Issue #68 September 2015

What We’re All About: BRAIN Arts Org Official Mandate This project has been going, in one form of another, for over 10 years. It all began simply enough, just throwing shows for lack of stuff to do around here. I personally was inspired by a few individuals putting together interesting shows and thought hey, there could be more. The mission started there, to unite as many interesting individuals and collectives as possible, from Greater Boston, New England and beyond, to vitalize the cultural movement. It quickly became an obsession. We started our own newspaper. We expanded our website. We started doing 5, 10, 15 shows a month. We expanded further, to cover art and film. We became a nonprofit. Our goal is to have our own space, a community center, a permanent haven for all of these wonderful activities going on around us. But what else can we do? How about reaching a little further towards a better world. To that end, we give you our official org mandate: BRAIN Arts Organization currently carries out three main programs: the Boston Compass newspaper, the Boston Hassle website, and Boston

Hassle shows. BRAIN ARTS is a local, volunteerrun, music and arts nonprofit organization that aims to foster an independent music, art, and film community in the greater Boston area through meetings, events and publications. Our commitment to an inclusive grassroots community means that we must actively work to amplify the voices of and make our spaces comfortable and accessible for marginalized individuals in dominant culture including but not limited to women, people of color, LGBTQIA+, disabled folks, etc. We actively oppose all forms of discrimination and oppression and continuously work to keep our spaces free of them by holding those in our spaces accountable for their behavior. Recognizing the constant change in social politics and culture it is our goal to continuously educate ourselves, our audience, and the artists we work with to help create and maintain these safer spaces. If you want to be part of the movement please reach out, we would love to meet you. Either way, have fun, be good to each other and thanks for picking up the rag.

HASSLE ART.............................................................PAGE 2 Science Meets Art, Toy Camera Festival, Art you can touch, and Kinetic Sculptures in Salem!

HASSLE BRIEF & PURE IMPACT......................PAGE 3

Lewis M, The Channels, Human Bodies, Homeblitz, Spray Paint, Loke Rahbek & Puce Mary D and PI’s Guide to Boston

HERE BE THE SHOWS....................................PAGE 4-5 Record release, ZuZu show, punks at the elks,

Brattleboro has a very groovy arts scene, fostered by our siblingsin-arms The Future Collective. This is their annual festival and, just like we do with Hasslefest, they pack in the sickest artists/musicians that they can muster, local luminaries and recent developments alike. Check that FB-Event page if you don’t believe me. So, borrow your parents car, book a cheap bus ticket, just be sure not to miss this radical fest just a few hours drive into the beautiful woods of New England. -James Moore

We are celebrating our 68th issue by launching “IT’S OUT!” a new, monthly issue release party and Compass fundraiser! Work from local artists Jae Wood, Angelica Aguilera and Eric (Eab) Baldelli. Live music by Kal Marks (solo) and Judy Chong. An encore areascreening of Home Grown Shorts (curated by Rene Dongo). Free food and drink courtesy of Trader Joe’s. All MC’ed by the one and only Angela Sawyer of Weirdo Records fame. 9/5 8PM @Boston HI Hostel All Ages FREE $5-10 donation appreciated. -Richard Ochs

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THE TARDY EAGLE...............................................PAGE 6 BoSToN CoMeDY, A Snack Review, DOG BREEDS, y maaaaaaaaaaas

FILM FLAM................................................................PAGE 7 Local shorts, plus everyone

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preservation, and daring heists, Satyajit Ray to Cher Horowitz!

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STRANDBEESTS

THE LONG NOD

Sunday 9/20 @Camb. Comm. Ctr.

Future Fest Four in Brattleboro, VT – Sept. 3-6

Hassle Garage

Sam Potrykus

BLACK MARKET

Back to school? Nah, back to black. (Market). Yes, the bimonthly Black Market is back! Come to the Cambridge Community Center (5 Callender St., off Western) to support local vendors and pick up the very best in Boston vintage, records, art, zines, crafts and so much more. The Black Market is a great way to involve yourself in the community, get to know folks and add to your sick record collection (you’ll remember to get a player, someday, maybe). So what are you waiting for? Set aside some time on 9/20 to find some treasures. -Emma Diamond

freebie, Mid East

THE DREAM MACHINES OF THEO JANSEN For years, Theo Jansen’s Strandbeests have roamed the Dutch seaside, making us dream of our ancient origins and the strange, miraculous creatures that inhabit this world with us and within us. Part sculpture and part performance, found at the intersection of art and science, the Strandbeests are self-propelled creatures that wander beaches and fields and, as of August 28th, Boston City Hall. The Strandbeests will be finding their first major American home @Peabody Essex Museum from 9/19 – 1/3 for an exhibition featuring the sculptures, movement demonstrations, sketches and a hall of Strandbeest “fossils”. -Emma Diamond

The Channels - Disposable Camera Bass-forward 3-piece The Channels wah-wah their way into our hearts with the newly-minted, prepared-guitar masterpiece Disposable Camera. Don your best headphones and let this smooth noise funk thump right through your braincase like a rampaging alien mastadon. Yo! Why is my nose bleeding? That’d be Mr Fede’s ill mixology, almost like being at a show...oh yeah...they should be back from tour by now so you can pick up a physical at one of their live performances. Recommended for fans of Arab on Radar, shoegaze, noise-rock, genre, genre, blah. -James Moore

It’s September. For those of you who are either long since out of school, never went or just couldn’t stand going home for break, it’s time to say goodbye to the serenity of Boston’s Summer, as we welcome back old friends and say hello to new ones. This one’s for you newbies. We hope that you take in all the area has to offer, from the parks that Frederick Law Olmsted planned 150 years ago, to our beloved movie theaters like the Coolidge and Brattle. You may travel in packs around Allston with people you don’t really know, searching for a place to call your own in this new, unfamiliar territory. Don’t worry though, it’s a rite of passage. You’ll want to party, of course and we encourage that. But if you’re an undergrad, or just arriving onto the scene, we at the Compass want to instill a few words of advice:

1: explore greater boston!

This is not your hometown, no. But it could be. Explore the greatness of Greater Boston and learn about all it has to offer. Even if you don’t stick around, explore and find your niche.

2: be respectful of each other!

It’s one thing to meet someone at a party, hit it off, and enjoy each other’s company. It’s another thing to start your night with the wrong expectations of people around you. Please, make sure you understand the meaning of consent. Yes means yes. No means no. Nobody deserves to feel uncomfortable. Be vigilant. Be aware of your surroundings. If you see someone doing something uncool, intervene. Keep each other safe. Know your limits. Boston, Cambridge, Brookline and Somerville. While they’re not exactly playgrounds, they offer a lot. The home to bands such as Pixies, Joan Baez, The Freeze, Gang Green, Donna Summer, Converge, The Proletariat, Mission of Burma, Toxic Narcotic, New Edition, The Showcase Showdown, Dinosaur Jr and Sebadoh [W. Mass], and more recently local favorites such as Fat History Month, Pile, and Krill.

Not just a documentary my friends, it’s a whole freakin’ movement now! Just a few days ago Hampton Beach (NH) got their own quiet weekend of equal-opportunity torso freedom (we hope it was quiet) and we think that’s nice...like in Nice, on the Mediterranean Sea. French folks don’t freak out when they see a booby. What are we, 12? Come on America...the Puritans are all long dead! We have a chance to lead the way here, and all we have to do is be chill. -James Moore

Last thing: Go check out the Bill Russell statue by City Hall. It’s incredible.

-Ethan Long

tuesday –

8.1.15

tHURsday –

• RECEPTION • Student Loan Art Exhibition and Lottery @MIT List (Central)

Wednesday –

9.2.15

reception!

7:30pm • Black Chronicles II @Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art (Harvard)

The London-based photography show Black Chronicles II is coming to the Cooper Gallery of African & African American Art in Harvard Square. This exhibition explores the presence of Black subjects in British photographs from the 19th and early 20th century. These rare and never-before-seen photographs feature portraits of students, businessmen, artists, dignitaries, prominent citizens, international royalty, and more, all taken by professional photographers. The show opens on September 2nd, and will be up through early December. –MJK // http://www.coopergalleryhc.org/ upcoming-black-chronicles-ii/ // On View 9/2/15-12/11/15

9.10.15

6:30-8pm • RECEPTION • Atelier 22 @Griffin Museum of Photography (Belmont) 5-7:30pm • RECEPTION • Heidi Whitman: Lost Cities @Montserrat Gallery (Beverly) 5:30-7:30 • RECEPTION • Think Small: A Juried Photography Exhibition @Panopticon Gallery (Kenmore) • EXHIBITION • Shahzia Sikander: Parellax @Tisch Family Gallery (Somerville)

FRIDAY –

FRIDay –

9.18.15

SUNDay –

2-5pm • RECEPTION • Joe Caruso Out Of The Earth @ Galatea Fine Art (South End)

reception!

6-8pm • Curious Sound Objects @Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)

5:30-6:30pm • ARTIST Talk • Please Elaborate; Mare Lviberum and Max Liboiron @Carpenter Center (Harvard) 5:30-7:30 pm • RECEPTION • New Work by Thaddeus Beal @Soprafina Gallery (South End) 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Joe Caruso Out Of The Earth @Galatea Fine Art (South End) 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Mary Schein Fall Salon @Cambridge Arts Association (Cambridge) 7-9pm • RECEPTION • Women and Wood; A Curatorial Proposal Series Exhibition @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) 6-7:30pm • OPENING • Ariel Freidberg: Unquenchable Thirst @Sherman Gallery (Boston University) 6-8pm • EXHIBITION • A Call for Peace @BU Stone Gallery

After having three highly successful shows within the last year, Curious Sound Objects is having their first extended show, at Boston Cyberarts Gallery. The Gallery will be showcasing the fourth volume of a series of multi-sensory, interactive art exhibitions: Selected Works. Curious Sound Objects explores the intersection of art and science, and in this volume, the relationship between artist and viewer through interactive form and sound. The exhibition is on view through October 25th. –MJK http://www.curioussoundobjects.com/cso-vol-iii-thespace-between // On View 9/18-10/25/15

9.12.15

6-9pm • RECEPTION • DON’T LOOK AWAY! @ Mobius (South End) • OPENING • Lisa Yuskavage: The Brood @Rose Art Museum (Waltham)

thursday –

9.3.15

11:30-12:30pm • Artist talk • Please Elaborate; Rachel Mica Weiss @Monserrat (Beverly)

reception!

5-9pm • CORITA KENT AND THE LANGUAGE OF POP @Harvard Art Museums (Cambridge)

You’ve seen at least one Corita Kent painting. Her “Rainbow Swash” is on the gas tank visible from I-93 or Savin Beach in Dorchester. Pay more attention next time. It's a painting in protest of the Vietnam War, and the blue stripe contains a profile of Hi Chi Minh. Kent juxtaposed the increasingly sterile and uniform world around her with color and irregularity. She distorts familiar signs and symbols, and overlays them with bright color and handwriting. Her pop art is skeptical of modernity, showing the deep divide between mechanization and the human touch. The irregular script on one painting literally quotes Thoreau. At the Harvard Art Museum, you can give Sister Mary Corita a closer look. Her work is hung alongside that of her more famous contemporaries, putting her firmly in the pop art conversation of the late 1960s. -JG // On View 9/3/155/8/16

FRIday –

9.4.15

6-8pm • Reception • The Map is Not the Territory @Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge) 6-8pm • Reception • Manko: Togetherness, Paintings by Audrey Diallo @Multicultural Arts Center (Cambridge) 6-8pm • Reception • Joe Caruso Out Of The Earth @Galatea Fine Art (South End)

SATURday –

sunDAY –

9.16.15

11:30-12:30pm • ARTIST TALK • Please Elaborate; Heidi Whitman @Monserrat (Beverly) • EXHIBITION • The Multiverse of Identity: Recent works by Favianna Rodriguez @Gallery 360 (Northeastern)

THURSDAY –

9.17.15

reception!

5-6pm • Rebellion and Grace: The Graphic Workshop 1970-1992 @President’s Gallery (MassArt)

5-8pm • Reception • Rachel Mica Weiss: COUNTER MEASURES @301 Gallery at Monserrat (Beverly) 8-10pm • PERFORMANCE • Rob List, Jed Speare, and Nate Speare @ Boston Cyberarts Gallery (JP)

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6-7pm • ARTIST TALK • Please Elaborate; Favianna Rodriguez @Studio Theater (Northeastern)

THURSDAY –

6-8pm • ART TALK • Biology of Culture: Bridging Art and Science @Harvard Museum of Natural History

5-8pm • RECEPTION • In Flux: The Work of Nancy Hayes @Harbor Gallery (South Boston) • EXHIBITION • Raqs Media Collective: Luminous Will @SMFA (Fenway) 7-8pm • ARTIST TALK • Please Elaborate; Ethan Murrow @ICA (South End)

9.30.15

DON'T MISS IT! Now-9/3 • Arboretum Inspiration: Image and Word @Arnold Arboretum (JP) Now-9/5 • Linda Leslie Brown: Mapping the Dorchester Way Part 3 @Medicine Wheel Gallery (South Boston) Now-9/12 • Double Vision-Round Two @ 13Forest (Arlington) Now-9/12 • JIM DOW: Taco Trucks, Taquerías, and Carritos @ROBERT KLEIN GALLERY (Back Bay) Now-9/12 • Women in Clothes @Robert Klein Gallery (Back Bay) Now-9/13 • Stratum @Gallery 360 (Northeastern) Now-9/20 • Adam Shecter: New Year @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard) Now-9/25 • Rebellion and Grace: The Graphic Workshop 1970-1992 @ President's Gallery (MassArt) Now-9/26 Heidi Whitman: Lost Cities @ Montserrat Gallery, Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA)

Ongoing! 2/5-9/18 • Everywhen:The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia @Harvard Art Museums (Harvard) 6/29-11/25 • Islands on the Edge @Atlantic Wharf Gallery (Fort Point) Now-Oct • Martin Beck: Program @Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts (Harvard) Now-1/10/16 • Crafted: Objects in Flux @MFA Boston Now-2/1516 • Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia @MFA Boston Now-2/15 • In the Steps of the Master: Pupils of Hokusai @MFABoston

The first American exhibition of Theo Jansen’s kinetic sculptures is opening at the Peabody Essex Museum this month. The Strandbeests (“beach animals”) blur the lines between art and science, sculpture and performance. Along with the original sculptures; and demonstrations of their movement, the Essex will be exhibiting artist sketches, photography by Lena Herzog, and a hall of “fossils”. Don’t know what any of this means? Go to the Essex Museum and find out.

9.24.15

Aviary Gallery continues with Allsion Beonde’s photographic exhibition ‘1947, Roswell’. The show is an 4-5pm • ARTIST TALK • Maya Lin @Metcalf Ballroon (BU) examination of the curious and infamous UFO sighting 4-7pm • RECEPTION • Maya Lin @Sherman Gallery (BU) in 1947, and how its’ open-ended, beautiful mysterious happenings can be viewed as either fact or fiction. 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Willie Cole: AQUAHALLIC The show will be up until Sept. 26th. Get your spooky @808 Gallery (BU) on in JP; you know you want to believe.

FRIDAY –

9.25.15

performance!

The new exhibition at MassArt features activism and student rebellion. It’s about the work of the Graphic Workshop, an artists’ collaborative founded on the campus. The gallery displays 85 posters focused on the Workshop’s activism from the anti-war and civil rights protests in the 1970s to the environmental protests in the 1980s and 1990s. The reception will be followed by a panel discussion about education and activism with the surviving founders of the Graphic Workshop. -TyJo http://www.massart.edu/galleries/gallery_information/ presidents_gallery.html // On View: 8/24/15 -9/25

3-6pm • Reception • Hallspace Drawing Project 2015 @Hallspace (Dorchester) 8-11pm • event • It’s Out! Boston Compass Release Party @Hostelling International Boston (Chinatown)

9.9.15

9.19.15

9/19- 1/3/16 • EXHIBITION • Strandbeest: The Dream Machines of Theo Jansen @Peabody Essex Museum (Salem) 3-5pm • 2015 Somerville Toy Camera Festival 8pm-12am • EVENT • MUM @Artfarm (Somerville) @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 5-8pm • RECEPTION • Marjorie Kaye Sculptures Grab a camera and take a photography walk to the Nave @Colo Colo Gallery (New Bedford) Gallery. The Somerville Toy Camera Festival will feature 96 artists from the US and beyond! Festival Juror Aline SunDAY – 9.20.15 Smithson has selected photographs that don’t rely on the aesthetic of the toy camera alone but instead utilize the effects to enhance the quality and uniqueness of 12-5pm • RECEPTION • DON’T LOOK AWAY! the photographs. The festival will be exhibiting in three @Mobius (South End) galleries around Boston and also has special events occurring throughout September. Don’t miss out! –TyJo http://www.somervilletoycamera.org/ WEDnesDAY – 9.23.15

9.5.15

WEDNESday –

SATURDAY –

9.13.15

wednesDAY –

9.29.15

6:30-7:30 • ART TALK • Please Elaborate; Steve Roden @ Anderson Auditorium (SMFA)

6-9pm • RECEPTION • Feminist Fiber Exhibition Part II @The Industry Lab (Cambridge) 7-9pm • RECEPTION • Mass Cultural Council 2-4pm • RECEPTION • Once, The Monotype Guild of New Awardees in Crafts & Sculpture/Installation/New England @Brickbottom (Somerville) Genres @New Art Center (Newton) • RECEPTION • Head to Head @Barbara Krakow • EXHIBITION • Mass Cultural Council Awardees in Gallery (Back Bay) Crafts & Sculpture/Installation/New Genres 6-8pm • RECEPTION • Wild Thing @555 Gallery @New Art Center (Newton) (South End)

6:30-8:30 • Reception • Les mystères de Paris / Paris Mysteries by Ellen Feldman @French Cultural Center (Back Bay) • Event • Andy Zimmerman and Kalimah Muhammad @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End)

tuesDay –

WEDNEsDay –

9.11.15

SATURDAY –

9.27.15

8-9:30pm • 1 MINUTE SOLO MOVEMENT @Mobius (Central)

Reward yourself after paying your rent on time by heading down to the South End the first friday of every month for music, drinks, food, and most importantly, lots of art. Something new happens in the Harrison Ave galleries every month, with open artist studios on the floors above! Get up close and personal with the artistic process in every stage, and see what’s going on in the professional art world! Submissions for the 15th Round of Art on the Marquee are due Sept. 7th. Art on the Marquee is an ongoing commisioned project for public media art to be displayed on an 80 foot tall screen outside the Convention Center in South Boston. With over 3,000 square feet of viewing space, the Art on the Marquee project provides multimedia artists the chance to be viewed by over 100,000 people and be seen for over half a mile through the city. Submit, Propose, and keep your eyes peeled for upcoming show dates! –MJK

Take to the T and visit Mobius on Friday the 25thSaturday the 26th for the two-day exploration of the word Movement. Starting at 8pm each evening, multiple artists will be sharing their interpretation of movement in the form of a solo performance piece. Curated by Jimena Bermejo-Black; a performance artist who pushes the boundaries of intimacy between audience and artist, this event will create an environment where the definition of movement will be challenged. –TyJo // http://www.mobius.org/ aevents/20150925-1-minute-solo-movement-pieces-1mobius

SATURDAY –

9.26.15

8-9:30pm • PERFORMANCE • 1 Minute Solo Movement (2) @Mobius (Central)

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Local wreckers Human Bodies are currently out on the road, taking their frenetic brand of punk-influenced black metal on a sprawling 35-date US tour. With DISPOSABLE them, they’ve brought along a hundred copies of their new three song casThe CAMERA Lewsette (cassingle?), Demo XXMV. Man oh man, does it deliver the goods. trio is M SELF-RELEASED On this very site, I once praised their previous release No Life for of The is one (2015) bringing a grinding, noisy basement show aesthetic to classic, DarkChannels of the throne-style ’90s metal. For Demo MMXV, these gimp-masked apply a most prolific psychos take it even a step further, drenching every track in generally rappers/beatfeedback and distortion while retaining a heavy, muscular scorched guitar makers on the low end. aesthetic to a Boston scene right Opener “Resolution” is one of Human Bodies’ best offerfunky (in a post-punk, now. 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It showcases all three musicians’ ability nicely besion of noise rock is almost nonexistent in the hands March 2015 single release, “7:30am (I’m Out),” Lewis fore ending in a minute and half of total, all-consuming, cacophonous noise. of these three Bostonians, with singer and guitarist is politically hell-bent, drawing inspiration from his “Sterile Abyss” closes out the tape by bringing some ominous, dark-amWes Kaplan speak-singing and emitting shoegaze-flatime as a student at MassArt. Young, raging, and Puntbient experimentalism to the proceedings, which is an unexpected but vored falsetto vocal mist. 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Check them out as Throughout Disposable Camera, Kaplan’s guitar “7:30” starts with an audio clip of an irate woman awesome soon as you get the chance. playing oscillates between siren bleet akin to Arab screaming at a black man, presumably Lewis, calling ugliness of Spray -John Bittrich On Radar and a spacious nonpsychedelic cloud of him a “filthy nigger.” When prodded for confirmaPaint’s past albums, sound. “Wade” is a prime example of the guitar and tion, in case perhaps he’d misheard her, she goes out but there’s more depth vocals being presented wall of sound style, hovering of her way to answer in the affirmative. This bizarre here. Previously the band just above a constantly undulating highway of bass and awful transaction between these two individuals had a simpler lead guitar "Drop Out Of BU - it's PURE IMPACT!('s - Guide and drums. 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DC has Youth, Vår, Croatian (2015) Amor, and Damien fearful, the other heavy and menacing. makes a strict no alcohol policy About halfway through the album, Chris Stephenson experimenso familiarize yourself with Dubrovnik, among pulls out a drum machine. “Day Of The Rope” betal glam-punk/ the banks of the Charles others) and Frederikke gins with a stark, futuristic electronic beat overlaid power-pop like and the local watering holes Hoffmeier, aka Puce by surging, electrostatic, fuzzed-out guitar. It HOME BLITZ’s around Harvard Sq. Hardcore Mary, an impressive figure sounds like a robot on the fritz. These middle Daniel Dimaggio. Stadium on the other hand has in her own right who has tracks add an industrial accent as the band He is the Joe Dimaggio of experimental glam-punk/ an Elks Club Bar for 21+ built a reputation in the indulges its noise rock desires. power-pop. (I’m sorry about that last sentence. 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Experimentally SHOPS: Is Armageddon Shop the greatest record store ly where that record left off in terms of concepts and aessound. They are noisy tracks (“The Hall”) collide with BIG STAR-ish powin the world?Deep Thoughts in Jamaica Plain. Weirdo thetic. Both records deal with with the deeply personal and dark and surreal er-pop ballads, collide with harpsichord-driven shanties style record shop. Lots of eclectic stuff, hard to find- weirprovocative subjects of intimacy and the sometimes thorny and make my that do not suck (“Tell Me There”), collide with absolutely do, short-run, limited appeal. Decent Punk and Hardcore relations between the sexes. They both also mine drone, head spin. perfectly strange power-pop (“Cutting The Cross”) that section, seldom picked over. Decent neighborhood with industrial, and electro-acoustic influences to weave their If Austin sound like the REAL KIDS fronted by a breathy, lispy, and good bars and night-life if you're taking the trip. 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Exit Order, Leather Daddy, Rogue Trooper @Flywheel Arts Collective (Easthampton) 8PM All Ages $6 Wednesday 2 Ready for a really scary Wednesday? Well how about: bugs, rats, a psycho clown, and a guy in a fishing hat and flannel rubbing his nipples as he screams about his daddy? Get deep into a thrashy-trashy-trance with The Ultimatum Trio (ft. Siege drummer Rob Williams), the wonderfully sludgy Bugs and Rats, and their buds (NE) Patriots doing the ol' in-your-face heavy guitar riff and recorder thang all @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $Donate$  Rather sip some sexy bass lines? Get some jazzy funky noises via The Blues Dream Box, Swiss Clark, Groove Alliance, Dead Russian Royals, and Eternal Segue and keep it in JP @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 Thursday 3 Time to enter a wide eyed, poppy dream as Eye Design presents a night of sonic smoothness with ethereal alt-rockers Magic Magic and Funeral Advantage who are celebrating the release of their new LP Body is Dead alongside the slick, polished punk of Bent Shapes, and Northampton’s lowest-fi Lost Film @ Great Scott 9PM 18+ $9  But if aggressive, noisy explosions are more your thing you can head to a construction site OR down to Providence where Bugs and Rats and (NE) Patriots are waiting to punch your ears alongside Boston punks Funeral Cone and Chi-Town’s metallic shredsters Krang @Red Room (PVD) 9PM All ages $Donate$  SONIC SUMMER SHRED FEST: Future Fest Day 1 featuring Rush Awesome, Blacklight Lighthouse, 23 Ensemble, Harvey Bigman, Flaming Dragons of Middle Earth, Phurnne, Curse Purse, Green Hill Builders, and Azfarat @118 Elliot Street, Brattleboro,

PUNK UP NORTH:

VT 6PM All ages $7-16  Salty Speakers Presents: Idiot Genes, People Skills, Teratoma, Triode @Red Door, Portsmouth, NH 8PM 21+ $ome Cost Friday 4 Did you Fest it up right this summer? No? Not too late. Tonight we got multiple fests to feast upon. Firstly, in Central, Out Of The Blue Back To School Fest w/ Magic Shoppe, The Channels, Steep Leans, Horsehands, World Cup, Sunshine Jarva Land & The SharkBag Collective, Nathan Ventura & More TBA @Out Of The Blue 6PM 18+ $10  More on the mega-side of the spectaclespectrum we have day 2 of Brattleboro’s Future Fest featuring Crank Sturgeon (who is, in fact, fisha-delic on stage), Secret Lover, Grape Room (last show as locals), Mal Devisa, Holy Vex, Carinae, Wooly Mar, Barishi, and badweatherfriend @The Stone Church (Brattleboro, VT) 5PM All Ages $7-16  Just back from Nest-Fest, (New England) Patriots

TAPE RELEASE

fire up the grill for Ursula’s celebration, with the help of Dog, The Cavemen, Tomato Face, and YRRAP YRRAP @Mom’s Mom’s tonight, All Ages, ask a cool kid.  POP ROCKS IN YOUR SHORTS: Vundabar (LP Release Show), High Pop, Mini Dresses, Horse Jumper of Love @ Middle East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $12  UK E(i)DM: Blanck Mass, Egyptrixx @Great Scott 10 PM 21+ $12  Open Loop & Boston Hassle present: Scanners :: DeepScan, a celebration of underground techno, house, & electro. featuring DJ sets by: Coralcola (Make It New), Byoosik (Vault) and DJ Won't (Scanners) @Great Scott 10pm 18+ $5 Saturday 5 Here I am. I did a good enough job of convincing you to pick me up, and now I would like to reward you. I would like to invite you to a special party. In celebration of what? In celebration of me! My birth. My hot, inky, flat self being squeezed out of the birthing canal of a printing press. So come out, and celebrate me being out! Along with getting the chance to read me, you can hear music from Kal Marks and Judy Cho, see art by Jae Wood, Angelica Aguilera, and

VT WEIRDO HOE DOWN:

 Future Fest Day 3 featuring MV+EE, Home Body, Ruth Garbus, Decapathon, Butcher Boy, Dan Soto + The High Doses, Guerilla Toss, Zebu, Jeremiah Culkin, New Parents @The Stone Church (Brattleboro, VT) 5PM All Ages $7-16  RI FREAK FEST: The Pawtuckaway Takedown 6 @The Pratt Compound w/Aye Nako, Nat Baldwin, Dan Blakeslee, Guy Capecelatro III, Alex Spiegelman (of Cuddle Magic) & Andrew Dimola (of Turkey Vultures), Footings, Wren Kitz, Lisa/Liza, Little My, Me In Capris, New Legs, Notches, People Skills, Rick Rude, and more! ART Hosted by Wrong Brain! 12 noon All Ages Fest Pass $21-50 Sliding Scale $7-16 per day. Sunday 6 Have you ever woken up from a druginduced delirium having hallucinated a rock n’ roll rave straight from the ‘70s NY gutter? Blink a few times and realize that you can experience that feeling TONIGHT as Illegally Blind throws down with the multilingual AJ Davila Y Terror Amor, straight shooters Dirty Fences, and the danceinducing Earthquake Party! PLUS the sweaty surfinjected punk of Grave Ideas @Mid East Up 8PM 18+ $10  OR keep it real with Eye Design and the radio friendly grunge pop of Lady Bones, Ontario’s jarring Worst Gift, the base driven murky rock of Kal Marks AND dangerous duo Rye Pines @Lilypad 6-9PM All Ages $8 Monday 7 Tonight we’re holding hands with Rad Castle and pumping out a celestial pop explosion deep inside the bowels of Central Square's dimly lit dungeon ZuZu. You’ll need your dancing shoes for W00dy but not before swaying to Erica Eso, whose members also call Cloud Becomes Your Hand homies. Did I mention Los Greys are gonna keep it up close and personal? AND Jim Leonard will be there to make sure you stay alert and focused. A Rad Castle and Boston Hassle Joint Effort @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free (but c’mon, donate a little cause these people work hard!)  Now the tough part, Park Slug ALSO has a lo-fi gathering of the minds as Pleasure Gap crams us all into a lyrical mason jar alongside the oft forgotten always important subject Spelling PLUS the acoustic folk serenades of Lilith and Rawhunny @Charlie’s Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5 

DRONE STRIKE:

Vehement Caress, Fable Grazer, Long Blonde Wig, Baylies Band, Hard Rugs @The Midway 9PM 21+ $5 

ARTISTIC MUSICAL CORNUCOPIA

Open Mic with Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free

Tuesday 8 The land of robots 1983. A small café closes its doors early. The owner makes a scene about needing to get home since his family is sitting down for a special protein block dinner. Secretly, behind the closed doors of the café, an outlawed event of musical expression is about to take place against the authority of the robot overlords. Anyone organizing, playing, or listening will be deprogrammed. Now is your time! Rise up and unite with the mutant electronic melodies of Wilted Woman presented by Non Event @Café Fixe 8PM All Ages $5 Wednesday 9 For those ready to be wrapped in a heavy blanket of contemplative atmospheric music that's not too rough on the ears we present this sweet sweet line-up: Gracie Jackson and her band will take your rock n’ roll soul on a dynamic journey, Rob Noyes and Tashi Dorji will provide some fancy other-worldly guitar picking and Elisa Ambrogio, formerly of chaotic noise band Magik Markers, is playing her stripped down (guitarviolin-drums) yet atmospheric pop with enough weird-ish musical twists to keep it from getting too

sugary @Out Of The Blue 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale *A Boston Hassle Effort*  Or you may want to head south to JP to check out the classic rock and bluesy sounds of The Hi-End (members of Skeleton Beats/Swindlers) and AdapterAdapter, and classically early 2000’s indie-inspired sounds of The Short Term along with those punks that aren’t gonna listen to no life guards, The Shallow End Divers @Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 Thursday 10 Take a trip around the world with the jazzy psych arrangements of LA’s Dengue Fever, an enigma to say the least that will keep you perplexed and relaxed. Your feet will be tapping, and your head grooving as they lay down their “horn-y” tracks with Boston garage Gods CreaturoS @Brighton Music Hall 9PM 18+ $15  OR put your funds to good use and come raise some money for PRONK and partayyyy with the jazzy big band stylings of What Cheer? Brigade and the West Philly Orchestra alllll the way down under @CR (PVD) 9PM All Ages $5-10 Good tunes for a good cause alongside GREAT people  PUNKY SINGER SONGWRITER: Cat Power @Paradise

FUZZY UNDERGROUND ALT JAMS: Rock Club 8PM 18+ $28

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Salty Speakers Presents Bedroom Eyes, Kal Marks, Sleeping In, Shifty @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost

Tuesday 15 The summer has but a week left dear friends. Kids are already back to school. Pools are being closed. And no doubt, the days are getting shorter. Good riddance, the night is where it’s at and I hate the smell of chlorine. And finally those dang brats are off my lawn. Bask in the longer darkness and tell yourself everything’s gunna be alright with Philadelphia’s Nu-Hula World Wave heroes Vacationer backed up by their good buddies Great Good Fine Ok. The pop boys are riding high into Boston @Sinclair 8PM 18+ $15-17 Wednesday 16 Oh Malo, there!! Do you like ambient guitars and dream pop? What about straight up jangly guitar pop and non-linear polygons? How about a row of indie pop guitar columns supporting a roof? Great, me too! Then let’s go to this show together! We’ll probably both agree on the jazzy guitar chords of the ocean inlets. If you didn’t GET IT I am talking about Oh Malo, Bent Shapes, Bay Faction, and The Colonnade @ Mid East Up 8PM 18+ $12  Empress Of is a lady that is musically all over the place in the best way. Her sound goes from straight up dancey electro pop, to world-music inspired outer space sounds, to heavy shoegazy jams. The tunes are full of ‘80s synth sounds- but not the annoying kind. Check

Friday 11 OMGOMGOMGOMGOM-GOMGOMG!!!! They’re baaaaaaaack! The Dynamic Duo of Drole. The Beatific Buddies of Brash. That’s right darlings. I’m talkin ’bout Baltimore’s Ed Schrader’s Music Beat. Yes, even members of Skimask love them (that’s how loveable they are!) and with Zebu and Funeral Cone (RI) in attendance @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages tonight for just $10, well….how can you say no?  Would you like some fresh electroinfused hip-hop & soul instead? Props to Illegally her out @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10  Blind for booking one dope-ass show tonight @ Mid East Up with Black Milk (Detroit, Slum Villager) and Nat Turner w/ Mahd, Moe Pope and Rain, Non Event presents Lawrence English & John Chantler @The Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Latrell James 8PM 18+ $15  7PM All Ages $15 Midnight Snack, Ellen Siberian Tiger, Mal Devisa @Cafe 939 8PM All Ages $7-10  FREE JAZZ... Thursday 17 Some people are outsiders because LITERALLY: Steve Norton with Ryan McGuire @ they smell, while others just enjoy coloring outside Washington St. Art Center 8:30PM All Ages Free  the lines, and TONIGHT in the sweaty basement LO-FI-TRONIC ROCK: Dan Friel, Wilted Woman, of JP’s resident record store you can witness the Davey Harms, Unicorn Hard-On @Machines with musical musings of NY outsider and artist Hartley Magnets (PVD) 9PM All Ages $ome Cost C. White who’ll be laying down his omnipotent offerings with the experimental escapades of CE Saturday 12 It’s everyone’s favorite outsider Schneider Topical @Deep Thoughts 8PM All Ages electronic freakfest. My favorite monthly. Mostly $ome Cost  Somewhere in the fires of Mount because I don’t have to walk very far to get there. Doom you’re likely to find the the industrial rock Maybe because I just really love the smell of a intensity of the UK’s Godflesh but TONIGHT they dank basement. But just maybe because Scanners are laying down their metallic riffage alongside unceasingly reminds me of our impending doom, New Yorks experimental Prurient. Ignore the heat and the imminent threat of a robotic political and let their thunderous compositions melt your coup. But maybe just because I really love face @The Paradise 8PM 18+ $25  AMBIENT basements. Tonight we have NY powerhouse EX-PERIMENTAL PSYCH POP: Vinyl DAN FRIEL and the return of RI's DAVEY HARMS Williams, Gazoota @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $10  @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $10 suggested  Experimental noise as isolating and beautiful as Salty Speakers the lone cowboy on the album cover. These are Presents Landladys (Album release), Rick Rude, sounds that have been hiding deep in the recesses Ben Katzman’s Degreaser, Tall Juan @Red Door of our city’s underground. Get out and see Animal (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost Hospital before it’s overflowing with injured pets again. Some crazy experimental elecronics join Friday 18 It’s been awhile since we stepped the gig from Final Boss. Hurry up and get there into the ol’ Highland wedding reception hall @Aviary 7pm All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donation up there. Ahh the memories of Hasslefest! And, honestly, some of the best acoustics (and best  food) of any venue means Pile, Palm (NYC), Jazzbos in the Hootroom featuring Angela Sawyer, Warehouse (Atlanta) and Krill will all be sounding Jesse Collins, Steven Lak and more @Whaus 8PM their most EPIC @Cuisine En Locale 8:30PM All Ages $ome Cost  SORE NECKS: Steve Norton tonight. So please, join us for this sick All Ages with Leap of Faith and Metal Chaos Ensemble @ show, $10 adv./$12 day of  Local pioneers of Clarendon Hill Presbyterian Church 8PM All Ages fast, textural no-wave classics, The Feelies bring Free  WALK YOUR KID IN YOUR STROLLER: it all back tonight @The Sinclair 8PM 18+ $20-22 The 5th Annual JP Music Festival featuring Alexei Tsiganov Trio, American Echoes, The  Mikal Cronin, Calvin Beauty Way, Cask Mouse, Daniel Winshall and Love, The Cairo Gang @Great Scott 10PM 21+ $15 the Walking Illusion, Erin Harpe and the Delta Pico Picante @ Swingers, The Footlight Club, The Forgotten Jam,  Fur Purse, The Hi-End, Hyde Square Task Force, Good Life 9:30PM 21+ $5

AMBIENT ELECTRONIC ORCHESTRAL MOODZ:

FIERCE FOOD:

KISS WOULD BE PROUD:

SOMETHING WEIRD AND FUNNY:

GOOD ROCK MUSIC:

GOOD DANCE MUSIC:

Koliba, Love Love, Junko Ogawa, OLD HAT, Rick Berlin w/ The Nickel Dime Band, Streight Angular, Sunshine Moving Pictures, Tony Williams Dance Center, Trusts Sidekick, and The Upper Crust @Pinebanks Field 12-7PM All Ages $ome Cost Sunday 13 Another match made in heaven TONIGHT as we at the Boston Hassle team up with Illegally Blind to bring you some of that good ol’ fashioned guitar-heavy rock and roll. Face-melting solos, driving bass, and classic riffs abound as OBN III’s Austin based, blues-injected punk rock rallies the troops and causes you to punch the air and make out with the person next to you. Also

Saturday 19 A mid-September Saturday was made for an afternoon of hungover wandering. The more your blood gets pumping, the easier it is for your liver to pump out those toxins. But hey, I’m no doctor, I’m just a newspaper. If you want to hop in your car or take the T to head over to Somerville for the Boston Hassle’s monthly outdoor music event, Grass Stains, then go for it. The line-up is sure to be packed with local staples, young and old, and I’m sure someone if the walk doesn’t get your heart pumping, the tunes will @Davis Square, Somerville, MA w/ Andy California, Anjimile, + TBAs 1-7PM All Ages FREE

Brighton Music Hall 9PM 18+ $18 

DANCING

WITH NO FEET: Pearson Sound @Good Life 9:30PM 21+ $10  SOMETHING NEW IN SALEM: Sonorium Presents: Listening Woman, The Powers, & Avant Guardians present an Art Attack @Gallows Hill Theatre 8PM All Ages $10

Sunday 20 Did someone slip something in my drink? That may be the question you will be asking yourself when you come out to see the heavy shoegaze of ADVEATA,the dreamy punk of Psychic Blood,surfing harmonies of Guillermo Sexo and the lo fi fuzz of Fedavees. Narcotic rock without the hangover.Illegally Blind Presents @Out of the Blue Too Gallery 8PM All Ages  Whether or not you’ve been a fan for years or still think it’s cool to get “jiggy with it” this Cannibal Ox show is essential for any hip hop fan playing with Busdriver (UK) and Liam Tracy (NY)@Mid East Upstairs 8PM 18+ $15  NOISY EXPERIMENTAL ROCK People of The North (members of Oneida), Devil Music, Pucker Up @ Deep Thoughts 8PM All Ages $ome Cost  ROCK N’ ART FLEA MART Black Market (art, record, flea, artisan)@Cambridge Community Center 11AM-6PM All Ages $1 Donation. Presented by Boston Hassle and Ignore Rock N Roll Heroes Monday 21 Despite what your aging uncle in a studded vest says, punk is not dead, and that is evident TONIGHT at an all ages mish mosh featuring the prolific lyrical assaults of G.L.O.S.S., the always in-your-face Leather Daddy, and the power-hungry DAME, plus Gas Station Girls, and Firewalker’s first show! The punk scene is the strongest scene in Boston, go see for yourself. @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7PM All Ages $10  Also on the menu is another Rad Castle weekly which this time around means fuzzy bedroom grunge with a splash of pop brought to you by The Dazies and NYC’s Dead

POST RIOT GRRRL POP TART: Stars @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free 

Potty Mouth @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  SOUL SUPERGROUP: The Internet @The Sinclair 9PM 18+ $20  ELECTRONIC AMBIENCE: Stars of the Lid @3S Artspace 8PM All Ages $18  TUNES, LAUGHS, AND RECORDS: Open Mic with Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free

Tuesday 22 It’s hootenanny night in America. That weird time where you’re straddling the line between the joy of kicking it easy and the thunder of some of GPa’s homebrewed bathtub batch. Now if you could only find the right sounds to fit this precarious mood. Well the folks over at the Midway might have just what you’re looking for with the grunge-tastic blues of Blue Manic, condiment rockers Dippin’ Sauce, The Deaf Cats in all their Phish Buffet glory, and the acousto-rock of Z:ro @Midway Café 8PM 21+ $7 Wednesday 23 If you recently dropped out of school to play drums and skateboard all day I think the songs at this here show might make you feel good about that choice — at least while you’re there hangin’ out. Hey I admit it, I put on Sneeze when i’m mad at my mom and she’s making me clean my room AGAIN. Come feel OK about being an over-grown punk with Lee Corey Oswald, Soda Bomb, Sneeze, and the brandy new band Kitner @O’Briens 4PM 18+ $10  And oh what a Wed. night for weirdos with cars (or friends with em). Sediment Club will saw your ears off while you scream with joy, Taboo might finally reanimate one of the ancestral dark lords, if they get the lyrics right, and then you got Dirt Devil to clean up the mess with their straight up rock after the JAMBOMBIII goes off @Doll Haus (Amherst) 8PM All Ages $5  NEATO FUN ELECTRO STUFF (AND NOISE TOO!): Equinox Show featuring: Mary Ocher, W00DY, Sound Shamen, Kar’nam, and Ghost Machine Noise @Out of the Blue Too 7PM All Ages $10 Sugg. Donation

MELANCHOLY BUT IT FEELS GOOD: Low, Andy Shauf @Brighton Music Hall

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8PM 18+ $20

Thursday 24 A couple choices tonight, my friends, and the first is an ear splitter put on by us here at the Boston Hassle. Bring your earplugs and come witness the noise rock offerings of (NE) Patriots — if you think I mean the team, maybe you should stay home. They’ll be knocking paintings off the walls with the experimental now wave of Sediment Club, Amherst’s frightening shriekers La Noia PLUS resurrected ‘80s Beantown bruisers Men and Volts @Out of the Blue Too 8PM All Ages $5-10 *A Boston Hassle Effort*  OR (because who doesn’t love choices?) you could head to MIT’s Bartos Theatre for another edition

of the tasty WMBR Ampersand Concert Series to see Fresh Cut Orchestra and Luther Gray Drum and Horns trio paint the town classy with their multi-instrumental potluck. Bring the kids and drink in the culture @MIT Bartos Theatre 8PM

HAND-FORGED HARDCORE: Salty Speakers Presents

All Ages $5 

Palinopsia, Leash, Dead Generals @Red Door (Portsmouth) 8PM 21+ $ome Cost Friday 25 Here is something very different from the predominantly rock n’ roll promoter Illegally Blind: a hip hop show! Hell yes, this type of shit just doesn’t mix in our scene nearly enough. Hopefully, this will be a sign of more to come. Boogie Boy Metal Mouth is throwing out a new EP for everyone to check out, and be sure to do so: it’s good. Esh the Monolith backs him up as the other MC on the bill. The rest is a bunch of local rockers you know and love: The Televibes, Black Beach, and the Midriffs @Middle East (Upstairs) 8PM 18+ $10

EXPERIMENTAL GESTALT:

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Invisible Circle (NYC), TELLAVISION (Germany) and Pete's Treadmill @ TBA Saturday 26 This Saturday is kinda far in the future from where we’re sitting now writing up shows. We got just the one tip for tonight, though you might find others if you hunt around. Let us suggest Allston where you can take in some mathy synthy upbeat rock with the quirky lyricality of Birdwatching (Phoenix?), Edgar Clinks (NYC), and The Owens @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $8.  Actually, kind of a cool bill there, and makes a savvy alternative to already-blown-up Mutemath over @Great Scott which has been “sold out” for a month or more. It’s Post-Rock night in Allston!  As for us, we will be hanging with Littlefoot, Lala Lala (Chicago), Moaning (LA) and shit load of other sick bands @ OOTBT for an all over the place pop, rock and fun extravaganza, a Boston Hassle Effort Sunday 27 Tonight postmusic kulturjammers Godspeed You! Black Emperor return to Boston to blare and drone their alpha wave-deviating darknoise in this city once again for an expen$ive show with tourmates Xylouris White, who are evidently some sort of Greek lute combo beloved by Nick Cave in what promises to be a night of people who wear velvet and drink absinthe getting oblique @Paradise 7PM 18+ $30  SPACEY MIND ROWK: Alosi Den, Poor Posture, Day Grazer, The Laszlos @The Midway 9PM 21+ $8 Monday 28 It’s Fall! And what better place to be than Salem, MA home of ghosts, graves, and ROCK AND ROLL! Electric Street Queens are fending off the impending chill with their warm fuzzy garage gems along with Boston experimental punkers Whoopi Sticks who’ll keep you guessing after you jump around to Maine’s post-grunge Gravel, Northampton punks Chemplastica PLUS peek party-powered pistol-packing pop punk pals Pink Parts, people @Opus (Salem, MA) 9PM 21+ $5  Closer to home is a ‘60s-style garage bang with the piano-infused Milk, NY’s indie pysch freaks Sleepy Hahas and the always eyebrow raising Puzzle Mansion @Firebrand Saints 9:30PM 21+ $5

SOMERVILLE SOFT ROCK:

 Rad Castle Presents: The Furniture, Soft Pyramids @Zuzu 10PM 21+ Free

ECLECTIC ART PARTY:

 Open Mic with Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free Tuesday 29 The masters have come to town and you’re not gunna want to miss this shindig. Chug along through your own origin story with the wandering, winding guitars of Built to Spill. We all get our start somewhere, and these Idahoans certainly have had a big part to play in many a musician’s life. Come out for the history of it all. Stay because you’re trapped in the middle of a crowd swinging hard to the indie-pysch-garage gooeyness that J. Mascis himself would be proud of @Brighton Music Hall 9PM 18+ $25 Wednesday 30 Ok so you got a lot of rock show choices this Wed. eve. Here’s a question to ask yo self when deciding. Do you wanna see cool bands with bazillions of fb likes or bands who might be just as good and give you the same epic musical feelz but are working on, like, 300 likes. If you choose the latter plz take the underground ladder down to see Stumpf, Elizabeth Colour Wheel and Foreign Origin. There’s gonna be just as many epic builds, riffs, and jams but less bad breath clouds from people yelling all the lyrics @O’Brien’s 9PM 21+ $7  And maybe you’re OVER this rock crap and you want some

RIDICULOUS BASS PLAYING

and crazy chill electro RnB. Or you have an attraction to muscular lion/dude superheroes. Whatever. Thundercat @Mid East Down 8PM 18+ $18  WHY NOT: Ought, Diet Cig @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  DUH: Built to Spill and fucking CROSSS?! @Brighton Music Hall 9PM 18+ $25  NOISEY HEROES: Battles @Paradise Rock Club 8PM 18+ $18

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WESTERN MASS SYNDROME:

Eric Baldelli, watch a screening of Home Grown Shorts, and eat food and drinks. And our special hero Angela Sawyer will be MC’ing the whole thing. Wow. Come out...I’m out!!! @Boston Hostel 8PM All Ages FREE  Southern Style. A phrase so ubiquitous with ambiguously sweet or spicy food from large chain restaurants that it means nothing anymore. So, with this lost meaning, I would like to dub tonight’s show “southern style”. Just because we have Ttotals bringing their mellow vibes from Nashville, and White Kyle bringing his lo-fi sing songs from Austin. Soft Eyes, from nearby NH, bring some garage psych to the mix, and Andy California brings something new freaky rockabilly to the table. There are artists coming from south of here, and artists from here playing music inspired by the south. South, south, south. It’s “southern style”. Do you get it now? @Out Of The Blue Too Gallery 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  KNEES DEEP IN WISH WASH: The New Highway Hymnal, Infinity Girl (Record Release), Fiddlehead, Gold Muse @Great Scott 9PM 21+ $9

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Tuesday 1 Is it really only Tuesday? Yes it is, and you should thank your maker you didn’t miss out on what’s going down on this very special first of the month. Katie McShane is kicking it all off this September with her Monthly Fem Showcase of the craziest sounds from punk queercore to classical featuring Lichen, Diva Cup, and Ariel Friedman (solo & w/ her quartet) @Midway 9PM 21+ $5  This is the kind of night you want to be swept away by a sonic doom river into the land of dissonant chords and melting, shimmering vocals, right? Well you are truly in luck (and so am I)!! The biggest dang apple’s Tamaryn will be shoegazin’ some neo-dream pop with her cohort Gambles to make all the Boston Scenesters weep as they dance alone like they’re at an eighth grade homecoming @Great Scott 9PM 18+ $12  HARDCORE EXPERIMENTAL AGGRESSION: Monoliths, SLOTHS, Tonight We Conquer @O’Briens 5PM 21+ $8 

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9/4 Open Loop & Boston Hassle present: Scanners :: DeepScan, a celebration of underground techno, house, & electro @ Great Scott 10pm 21+ $5 9/5 It’s OUT! Compass #68 Issue Release Show featuring ART: Eric (eab) Baldelli, Angelica Aguilera, and Jae Wood FILM: Home Grown Shorts and MUSIC: Kal Marks (solo), Judy Chong (full band) MC: Angela Sawyer Free Food/ drinks: Trader Joes @HI: Boston Hostel Andy California, Ttotals (Nashville), White Kyle (Austin) and Soft Eyes @Out Of The Blue Too Gallery 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale 9/7 W00dy, Erica Eso (mems of Cloud Becomes Your Hand), Los Greys and Jim Leonard @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free but donate! * A Rad Castle and Boston Hassle Joint Effort* 9/8 Gracie, Elisa Ambrogio (W Mass), Tashi Dorji (Ashville, NC) and Rob Noyes @Out Of The Blue 9pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale 9/11 Ed Schrader’s Music Beat (MD), Zebu (USA) and Funeral Cone (RI) @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $10 9/12 PRE-SCAN: Animal Hospital and Final Boss (N Y) @Aviary 7pm All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donation SCANNERS w/ Davey Harms, Dan Friel @ Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $10 suggested 9/13 OBN IIIs (Austin), Lady Bones, Zip Tie Handcuffs, and Far Corners @Middle East (up) *A Boston Hassle and Illegally Blind Joint Effort* 9/18 Pile, Palm (nyc), Warehouse (Atlanta) and Krill @Cuisine En Locale 8:30pm All Ages $10 Advance $12 Day Of Show 9/19 GRASS STAINS: Davis Square w/ Andy California, Anjimile, Mini Dresses, + TBA 1-7PM All Ages $FREE 9/20 BLACK MARKET @ Cambridge Community Center Cambridge, MA $1 ALL AGES 11-6pm w/ DJs 9/24 (New England Patriots, Sediment Club, La Noia (Amherst), Men and Volts @Out Of The Blue Gallery 8pm All Ages $5-10 9/25 Invisible Circle (N YC) and TELLAVISION (Germany) and Pete's Treadmill @TBA 9/26 9/26 WICKED MESS: 14 band, collectively booked afternoon-evening party @Out Of The Blue 3pm All Ages $5-15 Sliding Scale

Monday 14 Don’t bother showering. You will only sweat and bleed all over yourself at this. This evening has hardcore, metal, doom and other forms of dark sounds. Sadist, Sewer Goddess, Maine's Mugwort down for the night with Nycterent, and Ice Tomb @O’Briens 8PM 21+ $7 Is that your brain on the floor?  Keep an eye on the recurring jam fests that happen EVERY WEEK in this fine city like Monday nights at ZuZu where Rad Castle repeatedly churns out musical chill zones for us all to absorb. Tonight they’ve roped in Boston’s alternative summer sweethearts American Echoes and John Garrett @ZuZu 10PM 21+ Freeeee  I’VE NEVER SEEN THAT BEFORE!: Open Mic with Angela Sawyer! @Deep Thoughts All Ages 8PM Free

*A BRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION EFFORT*  After a day at the park, what could be better than to bask in the psychedelic vibes of another Illegally Blind show? On this day, it’s Ultimate Painting, a band from across that mucky pond we call the Atlantic Ocean. The bill is packed with local bands that take similar notes from psych, folk, and garage. These bands are Herbcraft, Soft Eyes, and Peachpit. It’s an Illegally Blind show, you should know what to expect by now @Mid East Up 7PM 18+ $10-12  SCARY CLOUDS: The Orb @

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SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com  October Submission Deadline 10/19  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.

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sniffing around this gig are the grandiose grunge pop rippers of Lady Bones and Boston’s resident rock ruffians Zip-Tie Handcuffs whose harmonized vox and bone shattering transitions promise to get you high on life alongside Far Corners brand of fuzzy, noise driven post-punk. Is it the ‘70s? The ‘90s? Nay, it’s NOW @Middle East Up 8PM 18+ $10 *A Boston Hassle and Illegally Blind Joint Effort*  Of course you could also keep it weird with the industrial, jarring noise of Negation and the angelic beats of V. Sinclair PLUS delightful duo Appetite and the planetary pulses of Mercury Living @Aurora (PVD) 9PM All Ages $8

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