Hello friends! Thanks for picking up Compass #42. Since its inception, this lovely little paper has been paid for almost entirely out of pocket by the dedicated few who produce it, with some wonderful businesses and individuals stepping in to support us in the past year. We can’t thank these contributors enough, and we promise to continue giving all that we can to make it happen ourselves, but it’s become clear that this model is simply not sustainable. The money we are currently bringing in amounts to only about 24% of our monthly costs, and we’ve only begun our expansion into film, comedy, and art coverage. A resource that strives to benefit so many cannot be funded by so few! With all hands on deck maintaining the newspaper itself, we’ve realized that what we really need are dedicated BREADWINNERS: volunteers whose

time would be primarily spent soliciting advertising from and maintaining relationships with the awesome local businesses and individuals who see the value in backing our efforts to change the cultural landscape of Boston for the better. Please consider making this mission a part of your life. Whether you’re someone with an advertising background or just an eager and organized self-starter, we urge you to get involved, learn from us, and teach us along the way. No time to volunteer? Spread the word, and if you can afford to help with any size donation or by advertising on a regular basis, definitely get in touch. Support your local Compass: we need you!

Respecto,Sam Potrykus

Goodbye Arvid Noe, See You Later Don Gero, Hello NE Pats and Adze! At-tention! Some important changes to the local scene here: The long standing off-kilter space-rock spazz craft known as Arvid Noe made it’s final voyage last month. This is due to the relocation of their drummer extraordinaire, Don Gero, who will now be pummeling the USA from the holy West Coast. Meanwhile the two freaks up front continue bossing around Boston with their own psychotically sick bands, New England Patriots and Adze. Please follow these three in their deafening endeavors and never forget everything Arvid Noe did for our city. -SP

Bootstrap Compost Is Making City Life Better. Is your garbage stinking up your apartment? Flies infesting your living space? Well then stop tossing your food scraps in the trash and compost that shit instead! Not sure where to put it? Bootstrap Compost makes it easy. For a miniscule monthly fee, they’ll come by weekly to pick up your organic refuse and redistribute it to local farms. In return you get a free bucket and 5 pounds of fertilizer every few weeks to feed houseplants or start your own garden. Feel more eco-con-scious, support local businesses and farms, and make your place smell nice again - pretty sweet deal. -CC

Our far out friends Bushwhacked (the shlopped and glued sax and drum machine styles of Andy Allen and Mark Johnson) and Vehement Caress (The dark textural synth exploration and harsh cathartic release of Lex Russo) are heading south babies! Superior Southern Spit is the name of their game and they’re beating up the greater East Coast all tha way down. Tell your Philly friends to catch em at JR’s, tell your SC crew to catch em at SPIT FEST and you? You make sure to hit their homecoming show (also the Friendship Tapes release show) in Boston on July 10th! Ask a big ole boy for the address. -SP

Let Stompbox Sonic Effects Your Life! Who doesn’t enjoy an occasional booze or food tasting? Well Stompbox Sonic, local purveyors of custom ped-als and amps, understand the universal appeal of free samples, so they’ve ex-panded upon this concept with their frequent effects pedals Sound Tastings! Come to the next one July 24th at Allston practice space complex Studio 52 and get intoxicated on the singular sounds conjured from their unusual machines. You will definitely find something you want to buy, but there’s no pressure to do so and no jerk in a polo shirt. -CC

Check Out V-E-L-L-U-M Art Blog! V-e-l-l-u-m is a transient home for the con-temporary aesthetic, an excellent and fun-to-explore blog resource with a flair for ambient, radiant, dark, mystical and minimal art pieces of all medi-ums. These people have good taste and they like weird shit. As a weekly magazine, they publish features of emerging artists working in photography, performance and experimental media, with new stuff every Friday! The folks involved will also have a hand in making our new arts listing page all that it can be, so keep your eyes on em! Send submissions to alexis@v-e-l-l-u-m.com and visit http://v-e-l-l-u-m.com to scope it. -SP

Been thinking about putting on shows in your house or some other space? Well, we’re behind you all the way! GO FOR IT! Boston has a rich history of DIY and underground show spaces, why not jump into the fray? Somerville, Cambridge, Allston, JP, Mission Hill - wherever - get social, be smart, and open your doors to art and music! It’s a great way to get YOUR art and music out there. Our friends @ B.O.W. Shows will be running a workshop on start-ing your own DIY space soon. Look for that and get in touch if interested: bowshowsboston@gmail.com -DS

Kombucha On Tap At City Feed Boylston! Kombucha’s never been so deli-cious or so affordable. You gotta head over to Little Feed, where for mere nickels and dimes per ounce, you can refill last night’s forty with elderberry, black currant, or ginger kombucha (my favorite) and redeem those wasted years (so close behind), courtesy of Vermont microbrewery Aqua Vitea. Who’s that in the back asking, WTF am I talking about? Kombucha’s a fer-mented brew made from sugar, tea and yeast with the kick of cider and pro-biotics kind of like yogurt. It’s good for you, so get sipping and support some local business! -WK

All About Records In Taunton Is Back! The AAR label began in 1997 but when the crew opened up their own spot in 2002 it had a significant impact on me; A DIY label opening up it’s own record store/show space is about the most inspirational thing a young culture loving person can witness and I spent as much time there as possible. Now after an 8 year break, the physical All About Records space is back, and this time with an emphasis on the arts: art shows, workshops and lessons! They also plan to base a design firm at the location, offering affordable graphic design services for local businesses. Make a trip to visit it! -SP

New Experimental Film Resource! From the long and lasting to the short and mini, Boston Viewfinder will point you toward the offbeat cine. This brand new website, brought to you in part by the avant-garde heads at Balagan Films, is a curated calendar of compelling, intriguing, and often marginalized film screenings that are taking place across our strange city in the coming months. It’s got a nice, easy to digest layout with concise and informative blurbs to boot. They’ll be collaborating with the Compass as we expand into film coverage as well! Boston is lucky to have such things brewin, our eyes are wide and our hats off to em. Check it out: BostonViewfinder.com -SP

It’s a little late this year, but we at the Hassle/Compass would love to do a small campout music fest again in the future! We did one a couple years back in Western MA w/ Happy Birthday, Debo Band, Prince Rama and others. A killer bonfire, a swimming hole and lots of tents; it was an AMAZING time. But that location is not available anymore, and we haven’t found a suitable replacement in the New England area...yet. I bring all this up to generally ask if anyone has land they’d like to host such an event on, or if you have some other info that might lead to another Hassle Campout Fest. Hit us up: bos-tonhassle@gmail.com -DS

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Mon 7/1 Cambridge MA OWNS Monday nights! We’re talking about the 3 weekly shows in particular. Get familiar. Always scope The Series @Weirdo Records first: this weekly in-store (at one of the best record stores of all time) takes place on the early, leaving you plenty of time to frolic elsewhere in the evening hours. Whitehaus gender-bending MC Erich Haygun is the guest tonight and he is sure to spit some knowledge all over your face 8pm All Ages Donate Just down the block: Night of the Living Deadhead is @Zuzu w/ pop wunderkind Spirit Kid and his pals Lapland from NYC 10pm 21+ Free Down in Harvard Sq cosmic Americans The Broons rage with Weezer-like riffers Huge Face, The Channels (mems of Designer, Aykroyd, Guerilla Toss) and The Velveteens (MN)! Another sick Monday over @Charlie’s Kitchen 9pm 21+ $5 Meanwhile in JP, Night Gaunts, The Nickel and Dime Band, The Takeaways and Pariah Beat throw a party @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $5 Plus there’s an incredible show out @Feeding Tube Records in Northampton with Les Rhinoceros (DC), Dust Witch (some strange bastard of 70’s prog, library records, and heavy rock feat. 5 synthesizers, bass and drums) and the incred-ible WHITE LIMO and Impatient Truck w/ a special guest who will be diggin up twisted and magical sounds of the fucked up noise and beat variety 9pm All Ages Donate and buy records!

Tues 7/2 Woozy fuzzed-up rock groups rule @Great Scott in Allston tonight w/ Bleeding Rainbow from Philly and the beloved Fat Creeps! 9pm 18+ $10 The Whitehaus Family Record is hosting a sweet show @Midway Cafe tonight with the Blue Ribbon Band (local good ol’ boys playing choice country classics), The Broons (doing their own original quasi-country classics), Act Ephem and The Daggers. This will be the first of the new Whitehaus monthly residency down there and it sounds like one fun hoedown 8pm 21+ $ome Cost For a night of truly dark and heavy shredding, local promoters of sick underground Black Metal, Black Thrash, Blackened Death and Death Thrash, Lykaion Cult have Rawhide, Panzerbastard, Wardaemonic, Ashencult and Na-chzehrer @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $9 Those looking to dance their asses off bet-ter go svvimming: SVVIM Night always has top notch house, bass and techno DJs, and tonight will be no different @Middlesex Lounge 9pm 21+ $ome cost

Wed 7/3 pRIMORDIAL sOUNDS night, every first Wednesday @Middlesex in Central, is curated and DJed by the PS crew for whom we vouch through and through. Tonight they have Trabants, Fagettes and Earthquake Party gettin’ busy in the club, plus 60s and 70’s obscure psychedelic jams between bands. YUP. 10pm 21+ $3 Meanwhile in Allston Insect Ark, Faux Ox, Courage in Collapse and KID are @O’Brien’s Pub 9pm 21+ $ome cost And Cayucas are in town with JBM and Kid Mountain @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10

Thurs 7/4 You should probably be outside BBQing and enjoying your free-dom on this day but if you desire a show there’s one worth checking out @Middle East Upstairs w/ Kina Zore and Lillian D’Mone 8pm 18+ $12/ticket, 2 tickets/$20

Fri 7/5 FMLY Fest kicks off today @Democracy Center with a series of awesome workshops and presentations like history of zines (papercut), bike rights, fvck the media, panel discussion about east coast DIY collectives and more! This is a collaborative effort by awesome DIY doers. This is just Day 1! http://fmlyfest.org for more info, definitely ALL AGES and donation based for this one Eye Design Presents their radical BYOBurger Night! Enjoy surf mongers Beware the Dangers of a Ghost Scorpion, righteous garage rockas Jacques Le Coque (CT), Cape kids The Zookeepers and Polaroids @O’Briens 8pm 21+ $8 The dance mania known as Pico Picante falls on this evening and they have a special edition for you, taking over both floors @Good Life! Downstairs has MikeQ, Dev/Null (Jungletrain.net), Pajaritos (Pice Picante) and Colby Drasher (Don’t Ask Don’t Tell) plus HI-NRG battle royale between your host Nicholle Pride and drag sensation Sapphira Cristal; upstairs, observe ‘MERICA with Brizgnar, Diver, LeahV and Durkin. Can’t go wrong if you want to shake your ass tonight 9pm 21+ $5 If you’re looking to boogie in JP, there’s Surprise Party, Elephants, Somos, The Shones and Textbook Co-Pilot @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $ome Cost For a high energy rock show check out Zip Tie Handcuffs, J/Q, Idiot Genes and Nervous @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm 18+ $8adv/$10dos. AND there’s an outstanding show in Lowell tonight with Barn Owl, Guerilla Toss, Mysterybear and Bird Organ out at @119 Gallery 8pm All Ages Donate $omething!

Sat 7/6 Boston Hassle Night #6 has White Pages and a surprise punk guest @Lilypad while DJs Dan Shea and Sam P of the Compass & Hassle spinning only radical new music in the electronic, psych, punk, noise-rock, experimental and pop vein(s) 10pm All Ages $5-10 $liding scale For a guaranteed monster of a rock show check out the Speedy Ortiz record release with their homies Grass is Green, Kal Marks and Vegans plus the comedy of Ethan Marsh! @Great Scott 9pm 21+ $7 FMLY Fest continues today and is starting at NOON - get there to see Majical Cloudz, Birthdays, Alligator Indian, Brendan Sullivan, Bois, Caustic Rainbow, Mutual Benefit, Little Spoon, Liana’s Fire, Olden Yolk, Oulipo, Passage, Peace Arrow, Emily Reo, Cuddle Formation, Psychedelic Family, The Spookfish, Truman Peyote’s last show and Yohuna @Cambridge Elks Lodge noon - 10pm All Ages $5-10 sliding scale DRAMA night @PA’s Lounge with DJ LeahV and Cold/Gold plus Scott Hadley Light-ing. RADskillZ Photography 9pm 21+ Say sayonara to Rozamov at their tour sendoff show they’ll be @Dragons Den ripping it up with the heavy Phantom Glue, The Black Antler (Ohio), Fórn and I Am Become Death! 9pm All Ages $8

Sun 7/7 FMLY Fest Day 3: Short Film Night - feat. premiere of Truman Peyote’s “Venice” music and video, Underground in Suburbia (a Bridgetown Records documentary), the la fort’s first show, Revolutionary Autonomous Communi-ties’ free food experiment, FMLY Fest on random & more to be announced! Short films, documentaries, experimental film etc. @Make/Shift 5pm All Ages Donate Also a brutal as fuck show in Cambridge tonight has Loma Prieta, Fucking Invincible, Curmudgeon and Barnswallow @Cambridge Elks 10pm $5 All Ages

Mon 7/8 Remember what we said about Cambridge owning Mondays? Still true. 4 shows to choose from and all close enough in proximity to potentially hit them all up! Start with a live in store performance @Weirdo Records for The Series with Long Blonde Wig (Adam Fitch, Jason Fitch & Ron Gittens) 8pm All Ages Free/donate! Then Night of the Living Deadhead has the

fabulous fuzzed out 4 piece Creaturos, glammy scuzz sass-attack Electric Street Queens, and Jam Jam (mem. of Magic Magic & Viva Viva) @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Nearly across the way is CVLT’s final show :/ but it’s a banger w/ La MiniTK del Miedo (Bogota, Columbia), BATHAUS and resident DJs El Poser, Punketta, and Shimoda @Middlesex 8pm 21+ $5 Head away from the Charles and you will find the famous Harvard Sq that is the site for a metal-as-all-hell show @Charlie’s Kitchen w/ Sadgiqacea, Hivelords (both from Philly), Vygr and The Proselyte 8pm 21+ $5 Over in Allston there’s a pretty tight show with local rippers Pretty & Nice, Hex Map, and So Many Dynamos @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $10 For excruciatingly heavy jams be @O’Brien’s for Lykaion Cult’s Agonizing the Dead - A Night of Underground Black & Death Metal 9pm 21+ Free For you Somervillans out there the babes at Cool Kids Club are aging by the minute (aren’t we all?) so they’ll be playing the most spunky, fun youthful jams they got on deck and they’re calling it The Monthly Flow ;) Have a drink and celebrate the birth of a great person (Athena Moore) @The Independent 10pm-1am 21+ Some cost? we’re not sure.

Tues 7/9 is looking miiiiighty fine. The best new band in town THE MON-SIEURS are three babes playing raw stripped-down, catchy as hell garage anthems, like The Gories, seriously. They’re playing @O’Briens tonight with three other sick puppies in the rock and roll flow - Astral Junk, Guilty Party and Headband 8pm 21+ $7 Down the block Orca Orca, Dead Mellotron, Summer of Aden and Bulgary Years are rocking @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 Over in Somerville we got Foe Destroyer, Quill, Photo Ops and our strange friend Skinny Bones @Precinct 9pm 21+ $ome cost Plus the awesome avante-garde music scene champions Non-Event present their experimental coffeehouse this evening w/ Jorrit Dijkstra. Interrupt the yup! @Cafe Fixe 8pm All Ages $5 Or if yer a die hard Belle and Sebastian fan be aware that they’re playing @BOA Pavilion

Wed 7/10 KAPOW! with DJs Kathleen & Tyler playing garage, indie and scuzz rock from the 60s thru today @River Gods 9pm 21+ Free Folk punk and pop punk on the same bill?! Yes. Ramshackle Glory (AZ), The Taxpayers (OR), Poor Jeremy, Fort! the Band and The Takeaways @Middle East (upstairs) 8pm All Ages $8adv/$10dos

Thurs 7/11 Boston Hassle and B.O.W. Shows are wearing their indie pop hats (the ones with pinwheels on the top) tonight as Slumberland’s The Mantles (SF), one of our favs Juan Waters (NYC, of The Beets) come to town to play with crucial local pop-smiths Cuffs, and indie pop rockers Parasol @Lilypad 10pm All Ages $5-$10 Sliding Scale Experimental popsters with 90s lean-ings gather on Comm Ave as Brooklyn’s Grooms and Boston’s own Young Adults take to the stage @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 Kal Marks and Fax Hol-iday will help you escape from the heat all indie rock style. Gansetts getting drunk here w/ Rye Pines, Myles Manley from Dublin @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7 15-minute back-to-back sets raw style. Lots of touring bands, electronics and video...it’s Big Gulp Fest: LSDV, Drekka, Assimilation, Jack Patterson, Adrian Rew, Ian McColm, STR0K3TH//K0K, Jimi Ergen / Jamie from Middle King-dom @SBC 8pm All Ages $5-10 suggest donation

Fri 7/12 Boston Hassle & Ride the Snake Records team up once again to throw an East Coast diy minded indie punk party w/ Potty Mouth (W Mass), Chemi-cal Peel (SC) and Tomboy @The Plough & Stars 9pm 21+ $ome Cost B.O.W. Shows finally brings to town one of New England’s most beguiling pop music makers, Burlington, VT’s Ryan Power. He has a new record on NNA Tapes to sling, and he does so alongside some other wonderfully strange Vermonters and a very awesome locals: Blanche Blanche Blanche, Guerilla Toss, Son of Salami @Roggies (a new venue in Brighton’s Cleveland Circle! come support the show!) 8pm All Ages $5-$10 Sliding Scale One of the best and most influential bands of the punk era, Wire are still at it and still playing some songs from Pink Flag and Chairs Missing as well as songs from their many other records including a brand new one. w/ Bear in Heaven @the Sinclair 9pm 18+ $20 70s NYC garage rockers The Fleshtones survived the punk era in America and they are still kicking, and tonight they share the stage with awesome indie rockers Sheperdess, and Split Squad @Church 8pm 21+ $12adv/$15dos Two of our favorite Boston area psych rock bands, New Highway Hymnal and Creaturos host Richmond’s likeminded First Creature w/ Atlantic Thrills @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $8 Local pop rockers Huge Face and Personal Finance welcome Dublin’s Myles Manley and his interesting take on folk pop w/ After Three Seconds @Midway Cafe 9pm 21+ some cost And out in Taunton all ages shows live on as evidenced by this show w/ The Silent Order, Full Blooded Mutt, Ronald Vegan, The Takeaways, potsy. @All About Records Center for The Arts 6pm All Ages $10, $7 with a can of food An art show in Somerville? Yes indeed. Me and My Friends Make Art II, a group show featuring new art from 20+ artists, has its opening reception @Washington Street Art Center 7-10pm All Ages $ome Cost

Sat 7/13 Things were already weird out in western MA what with regional musical masterminds/weirdniks Horsebladder, Noise Nomads, and Bill Nace getting together. But then Carrboro’s underground sound surgeon Secret Boyfriend jumped into the mix and...man there’s some weird shit going on down there in North Carolina! @Feeding Tube Records 9pm All Ages Donate Woods are one of the great psych-pop bands in and out year after year in our current day and age. Go see them and have a good time and oh yeah Parquet Courts are also playing and they do the jangle pop/post-punk things like real champs @TT the Bears 6pm 18+ $12 As a continuation of the show opening on 7/12 there’s a bookmaking skillshare led by Athena Moore and Amy Fleischer @Washington Street Art Center 1-4pm All Ages $ome Cost What the fuck is Malibu Gaze? 50/50 you’ll hate this, but I don’t think I do. They do what they do weirdly w/ jangle poppers Half Sour, and Nicholas Burgess @O’Brien’s Pub 6pm 21+ $10

Sun 7/14 Boston Hassle & B.O.W. Shows Presents a DIY clusterfuck (of the enjoyable variety) if there ever was one as DIY stalwarts Japanther(BK) and like minded noisemakers Unstoppable Death Machines(NYC) join together with whatever party time weirdness Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt brings to the table. It’s all rounded out by 2 BUFU recording artists Aykroyd (Compass and Hassle guys) and Dylan Ewen @Cambridge Elks Lodge 7:30pm All Ages $7-$10 Sliding Scale Donation We’ve been into the latest sounds coming from Underwater Bear Ballet and lookee here...tonight they’re taking their

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summer than with some cool refreshing ocean waves. Dream of the California breeze with surf rock pioneer Dick Dale with New England country bluesmen Three Day Threshold over @Middle East Downstairs 9pm 18+ $20 And right next door @TT the Bears is another throwback. Ann Arbor’s psychedelic soothsayers Sproton Layer (feat. members of Mission of Burma and Destroy All Monsters) reunite to spew heavy, stoned out riffs with local post-punk freaks Aykroyd - a most delectable pairing 9pm 18+ $10

Fri 7/26 For fans of the unusual, the unexpected, the eccentric and downright kooky, you won’t want to miss this show of all star weirdos. Noise-slurp magi Id M Theft Able, distortion glitch guru Crank Sturgeon, nerve damaged freaka-zoid Solace Media Corporation & americana golden doofus Cave Bears com-pete against real life stand-up comedians. Performative noise music meets ha-ha comedy in the ultimate deathmatch. Who will win? Intermission music by Grasshopper (NYC) @A Spot (msg deepthoughtsjp@gmail.com for adrs.) 9pm All Ages Donation Also, James Murphy of LCD Soundsystem and DFA Records shares some of his favorite records with a room full of strangers for an extra special DJ Set @Sinclair 9pm 18+ $20adv/$22dos

Sat 7/27 There’s a show for every taste tonight. Looking for a heady mix of country-fried blues rock and surly progged-out escapades? Celebrate the return from tour of Cult & Leper and Adelyn Rose along with Rabbit Rabbit, Cowboy Band, Con Tex @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ some cost Fan of bass-heavy electronic dance music? Trade out the tired 4/4 gimmicks for a com-pelling cornicopia of styles and check out new dance night (Sub)terranean featuring C.Z., Moduloktopus, Dumka back to back with Kidd Drunkadelic @Brighton Music Hall 10pm 18+ $7/$10dos Like to blitz out with some sweltering hardcore punk? Catch fun time punks Night Birds and Red Dons play a matinee show @Middle East Upstairs with Amherst grunge groovers California X, The Fake Boys and Casanovas in Heat, presented by RTT 12pm (noon) All Ages $8adv/$10dos Or slink over to Allston Rock City to catch Night Birds and Red Dons again, this time @O’Brien’s with the unholy punk trifecta of No Sir I Won’t, Funeral Cone and White Pages 9pm 21+ $8 And in Gloucester you can find Horsehands, Airstrike, Young Enthusiasts, Lady Bones, Pet Cemetary and Hot Lemon @The Hive 6pm All Ages $5

Sun 7/28 Leedz Edutainment jump back a couple decades to a fuzzy half-for-gotten time when true entertainment like Dangerous Minds and the Kenan and Kel Show ruled the airwaves, and gangsta-pop rapper Coolio provided the soundtrack. Relive the memories @Middle East Downstairs 9pm 18+ $15ad-v/$17dos The Modfather himself Paul Weller of seminal English rock group The Jam crosses the pond to share his heartfelt songwriting with us yanks @Royale 8pm $38adv/$40dos

Mon 7/29 The Series continues its endless stream of innovative and interest-ing performers tonight with Nick Dooley @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages Do-nate Further Down Mass Ave Night of the Living Deadhead hosts Turkish singer/pianist Deniz Ozcelik and country folk singer Jennifer Matthews, with choreographed dancing courtesy of Helen Mazella @Zuzu 10pm 21+ Free Plus The friggin MELVINS @Paradise 9pm 18+ $17

Tues 7/30 Any debate of authenticity and integrity in popular hip-hop is pret-ty much irrelevant these days, so put down your fancy books and enjoy the cult of personality that is RIFF RAFF in all his neon splendor @Middle East Downstairs 9pm All Ages $18adv/$20dos

Wed 7/31 Sometimes summers can be all too quiet here in Boston, but this month has treated us well, and it ends on a high note with three great shows. Portland, Maine’s Brenda and Metal Feathers come down to share brand new records full of breezy sweet pop rock with fuzzy stoner dad rockers Head-band @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 Things get hot and spicey @Middle East Upstairs with sundry pop mongers Earthquake Party, sunny psych swimmers the Images (NYC), sweltering alley cat beboppers the Fagettes and the fuzzy squelch of garage pail kids the Migs - playing one of their last shows 9pm 18+ $10 If laughs are what you want, the absurdist off-kilter comedy troupe Union Square Round Table has a whole stash of strange jokes their itching to let loose @Midway Cafe 8pm 21+ $ome cost.

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psych-pop to Mass Ave w/ The Basement Beat, Ethics, Royale @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10 Carrboro NC underground music experimentalist Secret Boyfriend makes his way to Boston to get down with noisy Vehement Caress, avant electro popster Horsebladder and Sisters of the Moonlight @Smokey Bear Cave 9pm All Ages Donate Eat breakfast and lend your support: PANcake Breakfast Benefit for Prison Action News! @Community Church 11am-2pm $10-$20 Sliding Scale Donation

Mon 7/15 All hail Angela and Weirdo Records. The Series continues on with: Blister (Lucio + David) @Weirdo Records 8pm All Ages Donate Pop rock comes in all shapes and sizes. You should be able to find one that fits well enough out of these four: The Hounds Below, Boytoy, Banditas, Luau @Middle East Upstairs 9pm 18+ $10 Night of the Living Deadhead marches on with the reverb drenched slo-mo rock of Steep Leans, the space rock krau-tisms of Chicago’s Crown Larks and Adam Howell @Zuzu 9pm 18+ $5 Our dear friends Cowboy Band and ConTex are playing somewhere we heard. Check the Hassle for more info.

Tues 7/16 This is a weird night folks. Existence Establishment starts it off with their special brand of harsh and loud electronics and noise tonight featuring: Being, Hostage Pageant, Breaking the Will, Brad Giggs, The Vomit Arsonist, Interracial Sex, Corpuscle @Radio Down 8pm 21+ $8 Speed and thrash met-al beasts Razormaze unite tonight with stoner weirdos The Proselyte, Living Void and Thronehunter @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 Hey hey The Monkees are still playing! Who knew? Head down to the theater district and hope and pray they play Head back to front @Wang Theater 8pm All Ages Too much $$$ Crazy show in our sister city to the south! Barkley’s Barnyard Critters (featuring Brian Gibson from Lightning Bolt) are back and they’re playing with Virginia’s wild duo Buck Gooter, Boston’s holy psych-bluesman Hurricanes of Love, Baby Aspirin DVD and AMil is Personal @Machines With Magnets (Pawtucket, RI) 9pm 18+ $7

Wed 7/17 Allston Pudding presents Montreal pop man Sean Nicholas Savage, Detroit electronic pop crew Jamaica Queens and Mutual Benefit @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $6adv/$8dos Bent Shapes sounded great opening for The Bats last month. Here they head up a raucous night of rippin’ and shreddin’ w/the experimental indie outburst of Rick Rude, Big Mess and Native America @O’Brien’s 9pm 21+ $7 It’s party time when Glasgow’s Hudson Mohawke comes to town with that boom bap electronic dance music! w/ Voltran, DJ Frank White and Daniel Harder @Middle East Downstairs 8pm 18+ $20/$25 The Legendary Dave Cave’s side project/solo project is called Beat Awfuls and it is the lo-fi song craft and 4-track genius you’ve been longing for. He is the guest of Freak Flag and their Rock n Roll Reform Skool Night. Freak Flag djs between sets every third Wednesday @ZuZu 10pm 21+ $5.

Thurs 7/18 If a literary evening is what you desire head to Inman for Distances: a 2 x 2 Reading of Poetry and Prose by Audrey Mardavich. 2 poets, 2 essayists: Thera Webb (NY), Boyd Nielson, Ariel Shearer, Ben Potrykus @Lorem Ipsum Books (Cambridge) 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Carousel Slideshow IV is here. The one-night only, digitally projected group show featuring the recent work of this local and international artist takes place right down on South Street @Aviary Gallery 7pm All Ages $ome Cost Mystery is in the air as the multi-media art celebration known as Cheap Seats occurs for the 8th time. A new format? @Cambridge YMCA 7pm All Ages $uggested donation

Fri 7/19 Pharmasphere is a performance art exhibition about the history of legal and illegal drugs in America, and the ways that they influence us. A dif-ferent kind of art at the MFA @Shapiro Family Courtyard 7-8pm All Ages Free with cost of admission Magnetic Fields main man Stephin Merritt performs music in collaboration with choreographer Rashaun Mitchell and artist Ali-Nashke Messing @ ICA 8:30pm All Ages $25/$15 members+students. The epic Animal Hospital Ensemble is playing at ArtBeat Festival in Somerville @Seven Hills Park in Davis Square 6pm All Ages and Free!

Sat 7/20 Local goof rock crew BUFU Records host yet another ill fun time show with noise brats Designer, pop punk kids Donovan Wolfington (NOLA), Sneeze, Maura, Poverty Hollow @The Ill Spot In JP All Ages $5 Catch Bos-ton sludge rock veterans Kilslug get all dark and and mean with scuzz punks Power Masters, Neutral Fixations and Mute @A Spot 10pm All Ages Donate Get in a sweet soulful mood with locals Anubius Pop - who has a new record out on WFR - Skinny Bones and Jonathan Donaldson @Radio Down 9pm 21+ Some Cost In Somerville learn to silkscreen at this skillshare led by Sarah Coyne as part of Me and My Friends Make Art II, an exhibition @WSAC 12-4pm All Ages Then later on @WSAC Animal Hospital, Donna Parker + Mark William Pearson, Heathen Shame, Deleuzer and Vic Rawlings plus DJ Sam YDLMIER Tapes throw down in memory of Shannon Smith aka Pataphor 8pm All Ages Donations at the door highly, highly recommended - a benefit for Chris Strunk, one of the best dudes in the universe.

Mon 7/22 By now you should know that Monday’s in Central Square pack that one-two knockout punch of awesome free shows. First catch the perennially intriguing showcase of unusual sounds that is The Series @Weirdo, featuring resonant improviser Michael Rosenstein 8pm All Ages Donate Then get over @Zuzu to catch Cambridge dreamers Night Fruit and Ohio slacker rock group She Bears for Night of the Living Deadhead 10pm 21+ Free Over in Harvard Square you could grab a cheap burger and brew @Charlie’s Kitch-en and catch some brand new bands formed of (slightly less new) favorites: Pony Allergy (mem. Krill), Fleabite (mem. Tomboy) and Digital Prisoner of War (mem. Bent Shapes, Lost Twin) all keep the garage punk energy going with a quirky twist or two 9pm 21+ $5

Tues 7/23 Two fast and furiously fun rock shows compete for your ADD-rad-dled attention tonight. Sloppy surf punks Nice Guys pound proverbial brews-kies with swaggerful bruisers Ex-Cult (Memphis), scorched garage groovers OBN III’s (Austin) and fellow local puffed-up punks The Tampoffs @Great Scott 9pm 18+ $8 If you find yourself across the Charles, get @Middlesex Lounge to see basement buds Krill and Kal Marks work their guttural groove magic with upstate New York brooders LVL UP 9pm 21+ $5

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BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKSBUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS/ LEGENDARY WINGS split 7” PELICAN POW WOW (2013)

BUCK BILOXI AND THE FUCKS, you are the apple of my eye, my reason for carrying on in this often miserable life, a perfect symphony of shit for my jaded ears…NOT JOKING. This band is tops. I gushed about them a couple of months ago and now I will gush about them again. The two songs on their split with Kalamazoo’s power popping LEGENDARY WINGS, are the stuff that dreams

are made of, if your dreams consist of poorly (amazingly) recorded poorly (amazingly) played childishly simple (the fucking best) punk rock. “I’m A Genius” and “I’m a Disaster” are two alluringly scratchy sparse tunes that feature lyrical brilliance such as “you think you’re so clever with your whitebread pussy shit”. I’m still convinced they are recording these shit stains on an old dusty boom box, and I’m still convinced that they are the greatest band in the world.  - Christine Moore

BLACK BUGREFLECTING THE LIGHT HOZAC RECORDS (2012)

This is a weird one, folks. These Swedes residing in France aren’t afraid to get downright strange on their HOZAC RECORDS debut, serving up a heaping help-ing of bizarre, synth-post-garage-punk, whatever that means. To these ears, it fits in nicely with the weirder, synthier Mind Spiders or Spits tracks, though some-times veers further into odd (and awesome) synth-based soundscapes, as on “Night-stick.” The album sports the sort of bleak, frigid atmo-

sphere that first weirded people out all those years ago on Devo, Kraftwerk, and Joy Division records, but still keeps enough of the relatively grounded garage-punk spirit, as on “TV Screen,” to avoid completely leaving the confines of Earth and blasting off into the stratosphere. The album’s coolest moments occur when these two strains, that of synth-based post-punk and garage-punk, come to-gether, as on “Slay Them.” This standout track sounds vaguely like a robot thumping out its approximation of a propulsive garage-punk beat and another playing it’s dark little electronic heart out on a very fuzzy synth while a child-like and innocent vocal is blasted through ancient computer speakers. One very strange blog post alleges that BLACK BUG are a time traveling Minor Threat, so make of that what you will, but it wouldn’t be surprising in the least if that mad hy-pothesis turned out to be entirely true. I can’t entirely decide what to make of this LP, but I know that I love it. Whatever it may mean, it’s certainly a refreshing, weird, and oddly catchy listen that, like a Kraken from outer space, will draw you in and will not let go.   - Greg Witz

ASHLEY PAUL LINE THE CLOUDS REL RECORDS (2013)

A few months ago now ASHLEY PAUL released a new record called LINE THE CLOUDS. REL RE-CORDS brought this latest recording by the current Brooklyn-ite, and former Boston and Providence resident into the world, and it is full of moments hovering about at the cross section of a delicate and melodic folk song cycle and an experimental work of sound art. ASHLEY PAUL is well

known in these parts and much more widely as a shining light in the world of modern composition and experimental music. Her collabo-rations have been many and varied and her collaborators (Geoff Mullen , Anthony Coleman, and her husband Eli Keszler to name a few) speak to the high regard in which PAUL herself is held. Voice, saxophone, and guitar come to the forefront of the sounds found on LINE THE CLOUDS, but that is just the surface. Beyond the fragile melodies a scraping, industrial thud can be heard on many tracks. The album’s spectrum includes atonal sound experiments all the way through gorgeous guitar passages and on to full on sax skree. This is truly my kind of album. It hits the experimental notes, and perhaps will cause the less adventurous listener to turn away. But it also takes on melody front and center; is unafraid of being beautiful, which it most certainly is at times. Such real exploration of the depth of beauty and ugliness in music, and all this on the same record, gets me pretty psyched. “Soak The Ocean” from LINE THE CLOUDS sounds like a gentle lullaby accompanied by a similarly gentle guitar both winding along as bowed cymbals and other clatter create an uneasy backdrop. This is experimental indie pop, neither side of that musical odd couple giving in fully to the other, resulting in beauty and mystery. Get a hold of this one folks. - Dan Shea

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CASTLE ISLANDIn South Boston at the mouth of Boston HarborThis is a place I’ve been going to my entire life. And it’s still enchant-ing. South Boston may be in the midst of lengthy yuppification but Castle Island and it’s surrounding miles of beaches continue to draw every walk of life from near and far. Why? Maybe it’s the “castle” it-self (actually Fort Independance), but probably not as it’s not actu-ally open to the public very much. Maybe it’s the beaches, the miles of them leading all the way from the JFK/UMASS stop on the Red Line to the island (which isn’t actually an island anymore, though it used to be. it’s now connected to the mainland by roads and pedes-trian causeways). Maybe it’s Pleasure Bay, an awesome causeway ex-tending out into the bay and wrapping back around to the mainland, providing shelter for swimmers and the insanely watchable antics of parasurfers. Maybe it’s all of that and the simple fact that if you want to hang out by the ocean in Boston then this is the best spot to do so. And don’t forget about the burger and shake stand (with typical poor veggie options). Some 10 years ago some indie rock looking friends of mine told me about taking their bikes down here and having rocks thrown at them. By whom I don’t know. I’ve never looked like an indie rock kid (have I?) so it’s not my problem. You could hang here. But watch out for yuppies throwing rocks..

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He spent one night in jail before an anonymous person paid his back taxes against his wishes and he was set free.

Thoreau delivered a public lecture shortly thereafter on “The Rights and Duties of the Individual in relation to Government” which was later revised and published as an essay. This work, re-titled “Civil Disobedience” in 1866, provokes a sense of moral obligation and call to action to resist State-sponsored injustice through noncompliance.

Civil Disobedience as a text and political concept has inspired social movements such as Abolitionism, Suffrage, Labor, Civil Rights, and today’s OWS.

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On July 26, 1846 Henry David Thoreau was arrested and jailed in Concord for unpaid federal taxes. Among other US policies and practices, Thoreau morally objected to the Mexican-American War which he felt was one of conquest and imperialism, and he refused to contribute to funding it. Leo

Cats in the bag. You’re BAGGIN’ that river hard. Although you may be confused at first, you’ll learn to like this. You’re allowed to try fun new diets this month, some sort of meat or something. If you’re in Cape Cod this month, you’re getting hella laid (as per usge’), which is tight. Like last month, and the one previous, all the attention is on you duh. Your hair looks tight, you look tight, you’re tight. W/e

Cancer:Those little pretezel snacks with buffolo flavor are super good. Try em out. Kids kids kids! Love em’ or leave em’ you think their tight. You’re into it. You may very well find yourself roaming if you want to, roaming around the world. Don’t be suprised if your sheets are dirty - remem-ber, ya gotta wash those shirts all the time. You’re into laundry this month. Have you ever realized how easy it would be to make a vegan cheezit?

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