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3E^g£H©SB fucking bull/shit icaraimc#233-6138a SUB Blvd. Vancouver BC V6T 1Z1 iiiiiuiiiMiaraMmmHMaasbullshit by Christa a Min A CORRECTION juried programmes. This is to www.videoinstudios.com for om Verlaine won't stop before. His teeth were as yellow women to make him think that I say that the media art festival programme details. calling me. He calls three as gold. His chest was like a was lying. form combines democratic Ttimes a day. Some days he sheet of glass, smooth but brittle. So two months ago I told processes with that of individ Best regards, calls three times in a row, other And his arms were long and Tom Verlaine to leave me alone. I I am writing this letter to clear ual decision making processes. days, once every eight hours. beautiful. He liked to wrap them suppose Tom never really did The only other matter I Jen Weih Lately, I've been letting the around me and press so hard it anything wrong, I just didn't feel was printed in Pnnarticoii in would like to point out is one of Exhibitions and Programming phone ring, which only leaves was as if his arms were a twist like seeing him anymore. He your April 2002 issue. It would nomenclature, but is significant Coord mater, Video In me with three messages a day tie, and I was the soft, fresh, loaf was upset, and he accused me of be unfortunate for anyone fo nonetheless. The works that from Tom Verlaine, who hap of ass (bread, ass, whatever), that being jealous of his guitar solos. believe that I "curated" Signal pens to have a very nice voice. and Noise by myself entirely. In Pan, inlet Sometimes I call him Miller. HE ASKED ME IF I WAS AS HOT AS HIS keeping with Video In protocol, I only bring this up as part of He doesn't like that. And he all decisions for the New Works the intention of Signal and Noise won't like that I'm writing about BARE FEET ON BLEECKER STREET programmes (this includes the is to bring attention to, and raise our torrid affair. But it's over. He IN THE SUMMERTIME. audio and video programmes) the profile of, single channel knows it, and still he won't stop were made by a committee of video specifically, as opposed to calling me. three, of which I was only one other forms of media. Not to It started over a year ago Ire wanted to keep safe inside a The truth is, once he called me person. The other unfortunate suggest that Video In—and by when I saw him buying sport plastic bag. But he would tie his "Sweetie" and I hated it. part of anyone harbouring way of Video In, Signal and socks at the Vancouver Flea arms so tight that I couldn't In reality, he didn't deserve under the illusion that I did it Noise—-is not down for all Market. Well, he saw me. I breathe. me (really, who does?), and he didn't recognize him until I I saw him much less often was WAY too young for me. I all is that it ignores the fact that and activist media >xpen looked up after he asked me if I than he would've liked. I never thought he understood. there were also programmes s, including film, was as hot as his bare feet on visited him in New York. He I figure that the only way to curated by artists in the com for too complex Bleecker Street in the summer came to me as much as I would make him stop calling is to write munity. This is clearly stated in here, I am not going time. What a stupid question, I let him, and he always called about it, leak our little secret to to the hierarchical the program guide itself. get thought. OF COURSE I AM. But three times a day. Which was Mojo, Wire, and Discorder so the of film vs. video. Further, it is important for dilei it was Tom Verlaine, one of the way too often. He sent all sorts publicity of his rejection will people to understand the back However, if anyone reading this only people in the world who's a of garbage in the mail, too—aib- make him stop crying. ground and history of how the is interested, give us a call at better guitar player than me. So ber plants, brown sugar, stuffed I'm sorry I had to do this, majority media arts festivals are 604.872.8337, and we'd be that afternoon, Tom and I went animal parts—you know, the Miller. organised. Typically there is one happy to chat with you about and flew a kite. It was fun. usual. I told him that I didn't Tom Verlaine, I will always individual or core group of co this matter further. I fell on my ass at first. He want any stupid garbage and love you. I will still listen to your ordinators who invite curators If anyone who missed the took my feet and pushed them that he didn't have to call me at records every day. I will never to present programmes, and festival wants more informa off the ground with a broom. all, but I guess in his 52 years forget you and your big old organise the committees for the tion, please check out That had never happened he's been with enough stupid cock. •
SLOW NERVE ACTION that instrument has found a hillbilly-esque—she's really local reviews by Janis McKenzie ...The Soap of Beautiful new home with the alt-country from the American South, after Women crowd. Is it ironic? Is it respect all, and quite capable of either. (Independent) ful? These are the questions What's easier to figure out: the getic. There are twists mixed in ecording a CD can take a the Pussycats-era Saturday morn Wow, these are some horny you may ask yourself about title track that sharply criticizes ing cartoons. Five current and with the catchy sweetness: a bit long, long time. I know funksters. From the somewhat Free to Do What?, which makes the (North) American way, and former members of Space Kid, of bad-boy '70s guitar at the R this better than a lot of abstract naked intertwined use of the pedal steel guitar as "Ruben, Oh Ruben," a song the Saddlesores, Bossa-nova, beginning of "Sweet Gun," and people, since my old band has people on the cover to song well as the once-loathed accor- that asks only that you get up Speedbuggy, and Cinderpop a childlike Small Faces- been working on one (off and titles like "Take It All Off," dian, fiddle, mandolin, and and dance like an idiot for a on) for more than five years, and play well-constructed, boy-har flavoured intro to a song that "Bunz," "Bisexual," and even a Dolly Parton song. minute and a half. still shows no sign of finishing. mony packed songs that may turns out to be called "Hooded "Astroglide," it's all about sex. Lucinda (a.k.a. Cindy) Wolfe's www.mintrecs.com • But could this be the explanation have moments as mellow as Big Church of Satan," to name just And the groove-driven songs voice has a nasal twang that for all the CDs that have come to Star on downers but tend on the two. themselves seem carefully cal could be post-modernist me lately with copyright dates of whole to be downright ener
TOv ^S p^ceF^L 0,fU TrtE" ouTJKi^^y / vaRv ^ifoIf*AL. ft ^ D ^# 'TET. Grand Re-opening! 2" 16/24 track mon f LI No Bullshit, Just Good Recording Satisfaction Guaranteed! > (206)525-0628 hbgrant pbcords email- [email protected] Ut: itclviree May is Asian Heritage Month here at CiTR 101.9FM and to celebrate we'll be contributing a special day of programming Thursday May 16th from 4PM to midnight, featuring music, spoken word, interviews, social commentary and much more, as we explore the influence of Asian culture in our community as well as around the world. Pick up these dreadf dreadlocks a t: | 5E^m®SB creative—speak your mind on the tyranny of the majority. "grommet" easel sketches, a fake the Referendum, attach a letter, You've got until May 15th, so miniature-world outside the get a black marker and pull out get a move on! "window"—reminded me of his the anti-Liberal slogans: just consumer-topia film exhibited at make sure to fuck it up so it is The Liminal Zoo "Overperson" (indeed, the same obviously "spoiled"). Then put What is "in-between" space? black and red notebooks were ponorticoM it in all the necessary envelopes What becomes in-between? scattered on the floor of this (do that all normally) and drop Colin Miner, James Nizam, and room-space). And yet I was per the sound of spectacle by tobias it in the mail. Voila. Your ballot Chris Ruffatto—in that "in- versely captured by Nizam's will be counted as a spoiled bal between" stage of neither-stu- "Lucid (Series I)," a series of Here I Am In Montreal binding; and because of already homogenizes a diverse people. lot. 2. Spoil your ballot, and dent-nor-professional-artist—ex peep-show eye-holes—of those All the rumours are true—hard existing Constitutional protec Every First Nations treaty is dif send it to an Indigenous organi plored this non-space in their strange lenses you use for look wood floors, bagels, and cheap tions of First Nations status, ferent and unique. Solutions to zation collecting the ballots, i.e., "Liminal" show which ran April ing at 3D topographical maps— rent—Cote de Neiges scream neither does a Yes vote hold any First Nations treaty rights lie the Indigenous Media Arts 15-25th at SUB Gallery, UBC. As that allowed the viewer to see ing by—Franglais and sexy legal weight. The result? An his not in the public poll of unin Group at the Video In reception Aaron Peck notes in his "Of mysterious photos of a clinical, sex—snow in May—neverend- toric waste of nine million formed, majority non-native area (1965 Main Street, Other Spaces, or Liminal" docu white room with a model in a ing club nights—cigarettes—of bucks that nevertheless plays people. 2. The Referendum 604.872.8337). You can also take ment for the exhibition, "the net white biological suit. For Nizam, course I am writing this column work of galleries signifies how [a it was a dreamscape; for me, it before I have left, but as you A NO VOTE IS NOT BINDING; AND BECAUSE OF ALREADY young artist] is placed in relation was almost an erotic nightmare. read it I am there. to that stage of their career." As I As I moved from peep-hole to EXISTING CONSTITUTIONAL PROTECTIONS OF FIRST walked into the Gallery, James peep-hole, the model disap FUCK the Referendum was trying to sort out the light peared from the white table to Alright, this is it: time to put up NATIONS STATUS, NEITHER DOES A YES VOTE HOLD ANY ing of his "Lucid (Series III)" appear in a slide-mirror projec the fists and fight. The Liberal painting, a dark green/black tion on the opposite wall; and in Referendum on First Nations is LEGAL WEIGHT. plasticized Rothko-esque dream- the last two projections, two sep a bigoted attempt to silence the scape. Praxis: James was arate conflicting images attempt minority with the weight of the into the Liberals' hands, giving crushes the heterogeneity of your ballot to the Native attempting to turn the admitted to place the viewer in two spaces majority. I don't think I am them the weapons to do humanity with the same jack Friendship Centre at East ly crappy gallery into an engag at once, both looking at the going too far in saying that it's irreparable damage before the boot: it smears non-natives with Hastings and Commercial. ing space, dealing with the shitty room from the viewer's point- equivalent to asking the Constitution comes to bear on the same brush as Natives Why? The Union of BC Indian in-house lighting... The art: of-view and looking back-out at Germans what to do with the the situation. Details: 1. The through its offensive generali Chiefs will collect and count the Miner's "David and Goliath" the camera from the model's Jews in 1935. Get it? Alright. public is provided with no ties. It is not too much to say spoiled ballots as protest votes was a collection of colour, card point-of-view, an impossible Let's proceed. Here are some information on the subject that generalities that attempt to and then burn them in a public board and cut-out sheep sur position, an in-between space, great ways to register your dis conceal and whitewash histo whatsoever. History of colonial ceremony. If I hadn't already rounding a backlit photo of a what, as Peck notes, Foucault gust not only with the ries and at the same time pro occupation? None. Residential sent out my ballot with "Liberal bushy-eyed and toga-clad Greek would call a "heterotopia," or Referendum, but with the sys mote the hatred of difference schools abuse? Nada. Existing Racist Fascists" on it, I would with a sling-shot. Was he attack Turner a "liminal" space. For tem itself. For those who think are the premise of nothing less treaties and pacts? Zilch. Many have done exactly this. Sending ing or defending the sheep or me, at least, Nizam's particular voting "No" is the answer—it of the questions depend upon than fascism. your ballot to a willing First me? Ambiguous in either work was attempting to discov isn't. The Referendum ques the results of others; most are Nations representative not only defending or attacking er fetishistic relations—the peep- tions are ambiguous enough completely ambiguous as to The Ballot... and its Eminent registers your protest vote, but Christianity, I felt like a misun show, the viewer, and the that either answer can be legally whether the question is a gener Destruction also shows your support for the derstood god. Ruffato's large, clinical—"with(in/out)" the interpreted in favour of racist al question or one specific to There are two main ways to indigenous rights of First backlit photo of a room-set, "The khora. • policies under Liberal control; certain, individual First Nations spoil your ballot. 1. Write what Nations to self-government on furthermore, a No vote is not claims. The Referendum Grommet"—complete with a ever you want on it (make it their own terms, unhindered by strange "grommet" human doll, Until First Nations are Free! no fun check out HiMfllAP! Mondays @ MesaLuna MAY 06 // punk MAY 20 // hip hop Nunstalker • • JC Based On A True Story • • Def Poets Society Uwaytoday • • Baron Samedi ME- • I roc & K-Cuf w/ DJ DJ MAY 13 // rock MAY 27 // ska Chore • • The Furios The Liars • •The Hoodwinks Assertion • • Guests TBA Black Rice • STAY TUNED IN JUNE FOR • Grade & Flashlight Brown (03) • The Frenetics (10) Mesa Luna: 1926 W. Broadway. See www.whap.ca for more info. 6 may 2002 engage in minimalist blips and no doubt inspired them (Devil ting speedy purchases from bleeps, somewhat reminiscent of Dogs, The Humpers, et al.). Two yours truly. Garage maniacs can early Kraftwerk, on songs great originals are to be had in rejoice with "Turn Me Loose," as like "Final Analysis" and "Radio Feelin'" and "No any stiff will ultimately give in "Daydreams" and put an inter Respect" (and a throwaway ver to the charms of this fuzz-filled, esting spin on The Troggs' sion of Wanda Jackson's "Let's harmonica-blastin' rave-up, • H< "Strange Movies." (No contact Have A Party") at least get the backed with an equally amped provided; intentional maybe, shindig shakin' properly. Only nod to The Electric Prunes' by Bryce Dunn accidental probably.) 500 of these babies were pressed, "Never Had It Better." Punk Shifting into high gear, we so better snatch 'em up, quick! purists will pogo accordingly to t's May, when a young turn to THE RADIO REELERS Action, 1816 East the so-catchy-it's-stupid "Love man's mind turns to the 3rd Avenue Vancouver, BC V5N and Ulcers" and laugh as the I finale of his favourite TV boys poke fun at their country show (Buffi/ The Vampire Slayer, " party favours and its citizens with "We anyone?), and, of course, music. are the name of the game for Americans." Essential additions I give you the latest offerings THE CYNICS and THE BRIEFS rd c heard through the ears of a man t Hip Recx 'O Box who's not afraid to make that 7 USA declaration and put his two DirtNap Records, PO Box cents in for a bunch of records 9, Seattle, WA 98111 USA, that s make hiri .•ely. the ol' turntable La are ME A befon ing the offending piece of vinyl (much like our aforementioned heroine does to her foes) into the trash heap. Take HO-HUM and t laugh (they g JASON MORPHEW, for exam ple. Note to the former: usually, .ne song). Inste when they say the music speaks - volumes,'there's some truth to that when it describes your band name. And to the latter, what Nat and iuldp • share yo "Massacre High," all set to a talent which such a crappy backbeat of Stiff Little Fingers- band? (riayadel Records, PO style punk. Their name trans Box 250721', Little Rock, AR 3 it past the cutting n The Teletubbies to last the rest of lates as "My Responsibility" and 72225-0721 USA) Two tracks of wigged-out their natural born lives). (Four for any conscientious individual If Buffy had an alternate be found on a 7" States Fair Record Co., no theme song, I'm sure KEVIN that sees Ms. Blechdom helped address given.) to check this stuff out. (Empty BLECHDOM would be the out by Adult Rodeo on "Jelly Still weird, but nonetheless Records, PO Box 12034, Seattle, songwriter behind it. Thank Donuts" and Fred Frith on "I entertaining is THE T-CELLS. WA 98102 USA) goodness it doesn't, cuz her stuff Done Usin' U's and Bees." Not On this 10" effort (yes, occasion And i , back t is more suited to those Itchy and for children under the age of six ally we make exceptions for the blonde kickin' npire Scratchy episodes that never (unless they've had enough of 7"s larger friends), our T-Cells butt... • ggm ~ MEDITERRANEAN H0MEC00KIN'* DRINKS • LIVE MUSIC *w*fv 0&Wm; .•••• •w^ Wednesday, May 1 Angle Inglis Thursday, May 2 Steve Dawson and Elliot Polsky Friday, May 3 The Rockin' Daddys Saturday, May 4 Bottleneck Sunday, May 5 Kendra Shand Wednesday, May 8 Amy Honey / Carolyn Mark Thursday, May 9 NEW MUSIC WEST... TBA Friday, May 10 NEW MUSIC WEST... TBA Saturday, May 11 NEW MUSIC WEST... TBA Sunday, May 12 Musiki Parea / Grup Baris The Coastaline Fire SUNCDOTS Wednesday, May 15 Steve Dawson and Elliot Polsky Thursday, May 16 Rich Hope Friday, May 17 Victor Polyik and Scott Smith Saturday, May 18 Amy and Harry's Birthday Bash Sunday, May 19 RANCHFEST!... David P. Smith / Boomchix Wednesday, May 22 RANCHFEST!... Rich Hope / Jon Wood / Heather Griffin Thursday, May 23 RANCHFEST!... Hopetown / Swingin' Doors Friday, May 24 RANCHFEST!... Silt / Violet / Conrad "a near-peerless progressive rock unit, retaining its formative Saturday, May 25 RANCHFEST!... Greasy Kings / Rocket Fins aggression yet utilising a level of melodious dynamics Sunday, May 26 RANCHFEST!... Grahma Brown and the Prairie Dogs Tuesday, May 28 From Toronto... Picastro w/ guests that few aggressive acts can manage." chris Gramiich, Exclaim! 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Motion 2: A Six Degrees P-Brane EP Knock Knock Knock Apartment Hunting The Songs Of Ray Davies Live May 10 Dance Collection Original Motion Picture & The Kinks at Piccadilly Pub Soundtrack Zulu Records ALL TITLES SPECIALLY PRICED AT STORE HOURS 1 1972-1976 W 4th Ave Mon to Wed 10:30-7:00 Vancouver. BC Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 tel 604738.3232 Sat 9:30-6:3 0 OUTSIDE www.zulurecords.com ly weird when he pulled what suit burst into the street and an important part of the show. looked like a big, rubbery ther dashed off with a tiny bicycle They've also attracted an mos from the front of his pants under his arm—especially in impossibly stellar line-up. and started beating off. He came such an upscale neighbourhood. Imagine The Holy Body Tattoo all over the kid, then used the The wonder and the joke was performing three excerpts from Atrut&fret knife to slice the thing off. Blood that this space even existed. The Circa; former Ballet BC superno gushed down his trouser leg. event had been a kind of heist. va Crystal Pite as her folksing- performance/art by Penelope Mulligan Climbing onto the ridiculously Peek-a-Boo's people were lock ing alter ego Crissy Rockbottom; small bike, he paddled down the ing up, so we dispersed. Cori Caulfield (of Party Girl hall toward the stairwell. We fol fame) in her new piece Bought DAVID YONGE Yonge. It seems that whatever he Against a loop of tinkling, Feeling a little rattled, I went lowed, already guessing how it Horrifying the Inner Child creates, constructs or finds poignant music broken by chat off in search of hot chocolate and and Sold and Dean Macarenko would end. Party hats on heads a playroom becomes set and props for a tering voices, Peek-a-Boo blun found a cafe that was still open. performing a monkey solo creat and sick looks on faces, we Friday, April 5 methodical rampage of actions dered through the rituals of Eventually, a few others drifted ed for him by Cornelius Fischer- watched as clown and bike 1 didn't know it was going to be under various aliases. And this lighting birtnday candles and in carrying their party hats and credo. There's also a chance to a birthday party, even when one wasn't going to be pretty. opening gifts, but it was all crashed and tumbled down the we grinned softly, knowing that trawl for the next big thing as someone at the door handed us We amused ourselves walk going horribly wrong. He cruel stairs and out the door. A we'd been having the same Christopher Duban, Melanie each a cardboard hat with bal ing through walls and chatting stomped on the cake, trashed the few of us clattered down after Phillips and Montreal expat loons on it. We climbed a long, until Puff the Magic Dragon start - presents and began beating him but he was already gone. Shauna Elton round out the bill. steep staircase and floated down This was definitely the dark THE PLUGHOLE Helesic promises that while a hallway lined with white est thing I've seen Yonge do. The Further proof that the manky they'll stick some candles on the paper. Turning the comer, I saw relentless cruelty and destruc end of Granville Street is getting tables, they'll maintain the what a vast and curious place tion seemed pretty much direct washed and groomed, or a sign Royal's rawness. It will be inter we were in. It was impossible to ed at the artist himself (the that some dancers have an esting to see what the dancers tell where the rooms began and hapless birthday boy dummy inventive way of breaking out do while hanging around a dif ended as 2 x 4s marched off into was wearing a little red T-shirt of conventional performance ferent kind of bar(re). Start time the distance. It was as if giant with "DAVID" on it) but the spaces? For now, I choose to is 8pm. Info from 604.731.6856. maggots had gotten into the clown's black make-up was so believe the latter and highly rec At the grunt gallery on May building and picked the skeleton thick and angular that it was like ommend a visit to the Royal 9, you can watch a mischievious, clean. It was cold, so we kept our a mask which drove a wedge Hotel Pub when MovEnt pre thoroughly engaging perfor coats on and headed for a single between perpetrator and victim. sents Dances for a Small Stage mance artist and exercise your I- lamp glowing all weak and yel The whole thing managed to on May 7 and 8. hate-America muscles at the low in a far corner. stay just below the sights of any Movement Enterprises is a same time. Naufus Ramirez- The headless dummy of a one trying to psychoanalyse the performance society co-founded Figueroa has used the overthrow small child sat in a highchair proceedings and felt refreshing by Day Helesic and Julie-anne of Guatemala's elected govern above a sloppy, green birthday David Yonge. Horrifying the Inner Child ly free of the rivers of "issues" Saroyan, whose priority is to ment in 1954 as an inspiration for cake. A little bicycle, a stack of that run through so much per round up dancers with some his latest work, Banana Republic, presents and a huge cardboard ed playing. It was funny to see a everything in sight with a broom formance art. Maybe that's why thing to show and get it out an abstract tour through box sat on the floor while a big knife suddenly poke through handle, including the little boy. it could make us feel so genuine there. They launclied themselves Guatemalan history and the strange-looking toy monkey the carton. Something was saw The lamp got knocked out and ly sad. last Fall at the Roundhouse with Broadway musical. Naufus will leered from a sideboard. Some ing its way out of there and it we were plunged into blackness I pondered how it must a mini-festival of New Dance be using two Colombian dancers artists would call this an instal was Peek-a-Boo the Clown. By while he repaired it by the light have looked to someone walk called Start Here, but for their as his back-up chorus! Show at lation, bung it in a gallery and song's end, the scariest party of his Zippo. Then he tried to set ing or driving past late at night current project, have chosen a 8pm. Info from the grunt at have done with it, but not David guest of all was out of the box. himself on fire. 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They seem to claim they are "rebels" or "out who are just flyin' Old Glory expect a public groundswell to rageous!" Stations like "The and supportin' the president. I eventually rise up and take back Buzz" in Seattle are popping up can tell you plainly and without our culture. It is refreshing that, all over the place with "shock exaggerating that they don't with almost no media coverage, zines. etc. by Bleek talk." And what do we get? really care about the needy that Michael Moore's book Stupid Jokes at the expense of "bitches," have made "poor life choices." If White Men (and other lame excuses THEY WON. WE LOST. Interesting how often I hear the ner, how the Republicans stole '"tards," "homos," "eco-freaks," they're suffering, they should for the state of the nation) is the #1 If I were even more cynical than word "balance" to describe a the US election. I wish I could etc. That's the great alternative, have done something with their bestseller in the US and Canada I am right now, I might believe pro-business agenda. Being an tell you that that was big news. I to the right, my friends. That's life long ago. They need to take as I write this. Still, I lack confi that nearly all the magazines, American, I feel this threat prob can't. the best they can give us. "personal responsibility" for dence that people will actually newspapers and other news ably more than most Canadians, An interesting new book When was the last time their lives. "Now let's thank the see the light and do something sources were making a planned although Canada is hot on the called Into the Buzzsaw (Leading some major news organization Lord for what we are about to constructive. I expect people to and concerted effort to pull our heels of the US's trend toward journalists Expose the Myth of a pointed out the fact that Bush receive." I'm often emotionally continue giving, in essence, attentions away from difficult "selective reporting." All over Free Press) edited by Kristina and Cheney have millions in distraught after family gather more and more money to the current events. the radio, conservatives are Borjesson, chronicles how the investment monies tied up in ings. And I'm not worried about very rich and keep expecting it It's something we've heard bitching about the "liberal careers and lives of certain Saudi Arabia, a place where they them buggin' over this column to trickle down, which it never so often in our indie culture that media." investigative reporters were kiss ass even though most of the since it would be a cold day in does. it becomes cliched and loses In defence of Joe Sixpack, devastated by exposing corrup 9-11 terrorists were from, fund hell when they'd pick up an With this current "war on impact. Words like "corporati- we should remember what kind tion and conspiracy in govern ed by and, in-part, trained as ter independent and outside-the- dissent," it will be interesting to zation," "globalization," "disin of information nearly everybody ment, business, and media. rorists there? Or how convenient mainstream mag like Discorder. see which caring reporters will formation," "manufactured is receiving after a busy day of Investigation into the crash of it was to send troops into We need to figure out how resort to writing for the smaller consent," and so on. All these competing for a piece of the pie. TWA Flight 800; the CIA's Pipeline-istan? The examples of we, the non-participants, are press, or whoever will take issues multiply until those For media nerds like me, the involvement in the War on under-reported stories go on for going to exist under this. How them. Some of the best minds words become trademarks of facts are bleak, and dissent is Drugs; the US military's efforts miles, even in BC where we will we be able to communicate are found in the smallest papers the left, getting little more than hard to find. It is out there, to cover up Operation Tailwind, allow Premier Campbell to tell to each other and live commu and magazines and rarely chuckles from the "establish though, and once you develop a the massacre of hundreds of us that things are IMPROVING! nally? I don't know, but be appear in "legitimate" papers or ment." routine, you can hear and read a civilians during the Korean War, Who exactly is benefiting from assured, the forums we still have as guests on those major politi I have heard "serious jour very different version of the and the conspiracy to court-mar this economic genocide, Gord? are being eroded this very cal and current events talk nalists" (cough) speak conde "official" story. tial a returning POW from I've got more bad news, minute. Funding for real public shows. How long before hard scendingly about critics of the I recommend active effort in Vietnam; the writing on the wall kids. Those on the side of big access programs has decreased reporting turns to zines to get mainstream press, claiming that searching for alternative news foreshadowing the terrorist money, corporate greed, media and will continue to die because the truth out? Will zines even be in no way are news organiza sources. Reading foreign press is attacks of September 11, 2001; censorship, and pacifying we lack the flashy escapism on legal in 10 years? Many are bare tions pressured by advertising still a good way to find out what and much, much more. Hollywood glitz have won. other stations. The internet is ly legal now and have been sued dollars or an outright embrace of is going unheard and unseen Revealing stuff, if not really WE'VE LOST! Big Business monitored by big government in for copyright infringement or their comfortable lifestyles. I've here in North America! Read The depressing. I just heard Rush owns the government and big order to "protect" us. But if you heard programmers on National Guardian, a British newspaper Limbaugh (1 often listen to the media. Government owns the are still convinced that there is congratulating big business in Public Radio suggest that left- where the American investiga other side of the aisle) claim that military and police. That's it. The hope, you'd better get involved winning the war for media con wing concerns are fine for col tive reporter Greg Pa last had to middle-grounder/newsreader war is over! Thanks for coming and act now. I don't know where trol! They won. We lost. lege kids and adolescents, but go to do actual investigative Sam Donaldson was some sort out! They've got our countries or how but I'm hoping you can Hey, I'm just kidding. for serious "adults" what they reporting for once, uncovering, of liberal! Right-wingers who and are about to have the rest of tell me. I'm not holding my Everything is fine in the world, give us is real "balance." in a frighteningly detailed man lean to the moderate side are the world. I live between two breath, though. really. • lates. Instead, it was an my mailbox by mistake. In real MICHAEL DAVID KWAN ode to advertising, two grey ity, it was the folks at the VSO Tlie Chinese Storyteller's Book: speckled pages extolling the inaccurately pinpointing my Supernatural Tales virtues of the Vancouver roommates and I for people (Tuttle Publishing) Symphony Orchestra in the with lots of disposable cash, just The late Michael David Kwan over mv AMOMi€re:i^-i guise of a love letter. Here's an because we live in a yuppie takes traditional folk stories and excerpt from "Honey": "I was neighbourhood, and trying to applies his literary skill in his book reviews by Doretta just thinking about how won appeal to us with what they collection of supernatural tales. derful our time together has probably thought was a Kwan, most famous for his been and how lucky we are to "quirky" advertising tactic. The award-winning memoir Things y month of mistaken one in my wardrobe, which kept thinking, who uses the pet have each other. Those times we letter, with its assumption of Tliat Must Not Be Forgotten, tells identities began with a holds, among other things, six name "Honey"? That romantic spent in Florence and on the Via who 1 must be, is a lot like The the tales, which have been Mclerk at Zulu Records black skirts and twenty-two overture seems so 1950s, as in Medici were so special, I will Table of Cynicism at Zulu, a cof passed down through the gen who spotted me talking to fee table which features Belle erations (more than one story Discorder's editor during an in- and Sebastian, Nick Drake, refers to the Imperial store performance featuring the Boards of Canada and other Examinations, which are a Intima, and later asked her if I WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO IT WHEN MONEY'S BEING throwback to days of bureau was Christa Min. My guess is It's music the staff thinks that its cratic appointment in China by that the clerk doesn't read EXCHANGED. WE'RE REDUCED TO CERTAIN neighbourhood clientele—with test taking) with confident nar Christa's column, the too-good- DEMOGRAPHICS: AGE, GENDER. CLASS. CULTURAL their S70 haircuts and dinners ration and his own style. The to-be-true Fucking Bullshit, for two—would enjoy. When it tales deal with the positioning because, if he did, he would AFFILIATION. THOUGH WE SHAPE OUR OWN comes down to it, when of humans in relation to the have never thought "that must money's being exchanged and spirit world, and work to dissect be Christa Min." These are the IDENTITIES TO A CERTAIN EXTENT. THE REST OF THE there's marketing in the mix, various evils (such as greed) in facts (call it "everything I've we're reduced to certain demo learned from reading Fucking WORLD ALSO HAS A SAY IN WHO WE ARE. OR AT LEAST graphics: age, gender, class, cul Kwan's supernatural tales Bullshit"): Christa Min is a god tural affiliation. Though we are a refreshing departure from dess, a guitar player whose APPEAR TO BE. shape our own identities to a the Chinese propaganda tales I skills can't be matched. In addi certain extent, the rest of the heard when I was younger. Best tion to her tremendous talent, world also has a say in who we of all, the stories work to take her beauty is unparalleled. From blouses. (Yes, I know I have a "Honey, I'm bringing my boss never forget them." The letter are, or at least appear to be. a bo what I understand, she's got clothing problem. It's marginal and two important clients home ends with "We'll get dressed up a pa i All this talk about identity by looking at a supernatural long legs, lips as soft as her ass, ly worse than my shoe prob for dinner tonight. I hope you and have some more trulv clas brings me to the subject of this world that is "other." If we and an amazing rack. I haven't lem.) don't mind. You're so great in sic evenings." No joke, I'm giv column: May is Asian Heritage could have that outsider per had the pleasure of meeting her, So when an envelope the kitchen." I couldn't wait to ing it to you verbatim. The Month. I thought I'd get around spective on our present day but I feel I know her pretty well marked "Honey" appeared in discover the contents of the let second page is a price guide to to reading a collection of folk world, we might be able to bet because I read her column every my mailbox, I was intrigued. I ter. My curiosity overwhelmed concert packages. I gave this tales that's been on my shelf for ter understand ourselves. • month, except for Jancember, figured it was meant for our me, and I tore the envelope whole incident some thought months. when I had to make one column neighbour, a woman in her sev open, though I meant to steam it because it was a case of mistak last for two long, winter enties, but wanted to check with so I could reseal it if need be. en identities on two fronts. months. You could never mis my roommates to make sure Alas, it wasn't a love letter There was my misguided fanta take me for Christa Min because they weren't expecting anything to the old woman across the sy regarding the contents of the Listen up for CiTR's Asian Heritage Month I am short, and the only amaz in the post. I waited all day for way. Nor was it a missive from a letter. I thought that the letter ing rack I can lay claim to is the ites to return and boy trying to love up one of my writer delivered the envelope to Celebration on Thursday May 16th. nursings DiSCORDER: Who are you? (Name, instrument of 4/4 destruction, Quebec. Montreal has a good scene. The shorter distances between hairstyle, choice of facial hair.) cities don't matter because few cities have good scenes and places to lungbutter Lennie Haggerty: Drums. play. We play with punk/hardcore bands, rock bands, improv bands Nick Kuepfer: Guitar/Vocals. and many others. We've driven too much this tour, that's for sure. Colin Fisher: Guitar/sax. How many practices does it take for Lungbutter to get a song Tim Nicholls: Bass. down? We're crazy! Hair growing everywhere! Manwhores, apparently. Three or four usually, depending, of course, if everyone is present. Tell us some of the highlights of your tour so far. They tend to work themselves out pretty quick. When our van broke down for the first time we thought we'd have Close friends of yours passed away shortly before you left on tour. to abandon the van and the tour because the mechanic at Slim's At a show in mid-September of 2001, one of them gave away an Auto in Marathon, ON tried to convince us that we needed $600 to "Osama Bin Laden Is My Hero" t-shirt. Please take this opportu $800 to fix it. A second opinion suggested we get a $4 bottle of gas nity to eulogize your friends and explain how it has affected your line anti-freeze which fixed it. tour. Nick from Lungbutter books shows in Stratford, Ontario. Name When something like that happens within a group of friends, it real and described some of your favourite bands who you've booked. ly hits home. It definitely brought out a lot of feelings from every Da Bloody Gashes, The First Day, Slight Return, Two Minute one. Not just us—everyone. We brought those feelings with us. We Miracles, Gaffer, Mach Tiver, A few of the improv shows with Colin brought them with us. This tour is for them, and it's given us direc Fisher [of Lungbutter] and a few other guys from Toronto, Evan tion. We miss them and I think I speak for everyone who knew them Symons, Projecktors, Paperbacks, Joel and The A Minus, Cities To when I say "Stay strong, stay together, and try and remember!" We Drown In... pretty much every band that's booked I really like miss you Barry and Lubby. because there's no point in booking something you don't. Ask yourself a question and either stretch the truth about the What percentage of your set is improvised and how could an audi answer or lie outright. ence tell? What music has influenced Lungbutter and how has your music It varies from show to show. The improv is just as tight as some of changed? Drive Like Jehu, Polvo, Sonic Youth, Fugazi, AC/DC, the composed material. Rush, John Zorn, Captain Beefheart, Joe Morris, Massacre, Erectus Are all members of math rock bands good at algebra? Monotone, Flaming Lips, Mr. Bungle, Archie Shepp, Naked City, etc. We suck at math (and direction) and to set things straight, we're 401 The music has grown from its hardcore roots to incorporate even core! 2+2 is 4; 2+2 is 4; 2+2 is 4; 2+2 is 4. more complexity and more improvised ideas. • What do people do for work in Stratford when Shakespeare sea son is over? Discography... We starve but drink more and have children. Bizivip CD - Red Elephant Records - 1998 Are bands from southern Ontario spoiled compared to the rest of Donk EP - Red Elephant Records - 2001 Canada given the shorter distances between shows? Where would Dr. Rush's Tranquilizer - 2002 Lungbutter commonly play outside of Stratford? Who might you play with? www.geocities.com/sunsetstrip/vine/4872 We play around Ontario a fair bit as well as neighbouring province www.mp3.com/lungbuttered By Evan Symons Thunderbird n w H I I DiSCORDER: Who are you? beer there in the '70s after rugby games. Electrosonics Eric White really had primary creative control. In Michaela Galloway: Vocals, flute, keyboard, percussion. Meredith: I think that Ms. T's is a good venue for gigs, but I like the Hinterland I am creatively present in the music in a way I never John Lucas: Guitar, baritone guitar, bass. feel of the ANZA Club because it has this cozy cabin type setting. have been before, and that I never was ready to be before. Gregg Steffensen: Drums, random noises. Should the Sugar Refinery be banned from the Georgia Straight? John: I learned to play live and write songs in Flutter, which also Cam McLellan: Bass, guitar. John: Only if the Georgia Straight is banned from the Sugar Refinery. featured a very rusty Gregg on drums. Kyle Fogden: Guitar, keyboard, bass (currently in Copenhagen). Kyle: No, but Hinterland should. Kyle: Loud Twin Bell is all I'll name... the other two in that band Meredith Woolley: Keyboards, backing vox (Kyle's temp replace Gregg: Of course not! I think this town is a little too self-serving at a taught me to fuck around and try to keep things interesting. Another ment). time when we (local bands, venues and media etc.) need to help each band I was in in Toronto taught me that combining new wave, the Hinterland played its first show at Ms T's Cabaret. Is it the best other to save this pitiful live scene. Where's the love? Smiths, and glam rock just isn't where it's at. venue in Vancouver for up-and-coming bands? How does it rate Describe the first show you ever played and add a little folklore Gregg: This is embarrassing because all my old bands were metal. I compared to the ANZA Club and the Sugar Refinery? for good measure. guess the most popular was Sasha's Aura. We played at the Lunatic Michaela: You left the best venue for up and coming bands off your Michaela: I played my first show at the Press Club in April of 1997. Fringe a lot. I think I still pull out some of that influence on' list. The Purple Onion is by far the best. We have played there more I was in a band called Space Cadet. We played with the Dirtmitts Hinterland. than anywhere else. Jay from Seaside Studios puts on Thursday live and the Beans. Jenny (who used to book the Press Club) told us that What part of the world would you most like to tour in? band nights. Sean is a super great soundman. Never underestimate the the Club had never been fuller than that night! Michaela: I'm not really into the idea of being on the road for weeks importance of a good soundman who really knows the house system. John: Flutter debuted to an audience of about 25 at some rec centre at a time in any part of the world. Sleeping on floors and dealing Gregg: I believe Ms. T's is the ideal venue because of the simple fact in Coquitlam. Our bass player took off to Hawaii and we were with crabby ex-metalhead sound people isn't my thing. I could go that it's easy to fill and it costs nothing to put on a show there, as forced to do an acoustic show. Never again! on a short tour anywhere in the world as long as I got to stay in a opposed to Video In, who need a $300 fee up front. I also think it's on Gregg: My first show was at a theatre in Salmon Arm with a bunch hotel and got to play at a decent club with a good sound system. par with the ANZA and the Sugar Refinery. of guys from my high school. We did a song in 7/4 time to impress Oh, and I would need to take my cats because Meredith usually Cam: The ANZA has a certain something—knowing your dad drank my drum teacher. I was into glam rock... next question. looks after them and she would probably come with us. Cam: Starfish Room on an indie-rock bill with Blaise Pascal and Gregg: Eastern Europe. Meet Daisy. It was their last show, I believe, and it was a good one. Cam: Northern England or Lebanon 'cause the food's good. True Love Forever didn't last much longer either—probably my first Where is your personal Hinterland? hinterland and last show as a drummer. Michaela: I take it we are being metaphorical here. I have places I Kyle: House party with my first band (I was 17). I did backing vocals imagine in my mind, things I imagine being in those places. and after singing my first lines I got embarrassed, hid in the kitchen Sometimes I imagine that I am a lovely little fish in a babbling brook and played bass from there. Then I broke a string before playing navigating the current. Sometimes I imagine that I am sleeping in a "Gauge Away" and compensated by playing the wrong third note in large ice cave with a towering ceiling. Sometimes I imagine that I every phrase. Then I went on my first rock 'n' roll bender... am standing in a vast tall grass field. Meredith: Well, that would have been a month ago. It was my first Gregg: Photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto's Sea of Japan. time ever in a band and on stage playing an instrument and singing. Cam: Miles from here. Sure, I had pre-show jitters and blocked out some of my singing Meredith: Sooke, BC, where my grandma lives. It fulfills both defi parts but once I was on stage and I heard the songs it came back to nitions: a) a region that is remote from cities and b) the land that lies next to coastline or river. What other bands have the members of Hinterland performed Describe your style without comparing yourself to any other with? How have they influenced Hinterland? Are you older and bands. wiser now or just older and "losing your edge" to quote a 20-some- Michaela: No. thing indie rocker who is now 30-something? John: Atmospheric rock. Better than a stick in the eye? Michaela: I used to be in Space Cadet, and in the Electrosonics. I am Gregg: I hate this question. Ethereal applications volume 6.7. a much better musician now than I ever have been before. Joining Kyle: To quote John Lucas quoting Kyle Fogden: "Close your eyes the Electrosonics was very educational. Suddenly I was playing the and it's 1991," but I guess not so much anymore. • Starfish Room (a big jump from the Press Club) and recording on something other than a 4-track. The other members of the Electrosonics were older than me, had been on tour and in the studio Demo tracks available at www.mp3.com/hinterland before. I feel like I really cut my teeth in that band. In the www3.telus.net/hinterland Wasteland of Wax by tobias Where did Vancouver get the reputation as a "cultural waste land"? We're the home of Douglas Coupland, William Gibson, Hank Bull, and Jeff Wall; we're known the world over for our killer weed; we've got whales, nonsensical politics, forests, log gers, hicks, and yuppies. Face it—we're hip and happening. So how come no one knows? Or cares? I'm going to reduce the cul tural analysis and give you one simple reason: music. Any city worth an eighth of green has an exploding music scene. In Vancouver, however, the rockers complain about the loss of "live" venues and the DJs complain about the lack of crowds. I can't speak for the rock crowd (I'll leave it to Nardwuar or Bryce to stir that bucket of worms), but as for the rest—what a bunch of whiners. This article is about some people starting some thing, and not the whiners, and although it's been claimed that "Digeridoo Mania!" rules the city, the real Vizier of Vancouver is House Music. It's not all house music, thank God, as Vancouver is slowly coming to realize that there is a world of music outside of the evo DJ SPENCER lutionary path of disco. However, even such experimental labels as Spencer's itiswhatitis (named after Derrick May's infamous Detroit techno track) incoporates a deep sense of melancholy, a [1] Deepen. "Deepen" is the name of DJ Vernon and Tyler Stadius' Village. Managed by Graham Boothby, the sub-labels are promising tension played out between the city and the forest that can be Saturday tech-house night at the Lotus, as well as the namesake of solid house tracks under the umbrella of the successful Leaf imprint heard in the work of Victoria's Mathew Johnson. Is that melan Vernon's label, which just pressed its second release, the Ogopogo EP which has helped to pioneer house music in Vancouver. Information choly—which can take the form of subtle joy—native solely to by Jay Tripwire. Tripwire's sound is easily classified as "UK tech- has been sparse and elusive, but keep your ear to the ground for house? Hardly; and with that realization, Vancouver and its sister house," despite his Vancouver origins, and it is only lately, with this releases over the next few months. colony Victoria have taken the big step into the world of genre- recent release featuring the vocal work of house DJ Leanne, that he blurring contemporary electronic music. But we're not quite there has begun to inject feeling and emotion into his work. . [6] itiswhatitis. Run by respected Victoria DJ Spencer, I've left yet, and I'm going to be blunt in this article about it: the house The first release on Deepen—the Nightvision EP—is a compila itiswhatitis for last because, at least for me, it is the label that has tradition in this city, while strong and alive in a healthy fashion, is tion 12", and it is Elan Beneroch who stands out with his "One Time strived the hardest to push past boundary restrictions, and most sig also hegemonic in its sonic power. Hopefully, with the introduc Staggered," following in the footsteps of accomplished Nordic Trax nificantly, break the house mold. Unlike most of the Vancouver- tion of six new record labels, the house backbone of the city will house artist Gavin Froome. Although Tripwire and Primordial Nature based labels, itiswhatitis hasn't followed in the musical footsteps of come to grow arms, legs, and eventually, a soul. have "techno" tracks on the EP, they fail to grab any real attention. Nordic Trax. It is perhaps not so surprising that the most innovative music is not happening in Vancouver, but in collaborations between [2] Northern Lights. If there is one thing I can say about Jay Tripwire, primarily Victoria-based artists and Eastern Canadians (as well as a it is that he is prolific. He released close to a dozen records this past few New Yorkers, as we shall see). year as well as launching his own label, Northern Lights, which Influenced by the sounds of Germany and Detroit, with a seems squarely aimed at the tech-house niche, although with a few healthy dose of minimalism, dub, and jazz, and working closely with surprises: monthly upcoming releases feature Evil Eddie Richards the action in Toronto and Montreal, itiswhatitis is producing funda (UK), Sensei (Denver), and the famed Mark Ambrose (UK), with mentally genre-blurring music between minimal techno, house, and remixes from Tripwire and Baltimore's Patrick Turner. Always con electro, a sound that attempts to sonically interpret the tensions fident, Jay says that starting up a label was "pretty easy," as he man between city and nature that make the Pacific Northwest such a aged to acquire a prestigious "P+D" (Production and Distribution) unique place. Spencer says that it "doesn't matter what genre it is, deal with the UK distributor Greyhound. The arrangement means for good music comes from a deep, deep place"—which is not to say that he takes a cut of the sales instead of risking investment capital in that the label is unfocused; Spencer, a DJ of 12 years and an avid soc pressing his own records. Tripwire's long term plans, however, are to cer player, is passionate about releasing talented Island and run Northern Lights himself and start an independent sub-label Vancouver artists as well as expanding the label's scope to include focused on harder techno, which I personally find fascinating, given international collaborations. "I'm just surrounded by musicians, so that harder techno has all but am out of steam internationally. what better to do but support them and put it out, you know'?" itiswhatitis' current release, The She Is He EP by Matthew [3] Active Pass. Deep house is the sound with DJ Kris Palesch's label Johnson, is an edgy, minimal techno mindfuck that will see a limited- "Active Pass," which is a good name for the dubby and spaced-out edition clear vinyl run, with remixes from German-Chilean Perlon pot-house found on the beautiful debut Urban Fever EP featuring heavyweight Ricardo Villalobos, and a relatively large run of 1,500 Stephane Novak, a.k.a. Pilgrims of the Mind. Expertly detailed in its 12"s. Johnson's work inaugurated the label, and his Rob Hood-esque production of sound and groove, with deep basslines anchoring blend of repetitive off-key synth loops and tight percussion was dubby synthesizer riffs and a jazzy piano presiding over a strong what first caught my ears and drew me to hunt down every IIWII kick, this is a stellar record from a mature producer that sets the bar for a Vancouver house sound. As the manager of Boomtown Records Upcoming releases will feature the likes of Victoria's in Vancouver, Palesch has the industry know-how and business Cobblestone Jazz and minimal house producer Ben Nevile (who is sense to make the label successful; yet the label's music reflects the playing Mutek this year in Montreal: take note!), while past releases quieter aspects of the coast's islands. have featured the work of ex-Vancouverite Steb Sly. Meanwhile the DJ NANCY KYD East Meets West series will continue to pair up local Westerners with [4] Twisted Roots. Can you say dub? Twisted Roots label head DJ Canada's Eastern artists, including Toronto's Mike Shannon and Nancy Kyd has recruited a handful of primarily West-coast house Bodensee. On an international level, the DrumKomputer series will producers to remix vintage King Tubby dub and reggae material continue to feature the minimal electro collaborative work between from the 1970s for her Yabby You, 1972 series. Each of the 12"s fea New York's Dietrich Schoenemann and Taylor Deupree (of experi tures a dubbed-out house remix on the A-side and the original Tubby mental label 12k). For those that caught any of my last DJ sets in track on the flip. The project sounds fascinating, but so far, nothing Vancouver, I've been playing these tracks non-stop; Deupree's atten has hit the shelves. And when it comes down to it, it's a bit disap tion to detail found in his microsound work finds its niche in the dri pointing that more local producers aren't involved in the project and ving determination of Schoenemann (of Hidden Agenda). my academic side says to me: "Why are all these white people remix ing Tubby, and how the hell did a Vancouver DJ get hands on this rare material?" It is my hope that the project will show the same ded It would be cliche to say something along the lines of "Vancouver's ication that Tubby gave to his work. Tlie series will be made avail 'wasteland' certainly has its advantages: there are acres of room to able on CD, with producers such as the UK's Nigel Hayes and SF's grow," for Vancouver is neither wasteland nor acreage. It is envi Jeno digging deep into the classic material. ronment and habitat competing with a reclusive modernism, and streaming through its peripheries are the sounds of this tension, sounds that are beginning to reshape a Pacific NorthWest sonic con [5] Totem/Villlage. From what I can tell, DJ Little T's respected house sciousness. • label Leaf Recordings has launched two new sub-labels, Totem and wmgzmm Film critic Pauline Kael once described Pulp Fiction as a movie that instrumentais; gets you drunk off movies. To her the movie exuded an exuberant singer Lily Frost love of cinema. A kaleidiscope of characters, plots, tunes, and a gold singing in French watch stuck up Christopher Walken's ass, it was a funky ass rain and ragga MC bow of influences turned into the world of Tarantino. Although he Shylox doing his ain't "nearly as violent" as QT, Van City's Funk Grand Master, Vinyl thing on a song Ritchie (along with his partner-in-crime, Brian Carson) has pro which also hap duced his own sort of Pulp Fiction with the album Wicked (soon to be pens to be an released under the name Lester). Sure, Samuel L. was sporting a jeri- easy-listening type curl wig and doing his rendition of a modern Shaft, but it wasn't a tune... straight retro blaxplotation flick. So, sure, Vinyl's taking things back This is where to the funk essentials; but its not like he justed rapped over a James the various collabo Brown staple either. rating vocalists and In this town, there's hip hop music, there's house music, then MCs fit into the puz there's the music of Vinyl Ritchie (aka Spun-K, aka Wicked Lester, zle. The vocalists and aka Scott Arkwell). While "breaks" is a term that often may be used songs vary in crazy to label his sound, to me it's also a ground half way between the ways, but all seem to fit beats and vibes of hip hop and house, but without the cliches of togther like the weird either. All the way back to '91, from his Zoo Boogalo night at the characters did in Pulp Starfish Room circa '94, Cherry Bombs at Sonar during the lattert Fiction. Artists like Moka half of the '90s (both with DJ Czech) to the Big Sexy Funk night at Only and Lady Precise fit Shine today, Vinyl's been spinning records trying to find that ground the project like a glove combining different sounds that all revolve around one word: funk. because they share Vinyl': Though his career has already lasted an eternity by DJ stan diverse musical addictions, but dards, you couldn't exactly say that the audience for his sound is all revolve around one thing at the an established one (compared to the establishments that are hip hop end: funky music. And while tho< and house). Perhaps this could be because his sound isn't really a two particular vocalists come from a definable one. But while Vinyl does acknowledge that "there always hip hop-type background, their perfor will be little pockets of genres and sub-genres," some more estab mances on the album go way beyond that lished than others, he has at least seen the overall community of DJs, of hip hop's often restrictive nature and MCs, etc. in Vancouver "holding it down and keeping it together a tality—and are still way more down and dirty lot more" than in the early days. than the frequently pretentious house crowd Just looking at the success of local hip hop acts like the Rascalz Moka, for one, stands apart in that he doesn't really and Swollen Members—as well as the successful opening of look like a hip hop head, or an R&B singer, or a hoi Vancouver's first DJ school by DJ Leanne— it becomes apparent that model wannabe, either. And his vocals can't strictly be classi the scene has matured in significant ways. Which brings me back to fied as rapping or singing. Lady Precise can go from straight MC-ing that ground between the hip hop of a Swollen Members and the to belting it out Aretha Franklin-style. The collaborations just hap Vinyl house music of a DJ Leanne. Tracing the roots of hip hop and house pened naturally because in the end, "game recognizes game." acknowl music, one comes back to the dance-oriented music of the 70s that While Vinyl and Brian made a conscious attempt to make their edges that this project had "groove" and "funk" all over it. These pieces of groove and sound "as organic as possible considering we're making it with wouldn't have been possible without the creation of the turntables funk that were extended by early DJs came to be known as "breaks." computers," I wondered whether it was all sampled stuff or is there because he, himself, has "learned about music from listening to These breaks are the foundation of Vinyl Ritchie's music: "breaks to some live stuff in there too? "Well, you got to tell me, man, that's records and playing records and manipulating records, and even me are the origin and the root of all evil." the big mystery of this album." Well, I do know that I don't recog my partner Brian, (who's a multi-instumentalist), is starting to get Anyone who's experienced one of Vinyl Ritchie's DJ sets might nize any of the beats or basslines in there, but I also know that he is into the turntable aspect of it." have expected that, when the time came for Vinyl to produce his still waiting on some samples to be cleared. But then again, I also That's not to say that Vinyl sees turntablists being the dominant own beats and breaks, a more uptempo and intense type of "breaks" know that his partner and producer Brian Carson happens to "play music provider at the clubs forever either, but lie does see himself music would have appeared. However, Wicked is a more mellow just about every instrument there is" so... I dunno. ready for the era when live music is the norm again. And while he affair. Vinyl's Wicked album is more patient, refined, and organic Through his decade-plus stretch of DJing and the delays he's "can remember a time back when bands were hiring me to play with than that of his DJ sets at the clubs: "Rocking the clubs is my job, experienced waiting for Wicked's samples to be cleared, Vinyl's def them" back in the early '90s, working on this project has prepared [but] sometimes, when the party's over and you're at home, you initely had time to reflect on the nature of sampling. "I guess you him for the next wave even more. don't want that kind of vibe. At the end of the day, when a song is could say that, ironically, since the laws are so tight, it's almost a Leaving aside he songs on the Wicked album, Vinyl Ritchie, to complete, I like to close my eyes and visualize a band playing it. You good thing because it challenges the people more. I can understand me, is the only guy in town that'll mix N.W.A. with Steve Winwood know, what is the drummer doing? What is the bass player doing in it if, you know, in the '70s, you were a drummer and you dedicated at the clubs, or finish off an interview by playing me his own break this part of the song?" your life to being an artist and being a drummer and a lot of time remix of Kenny Roger's "Tlie Gambler." • Like a Tarantino movie, the Wicked album has its share of a wide and energy and blood and tears were put into recording some drum variety of songs and vibes (like Pulp Fiction's various characters and breaks and 20 years later, some fucking kid with a sampler is going plots) but all seem to share to same overall vibe and humour. Take a to jack your beat and make a million dollars—yeah, you deserve to Vinyl Ritchie (a.k.a. Wicked Lester, Spun-K, or Scott Arkwell) is the resi brief survey of some descriptions of the Wicked songs: Moka Only get paid." But, on the other hand, "look at the RZA... you can't tell dent D] al Sonar on Friday's and Shine on Saturday's. His Wicked album rap-singing on an old school funk break; Lady Precise and Ishkan of me he steals melodies: he makes up his own with the stuff that he's will be released under the name Lester worldwide this September on the City Planners rapping over a swing beat; Lady Precise singing borrowing." Nettwerk Records. and rapping over a '60s game show kinda vibe; Vinyl and Brian So, while the borrowing issue is always close to hand (especial singing themselves (like two drunk-ass "gringos") on a downtempo ly whenever turntables are concerned), there are people that borrow latin lowriding jam; a couple of Middle Eastern/Latin/Byzantine and take those borrowed ideas along for a ride of their own. But still U may 2002 By Doretta Lau grandmother and I were always discussing books we had read or Please tell me about your zine, Kiss Machine. were interested in. I asked her about everyone from Philip K Dick to Kiss Machine (www.kissmachine.org), which I co-edit with visual Ursula K Le Guin. She kept clippings from the Toronto Star and other artist and poet Paola Poletto, is my little baby, and its growth contin magazines for me to read and when I visited she would ask me about ues to amaze me. It's a photocopied foray into independent art, liter / can't figure out how Toronto writer and editor Emily Pohl-Wearything s I was reading or learning about at school—the politics of ary culture, and political views, and an effort to highlight the manages to do everything she does. Non-fiction publisher Betweenhealt h care, graffiti, hip hop music, pop-music magazines and the surrealism inherent in day-to-day life. Each issue features two seem tlie Lines has just released her book Better to Have Loved: Ththinge s her own friends knew nothing about. She really truly wanted ingly discordant themes, such as bugs and small business, or hospi Life of Judith Merril, which she co-wrote with tlie late, great scito know what I thought. As a child, if you feel like your opinion is tals and aliens. Visual art relating to these themes weaves through ence-fiction writer Merril, who is her grandmother. The grandimportant enough to be considered, and even argued with, then you poetry, short stories, interviews, articles, and interviews, without any mother/granddaughter team came together when Pohl-Weary believwas e you must have something interesting to say. She also read clear indication where fiction ends and non-fiction begins. The issue 20, and Merril stipulated in her will that Emily would completeeverythin g I wrote while she was alive and gave me very critical we're currently working on has the themes of cars and religion in the story of her life. encouragement. honour of the Pope-Mobile, which is schedule to stop off in Toronto Pohl-Weary is also co-editor of Broken Pencil, a magazineHo w did your understanding of Judith change when you complet this summer. Up next, we're planning a special shoot 'em up girls- devoted to zines, alongside Hal Niedzviecki. Before she becameed co- Better to Have Loved? and-guns issue. editor, she worked as reviews editor and managing editor. OverI thin k that now my understanding of Judy is more complete and Paola and I have been publishing zines and artists' books togeth the past three years she has organized of the Canzine Festivalcomprehensive of . Before, I saw her mostly as my grandmother. er for years. We did our first collaborative zine in 1996, called "This Independent Art, she lias just finished a novel (Sugar's Empty),Afterward , I came to respect her for her impact on the literary world, City of Faces," for which I wrote five overlapping short stories, and and she edits her own zine, Kiss Machine. What impresses me and as a catalyst who sparked and encouraged many interesting peo Paola contributed a photo-essay After several other pleasurable col most is that even with her prolific output, she still has time to folple's careers. More than anything, I think her death has changed the laborations, we decided to take our publishing efforts one step further low Buffy the Vampire Slayer and complete this email interview.wa y I see her; instead of the everyday fights and difficulties you have and launched Kiss Machine when we came to the conclusion that there to deal with in all relationships, there is a kind of fuzziness to things aren't many arts and culture magazines in Canada that reflect the DiSCORDER: What's your favourite childhood memory? that allows me to romanticize our friendship a bit. kind of inspirational and incredible work being created by the emerg Emily Pohl-Weary: Reading. Going to the library and check How did your understanding of yourself change? ing artists and writers who most inspire and entertain us. Kiss ing out sacks hill of books. Mostly, though, I'm glad child I believe my identity as a writer was formed in the process of com Machine is our attempt to create a magazine that we actually want to hood is over. I like being grown up and independent much pleting the book, as well as the courage to identify as such, despite contribute to ourselves, and living proof that a community can pro better. the fact that I have not necessarily chosen an approach to writing duce better and more vibrant art than a corporation. Did you grow up in Toronto? that is considered prestigious by the mainstream. Judy was an ideal What are you reading right now? Yes. I grew up in the west end of the city, a working class ist and I am also clearly an idealist. I will only write things that I feel I've been loving the books in Joan D Vinge's Snow Queen series. I neighbourhood called Parkdale that's only now slowly like writing. I don't pander to the status quo or the market's desires. recently reviewed Ordinary White Guy, by Brock Clarke and Saugus to becoming gentrified. Actually, back in the '30s and '40s, I also realized that I love feeling the solitary pull of writing and I the Sea, by zinesters Bill Brown and BradYung, for Toronto's alterna when Lake Ontario was not horribly polluted, it was a real believe Judy's stories and encouragement often fuelled that pull. tive weekly, NOW magazine. The former was so-so, but the latter hotspot. Then they put in a highway that divided the city Aside from all that, the task of putting together a book's worth of rocked. In the past few months, I've read manuscript versions of nov from the beach. It's also separated from downtown by the text is extremely educational. It helped me conceptualize my novel in els by Toronto writers and friends Jim Munroe and Hal Niedzviecki Queen Street Mental Health Centre, and is home to a diverse do-able chunks, so that I didn't feel overwhelmed by the hugeness of that I really enjoyed. community, including out-patients from the hospital, the it. I don't think I would have tackled writing a novel if I hadn't done Do you have any zines to recommend? working poor, new immigrants to Canada, and a large the book about Judy first. The best zines I've read in the past month were both about cats: My Eastern-European population. What is your writing process like? Cat's more Punk than Yours by Toronto's 5:17 and Is This a Cat? by How did the community you grew up in influence your In order to work on larger writing projects, such as Better to Have Lexington, Kentucky's Christopher Rowe. Donit know why I liked work? Loved or Sugar's Empty, or even Broken Pencil or Kiss Machine duringthe m so much, cuz I'm not big on pets. But they're both seriously fab I grew up in an extremely urban environment, fixating on production time, I have to completely clear my plate for weeks at a ulous and completely different. The former is a biography of a cat the way a lot of really different people interacted with each time. I do my best writing early in the day and have got to feel that named Maxwell. The latter is a collection of highly literary science other in such close quarters. A lot of people who lived in my no other pressures will force me to stop writing before the inspiration fiction stories by a group of up-and-coming American writers. neighbourhood were down and out. I knew the local shop has been translated to the computer. Sometimes that means writing What are you currently working on? keepers and recognized the hookers on the corner. After see for days on end, and barely coming up for air and food. Other times, Just last week I finished a draft of a novel, called Sugar's Empty. It's ing how cops treat poor people, it became apparent to me at that means forcing myself to sit in front of the computer until I've about an average slacker girl named Sugar. She shelves CDs at Record a very early age that our society is not set up to protect the written 1,000 words. Generally, the 1,000 words per day rule helps Teen for minimum wage when she isn't avoiding her boss' advances little guy. My mother says that as a child, I was very con me feel like I've been productive, but still allows me to stop torturing or numbly watching her co-worker steal the merchandise. After work, cerned with the concept of fairness, and I think to this day myself when I'm not in the mood for writing. she finds solace in chips and Parker Posey movies in her empty apart these experiences influence my work. I proselytize the DIY Do you listen to music when you write? If so, what do you listen ment; empty, that is, except for her recently deceased boyfriend. Post ethic because I don't think it's fair that only people who have to? mortem break-ups suck. Even changing the locks won't keep a ghost money to publish glossy mags or produce television shows Sure do. Lately, I've been downloading old songs by Hole, Madonna, lover out. To be able to stand up to her boss, get out of her rut, and should be able to have their say and portray their political and Prince. I also have music by the Weakerthans, Billy Bragg, Lou into the life she wants, Sugar needs a little help from a hardcore video views. Reed, Belle and Sebastian, Blink-182, Echo and the Bunnymen, The activist, a blue-haired single mom-to-be and the supernatural. When did you first read your grandmother's fiction? Smiths, and Luscious Jackson cued up in Winamp right now. The I'm also gearing up to start working on an online interactive I read it as a child, but it didn't make the same impression on last CDs I bought were the soundtrack to the Molly Ringwald '80s detective novel with my chum, Sally McKay. McKay is one of the edi me that it did as an adult. I reread all her novels, and many classic, Pretty in Pink, which I found in a bargain bin and The Teaches tors of Toronto art magazine Lola, and an awesome visual artist. short stories and articles, when I first started working on the of Peaches. Inspired by a childhood binge on Nancy Drew mysteries and Choose- book. Her incisive analysis of our society's failings and under Who or what do you find influential? Your-Own-Adventure books, we decided to write a mystery story standing of the relationships between people who love each Frida Kahlo (I wrote a poem about her four years ago, called "It's All that involves what we consider true crime. So far, the plot's shaking other completely stunned me. So did the fact that dynamics Frida K's Fault"). Emily Carr (I was named after her). Francesca Lia out to be something like: a homeless man is found dead, is it mur she had observed in her ancestors seemed to be repeating in Block. Buffy. Willow. Alice Walker. Marge Piercy. Octavia Butler. der? With her trusty sidekicks Robot Dog and Old Crone, Girl my generation. Haruki Murakami. My mother. My grandmother. My 15-year old sis Detective gets to the bottom of it and uncovers all kinds of nasty cor Did your decision to become a writer have anything to do ter. Nancy Drew. Michael Turner. Tamara Faith Berger. Yoko Ono. ruption in the powers that be. with Judith's influence on your life? Passionate zinesters. Isabel Allende. Anti-capitalist protestors. Ann What's the last thing that blew your mind? Certainly. Judy raised my mother to be a reader and a thinker. Hansen (author of Direct Action). Plus, I'm soooo completely a child of Um, two things? 1. Angel actually tried to kill Wesley at the end of the In return, my mother facilitated my desire to consume fiction the '80s that any of the cool rock stars from then—and some of the last episode. 2. I actually got married two weeks ago!?! • and to exercise my imagination. For instance, we only got a TV movie stars, like Molly Ringwald and John Cusack—really turn my Emily reads at the Vancouver Public Library on Georgia, May 7th at 7:30pm. set when my grandfather decided to buy one for us. Also, my crank. ]5im&mM& Ever since Fall Si lent's new Revelation full-length, Drunken Violence, showed up in my mail box I've been spinning the hell by Eric Flexyourhead out of it—a rampaging hardcore assault that defly jumps genres and breaks down barriers. Suitably stoked, an interview was in order—I spoke with vocalist Levi Watson via email in April. DiSCORDER: Obligatory email interview band stats—the who, By the way, prostitution is not legal in our county. You have to ple who swell up with pride when they talk about how they love when, where, what, why, and how of Fall Silent. drive about 15 minutes from the city limits to get sex. It isn't like meat and could give a fuck less about the world around them. It is Levi Watson - Vocals there are brothels on every corner or a Red Light district or anything just a reaction and an attempt to be different in their scene when Damon Watson - Drums like that. actually they are just emulating the outside world. Danny Galecki - Guitars You've got a new disc, Drunken Violence, coming very soon on And inadvertently we see an acceptance of norms in our scene Justin Spalin - Bass Revelation. The label certainly has a reputation that precedes as well. Men make up most of the band members in hardcore/punk. Donny Johnson - Guitar itself. Has signing with Revelation had any positive or negative Womyn hang in back while guys go crazy on each other's sweaty Can you give me a little band history? impacts on Fall Silent? We know that Revelation isn't a "big" label bodies. There are dress codes and speaking codes. I can see these We started playing in late 1994 and had our first show in March of compared with a major, but were there any cries of "sellout" when things happening, but it is much better in the punk scene then it is in 1995. We have released an album a year, save 1998, since 1995. We you signed with Rev? the real world for sure—and there is no place I would rather be than have toured at least six weeks a year every year since 1996, save Working with Revelation has been great. We have never worked surrounded by like-minded people. 1998. In the year 2000 we toured Japan for two weeks and Europe with a label that isn't more than just one kid in his apartment doing Lyrically, Drunken Violence covers a lot of ground, from skate for seven weeks. Needless to say, 1998 was a really slow year for mailouts, so it is a huge change for the band. There are actually peo boarding to scene politics to commercialization invading every Fall Silent. We spent that year getting new band members and writ ple that work full time on trying to get people to hear our record aspect of our lives. How do you determine what you want to write ing Superstructure after our guitar player and bass player acciden and advertising and stuff. It is really cool that I don't have to do it about? Are there any topics you choose to avoid? tally overdosed on heroin. After the first guitar and bass player anymore and that it is getting done really well. I mean, we have I determine what I write about by a) seeing if there is enough sub OD'ed on heroin, our second bass player died in a speed-related been a band since 1994 and people are just now hearing us, and it is stance to write a whole song about this one topic, b) can I write intel incident. Not speed the drug, but because he was drag racing his because of Revelation. The label is most definitely legendary and I ligently about this? c) will anyone really care? d) do I care enough? dragster and his car blew up. I feel sorry for anyone who joins our am proud to be a part of it. There are a few aspects that come along as well, but that is pretty band 'cause most of them end up dying. There are a few people that say we are "sellouts" because we much it. Sometimes songs come easily and sometimes I just can't We have been a totally DIY band until last year when Revelation gave up on the DIY ethic. Mostly those are local kids that dislike us get it so I won't do it. I only work with the topics that flow from me Records signed us up. personally so that doesn't count. It is sort of different and strange to at certain times in my life. You guys are from Reno, Nevada... apart from 7 Seconds, Reno's have an A&R guy and a publicity person working on your record, I have learned over the years that I need to try and avoid writ not had a lot of band's make their mark on the hardcore map. Do when I should really be the one doing that. But my life is one that ing about certain groups within our scene specifically. I avoid you think this has worked for or against Fall Silent? Are you guys can't allow room for me doing that so it works out fine. Plus, they putting my animal rights views in our songs. I avoid writing too at all steeped in the local hardcore history? know how to do it way better than me, so.... many songs about love of opposite sex. And I try to keep it as posi The only other band that has done anything out of Reno is One of the best things about Drunken Violence is that it seems to tive as I can, but sometimes life is not so positive and some of our December. They just got signed and are currently touring the globe be influenced by a lot of different hardcore sub-genres. The influ songs relate that aspect. No one can be positive all the time, so how with their new album that just came out on Earache Records. They ences appear to run from mid-'80s crossover hardcore, to tradi can I honestly write songs that are positive all the time? play a very intense style of metal with screams and playing that will tional straightedge hardcore, to early '90s straightedge hardcore a You'll be leaving soon for a pretty extensive tour of western North fuck your mind up if you listen too much. Not fast, but technical for la Unbroken or Undertow, to straight-up metal, to "power vio America, playing a lot of smaller centres. Are you looking forward sure. So yeah, since 7 Seconds left our fair city we have not had a lot lence"... are Fall Silent influenced by all of those styles of music? to the tour? Are there any plans following this spring tour... the going on as far as punk/hardcore/metal is concerned. I think we are because then our music would not sound the way it rest of North America, Europe, or elsewhere? I don't think that it has hindered us in any way. We never had does. Influence comes at us all the time from different areas and Yes, we are leaving on a very extensive Canadian and west coast US the goal in the band of getting big or popular. We always just want sometimes without us even knowing it. We have listened to all the tour in about two weeks. It is something that I have been booking ed to play music and be a local band that got the party started. So if styles of hardcore that you listed above in our lives, and our sub and planning since February or January and I am really happy with that is what you want in a band then your location can never hinder conscious mind has taken all of that in so that when it comes back the way it is going. I am always excited to leave on tour, but this your goal. Being creative and artistic has always been more impor out in our creative endeavors it is all right there. What makes us time I have a baby boy named Jude and it is with a heavy heart that tant than being popular for us and that is probably why it took so interesting is that we are all so different in our tastes that when you I leave him for two months this summer—but this is the life I live long for us to get noticed outside of town, because we never tried to. put us all together it makes something unique, somewhat. and I need to deal with it. Has growing up in a city where gambling and prostitution are I was raised on '60s and '70s rock, then Van Halen, then NWA Anything else to add? legal had any effect on the way you guys have turned out? If these and Too Short, with Sick of it All, The Misfits, Black Flag, then DRI, Just that we will be playing in Surrey, BC on Cinco de Mayo. It factors have affected you personally have they also had an impact then Metallica, then Gorilla Biscuits, then Pantera, Demolition should be at a place called Snackers and it would be nice to have a on how or why you do Fall Silent? Hammer, Crowbar, and Bloodlet. It is all there and it shows in our really good turnout. It will be our first ever show in Canada and my Gambling and prostitution have made Reno what it is. Me and music for sure. first time on Canadian soil. • Damon moved here with our parents because my dad needed a job It would almost seem as if the punk/hardcore scene mirrors soci and there was a lot of work in gaming here in the early '80s. If all of ety as a whole—a society that seems ever eager to embrace con a sudden there were no casinos then the economy would quickly servative politics and ideals. Do you think there is an littp://w-iVW.f,illsilent.com/ crumble and we could not sustain ourselves. So I guess that is a big overwhelming acceptance of conservative ideas in the punk/hard factor on how we turned out as a band. None of us gamble or fre core scene? Fall Silent will be headlining the Flexyourhead 13th Anniversary Show at quent the brothels so that has never had an effect on us. I don't think Yes and no. 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I took my little transistor radio with me nice mixture of a lot of different influences that worked. With the everywhere. We'd go to grandma's for dinner and all the cousins Painters, Lambchop, Giant Sand with a second album we've developed a "sound," so maybe it's not as sur would be playing, but I remember being in the back room listening prising to people. In terms of the music, the second album is a little to the radio because I wanted to hear the Top 10 Countdown. I was moody Vancouver chill. I sat down with Ken darker, the songs are a little longer, the arrangements are a little more fascinated by charts, countdowns. Beattie in a Commercial Drive boite to chat complex. I think as far as anything else goes, it's folk music. If I You grew up in Winnipeg—did you play in any bands there? described it in a word, that's what it would be. But I think we're try Not at all—I was never in a band in Winnipeg. My friends and I did about their new CD (All the Way Home), ing to move away from the alt-country thing and more towards tran tons of camping when I lived there. Everyone in Winnipeg had a scending our genre. We're trying to push the envelope a little bit. cabin or cottage, and there was always an acoustic guitar kicking music, and such like. So you're not afraid to use the "f" word, then? around. I was known as "the music guy." I always had the mix tapes, Oh, folk? No, I think folk music is probably the most widely-defined knew all the bands, was the trivia guy, had all the albums. So at these music there is. Really, in its simplest form it's music about folks, by cabin parties someone would pass the guitar around and we'd all folks, for folks. I often think that any song with a standard play our little two and three-chord songs. I think I played more than verse/chorus approach that tells a story is a folk song. I'd say that most people, but I never really considered myself a "musician." I every song on our new album is a folk song. never really made up songs. I guess I did make up melodies and Do you think folk music has got a bad rep? stuff. Well, I don't know if it's got a bad rep, but yes, it probably has got a When I moved to Vancouver I ended up in this party band called rep from the folk festivals and stuff. I've heard people say, you know, Foam in the late '80s. Somehow I became the singer, I guess because "Oh, the folk festival crowd," then they roll their eyes at the same I didn't play an instrument very well. I came to the realization one time. I'm not really sure what that means, but maybe it means peo day that I'd actually been writing songs all my life, so I just explored ple with long hair and Birkenstocks. But I used to have long hair and that. To this day, that's how I write a song: I have a melody in my Birkenstocks. head and the words come to me. I write them down, and if I look The only cover song on your new CD is "Love Vigilantes" by New back at my notepad a couple weeks later and the melody instantly Order. How'd you come to choose that one? comes to mind, I figure it's worth working. Then I pick up the guitar It's a personal fave, something I used to play around the campfire. and try to teach myself the song. That song brought a tear to my eye the first time I heard it. I think it's What would have been on a typical Ken Beattie mix tape in, say, a pertinent, timeless song, and I always thought that song could use the late '70s? a good folk-rock approach. It was born as a Radiogram song one Gosh, I'd have to think about what grade I would've been in... Well, gorgeous day in August on our way to Victoria on BC Ferries. about 1979 I would've included stuff from Elvis Costello's first Jonathan had just bought a banjo, and he picked up on the melody in record, the Clash. I was still listening to Zep—Zeppelin II and Houses that song right away—people clapped, it was fun. We put it in the set of the Holy. Pink Floyd for sure, I'm still a huge Pink Floyd fan. that night and it's been there ever since. Maybe Moody Blues. I liked to mix up genres—a great song is a Lefs hear about your personal music background. great song. 18 may 2002 photography by ann & lori It's a little harder for me to listen to music now than it was when I websites with downloadable songs, people were buying CDs off the We played Calgary on the Saturday before Easter, and we were was younger, but I still listen to the radio. The only good radio here internet and sending email. It was great, it just took off. I thought booked to play St. Catherine's, Ontario the following Tuesday. I is Co-op (CFRO), CiTR, and CBC. Because if you turn on commercial that might be a good thing to explore, so it was a conscious decision looked at a map, sussed it out, and figured we could do this if we FM radio, you just hear all those songs that I just mentioned on my to tour the UK with this new album. We're going over in May as a took an eight-hour break somewhere. We were going to take the mix tapes. I want to get past '79, you know? trio, and hopefully go back in the fall as a full band. I'm looking for break in Winnipeg, at my parents' house. But the snowstorm slowed Thinking of early '80s bands, I was big into U2, REM, Echo and ward to it, even though I don't like plane rides, and I've never been us down, so we drove from Calgary to St. Catherine's straight the Bunnymen, Split Enz, Squeeze—remember them? But I want to off this continent. Seems strange to be 35 and going for my first trip through, with four hours sleep in Sault Ste. Marie. After the storm in say for the record that I never liked Flock of Seagulls. to the UK, but whatever- Saskatchewan, we ran into another one outside Thunder Bay, anoth Where'd you go next musically after Foam? Speaking of the UK, I've noticed a few writers from there have er one in Sault Ste. Marie, and another one south of Parry Sound. We Foam lasted a couple of years—we made a tape, did some shows. referred to Vancouver as being the "new Chicago" when writing rolled in half an hour before sound check. But you know what? The Then there was a band called Sourpuss. I took a break from music about Radiogram. band was awesome, we all pulled our weight and we did our jobs. for awlule—our guitar player was "sick," and I met my wife. At that Yeah, I think they're tallcing about all the great music coming out of Short term goals for Radiogram and the new CD: what have you point I'd realized I wasn't a good songwriter yet, so I took some Vancouver. I think I've been helping that along somewhat. Every got in mind? time and tried to work on some songs, and started this band the time I get a good review in the UK I make friends with the writer I'd like to make the album happen in the UK, that'd be nice. I'd like Emptys, which did all right. We put out two CDs, got good reviews and send them all kinds of Vancouver stuff: Flophouse Jr., to license the album to a UK label, so we could go over there on a across the country, did a couple of tours. I thought that my song Bottleneck, Auburn, Linda McRae, Bob Kemmis, JT King. fairly regular basis. I'm not really concentrating on the States right writing was getting a little better, a little more subtle, and I wanted Sounds like you're doing your bit to promote our local scene? now. If things go well there, that's fine. We do really well in Western to escape the confines of a four-piece folk-rock band. I wanted to Absolutely! And why not—I think there's strength in numbers. If Canada, but I'd like to get something going on in Ontario and add some different instrumentation. I'd been rediscovering my Vancouver becomes known for a certain type of music, that can only Eastern Canada. If we can win some fans and sell some CDs in those country roots—in the early '70s, I liked Glen Campbell, Kris benefit everyone—the clubs, radio stations, magazines. Everyone areas, I'll be happy. I think it'd be nice to sell 10,000 copies of this Kristofferson. I got into Uncle Tupelo like everybody else and start gets a high from that. I think too many people just try and get into CD. • ed this pseudo-alt-country band called Radiogram. their own corners: "Oh, she got that spot and I wanted that spot, Then came the first album... I'm not going to go to that show now." But I think that's changing. See www.radiogram.orgfor more info. Radiogram's next local appearance I wasn't in any hurry to make the first album [Unbetween]. It was Maybe because we're getting older, maybe we're getting better at will be Nezv Music West (May 9 at The Penthouse). originally going to be a solo album for me, with players to fill out the promoting ourselves. Maybe we're getting better at writing songs, I parts. From the time of the first demo to release was three years. At don't know. one point my co-producer Shawn was away in Thailand for five You just got back from a cross-Canada tour. How'd that go? months. I was itching to have the album out, so I made CD copies of Yeah, we did 14 dates in 18 days. We had a great time, got fantastic what I thought were the best five songs. We got invited to NXNW, press. Toronto and Winnipeg were packed, Guelph was a great we started playing around town. I think the band was really good show. live from the get go. I handed out CDs at shows, I sent CDs to every It wasn't exactly the best time of year travel-wise, I imagine. Any one on my press list and got really good response. horror stories? How about the buzz in England? There were a couple of really brutal drives. We ran into seven snow That didn't happen until Unbetween was about eight months old. storms. As soon as left Vancouver, March 28 we ran into a snow This distributor in the UK loved it, and sent out copies to press, who storm on the Coquihalla, and then two more on the Yellowhead, picked up on it, started writing about it. We ended up on a bunch of above Kamloops. We ran into a brutal whiteout going through Regina. 19E|F^Ll^Ilffi GENERAL RUDIE BY SKA-T DiSCORDER: Before you introduce the band tell us a little bit trying to do and had great advice with insight about the history of the band and in particular... about the ful musical ideas. We hung out a lot too, he General? stayed at my house for two weeks. We saw Phil: The General's a great guy... once you get to know him. We Planet of the Apes together and shared banana see him every now and then, when he briefs us on his new plans. cake on more than one occasion. In the studio, Rumor has it lie is presently somewhere on the West Coast preparing he dances like a monkey. What a guy- for our arrival. / Tell me about the 2 Tongue compilations. Since the original formation in February 1997, General Rudie Phil: This is an ongoing project headed by has played with the biggest names in ska music today. The formative Stephane Ramon Vitesse to encourage the years of the band are highlighted by opening for the legendary French ska scene in Quebec. It has grown Skatalites, the originators of ska music. In our home town of quite popular (just today they played the Montreal, we have played at venues such as The Cabaret, Le whole CD on the radio) attracting anglophone Swimming, Club Soda, Metropolis, The Spectrum, and The Medley bands like the Planet Smashers and a bunch on several occasions. In 2000, the band firmly established itself in of European bands as well. We've always the Toronto area and developed a fan base by playing the annual been kind of in both scenes in Montreal so it ARA (Anti-Racist Action) yearly benefit as well as the Toronto was natural for us to put a track on each of International Jazz festival. That year also saw the band play at the his three compilations. Ottawa Tulip Festival and other Ontario towns in order to promote What do you guys listen to in the tour van? their first EP, The Green Light Sessions, Vol. 1. It was during that sum What's your favorite band that no one's mer that Stomp Records first became interested in signing General heard of? Rudie for a recording contract. 2001 proved to be General Rudie's Marc: It's pretty varied. Lately we've been most fruitful year. After a week long tour of the Maritimes with the trying to steer away from ska in the van, but Planet Smashers in June, the group devoted the rest of the summer the Skafflaws, Slackers, or Skatalites always to the production of their first LP entitled Cooling the Mark. 2002 got end up in the CD player somehow. Stef off to an excellent start when they headlined the ARA show. brings the ska, Phil brings his jazz CDs, Doubling the evening as their Toronto record launch, General Rudie Nicky brings his chill-axing lounge music. I played to an intense sold out crowd at the Reverb. With a cross am most happy listening to Weezer. Canada tour planned for May and June and an American tour in the Recently, I brought my fave noise band works for July, 2002 promises to be the most exciting and rewarding from Japan, The Boredoms. I don't think they year in General Rudie's history. exist anymore, probably because of people Who are the current members of the band? like my bandmates, who immediately made Phil "Dandimite" Dixon: Vocals, sax. me take it off. The arguments about what to Nicky "6-Pack" Popovic: Trombone. listen to can get pretty heated, but we man Stefan Popowycz: Bass and back-up vocals. age not to get offended by each other's musi Marc "King Head" Thompson: Keyboards. cal tastes. Rob Radford: Drums (the new guy). What's the story with Jammah Tammah? You've been together how long? And why did it take this long to Phil: In '98 we decided it was time to try visit your brothers and sisters in the West!? Do you know that recording one song to see if we were ready for Skaface never once played Vancouver!! something more. Well a few days before the Phil: We played our first show in March '97 opening up for recording we run into this guy "Hans" at a Flashlight's CD launch. local ska show. Turns out he's from Holland, We weren't all that serious in the beginning and with constant plays the Tenor Sax and is in a ska band. He member changes we were never able to organize a national tour. We kind of joined the band and recorded with us. almost toured Canada in summer 2000 after the release of our EP He's a really great guy, a self proclaimed The Green Light Sessions, Vol. 1, but the band exploded and we spent "drifter" whose next stop was Morocco. He's the summer rebuilding. That's when we started really working hard back in Holland now and his band Jammah as a band. We solidified the lineup and worked on new material for Tammah are releasing a new CD soon. They do the Cooling the Mark CD. And now finally its time to visit everybody a great cover of "From Russia with Love." in the west and show them how strong the Montreal ska scene is! It looks like General Rudie is set to tour With any luck, we'll get to see our old friends in the Kiltlifters while throughout the spring/summer. What are your we're there. plans for the next couple years? Phil: Yeah, this summer filled up pretty quick. I had no idea Skaface never played Vancouver! We'll be on the road for about three months in You played the Skaface Reunion gig last year. How was that? What North America. We would like to hit Europe and other memorable shows have you played? And who would you Japan next, and record another CD of course! most like to open for? When you see a commercial for a new teen com Phil: The Skaface show was cool, I believe it was a matinee at Lee's edy and hear a silly little ska rune in the back Palace—which always have those strange "the show is at what ground, what goes through your head? time?"feeling to them. It was the first time I had actually seen Phil: Hey, why isn't that our song playing? Skaface live, I felt like we were in the early '90s all over again! It looks like the new ska trend becoming popular We've had the chance to play some really great bands so far: is emo-ska-punk. What would make General NYSJE, Slackers, Allstonians, EST, Skarface (France) Nicotine Rudie change his tune? (Japan), Peacocks, Mustard Plug, Articles, King Django, King Apparatus, etc... Maybe the most memorable show was playing Phil: I'm still having trouble figuring out what emo with the Skatalites and our first major road trip to NJ with Inspecter is! The right price. • 7. Also nice was Saturday's show at the Metropolis with Reel Big Fish. Hepcat would be fun, we never got a chance to play with them. Paul Kelly is one of Australia's greatest living singcr-songivriters, yet has bit of a fog about that since I don't follow trade papers much. been criminally overlooked outside his home country. He's often called What did you enjoy about working with Kasey Chambers? Australia's answer to Bruce Springsteen in terms of the obvious folk influ She's a great songwriter—she lias a very arresting, very cutting ences and innate ability to invoke a strong sense of place. One Australian I voice. We took her on tour with us about two and a half years ago know told mc that whenever he goes on the road, he takes at least one Paul when I was touring with a bluegrass band from Melbourne, Uncle Kelly CD to conjure up pictures of his hometown of Melbourne. Bill. Slie used to be in a band called the Dead Ringers with her brok I chatted with a soft-spoken, gracious and polite Paul before his recent er, father, doing country music. She came out and opened for us and sold-out show at Richard's on Richards. He appeared markedly gaunt mid I'd get her up during our set to do "Grievous Angel" by Gram older than his 46 years. One might -wonder if lyrics from his current CD: "I Parsons. Then I wrote a song we could do as a duet, called "Heart toasted time... now time has wasted me" tire indeed autobiographical. Break, Heart Mend." We had a day off during that tour in Perth, and I thought we should record the song. I asked her if she had a song DiSCORDER: You grew up in Adelaide, and moved to that she wanted to do as well. She had a song called "I Still Pray." Melbourne... in the late '70s was it? She released "I Still Pray" as a bonus disc, it got a lot of airplay in Paul Kelly: I moved to Melbourne when I was 21, which was 1976, Australia. She cut it again with lier band and asked me to record it and that's when I first started playing in bands. with her, so that version's on her latest release. Her family are all What was the music scene like in Melbourne at that time? good people, we've had a few good singalongs. There was a lot going on—Boys Next Door, which became the I don't think many of us associate Australia with bluegrass. How Birthday Party, Teenage Radio Stars. Lots of pub bands. Melbourne's did you come to first hear that kind of music? always been a good music town, a bit of a livelier scene than Sydney. The music I heard when I was first learning guitar was early Bob What's your take on the current scene there now? Dylan, Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie. Then I started digging deep Lately a few venues have closed down. One particularly good one, er and listening to Bill Monroe, Stanley Brothers. I always loved that the Continental, has left a hole. It was fairly small, only about 300 kind of music. I went to see that film Oh Brother, Where Art Thou? people, but had a good nightclub feel and booked Jots of acts from and I just loved that film because I used to sing half those songs. 1 overseas—jazz, blues, singer-songwriter. A real "listening room"—is even used the chorus of "Oh Death" in a song I recorded with that what they call them over here? There's another little pub called Professor Ratbaggy, which is more of a groove-based record. I The Punters, in Fitzroy, that was really an important venue for indie checked with my publishing company and said, "Is this okay to and alternative bands, that also closed. I don't get out a lot when I use?" and they said "Yeah, it's from the 17th century." I thought it have time off, but I see a few things. was an incredibly obscure song, but then a year later out comes Oh Anyone lately you've seen who's impressed you? Brother and another movie, Songcatcher, with that song. King Curly from Australia, the Avalanches... I always go blank when It's interesting that you've got these different side projects. Tell someone asks me a question like this. Snout. There's heaps of good me more about Professor Ratbaggy. Australian bands. It's more groove-based, a bit dubby, songs written more around the You've been producing other artists' albums lately, I understand? bass lines and the drums. Built around riffs, not many chord Yeah, quite a lot of collaborative things over the last few years, changes—just get a groove and put stuff on the top. including soundtracks. I've been involved with three film sound I see you did a track with Mick Harvey [of the Bad Seeds] on your tracks. Lantana was all instrumental. Another film called One Night latest CD. Have you known him a long time? the Moon, which I did with two other composers, was like a mini- Actually, I recorded two tracks with him but just used one, "Would opera, with the story told through music and song. I acted in that You Be My Friend." He plays everything on it. We've both got one as well. recording setups in our garden sheds. He's got a bit of a bigger Did you enjoy that? space, but we've both got eight-track recording. I don't really know Yes and no. [Laughs] Being an actor on a film is like being a piece of him well, but I've admired his music a long time. He's the captain of machinery. There's always people doing these esoteric, but tightly- tlie Bad Seeds, in a way, really. I love the way he plays guitar, just the coordinated jobs, just to get half a minute or less of a performance on way he plays around a song—he doesn't get in the way. He's poetic film. Your camera operator, clapper loader, best boy, gaffer, props and plain at the same time. person, director—all working very intently with the actor to get the From what I've read, you've been quite involved with aboriginal performance to work. It's a dance. In a sense, it's what you're doing issues in Australia and have worked with many aboriginal artists. when you're playing music: you're listening to other people and What are some of the current hot issues in that regard in your meshing in with each other. But it's more relaxed with music—if we country? fuck up a song or something, it's like, "Oh, that was a laugh," and Over the last few years, one of the main issues has been the "stolen you go on to the next song. But there's a greater intensity with work generation." Government policy in the 1930s to 1960s was to move ing in a theatre on stage or on a film set. If you get it wrong, you aboriginal children from their parents into white homes. There's a start again! film that's just come out about that called Rabbit Proof Fence by a Was film scoring a different exercise in writing for you? director whose name escapes me right now [Phillip Noyce]. One of I haven't really done anything like scoring in a traditional way. the big issues between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians Directors have come to me and asked me to do what they thought I is that there's never been a treaty. There's never been a real facing up could do. What I liked about it was not having to write words. I to what's happened in our history, especially by our current gov always have more musical ideas than I've got words for. ernment, which is quite conservative. It's festering away, really. When you write, then, you do the music first? Recently I worked with a singer-songwriter named Kutcha Generally, yes, the ideas are all musical, rhythm first. The words get Edwards, a Victorian aboriginal. I've worked a lot witli Yotlii Yindi, attached gradually. Christine Anu, Kev Carmody Kev's an angrier, wordier songwriter, What other artists have you worked with lately? but also a very powerful one when he hits it. I've done records with Renee Geyer, and Vika and Linda. Both those I hear that at least one of your children is following you in the records were two or three years ago. More recently, I've done pro music business. duction work with Archie Roach, an aboriginal singer, and also did My eldest son, who's 21, is a DJ. I'm always interested in new music, a duet with Kasey Chambers. anyway, but he has turned me on to lots ot different music. He works Kasey's been getting a fair bit of press here in North America—is mostly in the Melbourne area and especially loves Detroit house. • there anyone else from Australia that you think deserves more attention here? www.paulkellv.com.au I think the Avalanches have been doing well in England, I'm not sure about over here. It's hard to know what's going over. I'm in a little 21 u^^smm have melded the best parts of in the early '50s. Valentine's back entitled "(Take Back) The their earlier efforts (which are totally possessed vocals in this Revolution." It features girl- both good in their own rights), song will scare your daughter gang chant choruses and makes combining a minimalist aesthet into becoming a nun and never me feel a deep sadness—the ic with warm arrangements of listening to music again. Ron's sadness of a person who ate too bass, guitars, keyboards, and drums fall perfectly into place much of that food back in the multiple drums, as well as sub but are always totally on the early and mid-'90s and has sub recorded media tly blended (rather than gim edge in a far-out and off-kilter sequently become allergic to micky) horns and electronics. way. what used to be her primary The B-side of this record, form of sustenance. "The revo ANTIBALAS hippy claptrap. a "video tour diary" directed by The album uses a mixture "Mad Power," blows away the lution." Sheesh. Talkatif Not that I have anything Naomi. Sure, this certainly isn't of restrained harmonies, taste A-side. This song finds the Get H. Apropos (Ninja Tune) against hippy claptrap per se, an essential release, but it cer ful repetition, and almost jazz- Hustle building a totally weird DAMON AND NAOMI ON you understand. Indeed, the tainly is an enjoyable one, influenced song structures and bridge somewhere between HOLZKOPF TOUR WITH KURIHARA exploration of arcane Jewish which is way more than you creates a mood akin to dirty R&B, jazz, and hardcore. Only a Bad Harvest Song to the Siren: Live in San tradition, feyer-than-thou folk- can say for the new album by Tortoise's earliest albums. Will Save Us Sebastian rock melody and aimless psy Luna, the band led by ex- Veering away from the post- The last time I saw the Get rock quiet, loud, quiet, loud and (Dainty Deathy) (Sub Pop) che-rock improvisation that is Galaxie 500 main-man Dean Hustle I saw blood on the keys the wanky annoyingness of As one who is uninitiated in the According to the liner notes Damon and Naomi with Ghost Wareham. Why, it's the revenge of Mac's piano. Dig that punk prog-rock and acid jazz, &Yet post-modern jargon of the min adorning the new album by the always gets a rewind on my of the rhythm section! shit!! &Yet finds a somewhat original imal/experimental electronic Afro-beat orchestra Antibalas, sound system. Those poor souls Sam Macklin Brace Paine and highly enjoyable middle music crowd, I have no "For true change to happen, the who have not yet fallen under ground. cliches available to describe hearts of each and every human the spell of this under-rated col DO MAKE SAY THINK THE GOSSIP Saskatchewan's Holzkopf being must evolve." Antibalas laboration between the drum- & Yet & Yet Ian Mosby Arkansas Heat (a.k.a. Jake Hardy). Even if I explain, "Talkatifis dedicated to and-bass engine room of (Constellation) (Kill Rock Stars) knew some, they wouldn't ade people all over the earth who defunct indie rock touchstone Disclaimer: Do Make Say GET HUSTLE I spent a bleary couple of days quately serve this review. create positive change by Galaxie 500 and Japanese joss- Think contains no members of "Who Do You Love" b/w blowing out my hearing with Because I want to convince you changing themselves." stick wavers Ghost should do Godspeed You Black Emperor. "Mad Power" 7" the Gossip's new EP. By the end that you should buy Only a Bad There's so much wrong so immediately. The reason I mention this is that (Gravity) of it all, I was both totally con Harvest Will Save Us and that it with this individualistic New For those of us who are there seems to be a trend among The Get Hustle have the exact verted and totally exhausted. I is really good, I must go further. Age hogwash that one hardly already smitten with that par Constellation bands that share same instrumental setup as the loved the music, but I also felt a First, I need to explain to knows where to begin tearing it ticular volume, Song to the Siren members with Godspeed to LA cult punk band The sort of existential strain trying you how painfully flat the apart. But that's beside the provides some excellent, never- sound remarkably similar to Screamers—and this Portland- to reconcile the record with, Canadian prairies are. Believe point—which is that the before-published appendices. said band. Not that this is a bad based group could become just well, my own personal and me, I've driven through them a Antibalas album is crap; a An audio-CD-plus-DVD double thing. I only mention this fact as legendary. musical history. Let me make few times and I can tell you that cleaned-up, slimmed-down, set documenting a trio tour because an assumption that Do Their new single on Gravity myself a little clearer. This EP there is far too much sky all bleached and normalized take undertaken by Damon, Naomi Make Say Think is merely starts off with their very contains six songs, the first five around you. There is nothing on the classic Fela Kuti sound. and Ghost guitarist Michio another Godspeed clone might demonic take on Bo Diddley's of which are bright, extremely more confining than all of those Discorder readers are recom Kurihara, it presents a selection prevent someone from buying "Who Do You Love." Mac and memorable R&B punk songs. gigantic fields and rivers, dot mended to forget about its exis of originals and cover versions their new album, which would Marc's pianos are abrasive and They're also all just under two ted by the occasional small tence immediately and seek out in an appealingly stripped be a tragedy. scary in the way that The minutes long. The last track is a town or grain elevator. the real thing instead. You do down form (as witnessed at last The band's third full length Orioles' rock 'n' roll was scary ten-minute-plus opus framed in However, as a long-time resi- not need this self-righteous year's Bumbershoot) alongside release, &Yet &Yet, seems to to white, Christian Americans washes of droning guitar feed CiTR DJ PROFILE TAKE ME TO SAINT JOHN! Dave and Mike Local Kids Make Good Alternate Mondays, llam-lpm Record played most often on your show: The Accident's self-titled EP. Record you would save in a fire: The Smugglers, Selling the Sizzle. This June 10-1 6, 2002, CiTR 101.9fm is headed to Saint Record that should burn in hell: Nicklefault; shit Langley bands. John, NB for the National Campus Radio Conference and Worst band we like: we would like to take you with us! If you're in a band and Gob. At least, we pretend to like them. First record you bought: would like your music to be heard by other stations across Salvador Dream, UR. Last record you bought: the country, why not send us your stuff by May 31st? Three Inches of Blood, Battlecry Under a Winter Sun. Best interview: (Min. five songs, no more than two copies.) Katie Lapi of Operation Makeout. Friendliest rock star ever. Worst interview: Magical Glass Tears. Most pretentious indie pricks ever. Musician you'd most like to marry: Christa Min. Her beauty is unparalleled. Favourite show on CiTR: C/O CITR RADIO 101.9FM Chris-a-Rific's Parts Unknown. UBC Strangest phone call: All of our groupies. No we won't go out with you. #233-6138 SUB BLVD. VANCOUVER, BC V6T 1Z1 22 may 2002 dent of these flatlands, Toys for adults. No, I'm not warm bleep fashion rather than roommates kept on comment and here's a dish of kicks to Holzkopf has managed to fabri talking about those Bandai his drill 'n' bass mode, and ing how "hot" it is. I was all set maintain the hectic pace of my cate a musical structure that Anime models your wispy- you're developing a taste for to write my review, but first I techno-Dasein, while at the makes up for this lack of verti bearded, same-sweater-wear Abfahrt. This is a non-vocal had to watch the film because same time remaining warm and cal geography. ing, portly neighbour collects, soundtrack, music to a laser I'm a good reviewer girl. I do emotional with my digital Holzkopf's music draws or the ones of the XXX variety light show that won't ever hap my homework and all that. Other. heavily from this isolated land either. The toys I'm talking pen. Being an adult and playing Nashville (the film) is the Beginning with dub wash scape and builds a digital about are the ones made by a with toys is no longer regressive shit. Once I got through the first es, Ozy moves into clicky replacement: the ambient small collective of Londoners but progressive. Go forth and 40 minutes, I was super micro-house and tops out with drone of weak AM radio who put the "indie" in indie- be an adult toy collector—just impressed by the scope of long techno-jams that sound signals along the prairie hori electro. Abfahrt is one half change the sweater first. Altman's vision. It's a film like a slightly harder version of AT THE zon is reconstructed and Austrian Martin Haidinger Rbot about a specific period in Swayzak's dancefloor pounders filtered, punctuated by high (best known for his Gimmik American history, set to a on Himawari. Even intellectuals calibre glitches and distortions, releases) and one half Chris CAROLYN MARK AND HER Nashville soundscape. I was drink and get ripped and shred BUNDING then subdued by mountains Cunningham who, along with ROOMMATES struck by how the same themat the dancefloor. And this album of atonal feedback and noise, labelmates, runs Toytronic. A Tribute to Nashville ic threads continue to run is a driving reminder that two only to be smoothed out again Perhaps best known for last (Mint) through American politics out of every three chin-stroking LIGHT!! by organic and lush arrange year's Neurokinetic compilation Be warned that this is a fluffy today. Seeing the film made me PIB (People In Black) are dedi ments of staccato beats and (featuring Funckarma and review, full of praise. If you appreciate the album all the cated post-ravers who still own droning oscillators. The result Novel 23 among others), want disgust, wait for my more. Yes, Nashville the tribute their Phat Pants. Take the angst CINEMA is a carefully crafted 10-song Toytronic has been quietly review of the Starsailor album is also the shit. There are of techno, the soul of house, and CD that presents a perfect releasing vinyl and CD trea- next month. (But who knows, I appearances by a number of the intellectual brevity of the (^ description of (as well as haven't listened to it yet and I Mark's alt country friends: post-generation and you've got violent reaction to) the open Abfahrt Hinwil (translated might like it. Stay tuned for Case, Carl Newman (okay, so the right mix of dubby-yet- and diffuse prairie landscape. as Exit Hinwil, a small village in that.) he's not alt country), Dallas slamming techno on this Force EYE OF NEWT PLAY LIVE TO Inc. album. Musical comparisons are Austria) is the most solid full- Back to the review: I once Good, Robert Dayton (okay, so ®CABINE T OF DR. CALIGARI difficult, as Holzkopf manoeu length on the label to date. This saw Carolyn Mark open for he's not alt country either, but Although Ozy displays his Classic horror to a live soundtrack. vres between the more rhyth CD compilation of previous Neko Case and, at the end of he does his song Canned vigour on the dancefloor mic moments of someone like Abfahrt 7"s and 12"s, plus two the night, I thought Mark stole Hamm-style, which is enough tracks—making for good dri MANWOMAN for me), and a long list of musi ving music, much like 03) HIOETHE CHILDREN! W NARCOLEPTIC VIDEOGRAPHER PART 2 TEAM NARC 0 and their blissfully bizarre ...... W" ^fj ;/ ^anKimTO Fireball Productions 23 listen from beginning to end, bathroom orgies where a bunch Sharrock's guitar playing Dahlquist the drummer, who unquote '70s music meets immersion in hipster culture, the "storytelling" properties of guys get together late at comes off like a totally dement sounds like a drunk Mark quote-unquote '80s music. confused and bewildered in that make electronic music night and jack each other off. ed Derek Bailey versus Arto Eitzel. Steve can only appreciate TA their own ironic prisms. Only I shine and gives it that exquisite There is a lot of guitar wank on Lindsay. Sonny always said he No song on Italian Platnium through a shield of disbelief, am capable of transcending this ability to pull off a harmonic this album. wanted his guitar to mimic the is over four minutes long. And reclining in meaningless, sub- trap and realizing the purity of weaving of sound that evokes If you still don't believe that screech of Albert Ayler's sax, half the time is usually spent by pleasurable lassitude. Barb and expression that is Trans Am, the both memory and passion in a these dudes are gay, they totally and he goes way beyond that. a Cohen guitar solo. Some of Christa agree: "Trans Am uncanny synthesis of masculine composition which, despite thank Green Day and the Linda Sharrock, Sonny's wife the solos are nicely broken, but sucks," they say, "and you, and feminine experiential being startlingly familiar, is Mighty Mighty Bosstones in (true avant-garde romantics), most are typical of what would Donovan, suck for liking them." modes, the darkly alluring com futurist and experimental to the their liner notes. Anyway, it's tackles the vocals and totally come out of a gold Les Paul spe Even Julian Who, the apex of bination of the post-Transformers core. It is of little surprise to me totally cool if guys want to be goes nuts! Ben Guerin plays cial (which is GREAT and guilty the self-deprecatory Indie men paradigm's intellectual juvenili that this album evokes the gay or whatever. I just don't get bass and Jacques Thollot plays at the same time). The ska song, tality, with his flannel shirts, ty with the sexuality of bitter, foggy, blue-grey visions that I it. I mean, if there are three guys drums. THIS IS FIRE MUSIC!!! "The Brain," is good, except for brown pants, and house in spit-in-your-face indifference. hallucinate whenever I hear in the band, do they take turns EMBRACE IT NOW!!! Put this the annoying vocal panning. Strathcona, hates Trans Am, Damn the contempt of the Boards of Canada; for Ozy— with each other, or do they all record on and watch everyone The last song, "A Cockfight of quietly despising them with a jaded; rise up and join Trans a.k.a. Ornolfur Thorlacius—is just go for it at the same time? leave the room, except you and Feelings" is about taking it up muted, self-deprecating fury. Am in the sky. an Icelandic cold-freak, making Yeah, and isn't 'corn-holing' your really cool girlfriend. the ass. "Softly now, softly now, I condemn them all: with Donovan his music the sonic equivalent (I'm totally not going to explain Brace Paine try it you won't die." The love ered souls, degraded by excess of a mocha milkshake for the what that means) really bad for song "Young" was surely writ rained-out and cold Northern you or something? You would SILKWORM ten by the multi-talented Mr. climes. have to be really careful about Italian Platnium Tim Midgett, and is sung by listening to this album in (Touch and Go) ALTERNATIVE COUNTRY Stanley Park, or while driving My friend Naspam admitted to singer Ms. Kelly Hogan. If THE QUEERS down Davie, 'cause people me that his guilty pleasure band Silkworm could sing as well as Pleasant Screams might think you're a homo, too. is They Might Be Giants. They her, I wouldn't be the only one (Lookout!) Sara "up the bum" Young are horrible. I thought about it in this city who liked them. This band is totally gay. for awhile, then I told him that I'm not exactly sure why I Seriously. All the guys in the SONNY SHARROCK the worst band I like is like Silkworm so much, but I band have totally gay names, Monkey-pockie-boo Silkworm. He said "That's real sure do like them bitches. like Joe Queer, Dangerous (Get Back Re-issue) ly bad. They are the worst. Christa Min Dave, and Matt Drastic. The In 1969, free jazz was reaching Except they don't count because lyrics sound like they were its peak. Men and women were they're on Touch and Go." TRANS AM written by a bunch of faggots throwing it all away to destroy Every member of Silkworm TA too. The song "Homo" is about their lungs and hands and other is slightly tone deaf. I'm sure (Thrill Jockey) this guy who "likes da banana people's ears with saxophones, that if Mr. Andy Cohen's guitar Here at Discorder, opinion is split." I don't know what that drums and guitars. Sonny was a quarter tone out of tune stacked against Trans Am and means, but I think it is probably Sharrock's Monkey-pockie-boo, he would be able to notice, but their new album, TA. Steve says a reference to some act where recorded in Paris in 1969, is one when he's singing, he must that not only are they not good, one guy puts his dick in some of the most dangerous of the have no idea. Or else he just they shouldn't even be called hole belonging to another guy. BYG releases and some of the can't sing in tune. Perhaps the Trans Am anymore; this is The music on this album is like most chaotic free jazz ever best singer in the band is because they no longer repre the soundtrack to one of those recorded. Eulvatina Rats, Mr. Michael sent the sound of quote- At your local record store or online at www. scratchrecords. com 24 may 2002 He jumps again, and with that Sadies aren't country music; rest of Nick Buzz. Being one of Travis raises up his gorgeous The Sadies are the fucking the front men of The guitar and boots the prick right Sadies. Rheostatics just made me love in the ass, sending him sprawl Derek Sterling Boone him more. He's a brilliant ing to the hardwood. The painter, writer and musician Sadies are without a doubt one MARTIN TIELLI with a voice that can make you real live action of the best bands I've seen, and Saturday, March 30 cry or send chills down your from Dick Dale to The Flying Richard's on Richards spine. He is my Elvis, he'll be 80 live music reviews Burrito Bros. to Ennio First, a little history. Martin is Morricone, they run through my rock god. I've adored him CONTINUED ON THE THE SADIES songwriters go, they weren't pauses were for family or styles and give them a new life, since I first saw him on the CLEM SNIDE half-bad, but not good enough friends to get up on the stage. and a new worth as well. The Ralph Benmergi Show with the NEXT PAGE... Saturday, March 30 to replace the California Neko Case joined the boys for The Picadilly Pub inspired beauty of Beachwood "This Little Light of Mine," and Everything had gone terribly Sparks. Ma and Pa Good came up for wrong. I stood outside the Pic People twisted, turned and some wonderful numbers. and read a sign, where packed in towards the stage. Dallas Good's deep resonant Beachwood Sparks' name had Everyone shone from the heat. voice carries with it more char been crossed out. Clem Snide Drinks spilled on my shoes, cig acter, depth and tribulation was slotted in their place. Never arettes scorched my button-up than any performer twice his heard of him and I wasn't sure shirt, and bodies shuffled. The age. When he sang, the speaker if I wanted to. When you're told Sadies walked out, bathed in shook and begged for leniency; to expect something and that red light, and those boys looked and too bad you couldn't see something is taken away, you're like they were on a mission of the fury in his eyes underneath entitled to act the part of an God's will or murder or maybe all that hair. Brother Travis abandoned baby. So I was both. The Good brothers were Good has one of the greatest propped up against the bar dressed in similar white rhine- rock and roll snarls I've ever moping, grasping my drink stone suits, not unlike the suits seen, and he plays with such with miserable intent and all made by Nudie's Rodeo Tailors unfettered madness you think thoughts in my head were of for dear departed Gram he might start swinging that betrayal. I didn't know the Parsons. Everything about guitar at your head. During place or the people, but the them standing there, even their set this prancing asshole crowd filed in laughing. There before they played, seemed to kept jumping back and forth were rockers and cowboys that evoke a serious anticipation. over the stage and from the shared jokes and bought each Now maybe it was the drugs or look in Travis Good's eye, this other drinks. The Pic has the the drink or the heat in that sar wasn't sitting well with the strange effect of erasing person dine can, but when that guitar booze. Well, this asshole, as I al borders, on account of how and fiddle broke in, my prob call him, jumped one more time tight a space it is, and when lems were eased and I was and knocked over the mike people bump into you, you freed. The show can only be stand. Well, Travis made like he both just smile. The reception described as a whole, some was gonna bring hell down on for the openers was hesitant thing complete where songs him, but on account of the folks and I must admit I wasn't up were broken up with minute being there I think he reconsid FROG EYES WOWS THE SUGAR REFINERY. THURSDAY APRIL 25. and hollering "Lordy." As far as long instrumentais and the only ered. So what does Asshole do? AS CAPTURED BY JAY DOUILLARD. 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May 09 - The Pic, 9:00 EDISON WOODS - S/T with Moneen, The Salteens and from new york, edison woods creates stunning and lush lullabies, sparse and dreamy, Hot Little Rocket. for fans of ida, low and julie doiron. featuring guest performance by Rod Slaughter of Duotang and Novillero Trail of Dead walked upon the Doiron gig. Cannibal Corpse healthy pair of tits. At least he have been a "total fucking president of Fireball Prod stage. It was a moment where played to a large and active has some style, for Christ's blowout" (as promised on their uctions, got the call at about humour and horror are the best crowd that responded well to sake. posters). But the April 21 show 10:30 that the headliners were of friends walking hand in their heavy-and-fast approach Christa Min at the Piccadilly Pub was turned away at the border. bloody hand. This was a the that has remained in place for a doomed from the beginning. Lucky for Chase, half the matic introduction to the best of good 13 years. Although THE BUILDING PRESS The first setback was finding people in the bar were musi Texas and to the very night they've become a bit of a joke in TRAIL VS. RUSSIA out that Lost Goat from San cians themselves and perhaps ZfA \ UoT itself. The boys in black play not much of the metal scene (they VERMILION Francisco were told to get lost more sympathetic and learned just to entertain, but to trans were in Ace Ventura, y'know), Saturday, April 20 by our keepers of national secu in the ways of border crossing. form through intensity. And there is a groove and swing to Picadilly Pub rity, the men and women who 33\-\l^H Patrons were offered a five-dol S*W*y allowances are made to guaran the best of their music that Vermilion started playing at protect us from the evils of lar refund on their eight- dollar tee this as Jason Reece and makes it much more engaging 10:40. They finished at 11:25. independent rock: the Canadian cover charge or a free drink if Conrad Keely play musical than the formulaic chugs of They played TWO songs. Border Patrol. chairs and share the vocal/gui most grind/death bands, espe tar and drum duties. Reece pos cially recent ones. Yeah, maybe sesses a distinct, high energy; the lyrics aren't the most clever, (S\is L any hostility is internalized and but the intensity is in place and used to manufacture a positive the hair-swirling circular bang reaction. Lights up—and for ing is still the best you can their entire set the momentum expect to see. And it's kinda fun ir*froMis-ec\ fAOSic is furious and transient, and to yell "MAGGOTS" over and nothing is still and nothing over again, accompanied by a stops. Their three full lengths roomful of sweaty white have created a metamorphic teenagers. transition from recording to Naben Ruthnum stage, and everything is sud denly made of napalm. Even in BERES HAMMOND the chaos of Reece jumping on HARMONY HOUSE the bar, or colliding with us on SINGERS the floor, even in those Friday, April 19 moments the music maintains Commodore and waits to devour. Keely just Grammy nominee Beres has to stand there, hypnotically Hammond was at the swaying and singing; his face Commodore for one of the contorted into a portrait of evil, dates on his "Music is Life" §*ivti loving every minute of being tour. The show got off to a hype there. The crowd was trans start with several DJs; one of formed: we were slauglitered in note was Ginger, who was such a beautiful way, and we busting out some conscious became part of that long trail. lyrics for the crowd. There was Tlien, in a blinding moment, it definitely a lovers' rock feel to stopped, it stopped with the the crowd, but what can you fury of an imploding drum kit. expect when you know they Guitar and bass were thrown were waiting for the smooth into the kit, and the band voice of singer Beres walked away like a gang from Hammond? After the DJs we the scene of a mass crime. But got to hear some lovely ladies, then the dead awoke and asked simply known as the Harmony for more: "Encore" shouted the House Singers. These were undead—they demanded more. Beres' back-up girls, but they Engineers were called to the certainly proved their right to front and asked to turn disorder be in the spot light as they into a puzzle. A successful ten- beautifully sang some classic Conn-f o\osf Ccx\aS> minute operation completed reggae standards and some ' .es with doormen standing at the more consciously styled tunes. wings of the stage. They were I'm thinking they were the PEDRO THE LION AT RICHARD'S. glaring as the club was opening most interesting act of the up to the dancing queens and night... Not to say that I didn't PHOTO BY MICHELLE FURBACHER. open shirts with chains. But the enjoy the man Beres boys emerged and just smiled— Hammond, 'cause I certainly Apparently they have an album A few disappointed fans they stayed for STREETS, a those devil-may-care smiles— did. He sang his soulful lovers' coming out that's a two song chose to cut their losses and local hardcore skate band. v/A <*c\«.rv\ thanked us with some songs, tunes and managed to pull off double LP recorded by Steve pass on the remaining two Again, there were mild and then deliriously razed the a number of wicked dancehall- Albini with cover art by Roger bands, including the main murmurs of disappointment, stage one more time. Then, like esque tracks along with the hits Dean of Yes fame. I don't like attraction, Portland's Fireballs but this crowd wasn't going an apparition of the night, they we were all expecting and wait their songs or the way they of Freedom. But a majority of down without a fight. The scat -Pe\t°uJS were gone. Fuck, you just have ing for, like "Can You Play sound, but Vermilion is incredi them took it in stride and tered remains of The Black to laugh. Some More" and "They Gonna ble. Next time they play, you watched the hockey game while Halos, a Spitfire or two and Derek Sterling Boone Talk." My only complaint is should go. Even if their music they waited for FOF to hit the some Feltchers (old and new) that it all ended too early. makes you want to kill yourself, stage with their blues-infected were among the 60 or so who <& 0)0% CANNIBAL CORPSE Karen Larsen you will die in amazement. delivery of punk rock. opted to stay for some ass-kick ABUSE The Building Press sound So then we were down to ing skate tunes from KOARK LES SAVY FAV like this: a flock of a thousand two bands but the show went Vancouver's punk rock quartet, Friday, April 19 HOT HOT HEAT birds flying in a precise forma on. In fact, without Jive music who, ironically, are not strangers Studebaker's WITNESS PROTECTION tion. Then there are 40 gun blasting for the first couple of to last minute promotions. cvtAos\"\rA!\WtI Metal shows offer certain things PROGRAM shots and 40 birds drop like hours, The Pic had an unexpect According to STREETS' that just aren't to be found at Friday, April 19 bombs screaming from the sky. edly mellow and laid back vibe lead singer, Jonny O, they were any other type of concert. The Picadilly Pub Actually, no. No they don't reminiscent of the old bumped to headliners at their witty between-song banter Hot Hot Heat are B-A-D. That sound like that. Niagara—when you could go to last show when two other takes on a menacing edge: for spells PENIS. The lead singer, The bass is Trail, the guitar a pub with your friends for a bands from the States couldn't example, vocalist George what's his name, sounds like a is Russia, the drums are the drink and not get hit on by the penetrate the Fort Knox of officials, and whoever is the "Corpsegrinder" Fisher's threat kid going through puberty try kind of cheesy no-neck wankers immigration. Is there a pattern 1 loudest wins. M PO gvr\ to an overenthusiastic fan ing to sing while hiding his that frequent Malone's. here? who'd thrown a bottle on stage. Christa Min erection. I don't know how the However, the good vibes didn't STREETS played a "Come up here so I can tear FUNT he comes up with a last forever. As the night went respectable 40-minute gig your fucking heart out and British accent when he's from FIREBALLS OF FREEDOM on, one couldn't help but notice chanting, "Come on everyone. shove it up your ass. I will kill Vancouver Island, either. LOST GOAT that the Fireballs hadn't loaded Let's skate. Let's go," before you and your whole fucking Les Savy Fav's lead singer, STREETS in yet. ^p Kc\\z.?r\ family because I do not give a good old what's-his-face, had a Sunday, April 21 Setback number two came fuck." Now there's something beard, a belly, and a nice pair of Piccadilly Pub in the form of every promoter's CONTINUED ON you won't hear at a Julie shoes, He's also balding with a Fireballs of Freedom should worst nightmare. Steve Chase, PAGE 30... so3*rrn:^rTWi^y 28 may 2002 : flRdSS United editksn double 10-ineh vJnyi available. fatigrttofeue' tpr-onl8ie.com / arttixom / fore*$ritet*uf6,<5oro admitting they didn' have any can sell out several thousand iCUBANISMO! of music (do you get my point they will because it seemed to somehow managed to sneak material left foranei core. seats at a high-end American Thursday, April 25 yet? It was awesome!) me that they were enjoying past the doorman and sat on the Well, the much a nticipated venue at $30 American a tick Commodore Back to the scene: I just did themselves immensely up there stairs (it was in the basement, blowout mav not Ju ve been a et? Because the audience eats it That was absolutely phenome n't want the vibe to stop and on stage as well. remember?) watching the red- raging success. Tin Canucks up, loving Nick to the last; in nal... and just when it got to the mid-way through, when the jCubanismo! was support and-white superstars standing lost 3-1 and The Pi lost two the eyes of these little ones, point where I thought i could rhythm began to wane, one of ed by the Coastal Jazz and around, looking bored. Kevin bands, but the nigh wasn't a Nick tan do no wrong, ever, n't take anymore, the band the "younger" members of the Blues Society, while the support Lee of Bum was in the venue complete waste ol ti ne either, when he is, and scandalously found more energy and played group stepped forward as a band was Queztal, which was and he was selling oil some of thanks to a bar full of people so. The explosion of energy on. AU the crowd wanted was ladies man and crowd pleaser led by a captivating woman his possessions to buy a plane more and more of jCubanisr ticket for a friend. He had an vibe, the high-pitched cresc smooth tones. With my limited Old Time Relijun box set that him: Nick performs best when grasp of Spanish, 1 was able to Sheenn Teiffel included a very swanky art shrugged lonnvO. he works on the cusp of the discern "busca me," or "look at deco-stvle wristwatch, two Sarah Rowlands explosion, on the threshold of through the COl me," which 1 thought was very TALKING HEADS CDs, some mystical Wiccan released tension. rhythms, taking tun cool. Another male lead singer FRANK ZAPPA herbs, and a book of instruc NICK CAVE AND THE BAD Is Donovan just bitter the bell and small cong, broke it down into hip hop rap- WHITE STRIPES tions for channelling demons. I SEEDS because he had a bad seat? Is Ught : THE FRUMPIES tried to steal the box set, but KHAN he presenting an elite expecta- with their finest fast-pa the dh of t i ba Date Unknown was eventually overcome with guilt and gave up. Monday, April 22 cussive beats. Various Venues Paramount Theatre Though t Frank Zappa was playing Seattle islv .tally insane, it followed the Plaza of Nations and this •thattoldofhislon orld logic by presenting was where things started get dle-< ting really fucked up. Being dead, Frank was not particular vely because ge lesis of the infamo .s Buen •s conn- ly equipped to headline a in. Although Nick Cave the voice of Vi sta Social Club- also c packed show at the Plaza, so his ways be a brilliant per- bulent, Nick Ci ban origin. was Habbergas t record label had taken the ini- r, he's reached a level of rnes. Not to 1 ,im now com pit telv sol e of havir ned— tvv •. One cloi stage Nick's practiced, Elvis-derivi last tour, Nick played with more of this scene and the e the othei only one of his Bad Seeds own awareness of his p isition music itself! i had my doubts thee: -. The ngest part of (Warren Ellis, also of as an overstuffed sta r. His before-hand about what was thank Vancouver and the audi- ude Australia's The Dirty Three) deliberate positioning i f hi ill going to happen, but the the concert, however, was the rtgh . audience: it seemed to be com and two backing musicians; the self in between the stage 's hor- Commodore was definitely a (something to that effect) for the rs—but fought and posed almost exclusively of izontal spotlights creatt d two opportunity to play here, 1 am whined with the sullen energy pretation of all of his songs, sure I was not alone in thinking, small Indo-Canadian children of siblings stuck in the back of a and their parents dancing elab and a heightened awareness on iule.it formance. Tlie entire audience "No. Thank you for coming all station wagon. his part of their quality. On this Paramount Theatre, a I reath- couldn't help but move every the way up here and sharing a orate waltzes: J was really excited to see By the time we made it to tour, with his entire Bad Seeds taking experience for a single little part of their individ part of your heritage... and for The Frumpies but my friends gang (two keyboards, two gui cerned. "The Mercy Seat" ual bodies, as part of the collec finding a way to share this the Talking Heads show (which kept telling me that thev was in some kind of outdoor tars, two drum kits, violin: performance elicited all of the tive—every note was stretched music, this soul, this energy. sucked. Meanwhile, I would the effect being a maelstrom of effects of a classic mas to exquisite perfection and Regardless, this bloody fantas concert bowl, maybe the Gorge answer back that they didn't or something) 1 had been sonic and visual activity, lectri- turned into a danceable tune. tic n c has ;al la i suck, they ruled, and I would pinned by the axis of Nick and fied consciousness grid 1 was initially wondering if reduced to a state of utter para guage. play them some 7"s the next noia, accusing my boyfriend of his histrionic silhouette, generated in the crowd \ as felt that many musicians on stage I was all aglow, and I don't day to prove it. But my friends even more strongly c uring would be able to reach such a infidelities with a wide spec think that it was a coincidence were right: The Frumpies did trum of individuals, male and level of low self-awareness "Saint Huck" in the s econd sizeable crowd, but the that the moon was nearly full; it suck, playing a few notes at a female. The rest of the group where maniacal gesticulation, encore: from my vantagt point acoustics and sound engineer unleashed in some of us fren time and then standing around, had disintegrated and the absurd stadium rock light up in the sky, 1 could s ee the ing were impeccable and the zied Jiowls and foot-stomping looking bored. We hastily left dream slowly melted away into audience, stunned, b asted, Ivrics—an eclectic mix of ecstasy and hand clapping into the venue. more mundane incomprehensi pulsing as one in col Spanish and English—soon oblivion, while others melted Our next stop was the sold- bility: flying amphibians, melt mythic bliss. Kudos to t ie kid transgressed any imagined the funerary bell, perhaps) into graceful dance duets as out White Stripes concert held ing blue walls, the rest. dominate the experience. And rave trotting in the s social and sound barriers. The fluid as poetry gliding across in the basement of Ms. T's. We H. Apropos mezzanine: you felt it fo r all of mood created was a very per the bouncy dance floor. I hope Why is this a product of Nick's If you've had idiotic, disturbing. otherwise interesting Rock that iCubanismo! will come status as a "brooding, alt-rock us, man. sonal and intimate listening Dreams, send them in to May Long Vinyl May Short Vinyl May Indie Home Jobs 1 Three Inches of Blood Battlecry Under... Teenage Rampage 1 The Organ We've Got to Meet Genius 1 The Accident Perestrokio 2 Spitfires Three Longshot 2 Destroyer The Music Lovers Sub Pop 2 Sharp Teeth Burn Return 3 Young and Sexy Stand Up For Your Mother Mint 3 Matt Pond This is not Polyvinyl 3 Hextalls I'm Sick of You 4 Radiogram All The Way Home Endearing 4 Evaporators Honk the Horn Nardwuar 4 Byronic Heroes I'm a Drunk 5 Voiumizer Gaga for Gigi Mint 5 Tijuana Bibles Mexican Courage Trophy 5 Red Scare Try to Give Up 6 Neil Young Are You Passionate? Reprise 6 Mirah Cold Cold Water k 6 Amarillo Stars You've Seen This Before 7 Herbaliser Something Wicked... Ninja Tune 7 Songs:Ohia The Gray Tower SC 7 Human Hi-Lite Reel Lamb-a-rama 8 Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Plastic Fang Matador 8 Rye Coalition 11 Topless T.gerstyle 8 Winks Aprin Fell 9 DJ Shadow You Can't Go Home Again MCA 9 Class Assassins No Justice Insurgence 9 Bend Sinister Untitled 10 Catheters Static Delusions And. Sub Pop 10 V/A Volume one Out of Touch 10 Ether's Void It's Over 11 Hot Hot Heat Knock Knock Knock Sub Pop 11 Mea Culpa Corporate Nation Empty 11 Bestest Wilfor 12 Cornershop Handcream for a Generation Wiiija 12 Riff Randalls How Bout Romance Lipstick 12 Spin-offs Novelty Garb 13 Mark Kleiner Power Trio Love to Night Mint 13 The Lollies Channel Heaven Evil World 13 Roadbed JB Fool 14 White Stripes White Blood Cells V2 14 The Spitfires Juke Box High Glazed 14 Dr. Pong Snapshot 15 Badly Drawn Boy About A Boy Artist 15 The Cleats Save Yourself Longshot 15 Stoke Black Sorrows 16 Mimosa Bucolique Independent 16 The Riffs Such A Bore TKO 16 Six Block Radius Kill to Hide 17 Richard Hell Time Matador 17 Matthew Stars Numero 17 Too Hectic As You Were 18 Mooney Suzuki Electric Sweat Gammon 18 Bottles & Skulls 1 am one... TKO 18 Billy the Kid and the Lost Boys This One's For You 19 Julie Doiron Heart and Crime Jagjagwuar 19 The Chrome Yellow Co. Summerside Northern Light 19 Mr. Solid Already Gone 20 Gas Huffer The Rest of Us Estrus 20 Stereo/Ultimate Split Popkid 20 Emerald City Machinery Needs 21 Sightings Sightings Load 22 Hanson Brothers My Game Mint 23 Deadcats Bad Pussy Flying Saucer 24 [ illy B England, Half-English Elektra HOW THE CHARTS WORK 25 Cinematic Orchestra All That You Give Ninja Tune 26 Selby Tigers Return Of... Hopeless 27 Medeski Martin and Wood Uninvisible Blue Note 28 Epoxies Epoxies Dirtnap The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP 29 Various Artists Japan For Sale Vol.2 Sony ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape/CD ("indie home jobs") on 30 Flying Nuns Everything's Impossible... Q Division CiTR's playlist was played by our DJs during the previous month (ie, "May" 31 Gary Wilson You Think You Really Know Me Motel charts reflect airplay over April). 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THE CHARM SKA-T'S L EDGE MUSIC THE ANTIDOTE LOVETRON SCENIC DRIVE LOCAL I 0KID S MAKE BLUE CANADIAN lfl| GOOD MONDA ANOIZE |^1 LUNCH GIRLPOOD j°r THESE ARE THE L ROCKERS BREAKS SHOW PARTS H BEATUPRONIN 0 POWERCHORD UNKNOWN LEO RAMIREZ CPR RADIO FREE PRESS L SHOW STAND AND BE CUNTED(CF) BLOOD ON THE I RHYMES & MOTORDADDY NARDWUAR CODE BLUE SADDLE REASONS ABSOLUTE BEGINNER! PRESENTS S MEAT EATING VEGAN(Ec) Po I SAINT I Po WENER'S BARBEQUE 10,000 VOICES (Tk) RACHEL'S [Tk __J TROPEZ I (Sp) SONG FLEX YOUR POP GOES THE Ec OUT FOR KICKS L- FAREASTSIDE QUEER FM HEAD WEASEL " AFRICAN RADIO FREE AMERICA SOUNDS RYTHMS ON AIR IZ. 8 WIGFLUX RADIO u WITH GREASED HAIR SYNAPTIC RHYTHMSINDIA 9 SALARIO MINIMO SANDWICH LIVE FROM... THE 10 THUNDERBIRD HELL JAZZ SOULJLl_l i kg STRAIGHT OUTTA [M- 11 SHOW 0 SONIC SOUL PIPE WANDERLUST JALLUNDHAR VENU" HIGHBRED VOICES TREE DREAMS FLYTRAP |12AM 13 BREAKING L! TRANCENDANC1E 3 VENGEANCE WAVES IN YOUR HANS KLOSS' 1 IS MINE! MISERY HOUR HEAD H AURAL 2 PLUTONIAN TENTACLES 3 BBC WORLD NIGHTS PSYCHEDELIC FIRST FLOOR BBC WORLD SERVICE SERVICE 4 AIRWAVES SOUND SYSTEM REGGAE LINKUP 5 Cf= conscious and funky • Ch= children's • Dc= dance/electronic • Ec= eclectic • Gi= goth/industrial • Hc= hardcore • Hh= hip hop Hk= Hans Kloss • Ki=Kids • Jz=jazz • Lm= live music • Lo= lounge • Mt= metal • No= noise • Nw= Nardwuar • Po= pop • Pu= punk Rg= reggae • Rr= rock • Rts= roots • Sk = ska »So= soul • Sp= sports • Tk= talk • Wo= world 32 may 2002 Buh bump... buh bump... this is and more. Not a mirage! mentary from aroung the local the sound your heart makes FRIDAY MAY 3 THURSDAY 16 MONDAY 27 go for a bike ride, you need the exercise! play live to the cabinet of dr. ni//y//'.r®blindfcig light!!; spar- nuirge, code name: scorpion, dj sciencegcommodore; masters of the multi- Apecial event* MONDAY 6 the scene (brit pop night)@purple onion; chargers street gang, t SUNDAY 19 national playboys@picadilly RANCHFEST featuring david p. smith, boomchix@the main; the target shoots TUESDAY 7 //rsf@blinding light!!; p:ano@sugar refinery; jerry cantrell, comes with the A NIGHT OF INDIGENOUS FILM MONDAY 20 the appalling general ignorance about the struggles beth orton@richard's on richards and successes of indigenous peoples in Canada is a WEDNESDAYS TUESDAY 21 big reason why we're being faced with shit like the if god be with i/s'e'blinding light!!; parallelatuesdays@sugar refinery; Chris referendum—a cruel and possibly illegal government wto@blinding light!!; emerald citytfsugar refinery; georgia straight music tine fellows@sugar refinery (early show, 7-9pm); cornershop@sonar; frank awards@richard's on richards; motorbooty (funk mght)@purple onion; black and the catholics, david lovenngwkichard's on richards exercise that insults us all. educate yourself at the lonesome pine, sedatedScobalt; dj sage, kuma w/miss behavior, jungle WEDNESDAY 22 blinding light!! on friday. may 17 when mayworks pre soldier@dnnk RANCHFEST featuring rich hope, jon wood, heather griffin@the main; early sents incident at restiqouche. blockade: alqonquins THURSDAY 9 works by ray bruce'/blinding light!!: guitar trio with Stephen lyons, chris defend the forest, and village of widows, while you're CITR PRESENTS THE SALTEENS, MONEEN, HOT LITTLE ROCKET, albanese, chad mcquarrie@sugar refinery WAKING EYES, THE ORGANfeTHE PIC; ashleigh flynn, cobv, nicky THURSDAY 23 at it. check out the rest of the mayworks mehta, Joanna cairns@the main; a sense o/p/flce®blinding light!!; i'kill my RANCHFEST featuring hopetown, swingin' doors@the main; byo8@blind- programming by picking up a program guide or conscience at times, the radio, plan b@sugar refinery; gavin froome, mor- ing light!!; av lodge'isugalodg r relinerv; sound proof label launch and cd release checking out www.tao.ca/~mayworks. gan page, luke mckeehan, dana d, otaku@sonar; shocore, sideshow, wdc, party@sonar; kell; railway club FRIDAY 24 RANCHFEST featuring silt, violet, conrad@the main; 120seconds.com dig- CITR & DISCORDER PRESENT... veda hufe®vancouver east cultural centre as part of new music west, we're putting on a night of SATURDAY 25 indie pop at the piccadilly pub. the salteens. hot little FRIDAY 10 RANCHFEST featuring greasy kings, the rocket fins@the main; 120sec- rocket, moneen, the waking eyes, and the organ play john bottomley, birgit, wendy ip) restricted bbc@the main; live fro onds.com digital film test gala." blind ing light!!; collapsing lung ksugar refin ery; mr. underbill, phrapp, koark@briekyard; big bottom@urbn street wear our little night on thursday may 9. clothing store (vv. 4th avenue); april wine@commodore; veda hille@vancou- we're also presenting another showcase in the purple ver east cultural centre onion's main room the same night featuring xyn SUNDAY 26 quadra, dj noah, wood, the air conditioners. RANCHFEST featuring graham brown and the prairie dogs@the main; i'mi//@blinding light!!; beta carotine@sugar refinery; dmx krew, cylob, bog- •, the SATURDAY 11 place* to be dave mothersole@lotus; derek fairbridge, ask nora, bonnie bailiff, mani bassix records 217 w. hastings 604.689.7734 pic pub 620 west pender 604.669.1556 beatstreet records 3-712robson 604.683.3344 railway club 579 dunsmuir 604.681.1625 black swan records 3209 west broadway 604.734.2828 richard's on richards 1036 richards 604.687.6794 blinding light!! cinema 36 powell 604.878.3366 ridge cinema 3131 arbutus 604.738.6311 music hall; clover honey, the dirtmittS@pi'cadiUy; super furry cellar 3611 west broadway 604.738.1959 scrape records 17 west broadway 604.877.1676 chan centre 6265 crescent 604.822.9197 scratch records 726 richards 604.687.6355 feminists, the dinks@cobalt SUNDAY 12 club 23 23 west cordova sonar 66 water 604.683.6695 musiki parea, grup bans@the main; icint .kVrkkblinding light!!; rupix cobalt 917 main 604.685.2825 sugar refinery 1115 granville 604.331.1184 kubeSsugar refinery; varais visionarv@sonar; sasha and digweedkthe 604.675.9227 rage; |im rose circus@richard's on richards; patty tarkin@WISE hall commodore ballroom 868 granville 604.739.4550 teenage ramapage 19 west broadway MONDAY 13 crosstown music 518 west pender 604.683.8774 Vancouver playhouse hamilton at dunsmuir 604.665.3050 little wings, casiotone for the painfully alone, the birthday machineSsugar futuristic flavour 1020 granville 604.681.1766 video-in studios 1965 main 604.872.8337 refinery; motorhead, morbid angel, brand new sin, today is the day@com- modore highlife records 1317 commercial 604.251.6964 western front 303 east 8th 604.876.9343 TUESDAY 14 the main cafe 4210 main 604.709.8555 wett bar 1320 richards 604.662.7707 kn/'kbliiiding light1!; parallelatuesdays@sugar refinery ms. t's cabaret 339 west pender WISE club 1882 adanac 604.254.5858 WEDNESDAY 15 steve dawson, eliot polsky@the main; spotlight on oka@blinding light!!; hi orpheum theatre smithe at seymour 604.665.3050 yale 1300 granville 604.681.9253 rise dex and the stellar jays, ngjdd@sugar refinery; darryl's grocery bag, pacific cinematheque 131 howe 604.688.8202 zulu records 1972 west 4th 604.738.3232 downweller@cobalt 34 may 2002 Fat Wreck Chords Regrets: PEEPSH0W PEEPSHOWANDPEEPSHOWH NOW AVAILABLE ON ONE DVD MORE THAN 30 MUSIC VIDEOS!. 45 or 46 SQIH<§S that weren'tGQOA eNGu$ ft FIAT *TG *° Gn oUR QTHeR ReCORds KET THE; DICKIES ERENZAL /IB §14% KE TOP* K NOTUSE 1 t NAME *|%%r %>3> SICKfQSCREFW I T3 AU2 IU M 'V "" - TEEI^iypOLS Fat Wreck Chords JPH3F /TdLTk. 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Suddenly, a gentle zonked-out band (YOU know who they are), frantically playing m dropped out of Harvard rumba caresses the bass cabinets causing an effervescent this gig like it's their last, and into the flickering bathroom at the to do his masters reaction as the sounds sparkle before you. Courage is at an all back. Work up your nerve and KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK on the stall time high, and like a method actor studying the palms, you drone rock with Galaxie 500. Someone told him his deadpan are fostering a new American indie-rock sound. door. Yeah, the one marked with the lipstick-scrawled words, sway with an electronic language that translates loosely into voice was better suited for dissertations regarding Lou Reed and The principle elements of this 'Battlestar Galactica Rock' "tomorrow forgets tonight" (YOU know what that means). Cool it heaven. So this is what comes after the last days of disco, an John Cale, over that of Shelley and Yeats. The rest is history, and sound are stripped down acoustic guitars, bongwater fuelled down and indulge! awesome release on par with Kruder and Dorfmeister, Thievery after 6 records with his 'Loaded' era outfit, LUNA, Wareham s con moog synths, and spacey drums. And so, the RADAR Corporation, and the other lounge giants! 5 stars! CDEP 12.98 tributions to East Coast coolness are firmly cemented, as his BROTHERS are a rag-tag fleet jettisoned from civilization into anthems are the new odes to for a weekend of Coney Island alien territory, with a battery of rambling songs, epic chorus CD 19.98 3LP 26.98 thrills. ROMAMTICA is his latest 13 song thesis! es, and lyrical imagery drawn from their peyote missions into THE SPITFIRES AVAILABLE MAY 7 the desert pueblos of mother earth. The perfect sounds for Three CD/LP an episode entitled "Disorientation in the space dunes". CD 19.98 THE PROMISE RING HE SPITFIRES have been kicking CD 19.98 Wood/Water CD Tout the jams for about seven THE MOUNTAIN GOATS he Refused are credited with reconfiguring the Future years now, surviving the hell that is Protein Source of the Future Now! / TOM WATTS TShape of Punk, and so now post-punk gets a its much touring, line-up changes, and... well, needed redefinition, as pioneering emo-rockers PROMISE RING growing up in Abbotsford. Those of Bitter Melon Farni / Ghana CDs Alice/Blood Money CDs/LPs return with their most concise effort yet! With a new record you who've seen 'em live can attest to the excitement and pure adrenaline rush that is their live alling all gap-tooth vault robbers!! Gold panners pick your wo new TOM WATTS recordings! At once! Is it Christmas? that delves into the arty territory of hardcore, while smartly show. Those of you who haven't, can begin by checking out mules and deflect your vacant glare away from the Beautiful Have we all died and gone to heaven? Is this some kind of weaving in strands of varied instrumentation and edgy produc C T this, their excellent third album. Is it the final chapter in a trilogy Rat Sunset for a minute as THE MOUNTAIN GOATS return with 3 hoax? NO! That's right, NO! Would we joke about something tion, WOOD/WATER approaches arrangements like those on OK that spills the sordid story of survival in the business of rock volumes of pioneer songs for hijack nylon string guitar and voice! I as important as this' Would we take advantage of your . This will appeal to the established fan, as well as the from the point of view of one of Vancouver's greatest bands? dare you to decree that you've heard all these goods before - expectations in this way? Indeed, would TOM WAITS? This is i listener into a progressive recording that packs a punch. We're not sure, but we do know this.. .with "3", THE SPITFIRES fabled cassettes, hand-made 7inches, compilation submissions, the truth, ladies and gentlemen - sweet, solid, genuine truth. have proven once again that they wouldn't even know how to one-sided 12inches, and yes...unreleased minerals! The ebay Sometimes the gray routine of life surprises us and reaffirms CD 16.98 begin to disappoint you, little lover. mines don't even yield such rare jewels! 81 tracks spread over 3 our efforts. Sometimes it's worth getting up in the morning. separately available CDs! Eureka. Sometimes the 'good life" is here on earth. Yes, the dusty CD 14.98 LP 12.98 CDs 16.98 each! junkyard balladeer of theatrical Americana delivers twice over. Haunting, idiosyncratic, special, TOM WAITS is second to ^>oundtruchd ^jroi THE CINCH none. Take your pick. Or better yet, get both. TRANS AM EpCDEP T.A.CD/LP fter honing their craft i CD 16.98 LP 14.98 est recesses of Vancouver's rock or many at the time, the 80s was a period of ugly clothes, lame JEFF TWEEDY A clubs for a couple of years now, THE Fhaircuts and lightweight electro pop. Nowadays, with a decade KID 606 Chelsea Walls CD CINCH have finally given us their plus between us, the 80s have miraculously become a bounty of ilco's latest release Yankee debut release on Stutter Records. A neon-hued signifiers to be used in newfound ways. Well, maybe The Action Packed Mentalist WHotel Foxtrot shows JEFF short, sharp, 5 song (one unlisted cooler ways if not exactly newer ways. Nevertheless, people today Brings You Fucking Jams CD TWEEDY and company embracing bonus track for all you modem lovers out there) dynamo that can see the good in what once seemed convincingly and uniformly indie-rock, electro-acoustic ambience e have a suspicion that the so-called "Violent Turd" label reminds one of early Dream Syndicate and Wire. Glorious, dri bad. And hey, maybe it wasn't all that bad in the first place. Who and the Jim O'Rourke production isn't actually based in far away New Zealand. We have ving rock 'n roll, delivered by nervous, buzzsaw guitars, a can tell? Rejoice in the sweet melodies of irony - we can finally W genius. Well, here's another pleasant turn of events, as our reasons. We can't go into it. We fear that if we revealed tough-as-nails rhythm section, and fronted by a coupla' edgy shed the guilt from our guilty pleasures! Anyway, the point is this: TWEEDY jumps into the improvisation game to make both his too much "The Man" would try to take away our right to party. female Richard HeH's. A 2002 summer must-have! See 'em live TRANS AM's latest - and sixth, can you believe it - album is solo and soundtrack recording debut. Offering a mix of pared Let's just say that this is a naughty record - and not just at their CO release party at Ms.T's on May 25th. packed full of cool 80s Zeitgeist. So, dude, put this radical CD on down isolation odes as well as sharp edged Dead Man-esque' because it's got a swear in the tile. This is KID 606 getting the shelf next to your Fischerspooner and your Miss Kitten and Neil Young guitar jams, CHELSEA WALLS is an evocative listen back to doing what he does best. Fans of the recent CDEP 9.98 the Hacker, et al, and go get a mullet before it's too late! sure to tingle the nerves of any Witco fan. Enjoy. AVAILABLE MAY 7 "Freakbitchlickfly" compilation are advised to take note. Lilly-livered indie rockers are advised to brace themselves. CD 16.98 SINOIA CAVES CD 19.98 LP 16.98 You have been warned. But you didn't hear it from us. AVAILABLE MAY 7 The Enchanted Persuader CD MARY MARGARET EREMY SCHMIDT is pretty much the godfather of contempo CD 16.98 Jrary space rock in this neck of the woods. From his begin O'HARA nings in the early 90s as a founding member of Pipedream MUSIC IN THE Apartment Hunting (who, back in the day, rubbed shoulders with the likes of Mogwai, Spectrum and Flying Saucer Attack), through his CD involvement in the late lamented Unitard, to his current role as sonic sous-chef in The Battles, he has tirelessly explored the AFTERNOON a &DidcuLt, llHi street, Toronto's most under parameters of the analog synthesizer. Armed with more vintage 'um: appreciated troubadour returns to gear than any man without a car should rightfully own, SUNDAY MAY 5 @ 4PM CAPTAIN BEEFHEART AND THE MAGIC search out new shelters with this inti SCHMIDT has finally completed his magnum opus, the record mate soundtrack recording. Best known for her idiosyncratic ed debut of his solo project, SINOIA CAVES. Monumental wash BAND-Dust Sucker CD FROG EYES From victoria, the new 1988 release Miss America, MARY MARGARET O'HARA has laid es of synth mingling with eerie, unforgettable melodies, some ELECTRIC WIZARD-Let Us Prey CD low in the international music scene for quite some time. On what reminiscent of the incidental music from classic space school of Beefheart disembodied poetics! here return, reminiscent of Aimee Mann's rediscovery via the programs like Or. 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