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BRAIN Reminder: What We Do Here BRAIN Arts Org -- the non-profit entity that organizes Boston Hassle shows, the BH website, and this here paper, Boston Compass -- has a clearly defined mission: Foster an innovative, compelling, and interconnected music, art, and film community in the greater Boston area through grassroots and inclusive participatory culture. But we still get asked all the time what it is that we do. So what is it, really, that we are up to every Monday night? Well, Boston’s music and art communities have suffered due to the combined forces of rising rents, a lack of available real estate, a dearth of creative jobs, and a lack of state and city level support. BRAIN Art’s true goals revolve around figuring out solutions to these problems, and in the meantime creating as many opportunities for artists and musicians to exposure locally and around the world via the ever-growing reach of our media efforts. Shows and performances, dance nights, art / artisan markets, the Hassle website & the Compass newspaper: all have potential to grow. With our show booking concern alone we generated $22,000 last year to pay touring and local bands to do their thing, including our annual Hassle Fest and NEUMF.

We exist to be used by the creative people of Boston and New England as a medium to further the reach of their music, art, and ideas. No one in the organization gets paid for making any of the aforementioned happen; we are all volunteers acting with a love of the arts and a love of New England. It is an exciting time for us: we have an amazing new website (bostonhassle.com), great new web content, more shows than ever, and new projects afoot such as our burgeoning education initiative. We meet every Monday in Harvard Square @the Democracy Center if you ever want to stop by. BRAIN Arts Org is here to stay.

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The next installation of or our regular roaming BLACK MARKET flea market with Ignore Rock’n’Roll Heroes is heading to Cambridgeport (sandwiched b/t Lower Allston and Central Sq). Take a walk down Western Ave on Sunday 4/26 to the Cambridge Community Center (5 Callender St) for a bevy of budget friendly local finds - from astrology readings to zines, vintage to vinyl, and all things handmade. Get psyched on the new spacious spot and expect 75+ vendors, artists, record labels, small businesses and deadbeats to tempt you from their tables. Got something to sell? Sign up to be a vendor at BostonHassle. com/BlackMarketVendorForm right now and be there. - CEEK

New OLD WAVE, Good. Buy 5/3 You know people who say “I like all music except rap and country”? Well, those people suck. But I still want to welcoome them into the light whenever possible. And one worthy glow shines from right here in JP - OLD WAVE. This crew is by far the best band to aid the masterful songwriting of Pancho the Kid, and they’re dropping their first official Compact Disc on us next month, 5/3 @Deep Thoughts, in all its funky, country-rock songsmithery and Grateful Dead and Neil Young-channeling glory. A rare breed in this day and age indeed. Appreciate country. Appreciate Old Wave. Playing the Boston Hassle-booked Wake Up The Earth Fest afterparty @Spontaneous Celebrations on 5/2 too. - Sam Potrykus

DISCWOMAN X BOSTON Really good techno music is like really good science fiction, because it helps you to imagine possible futures and can strengthen a more human relationship with technology by overcoming the alienating effects of mechanization on our modern consciousness. DISCWOMAN is a NYC based platform showcasing and representing the wealth of female identified DJ talent in the electronic music community. They’re going to be in town on April 25th first doing a li’l panel at the Vibrary at the Democracy Center in Harvard Sq from 4-6 and then they’re bringing DJ UMFANG to Pink Noise at the Milky Way in JP. $7 9:00PM-1:00AM. Afterparty in a basement? Yes. www.DiscWoman.com XOXO DAYGLOW

If you’re a lady who likes to loiter when it’s dark out, or loiter just whenever you damn please, get the skills to take care of yourself out there! Take the trek out to Charlestown any Saturday from 10-11am to get trained in Krav Maga Yashir, an Israeli self-defense program, which teaches women to predict, prevent and protect themselves from oncoming violence. Don’t allow yourself to be physically overpowered due to something as trivial as size. These classes are FREE to all female MA residents and are located under the Tobin Bridge at the Charlestown Maritime Center. Empower yourself to be the guardian of your own safety. WomensSelfDefenseBoston.com - CEEK

A RIVER COURT RUNS THROUGH Last month I cruised north to Portland with my #1 QT to celebrate her 27th and lay out a contingency plan were she to be the next rockstarheartthrob inducted into a club of immortal contemporaries. At STRANGE MAINE I snagged a copy of RiVER COURT, a charming piece of print stylistically similar to MOTHERS NEWS with the sardonic introverted air of our own TARDY EAGLE page, including full page prints and my favorite: lists. One highlighted feature: “Objects Most Likely To Be Stared At This Year When Zoning Out As You Hear They Don’t Love You Anymore.” Hitting a total wall finding the folks involved with this mystery rag. If you can help, or wish to request a birthday date, text 508.410.8286 - Anthony Richards

TAKE THE HIGHWAY TO THE RANGER ZONE Most comedy hosts don’t actually act like hosts in the truest sense of the word. Thankfully, there is Aimee Rose Ranger! Her welcoming style + fan-fucking-tastic, imaginative storytelling + stand-up that immerses you into her world + wonderful variety of Boston’s best stand-ups + other dope storytellers and poets thrown in for measure = one of the best and most engaging nights that’s popped up in some time. You’re always in for a surprise: Rob Crean pretending to be a snowplow, Aimee Rose dismembering a teddy bear, whathaveyou. Also how could the Kenny Loggins reference in the show’s name just not completely win our hearts and minds? See ya there, every 1st and 3rd Sunday 4/5 and 4/19 @ZuZu 10pm Free - Katie McCarthy

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Every Wednesday night at 9:00PM (or sometimes 10), you can find me, Angela Sawyer, hosting an open mic at King’s Bowling Alley. All types of weirdness are encouraged, so you’ll see comedy, poetry, music, unmusic, strange rants, awkward fun and much more. Come to watch the parade of humanity while you eat tasty treats or have a cold one from the bar. And if you’re feeling a little brave, put your name in the bucket and get five minutes to empty your very own skull onto the stage. 50 Dalton St near Hynes T. - Angela Sawyer

Pull Focus on the Future of Film Flam: Seeking Website Managing Editor

The Film Flam has been a treasure to behold as I’ve sat at its helm for the last two years. Now I need YOU (a dedicated, motivated, and devoted cinema enthusiast or professional) to help steer us toward bigger and better things by running our corner of the website. Responsibiltiies include developing original content for the site, organizing online writers, maintaining the only comprehensive film calendar in the city, and working closely with me to infuse our local scene with energy. This management position can help bring YOUR cinematic dreams to life. Let’s make it happen! Send inquiries to BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com - Ari Shvartsman

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THE PAPER CIRCUS IS COMING TO TOWN! Since Day One of the Film Flam, we’ve dreamt of hosting our own screenings. Who wouldhave guessed that one would drop into our laps from heaven? Or rather, from Italy. Luca Dipierro is an illustrator and animator worth his weight in gold. Paper Circus is his collection of animated shorts featuring sorrowful puppets cut out from old book cloth and paper, ghosts, a woman giving birth to a fish, etc., etc. Dipierro teams up with fellow countryman, dear friends of the hassle, total sweethearts but also rather unnerving experimental noise band Father Murphy to perform a live soundtrack to the screening! @Out of the Blue Too Gallery on 4/21. - Ari Shvartsman

Our woman/manpower is maxed out, and we’re looking for a fresh face to help turn Art Blast online from a girl into a woman. Art Blast aims to make Boston art more visible and visited by the public with a focus on the FREE and educational, while serving as a platform for opportunities and resources for the local art community to reach a worldly audience. What does this editorial role require? Developing and managing featured art contet (daily events, past event coverage, videos, interviews, profiles, etc.). Managing and working with volunteer writers, copy editors and social media team weekly. Working with our growing A/V crew to create more original content (interviews, studio visits, demos, event coverage) and anything else you want to bring to the table. This is a great opportunity for someone with a genuine drive and interest in local and worldly art to gain experience as a Managing Editor for a website. Wanna know more? Reach out and touch somebody at CompassArtBlast@gmail.com. - CEEK

WEDNESDAY

12:30pm SMFA LECTURE: Four Visitors: Painting Jacqueline Humphries @Alfond Auditorium, MFA 4-9:45pm FREE ADMISSION @MFA // Every Wed

CHANNELING CREATIVITY: A PANEL DISCUSSION @Lesley University (Porter Square) 4/1, 7pm From March 30th through April 3rd, LESLEY UNIVERSITY is holding a weeklong exploration of all things creative. The CREATIVITY FORUM will feature speakers from varied disciplines in the arts and sciences. On Wednesday, April 1, join Cambridge artist Mags Harries (think the Glove Cycle at Porter Square Station); MacArthur Fellow and MIT biology professor Eric Lander; Tod Machover, composer and professor at MIT’s The Media Lab; and Dr. David H. Rose, developmental neuropsychologist from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, in a panel discussion on Channeling Creativity. Panel moderator will be Kara Miller, host of WGBH’s The Innovation Hub. www.Lesley.edu/The-Creativity-Forum -Alyson Lie

THURSDAY

4pm LECTURE: A Force for Good: The Dalai Lama's Call to Action @Lesley U (Porter Sq) 5-8pm RECEPTION: Illustration Student Exhibit @Suffolk University Gallery (Downtown) 3/29-4/9 5-9pm FREE ADMISSION @ICA Boston // Every Thurs 6-7:30pm ARTIST TALK: Glean @Fort Point Art Community Gallery Now-4/16 6-9pm RECEPTION: Andrew Hammerand: Futuretense @Aviary Gallery (JP) 4/2-5/3 7-9pm RECEPTION: The Diets: Øivin Horvei @Thomas Young Gallery (Southie) 4/2-5/16 7pm LECTURE: Talk with Dancer/Choreographer Twyla Tharp @Lesley U (Cambridge) 7pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Excavation & Exhibition @ New Art Center (Newton) 7-9pm RECEPTION: Hands on Deck @Gallery 263 (Cambridge) Now-4/3 7-10pm Art Is Life Itself @Haley House Bakery & Cafe (Roxbury) // Every Thurs

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11-3pm JP Rocks & Roll Flea Market @Spontaneous Celebrations (JP)

MONDAY

4:20pm Northeast Tree Exhibition @Mi Casa

WEDNESDAY

12:30pm LECTURE: Four Visitors: Moving Image Betzy Bromberg @SMFA

Opens: GONZALO FUENMAYOR: TROPICAL MYTHOLOGIES @MFA 4/18-9/13 FREE after 4pm every Wed SMFA grad GONZALO FUENMAYOR’s first solo exhibit prods the dichotomy of colonizer and colonized by playing with the division between manmade objects and the natural world. In his eerie pieces, signifiers of white culture - from crystal chandeliers to Disneyland to a mushroom cloud - are seamlessly woven into exuberant tropical landscapes. On closer inspection, the wild jungle is a banana plantation, itself a product of colonialism. The work points to the impossibility of a colonizer/colonized dichotomy because the colonizer has permeated everything, even the natural world. Fuenmayor’s work is dazzlingly beautiful, even as it makes your stomach churn. Don’t miss this one. www.SMFA.edu -Josie Grove

@FPAC Gallery (Fort Point) Opening Reception: 5/1, 6-9pm On View: 4/24-5/4 Fascinated by the aesthetic merit and/or presence of firearms in our culture while divorced from political didacticism? Then train your aim at THE GUN SHOW, where a collection of works from 13 sniper-like, New England photographers scope out the visual impact of guns, be they overtly or accidentally seen, in our society. The purpose of the show isn't to make a moral statement about guns, rather to showcase their visual, and often abstract, influence on our national psyché. It'll hit you like a (metaphorical) point blank, sawed-off shotgun to the mind. www.flashforwardfestival.com -Carmen Price

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1-3pm ARTIST TALKS: MFA Thesis Shows 2015 Exhibition I @MassART 4/22-5/4

WEDNESDAY

6-7pm GALLERY TALK: Herb Ritts @MFA // Free After 4pm Every Wed 7-9ppm FLASH FORWARD FEST; Blue Sky Days: Talk on Drone Photography @Central Bistro (Downtown)

Discussion: YOURS, MINE, OURS: A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

@BSA Space (Downtown) 4/29, 6-8:30pm Interested in knowing where the line between public space meets private? At the BSA Space, advocates and architects will come to discuss and answer questions for the inquiring public as Boston rapidly develops (especially along the Waterfront). Areas once thought to be purely public are realized as private, and questions like what does that mean to the the regular Bostonian will be answered. Come share your thoughts/concerns and walk away with a fleshed out concept of development in the city. www.BSASpace.com -Krystle Brown

FRIDAY

FLASH FORWARD FESTIVAL: THE GUN SHOW

TUESDAY

6-8pm FLASH FORWARD FEST: [Photo]logues: New England (Part 3) @Lafayette City Center Passageway (Downtown) 4/24-5/15

THURSDAY

5-8pm FLASH FORWARD FEST: Undergrad Photography Now (Part 3) @530 Harrison Ave (South End) 4/24-5/4 6-8pm RECEPTION: Metal and Fire @Nave Gallery (Somerville)

MONDAY

7-9pm FLASH FORWARD FEST: A Talk with Bill Brett @Emerson College (Downtown)

5:30-8pm RECEPTION: MFA Thesis Exhibition I @ MassART 4/22-5/4 6pm LECTURE: Sharon Dunn @MassART

TUESDAY

11am-4pm New Blue Makers Market @Out of the Blue Too Gallery (Central Sq) 4-5pm RECEPTION: Robert Gerard Pietrusko: Six Microphones @Carpenter Center (Harvard U) 4/8-4/19 4-5pm RECEPTION: ALBUM @Carpenter Center (Harvard U) 3/4-4/12 6-9pm RECEPTION: Below the Sky, Above the Clouds @Piano Craft Gallery Now-4/26

SATURDAY

8pm GAME @Mobius (Central Sq)

6-8pm RECEPTION: MFA Graphic Design Thesis Exhibit @BU 4/10-4/26 7-10pm RECEPTION: Vitruvian Things @Washington St Art Center (Somerville) 4/10-4/24

FRIDAY

11:30am ARTIST TALK: Lara Henderson @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 5:30-7:30pm RECEPTION: Just My Type @Suffolk U Gallery (Downtown) 4/12-4/23 6-8pm RECEPTION: The Birds and the Bees @Nave Gallery Annex (Somerville) 4/17-5/10 8pm GAME @Mobius (Central Sq)

5:30-7pm RECEPTION: Hakim Raquib @Haley House Bakery Cafe (Roxbury)

THURSDAY

11:30am ARTIST TALK: Charles Boyer @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 7pm REPORTS FROM AFIELD: Ed Osborn: Field Elevations @Mobius (Central Sq)

If you've got the time, you may want to drop in on this durational performance by Australianborn conceptual artist TONY SCHWENSEN. NOTE: a durational performance is just that— one that takes place in real time and where time is a major element of the piece. The theme of Subservience explores the myths generated around nationhood and how they are morphed, spun, and transformed across different populations and through time. One side’s victory is always another’s defeat. April 25, ANZAC Day, is the Australian and New Zealand equivalent of Memorial Day in the U.S. www.Mobius.com -Alyson Lie

6pm LECTURE: Timothy Hawkesworth & The Rigor of Wildness @MassART

5-8pm Body Double: Beverly Semmes & Carwash Collective @Samsøn Now-4/25 // SoWA First Friday 5-8pm Sweety’s Radio presents Jay Boogie @Samsøn // SoWA First Friday 6-9pm Sara Zielinski: This is JustTo Say @Find & Form 6-9pm Michael David @Laconia Gallery (South End) 4/2-5/10 // SoWA First Friday

WEDNESDAY

@Morse Auditorium (BU) Talk: 4/2 6:30pm

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@Mobius (Central Square) 4/25, 6am-4pm

12:30pm LECTURE: Four Visitors: Painting - Paul P @ SMFA 7:30-9:30pm ARTIST TALK: AniMAtic Boston @Arts at the Armory (Somerville)

LECTURE: Installation Artist/ Sculptor Janet Echelman

Ever wonder what it’d be like if aliens left massive, unfathomable Christmas lights all over our cities? Or, if you’re an adult, have you ever wondered what feats of imagination take place in the mind of one of the world’s foremost installation artists? Boston’s own JANET ECHELMAN weaves titanic, yet elegant, ethereal sculptures out of industrial netting that shift in color and seem more the product of humongous fluorescent spiders than mere mortal hands. Her works have been seen in cities and museums the world over, and her Boston debut is coming this spring to the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

Subservience: A durational performance by Tony Schwensen

SUNDAY

2pm TALK: Steven Nelson and Abigail DeVille @ Hutchins Center (Harvard)

kijidome Traditionally, the ICA’s biannual Foster Prize is awarded to a single artist, but this year curator Jenelle Porter shook things up a bit. Rather than focusing on the individual, Porter chose to recognize two artist collectives and two performance artists. As a result, this year’s prize has shed its competitive edge and has instead made room for a more collaborative, symbiotic and exploratory atmosphere. This is exactly the kind of context the members of kijidome — an experimental exhibition space in the South End and one of the 2015 recipients — like to work within. The project is run by four local artists: LUCY KIM, CARLOS JIMÉNEZ CAHUA, SEAN DOWNEY and SUSAN METRICAN (big points to you if you can figure out where the name “kijidome” comes from). “We started over a conversation about the need for more artist-driven initiatives in Boston,” says Downey, “and the sense that among the four of us we had ideas for shows and projects that we would like to see.” The founding of kijidome, admits Downey, was largely inspired by “a feeling of exhaustion and boredom with that ‘What does Boston need?’ dialogue that keeps coming up, but which always seems to assume some sort of top-down infrastructural solution” — a discouraging conversation we all know well. Rather than counting on rents miraculously being lowered or the appearance of new buildings dedicated to working artists, Kim, Jiménez, Metrican and Downey took matters into their own hands. Read the rest at BostonHassle.com/Art www.kijidome.com - Scout Hutchinson

FLASH FORWARD BOSTON In it’s 10th installation, FLASH FORWARD BOSTON puts New England and international, contemporary photography front and center for 10 days of talks, talent, and exhibitions throughout our fair city. Every day from 4/24-5/3 the festival will feature a range of events, from Fort Point to Fenway, showcasing and uniting local and international, undergrad and high school students, amateurs and professionals photographers alike. Check out our calendar to the left or online for the play-by-play. All this glory is brought to Boston via Canada by northern non-profit the MAGENTA FOUNDATION who work to connect the global photography community and create opportunities for said artists by way of rad events like this, ongoing programs and their publication, Magenta Magazine. Their Flash Forward Incubator Program works with high school photography students to educate and prepare them for the professional world, then show their work in a legit gallery (555 Gallery this year). Pret-tay cool. Get involved and help make it all happen at www. FlashForwardFestival.com/Volunteer. Comprised mostly of art students or art professionals, volunteering is a fun way to get to know some of your local and international art people while discovering new talent. www.FlashForwardFestival.com - CEEK

THURSDAY

11:30am ARTIST TALK: Dell Hamilton @Montserrat College of Art (Beverly, MA) 7pm The Artists Voice: Claudia Rankine @ICA (Fort Point) // Free after 5pm Every Thurs 7:30-10pm Beyond the Pattern - The Art in Fashion Show @Arts at the Armory

Experience theatre as you’ve never known it could be. Legendary Canadian director ROBERT LEPAGE tells cerebral stories with a seductive aesthetic that captivates through movement, music, dialogue, techNow-4/15 Adriana Varejao @ICA Boston // Free After nology and sheer wit. His show NEEDLES AND OPI 5 Every Thurs UM is @Emerson’s Cutler Majestic Theatre 4/9-4/12. Now-4/22 MUJERES: Poetic Revelations of Our Lives If you see any play this year, make it this. $25-89 www. ArtsEmerson.org @La Galería (South End) Now-4/25 Ric Haynes: Where Am I? @HallSpace (Dorchester) Now-5/10 When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination Probably best known for Under the Wave Off and the American South @ICA Boston Kanagawa (Great Wave), KATSUSHIKA HOKUSAI still stands as Japan’s most influential artist of all time hav (Fort Point) Now-5/10 Sonic Arboretum: Sculpture by Ian Schneller ing directly influenced Art Nouveau, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and countless individuals. From / Sound by Andrew Bird @ICA Boston 4/5-8/9, the MFA will have over 200 pieces from his Now-5/25 StereoType: New directions in typography impressive 70 year career. Remember, it’s Free after @BSA Space Now-5/29 Drapetomania @Hutchins Center (Harvard) 4pm every Wednesday. www.MFA.org

ONGOING LISTINGS

Now-6/9 [Flash Forward Fest] Guitar Heroes @Panop ticon Gallery (Kenmore Sq) 4/10-5/16 Flash Forward 10 @Gallery Kayafas (South End) 4/21-8/9 Meleko Mokgosi @ICA Boston (Fort Point) 4/21-8/9 The 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize @ ICA Boston 4/24-5/4 [Flash Forward Festival] The Gun Show @ FPAC Gallery (Fort Point) 4/26-5/5 Fine Arts Student Exhibit @Suffolk University Gallery (Downtown)

for more check out BostonHassle.com/Art

This month the Boston Public Libraries are cleaning house and selling the excess, which translates to a treasure trove of dirt cheap books, photos, postcards, dvds, cds, records and more at their regular BOOK SALES. The first one is over @the Central Branch (Copley Sq) on Saturday 4/4, 10am-4pm. If A/V materials are what you’re after, hit up the South Boston branch sale on 4/11, 10am-2pm. www.BPL.org -CEEK

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I remember the first time I heard “Bleed”—one of the tracks off of Meshuggah’s obZen LP. The first thing I wanted to do was take a rest, because listening to it was exhausting—I had to listen to it a couple of times to figure out how they managed to make it so complex and yet keep it from turning into a shapeless ball of noise. Second thing that I wanted to do was to ask, “What in the world was that? How did they come up with it?”

BASTARD SAPLING share little with Meshuggah either geographically or musically—they hail from Richmond, VA and play a brand of crusty black metal. Yet, the reaction that I had to the first track off of their LP INSTINCT IS FOREVER was almost exactly the same as the one I had to “Bleed.” Once it was over, I wanted to take take a breath and figure out what it was that just passed by my ears.

In a matter of seven minutes, “My Spine Will Be My Noose” jumps from an ambient intro to all-out blastbeat destruction to a melodic finale. To top it all off, there are also piercing screams from lead singer MIKE PAPARRO—who’s clearly channeling his inner Thomas Lindberg. If that’s not enough to make your head spin, there are eight more tracks ahead, and only a few of them manage to keep it under the fiveminute mark.

The palette of sounds gets even more diverse as the record moves along—there’s ambiance, traces of post-punk and post-rock, choirs, and clean singing to be found all over it, but what keeps it all together is melody surrounding all the dark grandeur.

You can pick up Instinct is Forever from GILEAD MEDIA. -Ilya Sitniko

After years of deranged live performances as well as several EPs and demos, TOXIC STATE RECORDS has finally unleashed the debut full-length by NYC goth-punk provocateurs ANASAZI. NASTY WITCH ROCK is both the title and the description, and the record proves that this group stands out in their increasingly crowded genre.

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BLACK MESSIAH RCA (2014) BLACK MESSIAH asks: why aren’t more artists mining the insanely rich sounds of soul and funk, and the opportunities for experimentation that they offer? For this reason alone D’ANGELO’s new album should be a cause for African-Americans (and people of all other ethnicities) to rejoice. But especially those American persons of African descent, for this music is as pure and loving a musical celebration of a musical lineage as there can be. Hopefully this album is a call to arms for a whole culture of music that has, in most meaningful ways, faded into the background. I can’t recall the last album that was so deeply steeped in the history of recent Black music and did such an amazing job of celebrating it. If you are familiar with Sly & the Family Stone, Al Green, Funkadelic, Prince, Outkast, and new jack swing, then all you have to do is listen and you will hear it all seeping from this album. Identifiable, yes, but part of the foggy and strangely filtered whole that D’Angelo has so artfully woven together as Black Messiah. I knew D’Angelo was an incredible singer and songwriter, but I am beyond pleasantly surprised to get in touch with the odd and intoxicating sounds that he has drawn together in the construction of this new, wild R&B quilt. Check out the deep bassy undulations of “1000 Deaths,” the grinding churn and grimy bass sounds, the distorted vocals. Industrial funk?! “Ain’t That Easy” boasts that easy swagger that D’Angelo is well known for. Bass bouncing, perfectly distorted. Multi-tracked vocals coming at you every which way, the gospel continuum in 2015, stunningly executed. QUESTLOVE and PINO PALLADINO must be saluted for whatever hand they had here in creating the copious wobbling rhythms of Black Messiah. Released by RCA. Fuck RCA. Long live D’Angelo. -Dan Shea

As always, visit www.BostonHassle.com for vids and streams of all the artists and albums profiled here! In 1873, moral authoritarian Anthony Comstock and his New York Society for the Suppression of Vice lobbied Congress to pass an Act for the “Suppression of Trade in, and Circulation of, Obscene Literature and Articles of Immoral Use.” Under the Comstock Law, mailing and in certain instances possessing “obscene” materials was illegal, including pornography, erotica, sex toys, sex education materials, and contraceptives. Many critics considered the law an invasion of privacy and a denial of civil liberties. They claimed the law would fail to discourage sexual deviance, which could not be legislated away. Moreover, they argued that conflating contraception and sex education with obscenity would only serve to exacerbate the social, economic and public health consequences of unwanted pregnancy. Decades later in the Lower East Side slums of New York City, nurse Margaret Sanger witnessed these consequences daily. Caring for poor women infected or mutilated from shoddy “back-alley” abortions, she dedicated herself to promoting contraception as a preventative measure. Sanger illegally distributed dozens of publications on sex education, coining the term birth control. In 1916 she founded an illegal birth control clinic in Brooklyn, continuing to operate it even after multiple arrests and jail sentences. In 1921 she founded a national advocacy organization, the American Birth Control League (ABCL). Its charter states: “We hold that children should be (1) conceived in love; (2) born of the mother’s conscious desire; (3) and only begotten under conditions which render possible the heritage of health. Therefore we hold that every woman must possess the power and freedom to prevent conception except when these conditions can be satisfied.” Meanwhile in Boston, obcenity censorship was rampant. With support from Mayor James Michael Curley, the prude and powerful Watch & Ward Society suppressed plays, novels, speeches and other communiqués deemed unsavory – “Banned in Boston” became a popular phrase and code for racy content. Sanger planned visits to Boston on several occasions but the Mayor forbade her to speak publicly, threatening her with prosecution. Sanger and a host of other controversial figures were invited to speak on April 16, 1929 at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum, a lecture series initiated by political dissidents in 1908 to promote open dialogue on social issues. Cleverly appropriating her Boston speaking ban, she took the stage with a gag over her mouth as press flashbulbs strobed about the forum. Harvard Professor Arthur Schlesinger stood beside and recited her prepared statement, which read in part, “The authorities of Boston may gag me, they do not want you to hear the truth about birth control. But they cannot gag the truth.” The ABCL continued its advocacy, earning doctors the right to prescribe contraceptives in 1938, and the following year forming the Birth Control Federation of America, now known as Planned Parenthood. Sanger witnessed in 1965 the legalization of birth control in the U.S., a year before her death at the age of 86. Although this and subsequent rulings overturned much of Comstock Law, some amended provisions remain on the books to this day including a $250,000 fine for mailing unsolicited information on abortions. This Month in Boston Counter-Cultural History • Neil Horsky • horskyprojects.com

While many contemporary dark-punk bands blend their hardcore influences with that ever-popular Mancunian Factory Records gloom or the equally British Batcave sound, there's something delightfully, wickedly American in Anasazi’s take on the style. There’s a twang to some of the guitars which brings to mind the lunacy of The Cramps or The Gun Club. The California of the 1980s which gave us Christian Death and TSOL also factors in, and there’s more than a little bit of the high-tension swampy degeneracy of The Birthday Party (who were Australians living in the UK but drawing from American Southern Gothic sound and imagery). Thankfully, even while wearing these influences proudly, Anasazi manage to keep their sound modern by embracing a raw, blown-out production style and injecting their songs with a violent, cacophonous looseness. The end result captures the spirit of their live shows far better than any of their previous output. There are enough little changes to the formula to keep things interesting (the female vocals on “Morbid Native” are a nice touch), and the packaging, which includes a poster and lyric booklet, is a gorgeously screened work of art unto itself. One of the boldest statements of our young year. -John Bittrich

M. DWINELL GOLDEN RATIO AMISH RECORDS (2015)

M. DWINELL’s GOLDEN RATIO is a curious thing. On this LP, Dwinell plays an electric organ using “a natural tuning system generated from the harmonic series,” which will only make sense to music theory geeks. But as I understand it, this partly means that the organ is tuned according to principles from a time when European musicians had different ideas about octaves and intervals than we do now. The difference is subtle to modern ears, but the harmonies on Golden Ratio have a buoyancy and candy-like sweetness of calm intensity. The compositional style is more contemporary than the tuning, using long arpeggiated passages that seem to freeze time even as they infinitely kaleidoscope before you, spaced between tracks of expansive drones. The whimsical tone of the organ helps give the album a slightly quirky sound, which lends to the virtual sense of being transported through minimalistic and softly psychedelic soundscapes of gyrating carnivalesque wonder and rainbow-colored clouds. Go order a copy from the most excellent Amish Records. It comes with a free art book! -Damon Hastings

GAS CHAMBER

STAINED HAND 7” SPHC (2015)) SPHC has continued to step up their game, releasing some of the finest records in the various realms of punk and hardcore so far in 2015 (Terveet Kadet lp, nu-kle-ar blast suntan lp, The Coltranes 7”, and especially the Exacerbacion 7”). GAS CHAMBER’s newest 7”, STAINED HAND, is certainly no exception and destined to be on many year end lists, once again showing why they are one of the best active bands working not just in powerviolence but in hardcore, in general. Following up last year’s Hemorrhaging Light lp on Iron Lung Records, Stained Hand further develops the Buffalo quartet’s particular mix of powerviolence, noise, and ambient passages creating increasingly complex and dynamic songs that push forward a seemingly stagnant subgenre. The a-side “Always Coming Home” demonstrates this approach perfectly opening with a dreamy instrumental passage that grows into a powerviolence with a d-beat and blistering vocals. This is hardcore to get excited about. If you were lucky enough to catch Gas Chamber’s tour with the legendary Terveet Kadet, you may already own this record, but for the rest of us the next SPHC update cannot come soon enough. -Chris Defalco

DARK SUNNY LAND

S/T ONE HAND RECORDS (2015) STEVE PAINTER’s music is not a casual experience, and your sonic travels through his third DARK SUNNY LAND LP (his second on ONE HAND RECORDS) offer no reprieve. Primarily a vehicle for the Boston artist’s experimental, abstract guitar-based compositions, this self-titled work—four compositions over two sides in a beautiful, alien-gothic package—uses a variety of simple masking techniques (tremolo, delay, volume swells, etc.,) to turn an everyday instrument like a guitar into an exceptionally expressive sound-making tool capable of covering a much bigger canvas than usual. In a game of background and foreground interplay, Side A conjures a twilight walk into the jungle—with foreboding, overlapping hums, each presenting their own varying color and temperature. As you slip your boots into the murky stream, you wonder: were you poisoned or were you drugged? Seductive chirps and glassy hovering tones offer glimpses of ambiguous melody, although it seems that Painter is more concerned with scripting a wordless radio drama with a Foley-artist’s touch (the album credits note the use of “household objects”) than sticking a line in your head. Side B’s “Mind Out of Time” (note the Dylan play) finds the various layers of buzzing, humming, sub-octave bellowing, and faint trumpeting creating a canopy of dissonant, shifting chords. The shadow of drumbeats echoes in the distance as bones chatter and birds call. The final shift into the uplifting, gentle rays of “Kangaroo Daydream” suggests that there was really nothing to fear after all. You always had all the tools you needed. -Jonathan Donaldson

**TIME FOR SPRING CLEANING — IT'S PURE IMPACT!** Spring is here and Damaged City Fest and New York’s Alright are just around the corner, featuring spatterings of Boston Punk and Hardcore bands (Leather Daddy, Contingent, 2x4, Sadist, Aspects Of War, No Tolerance) playing with some of the best current (and reunited) International and National Punk and Hardcore bands (The Mob, Government Warning, Career Suicide, Heratys, United Mutation, Warhead, Part1, Isterismo, Kromosom/etc). With all these fests means lots of touring so be sure to check listings of upcoming local gigs not to be missed! Aspects of War and Kromosom will be embarking on some East Coast gigs together bringing along handmade Kromosom lapel pins from Boston’s own: ckmetalsmith (ckmetalsmith.org). Human Bodies will be spreading their blend of Black Metal/Punk along selected dates later this month. Sadist will have their ep release gig at the Middle East opening for UK Peace Punk legends The Mob. Meatbag is finishing up recording for a forthcoming flexi co-released with Total Fucker Records. The much anticipated BLACK MARKET will be returning at the end of the month. There’s alot going on this month! Purge! Purge! Purge! Guest Tattooer this month at Sad Clown City: Ishmel instagram:@call_me_ishmel e-mail: SadClownCity@gmail.com for appointments Live Gigs: 4/4 Sete Star Sept(tokyo)/Lotus Fucker/Sadist/Clean at AS220// Distort PVD 4/4 Arms Race(uk)/Violent Reaction(uk)/No Tolerance/Chain Rank/Anarchy Boys at Hardcore Stadium 4/6 The Mob(uk)/Perspex Flesh(uk)/Blazing Eye/Sadist/Stranger at Middle East Upstairs 4/8 The Achtungs(fin)/Suicidas(spa)/White Pages/Sunshine Ward/Funerla Cone at O’brien’s 4/11 Kromosom/Aspects Of War/Sunshine Ward/Video Filth/ Meatbag at Hardcore Stadium 4/14 Party Plates/Moron/Oblivionation/Conmen at Hardcore Stadium 4/15 Vaaska/Ajax/Green Beret & more at The Boiler Room 4/16 Waste Management/Fury/Big Contest/Clear/Unified Right at Hardcore Stadium 4/21 Raw Distractions(japan)/Aspects Of War/Who Killed Spikey Jacket?/Video Filth at Hardcore Stadium 4/26 The Partisans (UK Punk legends) at Hardcore Stadium

DJ Nights: 4/7 is the return of DJ Mcmahon’s new monthly Punk/80s/New Wave/Post Punk night at Ramrod 10pm-2pm/No Cover/Free Pool and a dance floor! (so lace up your pogo boots!) 4/14 Punk’s Dead Long Live Punk! every Tuesday at Ramrod! 10pm/No Cover/Free Pool! Guest DJs! RAMROD 1254 Boylston st. Boston (Got an idea for a night? Want to guest DJ? Get in touch: SuffocatingMadness@gmail.com) 4/21 RAW DISTRACTIONS AFTER-PARTY at Ramrod No Cover/ Free Pool/For Punks! 4/28 Boston Hassle’s own Dan Shea will be joining us in the Ramrod basement as guest DJ this week at Punk’s Dead Long Live Punk 4/26 POGO AND WORK the LAST SUNDAY of EVERY Month at ZUZU in Cambridge/No Cover

2: Debo Band, Atlas Soul, Federator #1, Kina Zore, Lamine Toure & Group Salon @Middle East downstairs 8pm 18+ $18  Pioneer Valley Zinefest @Flywheel Arts Collective, Easthampton 10am All Ages  Inter Arma, Yautja, Forn, The Proselyte, @TT The Bears 6pm 18+ $12  Protomartyr, The Gotobeds, Cottaging, and Way Out @AS220 9PM All Ages $7  Lentils, Grape Room, Sam Gas Can, Ben Katzman’s Shredfest (one man, one axe, all shred), Jim Leonard @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $Donate  Fannem co-op, Hot Date, Jaques Le Coque, Granny Frost, Ryan Kayhart @Firehouse Worcester 9pm All Ages $Donate  Violent Party Vol. 72: Kromosom, Aspects of War, Sunshine Ward, Video Filth, Meatbag @Cambridge Elks Lodge 6pm All Ages $10  Boston Hassle Presents Kevin Micka + Eli Keszler Duo, Beech Creeps (NY, members of Knyfe Hyts, Ex Models) Anybody But The Cops (Kalamazoo, MI) and New Pope (mems of Oneida) @Industry Lab 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale Liz Hall, Ian Barton and Owen Linders and the lo-fi uncouth verbal patterns of Isabella Koen. Plus more! @Arts at the Armory 7PM $ome Cost

the Countertops, Mark Gilday Jr., Jon Bach, Paul Coppola @ Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5  Rad Castle: Moon Tower, 28 Degrees Taurus, and Web of Sunsets @ZuZu 10PM 21+ Free

Tuesday 4/21 Raw Distraction (Japan), Who Killed Spikey Jacket?, Aspects of War, Video Filth @Cambridge Elks Lodge 21+ All Ages $10  Boston Hassle Presents PAPER CIRCUS film featuring live score by FATHER MURPHY @Out Of The Blue Too begins with Italian DJs and ends with Q&A with the director 9:30pm-12a All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

Wednesday 4/22 Jake & the Infernal Machine, Evan Greer, Greg McKillop, Ghost Guest @Firehouse Worcester 8pm all ages $Donate  Speedy Ortiz, Mitski and Krill @The Sinclair 8pm 18+ $13 adv $15 dos  Open Loop and Boston Hassle present: SCANNERS w/ Phork & Xerome, DJ Won’t, LSDV @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $Donate

18+ $12  Zauberhexe, Boys (OH, members of Mixtapes + Lipstick Homicide), notches, + LOVER’S SPEED (IA) @Brickhouse (Dover, NH) 7pm 21+ $ome Cost  Boston Hassle presents… Pile (tour homecoming), Guerilla Toss, Lair and Pucker Up @Boylston Church 8pm All Ages $10  llegally Blind Presents: An Intimate Evening With Anthony Fantano(The Needle Drop) featuring Abadabad, Boogie Boy Metal Mouth,IAN @Middle East (up) 18+ 8 PM Doors $10 Adv/$12 Dos

 JAM SANDWICH: Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura (UK - 7 piece, four guitar guru golden shit ragas), Sunshine (formerly CGS, now with Ethan Long on the keys), Mind Benders (Jerry!!! members of Guerilla Toss, Zebu, Cave Bears, Forgotten Jam) @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $Donate$  ADVANCED ABSTRACT SOUNDS: NonEvent presents... Benjamin Nelson (Yo Benny!) and Anne-F. Jacques + LAN @Washington Street Art Center 7:30 All Ages $10 Sugg Donation  UK HC OK W/ U? FU: Violent Reaction (UK), Arm’s Race (UK), No Tolerance, Chain Rank, Anarchy Boys @ Hardcore Stadium 6pm All Ages $10  BICOASTAL HC: Nomadic One Booking presents Opposition Rising, Ancient Filth, All Torn Up (NYC), Slow Children (CA) and Crystal Methodist @Midway Cafe 4pm All Ages FREE but DONATE  SOLID TUDE: California X (W Mass), Summer Saints, Blessed States (W Mass), Laika’s Orbit,, Lady Pilot @O’Briens 7pm 21+ $10  VARIED INDIE STUFF:Eye Design Presents: Magic Island, Ivory Wax, Creature from Dell Pond @Firebrand Saints 18+ $5

Tuesday 4/14 Lesser Knowns, Dinoczar, Salem Wolves, Tyler and the Names @Sally O’Brien’s (Union Sq.) 9PM $5  NonEvent: ZACKERY BELANGER @Café Fixe 8PM $5

Wednesday 4/15 Trespasser, Rye Pines, Blood Knife, The Rococo Bang @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $7  RTT Presents: Big Kill, Weak Teeth, New Strange, Choke Up @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm 18+ $8  Weedeater, King Parrot, Summoner Hepatagua @T.T.’s Place in Cambridge, MA 8:30pm 21+ $16/18

Thursday 4/16 As cosmic serendipity would have it, PARK SLUG (winner of the 2014 “Coolest Promoter Tag” award) tonight will bring together some of our dopest, bummed-out, altcountry shoegazers, namely: Gracie, Bummed and Strange Mangers to play alongside Burlington VT’s Paper Castles @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8

Thursday 4/30 You like art. You like electronic james. You are gonna love tonight’s edgy show @OUT OF THE BLUE TOO GALLERY where Detroit’s chopped-blues auteurs Turn To Crime are probably just gonna pour their filthy grime-rock all over an already sick electroart lineup featuring World Cup, Huff Daddy and Maine psychobomb Video Nasties. A propos given this joint used to be a Blockbusters. All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale, and brought to you by yours truly,

The other Hassle gig tonight also features NOLA players as well as pillars of the forward-thinking electronic pop scene around here. Muddy Wires takes an experimental approach to everything in his life so when he builds a little robot to hang on the back of the guitar and manipulate such an outdated thing as “strumming”, we are not surprised. And tonight this interesting entity is celebrating an album release by having the majorly modularly synthy Dinnersss collaborating with Skinny Bones, O.Jelly and Fake Sick (New Orleans) all up in @ Out Of The Blue Too to gently challenge you with sweet, strange music. How nice. 8pm All Ages $8

Thursday 4/23 Portsmouth NH stands like a lighthouse for all estranged sailors between Boston and Portland who wanna rock out on a weeknight. Come see some of their finest altfolk, loud AND soft, tonight with Tiger Saw, Lichen, Trapper and

Saturday 4/4 I know it’s spring and all, gang but 8 cool shows in one night? Unheard of for a town of our’s size. Maybe it’s the community’s way of telling us to cut down on the yappy here be the shows preamble? You know what? We’re just gonna have to expand. The damn Hassle is responsible for two this night, both featuring freaks from New Orleans: Can’t Stand Ya! Records co-presents one hell of a Hassle Night with the gnarliest monsters of the in-your-face garage rock (the only kind) underworld. Our very own deephook havin’ antagonasties The Monsieurs, their legendary NOLA counterparts Buck Biloxi and the Fucks who bring with them the aptly named Heavy Lids and the downright dogged White Pages plus special appearances by bonafried characters Andy California and Giorgio Murderer. You have shit on your face @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 

Wednesday 4/29 Fat White Family @TT The Bear’s 8pm

Friday 4/3 Diarrhea Planet, Left & Right @Great Scott 10pm 21+ $14  FAST APPLE Presents… Nice Guys, Zebu!, Ursula @Grandma’s House 8pm all ages $Donate  Earth Girls (Chicago), building 7, The Millers, Laika’s Orbit @Hollywood Hotel (Hadley) 8pm all ages $Donate  Springfest 2015 with Sports Coach, The Symptoms, Anne Malin, Rawhunny, Colored In @JP Bus Depot 8PM All Ages $ome cost  Rebuilder, Choke Up, Bundles, Sun Dog, DJ Mateo Williams @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8  The Real Kids, The Monsieurs, Stop Calling Me Frank, Classic Ruins @Midway Cafe 8:30pm 21+ $10/$12

Sunday 4/12 SALES, Laney Jones, Couples Counseling @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12  Miniboone, Bunny’s a Swine, Fax Holiday, The Furniture @O’Briens 8pm 18+ $8  Girls Rock Campaign Boston Presents: Ladies Rock Showcase @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm 18+ $15  Boston Hassle and Illegally Blind present… PROTOMARTYR (Detroit), Bad Boys (members of Fleabite and Disipline) and The GOTOBEDS (Pittsburgh), Phantom Rides @ Club Bohemia

Thursday 4/2 Bedroom Eyes, Carton, New Legs, Pleasure Gap @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 21+ $5 Sugg. Donation  intheshit, grizzlor, barren womb, iron gag @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8

 POP QUIZ TIME! Which member of GToss cut his weird teeth in this classic VT band??? What’s round on the sides and high in the middle? O-High -O! Cincinnati stadium-rockers New Strange join RI’s metalloid emo-core-sters Weak Teeth on tour. Last night were @MidEast, but tonight they join Portsmouth NH’s metalsmiths Youth Funeral and Dead Generals @Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 21+ $5

quintet of heavy ‘verbing vibes with Wand (whose animated vid for Flying Golem is a trip you simply must take), NoLa’s fan boatin’ Babes, the dark swell of Black Beach, and Idiot Genes @Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  AMPHIBIOUS FEELS “The Frogs,”Donna Parker,Rob Noyes,Life Partners @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $7

Sunday 4/12 I’s the b’y that builds the boat and I’s the b’y that sails her. But Eye Design presents Bunny’s a Swine with their awkward, folksy banter.

Breathless we arrive in the month of showers, co-manning the moniker of maybe a girl you kissed or your mom’s high school lockermate who was at your christening and has been dignified with an ersatz “Auntie” which you are bound to abide by to this very day in this very April. Celebrate the cotton anniversary of trendy digs with an upscale feel set in the confines of JP’s resident stand-in for Stawberries with the man with the face, Son of Salami, Skimask, the elusive Taxidermists and CA’s The Blues @Deep Thoughts 9pm All Ages $Donate  Illegally Blind presents a Wednesday 4/1

Sunday 4/5 Tonight we’ve a pair shows abroad from which to choose. Firstly, oggle the incredibly diverse arborscape en route to and within bounds of Mass’s western chunk for the latest offering from Gut Freak’s series of no-shit punk shows. LA’s Blazing Eye & local scuzz punks Depths of Reality tear it up with the ubiquitous Urochromes on the maiden voyage of the great green north’s Evil Eye @Das Pencil Factory, Hadley 8pm All Ages $Donate  If you’re not all bark & leaves, the Ocean State’s central ciudad has got your number. WEED (BC) slogs that Pacific Northwest sound our way with resident True Punx Funeral Cone, the chill-temp Mother Tongue and Wokling whose demo is down to lay a patch on the lawn of any church or institution @Spark City PVD 9:30pm All Ages $5-8

The only gig tonight (in this humble show-blurber’s opinion) is VIOLENT PARTY VOL. 71: The Mob, Monday 4/6

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GNARLY, NOISE, BEATS, HEAVY: L. Lewis, Lamb Skin, Sponge Bath, RRLEW, with DJ Top Pelican @Aurora (Providence) 9pm 21+ $ome Cost

Bottlecaps, Costanza @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $8  Every Kim Parcell, Trophy Knife, Birthing Hips, Brittany Karlson @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5  The Shaves @Weirdo Records 8PM All Ages $5 4/8

Dinnersss/Skinny Bones collab, O.Jelly, Fake Sick (New Orleans), Muddy Wires (album release) @ Out of the Blue Too

4/4

Doug Tuttle, Rob Robinson and the Connecticut River Band (W Mass), Jesus Jim (Brooklyn) and Nightime Sunshine @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

4/9

4/11

Thursday 4/9 It’s BYOB (that’s bring your own ‘burger’ folks) night in Allston as FAST APPLE hosts Nashville psyche-duo Ttotals by luring them into their Lair, with Soft Eyes, for a little of the ol’ Mambo Dorito (mem. of...yeah, you get it) @Boogie Down Blodge 8pm all ages $ome Cost  Last year Doug Tuttle (ex. MMOSS) knocked it out of the park with his first solo release. Tonight you can groove to new tunes from one of our finest astral beings before he projects over to Eindhoven. Joining in the ceremony will be Doug Tuttle, Rob Robinson and the Connecticut River Band (W Mass), Jesus Jim (Brooklyn) and Nightime Sunshine @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale  As Built Presents… Rosie & the Rosies, Dark Rodeo @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8  Carinae, Care, Death Savings Flag, Old Pam @Brickhouse, Turners Falls 8pm all ages $5-10  Salty Speakers presents… Bunnys A Swine, Rick Rude, Paper Castles (VT), Miniboone @ Red Door (Portsmouth, NH) 8pm 21+ $5 Sugg. Donation Friday 4/10 The Soft Moon & Noveller @ Great Scott 10pm 21+ $10  Illegally Blind presents… The New Highway Hymnal (LP Release Show), Vundabar, The Televibes, Mini Dresses @The Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  The Sonics, Barrence Whitfield and the Savages, Muck and the Mires @ Brighton Music Hall 6pm 18+ $25  The Accident That Led Me To The World, Avi Jacob Band, Matt Fox @Firehouse Worcester 8pm All Ages $Donate  PVRPLE @Goodlife w/Metro Boomin (ATL), Texas Mike, Knife, Amadeezy + Leah V and Bianca Oblivion upstairs 9pm 21+ $10  Eye Design Presents: Doug Wartman, Sand Reckoner, Ghosts Of Sailors At Sea 8pm 21+ $8

Illegally Blind present… PROTOMARTYR (Detroit), Bad Boys (members of Fleabite and Disipline) and The GOTOBEDS (Pittsburgh), Phantom Rides @Club Bohemia

4/12

PAPER CIRCUS film featuring live score by FATHER MURPHY @Out Of The Blue Too begins with Italian DJs and ends with Q and A with the director 9:30pm-12a All Ages $5-10 Suggested Donation

4/21

Open Loop and Boston Hassle present: Scanners @Deep Thoughts with PHORK & XEROME, plus DJ Won’t & visuals by LSDV / 9pm / $5-10 donation

4/22

EARTH DAY Hassle Booking 2! Bands for WSFR EARTH Day show on Boston common

4/22

(NY), Big Mess @O’Briens  Fast Apple: N.E. Patriots, The Channels, Ursula @ ZuZu 10pm FREE

Monday 4/13 Odonis Odonis (TO), Ice Balloons

Miniboone uncovers rock of art and Fax Holiday, raw candor. We’re pretty sure The Furniture left perennials in the planter. Lo siento & easy sailing, folks. @O’Brien’s 8pm 18+ $12  Lots of laypersons are literally begging to pay retail but no no, no thanks, there’s always a deal to be had. I feel safe in my regard to let rubes and rusties be told, SALES are to be had, imported from Florida with poppy loopy folk vibes available at no additional cost, not to mention la-la-la-Laney Jones’s blue-eyed soul and Couples Counseling’s digital sigh @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $12  Fuck you, fuck me, fuck everybody, this stacked smattering of postpunk nearly slipped past my desk. Boston Hassle & Illegally Blind present the northeastern-most plot point of Protomartyr (Detroit) and The Gotobeds (PGH) spring fling. Joining them will be Phantom Rides and the non-Aerosmith bad boys of Boston with members of Fleabite and Disipline: Bad Boys @Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $10  GIRLS ROCK Campaign Boston Presents: Ladies Rock Showcase @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm 18+ $15

Kevin Micka + Eli Keszler Duo, Beech Creeps (NY, members of Knyfe Hyts, Ex Models) Anybody But The Cops (Kalamazoo, MI) and New Pope (mems of Oneida) @Industry Lab 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

 Kal Marks, Yeesh, Lady Bones, Twin Foxes @Charlie’s Kitchen 9PM 21+ $5  Extremely Casual 7 w/Friday 4/17 If you ever

BOW Shows & BUFU Records presents… Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, Howardian (Ian from japanther), All People, Malportado Kids and Jim Leonard @The Womb 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

4/24

Presented by Boston Hassle & Illegally Blind: Miami Doritos, Greasy Hearts (NY), Dinoczar and Future Spa @Club Bohemia 8pm 21+ $7

4/25

(New England) Patriots, Multicult (Baltimore) and Albert Demuth @Industry Lab 8-11pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

4/25

Space Lady, Duck That, Keytar Bear, Absolute Paradise @ Midway Cafe $8, Doors at 9:00 PM, 21+Adv tickets: midwaycafe.com

4/26

Sunday 4/19 Illegally Blind Presents… Peach Kelli Pop, Fleabite, Littlefoot, Feral Jenny, Bong Wish @TT the Bears 12pm 18+ $10 NOON TIME SHOW  Thalia Zedek Band, Magic Shoppe and Black Helicopter @TT The Bears 8:30pm 18+ $9  FAST APPLE Presents… Naan Violence, Colby Nathan, Kal Marx (solo) @A spot dude 8pm All Ages $Donate

Saturday 4/18 Disturbing The Peace & Armageddon Shop Present: Kreig, Panzer Bastard, Lunglust and Wormwood @Middle East (Up) 1pm ALL AGES $8 Adv/ $10 Dos  Break the Chains and Boston Dyke March Present: Queer Prom! @Make Shift Boston All Ages 6PM $10 - 20  Terry Riley’s 80th Birthday with Terry Riley, Eviyan, Gamelan Galak Tika, Sarah Cahill, & and the world premiere of all-live Poppy Nogood and the Phantom Band @ MIT Kresge Auditorium 7PM

 PSYCHELECTRIC DREAM: Nightime Sunshine, Ancient Ocean, Herbcraft, Invisible Circle @Deep Thoughts 9PM All Ages $Donate  PREPARE TO DIE: Anicon, Grue, Morgirion, Noose @Dusk (Providence) 9PM 21+ $8  HAPPY TO BE ALIVE: Jason Anderson & Friends Folk Music Showcase @ Democracy Center 7pm $ome Cost

or somethin’.  Meanwhile, for everyone broke-like-us-an-all, KLYAM presents you with a pretty sweet alternative. Allston punk proletariats Nice Guys, sick protopunk revivalists Jacques Le Coque (CT), riotous G-rockers Black Beach and dangerous street urchins Ursula keep you steppin’ an’ shovin’ @Cantab Lounge 21+ $8 Hey! Watch the elbows Jack!

needed an excuse to zip out West and visit @MASS MOCA (a veritable State Treasure) THIS IS IT! Take the day off (you been needin’ a day off right?) and go see awesome art installations all day instead of customers, or your cube-wall, whatever. Then finish off with the wonderfully weird and famous strains of Neutral Milk Hotel with the Dot Wiggin Band 8pm All Ages $36 adv. Oops. Damn if it didn’t sell out already! Oh well, maybe you can beg a “miracle”

Open Loop present MYRIAD w/ Wax and Gold (members of Debo band) LIVE plus DJ everydayisamixtape and resident DJ WONT @Good Life 9pm 21+ $5

Monday 4/20 Major Stars, E, Life Partners @ Charlies Kitchen 9pm 18+ $5  Jake McKelvie &

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World Cup, Turn to Crime (Detroit), Video Nasties (Maine) and Huffdaddy @Out Of The Blue Too 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sugg. Donation

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Monday 4/27

21+ $8

B-H.  ...Unless you dig hip-hop and live up North, that is. Portsmouth NH’s fave chill spot hosts all-local turntable-rockas Ape the Grim, Def Rock, Granite State and Seth on Gray Street @Red Door 21+ $5 Suggested Donations  NEUNTIES REVIVAL: Rough Francis, Varsity Drag, Darker Hues @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10

 HEAVY DRINKING MUSIC: Jeff Rowe, Broken Spirit, Old Wild Eyes, Everybody the Terrible @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $7

Hybrid Noise, Those Alone, Tall Boys @Midway Cafe 8pm American Echoes, Crushed Out @ZuZu 9PM 21+ Free

Sunday 4/26 The Hassle Presents… The Space Lady, Keytar Bear, Absolute Paradise, and Duck That @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ $8 N.E. VegFest @DCU Center Worcester 11am All Ages FREE

Saturday 4/25 Boston Hassle presents…(New England) Patriots, Multicult (Baltimore), Albert Demuth (Providence) @Industry Lab 8pm All Ages $5-10  Boston Hassle and Illegally Blind present… Greasy Hearts (NY), Miami Doritos, Future Spa and Dinoczar 8pm 21+ $7  Rotating Strawberry Madonna, Sleep Crimes, Gnards, Tatami @Starlite, Southbridge 9pm All Ages $donate  Allston Pudding presents… Bent Shapes, Ava Luna, Pale Hound, Radical Dads @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $10  NonEvent: G*PARK + MATT KREFTING @SMFA 8PM $15  Grayskull Booking: Today is the Day, LAZER/WULF, Livver, Empty Vessels, Meth Valley @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7PM All Ages $10  Crazy & the Brains. pity whores, black cheers, alex stern, whoopi stick @Midway Cafe 4pm $10  EX HEX, KUROMA, LITTLEFOOT @The Parlour (Providence) 9pm 21+ $12

Friday 4/24 Illegally Blind Presents: The Barbazons (formerly The Fagettes) (“Avec Plaisir” LP Release Show), Doug Tuttle, Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, Atlantic Thrills @The Middle East Upstairs 8pm 18+ $10  BOW Shows & BUFU Records presents… Ben Katzman’s DeGreaser, Howardian (Ian from japanther), All People, Malportado Kids and Jim Leonard @The Womb 8pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

Blake Joseph Seale Jr. (mem. of New Legs/Alcoa) @Red Door 21+ $5 Sugg. Donation  You.Yes you who goes to shows, wants to rock-out and get weird on the dancefloor but nobody else is, so you nod your head instead. Pay attention. We feel ya. Hell, we BEEN ya, which is why Boston Hassle and Open Loop now present MYRIAD w/ Wax and Gold (mem. of Debo Band) plus DJ everydayisamixtape and resident DJ WONT @Good Life 9pm 21+ $5 Mix with the vampire dance fiends my friend. They won’t bite...unless you ask.

PILE (tour homecoming), Guerilla Toss, LAIR and Pucker Up! @Boylston Church 8pm All Ages $10

Tuesday 4/28 forzaMorte presents… Hellgoat, Vimur (ATL), Martyrvore, Impatient Thief @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8

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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HASSLE NIGHT Can’t Stand Ya Records presents… The Monsieurs, Buck Biloxi & The Fucks, HEavy Lids and White Pages. Featuring special appearances by Giorgio Murderer and Andy California @ The Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-10 Sliding Scale

plan on pitching up in JP to find your slump-day succor, a haunting contemporary elixir: bruised Death Waltz ’76 all shaked and muddled and dumped and flare-bartended into a Fur Purse with a twist of Night Slice, served deep dish Chicago style by Sam Vicari. I drink from it myself and yet do not die. @Midway Café 8pm 21+ $5  NonEvent: ROBERT AIKI AUBREY LOWE + GREG DAVIS @ Waterworks Museum 7PM $15  Good Life Vinyl Social 0 Swap, sell, spin & socialize w/ guest DJs Bugs and Rats 8pm 18+ FREE

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Sabes quien soy? Europunks swing stateside with Spain’s Suicidas serving up Barcelonian bangers, thrash bastards Sunshine Ward, White Pages, and the keyed up Funeral Cone po-go for it, and to Finnish it all off is the lofi buzz of The Atchungs @O’Brien’s 8pm 21+ $8  Post-punk poster children: Wednesday

Tuesday 4/7 Sun Lions, Bellwire, Jake McKelvie & the Countertops, The Knock-ups @Club Bohemia $7  WZBC Spring Concert ft. Ricky Eat Acid, Skinny Bones, and Little Spoon 9PM 18+ $10-12  Katie McShane presents First You’sDay!!! Featuring Every Kim Parcell, Trophy Knife, Birthing Hips, and Karl @ Midway Cafe 8PM 21+ $5  Mediterranean Music Institute presents Entre 20 Aguas, a Tribute to Paco de Lucía @Berklee Performance Center 8PM All Ages $12  The Offseason, Yo Ticonderoga,

legendary UK anarcho-peace punks are in town with Perspex Flesh (UKHC on tour from Leeds, England) joined by Blazing Eye (intense dark punk from California), freak-punks SADIST (EP release gig) and Stranger @Middle East 8pm All Ages or 18+, not entirely clear at time of writing this. $12 adv $15 dos  Right round the corner is a much more palatable gathering of sound pushers curated by the reliably tight RAD CASTLE night. Chill out with Emerald Comets, Insect Factory, Public Speaking deep in the dark, cozy corners of @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free  WORTH A TRIP TO WORMTOWN: Screaming Females, Mitski, Big Mess, GNäRDS @Firehouse (Worcester) 8pm All Ages $8

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The Gas Presents Nick Ortolani FRI. 4/3 AT 7:30PM

Great Scott • 1222 Commonwealth Ave., Allston $5 • 18+ • greatscott.com

Nick is what we in the biz call a beast. He’s impossible to ignore on stage: his act is energetic, brainy, and goofy, with comic timing and writing on the goddamn point. Watch a pretty standard petty complant about a messy roommate transform into a geniusly absurd character monologue. He is also an occasional contributor to and frequent emotional supporter of The Tardy Eag so he is our friend. He will be supported by his budz Ian Von Steffen, Rich Karski, Jake McDowell, and Katie McCarthy. Do you like goofs? Cuz that’s a lineup of goofs.

PERSPECTIVES by KEIRA HOROWITZ and CRONOS (TIMELORD) You need advice? Ask Keira & Cronos: tardyeagle@tardyeagle.com or anonymously at tardyeagle.tumblr.com/ask

It feels like everyone in my life is moving on to being a real adult. I’m still eating cookies for dinner and searching for change under the couch to buy cigarettes. When is it time to grow up? Will I get left behind? KEIRA: Watch St. Elmo’s Fire. Who do you feel like? Is it Rob Lowe? Is it Emilio Estevez? (I am Mare Winningham. Who’s surprised? No one.) Real talk: the answers to your questions are 1-probably soon and 2-maybe. But in Boston, there’s always a new group of kids in September to feel older than/stay young with (if comparing yourself to other people is your thing). More real talk: lots of adults eat cookies for dinner and search for change under the couch. Don’t let them fool you. CRONOS (TIMELORD): According to definitions formulated in the layman’s psyche, it is not possible to be “left behind” by time. I am here to tell you that this is wrong. You can and will be left behind by Time dozens of times per minute. Time jumps forward and backward at its own discretion. The cookie you ate for dinner is the same cookie you ate in shame when your smaller body was lost at the entrance to the July 2, 1992 at the Walmart in Springfield, Ontario. The change under the couch passed through your hand exactly 95 years, 58 days, and 22 minutes ago when your body was Gerald. Try moving on to a new book or something.

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For the last time, Julie: KITCHEN’S. CLOSED. - Mom

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TUE. 4/14. AT 8PM

East Meets West • 934 Mass. Ave., Cambridge FREE

Kwasi Mensah is an extremely funny man with a cerebral and silly style. At this monthly show, he invites some of his comedian friends plus (that’s why the ++ part of the title get it? cool gr8) anyway plus a person with some other talent—the past pluspluses have included poets, musicians, and storytellers. Go!

Eugene Mirman comedy festival FRI. 4/17 through SUN. 4/19 eugenemirmancomedyfestival.com

Look, we’re not going to judge you if you don’t go—we’ll just feel really sad for you? Aside from the stellar lineup (Bill Nye, The Daily Show’s Jessica Williams, Wyatt Cenac, and more), past EMCFs have included baby goats, an eye contact booth, and a bouncy castle with a therapist inside. This year, Boston’s own Ken Reid will do a live taping of his podcast TV Guidance Counselor with Eugene. Yeah so it’s your life, we guess?

Women in comedy festival

WED. 4/22 through SUN. 4/26 womenincomedyfestival.com

Usually at any given type of comedy show, there are about 5000 men performing and 1 woman whose gender is always highlighted in some suuuuper boring way. The WICF started 7 years ago to swap those numbers around. At this year’s WICF, headliners include LILY TOMLIN(!!!) Jane Lynch, and Aparna Nancherla. The fest features over 100 other comics from Boston and the rest of the world showing off their standup, sketch, improv, and new this year, short films. Catch some workshops too!

What happens when we die? KEIRA: Probably nothing. But I like to think that it would feel like being on a really good vacation. The kind where I wouldn’t think about email or worry if I have enough money to order dessert. I would wear a maxi dress with a straw hat. And I wouldn’t look like an idiot tourist. Maybe I have a moped. I think I just made heaven sound like someone’s Pinterest account, but it feels good so I’m going with it. CRONOS (TIMELORD): I’m actually going to tell you the real truth because I think you deserve to know. The passage from life to death is more gradual than most people think. The first phase deals with sleep travel and thought displacement experimentation. You begin to leave your body as you sleep, at first traveling to temporal then non-temporal locations. When you wake up, you don’t remember, but you start to feel the connection between your physical and astral bodies unbinding. You may or may not have a guide with no face. The moment you die, the face fills in and becomes your face but not your face. This face now instructs you in the second phase of death, self transmutation and multiple reality experimentation. During this phase you may become other creatures, sometimes simultaneously in different physical areas of the world. Depending on your level, you may be restricted to only this planet, although you may request additional access points. The third phase of death, which is the current limit of our knowledge, deals with advanced molecular infusion travel. During this phase you may choose to experience air, water, flame, soil, or inanimate matter (as we often see the later suffused with stored energies). There are many more complexities and additional capabilities associated with each of these three phases, but in the interest of space, I will keep this answer basic and to the point. 

A Letter to My Parents by GREGOR SPAMSA

Dear Mom and Dad, As you have probably figured out by now, I have been kidnapped. I understand it might take a while to pay the ransom due to family financial circumstances. I totally forgive you. In the meantime, please send the following items via post: MY CROSSWORD PUZZLE BOOK: You can find it under my pillow. This is just something to occupy my mind. It has a list of all of my crushes since the 5th grade in the back, and I’d like to keep track of them while I’m here. No peeking! MY PILLOW: I have a bruise on my cheek from sleeping on a brick for several days and need something softer. You know where to find this. Just in case you forgot, it’s in the closet, on the topmost shelf, hidden under a pile of winter coats, inside a slim briefcase, right on top of the crossword puzzle book. It’s the closet in the basement. LIGHT-BLUE CARDIGAN: I don’t remember where I left this but it’s my favorite out of all the other blue cardigans I own. This one is missing the third button and has a stain in the inner left sleeve in the area slightly above where the elbow should be. On second thought, I probably left it at school. Check there first.

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BREAD & BUTTER

Bread and Butters are sensitive but indecisive. Real horndogs, but lack the panache to seal the deal.

POLISH Strong and reserved— but volatile and unpredictable—Polishes are as equally comfortable heading up a PTA meeting as they are eating a comicallyoversized sandwich.

GHERKIN

Gherkins are old souls: wise investors and sloppy eaters! A Gherkin will look into your eyes and you’ll feel your soul getting all soapy. Don’t cross a Gherk though for they never forget a betrayal—or a PIN number!

CORNICHON

Cornichons are small in stature, but mighty in wisdom. Good listeners who enjoy card games and salad greens, a cornichon is the President of Keeping It Real and the Ambassador of Gas Stations. Please a cornichorn—and you may just find yourself pleased.

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Kosher Dills are natural born leaders: inspirational to behold and dangerous to cross. A loyal friend or a bitter enemy, a Kosher Dill is as wise as Solomon and as strong as Shaq. K-Dills don’t take guff, wooden nickels—or poor excuses.  MY HARDBOUND COPY OF MOBYDICK, THE LARGE PRINT EDITION: It’s kind of heavy though and I understand that postage can be expensive. So, please just carefully cut out and send only my favorite parts: Chapter 1, Chapter 34, Epilogue, pages 253, 302-478, all of the illustrations, the foreword and the dust jacket. Do not photocopy because it kills trees. When I get back home, I plan on re-taping all the pages back into the book or buying a new one if it gets too tiring. PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS: Any kind of toothbrush. Any kind of toothpaste. A generic hair comb. The largest bottle of hand sanitizer you can find that will fit into a pocket. Most importantly, a box of tampons (you know which ones to get, Mom). Anyways, soon. HOME MEMORABILIA: Preferably just one photo with everyone in it to reduce clutter. Alright, I really appreciate it, Mom and Dad. Hope to see you soon! Love, Carly ACROSS 2. No 7. No no no no no 11. No DOWN 1. No no no 3. No 4. No 5. No 6. No 7. Nah 8. No 9. No 10. Nope 11. No

1 WANDA (1971) dir. Barbara

FEATURED FILM SERIES

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FILM SERIES ARTICLE (TOP): FEATURED FILM SERIES MUPPET MADNESS 4/17 - 4/20, @BRATTLE WWW.BRATTLEFILM.ORG Stretching back into the 1970’s, the legacy and influence of the Muppets and Jim Henson cannot be overstated. From delivering groundbreaking, 4th-wall-smashing, and absurdist humor to breathing life—not to mention heart and soul—into a bunch of fabric contraptions, the Jim Henson Company was on the forefront of both comedy and special effects for years. Though the Company and the Muppets soldiered on following the tragic death of founder Jim Henson, the projects that had his personal touch possessed a certain aura about them that nothing afterward could emulate. Thankfully, Muppet fans old and

new have the Brattle. Once again, the theatre plays host to its annual Muppet Madness series over Patriots’ Day weekend. Screening classic Muppet films along with decidedly different, non-Muppet works like The Dark Crystal and Labyrinth, the series kicks off with a special, sing-along screening of The Muppet Movie. - Alex Schab

THE 31ST ANNUAL BOSTON LGBT FILM FESTIVAL 4/2 - 4/12, @VARIOUS WWW.BOSTONLGBTFILMFEST.NET

the Brattle, the ICA and the Paramount Center will serve up a dizzying array of films from which to fashion your own fest; check out the website and queer an itinerary together. - Matthew Martens

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NEW DIRECTIONS IN CHINESE ANIMATION 4/24, 7:00PM, @ICA WWW.ICABOSTON.ORG If you're into independent animation and curious about what kinds of strange and unique moving images people are cooking up on the other side of the globe, put down your shovel –- the new Boston-based film initiative Crows & Sparrows is

here to make things a lot easier for you. Crows & Sparrows, whose focus is East and Southeast Asian cinema, presents a screening in collaboration with Balagan Films of new works by young Chinese artists that represent the breadth of innovative creative ideas and techniques observable in contemporary animated film. The works draw inspiration from both the personal and the political, utilizing methods of collage, stopmotion, ink drawings, computer algorithms, and more. This is the second collaborative screening between Balagan and Crows & Sparrows, following last months “Recycled Cinema” program at the Brattle. Two of the filmmakers, Lei Lei and Chai Mi, will be present for Q&A. - Stefan Grabowski

THE FILMS OF CHARLES B. PIERCE FRIDAYS & SATURDAYS, 11:59PM, @ COOLIDGE WWW.COOLIDGE.ORG 4/10 & 4/11 - The Town That Dreaded Sundown

Jim Henson @BRATTLE

Putzin’ around lately? Ever won- With his usual eye grabbing Gelflings, Mystics, and Skeksis, der, “Will I write, direct, and star flourish, Burton directs this sto- oh my! A young hero quests for in my own (and only) film, as, for ry about a man (Billy Crudup) a missing crystal shard to set his example, Barbara Loden has trying to reconnect with his sick- planet right. Equal parts childone?” While you’re at it, get a ly father (Albert Finney) before dren's fantasy and nightmareload of Wanda, complete with he dies by listening to the latter fuel, this tale of prophecy and bender-bent protagonista dub- spin incredible narratives about magic in a mythical world is one bing over your every private his past. creepy trip. Also screens 4/19. quandary of change, authority, 15 DARK STAR (1975) dir. John 19 LABYRINTH (1986) dir. Jim and sacrifice. Carpenter @HFA Henson @BRATTLE ROLLING THUNDER (1977) dir. Low-budget sci-fi comedy about Be careful what you wish for, John Flynn @HFA a team of bored astronauts bat- because it may lead to being William Devane and a surreally young Tommy Lee Jones star in this harsh, revenge-fueled tale. A disturbed Vietnam vet is out for justice after his homelife is cruelly destroyed and all he’s left with is a prosthetic claw. Watch out.

tling a neurotic timebomb and a sentient, evil beach ball. Carpenter’s feature debut; if the beach ball scenes seem familiar, screenwriter Dan O’Bannon recycled some themes for his script to Alien! dir. Jim Henson @BRATTLE

‘90s Amerindie legend Hartley returns -- in cahoots with his longstanding roster of off-beat actors -- to close out the celebrated Henry Fool trilogy, in which terror, religion, murder and other national pastimes meet one of the more curious strains of deadpan in our or any cinema. Screens through 4/16.

The Muppets hit the road in this classic travel movie, bags loaded with the same surreal humor, cameos, and musical numbers that made the show a hit. Kermit leaves the swamp for Hollywood, making friends and jokes along the way. Sing-along! Also screens 4/20.

THE HOURGLASS SANITORIUM (1973) dir. Wojciech Jerzy Has @HFA

trapped in a sprawling maze brimming with puzzles, traps, and monsters. Featuring David Bowie as the magnificent Goblin King in the tightest pair of pants known to man.

21 PAPER CIRCUS (2010 - 2015)

ley @BRATTLE

dir. Luca Dipierro @OOTBT

We’re overjoyed to bring you Luca Dipierro and his carnivalesque, cut-out animations of death, comedy, sorrow, and magic! Join us for a collection of the animator’s shorts with a live soundtrack performed by the director and Italian experimental musician Father Murphy. Director in-person! Boston Hassle Presents!

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA 27 CLUB SANDWICH (2013) dir. TURTLES (1990) dir. Steve BarFernando Eimbke @HFA ron @BRATTLE A slight, piquant reverie about a

This kaleidoscopic confection is less an adaptation than a fantasia upon certain aspects of Bruno Schulz’s seminal cycle of Kafkaesque nightmares and curiosities, and arguably the apotheosis of Has’ mid-career propensity for the imagistic uncanny.

Cowabunga, dude! Relive childhood nostalgia by catching up with four genetically modified vigilantes and their rodent master as they battle the evil bladeencrusted Shredder and his Foot Clan. It just might make you forget the remake from last year. Also screens 3/21.

THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976) dir. Charles B. Pierce @COOLIDGE

RINCESS OF FRANCE (2014) DIR. JACQUES TOURNER

Before Zodiac, there was this low-budget true-crime oddity about a still-unsolved string of murders by a masked weirdo. The documentary narration and Dukes of Hazzard-style humor make it all the more jarring when the graphic murders begin. Practice your trombone! Also screens 4/11. Coolidge @ fter Midnite.

11 THE NOOSE (1958) dir.

Wojciech Jerzy Has @HFA

PSYCHOTRONIC MOVIES IN OUR ZONE

Noose, loop, or lasso--whatever your translation, this booze bag’s in the thick of it. A blistering example of Polish proto-new wave ardor, with shadows, sharp angles, and mirror play that’ll leave you three frames to the wind and barking at the gloom.

mother and her on-the-cusp-ofmanhood boy-child, from a Mexican master of the slow-moving mumblescape whose earlier efforts, Duck Season and Lake Tahoe, were equally subtle investigations of adolescencia.

4/20 @COOLIDGE Natural badass Robert Mitchum is at his best as a private dick in this seminal film noir from the 1940s. ROAR (1981) DIR. NOEL MARSHALL

12 DIE GSTETTENSAGA: THE

4/17 & 4/18 - The Evictors 4/24 & 4/25 - Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues

RISE OF ECHSENFRIEDL (1992) dir. Johannes Grenzfurthner @BU

An American independent filmmaking legend is getting his due here in Boston as 3 of Charles B. Pierce's numerous low budget oddities get the Coolidge midnite movie treatment in April. Pierce made independent exploitation films as well as outcast anti-hero fare throughout the 70s and beyond. He also worked as set decorator for other indies like Coffy and Black Belt Jones. The legacy of Pierce is that of what once was the American filmmaking dream: driven director, a bunch of gathered friends as cast and crew, a quality low budget film is made, and AIP picks it and gets it into every drive-in from Weirs Beach to Mel's in Los Angeles. Pierce's directorial debut, The Legend of Boggy Creek (1972), made 25 million dollars!! And that's early 70s dollars! Sadly that terrific film is not screening as part of this series. With that success in his back pocket though, Pierce went on to make a slew of other films aimed at that big outdoor screen. The best among these has to be The Town That Dreaded Sundown (1976), an early slasher film based upon the real life, never apprehended Phantom Killer of Texarkana, TX who more or less set into motion the "lover's lane murder scenario". Weird movie. Seldom screened for sure.

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10 NED RIFLE (2015) dir. Hal Hart- 17 THE MUPPET MOVIE (1978)

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Boston’s premier gay film festival has come a long way since it was launched back in 1984 at the old Nickelodeon theatre by George Mansour, an area film programmer whose interests ranged from art-cinema to porn. Finding appropriate content required broad-minded catholicity then -- films might feature gay actors, say, or queer subtexts, or some variety of vaguely defined “gay appeal.” Today’s festival has expanded as dramatically as the community it celebrates has flourished, and programmers face an embarrassment of riches. So, happily, do you. Over eleven days, the MFA,

13 BIG FISH (2003) dir. Tim Bur- 18 THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982) dir.

Long after the final superpowers in the world (China & Google) have destroyed each other, the future is grim. The Austrian arttechnology-philosophy collective Monochrom presents the story of a journalist and technician through an absurd dystopia in search of its last hope. FREE! Presented by the The Center for Gender, Sexuality, and Activism at BU. STATIONS OF THE CROSS (2014) dir. Dietrich Brüggemann @COOLIDGE The worst among them is probably Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues (1985). The director was apparently very hesitant to make this film... but he did anyway. He later described it as his worst movie, a description buoyed by the film's use as fodder for an episode of MST3K. Catch a screening and delight your degenerate self with the Arkansas-bred underground cinema of Charles B. Pierce! - Dan Shea

Brüggemann fashions a modern hagiography out of fourteen radiant, mostly fixed-point tableaux conveying the tribulations of fourteen-year-old Maria, whose faith and fundamentalist Catholic upbringing inspire a harrowing ultimate sacrifice. Goethe-Institut presents!

4/24 @COOLIDGE This cautionary tale about raising wild animals proved its point... with over 70 documented maulings of its cast and crew! Also screens 4/25. Coolidge @fter Midnite. LISTINGS NOTE Below is the venue abbreviation key: Brattle Theatre - BRATTLE Coolidge Corner Theatre - COOLIDGE Harvard Film Archive - HFA Kendall Square Cinema - KENDALL MassArt Film Society - MASSART Museum of Fine Arts - MFA Somerville Theatre - SOMERVILLE

Please see our sister website BostonHassle.com/Film for our full listings w/ showtimes and other info. FILM FLAM SEEKS VOLUNTEERS!!! If you would like to get involved with our film section or submit listings, shoot us an email at BostonHassleFilm@gmail.com

NEW RELEASES (NOW) WOMAN IN GOLD (2015) dir. Simon Curtis @COOLIDGE (NOW) KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER (2015) dir. Nathan Zellner @KENDALL (4/3) WHILE WE’RE YOUNG (2014) dir. Noah Baumbach @ COOLIDGE (4/3) MAGICIAN: THE ASTONISHING LIFE & WORK OF ORSON WELLES (2014) dir. Chuck Workman @KENDALL (4/10) KILL ME THREE TIMES (2014) dir. Kriv Stenders @ KENDALL (4/17) THE MAFIA KILLS ONLY IN SUMMER (2013) dir. Pierfrancesco “Pif” Diliberto @KENDALL

Out of the Blue Too Art Gallery & More 541 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge MA, 02139 Itâ€™s time to get out and hang. Even the sun is hanging out these days. Get out and hang with the sun, on your way down Mass Ave to Central Square, at Out Of The Blue Too. Since launching their new location in the fall of 2014 the OOTBT crew has been jumping through an unbelievable amount of hoops to establish a legitimate venue for art events of all kinds. So far, they are doing great things to keep us busy, with a wide breadth of daily and nightly activities for our music, art and film communities. You can see rad art; procure various hand-made artifacts from the crucial to the peripheral; participate in open mics, board games, and other regular gatherings; go to a dope show at the hands of grassroots promoters and organizers, featuring artists and musicians who represent the real, hard-working and forward-thinking scene. You can take in a film screening and rub elbows with relevant, local, national and international freaks. You see because OOTBT is doing what any good community space should: providing an accessible place for artists and appreciators to run a darn muck (a safe, welcoming muck) with their various cross-medium projects and push their creative boundaries further than conventional venues allow! What a mouthful. To sum it all up, especially if any of this is causing your eyebrow to raise, just allow me to answer any and all question you might have with one answer: Yes, you could hang here.

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Editor-in-Chief: Sam Potrykus | Managing Editors: Ipek Cav, Caitlin Kenney, Katie McCarthy, Dan Shea, Ari Shvartsman | Here Be the Shows Writers: James Moore, Zach Peckham, Sam Potrykus, Anthony Richards | Film Flam Contributing Writers: Rebecca DeLucia, Oscar Goff, Matthew Martens, Alex Schab, Pablo Torroella | Event Compilers: Michael Achille, Kevin Butwill, Dan Roche, Anthony Richards, Caitlin Kenney, Sam Potrykus, Ari Shvartsman | Copy Editors: Jonathan Donaldson, Nausicaa Renner, Dan Roche, Drake Sherman | Creative Director: Ipek Cav | Design Team: Allison Bako, Jeff Bartell, Sophie Chou, Anya Kanevskaya, Peter Kazantsev, Katie McCarthy, Ellie Steever | Contributing Artists: Jill Pelentay, Patrick Tierney | Production Manager: Jay Mobley | Support Coordinators: Ashley Carroll, Mario Epstein | Distribution Coordinator: James Moore