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What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Music Section
CANDLEMASS @ THE MIDDLE EAST DOWNSTAIRS 4/20/22
“Jesus Christ this was some epic shit. First mind blowing live music experience since that thing that happened. Metal heads overflowing onto the streets of Cambridge (naturally). Candlemass is such a pillar for so many types of metal, they really brought the metal community together.”
- Dan Shea
KLEO: “MY BABY” (FEAT. PROSWERVEZ, ILL ADDICTS & HALEYJADEEAST)
“Kleo rarely shies away from developing stories with an all-encompassing lens. His 2021 EP 1000 Years of Grief, for example, captured the historical lineage of systemic anguish through documented viewpoints and abstract imagery, all while staying empathetic to the subject matter. When the Roxbury native creates a narrative, he does so as an archival poet who understands how the history of people’s struggles can be connected through similar structural forces.
For his newest single, “My Baby,” Kleo joins frequent collaborator and polymath, ProSwervez, as well as Malden singer HaleyJadeEast for a rap/R&B hybrid about a relationship void of a flicker. In the track, Kleo doesn’t have time to consider the material amenities within a relationship: he’d rather ponder the authenticity of it all (“Do you love me or just the life I lead/Will do you like them, and steady up and leave”)”
-Ryan Feyre
ALTIN GÜN MELTS MINDS AT THE SINCLAIR
“Isaac Newton came out of quarantine with calculus. Altin Gün came out of quarantine with two radiant new albums. I know which I’m more grateful for.
(That may sound like a low bar, but I’m one of those weird nerds who was honestly so good at calculus once upon a time.)
Fresh off their Coachella performance, the Amsterdam-based, Turkish psych-rock group took the stage at the Sinclair on Tuesday night, April 26, in a multilingual, mystical mele. Altin Gün came into the spotlight with Grammy nominations on their second album, Gece (one of two albums the band released in 2019).”
- Alison Lanier
What’s New on Bostonhassle.com: From the Film Section
IFFBOSTON ROUNDUP: THREE FILMS, THREE REVIEWS
Check out three amazing reviews of 2022’s Independent Film Festival Of Boston, done by writers Claire Denis, Peter Strickland and Cooper Raiff!
GO TO: SISTER STREET FIGHTER (1974) DIR. KAZUHIKO YAMAGUCHI
“Kazuhiko Yamaguchi’s Sister Street Fighter (1974), screening Saturday at the Coolidge as part of its Kung Fu Connections series, leans towards the more aesthetic side of its genre. Its color palette is distilled to a muted array of blacks, whites, and grays, with the occasional red sprinkled here and there, and the cast teams with a collection of caricatured characters (say that 5 times fast), each sporting their own gimmick. There’s the villainous group of conic masked men christened the “Hammerheads,” the leopard printed gang of Thai kickboxers who go by the “Amazon Seven,” and Kakuzaki (Bin Amatsu), the movie’s big bad whose brave opponents recoil at the five-fingered– or more accurately, the five-clawed– surprise with which he greets these transgressors. It’s…an eclectic film. The seams on which somehow manage to be indiscernible, accomplishing a balancing act seldom seen in others its length. Sister Street Fighter, not only impressively maneuvers, but while at it, flexes for style points.”
- Erwin Kamuene