Significant Shrinkage: New Compass Layout Debuts March 2016 The Compass has been running strong on an 8-page layout for over three years now, so it may come as a shock to learn that we have decided to move to a 4-page layout starting in March 2016. This is only temporary, though. We see our transformation as akin to that of a frightened turtle or the ballin’ disguise of the doodle bug, the way we gotta scooch down sometimes before we shoot up. Unfortunately, it does mean that we need to downsize. The Briefs page and Tardy Eagle section are leaving the paper for just a moment. But only in a material sense! The idea is that everything that has been featured in the newspaper (and then some!) will be available on the BOSTON HASSLE WEBSITE, which is undergoing Extreme Makeover: HTML Edition right now. (www.bostonhassle.com)
What’s with all the makeovers? Why can’t things just stay the same, forever and ever, into eternity?? Well, The Hassle/Compass is a strange animal. It is changing all the time, morphing organically into different shapes depending on who commits their time and energy into making it grow. Think of the Compass as one arm of this collective beast;right now it is shrinking, changing shape, and coming back around as a square right hook to the jaw. That being said, this is a cool time to get involved, because we could literally shoot out in any direction, depending on who steps up to the plate. We are seeking a new Editor-in-Chief to take the paper under their wing and breathe flame into fire. This is the only rag that’s expressly for the people/by the people in the whole city, so if you’ve ever picked it up and been like, “wow, cool--this exists,” then do something about it! Donate or volunteer! Till next time:see you in March. -Emma Leavitt
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Is anyone there? Anybody interested in the exploration of consciousness? Interested in the power of psychedelics for healing or learning about ourselves? See a connection between radical politics, self examination, consciousness, and freedom? Do you think that if we don’t have control of what we put in our bodies we will never truly be free? We are starting a group where we talk about consciousness, plant medicines, meditation, radical politics, psychedelics, art, wellness, sustainability, empathy, mutual aid, the now. We want to have talks, film showings, discussions, and all kinds of events. Get involved! Get in touch! wearefruitsalad@hotmail.com
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At $10, this inspirational work of art and scholarship is a must for your home or workplace. Featuring twelve articles by Compass columnist Neil Horsky, each beautifully illustrated by a different artist, the second edition of the calendar explores topics such as women’s reproductive rights, anti-nuclear activism, DIY publishing, and others. Calendars are available at both Deep Thoughts locations, Aviary Gallery, Lucy Parsons Center, and at Hassle events. Online purchases may be sent via PayPal to hasslepayments@gmail.com. All profits are donated to the local volunteer-run non-profit BRAIN Arts Organization, who thank you in advance for your support. - N.H
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New year, new traditions, new spaces! We’re starting 2016 out right by launching a new night, Homegrown: A night of fuzz and vibes at Forest Hills. All in a newlyminted venue, Fazenda Cafe, which is graciously opening it’s doors to our community. For the inaugural night JOHN ANDREWS & THE YAWNS, SOFT EYES, SQUIRREL FLOWER and CANDY MIAMI will be giving a warm, lovin, welcome-home squeeze to the mellow chillers of JP where once again, there are dope all ages shows. But the tunes and delish coffee and food aren’t all – Vidumami will be providing visual treats too. So come on down and get your dome blown by the sounds of HOMEGROWN. 8pm ALL AGES, $5-10 Suggested *A Boston Hassle Effort*
Keeping up with movies can be exhausting: ticket prices are rising, weekends are valuable, and it’s tough to catch new releases when you’re busy rewatching STAR WARS and MAD MAX. Fortunately, the Brattle has you covered with their annual, painstakingly curated yearend review. Selections are typically eclectic, from the nightmarish (Guillermo del Toro’s CRIMSON PEAK, Austrian mindfuck GOODNIGHT MOMMY) to the devastating (gut-punch docs THE PEARL BUTTON and THE LOOK OF SILENCE) to the animated WALLACE AND GROMIT spinoff SHAUN THE SHEEP. And yes, MAD MAX is back too, if you have any friends who missed it. –O.G.
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You’ve seen her onstage at Great Scott, you’ve seen her in the blogoverse, you’ve seen her in the pages of Vogue (probably). Now Lillian DeVane is back in vinyl form, and she wants a cookie just for showing up. Trophies for Trying explores the world of feel-good lady blogs, generalized anxiety, and erotic Babysitter’s Club fanfiction through Lillian’s live performances and a few pieces recorded exclusively for the album. Check it out and grab a copy at Lillian’s bandcamp (https://lilliandevane.bandcamp.com/ releases). Because no one should have to go home emptyhanded.
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Now that the first snow is falling outside our windows we need a lil’ reminder that summer did, in fact, happen. Luckily, you can shatter the inevitable creeping ice with some NOISE, thanks to the Allston-on-Chicago-noise-rock lovechild release straight from the sunnier months. NICE GUYS and LIL TITS have put their Summer Split cassette release up on bandcamp for FREE, so crank up your sound and howl along before your vocal chords freeze and shatter. https://niceguys666.bandcamp.com/album/niceguys-lil-tits-summer-split-2015
THANK YOU to the following individuals for inspiring the creation and/or continuation of Boston Compass over the past 5 years: Brandon Plumert, Greta Merrick, Lindsay Clark, Greg Moon, Brian S. Ellis, Shane Don, Kate Lee, Adam Foam, B. Law, Morgan Shaker, Casey Rocheteau, Shane Myrbeck, Emily Shisko, Jon Deuce, The Cups, Joe Deignan, Abigail, Fern, RED, Lenny Symczak, Greg Sun, Michael Collins, Edgar Evan Foudray, Shai Erlichman, Jimmy Hugs, David Villanueva, Mark Johnson, Frank Hurricane, Conrad, Santiago Cardenas, Pancho The Kid, Ian Kovac, Wes Kaplan, Greg Tellier, Jesus Vio, Shawnie Brando, Mr. Dickens, Jonah Furman, Kofi Thomas, Papa Hagan, Nini, Jasmine Taibi, Briana Cervantes, Bev, Nick Rasputin, Mona Maruyama, and Fee Kürten. Shout out to Gobby, Kal Marx, Chris Cross, Kung Fu Charlie, our neighbors over the years, Aight Steve, and anyone who has ever worked for City Feed, Boomerangs or SOP. See you all around, no doubt.
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[Opening] List Projects: Ann Hirsch @MIT List (Kendall) [Opening] Marlon Forrester: “A Path: Drills for Flight” @Holwasser Gallery (Newton)
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[Opening] Margaret Lee: de, da, do...da @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard)
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7-9pm [Reception] One Plays Cricket//Ricky Katowicz @Aviary Gallery (JP) 6-9pm [Reception] Sillage: A Show by Sadie Dayton @Porter Mills Studios (Beverly)
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(Opening) Remi Thornton: Free Air 4 You @Carol Schlosberg Gallery (Beverly)
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9:30-3pm [Workshop] Why Comix? Drawing the World you Want to See @Northeastern Center for the Arts 7-8:30pm [Reception] Bullet Points: Photographs by Deborah Bay, Christopher Colville, Garrett Hansen, and Sabine Pearlman @Griffin Museum of Photography (Arlington) 7-8:30 [Event] Photobook 2015 @Griffin Museum of Photography (Arlington)
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[Opening] You Are Here @New Art Center (Newton) 6-8pm [Reception] In Over Out Under Through @Gallery 263 (Cambridge)
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11am-1pm [Workshop] Materials Lab Workshop: Earth @Harvard Art Museums (Harvard) 6-8pm [Reception] Boston does Boston 9 @Proof Gallery (South Boston)
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12-4pm [Workshop] Shibori Dying Class @Washington St. Art (Somerville)
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12:30-1pm [Gallery Talk] Beyond Bosch @Harvard Art Museum (Harvard)
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[Exhibition] @Thomas Young Gallery (South Boston) 7-11pm “Spilt Milk” is a live performance art event featuring the work of five members of the Petrichor Performance Collective, an interdisciplinary group founded in 2014 by recent alumni of MassArt and SMFA. The diverse show will center around themes of ephemerality, memory and time though installation as will as active performance. The show will include durational and short works, as well as a conversation beforehand about the role of performance art in the gallery context. ThomasYoungGallery.com 5-8pm [Reception] I Know Just What You’re Saying @Kingston Gallery (South End) 5-8pm [Reception] Twice as Good @Boston Sculptors Gallery (South End) 5:30-7:30pm [Reception] Sandy Litchfield: Filterscape @Carroll and Sons Gallery (South End) 6-8pm [Reception] Rachel Shatil: Walking the Earth @Galatea Fine Arts (South End) 6-8pm [Reception] Gohar Dashti: Stateless @Ars Libri (South End) 6-8pm [Film Screening] Design is One @BSA Space (Fort Point) 6-8:30pm [Reception] Anna Greitzer “In The Museum” @Bromfield Gallery (South End) 6-8:30pm [Reception] Camilo Ramirez “The Gulf” @Bromfield Gallery (South End) 6-9pm [Reception] PAGES @UFORGE Gallery (JP) 7pm [Film Screening] Ottowa International Animation Festival @ICA (Fort Point) 7-11pm [Reception] Totem: WOLFTITS @Lot F Gallery (Downtown)
[Event] @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 11am [Reception] @Bakalar and Paine Gallery (MassArt) 6:30-8pm
Calling all fiber workers! The Nave Gallery is hosting a fibers swap to support the Somerville Homeless Coalition’s food pantry. Swap out your unwanted yarn, felt, thread, buttons, or sewing needles with other fiber-minded folks! Bring a donation of canned goods or toiletries, pick up some new fiber goodies. Donations can be brought the day of or in advance. A full list of the SHC’s needs can be found at the link below. SomervilleHomelessCoalition.org NaveGallery.org 4-6pm [Reception] Construct, Belief, and Nostalgia @13 Forest Gallery (Arlington) 6-8pm [Reception] Gap, Gaping, I @kijidome (South End)
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The largest contemporary art space in New England, MassArt’s Bakalar and Paine galleries boast an impressive roster of shows each school semester. This spring’s exhibit features the work of MassArt faculty, both new and returning. MassArt has a diverse and immensely skilled crop of professors, and the show is an opportunity to see the work that comes out of a profession of fostering aspiring minds. MassArt.edu 5-7:30pm [Reception] Marcelo Brodsky, Jorge Tacla: Upheaval @Koppelman Family Gallery (Tufts) [Opening] Tseng Kwong-Chi: Performing for the Camera @Tisch Family Gallery (Tufts)
6-9pm [Reception] The Seven Deadly Sins @Atlantic Works Gallery (East Boston)
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[Opening] 30. Below: Juried by Mary Tinti @Kathryn Schultz Gallery (Cambridge) 4-6pm [Reception] Plenty @13 Forest Gallery (Arlington) 6-8pm [Reception] Horst P. Horst Color @Robert Klein Gallery (Back Bay) 6-8pm [Opening] Visible Noize with John Jennings, Stacey Robinson, Tim Fielder, and David Brame @Gallery 360 (Northeastern)
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[Reception] @Montserrat Gallery (Beverly) 5:30pm 1/11/16 - 4/2/16 Artmaking and athletics have more in common than you might think; both require endurance, focus, training, and repetition. Montserrat’s exhibit “I Will Go On…” examines the extremes of these facets of the artmaking practice, exhibiting artists whose practices involve these elements, and highlighting the ‘artist as the marathoner’. The show includes the multidisciplinary artists Liz Jaff, Jon Kuzmich, Aaron Meyers, Jenny O’Dell and Rachel Perry Welty, and will be up through the spring.
SUNDAY OTTAWA INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FESTIVAL
[Film Screening] @ICA (Fort Point) 3pm Every September for the past 40 years, Ottowa, Canada transforms into the International Hub of the Animation world. Dozens of animation companies, as well as independent filmmakers flock for the five-day Animation festival. Bostonites have the chance to catch some of the highlights from the fest this past fall at the ICA on Sunday afternoon; the hilarious, the ridiculous, the beautiful and the thought provoking. If you can’t make it on the tenth, you have another chance to catch the screening on the eighth at 7pm! www.ICABoston.org
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The winter is a great time to take part in some of the workshops and classes offered at the museums around the city. In the post-holiday lull, learn about the materials and practices used in historic and contemporary art-making. Both the MFA and the HARVARD ART MUSEUMS offer workshops and gallery talks in materials, printing techniques, and fiber dying. It’s interesting, it’s fun, and you get insight into the artmaking process. The LIST GALLERY AT MIT is hosting an exhibition of video work by ANN HIRSCH. Hirsch considers technology’s effect on pop culture, particularly on how women use social media to represent themselves. The artist uses several personas to speak on this phenomenon, and has garnered a large following on YouTube as a result. Three of her video pieces will be on display in the exhibit. The mighty exhibition “LEAP BEFORE YOU LOOK: BLACK MOUNTAIN COLLEGE” is coming to a close this month. If you haven’t seen it yet, you have until January 24th. The show is a unique look into the making of some of the biggest names in the Modern and Contemporary art world, and is a time capsule of a very special school that existed for a brief period of time. The bad news is, the show is almost over. The good news is, an exhibition even more wonderful will surely take its place soon.
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6-8pm [Reception] Paul Emmanuel: Remnants @808 Gallery (BU)
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5:30-7:30pm [Reception] Tseng Kwong-Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador 1979-1989 @Carroll and Sons Gallery (South End)
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YOU OUGHTA KNOW It’s dark almost all day, the temperature isn’t making any sense, you’ve probably already forgotten about your New Year’s resolutions, and all the holiday decorations are down already...January is a rough month. Luckily for you, there’s lots of art happenings in the city to combat the weirdness of this un-wintery winter. And I have a resolution for you; go and see more art!
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ONGOING LISTINGS Now-2/9/16 Comforts of Home @Panopticon (Kenmore) Now-2/14/16 Drawing Trees, Painting The Landscape @Arnold Arboretum (JP) Now-2/15/16 Made in the Americas: The New World Discovers Asia @MFA Now-2/19/16 Marilyn Arsem: 100 Ways to Consider Time @MFA Now-2/27/16 Through The Lens of History: Selma & Civil Rights @Grand Circle Gallery (Fort Point) Now-2/28/16 Unfinished Stories: Snapshots from the Peter J.Cohen Collection @MFA
[Opening] Heather Evans Smith @555 Gallery (South Boston) [Opening] Martin Beck: A Social Question @Carpenter Center for the Arts (Harvard) 5:30-7:30pm [Reception] Building Stages @Fort Point Arts Community (Fort Point) 6-8pm [Reception] Bestiary: Jodi Colella @Maud Morgan Arts (Cambridge) 6-8pm [Reception] Matthew Murphy: Ascension/ Suspension @FP3 Gallery (Fort Point) 6-8pm [Reception] Qualities of Stillness: Joseph Ablow @Stone Gallery (BU)
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12-5pm [Event] Lynne Harlow : Sweetheart of the Rodeo @The Annex (BU) 6-8pm [Reception] BRINK v.2 Space and Intimacy @Mills Gallery (South End) 6-8pm [Reception] Stacey Piwinski : It’s not you, it’s me @Sherman Gallery (BU)
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6-8pm [Reception] The Sketchbook Show 2016 @Nave Gallery (Somerville) 12-4pm [Workshop] Block Printing Class @Washington St. Art (Somerville) [Opening] Eisner, Harrison, Orlowsky @ACME Fine Art (South End)
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[Opening] Drapetomania: Grupo Antillano and the Art of Afro-Cuba @Cooper Gallery (Harvard)
DONT MISS IT! Now-12/6 Food Play: Emily Boucher @Voltage Coffee & Art (Kendall) Now- 1/12/16 Vignette Vernacular @Hallspace (Dorchester) Now-1/16/16 DREAMWEAVERS @Brickbottom Artists Association (Somerville) Now-1/22/16 Jealously Curated @Voltage Coffee & Art (Cambridge) Now-1/24/16 Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College @ICA (Fort Point) Now-1/30/16 Your Ticket Out @Distillery Gallery (South Boston) Now- 1/31/16 Merge @Lunder Arts Center (Lesley) Now-1/31/16 Martin Boyce: When Now Is Night Now-1/31/16 White on White: Churches of Rural New England @BSA Space @MFA FREE AFTER 4 EVERY WED @ICA FREE AFTER 5 EVERY THUR
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Everyone out there should be listening to Tokyo’s Legion Of Andromeda. Following up their demo from 2013, Curated by Sylvie Meyer. Legion Of Andromeda have just released their debut album, Iron Scorn, out in the US on Unholy Anarchy Records in the UK on At War With False Noise – and also available on CD from Crucial Blast. The duo creates a distinctive blend of industrial and primitive death metal that becomes a sludgy assault of pure concentrated hate. Monotonous drum machine beats, low muddy guitar, and vocals that sound like they’d fit on a goregrind release almost as often as they sound like death metal growls combine to make this misanthropic slab as immersive as LEGION OF ANDROMEDA it is extreme. Iron Scorn is a record that gains strength through its repetitiveness. The vocals disinte grate, delay often melding IRON SCORN them into the guitar. The drum machine pounds on. The sololess guitar churns away. It is eviscerating. It is hypnotic. Steve Albini’s Unholy Anarchy Records / At production also aids in creating something that is at once massive sounding, yet at the same time utterly is eviscerating. It is War with False Noise (2015) hypnotic. Steve Albini’s production also aids in creating something that is at once massive sounding, yet at the same time utterly – Chris Defalco disgusting. The result is something between Streetcleanerera Godflesh and the shitfi outsider death metal of Hellhouse.
Lynton Donovan, group member of the disbanded Satanic Rockers and current member of Assetstripper, has created something actually sacred in his release of $ a Ride via solo project Sacred Product. Born in New Zealand and currently a resident of Melbourne, Donovan has been a part of the underground scene for a long time, but this is one of his first few solo releases as Sacred Product. $ a Ride was released by Quemada Records about a month ago. Many have described it as resembling UK DIY sounds of yore. The lofi recordings of scuzzy sounds bring you images of a basement with leaking pipes and bending floorboards above your head, a similar basement to where I would guess this music was probably born. There are moments when the garage rock guitar riffs start to resemble those of Ty Segall. SACRED PRODUCT $ A RIDE
Quemada Records (2015) – Sarah Mae Henke
This 6 song EP talks about calling in sick, unemployment, driving drunk, riding a bicycle into the river. The lyrics parallel the erratic and trashed tone of the instrumentals. Alternating between whispers and screams, Donovan’s intense profanity and insults reflect the passion of a nonconformist in the best way. “Working for some fucker is just a fucking waste of my time,” Donovan chants in “Working is a Waste”. It is easy to imagine a group of people, young and old, head banging to these songs. Whether or not you’re in the basement of some show house in Mel bourne, it is hard not to get swept up in that.
Somewhere on the West Coast: a bungalow in the hills; the city’s skyline illuminated against the twilight. In the distance, the dark and the desert landscape coalesce into one another; it’s in the warm shadows that Los Angeles troubadours Gun Outfit outline their vision of life and death in the city and in the desert. From the tight opener of “Gotta Wanna,” Dream All Over is an album whose narrative succinctly and thoroughly engages listeners, thrusting them in the heart of that western landscape. The album moves and shakes with a certain feel of classic rock ‘n roll. That timeless nature may or may not relate to the punk aesthetic that primary songwriters Carrie Keith and Dylan Sharp let loose over the sharp twang of their arrangements. There is no shortage to the exotic on this title. Raveup “Matters to a Head” could as easily have been cut as a shitkicking western swing number, though instead Sharp’s vocals skirt the wryness of altcountry, and electric sitars provide fills that otherwise might be occupied by fiddle. It’s a fascinating and an unusual manner of approaching a rock tune, and that approach shows up again with the weird Celtic rock feel of “Worldly Way.” It’s not drone music, nor is it Celtic music. Nor is it pure jangle pop, but it sure is a fine amalgamation of the better components of all three.
GUN OUTFIT DREAM ALL OVER
And then, it’s over as soon as it began. It’s not a perfect collection by any stretch: the songs road wearied, they’re selfaware, and at the same time they carry a strange promise of hope. Maybe it’s the idiosyncratic amalgamation of sounds, maybe the closing notes of Carrie Paradise of Bachelors (2015) Keith and Dylan Sharp’s endearing and wistful vocals. In any instance, it works all over Dream All Over, and keeps us looking west towards – Aaron Teixeira that setting Pacific sun. The Hausu Mountain label had a great year in 2015, and it was bookended by two fantastic albums of electronicpsychfolk by Eartheater. Like February’s Metalepsis, this album combines the dreamy, underwater vibe of Grouper with haunted backwoods folksiness and shimmering synth textures. But there are some key differences. RIP Chrysalis, as an album title, signifies the end of a period of change. You rip the chrysalis and emerge, and then it’s R.I.P. Chrysalis. If this is the end of a period of transition, what has emerged is impressive: It’s a more grounded and vital record, shedding some of its predecessor’s aloof spaciness for a livedin, malleable sound.
EARTHEATER RIP CHRYSALIS
Hausu Mountain (2015) – John Bittrich
Eartheater’s Alexandra Drewchin got her start with the indescribable Guardian Alien, but this emergence from the chrysalis has, to my ears, transcended that band and her earlier solo work by an impressive margin. Eartheater is unlike anything else I’ve heard all year, but sounds ageless. It’s almost limiting to call it psychedelia. There’s an atavistic, preverbal ritual quality at play in its finest moments. It draws you in immediately, and stays with you long after it’s over. Truly sublime.
You can’t help but picture a grotesque and rotting haunted house when you hear the psychedelic sounds of FINGERS’s Hide Before Dinner. All the songs revolve around the narrative of a dark and haunted childhood. FINGERS’s bandcamp pins it as a “relatable suburban gothic”. This is the band’s first release with London label Blackest Ever Black, and FINGERS certainly brings a childlike perspective to typical horror movie scenes portrayed in each song. There is slashermovieesque suspense in the building electronic sounds, particularly in “Tantrum Time”. It seems as though at any moment a ghost could jump out and evoke the screams of the singer. The erratic noise pop sounds used in “Useless Treasure” bring up mental images of a kid clumsily running away from a pursuing ghoul. “Blissful Cubby House” is the only break from the disturbing we get. It is a moment of solemnity made tangible, almost as if you’re the kid sitting criss cross applesauce in this treehouse thinking over, for the first time, what it means to grow up. The monotone echoes of lead singer Carla dal Forno’s voice feel reminiscent of the numbness that comes with being a teenager. So perhaps, this is just as disturbing as the other songs after all.
FINGERS HIDE BEFORE DINNER
Blackest Ever Black (2015) – Sarah Mae Henke
This album isn’t something you have playing in the background while you’re doing homework. It is an experience. You are brought back to spooky childhood experiences just by listening to it. “Escape into the Bushes” is that moment on Halloween night when you find your self suddenly alone on a dimly lit suburban street completely empty of any other trickortreaters. Its just too bad this album came out September 4th and not a few days earlier.
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A striking manifestation of 1960s American counter-culture, the Youth International Party, a.k.a. Yippies, were pioneers of theatrical protest tactics – outlandish public interventions pushing an anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist, sexually liberated progressive-absurdist political agenda. Led by the charismatic Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman, the Yippies’ spectacular disruptions of business-asusual included exorcising the Pentagon, dropping heaps of dollar bills from the balcony of the New York Stock Exchange, nominating Pigasus the pig for President at the 1968 Democratic National Convention, and many more.
M O NT H Jake Meginsky‘s work on his most recent album Vandals cannot be LTURAL CU reduced to “songs,” but instead the work is a constantly undulating IN STORY stream of consciousness that envelops the listener in his signature bassHI heavy sonic environments. Evidently drawing from his time apprenticed to avantjazz drummer Milford Graves and his experience with West African djun djun and djembe styles; “Rabbit Devours the Luna Moth” is built on a pointillistic rhythm not unlike a heart murmur and a hypnotic pace that has a direct line to one’s urge to bounce uncontrollably. (It’s Following the antics, arrests, and a House JAKE MEGINSKY so hypnotic, in fact, I must pause the song to write about it). Un-American Activities Committee hearing, in the ‘70s Rubin and Hoffman’s lifestyles diverged VANDALS The beat is crowded, but not overwhelming. For example, at first listen drastically. Hoffman fled to Mexico to escape drug charges, re-emigrated to upstate New York Open Mouth (2015) – Cole Haden the only defining characteristics would be the punching bass and the under the alias Barry Freed, and dove into local environmental activism. Rubin adopted a “can’t grasshopper—like—bleep—bloops both in full, lightning speed, beat ‘em, join ‘em” attitude, becoming a Young Urban Professional – a “yuppie” stockbroker, conversation with each other. After the first walk through of the environ philanthropist, and organizer of “networking parties” for elite Wall Street financiers. ment, more voices become present in the conversation and the seeming silences between beats become fuller and fuller with a chorus of sonic passerby. Meginsky creates a sonic path that After Hoffman’s re-emergence and year in prison the daring duo reunited for a cross-country invites you to keep walking down in a transfixed procession, however, to complete the ritual I “Yippie versus Yuppie” speaking tour, visiting Boston on January 22 1985. Sponsored by Boston recommend clearing a space maybe 10’x10′ at least, and listening to this through a pair of loud- College’s Social Justice Lecture Series, the debate pinned Hoffman’s Radical Idealism: abiding by a moral imperative to expose, resist and undermine an unjust oppressive social system; speakers, preferably at ground vibrating volume.
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against Rubin’s Practical Realism: working pragmatically in and through the system to create change while “getting ahead.” Borne by the contemporary American Baby Boomer after the perceived failure of the ‘60s revolutionary program, this ideological grappling was put on comic display for the young minds at the Roberts Center.
Steadfast positions delivered on poverty, labor, foreign and economic policy, war and peace, are interspersed with quips of darting and biting wit. During Q&A, as to whether he had “sold out,” Rubin says he prefers the term “taking over.” Hoffman pleads to the audience for radical action: “Democracy to be true to itself, demands dissent. Question authority and you’ll find out it’s illegal, immoral and just plain stupid. I urge you to question authority.” He exits to a standing ovation yet to this day the debate goes on. Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com
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SEND SUBMISSIONS TO ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com January Submission Deadline 1/19 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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@ Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5 SOUNDS: Non Event Presents: Chris Johnson@ Cafe Fixe 8PM All Ages $5
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NOISES: Katie McShane Presents Monthly Fem Night featuring the cookie themed jams of Tiffany’s House, as well as the found and made sounds from both in and out of this world via Stephanie Germaine, and Adrienne Arditti of Listening Woman and MisRed
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of tying some sort of classic guitar riff vibes with hardcore elements and fuzzy wuzzy fuzz. It’s kind of the same feeling I get when I think about ol’ Steve
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Brat Curse, and the almighty DINOCZAR who do a neato job
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WEIRD to have a crush on Steve Buscemi? Is it weird to go to a show just because one of the bands guarantees Double Buscemis? Well I don’t CARE and neither should you. Not sure how much they look like Steve but those guys are gonna open with some Boston noisey two piece stuff followed by NY lo-fi two piece Punt. Joining them will be the fuzzy indie rock from Columbus Ohio of
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@ Zuzu 10 PM 21+ Free Tuesday January 12 Is it
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too expensive and you have to subsist off of free after dinner mints and tap water? Well Rad Castle always wants culture to be available to any and all who wish to consume it. So quiet your hunger pangs and go listen to Germ House and Chris Warren
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@ 9PM 21+ $5 Or are you totally broke? Like ramen is
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choices for sickness tonight and I’m gonna make it really easy for you. Got some money? Spare change in the sock drawer? Recently washed dollar bill? Combine your funds and head to Charlie’s Kitchen where Park Slug brings you Birthing Hips, Candy Miami, and Puppy Problems
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All donations will be graciously accepted. Friday January 15 When
spectral voices start speaking to you, don’t worry, that’s just Blood Club and you are very safe. And when the grooves from Empty Gestures’ punk bass is just too groovy to keep still, it’s cool, maybe ya just gotta get groovin’ yourself. But when Birthing Hips thrashes into your ear sockets that is when you know there is no other place you could possibly be on Friday than with all these fine forks brought to you by Fast Apple @ Grandma’s House
8:30PM All Ages $ome Co$t Looking for a little
smooth pickle pop tonight? How about the freshest pickle pop yet? Well you’re in luck cause Illegally Blind is bringing you Halfsour’s Ep release show with very special guests The Barbazones, Kindling, and Fucko
@ Club Bohemia 9PM 21+ $10 POWER PUNK: Allston
Pudding Presents: Cende (mem Porches., LVL UP), Sun Young, Daephne, Earthquake Party! @
Out of the Blue Too
EXPERIMENTAL ENSEMBLE: Pneuma (Berlin), Rested Field, Lou Bunk, John Voigt @ Third Life Studio DANCE SYNTH POP: Holy Ghost @ Sinclair
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Ursula is looking for a change of scenery, so who knows how many more opportunities you’ll have to catch them at home (literally). Joined by DC punks Homo Superior and frenetic new Boston duo Birthing Hips. It’s an amazing, tangled mess presented by Fast Apple@
G’mas Junction 8PM All Ages $Donations are punk Or go hang out with
Illegally Blind as they present some glory, some light, some warm mist on your cheek by way of folky guitar guru Guy Blakeslee. Plus Somerville’s poppy Peachpit, the always fun Beach Toys (remember to clean off the sand), and the scuzzy rock Drug Dogs (crack canines just wanna be loved) @ Middle
East Upstairs 6:30PM 18+ $12 60’s TIME MACHINE Bong Wish, Patchouli Mist, The Divided Self, Wicked Rot@ Lilypad 9PM All Ages $5 NOW’S THE TIME Downtown Boys @ Aurora (Providence) WHAT’S THAT SOUND? Open Sound presents: Delluzer, Orlando Cela, Kent O'Doherty, & Id M Theft Able@ Third Life
Studio 8PM $ome Cost DONATE AND GET IN SHAPE Punk Rock Aerobics! A Benefit for Girls Rock Camp Boston with Hilken Mancini (Monsieurs) and Melanie Bernier (Barbazons)@
ONCE (Somerville) 11AM-3PM All Ages $1020 Sliding Scale Sunday January 17 Pop punk
is hard to do well. It’s so easy to lose sight of what makes it so true and visceral and well, punk! But TONIGHT tight DC trio Lackluster has come to show us how it’s done. Boston’s smooth, friendly punkers Laika's Orbit hold it down for the hometown while Somerville’s Brown take things in a groovier direction
@ The Democracy Center 6PM All Ages $7-$10 Sliding Scale Of course
if your heart has been hardened by years of cheap beer and passing out on basement floors then you may need a little more to get you going. So descend into the sweaty depths of JP’s Deep Thoughts and witness the in your face, spit spewing ferocity that is Urochromes. They’ve come from the wild wild West (of Mass.) to play with DC hardcore heavyweights Homosuperior. If you didn’t catch them last night at that SICK Fast Apple show then tonight is your last chance! Also part of this stacked showcase are local ladies DAME and the always energizing Exit Order@
Deep Thoughts (JP) 9PM All Ages $Donate$
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EVERYONE’S WELCOME MIDWAY OR THE HIGHWAY: Open Mic Night with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard@ Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free TUNES AND ZINES Lady Queen Paradise, Most Selfless Cheerleader, Judy Chong, DUMP HIM @
invited to attend this all-ages show at 8PM. Papercut Zine Library 8PM All Ages Donate ◆
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Jazz quartet/Angela Sawyer joint, Duck That, joins Steve Norton@ Franklin Street and promises that no animals will be harmed during this call from the wild. Everybody’s
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O’Briens 8:30PM 18+ $8. Tuxedos are mandatory
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and hardcore scruff descends upon Allston tonight as ZipTie Handcuffs, Courters, and Salem Wolves† take over my favorite corner hot spot. Is that gum in your hair? Shit on your shoe? Grass stains on your jeans cause you still aint washed those motherfuckers since July?! No one cares punks...head over to Great Scott @ 9PM 18+ $8 Or slightly more low key is the blissful Clicky Clicky Winter Ball right down the street. Clicky Clicky Music Blog hosts the third in a series of shows they’ve put together since the fall featuring Burglary Years, Du Vide, School Shoes@
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are creative. Many have all sorts of wacky, semi-nonsensical tunes, words, demonstrations, acts, rants, dances, and jokes to intrigue any interested passerby. And yet all this wondrous artistic explosion is waiting for a platform. Well
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9:15PM All Ages $710 Sliding Scale FUN PUNK Meracula, CuTe UtErUs, The Scandals, Joan Smith @ Out of the Blue 9PM All Ages $7 DEATH INDUCER One Master (CT, NYC), Human Bodies, V-Sect@ Reptile Room (JP) 8PM All Ages $5 Sunday January 10 People
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MATH CLASSPark Slug Presents: Sharpest, Idle Pilot, Spelling, Great News@ Lilypad
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Sound 7-10PM All Ages $Donate$ JAZZ JAM Viae Ensemble : Mitch Ahern, & Vanessa Le Fevre@ Outpost186 8PM $ome Cost EXPERIMENTAL
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ready to shred alongside new grungy grinders Bully who put out an INCREDIBLE debut this year and noisy Seattle basement scabs So Pitted @ Sinclair 8PM 18+ $17 WACKY EX(?) WEIRDOS Duck That@ Open
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Come bang your head until your brain explodes out your skull and your eyes roll so far back they can see the sweaty mass behind you. They’re
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The brooding post punk of METZ has captured the imagination of many. Goopy grunge drenched slammers fill every corner of the Canadian power trios two albums.
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Saturday January 9 There are several killer punk shows happening tonight that span the spectrum but if you’re looking for local hardcore (and who the fuck isn’t?!) then you’re obviously headed to the Democracy Center. This city has always been known as a punk and hardcore hotspot and bands today are keeping that moniker alive. The thrashy, gutteral Video Filth, street stompers Cinderblock, 80’s fueled skate punkers Laughing Stock, plus War On Sobriety, and the pop punk of Hospital Beds to round out this mosh inducing melt fest @ The Democracy
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forego the electoral hope for the crunchy, electric, dystopic future fast approaching? Full speed ahead on the river styx with the Gondoliers, Dyr Faser, Rob noyes, and Gilmore Tamny
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Thoughts 8PM All Ages $DONATE$ Maybe you’d rather
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burn? Maybe get that checked out. But if you’re feeling the bern you know where you got to be this Friday night: lending your ears to support BERNIE MAN with Animal Hospital, Soft Eyes, Epicurians, W00DY, Tongue Oven, The Big Ship, Jarvaland, Chill Sesh & Friends @Deep
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cost at the door. SAY WHAT? Wildhoney, Cloakroom, Russian Circles @The Sinclair 7PM 18+ $20 Friday January 8 Feeling the
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Do you ever get the urge to burst out into chilly New England air, turn your chin skyward, and howl out to the pale winter moon? Sometimes? C’mon tough guy, why don’t you just try it – just once? You can howl, or you can Hallelujah the Hills, along with The Barbazons and Milk, get your catharsis on at Great Scott at 8PM and let it all out along with these smarty-pants, intellectualtype garage rockers. You know it’s gonna feel good. $some$
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Ever wanted to meet you favorite local purveyors of pop, pukers of punk and regents of rock?! Tonight is your chance as musicians, artists, fans, promoters, fuck really anyone and everyone involved in the local DIY scene descend on the Middle East for another rendition of Local Music Hangout. Come laugh, meet some new friends, and maybe even see a surprise performance. We won’t bite @Mid East Up 9PM All Ages FREE
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HASSLE SHOWS 1/15 Kal Marks, Bilge Rat (CT), Amphibious Man (CT), Zach Rowden (CT) and Heavy Petals @ The Record Company 8pm $510 Sliding Scale 1/16 Hassle Fest Book Your Own Show Show for Krista Olson with Home Body (wmass), Blk Bx, Full Color, JOSS, Joanna Booole @ OOTB 18+ ALCOHOL WILL BE SERVED 1/19 HOMEGROWN : YAWNS (John from Quilt!), SOFT EYES (New Hampshire), Squirrel Flower and Candy Miami @ Fazenda Cafe (across from Forest Hills Station) 8pm All Ages $5
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Cafe 9PM 21+ Free...are you ready to astound and amaze?
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offering of crazy, kooky, funny, delicious, noise, comedy, frustrations, etc. etc. WHATEVER. It’s MIDWAY OR THE HIGHWAY: Open Mic Night w/Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard@ Midway
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the punk that YOU know and then there’s the punk your grandad fucking CREATED. Still tearing up the club stage after more than 40 years, The Dictators come to Allston to spread their classic sounds from when punk was in its infancy, christ from when it wasn’t even a thing! Joining these CBGB progenitors are Lenny Lashley's Gang of One (Darkbuster diehards take notice), Nick and the Adversaries, AND Neutral Nation. The party is @ Great Scott 9PM 21+ $15 Or keep it contemporary with Birthing Hips, Steam Traktor, The Cavemen, Johnnie & The Foodmasters, Candy Miami @ Black Lodge. It’s practically a mini fest! Plus ya don’t have to be legal for this one. 10PM All Ages Donate STILL A THING Wilco, William Tyler @ Orpheum
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East Upstairs, $10 at the door, whatever, come out, hear uptempo garage punk sounds Also going on across
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Sq, Nice Guys are celebrating their new EP release alongside a slew of great bands: Creaturos, Kal Marks and Gravel join the festivities @ the Middle
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at MIT Bartos Theatre, 8pm. Frankly we are left to wonder who knows what will go down there; bring a ten spot as there’s a donation at the door. Meanwhile, over in Central
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Wherever you are in Boston this Thur nite, it’s gonna be keeewwwld out there. But that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t throw on all yr coats and hats and get out to experience some loud, bold music. Appearing as part of the Ampersand Concert Series you can get your ears blaring to the searching sound of Forma and Nighttime Sunshine
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to one place...Zuzu for Rad Castle’s SICK recurring Monday menage-a-YOU with the frantic Sun Young (Damien from IAN), lofi emo enigmas Stumpf, acidic Allstonians BIGBUCKHUNTER, and the kinda sad, kinda inviting, always melodic Puppy Problems
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miss this last week? Pissed cuz you’ve got work tonight or some stupid ass class in the AM? Fret not because you’ll have another opportunity NEXT WEEK, and the WEEK AFTER. Still not getting the message?? Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard take over the Midway in JP EVERY SUNDAY to give you a place to spew your artistic amalgams and musical rantings. Or anything...it’s MIDWAY OR THE HIGHWAY: Open Mic Night with Angela Sawyer and Gabe Stoddard@ Midway Cafe 9PM 21+ Free...get weird or get out (I guess you can be normal too if that’s your thing)
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Vault All Ages Donate NEVER HEARD THAT BEFORE! VDSQ SHOWCASE w/ Alan Licht, Anthony Pasquarosa, Arian Shafiee, Rob Noyes @ Deep Thoughts 8:30PM All Ages $5-10 sliding scale Sunday January 24 Did you
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Of course some people live on nostalgia and others just have an appreciate for history. So if you were nothing but a seed in 1981 now is your chance to see where Boston hardcore got started. The FU’s were too cool for ‘81 and their too cool for you. Watch them tear it up TONIGHT alongside Automatic (members of the immortal Jerry’s Kids and DYS) plus Silver Screams and the proto punk of Spectrehawk@ O’Briens 8PM 21+ $10 EMO IN A SWEATER Drug Dogs, Sneeze, Vulture Caboose, Raw Blow @ The
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Saturday January 23 It’s punk night at OOTB2. The gallery opens its doors to hardcore behemoths Bombers, sonic shriekers Preskool Dropouts, Philly’s Socialite (members of Sheer Mag and Direct Effect!) PLUS the 70’s inspired noise punk of The Cringe and the crushing riffs of Mike Mountain @ Out of the
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Microtonal Society. That one’s free at 8PM, with a pre-concert talk that’s open to the public at 6:30PM OR groovy w. live DJ sets from Hunee and Anthony Naples @ Middlesex 9PM 21+ $10 Friday January 22 Come
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9PM. Reserved for the 18+ crowd. $7 at the door. Once made popular by product placement, CHAIRLIFT, proves their worth @ Brighton Music Hall at 8 PM. Only people who are this many (18+) can attend this $15 show. Thursday January 21 That’s
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Welcome to Wednesday! Poised to be an intimate night of fuzzy guitars and trucker hats, save your heavy heart for the bar and check out touring band STEEP LEANS with All Talk and Wydyde @ Great Scott
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$9 Shaves @ Red Door (Portsmouth) 9-11:30PM 21+ $ome Cost Wednesday January 20
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I’m gonna guess you’re into the whole basement psych punk garage rock thing. Yeah so aren’t we! Wellllllllll if you’re ready to flop that COMB-OVER around get yourself down to @Great Scott tonight with Allston Pudding Presents to welcome back BLACK BEACH and Midriffs from their tour! They’ve been traveling for the past few weeks and have returned bringing the warmth of the south to you via their fuzz pedals and DIRTY DIRTY distortion. Lady Pills and Earthquake Party! will get you going with some, quote, “noiseypop” and “ugly pop” (bandcamp. com). This one’s guaranteed to be a REAL RIPPER, just like that time at the pizza place in 7th grade when my jeans were a little too worn out and I bent over in front of the cool kids. ALWAYS wear underwear 9PM 18+
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Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5 Tuesday January 19 Hello Weirdo! Judging by your hair cut
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Parents join Boston garage punks Dirt Naps and Hospital Beds PLUS radio pop rockers Mr. Fahrenheit are here from California! Damn...if that’s your thing, you better catch it while you can @ Charlie’s
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You really don’t want to miss either one when Graveyard, Sweden’s hard rock masters, blast into town backed by Spiders @ Middle East
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Monday January 18 It’s localz only tonight where Illegally Blind is throwing a little pop party to wet our winter whistles. This bill is split decidedly in half with Bat House and Big Boy Club keeping things in indie postrock territory. But the ghostly grit-wave of Gamma Pope and experimental post post-hardcore noise of DENT slingshot us in the other direction. It’s all
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renovate my home and finally add a Smells Library
finally marry my car
abdicate my title as ruler of a small island buy only 100% natural nation, and become an DeVito’s hair clothing NBC page get that thing checked out, as it keeps asking me to
try something NuMetal
admit to enjoying the feeling of farts
build a conveyor belt of puppies to be pet
lose 30 lbs of bones
tell off my pet snake Larry for once and for all
challenging strangers to mortal combat
eating out of the trash, just for the praise
paying my taxes in my own personalized “fun bucks”
cutting eye holes in my tablet like a cartoon spy
asking fast-food workers to “John Candy Size it, por favor”
“churning” my own “butter”
giving false testimony to matters concerning national security
asking co-workers if they’re “cool” before showing them a severed head
chewing my food partially and sharing it with a loved one
disgracing my spouse with my "humor" act
Swiffering gravestones
hurting :,,,,(
making that WetNap™ quilt I keep masturbating about
peeing on Donald Trump
telling DJ Khaled to "stay beautiful"
practicing self-care (i.e. massage my rotten old horse)
using lint for bus fare
stop referring to buses as “toilets of the land”
build that massive monument to that dream I had once
end Burning Man
torture my enemies with cold cuts
Drawing Contest!
make a drawing in the box on the left and anpther one on the right and whichever one is better wins you idiot
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broadcasting to overhead aircraft “Emergency, emergency. Too much junk in the trunk."
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write the 1st New York Times bestseller entirely in a fictitious language
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drowned in my own “churned butter”
fallen into an interdimensional portal as to not have Star Wars spoiled
gotten my wish to “drown in puss puss”
said that thing you told me to say to that guy
forgotten to eat around the green spot
been challenged to mortal combat by a stranger
gone for a run on the sun
built a fully functional Lenny from Of Mice and Men robot
time traveled to bang Mother Theresa before she got all nunned up
committed farticide
tested my “how many bees can I be friends with?” hypothesis
eaten a live bomb
killed a 30 rack of V8
chewed my way out of leather jail
hidden myself inside your ear canal
tricked a witch into giving me a few extra toes
bullied my son with a capella
peed on Donald Trump
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FEATURED FILM SERIES WORDS IN MOTION: GRAHAM GREENE AS SCREENWRITER 1/21 @ MFA
Graham Greene wasn’t the only mid century literary heavyweight to find notable success upon launching a shadowcareer in cinema: no less formidable a figure than William Faulkner gave screenwriting a go, relishing the remuneration even as he bemoaned the concomitant compromises. But Greene’s career remains the supreme crossover success story, boasting multiple boxoffice triumphs and bienpensant dar-
A team of scientists stationed in Antarctica uncovers an alien wreck beneath the snow, unleashing a thing of unspeakable horror into their outpost. Trapped, the group soon learns that the only thing worse than the thing may lurk within themselves. Also screens 1/8
lings over a three decade span. The MFA frontloads its fortnight of Greenescripted films with a brilliantly eccentric trio of late Forties thrillers directed by Carol Reed: Brighton Rock, The Third Man, and The Fallen Idol, each singularly abristle with wit, intelligence, and consummate craft. (http:// www.MFA.org/Programs/Series/Words InMotionG rahamG reeneAsScreenwriter) -Matthew Martens
CIN-THOTZ NEW YEARS’ FILM RESOLUTIONS: Having just finished (barely) college, I’m mulling over some hard choices. Not just quitting meat (1/1/16) and smoking (TBD). I’m talking about my New Year’s film resolutions: 1. Watch a movie every goddamn day. 2. Watch movies outside my comfort zone (I hate documentaries—sorry). Find something worth loving in each one. 3. Stop arguing with people about movies in ways that make them feel stupid for liking them. Express opinions as opinions. Don’t dismiss films because they “sound dumb.” 4. Watch people’s’ favorite film(s) with them. Ask them why they love it. 5. Demand films that empower women, minorities, nonbinary individuals, etc. (where the actors playing them aren’t ciswhitestraight men). Not just as sidekicks! 6. Start writing. Start filming. Stop waiting.
Film is something magical for us to share. Put your film stock where your mouth is! Make your movie consumption/production a model for the cinema of tomorrow. -Ari Shvartsman
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TAXI (2015) dir. Jafar Panahi 1/22 & 1/27 @MFA It’s been nearly six years since filmmaker Jafar Panahi was arrested on charges of “propaganda” against the Iranian government and sentenced to a twenty year ban on filmmaking. In spite of this, he has already produced three features since his conviction, with the most recent be-
ing Taxi (2015). Made surreptitiously with consumer video cameras, Panahi plays himself as he drives around the streets of Tehran picking up passengers and conversing with them about subjects ranging from filmmaking, to religion, to human rights – but with a lightness and humor of everyday life. While his films had always been marked by poignant social critique reflecting his humanist perspective, the very act of creating them has now become a statement of defiance against a repressive society guided by an authoritarian regime. For him, making films is also a means of perseverance; to stop would be to abandon that which gives his life meaning, and that would be a far greater loss than his freedom. -Stefan Grabowski
PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE
DEATH PROOF (Grindhouse Cut) (2007) dir. Quentin Tarantino 1/22 & 1/23 @Coolidge Practically an ad for its great filmic forbear, Vanishing Point (1971), Death Proof (2007) is a ridiculously fun, dumb, affectionate movie. The film’s music is great too (as usual), with Jack Nitzsche’s “The Last Race” fitting like a rough, shredded glove over the film’s opening sequence. And just to be clear, this is not Tarantino’s worst film, that would have to be Django Unchained (2012) IMHO.
(1/7) THE THING (1982) dir. John Carpenter @ COOLIDGE
I just watched this again for the first time since seeing it in a theater in Budapest upon its initial release. I liked it a lot more this time around. For Kurt Russell fans the film is a godsend, allowing Russell to flex his menace and charm for the first time since (essentially) the 80s, as the film’s main character, Stuntman Mike. His performance here is kind of a piece with his tough guy/ wimp turn in Big Trouble In Little China (1986), and it’s a beautiful thing to behold indeed. The car he drives is a creepy, nasty thing, with which he attempts to create twisted metal in order to service “a sex thing”. Jungle Julia (played by Sydney Poitier, the daughter)’s already dated, but still funny text message sequence is also a highlight. Really, I’m a big fan of the whole Texas Chili Parlor sequence. The film’s dialogue as a whole isn’t amazing, but in this context it doesn’t quite matter. Why these obviously very cool women are hanging around with these loser guys is the film’s enduring mystery for me. -Dan Shea
(1/8) BLADE RUNNER: THE FINAL CUT (1982) dir. Ridley Scott @BRATTLE
Yeah, yeah, we all love Han, but Harrison Ford’s best scifi role just might be replicant hunter Rick Deckard. And unlike STAR WARS, this cybernoir masterpiece gets BETTER everytime its director revisits it. Plus, it has 100% more Rutger Hauer.
(1/14) OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959) dir. Carol Reed @ MFA
Proving once again that you can never trust a vacuum salesman, renowned thespian Alec Guinness is a spy working for British intelligence in prerevolutionary Cuba, becoming intertwined in personal and political strife as adapted from Graham Greene’s novel of espionage. Screens through 1/16
(1/15) MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) dir. George Miller @ BRATTLE Who’d have thought that this year’s critical consensus Oscarseason favorite would be the revival of a long dormant car chase action franchise? A marvel of practical effects and badass feminism that recalls Gilliam and Jodorowsky and, moreover, just really freakin’ GOOD. Also screens 1/16
(1/16) SONG OF THE SEA (2014) dir. Tomm Moore @ REGENT
From the creator of the resplendent THE SECRET OF KELLS comes yet another gorgeous Celtic animation. This tale of a broken home, a Selkie, and Irish mythology is a real tearjerker for kids and grown ups alike.
(1/16) NINAS RESA (2005) dir. Lena Einhorn @SCC
Winner of the Guldbagge Award for Best Film, this PolishSwedish film tells the story of Nina, who comes of age in the Warsaw ghetto. The feature is a labor of directorial love narrated by Einhorn’s mother, the reallife Nina.
(1/24) ROMAN HOLIDAY (1953) dir. William Wyler @HFA
A princess fed up with the royal lifestyle decides to take the holiday of a lifetime in Rome. Soon, she is enjoying anonymous freedom with a man hiding a secret – he is a journalist assigned to interview.
(1/24) THE COLOR OF THE OCEAN (2011) dir. Maggie Peren @COOLIDGE
ARABIAN NIGHTS (2015) dir. Miguel Gomes
Refugees are shipwrecked on the Canary Islands: the Congolese can stay, but the Senegalese are deported. This film explores the perils of tourism and policing in a landscape that is doctrinally harsh yet naturally sumptuous.
(1/25) F FOR FAKE (1973) dir. Orson Welles @COOLIDGE
Misunderstood upon first release, this film essay about the act of artistic creation itself is an unclassifiable piece of cinema that will enlighten as well as entertain, as unreliable narrator Orson Welles guides you through the lives of professional charlatans. MFA Research Head Richard Newman in person!
1/14 & 1/23 @HFA
A richly imagined pageant of stories, a wry commentary on Portugal’s political economy, and one of the year’s signature cinematic achievements.
FANTASIA (1940) dir. Various
(1/25) THE EXILES (1961) dir. Kent Mackenzie @HFA
This exceptional quasinarrative documentary follows a group of Native Americans living in Bunker Hill, LA, as they wend their way through some of the foibles, typical and atypical, of young adulthood circa the infant Sixties, forging multivalent identities by intent or accident as they go.
(1/27) IT FOLLOWS (2015) dir. David Robert Mitchell @ BRATTLE
I’ll get it out of the way: this is a movie about a sexually transmitted ghost. It’s also one of the best American horror films in ages, mixing coming ofage melancholy with sheer pantsshitting terror and a killer synth score.
1/15 @ REGENT
Disney is being liberal with their distribution rights! Don’t miss your chance to see the famous animation orchestration at the cinema! NEW RELEASES (NOW) THE HATEFUL EIGHT (2015) dir. Quentin Tarantino @ COOLIDGE/SOMERVILLE (SOON) ANOMALISA (2015) dir. Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson @KENDALL
(1/29) (SOON) YOUTH (2015) dir. THE FAITHFUL HEART Paolo Sorrentino @COOLIDGE (COEUR FIDÈLE) (1923) dir. Jean Epstein @HFA (SOON) MUSTANG (2015) Do love triangles ever remind you of harrowing carnival rides? Now they will. This film noir joins muted realism with lyrical waterfront scenes. Montage and nonsequential flashbacks pepper the dismal Marseilles saga.
(1/29) FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996) dir. Robert Rodriguez @COOLIDGE “All right, ramblers... Let’s get ramblin’.” What happens when you combine strippers, vampires, Quentin Tarantino and his foot fetish? A whole lot of awesome in this horror/ crime story about two outlaw brothers on the lamb heading to Mexico. Also screens 1/30
(1/30/31) OUT 1 (1971) dir. Jacques Rivette @HFA
Our age of relentless excavation finally digs up, cleans up, and talks up one of the most revered yet rarely seen films by the French New Wave’s least pigeonholeable director, whose obsessions with theater, personality, and group dynamics receive a deliriously playful 12hour workout here.
dir. Deniz Gamze Ergüven @ KENDALL
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Aries
The only problem with making a sticker featuring a picture of your own butt is that every time you get reprimanded at work for tardiness, you’ll have to quickly pull the butt sticker off your Otterbox and then the Otterbox will feel all sticky. Compatible with: Sagittarius Lucky show: Bernie Man fest @ Deep Thoughts
Scorpio
Whenever someone yells, “Don’t you have anything better to do?” at you, it’s important that you yell back, “No!” Compatible with: Cancer Lucky show: Pink Noise night @ Milky Way
When you were a little kid you weren’t supposed to wear clothing with your name on it because kidnappers would be able to feign knowing you and take you away. Now the main fear of wearing a shirt that reads, “Fat Alaina,” is the hippies in City Feed encouraging you to shed your ~self~. Compatible with: Taurus Lucky show: Dump Him @ Papercut
Gemini
Sagittarius
Taurus
God is dead and anything can be misconstrued as an eternal promise, so there’s nothing stopping you from hoverboarding to the bathroom and keeping your feet on the deck as you shit. Compatible with: Leo Lucky show: Duck That @ Franklin’s Tower
Cancer
Looking forward to Valentine’s Day, keep your significant other’s former lovers close and their aspiring lovers closer; that way you won’t have to pay for Thrinder. Compatible with: Libra Lucky show: Ursula @ Grandma’s House
Leo
You just used Shazam to discover something sad. Compatible with: Pisces Lucky show: Patchouli Mist @ Lily Pad
Virgo
Editor-in-Chief Sam Potrykus Creative Director Emma Leavitt Production Manager Reynaldo De La Fuente Managing Editors Emma Diamond, Margot Keil, Keeley Cormac, Michael Achille, Katie McCarthy, Dan Shea, Oscar Goff, Brian Connolly Designers Madeline Chmielinski, Benjamin Garbow, Aimee Harrison, Peter Kantsaev, Katie McCarthy, Dreanna Susser, Brian Connolly Event Compilers Anthony Genello, M Achille, D Roche Here Be the Shows Writers Michael Achille, Dan Roche, Jon Rizzo, Sarah Samways, Aaron Teixeira, Chelsea Ursin Film Flam Contributing Writers Ari Ratner, Elena Britos, Matthew Martens, Alex Schab, Pablo Torroella, D Shea Tardy Eagle Contributors Christine An, Sarah Cronin, Keira Horowitz, Nick Ortolani, Angela Sawyer Copy Editors D. Roche, Ben Potrykus Contributing Artists Justin Mulkern, Liz Bolduc, Vickie Smalls, Mike Kadomiya Distribution Coordinator James Moore
monster,” perhaps it is your time to champion a more subtle, thinking person’s edible, becoming a daikon DeMoN or tabouli BEAST. Compatible with: Aquarius Lucky show: Urochromes @ Deep Thoughts
When it comes to cringe-worthy fashion, it’s all about context; if you really can’t evade golfing with your auntie at her pro-segregation country club, the LEAST you can do is wear Crocs. Compatible with: Capricorn Lucky show: Laika’s Orbit @ Democracy Center
Libra
When every-other person claims to love pizza and is “such a pizza
Another night, another dream, but always shopping online, still chasing that Kipling rollybackpack with the small gorilla keychain that Alyssa Levine had in sixth grade. Compatible with: Gemini Lucky show: Anthony Naples @ Middlesex Capricorn The worst is when you get hit on by a cute new person at a fun show and they ask you for your instagram as a casual way of being able to contact you in the future but then their pictures just suck #shitfilters #whatisthat #shoes? Compatible with: Virgo Lucky show: Alan Licht @ Deep Thoughts
Aquarius
Becoming a truck driver is perfect if you have a fetish for scaring girls with a loud horn. Compatible with: Aries Lucky show: Sun Young @ ZuZu
Pisces
The real issue with your roommate blaring Dave Matthews Band’s third album and furiously hammering a xylophone at 2am is the ease with which you recognized that it’s Dave Matthews Band’s third album. Compatible with: Scorpio Lucky show: The Cavemen @ Black Lodge