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DEADLINES: Copy deadline for the March Issue is...oh, let's say February 18. Ad space Is available twherejresiden1 When I went to Europe this winter, I took an 18- Duncan, for stepping in as interim editor, leading hour bus ride overnight from the Czech Republic the campaign for new computers, and introducing to the former Yugoslavia. "We'll get a nice bus," me to www.ratemyb9ner.com. Thanks to Graeme, my companion assured me. "It's an international Jason, and Dale for NOT fleeing like rats on a route." sinking ship. And thanks to Susy for her help during The moon rose and the lights in the production, and the cookie. little towns faded as we shuddered across the Speaking of that cookie... I guess I countryside in a Serbian scrapheap-on-wheels. should explain why this is not the women's issue. I buried myself in The Unbearable Lightness Of And as an ardent feminist, I wanted the women's Being and tried desperately to will away my need issue to bejaw-droppingly awesome. The best to pee. How could an international bus not have thing since getting fhe vote, dammit. But given bathrooms? Late into the night the bus stopped the sheer chaos generated by my meteoric rise at the Hungarian border, where my companion to power, it just wouldn't have worked. Perhaps was permanently traumatized by the hole in the later in the year. But hey, this month's Fucking floor that passed for a toilet. But it wasn't that bad. Bullshit easily makes up for the whole issue's lack of Really. Because I had secretly steeled myself for gynocentricity. something truly awful, something involving torture Girly sounds will reign supreme on my new and dysentery and lost passports. It was okay. At CiTR radio show, however. The Dim Sum Show, least until we reached the Serbian border, where the gig that I co-hosted with Claire, has met with my companion cast a surprised glance over the a sudden and swift demise. Like Courtney or Cyrillic lettering on the border guard's uniform. Beyonce, I'm now kickin' it solo with something "Huh," said the man who was supposed to be my called Mystery Girl (think the Kattish elements of sole guide to Eastern Europe. "I forgot that they Dim Sum crystallized into one hour of pop-rock use Cyrillic here." glory, nestled up to Chris-A-Riffc's Parts Unknown at My first month as editor was-a bit 12 noon). Claire will be around to slap me around like that bus experience (minus the alphabetic every once and a while, though, so all those of you adventures). I had considered the long hours, who only tuned in for her "good radio voice" and meagre pay, and ancient, unpredictable lust for weird Canadian esoterica should still listen. computers. I was prepared for the frustration of It call comes down to this, my friends: not knowing how to use Photoshop. InDesign, or DiSCORDER and CiTR are waaaaaaaay more fun www.nardwuar.com • www.mintrecs.com • www.alternativetentacles.com OS9. Hell, I was ready to fuck everything up and than a bus ride to Serbia. And they're tasty like a have my eyes put out by the entire CiTR staff as big feminist cookie. a consequence. And then nothing bad really happened... I can only assume that this is thanks to the people who helped me get through this first month. I know, I know, it's not the Oscars... but P»SMUGGLiBi I still have to express my gratitude. So thanks, JtnWliSTEREo ENHANCED CD OUT MARCH 9! THE SMUGGLERS! THE BUTTLESS CHAPS! THE GAY THE BUTTLESS CHAPS YOUNG AND SEXY YOUNG AND SEXY! ^DCfl^ RED CAT RECORDS ftj%|MT' u SCRATCH RECORDS f ffl^ j ZULU RECORDS -*LiS UVWHJJ 726RICHARDS IT' SJ I 1972 WEST 4TH Q»<>cord^r lov/ts t WMBIITONI-raONCTWNf fudwwwusf* MAR&BLM My mother is oriental. She is smart. In Canada, Tujiko, Donna A., Donna C, Donna F., Miranda >JW1 they call her a "surgeon." She is the very best July, Tina Lucchesi, Tobi Vail, Klaudia Schiff, surgeon. 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Check out of its power — the "neoconservative (a.k.a. the buzzwords: "US unilateralism," "corporate right-wing, corporate, military)" position. The Annual! multinationals," and Chomsky's favourite, the- neocons have been doing a little bit of beat "military-industrial complex." Then there's the • juggling themselves. conceptual blockbuster, from Michael Hardt As Michael Hardt says [see Radical and Antonio Negri, "Empire." Society 29:4], the networks that were formed The weird thing is, these words sound to sustain a global league of protest — and General! like a Communist pamphlet from the '20s. which now dots the globe at every major Brian Salmi in Terminal City talks about how multinational summit — should be turned his '80s$ocred bashing activities were really to the positive theorisation of alternative just as "fascist" as the "fascists" ['A Cabinet of networks. There are two types of theorisation: Dunces', 06.02.04], Fascism runs in circles after that of the philosophical nature (such as the Meeting! its own tail. And so does language. book Empire) and that which happens "within As DJ Spooky said this past weekend in the movement," the hands-on approach. The Montreal — actually, yelled it before his set — difficulty has traditionally been in connecting Monday, March ist, 2004 "I am not from Bush's America" (He also said the two modes. Now, it's in translation, not "I hate Bush" in both French and English). This between the two, but of the two, to the is true but it's also misleading. Spooky is from network. This column tries to do a little bit of @ 7pm Bush's America, just like we, as Vancouverites, both. are from Gordon Campbell's BC. And the fact Within the 'Right', as Abe Burmeister in SUB room 205 that this "we" — whether it be Paul D. Miller or notes «abstractdynamics.org», the Salmi — seems at a loss as to how to construct philosophy of Leo Strauss has come to an alternative, and in fact, ends up chasing provide the grounds of unification for an Show that you care about the station its own tail politically as well as perhaps entire generation of "the right-wing." The linguistically, betrays a few questions. language has eaten the tail, and the closed (and that you care about winning prizes, of Part of this is sampledelia. Spooky's loop presents a speech from which the very which there will be many). take, for example, on recent genome terms of politics are set, by rewriting the development in biotechnology is basically political as ground, as unity. Likewise, the this: sampling cultures is a creative process, debate between "theory and practice" has one that allows recombinant possibilities to been closed through the unity of ranks. Yet come to the fore. Sampling the body, i.e., this unity will always have its cracks; any unity sampling genes, is the expansion of remix is like a pressure-cooker. As Salmi points out. culture to the re-mapping of our own bodies. Premier Campbell rules his cabinet with an Ideally, I would agree with Spooky. But there's iron fist [Gordo Plays Dumb, 01.21.04]. And also the predicament of property — who anytime this power method is employed, it owns what, why, how, and what that means tends to sow resentment within. The backlash across a diverse range of global cultures often results in deposition, a kind of internal that are becoming increasingly networked. revolution. Ideally, sampling is a way fo effect cross- This is the cost of the "Right's" approach cultural communication. Unfortunately it's also to language. The tight ship of language as the same tactic of linguistic buzzwords — i.e., employed in politics is tactical. It isn't always the structures of appropriation that support perfect, but its effects on the audience, and "global capitalism" (there's another one). particularly the media, are well-studied, and It might be more complicated than that; aim to achieve a gain that allows certain SIGNAL & NOISE the structures of property law and copyright actions by the structure to occur as if the exceed capitalism, insofar as "the proper" public wanted such actions. One's repression is something we can't seem to qet out of is presented as that which one wants — a festival of video + sounds our minds. Even if we wanted to engineer kind of involuntary masochism; it's the same ourselves to eradicate just that property of the logic that informs consumerism. The public is mind, which would assume that this is proper perfectly aware that they receiving a product to the body, the fact is that biotechnology whose image will outshine it's performance; is not in the hands of the DJ. And there are thus advertising, fike politics, works at the many cautions to address before affirming meta-level of belief, or faith, like religion. MARCH 4-7, 2004 that sampling genes to create the ultimate There's an entrenched violence to the non-possessive human is an easygoing snake that eats its tail, ouroboros, the spiral process. We're talking about structures that of death. The unification of ground is all exceed a simple sampledelic solution to too often of the sort that Pynchon can only the world's ills. Which also means that a explain, via an esoteric drift of meaning, in the simple reduction of cultural organization to haunted topography of post-WWII Germany properties of the body deftly cuts out the in Gravity's Rainbow. Which is not to say that responsibility. You can't scratch your way out this internal throw-down is the coming of — but maybe you can scratch your way in. the great revolution. If anything, the internal Whether one likes Howard Dean or not, jostles of the "Right" tend to strengthen and the fact that he called for changing the very reiterate tactical approaches to changing structure of Washington has all but fizzled his the structure of politics, and thus, the political. campaign — which attests to the weight of To return to fascism: perhaps "fascism" this call, and the quick organization of not sets in as the attempt to control the very basis only of the Republicans but the Democrats of what we think politics is, this level that is at in removing such statements from the the moment of the political. This is something language of the political landscape. This is that Salmi, like a few philosopher types whom because we're not eager to face the massive he'd no doubt rather avoid, understands responsibility of thinking through the entire intuitively. If not unity, which overrides VIDEO IN STTWJTOS /l framework of not only politics but the political diverse cultural landscapes, then a kind of — the creative space where "politics" has set fragmentation. But frequently we realize this 1965 Main Street, Vancouver, British Columbia. Canada itself up as the only shop in town. With shock is a cohesive topography, where sampling & www.videoinstudios.com for information, call 604. 872. 8337 and awe, a section of society that would scratching takes place in ways both "good" like to disassociate itself from the State has and "bad." witnessed quite a different separation: the Am* s IR""• JHfr,3„m, Pnwinct of British Co o;« • <£*-< WWRAFF STRUT. FRET &ILJCKER m m nv BDYrF nu LALALA HUMAN STEPS Last month I felt like I failed you, dear reader, at those faces — who wouldn't be smiling at driving percussion and lonely blasts of Ennio in providing enough reading satisfaction to those cherubic mugs? Well, listening to the Amelia Morricone-like guitar. The dancers conveyed get you from point A to point B {even if that grooves will make you smile too. guaranteed: Friday 23 January a poignant sense that, despite their desire, only means taking those twenty steps from two breakneck rockers fuelled by the manic Queen Elizabeth Theatre they were working against something so big bedroom to bathroom), but I will endeavor drum pounding of San Francisco king-among- that they might not make it to plot a longer journey this time out so your men, Russell Quan. "Talk About You" and "What True rebel innovators don't become tame Just as abruptly, the release valve lonely bus ride to work, trip to the dentist, or A Girl Can't Do" make me wanna shake it 'til with age. They just get more refined. Edouard tightened as the full cast reprised earlier even that bee-line to the bathroom can be I break it, and spill a lot of beer while doin' it. Lock has been creating dance for nearly 30 passages — this time with two of the men in more pleasurable, and of course memorable by (Dollar Record Records, no address given). years — most of them with his Montreal-based pink satin toe shoes. While Medawar sang learning about those incredible pieces of plastic company Lalala Human Steps. Although its "What costume shall the poor girl wear to all personnel has changed over time, he always tomorrow's parties?" I remembered "Amelia" we call seven inch records. The Briefs like to spread a lot • .ssembles a group of men and women with and marveled at how Lock and his company of joy when they play, but iormidable technique, six-packs and thighs could be so classy about sending us into the they take more pleasure of steel who launch themselves around the night all mussed up — yet with everything in in the joy of killing on their stage with a passion and violence that leaves the right place. latest EP, and drudge up the you feeling supercharged, yet on the verge corpses of past punk rock of tears. His latest work gets you there just as victims like The Deadbeats THE PLUGHOLE surely but with much more stealth. ("Kill The Hippies") and The As anyone whose value system isn't stuck Angry Samoans ("The Todd Lock was inspired to create Amelia firmly up their bum already knows, humane Killings") with their patented by memories of his long ago acquaintance social programs are among the prime pogo attack formation. As with two transvestites, but he was divinely indicators of an enlightened civilization. guitars shred and drums rip oblique about referencing them. Similarly, While the provincial government's barbaric with three more odes to offing a program note on "deconstruction as attacks on publicly-owned services have your loved ones gracing the revelation" was like a whisper in the ear or a cost countless highly-skilled people their jobs blood red vinyl, Seattle's finest tug on the sleeve — something to be tucked and threaten access to what we thought take the expressway to your away and forgotten until it gave us a little was ours, the direst and most immediate skull, so enjoy it while can, smack upside the head later on. consequences are felt by those whose need bub; punk's dead, and you're Visually, the piece was riveting from is already greatest. One doesn't have to nextl (Lollipop Records, 7 Imp. the start. The women danced en pointe, be on the dole to imagine the fallout from Monsegur 13016 Marseille their foot and leg work knife-sharp, quick welfare cuts due to take effect next month. France). and exaggerated. Their upper bodies were Although Victoria recently relented on a few precise and doll-like, but so manic that they of the more stringent eligibility requirements looked like Coppelias on crack. Alone or for assistance, the safety net is still woefully And finally, whatever trip The in groups, the eight performers worked the tattered. Winks want to take in the near black stage wherever light happened to fall, Always on the frontlines of future, make sure to pack creating an unsettling, random atmosphere. grassroots social issues, Headlines Theatre plenty of candy, cigarettes But John Munro's lighting design was actually is taking this one to the people through and attitude, 'cuz these gals as tightly choreographed as the dancers. The an interactive project called Practicing got it all in spades. Imagine a white follow-spots responded to the music Democracy. In February, the company's Our trip begins with a skip down memory lane scrappier version of The Donnas, or a younger and to each other, often stopping to wait Artistic Director, David Diamond, held a for a power pop blast from Hamilton, Ontario's version of The Bags, and you've got yourself until the performers moved into them. workshop with 30 individuals directly affected Teenage Head, as some anonymous music buff this quartet of sass from Tex-ass. Four songs full Periodically, 3D animations of one by the cuts. Five of them went on to create has re-issued two gems from one of Canada's of choppy guitar, kinky lyrics (check out "Spoil of the female dancers would appear on a a play that they'll present as Forum Theatre premier outfits from 1978. Look as Frankie Venom Me") and a solid, but not fancy, rhythm section face-shaped area near the upstage wall. — a style in which audience members can stares longingly into your eyes, almost as if to keep songs like "You're Gonna Die" hoppin' Although digitally produced, these images intervene in order to affect outcomes. - say, "Don't you remember the good ol' days? and boppiii'. Another reason why the Lone Star had an exotic, antique warmth which made The remarkable thing about That's why you're listening to this, dumbassl" So state rules the roost when it comes to rock and the women look like silent film divas, and Practicing Democracy is that Vancouver slap on some eyeliner, pull on the Chucks, and roll. (Super Secret Records, P.O. Box 1585 Austin, contrasted with the harsh landscape evoked City Council has unanimously endorsed get happy with "Picture My Face" and "Tearin' TX USA 78767). onstage. the project and has promised to consider Me Apart". (No label info, sorry!) Seeping into everything were the audience input when it drafts amendments to All that travellin' has got me tuckered out, so lyries of Velvet Underground-era Lou Reed. civic policy regarding homelessness, policing, Taking a trip of nostalgic note are The Little Killers while I take a well-deserved break, YOU on Crystal-voiced singer Nadine Medawar gave shelters and the like. Good grief — this is and The Dartford Renegades, who honor the the other hand can take a trip down to the them a stretched-out sadness and beauty beginning to sound like government for the timeless tunes of The Rolling Stones on a split- rekkid store and purchase some of these fine that I'd not heard before: "I'll be the light people, by the people. What a concept. seven inch series (collect all fifteenl Yowzal). examples of musical mayhem — your ears will in your window so you'll know that you're On the A-side, the darlings of New York turn in thank you! S^S! home." Ahhh... Reed's songs were further Practicing Democracy runs March 3-21 a stripped down, top-gear rendition detourned by being set to David Lang's at three community halls in Vancouver. of "Think", which benefits from some melancholy score for piano, cello and violin Admission is by donation. For reservations scorching guitar, while on the B-side, (played live onstage). The string section and further info, call 604-871-0508 or go to "Off The Hook" sticks to its R&B roots started behaving like quantum particles, www.headlinetheater.com while still being peppy enough to disappearing when I wasn't looking and tap the feet to, as these new London reappearing in different places. At one point, boys do Mick and Keith proud with they played right in the faces of a dancing a classic cut from the lean years. couple. Other records in this series look equally impressive, with bands like While all this lovely oddness was The Reigning Sound, The Real Kids, registering on a visceral level, I remembered Question Mark And The Mysterians the deconstruction business, and realized that and The Dexter Romweber Duo Lock was* indeed dismantling everything — duking it out on wax to cool Stones from the conventions of classical ballet and trax. Keep an eye out, kids. (Norton stagecraft to the Velvets' songs. Collecting Records, P.O. Box 646 Cooper Station the pieces, I felt excited, anxious and sad. New York, NY USA 10276). All the while, Lock had also been building up an electric emotional field that was starting to crackle. At exactly the right Taking a trip overseas. The Flakes moment, the dynamic shifted and four gave the Europeans something to men powered their way through a piece of smile about when they released a choreography so exhilarating that it briefly tour single to commemorate their stopped the show. Normand-Pierre Bilodeau sojourn into garage-lovin' territories and Alain Thibault's music was a wonder of like England and Spain. Aw, just look M CKCC-II :u 004- i 7 FROM PLAID PANTS TO PUNK ROCK: DISCORDER VS. NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE by Dave Gertner Doing an interview is a much different process than simply writing so it was just a natural continuation. The Evaporators actually on repeat. And I went home and woke up in the morning to CiTR, a piece on a person or a band. Quite simply, during an interview came before the radio show. The Evaporators formed on Feb 20, and it was the same song. It had been repeating over and over you have to work in real time. Questions have to be snappy, and 1986, my radio show started in October 1987 and I came to UBC again. digressions must be anticipated. You need to be entertaining September 1986. The first interview I did was September 26 1985, and you have to worry about your with Art Bergman from the band Poison because I got his band My other favourite story about CiTR, like fuck the porno, was breath. This can be a bit disconcerting for a guy who usually to play our high school and I thought I've got to get an interview Gamett Timothy Harry, who was a DJ at CiTR. You know the stinks it up as a listless mess behind a computer screen, writing with this guy because he's playing our school. That's pretty much carol ships? People go on these carol ships and they broadcast and re-writing, it can be especially disconcerting when the the timeline. The first Evaporators record didn't come out until them this music. Well I think the music was kind of deemed noise person you are interviewing is the reigning guerilla interview king, 1992, our first 7 inch. The first release on vinyl in 1989, on Nardwuar pollution so you were supposed to tune into a radio station. CiTR hyperactive three-band front man and CiTR mainstay, Nardwuar the Human Serviette Records was called Oh God my Mom's from was assigned to do the music for the carol ships. And at 8PM the Human Serviette. Channel Ten. It was a compilation record. Garnet Timothy Harry was supposed to put on the Christmas music, he thought it was 9PM. So at 8PM he was bitching, like "I But, gathering my nerve, I set off to do the best darn job I Could you tell me about an alleged incident when you and gotta put on this fucking Christmas shit," and it was broadcasting could, breath mints in hand. Some of these questions were another CiTR DJ convinced a woman to masturbate on air during all over Vancouver, that's my third conducted via e-mail, some were done live at the Evaporators a late night program? favourite story ever from CiTR. show at the Mesa Luna, February J 7, 2004.1 even intended to I never did anything like that, although I did play some take pictures, but due to the aforementioned stress, I forgot to soundtracks from pornos mixed in with hardcore punk and I What's the best cover song you ever heard? put film in my camera (I haven't taken pictures since my 1989 remember I got suspended for doing Jhat. I like cover versions when no-one knows the original band and trip to Disneyland, OK). A big thanks has to go out to everyone it brings the band to prominence. One of my favourites isthe who submitted questions for this interview. Without your insight I How do the Evaporators write music? Gruesomes from Montreal covering Les Lutins and a song they would have been lost in a sea of obscure Quebec garage band Actually one thing I would like to add to that, you know talking did called "Je Cherche"' and I loved it because I loved the song references and the countless Human Serviette articles on the net. about a woman masturbating on air, blah, blah, blah, one of the and it made me seek out the original and listen to other songs by If your question didn't make it in, or we didn't give you a byline, I greatest things on CiTR was my friend Adam, who did a show Les Lutins and get involved in all the cool music that came out of apologize. But it all goes under the CiTR family name. It's all love. called "The Noise Show." They call it radio art now but we called Quebec in the 1960s. So take care kids. If you need me, I'll be in the den behind my it noise then. One day I walked into the DJ booth and I couldn't computer. But until then "Doot doola doot doo, doot doo!". hear anything on air and Adam was lying on the booth board According to a Mike Usinger interview you enjoy smelling things. and he had the mic right What do you like to smell? Discorder: Why do you play In a band? to his heart, and I was like "What are you doing?" and he said Mainly old aged cheddar and other assorted cheeses. Although I Nardwuar Well it's what I always wanted to do, actually, "Shhh! It's the sound of my heart on air." do think unpasteurized cheese is too stinky! because in high school I was the student council president and so I organized dances and I got my own band to play Another cool thing was [the CiTR show] "Live from Thunderbird Do you make your own pants? the dances. And then I got out of High School and I wanted Radio Hell," which Adam helped out at, started by Ed. Bands No, I have been lucky enough ta have had kind people like Sean my band to play, so I had to organize dances, and I got the would come and play [on air] and afterwards DJs would play Raggett, who ran the Good Jacket Clothing store in Vancouver a • Evaporators to play. And then I got to CiTR and I thought, out the rest of the night. And sometimes the DJs wouldn't show. few years ago, set aside interesting items, such as pants, for me. hmmm, this is a good thing to join, and so I got a radio show to up. So Adam would just put a CD on repeat. And one time he For example the amazing "Canada" sweater I wore on the cover help my band. And after doing a radio show, well, you wanna put a CD on repeat, and it was maybe 2 or 1 AM and he put on • of the Evaporators / Gotta Rash LP came straight from Sean's put on more gigs and then you want to put out more records, Sitting on the Dock of fhe Bay by Otis Redding, alternate version. cache! Thanks Sean! I will never forget that! 0: S(.orde.r • $ I have heard that you have a large porno collection. Is there any . truth to this? Over theyears people have mailed me some wild stuff. After interviewing Ron Jeremy in 1996,1 threw it all out though. Cuz how can you top that! How do you explain the fact that many 1st year CiTRers have crushes on you? I am flattered, but maybe they are bored? Courtney Love called Where did you first hear punk rock? ^drfyou comment on the following anecdote, sent to Discorder me "totally sexless." - When I purchased The Sonics record Boom frcfllulu Records iril||!gfcyjftemall: "Did you know I started a dog poo removal company yzaiied 'Scoop Doggy Dogg', with a klckass poster featuring a How many things have you destroyed at CiTR? Apparently there If there was a Nardwuar action figure what would It da? jjjfece of poo on It, and Nardwuar gave one to Snoop Doggy was a coffee table? Nothing ever got destroyed. I did however It probably would say three things "Who are you?" "Keep on ^^ ADpgg In person when he Interviewed him most recentty^^^^& once crack a coffee table, that has since been repaired by the rockin' in the free world!" and "Doot doola doot doo, doot dooj'Jy B^hen I do interviews I always try to do a little research. I ask§d?s-<§ way. I jumped on it during an argument with a fellow CiTR membe By friend Leora Kornfeld if she had any questions I should as^H s over bands signing to major labels. Sorry about that! Where did you get your tarn? Do you have a closet full of them, : * •noop and she suggested I show. Snoop a "Scoop Doggy or is there just one special tarn that you wear? Is there a story « Ibogg" Poo Removal poster. Leora had seen it up around her You used to love the Java Joint. Is it still as good as Snackers, or is behind your passion for tarns, a dear childhood experience that I neighborhood. This is what happened when I showed it to mere someplace better out there now? endeared that particular hat to you? ' Snoop: I love anywhere that will actually let bands book their own all age A friend brought me a whole bunch of tarns back from Scotland. 1 gigs! So big ups to the Video-in, Seylynn Hall, Mesa Luna, Langley I didn't wear any of them for years until Sebastian Bach of the Me: Check this out Snoop, look what this is [hands Snoop a Community Centre, The Underwear Farm and any other venue hair farming band Skid Row threatened to "beat me up for fun" poster], somebody has a dog poo removal service called Scoop that lets the teenagers shake out their zit rock angst. and stole my favourite toque! Plus he smashed the videotape Doggy Dogg. I was using to "capture" the interview. The shitty thing was the Snoop Doggy Dogg: Oh, that's fly! How do you respond to being called the "Weird Al Yankovik of tape also contained interviews with Pierre Eliott Trudeau, Sandra Me: We're number one in number two! music journalism"? That is a great compliment! Thank you Dave! Bernhard and George Clinton! So by default, my tarn became Snoop Doggy Dogg: Preach. my daily headwear. Me: And this is from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Scoop Doggy Dogg. How about the infamous Quiet Riot interview where they took the SDD: Thank y'all people, I love y'all for that, appreciate it. Keep tape from you because of the questions you asked? (Mr.Plow picking up shit, all day! submitted this question and I think he was actually there with you...) Pretty much the same thing happened with Quiet Riot as it did Do you still do a mean Captain Highliner impression? with Skid Row. Except that this was five years later. Now whenever Wow Dave, you are diggin' deep! In high school I used to I interview heavy metallers in the flesh I always bring a body do announcements on the PA and Captain Highliner always guard. Case in point: Canadian Heavy Metal Legend THOR brought down the house! I haven't though about him in years, For more on Nardwuar and the Evaporators check out accompanied me on my Gene Simmons interview. I felt very safe! although I still crave chips and chowder every so often! www.nardwuar.com AWrcW X0O4- * | ADAM GREEN feelings he h«d one time BY NATALIE VERMEER "JESSICA SIMPSON, WHERE HAS YOUR LOVE GONE? IT'S NOT IN YOUR MUSIC, NO..." Adam Green couldn't name any of Simpson's songs, but thanks to the singer's spot on a reality TV show and status as a stupid- quote icon, his song "Jessica" has recently seen success. I credit Simpson, because otherwise what is the likelihood of this former Moldy Peach getting mainstream attention? (Remember that his past lyrics include stuff like "There's no wrong way to fuck a girl with no legs"). What I find most amusing about Adam Green is the way his nonchalant, deadpan singing seems to tame his blunt vulgarity. New listeners are drawn to the pretty melodies, lulled into a state of calm before being rudely awakened: "Did I hear that right?" But allegedly Adam's desire is not to shock, as he has no need to justify his songs with explanation and questioning. To him, they are just "feeling[s] [he] had one time." I talked with the charming and enthusiastic Adam recently when he was in Toronto. DiSCORDER: My first question is about your latest album -you switched from home recordings to having a studio and strings and everything and I thought it was a cool progression from your first album and I just wonder if... Adam Green: Why, thank you! You're welcome... if you've thought about your next album at all and what you'd like to do for that? Yeah, I'm going to start recoding that when I get back from Europe. I'm leaving for Europe on the 8th of February and it goes for I think a month. We've had like a day in the studio, but we haven't had enough time to focus. *f.^y'% Who are you working with on this? I'm working with the same producer as last time, Dan Myers, working with the same string arranger, Jane Scarpantoni, and Steven Mertens, who's all over the last record, he's on this one too. I gjpss the main difference is I'm working with Parker Kindred ••' on the^ums and Nate Brown on the piano and Chris Isom is playing on the guitar. Ox Scor JL £c 10 When do you hope it will come out? You did another cover on that CD, the Libertines AND I don't know. I mean it's like the kind of thing cover, "What a Waster", and you played some Oil Mar* 2H 2001 where a lot of times you give it to the record shows with them - did you ever play that song DON'T label and it takes them a bunch of months to at their show? FORGET put it out. I hope it comes out around the same Uh, let me think. I don't think I have. But yeah, I RAISING time this year as my last one came out last year. recorded that song right in front of them. They THE Yah, I'd like to be at the pace of making an were in the room just like staring at me playing album every year. That would be good. FAWN IS Are you sick of people asking about The Moldy What did they think? ! ON TOUR Peaches or mentioning them with your name? I think they really wanted me to do it. They really Well if you want to know...what do you want to liked it. And Pete [one of the singers] wrote all WITH' know? the words out and Carlos showed me how to BROKEN play the chords. And they said they were going SOCIAL I suppose the big question constantly looming is to the studio the next day and I should record [ SCENE if you'll ever get back together... something. So that night I learned the song and Well... nobody knows. We sort of joked about came down and recorded it. Then it became & getting together in 5 years again. We didn't released, actually, in this weird way. Pete gave THE STILLS have to break up because we're not signed to all the songs to some kid in a hotel lobby and CATCH a record deal so we could just sort of make it just said "Put it on the internet." So it sort of whenever we want. Maybe we'll make another became like a little thing I guess! | THEM one in a few years; I'm not sure. But I don't even LIVE see Kimya so much these days 'cause we're Okay, a question about one of your songs - why : IN A both traveling so much; we'd have to hang out are you glad not to be a girl? ; VENUE a lot to write songs together. [Thinks for a moment] Oh, "Hard to be A Girl." I mean it's not like that. It's just like a feeling I had : NEAR I've read that you're 'medium-serious' about one,time. It's not something I go about thinking. • YOU! your music - what does that mean? A lot of these things are the emotions I was I think when I say that, I mean that there's some going through at the time I was writing the song; parts that are true and about my life and then they aren't like hard facts! Victoria BC there's some parts that I make up, you know? LEGENDS I write the songs in kind of a playful manner. I I was just wondering if you were thinking 03/03 think people should understand that if they're anything like "I wouldn't want to be a girl Vancouver BC gonna be listening to it. because..." kind of thing... COMMODORE The debut silo album &w gutirutjgpiit AIBBl STHIEB of IM 1IA1II SNiOS. Uh, I don't really remember, honestly. BALLROOM Okay, on the "Jessica" EP, there's that "Don't Smoke/ The Bronx Zoo 1989" track: did you That's alright... Well is there anything you wished record yourself or did your parents often record I asked you? you? Uh, no. I have a bunch of interviews to do right I think I recorded that. My dad bought me a now. I've done like 5 already today. ^ SONIC UNYON! tape recorder when I was like 6 years old and I would just wander around the house making Oh no! up songs. My older brother was doing this thing So I should go, but it was nice talking with you. with his friend where they had a camcorder and they were making a fake news show. And I You too. I hope to see you in Vancouver again think I tried to do it by myself in my room. I don't sometime. really remember. I think I was walking up and Okay, yeah. Well, I'll see you there! down stairs when I was singing [the song]...Yeah [the recorder] had high speed and it was fun. Well, I guess Adam Green is in Europe at the You could do all kinds of things with it. Yeah it's moment, but for those who need some new Red Cat Records a good thing, if you have a kid you know, buy A.G. love-, his video for "Friends of Mine" should your kid that! be available soon! 4307 Main St. Also on that album you did "Kokomo" with Ben Kweller! How did that come about? That came about when we were on tour; I was HEY SLACKER! opening for Ben and I was singing it earlier in the day and we thought it'd be cool to make it into Get off your lazy ass. the encore so we figured it out and sang it at the encore. 0 Go see a show. 0 Why that song? Why the Beach Boys? And see it for free. Well, I've always really liked that song and I found that when I sort of mentioned it to All you sloths have to do is win people, they thought it wasn't a good song or TUESDAY it was cheesy or something. So I thought maybe tickets to see Ima Robot play MARCH 9TH if I can record it with a little less production, Richard's on Richards March 10. Red Cat Presents I could show what I like about the song and maybe people can appreciate it in the way CUNT that I do. with Yeah, I played that song once in class, In How, you ask? Just answer one FOND OF TIGERS the morning. And the reaction was so good simple question... at because so many people have memories, just of hearing that song when they were kids... Who did Ima Robot open for at the iThe Railway Club, Yeah! True. It really takes you to another place. That's what I always really liked about that song. Plaza of Nations last summer? I didn't know about the Beach Boys, I just knew First person to send their answer to that song and it just seemed like it was really [email protected] magical. I remember feeling like I wanted to go there [laughs]. wins! Now get to it! New & Used CDs & Vinyl ph. 708-9422 * email bud^redcatea AWoVv XOOH jt \\ KiETjf WHAT'S UP^THKI^Iffi^DAYS? A1§ELL OF A LOT OF TMVEU^JPJ|^NE ... By Ben lmf:. | \ For a band that played their firstsho w only a year and a half afaTI3OT^^QKb<«^:we3^t!^^;>he^ll and ran with it, the cook was really grouchy qqid'oil we wanted was a burger. ago, local Vancouver act kids these days sure are paddirjQjiipv' progressirjigs^^; And at the after party the bouj|§er wouldn't let a couple of us their resume nicely. Most bands don't get to talk about"6elBg Peter: We^r^n6^^e^5ngwrtt^^J?spreifty unique that all of in and he broke Rob's glasses. featured in a CBC Radio 3 special. Or boast about flattering us write songs. Somebody WIH bring In a riff or a new melody write-ups in several major Canadian magazines. Or brag about and then there are five people bouncing off them. We've Later you played at Wavelength, a high profile show where all playing at such legendary New York City clubs as CBGB and gotten to a point where we're all writing the individual parts. So the big Toronto underground media types come out, all of them the Knitting Factory. it's kind of a combination of five different players. trying to discover the next Broken Social Scene or the next Peaches... kids these days started out as a Marc Mom'ss^i^|(guitar, You went on another Eastern tour recently. Where did it start out? Marc: There were a lot of people there. We played with Harris vocals) recording project. He would write songs and bring in Marc: Pete really wanted to play in Guelph because he's Newman and his drummen||Phe guy from Godspeed You his friends to help with the recording. Aftelbeing accepted to from there. Black Emperor. He gave props to Roip drumming after our play in Shindig in the fall of 2002, Marc e||jyinced Peter Doig t Peter: We played at the Albpin in Guelph, which is a legendary show, so that was pretty cool. 'im. (guitar, vocals), Ryder Havdale (guitar, bass, vocals), Jason place, especially for me. I've got a lot of friends from Guelph, Rob: Shook my hand and said, "You are a really good Stames (guitar, keyboard, vocals) ajj|||||S'Josephson (drums) musicians. It was very nice to play in this old stone building drummer, Rob." to be part of the project. That was when kids these days where I spent a lot of time as a student drinking beer and Marc: The cool thJGjpivyps that every show was different became a real band. avoiding my studies. because the next day we drove all the way to New York City. Marc: We really liked the people at the show and the other Ryder Barely made if. I spent a good part of a recent Wednesday night chcftJ^g*wTt^nV• bands. It's just really strange because when we arrived the Marc: Barely made it, 'cause all of a sudden we saw signs for all five members of the band. parking qtten^lqnts were mean to us and swearing at us. And "Welcome^pSpjttsburgh". | think we took a wrong turn. We DISCORDER: The band went to North By Northeast (NXNE) In Toronto last summer without Marc. How did you cope with that? Ryder: The band took an interesting turn at that point. Marc had filled out the application but at the same week he also decided he was gQjrJJipFb go to Thailand. So he couldn't be there for the NXNE tour which left us hanging because Marc rhad all the material, and he's only allowed us to sing one of the songs. [Laughs] So we basically wrote a whole new set in a month. We went to Toronto with the four of us, with three singers and a couple songs each. It was a great experience but we really wi|l$|etfMarc was there. But it was good for the band because we had to find an identity instead of just being sort of a backing band. So Marc, what did you think of the changes when you got back from Thailand? Did you feel that they changed the band? • mPfoNo actually. Putting everything into perspective, we'd been together for maybe six or seven monfns before I went away. And the way we've always worked is "Ori^rap, we got a show next week, let's hop into the rehearsdr§pace offflji ^ figure out a set list." Throughout time there was more oncl^^^j'5 collaboration. Jay and Pete were both singing and writing's before I went away. I was stoked because I was sitting on a beach in Thailand writing songs on my ukulele playing for the locals sipping on a pineapple shake. I didn't feel sorry for myself DiSCOrdtC • \"^- thought we were on schedule and we had to quickly hang a left. We arrived in the city at 8:30 PMl%nd our sound check was at 8:15 PM. We didn't bring our gear to Newf|ark, but Ryder's father has a friend whose brother, Kimball, was going to lend us his vintage gear. So we stopped by Kimball's place and he was pulling out all his vintage gear that he played in the 60's. Peter [Laughs] He was playing his classical guitar lines. Marc: Yeah, he was basically performing for us. This was his big moment. I was staring at my watch and kind of biting my tongue. Jason: His voice was exactly like Woody Allen. There was no distinction. Ryder Let me cut in here for a second. Kimball helped us out. We would have been there singing acappella. Peter With tambourines. Ryder Unfortunately for Rob he didn't have a drum kit, but he did have a tambourine. So we played our firstacousti c set 4 I With Rob on tambourine. The rest of us were on equipment qjj||||l supplied by Kimball Mandrake, who on a side note happefli? jfejjS be the son of Mandrake the Magician - the famous a|^pS8n^S from the '40s, '50s, '60s. We got there ten minutesJ^ft«ej^^^^ were to play our show at CBGB's^ Jason: If you can imagine a group of five gul^^pb^^up f£o§Jf^ Vancouver. They show up at your New Ya^fbp^artrfijSnf4WcH$|l want to borrow all of your vintage ayj^^^^^^y^^^ndr^ take it all across town to play a shqwJiQg^i'pposedly %fy$i||lj that night with absolutely no coljatffl^jiTfiiafes^wjiq't we did and : he pollSfihthrough for us 'frd/i3!^^^^^ Ryder Oh, and we play^Vffe^^pH^ndW^fe^^^'"^^^m signing. [EveryoneJgj*dira^4^ Marc: And fherjjtfweM|p^ out. It was re,ajly eclectic crowdflli Peter: I met.|m; JHe^dnx&sister fprk^nsfs'sakel ILgriBBMite. Andjrpu ended the1buVj§f)the Knitting Factory? Mj^: Yeah, the next night, just sqme'mbfe.namedropp'ing, |&& we played the Knitting Factory, and at the end of our set Jay Jason: There is anotherlayer to the name which I'm going to pspinted to this guy at the back of the room. "Who's that guy put out there. It's about understanding that life is a continuity of lllfljlijjhere with the Adam's apple?" And Jay figured out it was generations after generations. And every generation says ^^^^aj»k from The Cars. So Jay went over and gave him a kids these days are fucking losers. You know, they play too many video games, they smoke too much pot, whatever. Every ^^^^^^^tosmile. ,. -:. generation does that to the preceding'generation. And until you can recognize that pattern you're just sort of lost in an (Si)ls^a^swpldl?uestion, but I'll ask it anyways, what's with the egotistical ignorance. ifvflfsit; jlP^iliiipiys'? Marc: I want to be a grandparent that digs my grandkids! ^Ja^^^^^^Mve freaking cell phones. I'm trying to have a music. Whether it'll happen or hot I'm not sure. If all depends if ^^^^^^^^^rall I hear aref.fj>nagers yapping about this and they have good taste in music, but I guess that's the problem. M^^^^^^^^P^ones' When •was young you'd walk down [Everyone laughs] iflilllj ^!^^^P^^^?'DUClclY's Place, ring the doorbell and ask if he feouiq^^^^P ,'. * PeterTgpf^^teblem with kids these days. Food allergies. And antibacterial soap. SP^wL*^ kids these days can be reached at www.kidthesedays.ca. They ' Rob: i s'ay^^pids these days are totally spoiled. When I was kid will be playing at The Pic Pub on March 18th and The Purple Onion on April 14th. And October Man, Marc's solo project, will I have to walk to school for five miles. lh Pefer Uphill both ways. [Laughs] be playing at The Main on March 5 . n^rci. -Slo-oH • \y PROG-ROCK AND PUNCH-LINES: A CON VERS The Approach is a three-piece band spawned from local groups Donkey Engine, Closed Caption Radio, and The Red Light Sting. They play a brand of calculated, instrumental, and yes, (no pun intended), progressive rock. Before you run away thinking of Keith Emerson's pedantic keyboard solos of ("Lucky Man" is still one of my favourites, thank you very much) or, even worse, the vocals of Van Der Graaf Generator, The Approach's compositions contain neither of the aforementioned elements. Their debut release. Wings of Monarchs, is a wonderful sprawl into intricately timed meters and prodigious plunkin' on both the low and high ends. Needless to say, I had to have a few beers with these guys and talk about it. ^W$$M DiSCORDER: With members who have been in so many different bands, has it been hard for The Approach to have its own identity? Marty Rollins (Guitar): I've heard people after our shows try to pick out, compare, or point out the influence I had on Closed Caption Radio, otherwise I don't think there's any reason to compare. There's no real similarity between this band and the other bands I've been in or we've been in. Steve Elliott (Bass): I've never had much of a problem with it... I don't think any of us are that embarrassed by the groups that we were in previously. I would be embarrassed, I guess, by a shitty band, before, but if someone wants to reference Closed Caption Radio, Red Light Sting, Donkey Engine, I don't think we're embarrassed by it. That's our lineage and it's not like we're afraid of that. Marty, you grew up in London, Ontario. You grew up in a weird atmosphere—correct? Marty: Absolutely. Did London contribute to your noise-making? I mean, the ultimate noise band, the Nihilist Spasm Band, was living there. Did you know about them when you were growing up? Marty: Oh yeah. They supposedly perform every Monday night. Did you ever check them out? Marty: I don't think I ever knew that they played that often. I saw their sons' bands a lot—like [Mark] Favro's and Owen Cumoe's and Galen Cumoe's bands. Tunnels Under the City and stuff like that was great to see. They used to play in libraries. But if anything, the atmosphere in London is a lot more generic than you think, and a lot more kind of grunge based. If anything, my noise leanings are probably a result of my coming from there. Steve, do you feel the same about Sarnia? Steve: There was nothing going on in Sarnia. There were a couple of country bars, and there's sort of an Irish bar... Did your town have any influence on your music? Steve: Well, it's pretty proximate to Detroit, so once I was sixteen and able to drive, me and my cohorts would skip town most Can you name any bands that came out of there? 182 precursor, I guess. weekends and check out something at Sfc Andrew's Hall or the Steve: I don't think any bands came out of there... Daryl, being born and raised here, what kind of scene did you various Detroit venues. We saw all kinds oistuff. A lot of Chicago discover? And why did you start playing Mums? stuff was interesting me at that time—Touch and Go stuff, Big Ok but can you name some of the Sarnia punk rock bands that you Black, The Jesus Lizard... knew? Daryl Kirkham (Drums): Well, growing ujf I was way oujpif town, so Steve: The Kentucky Fried Children. Fence. the scene I was into was the old pop's records: big-band stuff. You actually saw these bands play? Marly: I don't know how I feel about Fence. I'm sitting on that one. g Steve: Oh yeah. Many times. So it was a good scene there. There [laughs] " You started playing drums — did you want to imitate someone or was nothina^gSarhia, though, although there was a very nice Steve: Fence was actually named because they felt they straddled anything like that? grass roots kind of punk rock scene. the line between punk rock and melpdic pop, sort of like a Blink Daryl: Well, yeah. As cheesy as it is,,ps was ajpnd that had the Oxsco rdtr. I 14" ATI ON WITH THE APPROACH BY LUKE MEAT sort of theatrical aspect. of you arrive with an idea that includes all three parts? paying attention, because if they did, that's totally awesome. I Do you blieve that Peter Criss is a good drummer? Daryl: Generally Marty comes in with compositions and structures wouldn't expect that, because I think that The Approach does Daryl: [muffled]... No. and ideas. Sometimes he knows where it's going to and sometimes appeal to probably largely a crowd of musicians — people [laughing] He covered his mouth when he said "no"! we'll start working on it and play something that we think would be who can appreciate the musicality rather than necessarily the Daryl: But that brings it back to the big-band thing. It was the old interesting for it and [the song] shifts slightly. showmanship. We try to put on something visual. We are into it, jazz guys that turned me on, and that's what I was interested in. Steve: I think everyone has a role to play, for sure. We're pretty and there's nothing like perceiving the communal power, the vibe comfortable together. The Approach was initially Marty's vision for you get from playing live, which is totally going to translate in your Like Buddy Rich? a grgpp and we all have a say in how that goes. As far as the initial performance. At the same time, I think we know that we're not the Daryj: ||tally. Gene Krupa... song ideas go, definitely, Marty comes up with the essential germ White Stripes of whatever. of what [the song is] going to be, or at least a few riffs, and then it Daryl: Tension and release is the base of music, so I think that's There's that evil term, "progressive rock," that everyone cringes at, definitely a democratic decision-making process as to what stays what we try to achieve in our music, where perhaps something because they think that it means fold-out record covers and songs and what goes. Some^lfffs really cheesy. will be complex for a time, and then it will go back to something about Dungeons and Dragons, and stuff like that. Marty: We're actually really discriminating. You'd be amazed at very particular, very simple and dry, so that there's a moment of Daryl: And flowing robes! how much stuff is discarded. Someone described us as kind of like repose, a time for a scoop of sorbet to cleanse the palette. Don Caballero but with all the boring stuff in between taken out. Marty: Often it comes down to scaling down to the most Is there such a thing as the new prog-rock? [laughs] interesting part, and more often than not, it's the tension and aryl: I wouldn't necessarily say there's a new prog-rock; I think release aspect of it that is most interesting. I don't necessarily there's perhaps little parts taken from the past forty or fifty years Is there a line between good music, progressive music, and just believe that having a frontman there is drawing the most interest. that are being emulated into one new whole. I don't know if it's wanking off? anything really new. It's like anything — it's drawing on a lot of '"' Marty: There definitely is. Would you ever consider using visuals? different sources, and in its entirety, it's not really whole. Daryl: Actually, in Donkey Engin, the band that all of us were in How does The Approach fit into that spectrum? before, we had visuals, and that was a lot of fun. I don't think You guys are obviously music-listeners. Which one of you has the Marty: I don't see the point in showing off technical prowess. it's out of the question; I think that can be an integral part of the best record collection? Daryl: However, when you're a three-piece, there certainly is some music. Steve: Well, I haven't seen it in awhile, but MartyJapra pretty good more space tajpork with, so we can be a little more decadent in Steve: We've done visuals in the past. It's a difficult thing to record collection. our choice of, you know, flurries of notes here and there to create • organize; it becomes sort of a multimedia event, and we enjoy Marty: Steve actually has a lot of the defidpFe' stuff, and the filler is the mood, create the tone, and lead elsewhere. that, but it tends to require some other people to help us out. g%re. So when you're doing that, are you thinking of the listener, or are Tell me your best joke. . Wt%s"filler," by the way? you just indulging your own interests? Daryl: Oh, man. OK, so there's these three women in an ice-cream Daryl: Stuff that you bought when you were eighteen, for Daryl: No, no. Because that happens a lot in rehearsal, that we'll parlour... Oh, I blew it already. emotional reasons. come up with something, primarily a composition Marty's brought Marty: [laughing] That's my favourite joke, too! Marty^Yeah. in, and there wi" be a great deal of wanking. And each one Steve: An octopus with a pair — a pair? — of bagpipes walks Sfeve:-ffipn't knowiFyqu can really call Perfect [the soundtrack] of us will go through jfjgrj£f%o, "Holy fuck, man, pull your pants into a bar and sits down. He's getting progressively drunker .and J^tjjjjphn Travolta and Jamie Lee Curtis a great album. I've got up," trying to cut this down a bit. You're sort of losing track of the drunker. The barkeep's feeding him beers until he finally says, that one. greater goal of something that's actually listenable rather than "Christ, you going to play those bagpipes or what?" The octopus Marty: I take my "filler"jsfmment back. something that's a pure wank-fest. says, "Play them? Once I get the pajamas off it, I'm going to fuck it.' Steve: I think it may sqySsijmething about the group that I don't Stevejlt's a delicate balance, I think, between keeping ourselves, Marty: [laughing] I can't contain myself. Where does Popeye get actually know what Daryl hasT^ikcollection. I know what Marty as rdpicians, interested and challenged. We, like in any creative his girlfriends? IV'T--^"- has because we lived together.— not romantically or anything. art, want to progress in our field and explore that terrain. We want I think Daryl's actually the dark horse of this group. He's a bit to flush ourselves into something that maybe isn't so comfortable, Where? mysterious. I see him in rehearsal a couple of times a week, but scjfauess complexity is born of that desire. But I don't think there's Marty: I don't know, but Jeeeesussss! gsjSe^frcirn that... any desire to alienate, either. But it's fair to say that the end listener Marty: I always have questions about Daryl, but I never ask them... Do you guys hang out together when you're not jamming? TENSION AND RELEASE ISTHE BASE OF MUSIC, SO I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE TRY TO ACHIEVE Daryl: No! llN OUR MUSIC, WHERE PERHAPS SOMETHING WILL BE COMPLEX FOR A TIME, AND THEN If you decided to get together and not jam or talk about music, what would yofejioj^f IT WILL GO BACK TO SOUTHING VERY PARTICULAR, VERY SIMPLE AND DRY, SO THAT Marty: Be right here. Maybe you'd be here; maybe you wouldn't. We'd be swilling beers for sure. THERE'S A MOMENT OF REPtfSE, A TIME FOR A SCOOP OF SORBET TO CLEANSE THE PALETTE. Steve: Or refinishing furniture. Marty: We always have the f|fest time together. A lot of times when isn't a first priority when we write music. I don't think any kind of What are The Approach approaching? we get to rehearsal, [we have] obtuse conversations. art can be pure if it's.dojie purely to bring in legions of fans or Steve: At the moment, we're trying to approach a tour. Steve: Actually, I think we should hang out more, because appreciating critics. Daryl: I'll take a more literal approach. We have another album— rehearsal seems to be this kind of current events jam session more ten tracks—done, so I think a lot of effort wants to go towards that, than a rehearsal half the time. Yojionly see the guys or fwicdjp Some bands of your ilk, like Don Caballero or Godspeed You Black to get that done, and onwards from there. week or once a week or whatevemWe all lead pretty differeKf Emperor, have been known to alienate their audiences live. At the Marty: We'd basically like to take music, scale it down to its most lives, to be honest. Flyer Records showcase in July last year, I was amazed to see how interesting elements, and translate that live, and I think it'll work. attentive the audience was when you were playing. How you can So when you get into the rehearsal, how does your composition manage to make people pay attention and listen? process work? Does you each bring in your own parts or does one Steve: I'm flattered to hear that you think that people were AWol, 100 4-- 1^) BY SWEETCHEYAI Patti Schmidt — for so many of us, her voice heralded deliverance. As the host of CBC Radio 2's Brave New Waves, Well... Schmidt is a rare bright spot of culture and creativity in the dim now does she listen to my recomrtT commercialized mire of modern radio. Over the years, she has Do you ever meet people who have three C exposed countless late-night listeners to hours of little-known and entire music collection? experimental music, purely for the love of the art form. Now in Yeah. My sister used to be like that. I think it's just... different for its 20"1 year, her vehicle is rearing a second generation of kids people. They might find it in literature, or sometimes they don't addicted to sound. Throughout the years, Schmidt's combination find it anywhere. Maybe they find it on TV shows. But, you know, serious, serious record collectors. I tried for a while. I got robbed. of wide-ranging and little-known knowledge, obvious passion for when you get the world reflected back to you in a way that is But, it's too obsessive. I can't. So, it's kind of this splatter of things music, and trademark husky voice has endeared her to music beautiful or enriching... that I have with no real focus or continuity to it. But I like if that fans across the country and around the world. way because that is how I am. That is how life is. That's what it's all about... What do you love about music? - Discorder: What is your motivation?,. Well that! That it is a reflection of real life and ideas and human I think for me it started with New Kids on the Block, and then I Patti Schmidt: An obsessive curiosity. A need to know what emotion. It can convey emotion in such a compact and went to Moist. Then I discovered the Pixies. The Pixies changed other people are doing, what's on their minds, how people are effective way. It's a perfect vehicle for a whole new kind of combining all of the crazy elements of life into song, and probably My sister is now into the Pixies — 15 or 20 years after. I remember an unhealthy evangelical element towards playing [music] for hearing "Caribou" for the first time. I was going through a big DC other people. I'm kind of batty within my house. I've said this Even though it has happened to me 1700 times, even/ time that hardcore phase and had pretty much sworn off pop music and to my friends several times, that if they don't tell me to stop I there is something inside of me that I cannot get out and then figured that, you know, in my angsty 16 or 17 year old way that will narrate every single concert we ever go to. I really have to suddenly I And it in the music — I'm floored. Somebody else gets fucking melody sucked ass. Sentimentalism is crap blah, blah, consciously stop myself from talking. But I just want people to hear it, and they have got it to the point where they can make it make blah. And "Caribou" came along and I was like, "Oh my god. it, is mostly the problem. When people come over to my house sense. This is pop music that is totally rocking my world." I'm usually like, "Aah — hear this song!.Have you heard this song? The last couple of years for me have not been particularly Do you want to hear this song?" and I try to make them their own pleasant, and I've discovered again that thing about music that I I have this theory that if Frank Black was just a little bit more personal playlist of what I think they will like. I don't want to scare knew when I was a teenager: it makes you feel better. I had a lot handsome the Pixies would have been THE FUCKING SHIT in their them — "I know who you are. I think I've got some music that of years of being really more empirical in some my choices. But, day. would fit into your life." when you really need it, a kind of a mirror or something to soak in, Slow burner... They really are huge now. My sister is a Cranberries I totally forgot. fan and the Pixies are part of her repertoire now. '^SjmiBm I just recently moved in with new roommates, and I can't handle silence, and they are sometimes surprised that I listen to music as Do you think that it is legitimate to evaluate music emotionally? It's interesting having them come back I don't know. I never continuously as I do. Of course. I don't think of music in strictly an emotional way thought that this would ever happen. Do you listen to one thing over and over, or do you move it because I like lots of technical displays of music — I like clever The older I get the way less skeptical I am of people doing those around? compositional ideas, structural ideas... but yeah. things. I go through phases where I latch on to certain things. Most What was the first band that ever made you lose your shit? That I have my fingers secretly crossed that it is going to be some sort recently I latched on to the Young People. Holy shit. you freaked out over? of brilliant, brilliant thing. Like, they're gonna come back and I too have been experiencing Young People problems. It's the first I can never get this one quite accurate. Probably, honestly, it even/body is going to be like... song on that record [War Prayers] I just love... Did you know that started with the Bay City Rollers. Then I started to realize that Yeah, yeah. I saw Frank Black at the Commodore in Vancouver one of the guys in that band [Jeff Rosenburg] ... See, here I go ... there was this whole "fandom" aspect to music. It probably went for that Exclaiml tour recently where they did some Pixies is in this horrible noise band that I love called Pink and Brown. Also, something like Men Without Hats; Duran Duran, Minor Threat, material, and I don't know who the bass player was but it was I've heard reports from people that it is difficult for [Katie Eastburn] The Birthday Party. The show is really almost a reflection of how really missing that sloppy, lazy groovy thing that Kim Deal does. to get it live — that nice, pure, clean kind of tone that she gets, chaotic my own record collection is. It makes no sense to most It was really evident. The parts aren't super hard that she plays, that sort of austerity of the song. Apparently, but I don't believe it. people who come over. And I know lots of people who are like but it's the feel of them that always made those songs so groovy. OiScof cie^f times. In three days. I don't do§h$$fiyi»\ore, mostly f because I heard that they had a closed circuit sort of training I don't have time. I'm not searJPft^woXigh music or trying to thing that they would do. And people were really mean and I understand music that way anymore. 1 feel that I have listened to was really upset and horrified. When l.came to McGill in 1987, this so much over the years that I have ... I kind of understand what is also the year that the cable station was aWM3j±tor ft is going on in a way that I didn't when I was listening to things so license, the second thing I did after I regi^^^^pcourses was, thoroughly. But I still listen thoroughly. I went to CKUT and I started volunteering^^^^^irted writing for the magazine, and I think I might haveflltendeep into a Skinny Can music save the world? Puppy phase at this point. Then I got overrfpSJJJiSlmv musical it just didn't have that kind of Of dll the media, it probably has the greatest chance just taste started to evolve in all kinds of new ways because of the because it is so portable and really can get in. I am always access to the big, giant library they had there. And of course, beinc shocked sometimes at what kinds of songs make people all ,in a city like Montreal — there were all kinds of things going on. it is your record/CD player right now? If you were going to sr the world go crazy — how that stuff travels. Music is still a go press play, what would we hear? revolutionary force. It's how people express things. I got a call in January of '91, which is the year I graduated, to I have, and I haven't actually listened to it, it's.just getting ready come audition to be a potential fill-in host. There was like six or to go in, is an advance copy of the new Destroyer record. Your seven of us who went down to the CBC building, horrified. Totally Blues. And lets just see what is in the CD player in here.... It's the the scariest, most nightmarish radio experience of my life. You Egg CD, Don't Postpone Joy. They are a duo from Montreal who had to sit in this giant big room by yourself, and you didn't have do this kind of clink-house-dub-orchestral-samplyrgroovy thing. I think at some points its still likl",°Z7S»e an||p|PBance on the CBC, . —you didn't work the board or anything. You couldn't touch any and a little bit of that is a relation to the culture at large. I think buttons. You're "on," "off," and you get this totally stiff script. It wa Do you ever feel that your senses are dulled from the sheer Brave New Waves is crucial. In fact I argue for the existence of terrible. I stopped and rewrote everything. enormity of the music you take in? this sort of thing on the public broadcaster as totally important I got a call a few months later... No, actually, I did four days in Sometimes that happens but it is usually because other things to reflect the world back to emerging artists and underground June of that year, which was very, very scary and difficult. I would are going on that make me feel overwhelmed. I suppose I've artists, some of whom are going to have particularity popular come and hang out, and just be fascinated by the whole thing. had a few periods where I've felt a little bit burned out, but I find ideas. I think that in Canada lately there has been a whole It's that work behind the scenes which one doesn't see that I've it really not hqrd to break out of. crop of really innovative people who are making a real flash always been a big fan of. I got short-term contracts to be a writer, internationally but at that sort of low hum level. Really innovative programmer which I did until '95. If I was going to imagine myself being you and actively people are here, and I think the public broadcaster especially engaging in a job where it did fuck with my emotions, and going has a major responsibility to support that, and to encourage it, When you took over speaking and hosting. Okay, this is a quote in there every day willing to have my heart broken or explode and to propagate it. And so I am happy to be a part of that. from you. It says, and this is from fhe 15th anniversary round of w/ joy. Every day. That's a pretty brave thing, I think to do. concerts where you said, "We just kind of have to believe in an Its not always so stormy seas as that. Do you think if was inevitable that something like Brave New i almost Ideological way that it is important and keep going." Why Waves came to exist? is that "ideological way" important? But to some extent you have no control over it. No. I think it was the sheer will of the people who started the You have to protect art that has no commercial, or potentially ha; I don't get overwhelmed or burnt out about it, but I think I get program and subsequently who worked out afterwards, of which no commercial validation. It is ideological to support that. It is art really fed up with certain genres or ideas and I just ignore them. I was one. I recognized, when I started working there, just how without any of the standard visions of success as culture at large I'm like, "Oh my god. Not more of that. I can't deal with any crucial an outlet and vehictethe program could be, and even would measure it to have a place, and I need to argue for it. more of that for the next little few months until somebody does though it's late at night it doesn't matter. I love that it's late at something interesting." night. How has Brave New Waves unexpectedly changed your life? I've met several of my heroes over the years. And the best Do you And that that response you had to the Bay City Rollers, How did you come to be a part of Brave New Waves? change: that it actually brought them down to earth. do you feel that in yourself still with the music that you are A fascination with radio at a young age. It was probably at 16 listening to now? when I started listening to campus radio in Ottawa and dreamed Who? Things definitely change and you never get that again. I also of being a DJ without actually understanding what it all meant. Smaller people than you might expect. When you realize that they don't do that thing where I get a record and listen to it 30 I went down there when I was in the last year of high school have real lives, that they have the same neurosis as most people, it ^Wtl, X004 • 17 SUA/D4K MARCH in fcMr'te jMitafr, becomes really interesting ... the whole process of how music gets made. It's been such a long time that I have worked here that "unexpected" is kind of a hard word to fit in. It's been a 13 year evolution. Although when I went on air I was very freaked out about the responsibility. It's interesting how you're sitting In a room by yourself, and I don't know if you ever got nervous, but I used to get so nervous and I'd have sweating palms... Me too! Me too! I didn't even know if I had an audience and my heart is beating a thousand times a minute. ||Yeah. When I did college radio I used to have to do this little !k.jmantra before I turned the lights on. I did that for a while at fflBrave New Waves. I'd have to do it too or I'd get all red, I'd have a headache... ^i^jft^ Do you think that a quest for entertainment erodes art? The Immediate gratification of pleasure vs. integrity? Sometimes. I think that it depends how corporate or commercial that quest for entertainment is. I don't think that there is anything wrong with fun, or music to entertain, or anything to entertain. I don't think that it is a bad idea at all. Do you think that creation and art are equivalent, that anything you create, be it written words or spoken words or painting is Art? Yeah, of course. I think it took me a long time to wrap my head .around how broad that definition is. The first song played on Brave New Waves was Simple Minds' "Promised You a Miracle." If you were going to end it today, what would be your finalinstallation , and what would be your Intention? There has actually been a few over the years that I have made note of, and I wish that the band was just a little bit better, but the band is called The Karl Hendricks Trio and they have a song j called "Requiem For a Canceled Program". Wanna Catch Some Brave New Waves? If you're curious aboutSUM musk W MARCH iuTH or art that slips under the corporate radar, check out Pattl's eclectic 0: & mix of music, artist profiles and Interviews scorate Monday fo Friday. !2:05am-04:00am on CBC Radio 2 (That's 705.7 Add It Up! NUMBERS IN VANCOUVER Jl Vancouver was only the third stop for San Francisco's Numbers, just had more faith in the people of California." Let us pray. the themes of our tour." It seemed important to the band that and DiSCORDER was there to get the scoop at the Brickyard - At one point Numbers were the only actual proper "band" on I mention another one of this tour's themes is "Destroyed by on February 3,d. The new album. In My Mind All The Time, the Tigerbeat 6 label (run by Kid 606) with its influential roster of Fucking" or something like that. was released just two days before, with the jury yet to be laptop wizards and glitch-core experimentalists. Total Shutdown chosen, but by now discerning ears around the college radio and Dynasty are now the other (to quote Indra) "band bands, "... There's plenty of great bands that don't get mentioned in community are being pricked by their remarkable second with actual live drummers". In fact, Indra is Dynasty's live the press and we want to help them instead of try to take down full-length CD. Numbers' music has had several descriptions drummer. Interestingly enough. Numbers were the first "actual somebody else," says Dave optimistically. Some of the bands bandied about by the indie (geeks) journalists, among them band band" to appear on the cover of the electronic-focused they love? "Monitor Bats. We just toured with them. They were post-punk, no-wave and even retro. While the band admits to XLR8R magazine. When I pulled out my copy of that very super fun."-Indra's like "It was the craziest tour we've ever had!" influences such as Wire, Devo and Kraftwerk, Numbers' sound magazine with their photos (alongside Kid 606) they groaned. Dave continues, "Yeah, they kept us up partying every night for expands on the ancestor's vision. "It was a nightmare," Dave relates, "the cover is good but the two and a half weeks. We almost died ... and they almost died photos inside are awful." "I wasn't actually holding a sword," too, it was amazing." "We went to Tijuana, we invented a new "We're not trying to be like those bands, it's just sort of what Indra points out for good measure. "The interview was great language, we were tight," Indra adds. In the following weeks we grew up with we're influenced by" explains drummer Indra though." Numbers is looking forward to touring with other bands like Les Dunis. Dave Broekman (guitar) agrees: "There's not really a Georges Leningrad ("They're Canadian, they're amazing" — popular type of music that's not influenced by another past Like many bands that confound some of their fans when they Dave), Trjn Tran (an ex-member of Xerobot which included Erik trend of popular music that came before it. When new bands discuss what they've been listening to on the road, Numbers and Dave), Ssion, Da Hawnay Troof ("He's like a teenage boy come up and people start calling it "retro" because it's got recite a surprising list of tour-van tunes; "We just got a stereo style Peaches. Only more hip hop." — Dave), and X-27. some similarities to an old style, I think that's too strong of a term today that works," Dave says. Indrd continues, "What did we for most of the stuff. I mean there is some stuff out there that's listen to today? We listened to Notorious BIG, we listened to Warning the band that Vancouver could be a cold place to like... exactly like the old stuff, but I think that term is overused." Black Flag, we listened to Can.... What else? ... Sly and the play, in more ways than one, they looked a little uncertain. Family Stone." "We listened to Joseph Spence," cuts in Eric, Luckily, I was made to eat my words after the crowd proved So, yes, Numbers' music isn't past, present or future but all who evidently exposes the band to old-style country music. "It's me to be absolutely wrong. Number's enthusiasm rubbed off on three tied together in a bounty ball of bondage. Shouted, kinda like folk music. He's kinda strange. He kinda growls the everyone. I guess you can count on j^jjjgers. Haha ... Ugh. urgently-enunciated lyrics are neither positive nor negative. lyrics a lot of the time .... It's just.a guy with an acoustic guitar, They're trivial, mundane and wacky: simple and plain fun. singing, playing." And I almost offend Indra by suggesting that What other band has a keyboard called a "Buzzerk," played commercial hip-hop is crap. Oops. I don't take it back though. by the somewhat stoic Eric Landmark? But this doesn't mean that there's nothing serious on the minds of these very pleasant, Testing how nice the three actually are, I tried to pry out of quirky upstarts. I asked the band what would happen if the US them some dirt on any other bands they've toured with. There election goes the wrong way again. Would they move up to were knowing looks and acknowledgements but no one would Canada with the rest of the progressives? name any names. The worst they could do was jokingly accuse the band Emergency of being "Total assholes!" only to razz "I'm hopeful that the election's gonna go the right way" replied Ethan, member of Emergency (whom Numbers put out a split Broekman, but Indra is not so sure: "I don't really have a whole single with), and Number's merch-guy who was present for the lot of hope. I mean we just had Arnold Schwartzenegger in as entire time. "We don't want to be dicks, we want to rise above our Governor of California so ... I never in a million years thought that kind of thing," explains Dave, and Indra confirms "We're that would happen. I have no idea what's gonna happen. I all about love! We're lovers, not hatersl Actually that is one of ^o-ccL "X0 0 4: I \^ totes 1 $^ CUTE MARRIED PEOPLE: MATES OF STATE By Chris Walters Take a tilt-a-wttiri melody that lilts and spins like a kid in a D: So you guys are on Polyvinyl now? Is this the first full length? Jason: Saturday Looks Good to Me .. I like the newer bands playground. Add drums and a catchy organ line. That's right. I KdifcWeJI; it's actually the-third now... Kori: Yeah, cause the older ones arer t really doing anything. said organ. Top it off with exuberant vocals, boy-girl harmonies Jason: Cause we reissued our firstrecord , and ear-snagging hooks. If you're the California-by-way-of- Kori: And the other one [their second album. Our Constant There's a really different'sound on Team Boo compared to the last Kansas duo Mates of State, you'll have created something Concern]. So it's actually our third. two albums... when you went to record were you in a different interesting. And yeah, you'd be married, too. space? On a rainy Saturday evening in January I made my way to the D: How did you get connected with Polyvinyl? •• ' Jason: Yeah, a very different space. When we went to do Our Railway Club to talk to the band that I have been listening to Kori: Polyvinyl flew into a show from Chicago, and they were just Constant Concern we were entirely ill-prepared as in ... obsessively over the past few weeks. Yes, they are married, but great, the coolest people and so easy to talk to, really together... Kori: Well not only that, but we were in a really uncomfortable don't make any assumptions, because there's so much more Jason: I think we were kinda recommended to them by friends setting, unfamiliar people and a really short time span, and the to Mates of State than being in love. This band has an amazing first record was actually recorded in like three and a half days, sound that needs no comparisons, and isn't defined by the So you guys like being there? so Team Boo was the fijpton e we actually spent time on in the. couple creating it. Despite the dismal rain outside, the band sits Kori: Yeah, they're great, they are re ally good people studio you know... J^**%*i down with me to chat good-naturedly about music, their new Jason: We spent almost three weeks on that, we had all the CD, and doing the whole thing together. They have a really good roster. songs done, with Our Constant Concern we didn't, we only had Jason: What bands do you like on the label? 8 of the 10 songs written while we were in to the studio. DiSCORDER: I thought I would start with a fun question. What's Kori: [mocking tone] "I think we're just about ready to record a your favourite flavour of Jello? Umm, I like American Football, Matt Pond Pa, and Volcano, I'm record, let's go in!" And we weren't ready, you know. Jason: Jello? Grape. Still Excited. You guys have any favourites? Jason: Yeah, we just weren't ready. We didn't evenhave the Kori: I like green, whatever the flavouris . Ko*fc I like. Matt Pond a lot, that's probably one of my favourites. songs down, let alone an idea of what kind of sounds we wanted D;$corcier • XO to get. So basically, whatever the engineer wanted to do we I noticed the use of trumpet this time we think having hand claps or adding a group singing or adding were just like, "Uh yeah, that's fine, let's go." We just had to finish. Kori: I think another thing about this record is that we sorta a xylophone is adding a lot. For most people it's so minimal, but We had a lot of other things on our mind opened our minds, and allowed other people to contribute for us it's like tiny little steps of adding things. Kori: And I think sometimes that that formula might not be so bad things, you know. And it always ends up more fun doing that than if you have time in the studio, if go in and you're like "Well let's it does secluding ourselves and not letting anyone in. That's how With the beautiful harmonies you have when you go into just see what happens out of this basic structure that we have." the trumpet idea happened. recording, does it just happen..? But when you limit yourself to like six days, and you try to do that, Jason: No we usually work it out beforehand. it's stressful, you know. Overall we are all in a better space. Have you guys ever thought of incorporating anything else into Kori: I mean, I don't know anybody who can just sing a harmony the mix? right away. In order to blend with the person you are singing it You guys have been touring a lot of the last couple of years. Is Jason: We have thought about it a lot actually. We may takes time to practise it, you know, figurei t out. this your first stop in Canada? "'IsS-^* experiment even more with the next record. Just because we are Kori: Not in Canada, but in this side of the country. We have sort of at a standstill with writing and with that configuration. Like Yeah, cause there's so much there. It's a huge part of the band. played Toronto and Montreal we recently wrote a song for our friend's movie and we wrote it Kori: 1 think so. I mean, I also think we always thought of entirely differently then we have ever written songs before. So I harmonies as more than a backing vocal... if you can hear How do you feel about your efforts on Team Boo? think we are just experimenting with different processes of writing the harmony or the notes that you make together, it makes it so Kori: We feel like we like it the best, too. songs... much more... Jason: We're the most proud of it, for sure, because we put the Kori: I think we are [experimenting] just after that studio Jason: You can hear them both equally, and it sounds fuller. most effort into it, I think. experience [because] it sort of just opened our minds to thinking Kori: But if you bury one, it's taking away. that we just don't have to do things one way ..; and I mean even Jason: [mocking] "Oh, there's the harmony back in the on [Team Boo]. I know, it's not that obvious to other people, but background." There is no backing vocals in this band. Ha hal And with that, the Mates were off to do their sound check. They went on fo perform what I believe to be one of the best sets I have heard this year. good R-A-W-K stuff. Mates of State Handsome Family WPP delivered a smokin' Rogue Wave Buttless Chaps ^Mi( stage show as well, with Da Hawnay Troof January 31 W SUM 'mm Jit* * intricate mathy-screamy, call- January 31 Richard's on Richards and-response intensity, and Brickyard What cruel fate should place . Tl these two ensembles remain For some, February 14th, 2004 three amazing bands all on the entrenched as VanCity's most was a day for embracing love same night, at different venues? underrated wrecking machines. in all of its forms, and opening Even though I wasn't in the best ^tl4|LWXAP P You have to see 'em to believe their hearts to the world. For of moods on my way to missing 'em, preferably in a place more me, the day for such rejoicing Hayden and Mates of State, Opeth of North America (they're an played Deep Purple cover. conducive to their high-calibre and merriment was January openers the Buttless Chaps Moonspell American band). For the last two songs (a half post-hardcore like The Brickyard 31", and the place was the played with so much joy and Devil Driver Next up were the Portuguese hour's worth), however, an or The Cobalt. Brickyard. It was on this night that enthusiasm that my bad feelings January 23 Moonspell, who raised the amazingly talented drummer Indie/hipster darlings Pretty my heart literally exploded with slipped away. It's hard to not get Commodore Ballroom bar somewhat, introducing was brought out, who nearly Girls Make Graves started off love; perhaps for the first time, carried away by their futuristic All right, so I'm not your typical keyboards into the heady death stole the spotlight from the slow, but had the style, moves perhaps for the last. Either way, style of traditional country, metal fan. I like Metric more sound, and, more importantly, band, breaking into the metal and chops along with vocalist no love is as intense as the love especially when everyone in the than Metallica, Godspeed more a skull on a backbone-like with "The Drapery Falls." The Andrea Zollo doing her best found at a Mates of State show. band has ear to ear smiles the than Godsmack. and for me, BS stick which could be thrust limitations of the drummers Karen O to give the kids what There isn't really much to say whole set through (except for stands for Belle and Sebastian, into the air when necessary. also meant that there was no they wanted. You know how about the opening act. Rogue the drummer, who occasionally not Black Sabbath. That being As the lead singer explained, encore, leaving the entire set there's some bands that fall flat Wave, except that they sounded had the look of an android from said, I know that Opeth is not this was Moonspell's first night hardly the length of one of the if you're not already tooootally like any other halfway decent the future planning the death your typical metal band. Citing in Vancouver, and seeing as band's typical albums. It may into them? Case in point. They band. Their music was alright, of the mother of the unborn primary inspiration from prog/art Vancouver was effectively a not have been the night that won me over by the end of their kinda poppy, kinda catchy, leader of the human race after a bands such as King Crimson Moonspell virgin, they were every fan had been wishing for, set, though, for giving Richards kinda nice; but unfortunately, nuclear war. I wondered if it was and Camel for their latest (and going to leave us with "a night to but nonetheless, Opeth showed on Richards shit for starting the their music wasn't too interesting part of the set). There's been softest) release. Damnation, remember". I don't know about tremendous versatility and show late and acknowleding or unique in any way. I found some buzz around these locals, I knew that the night would the rest of Vancouver, but I'm originality, especially considering that people paid money to more excitement in a friend's and it'll only grow after such a have to pack some kind of never going to forget that skull the stigma that comes with most get in, and that HELL NO they illness-inducing trip to Prime Time show, which had even the most surprise. Indeed it did, as Opeth's on a stick. death metal bands. weren't gonna cut their set short, Chicken than in Rogue Wave's yee-haw of cowboys cheering. drummer was announced sick, As mentioned earlier, Soren Brothers to massive crowd approval. set. This brings me to the and unable to play that night Opeth's latest album Damnation With a sea of defiantly smiling That being said, the second Handsome Family. I used to think (which, considering many of is also their softest. This is true to Pretty Girls Make Graves , faces and middle fingers in the act. Da Hawnay Troof, took the country music was a dead style Opeth's songs reach the 15 the point that it's even a stretch WPP air, they launched into the hits stage and immediately swept that was unbearable when it minute mark and are stitched to call it death metal. There's Sham Teeth I wds waiting for: -"This Is Our the crowd up into a massive was at its best. In the past few with virtuoso drum passages is hardly a song to be found with January 24 Emergency" and "Speakers cloud of confusion, repugnance, years my views have slowly been a pretty serious situation). With power chords and death vocals. Richard's on Richards Push the Air". A predictable fright AND amazement. Straight changing as I discover more that in the back of my mind, I let As a result, this was a fitting The valiant return of Sharp Teeth crescendo, yes, but it was one outta Oakland, the duo and more artists within the style myself enter a trance-like state evening to see Opeth, pared was welcome, after a brief hiatus of those gleeful moments of rock jumped around in their sparkly — Alternative Country to be by staring at the guitarist from down to what they're most and new songs and members. n' roll at its most celebratory shirts and tiny leopard print specific — who have infused Devil Driver... Or rather, his hair. interested in right now - their Even though their set was marred fuck-you-ness, and hopefully undies, shouting nonsensical something especially creative His hair must have been several softer side. by less-than-adequate sound, this sent a message. They even words as lyrics and performing into the mix, turning it into pure feet long, and it swung in vast For most of the set, there . one of Vancouver's secret played an encore, with the dance moves only rivaled by art. circles in time with the drums, was a younger-looking drummer weapons rocked in their scruffy Disco-house-whatever-nite's DJ elementary-school gym class. The Handsome Family are which created a strange effect who's skills seemed limited, but and single-minded Jehu/Rye impatiently waiting by the side You either love them or you • arguably one of the sickest and on my psyche when combined what he lacked the rest of the Coalition way. Mayhem ensued of the stage with his crates. Hee hate them, but if you hate them, darkest of bands out there, but with the unwavering glass-shard band made up for in emotion — the band was all over the hee. you've undoubtedly got a secret they disguise their evil thoughts death vocals, aimed at the and layering of sounds. They place, with lots of sweat and Christopher Olson love for them hidden deep in an old-country songwriting n blue collar workers even launched into a rarely spit and falling over and all that down inside of you. practice that takes away any From an undie-clad duo to initial defences one might have a musically talented one, Da " against thoughts of suicide and Hawnay Troof left the stage to extraterrestrial encounters. For make way for Mates of State. their live appearance, some of Coming from someone who the darkness was lifted to display would rather punch the Easter a softer underbelly of a husband Bunny in the face than watch and wife with a reasonably an episode of Calllou, there h healthy sense of humour. Case no arguing that Kori Gardner in point, lyricist and backup and Jason Hammel are the most singer/instrumentalist Rennie wonderfully and tolerably cute Sparks' repeated calls for people in existence. Watching anyone who could find her pet them gaze lovingly at each spider that had just escaped into other while playing their heart- the crowd somewhere (which . filled happy music served as the was answered with a roll of the epitome of love that night at the eyes from husband and singer/ Brickyard. Aside from the love, composer Brett Sparks). They however, they sounded great, were almost (gasp!) cute, in a as Kori and Jason delivered way that only mentally disturbed the best aspects of their music: people can be, and the result entwining, perfectly matching was a level of intimacy with the vocals and tempo changes, with crowd that I rarely see even at neither musician missing a beat. smaller venues. Their songs were The night was cut short performed beautifully, and with due to problems with the lights, so few pretensions about them leaving us with one drums- that I felt I was far away from only song for an encore, and here, at a neighbour's house, everyone was sent out into the sitting in their cozy living room bitter, loveless, cold Vancouver and hearing them sing one of night. Nonetheless, I doubt that their new songs for me. anyone who was lucky enough Soren Brothers to catch the show will ever forget just how much love they Hard Rubber Orchestra and were able to experience for Uzume Taiko this one night, thanks to Mates February 1 of State. If you feel sick after • Vancouver East Cultural Centre reading this, you're probably just It was billed as "The Godzilla jealous. Concert," and evidently for Starsailor at the Commodore Ballroom Kimberley Day good reason. Four huge drums, flashing lights, masks, dancing, photo by Gaelen Marsden smoke, a 17-piece jazz orchestra 0: scordvr • ^.3^ and... yes, a bagpipe. How crowd that was more interested Commodore for two nights in a could the results be anything in their beers than his songs. row. First, Starsailor stormed the other than awesome? The bar room chatter engulfed ballroom. Then, Gomez had a The concert was split into the small attentive crowd on sold-out turn. Rachael Yamagata two sections. The first section the floor. It didn't help that his was the first act of the night. She featured Uzume Taiko, a four- songs were quiet and slow. It came across as a bittersweet person drum group, performing was a mix of folk-rock, ballads, romantic, her songs engulfed several original compositions. and atmospheric tunes. Another in the victories and defeats of Since taiko drumming is a handicap was his raspy voice. love. She was clad in black from traditional Japanese art form, Subtitles would have been head to toe: long dark hair, understandably I expected to handy during the set since his top, and skirt worn over pants. hear something stereotypically vocal delivery blended a lot She even wore a sombre face Japanese. The Uzume group of the words together. Luckily, when she sang. In between her proved me wrong however... he has some backup support songs, the cheers from the crowd players of non-Japanese from his two bandmates who broke that melancholy spell; she ancestry were included in multitasked on guitar, keyboard, actually smiled and joked about the group's ensemble and and violin. They added texture giving the wrong impression. influences from all corners of to the songs with their layered Solo on stage, Yamagata the globe laced their music (this played songs on a plugged- seemed to bug an audience Starsailor seemed to have in acoustic guitar and an member behind me, who made themselves at home for electric keyboard. Her moving whispered, "Why are there the night, kickin' back with all piano songs had compficated, white guys in the group?" to his things local. Singer. James Walsh beautiful melodies; Between neighbour). The Uzume group was quite the local shopper, high-pitched pleas and loud pushed the boundaries of taiko, wearing his vintage U2 shirt. The growling, her fragile and tough most noticeably on "Chappa real sign was the Canadian beer sides were revealed in song. Chatter," which was performed i onstage. If that wasn't enough, If her emotions weren't clear by four percussionists on tiny there were plenty of Brits in the enough from her vocal delivery, hand-cymbals. Each cymbal crowd to keep them from feeling the lyrics drove the point home; had a different tone, and the homesick. Walsh was clearly there were declarations ("I composition was arranged so having fun and spoke a lot wanna be your everything") to that each player hit a differently- throughout the gig. He was a tad revelations ("If he can't save me, sized cymbal, creating tiny cheeky when he introduced the nobody can"). Her performance clanging melodies reminiscent band, including himself, then he either made you want to either of modern electronic music. The went on to name the keyboard keep a lover or ditch one. first set ended with the aptly- • player as the "star of the show". "Gomez is for lovers" bumper titled "Makem Wanna Dansu," They had fhe unusual start stickers should be the next piece which featured Jason Overy to their set by shooting blue light of merch selling at Gomez on marching-band snare drum rays from the stage while the shows. Attending a Gomez (playing a solo that left more recorded version of "Shark Food" show is a whole new experience than one mouth agape) and played on the speakers. Part compared to listening to their Michael O'Neill on bagpipes. way through the song, the band albums; half the fun is being Themselves at the Commodore Ballroom Collaborating with the Hard walked onstage and finished it immersed in a sea of zealous Rubber Orchestra was something Photo by Joel Levy live. The band performed more fans. There was definitely enough that Uzume Taiko seemed a than a dozen songs; half were heavy musical arsenal at the glove took his hat off to display a crowd, though erqoying the bit hesitant to do, judging from from the new album Silence band's disposal (assorted guitar black mohawk fringed with pink show, wasirelatively inactive. musical director Boyd Siiechi is Easy like the ironic self-titled pedals and distortion/electro 12 and began to rap out what could After several encores. Themselves Grealy's comments in the song, and the soaring "Telling dub gear) to make the night Commodore Ballroom have been sounds of the future. arrived back onstage with the concert programme ("This was Them"; the rest were from their interesting. They started the set Those at Vancouver's The music, though electronic, was Notwist to perform their first ever one of those projects where you debut. Love Is Here. Most of the with the thumping beat of "Shot Commodore Ballroom were ' organic in nature. What sounded live collaboration. It was then do not know if you have'the songs had great instrumentation, Shot." The song set the tone for treated to a rare spectacle on like a sampled voice effect was evident that Themselves had won ability to keep up"). It's fair to energy, and brash pulses. Walsh's what was to come: the best Thursday February 12. While actually Doseone scattering over the crowd as the seemingly say that Uzume kept up their end voice translated a lot better live display of crowd participation Munich's The Notwist delivered syllables overlve keyboards and lifeless audience awoke with more of the bargain, and then some. than on record. On stage, his seen in a long time. Everyone in with their sublime electro- Jel pounding out the beats with applause than the Notwist had his own hands. I'm not really sure received all night. Not to say that The second half of the falsetto didn't rub you the wrong the crowd knew the words to all ambient rock, it was American how to describe the music other the Notwist weren't appreciated, show saw Uzume members way. the songs; they clapped, they underground hip hop artists Themselves that stole the show. than it was hip hop in nature, but but seeing Themselves perform acting out a Twisted love story in The surprise of the evening cheered, maybe some even transcended any genre, or for ive was truly an exhilarating traditional-style Japanese masks. was when Walsh came out cried from pure joy. Singer Tom Themselves Mt the stage that matter, the work of any other experience. As the Notwist singer As Hard Rubber music director with just an acoustic guitar and Gray fed off their energy; he conspicuously dressed in black act out there right now. As the set Markus Acher took to the back of John Korsrud pushed his band treated the crowd to none other worked the crowd, encouraging outfits with crude pink fabric went on, the crowd reverberated the stage during this final encore, to screeching and squawking than two Canadian covers: them to sing and jump around. hearts (aorta valves and all) with newly converted fans Doseone began to chant out heights, a masked devil wooed Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" A party mood was definately pinned over their chests. Three hollering for more. some of his post modem lyrics to the beautiful heroine from a and "Needle and the Damage set at one point when the words podiums were set up with Roman walls of keyboards, reverb guitar white-faced "good guy" in an Done". There wasn't one person "I'm gonna get myself arrested" columns taped to the front, each Following Themselves, and soul-wrenching rhythm. This on stage version of a silent film, in the venue that wasn't singing were sung so loud by the fans with an assortment of digital the Notwist put on a lengthy impromptu jam session was the with the jazz orchestra providing along to the chorus of "Harvest that it was probably heard equipment: microKORGs, push performance, which was mellow perfect way to close the show, a crazed and frantically-paced Moon". outside on Granville Street. "FiH buttons and drum pads. Behind in nature but overall beautiful the setup was an ever-morphing giving both fans of the Notwist soundtrack. At that moment, as The band wrapped up the My Cup" showcased the band's and ethereal. The long set arrangement of lights, artwork and Themselves a magical ending a friend of mine told me the next night with a moving rendition skill at transitions of sweet-muggy included highights such as Pilot, and slides. At center stage, to the night. day, there was no better place of "Good Souls". Backed beginnings, crashing middies Chemicals, Day 7, Consequence Doseone, armed with a pink latex to be in Vancouver. with the cheering crowd and and rock-out trippy endings. The and Pick Up The Phone. The Robyn Hanson • Lucas TdS , stirring organ, the drummer, song also had duo harmonies Ben Byrne, pounded with all that sounded like waves rippling GO SEE THIS SHOW! Starsailor of his might and launched the into the crowd. A new song, Matthew Ryan crowd into a dozen of more "Sweet Virginia" was played; it If you like music, you should Februarys .J&j$&*kd shouts of the lyrics, "higher than had a strange rhythm laced with definitely check out thisjlfit^. Commodore Ballroom the government". As the band electro dub tones. It was the second coming. members walked off the stage, Stadium-style cheering That is, the second coming of Walsh ended the song with a brought the band back out for Exclaim! 12th Anniversary Starsailor to Vancouver since U2 guitar riff and let it drift into a mini encore set that ended Party 2002. Tonight they were all smiles distortion heaven. The si/ence with "Whippin' Picadilly". All the featuring: and happy to be in a snow- fe[n't] easy to handle after a personalities of the band meshed free zone. Lead singer James show like that. together as an impressive unit. Broken Social Scene Walsh may have been the first Emily Khong " Gomez didn't skimp out on a The Stills person to compliment this city's thing. They delivered everything Raising The Fawn weather: "It's the first time in my Gomez but the kitchen sink. at the Commodore Balliwim^. entire life I'm glad to see rain." Rachael Yamagata Emily Khong Opening act Matthew Ryan Wednesday, March M^hl tried his best to warm up the audience. He worked a tough AWO* xoo^t | x3 UUOER «WIEW Ashtray Boy band relocated to Los Angeles distinctive voice, Jaciubek tends extreme beauty (think pastry, lo-brow enthusiasts gone for Maxeen The Euro and are currently planning west to sound the same no matter public gardens, public sex) set subtlety? In the end, they've Maxeen (Ajax) coast and national tour dates.' what she's singing, whether its against unbelievable harshness got a good sound with enough (Side One Dummy) I rue the word "mellow". I hate If you want to listen to some "filthy swine you're feeling fine" (the housing projects, the rebellious itch to catch the ears Maxeen's debut album could everything about it: what it Upbeat and refreshing music or "I will show you what lies snobbiness, and don't forget of the young punk-popsters. possibly be the next teen pop- conveys, how it sounds, the then I highly suggest Unfocus beyond the promised land." I'm the dog poo). This dichotomy Combine that with a strong visual punk anthem. Their songs have words it rhymes with. Sucks for On It. not worried, though. Girl Nobody is also central to Hella's utterly presence, and the kids should the proper ingredients: catchy me because I can't find a better Marc Salem have a good solid core of talent, original brand of modern eat it up like Halloween candy. beats, lyrics that could be written word for the transcontinental and as they've proved in the instrumental post-rock, and well Dementia Wiggteboffom by a lovelorn fourteen year old, identity of Ashtray Boy's seventh The Field Register past, their sound will adjust. in evidence on their sophomore and most importantly, a lead ! release The Euro, which delivers Eastern Shore KatSiddle full-length. Hella songs reside Courtney Love singer whose voice could shatter an organic and hauntingly... (Ships at Night) in as-yet-uncharted musical America's Sweetheart windows. Nonetheless, it is not mellow... portrait of Europe The best I can say for The Field The Heavy Blinkers/Orwell territory, oscillating unpredictably (Virgin) entirely justifiable to compare through the perspective of Register's Eastern Shore is that Intercontinental Pop Exchange between fluid melody and Everyone has an opinion on Maxeen to the likes of Good Randgll Lee. Randall, who it makes for good background No.3 discordant noise. The fact that Courtney Love. She outrages Charlotte and A Simple Plan, as remains to be the only constant music. Ten tracks of mellow (endearing) there are only.two players in everyone and everything around it possesses one thing that the in a band of a bajillion variables, and melancholy sameness are Now here's an idea: expose this band (Spencer Seim on her, which, it must be said, is her afore-mentioned bands lack: finds inspiration in the unification perfect for lousy dinner parties artists from around the world guitars and programming, single greatest talent. I for one real talent. For example, their first of European currencies under or funeral wakes. But if you through a musical exchange Zach Hill alternately murdering have always had a soft spot for song, "Please" has a stomping the Euro (also a rare wallaby, try an active listen of this disk, program. Instead of taking home and making love to his drum Ms. Love because she epitomizes intrq and a crazy sax bridge that allegedly) as he chases a broad and you'll wish you were the a sexy exchange student, you kit) is frequently disbelieved the brute force rawness of ska bands of yesteryears can only spectrum of emotion in his lyrics. dead guy. I had ambition for can take home a different kind by first-time listeners. Tempos balls-to-the-wall rock'n'roll and fathom of doing. Furthermore, if His deep, hollow-sounding voice, this album. Gilles Castilloux's of tasty package. This is the and melodies shift constantly, matches it in her life. In that you are fond of The Get Up Kids, reminiscent of Nick Cave, guides drumming style was wonderfully third such EP compilation from demanding complete and context, her music is almost Maxeen may be worth a listen, a semi-hypnotic journey from Radiohead, circa Amnesiac. But endearing records, featuring utter submission from the inconsequential; everything as they bring their songs tinged, the "Late nite mating dance" overall Eastern Shore's sound Canadian band. The Heavy listener. "Top Twenty Notes" is boils down to her larger-than-life if not doused, with the white to the end of the mellow- is oppressive. Disappointingly, Blinkers matched with the French a perfect example of Hella's • personality. But what of her latest man's reggae. They successfully brick road. Recorded in eight Kees Dekker's charming vocals band Orwell. Both groups share unprecedented sound: disc? First some background: bring this sound to most of their different European languages never quite escape the music an orchestral retro pop sensibility, rhythmic guitar feedback Hole burst onto the west-coast songs, as "Lead Not Follow" has distills into a driving indie-rock a great chill vibe, while "Take - with the assistance of friends they're mediated by. Fuzzy and striving to make the old new alternative scene with '91s riff, transforming into bizarre the Weight Off" is more intense and travel dictionaries - and anti-climactic, this album left me again. The Heavy Blinkers have Pretty on the Inside, a slice of finger-tapping. The othervyorldly and impassioned. However, a recorded in a handful of studios yearning for clarity. But I won't their musical drive permanently pure raging genius produced orgasmic efecfronic beauty couple of others, such as "Poison on three continents, The Euro throw this disk in the garbage. set to cruise control. Their by Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon. of "Except No Subs" could be June" and "Getaway," just don't finds balance between Lee's It has its uses. Next time I'm songs feature dynamic piano She showed that she still had it borrowed from a Bjork album hit the mark, as their lyrics and observations of great social cooking or washing my floor, I'll chords, "Tribute to Sparrow" in '94 when Hole released the ten years in the future. And hey, melodies are rather lackluster. changes and introspective pop it in the cd player. The Field sounding like the lovechild of kick-ass Live Through This, still don't the Japanese love Bj6rk Overall Maxeen's first album emotional responses. The Register's sound is unassuming the 1960s San Francisco music one of my favorite albums of the as well? Hmmm... why are they proves^ that they are have talent relaxed, unique sounds from the enough that it won't distract me scene complete with male and early '90s. The songs were almost always the first to know? I like and variation. Although they repetitive guitar riffs and transient from my chores. female choruses doing tag-team pretty by Hole standards, but to imagine their refined tastes, are probably target-marketed synthesizers are complemented Alison Benjamin singing. The Heavy Blinker's new still retained the out-of-control as some sort of pop-cultural towards teens, if you like The with drums and bass on the amie is Orwell, a group wears _ intensity Courtney Love imbues reparation for Hiroshima and Police (Tom Bailey, the lead singer mixed tracks "VIP600" and "H20 its orchestral pop heart on its with everything she does. As Nagasaki. And come summer, and bassist, has been compared conversations" for an emotional sleeve. The singer's 80s new- could be expected, America's Girl Nobody Hella will be making it up to them to Sting, though I just don't hear climax that will convince you to wave tone is infectious to say Sweetheart falls well short of the The Future Isn't What It Used to Be big time. it); or even the Get Up Kids, pack your bags and fly to fhe old the least. "Attic's Ballad" goes sporadic genius of Uve Through (Independent) Susy Webb add Maxeen to your listening world yourself. off-course but in a good way; Th'& or even Celebrity Skin for I heard Girl Nobody for the first this synthesizer-heavy track with that matter. Alternately stuck diet. You may be surprised, as . Calen time on CiTR's The Northern Wish a flute melody is the sedative to in a tired '90s groove, or in the they bring back what The Police in 2001. A single song from their the rest of the happy-go-lucky Horrorpops heavy over-produced rock style invented, with a strong pull on the The Faraway Places self-titled EP prompted me to try tracks on the disc, endearing Hell Yeahl stinking up the airwaves these pop-tab. Unfocus On If and catch every Girl Nobody records was a good host (Hellcat Records) days, Sweetheart rarely takes off, Victoria Cruz (Eenie Meenie Records) show in town. I managed to see family to this musical pairing. After years of playing Ii ve shows, except in those rare moments On the album Unfocus On It, The quite a few. The best thing about Apparently there are enough Danish psychobilly quartet when Courtney, sounding drunk Faraway Places, formerly known their gigs was the way their artists with the same-cheery, Horrorpops have released their and right fucked-up, lets loose P:ano as The Solar Saturday, unleash sound would change from show elaborate pop outlook in life left first full-length on LA's Hellcat with her formidable emotional The Den an intricate and interesting to show: the band was always in the world. records. Hell Yeahl features presence. Have a listen to "Life (Hive-Fi/Zum) listening experience. The band, tweaking something, filling Emily Khong songs about loose women and Despite God" for an example This record made us wish we had which consists of Chris Colthart, out their moody pop noir with tattoo parlors, mean boys and and rare shot of what Love can a better stereo in the DiSCORDER Donna Coppola and Jeff effects, and then trimming away other things that go bump in the do when pushed to the wall. If office. Our pathetic, beat-up Wright, incorporates numerous the excess. For a while, every Hella night. The lyrics are uninspired, the rest of the album had the boom-box must be payback instruments and effects. Chris song started and ended with the The Devil Isn't Red and Patricia's vocals aren't emotional and musical on-the- for the amount of free CDs and and Donna sing together or UFO-like wailing of a theramin. (5 Rue Christine) strong. But her hooks are edge risks taken that Love is shit we get. Anyways, enough take turns, keeping the CD from (Mercifully, they're more sparing As the DiSCORDER goes to pleasantly pop-catchy, while capable of, this would've been gloating. For the legions of fans turning stale. The overall sound with it now). Their first full-length. print, Sacramento's Hella is her double bass gives the songs a stunning rekkid. Would've. who listened to When it's Dark of the band is lush and melodic The Future Isn't What it Used To preparing for their first overseas a rockabilly kick and swagger Mr. Moo and it's Summer over and over Be, continues this tradition of that singles Horrorpops out from — good music to have outside tour, a two-country trip to Japan again last year, The Den offers movement. Be Good Tanya's the punk-pop crowd. I'm a big on a sunny day or if you just and France. Japan is obvious: more of the same otherwordly producer Futcher lays down a fan of pop when it's spiked with want to chill out at home. The those kids have the best taste Kate Maid ingredients: Nick Krgovich's backdrop of skittery trip-hop and something harder, and that tail- string-laden album consists of in everything, from incredible Confusion Unlimited whispered lead vocals, Larissa electro beats, and multi-tracks shakin' slap-back bass is dirty nine psychedelic pop songs that outfits to delicious yet healthy (Independant) Loyva's heavenly harmonies Marta Jaciubek's voice more and charming. It's well recorded, send the listener into a state of snack foods. As this album's Sarah Harmer certainly didn't and trumpet playing, effortless often than not. The result is an too. The real props go to their euphoria. This band knows how current number two status on invent the folksinger genre, but shifts from subtle, stripped- enigmatic and sophisticated visual aesthetic, though. Patricia to craft catchy riffs and hooks the American college radio she could still sue Kate Makl for down instrumentation to lush pop album that is intriguing in its vamps across the album cover that are still very technical in charts might indicate, Hella is ripping off her sound. Pick up orchestration, and yes, that best moments, and unemotional like a b-movie pin-up, clutching design. Songs like "Marvelous definitely good. So, obviously, Confusion Unlimited only if you fucking beautiful piano. Lyrically in its worst. While tracks like a white bass that sports as much the Japanese love them. But desperatly need fhe b-sides to and sonically. The Den remains Error", "Another Life" and "City "Cages" and "My Best" get ink as the band members' why France? Anyone who you Were Here. gracefully cheeky without falling on the Ocean" sound like an it right, the album as a whole arms. Their well-honed live show has spent any time in that KatSiddle into the bottomless chasm obscure mix of Sloan, Moby and lacks the emotional appeal Girl apparently includes pirate-girl hotbed of European culture is of twee. These are the songs The Beach Boys. The description, Nobody are certainly capable go-go dancers. It's not at ali as weird as it sounds, is fitting for familiar with the dichotomy at the group have been playing of. Though blessed with a the centre of French culture: subtle, but since when have this band who met in Boston. The since releasing their first album. V^cord^r • XM- which at long last we have the all kicked. Yep, this album is ability to hear without waiting worthwhile, and makes a good for another far too rare p:ano addition for the seeker of a fresh show. The DiSCORDER's review style of hardcore/punk revival. of that first offering closed with Julia • V>^ scoVV nil** SA a simple "Thank you." In the meantime, the sheer volume The Special Goodness of aural pleasure this group Landairsea has bestowed upon their (Epitaph) I A *W\Jk<\ %\t\ s*v«A Ht "fron *)«M«M W»V V>y •rW, listening audience is deserving What's so "special" about The of something spectacular and Special Goodness? Not much. concrete. We imagine block- There are high hopes for Weezer long chocolate cakes or fields drummer Pat Wilson and his QotVL of band members' favourite side project with buddy Atom flowers. But for now all we can Willard (from Rocket From the say, is once, again, "Thank you, Crypt). This would be a chance p:ano. Thank you." to display some of Wilson's Graeme, Kat and Susy hidden musical roots like folk, jazz, or even death metal but Run Chico Run evidently, he's punk-pop to the Shashbo core. Only hard-core Weezer (Independent) fans will know if Pat stuck with With the unleashing of the Weezer sound because he Shashbo, Run Chico Run have wanted to play it safe and use a accompjished something formula that works or if this is the beyond my scope of real Pat Wilson. Will the real Pat comprehension. An imaginary - Wilson please stand up? There line has been trampled and the is little variety, with all the tracks face of rock has been exposed sounding pretty much the same. to a new wind from Victoria It's a lineup of the usual suspects: which sounds like an angry robot - talking/singing verses and power leaning towards the occasional chord progressions, with Willard Latin rhythm ("Jacques & adding his drumming expertise Madeine"), and tear jerking to fill out the punk-pop equation. melodies ("Ol Blue Pants"). The Of all the tracks on Landiarsea, music is so expansive and fresh, the drawn out refrain in "Pardon all that's left to ponder is how Me" is the most worthy of a sing a band with such talent has along, while the best track is remained under the radar for as "Whatever's Going On"—there long as they have? are classic Weezer harmonies Soren Brothers and confessional lyrics here. For an album that was recorded on two-inch tape, it's pretty solid. You don't have to be a math whiz to figure out that Weezer + a hybrid of Weezer = Weezer. For the Special Goodness to stop ^*h Hoc* ;n-WesVe<\ ;A ^ffccW.'Aa getting compared to Weezer, they're going to have to take a major 45 degree turn next time round the bend. -> **• | wrtAc,.1V^Wker Emily Khong Wax Mannequin Snapcase The Price Bright Flashes (Independent) (Victory Records) As self-proclaimed "President This upstate New York band sure of Indie Rock," Wax Mannequin $* *7 W c^V S»| * crab. has a lot to say. I was introduced has at last delivered his definitive to the musical styles of Snapcase indie rock album. While his two on a bus heading to downtown previous albums cultivated a Vancouver, and as the streets classical, delicate womb with flowed by, pungent music a tainted yolk of punk love, The blared in my ears. Snapcase Price features WM bursting out of has a unique, shall I say, flavour. the shell with a full band. There They're hardcore to the utmost, is no doubt a grave somewhere but this isn't the type of CD that with flowers and mourners trying you get sick of halfway through to cope with the death of his because each song sounds trademark classical guitar and like the last. Oh no, each song synthetic beats, but there will is complemented with a spicy be countless more who will find little riff and beats that rock. salvation in his new rock and Bright Flashes is made up of a roll, and those who have been mish-mash of Snapcase's older with him all the way will find revamped material, and covers enough gems here ("Doctor", songs, some by inspirations "Thing Game") to keep them Jane's Addiction and Devo. comforted. When it comes This band seems to be trying for down to it though, this album an intellectual and/or political isn't about balance. It's about theme, methinks, as songs like keeping the rock, and keeping "Believe/Revolt (Relocation the roll. Blueprint)", "Skeptic", and Soren Brothers "Freedom of Choice" would have me believe. Yet many of these songs are not new. This album really doesn't have a let down anywhere, the momentum is carried fairly well throughout, *V*5 is cVfcoW 5«.v«.fV and I won't play favourites to cV*fHr ft^V^ 6*** Reggae Linkup ^^2"^^^ Pacific Pickin* Fill-In Please Rock The Door Fill-in Fill-In 6*M i^f3 Wmmm $$sf9N (EC) | 7 Suburban Jungle 7 (EC) 18 Breakfast wffi|3g2|f HighBred Voices End of the World News Caught In The Red The Saturday Edge 8 Brawns iSsffC'*" (WO) (EC) (RR) (RT) 9 Are You Serious? Music (EC) Hll-ln 9 1 (EC) Third Times The Charm • 10 (RR) Exquisite Corpse Planet LoyeJrorJ^if Ska-T's Scene-ik Drive 10 (EX) (DC) (SK) 1 11 Fill-In <-/ | g| 11 Fill - In Morning After Rred Up (TK) • 12W* ^^fcSkWSr^^S^i Mystery OirtcRv i\ JSpSptUp 9wY-S&i*S Anoize Unpack your Adjectives These are the Breaks Generation Annihilation-12RM 1 li (RG) (PO) i i^^ttfik ReeltoRealfTK) iHlKlRi1! 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Blue Monday (Gl) African Rhthms 8 1^J^*J^^ ! Satario Minimo JuiceBox(TK) On Air With Greased Hair (WO) 8 k (WO)k (RR) 9 Rhythms India Folk Oasis (RT) HomeBass Synaptic Sandwich 9 (WO) ?£^J&SJfc, ^ve Fr°m... Thunderbird (DC) (DC/EC) 1 10 |^|fj^pazz Show Venus Escapism Radio Hell 10 fW&mS FlyTrap(EC),;j , : (EC) . (LM) : 11 Trancendance Hbns-lQbss' Misery Hour Plufonian Nights 11 (DC) , (HK) World Heat (DC) VengencelsMinel ||||f||pl Tentacles (WO) 1 Like The TheAnti- ;i3R*« 1 11111111 (PU) «£fll&- (EC) j Scribbles dote (EC) 1 The Show *' (EC) EdrWax 1 1 (HH) RIHn (HH/DC) Rrst Floor Sound System The Vampires Ball : %i llil-^ sn&£d (EG> 3 Radio Zero Psychedelic Airwaves 3 (EC) (DC/EC) - ' - • :|f4ff^ Reggae Linkup •"'Sf 5 (RG) CH-children's • DC-dance/electronic • EC-eclectic • EX-experimental • FR-Frerich language • Gl-goth/industrial • HC-hardcore • HH-hiphop • HK-Hans Kloss • Id-kids • JZ-jazz ^P? 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Brian Eno 1 15 SWEATSHOP UNION* Punk Rock Touch and Go VMM 16 CLUMSY LOVERS You Know the Rules Mint 9. Talking Heads 17 V/A Natural Progression Battle Axe 10. The Cure I1 18MR.'AIRPLANEMAN After the Flood Nettwerk ^1§» Echo & The Bunnymen 1 19MTX PaperBag Records Comp. PaperBag 12. David Bowie mw I 20 CHARIZMA AND PEANUT BUTTER WOLF C'mon DJ Sympathy 13. The Fall m • 21 OLD BOMBS Yesterday Rules Lookout! 14. Dead Kennedys m 22 JONATHAN INC.* IS. 54/40 m •m 23 V/A Big Shots Stone's Throw 16. Gun Club . MWbmm 24 MIDWEST PRODUCT Audios Soft Abuse 17. Lou Reed ggg HP* 25 DANI SICILIANO Things Done and Left... Indie 18. Bill Nelson 26 ELECTRELANE Chicago's Avant Today Delmark 19. The Fleshtones 27 FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY* World Series of Love Ghostly International 20. Simple Minds 28 WEIRD WAR Likes... K7 21. Gang Of Four 29 SHINS The Power Out Too Pure 22. Stranglers 30 STEPHEN MERRIT Civilization Metropolis 23. Trevor Jones 31 HUMAN HI-LITE REEL If You Can't Beat'Em... Drag City 24. 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