the New Highway Hymnal, The Barbazons, Bloodshot Bill, Littlefoot, Blinders, Boom Said Thunder, and Secret Lover? Yeah… I’m in. Just lemme get a vitamin smoothie or something first. @Middle East Upstairs 6PM 18+ $15  FEMPUNK FRONT: Frau (London), DAME, In School, (NYC), Annex (TX), Gas Station Girls @Non Factory in Roxbury 8PM All Ages $8  PLUGSWAP MEET: Solid State Entity, Moondrawn, Sitting Adult, and Oklo Audio, plus DJ ILL FX @WSAC 8PM All Ages $Donate$  ROCKIN’ IT OL’ SCHOOL: The Dead Trains, Jacques le Coque (CT), Kiss Concert, Jarvaland, Loaner Sunstone @Out of the Blue Too 8:30PM All Ages $ome Cost  ILL-HAUS RIDDIMZ: Doctor Jeep, Bakir, Citron, Fens @Good Life 10PM 21+ $10  GENE-FREE WEEN: Dean Ween @Paradise Saturday 8/8 There are so many great shows happening tonight that this poor paper’s got half a mind to just list ‘em out in order to conserve the character space. I know, I know, some serious editorial trailblazing here. But what do you expect?

I might be a paper, but I still got a soul and an Ellio’s pizza to pull outta the toaster. Just. Like. YOU. Whatever.

You’re all going to FUZZSTIVAL anyway, presented by Illegally Blind @Middle East Downstairs 3PM 18+ $15 internet for tickets and digital information.  ANOTHER HASSLE SHOW: Trinary System, US Girls, Minibeast + TBA @Out of the Blue 9PM All Ages &… *MORE INFO IN THE CLOUD* MYSTERY SILENCE FEATURE: Matt Robidoux (famous idiot), Ethan Marsh (nice guy), Angela Sawyer (local presidential hopeful), and more pals @Whaus 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  HEARD YOU LIKED GUITARS: Eye Design presents Bent Shapes, Hard Left, Didi, Fleabite @Firebrand Saints 9:30PM 21+ $5  NO? HOW ABOUT CRUSHING BRUTALITY: Neurosis, Sumac, Brothers of the Sonic Cloth, The Body @ Paradise 7PM 18+ $25  STILL NOTHIN? YOU MUST BE ONE A THEM POP PUNKERS: Coach Presents: Rozwell Kid, Yeehaw!, Soda Bomb, Lions @The Democracy Center 7PM All Ages $10  DAMNIT. JUST GO OUTSIDE THEN: Porchfest Fest! Multi-neighborhood music festival featuring all kinds of tunes @Lawn On D 3PM-9PM All Ages Free

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8/2

LAIR, Way Out (Providence), Far Corners, Dinoczar @Out of the Blue 8pm All Ages $5-10

It’s August! Again! Fuck! Well, what are we gonna do? Just one month til our idyllic Boston summer withers and dies. It’s been real, but let’s both agree to keep it realer. You in? Good. lovin… that reminds me… of somethin… oh shit!

Lilypad 10pm All Ages $510 sliding scale *A Boston Hassle Effort*

BOSTON HASS L E S8/1 HOW S Honey Radar (Philly) @

Saturday 8/1 Hey! Welcome back. It’s nice to see you again. You look GREAT. Seriously! And what else? You MADE IT. No, not like you’re done now (you’re only just beginning (fact!). But MADE IT like in the Steve Winwood sense. So glad. Seriously! Gimme summa luvin. Summa luvin… summer

Whoa last night was fun… I think. Where are my shoes? I hope I find them soon so I can make it to this great show in Allston. There is a band playing Sunday 8/9

called Ducktails. They play wishy washy dreamy pop tunes to which I would really like to sway in my hungover-Sundayme way. Another Ridgewood Real Estate buddy, Julian Lynch, will be playing some similar sounding stuff. And you know I just have to catch Itasca singing so smooth reverby lushness surrounded by fingerpicked acoustic guitar. Someone start a

bonfire inside this venue and I will bring the marshmallows leftover from chubby bunny. @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12 Monday 8/10 You’ve got nothing better to do a Monday night. Right? That’s what I thought. So there’s no reason not to come out and watch Beach Toys kill it with upbeat, sunny-day songs and enough organ to donate. For more radness, Boston garage superheros the Marty Kings will be on hand to fill up buckets of fuzzy, psych-ish goodness. Presented by Rad Castle @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  For all you folks down up in New Hampshire, Salty Speakers and Wrong Brain have you covered up with some sweet quiet sets. Rick from PILE knows how to keep you guessing with just a guitar and killer melodies. Rick Rude leaves things so lo-fi you might think you’re high. Footings hold down the ominous, acoustic, riverbed folk with fingerpicking might give tough guys goosebumps. Little My keep things upbeat, taking a refined take on melodic punk. Mellow sets for your mellow Monday @Needful Things (Dover) 8PM $ome Cost  STONER SLUDGE METAL: Weedeater, Kings Destroy, Gozu @The Sinclair 7:30PM 18+ $16  FREE CREATIVITY!: Whitehaus Open Mic featuring YOU! Music, skits, spoken word, rants, expression whatever! @ Whitehaus (JP) 7PM All Ages FREE Tuesday 8/11 Things are gonna get HOT n HEAVY (oh yesss they iz). You might wanna get a room. Fortunately, the cheapest rooms in town will be right above your expanded consciousnesses where Rick Maguire (from PILE), Footings (W Mass), Digital Prisoners Of War, Dann Lawrence, and Warren (of LUST) will be setting fire to all your chakras, in gentle, guitar-soli stylee. Deliciously brought to you, by us, your beloved, Boston Hassle. @HI-Boston Hostel (in Chinatown) 8-11PM All Ages $5-10  Can't be bothered to go to Chinatown? Howzabout <smarmy grin> letting Chi-Town <pistol-hands> come to you <wink> in Cambridge that is? Jazzy art-rock twins Teen Cult and Monobody (both Chicago) join local shoegaze heroes 28 Degrees Taurus and wacky surfgoths Grave Ideas @Out of the Blue Too 9PM All Ages $ome Cost.  TNEVE(NON)EVENT: Isolde Touch @Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5  POP AESTHETIC: And the Kids Residency Night 2 @Great Scott. Guests TBD (so use dat smahtfone funny face!) 9PM 18+ $9 Wednesday 8/12 It’s always a little sad when great bands go on tour to show the rest of the country what amazing happenings are going down right now in Boston, so it’s important we remind them how much we love them so they come back! Help send off the Channels tonight before they embark on their tour to share their funky grooves with the rest of the nation. NY’s Palberta are gonna keep things jangly alongside fellow Empire State punkers Big Neck Police and local hair salon regulars Ursula. Check the tunes and be surrounded by friends and vinyl (what’s better?!) @Deep Thoughts (JP) 8:30PM All Ages $5-10 Sugg. Donation

I never got a handle on metal: they sing about hell, the screams of the damned, and rotting, pus-riddled bodies, but metalheads collectively seem like the most amiable group of people on the planet. This contradiction is what’s enticing me to grab a friend, expand my horizons, and bask in the warm radiance of screeching death. It’s

Thursday 8/13

Spitting Black, Drones for Queens, Tape-Eater and Husbandry @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $8  But there are forty different shades of black, and if you’d like to check out a few of the other ones you can head to the Granite State for the tectonic drone collages of Darsombra. These guys bend you backward with expansive, throbbing ambient metal, but it’s the finely wrought orchestration that packs a blissful knockout punch. Time Shares, Choke Up, and Green Bastard join the bill @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost

Friday 8/14 Wow. This Friday looks kinda show-light from the way-back-in-July perspective. Well it is Friday, so, whatever else develops in the meanwhile, you certainly cannot go wrong with some vicious-vixen rock and punk played in some sultry basement somewheres. Sleep Crimes, Bad Boys (mem. Tomboy, Fleabite), Lost Cosmonauts @ Jacque’s Underground 9PM 21+ $10. This is very likely to be a safe space to punk out so wave your freak-flags high as you like kind folks.

Boston is a nice place.

Saturday 8/15 The HUB, bub. We got us some dang good stuff. But ya know what? So do other cities. Cities that are much closer than you think! And as nice as our homecity is, it’s important to contextualize and observe that, actually, New England Entire is a true trea$ure chest of diverse, lovely, and challenging creation. Nice things. Good notes. Damn fine cuppa coffee. So on this probably sweaty mid-Aug Saturdinger, I’d like to issue you CHALLENGE NUMBER ONE: GO TO RHODE ISLAND. Should you choose to accept, then tonight, at one of the city’s (and, hell, all of N.E.’s) foremost DIY-minded venues, you will be presented with Dot Air, a unique and b.e.a.utiful experimental music + media festival consisting of House Red, Domestique, Reverse-Engineering, Belarisk, Mares Laig, V. Sinclair, Shambling Mound and more cool stuff @ Machines with Magnets (Pawtucket) 3PM Not Sure If All Ages $10  All that being true, nothing beats a down-home FREE OUTDOOR SUMMER FEST right in your backyard (ya lazybones!) ‘specially for all you Lowah A’Stonians. If you

Richard Ramirez, A Week of Kindness, Serpentine, and a whole bunch of more performers. @Machines with Magnets 9PM All Ages $8  WINE-ING AND DIME-ING: Basement, Adventures, LVL UP, Palehound @Royale 7:30PM All Ages $18 Monday 8/17 If you’re a sucker for weirdo lyrics and a healthy mix of post-punk vibes and psych-infused garage rock slide down to Allston for cheap beer and rad tunes. Get your fix of slacker rock with local fuzz-junkies Cheat Sheets and let the sludgy guitars of NODuLE melt your brain until it drips out of your ears. Kevin Greenspon (L.A.) is amidst a massive summer tour, laying ambient synth pads over beats to paint atmospheric narratives across the country. Bugsbunny roundin’ it all out. C’mon, don’t forget to grab a slice on the way home; you’re gonna need it. @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $10  If your scene is more on the other side of the river, don’t fret: KLYAM and Rad Castle have you covered with a mind-blowing line up that might just tame Central Square once and for all. If you’ve never heard Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion!, clear your calendar to get out to experience their ridiculous

Electric Street Queens are raw and in your face with Riot Grrrl vibes. The Shallow End Divers bump solid blend of horror-infused surf rock.

good times rock & roll. Be here. Period. @Zuzu 10:30PM 21+ Free  LOCAL IDEAS: Whitehaus Open Mic featuring YOU! Music, skits, spoken word, rants, expression whatever! @ Whitehaus (JP) 7PM All Ages FREE  NOISE, PUNK: Big Kill, Heavy Medical, Sterile Garden, Drums Like Machine Guns, Vehement Caress @Beast Often 7PM All Ages $ome Cost  DOOM METAL: High On Fire, Pallbearer, Lucifer, Venomous Maximous @Royale 7PM 18+ $20 Tuesday 8/18 The weekly residency of Amherst's And the Kids goes into finale-mode tonight at Great Scott. At presstime we don't know who they've picked to play with, but odds are pretty good that it'll be dope. If you haven't made it out to one of these yet, “YO! LAST CALL HOMBRES!” Guests TBD (so use dat smahtfone ya hepcat!) @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $9  Appalachian folk-guitar singer Alex Smith & The Mountain Sound (NY) visits tonight to share some country-tinged tunes with the good-natured JPites. Local support will be Telescope and And Then There Was One @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 Wednesday 8/19 Tonight’s gonna be a night to get lost in your mental space as Luxardo’s alter-ego, sometimes-local nut Simon Hanes’ latest lampoon Trigger gets ready to lay down some herky jerky nonsense. Chi town’s Wei Zhongle is joining the festivities to keep us entranced and blissfully unaware of our midweek problems plus Gizzard’s first ever show (you know you wanna say you were there) and multiinstrumentalist, composer, and all around rock star Joel Roston who some will remember from Boston’s Big Bear will be hanging out and blessing our calm intellects as we all breath a collective sigh of self-indulgence @Midway Cafe 8PM

Do you hear that? That’s the sound of thunder on the horizon and it’s roaring its way straight to Allston where bands from all over the US of A have gathered to perform a ritualistic, guttural display of metal and punk. Ohio’s Ringworm, Brooklyn’s

21+ $5 *A Boston Hassle Effort* 

White Widows Pact, Florida's Culture Killer, alongside local stalwarts Rozamov and Lunglust. It’s a veritable hardcore cornucopia @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  METALLIC GRIND PUNK Psycho, Los Bungalitos, Deorsum, Horrible Earth, Monsignor Meth @O’Brien’s Pub 7PM 21+ $7  DANGEROUS ELECTRONICS Bastion Void, Unguent (PA), Glochids (CA) @SlimeBerryCrunch 9PM All Ages $5

The saxophone has long been called the devil’s horn, the sonic manifestation of sex and the curviest hunk of brass in the instrument kingdom (even though he’s a woodwind, don’t get it twisted). Thursday 8/20

as an architect of Kendrick Lamar’s most recent work, but his tunes are magnificent in their own right, and he can absolutely SHRED on his musical weapon of choice @The Sinclair 9 PM 18+ $20  Listen. Shhhhhh. No, really...listen...RAAAAAA! Ha Ha! Got ya! But seriously folks, isn’t it about time we lighten up our Band<chill>Band<chill> repeat pattern a bit? LISTENING @ Lilypad will be our go at just that, an irregular evening of music, poetry, and radiophonic art, 21st century Vaudeville-style @Lilypad All Ages 10PM-1AM $5-10. Who knows what will happen? There might be nudity. There might be squirrels. Salty Speakers continues to deliver big time with a show featuring the us-vs-them, in-your-face melodic punk of Blessed State (Northampton). The underdog ethos continues with Sun Lion and the gravelly rumble of Fucko, but we’ll also be treated to some wistful lullabyes courtesy of Bunny Boy @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost  BLISSED OUT TECHNO & HOUSE: Jackmaster, John Barera, Baltimoroder @Middlesex 9PM 21+ $10 Friday 8/21 Under the Underground #2: an evening with Cate Giordano & Josh Deveau: Spend an evening peering into the heavily constructed universes of Cate Giordano and Josh Deveau. Cate explores the culture of grotesque Americana in various states of drag, while Josh Deveau’s absurdist approach to comedy will leave you laughing on an island somewhere between Tommy Wiseau and Tim & Eric. Both films challenge the conventions of production value and also there are a lot of wigs. So many wigs @Lilypad 10PM All Ages $5-10 sliding scale *A Boston Hassle Effort*  So much sick new electronica is being produced here in Boston nowadays, much of it exploratory and groundbreaking. In the constellation of music-friendly houses, record-shops, dj schools, and promoters, SCANNERS shines bright upon this twilight crop of weird nightweeds. Tonight we host Ali Berger + Sun Rad @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $Donate$. These home-grown producers just released a tape together, so come get some, and dig that crazy beat man. YEAH!  QUEERCORE HIP HOP: Mykki Blanco @ICA 7PM All Ages $20  LATIN DA CLUB: Pico Picante Presents: Riobamba, Oxycontinental, Ultratumba @Good Life 9:30PM 21+ $5

Saturday 8/22 God. This month. What an unholy deluge of fests. A veritable festluge. Cartoon-festooned deathbrick. Like I’m not already bloated and sore and what’s that? Sorry, my ears are shot from all the rocking this month dumped on me. Oof. Anywho. Better saddle back up to that partyhorse, pardner. The caravan’s a-comin’ back ‘round: Exploding In Sound Records, which I guess is some kind of record label or something, are presenting a fest named Thank You For Being A Friend. And the bands? They all have records out on something called “Exploding In Sound,” which I think I just figured out is actually the name of that label I was just talkin’ about. Anyway, they’re all called Krill, Big Ups, Unholy Strength, Stove, and Palehound, but I neva hoyd of ‘em @Sinclair 8PM All Ages $12  Golly! Another? And it’s all the way over in Somerville? Good thing I rode a horse to this pony show, dawg. Step aside, single speed. Suck an egg, Uber. Take a nap, MBTA. I’m trottin’ my saddlebags down to StarlabFest @ Starlab 12PM All Ages $10 adv/$12dos. Lineup TBA at print time so check the superwebs! Oh, and by the way, greetings from THE PAST!!! Sunday 8/23 What to do, what to do. I have so much time to waste today, and so little time. Uh… oh… yes okay well I guess I could go to a show in the middle of the dang day, while the light is still shining. I will squint through the sunlight. I will step on the sticky tarmac. Parched for thirst, I will bang through those swinging saloon doors of the old rock and roll club in Allston and grab a pint of ale. It’s a whole bunch of bands that get a whole lot of love out in social media land — Vundabar, Washer, Zula, Swings, Ladybones, and Great Deceivers @O’Brien’s 1PM matinee 21+ $10 

Okay. I wasted my day. Now what do I do. I dread going home. There are dishes to do and my room is messy and smells like dead skin. I need to stay out. If only I had some direction in my life. What is that? A sign? Exploding in Sound is

doing what? Arrrgggg music it is taking over my brain. I am a zombie. Arrrggg. I will go wherever anyone tells me just to sip some more precious tunes. Tuuuunnneesss. Exploding In Sound Records Presents: Thank You For Being A Friend, with Pile, Kal Marks, Gnarwhal, Leapling, Bunny’s a Swine @Great Scott 8:30PM 18+ $10  AT YOUR BECK AND CALL: Earth, & Holy Sons @Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $15

Monday 8/24 There is no reason to miss out on this banger, even if you fell off your bike into the Harbor, grab a towel and head out. Colleen Green kills it with a retro-vibed power-pop songs that have more hooks than a fisherman’s box. One chord and she’ll have you by the cheek. The fun continues when reverb-lovers Ian come to work you into a warm somnambulant state with their lush melodies. Digital Prisoners of War keep the vibes going with dreamy slowwave jams and Ursula brings a wail of a noise to get it all fired up. You’re a fool if you miss this one. Seriously though. Presented by Illegally Blind @Middle East Upstairs 8PM All Ages $12  Bowery and Boston Hassle team up and invite you to get down in Allston on a Monday night, bringing you a lineup full of flavors for every taste. Royal Headache (Australia) take classic, back in the day punk vibes and inject them with a modern twist, coxing out fresh melodies and ear-waking rhythms. Heel-tapping goodness from Sheer Mag (Philly) seeps into your bones with ripping distortion and tight drumming that will have you itching for more. Locals the Channels return from tour to grace Boston once again with their eccentric brand of undefinable noisy groove. Don’t be afraid of the

Green Line; get out here feast this; you’ll regret it if you don’t @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10  SUBVERSIVE JANGLE POP: The Sidekicks, All Dogs, Save Ends, Fucko @O’Brien’s 9PM 18+ $12  EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC WOBBLES: BUFU Records and Rad Castle Present: Dinnersss, Future Museums (tx), SIingle Last (tx) @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  USTARU: Whitehaus Open Mic featuring YOU! Music, skits, spoken word, rants, expression whatever! @Whitehaus (JP) 7PM All Ages FREE Tuesday 8/25 On this day in history, in 325 AD the Council of Nicaea adopted the Nicene Creed, which established the unity of the Holy Trinity. In 1212, the Children’s Crusade reached Genoa. Looking ahead to 1609, Galileo Galilei demonstrated the first telescope. Elton John first performed in America in 1970, and Dwight Gooden became the youngest pitcher to win 20 games in a season on this date in 1985. What will not happen on this date in the Boston area in 2015 will be many cool shows that we know about. Take a break, you maniac. It’s Tuesday. Wednesday 8/26 Mike Mike Mike Mike Mike! Guess what day it is Mike? Hump dayyyy so thrust your way over to Allston’s Great Scott for a metallic shredscape straight from Hell where The Atlas Moth, Vattnet Viskar, and the bloodthirsty Artriarch will rupture your soul with their intense riffage. I hope your hair is long for this headbangers’ ball @ Great Scott 9:30PM 18+ $12  But if you’re like me and like your moshing with a little less hair and more combat boots then scoop up that sweat-stained leather jacket and come to Violent Party 76, the oh-so intense, oh-so recurring punk rock party starring California’s TOZCOS, NYC’s Pox, Cleansing Wave, Leather Daddy, and DAME. Get infected @Cambridge Elks Lodge from 6-10PM All Ages $8 Thursday 8/27 Don’t be moanin’ and mopin’ at home scopin’ missed connections. I been there too, but cheer up, cuz: you’re a peach. One of those sweet, organic, not-too-hairy ones. You’re some thirsty cowpoke’s Mang-O-Rita on the hot late summer night of their soul. And Deep Thoughts has the most exquisite opportunity to come out and bond with fellow travelers. I mean, who else has the strayed-too-far-from-thecampfire weirdness of Wicked Rot, the elegant acoustic tangles of Rob Noyes, and the bluesy candor of GT Arpe? Well, no one. Because they’re all here, and we’re all making sweet memories

So don’t miss it, dude. Duh.

together. @Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $Donate$  Illegally Blind is celebrating two years of vision-impaired glory tonight. Show up to their party to tell them that you have the facts and you’re voting year three is gonna be the best yet. The celestial deities known as La Luz, Scully, Littlefoot, and Wakes will be there to form favorable omens and play good tunes. @ Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $12  CATCHY INDIE RIFFAGE: Salty Speakers Present: Notches (Album Release) with Bad Fellows, Jake McKelvie & the Counter Tops, and New Legs @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cos  ONE MAN, MANY CYMBALS, MUCH SYMPHONY: Tatsuya Nakatani @Mobius 8PM All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation

Friday 8/28 Our wayward friends return!!! Let’s all see what the Big Apple has done to our beloved Guerilla Toss (NYC). Will they be, like, all sophisticated ‘n stuff? Are they gonna play Jazz now? Nawww! My bet is they are still our rock-hard noise-dealing darlings of yore. And The Lentils (L.A....sigh) soon returning west from whence they sprang. Catch them now before they set sail. At least Gracie is staying with us… up until some big-shot producer hears that new album that is. See all three (tonight in JP!) @First Baptist Church 8-11PM All Ages $10  Hey! Like yer indie rock music ‘80s-style and mathy, a la The FIXX and Nomeansno? Behold! Your wish cometh true Daddy-O! Moniker, Willow (PVD), Goddard (WOR), and Daephne, plus TBA! @Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $10.  BOSTON’S PS1-TYPE DANCE PARTY: Kingdom @ICA 7PM All Ages $20  JP GARAGE YO: Thick Shakes, Thalia Zedek Band, Royal Wedding, Gondoliers @Midway 9PM 21+ $8 Saturday 8/29 Sup? Me neither. Hey when’s the last time you and some friends drove all the way to Western Mass to see some dope bands and then buy some RECORDS from a super awesome and long-running real live RECORD STORE? I thought that might be the case. CHALLENGE NUMBER TWO: GO TO AMHERST. Therein discover a rare and special instore concertino featuring the smooth n dreamy stylings of near and farawayfarers Willie Lane, Pigeons BX, Bob Jordan, and more! @Mystery Train Records (Amherst) 6PM All Ages $Free (donations welcome) MAKE A DAY OF IT. I HEARD TODAY WAS YOUR DAY. Sunday 8/30 Toot toot all aboard ha ha I am a sea captain aarrg. Just kidding, I’m just some writing in a newspaper but I still would like to tell you to get all aboard a big boat with Boston indie-blossoms, Speedy Ortiz. The only seasickness you will experience on this ride is feeling queasy and puking off of the side of the boat and having your friend

Ha ha just kidding, that IS seasickness. @Cruise Concert, World Trade Center rub your back.

Pier, Seaport Blvd 1PM sail time 21+ $20

It’s that time again, September’s knocking on the door and before we know it we’ll be sleeping in snow. But let’s forget about that for now, and focus on ending this month with a bang! Soak up the sunny, surfy, psyched out retro-inspired jangles of Blinders. This is your ticket to one last dose of pure summer. Presented by Rad Castle, so obviously Monday

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there will be plenty of RAD local bands jumping in on this @ Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free  LOCAL VOICES: Whitehaus Open Mic featuring YOU! Music, skits, spoken word, rants, expression whatever! @Whitehaus (JP) 7PM All Ages FREE

Noise, noise, noise. The world is full of noise. Ambulances, typewriters, people on their cell phones. What do they have in common? That’s right, they all make noise! If you don’t have enough noise in your life already (and who ever does?). Get in a bus, train, or if you’re in the mood for a long walk, take the trek down to Pawtucket to see a whole bunch of noise. It’s the Rita,

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What David Hasselhoff is to beaches, the sax is to music. So take some time to get hot n heavy with the sounds of Kamasai Washington, saxman extraordinaire. The dude has gotten a lot of press

Sunday 8/16 Gosh, I haven’t played billiards in a while. I love billiards. Huh, I guess when I think about it a mosh pit is kind of like a zillion pool balls bouncing back and forth on the felt. I bet I would be able to think more about this half baked idea at the punk show, when I see real live people moshing with each other. It’s hardcore punk. It’s d-beat. It’s crust. It’s Zero (Minneapolis), Isotope (Oakland), Meatbag, and Eastern Bloc. @Demo(n)cracy Center 5PM All Ages $6-

missed Revere Beach last month, well, you plain missed out: dopest vibes, local shenanigans, surf, sand, the whole kit and kaboodle. Everybody enjoyed. So join us @Herter Park on the river by Soldiers Field Rd. where we’ll set up the fun machine again, this time for Stream Traktor, Forbes Graham, Blood Club, Whip Appeal + many more bands TBA! Usual time is noon to 7PM, but you might wanna check your friendly neighborhood Bat-Signal (bostonhassle.com) just to be sure... Bananananananananaaaaah!

House Of The Rising Fuzz, Boston Rock & Roll Compilation OUT NOW! The fuzz underworld (which includes the garage, psychedelic and otherwise heavy rock of the underground scene) here in Boston has been heating up for years now and it is finally boiling over. With the release of House Of The Rising Fuzz Compilation the explosive community of bands, venues, zines and blogs here finally has a tangible testament to how strong independent rock and roll is here in Massachusetts. Featuring exclusive tracks from Boston garage/psych/punk/fuzz rock and roll bands Black Beach, CreaturoS, The New Highway Hymnal, The Monsieurs, The TeleVibes, Midriffs, Dinoczar, Miami Doritos, Nice Guys, and The Barbazons, HOUSE OF THE RISING FUZZ is a tour de force debut compilation executive produced by Ben Semeta (bassist of Black Beach). GET IT!

issue #25 august 2015 tardyeagle.com submissions / ?s / etc.: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com

Dear Void,

Sincerely, Brrrr! Shoulder! Dear Brrrr! Shoulder!.

Dear Suspicious, Absolutely. The being you describe is not your husband but a reptilian changeling. We know this because of his new cologne, used to mask a lack of human pheromones. An easy way to confirm this is to challenge your husband to a staring contest. If he is indeed a reptile he will demur, not wishing to reveal his lack of eyelids. Now listen to me very carefully, Suspicious—the best thing you can do is forget this. I told you nothing. Your husband is with you and will always be with you. Do you feel that? I am putting my finger over your mouth. Hush.

There are many potential reasons for your unlucky love life. The actual one is this: women are repulsed by the strange buzz emanating from your head, which is caused by hundreds of eggs laid in your brain by Sepa, the Egyptian centipedegod worshiped for centuries as a protector. The good news for you, B.S., is that your romantic problems are soon to be over. The Sepic hatchlings will eat your autonomic nervous system, compromising sexual arousal, and your body will become a handy vessel.

Send stuff to tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com

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I am a regular guy with great values. I may not be the “prize rooster,” but I am far from unattractive. Among my friends I am known to be a sensitive, regular guy. My one problem is that women just don’t seem to want to date me! I try my damnedest, but it seems like every time I try to do the old “yawn and stretch” on one of my lady prospects, her shoulder turns cold. How do I turn my luck around?

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We are v interested in taking a look at & possibly printing your 400 words-ish brain blobs, your black & white drawings, your dumb Photoshops, games, puzzles, you know, printable stuff. Deadline for August issue = 8/15 but we do take things on a rolling basis.

My husband of ten years has been acting strangely recently. He wakes up quite early, and while I have never known him to “burn the midnight oil,” the past few weeks he hasn’t come home from work until late into the night. He’s also started wearing cologne, whereas previously his musk was neutral. Am I right to be suspicious?

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local COMEDY PICKS! the ike zone

SUNDAY, AUGUST 2 AT 10:00pm ZuZu • Central Square • 21+ • Free

The regular host of this bimonthly Sunday night showcase, Aimee Rose Ranger, is out of town, so she handed hosting duties off to one of our favorite local weirdos, Sam Ike. If you don't think he's funny, you are wrong and fuuuuhhhck you. Performing are comedians Al Park, Jere Pilapil, Matt Donaher, Matt Miller, Laura Burns, and more. Tbh WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT THEY'RE GONNA DO EXACTLY!!! The show features an assortment of craziness: standup, poetry, characters, or who knows what you'll get, but we can guarantee it will be entertaining. Dead serious that you are legit awful if you don't think that Sam Ike is funny. Seriously evaluate your life before you even think of speaking to me again, Mother.

* = Davis Alianiello

Notable Quotables

whitehaus open mic!

"You wanna question me? Look, I take the most expensive shits on this goddamn planet— because I've only eaten coins for the past three decades. Sometimes they have chocolate inside of them and I'm not a man to take chances. Moron."

MONDAY, AUGUST 3 AT 8pm The Whitehaus, JP • Free

Our beloved comedian and avant-gardethrob (sorry for the wordplay) Angela Sawyer invites you to test out your funny, your yells, your musics at this new open mic! You can also hang out and watch the artistic process d/evolve before your eyes.

The Ben & Eric Show

SUNDAY, AUGUST 9 AT 9pm

- Donald Trump

The Milky Way, JP • Free

DON'T READ THIS IF YOU'RE SCARED OF PUPPETS The Ben & Eric Show returns from the West Coast for an evening of comedy variety acts, featuring all new stand-up and sketch comedy from Eric Mearns and friends (incl. his puppet pal Ben), new musical comedy and puppetry from Pam Severns, and a new Ben & Eric video! They said you can bring your cat too! That is probably a joke but man that would be nice if it wasn't bc I love cats. HEY OK YOU CAN LOOK AGAIN IF YOU'RE SCARED OF PUPPETS

A CROSSWORD I GUESS ACROSS

the people's show

4. draw a snake

SUNDAYS, 9:00pm

ImprovBoston • Central Square Pay what you can

5. whatever you want bb 6. draw eyeballs

JERE PILAPIL IS HOSTIN THIS EVERY SUNDAY THIS MONTH!!!! If you like high-energy, imaginative standup, you will enjoy him. If you don't I am literally farting on your face right now oh man wooooooo you're sorry I forgot the Beano. Anyway, he's picked some great people each week so don't be a BOZO and get your BUNS to this show!

7. summarize the worst thing about today 8. fill in alternating blocks 9. how many times in a row can you write your name? DOWN 1. draw something falling

johnny d's comedy MONDAYS, 7:00pm

2. make triangles CODY PE

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GUYS JOHNNY D'S IS CLOSING NEXT YEAR :( so please get down to this legendary venue while you can, and check out this fantastic weekly shows thrown by Kevin Quigley. He curates a different show every for each Monday, rotating standup, storytelling, and more.

featured film series THE FILMS OF INGRID BERGMAN 7/31 - 8/27 @MFA http://www.MFA.org/Programs/Series/The-Filmsof-Ingrid-Bergman

A great beauty and a great star, but above all a great actress, Ingrid Bergman was among the most versatile leading ladies to grace the silver screen during her long, peripatetic career. While this month’s retrospective skips the Swedish roles that first brought her to international attention, it culls a representative sample from Bergman’s ample canon, setting classic works by iconic Hollywood directors (Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND and NOTORIOUS, George Cukor’s GASLIGHT) alongside two of the equally legendary films Bergman made in Italy with her then-husband Roberto Rossellini (STROMBOLI and JOURNEY TO ITALY), without neglecting either her swan song, that other Bergman’s AUTUMN SONATA, or the sublime CASABLANCA, a romance as wry and radiant as the actress herself. — Matthew Martens

Just as fellow American Gothic writer William Faulkner, was to the strange ways and landscapes of the old American south,

so was H.P. Lovecraft to the ancient forests, fields, and cities of New England. Not content on focusing on the horrors of reality, however, Lovecraft looked further, exploring what would happen should real life collide with the unthinkable by employing elements of science fiction and mysticism. Through pushing the genre out into the realm of the occult and the fantastic, he would influence generations of writers, filmmakers, and even game developers. In recognition of his legacy, the Brattle is hosting five days of films to celebrate his 125th birthday. Some, like THE CALL OF CTHULHU and THE WHISPERER IN THE DARKNESS, are direct adaptations of his works. Others, like THE THING and HELLBOY, are inspired by the sort of cosmic creepiness Lovecraft was so fond of. — Alex Schab

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http://www.bostonviewfinder.com DON’T THINK I’VE FORGOTTEN: CAMBODIA’S LOST ROCK AND ROLL (2014) dir. John Pirozzi 7/31 - 8/3 @BRATTLE http://www.BrattleFilm.org/2015/07/31/Dont-ThinkIve-Forgotten-Cambodias-Lost-Rock-And-Roll Cambodia in the 60s and early 70s was home to a vibrant and incredibly unique popular music scene. Exemplified by artists such as Sin Sisamouth, Ros Serey Sothea, and the Thra Kha band, the music seamlessly melded traditional Khmer melodies with elements of rock and roll, latin rhythms, crooner-style vocals, electric organs, and the occasional fuzzed-out guitar solo. The enthusiastic and open approach audible in recordings from the time generally leaves fresh ears with the feeling of a revelatory experience. Devastatingly, the rise to power of the totalitarian Khmer Rouge put an

end to this creative era as they systematically executed (or otherwise “made disappear”) most of the popular musicians, along with roughly a quarter of the entire Cambodian population. As noted in the trailer for this documentary, “If you want to eliminate values from past societies, you have to eliminate the artists.” Luckily for us, great art is not so easy to silence. — Stefan Grabowski

In checking out Twillerama, the travelling animation festival/ show put together by Brooklyn’s Morgan Miller, I see a very cool compendium of recent and classic short films (almost entirely animated). Beyond that I also see a new way to package content. A different way to celebrate content in this day and age we live

in where the old guard is dead and dying, and the new guard is taking baby steps, and going on first dates. This collection of shorts is crass, but the overarching idea is heady... AND stupid! Hosts Jeff Twiller and Randy J. Johnson (Vol. 1) or Rod Holcomb (Vol. 2) are animated, and they are streaming a live broadcast of their animation festival from a garbage dump (Vol. 1) and a rest stop (Vol. 2). A+ for presentation, and for bringing people together to watch and celebrate animation in a novel manner! Also, how did you know I want to throw music festivals at dumps and rest stops? Can’t be a coincidence. I’ve only gotten to see Vol. 1 thus far, in which our belligerent and awkwardly nervous pair of animated host friends showcase the likes of: George Griffin’s funny,The Club, “Damn bro that’s a lot of fucking dicks”, Latvia’s Signe Baumane’s Teat Beat of Sex in which a kirby trumps a squash sexually, and Danny and Simone Dresden’s Made You Cringe which celebrates(?) nonsexual(?) showers with dad. Very entertaining stuff. Very weird. Often crude, and sometimes thought provoking. All of it a smart celebration of an art form that doesn’t get enough love! More Twillerama please. — Dan Shea

Under the underground 8/21 Under the Underground #2: An Evening With Cate Giordano & Josh Deveau @Lilypad Spend an evening peering into the heavily constructed universes of two unique filmmakers! Giordano explores the culture of grotesque Americana in various states of drag, while Deveau’s absurdist approach to comedy will leave you laughing on an island somewhere between Tommy Wiseau and Tim & Eric. Both films challenge the conventions of production value. And also there’s a lot of wigs. So many wigs. Do you make films, animations, or moving images of any kind? We wanna see them and screen them! Submit to Under The Underground! We welcome all genres and mediums! Send a link to undertheundergroundne@ gmail.com

22 ZARDOZ (1974)

dir. John Boorman @Brattle Zed (Sean Connery!) makes new “friends” while sporting a red speedo with ammo belt suspenders, knee-high boots, a dope ponytail, and doper mustache. This is perhaps the wackiest piece of science fiction/sociological essay revolving around a gigantic floating stone head. GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (2014) dir. James Gunn @Assembly Who’d have thought a Troma alum’s film about a talking raccoon and a walking tree-man in outer space would become the beloved commercial blockbuster of the summer? Here, Marvel proved that America would follow them into serious deep-end nerd shit. Free outdoor screening!

@Prudential The first ten minutes alone are a remarkably touching short film. If that doesn’t get you crying, don’t worry; there are myriad opportunities to come. Also featuring stunning animation, a beautiful score, and a talking dog. Free outdoor screening! Speedy (1928) dir. Ted Wilde

@Somerville While Harold Lloyd may lack the name value and consummate artistry of Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton, he more than made up for it with sheer death-defying bravado. See his final silent comedy, with live accompaniment by organist Jeff Rapsis!

3 Brazil (1985)

dir. Terry Gilliam

@Coolidge I don’t have one favorite film, but if asked at gunpoint, it’d probably be Brazil. The influence of Terry Gilliam’s dystopian magnum opus is in practically every sci-fi film after it, plus Robert DeNiro plays a vigilante plumber. Nuff said.

THE MASTER (2012)

dir. Paul Thomas Anderson

DARK KNIGHT (2008) 14 THE dir. Christopher Nolan

@Coolidge Holy fucking awesome cinema, Batman! The middle part of Christopher Nolan’s trilogy is thoughtful, thrilling and packs a career defining performance from Heath Ledger as the Clown Prince of Chaos. See it now in 35mm if you missed it before. Also screens 8/15

15 THE FIFTH ELEMENT (1997) dir. Luc Besson

@Brattle ‘Weird’ doesn’t begin to cover it. It’s the Bruce Willis/ Gary Oldman/Milla Jovovich/Chris Tucker outer space action flick you didn’t know you wanted, with Jean Paul Gaultier stepping in as a 1997 Edith Head. Nominated for Razzies and Oscars.

dir. Samuel Fuller @Hfa A Pulitzer Prize-bent reporter digs deep to crack the case of an asylum murder, but cannot avoid becoming embroiled in the clinical ghastliness. Selfassignment leads to confinement as one symbolic disruption follows another; let’s call the whole thing oof.

31 THE LAST PICTURE SHOW

26 WE COME AS FRIENDS (2014)

@Brattle Greta Gerwig co-wrote and stars in this second film in two years by one of America’s preeminent indie-darlings, incarnating an aggressively hilarious variation on a very recognizable character: the permanently precocious, talented-but-oblivious, creativeclass goofball blissfully adrift in NYC. Free preview!

@Somerville At Somerville Theatre’s first 70mm screening (Sam Peckinpah’s WILD BUNCH), projectionist David Kornfeld mentioned the next screening with disdain, “If you like the Master…” I like PTA’s gorgeous, divisive film. See it in 70mm, you will become a better person.

29 SHOCK CORRIDOR (1963)

dir. Alex Garland @BRATTLE “Question: Have you seen the best sci-fi movie this year? Answer: No, I’m a robot trapped in a cage by my creator. Question: Will you see it with me if I free you? Answer: Of course. You can trust me…”

AMERICA (2015) 6 MISTRESS dir. Noah Baumbach

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE TWILLERAMA ANIMATION FESTIVAL VOLS 1 AND 2 8/28 (VOL. 1) & 8/29 (VOL. 2) @Coolidge http://www.coolidge.org/films/twillerama-animationfestival-vols-1-and-2

19 EX MACHINA (2015)

dir. Pete Docter

featured FILM SERIES H.P. LOVECRAFT’S 125th BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION 8/20 - 8/24 @Brattle http://www. BrattleFilm.org/ Category/Calendar-2/ Special-Engagements/ H-P-Lovecrafts-125thBirthday-Celebration

Heavy Metal (1981) dir. Gerald Potterton @Somerville This gritty anthology of animated fantasy and science fiction shorts follows a glowing green orb of pure evil—THE LOC-NAR! These cartoons ain’t for kids. Well, they sort of are if being childish is drooling over excessive violence and erotica. Up (2009)

(1971) dir. Peter Bogdanovich @COOLIDGE An era fades to grey in a small town in Texas, where adolescence is a sort of coming of age amongst so many pillars of salt. Bogdanovich’s masterwork is a chorus of twangs fainting away in time’s sandblast.

Ziggy Stardust & The spiders from Mars (1973)

dir. D.A Pennebaker 8/13 @Coolidge The Spiders From Mars’ last performance, unknown to anyone – including the band, who were fired by Bowie on stage.

dir. Hubert Sauper @Mfa The follow-up to DARWIN’S NIGHTMARE — Sauper’s award-winning cautionary tale about the ill-guided importation of wildlife into incompatible ecosystems--is another document of hubris and exploitation, this time in the thing (1982) South Sudan, an infant nation (born in 2011) preyed upon by dir. john carpenter would-be and actual oil bar- 8/22 @Brattle ons from China and the West. Trapped within the cramped TIMBUKTU (2014) confines of their Antarctic dir. Abderrahmane base, a group of scientists Sissako attempt to battle a shape@BRATTLE shifting alien intruder. Double feature w/ HELLBOY! Multiply awarded, omni-lauded, and immensely beautiful, Timbuktu complicates the NEW RELEASES telling of the militant occupation of Northern Mali’s an8/7 - THE END OF THE TOUR cient city by jihadist militants, (2015) dir. James Ponsoldt as it offers a profound and @Coolidge measured treatment of the 8/14 - BEST OF ENEMIES resistors and the extremists (2015) dir. Robert Gordon & alike. Morgan Neville @COOLIDGE MAD MAX 2: THE ROAD WARRIOR (1982) dir. George Miller @Coolidge While the original depicted a society on the brink of collapse, this thrilling sequel shows civilization after being thrown to the dogs. Marvel as Max tries to save a peaceful clan from a bunch of leatherclad bandits driving bizarre vehicles. Also screens 8/29

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8/21 - DIARY OF A TEENAGE GIRL (2015) dir. Marielle Heller @Coolidge

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Come take a trip outside. You’ve been cooped up in your stinky room watching soap operas for far too long. It’s time to see how the world as it really turns. And it’s turning for better. Take a turn around the block and smile at all the people you see. They are out there, and some of them are ready to meet you. Come across a farmers’ market and buy some oysters from a nice bearded person. Come across a protest and join the struggle for equality.

What else is out there? Sidewalks. A canvas for chalk drawing, or just take a seat and see what unlikely characters stroll by. Talk about the weather with your local grocer. Plant a tomato in a vacant lot. As it grows, so will you. Watch its cute little leaves mature into a plump tasty harvest. The stalk will point you to the skies. The Wright brothers experimented with aviation, and so can you. Go to the top of a big hill and spread your wings. Soar into the sunset. As the sun sets on the community you have come to know and love, fly out to far off planets that might harbor communities just like your own. Experience the nebula. You see that star out there? Many creatures are making many far out things out there. Music without noise. Art without image. Space without space. They will make space for you though. You will come to see that the cosmos is just as friendly as the patrons at your cornerstore. It’s all out there, and all you have to do is get our there. — Warren Lowell

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Editor-in-Chief: Sam Potrykus | Managing Editors: Emma Diamond, Caitlin Kenney, Margot Keil, TyJo Hen, Katie McCarthy, Dan Shea, Keeley Cormac, Oscar Goff, Emma Leavitt | Here Be the Shows Writers: Zach Peckham, Warren Lowell, James Moore, Michael Achille, Peter Steele, Justin Kelleher | Film Flam Contributing Writers: Marisa Bulkeley, Rebecca DeLucia, Stefan Grabowski (Boston Viewfinder), Matthew Martens, Conrad Krendel-Clark, Alex Schab, Ari Shvartsman, Pablo Torroella | Tardy Eagle Contributors: Christine An, Sarah Cronin, Keira Horowitz, Nick Ortolani, Angela Sawyer | Event Compilers: Michael Achille, Dan Roche, Anthony Genello | Copy Editors: Ben Potrykus, Dan Roche, James Moore, Jonathan Rizzo | Creative Director: Ipek Cav | Design Team: Peter Kazantsev, Allison Bako, Katie McCarthy, Ellie Steever, Julia Emiliani | Contributing Artists: Monique Morin, Gamze Yalcin, Brian Connolly | Production Manager: Reynaldo De La Fuente | Distribution Coordinators: James Moore, Andrew Whelan