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What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
CHAT PILE ANNOUNCES NEWEST ALBUM, GOD’S COUNTRY
“I looked over and smiled—there was another Chat Pile shirt in the crowd.
When I first came across the band, I knew that I had been blessed. Their scathing riffs and unhinged vocals threw me. Then I watched as one by one, everyone I knew fell in lust. My musician friends posted as they discovered 2019’s Remove Your Skin Please, the band’s second EP. I can recreate the bass line from “Dallas Beltway” in any black-clad group, and receive a knowing response—it’s a dog whistle and a turing test for freaks.”
- Abbie Bateman
A CONVERSATION WITH JORDANA — “YOUR ORIGINALITY IS THE THING THAT PEOPLE ARE CRAVING”
“Jordana is living proof of the orchestra kid to rockstar pipeline.
This orchestra-enthusiast turned singer-songwriter knew that music was what she was meant to do when she first picked up the violin at 9 years old. She dedicated years playing for her school’s orchestra, immersing herself in the works of Mendelssohn and battling others over first chair positions in county competitions (which she would like you to know she won).
Jordana confesses, “I didn’t know that I would be a singer-songwriter until I was 15,” when she started to explore and experiment with the boundaries of her sound".”
- Sophie Severs
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
GO TO: THE GRADUATE (1967) MIKE NICHOLS
“Mike Nichols ought to be credited as a founding father of the “Ok, Boomer” epigram. His classic 1967 film The Graduate reeks of the now-cliched refrain – both from the perspective of the Silent Generation and, retroactively, as a millennial viewer. The Graduate was among the first wave of “New Hollywood” films. These films were irreverent, lower-budgeted alternatives to the family-friendly studio spectacles that had previously dominated Hollywood. Though they were more complex and sophisticated than many of their Old Hollywood predecessors, the films of the New Hollywood era were not entirely subversive. Rather than overturning the very nature of filmmaking, “New Hollywood” redefined the standards of what was permissible within the existing system. Despite the fact that major studios initially refused to fund The Graduate’s production due to its subject matter, the film wound up dominating the 1968 Academy Awards and has since become a film-school mainstay.”
- Julia Biederman
GO TO: A NEW LEAF (1971) DIR ELAINE MAY
“‘Henry and Henrietta, the love couple of the seventies and the laugh riot of the year!’ As the poster’s tagline suggests, Elaine May’s perfect comedy A New Leaf is about two people who don’t know they’re in love– or, at the very least, Henry and Henrietta are trying to form a relationship for the first time in a long time. Money is at the heart of the relationship; Henry lost all of his, and tried to marry into it with Henrietta’s inheritance. So much of the comedy stems from Henrietta’s obliviousness and Henry’s patience, and from May’s timeless script. A New Leaf, like all of May’s movies, will always be funny. Nothing dates it or feels slow; the film feels pulled straight out of one of May’s routines with Mike Nichols during their improv days. The film contains jokes that have always landed with me, which is fascinating for a 51-year-old comedy.
- Jack Draper
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Arts and Culture Section
THE UNNATURAL / SHITFACED
Check out this sick art by Eddy Jellyfish!
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