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Thank you for picking up Compass #46! After three years of total dedication to covering and supporting local MUSIC alone, The Compass recently expanded into FILM and ART, and we want to express how much we value your continued readership and participation in this thing--you’re a part of something special! Even as our format expands, our connection to music remains strong and unique. The shows organized by Boston Hassle and all of our independent show-booking brethren in Boston are continuing a beautiful tradition, one that is focused on helping TOURING BANDS. It’s our way of unifying, commingling, and associating our city’s culture with others’ cultures, which has a positive effect on all communities involved. It’s also just super fun getting to know fellow freaks operating out of other cities in the world.
Local DIY bookers/collectives organize and promote thoughtfully-curated concerts every night of the week, bringing choice traveling bands to town and pairing them up with killer Boston/New England bands. This persistent practice introduces our awesome music/arts scene to these visiting artists who then act naturally as cultural ambassadors - promoting the notion that Boston is worth visiting, at home and at each stop along the way. Participating at any level (whether organizing or simply attending) helps keep our culture alive. Independent organizers are doing it largely at their own expense--hoping to provide a fun, positive and potentially inspirational experience for us all to take in. Boston is truly blessed to have such a hard-working independent infrastructure. Celebrate it! -Sam Potrykus
“The Foam Doesn’t Fall Far From The Shore” Available This Month Via Hot Releases! Arkm Foam, he of Whitehaus, Peace Loving, Bang Bros and many other crucial kookie projects, is one of the most diligent, inventive musical artists MASSACHUSETTS has ever produced. The mountain of tapes, CDrs and genius performance art/concert experiences he has delivered over the years have us more than ready for Foam’s first Long Playa. It is essentially a noise/jazz record made with tapes and toys but like everything he does it’s distinctively DEEP - you just have to dig below the topsoil. Get your hands dirty and trust your dome with Arkm Foam. Search Soundcloud for a snippet - SP
Electronic music fans! Need a reason to get off Soundcloud for the night? The folks at Fourthwall are throwing a book launch party for Boston hip hop legend Joe Mansfield’s BEAT BOX: A DRUM MACHINE OBSESSION on Saturday, November 2, 7-10pm @ Fourthwall Project in Fenway. The coffee table book features 214 photos of Mansfield’s personal collection by award winning photographer GARY LAND and includes interviews from drum machine pioneers. Not only can you buy the book before it hits stores, but there will be live screen printing by ANTI-DESIGNS and exclusive giveaways from GET ON DOWN. -SN
Essential Source: Mass Ave and Beyond On WZBC. Generally, New England rock, noise, psych, punk, folk and dance music are a rare find on the radio dial. WZBC’s Mass Ave and Beyond though, has been carrying the torch for years. For the last two years, DJ Chris Collins has been the one responsible for playing the deep and relevant local cuts every Friday from 5-7pm on 90.3FM. He also reads the Chosen Shows concert report and has local favs (most recently Designer and Fat Creeps) live on air. Make it part of your routine and get caught up on the archives at WZBC.org! -SP
Discover Thriving Poetry Culture At The Boston Poetry Slam! For nearly 10 years now SlamMaster Simone Beaubien has been the host of this crucial cultural pillar, taking place every Wednesday @Cantab Lounge in Central Square. It’s a wonderful night of free thinkers and wordsmiths spitting thoughts at each other--and you’re invited to get into the crossfire! New folks are always welcome and we hear that their open mic is the shit, so get there at 7 if you want to sign up. Then stay for local greats, cool features from around the country and the slam itself. 8pm 18+ $3 cover. Be thankful this exists! -SP
Know About NET WORKS, Presented by New Craft Artists in Action. This killer NCAA project aims to teach people to craft hand-made basketball nets for empty hoops in their neighborhood! You’ve got to see these things, beautifying and making every court they touch totally unique. Support this! Help them raise money to print a knit & crochet workbook that will continue the flow of good vibes this inspirational initiative has started. To see examples of just how cool this project is and learn more about how it works (plus find their Kickstarter page) molteninetworks.tumblr.com on THE INTERNET. Get inspired! -SP
Rad Film Lecture! Dorothy Aufiero has been on the back end of films like SESSION 9, GOOD WILL HUNTING, and THE FIGHTER. From being on production staff to actually producing a Hollywood Blockbuster, this woman knows what’s what when it comes to working the movies. On Wednesday 11/13 she’ll be sharing her expertise for FREE @ Fisher College in downtown Boston. If you’re dying to put those skills you got rigging video/sound systems in house-show basements to the test in the movie biz and don’t know how, this lecture is for you. Requires RSVP on EventBrite: http://bit.ly/1iiZCTx – AS
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BOsToN HASsLE FEST FIVE FRIDAY 11/8 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge - 55 Bishop Allen Dr.
SATURDAY 11/9 @ Cambridge Elks Lodge - 55 Bishop Allen Dr.
5:10 Nice Guys 5:30 Cottaging 5:50 Lame Drivers 6:10 Designer 6:30 Zebu! 6:50 Kal Marks 7:10 Obnox 7:35 Hunnie Bunnies
4:30 4:50 5:10 5:30 5:50 6:10 6:30 6:50 7:10
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7:55 Street Gnar 8:20 Ed Schrader’s Music Beat 8:40 Keith Fullerton Whitman 9:00 Doomsday Student 9:20 Japanther 9:50 The Beets 9:40 Neptune 10:20 Lightning Bolt
Cambridge, MA 4pm-11pm / $15-$20 sliding scale / ALL AGES FREE FOOD AT DOORS Free Pizza Psychic Blood Bezoar Bad Behavior 2 Ton Bug Aykroyd Johns Doug Tuttle Fat Creeps
7:30 Grizzler 7:50 Profligate 8:10 Ben Hersey 8:30 Spacin’ 8:50 Guerilla Toss 9:10 Speedy Ortiz 9:30 Nate Young 10:00 Black Dice 10:30 Prince Rama
Hassle Fest Continues... Friday 11/8 @ Cantab Lounge 738 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA. 11pm-2am / FREE w proof of attendance of earlier part of the fest or $5 otherwise / 21+
Hassle Fest Continues... Friday 11/9 @ Western Front - 343 Western Ave Cambridge, MA. 11pm-2am / FREE w proof of attendance of earlier part of the fest or $5 otherwise
11:10 Taps 11:30 Cloud Becomes Your Hand 11:50 Crosss 12:10 Krill
11:10 The Channels 12:10 Priests 12:30 PC Worship
12:30 Monsieurs 12:50 Mutwawa 1:10 NE Pats
www.bostonhasslefest.com
Cambridge, MA 4pm-11pm / $15-$20 sliding scale / ALL AGES FREE FOOD AT DOORS
12:50 Dan Friel 1:10 Skimask
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