The Boston Hassle

WHAT TO DO THIS WEEKEND(5/18-5/20)

bostonccc — Fri, 18 May 2012 18:51:18 +0000

5/18 The Adicts & World and Inferno Friendship Society @ Paradise
5/18 Sonny Vincent & The Bad Reactions, White Pages, Guilty Party, Foster Care(NYC), and Courters @ PA’s Lounge 9pm 21+ Free.
5/18 Drowsing(IL), Brave Bird(MI), The World Is A Beautiful Place And I Am No Longer Afraid To Die(CT) and Manque @ Wacky Kastle 7pm All Ages $5
5/18 Porn Theatre Ushers, Immigrants, White Pages, and DJ’s Mister Jason & Farmer Ted @ Washington Street Arts Center 8pm All Ages some undetermined cost.
5/18 Slurred Murrays, Straight Angular, and The Sinbusters @ O’Briens 9pm 21+ $8
5/18 Chris North, Big Fuzzy, and Miwa Gemini (Brooklyn) @ Aviary Gallery
5/18 WARANIMAL (ME), SCAMPS, LAMEBRAINED @ The Boxfort
5/18 Bobby Conn, R Stevie Moore, Kokomo, & Azwan and The Savages @ Machines with Magnets(Pawtucket)
5/18-5/19 EVENT HORIZON directed by Paul W.S. Anderson @ the Coolidge Corner Theater @ MIDNITE
5/18 THE WHORE CHURCH VOLUME 1 @ the Coolidge Corner Theater @ MIDNITE
5/18-5/20 THE COLOR WHEEL directed by Alex Ross Perry @ Brattle Theater
5/18-5/20 GOD BLESS AMERICA directed by Bobcat Goldthwait
5/19 Cocksparrer, Slapshot, and Templars @ Club Lido All Ages $old out $on!!
5/19 DA BURDZ FEATURING ~ RONALD GITTENS’s LONG BLOND WIG & DJ GARY WAR @ lilypad
5/19 Steve Norton, Matt Samolis, Dave Gross, Tom Plseck, Angela Sawyer, Vic Rawlings, Josh Jefferson, Brendan Murray, Chris Strunk, Michael Rosenstien @ Third Life Studios 8pm All Ages Donate.
5/19 Charlotte Cornfield, Tounge Oven, Chris Wilson, Luisitania, and Gracious Calamity @ Whitehaus in JP 8pm All Ages Donate.
5/19 Battle House Record Release! Noxious Foxes, HO-AG, and Animal Hospital @ Midway 9pm 21+ $8
5/19 Hero[n] / Multicult (VA) / Goddard / 13 Billion Years @ Starlab
5/19 Punk Rock and Mental Illness and Recovery @ Honan Library Allston
5/19 Banned Books (PA) – Elephant (NY) – Arvid Noe – Funny Money @ Gay Gardens
5/19 Somerville Porch Fest @ all over Somerville, noon-6 (somervilleartscouncil.org/porchfest)
5/19 +DOG+, Ichorous, STTC: (Stop Touching The Corner), & Ditch Mimes @ 119 Gallery(Lowell)
5/20 Ulcerate (New Zealand / Relapse Records), Tombs (NYC / Relapse Records), Svart Crown ( France / Listenable 5/20 Records), and Hivesmasher @ Great Scott
5/20 All out Vinyl yard sale on Mark’s Front Lawn. email bostonccc for info. 11-3. Seriously, this is the Boston record event of the year.
5/20 Suffering Bastard, Sharpwaist, Epauletts(NY), Locutions, and Corephallism @ Starlab 8pm All Ages $10.
5/20 Rancid @ House of Blues
5/20 DYS, New Lows, Rude Awakening, Sydney Ducks, Anti-venom, Hammerfaced @ the Cambridge Elks Lodge
5/20 THE SAND ROSE directed by António Reis and Margarida Cordeiro @ the Harvard Film Archive

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GO TO: TONIGHT (5/18): LA PARCA LAUNCH PARTY w/ PORN THEATER USHERS, IMMIGRANTS, AND WHITE PAGES

Boston Hassle — Fri, 18 May 2012 12:00:15 +0000

The Washington Street Art Center is the place to be tonight: this occasion marks the launch of local fashion label La Parca‘s summer swag. Get thee to Union Square in Somerville to peep their new gear and this delightfully varied bill with 2 DJ’s to keep the party going. White Pages will be kicking it off with raucous freak-out jams delivered in short, sticky bursts. Come for the squealing punk chaos, stay for the between-song banter squirting straight from Joe’s back-brain. The rest of the night is devoted to a pair of the area’s finest underground hip-hop duos. Immigrants will be coming at you from a dark zone with Theory Engine’s twisted, maniacal verses and Mr. Id’s live on-the-fly MPC’ing, keeping your buzzed brain on it’s brain-toes. Stay for Porn Theater Ushers to see Nabo Rawk’s whip-smart rhymes held down by Mister Jason’s old-school grooves. I should probably draw your attention to that PBR logo on this flyer if you haven’t noticed already. Free beer, perhaps? I suggest you show up up close to the 8pm start time to get in on it, if that’s the case.
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Maniacal Laughter by Immigrants

Just A Warm Hole to Fill by White Pages

CHECK IT: GUARDIAN ALIEN

Boston Hassle — Fri, 18 May 2012 06:53:08 +0000

It might get lonely on the Astral Plane. You could find yourself stumbling in the prismatic sheen of infinity without a guide, your soul barbituated by silent pandemonium without end. Fret not, for it may come to pass that a Guardian Alien should visit you in your dilated time of psychic need: not a being with one body and many faces like Ezekiel’s visitors but a patchwork of bodies bearing one common soul. The music seems to emanate from this particular (Brooklyn-based) Alien in a way that mirrors a collective inner storm. Pleasant rain-splatters of percussion land gently on the surging harmonious drone-scape provided by the Japan Banjo, synths, voices, and whatever other instruments or being-fragments have been drawn into the nebulous grasp of the Guardian. This wild group becomes animated with a hallucinogenic abandon reminiscent of the holy Amon Duul II or the super ones: The Boredoms. Returning safely to the now&here, you might distrust such shared visionary experience as false, hypnagogic blog-prophecy. You need only call upon the 12″ vinyl disk that acts as a talismanic connection to Guardian Alien’s no-place in the everywhere-void to understand: that was really un-real.
- WM
Find your reality-exit-point’s temporal/spatial coordinates HERE.

GUARDIAN ALIEN (2011) by Guardian Alien

CHECK IT: THE NEW LINES

bostonccc — Thu, 17 May 2012 19:30:11 +0000

THE NEW LINES are simply one of the best pop bands that I have heard in a good long while. And pop as pertains to these guys is of the expansive variety, of the richest type of tapestry. Lush is a word that I am sure the band themselves must have been shooting for, and hit the target they did. If THE NEW LINES made their music more boring: say by taking away all the synths that lurk near the front of many of their songs, or by not delving into psych/prog passages or travelling down the experimental corridors which they do most surely travel down, then maybe they would be famous. I hope that doesn’t happen though. This Princeton, NJ band’s most recent release is a cassette called WITCH’S MILK and it is just as good as the amazing full length that preceded it ALL THAT WE SEE AND SEEM with its synth buzz, and getting proggy classic pop moments. “La Réciprocité” off of WITCH’s MILK lays a sweet croon across a reverb slathered shifting organ rhythm and an ever present bubbling bass. This song glides along majestically, pulling you further and further in as it wears on. Some chiming guitars round things out, the whole thing absolutely inviting you to press repeat. Beautiful, pretty much essential modern pop music if you do that kind of thing. We here do.

-DS

All That We See And Seem (LP) by the new lines

GO TO: TONIGHT (5/17) THE STRANGE BOYS, WILLIAM TYLER, & THE NEW HIGHWAY HYMNAL @ GREAT SCOTT

Boston Hassle — Thu, 17 May 2012 17:41:46 +0000

Austin’s Strange Boys are rolling into town tonight, bringing their rockin blend of proto-punk and r&b to Great Scott. Not afraid to let their honky-tonk roots show, the Boys’ booze-soaked garage tunes are the perfect soundtrack for a beautiful spring night in Boston. They’re joined by another southern boy with a more subdued sound: Nashville’s William Tyler, formerly of the band Lambchop. Pull up a stool and chill out to his pastoral acoustic soundscapes and Fahey-inspired finger-picking. Boston’s own The New Highway Hymnal will be kicking the night off with their fresh take on the fully twanged-out end of the neo-psych spectrum. Word is there’s still plenty of tickets available so don’t be afraid to come on down. 9pm doors. 18 plus. $10 cover.