TOO LEGIT TO QUIT: goals beyond making the city a less boring mess, The Boston Hassle Arts Organization has officially we diligently worked together to make good things achieved 501(c)(3) non-profit status! happen in the face of resistance from all sides. Over October can be a tough month. Autumn in New time, the lack of infrastructure for independent England is a beautiful thing, but the chill in the air is artists here went from disturbingly obvious to the harbinger of a harsh Northeastern winter that downright infuriating and our mission began to lies in wait. While it ushers in a season that can get reveal itself. some of us down, THIS October bears news that We began reaching out for help and were picks us right up, strengthening our ability to foster surprised and delighted to find others who are as a self-sustaining music and arts scene. We’re proud stubbornly optimistic and devoted to culture as and excited to include the following in the Compass we are. It’s been a long and winding grind and we for the very first time…wait for it, wait for it: wouldn’t be as far down this wonderful rabbit hole Boston Hassle Arts Organization is an entirely without these fellow volunteers. With each new ally, volunteer-run 501(c)(3) non-profit organization we are individually reinvigorated and collectively comprised of three major ongoing projects: the strengthened in our mission to make New England Boston Hassle website/webzine, the Boston Hassle a more sustainable and fun place to be an artist. As show curation effort, and the Boston Compass a non-profit, our opportunity to make a difference newspaper. Its initial goal is to open up a legal, all- here will be even greater as we move forward. inclusive, all-ages performance space in the Boston Productive artists, free-thinkers, motivated area. independent minds: we know there are more of you We’ve been certified, y’all. VICTORY! out there! Volunteer your time to helping others, or This organization started with two friends who just do your thang and let an org know. That’s what shared a mutual passion for quality, often freakish, we are here for—to further the work of the artists independent music and a belief in the power of around us. Believe it. Join us as we fight for the arts! grassroots cultural activism. Without any specific - Sam Potrykus and Dan Shea The Boston Compass is produced by the Boston Hassle Email us at ThatBostonCompass@gmail.com Visit us online at BostonHassle.com
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BOSTON HASSLE BRIEF......................................PAGE 3 Jib Kidder, Palberta, Dan’l Boone, Julia Holter, Viet Cong & more!
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THE TARDY EAGLE..............................................PAGE 6 Get sPoOoKy, a free mask, costume ideas, info on where 2 laff, & more!
FILM FLAM............................................................PAGE 7 A talking chimp, terrors new & old, & great films from around the world
COMICS.................................................................PAGE 8 A skateboard rolls in to a bar and orders a chicken-on-a-stick...
Boston Zine Fest and MA Comic Expo This Month!
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Hey you. Yeah you. What are you doing? You’re reading this rag, duh. Nice job. You know, the ONLY way this here wordy dishcloth gets birthed, along with the countless off-the-chain HASSLE events covered herein, is through the steadfast and pure intentioned hard work of people just like you. A thankless job? Barely. We have fun. We stay up late. We hang out and write and scheme and connive together and little by little all this crazy shit gets did. You want in on the madness? Then you’re invited to the Hassle’s New Volunteer Orientation: Tuesday, 10/21 at 7pm @TBD. Questions? Just go to BostonHassle.com/Volunteer and we’ll see ya soon! - Zach Peckham
Owen Maercks - Teenage Sex Therapist LP In 1978, if you were into out sounds, it was because you had a semi-lousy personality. Maercks had one, so he met everybody else who was the same. He tried out for Human Sexual Response & the Girls in Boston, played in MX80 briefly, made a record with Eugene Chadbourne. But mostly he was friends with fellow guitar abuser Henry Kaiser. Kaiser invited Maercks to visit California & record some too-smart, too-angry Roxy Music/Talking Heads pop originals. Maercks threw in Television-style protopunk as a bonus. Issued by Feeding Tube in Western Mass. Get it at Weirdo. - Angela Sawyer
You May Be Boston’s Next Big Film Star, Do Somethin’ About It! Are you the next Jodorowsky or Sion Sono? I think you might be! If you’ve finished a film (be it a short or feature length project), give it a shot! There are plenty of festivals coming up and they could screen YOUR work. Many of these festivals happen in March – which is closer than you might think. The submission dates are even closer. So take a chance and think about submitting to the BOSTON STUDENT FILM FESTIVAL or, if you’re feeling lucky, give it a whirl with the infamous BOSTON UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL (regular submission starts 10/6)! - Ariel Shvartsman
Winter is coming weather you like it or not. Time stock up on some zines! Cross the river if ya wanna see what independent publishing is all about at TWO free festivals over TWO weekends! On 10/4 & 10/5 it’s the 5th annual MASSACHUSETTS INDEPENDENT COMIC EXPO (M.I.C.E.) over @Lesley’s University Hall in Porter Sq with 150 creators, workshops, panel discussions & more at MICExpo.org. Then the 2014 BOSTON ZINE FEST takes Somerville by storm with thoughtful workshops, readings, panels and zinesters aplenty @Washington Street Art Center on 10/11 and then @Aeronaut Brewing Company on 10/12. More about BZF on page 2 and BostonZineFest.tumblr.com - CEEK
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Starting in spring 2015, construction of the new JP skatepark will commence with the help of FANCY LAD SKATEBOARDS, the DCR and Converse. The DCR will be matching an already sizeable donation from Converse to revamp this sick spot for skating and chilling. Thanks to Doug Moore and his company Colonial Technologies, the park is currently skateable and will be accessible to the public until the renovation begins. Go forth and shred. Be sure to keep tabs on the Fancy Lad crew, they’re out there breakin’ bones and creating zones for our lucky domes. - FancyLadSkateCo.blogspot.com - Natalie Roosa
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The Boston Hassle DIY show booking contingent holds a fest every year - HASSLE FEST. It’s our biggest and most wild event every year and we always do it at an alternative, ALL-AGES space. This year is no exception. See? BODY/HEAD (Bill Nace/Kim Gordon from W Mass), Downtown Boys (Prov), NO JOY (Montreal), Debo Band (JP), Bill Orcutt (Harry Pussy), Nautical Almanac (Bmore), PILE, Bugs And Rats, Guerilla Toss, and so many more @Cuisine En Locale in sunny Somerville 11/7+8. And the ONLY way to get advance tickets (securing your spot and thus, your place in Boston DIY history) is to donate to our IndieGoGo fundraising platform on the internet. So find that shit and get on it! - Sam Potrykus
Pop-A-Shop At The NEW *Monthly* Black Market Oct. 26! Cleaning out your house and got cool crap to clear OR are you already running your own show via Etsy, Big Cartel, Storenvy, whatever? Either way, we’ve got a new monthly bazaar called BLACK MARKET startin’ up @Elks Lodge in (oh, so central) Central Square on Sunday, 10/26. The event will be FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC so people can burn their cash at your tables. We’re looking for art, records, zines, jewelry, books, homemade knits, baked goods, vintage and secondhand clothing, accessories and home goods, etc... Tables are $20 and under. More info at BostonHassle.com/BlackMarketVendorApp - CEEK
Crash Safely 2014: A Benefit for the National MS Society The spirit of self-organization and righteous do-goodism is sewn into the seams of New England’s incomparable coat of music and art. And it has a lot to teach us about how to live. CRASH SAFELY, a series of shows happening 10/10 @Midway Café and 10/17 @MidEastUp, will channel the healing forces of rock n’ roll into a fundraising hadouken and aim it right at destroying Multiple Sclerosis. The event has been organized by Boston rockers and bookers whose lives have been touched by MS in some way, and now it just needs YOU to come make it awesome. Hit CrashSafely.org for tickets and more info. - Zach Peckham
Special thanks to CHOICE sponsors of Boston Hassle Fest!
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Here’s the sitch: Shitheads in a Ditch, the freshest denary of MPEG-3s crafted by the NY-based trio PALBERTA, rips like the tag off a mattress: a mattress made of wicked discordance and satisfying irresolution, fitted with a fascia of seraphic-toned sheets, upon which a pyramid of baby-talking body pillows & shrieking micro-raschels snaps to grid. While also yet to be corporeally available, their previous document My Pal Berta will soon be birthed upon wax through yr pals at FEEDING TUBE RECORDS. Watch them fuck off, roll around, and decimate yr previous idea of what a “dope set” was 11/8 @HASSLE FEST 6. PalbertaPalberta.bandcamp.com - Anthony Richards