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printed ii 3E^gSl®SS with primed sonic blasts of strangled guitar revelry and a ballad even ("One More Time"). They'll think twice before ever doing that again. The other slab comes from across the pond and in the guise of three sonic masters known as The Switch Trout from Yokaichi, Japan. Instrumentais are their wea The Down-n-Outs know pons of choice and they arm themselves well on the song departed Julie, colum of the above "Sonic Masters," which is nist of past, I will begin order, especially when girls piss A almost like three different songs a new saga of 7' sit 'n' spin with them off: they get revenge by in one, and the false stop-start a leftover from her bag of tricks: writing two songs of snot-nosed a double wax effort of bands 521 West garage-punk no-fi goodness shakefest of "Machismo." I've paying homage to TV starlet Wilson #C103, ( ta Mesa, CA ("Wreck My World" b/w been a fan of these cats since Patty Duke. Why someone 92627 USA) "Don't Ask Me Why"). Only for their debut back in '99, and they would obsess over this is a little just keep getting better. over my head, so dingbats like Recorded in some kinda alter me have the accompanying zine nate static universe, the tracks to school me on her supposed just pulsate with a warm ener "Dukeness," and bands like gy that is a change from the The Chubbies, Gore Gore more reverb-drenched treble- Girls, and Slumber Party to those who are stereophonically us a neo-rockabilly number tweaked bands of the instro serenade me with Patty-penned challenged, and who enjoy called "Red Head Devil." Both genre. Sonic masters, indeed. tributes, the aforementioned drums that masquerade as tracks from the sextet from Since it looks like I'll be tak Slumber Party ("One Kiss garbage cans. (Hipsville Canaduh roll like a doughnut ing over 7" duty here, I'd like to Away") winning top prize for Records, 2020 S Lowell Blvd., and get the hips a-swingin' take this opportunity to encour their Casio-beat pop and sleepy Denver, CO 80219 USA) with swampy R&B swagger on age participation from you, the vocals. This is apparently the Sympathy For The "Mudpit," and a cover of Larry reader of this fine rag, and toss second volume of the Patty Record Industry (www.sympa- Williams' "Louisiana Hannah." some suggestions for a ratings- platter, so if you' thyrecords.com). as their slogan Our friends from just south example, equating records to contact: Top Quality Rock And states, understands the impor of the border (Estrus Records, flavours of salsa: mild, medium, Roll, PO Box 1110, Southgate, tance of both kinds of music: PO Box 2125, Bellingham, WA hot, extra hot, etc. You guys are MI 48195 USA. rock and roll. The Von Bondies 98227 USA), deliver two fine smart, you figure it out. Ta very That being said, fir: from Detroit support the for specimens of 45 rpm ruckus much. • the gates are, The Stupor Stars, mer, while Montreal's Del- with a four song offering from Gators exemplify the latter. Tine the home of good cheese and with a three song punkity rack- SEND IDEAS TO Von Bondies continue the tradi bad beer, Milwaukee, WI, and loved (at least in my heart any tion of Motor City rock history The Mistreaters. Probably DISCORDER@CLUB. way) bands of yore like The with a fuzzed-out, amped-up written after ingesting copious amounts of both, The Motards or the Cryin' Out raver ("It Came From Japan") AMS.UBC.CA Louds. Simple but fun songs on side A, while the flip gives Mistreaters get their rocks off
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ecord fairs are for nerds. two copies of that Stooges Cover (eh), Darklands (almost Record nerds don't take record, too many Iggy Pop solo bought it again, just for the hell R showers and never cut albums, one Joy Division record of it), zero copies of (I can't their hair. They have a distinct (the Peel Sessions), a lot of fucking believe it) Dark Side of odor. Their fingertips are per Blonde on Blondes (so I finally the Moon (my head's probably manently gray from dusty got one, which attracted many just blocked it out by now), less crates and record sleeves. Fake toothles hippu when I Rumours than you'd think, one record nerds shave their faces Mountain LP, a few copies of or legs, paint their nails, and The Clash (all different colours), put on their best outfits to go to RECORD one Bobby Orr record (tempted, the fair. Record nerds are really tempted), not a single always looking down. The NERDS Walkabouts record, Robert phonies are always looking DON'T Fripp all over the place, beauti around. ful women (courtesy of Roxy I saw four copies of Exile on TAKE Music), one Blasting Concept Main Street, a couple Let it Bes comp, Rank and Louder than (which made me want to eat SHOWERS Bombs and Meat is Murder cake, but no time, no time for walked down the street), the (Morrissey costs too much), that), zero copies of Sticky yellow Cramps album, one more than one My Aim is True Fingers, 23 Kiss LPs, 4000 Hank White Album (skipped all the (already got three of those for Williams records, one White Beatles sections, thank Christ, some fucking reason), barely Light /White Heat, one, no make that one was in the wrong any of Boston or Chicago, not that two Swans records place), the CS Angels' Land enough REO Speedwagon (kid (should've bought the gatefold (sorry, the Canadian edition), ding, kidding), one Patrik one—gotta act fast, but too three copies of the first New Fitzgerald album, the first one, late), one Virgin Prunes record York Dolls LP (one was $78.95,1 sealed (that's a lie), Headache, (the hazy blue one), a $50 DOA don't know what the fuck), one including the red single (that single (can't say which one it Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me record too), two copies of Lies, the was because who the fuck cares (that's two records, three kiss worst Pere Ubu record, the best 50 bucks worth of caring), a $45 es), one third of the first Crazy Horse record, The Sarah MacLachlan record, (the Mekons album (no cover, no Spotlight Kid, and the other first one, OBVIOUSLY the best record, one sleeve), the original record I bought. I can't remem one), no Bonus Boys singles, Atomizer, Bruiseology (ugh), ber wliat else. • 4 October 2001 tunity to take the cc accounts was a highlight. But "girl at bar with broken heart of their context. For the record: from what I saw, I was and glealivet," with The Sugar "For a musician it seems like impressed, including Robert Refinery's Steven making a rehearsing 10 years for one con Kozinuk's complex projected cameo, at The Crying Room cert and then killing oneself and visuals, Diffraction, at Access; (which also featured work by 5000 people. The whole plan the fish mystery at Moonbase Janet Penner, Ali Lohan among ning looked like the greatest by Dean Stanton (who did it, others, and Amos H. on the piece of art of LUCIFER." anyway?), which reminded me decks); contemporary minimal http://www.stockhausen.org of work by Winnipeg's Royal ism at Gallery 83, with high /reply to bild.html Art Lodge; the ghostly demar prices and high expectations "... if Israel and Islam furthered the fication from the godhead; the trance-state the looping images cations of faces, figures and from Ron Danneasen and Holy War, they would be making Just War places a God-led induce, and then the digital THE GATHERING: shadows drawn directly onto Heather Lane; and ironic and the jump from political war. They "democracy" at the same helm, medium of repetitive music and MUSICAL RESISTANCE the walls of Artspeak, by entertaining political interven can accept complete release because for who can forget Dubya's disseminated state information On August 26th, electronic cul Elizabeth MacKen; tionist art (mattresses!), in they are religious. They're religious "[crusade] through the valley of merge to form the aesthetic ture and DJs gathered at the protest to Toronto's megacity, in a triumphalist way: they use the the shadow of death"? Just War (re)presentation of destruction, VAG to protest the continued captured on film by Kika fact that they don 'I believe in death, is Holy and Holy War is Just. disaster, and terror, an all- destruction of the Elaho. The Thome at the Helen Pitt. There the fact of their awareness of the Politics must be saved, thinking encompassing rhetorical mega- event, titled "The Gathering" was much, much more and I am non-ending of life, to go beyond must happen, xenophobia and motif, destined with one goal in and organized by James of missing many, many excellent politics... we must not only forbid state fascism must be curbed, mind: to sell something, fear, Soldiers of the Underground, artists. Many of the exhibitions Holy Wars—wars of complete fanatical religion and the fanat anger, hatred, the sponsor and was also a great chance to play are still on, and I highly encour release—we must also refute just ical State checked immediately: the government. Buy an some beats in public, featuring age YOU to get out and see ness, the justice of war.. .Today, the Holy War and its equal simu American flag: "The House of Primordial Nature among oth them before they are gone. Holy War is on the horizon of our lacra, Just War, must be ground Representatives passed a reso ers (whom I tagged with, much Support Vancouver! history." — Paul Virilio, Pure to a halt. As long as there is one lution Thursday, calling on all to the appreciation of some dis War (1983) there will be the other, and both Americans to fly the national cerning technoheads), and dis bring about the same horrific flag." Do you see what I'm see THINK play some public art, such as "We are not hated because we WAR? ing? "Operation Infinite Justice" Mediacore's Merlyn, who set practice democracy, value free "Complete release": the joyous was changed because they up his televisual extravaganza could not sell it to the Muslims. dom, or uphold human rights. after-death-drive embraces the CNN LOOPS DESTRUCTION on the steps. Today, however, Geanne Randolph, which defi We are hated because our gov utter destruction of all things. CNN loops the WTC plane attention should be turned to nitely had elements of Jasper ernment denies these things to Close to 20 years ago, Virilio crash over and over: "I woke up WAR IS ART: the Middle East: check Johns; the radical and disturb people in Third World countries predicted what is now happen this morning thinking that I STOCKHAUSEN www.tao.ca for the latest anti ing feminist work of Irene whose resources are coveted by ing. But what is happening? might not want to listen to Karlheinz Stockhausen, experi war developments. Loughlin and Laura Babak at our multinational corporations. Virilio's second warning that repetitive music ever again— mental electronic music com Gallery Gachet, which featured That hatred we have sown has we must also forbid the just the endless looping of images poser, absolutely misquoted SWARM: ARTIST RUN a remake of a barn (hay, fence come back to haunt us in the war, the retaliatory strike, must yesterday was enough for me about the attacks, from CHAOS and all) with a black and white form of terrorism and in the be remembered. For the just for quite some time." The grid Hamburg to the Vancouver Sun. The second annual Swarm video of horses (I kept thinking future, nuclear terrorism." — war—the War that the US is between digital music, media, Stockhausen was speaking of drew massive crowds to the of claustrophobia, of being Robert Bowman, who flew 101 about to open, a Pandora's box politics and terrorism intersects his leitmotif Lucifer as it mani 17(!) galleries showcasing their penned in, of the memory of combat missions in Vietnam. of anthrax and nuclear win in one blinding moment, and fested, as an allegory, in NYC. work. I didn't make it out to escape, and then the bound He is presently [1998] bishop of ters—is Holy War. The Holy for a split second, the fabric of Some trashy, nihilist (in the everything, and missed Jake woman in the tub, outlined in the United Catholic Church in War claims ultimate birthright (re)presentation opens: the worst sense of the word) jour Hill's Dishonest Wood exhibit at red, as a "cure" for "hysteria"); Melbourne Beach, FL. through its transcendental justi strategies of the media, the nalist from Bild took the oppor the Dynamo, which by all Jessica Eaton's incredible photo Until peace! •
you can be sure of: every track guitars and other pretty- will rock hard and be loaded sounding instruments that with over-the-top youthful play complex, almost anti-tune angst. Whoa! ful little melodies. Singer/song www.hothotheat.com writer Clare Bowditch sings very prettily, but don't expect RED RAKU to hear a hook anywhere, let Roda Leisis May alone a chorus to sing along to (Watershed) in this tangle of pointy-edged This CD comes from Victoria, poems set to post-folk arrange- VANCOUVER'S SHAME smushed in with slide guitar sounds from what appears to Australia, sent to us from one of Harvest of Shame on "Voodoo Dog," sawed-on be four sweet teenaged boys. our writers, and it is about as
knows absolutely everything still manage to cross the unspo discuss politics—looking to be about you, especially the things ken boundaries of type and go "queer" or "pro-active" rather culture you yourself didn't know—like home with anyone they want. than "gay"—you won't find a what STD you've recently Baby, if you've got the looks, nightclub for your type. acquired, who gave it to you, you're set in gay culture. Stop Instead, you'll meet in coffee and how you rid yourself of it. reading this and go and get houses for your once a week shock A comfortable and friendly some action. meeting. But don't worry, even place to be where everyone The problem with Pretty Political Types "get it on" as anthony monday knows your name and cock Boys, though, is they tend to be much as the Pretty Boys. You'll so concerned with maintaining go to the cafe, order a non-fat their young, Pretty Boy looks, RHETORIC FOR THE REC too "attached," and was crowd The choices are plentiful. The most prominent "gay" type these days seems to be of they spend the evening not decaf latte with cinnamon and TUM OR WHY I GAVE UP ing his "independence" I You have your pickings of the genus "Muscles." So moving in case their perfectly then discuss post-structuralism GAY. dragged myself back into the Ravers, Leathers, Bears, obsessed with their body, these coifed hair should fall out of and identity politics. You, too, hen I returned from hole of deprivation and soli Muscles, Pretty Boys, Drag men (months of anthropometric place. They tend to be quite can revel in the irony of being Kuwait I dove into tude. I poured myself into work Queens, Political-types, Bi-sex- study have discovered) general reserved and uptight. part of a sub-culture that stands everything I had been and school, visited only friends uals, Butches. Then there are the W ly shave everything (every The older fags, however, up and asks to be admitted into deprived of for a year. If was a and stayed away from men and Accountants, the Druggies, the thing, yes, even there) to are a little more daring and mainstream culture, regardless Caligulan orgy of western cul their places of whoring. I never Skaters, the Chicken-hawks, the accentuate the body. ture. I partook in everything I relaxed. With age comes fear of their sexual orientation, and liked gay people anyway, so , ^ They spend hours a could—the booze, the drugs, M lessness. And if you like the yet still defines their entire per this seemed a good excuse to b,, fro. day pumping up, the TV, the sex-infused daily sight of fearless old Leather sonality in terms of who they avoid them. shaving down and life. I reached for anything that Daddies in their '60s, with han sleep with, how they sleep with Now don't get me wrong. queotcd by *r?»wL 1 » *n* smoothing out just for dle-bar moustaches, leaping would fill me, and I poured into Before someone stands up and them, and in which social cate •, nancy. y°lir unnatural plea- around (half naked, half my dusty body everything it shrieks loudly into the micro gory they found him. Ju*. tap- sure. They are easy to wrapped in dead cow skins), craved. I laid back and let my phone in a camp and nelly And after that rousing find. Just follow the I'm sure you can find the right belly grow fat. There was me: debate, eyelashes will bat, and feeding off the cum-stained fin herd of thick-necked, darkened room for your home you'll head to have non- gers of capitalism, and growing white t-shirted, tight evening's pleasure. Once there, nalized homophobe"—know procreative sex. ugly with the juices of want. jeaned studs down to their bar you'll probably find men of all that I have no homophobia, Sugar-daddies, the Young, the of choice. The only problem shapes and sizes waltzing See? Everyone goes home Yes, I let my hands wander to internalized or otherwise, to the thighs of a man. Yes, I liked Old, the Perverts, the with them is they do have a ten around in bottomless chaps. happy. Isn't it giddy to be gay? those who feel the need to Delusioned, the Jaded—the list dency to look at themselves in Beware of drag queens. You began your night alone, the way his tongue moved in define themselves as homosex goes on and on and on and on the mirror a little too often, Men in dresses are never to be and now look at the directions my mouth. Yes, I found his nip- ual. I mean, sure, fine, go ahead until you're practically rolling spend too long in the shower trusted. I don't care how many it could take. No matter what i the c and call yourself a name, fine around with the scat crowd. worshipping their own bodies times they can recite Bette type of category you want to •hair, and yes,I sucked by my less-than-perky ass. I So you chose your type and rather than yours. Muscles usu Midler lines in one night, I slip yourself into, you can find And dammit, it was have no problem with "homo establish a presence. You're don't want you going near any ally only go for Muscles. If hundreds of other men willing I say this not with self- sexuals" per se. What I do have going to have to choose a bar, a you're not pumped, don't try one who tapes his privates to to put themselves into a box. right. a problem with are those stupid local haunt—the place where pumping them—unless you're his ass just so he looks more like You, too, can be a gay man that e for those "gay" people for the first few times you go, a Pretty Boy. a girl. My logic is if you want to identifies himself through who feelings. Well, maybe a little bit Let illtl.' e a poi you'll be fresh meat, then you'll If you do have the pre-req- sleep with a man, sleep with a of self-righteousness. Imagine, if you v become one of "the boys," uisite good looks, you can have MAN—a hunk-a-hunk of burn he sleeps with, rather than iden But soon, the inevitable ers that you are a young urban knowing everything and any anyone you like. The Pretty ing love that would rather talk tifying as a human, who co-inci- happened, and after my sorry fag. It is Saturday night. And thing about everyone and their Boys are that weird hybrid of about sports than anything dentally sleeps with men. ass was dumped because my you want sex. What to do? boyfriend—regardless of whe guys who can be in any catego political and/or remotely Welcome. This is my world. pathetic heart couldn't separate What to do? Or, more impor ther it's true or not. A place ry—a brightly-dressed Raver or resembling social commentary. And you wonder why I am still sex from "feelings" and I got tantly, who to do? Who to do? where everybody already a shaggy-haired Skater—but And if you are looking to single. • 6 October 2001 found the wilder work off- ed as the new Fringe Central, are likely to be sp< putting. The main hurdle here there was also activity at the money. though, was that the Canadian Roundhouse, the Culch, the Association of Fringe Festivals Havana and two theatres off s this what's by has a constitution whose main South Granville (the "annex" "Theatre for Everyone"? tenet is that any fest bearing the venues in the Downtown IChanging a festival to Fringe TM be unjuried. The Eastside having been dropped). appeal to those who in truth, alarming alternative—breaking Maybe it was the thought don't particularly crank on the away from CAFF and giving of the new target audience hav authentically fringey? In his the fest another name—was ing to walk a lot, take the bus or, programme message, current THE TAMING OF THE FRINGE felt inclined to check out the obviously not embraced, as heaven forbid, make its way Executive Artistic Director Fringe. Oh, and let's not for Vancouver's Fringe still accepts down to Cordova Street, but by Michael McLaughlin sees the .he 17th edition of the neighbourhood get—one which would attract Vancouver Fringe Fest is low-key 1 the extreme but ival wrapped last month, had migration to the performing T Not that I've anything against alcohol-induced .. arts hub of Vancouver and our and I'm wondering who else apt little refuge for ; goal of making art, which is noticed how different it feels non-mainstream theatre festi merriment. I just marvel at how generous the corporate often seen as a fringe activity, now. For me, it started with a val. Around 1997, it moved t< players become when an event is located in an area read-through of the programme shift ral to the ile o munity." Whoa, Michael. That's guide. For the first time, not one which seemed more calculated where its patrons are likely to be spending show hit n '.. In to cash in on the Drive's realized that the "fringe" in the end, I only saw six, and as it med hipness than to more money. fringe theatre meant peripheral happens, they were all good in and better venues, bigger guns i the c 2001, the desired change was to our lives. Perhaps it's time to some way (a few were very though it ust be said that the productions sponsorship complete. With the exception of get rid of that pesky F-word good) but with one exception, it Fringe spi did feel alive and basis. believe it wa here that the rot a significant the two nearby South Granville altogether. Go on. You know never felt like I was at the well there. In any c i. There's nothing wrong lade during venues, the festival was now Fringe. Would it have been dif Apparently, the paucity of wanting to be bigger or Planden's tei >. In 2000, the coralled on the Island. Neater, ferent if I'd seen them at theatre spaces on the Drive financially successful, but Fringe administration, b< tidier and complete with an Heritage Hall or the Cavern? itself led organizers to look for to be acknowledged that office and five venues moved Absolut Vodka Green Room ;t 30th i Don't know. It's difficult to yet another locale. Enter Karen that rather affluent piece of ru and a Fringe Club located in the skewer exactly what it was Planden. Taking over from r late the ri ire of a way that still feels good. But tico-urban real estate known Granville Island Brewing about the productions, but let's founding Artistic Director something is changed. I kin quelle horreur-people are Granville Island. It seemed tl Company. Not that I've any crack open the subject of loca- Joanna Maratta in 1998, she that Planden entertai beginning to notice and some thing against alcohol-induced brought a vision of a bigger, bet idea of a juried festival, nest was being feathered for where on the horizon, gentrifi- ter festival—one which would new kind of attendee. But th cation is probably licking its attract a new kind of audience side bar where some ' year also saw the biggest vein s the c e player chops. Maybe one day the Fringe begar who undoubtedly went to the unjuried stuff could h sprawl ever. Although Gra "Fringe" will even move back Main Street in anc theatre but had probably never \ 11If Island was now being toi Varoun d Mount Pleasant tf/scordervolunteer meeting! Wednesday, October 3 in the citr lounge, call 604.822.3017 for more information, come wreck the party. VIDEO IN STUDIOS
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table was littered with comics of good thing going. He first came art style is accomplished and all shapes and sizes—it was a to my attention at the almost realistic looking. It adds cornucopia. At turns simple and Drippytoion Comics premiere full of grace, you had so much with his strip FLOPNIK (avail Ed Brisson's SOB STORY to choose from. I recommend able at flopnik.com). Flopnik is and FOREVER AND A DAY THE TALE OF THE UGLY the adventures of Rizzo the rice were good, too. I especially like TURKEY CHICK, a dark fable cooker, Spring Chicken the the drunken bunny. Sob Story is with a happy ending drawn chicken, and Flopnik the robot his autobiographical stuff and it with such clarity it almost begs toaster dog. There are puns and was hard not to relate to his to be coloured. As well as sight gags galore. It's funny, tales of small town Ontario about a bunch of friends Jiang- BUTTERFLY DREAMS, an charming and offbeat—pretty boredom and weirdness. pressed ing out. Sounds boring, but he anthology with an amazing much everything required in a Gareth Gaudin has been i. Comics & Stories 2001 brush made it interesting. Pretty much daily comic strip. about the weakness churning out MAGIC TEETH efinitely worth Mori is a good artist for a while now. (50 issues!) At and his style hear mentioning. This year the atten times bizarre, yet strangely laugh,' it wasn't kens to nostalgia for dance was up on both the fan adorable, Gaudin's characters preachy, and it did comic strips past. and the creator side. There was ; style is wonky also the first ever Comics & n't take sides. I like to think comics like but n and n inded n • of a Stories 2001 performance art these just bring me skinnier, cruder Robin Bougie. one step closer to His style is ever changing and . Aim of Last, but certain understanding hov you can pick from big comics to Vancouver's local darlings were ly not least, was the he tale little comics, to comics with there, but I want to tell you horde known as The records, to one-panel gags. He about the new guys. Bent Collective from Okay, so he isn't even has comics with no dia Even though I've seen her Victoria. They are logue. It is truly like Gareth local, butTorontonian comprised of Nick stuff around before May So's Michael Noonan e of the sugar gen- GLOOGIRL COMICS were out O'Teen, Brian Fukushima, Emily in full fore? that Sunday. So has comic FANCY PANTS All in all this show was a Shoichet, Gareth a very clean and precise line almost knocked my blast. It was cheap (if you did Gaudin, and local with a lot of innovative angles. pants off. A comic n't buy any comics), entertain guys Robin Bougie (I think it has something to do about various types ing, full of surprises and gems. and Ed Brisson. You with her career in architecture.) of relationships Not to mention it was a great can taste all their They are cute little comic involving sex and way to spend a lazy Sunday. wares in a handy lit vignettes of advice or stream- n this new cen- Want to relive the experience? tle anthology they of-May-So's-consciousness. Check out Word Under The did called HEINO Beautifully poetic and with Street at the Main Library on honest, funny, and AND HIS BAND, or you can great insight, So is a favourite. September 30. Everyone you really well drawn. check out some of their solitary She even had a Gloogirl care line is fluid and confident. In Noonan has a great expressive know and love will be there and is left ii ised. efforts as well. Nick O'Teen's package to go with Gloogirt's what can be a pretty messy style. Goofy, big and sharp, this it promi o be a re A recent transplant that collection of angry youth tales Guide to Food and Fortune'. What medium, Bob leaves the panels comic was quite the gem. humdinge r ot a ime. It's free gave up political cartooning in and service industry horrors can I say, I respect that kind of Pregnant Embryo Studio go and i nmer uncluttered and clean. WINE, Kamloops to do a daily family was hilarious, not to mention effort. Tlueraune. WOMAN AND SONG was ind '< Internet strip, Andi Mori has a interesting and intelligent. His Bob had two comics for the about the eternal crush. It's also . Their 8 October 2001 T [fo d dl © ^ d w d 0* y t Cn i on | fe.@©-aiffi-® I @"it On i OB i spent most of the day "it" aroi /. It can be ie's privik I ranted, or orsethanqueer.com), happened with a beatific of t smile on my face. It was as if wea "The national disc, those crashing planes had of t ing this tragic ever popped a giant tension bubble ider is the end of the abili- lar has produced a in mv head—there was nothing nic, organizing images ind impor- left for me to fear, because tlie For about certain touchy of ideal cti- worst thing that could have ty ti happene: had v had finally hap- how pened. The world was ending. I poli
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as simple as it looks. A late-Cold no say or power over even s, it The other day 1 dreamed War childhood convinced me can aiso be a gesture of su ren- tha planes were exploding that the end of the world would der. By declaring The End o 'the abc ve Mclnnes Field at UBC. begin with an Emergency World, you are opting nc t to Hu nan flesh rained in chunks Broadcast System broadcast participate in constructive s olu- out o the bright green grass. It and end, minutes or hours later. tions. Lying back and accej ting loo ked like roasted turkey, and 1 with the gestation of a nuclear an expected atrocity is the >asi- wa rted more than anything to winter. But that sort of End est way to ensure that atr< city eat it. Reaching down to pick necessitates that the World is will occur. Refusing to give into up a piece, I realized that my objectified as landscape, nation, despair—as strong as the em- can libalism would be misinter- air, ram, and corpse count. The pahon may be—is one stra pre ed by the horrified onlook- real world is a subjective realm. of resistence. Even if our ers My anthropological The end of the world which resistence does nothing but edi cation had taught me that matters most to people is the inspire others that they can nibalism could sometimes end of their world: the end of resist as well, it is working be a pro-social act—like the the ability to create their own The symbol of the 6 ,000 Eu harist of the Christians. I reality in a way which makes dead bodies have created a poi knt w that devouring the dead sense to them. When I told my itics of "hurt feelings" w nd! coi Id be an expression of soli- boyfriend about the Sun's "End works to squash dis ent. dai ity and an attempt to absorb of Irony" piece in Saturday's Passivity and silence cone em- the r powerful and positive Mix, he laughed that the terror ing the errors of US foreign pol- qui lities. But the others would ists had stolen away an entire icy are demanded b a thi \k that I was dishonoring generation's way of dealing mourning population wht are the r deaths—or worse, partici- with and interpreting the uni- "offended" by the slightest sug- pat ng in a second, more horrif- verse. In our culture, the end of gestion that this is not a mal r. I r, the world can be as simple as of good versus evil, of civili •ne to avoid the temptation. •
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: Please tell me would say anything spontaneous Jardiniers project Can you explain what the lyrics what I understand, they mean? It's one of my current favourtUg ugh j television jour- They actually don't mean anything, (t's.j$li:|jadly* translated ded some music. French-to-English nonsense, were veryd:&daj«t with ly.ri lly, since '% I've What wouJdyou like the listener to be left with .after hearing c for Christtanne Les Jardiniers? ect a TV that airs Depends on the context. Our live shows are pretty intense, and n the French CBC we would tike people to be drained from dancing'. On CD i like lad to do it in '99 I to think people feel they haven't lost their time and feel they partner JF to help heard something fun and original. •sparked our col- Which bands would you most like to be touring with? e flame. We had Rinocerose. We've played with them before and have aboutthe same living habits and age and, •Is, a similar sound. Wouldn't mind touring with Madon either, though. Jesus! Why Madonna? She's obviously loaded, which would make for a : comfy tour, and she has excellent musical taste. Mad^ knows more about electronic musk then most ravers. Can you name the best band of the *6us, the '70s, 'Sos, '90s and '00s? Hard to pm down just one. For the sixties: Can or early Kraftwerk and Iangerme Dream. Seventies: Throbbing Gristle, Suicide, ABBA. Lighties: Duran Duran, Sonic YoutJt, Coctoau Twins. Nineties: My Bloody Valentine, Curve, Vanessa Paradis and nowadays a melting pot ot everything aforementioned and lots of techno, house and Boards of Canada.
10 October 2001 DiSCORDER: What role does the keyboard play during your performance? 20 QUESTIONS WITH Steve: The keyboard is constantly transmitting an oscillating 12-15 hertz signal in hopes that we P ^ I will either be visited by elephants or be the cause of the fabled "disco dump." A few weeks ago I stumbled upon this band in Seattle that changed my mind about the kind of music that is being written here on the West Coast. Their set built up slowly with songs like "My 21st Birthday, Lifelong," and "Woody Allen," a A lot of bands that I have seen lately have been either too far left or way song that was originally titled "Woody Allen Bangs His Daughter," but as they mentioned, cer too far right for me to even stay past the third song. These guys drew me tain forces inside the band has lobbied against that. The song was slower than most and remind in within the first 10 seconds. They silenced the crowd and soothed the ed me of a ballad, which is why I vote for the original title. The best song they did was their last y drunk guy in the corner. The cello first caught my eye, then the singer b h*1 ly titled "Kuniper." Each member solely raises the tempo and noticeably twist their instruments whose voice reminded me of hot chocolate. My respect was ultimately u causing a wall of melodic noise. This was much unlike the rest of their set which was mostly soft. won over as they played on. The cello was never a gimmick; it ranged in m i s t r Lisa explained that this was one of her favorites. "I sort of get to caterwaul a bit at the end and scale and dynamic. She played with a style that was all her own and it I don't feel compelled to sing that way to often" was obvious to all she had spent a lot of time doing this. The other mem bers played with them adding a What is your favorit time signature? I met with the band after the show Joel: I'm partial to 6/8 time. It can rock, but it also has that "drinking and emailed them : and singing late night in a Dublin pub feel." As far as the one we play 20 or so. The band is named with the most I would have to say 4/4. There is a lot of work that Palomas, which is Spanish for do occurs between Steve's favorites— 5/4,7/4, and 7/8—and when the The band consists of Marta on cello; songs are actually performed it's 4/4 for the audience. Lisa sings/mumbles/whispers/ Steve: I'm a sucker myself for songs that change from 4/4 to 6/8 or whines and plays keyboard; Joel is somewhere in the middle. All dramatic like. the "percussionist;" Steve apparent Lisa: I'm not so good with the math thing. What the hell ai u guys ly speaks Latin and plays guitar. talking about? They started ot jeet for an art show that never hap le I was watching them play I heard s< : in the crowd liken pened... neither (heart show nor the a to Sonora Pine. Probably be. if the cello. The big differ- i between them is also that the cello leads in this band, I ar. They hold the same mesmerizing element, but the singing is h more ethereal. This word and others like translucent, eventual, eminated, and spacious were thrown out to me by the band as •ords >est described their music.
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ANDREW DUKE DUKES IT OUT
DiSCORDER: Your music is borderline abrasive. Psychotic, really. type of people who wanted simple lyrics that said and offered noth What are your personal demons? ing. I make an effort to get some funk in my rhythmic pieces, but Hniiimi, personal demons? Perhaps: despite knowing that it is not a then add constrasting elements, oftentimes which aren't so smooth; smart thing to do, I have a habit of, both in the short and the long "Crablike" is a good example [from Sprung]. term, taking on and doing too much at once so that at a certain point Tell me a little about the Halifax scene that you come out of. What 1 get totally burnt out, both physically and mentally. I'm aware that was your role in it—learning, mentoring DJs, throwing parties, we only have a limited amount of time and we have no foreknowl edge of when our time will be up... so I'm constantly on the move— I moved to Halifax in 1987 and did the Friday night overnight show like a shark—and doing things, juggling the physical and the on CKDU, (which] gave me a heck out a lot of time to explore all mental—way too many acts and way too many thoughts. I know we kinds of music at the station. I DJed the parties at King's College all must die and there's nothing we can do to change that, but I don't (where I was a student) plus various parties elsewhere and nights at want to be on my deathbed thinking "I should have done that" or "1 some clubs. 'Course this all stopped when I sold all my vinyl in 1990. should have done this"; perhaps that's how I ended up with five The first party I was involved with throwing was in 1993 with Nick albums coming out in the next six months! I've always felt that there Oliver (aka Nick Nonsense; for my DJ set for that party, because I was something "different" going on with my brain (and it seems like didn't have a single record to my name, I relied on a few records I others concur: after hearing "You're weird, Andrew, but it's a good bought the morning of the party plus records borrowed that night weird," from lots of people throughout my life, and at different times from Nick) and some other people. We had an equal number of DJs in my life, so these would have been sets of people who had never and live sets—some of us DJed and played live, our concept was [to] ich otht .1 to take n o a psy not have one overshadow the other. We were going to continue with
had the chance to see Xiu Xiu when they opened for the Beans this past summer in Vancouver. Before I saw them, they were just a band with a / name I couldn't pronounce. The only thing I knew about them was that pain in the ass and although he has never kissed Deerhoof record called Koala Magic, Symphony one of their members, Yvonne Chen, runs Zum Media (which put out two anyone he makes up elaborate homoerotic sto No. 8 by Shostakovich and the new Bjork. Beans CDs) with her brother George. Then the band took the stage at The ries just so his father will leave him alone. In classical music, besides Shostakovich, who Are you filming right now? else do you dig? Starfish Room, with instruments decorated with felt cut outs reminiscent of Lauren from Xiu Xiu is doing it on her computer 1 am going to mangle the spellings of most of Sunday School, and played a genre-defying set which straddled the realms as she is a genius. these people: Goreyki, Ligetti, Mahler. There is a of irony and earnestness. I didn't know what to make of them, but I knew Is it a short? compilation disc of Russian women composers that I liked them. It will be a video for a song called "Don Diasco". who are composing right now who are every Who is going to play the 11 year old? thing. It is under the title Cenia, who is the pianist The morning of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, I fired off an We are actually only going to use the felt ait outs. who is playing them. Cinastera, Bartok, Reich, email to frontman Jamie Stewart, without any knowledge of the mass Lauren Has taken photos of them and will auto Crumb ("Black Angels" is astonishing, point destruction that had occurred. I didn't expect him to answer, given everything mate camera moves over them. She is doing it blank THE BEST!). These are like they used to do cheap cartoons; taking a still that had gone on, but I received a reply several days later. Stewart, who my big favourites of the moment. The Emerson shot and using the camera's motion to simulate Quartet is number one. They do mostly according to the Xiu Xiu website has recorded with members of Devo, the ACTION! modern repertoire pieces but they destroy them Screamers and Robert Fripp, claims his most awkward stage in life has lasted Have you made any other videos? with a stick and a dirty look. from birth to present. The truth is, he was a perfectly charming interviewee. We are working on putting out a collection of What is your musical background? Are you them right now that hopefully will be done by classically trained? the time Knife Play is out. We are working on No, I am pretty much self taught save two cours DiSCORDER: Who are the members of Xiu Stars. It will be put out in vinyl by Absolutely about seven or eight of them. A couple are being es at community college. Tliere are advantages to Xiu? (Please list full names, instruments Kosher. The title is Knife Play. Right now we are done by friends and Lauren is doing the rest. One being classically trained in that it can facilitate played, ages, any other important biographical working on a 7" on Springman Records that will is a dance video (we had a bad ass named Justin, communicating your ideas to other people, but information.) be a collaboration with Deerhoof. Summer 2002 who could really do R 'n' B style dancing, dance if you get mired in technique as a lot of classical Jamie Stewart: Xiu Xiu is made up of a carbon we will be putting out an EP on Absolutely behind the camera as we tried in vain to follow wonks do, then the point of communicating based composite that once broken down, separat Kosher, which we are recording right now as him—amusing/embarrassing/tough to watch), music gets very small. Cory went to music school ed in a centrifuge and examined under a micro well. Previously released music would be on a couple are animated or Claymation, the felt one and has very consciously avoided having it pre scope can be referred to as: Lauren Andrews (20), compilations by the trillions that we love with as mentioned, one is set on a space ship bridge. vent him from playing from his heart. He is a synth, bells and gongs, harmonium and guitar; hearts inflated to the trillions of psi. Two are very art damaged; they are sort of funny, brilliant model for having music school teach Yvonne Chen (27), bells, gongs, and synth; Cory Where did you get your name from? sort bizarre, and sort of grim. you to listen as opposed to dictate. He hipped me McCulloch (30), bass, guitar, harmonium, bells Joan Chen made a movie called Xiu Xiu the Salt What would you start a riot over? to almost all of the modern classical music that I and gongs; Jamie Stewart (29), vox, guitar, synth, Doion Girl. If you are not familiar with it, it is a If someone in my family was wrongly impris am listening to right now. and mandolin; Mr. Robota (10,000,000), who is a story that is desperate, non-conciliatory, heart oned I would bust into the courtyard and pass Who or what do you find influential? drum machine and our real father/mother. Live breaking and makes you feel awful. out shanks and bottles to all the inmates to free The Smiths, travelling anywhere, the news, my and recording we switch around on instruments a How is it pronounced? my kin amidst the confusion. I do not know that neighbours yelling at eachother all the time, my I would start a riot but I would participate in one parents yelling at eachother all the time, drum lot. Although I wish we all had eight arms and That is a tough question. In the movie, Xiu Xiu, if US politics continues to narrow much more. sounds, art movies, dance clubs, insane things could play them all at once. the main character's name is pronounced "Shoe How do you feel when you go to the polls and children at work do and say, reading, music How did you come together? Shoe" by other characters, but in an interview it seems like you could just spit on your ballot made by people who play it because it was/is Cory and I had played in two bands before that Yvonne saw with Joan Chen, she pronounced and it wouldn't made a difference? part of their everyday life (field recordings, reli (IBOPA and Ten in the Swear Jar) and when Xitsj it "Show Show". We usually say "Shoe Shoe" The US two party system was not designed to be gious music, traditional songs) and "This broke up we really wanted to continue to play because we had been calling it that for about eight pluralistic. I hope when I vote that it can matter American Life" on NPR together. Yvonne runs a record label and zine months before Yvonne saw the interview, but we but obviously considering who is in the White called Zum and she and I ran into eachother a always feel a little hesitant about it as we do not What is the most insane thing a child at your House at the moment it does not. It hurts that few times because of that and became really want to disrespect the source's creator. work has done or said? "America" is very much bullshit and it is scary. It good friends. Lauren used to work as an engi Who made the felt cut outs that you drape on is overwhelming and it is supposed to be. Voting "I am pregnant and I have twin baby boys in my neer at a little studio that Cory and I used to have your equipment during shows? is a civic duty and being a grass roots activist is a tummy and they are gonna kill you, sucker!" at our house and we got to be friends through I work at a pre-school that is part of a church. It human duty. —Natalie Salazar that. This is the first band that I have been in has been there for about 80 years and some of the Describe your sound. What are you reading right now? where I was friends with everybody first and it back closets are packed with boxes and boxes of I have a lot of time on the train and while the makes it fantastic. Everyone has eachother's best mystery items. We were cleaning out one of them BLAH! Perhaps in my mind and I do not think children at work are napping to read, so I read interest at heart and is concerned about and it was full of about 100 of these super bizarre all of Xiu Xiu would agree with thLs: depressing all the time: A book about the history of the Hells eachother's feelings. Also we can make more fun and tragically posed figures. pop, modern classical, electro, house, experi Angels; Keep the River to Your Right, a book about of eachother because we know about eachother's What is their significance? mental. Sometimes it is very very dense, some a New York painter who goes and lives with a personal lives. I have not been able to figure out what the story times it is very very empty. tribe in Peru who are cannibals and he falls in Where are you based? that they go with is about. All of the people look What is in your CD player at the moment? love with one of them; First They Killed My Father, We all live in the miserable/magnifique gaping very upset. Lauren and I are working on a video My five disc changer recently purchased from a memoir of a woman who was a child in wound/flowering tomorrow of San Jose, that uses them in a story about a dad who goads Fry's Electronics is currently home to: Jose Maceda Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge regime; Tape California. his 11-year-old son into telling him about his sex (he is a Filipino composer who does works for like Op magazine. 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14 October 2001 Fifteen human trash cans coming together one afternoon in Nezv York State with one purpose in mind: trying to prove they can eat hot dogs at a pace faster than anyone else on the globe. How could CiTR Sports not want to conduct an interview on that topic? >ir g@ I called the organizer of the International Federation of Competitive Eating not know ing what to expect. Did organizer George Shea truly believe competitive eating is a sport? Not only docs the man behind the must ani believe en I ing pizza is a competitive sport, but that it is the sport of the next century. You be the judge. IFOCE DiSCORDER: Tell me about your big event, at Coney Island, and what just went down there the other day. limlt^if Matt iPrince. All of these men weigh under 100 pounds. In general, in North America, have to reject an alcohol contest for the safety reasons. I do So he uses the "Solomon" method, where he tears the we think of an eating competition want to say that a new associate member of the federation does dog in half and puts the two halves in his mouth. champion as your 6'5", 300-400 pound what they call the Beer Mile. They run a mile while drinking There's the "Washdown" method. Tell us some of the four beers. It's really more of a club than it is a contest. methods people use. basic gorilla. But that doesn't seem to be who's pulling in the title. What does Another thing that I saw that caught my mind is a woman fin I think that Nakagima of Japan, in 1996, brought a new ished third in the Coney Island contest, so women can com the ideal eating body look like? style to the sport, and that was immediately referred to pete. It's not a sexual racist event. Intuitively, you would say the bigger as "Japanesing" or "Tokyo" style: separating hot dog There's no Title Nine in our event because we don't separate from bun and eating them separately. Most of the veter and fatter the person is the more likely he or she would be able to eat large women from men. 1 think the reason we don't was highlighted an eaters practice some version of that method now. But quantities of food in a short time. The by Takaka Okasaka last year when she beat the entire American this year we saw a new method come to the floor. truth is, size has absolutely nothing to do field. She ate 22 and one half hot dogs and buns. So many Kobayashi splits hot dog and bun in half, then s oves them with eating capacity and skill. It is a tal- women compete. The only rule that we have about who can in his mouth on the two sides, and chews siraul aneously, ent. Some say it is innate, but I would say compete is that you have to be over 18. almost like a conveyor belt action as it goes down his it's a skill you can enhance and foster Where are you going to take the sport from here? In Japan throat. That was immediately dubbed the "Solomon" method by over years of training. Kobayashi won an event that had a $100,000 purse. You don't the crowd, obviously in reference to the bibl: Ed Crotchey, former world champion, have any prize money in your competitions. al king. wrote a scholarly journal article referred Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest is about patriotism It is not about style with Kobayashi. There is no human to now by the competitive eating commu and show of skill. It is not about money. The only prize is a alive who can eat 50 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes nity as the "Belt of Fat" theory. What it year's supply of hot dogs, which is 480 hot dogs and buns and simply because of an excellent style. This man has phe boils down to, is that he says that a fat per obviously possession of the coveted Mustard Yellow nomenal capacity, phenomenal control, and he is just son is actually restricted and inhibited by International Belt. So that is glory and honour enough to moti something we've never seen before. the belt of fat around the stomach that pre- vate the guys. Were you absolutely shocked that Kobayashi was even Give some last words to an individual who doesn't believe able to compete at this event at that level or was he a Sadly, that document was rejected by that this truly is a sport. favourite going in? The New England journal of Medicine and sev There had been a lot of rumbling before the contest. eral other journals. But I think what it says Everybody thought that Arrye was the man to beat, but then the Japanese crew came over to us and asked that we made sure that we had at least 40 numbers on his counting card. I expected that we may see 30 fall. Possibly 35. When he was eating at the pace he was, and when he indeed ate 50 hot dogs in 12 minutes, I mean, 1 thought then it was impos sible, I think now it is impossible. He did the impossible. He did it, but it is impossible, he can never be beaten. He is oper ating at a level that is far beyond the other athletes. He is years ahead. Put this in comparison to other athletes' records in different
The one that immediately comes to mind is Bob Beeman's long lump m the '68 Olympics where he added 14 inches to tlie pre vious record. This is like that in terms of its shock value, but it Early Greeks believed that lightning was a weapon of Zeus. Lightning's heat exceeds 50,000 degrees
Fahrenheit (three times hotter than the surface of the sun). Its speed is 90,000 miles per second
(one hundred million feet per second). Thunder is always associated with lightning. Thunder is the
shock wave created by super heated air in the lightning channel. It's wrong to say lightning can be
'stopped" or prevented. It is a totally capricious, stochastic and unpredictable event.
— National Lightning Safety Institute DiSCORDER: How did you and the oth< first hook up? Brian Chippendale: We both went to th<
felt it was like a fort \wc both laugh]. And also 'cause Lightning Bolt had formed before that and so it was also sort of the place where Lightning Bolt lived. But it kind of grew. I mean, when that pi. ed bass we first started out, it was our final year in 'rizity for both me and Matt which basically meant that we dropped out of school And v vith somebody from Black Dice? right after that: we didn't actually finish. So we started out No, this was with another guy—that happened later. just having some shows. 1 think the first show that we had What happened was that we started playing with him there was Karp, Karp played. on bass and actually me and the guitarist didn't real- Karp! I loved that band! Yeah, Karp was amazing. So that was the first show, and then we stopped. But then 1 eventually left the guitarist the second show was like US Maple and The Scissor Girls. So oiu\ then about six months later me and Brian just that was good. I mean, that was all in 1995, back when Karp tried it again out of the blue at the end of 1994. was amazing and I thought that US Maple was pretty amazing When I think of Providence I think of, first, HP at that point—I'm not so into 'em anymore. But it was kind of Lovecraft and Brown University, and just generally like, we were 'rizity kids and our audience was pretty art a kind of quiet, conservative place, you know? school associated and we kind of started making elaborate What's it like? posters for the shows we were having... I was a printmaking Oh God, these days it's absolutely frustrating. It's major. become a weirdly popular town... with all sorts of lev Oh, that's what you were doing at school. els of people. I mean, I know probably 20 sort of, like, Yeah, like, the actual album cover, about 1300 of the vinyl out hip, post-college people that have moved here just in of 2000 (have] been silkscreened. So if you have the CD, that's the last month or so... just the last couple years has a photograph of the silkscreened album. So that was my major been this influx of post-college people. in school so that's kind of how I make my living too is mostly And what do you think the appeal is? just doing prints. And then Fort Thunder just kind of grew. I don't know. I kind of think some of it is the fact that We were actually just evicted this summer. I was away on tour. for the last couple years there has been a lot of music That's why it's frustrating now: Lightning Bolt doesn't have a and a lot of art coming out of here. But when I first place to play; I don't have a place to silkscreen; we don't have came, it was just sort of like a desolate town, there was a place to have shows. sort of like a rock scene—I mean, I came here for school What was the deal? What happened? s kind and i like i Over the past two years, there's been a company slowly buy u>ol that seemed kind of, like, that's where ing all the options for the buildings—it's like a 13-acre mill vas seeming to happen. I mean, there were complex with like 13 different owners and like a whole bunch ore that like Six Finger Satellite, and Drop of different buildings, like 20 different buildings or something. .ere—they've been around for awhile—but So basically, we kind of as a group, and a lot of other people too, decided that we wanted to try to stop this complex from nds, a lot of that is sort of the collision of being torn down and turned into like a supermarket. But zity people that have decid- because we suddenly had to draw all this attention to our ixed v selves, the other city people came in and we basically got r that evicted because a) we were living illegally, and b) we'd been "Lhtie :ty."\ decorating the place for the last six years or so, and the Fire lat is Fort Thunder and how is it connected with all Marshall has declared it a complete Hretrap. s scene, and the School of Design and everything? I've seen the pictures on the internet. It looked like a lot of t Thunder is basically, like, in 1995—September 1 guess visual information, and I wanted to ask you about the kind s when we got it—me and my roommate tor a bunch of of aesthetic of the bands and even the art, it seems to mesh together and make sense together: it's sort of this spastic, lkman, we were just looking for a warehouse space demented, kind of juvenile wrestling world. It seems linked nn Inl GMT 16 October 2001 to some of the stuff that Skin Gr can try and be the front man." 1 don't know, "Brian. I'm gone," like basically he had just moved to New Skin Graft has definitely been a v ched, and I understand that shows have to York. We had two more shows coming up and he owed element. And I think that's another thing ab< money, like he'd blown up other people's stuff and he just that people understand thatt. 1 mean, people |US moved away, he moved away for like nine months. So we bored.... That'; didn't record this record that we were gonna do, but we Yeah, but also sort of simple. I mean, you know, Fort Thundi other bands felt I ke i had a bunch of songs then, and then he eventually came we were just collecting lots of trash all the time and ju important, but the us, with Fort Tluinde back—he had worked for this artist in New York named putting il up and building our own little world. It's ve Lightning Bolt, nu Saul Le Witt—and he'd made like $10,000, Brian had. He much based on like, "We're in here. We don't need anyboi m Fort Thunder is, act came back and he was like, "I want to try this again." So else. We're just gonna make everything from the ground up use which doesn't hav then he came back and then we had a few new songs and I mean, we weren't growing food or anything like that, b ivched about it. One we probably would have been if we didn't live in a parkii Fort Thunder gu lot or something. There's also an ironic superhero thing happening as we >ne kind of refust What about this bass rig? Has he got one now thai Like, with the art, and even your song titles—"13 Monster and everything—it all seems to border on the fantastic ai Not even. We've been having as many problems as ever. the mythical in some really goofy kind of way. Yeah, that's real too. Another thing about Fort Thunder is Mi there's a lot of comic book guys in there: we draw a lot comics. We put out a free paper of comics in town—a ne
is just putting But that's no fun. That's where the sound comes from, Were you guys just reco when you're pushing things. Ride the Skies: when I listen to that record, it's apparent that Yeah, we just got back fr there's more energy than any recording could (possibl y hold. Who put it to tape and how did it all come ab.out ? either gonna be a new rt The guy who we recorded with was Dave Ach release, we haven't figi recorded a 10" tor Black Dice that has sort of spa ghetti writing [Achenbach] again, and eah, just from the recording, you can tell that that n Providence, to your question earlier: • ass sound is jumping from that thing, it's just so bunch, and he'd heard our first record which w,i s half record- something that you just ed or probably three-quarters recorded by me on like a left I've read that you're ar mprov band, but on th and right channel tape deck and 1 think part of there's some phenomen linkage between the bas ed on like a walkman. The first 7" was records d by this guy drums going on there. Dan St. Jakes who sings in Landed and play s bass in The Yeah, that was really he Anything else you want to mention about the duo? Onlyville Sound System. He was this guy who lit himself on You can say something about if anyone wants to buy fire at some point. There was this one classic Landed, Drop record like in '98 or some Lightning Bolt a building in Pro Dead, Men's Recovery, Forcefield show where Dan St. Jakes we fell apart 'cause the ther Brian had blown •thing •rful . lit the whole top half of his body on fire. stuff and he'd basicall out of Jesus Christ! With white gas or what? money, and this was h in the He covered himself with Vaseline, and then... I don't irning know what the [fuel] was, but it was kind of a classic and there was a note point in Providence's like, "Oh my god! This place has really gone too far." That was kind of the height of when it really felt like there was a lot of bands and a lot of crazy shit was going on. Landed opened up and Lightning Bolt didn't play—this was probably about By Steve DiPasquale two, two and a half years ago, I'm not sure—and Landed opened up, and of course Dan St. Jakes comes running out and he's on fire, the whole top half of his body is on fire. Actually he burned his lips off, he really fucked himself up. The second band was Forcefield which at that point was just two people: it was like a Moog and a lot of oscillators and just weird noise stuff and they had a scooter parked outside with a pipe and like a weird plastic tube coming club-that was the second act. The third act was Men's Recovery Project who was actually kind of the tamest thing of the night: they just played their weird stuff, they just had a show. And then the fourth thing was Drop Dead, and Drop Dead ed t the s • do* so (tl the ski by them. And that w as the show. I mean, 1 felt com- petitive with Dan St. akes and Landed, 'cause I was like, "Fuck! They're so nu ch crazier than us!" Landed always ha people like running a round, sort of like Black Dice, vou know ut and kicks the first person in the nut can get to. 1 was always pissed 'cause ' play the goddamn d rums and I'm trapped back here," an Lightning Bolt is jus t the two of us and we don't have th
But I heard you do back flips and shit, and you v off of the other Brian's bass rig and land on your di and start playing the beat immediately.
17Et^g5J®2£ ust recently, moments of much needed introspection have started to crop up sporadically amongst the pneumatic hoochie mommas and ostentatious pimp daddies of MuchMusic's rap pro Jgramming. A song with the mislead ing ly joke- y title "Pants on Fire" has started making occa sional appearances, creating disconcerting up have a good code of ethics. Plus I put a lot interludes of bleak pathos to break up the for of people on—playing their demos and having merly endless stream of bad attitudes and them on to freestyle. There was even this blind bragging. A snail's-pace beat crawls into Muslim guy that would come up and read his earshot preparing the ground upon which a rhymes (from) Braille live on air. It was ill." dry, deadpan rap lays down a numbing tale of Most significantly for today's indie hip hop break-up bitterness. Meanwhile the "star" of heads, Rich hooked up with <\n MC named the piece ambles around an under-lit urban SixToo to form the group Sebutones, whose every-place, wearing non-descript clothes and influ- astonishing 50/50 Where it Counts LP was at the a look of hunted pensiveness. It's a perfect on young people. And yet, for many, the frontline of an aesthetic revolution in under introduction to the unusual, but increasingly associated culture has provided something to ground rap music. Beginning with a discon public, world of Buck 65. believe in while the musical form has been an certing excursion into sampledelic abstraction, Buck, or "Rich" as he invited your humble object lesson in combining discipline with open the album goes on to reach levels of lyrical anx minded ness. correspondent to call him during our disap iety still rarely matched elsewhere. pointingly impersonal email exchange, is per This is a theme that i i very deep in 50/50 reeks of outsider isolation and yet a haps the best known hip hop artist to emerge Rich's heart, as he explai "Hip hop has number of posses across North America were in his from Halifax, Nova Scotia's vibrant scene over taught me how to be open nminded . As a pro- coming to similar conclusions at the same time. sensitive musician, Rich has nc the past decade. He summarizes his Eastern ducer, I've had to be open t listening to all These included Ozone Music (Mike Ladd, fessing to the autobiographical nature of his Canadian origins like this: "I've been on the kinds of r • find breaks and so on. Cannibal Ox, Sonic Sum) in New York, Rhyme work. "I think personal is good," he says, radio in Halifax since 1989 (CKDU), preaching ugh that pro 1 kept my mind open Sayers (Atmosphere) in Minnesota and—most "People connect with personal." However, he's my old-school ass manifesto. I guess people lis- with things like books, films—all kinds of art. famously—Anticon (Sole, Dose One), a loose more cautious on the question of whether he Hip hop has taught me a lot, generally. Politics. conglomerate of Suburbanite oddballs who helped to bring angst-ridden MCing into People skills. All about the world..." found their spiritual home in bohemian San vogue. "I've never considered that I could be in For people like Rich, hip hop is not a any part responsible for a trend," he pleads, lifestyle accessory or a means of adolescent "Maybe people are just feeling and responding If there was a common thread running rebellion but a guiding principle and a source to the same things as I am." through albums like 50/50, Sonic Sum's the of therapy. Indeed, this therapeutic aspect of The principle here is ewe that rappers often . Ove and rap music is one that Buck 65 has accentuated pay lip service to but rarely follow through on. Sole's Bottle of Humans, i is this: redemption and pioneered, perhaps more than any other In mainstream rap, the guiding mantra of through hip hop. Rap n ; is normally por- artist has. His latest album Man Overboard— "keeping it real" means little more than con released, appropriately enough, by Anticon—is forming to a set of social standards and expec a tour deforce of emotive beat science. Produced tations. To many underground rap fanatics it and written by the man himself, and housed in means simply this: honesty. Rich displays few enigmatically sparse cover art, it presents a of the social or stylistic airs that would mark thorough baring of Rich's soul—revealing him out as a true head, but his love of hip hop bereavement, bad love and—of course—the culture can't help but become apparent because redemptive powers of hip hop. it's so deeply rooted in everything that he is and does. "All I know how to do is be myself. I can't help it," he states. "And when I see peo ple pretend to be something else, it makes me sick. I love who I am." These last comments relate to something yours truly has argued previously within these pages: that the apparent, and oft-criticized,
18 October 2001 ing array of cassettes, MP3s, CDRs, 12"s and import CDs. In fact, if anything, the unconven tional way in which these songs come to see the h's life is—naturally— light of day actually seems to help build a buzz straight-up rap addict around them. Take the unusual genesis of his 11v listen to hip hop at latest full-length. "Man Overboard was made , "Just old stuff from with an SP-1200 and a four-track in 1998 at the 'erything. But for pure 1 life it There will usually be tie yellow •\pla Sim Mtn to the sami ler something unlocked long ti Garfunkel, Lucinda Williams, Tom Waits, ngs( ething ike'...this< to r the such- lother :ord always a lot of Miles. 1 could goon... I listen to -sucl si ng...x oxo Rich.' I uti called Boy-Girl Fight. P,GF wasn't even done when I got a call from SixToo one night telling Of r d keep telling you my thoughts me that 'Your new slut is on the Internet.' I . It's e isy for rapr to avoid this xnit Man Overboard and the fel- "artiness" of contemporary underground hip flipped. I was already pretty heated because tact until placed in the live arena. That is to say low behind it or the rest of this magazine. But hop is nothing of the sort. Instead it seems to Man Overboard was already all over the inter keeping it real (of any definition) doesn't nec really needs that kind of public- this writer that indie-rap's tendency towards net. I figured I'd fix all those bastards by scrap essarily make for an entertaining show and ity. Something tells nv that this unassuming self-conscious wordiness and abstraction is ping both records and combining them into most live hip hop is as boring as hell. Having hip hop star is going to rupting the merely the natural expression of people whose one super-Frankenstein record! So J did. Yet said that, some people are born entertainers. In steady stream of MuchMusic's jiggy-ass video lives are steeped in hip hop culture. Words such another year later, it finally came out." Buck 65's case, the application of a little judi as "honesty" and "natural" may not hold much flow more and more in the immediate future. cious thought to the standard live rap setting Now the album is finally about to see a currency in the post-modern marketplace but Be prepared for heavy outbreaks of honesty. • creates an ideal context for simply doing his domestic release on Sunrise Records, which will work that other critics consider contrived and thing. "If possible, I do most of the show from mean that the many new Canadian fans Buck clever-clever seems disarmingly art/ess to me. behind the turntables with the mic in a boom 65 is going to garner over the following months The apparently angular complexity of today's stand," he explains, "I just do what I can to and \ shell o beats-and-rhymes avant garde make people smile and stuff. I try to balance the e: rely n ssary e of a o the DJing with the MCing because not too munity comprising various, admittedly intelli many people can do that. I also have sexy ioks like a pulp- gent and thoughtful, individuals. Sole summed dance moves I pull out from time to time. And it up with characteristic wit in a recent lyric: above all, I like to try to create some intimacy "Crying is experimental/Babies are geniuses." but it's not always easy..." Or as Rich puts it: "I'm honestly not trying to push the envelope. I just want to express myself It must be getting easier to get a crowd on as effectively as I can, which I guess is sorta like his side, though, because people love this guy. keeping it real." Having gained quite a reputation among com mitted B boys and girls, Buck 65's commercial Yes, it's old fashioned, and maybe unrealis tic, to suggest that art just flows unforced from the artist/vessel, but acknowledging this view of creativity is still fundamental to any real understanding of the music. It's also one that Rich seems particularly keen on. "It all happen-.
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Ryan: Used to be, but you have to pract played our whole set, with all of our songs half as slow as they And write jumping-around oriented music? Ryan: Totally. Did you still scream? Steve: Yeah, with lots of pauses. For me, it's way better to Ryan: No, we were singing through it all, backing vocals and watch a hand if they look like they're really into it themselves, everything. And then the last song we decided we were going otherwise 1 don't know what they expect from anybody else to play the song how we normally would. And then we got around. But you don't find that the crowd itself moves around that You didn't make it through the whole song? much when you play? " Wl't think so. Ryan: Every video or photo that we have of a crowd watching Ryan: Pretty close. That was a mis-billed show. us they all either have their mouths open or they're just point Did you manage to sell anything there? ing and smiling. Lots of times it's more like we're just some Ryan: There [were] two kids that felt bad for us because they I first saw the Witness Protection Program when they performedsor att of freak show that everybody's there to see. understood that we shouldn't have been playing that show. Shiiidigllast year, where the energy of their set completely blew Youme r website claims that you've not only broken instruments They bought stuff. away. They play their own brand of heavy, post-hardcore rock Vwhil rolle on tour but body parts as well. Is there truth to that? What's up with the song called "Mary Kate and Ashley that bulges with the soul and fury that sets true punk apart from Ryanthe : We have a lot of scars. I have a scar in this ear from Olsen"? Are you big Full House fans? Do you think that Bob imitators. I sat down inside a toy castle in the children's section ofStev a e beating me over the head with his bass [points to right Saget is a funny man? bookstore with two-fifths of the WPP to try to gain some insight into Steve: I don't know about Bob Saget. how they rock so hard. We ended up discussing Fugazi, bloody guiSteve: The pegs on the bass cut his ear. Ryan: I can tell you a story about Bob Saget. A guy at my work tars, and Bob Saget. Ryan: There was blood, but the show's got to go on. was at this film festival party, and then he went to this after- Ever get blood on the guitars? hours party and Bob Saget was there, snorting cocaine. I know, DISCORDER: You played Shindig! last year and made it to Steve: Oh yeah. Our strumming hand just gets wrecked, so I almost cried when I heard that. Come on, think about the the semi-finals. Did Shindig! change your lives? Your band? there's cuts that just seem to reopen every time. Especially on twins! Did it mean nothing whatsoever? the n id. Have you seen Dirty Work? He actually directed that. Ryan (guitar, vocals): 1 enjoyed the guy that heckled in the Ryan: In Idaho I got this scar here [points to arm[ and the cym Steve: Really? back for every band. bal hit me in the nuts. That hurt. Ryan: I think Bob Saget's a pretty funny guy, you can't judge Steve (bass, vocals): Good kid. Ouch. Broken bones? him off America's Funniest Home Videos. Ryan: Other than that 1 don't know if it was much of an effect. Ryan: None that we've actually been hospitalized for. We just So is the song title just a non-sequitur, no reference whatso- How did playing for an audience that actually submits its walk it off. comments to you differ from your regular shows? Steve: Mostly just cuts. Ryan: One thing about us is the way we title our songs. We'll Ryan: I liked the comments. Ryan: Nothing duct tape won't heal. write the music, we'll title the song, and then we'll write the Steve: I never really noticed, so it doesn't make any difference You've toured quite a bit. What places have you found to be lyrics. A lot of times our titles will evolve into something else. the most responsive? Or the least? I think that one started off as something about Uncle Jesse and Ryan: I think we're going to str all o Ryan: I always like going to Alberta. For some reason our then we made it into Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. Actually out pieces of paper and people shows there are really good. when our CD was coming out the guy that put it out in the show. Steve: Same with Winnipeg. States didn't want us to put that song on it. Steve: 1 guess that would be better. People usually nd Ryan: Yeah, the two shows we played in Winnipeg were good. In case their vast corporate empire comes after you? there with their mouths open when we're playing. Did you headline? Ryan: Yeah. But I figured, if they sued us that would rule. Ryan: Pointing. Ryan: No, we played with Fugazi in Winnipeg. Yeah, we head Steve: We'd have no problem with that. Steve: Laughing. lined over Fugazi, they opened for us, it was great. What does the band have against vinyl? Too much of a hassle They don't even dance? Did you get to hang with Fugazi? Nice guys? to put out? Steve: Hardly any dancing. Steve: Super nice guys. Ryan: We would love to put something out on vinyl. Ryan: Sometimes they're frightened of Steve. Any Ryan: We're huge Fugazi fans. It was rad, just to be able to see Steve: I guess we haven't had the opportunity. spent getting out of the way of Steve. them play and then to be on the bill and hang out with them as Ryan: Our next release is hopefully going to be a 7" and a 3" Why is your name the Witness Protection Program? [Because well. disc. But it all depends on... there's no way we have enough of] The Steve Martin movie My Blue Heaven, or is it just a Steve: The most impressive thing about them is they practice money to do something like that. name? what they preach. Like, they'll load everything themselves, What's the deal with your record store? Is it going to be a Ryan: Just a name. and they're just in a minivan, not some tour bus or crap like full-blown establishment? Do you think you would testify against suspected felons in that. They're just normal guys who come up and introduce Ryan: Full blown, it opens on October 1st. I'll have everything return for immunity? Would the band? themselves. there, vinyl, CDs. Ryan: We're not allowed to say. Ryan: We already knew who they were, their names and every What's it called? Steve: No comment. thing. Ryan: Teenage Rampage, 19 East Broadway. Right below Your current CD is called The Revolution That Never Was and Like, "Hi, my name's Ian." Funhouse Tattoos. Never Will Be. What's that supposed to mean, are you revo Ryan: Yeah, that's totally what happened, too. We're hanging What band is ruling Vancouver right now for you guys? lutionaries? out and he's like, "Hey, I'm Ian" and I'm like yeah, no shit. It Steve: I have no idea. Even if there was one I wouldn't know. Steve: No, no, no. was cool. In terms of bad shows, nothing really stands out. Ryan: I'd say Three Inches of Blood. They're going to win Ryan: The truth be told, a lot of bands like to speak out about Ever been really heckled or anything? Shindig!. That light show. We should get a light show. their beliefs and everything, and I guess our band either all Ryan: 1 think a lot of people get the wrong impression of us Steve: It's a done deal. have different beliefs, or just our own beliefs, but we don't talk when we play, they'll think we're really mean, aggressive guys. Ryan: We're going to get a light show. about it. We're not trying to say anything, we're just trying to But it's more of an inside joke to us, everything like that. Any other short term plans for the band? Upcoming shows, have a good time and help other people have a good time, I Have you ever ended up in any really mis-billed shows guess. So the revolution that never was and never will be is where that especially happens? Ryan: We're playing at the Cobalt with Trail Vs. Russia next just our way of saying you can do want you want, we don't Steve: This one time... Saturday [September 29th]. And then the Langley civic centre care. Lots of times, because we play aggressive music, people Ryan: Pennsylvania. on the 19th of October. • think we're up there trying to spread a message, but if you Steve: We played in Harrisburg. I think the loudest person those people had ever heard was like DC Talk or something. Check out the Witness Protection Program's website at www.lis- telling silly stories. Ryan: It was a tour where a lot of our shows were getting can ten.to/wpp. Go see them at the Cobalt. Try to make them feel better Even if someone doesn't like your music I could still see celled, so we were just kind of taking what we could get. We by dancing a little. them being impressed by the energy of your live show. What ran into this band called the Calicos, this rockabilly band, and makes you want to scream and sweat so much when you're they said we could get on one of their shows. So we show up at
20 October 2001 PREFUSE 73 Peanut Butter + Chocolate = Scott Harren
By Robert Robot Illustration by Scott Chalmers
Hip hop and electronic music go together like peanut butter and down the middle. What a pho that imparts as much chocolate. We all know the two forms share like beginnings, but they mood as it does lyrical iformation, a sound that combines pro- have for the most part evolved differently. When the art forms col grammed hip hop beat; ils used as accompanying beat, lide, often the finished sound is like some peanut butter with electro never letting the listener used to a rhythm and thus keeping treatments (a la Roots Manuva) or some chocolate with MCing on the audience's attention. The album is smooth, /ith not many high top (a la Kool Keith with the Prodigy). A fan of both genres, I haven't • low-end sounds, perfect for introspect] found an artist who embraced the two equally until I discovered the paper-like soundtrack to everyday music of Scott Harren. Harren, aka Prefuse 73, is truly unique. His More a fan of Broadcast than the electronic side of Warp records, first releases under the names Delarosa & Asora and Savath & Harren is actively avoiding being pigeon-holed. His next single, Savalas were released by Schematic and Hefty records to name a Harren tells me, will be much different from his Uprock Narratives few and were generally categorized as (sorry) IDM. A few months album. Adding further to Harren's unclassifiable nature, he recent back, Prefuse 73 released a follow-up album to his Estrocaro EP on ly finished a tour with Nobukazu Takemura and Tortoise and is Warp records called Vocal Studies and Uprock Narratives. Under the friends with Sam Prekop of the Sea and Cake—who also makes an name Prefuse 73, Harren has incorporated the "southern style of hip appearance on the album. hop in which the music scene in Atlanta is based on" into his already Having only been to Canada for the first time recently, Harren tried-and-true methods of music making. has toured extensively in Europe and the excited States. Unlike so Hailing from Atlanta, a city that has fostered the likes of many disappointing hip hop acts, Harren tours with a full band, Outcast, T-Roc, DJ Faust and others, 26 year old Harren comes off as allowing each member to bring something new to each show. "I more hip hop than electronic. Over the phone I asked Harren what can't just DJ or play with my laptop, 1 have to do something in real his newest album sounds like: "To me it's hip hop, even though it is time or else I feel like I've ripped everyone in the room off," he says. different than your standard hip hop instrumental track." Whether Harren's music can be described as post-hip hop, a post With hip hop heavy weights like MF Doom, Aesop Rock, Mikah modern hybrid, or even illbient is irrelevant. Any recording where Nine, and Dose One providing vocals, one wants to call Vocal Studies styles and influences are seamlessly incorporated with such mas and Uprock Narratives hip hop. But electronica makes its presence tery as to make peanut butter and chocolate seem like the most nat known on this release. Harren cuts up and fragmentizes the vocals; ural of combinations has got to be shit hot. • lyrics remain intelligible, although the samples often splice syllables scraper laden city with dark records in as many years? But streets and pale citizens. The then it started to sink in: gold, dirt seeps from the disk and set gold, gold. This process is best tles into the grit of the finger illustrated by my friend the Ate- (SOJ3O.IT nails where repeated washings Dog (so named for one of his only rub the skin from the nastier habits), who had this hands, drawing blood. The senseless aversion to eggplant. work is partially reminiscent of Then one night I snuck some of ALSACE LORRAINE from him. He drew his sidearm, DA BEATMINERZ Vancouver's Mediacore collec the purple goodness into this Through Small Windoxvs aimed and fired in one fluid Brace 4 Impak tive^—if they enjoyed hip-hop— dip and he thought it was boss. (Darla) motion. There was no mistaking (Rawkus/Virgin) and definitely sips tea with Then two nights later, he This album definitely grows on it though, Billy had heard a shot Da cute little Beatminerz have Coingutter, and on a larger ordered some of it in his 'Beirut •\\\9 v'iv\WXc\yM<*cV^r)£> me. Not because it reminds me go off before he even finished surfaced like the Doozers from scale close cousins include Surprise" and within a week he of the rolling fields of France— pulling his trigger. The bullet Fraggle Rock and are still build Lustmord and DJ Shadow. A was breading the Italian variety to which this band owes their lodged deep in his stomach. ing a name for themselves. family destined to crumble in his very own kitchen. My name—fresh . cheese or The pierce of cold metal was Now on the Virgin-affiliated under its own dismal apprecia senseless aversion to 15 differ baguette, or the smell of tilleuil foreign to him. "Shee-it." Billy Rawkus records, Da Beatminerz tion of the depressive nature of ent keyboards was overcome fell to his knees and stared have always stayed low key, being fucked over in a small thanks to first-person narratives and lavender, but perhaps like a i-0^ S*Moi©r"\V> good wine it saturates the into the gun smoke from his like sea shells lacing Black box, Nightmare breaks open the about the fourth man on the blood, flowing its warmth shot. His sudden light-headed- Moon's classic Enta Da Stage dreams that many of us are hav moon and how he quit space for through the body, lulling away ness made it impossible for him and joints for Duck Down ing these days: nuclear war, art (depicting space) and a song the day's edge. This wine to keep the grip on his six- records. However, the accom anthrax, and men in white suits. fittingly called "When the would be light and fruity, just shooter. It fell silently from his plishments of Da Minerz—a Angels Play Their Drum like Alsace Lorraine's airy soft sweaty hand to the hay pile at five-man clique consisting of Machines." Then I heard the melodies, floating, vocalist his feet. The smoke cleared to Evil Dee, Mr.Walt, Baby Paul, GAVIN FROOME aged voice of auxiliary player Caitlin Brices's breezy voice, the reveal the sheriff was the quick Rich Blak, and Chocolate Ty— Post + Beam Jack Hayter laying down words accompaniment of piano and est shot in town. Billy had man- never really gained them the (Nordic Trax) like pauper and grubby in that get hm notoriety that a platinum hit Deep warm jazz dub house and thick English accent and then £D i^UnnidAo with Jay-Z might have led to. ied li lead controlled sparse open: as I sit they sampled Amelia Fletcher's On their debut Brace 4 impak, even before his haystack of a and listen and watch to a world voice in this absurdly sugges the MC roster includes the dows—perhaps this, the origin body hit the ground. Billy liked of madness, Gavin's album tive way and then the JUNO- underground's finest such as of the name of the album—as it when he got 'em in the neck— roots me to a melancholy rarely 106 got good and the Roland - Jean Grae and Apani B Fly you pass by in the sunny world; it produced the biggest puddle, heard in today's beat-and- SH-1 was tolerably musical and v% Za*\] cc,A who stand out like erect nipples space music even, and maybe next to being shot in the stom drinks driven house scene. then it was gold and funny. on "Shut the Fuck Up!" With not quite Provence, but we can ach, of course. Sitting and reflecting through Randal Minded appearances by Naughty by dream. Billy had to get patched up. my ears, I am attuned to a tal Nature and The Flipmode Cato This wasn't good. He imagined ent and a musical beauty that Squad, the line separating THEHISSYFITS sifts time through sounds, deep Becky's soft face. Everything Letters from Frank basslines awash with no partic THE BUTTLESS CHAPS changed when she was mur (Top Quality Rock and Roll) ular angst that carry me Death Scenes III III dered. Human lite held little ground" is blurred. As produc This album packs a strong through reveries and remem (Lonesome Cowboy Music) ers, Da Beatminerz focus on the punch in a fake-fur glove. It is It's the devil's face laughing at some time. He now sought joy beats (the liner notes even list brances. When you hear poetry, me, he thought, staring blankly in others' pain—but he saw it as which samplers were used for tionships gone awry, the shells fortified everyday in the at the twisted, half dead cactus. revenge. Chances were eventu each track) and the lyrics some women who live them, feel ceaseless protection of the frag- The loss of blood was making ally he'd get the sonufabitch times fall into the shallow end them and gather up the courage begs him see things. Billy sort of who done it. Maybe it was bet of the MC pool. On "Hustler's to finally leave them. In the the s . Gavi crawled his way—by meagrely ter now if he just went and died Theme," The Last Emperor's -'sponst span of the album the music is .' Van. grasping the ground with his quietly. After all, now he was typical thug life verse doesn't somewhat redundant, but I O; has returned with an album for • tk-Poroscv bloody hands and gonna join her in heaven....Billy quite live up to the high energy have a feeling that's intentional. the listener that does not ignore elbows, dragging his now use l the c of the beat. "Bentlys and It's by no means boring, and the the feet. An album that spawns less paralysed legs behind water when things started Bitch's" chorus becomes repeti harmonies of The Hissyfits are the dancefloor and the armchair him—along the sandy dirt going fuzzy. He suddenly felt tive and braggadocio. The gritty pure genius. The opening track and the discerning house and below the unrelenting fireball in cold. Then hot again. He strug groove of "How We Ride," feat. "Something Wrong," sets the techno DJ alike. Emotional, the sky that was normally the gled to look back to where the Heather B and Freddie Foxxx, mood for the rest of the album complex, jazzy, downtempo, yet sun. He had no real idea why, sheriff lay in a heap, face first in with haunting lyrics irrational also at points thumping, but he was trying for the rolling a cowpie, down by the paddock Foxxx has a history of knocking ly imposed on catchy melody. Gavin's album is deserving of stream ahead of him...his last gate. Billy saw the meandering female Emcees. With the rhyme My personal favourite is the some true musical praise for its resort, perhaps. He had been deep red trail he'd left behind "I'd rather bounce to Jerz and deceptively sweet "Doin' fine," breadth and what it risks. For the quickest draw in the coun him. He didn't want to keep rock with Heather B than fuck because of the fabulous Lou whenever electronic music ty—until the new sheriff rolled going, but somehow the water with fake ass niggaz that ain't Reed impression by Princess. steps out onto that limb where into town, that is. The rest of seemed more important—per like B." He proves that even the This is possibly one of the best it claims to be what traditional Billy's posse were now in jail or haps somethin' that could clean chick-rock albums to appear on ists call "music"—representa six feet under. He had holed him, quench him, heal him. soft spot for a female who can the indie scene in a long time. tive of some facet of universal himself up in a ranch at the far Billy was parched. Blasted, spit fire. Even though this Rann E north end of town, by the casket unrelenting sun. He wished he album is lyrically lopsided, the humanity—it risks coming off maker's shoppe. It was a shame Beatminerz level things out either as pretentious or as a he had to kill the ranch's pro he'd heard about, in that place with their ability to dig up gem cheap mimicry of some other DANIEL JOHNSTON prietor, but he and his ranch with them ee-gloos. Billy quality beats. "established" genre, such as Rejected LInknoivn @D \< 22 October 2001 PERNICE BROTHERS debut of Germany's Poets of ing hard and atonal techno (as The World Won't End Rhythm. Previous Poets offer well as some hardcore and (Ashmont) ings can be found on various ambient projects in the early This record furthers a style that compilations, including one of '90s) to freaked out non-genre rests upon a songwriter allow my favourite tracks for two ing realism in voice and lyric years running, "I've Changed step, and we can all be thankful narrative, to follow parallel My Mind" which features that labels like Kit Clayton and with elegant and biting pop Lyrics Born and is included on Sue Costabile's Orthlong irldlg melodies. With inherent hon the Quannum Spectrum sam Musork are around to distribute esty and beautiful phrasings Joe pler, so 1 was delighted to read sounds that are unpredictable, Pernice chronicles tlie simplicity in the liner notes that Lyrics difficult to classify, and essen OCTOBER LINEUP !! of relationships and the awk Born produced Discern/Define. I tially intertwined with an 2nd Disco Incognito ward complexities of the indi thought the record would be a incredibly close attention to the vidual. His talented backing bit more bombastic with Lyrics aural world. Sattinger breathes Mr. Plow bad (including his brother) at the helm, but the opposite a fierce dedication to charting work as a coherent and slick occurred. At first I was a bit the junctures between what was OASIS transmitter to his rather tainted stunned as to how mellow the then and what becomes now pop masterpieces. It can really album is, however after repeat through bold sonic moves that catch you off guard how gen ed listening, I realized that the spin the matrix of referential 9th Six Block Radius uinely good this music makes Poets are after a brand of mod sets, flickering sounds like a Flipswitch you feel, all the while the blis ern funk that's truly modern. poorly lit theatre, singeing neu tering sentiments of songs like For the most part, they avoid rons that conjure everything Tomas "7:30" and "Bryte Side" snap rehashing old grooves (a habit from his classical saxophone and rip at your heart. Pernice is that many modern funk bands training to the roots and bulbs 16th Motorcycle Man a unique artist more so for his subsist on) and on some tracks ib, hip hop and they adopt a melancholic words than for his music n n'has The People Vs. Funk O Q (which by no means lacks style downtempo housey feel, labia az ~z. or range), but his writing is bril- almost. Fabulous, phenomenal, Vuggy a. < lagery and procla- funky space grooves troui heav- WHISKEYTOWN Vlth 111! like " Pneumonia 23rd Ether's Void all right. Sitting stoned like a Maren Hancunt (Lost Highway) Mermaid Engine jewel-eyed baby" and "Throat An individual of habit is a curi open to the cut of the winter, if TIMEBLIND ous creature, one that will take Bestest only just to feel alive." Few Rugged Redemption very long walk just to get high. bands and/or singer songwrit (Orthlong Musork) take very long walks. 1 Id ers can offer seraphic tunes and The first time I met Chris nigh the high gr, 30th Rhythm Stone true-blue poetics to the listener, Sattinger (Timeblind)—in San H-I.l I uthei My Buddy Dave but the Pernice Brothers have Franscisco in 2000—1 was Alberta and watch, as the sun most definitely produced a munching on sandwiches and would set over any of the towns Silt work that balances that act. recording what was to become I could have been in. I would Sterling Riots an "interview" with everyone stand in those fields, head \ sitting around—Kit Clayton, phones pouring. Now I'm back SHINDIG! runs every Tuesday at the Railway ROOTS MANUVA Sutekh, Safety Scissors—in in the city, and now I get high Run Come Save Me DiSCORDER. It was Sattinger the r ofofmyapar Club, starting September 11th and sprinting hard (Big Dada) who, despite the comedy duo of building. Watching the city to the marathon finals on December 5th. V/A Joshua and Seth, interjected glow with its own setting sun, I Big Dada Compilation priceless comments at the per listen to this album from THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS! (Big Dada) fect time; and at the time I had Whiskeytown. POETS OF RHYTHM just just heard Sattinger's exper- To begin with, I heard Ryan Discern/Define Adams' solo album, and that (Quannum) " EP c i Orthlong was what I listened to in the -™ chart ft- SOOTJ If you purchase only three Musork, which bl r the rest of fields. His album Hcartbreaker is albums during the rest of your SF's experimental noise-techno a horse-sized pill for loneliness. life, here they are! For starters: out of the water save for per But now Whiskeytown are son of a preacher man Rodney haps Blectum from Blechdom defunct and disbanded, and at returns with his second full of Si tekh's •ork. \erv leas v ha nizne gj length LP which is just as fabu red Redemption, like •ners the northbynortheast ••••. lous and groundbreaking as Sattii comments, intraiects HIVE warped beyond contention: a and his debut EP Juggle Things ayouedrums.com Proper. It's so Fucking A!!! Once Sick Mind Is At Work, and you have bought the album and whereas Warp-ed beats sound like Warp, Sattinger sounds like m listened to it and masturbated with joy check out the hilarious fields, alone in straight mmm video for "Witness the Fitness" that becomes, and even partial Lock yours at ninjatune.com. For fans of the references to the home of the put Whiskeyto aforementioned Roots Manuva Snauss must now be dropped. comes another splendid piece o' "Rastabomba" was dub but at wax featuring Roots and his lost collegues at UK underground between a g beats a hip hop imprint Big Dada. From the madcap spasms of mules" rm frenchy rappers TTC, to the trip hop pace v the "hop". cLOUDDEAD, to the sexy aggression of Ty, this record is bound to please even the most ed—perhaps jaded underground hip hop torn apart, rel fanatic. It is immediately appar hop, d'n'b, ai ent that many of the MCs have been influenced by the Manuva MC ret indi\ Not Just Another Music Shop which s n be ing demanding high pro Beatstreet ord, I like it thank-you. From techno Seaside Studios a differen sidary labt r\TREBAS the fabulo t)1GR0€k CJ INSTITUTE r V^^ —^7 plays were both startlingly uno about it), it would have closed savvy, but for the most part, »* f\ *> 1 I il I A riginal. Her musical talents are the show perfectly. As it was, safe-looking crowd, Jacques 1ri-*H vQIi IIX/MVMC not the only assets her fans this was the moment that those launched into "Dreadful enjoy. In addition, we're in no in attendance took home with Domesticity" and a scrofulous doubt who people are here to them. Simply fab! little ditty called "I Love You action see, unfairly casting a shadow Qitentin Wright Through The Smell." He over the other members of the V_y live music reviews New Pornographers. It's not the THE TIGER LILLIES 7 Wednesday, September 5 list of his filthy, twisted pastimes with Stevie Nicks and Debbie Vancouver East Cultural in "terrible." His compositions REBECCA GATES books, unless they are used to MINT RECORDS'10TH ALYSSA RHODES produce on Alf slideshow, are ANNIVERSARY Harry. Centre can also tell stories of horrifying MARK SZABO always on ominous sign at live Friday, August 31 Coming on like a super If our world should collapse into sadness, deftly balanced with a Wednesday, August 29 shows. Seeing one perched atop Commodore Ballroom charged Tiisfc-era Fleetwood some kind of post-apocalyptic humour so black that you choke Starfish Room the keyboard on the right side of Mac, they have the chords, in disbelief. And a few of the Let's talk arms. Mark has slen- the stage as Rebecca Gates came record label would appear tc slow ones could be real wrist- us guitar pop its timeless appeal. Auster's The Country Of Last slitters if if weren't for the hair- der arms and when they talk on made me worry. But just Things—we'll need some first- of-the-dog healing power that he the) say; "Wemaybesma . but looking at her arms should have ", bly did them no favours but few brings to them. Take the bleak look at the defined tend( is in provided enough reassurance to er festival would norm,ilk' re They'd be like little carnivals and beautiful "Alone With The these forearms and you will see know the good tilings coming. erupting from the rubble and be Moon." Lyrically, it's a paeon to thai 1 will fry hard and my arms Her arms said: "We are firm and fun seeker. Hie good news that the appeal of this sold- Jjjj Most' trips home, however, hopelessness but musically, it's will do ,1 good |ob plavin ? this graceful and we know what we who've always had enough as sad and sweet as the last standard guitar so that c.i _ talk of the Evaporators' quality hunger and humility to watch dance at a '50s high school prom. Vt WOl,lt,,U V,,r thestreii"th ol the i K ,ei to songs from paper sheets. rhev «r,vATl\" ' ' K [ set from three hours earlier. and listen before telling their sto And then there's that elderly will be bitter but will s nind Better yet, her upright bass "Yo lon'l *d | k Adapting brilliantly to a large ries. People like—oh, never opera diva voice of his—amus- about I Am Spoonbenderexc mind. You know who you are. suig'hein Willi ,'!!.''|lw. II, style), even Nardwuar was We all have our lists and the allatonce. sound like more than limb ripping through his arms. They elsiesl ^^'I'lfshou-biTl'l'V'i' upstaged by a guest appearance Lillies are definitely on mine. Overall, the show felt jollier l.ut sometimes, nut s for said: "We are here IXH ause ot the up that the Smugglers do U)( by Thor. The mighty Canadian Adrian Stout would be waltzing than the last time. That one left 2291 West Broadway @ Vine 24 October 2001 THE NEW YORK SKA JAZZ eight and people had been wait MIKE WATT AND THE JOM ENSEMBLE ing to get prime general admis AND TERRY SHOW TWO AND A HALF WHITE sion seats since about four or STATION A MALES five p.m. I suspected that the The Starfish Room THE MAD BOMBER people at the very front of the September 16,2001 SOCIETY line had been there all afternoon. Gawd, for all the tons of times Friday, September 7 Jonathan Richman was a fun Mr. Watt has been in town over Marine Club opening act. His funny lyrics the last three years, I guess the In a building that conjured and goofy stage persona had me last time I saw him live was all junior high dance memories, I amused. He was endearing. The the way back when he was play couldn't stop bopping to the girl behind me was in love by ing the second stage at rocksteady beat. Kudos to Ska-T the end of his set, which includ Lollapalooza, at least six or for a show well done. The evening ed Richman punching the air, seven summers ago, touring on mm started with Edmonton's Mad walking away from the micro his solo debut, Ball-Hog or Tug Bomber Society. They were phone, and removing (not too Boat? sharply dressed, I was impressed. much) clothing. People cheered The short, 40 minute hit of They were accomplished and and sang along, and more than Mike Watt turned me off the per bouncy, and an excellent start. one person confessed they pre former who was once one of, if The horn section was swinging, ferred Richman to Belle and not the best bass players going in tight and fun. I enjoyed them Sebastian when the show was all of punk rock fiefdom. more than the next band. Problem was the sound was bad, Not that Two and a Half After a lengthy ii the stage was too small, all the White Males were horrible. Belle and Sebastian plus a whole rock festival snots who had They're great musicians and all, ensemble of musicians took the recently been switched onto but I found that musically their stage. I don't know why, but I Watt through the Eddie Vedder- sound was chaotic and all over didn't expect there to be a string voiced minor-hit "Against the the place. They didn't come section and an entourage. What 70s" and then crowded the front across. 1 couldn't dance to it. But was 1 thinking? If the band was of the stage and talked during that's just me. 1 was still dazzled going to be able to replicate their his set, leaving us HREHOSE by The Mad Bomber Society. multi-instrument album sound and Minutemen fans to grumble Eventually The New York on stage, they were going to amongst one another near the Ska Jazz Ensemble ensembled need a little help from their back of the unmoving throng— and blew my mind. The joint mainly about the crowd's was finally hopping and you For a moment, things were dichotomy and how Watt pan couldn't help but move. They beautiful. Then a whole lot of dered to the mass of FM radio had it all from the sexy slow losers rushed the stage and peo bastards in front of the stage. sway to the start and stop of the ple started to stand because they 1 finally relented when I moon stomp. Man those cats couldn't see. I was highly found Watt was to play the could play. The greatest thing? annoyed because I spend Starfish shortly after I missed his Everybody was there and every enough time standing at other support role for J Mascis back in body was having a good time. shows and I'm short and can July. After all, the 'Fish is one of The jazz purists rocking, the never see anything. Also, why my favourite acoustically-sound punk kids jumping. The old stand when you can sit? After rooms in the city—perfect for ladies shaking and the too cool threatening the lives of several getting the full THUMP of that twitching. I can honestly say a standees, I moved to the balcony infamous chunky bass riffage. fun time was had by all. Maybe and quit my whining. I arrived midway through vill Aside from wanting to the set of the opening band bring them out in dro I know throttle the people behind me which is quickly becoming I'm already there. who were talking the entire Vancouver's answer to Hiisker Robin F show (why pay almost 40 bucks Du—or maybe even an early to be at the show if you're going Dinosaur Jr.—stationA. Their THE FANTOMAS to talk over Stuart Murdoch's distortion-heavy set was the per ATOM SMASHER glorious voice), things on the fect primer to the full-blown Monday, September 10 balcony were good. When bass-blast with which, I increas Richard's on Richards Murdoch launched into "The ingly hoped as my anticipation Mike Patton has a thick neck. So State I Am In," I felt tears form built, Watt would redeem him does Henry Rollins. And Mike ing in my beady eyes. Tears! I'm self in my mind. It didn't hurt Vallely. They all have thick usually a robotic jerk at shows. I that stationA's strong following arms, too, and heavy fists. had a brief fantasy of following had already started to fill the Patton used his fists to conduct the band from city to city and dance floor with slightly inebri the band and clasp the snake anticipating Isobel Campbell's ated head-bobbers to culminate stands while he sang like Callas. shy vocals. This didn't last too with as full a dance floor as I'd Rollins and Vallely use their fists long though. Reality kicked in. seen in the 'Fish on a Sunday, by to grip pencils and write horrifi- The band left without doing an the time Watt hit the stage, in as cally bad poetry. Patton writes encore. Sure, they let people long as I could remember. beautiful lyrics, "MUH-muh- dance on stage with them (we The nice thing about Mike muh-muh-muh-muh-MEEE," got to witness some dude do Watt is that he doesn't frig being his most poetic line, since perfect splits and some girl's around with long soiindchecks. stealing lines from Destiny's ass), but they didn't even come A mere 10 minutes after stationA Child doesn't count. out and acknowledge the departed the stage, Watt was I couldn't sleep after, the unprecedented display of emo already well into the first song of show. I thought of gongs and tion by the audience. I don't his nearly hour-and-a-half set. afros, and I kept giggling think I've ever seen so many He didn't contain himself and because The Fantomas are fun snotty kids on their feet, clap his trio—rounded out by a pair nier than The Frogs. I tried to ping and cheering. A whole of former Pair of Pliers players think of Atom Smasher and his audience of robotic jerks came to (known collectively as the Jom boring laptop, but it didn't life and the members of Belle and Terry show when backing work. I rolled around for a bit and Sebastian didn't even come Watt) Jerry Trebotic on drums with my eyes closed, then got up back to wave good-bye. The and Tom Watson on guitar and at six and stared at the planes. house lights came on and we vocals (who would sing d. Christa Min realized that there was going to boon's lead vocals whenever it be no more. came time to cover another BELLE AND SEBASTIAN Sure, I liked tlie show. Things Minutemen classic)—to just his A NEW MORNING JONATHAN RICHMAN were tight and the music was solo repertoire, either. While he Thursday September 13 beautiful. But I have to say that I started out with a mix of tunes THE (INTERNATIONAL) NOISE CONSPIRACY The Orpheum was disappointed. The very from Contemplating the Engine To me, the concert didn't start greedy person in me wanted more! Room, the first two fIREHOSE with Jonathan Richman. It start More! And because I'm not an .• Mm ed with the line up outside The orphan in a Charles Dickens classics, he carried on to a cover Orpheum, which stretched on novel, I expect my selfish wish of Richard Hell's "Mine, All for three blocks when I arrived es to be granted every time. Mine" as well as a small handful at 6:20. Doors at seven, show at Doretta Lau from that now-infamous star- 25E^3l®aS studded solo debut like "Big to Coca-Cola or car manufactur had a pretty good idea of what ZEN GUERRILLA surrendered to our girlie realized that all you need in this Train," "Chinese Firedrill," and ers, Mike Watt is still reveling in to expect from them, and JOHN FORD screams for more, knocking out crazy world is a Roxichord, a "Tuff Gnarl." his youth, his love of music and nobody was disappointed when HOTWIRE "The Seeker" while we knocked drum set, and a busty sweater Through the entire set, Watt the positive energy that longtime they got up and did their post- Tuesday, September, 18 out the drummer as he dove clad girl in the front dancing up literally spat out his vocals upon fans have showered upon him to punk thing. Starfish Room headfirst into our flailing arms. the entirely enthralled front row, Hot Little Rocket divided Sorry to say I wasn't too Pity this show had to happen on But who saw it? Only me sweated up a storm in his long- and ethic as he has ever been their melodic assault into two impressed by the openers, even a weeknight, as there should and circus folk. Belle and sleeve red flannel lumberjack throughout his lengthy perform- reasonably long sets, the first of with the name change I think have been way more people Sebastian can almost fill the this was a case of good musi there, but I don't think anyone Orpheum but Quasi can't fill the getic. The whole evening was cians wasting their obvious tal walked out disappointed, and Richard's on Richards dance tight, with complex and solid ents in a mediocre band. On the besides, would you want to floor. Fortunately, Sam and Janet percussion provided by Regina contrary, John Ford set the mood argue with a six-foot plus giant did the obvious thing; they took emigre Joel Nye. My cynical right with their driving, who says we have the best rock the crowd on a journey to a place escort wondered aloud whether Replacements-meets-Flamin' and roll scene in Canada? Okay, where it rains all the time and bassist Mark MacArthur and Groovies extendo-jam rock. For that I thmk about it, that's everyone has no shoes and holes Wedderburn practice their spec- The; and d s duo Th Magic Magicians were mirror, but that's really no criti- tight, driving but not very mem orable... yet. When Quasi came band do/.ing off Oil stage, any on I ditched the friend I was way? Meanwhile, guitarist Aaron with, came to the front and, oh, what's the term... oh, yes, rocked out. How can Janet Weiss drum and dance at the same time? Why are there so many duos? rtbicci gates it Ihestarlisti room, by barb yamazakl. The bulk of the songs were Why are pale ales so darn tasty? from Danish Docun nry, Hot I loved three things about Little Rocket's recer the concert. One, the fact that length on Endearing Records. Quasi songs are addictive. Two, With a formula characterized by Janet can drum like a muthafuc- ka. Lastly, going to this concert lb, ti bi fourteen again, lantomas at richard's. photo by jay. the entire band can bring out was like going to my first school Mike Chilton dance, except the crowd was like away at all of the right moments. a band that maintains a relativt linly debatable, but I still the girls and the band was like als: stationA, his band, his HOT LITTLE ROCKET Principal songwriter Smelski's ly low profile locally, it was co< the boys. They were so far away roadie, the bar, the hooker, the Monday, September 17 old band, Sky Suspended, were to see a band actually alley, all right?'Nuff said. from each other at the beginning The Sugar Refinery frequently compared to My Bryce Dunn but as the show developed, they Strangely, the coffee at the Suga Bloody Valentine, but Hot Little gears from begi slowly creeped closer and start Refinery was not so good tha Rocket takes that sound in new n these ids. QUASI ed half-dancing, eventually get Monday night. Foi Hot directions. Both of the band's ' -headlin THE MAGIC MAGICIANS ting some enjoyment out of it. Little Rocket's Vancouver ti back- something in the air, oi Thursday, September 20 Fun had by all? Yeppers. stop made things right aga makin Richard's on Richards Chris-A-Riffic Thanks to the band's bowli Sometimes I feel like no one : llo\ tell a tha tl. ir once-meaningful1 anthems iar with the Calgary four-piece Michael Schwandt CiTR DJ PROFILE Luke Meat NORDIC TRAX Anoize FALL 2001 RELEASES Wednesdays 12:00PM- 1:00PM IN STORES NOW NORDIC TRAX NT022CD/2LP R ecord played most often on your show: [ ou ReecC Metal Machine A lusic, Keiji Haino, The Book of 'Eternity Set Aflame and B orbetomagus, Bunclrn Hair Tia f Long R ecord you would save in a ire: (t ie) My El Topo Soundtrack oa Apple Records or Tlie Industrial Records Story compilation, B Oth are pretty valuable (but mly to me I think...). R30t€ R ecord that sliould burn in h ell: 1 don't know the actual name .. tlie one with those pre-teen "Destiny's Child" look-alikes 1 NORDIC TRAX NT018CD tl at say, "That was last year b ov, m the EIGHTH grade..." Barfalicous. | - - - •*• '23 VARI0US ARTISTS / MIXED DY LUKE MCKEEHAN B ook that you would save in afire: i •rtle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss (f ossibly the best book about turtle-stacking). '-!33 'LAZY TRANSMISSIONS' \ /orst band that you like: ! lave been known to jump ai ound to (Corn's first album when my white, suburban angst too much to bear. f rst record you bought: Q ueen, The Game. i ast record you bought: avuio Fun With Elvis Onstage I ALSO AVAILABLE FROM NORDIC TRAX: i\ lusician you'd like to marry 1 ira Jane O'Neil for the mum iling; Lydia Lunch for the pegging. NT014CD/2LP NECESSARY PIECES 2 VARIOUS ARTISTS F avorite show on CiTR: NT010 CD / 2LP MOBILE VILLAGER GAVIN FROOME B eakfasl with the Browns (brin5 June back!!!), Hans Kloss. NT007CD NECESSARY PIECES VARIOUS ARTISTS S trangest phone call ever rec eived on-air: A guy who asked me "What kind of a noise annoys an oyster?" I said, "What?" and he plied, "A noisy noise annoy s ail oyster!" and then hung up. • 26 October 2001 October Long Vinyl October Short Vinyl October Indie Home Jobs conquerors... 1 the evaporators honk the horn nardwuar 1 three inches of blood 1 team mint vol. 2 mint kill to hide 2 red hot lovers s/t redline 2 six block radius 2 bombay 2: electric... be my bad boyfriend 3 the pattern feverish gsl 3 the lollies run come save me heart x 50' woman 3 roots manuva big dada 4 new town animals lose that girl mint 4 joel new comer f c omunications what's for dinner 4 llorca 5 removal/joey shithead 3 of 10 removalmusic 5 Vancouver's shame shadows on the sun sub pop fuck or fight 5 zen guerrilla 6 the exploders what's what and... teenage usa 6 red hot lovers is your radio active mint digiworld 6 new town animals 7 the vultures alcoholic lady dirtnap 7 solasis sword of god touch and go Victorian pork 7 quasi 8 tijuana bibles mexican courage trophy 8 i just wanna beer sound-dust electra odd 8 stereolab 9 planet smasher infalet to 45rpm jump start 9 a girl named sue zum fragmented 9 beans crane wars 10 hot dog city citiwoman proshop 10 xeroxed brother astralwerks s/t 10 spiritualized let it come down 11 the pinkos to my valentine empty 11 amarillo stars death scenes 1 II III independent 12 garnet sweatshirt american woman 11 buttless chaps 12 andy votel girl on a go-ped twisted nerve sand crawler 12 dirtmitts the dirtmitts sonic unyon 13 five eight/clemente the kids v\ • rock.. mood swing 13 the metrics six million ways to live a&m 14 closer than kin stand up 13 dub pistols 14 step sister shoeshme red hour independent 15 coupon 2001 14 coal beautiful afterburn 15 electro group line of sight omni outside alone 15 freeworm vegetation=fuel 16 lost sounds 1 + 1= nothing empty 16 girl nobody hi-hat boner for betry 16 spookey ruben bed 17 les sexareenos ruby d telstar 17 pet fairies 18 rnc potbelly horizontal 17 solex low kick and hard bop matador 18 sunset valley parade on my rain sea level independent 19 hummer latest thing 18 almost transparent blue s/t 19 hacksaw she's got my back independent 20 the switch las vegas laser child 19 ivy long distance nettwerk 20 enon listen (while you talk) .elf starter found... 20 guess who shakin' all over sundazed 21 real mackenzies loch'd and loaded honest don's 22 jamiroquai 2001: a funk odessey epic 23 duotang the bright side mint 24 jerk with a bomb the old noise scratch HOW THE CHARTS WORlT) 25 motorama rocket powder independent 26 twilight circus dub... volcanic dub 27 dj serious dim sum sound king The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP warner 28 built to spill ancient melodies.. 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SIX BLOCK RADIUS, FLIP- (7pm-10)@sugar refinery TELL JOKES FOR BEER, OR GO SWITH, TOMAS@THE RAILWAY CLUB; soul manifesto WED 24 TO SEE SOME OF featuring rodney jones@richard's on richards; beaux arts trio the suicide machines, ensign@starfish room VANCOUVER'S NEWEST AND w/menahem pressler@vancouver playhouse; ben folds, citi THU 25 zen cope@the commodore; parallela jazz with masa lNSlPlD@ms. t's; steroelad, fugu@the commodore; pheonx OLDEST BANDS. anzai@sugar refinery wisebone@music & more on main; starfly, davey's locker, stam 30 October 2001 Get your Groove on!! Tix @ Highlife, Zulu • | Tix & info www.up2treamentertainment.com or 604 904 4207 RADIO BERLIN The Selection Drone CD/LP track listing: magine this impossible experiment. Gather all of your Ifavorite Cure, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Joy 1. Smog 6. Fridge Division, Echo and the Burarymen, Wire, Gang of The Outside Is In Four, and, uh, Fugazi records, and play them all at 2. Lambchop 7. Bill laswell once. The result would probably be a horrible clashing mess. Thankfully, however, RADIO BERLIN has already October new sounds at zulu 3. Vincent Gallo 8. Money Mark done this gathering and playing process for us, gener ating a remarkable synthesis that slips through time. 4. Moldy Peaches 9. Ralph Stanley This second full-length is like RADIO BERLIN'S already great debut, SIBLING, only better in all ways: louder, 5. FourTet 10. Radio Berlin harder, surer, more dynamic, darker, sexier - every thing They're Vancouver's premier post-hardcore '80s revisionary revivalists, indeed. CD 10.98 LP 10.98 SMOG MOLDY PEACHES BILL LASWELL Rain On Lens Moldy Peaches Filmtracks2000 CD/LP CD CD OTHER STUFF THAT MOCs Bill Callaghan is like I potty-mouth Beat collection of evocative Sa sadistic documentary film- ' AHappening? A one-record Asoundtrack music, that also THAT YOU MIGHT LIKE: maker cursed to create the Shimmy Disc Revival? 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