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CANADA V6T IN STORES JUNE 121 cowshead chronicles BREAK FREE TO AN dedicated to robyn over the years i have told many stories, i have related the very inner workings of my EXCITING NEW CAREER life in this, the cowshead chronicles, and have felt that i have given to you, the reader, my soul, stories about my father, which he has never read, related, through AS DiSCORDER EDITOR! both fiction and non-fiction, the workings of my personal life, I have told you, more times than I can remember, more that I maybe should have, but, you know, i wouldn't take it back for anything, because, by design, the stories were really about you and what you're all about, the things i write of happen to everyone but not all of us can Discorder is currently looking for be honest and tell the stories of our lives as much as we want to sometimes, we all a dynamic and self-motivated in have great heartbreak, sorrow, despair, happiness and all the other speakable and dividual to fill the position of Edi unspeakable emotions, why can't we tell our friends how we feel? why can't we ask for help when we need it? i know, for myself, that i find it so much easier to write a tor. The successful applicant will story relating some sort of emotion than i do sitting down with someone and let have good communication skills, ting it all out. and as i sit here now with a half empty pack of Winston's and an knowledge of and appreciation of empty glass of what was water, i wonder why last week i almost sent my father a the magazine, some proficiency in story i wrote about him but didn't, fearing the worst, what would he think? maybe it was better he never knew about it. i also wrote a cowshead about something highly desktop publishing, and, YES. personal where i didn't hide the truth behind fake names and places but felt that it writing skills. To apply, send a was better that i didn't send it in because of all the shit that would fly because of resume, a covering letter of the it. and those who did read it felt the same way. i have never meant to hang my dirty direction you would like to take the laundry out in the cowshead. although, i must admit, the cowshead is meant as a magazine, and a few samples of chronicle of my life as it relates to others, but, those of you who read it are suppose to get something out for yourself as well, a recent story about my relationship with your written work before June my father affected more than a few people, i was surprised, in fact, by the impact i 15th to: had on some people, but then again if i can evoke that sort of emotion in anyone i'm DiSCORDER, c/o CiTR happy because, then i know what i'm doing has a reason deep down and isn't done purely in vain, i have many more stories to tell but i just felt that this month i would #233-6138 SUB Blvd explain myself a little, there are things we all need to say, things we all need to do. 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"^-4 • if fWatch For these* Lustre upcoming shows! Dog's Eye View SUNDAY & The Wallflowers JUNE 9 No Doubt JUNE 4 * 1 THE COMMODORE & Goldfinger THE TOWN PUMP rKV In VON SALE SOONI> $9 advance -$12 at the door HPJ y^f ™ ,.. " *- .. • " '. 7 : : ' : •* QUOTE OF THE WEEK! 'The Monkees will leave absolutely no mark on American Music." • Crawdaddy Magazir bad, overwhelming loud sound mix and a faulty a lot of that kind of swinging rhythm present, in Upon entering the Gate, the bar in the Hotel guitar diminished their impact. However, the style of Penny Lane era Beatles. As great as California, I felt sort of like I was in the old Lunatic Spacekid showed lots of promise, with strength the band was, it's unfortunate that the show was in Fringe, mostly because of its look, which resembled as a band and a healthy dose of 80's nostalgia a bar: the audience just could not respond with an 80's style rock bar in many ways with its high (for example, their cover of "Manic Monday") to the energy lhat came even close to approaching stage and supporting pillars all around. However, catch your attention. what was seen last time they played here at the it made a decent-enough location for this show, By now it was quarter to midnight, and so I Howden Ballroom. Aside from that, the perfor where the Readymade were playing with went off to the Commodore to see Guided By mance was a highlight only to be rivaled by what Speedbuggy and Ringpiece. Starting their set with feto. Voices, a band I was convinced to be a combina followed, an intense performance by Stereolab. a Joy Division cover, the band's long songs pro tion of such 70's groups as Bad Company, and I Concentration on the music was as blindingly vided a great soundtrack to the images projected wanted to see if this impression held true. intense on the eyes as it was the ears such lhat I behind them, theirs was music to wallow in. Almost Music was once about per Unfortunately, some ill-planning on the part of could almost have lost sense of when and where I I was disappointed not to have seen any of Music forming for it's own sake, if not for cultural ritual. Music West (or perhaps mis-guided greed on the was. My senses were so overwhelmed that I had Waste, which offered almost as many bands as the Introducing money to tfie art-form changed it for part of whomever collected ticket revenues) made it just about had enough of shows for the weekend, Music West festival itself did! ever - tfiis much you know already, right? Lots of impossible for me and about a half dozen other but there was still one more band I had to see on That so much is happening is really a testament people (including myself) have often complained media-types from ihe Province and the Sun to get in the final night of the weekend, The Readymade. to Music West and its impact on Vancouver's music about the commercialism surrounding Music West: with our accreditation wristbands. Only 200 wrist scene. Even if I only went to a handful of their that it's all about "getting signed"; that it's all about band holders were allowed admission, and every shows, all the rest of the events that went o making the most money with me music you're mak one else had to buy individual tickets to get in. a result of the kickstart Music West has brought to ing (and making music to make the most money). What this meant was that even though the venue Vancouver each May for the last few years. I'm This attitude still has a high priority within the con was far from full, the only way to get in would have glad Music West is here because in so many ference itself (for example, the seminar on pur been to buy a $13 ticket. Not that I'm crying for ways, it's led to musical events occurring for no chasing independent labels), and in many ways media-types who didn't pay for their wristbands to itself, and led to initiation of fhe counter-Music West fest, begin with, but for festival goers who bought wrist Music Waste. However, after the weekend was bands for 30-something dollars were over it occurred to me lhat Music West is responsi boat. I went home for the evening to get ready for ble for more than making itself some grandiose another busy musical day to follow. event to show off scxalled "talent". It was respon Friday night's line-ups definitely held some inter sible for a lot of music for music's sake. est for me, both the Real McKenzies at the Town Pump and the Mint-Lookout Records' showcase at the Gastown Music Hall, fea turing Duo-Tang, the Smugglers and others. However, except for a brief foray into the Starfish Room to see Toronto's Len (who I watched for a dull 10 minutes, which seemed to improve just as I was leaving), my evening had little to do with Music West. Instead I attended a relatively low- profile rehearsal-space gig in Yaletown including Kaneva, the Electrosonics, the Liars, Radioblaster and others. By the time Kaneva began, a sizable number of peo ple began to converge in the "venue", and those in attendance heard an excellent sampling of the group's repertoire, with droning pop beneath female vocals. The warmth of their sound was like a musical bonfire to warm your giblets. Four song: hardly enough, but so many band; were left to perform. Next Liars, a post-punk power trio \ raunchy, punchy sound with fen energy and great songs to boot. Other bands followed, but by was starting to wear thin from all the volume and the smoke I'd been exposed to in only two days. Saturday offered a show with more hype than just about any so far this year: Stereolab headlining a bill that IN STORES NOW - EVERYWHERE!!! was advertised as including Pure and Cinderpop. SMOOTHER My weekend began on Thursday SEE TRISTAN PSIONIC LIVE ON TOUR However, it seemed like the bulk of the crowd May 2nd with the arrival of some friends from knew lhat one other band would be making a "sur w/LABEL-MATES - SIANsphetU Calgary, and a trip to CiTR to see Radioblaster and prise" appearance, itie sometimes-defunct-some Speedbuggy, both of whom were in Music West, times-together Sloan. Cinderpop were first but also were playing live on-air that night. on-stage around 9:45, and I really wasn't in a Radioblaster took their name from a Thrush Hermit JUNE 8 • VANCOUVER @ ANZA CLUB (#3 wsth si.) mood to see them knowing that it was just delay song, and their sound is aptly comparable to their ing Sloan's performance. I suppose they weren't w/readymade and gaze namesakes, perhaps a little less rocky, and a little bad, but they weren't anything to get my mind off more poppy. As a three-piece with male and of the fact that two of my favorite bands (Sloan female vocals, guitar, bass and drums, they are and Stereolab) were going to be on only after the probably heirs to the throne of indie rock stardom JUNE 9 - PRINCE GEORGE URBAN COFFEE HOUSE first two groups were finished. Cinderpop lives up in Toronto after their contemporaries Treble to its name though, with songs reminiscent of ALL AGES Charger. Speedbuggy followed with a loose Crowded House, Matthew Sweet, etc, elc. I'll have impromptu mini-set which I was only able to hear give them another look before I can pass any from my car stereo, as I was then racing downtown judgment. About an hour and fifteen minutes later, JUNE 12 VICTORIA @ tba to catch Spacekid at Route 66. it was announced lhat Pure wouldn't be perform This was my first real interaction with Music ing because of a medical emergency. Fortunately JUNE 13 VANCOUVER @ tba West '96, and I suppose it was typical of many for the people in attendance (practically all of check local listings for details shows: sparse attendance in a smoky bar with one whom appeared to be there for Sloan) this or two individuals who stuck out like the industry allowed everyone's favorite Haligonians to play a insiders ihey were, wilh their posturing and clothing slightly longer set of mostly new material. The You can find sonic unyon stuff in stores everywhere or shop by mail - standing by themselves, slicked-back hair and group has managed to maintain their incredible leather jackets, maybe cowboy boots on their feet. energy and chemistry that made them such an CDs/LPs ONLY $12 (tax & post included) from: Spacekid was a band I had only heard on tape, a incredible live band. The new songs from a forth SONIC UNYON RECORDS CANADA quartet with a power pop sound, fairly typical of coming album were also very good, at least at par P.O. BOX 57347 Jackson Station, Hamilton, ON L8P 4X2 the bands I was interested in seeing this year. with their previous recordings. To hear them, it Maybe it was the high expectations I had for the seems mat Vancouver's Zumpano may have had phone 905-777-1223 fax 905-777-1161 bond, but a combination of factors including a some impact on Sloan's songwriting, as there was SOniC LinyOn e-mail [email protected] web site www.sonicunyon.com 6 JUNE 1996 REVEREND HORTON HEAT DiSCORDER: Alright, first of all, he could play and he'd be all like, 'I bet I'm there's got to be some things that freakin' you out that I can play this' and yon just don't wanna talk about, laughing and everything... but there's this what are they? one guitar solo that we did, "Rock Around Reverend Horton Heat: Lemmee see..well, the Clock" and to this day thafs still one politics, religion, my medical history...uh, of the fastest, coolest guitar solos ever, just about anything else thats' none ah yer and when that song came up the saxa- damn business. phone player would come over and play my So like in the song, "Sails of guitar cause I couldn't play that solo and I'd Cocaine" where you say you gave "A just be sittin' there goin, 'Damn, I wish I sample to yer crazy brother Joe" you knew that solo'. I'm playin' it on the new really did just give him a sample, record (July 16th is the release date) so I sold the rest and thats' the end of finally got to play that the story. Are you the King fucking solo.. of 'White Trash'? I don't think terms of me being 'The king' no, but as far as conscious ly trying to go for that, no...l have been white trash, I'm not anymore though. Like that song "Bails (Starts plugging of Cocaine", I was out there cuttin' brush record.) Recently I've been having a and this jet airplane comes flying over like cold, and I've often been without about a hundred feet VRMMM!, some mili Kleenex on the streets, so I've been tary jet, and I was just thinking, 'Wouldn't it doing the 'former blow'. be great if that plane just dropped a bunch Farmer blow? What is that? of cocaine right now and I took it to Dallas It's like when you hold your nos and sold it.' So yeah, I get ideas of the tril like this (demonstrates tactic) whole white trash thing. and you blow the excess of snot Were you cutting brush because you grew up on a form? out and it shoots out like a cannon I didn't grow upon no farm, but I've had a right, and like I just notice some lot of different jobs in my life. My dad times when I'm with a guy my age worked for this oil company and we lived or something, y'know he'll get in San Antonio and Corpus Christi and upset, and I was just wondering, those towns are more like nouveaux riche y'know if well... do you think it's and blue collar, but it's all still cause of oil wrong, when you have a build up and the navy. My highschool was 78% of... I guess it's a manners thing.. Mexican American, so that had a big influ Do I think ifs wrong for a girl to blow snot ©Roovie MAOW ence on what went on. outta her nose? (giggles) "THS UNFORGIVING Yeah, like is it unappealing? (Talk on racial integration ) ©HOUU6S SOUNPS OF MAOW" Uh, no, no, but my question is, what do Yeah, it was almost like things were more •WOW* CONTACT PM" CP you do with the cup? open minded back then than they are now. CP-W My first band was all Mexican American, Oh I just blow it out on the street. we were called Chantilly Lace and we were Oh you blow it out on the street well then AVAILABLE AT ALL a fifties cover band. It was a whole family, I don't know, I don't think that would be and the sister, she used to sing real good, E.C., 'ecologically correct'.* she sang songs like, "Soldier Boy" and the Dad could play like Hendrix on his guitar, he was like just this jolly old Mexican man, — Janis Warren LOCATIONS When in Victoria should one DADDY'S thrift-shop in Langford, eat at Sam's deli and hang out at Point No Point? What are the parties. No clubs except the Legions were HANDS ultimate three things to do in around then & we had to travel long Discorder: Who are you? the Garden City? Who are you? distances by van or ferry to play the dances - (names, ages, instruments Mancoat: Stand in front of your parents' man Joanne Banks, 45, organ and piano; Grant beer, fights and rock 'n' roll. sion and wait for a bus to take you downtown. played) Shankaruk, 75, bass; Scott Smith, 22, lead Why aren't Shadowy Men on a Mancoat - guitar. Then beg for money from people on welfare and guitar; Frank Nichols, older than Bjork and Shadowy Planet a surf band? Mousey Connexion - bass. spend it on a bag of skunkweed. younger than Dick Dale; Rich Hagensen, 50, R: That should be weren't...they broke up last Schwantz Plench - saxophone. Malbar: Do as the locals do each day - take rhythm and lead guitar PLUS honorary life year. Shadowy guys didn't use a lot of chunka Malbar Fromagette Directus (a fluid-filled sac) - high tea at the Empress and if you must do time member Gordie Bertram on sax. As you chunka double pickin' & reverb drums. other things try not to make a big fuss about it. can see, we're not the youngest surf band surftones...and like they always told the Should people care that Has anyone ever ripped you around but we are the best lookin' band in press & their record says: "We're Not a Daddy's Hands has mysterious off? showbusiness! Suckin' Surf Band". The media likes to call links to M-Blanket? all rock instro bands surf bands - Mancoat: Should peo en though there are lots of genres ple care that black instro music. The Surfdusters holes are dead stars? aren't really purists either That they swallow -well, our first three matter and regurgitate years with Ralph it as energy? No, but Johnston on lead guitar- they should stay the Interview Hell 75% of what we played hell away from them. was in the surf vein We consider ourselves Mancoat: No. People are very honest when it like Dick Dale, The lucky. What's the story behind the comes to business. guy who put all the cigarette Astronauts, Jon & Are there any Goths left in malbar: To think that people should be so Victoria? Who has the last burns on Rich's amp? Nightriders etc. Then, cruel. goth band ya saw? R: I guess he wanted to play some real we got more experi Explain the importance of the smokin' guitar solos...Actually, _—- mental & absorbed Ralph's Malbar: Is that some kind of joke? Maple Bay Regatta and Mancoat: Are you kidding? They're the story I heard is that Savage Swif tsure to Vancouver everywhere. They work beside you. They jazz guitarist Henry Island. Please? sleep in your bed. Whether it's sneaking Young - who used to Mousey: I don't know, I've never been invited. "Boys Don't Cry" onto a mixed tape or own my Fender Twin I have lived in Maple Bay for six years and something less innocuous like burning an amp - played all kindsa still, everywhere I go, they slam doors in my insect and trying to synchronize one's R&B dives in Vancouver face. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate it, I laughter with the rhythm of its crackling in the'60s. The clubs "Republic love it, but I love it against my better judg shell. What is the suicide rate in Japan didn't even have ashtrays so influence and these days? Received any smiles from ment. the butts had to go on top of the amp now, with Scott on lead & Grant on bass, passing strangers lately? Does anyone not Mancoat: Island dwellers are forced to life whe he was playin' guitar. There are even we've got back to a ruffer surf garage sound know someone on Prozac? Chronic depres their sunken heads and watch floating burns down the side of the amp - some of with some country twang thrown in. sion and morbid fascination are the very machines challenge willingly, and with great the stages were so small that it had to be Can you give a brief history of sparks that keep this dark world turning. gusto, the unrelenting pornography that sur stood on its end to fit on the stage. I also the British Columbia The scary part is, real goths don't have rounds us all. It is the sickness known as the heard the amp went over to Europe and Instrumental Rock Scene from white powdered faces and dark clothes; sea, and these races, combined with its use Africa with Henry when he back up Nina the 1950s to the present! those are just robot mannequins as a massive industrial toilet will, eventual Simone, so it has quite a history. Please? ly, provide the necessary cure. programmed by music industry Describe the importance of the R: The earliest B.C. bands rleasing instros psychologists to distract us from the real Pharaohs, a 1960s Victoria Ask yourself two questions were mostly country-based such as Tex problem. surf band, on the Surfdusters? and answer them. Pedersen & The Sunset Ramblers What was Campbell River like Your song "Pickled Lenin" Is it true that parents just don't 'Rockalene' on Aragon and the killer guitar back then? hii-i-*-** of the man's demise. understand? instro 'Tarantula' by bob Regan (of the How exactly was Lenin killed? Malbar: I was raised by Manatees. R: The Pharaohs were five Victoria guys who Canadian Sweethearts) on Gene Autry's label Didn't he try to scratch Mancoat: No, he wasn't, he was raised by played UVic frat parties and southern Challenge - whammy bar madness!! Then, himself out of an iceblock? friction. We must put an end to this Vancouver Island dances in the early '60s. in the early '60s, you had some instros put Mousey: Lenin died in 1922. He was a small parent-child nonsense. We are plucked at They cut vocal 45s as Peter Kelch but it's out by Vancouver R&B bands such as The Hi- man, like many other important people. He random from a mucky puddle of their two instrumental singles that turned us fives' "Fujikami the Warrior" & Little Daddie died of a stroke, but I'm not sure he didn't obsolescence and moulded by twin hands on! "The Friendly Martian" b/w "Unknown & the Bachelors' "Junior Jerk" (written by die in ice. I visited him in Red Square; he into sad chameleon holograms. How's that Planet" released on the California Tommy Chong) - also B.C. bands influenced lives there ten months out of the year. His headache of yours? I swear that pencil was Chattahoochee label are two cool by England's Shadows such as Prince coffin is glass so you can see his face and on the desk a minute ago... rockers...great surf and Ventures-like George's Pacers release of "Windjammer" his hands. He doesn't look peaceful, only Could I bum a smoke? demented guitar with cheesey organ and (on RCA) and The Chessmen's cross and under the weather. He spends two Daddy's Hands: There's no need to shout. We sax...We're learnin' "The Friendly Martian" "Meadowlands" (on London). No surf sounds months out of every year in Formaldahyde. right now...one of the goals is to re-release although the Canadian VIP's "Monsoon" Lenin's wife asked Stalin to bury Lenin but are wearing a hearing aid. their singles plus some rehearsal tapes albums came outta this time. From the late Stalin had bigger plans. Stalin also used to rumoured to exist. Campbell River was my '60s to late '80s, B.C. rock instros were stay in there with Lenin but he was a larger Discography: hometown and I was a drummer and singer either hidden away with the vocals on man and took up too much room. They put 1996 Daddy's Hands demo. in several '60s garage punk and rockabilly obscure country albums (such as Kamloops' him in the ground. That's where he belongs, bands such as The Blue Knights & The Thompson Valley Boys LPs), rock'n'roll if you ask me. Contact name and address: Daddy's Hands, 2109 Chambers St., Creations.-.played lotsa instruments too! albums (check out Teen Angel blues-based Malbar: I do no acknowledge anything out Gigs were at community halls, high schools, numbers such as The Powder blues instro B- side of Victoria. Victoria, B.C., V8T3L1, CANADA. logging camps and wild house and beach sides of their 45s. The Surfdusters, The g JUNE 1996 Falcons and Mark Brodie & The Beaver F: It has enabled me to DIG into the skins Patrol have brought the twang & surf and keep the SLUGS off the cymbals. sounds into the '90s on their mostly original Recommended listening for and all instro 45s, from a few curiosity those readers interested in the seekers and record collectors who came to REAL surf sound? TFYQNEOF the infrequent opening gigs to a lotta people R: For staccato pickin' and thunderous diggin' & dancin' to our instro sounds. Hey, reverb surf beats, no-one equals Dick Dale - the show at the Commodore in 1993 featur check out his Tribal Thunder Hitone CD & his ing us, The Falcons & Dick Dale was the Greatest Hits on Rhino. Ofthe '60s surf J___!_«. first all-rock instrumental show in B.C. as stuff, I love the Original Surfaris & the far as I can tell! Hollywood Surfers LPs, Pat & the Wow! How many books have Californians' "Bad", Manuel & the you written, Rich? How is Renegades' "Woody Wagon" and the FOR SIZE! your magazine Livewire Heyburners' "Speedway". In May, Rhino is releasing an ultimate surf box set with sev doing? Where is it available? HOG What is in the NEW issue? eral CDs of the best '60s surf instro 45s and Nothing Sacred R: I wrote 2 discographies of Canadian & a CD of '90s surf groups includes "Save the American instrumental records - both outta Waves" by our band. For non-surf instros, No-holds barred rock V print now - I'm workin' on a massive discog the Link Wray double CD on Norton is essen roll steeped in the raphy that'll be the bible of instrumental tial -1 also dig the Tex-Mex sounds of the attitude of the Sex Pistols records - should be out next year. I also put Fireballs all reissued on England's Ace out Livewire - a quarterly instro fanzine - got Records. The '90s surf I like best: Sir Bald with the kick oF early subscribers in 10 countries now. After 10 Diddley & Big Wigs vinyl releases, the AC/DC. Features 13 issues, it's startin' to take off - get it at Phantom Surfers & Surf Trio are great trad violently happy songs, Track or Scratch Record stores. This issue surf...for psychedelic surf, try the Mermen has a story of '60s psychosurfmeister Merrell and for punky surf sounds, get any including "Get A Job" Fankhauser & his California surf band The Trashwomen record. There are stacks avail Impacts, the Melody Maker's story of some able on vinyl & CD - read Livewire for the teenagers from Montreal in the '60s and latest releases. their instro record plus over a hundred G: Go to your local Sally Ann's - look for GOLDFINGER reviews of new and old instro releases. Get it scratchy 45s with bizarre surf titles. GoldFinger F: I love "Comanche" by the Revels - that's while it's HOT! Hyperactive love songs For I see your guitarist Scott the instro they played during Bruce Willis people on Ritalin wrote a toon pawnshop scene in "Pulp Fiction". "Turkish Alos, "Let There be Drums" by '60s best describes the Motel"...did Scott drum king Sandy Nelson. energized punk/ska blend really go to What's next for the oF Southern California's Turkey? How Surfdusters? sleazy was R: In the next 2 months, GoldFinger. Includes the Motel? we'll have a cut on a hot "Here In My Bedroom". S: I was in Turkey rod instro 10'VCd comp put last summer and together by the Surf Trio and one there were stray cats the Rhino box set I mentioned ear THE POSIES living on the roof ofthe lier. We also hope to have instro on Del-Fi's [FKSSIESi motel we stayed at & they crawled into Pulp Surfin' 2 and Germany's One Million r_WMlSDai«Kc_:-Fi»l« Amazing Disgrace the room at night. This was at Marmaris Dollar Records Spaghetti compilations. A The Posies return with where we laid on the beach all day - split release with Ralph Johnston's new their Forth album: a heard an Arabic rock version of group Quonset and another vinyl EP are also "Miserlou" on the radio. in the works. In April our first CD is comin' striking blend oF loud Besides playing in The Worst, out - Raincoast Rumble on my label Fireball and quiet, harsh and what's Grant's musical Records. Come on down to the Mighty pretty, Featuring background? Wasn't he on Niagara Hotel on April 27th for our CD stage somewhere like 20 years release surf party which will also feature "Please Return It" and ago? some other instro bands such as the "Grant Hart". G: Yes, back in a different era, I could be Mysterons. found in seedy clubs and cobwebbed base Discography: ments playing highly unpopular forms of Board Meeting cassette (Surfdust) 1991 NO DOUBT punk and garage music ranging from a The Surfdusters Live - Party On '92 cassette handful of originals to obscure B-sides by (Fireball 002) 1992 Tragic Kingdom the Sonics, Yardbirds & Ugly Ducklings...! Waves of Pleasure EP (Surfdust 594) 1994 A hyperkinetic blend destroyed my first guitar - a Link Wray and tracks on: oF ska, pop, rock and Danelectro - during "Boris the Spider". International Beach Ball Volume 1 CD (NPR Is there anything good about 9412) (Germany) 1994 reggae, Featuring Peavey amps? Sounds from the Inside CD (California Music "Just A Girl" S: Not really - they're good at blowing up! 1) (Australia) 1995 Although I play through one right now, I don't endorse them -1 don't have enough money to Contact name and address: AVAILABLE AT COOL buy a Fender. 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Write PO Box 249 1027 Davie Street m w1 relate strongly to his memories of assimilating to Vancouver, BC V6E 4L2 nSyandrea 8c amber dawn fJ* * American culture and losing his Arabic culture. I „ >-*f _III_»W_1 **•*. WIIMVI MMMI! )QA ^Hll[l love these kids a lot and they are kids who truly The Official Kathleen Hanna Newsletter lines inspire me in my own work and growth process. I 8.5X5.5 14 pages j strongly urge you to order this zine and check oul This fancy looking zine style newsletter is written by Internet Courtney letters, orders ond submissions to Sarah Dyer, AGC, ! these kids work. Send $1 to Marie at 717 Davis Kathleen Hanna from Bikini Kill. In it, she includes (WI size, 196 pages) PO Box 060380, Stolen Island, NY 10306 or e- j street, Kalamazoo, Ml 49007 USA lots of zine ond record reviews and information For oil of you ifiat have a cult following of the infa mail: [email protected] Plus information about Bikini Kill; where they'll be mous Courtney Love tfiis book should be a special I Candles For Girls touring and how lo order records. Don't worry treat for you. These are 58 of Courtneys posts on Sub Rosa | 8.5 X 5.5 34 pages though, Kathleen hasn't used her newsletter as one the internet. You can read Ms. Love's opinions on (1 2 pages half size) Jennifer, author ofCFG, claims she is a selfish writer. big advertisement. She responds to mail answering anything from Kill Rock Stars to her band and vid "I've lost a close friend and I had gotten in to the | I feel she is giving herself a compliment. This per questions like, "What is a riot grrl?" And she re eos. Courtney is quite entertaining. 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The author of liar starts with interview and music fanzines and all ihe stuff we goodies from the queens of terror ot 14119 #1105-2929 Barnet Highway, Coquitlam, BC, V3B the patterns formed during her childhood. She analy refuse. Send zines to Box 505 1288 Broughton Meyersville dr, Houston, Texas 77049 usa 7J4 ses how her mother's depression has influenced her Vancouver V5G2B5. life as well as her entire family. The author goes Healing Stone Kinder Nacht number 6 issue 7 further writing about her recent past and current (36pages 8.5 X 5.5 62 pages This is one of Vancouver's favourite ska comics fea "Hey, middle class society you're not the boss of turing the adventures of the Kinder Nacht Scooter me!" This quote covers an entire page of Shayna's Club. The art is great as is the story line for those of zine, along with a picture of her shooting the finger you seeking a good thrill mod style: fighting racism to middle class society. If you identify as a working and possessing microfilm containing ihe names and class or poor person you should read this zine. addresses of the high and financial supporters of Actually, for middle and upper class people want the neo-Nazi movements of the world.. This issue ing to know what is expected of them as allies olso has reviews for those of you wanting to know Shoyna couldn't have made it more clear. In Heal all about mod and ska. Send $2 lo Martin Wales ing Stone she recalls early high school memories of c/o Island Easel Imaginations, #205-730 Vancou class oppression and it's effect to her own self opin ver Street, Victoria, BC, V8V 3V3 make sure to check ion. Shayna continues on to current events in her out the official Kinernacht home page at http:// life and how she is confronting ongoing classism, 153.1 8.60.51/ssf/kindernachr.html questioning her middle class allies, and regaining self worth. She writes with a bold humour and con Verity #2 fidence so that I could really sense how much shame (12 pages, quarter size) I om really impressed with Verity, Brie's first attempt Healing Stone covers a lot more then classism, YOU ARE A (Check one): al a personal zine. Brie starts out by writing about t*hough. With the some daring and confrontational a girl in her class that is being abused by her boy spirit she explores the uses of sexual assault and _A BAND/MUSICIAN _PR0M0TER friend and how she witnesses the abuse every day. sexism in the media, as well as the sexism she faces. She then moves on and writes about her own expe She discloses her recent sexual assault, which is JEC0RD LABEL/DISTRIBUTOR LIVE MUSIC VENUE rience with abusive relationships, by talking about very brave in itself. What I really admired, how _MANAGER/AGENT STUDIO _0THER her first boyfriend Kevin and the mental and emo ever is the direction Shayna takes in approaching tional abuse that he inflicted on her. I am really her assault and violence against women. Besides (elaborate below) proud of Brie for writing about this because this is being supportive to other girls who share similar NAME: somelhing thot needs to be talked about urgently. I experiences she aims her writing at men by asking encourage you to order Verity especially for those them to examine their own sexism ond condition DESCRIPTION (15 words or less): that are in relationships and are wondering why ing. I think similar to Shayna's approach to classism, they are miserable when they should be happy. her piece on sexism and assault is extremely useful Abuse is more common than we'd like to admit. to both women and those working to become al- Send a dollar to Brie at 1 805 Dublin Street, New CONTACT(S): Westminster, BC, V3M 3A2 Canada or interested in supporting survivors write Shayna ADDRESSES) _ 2502 N Rockwell #b Chicago IL 60647 Action Girl Comics #4 (28 pages Slumber Party Games PHONE: . . 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Strange for a label that in the past has re "Broke" b/w "Whenever I breathe out you leased some great bands like Pest 5000, Bite, breathe in/positive negative" record is another Moon Socket, and Jad Fair/Phono Comb, none one of them Sub-Pop singles with fancy packag of which sound so "derivative" as this. Nonethe ing, even though it's easy to miss cuz the name his month I'm flying solo, so please bear Box 7154, Olympia WA, 98507) less, there are some enjoyable tracks in this is embossed rather than printed. Isaac Brook's with poor l'il ol' me - I'm without my 7" Also available through K is the new one from Boobytrap! gatefold package, the best one from singing is inevitably going to be compared to companion and am feeling insecure, kinda Missy X, a four-folk combo who create won Vancouver's Blaise Pascal. Maybe it's a terri- Doug Martsch, with his high-pitched wailing, but Tlike 45's that don't have the centre piece. But derful experimental jazz-punk using keyboards, tor al bic but that's not necessarily a luckily enough, there're some great records to saxophone, guitar and drums, This self-titled 7" these local lads bad thing. Nice, clean bobble about. . . Startin' off with one of the two boasts six songs of wackiness somewhat remi- know how to write Canadian releases, Sub-Pop has been kind niscent of God is My Co-Pilot, with alternating beautiful pop songs songs that build - if you enough to lend Zumpano, them Vancouver female/male vocals - they're slow, fast, pop, for the thinking per like Built to Spill, you boys of '60's-influenced pop, to Halifax's punk, jazzy - big diversity for son - "Shielded" is might like these sen Murderecords for their new single, "The Only elease by Slampt Records (th< the best recorded sitive Northwest Reason Under the Sun" b/w "The Long and s put out material by Pussycat Trash, The song of theirs so guys, who now have Winding Road." This is the third release for Yummy Fur, and Avocado Baby) and Titian Power far. The other side • • an full-length album Zumpano, which at first seemed like just an out - and hey, the cover is a nifty spray-painted shiny of Blaise Pascal's on Up Records. track is by New let for Superconductor frontman Carl Newman wonder to look at. (Slampt, PO Box 54, Heaton, i i (Sub-Pop never gives York's The to actually sing rather than scream all the time, Newcastle-Upontyne, NE6 5YW, UK) us their address, but Yay! The Brats are back! Do you believe in Ladybug Tran but with Sup-Pop's backing they have become B you can gel as established as his other project. The a-side is reincarnation? Anyway, the Cold Cold Hearts sistor, with the this c just what a single should be: melodic and in reform Bratmobile's Allison and Erin, plus tensely catchy. Sad but true, it's best summed up Aussie gal Lora (of Excuse Seventeen) on drums on this self-titled release on Kill Rock by Mr. Thurier on the enclosed affidavit: it "does I qu most righteously kick ass." The b-side is indeed Stars. Produced by Unrest/Air Miami/Ol *PU^. 1 of s a Beatles cover, and it didn't surprise me in the ympic Death Squad/Teen Beat guy Mark of. good records you least, cuz for some reason, on first listen to their Robinson in Arlington, VA, this three song should check out: album, half of their songs reminded me of that The Crabs Anything very song anyway and I can't explain why, they & Everything - three just did. So I guess I should be satisfied now that new songs by this Ol Zumpano have actually recorded that song, but ympia duo; poppier than kicking giant, punker now I recognize what a cheesy song it was to than Beat Happening. (K Records, begin with. They've done a cheesy cover of a A _ see above) cheesy song. You decide if that's good. ii*TT*% JtA -jliUi-ii: godheadSilo "Boobytrap" + 3 - four songs pre A perfect companion to the Zumpano single ceding the 'Silo's new album on Sub-Pop. is the new batch of songs by Holly Go-Lightly, The Joey Sweeney "Friday Evening, Friday best known for her contributions in the(e) Night/Tiny Ships" - this "double A-side single" Headcoatees, who are the female features the former singer of the Barnabys and equivalents/companions/ U< j*> Alex Kemp, formerly of Small Factory; mellow, bandmates to Billy Childish's lounge-pop. (Clubland Records, 7095 Holly Headcoats. Super Electro Records, pj fS E^O^T^ KRISTA: You said you wanted to talk Totally. Music and performance generally about the women whom we admired or or any kind of art is definitely a way to who had influenced us. I was just thinking give someone an in that today is Mothers' Day, so I was won sure it's adversarial. But I like that and I dering if you did anything special for respect that in other people. To an extent. Mothers' Day. Do you think it's bad to be adversarial? KINNIE: I just spent 4 days with my Not necessarily. I think of myself as being mom in Victoria. We just hung out. We an adversarial person in the sense I am never get to see each other. But I called willing to disagree, and I will rarely soft her today and left a message: I just said step around what I think. I'm just going to that I was happy that she had me, that I say it. But I also am a strategist too and I was happy that you had my brothers too, use adversity selectively depending on who but that it would have been good if it was I am with and how useful I think it will be. just you and me. But I felt that when I first saw you, I saw Do you have a good relationship with your maybe not adversity, but definitely anger mom? in terms of the heaviness and directness of Ya, I love my mom. It's an intense rela your style. tionship. She is a super, fiercely opinionat That's interesting that you see anger. I ed woman. So is my dad and so are my know I feel anger but sometimes I don't brothers. I come from an argumentative feel that it's angry enough. family, for sure. Everyone has an opinion Do you want your work to be really angry and everyone is right. Including me. sounding? Do you think of yourself as being an adver I don't know it I want it to be angry sound sarial person? ing. But I want to be able to express that. Ya. Like a shit-raiser, you mean. I like that. And I feel like it gets lost and comes out Do you think of your music as being a really sweet sometimes. But that's cool too, way to say what you think without being because I see a lot of sweetness. But I'm interrupted? sick of women bein"" awoot- get Ihe sense that you work in o lot of mediums. by Krista Jam |That you express yourself in a lot of different forms. You take photographs. You draw. You have your| music. Is music the focus right now? — Writing is. Music comes out of that but writing is defI've seen a lot of things that I'd like to deface rec initely the focus. Writing has been the focus for the ly. There is this nylon stockings ad that was aH < fast four years or so. Music has been the focus for town for a while, it said the power of expression, the last one. the image was just a pair of legs and an CJSS. So before you were in a band or singing, what [That's pretty intensely humiliating and fuci were you doing with your words? pathetic. Those are good things to deface, Painting, sculpture, poetry, creative writing. But should do it. You can just do it and take off. think the outlet before music was graffiti. Doing ban do it in broad daylight. I know the one yo big collages and giuing them ai! over the city. 8 talking about. 1/2by ITsand 11 by 17's. When I first came to the west coast - probat Do you remember the first piece of graffiti years ago or so - my friend Alexis was living on you did? and Commercial near these sky train pillars. I w Yeah, it was "Televafium Sedates You. * No - the in big letters on the pillar "Listen to the Womer first graffiti was anti-war stuff and pro-choice was into doing realty simple things then - and so stuff. I was in my hippy phase, hard core. one wrote "Slap the Ho" underneath it. It wa Not that graffiti is really a hippy thing. Do you stillperfect . And it was right there for everyone \ do graffiti? walked past to see. Not as much. I'm going to get back into it, To see that people aren't listening to women. though. I had a lot of fun, and I realty like the|Yeah.And s0 Atexis changed it to "Slap the Has* whole hiphop genre of graffiti, i think you can do a tot with public art. You can definitely get some interaction going with people you would n't otherwise talk to. What are you into these days? challenge what we consider pom, this whole] Public Art. One of the reasons why I am inter erotica/pornography distinction. ested in public art and music, rather than just What do you think it is. sitting in my room and playing, is because it stirs In the interview they suggested that erotica! peoples minds. I'm driven to provide music tends to be what is sanctioned, whereas pat people like and that I like. I shouldn't real pornography is what violates the boundaries ly say provide. But as 1 get more and more sel by someone in charge. So it is not so much involved in music as a public thing it reminds a difference in content or form; it's about what| me that you can provide people wifh suste is legitimized. That seems true to me. nance if you are a person who does things in I find that a tot of porn and erotica is not veryl the public. For example, when ! played at the sexy, tt seems that the female body, the areas Town Pump for this Hemp BC night, there were of the female body that are focused on o$\ 10 bands and I was the only woman. All of the erotic and sexy, are just given so much weight girls and boys were like, "Wow, a girl in music." and redundance, that that's almost gone, It's still a novelty to be a woman in a number of find stuff that is really erotic to be stuff that is| fields. Music is one of those areas. There is a really obscure. Something that t find realty erot growing number of women, obviously. 1 want ic is the spot on a woman's waist, right kind ofl po be able to open doors for young women, in the back, not right on the side, in the back women my age, older women. It's an arrogant between the very back and the side - all of the rthing to say, but I'd like to be able to do it. corners of movement. The creases. When 1 was high school I played a drum kit. Which makes it hard to find mainstream pornl My drum teacher was a woman, and it totally erotic. It's ali airbrushed out. Smoothed out.. fired me. 1 was like, "Wow, that's so cooi. You're And realty static. And posed. I've seen some a woman, and you play in bands and you really beautiful lesbian erotica. I'm sure there ts] teach, and you earn a living off of music." It a tot of realty good erotica out there, but was so cool. never seem to find it. Where is if? Do girfs come up and talk to you at your I find some of your music to be erotic. Thatl shows? heavy bossy music that gets into your bones All the time. It's great. I feel so flattered, when like PJ Harvey. I appreciated that raw angen women come up, and I can see something in in your music. I think it was that song their eyes, that I've made them feel elated in "Ophelia", ft had less to do with what you some way. were saying and more to do with the way it| One erf fhe reasons why I interview women who was being said. The heat from the sound. do music is that I saw music as a forum for Yeah. That song was recorded in 5 minutes reaching young people. Music is a very non- Just went up. Did the guitar line. Played it threatening way to do social change work or back; found another guitar line and put it public education. It's fun, and it doesn't feel down. First tape and just left it. That's why it like education white it's happening. An image feels that way. I was really feeling it. I was by of a strong woman can have this subconscious myself and I was totally thinking of her impact; you don't have to say, "Hi. I'm here. Be Thinking about the books she read and how like me." You are just there, and you do if. she looked when she came home when shel That's enough. had just cut her dreads off. I was so used tol That brings up the thing I wanted to talk holding this mound of dreads, and ail of the! about, which is women in town that are sudden she had this little, tiny neck. It was so doing amazing things. 1 can think of a few, cool when she did it. She was shedding ali 'f -this GAMe. is i| right off the bat. the bull shit: abortions; relationships. A few] The very first women i interviewed in days later she shaved it right down. Vancouver were members of a three woman I Ske to see women unencumbered by hair. Sol lesbian sex art coflective called Kiss & Tell. They you can see their face. Especially given the work in different forms: video, photography - way hah* is sexuaiized on women... they've also written a book. They produce their In an endlessly boring way. The whole fuckin' own pom. A lot of their images and their writing sex kitten mane bull shit thing. That's boring After several foiled attempts at inte: viewing stars of electronic music, I g my chance with Plus 8's (a Canadian labi started by Richie Hawten and John Aijuaviva) The Legion of Green Men. I me FREE PIERCINGS with the Legion, Lex and »u (at Alexander Addicus and Rupert J. Lloyd) Wednesday's 'Ginger Snaps at Uars. having interviewed anyone before, I wi With a jewellry purchase little anxious, but fortunately the < you receive a free piercing by versation developed naturally. The Legion got their start nearly Canada's most experienced piercers years ago while slipping a day of 1 school to play with a friend's equipmi Since that day they have started their label, Post Contemporary, and have 1 ing Incarnate and Alkahest, to nai Th*-: likely ess looped vinyl tracks cules, which have chart- Unfortunately, the Leg MACK'S LEATHERS 20-something Burling* 1043 GRANVILLE STREET 688-6225 Canada. Roweve] THE EXPERIENCED PIERCERS with both Plus Virgil the Legion. Being associated label as Virgin/EKI, o ild fear sacrificed for a more When I asked how they felt about being SAMt£e^anc/!fhf elation at being able to work with the like: Richie Hawtin (Plastikman) and Speedy J. As 568 SEYMOUR ST Virgin/EUI. . . 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They're preaching to the York, that she's either one of the album version of Interface Real converted best liars working the circuit in ity, which I really enjoy with it's Sophie Hamley New York or she's got an incred wigged-out tr/hip-hop influenced ible memory In either case, as beats, and then there are three TINKER this Tzadik release shows, she's reconstructions: one by Stryke, Receiver one hell of a story teller one by Tyler Stone, and one by (Bear Records) Hirsch, along with her fre Chns Brann and Aldo Bender "Occ al quent collaborator, keyboardist who call themselves Deep Dust. headba, David Weinstein, is a downtown LOTION Electro-Soma. Back in '93, I was The first two remixes take out the c fan 'ith aspirations to Nobody's Cool more into the dance-floor friendly KEVIN KANE great hip-hop beats and put in Tea Party-ness and major Led Zep with John Zorn, Ned Rothberg (SpinArt) grooves of artists like Hardfloor, Neighbourhood Watch the straight four part four dance hangups Serious contenders only and many others. But the reputa This is Lolion's second album fol Sven Vatfiand The Prodigy rather (On/Off) beats These two mixes are all need apply..." This eight song EP tion bestowed upon many other lowing up Full Isaac. Lotion epito- than the more cerebral sounds of I was never a huge Grapes of right, but it is the Deep Dust mix is good enough, that is, it's not downtown divas like Laurie mizes what I would call what was coined "Intelligent Wrath fan, though I was curious which really stands out. Like the all bad. But it's a little bit con Anderson and Ann Magnuson "Loungerawk". With melodic Techno". Well, it's three years lo hear whal the ex-Grape wos name suggests, it sounds a lot like trived - there is too much thot eludes Hirsch. Like the other two, lounge vocal backed up by gui later and the new catch words of up to these days. As it turns out, a Chemical-Dust Brothers remix seems taken from somewhere else she has a stash of colourful anec tar driven rock, Lotion keeps the moment are "trip hop" and I'm pretty impressed by this Kevin with great guitar sounds, ass- and not enough of a new sensa dotes, on off-kilter sense of hu switching between really mellow "jungle"; so where does that Kane solo album. And for the shakin' breakbeats and nice build tion. The production isn'tas good mour and a penchant for studio songs and full out "rockin" leave BI2 ? Answer: At the top most pari, the only instrumenta ups and breakdowns that make as it could be. There's a distinct icks Loveboat songs. Nobody's Cool of my rotation list. tion is acoustic guitar and a sin you say "Yeah, I can dig this." impression emanating lhat ihey're My pers *•! favoi is lacking a song like Love Theme gle vocal. The songs are pre Yes, Ihe Deep Dust remix is the probably better live In their fa "Songs in My Head", in which From Santo Gold as in the previ free 60 minute journey of pol sented in their bare and most vul track lhat makes the whole album vour, there aren't a lot of Cana she churns out lines from "Are You ous album, but this is a pretty ished Detroit-inspired armchair nerable form worlh while. dian bands doing this sort of Experienced?", "Sex Machine", good bunch of songs nonethe techno that is a joy to listen to The first four tunes are excel Brian Wright thing, and they'll probably be "Windy", "Woolly Bully" and less over and over again. And in ad lent; kind of sad and pretty. There come better as ihey define exactly about a thousand other songs, all GQ dition to the music, the packag are a couple of songs in the mid BAD RELIGION what it is they're trying to do. echoing over a cheesy synlh funk ing of this CD is fantastic. Great dle of Ihe thirty-three minute CD The Gray Race Curiosity point: Melissa auf der groove. Even K-Tel couldn't dream B12 artwork by acclaimed science fic which gets a bit too long and (Atlantic) Maur of Hole wos playing in this of packing this many hits of the Time Tourist tion illustrator Trevor Webb meandering for my liking. But it This review wos going to start band when destiny, i.e.Courtney 60s in ihe space of four minutes (WaxTrax/TVT) shows, in the foreground, a gi quickly picks up again and the "Melodic punk rock from the guys (ihey might be the same thing- the Despite the humour, ihis ai- I've been told that Time Tourist, ant spaceship docking; in the last four tunes are as great as the who ghost-wrote the book" But, jury is still out) intervened bum IS rather heartfelt Like the even with the addition of much background is a panoramic view first few. While it's unlikely that you know, that book has been Sophie Hamley period of time it covers, O Little more studio equipment, really of a 22nd century London. Check Neighbourhood Watch will be through so many readers, it's Town of East New York evolves doesn't sound all lhat different it out. And when you do, have a commercially successful, I think sible , kn. the SHELLEY HIRSCH from songs of innocence to songs than B-12's 1993 release Electro- look around the store's cash reg that this type of recording suits author(s) was/were ond, bi O Little Town of East New of experience. The early tracks Soma. However, just like I saw ister for a skinny guy in a suit Kane very well. sides, the story's York tell stories of crooning along wilh Aliens without having seen Alien, holding a copy of Electro-Soma Fred derF now that people (Tzadik Records) Johnny Malhis records, ihe sick I have to admit I have never because lhat will be me. tired of it even a ening smells of chicken soup in o owned a copy of the super-hyped Brian Wright • This solid that they could tell whether or not friend's house, whal it's like for a BOO YA! We're off to Hamilton, ON for the 1996 NCRA Con ference from June 17th-2lMf -A you T|l local band, ro» we can ? distribute J* your demos, f CD's, 7"s, or ' what have you to the campus and com munity radio big wigs. Drop off up to 25 copies before June 12th at CiTR or ' call Linda at 822-1242 for more information. CiTR LOI.9 fM t9 EKgoSKgja You want Caribbean? On a con? couple of cuts like "Guadalupe," scumbag lovedogs wilh the most underCB!2S3( t) I was waiting for Harry Belafonte depressing and Iransparent court ing procedures I've ever danced It may not rank with Free Jazz with, but this CD is really doing What's going on with Verve or The Shape of Jazz to Come, me some good I'm actually lay young Jewish girl tc records? The |azz label noted for but Tone Dialing is still a fun lis ing on the couch listening to it as confession booth and far tc reissuing classic oldies with finely ten The hip-hop foundations of opposed to hovering over the CD many other things packaged, relro covers is enter some of the stuff might even rope player, skipping lo the next track ing some unfamiliar territory wilh in a few of the kids. after a responsibly ob|ective Toward ihe end when Hirsch the distribute of fret With all the mishmash of cul minute has crawled by and try is a teenager in the late 60s, the grandpa Orne e Colen s lot- tures on the disk, Coleman seems ing to think of somelhing to say. mood is ever-souring. The most Jad Fair & Phono-CoTnb *. be bro ) his hor Their musicianship ain't gotten i "Fronkln Monsters. Lullabies .-and The occasional Flyin** saucer. Lei it be known thai none even farther. Let's hope fhe sam any better and their lyrics ain't Lane/ I orked , s Off." other lhan "Mr Freaky Deaky" can shll be said of his record con gotten any deeper, yet astonish Written by Shadowy Men On A Shadowy Planet with Jad n she take Miles Davis once said Coler pony over the next few years. ingly, they rock way harder. and recorded by the thrilling new combo Phono-Comb, dad - ihe same guy who used to iside" t< Michael Chouinard Janis Warren dance with her lo Johnny Mathis which seems to be comprised of S.Men Don & Reid. and play music the way he did. and take her for sleigh rides on Dallas of The Sadies. I was worried lhat ihe *ackel- Ralph Various Artists old refrigerator doors and who ond-tie style of Verve might toke Olympia 66 Survival Of The Fattest thought Franklin Roosevelt wos Ihe edge off of Omette Not so (Bongo Beat) (Fat Wreckchords) the best president the U.S. ever Even ihough the record is pretty Steven Quinn re-hashe Ho boy, this music hod mellow by his standards - espe all Ihe famous licks of the late si; (poppy punk) reminds me of By Ihe late 1960s, dad is on cially with (he addition of key ties mod Rockandbullshil classic Calgary. It reminds me of politi- exploding ball of reactionary boards in recent years - (Gloria, Not Fade Away) an found in •ounc hale, ranting aboul lozy Commu Coleman's bluesy yel Ralph lazily, flatly poets ove of Con nists and how "we gotta bomb otherworldly alto sax is olways mostly sentimental gush of Ires. It reminds me of keg parties Vietnam." It's clearly ihe end of wondering off innocently into era I didn't get the CD becc It reminds me of guys with bodies an era for Hirsch and for every- places it shouldn't be ihought I was going lo likt like jocks and hair like surfers that •mdhiselec got it are surgically attached to they're laining as this albt Prime Time, could never be mis- could laugh al il in that oh, come skateboards when they're no! obrillio ofs token for the predigested jazz on' kind of way as one would fighting or swilling formaldehydi ciol history of Brooklyn life whiz of the Rippingtons, the on an episode of 'Family Mal- 50s and 60s And whether it's Yellowjackels or anything Slick one guy in particular who was documentary or fiction, ilwill be Chick Coreo's been involved with Jar . Warn nothing like ony of those guys who unforgettable for (he past fifteen years broke my hear! real hard and One day, I may even remem This band is constantly rede 7 Year Bitch forced me to pull down my pants ber more about Shelley Hirsch's fining itself. The streetwise funk Gato Negro and shit it out in a public ploce. I youth lhan my own. of fhe bas , but (Atlantic) hate all of these things, therefore, Michael Chouinard I hate this music. To be fair though, there's some labia thrown in. And Hmmmm, maybe it's be this compilation does have a va the Afro-pop sounding guitars cause I'm really tired, kinda ORNETTE COLEMAN AND riety of the (albeit limited) pop would be right at home in stoned and at a point in my life PRIME TIME punk genre and a lot of songs Youssou N'Dour or Remmy where I'm always broke, awake Tone Dialing So I guess it's worth the money if Ongala's group for 30-40 hours at a lime and try- (Verve/Harmolodic) your* o that s< of thin; Janis Warren On Guard For Thee A Collection of Canada s Youth Cone Bad Put together by the fine folk at Lance Rock for Australia s ^DEGATE Au-go-go Records. Features unrealeased tracks b/ Huevos Rancheros. Punchbugg/. Cub. Smugglers. McRackins. CrashlJ. Bum. Chixdiggit. Evaporators. Stupes. Parkades. ?luto. The Sttnktes. Puss/ Monster. Tonics. Forbidden Dimension, and The Pasties Von Zippers' Cant reall/ ask for much more...Can you? CD RELEASE PARTY • SATURDAY JUNE 1 5TH ' 96 THE DEBUT ALBUM "A cauldron of intense vocals, dirty gui tars, inspired bass lines, and demonic Roll HawkiUS The Secret OF My Excess drumming, the Pasties* sound occasion Yup he of The Lowest Of The Low. Ron and a cast of thousands deliver up v/hat can best be described ally teeters on the edge of grunge, but as a "Cabaret". The songv/ritmg /ou know and love, musically it s ft more often stays rooted is teen- a far looser/diverse cuppa java... basement, hard rock sensibilities — with em difference, this bond hos a singer with a Shake The Record Label 598 "Victoria C?3658l jaw-dropping, hair-raising yoke,*'..... Saint Lambert. Cue. Tfes Georgia Sft-ak-ftf J4P-3S8 realliveaction pretty strobe JAWBREAKER MINISTRY lights... flash ing... Thieves! FLUF by Bert and Ernie Thieves and Liars! WHEATCHIEFS Bert: Hey Ernie! Why do B: Urn, Ernie? Wednesday, May 15 these people look so funny? E: Must. kill...must pierce The Town Pump Ernie: 'Lo Bert! I think we're The people were out to lost! This doesn't look like B: ERNIE! Snap out of it! rock, and they did. Well, Sesame Street, except for E: Oh...sorry, Bert. I think I sort of... A moderate level their hair... really like Oscar and Kermit's of disappointment and a Bert: Ernie, what is this? What band. But that low noise is do few less people semi-filled is it? The Jesus Lizard? ing funny things to that thing the Town Pump caused by Ahhh. Hey! Isn't that Grover that hangs down the back of the last-minute cancellation signing for them? my throat, how 'bout you, of Jawbreaker (We heard Ernie: Yeah! He's so nice! BertS rumours of laringitis and/or When the people get too hot, B: Shut up Ernie I think that I denied entry by the border he spits water all over them have to go to the bathroom butt searchers.) Hey Bert, what is a "boiler E. These people are shoving The Wheatchiefs worked maker"? me, Bert Let's beat them up. the crowd the best they B: Shut up, Ernie. Look, now B: I think it;s time to go, Ernie could (that's one low slung he's p[laying with those kids E: Take the pole out of your guitar!), but the energy Hey, didn't his mommy ever ass, Bert build up to why we paid tell him it's not nice to jump B: That's it! You and Rubber $12.50 just wasn't in the on people? Ducky can just take a bath by crowd. We caught Fluf at E. But they like if. Bert, why yourselves tonight! the Niagara a few months does our pop taste funny? E: Aw, gee, Bert. back and there's no doubt B: Never mind. that the show had the boy- E. OH, they're gone. What's Today's show was brought bonding-high testosterone- next, huh? Huh? to you by the letter F, and sing-a-long energy that this B. Something called "Minis- YOU CAN BET YOUR ASS EVERY by the numbers 6, 6, and show lacked But enough try". 6. Additional funding by comparisons - The Mighty O E. Hey! Hey! That's Kermit on the National Endowment and the boys of Fluf offered SATURDAY NIGHT WITH DRU IS FUN! fhe bass! And look! The for the Hearing Damaged up a good time of new and singer, it's... & old "Hawdkoa Rock n' Both: Oscar the Grouch! Roll" Hell, we saw Jaw Bert: I thought Oscar hated breaker the last time they LIVE BANDS EVERY music and singing. But he's played the Pump, so who got his own song about him are we to whine? THURSDAY NIGHT! self - filth pig! COVER ONLY M Steve & Mike Ernie: Oooh! Look at the $2.00 AT THE DOOR 8:30 COVER STARTS $o*artgiveway For a FREE SON t-shirt, send us a postcard with 3 of your favorite summer activities and your phone # to: Discorder 233-6138 SUB Blvd. Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 Note: T-shirts will not be mailed out, they must be picked up in person! THE PIT PUB • IN THE BASEMENT OF THE SIUDENT UNION BUILDING. 6138 SUB BLVD. • 604-822-6511 2/ mgg°£mz June196 LONG VINYL June * 96 SHORT V INYL .iune'ge INDIE HOME JOBS I 1 various artists brain candy soundtrack matador 1 I 1 fifi and the nach iii 1976 1 2 various artists on guard for thee augogol 1 2 „ is the thirteenth letter palac e 1 1 . step on all the cracks 3 various artists whore: wire tribute wmo 1 3 the cebe barns band Bhe's a winner horsekitty1 1 plunp cold feet 4 the smugglers selling the si7.7,1 e mint 1 4 punchbuggy dressed for success nag whee i touch and gos ugly 5 various artists ambient tine travellers hypnotic 1 1 5 skinner pilot nig 29 side goodsinl j wandering lucy baby eyes 6 down by law all scratched up epitaph 1 1 6 the forbidden dinension hallowe en everywhere nelodiyal ' squeeky 7 rheostatics music inspired by... drog/warner1 1 7 bun/fifi and the nach iii split 1+ 1 j johnny nilleniun 8 necca normal the eagle and the poodle natador 1 I o gloworra travelogue ) naardvark the sanitary elephan 9 various artists invasion of the indie snatchers allied 1 1 9 songs:ohia nor cease thou never now. palace* 1 ) destroyer 10 various artists three ad waveforn 1 1 10 sissy bar sad to say nootronl irving klaw trio I' rachel's nusic for egon schiele quarterstick 1 1 11 madigan plays with herself noon puss 1 > gaze 1 2 one step beyond one step beyond no' funk 1 12 the new grand a dangerous affair bubblegun ! vico 1 3 stereolab enperor tonato ketchup elektra/warner 1 1 13 zumpano the only reason under the sun murder 1 } the stupes 14 the raoog cookbook the noog cookbook restless 1 1 14 the crabs anything and everything kl i step on all the cracks 1 5 chixdiggit! chixdiggit! sub pop 1 1 5 various artists for paper airplane pilots papercut 1 5 celestial magenta 16 broken girl broken girl sappy/sub pop 1 prine nover 1 pipedream I? the surfdusters raincoast rumble firebal 1 1 1 7 various artists good hooch igor 1 1 8 jad fair and phonoc mb monsters, lullabies... shake] 1 18 the cherry smash west coast rip off candy floss 1 19 superconductor bastardsong boner 1 1 19 ashtray boy clag split spi t and a half ) the papillomas 2 0 daytona sustain zulu 1 I 20 the kwyet kings somebody like you 1+ 1 I trish kelly 21 ani difranco dilate rig hteous babe 1 1 21 various artists our stupid noise bubblegun I universal lounge act 22 various artists i shot andy warhol soundtrack tag 1 I 22 spark escape from spark lucky artist 1 23 the scissor girls we people space with phantoms atavistic 1 23 varnaline party now clubland » Chris houston 24 various artists tiddleywinks chelster' 24 orange glass circle dance Sappy j blowpipe 25 laika and the cosrao lauts gravity ups tar 1 1 25 shinola vodka backporch revolution 1 26 various artists varopiros lesbos soundtrack mote 1 1 26 new bad things camp 18 bo K dog sound 1 ' speckled jim 27 sraog kicking a couple around drag city 1 1 27 melt banana it s in the pillcase skin graf I fisting 28 various artists punk lost and found s hanac hie 1 1 28 the dinks go home meathead Elclt 29 modest mouse this is a long drive for... up 29 sit n spin -» P lanet pimp 30 babe the blue ox people rea 1 30 run on miscalculation natador I jabber 31 various artists from the ladle to the... green pepper 131 the von zippers nighty red barn rotoflex1 I space kid 32 wretched ethyl cranky schtuf 1 1 32 the pebbles i'n sitting by the window planet pimp 33 j mascis martin and me reprise warner 1 1 33 furnaceface overcome c innamon toas *• the unhappies 34 man or astroman? what remains inside a black hole augogo 1 34 supersnazz uncle wiggly get hip 3 kid champion 135 sone holiday and sport darla 1 35 the kool kids who's koolest? ahgie top ten hip hop HOT! WORLD BEAT TOP 10 1 De La Soul Stakes is High 1 1 los hernanos rosaric la duena del swing karen 1 2 Jay-Z w/Foxxy Brow Ain't No Nigga 1 2 nickey spice strictly the bes 16 vp 3 xzibit Paparazzi 3 nickey taveras quiereme DP 1 around the world 4 Heitah Skeitah Operation Lockdown 4 yellowman "A 5 Ras Kass Miami Lif &JM -JMA CiTR 6 M- UN >.' Urry 0, c.pp Korx., atmuttcm, ilia Sin & Lo Q T.riX l*t«l liv. SUlt I«t _ 6 king sunny ade e dide get up 7 The Roots w/ M.A.R. 5. & Dice Raw Clone 7 gipsy kings estrellas sony 8 House of Pain w/ Sa dat X Heart Full of Sorrow 8 waggy t party mix vol 6 penthouse 9 Az w/Raekwon Doe or Die (Remisx 9 la banda gorda candela pura mp 10 Artifacts Art of Fact •charts 10 wayne wonder all original bomb hell vp THE MOTORDADDY'S What we played 10 Years Ago "MY KIDS'TOP 10 SONGS" skat's top ten skank inducers 1 damien jurado motorbike ep 1 1 pietasters oolooloo noonska 1 1 peter gabriel sledgehammer 1 2 mxpx sunner of '69 1 2 skavoovie&epitones fatfootin' moonska 2 nacattack the art of drums 3 the fells 3 skankin pickle live dill 3 art of noise peter gunn 1 4 the tonics littlest hobo theme 4 voodoo glowskulls firne epitaph 4 the water walk far fields/seven statues 5 santa esnerelda house of the rising Bun 1 5 laurel aitken bluebeat years moonska 5 kevin zed more/tea type 1 6 evaporators coho coho 6 various artists generic skaca stiff dog 6 zamboni drivers skating ghost 7 anything from th e pointed sticks 7 scoffLaws ska in hi-fi moonska 7 sonic youth flower/hallo ween the 8 delgados liquidation gir 8 rudiments /suicide machine s skank for brains dill 8 beastie boys she's on it/slow and low 1 9 girl trouble sings el vis 1 9 let's go bowling nr. twist noonska 9 husker du don't want to know if... |10 micke..'-- travel t 1°nr. t experience ska-nic reducer lookout. 10 the jesus and nary chain some candy talking 1 ^kwc\^mrmm^dMm\\mMi Monday July 1 All Ages 2pm St. James Hall 3214 W. 10th 1 • ' *w —PEEDBUGGY mm mm Send cheque or I money order to: I *— *^ _ ___. M. c^™ Ottawa | Sfebs c/o CiTR Name Yes! Send me DiSCORDER! And theGTRStfcker button and magnet! •233-613V6T8 1ZSU1B Blvd Street . Vancouver, BC mmm City__ LO*? fl; $5 at Track #V^* ' ^ Scratch and gS fO/_./ TTS V * *-*- l^ Zulu Records = £ g fj R S T'S V • . * Or at the door T LJ fV & *-» I $15 Canada • US$15 USA • $24 Foreign • ^%v Tuesday July 2 9pm Starfish Boom 22 JUNE 1996 predictable. Il encourages insomnia and OUT FOR KICKS 6:007:30PM No etc.. Guest DJ's, interviews, may prove to be hazardous to your Birkenslocks, nothing politically correct. retrospectives, giveaways, and more health. Listener discretion is advised. We don'l gel paid so you're damn nght are part of the flavor of fiomebass. we have fun with it. Hosted by Chris B. UMP SINK 12:OOAM-2:30AM Hosled by WEDNESDAYS ^T on the dial ON AKW1THGREASEDHAIR 7:30-9:OOPM the G42 players. "The showthat doesn't LOVE SUCKS 11:30AM- 1:00PM If you Roots of rock & roll. hate you." wilh your friendly pals Friar Ha Twin can't make sense of it, and that bothers LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL Fritter Abfackeln and Postman Pat. you, go somewhere else 9:00-11:00PM Local muzak from 9. Alternating wilh Dr. Killdare on "The MOTORDADDY 3:00-S:00PM "Let those Live bandz from 10. Doctor Killdare Show." Contact: who nde decide!" [email protected] ESOTERIK 6:00-7:30PM Ambient/ FRIDAYS LUCID k)UL2:30AM-4:00AM Dr. Killdare i rmT9 f mi plunders even further into the wee hours eleclronic/induslnal/elhnic/ VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- doinq what he can to keep security experimental music for those of us who FEMININE HY-JINX 4:00-5:00PM For is our theme. Give me your high school 10:00AM Greg here. Join me in ihe love guards and 7-11 clerks awake SUNDAYS know aboul the illilhids. • women who sometimes don'l feel fresh, memories. Gag me with a spoon1 '80's den for a cocktail. We'll hear relro stuff, Waywayway deep dance stuff and olher ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:00AM- AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:00PM hallucinafying fucked-up-ness. bul always gel fresh. Spoken word and retro for over two years now! Remember groovy |azz, and thicker stuff too. See 12KX)PM All ol hme is measured by lis rachel's, palace, brokengirl, ani difranco music: light lo heavy flow. Maximum the secret code word: rutabega. you here . . and bring some ice. XOXX art. This show presents the most recent ... these are a few of our fave-oh-wnl SATURDAYS protection recommended for male TELESIS 10:00-11:00AM Tune in for new music from around the world. Ears things, la la la! THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- listeners. Holy Hannah! It's a Femminst TUESDAYS TROPICAL DAIQUIRI 9:00-10:OOPM Zouk, 12:00PM Music you won't hear any THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 9:00-11:00AM relating to people who live with physical THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00-3:00PM Soukous, Samba, Salsa. Yes1 Even Soca. POLYPHONIC alternating 7:00-9:00PM Hear! Music thai makes you feel burned & menial challenges. releases, Brirish comedy sketches, folk Reggae inna all styles and fashion. Enjoy thisTropical Daiquiri with El Doctor Listen for all Canadian, mostly alive on an altar of flame! Shake with SKATS SCENE-IK DRIVE! 11:00AM- music calendar, ticket giveaways, plus LUCKY SCRATCH Alternating 3:O0-5:O0PM del Ritmo. independent lunes, and band interviews laughs! Shiver with suspense! Tremble 12:00PM SkaPunkSkaSwingSka Polka World Cup Report al 11:30 AM. 8-9 Blues ain't nothin' but a good woman STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR 10:00PM- al 7 30! with thrills! Not for sissies or children! It's SkaCoreSkatanicSkaJazzetc.etc.elc. AM: African/World roots. 9-12 noon: feelin' bad Gil down and git back up 12:00 AM Let DJ's Jindwa and Bindwa THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM scary1 It's screamy! It's screwy! SOLID STATE ALTERNATING 12:OO-2:O0PM Celtic music and featureperformances. again - host Anna. immerse you in radioactive Bhungra! Vancouver's longest running prime lime MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW 4:00-5:OOPM Featuring the latest in techno, trance, POWERCHORD 12:00-3:00PM RADIO BLUE WARSAW 5:004:00PM ,om "Chakkh de phutay". Listen to all our |azz program. Hosted by the ever-suave RIOT GIRL RADIO acid and progressive house. Spotlights kirn & helen in their quest for Icrupmk Vancouver's only true metal show, local Gavin Walker. Features al 11. IQRA 5:30-6:00PM News, issues, and on local artists, ticket giveaways, & live demo tapes, imports and other rarities. HE ATHER'S SHOW 6:00-8:O0PM Dedicated originals Brraaaah! June 3: A rare classic |ust issued on concerns facing Muslims throughout the performances. Hosted by M-Path. to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and Gerald Roltlehead and Metal Ron do the cd: "ArtBlakeyand his Jazz Messengers world UTTIE TWIN STARS 2:00-3:30 PM Kiki Liki transsexual communities of Vancouver THURSDAYS damage. Play Lerner and Lowe." Drummer/leader THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:OOPM Meat Kiki Liki and listened lo by evetyone Lots of RADIO FREE WOMEN 10*00-11:30AM It's THE SHOW 6:00-8:00PM Strictly Hip and master swinger with his 1957 band, the unherd where the unheard and the NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE human interest features, background on noi a free cuntry. And we're demanding Hop — Strictly Undergound — Strictly starring tenor saxophonist JohnnyGnffin hordes of hardly herd are heard, cour PRESENTS... 3:30-4:00PM Have a current issues and great music from acuntobilily. 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