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hadn't been to Sonar since I audience, he kept using the it out. Opened my eyes a little saw Bob Mould (it was the phrase "break it down." Stand­ bit. _*_ M ES ffl ffi3 J SJ EI@ ___i LE S I Town Pump then) do a short ing there, trying to make sense So if DJ Spooky took some set at Music West a couple of of what I was hearing, those Jean Chretien speeches, cut years ago. The night DJ Spooky words finally clicked. them down so that instead of "That Subliminal Kid" was play­ "Break it down" meant an entire speech there was a SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 ing, I was confronted, not with deconstruction. Taking a piece series of sentence fragments, DJ a balding Mould hunched over of music and dividing it into dis- Spooky could reorganiz his guitar, but with blinking make Jean video screens, staccato sounds, Chretien nything. DJ and a stage filled with equip- >ng, i Spooky is constructed to Chretien's ng. And by This was not a show that I mean something. The person adding pie music to the would otherwise have seen, but who constructs the song or ar­ mix, Chretien's orig a friend recommended the ticle is delivering a message. ing could be blu show to me. Highly. And I By breaking the whole into a trusted him. My friend, Jay, told number of parts, that meaning The really clever thing me that Paul Miller (DJ Spooky) becomes obscured. about this process is how the would also be lecturing the day What was even more fas- final piece — composed of after the show about music s wher fragments — has so many lay­ that when DJ Spooky Italke d ers of meaning. We understand semiotics. I became intrigued about "building it up," he \ what Chretien meant originally, and my awareness of the intent referring to the reconstruction we understand what Chretien and thought behind the music from the pieces lefto- made me want to see it, hear r frc the now that his words have been . DJ Spooky calls his he , illbie if blends of synthe- :hanging the meaning of the sense of what DJ Spooky is try­ original music by reorganizing ing to say by subverting pled and live vocals (ill: slightly its parts and even slipping in Chretien's voice, thoughts, and off-kilter). At Sonar, DJ Spooky oarts from something else en- played the stand-up electronic irely. I know this has been go­ I've become a fan because §mmmmm bass for much of the show and, ng on for years, but allow me I understand what's happening. in talking to the band and the he excitement of just figuring Mine eyes hath seen the glory.• ,THB_ 88 FlffiS HE

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5 E^gsassffi Friday, October 30 Approximately 10 minutes before touching down at JFK airport, I wondered if I should make some kind of a plan for what to do once in New York. I had a phone number in my pocket and an Thanks to the wonders of music unopened guidebook to the city. My decision to do STUFF in New York was rather an uninformed one, but I like leaving everything directoring, I got to get out of to chance. I hopped a shuttle bus to the Port Authority Bus this horrible place called Terminal, ate some crappy food, and waited for my friend AJ. to come and rescue me from the chaos of a new place. Thank good­ university and explore the big, ness for near strangers who offer up their floor for 10 days. After dumping my too-much stuff (note for next year: one pair of pants, big city of New York for a one sweater, some undies and socks — that's all you really need, kid) at A.J.'s office, we headed out to Brooklyn for a house party. week and a half. My excuse I was then introduced to my home away from home on a floor in wos that I was attending the New Jersey. Hooray! CMJ Festival — / don't know Saturday, October 31 how often I "was in attendance, I spent most of my Hallowe'en sleeping. When we finally headed into Manhattan, it was dark out. I was introduced to the best music store though. Too much to see in so in the city, Other Music. I gave them good business over the course of my stay. Heading back to Brooklyn, we assembled our oh-so-clever little time made for some crazy costume, readying ourselves for the big party at Ben from Matador's house. Perfectly suited to the location, AJ. went as the cover of the action-packed days and nights, John Disco new Belle & Sebastian album. As I had no room to pack a costume, and the least amount of from bis I got to wear green and paste construction paper leaves all over (above); myself, acting as the bushes behind the scene. This was perfect for business networking possible. me, as I didn't know anyone, and I didn't have to talk to anyone, hid­ bassist f rom den in the background. I met a few people, and decided I was going Here's the lowdown. Rainer Maria to be a bomb at CMJ, since I just wanted to be a recluse. (right)

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avoid being eaten alive by their obsessive fans. Then it was off to The Supper Club, I was amazed at the poshness of the venue. Irving Plaza to see some of the Sub Pop showcase: Sunny Day Guv'ner opened and did an OK dissonantly poppy set. Belle & Real Estate was the band which sold the show out, but I wanted to Sebastian took to the stage in fits and starts, looking confused and ner­ see Heroic Doses and the Murder City Devils. I was excited to vous. What a raggle toggle bunch this band is! Lyrics were forgotten, see that Heroic Doses was actually Euphone plus Bill Dolan of 5ive piano solos plunked wrong, and stringed instruments played out of Style, so I got to check out the masterfully blurry drumming again. time and tune. Bad? Nope — the most endearing show ever. There When the MCDs came on, everyone around me seemed to take about was lots of silliness and apologizing and I was charmed. The band form with his new band and I was so happy that I dared to almost-sort- 10 big steps backward. The guy next to me looked over with a played lots of songs from their EPs, whispered something about "the of dance amongst the crowd of complete strangers. pained expression on his face and said, "They hurt my ears!" I guess waitress having piles" at the end of The Boy With The Arab Strap, and I was the only one who could take the rock. Maybe it's a West Coast did a little French ditty to end things off After the show, I smoked a Thursday, November 5 thing ... which pant leg do I need to pull up? pink cigarette and was contented. I was lucky enough to catch David Bozan of Pedro the Uon doing an acoustic set on rhe CMJ stage at the conference hotel early in the Saturday, November 7 Tuesday, November 3 afternoon His short set was a pleasure to o fired kid like me. I I went to see Momus (Luna Lounge] who was suave and silfy and In the evening, t headed off to an "anti-Industry" industry party and drogged myself to fhe neighboring theater fo cofch an advance witty and, well, Momus. I ran across the road to check out Spatula was disturbed by the fact that no one knew what a touque wos Silfy screening of Velvet Goldmine ond nearly nodded off amidst afl (Baby Jupiter), who do good instrumental bud-soft stuff, with lots of Americans! I met up with Rusty, the music director from Calgary, and the glam-rock and naked bits Somewhat refreshed, I took to the ffantic cello-playing. Everybody ditched me to go to some place with his assistant Elizabeth, who I ended up glomming on to for much of streets to get myself over to the Knitting Factory I wonted to see free beer where I wasn't allowed to be, so I made if to Irving Plaza my stay. ICU, the K band, but was worried when a fellow concert-goer early enough to catch Buffalo Daughter. Um, boring? Too thumpy. informed me that it was actually I.C.U., a NY punk band, who were I decided fo try and Claire Dones-spot while Ben Lee did his wimpy- Wednesday, November 4 playing. When I got inside, my mind was set ot ease by the presence boy thing ond generally twiddled my thumbs waiting for bis to play of a good lot of turntables I discovered fhe wonder of the theremin I ate lunch Uptown at Tom's Diner, the inspiration for Suzanne again, {Have you ol! picked up on my nerdiness yet?) Bis were good, when ICU got to rockin' the near-empty room and I came away much Vega's song and home to that flashy sign everyone sees on Seinfeld. but something wasn't right — they were being way too rock. After bis, ,mpressed. I headed over to The Cooler to see Thee Headcoats. t caught a We heoded to Tramps for the Jade Tree showcase I'm glad I got And here's where things get a bit silly —I decided to ditch fhe big sizable chunk of the Question Mark and the Mysterions set to the club pathetically early, as it ensured my spot front and centre for city and head for Hoboken, New Jersey, fo see my favourite rock- and I enjoyed wotching people getting down When Thee Headcoats the first and arguably best band of the night, Euphone. Ryan gods, bis at Maxwell's. All inhibitions dropped af fhe door, I took the stage, I realized that Paul Weller might be getting a run for Rhapsys is the best drummer I have ever seen in my whole life, ever. jumped ond sang like a big geek for a good hour, going so far as to his money os my Brit-Rock-God; Billy Childish is aces! He's got the skills to pay the bills, baby, ond he's o sweetie to boot. imagine that Sci-Fi Steven winked at me. The new songs are super- The next three bands were less than par to the openers: Sweet catchy, and I got stuck with a perma-grin on my face Water Freak Down were loud hardcore, Kid Dynamite were ex- Sunday, November 8 Lifetimers who screamed and jumped around a whole lot, and Jets It was my last day, so I did my best to spend all of my remaining To Brazil ... I don't even want to talk about them. Wondering why I Friday, November 6 money. I squeezed in one last show at Brownies before heading home stayed through all the mediocrity? Joan Of Arc. Sounds coming I checked out Rainer Maria at an afternoon show at Brownies and really didn't want to leave the show. I got to see Jejune, who do from the stage were even neater than sounds from the records. and spent the rest of the day wishing I wasn't too cool to wear that dissonant emo thing that I love so much, and so well. I wanted to Hooray! I skipped The Promise Ring to catch a few minutes of earplugs. Those kids were loud and brilliantly dissonant. Later I hit stick around for Hot Water Music and the chaos of eight other crazy loud Ruins-esque Uz Jsme Doma at Baby Jupiter and up the K showcase at Tramps to see Gaze, our very own wonders. punk/emo bands, but no such luck. Instead, I spent my evening on a then I was off again to see Cinerama. David Gedge was in fine They played some really impressive new material and managed to plane, playing UNO with the women next to me (I won).*

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So, then, what do you think of this whole Having a ten-piece band is difficult at 'Swing Craze' shit? Does it make you mad times but, on the other hand, all this then if just grew. And to see the commercialization of jazz, a lot strong emotion and energy from certain people would come of white bands getting a lot of money for everybody is because everyone in and shine — like Ron, our trumpet play­ ripping people off, essentially? This whole the band has that fiery attitude. er, he would come and sit in on Sundays and Eric Clapton thing? My last question is: who so, I got spoiled For me, it's like, OK, they're recreating something are your favorite Canadian jazz artists? And how did you hook up with Simone and you said they're making money from it and iquid Uh, wow, I can't think of any. [vocalist and daughter of Nina Simone]? 'Oh, this has really hit big now, let's do it,' you You can't think of any? We've had female vocalists off and on, throughout know. 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So ! said, 'Oh yeah, like she's real­ mercialized and stuff, but it's better than a lot of not. I don't consider Simone, all of these seasoned veterans settle down ly going to quit Rent, making I don't know how other stuff out there. them in terms of into a fresh sound, staying true to their jazz gonads much money a week,' She came and sat in with us Yeah, it's better than Bon Jovi. OK, of all nationality. • by retaining an improvisational bent to their gig. one night and she loved the band. She said [she the jazz tunes to cover, why did you guys Their self-titled debut and their recent release, Make wanted] to do it and I said, 'Well, are you sure?' I choose 'Salt Peanuts' for Make Some Liquid Soul plan Some Noise, on the label Ark 21 should be avail­ tried to discourage her [but] she said, 'No this is Noise? able at your local record store. If you like your osv what I really want to do.' It just kinda happened naturally; in fact, the second Canada this crack sweaty, then check out Liquid Soul. So, has her mom heard what you guys half of it, the chocolate covered nut part of it, was summer. Look DiSCORDER'S Hancunt booked up with front mon are doing? actually started first, and then we came into the for them and saxophonist Mars Williams before their No, I don't know if she'd like it or not. I've heard bridge and we were like, bomp ba bomp da, October 15th show at Richard's on Richards. we're like, ah, 'Salt Peanuts' ... :: her mother con be a tyrant. j I A lot of contemporary music today could The band itself, and this is the impression DiSCORDER: Welcome to Dick's on Dicksl be described as hybrid. Do you think that that I got from seeing y'all at Montreal Mars Williams: Ah, that's v/hat it is. this term applies to Liquid Soul? JazzFest, seems to be very active in their You've probably played here before ...? We don't really think obout what we're doing. 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I know that you've played why It's on the website Everybody does contribute, came to us and said, T love your CD,' which with everyone from The Waitresses to The especially more now, to the writing process, They said, 'We want to put it Psychedelic Furs, but still ... [though], I mean, what would you describe as the Yeah, it was. This is my band, you know? This is difference between a collective and a band? s, ond * something new to me, being a bandleader. Well, a collective Is a group where every­ like that. You produc Montreal is a very prestigious festival and with this one shares power equally, whereas a band it's just different, it's a whole different thing,• band with a bandleader has sort of, You have so many new people ii the crowd response, that's the thing ... and, the somebody at the helm, not necessarily your band and t know that NRG ensemble, in Europe we go over great, the enforcing their rule, but... 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I don'f know of freestyles, we [put different beats behind] some guy takes a solo for ten minutes and another guy like Elton John can c 'Yellowback Road' ever J jazz standards, and a couple of songs I had, but takes a solo for tesn rriminute: s - with this, then I started writing more specifically for this kind of fun, there's a rove behind if. The r nwhy night... band. It was a lot looser then, but it kinda estab­ jozz is even rr ioned in style, I think, When we saw you in lished a direction of where the band was going to of the improvi: sn that happer ith the soloists; Montreal, you guys go. We had a lot more people sitting in, which was there's some jazz feel, so ng feel, which goes had so much energy how the band got bigger, because it started as a over top of hip hop beat: Latin flavourings. on-stage. I mean, it

9 &mmmm "'ne Nights On The ^OI^TZB^ 1 Billy Hopeless' Tour Diary, Market Babies! DEC/JAN Thursday, LISTINGS I transcribed by Rich Jones, Monday, September 28th: Cafe Du Nord, San FratKisco, CA October 1st: day off FRIDAY. DECEMBER 11 (Mostly) all photos by Billy Tonight is "Trash Night" at Cafe Du Nord and the Driving, driving and more driving. We make J SHINDIG FINALS: Hopeless. Block Market Babies and The Murder City Devils the mistake of leaving the freeway whenjf FEISTY are alone on a show at last. The atmosphere is lured by a sign promising Dairy Queen T ;riday September 25th: EJ's, Portland OR TEAM STRIKE FORCE 1940s swing/jazz, tres elegant! Every show has and The City Centre Motel just outsid CLOVER HONEY ' v the tour's going great. Wa got past the been better than the last and this one is no Eugene, Oregon. A long, dark road, c o problems or probing qnd exception! The crowd is fully decked-out, dolled- creepy hotel, a house with a statue of a SATURDAY, DECEMBER 12 llarrived at EJ's early enough to eat all the up, and in love with the rock 'n' roll! We meet up witch holding a human head, animal (?) ie grease-enriched bar food we could NEWWAVE-AOKE with our friends in American Heartbreak and then bone windchimes and ( Y stomach We had no competition on after the show we heed down the street to a cool ancient writing on its this show,; even though the threat of verandah, but no MONDAY. DECEMBER 14 rock club called the Lucky 13 Certain members of the Subhumans UK shSeattle's Hai Karate who this is America isn't it? sure were happy to I FIVE-0 TUESDAYS pad the hard taste of playing between ouf rock The scene before leaving cannot be explained find a Motel 6 later " DJ's JASON HOPE ich The due to its personal and graphic nature But I'm sure on A few beers, a GARYPAULr**, ss even though EJ's doesn't si II hard we left our mark on the hangers-on who watched sleqzy Malcolm e (beer only!) and yours truly ' in disbelief. So let me ask you a question, San McDowell movie, and s of his element with beer in hand WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 16 Francisco: What do you do with a drunken sailor? once again I' EL VEZ bela d with Rob. Oooh ^Saturday, September 26th: PCH Club, Long Tuesday, September 29th: Al's Bar, Los Angeles, CA ; % soc/i, CA THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 So this is Al's Bar, the legendary CBGB's of LA *Tb some, the thought of an 18 hour drive UNIT 187 We've seen and heard of its cockroach-infested, Friday, October 2nd: >ckin' rollin' night would be a DSK graffiti-filled room on Humpers albums, ond now The Backroom, Seattle, WA ^nightmare. The van breaks down. The van PUNCH DRUNK we're here. Tonight we're separated from fhe Devils It's good to be back home! Well it 't start. The van blows a tire ... The flies to join our allies the Streefwalkin' Cheetahs and a might as well be home. Tonight we CAUSTIC THOUGHT larded like vultures awaiting our demise, but band called Miss Spiritual Tramp of '48 (an offshoot rejoin our brothers The Murder City inks to our guardian angel "Gabriel," of Lutefisk) The booking agent, Toast (her name) of Devils and make new friends with NYC's FRIDAY. DECEMBER 18 ' the hospitality of Mount Shasta, and a the Ray-O-Vacs (her band), is a sweetheart and finest, The Heartdrops. The place is STRAPPING YOUNG LAD ghetto blaster full of RAWK, we make it keeps us drunk and drinking all night!! Not too busy packed beyond all belief and fortunately RANDOM DAMAGE to the PCH Club on time. tonight, but the crowd does include international our showmanship is at its peak. The crowd TRIKE WIPE-OUT All-ages crusty punks stand outside due to fashion mogul to the stars Janet Planet! She loves cheers every foul word spewed from our I the unbearable heat inside. We were sweaty and VIBRATOR our style and looks forward to working with us! This mouths. Once again, I attempt to give away a T- inky before we'd even played a note! But the is probably our most destructive show to date, but shirt in exchange for a dance and it all goes SATURDAY, DECEMBER 19 [kids appreciated the rawk and, as is traditional there ain't much thotwe could do to this place that awry. A beautiful young lady accepts the shirt, JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE NIGHT shows, they bought lotsa t-shirts! ain't already been done (besides clean it)! But that but she ain't fit to dance so she kisses me on the crawl into bed with Rob in a sleazy would ruin its appeal! cheek and falls off the stage! I later see her Hollywood motel. Oh, this is the good life. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31 While having a trucker-wash in the bathroom, backstage holding a bag of ice to her head, but xlnight... NOISE THERAPY I rrjeet a regular named Frank who was freebasing she's a tough cookie and so I leave her to go JAR "something " Frank offers me a hit but I decline, dance with the boys at the merch counter. WSunday, September 27th: The Garage, Los telling him that I'm already fucked-up on rock V After the Devils rock the asses off the j %Angeles, CA FRIDAY, JANUARY 1 roll crowd, it's off to a house party. We lo %PK kids, I'm sure the thought of me and I don't do that shit," Frank replied, a if it Seattle and have many friends here, so vi CRUST BROTHERS n bed has prepared you, but now it JOHN FORD s the worse of two evils ... hate to leave, but we're really in need < I gets really weird. After sitting around the clean clothes, so tomorrow we must return ^Murder City Devils' swanky pool-side Vancouver. Besides, we still have one moi SATURDAY, JANUARY 2 :abana rooms, we're off to The show left on the 4th... HEMEON Garage for a night called Club Sucker. WITH GUESTS Club Sucker is hosted by a 7-foot Saturday, October 3rd somethin' drag queen named Had a top secret meeting, said goodbye to THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 Vaginal Davis who loves "Caucasian Seattle, and passed the border with no probler DALDILVOG :ock!" A girl comes up on-stage when or probings once again. Oh, it's good to be NAKED FOR JESUS goffered a BMB girly t-shirt, proceeds to home. I love my bed! e right there, and starts accosting me! FRIDAY. JANUARY 8 estly, all I wanted was to dance! Lots Sunday, October 4th: Picadilly Pub, Vancouver, POISON IDEA sof boys and queens told us how much BC WITH GUESTS |L they loved the show and wanted us A good time was had by one and all. The l»to love them back! Vaginal Davis Wednesday, September 30th: Paradise Lounge, place is packed and finally I sing a duet Toffered me her "Gonorrhea" and SATURDAY, JANUARY 9 San Francisco, CA with Spencer from the Murder City Devils! I accepted graciously. It was an ROYAL GRAND PRIX Today we walked down Haight Street, saw some Overall, kids, I think that no matter | .resting drink and an METRONOME COWBOYS stinky hippies, a cow with a mohawk, and Mr. where you are on this earth you wish you ing night not easily forgotten. Magoo in bondage gear! But enough tourist were somewhere else. I'm glad that I've Needless to say, tonight nobody wants WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 13 sights, let's talk about the ROCK! chosen this "career." I'll get to see a lot • to share a bed with me ... M-STRAIN Great club, great bands, great drinks! We're of this world and I'll always love my home WITH GUESTS playing with Billyclub, a great hardcore band when I get back. I called my Mom to t<*" consisting of ex-members of Discharge, The her I was home and about myj FRIDAY, JANUARY 15 Exploited, UK Subs, and REO Speedealer (to name adventures. She told me that I am n 764-HERO just a few)! We're also playing with our friend Billy GAZE Rowe (of Jetboy fame) and his band American I guess we all make our choices: Heartbreak. The band had to turn down a pretty Frank has made his, Vaginal Davis has made his/hers, you've made SATURDAY, JANUARY 16 face or two, but we met lots of great people and FRYER TUCK connections were made. yours, and we've made ours Love and kisses, WITH GUESTS We crashed at Billy Rowe and his beautiful wife Mary Anne's ultra cool rock 'n' roll flat, and Hearts and Aces, discovered that some people make cookies at any Billy Hopeless, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23 A Black Market Baby by choice*. KNOCK DOWN GINGER time, at any cost! VEAL • SATSUMA ffi ^LETS TALK\ 1 _1 ABOUT ) I [ol g FE _P ^tt_JL El>N&s /B M

Mi •> • III .- • _____,-- *%~ S I ^| *i 1 «^ )Mw _. «•* . ..a# :i>- ; I ^^» \ FAX write Por a Prcc catalog oF records shirts and shit -* '^FAT WRECK CHORDS PO BOX 193690 SAN FRANCISCO. CA 94119 BRIAN EVENSON IS QUITE POSSIBLY humour's always pre­ enough dista al of fhe stories in Altmann's Tongue (1994), THE MOST DARING AMERICAN sent. I'd like to be see the potent ial for I listened fo two songs by Einsturzende AUTHOR fo emerge in the last few funny in the same way abuse of power in my Neubauten again and again. And two of the decades. If you're keeping tabs, as Kafka and Beckett, own institution and be stories in that book take their titles from there've been many notable names able fo apply that fo a songs by The Fall. [For] my latest book, that have stirred controversy in and out funny, but in a way larger context. Father of Lies, I kept coming back fo of the literary community — Bret you're not altogether I can't say that know­ Kraufrock, mostly Faust and Can, but also Easfon Ellis, David Foster Wallace, comfortable with. ing I'm Mormon is partic­ newer bands like Slinf. A.M. Homes, Mark Leyner, fo name a Tell me about your ularly helpful to people The newest fiction I've been doing, I've few of the upstarts. These are all great novel. You've writ­ when they read my work. been listening to a lot of electronic stuff, both writers, but none of them have come ten a good number ily it just confuses early and contemporary. I've been listening close to the true horror, fhe alarming of short stories and fher i the to Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV. But I'm humour, and the audacity that Brian there's something doesn't fi: also listening fo Luke Slater [and] DJ Spooky. Evenson has in even his shortest very concentrated in typically Moi Autechre, Merzbow, everything on Colin pieces. Stories about polygamy, killing their delivery that I fions people carry about in Newman's ~swim records label, Speedy J, a cats, killing people, discovering your imagine you had to their heads. Mormon culture lot of stuff on Invisible Records. Also a great, baby dead; stories about mad scien­ deal with when writ­ is so insistent about praising dark, unknown band on Decibel Records tists, feverishly incestuous brothers. He ing something larger. the good and discarding the called Oneiroid Psychosis. I'm not sure has a book of short stories called The r /el i bad, yet af the same time what's going to percolate out of all that yet. Altmann's Tongue (Knopf), a book of Fafh- there are a lot of blind spots How did you get into this type of early stories, Din of Celestial Angels religious leader and inconsistencies — as music and what keeps you interested (Wordcraft), and a novel ouf now and kills a child, and then there is in any institution. in it? Most people lose interest or called Father of Lies (Four Walls Eight about the way in which the Growing up, for instance, I can't find the time to keep up with Windows). Check ouf his freakish power structure tries to protect knew o lot of Mormons who the velocity of change in music. story in thei998 O. Henry Prize itself by keeping his crimes vouldn'f watch an R-rafed In the late-'80s, between years of college, I anthology. (He also has great taste . It's if it hod sex scenes in if, temporarily stumbled info an incredibly lucra­ music.) The following is another of attack on religion as a 3ut had no qualms about wofch- tive job where I had literally no expenses. I those darned e-mail interview! attempt to depict and analyse ig it if it was 'only violent,' al if began buying nine or ten CDs a week. Af the nature of institutional olence was somehow more first I bought only things I had heard or had DiSCORDER: A lot of your stories are power, ihough along with that, ible than sex. Many of my heard of, but soon it became a kind of game. incited by a murder or a dead body, the book moves with a lot ol stories, I think, attempt to resensi- I started buying things af random, the only which reminds me of Hitchcock velocity on the simple level of tize people (myself included) to rules being that I was looking for music that movies in that it sets the audience at plot. It's a sort of thriller, 1 sup­ violence. That's a direct response I'd never heard of before. So, I bought things unease right off the bat. But from pose. It's probably my most read­ ilture. on impulse or for crazy reasons. I bought there you veer away from the tradi­ able book, at least on that simple There isn't a lot of sex ir Einsturzende Neubauten's Halber Mensch tional thriller structure, to where level, but at heart I'd like to think your stories, though. largely because there was a border of feeth fewer variables are known and the it's a schematic of institutional Sometimes there seems to around fhe front cover. I picked up a Severed moral centre isn't as clear. How is power that owe be the threat of it, but it Heads album because it was in fhe bargain death a device for you? Foucault and to anarchist thought. appears almost as a cultural bin, and that got me interested in everything Brian Evenson. I see death as a catalyst I think what you lose when you transgression. that Nettwerk records was putting ouf at the that leads people to act in ways they nor­ move from a novel to a story is that Yes, it's often either oblique or time, which eventually led me to contempo­ mally wouldn't. If you begin with a death, level of concentration. Stories can grotesque or fransgressive. In the rary electronic music. it's unsettling not only because there's an operate as plateaus, with a sus­ novel, there are scenes in which What would you suggest as some inert body present but also because it wipes tained intensity. They can also a husband and wife are in bed, but good reading as far as contempo­ away the moral centre of the world. Things evoke a great deal of ambiguity, no sex scenes except for fhe frans­ rary writing is concerned? that in daily life we can count on no longer can leave the reader suspended in gressive. I have written some pieces I like Beth Nugent and James Purdy's work a have their stability. My characters, confront­ the flux. A novel, by necessity, has in which sex is more present in a more great deal. I think they're both in a very orig­ ed by the absence of stability, tend to rise to hills and valleys. It demands a differ­ approachable fashion, but haven't inal space. I like David Foster Wallace's the surface of their skins, acting more often ent sort of flux, at least a few stable managed to quite get it fo work the essays more than his stories or novels, buf than thinking and almost never feeling; sus­ spots to stand. At th< way I want. In any case, as a writer I think most of his writing has something to pending moral codes while trying to find a think the novel, especially the short nterested in the frans­ offer. I like Walter Abish's How German Is non-existent stability. Once things are in that novel, allows a philosophical explo­ gressive, because I think it's in the trans- It?, which I think is one of the best novels of destabilized space, you have two choices as ration that the short story can't gressive that human action comes ouf in the last few decades. Thomas Bernhard is an author. Either you can try to re-establish age. It allows you to think about ifs purest, most desperate form. one of my favourites—he's Austrian and stability, which is what thrillers do, or you identity in a way that the story can only I know you do work as a music writes novels with no paragraph breaks. Buf can try to destabilize further, try to reach reviewer on the sly; has your I also read people like Andrew Vachss and some point of sublimity in drawing nearer to Writing a criticism of institutional taste in music filtered into your James Ellroy. I think Don Delillo's novels are chaos. A story like 'The Sanza Affair' is power with religion as the sus­ work? I'm thinking about the very good as well, and I'm quite fond of Ben essentially a thriller turned inside out, where pect institution, from your per­ similarities in technique between Marcus's The Age of Wire and String. That's possibilities are multiple and anything you spective, must carry a lot of your writing and say, the very at least a start. think you know at the start dissolves and personal weight. How has being dark, emotionless stuff by Third So, why do you write? never comes back together. Mormon affected your writing and Eye Foundation or Panasonic. I don't write for any grand social reasons; Many of your stories share a similar the way people understand your Music has always been very important to my reasons are mostly subconscious and per­ sense of humour, very deadpan and writing? me. I listen to it when I write and revise; in sonal, perhaps selfish. It gives me a certain very dark. How important is humour It does carry a lot of personal weight. For fact, I often listen fo fhe same album again satisfaction that I can't get fron* jny other to your work? several years, 1 was in a leadership role in and again when I write a particular story, It serves in some ways as a balance for (or the local Mormon congregation, so I had and i've tended toward darker sounds and ijoyable activity for me as an intense one relief from) the darker aspects of my fiction, the chance to see the way a hierarchy func- repetitive sounds a great deal, like and a satisfying one that helps challenge the in other ways as a device to augment the she Panasonic and Third Eye Foundation and way that I am in the world, what I believe. I darkness. It's restrained and deadpan, but as, which has given rr their precursors. When I was writing sever­ like the risk of that. • DiSCORDER: Let's start with some bio­ Okay. So you went to Australia — is were with this person, Glen Thrasher, and this girls and a couple guys [were] staring at me graphical information. this where you met the Tren Bros.? guy from Matador would call him and ask us if [and] it made me so uncomfortable. I finished Cot Power; My name is C-H-A-R-L-Y-N Marie No, I met them in New York two and a half we wanted to play shows. I didn't know that it the soundcheck and I ran away to the i Marshall, buf when I was in sixth grade I took years earlier. In New York, we played a show was the boss from Matador and I quit for a They knew everybody and they were all the C-H-A-N out and made it easier: Chan with Mick and Jim — from Dirty Three, the gui­ year because this drummer friend of mine had er. I was a lot more shy back then. [pronounced like 'Shawn']. And I was born tarist and the drummer — who are the Tren to leave New York. So I didn't play for a year. Steve and Tim walked up to me and said, January21, 1972. Aquarius. Bros. I met them in Boston and New York and I got a phone call on my answering 'We really liked your song, what's the name of Aquariusl I hear that you went to I jokingly, without anticipating a reality behind machine one day: I came home from work and your band? Where are you from? How old are Africa. it, asked if they would play on my next record there was a message from Sharon Topper who you? How long have you been playing music? That was a long time ago. It'll be two years this and they said, 'Yeah, yeah, yeah.' But through is from God Is My Co-pilot. She left a message Do you live in New York? Come out for din­ January. developing this relationship, I went crazy and saying, 'Chan, you are supposed to play ner.' So we all walked outside and went walk­ And apparently it was a life changing had this bad dream and wrote all these songs tonight at CBGB's gallery.' So I opened up the ing around. I'd never heard Liz Phair's music experience. after eight months of not playing music. Then I Village Voice and I saw that my name was before and I asked Sonic Youth's light person, It was different. I've never seen homeless chil­ thought maybe I should do this again, 'cause I there and I was supposed to play in 15 min­ 'Are you Liz Phair?' I totally didn't know any­ dren before, people who lived with contami­ felt different about things. utes. There were only four people [who[ actu­ thing and they were laughing at me and I felt nated wafer. It does something to you. You ally liked me when I used to play so I thought I so stupid. I heard them say right after that say, learn something you never knew before. Interlude: Sound check. should go 'cause they're going to pay and I'm 'Yeah, well Thurston and Kim.' And I thought, So after this, you started to write the not going to be there. So I went and played 'Oh, no' and then I realized that it was Steve songs for your new album? Are there going to be any Smog/Cat this show by myself. I never thought I'd ever Shelly — Steve from Sonic Youth — so I was After this, I did not ever want fo play music Power amalgamation albums? 'cause they kept on [telling] me, 'You should like, 'Fuck.' Then I didn't talk fo anybody. again. I didn't want to play music at all, quite When we were living together in South really play by yourself.' I thought I would never Then I went and played the show. After the the opposite. Coming back from this experi­ Carolina, sometimes we would get so bored do that. It was like, fuck, responsibility, and it show, I get off stage and I'm trying to concen­ ence, I didn't care at all and I'm still maintain­ that there was nothing to do. I mean, we had was Cat Power solo so I went down, got my trate and Steve walks up and says, 'I wanna ing that feeling towards the luxury of music. So already gone to fhe lake, we had already gone guitar 15 minutes later, and played. put out a record.' Then the stage manager I came back and lived in the country and did­ to the forest, we had already fed the animals, Then that night, there was a message on my comes out and says, 'Do you want to go back n't listen to music and didn't like the association so we would make sounds and make little answering machine [from] Gerard, the boss at on?' and he lifts the curtains and everybody is of myself with being a musician because I songs and stuff. I don't know if we'll ever play Matador, who was saying, 'I didn't know that standing up and banging on stuff. I started cry­ never really sought to be a musician. together. I mean, I'd love to, of course. As he you were playing tonight, I can't believe that ing. I went to get my friends backstage and I Coincidental things led me to where I am right would too! you didn't call me.' He said, 'Do you want fo pulled back the curtain where they were and now — it was never a conscious agenda. But no plans in the works? open up for Liz Phair? You'll get paid $200, these five guys run up and they're like, 'Can Coming back from Africa, I realized that there No, not at all. [but] you're not going to be on the bill. If you we ask you some questions? You're so ama* was no reality in the music world. A lot of the How did you meet Steve Shelly? want to play, you won't be advertised at all.' I ing!' One of the guys says, 'My professor g< critical perspective of what's good and what's Well, when I first moved to New York, I moved was like, wow, 200 bucks. me your CD and I just love it.' I said, Tm nof Liz not good is so judgmental. in with a drummer friend of mine and we So I go down there and I walk [for] sound- Phair,' and they were all like, 'Oh.' They all So you went to Australia with Bill played shows as a duo every now and then. check. It was a huge hall wifh glamorous seats. turned around and walked away. All those peo­ Callahan, I read. Is this true? His friend, who I didn't know, was the boss at I never really played for more than maybe 50. ple who paid $18.75 to go and see Liz Phair This seems like gossip! Yes, it's true! I love him. Matador Records. Our shows in New York I look over when I'm soundchecking and these didn't even know who she was. Isn't that sad.* BYSHAIVAJNDERMEER sm&mm DISCORDER: What are you hoping to Sure. We had a door guy tell people at a show per. If your orientation towards an issue is hos­ decent reactions ... accomplish with your music? that we were Christian rock and then they did­ tile and hard-line, it's usually ineffective. If they David: With that band, their popularity grows David: I think that all the different arts have a n't come in. We're subject to some of that stuff, want someone to know where they're coming the more they distance themselves from religion. way that they communicate information that is but I think it's the lowest common denominator. from, they should lower their voices. I think that world religions are fashionable, but intrinsic within the art. Music has a specific way People that have a brain in their head can see You had an EP on Tooth & Nail Christianity is never fashionable. that it communicates information, different than what's happening: that no one's trying to tell Records. What is your experience with Josh: You can never be accepted, really, by a painting or a poem, approaching us on a dif­ anyone else what to do. The object is discus­ that label? everybody, as a Christian. ferent level. There are several ways that we sion and getting to the bottom of things. We're David: We were never technically on the David: I think that it's because the Christian understand information, and art presents it to not saying, 'You need to get your stuff together label, we just did a one-off. We talked to them Church has probably been the most offensive our minds in a covert way. In acknowledging in the way that [we] think is right.' For the most for a little while about being on their label, but organized institute in American history to any­ that, knowing that if I'm true to the creative part, I think people understand what's going ultimately, there were a few things, business- body. Contrary to what scripture has to say, it's process, hopefully my music will be able to wise, that made us nervous. There wasn't a lot so exclusive and judgemental. I've had a prob­ communicate with people on the level that it Do the members of your band all hold they could say to ease our minds on certain lem with it because you just feel like you're has to me all my life. the same belief system? issues, so we tried to distance ourselves from going to get hammered for stuff and that's con­ Lyrically, is it important that your Josh: We all consider ourselves Christians. We them business-wise and just remain friends. I trary to what the Bible actually says. Somehow, beliefs be understood by your listen­ don't all have the same exact beliefs. A lot of have thoughts about what they do, but that's Christians have been getting it wrong for years ers? Do you think they will get more times we end up talking stuff out, not necessar­ not ultimately important. We didn't sign with and years, so there's a good reason why from the music if they know where ily arguing, but we're not like robots who say, them because we were nervous about the busi- [Christianity] is never going to be accepted by you're coming from? 'Yes.' We'll talk to each other, saying stuff like, the nation at large. We were just talking about this today. There's 'I don't believe that!' or 'I really believe this!' ... What do you have in common with I was wondering where you're at, spir­ this song on the record called 'When They Real­ that's about anything, Christianity or otherwise. your tour-mates [Jets to Brazil, Promise itually. I admire the fact that you can ly Get to Know You They Will Run,' and some What do you think of bands like Earth Ring]? refer to God as 'Dad' in your songs; [people] have questioned what I'm trying to say Crisis? They're trying to get their mes­ David: We're only doing a few shows with that's something a lot of Christians in the song. To me, it's not as important that sage across ... them ... not a whole lot! would not ever really be able to do. Is they know what I'm trying to say as that they Josh: I've only heard things about them. I'm Josh: I think that we appeal to the same kids. this something you've worked are presented with information which causes sure that they're very good at hardcore and If we don't now, after the show most of them through? them to think and grapple with an issue. If I can that they're very militant. go away happy. We're not like the other bands David: With most of those songs, there are a cause them to take a second look at something A lot of people are offended by that. stylistically, but I think that all three bands are lot of parallels and metaphors and most of it ... everything's so relative these days, so open Josh: If anyone were like that, even if I agreed fairly thoughtful bands, lyrically and musically. has been based on factual events. In the Bible, to interpretation, that I can't hope that every­ with them, I would think they were wrong in try­ We're not three-chord pop or distortion, not that there's such a clear picture of Him as a paternal body's going to understand my point of view, ing to impose their views on everybody. Every­ that's bad ... and also maternal figure. The ultimate goal with but I think that by being honest, they'll get body has a right to be different. David: We can't really pull off the energy and what the Bible claims as Christianity is a per­ accosted somehow by my message, whether David: That's the key with any belief system. If the rock that the other bands do. sonal intimacy. This relationship is in many dif­ they know where I'm coming from or not. I you have to force your beliefs on somebody, I Josh: So far it's been good. All the crowds ferent forms and one of those is definitely a think that it causes people to think. I've heard think it's ineffective. If you really believe in what have been really receptive and supportive. I maternal/paternal relationship. lyrics in the past where I wasn't sure where the you're doing, you'll figure out the most effec­ thought that maybe half the people would walk Is 'Big Trucks' your own version of a person was coming from, but that made it more tive way to bring it to people. Not to slip it in or away, or ask, 'When's Promise Ring gonna parable? thought-provoking, as it wasn't just easy to anything like that, or to get it in behind their play?' but it hasn't happened. David: Yeah, in a lot of ways. I enjoyed the lit­ agree or disagree. I'd have to think about what backs, but to present it to people where there's David: Last night, we went out on a limb and erary tool of a parable as it appears in the they were saying and play both sides [of the not a smokescreen. If I'm yelling at somebody, opened with a really mellow song and every­ Bible and I think it's a great way to deal with argument] to see what I think. It's not totally barriers go up instantly, and any chances of body stuck around. I'm not really sure why, things that are hard to pin down. It can make important that people understand my point of speaking rationally with them are over, unless though. If I was a kid, I may not have. things more practical. 'Big Trucks' has a father view, but it helps sometimes. you back off and present your case in a less- Do you consider religion fashionable trying to explain something to his son in terms Have you had any bad press or bad offensive way It just boils down to believing in right now? There are bands like MxPx he might understand. The kid still doesn't get it, luck due to your honesty? what you're doing and wanting to see it pros­ doing it punk-style who are getting which is generally the way things happen.

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14 Dec 98/JAK 99 Josh: But 'Big Trucks' is your dad ... body else seemed to be buying into, and I Before you go, do you have a David: Well, yeah, it is more horizontal, hav­ ended up with a really distorted view of God, favourite book or verse of the Bible? ing more to do with a specific situation that my one that I was unhappy with. In the song, it's David: At this point, the book of Romans, ond dad and I went through that I turned into a fic­ like, 'This is messed up;' it's personal, in that it the book of Galatians have been so helpful to tional story. deals with me not being able to get past Chris- me, in seeing my way through all of the Who are your musical role models? untruths that I was passed on while growing Did you listen to Christian music grow­ I sat through your CD with my ultra- up. The misunderstandings that I had about ing up? Baptist brother and in this song you how things worked, having to keep all my stuff Josh: I never did. I didn't know anything about talk about bracelets ... are those the ... together — those two books helped me to see Christian music until I came out to Seattle about David: WWJD bracelets? Yeah. It's been a the real order of operations, as far as faith in four years ago. There were all these '80s struggle, because I don't want to offend peo­ Jesus Christ goes. They've been immensely bands that I liked, like Rick Springfield, but the ple, but at the same time, in a parallel that I'd helpful in seeing what everything else says, in first thing I remember really caring about was need to wear a bracelet to remind me that I how righteousness is not about us performing Def Leppard. love my girlfriend and to do what she asks me by a set of rules. David: Hysteria? to do, as far as treating her well ... It boggles So you'd be more an advocate of self- Josh: Pyromania. I'm a little older... my mind — it's not reality! According to what motivated religion? You're not into David: In the house that I grew up in, we the Bible says, our relationship wilh Him is sup­ organized religion? weren't allowed to listen to non-Christian posed to be a lovers' relationship. Intrinsically, I need other people around me with similar music. By Grade nine or ten, there wasn't real­ if it's real, if that doesn't move me to live how I beliefs. Clinging to any sort of denominational ly anything that turned my crank. When I got should, then how will a bracelet, a marketing lines I think is totally bogus, but getting togeth­ into high school, I got a bit of a reprieve as far ploy, [do it]? It's just such a slap in the face to er with people who have similar beliefs is just as that rule went. The first bands that I remem­ me, a picture of duty, of things to keep track of natural. It's about being honest with people ber listening to and caring about were Fugazi and things to help remind you of them... and not being in conflict all of the time. People and the Violent Femmes. My girlfriend had this 'You're not really ever going to get to know are coming from totally different directions — Fugazi record and I was really intrigued by it. Him or talk about stuff, so don't worry and just you need to be with people who are coming Without ever really knowing anything about use this' — it drove me crazy that this idea is from the same foundations so that you can the music, I started playing in hardcore bands. so widely accepted by people. It broke my work towards a better understanding It's I played the drums and my friends always heart. It can't be like that. It's not what I want, important to hang out with other Christians, needed a drummer, so I played and I enjoyed and I don't think that's what He wants. That's because they have an understanding about cer­ it. A lot of the people I know are Christian and what drove that song, [asking] am I serving a tain things. But it's also important for us to get have issues with Christian culture. I've come to god that is based on a bracelet? The answer I away from that too, as it can get wear ing grips, working through my ideology, and have came up with is no; there's got to be something [because] certain Christians don't have that come to the opinion that there's nothing valid else. understanding, confusing things that could be or good about a separate Christian culture. In 'Promise,' you're talking about so clear if they took off the blinders of culture.* [The Christian music scene] is not a healthy wanting a belief 'with long sleeves' subculture at all and I think it's to the detriment because it's 'unpredictable.' Where are of most Christians, contrary to what most think. you coming from? In your song where you deal with David: I was using the metaphor [to express] your experiences with the Church keeping my bases covered. Everybody's ['Secret of the Easy Yoke'], where are always trying to keep their bases covered. It's you coming from? a picture of wishy-washiness. David: This particular experience is fictional, but is based so closely on feelings that I had. Informed that they're playing in 5 minutes, Basically, what I projected on God for so many without a soundcheck, I skip to the chase a years is what I saw around me and what every­

! I , ??>**f"{« 9 • y**f * *> * 9-»» K W/'fh the recent explosion ofJapa­ type of sound. nese pop, Fantastic Plastic Ma­ Are there some parts of the chine becomes one of the large songs where you use real pieces of shrapnel to slice right instruments as opposed through the conventional ideas of to samples? what pop should sound like. Fan­ you listening to back then? else, but it's not at all hard to find bands are you listening to? It WAS cheesy! But it was a lot of In some of the songs there are no tastic Plastic Machine is the brain­ I enjoyed bossa nova, sound­ in Shibuya-ku. Everything! I like Brit-pop, drum fun because you don't often get samples at all. Synthesizers and child of one Tomoyuki tracks, and some soul mu- What are some of your fa­ V bass ... you name it! to experience something like that. other instruments are used as well. Tanaka. An experi­ fck^ sic. Not really much dif­ vourite soundtracks? How about punk? At one point, the dancers stopped Right now, Fantastic Plastic enced dj and mu- ferent than the things There are so many, it's difficult for Yeah, one of my favourites is the dancing because they couldn't un­ Machine's style of music I listen to now. me to decide. The Thomas Crown British punk band, Snuff. Some­ derstand or relate to a certain seems to be very popular - '80s, Tanaka How about Affair ['60s film starring Steve times when I'm dj'ing, I'll play one song I was playing. During the - it has that retro feel to it. has always new wave? McQueen and Faye Dunaway] of their records. show I kept on thinking to myself, Is that just a passing fad, been ahead of Of course! and Raumpattroille ['60s German 'What am I doing here?' or if it isn't, how do you How has the reception to his time for is I remember a sci-fi TV series] are some great [laughs] Well, at least it think it will evolve? your shows been on this it behind the Japanese new ones. However, right now, I'm was good exposure, even Retro is kind of a tricky word here. North American tour, so times?). His wave band looking for soundtracks from TV if a few people caught the If you're talking about retro in far? continual devo­ from the '80s broadcasts, music that's made for show and really got into terms of '60s and now early '70s tion to film sound­ called The Plas­ movie companies, TV and movie This is my first time in North your music and then went music being used a lot, this will tracks from the '60s tics ... library music. It's very difficult to America [and] I was honestly and bought your record. probably continue. So when you and an affection I Yes. They were great! find. Some of it was written by thinking that the reception would Can you briefly explain talk about the word retro, it's a modern electronic sounds There's a record in progress very famous people, but it just be very cold and the audiences how you create your mu­ different type of retro. On the makes for a musical lovechild right now, which is a tribute to wasn't known by the public. and the atmosphere would be a sic? other hana, you also get people The Plastics. Various [Japanese] How do you feel about your that's somewhere between Astrud bit cheesy. But I was pleasantly There's several ways of doing it. who are listening to the music for bands are recording their versions Japanese contemporaries, Gilberto and early '80s Kraftwerk surprised to see my music well- Basically, I take older music and the first time and to those people, of the songs. bands like Pizzicato Five, with the recent album, By Fantas­ Speaking of cheesy, you ap­ reconstruct it into segments and it is new music. Even though mu­ Cornelius, Buffalo Daughter, tic Plastic Machine. Much like When did you begin dj'ing? peared on MuchMusic's make it into pop songs. There's sic from the past is used, it is still etc.? Japanese contemporaries Pizzi­ When I was in Margarine Strikes Electric Circus when you no real rule of thumb and that's new and rignt now and in the fu­ cato Five, Fantastic Plastic is Back, I bought a turntable to use It's not as if we stick together and were in Toronto — how did where the difficulty is in testing ture, I will continue to concentrate adept at making exceptionally for related band things and itwas we're bosom buddies, but we do that go? different methods to produce that on making music sound new.* cool kitsch to tap your toes to that at that point I started dj'ing. I had keep in touch and respect each isn't quite lounge and not neces- done some dj'ing in some clubs other. We do follow each others' sarily

>w, and this tete-a-tete transpired: and disc ; but didn't start do- actions and support each other ally until 1992. in our respective styles as we be­ DiSCORDER: Tell me about Afthat time, I wa ted to start play- come known in other parts of the the Shibuya-ku scene in Ja­ ing the type of nusic that other world. pan. peopl playing so I Japanese pop bands seem Fantastic Plastic Machine: started a sound system \ to be becoming more and Shibuya-ku is the name of a city djs called Sound Impossible, more popular with North [it's a ward of Tokyo — there are where we played only sound­ American and European au­ 23 wards in Tokyo], It's a very tracks from the '60s. diences. What are your special and unusual place, not It sounds, perhaps, as if it views on the recent interest only in Japan but in the world. only appealed to a certain and the 'exportation' of For example, if there was a record audience ... Japanese music? you have been looking for for ten At first it was something new and I've played in Europe about five years, you would find it there as it took time to catch on. It didn't times now and one thing I feel is long as you have the money. have the rhythm that people are that it's not about nationalities or Shibuya-ku has music, fashion accustomed to nowadays be­ difference of countries when writ­ and information from any age, cause it's the music from genera­ ing or performing music. It's more any type, and any country. There tions ago. But what I'm doing now about when I'm traveling to cities are at least a hundred record with Fantastic Plastic Machine is like Berlin or Amsterdam — that shops within a very small area. taking music from back then and it's just a plane ride away — and The music that is produced by the adding present beats to it. I'm not really concentrating on people who live there and buy What were the other djs in Japanese culture or the Japanese their music from there is consid­ Japan playing in 1992? aspect of it or that I create Japa- ered Shibuya-ku type of music. Acid This style is influenced by the di­ Jc verse cultures and music from that location. Shibuya-ku is the focal point of music within Japan as popular, they have all the resources there, we'd be looking for all sorts of and from that point the different soundtracks, Brazilian jazz, and

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IT E^SSUSS dub glory. However, the real sur­ but it is, as with most music of its whole cities under its weight. prise and that which brought me genre, merely a soundtrack for Reina Aveja's vocalist, who, if her the elucidation of moral mes­ photograph is to be believed, is Lungleg's contribution, the sages. Perhaps hardcore is the a rather small, dreadlocked marvelous "Krayola." I know true manifestation of modern woman with the eyes of a de­ what you're thinking: "Lungleg? Gothicism — after all, what could mented, rabid bat, has the voice 7 Those Scottish minxes? But they be more Gothic than "a sacred of death. Quite simply, I've never inch never wrote a song over one union signed in blood?" English heard such an astoundingly Sa­ BY THE INVISIBLE CLAIRE minute forty?! They're a punk majors are encouraged to write tanic hardcore/death metal voice novelty act!" Think again! and refute my thesis. (Bad Taste, come from a member of the fair Stora Sodergatan 38, 222 23 sex. (Probe, PO Box 5068, he half-foot high stack of 45s which greeted me on plumbing problems over moody "Krayola" made me instantly en­ vision the following scenario: the Lund, Sweden) Pleasanton, CA, 94566) my latest visit to the CiTR Music Department was in atmospherics. His voice ranges from deep angsty growl to shriek- Banshees, circa 1980, decide Winnipeg label Permafrost SLINGSHOT EPISODE deed a sight for sore eyes. Not having the money, T opera falsetto, but all this dra­ to do the disco thing. Siouxsie present Self-Portrait, the first make exceptionally good pop- time, or energy to seek out reviewable items myself, I rely matic detailing merely makes the is requested to tone down her in a series of 7" compilation punk in the vein of Tilt. It takes upon their provisions. When the influx of short vinyl slows subject matter — namely, a leaky vocal acrobatics and a brilliant records SILVER SCOOTER talent to stretch the pop-punk for­ to a trickle, my enthusiasm declines and with it, too, the pipe and how much it needs fix­ dance platter is born. Ecstasy, have improved a great deal since mat beyond three minutes, some­ pure ecstasy — a song to swan I last lambasted their indie-pop thing this band does with ease. quality of my writing. It had been so long since I'd wit­ ing — even funnier. The other three songs, in particular "I Heard around your room while lip- technique. "If nonsense only Their lady singer sings very well; nessed such a bounty of new music that my initial reaction the Chickens," synching. knew" is an excellent pop song moreover, she is way cute. "Dead was suspicion — it must be crap. Strangely enough, I have which features lu- (South­ and wins them a big chunk of re­ Air To Deaf Ear" features three yet to find anything in this new windfall that is not, at the ern, PO spect in my mind. EVIE do the unstoppable, loud songs that very least, interesting. Out of my desire to stockpile against scratchy, cluttery, '60s-influenced don't sacrifice intelligence to en­ a drier season, this edition of Seven Inch will be no longer "Before" with naive charm. ergy. (What Else? PO Box 341 1, "Missed Out," by HUSHFEED, Dayton, OH, 45401) than usual. However, signal to noise is up, up, up. I sense (Corpusse, c/o 689 Queen St. is neat wall-of-noise indie rock Three boys from Lethbridge, an imbalance in the force. West, Box 171, with bratty but cool vocals. OR­ Alberta, collectively called THE THE BANGS single Maggie the high-energy it might short out your Toronto, ON, ANGE GLASS, although per­ UNAMEDS (how does one pro­ Cat, with its extraordinarily col­ stereo, so be warned. (10-in-l, M6J 1E6) haps the best known of all these nounce that? Oo-na-meds? Un- ourful jacket and peach-hued vi­ 508 Legion Way #4, Olympia, Ecstasy, pure bands, impressed me the least; name-eds?), have released a sin­ nyl, invites you inside for some WA, 98501) ecstasy. Yes, THE "Same Old Flame" is nice, but gle, Them and We, which repre­ ultra-amplified, manic rock and Laughter is rarely invoked by MAKE-UP are hardly exceptional. This single is sents mighty loud, cluttery, math­ roll. The title track on this three- this particular medium — ennui, good; they've on lovely clear vinyl and would ematical rock. Mathematical is songer is a tribute to Bangs bass­ yes; annoyance, yes; joy, yes. cleaned up their make a nice addition to any rainy perhaps a somewhat misleading ist Maggie Vail who, if we are to However, nothing has made me sound quite a bit day radio program. (Permafrost, i rhythmic to the believe her praisers and fellow laugh as hard as "Hot Water in the past few years and if its cornucopia of lyrical fixations. 341 Parkmanor Blvd., Winnipeg, poin of bandmates, is one of the hippest Pipe," the second song on the they're still a bunch of arrogantly Hardcore likes Big Moral Con­ MB, R2V 4H5) Unameds' songs are long and chicks around. Sarah Utter, gui­ CORPUSSE EP, Fan Favorite, weird brats, you can't really cepts: Unity, Trust, Truth, Sacri­ If you like your activist women epic in scope. If you put tarist and primary singer, yelps since, well, ever. I very nearly blame them. "Pow! To The Peo­ fice, Pain, Respect, Good versus loud and evil, then REINA Nomeansno into a blender, and howls like she was born to gave myself a stomach ulcer lis­ ple," on the new and absolutely Evil. MISCONDUCT, from Swe­ AVEJA might be the band for something this noble and fucked it. Co-vocals are shared on tening to Corpusse (a bizarre stunning Make-up/LUNGLEG den, treat all of these grand you. Bee Complex is a slow, up might emerge. (Unameds, c/ "Lights Out" between Sarah and creature apparently hailing from split single, is nothing short of themes on Signed in Blood. The heavy, Melvins-inspired three- o 92 Lemoyne Crescent, drummer Jesse. This record is so Toronto) pontificating about his anthemic in all of its funky, slick music is grandiosely hardcore, song EP which conspires to crush Lethbridge, AB, T1K4A5)*

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This issue's column was short articles with one or two small press/underground publish­ going to be devoted to zines that ride the fence separating the inter­ photos) and no filler, Slampiece ing. The zine itself is generously is a delicious relief from the com­ computer printed. He also runs W net and the print medium. But the influx of print zines this month has mon mess and chaos of fanzines. Midnight Owl Records, "the indie demanded that I give them my first and foremost attention. Granted, a couple of If nothing else, order it for the label that gives a hoot," and he them have websites, but their existences rely more heavily on photocopies and super-goofy computer-drawn car­ heads up Midnight Owl Graph­ toon on the back cover of each ics & Promotions: "high quality snail mail. So let's move! issue. I couldn't access their web work at indie prices." Oh, and page at the time of writing this don't forget the website, featur­ MY MOON OR MORE his campfire talks, to the drunken on, presumably, the UVic station. as their server seemed to be ing more information about the #1, $1, 8 1/2X5 1/2,40 frat boy obsessed with his pre­ With all this under their belt, I down, but I'd recommend seeing bands on his CD comp of BC pages sumed Irish heritage There are have to give these guys some it because they seem to be quite indie rock, which you can have In the utopia that is zineland, it's lots of strange and funny reprints credit, as they must be doing electronically-oriented, (c/o Lara thrown in with your copy of MM hard to justify being "ripped off," from medicaLtype sources, including something right Their report and and Liz, 28A Golhurst Terrace, for $ 1 2. If you're going to order because really, it was this rag or a puberty manual to giggle at. Cullen photo-documentation of a road London, NW6 3HU, UK, this zine, do it now because I a pack of gum, right? Still, we and co. ain't no wussies; there's trip through BC was fairly amus­ , are all concerned with getting the angst here, but it's clever, sparing ing. As sloppy as this rag is, freespace.virgin.net/ best value for our meager zine angst. In the utopia lhat is zineland, you can tell that the "editorial slampiece. inc/home.html) budget, and I'm convinced that my friends, this zine is the most excit­ staff" get a real kick out of THANKS ro ALL WHO'VE SENT IN ZINES SO FAR! My Moon or More, with its ing thing to fall from the sky in some making this and that's a big MIDNIGHT MESSENGER: PLEASE KEEP FUELING STAPLEGUN SHOWDOWN card-stock cover and ace quality, Hme. (c/o Cullen Carter, 824 Or­ part of what zine-making is all The Underground Maga­ is one heck of a good deal. I al­ ange St, River Falls, Wl, 54022, about. Still, it's a "you had to zine — Music and News WTTH YOUR PROJECTS! ways like a nice layout and this ) be there" zine that is probably Vol.1 Issue 1, $3 black & 920 P&* STREET, KAMLOOPS, BC, one's so delicious, it's practically best read when intoxicated or white, $6 colour, 8 1/2 X V2C3AZ edible. Cullen has compiled 40 THE REAL DEAL overtired and giggly. (1692 11, 44 pages pages of highly entertaining writ­ free!, 20 pages, 8 1/2X11 Chandler, Victoria, BC, V8S The Midnight Messenger is REMEMBB?, V I DON'T GET ZWES, YOU DON'T GET ing. You'll find a slew of well-de­ This zine really bewilders me. It's 1N6, ) a large music zine that lightly REVIEWS, AND IF THERE ARE NO REVIEWS, NO ONE GETS picted, odd characters who've messy, full of errors and extreme covers various non-major label crossed paths with the MMOM silliness. Despite this, The Real SLAMPIECE bands (I wouldn't call them all SUGGSOJ WHAT WOUUJ A _»* BE WTIHOUT LOTS or staff — from the camp counselor Deal has existed for seven issues, #3+4, $2, 24 pages, 8 1/2 "underground"), including Bif BAD REVIEWS BACKING IT UP? friend who, by the end of the sum­ count 'em, seven. Furthermore, Naked, Sloan, Mystery by 5 1/2 (approx) ^ Tm. NEXT TIME, MOCK ON. , mer, is smoking up before giving they have their own radio show A charming UK music fanzine Machine, Kittens, The cerned, is one of those guys cially since she executes such with the band swapping instru­ who's obviously got talent and numbers as "I'm Gonna Live the ments, was a fun way to end taste, but who'll never quite "get Life I Sing About in My Songs" the evening. The whole night Real Live there." He's a proficient guitar­ with such extraordinary passion was an enjoyable opportunity ist, but not a great one; he's an and intensity. She performed a to drink suds, hang with friends, OK vocalist, but not an excep­ song in Italian ... beautiful, as and enjoy live music — some­ tional one; and he doesn't have was her rendition of "Gloomy thing that is sadly rare in this Action the charisma to be the kind of Sunday." She seemed consider­ performer that truly moves you. ably more blues-inflected in style Justin Callison LIVE REVIEWS His set picked up a little steam at this stage in her career, hav­ when he brought out "the kid" ing moved a distance from the ROCK AGAINST APEC II: BANG ON A CAN ALL- clothes and sweat. Screaming reading's veneer of youthful rebel­ to do some skin-pounding for shrieking, funereal madwoman FOLK THE POLICE STARS poetry. That's what I pictured lion. him. "The kid" looked like he of "Plague Mass" and "Litanies Tuesday, November 24 Sunday, October 18 when I thought of Henry Alexis read from Childhood, was about 14 and he was one of Satan," perhaps more of an Pit Pub, UBC Arts Club Theatre Rollins and "spoken word." In­ his most recent work, which was of those deceiving types that accomplished musician, but still Rock and activism united at the Intended to be a one-time event, stead, I got No-neck Hank walk­ nominated for the 1998 Ciller doesn't really look like he's do­ with the same burning core, still APEC legal defense fundraiser, Bang On A Can was started in ing on stage wearing pleated Prize. Coady read from her novel ing much of anything, but he the same vocal range that "Rock Against APEC II: Folk the 1986 in New York by artistic di­ pants and "hard shoes." I saw a Strange Heaven. Toews MC'ed certainly lent a little misty moun­ reaches to Heaven while stand­ Police." A sizable audience rectors/composers Julia Wolfe, stand-up comedy show. the event and read a passage tain hop to the proceedings. ing in Hell (indulge me). turned out to hear a varied mix David Lang and Michael Gordon. So what the hell did he talk from Summer of my Amazing Firewater came out soon The audience was extraor­ of musical acts that included It originated to offer respite from about for three hours? His act­ Luck, and Smith shared a passage afterwards and rocked the dinary. I've seen that venue as The Raging Grannies, Full what Wolfe calls a "polarized" ing career, his affinity for jerking from his new work, Noise. house even harder and more crowded before, but rarely filled Sketch, Scum Element, Hog and "not fun" climate for New off, his views on women, his ado­ Smith affirmed that he does convincingly than they had a with an air of such worshipful Tied, MOTORAMA, The Music in New York City at the lescent memories with Ian not deliberately cultivate an atti­ few months ago when they adulation. My prime source of Malchiks and The Flying time. According to Wolfe, the MacKaye, his worldly travels - tude in his writing. He blamed the opened for The Jesus Lizard, discontent with the evening lay Folk Army. Organized by present line-up, which came to­ - you know, real, ordinary "young and restless" label on but unfortunately there were in the extreme brevity of the Nathan Allen and Caleb gether in 1992, are "the best play­ things. If the anecdote he was pure hype. "The media is ob­ very few on-hand, and for some performance, starting at the Sigurgeirson, the event earned ers" since the festival started, thus telling wasn't as funny as he'd sessed with this idea of edge," reason there were even fewer crack of 8pm and clocking in nearly 1,000 dollars for the in­ the title Bang On A Can All- like it to be, all he'd have to say Smith said. He was emphatic that by the show's end. Fuck, see­ at exactly 55 minutes. For her dependently-funded student ac­ Stars. was "dick" and the crowd would if edge is apparent in his latest ing shows in Vancouver can be to make an appearance i tivists embroiled in the RCMP's Although the All-Stars have ejaculate with laughter. He seems novel, it is merely a reflection of frustrating sometimes and this city is I felt -A had public complaints commission several recordings, they have re­ like a pretty good guy. But some­ how he sees and experiences was definitely one of those lehow cheated to ha\ ceived the most recognition for how, I felt that he kept contradict­ things, rather than the result of a shows. Firewater pulled out all it so truncated. The Raging Grannies their latest, a "live" version of ing himself. contrived plan to write a certain the stops, throwing down that Kobalt opened the show with their mu­ Brian Eno's 1978 ambient clas­ He told us how great of a intoxicating blend of "Bucharest sical brand of political-satire. sic Music For Airports. I'm a huge person Pamela Anderson is and The other three authors meets the Bowery" in the most THE SALTEENS The costumed, singing group fan of Eno's original recording how he shouldn't judge people agreed with Smith, questioning seductive manner, urging, SPEEDBUMP got right into the spirit of the and I had heard and mostly en­ by their appearances, and then the youth label as much as the pleading with the audience to PEEPHOLE event, taking musical shots at joyed the All-Stars' version on CD, he'd tell us how all the women in restless one. Nonetheless, the pas­ take up their promise, to join in Friday, November 20 both the RCMP and CSIS and so I was looking forward to see­ L.A. are stupid because they sages read by three of the authors the communion, to let go, if only Vancouver Press Club contributing 500 dollars to the ing them perform it live. Boy, did have breast implants. He mocked revolved around the experiences for a moment ... but to no avail. Vancouver needs more venues defense fund. they let me down: I wanted less, himself the whole time, seemingly of youth, and none presented Napoleon McKay like the Press Club. The intimacy Full Sketch played a set of they gave too much. I otherwise a humble guy, but he was so of the club allows an unfamiliar "postminimalist" instrumental like "new music," but all I really damn confident in everything he young in Canada: there was no DIAMANDA GALAS band to quickly connect with numbers that blended kitsch and wanted to hear was Eno's Music said. Hockey Sweater, nor waxing po­ Saturday, November 7 and hold the attention of the au­ pop-culture elements into an un­ For Airports. In the end, the All- In the few serious moments, etic about maple sugar. Whether Starfish Room dience. Peephole was impres­ derstated rock and roll mani­ Stars performed only one part of he tried to get the inner beauty it is Alexis describing a young boy The set was stark drama, like sively tight for their very first festo. This college-core band is four and it wasn't the one listed in point across by using a gold meeting the man who may or may Miss Diamanda Galas her­ show. Sticking to what they getting some deserved attention the program. Instead of part 1/1 buddha encased in plaster not be his father surrounded by self. Simply a HUGE, glossy know, the simplicity of the set on the local scene. they played part 2/2. I'm fine with ogy. He told us not to be apa­ women who may or may not Steinway grand piano, occupy­ matched that of the venue. Scum Element gave an in­ Eno's version, but 2/2 is my least thetic — to live, to move, to read. actually be men dressed up as ing nearly the whole of the Star­ A strong performance by tense performance of grunge-in­ favourite track on the All-Stars' He asked us why we would women; or whether we meet fish Room's tiny, battered stage, Speedbump was unfortu­ flected tunes. PCC complainant CD. Recorded, and I discovered to poison our bodies with drug: Coady's protagonist and her a mic, and the Lady herself, re­ nately hidden behind a plethora Garth Mullins, fronting Hog especially live, they add too much and drink. He never got all ironic take on Christmas in a chil­ splendent in black (naturally) of sound and equipment prob­ Tied, yelled out punk anthems, flourish and character, turning gelistic though. dren's psych ward, the reluctant and purple glamour. No band lems. In another venue, this including the autobiographical Eno's cool, programmatic mood I guess I have to admire young and restless are giving us — nothing superfluous. might have been a disaster, but "Arrest Me I'm Guilty" and music into cloying, vaguely world, Henry Rollins. He talked for three the work of a new, suspicious This was the "Prayer and instead it turned into the inter­ "Pepper-Spray Democracy." The music and new age softness. hours straight without a lapse of generation. In an era when eve­ Malediction" tour, which, ac­ active portion of the evening Malchik's upbeat ska followed While I guess it is silly to have memory, without any awkward rything is labelled and catego­ cording to the live album of the with the audience playing the mechanical rhythms of expected an entire evening of just moments, without even sitting rized before it even knows itself, me name, has been going on sound engineer. MOTORAMA. The Flying Folk Eno, I had other problems with down. I could've done without his it is natural that these latest writ­ ice 1996. I don't really want With the sound problems at Army, a seven-piece Celtic the performance. The sound African safari finale and I wish ers just want to be left alone to say that the growing impor- bay, The Salteens bounced band, had the audience clap­ mainly troubled me, getting in the he didn't sound like he was try­ be novelists in their own right lce of covers in Galas' reper- through a set of punk-tinged pop ping along with the fiddles at way of all the music performed. ing to suck up to women so much rather than some subcategory of re indicates the dulling of her tunes. An impromptu encore/ the end of the night. Maybe it was the room, but — aw hell, I'm just trying to bring pop culture. edge (though I wonder), espe­ singalong, including "Let It Be," D. Jago sound engineer Cotton seemed him down. So how then did the four find to have trouble getting the mix Christa Min themselves on the same stage if right. 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I9 package, assembled in the bed­ Grubbs' decision to pare down assertion in just-as-personal room of Brian Natonski (the his efforts. After the post-produc­ problems, and mild philosophy Gearwhore himself, presum­ tion heavy Gastr Del Sol, it must of the world. This album also Under ably). This is hard and fast— but be a relief to simply perform these doesn't disappoint the masochist not blurringly so — with some­ barely electrified songs more in in all of us by exploring, at a thing of a harsh edge, although real time (and space). cosmic level, the enjoyment of that sorta varies from track to The jaunty "Fool Summons "going down" (generally speak­ Review track. Seems like the 'Whore tries Train" and "Orange Disaster" are ing) and the other's demise ("Live to capture a distinct sound on pleasant and catchy and the it up"). each track: "Vector Tribe" has horns and snappy ending on Bed is a more personal al­ BAD ASS lodic, ambient pop while greater success when she sticks ethnic-type drums and electric "Two Shades of Blue" more than bum, filled wifh rhetorical dia­ Word on the Streets "Hangover Nine" makes its way to the BNH's signature formula, squawks that sound like jungle make up for Grubbs' usually logues, monologues of self-deter­ (Priority) through a raw, laid-back funk namely the funk, soul, and R'n'B animals, "Love" is kinda slinky weak voice, while the brooding mination, and the classic Juliana Coming straight from Long groove. Horns, guitar, and piano that made them so popular. and groovy, and so on. Slick art­ then frenetic "Buried In The Wall" Hatfield "doo-dee-doo-dee" or Beach, California is Bad Ass all get their turn to shine in this When she dabbles in electronica work, too. I find the tracks some­ greatly benefits from guest vocal­ "la-la-la-la-la" (pay attention to with his solo debut. Most West collection. Marc Anthony and other musical styles, her in­ what monotonous at times, but ist Mary Lass Stewart (my favorite "Bad Day"). Altogether, J.H. Coast hip hop fans have heard Thompson penned the majority of credible voice can't save her, this kind of music was meant to track). The spare and simple qual­ made Bed a good album, style- him before on his work with these songs himself with the help and this leads to a lack of cohe­ be a party soundtrack to dance ity of these recordings is endur­ consistent in every way, but it Snoop Dogg, Warren G., of some hired hands on tracks like sion between songs and on the to, not to sit down and analyze ing (or endearing??) and time leaves me confused as to what and Tupac. Most notably, he "It's All Good" and "A Cheap album as a whole. And what like I'm doing. spent in the latest version of Mayo albur n lis) was a member of the LBC Excuse." The album's production possessed her to cover Neil Not bad, but nothing that Thompson's The Red Krayola strange, flashing memories of Crew, who had the song "Be­ has intentionally been left to Young's "Old Man"? hasn't already been done earlier also seems to be an influence high school melodrama and Re­ ware of my Crew" from the Thin spare, allowing the lyrical themes Steve Guimond and better. (with fine result). ality Bites pizza nights (which I Line soundtrack a couple of years of family, poverty, and lost loves Cobalt To be fair, The Thicket is supposedly attended). back. With his solo debut he does to sound that much more sincere. EC80R slowly growing on me, but it Ciprian Gligor OK, but doesn't really prove he Guest stars, including Chris World Beaters GOLDEN SMOG would take an active effort or a can hold his own, as the best Wood and John Medeski from (Digital Hardcore Record­ Weird Tales committed fan-ish attitude to be­ JONNY L tracks on his album all feature Medeski, Martin & Wood, ings) (Rykodisc) come lost within it. Magnetic other artists. The stand-out tracks lend their talents all over this It's been a long time since the last Golden Smog's third release is Brady Cranfield (XL) are the ones with former Death project. It's hard to categorize this Ec8or album (not including the not as great an album as you'd Jonny L's new album is tech-step Row inmates: The Lady of album, but the variety of styles Grand Royal North American think it would be. I mean, listen MICKEY HART for those of us who want some­ Rage on "A Hold on Hip-Hop" gives the listener lots to get into. compilation) and was it worth the to the talent you've got in the Planet Drum Supralingua thing more rich and deep than and Snoop Dogg on "We be Cody Beales wait? No. Whereas Ec8or used same room: Gary Louris and (Rykodisc) Photek s carefully-controlled sur­ Puffin' it Down." It seems like it to deliver some great snot-nosed Marc Perlman (The Back in 1991, Mickey Hart of gical drum V bass cuts. This is d was only a matter of time until CLUB 8 tunes with a slightly darker and Jayhawks), Jeff Tweedy the Grateful Dead gathered 'n' b with soul. Passion is evident someone from the West sampled The Friend I Once Had more industrial edge than their (Wilco), Kraig Johnson (Run together a number of renowned throughout the album, even with the now famous BT Express (March) labelmates, Atari Teenage Westy Run), Dan Murphy drummers and produced an al­ the futurist organ stabs and float­ loop, which has been used on Indie cheeriness doesn't come Riot, World Beaters does not (Soul Asylum), and Jody bum called Planet Drum. It went ing synth lines. Among the everything from "Northern more indily cheery than with the have the same charming ambi­ Stephens (Big Star). But think on, deservingly, to win a stylings of skyscrapers there ex­ Touch" to "Get at me Dog." On fresh-faced Swedish duo of ence as the self-titled Ec8or album about it; why would they use their Grammy. This album is an at­ ists a hypersense of further emo­ his version, "This Life of Mine," Karolina Komstedt (vocals) and or the Spex is a Fat Bitch EP. best songs for some side project? tempt to follow up on that success. tive properties beyond Photek's Bad Ass does a decent interpre­ Johan Angergard (instruments) Compare, for example, "We Wouldn't they save them for their It again gathers together well-re­ minimal psychosis. "Accelerate" tation, but again, it's his guests getting over-excited with cute are Pissed" with the new track spected drummers and, as a features Lady Miss Keir of Dee- The Outlaws who shii chirpy vocals, harmonies, me­ "Our Present is Our Piss." Gina Overall, the album has a kind drum album it succeeds, but it lite fame. Although I can testify Duld n lodic guitars, tambourines, drum sounds like she's been sucking of '70s Rod Stewart sound and could have been more. The al­ that the nice Lady can't spin worth mend Word on the Streets; it machines and more. If you have helium on a daily basis, thus her feel to it (think a less exciting bum actually comes with an ad­ a moose trying to produce the doesn't suck, but it's far from ever taken more than a passing vocals border on unlistenable on "Maggie May") — kinda kitschy, ditional EP that features remixes four horsemen of the Apocalypse dope. If you're a hard-core Long interest in wonderfully poppy some of the tracks. What hap­ retro, and rootsy, with the best of four songs off the first album through intravenous copulation Beach fan then you will probably music, then toss out your Cardi­ pened to the voice that screamed, stuff on Weird Tales consistently by such people as Loop Guru, with a squirrel, she still has a mys­ want it. For everyone else, if gans records and maybe one "Discriminate the Next Fashion coming courtesy of Gary Louris Jack Dangers of Meat Beat tical vocal quality that works well you're thinking about getting it Saint Etienne record and listen Sucker You Meet — It's a Raver!"? and Kraig Johnson. But Weird Manifesto, and Richie with the calculated "break/stop" because of the guest appear­ to these jolly sometimes-verging- Why the hell did DHR put that Tales is nothing to wet your pants Hawtin Too often, though, the rhythms and industrial clankings ances, it ain't worth it. on-samba, sometimes-verging-on- ridiculous picture of Gina (sans over. Save your money and buy technology added does not im­ and honkings of the traffic light Mike S. Euro-disco collection of tunes shirt, with stickers) on the inside a Jayhawks or Wilco album prove the drumming to any great bassline Jonny L works into the where there's "Better Days" even sleeve? Is this for real? Likewise, Fred derF degree. Why couldn't the digital track. More dabbles into sonic BUFFALO TOM though "Tomorrow Never Patric's instrumental tracks, usu­ drummers (remix artists) partake experimentation are heard on Comes." Some ofthe songs have ally slamming, are lost in a wall DAVID GRUBBS in the recording with the analog such tracks as "PBX" and "See (Beggars Banquet) such a singalong sweetness to of noise. Gone is the edge and The Thicket drummers? Now that would be Red," which reminds me of 12" Buffalo Tom just keep cranking them that they get lodged in your the kick — perhaps we're start­ (Drag City) really neat. projects by Seba & Lotek. out pretty much the same album memory, particularly tracks like ing to get old, but World Beaters To my ears, David Grubbs has Paul Kundarewich Jump-up also gets a shout on over and over again. Sounds like "Everlasting Love" and "Some­ needs to be "Better Better Better." moved on. His headier days this album in a collaboration with their recording budget has ex­ day." The mood changes occa­ T.Star seem neatly packed up — still ac­ PJ HARVEY Silvah Bullet on "20 Degrees," panded, though. They seem to be sionally to a more mellow and cessible, if now less frequented. Is This Desire? which, although proficient, is suffering from Goo Goo Dolls/ slightly sad theme, but the sun al­ FUNERAL ORATION All this comes across on The (Island) nothing special. This could be Soul Asylum syndrome; that is ways comes out from behind the Survival Thicket, Grubbs' first post-Gastr PJ Harvey's minimal, raw seen as a more original adapta­ to say, they've inched away from clouds on the next track and you (Hopeless) Del Sol album. There is a confi­ sound makes a sharp contrast tion of a style or a track which bland indie rock and towards know everything's going to be Tired of pop-punk monotony? dent self-justification and purpose with one smooth production. The doesn't necessarily work. bland mainstream rock. You okay again. Sick of Fat Mike rip-offs? Look­ here. His songs seem more con­ style is still in keeping with her When all is said and done know you've made the leap when Club 8 has a special quality ing for something a little differ­ tained now, more finalized. This usual, though, so if you like Polly and the speakers are on, turnta­ you've got that big rock song with and sound that makes you think ent? This Amsterdam quartet has direction is well rooted: Grubbs Jean, then you'll like Is This De­ ble platter spinning, and the dj the strings. that if the indie UK label Sarah one of the most original sounds has always been an extremely sire? max'n the wax, I think the feel­ Singer and guitarist Bill Records hadn't folded, they'd be going. Peter Zirschky's distin­ careful and controlled songwriter, JBS ing of the album is most easily Janovitz did the country thing on at the front of queue to sign them guishing vocals backed by raw clearly evident in his earlier captured in the last track, "Vain," his 1996 solo album Lonesome — but, as it happens, Club 8 are but tight musicianship have set Bastro days. JULIANA HATFIELD with its female wafting vocals Billy, recorded in Arizona with the on New York's March Records. Funeral Oration apart from However, on first listen The Bed soothing the soul and Jonny L's Giant Sand/Calexico guys This is a label whose catalogue the punk menagerie since '83. Thicket comes across as just so (Zoo) programming hurting the feet. and it was a really good album. is worth checking out, especially Their third North American full- even-keeled and overt that it is Welcome back to the world of Janovitz should ditch the other if everything sounds as delightful length is a little poppier than pre­ almost dry. There are some very bubble-gum/candy-Hard-babe- two Buffalo Tom chumps and do and tuneful as these Swedish vious albums, but no less infec­ nice songs, good instrumentation Rock and complacently critical MAD CADDIES the solo thing instead. But hey, I tious; "You Will" and "Upstream, and smart lyrics, but few real sur­ lyrics. Juliana Hatfield, one of Duck and Cover guess rock 'n' roll's where the CG Downstream" will have you sing­ prises. Perhaps my expectations the influences in today's solo- (Fat) fame and fortune is. ing along in no time flat. Survival were too high, but with good rea­ Womyn-Rock boom, is staying Hmm. Maybe there really is Fred derF N'DEA DAVENPORT is 15 short, catchy melodies guar­ son. The brilliant Camofleur true to her simple style of rock- something to this ongoing revival N'Dea Davenport anteed to brighten your day. neatly finalized Gastr Del Sol and band trio of clear-cut drums, one of horn-based music. The Mad CHOCOLATE GENIUS (V2) David Evans had ideas to spare. Jim guitar and a bass. And when it Caddies were even upgraded Black Music N'Dea Davenport sets out to O'Rourke's Bad Timing, a vir­ comes to lyrics, you can expect from 2nd string Honest Don's to (V2) distance herself from her former GEARWHORE tual homage to John Fahey the same consistent combination full-on Fat status. And they de­ A wide range of moods and band, The Brand New Heav­ Drive and also his first postGastr Del of every-day realism ("clean up serve it. This is a really good al­ styles appear on this album. ies, with this, her debut solo ven­ (Astralwerks) Sol album, was equally accom­ my mess" — everyone's got a bum. At times I was blown away. Songs like "Clinic" offer up me­ ture. However, she has far This is a decently put together plished. But I can appreciate dirty room, right?), personal re- Super high energy. Super cool horn riffs. Mostly. This sort of thing who finds herself among a sta­ either over-introspective or un­ period, Reel Big Fish has finally audiences have been treated to and Josh Wink. Understand­ is kind of getting repetitive. Think ble of impressive artists on the der-produced, depending on released a full-length follow-up to inspired jump-blues playing that ably, some are skinnier than of it as something in between the Up Records roster. There is a how you look at it. The lyrics are 1996's Turn the Radio Off, and has not been present on his stu­ others, but all are puppy-fla­ Voodoo Glow Skulls and dark, sombre and sad feel to this too deep to maintain appropri­ it's just as hyper, if not more. Most dio records. Recorded at voured. your typical Hellcat Records re­ album that lends well to the ate listener attention when sung of the songs on this CD are brand Richard's on Richard's in 1995, Joshua C. Broyles lease. I've now stopped listening dreamy and ethereal music, with a uniform lack of inflection, new, with the exception of "I'm this release has Robillard and to it, but there's still some really which itself immediately draws and recorded with all the per­ Cool," originally on the 1997 EP, his band in fine form. The inter­ THE SLACKERS cool stuff on this. comparisons to such bands as spicuity of wallpaper. The artist Keep Your Receipt, but now done play between Robillard's elec­ The Question Dave Tolnai Lush, My Bloody Valentine shows a great deal of promise reggae-style rather than its origi­ tric guitar and Gordon Beadle's (Hellcat) and other, for lack of a better and if she chooses to develop nal speedy, brassy style. tenor and baritone sax is amaz­ The real question on my mind RUSSELL MALONE description, "shoegazers." her range of expression before Reel Big Fish has attitude, ing, especially on the longer was: will The Slackers' latest Sweef Georgia Peach Jana McCall s haunting voice making another recording, we that's for sure. Or perhaps they tracks. There are two tracks ap­ release live up to the previous (Impulse) and pain will reside in your mind might all wind up kicking our­ proaching ten minutes in length two? After a long day of lec­ I have not disliked a single al­ for a while after listening to this selves for not having snatched humor. But for some reason, and normally this can lead to tures, the time finally came to bum from Impulse. And the mu­ record. up this collector's item. there are just so many lyrics ex­ self-indulgent improvisation — answer the question. With my sic from Russell Malone Steve Guimond Joshua C. Broyles pressing thoughts along the lines not so with this band. Unlike the greasy paws, I put the disc in makes me happy. You may have of: "I'm a loser/ Nobody cares live version of "Freebird," the my stereo and prepared to pass heard his music before if you lis­ MK NAOMI ORGY for me..../You don't like me ... Duke Robillard band keeps my judgment. It was not look­ ten to the Diana Krall Trio His Archives Candyass you suck ... I suck .../1 don't care things interesting by really lis­ ing good; the first track, guitar is sophisticated and fun Don't go looking for this one in (Elementary) .../I'm really cool.... Somehow, tening to what the other "Manuel," just didn't cut it. With and adventuresome in a mature stores, for as far as I know this Candyass is the latest attempt to they still manage to win me over bandmates are doing and play­ the second track, things started way. His recording mates, Ron is only a promo of some of MK merge electronic music and hard with their superficially happy ing off of that. This is how live to look up: I'm a sucker for the Carter on bass, Kenny Barron on Naomi's older, less trance-ori­ rock. While this has been done sounding, pumped-up ska with a blues is supposed to sound. "Shuna-a-nuh." piano, Lewis Nash on drums, entated projects. However, before, Orgy's version is a bit punk rock twist, despite their lame Don Bourassa The rest of the disc went the and Steven Koon, are impecca­ along with other MK Naomi different. Whereas Trent lyrics. Maybe that's part of the same way, to my glee. This al­ ble. The whole recording has material, it will soon be avail­ Reznor's NIN takes recordings attraction — fans get a good kick JULIE RUIN bum has a Motown vocal feel such a positive vibe. It's a per­ able by mail-order at http:// of the live band, chops it up on out of the words. Julie Ruin to it, and I like it. There is the fect late night record. www.mknaomi.com. The CD it­ a computer and then completely Some of my favorite tracks are (Kill Rock Stars) odd track that lost it a bit; but Paul Kundarewich self is drippingly fantastic, with reconstructs it into the final ar­ "Scott's a Dork," "I Want Your Why not just a 7" record? It that's OK, you can't win them well-worked Orb-ish ambient rangement, Orgy has taken the Girlfriend To Be My Girlfriend," would've made a good-7". The all. For the yet uninitiated, The ASHOK MATHUR dub pieces remnant of Orbvs live band and only modified the and "Thank You For Not '80s glam organ and adoles­ Slackers produce some of the Once Upon an Elephant Terrervm. Those familiar with the sound of some instruments, Moshing" — finally, someone has cent vocals don't hold enough best new ska/rocksteady, with (Arsenal Pulp) ambient dub sound may ques­ mainly the guitars and key­ written a song from the point of appeal for an entire album. a real traditional feel. So the Although the exact chronology tion this similarity. Remember, boards. The result is that it view of a fan in the pit. Go out Some of the songs are bad, question has been answered: of events is somewhat unclear, though, that these tracks were sounds fairly conventional. and get yourself a copy of Why some are all right, but most are The Slackers are still slacken'. the basic plot of this new book produced from 1 995-1997, the While the songwriting is good, Do They Rock So Hard and if pretty boring. Sometimes good jayd seems to present itself through same time period as Orbvs the fact that it is not totally origi­ you've got real guts, check these things can be done with a drum the discovery near a river some­ Terrervm. Floating through my nal and that the singer reminds guys out live. machine and sometimes it just ELLIOTT SMITH where in present-day Canada of mind are the drums of the first me too much of Marilyn Jerome Yang makes it too easy for people to XO a disembodied human head and track, "Extropia I," which show­ Manson, doesn't make me jump (Dreamworks) the headless body of a small el­ cases Naomi's harder, more tribal and shout about this new band. THE RHEOSTATICS JBS Good ol' Elliott Smith. He's a ephant. As the story unfolds, the roots, and the slow subtle begin­ Don Bourassa The Nightlines Sessions good guy. If you've never heard question of "whodunnit?" gives ning harmonics of Mancini. Cas­ (DROG) SKINNY PUPPY of him, he's the guy who played way to other questions such as cading sound that pierces through PUNCHBUGGY This is recorded proof that David Remix DysTemper at the Oscars for his work on "what was actually done?" The definition as the rain falls down, My Norwegian Cousin Wisdom is indeed a dj/pro- (Nettwerk) the Good Will Hunting sound­ police seem to be missing an el­ down here in Vancouver ... and (Sour) grammer/genius par excellence*. I must confess that I've heard track. XO brings us his usual ephant head and a human body, probably also in Toronto, where If you can get past the blatantly The original broadcast of The Skinny Puppy before and "urban folk," as I once heard it but because neither the elephant ex-Vancouverite MK Naomi now sexist cover photo (scantily-clad Rheostatics' Nightlines Ses­ might be likely to recognize SP described. This album boasts nor the previous human head resides. Check out http:// "Norwegian Cousin" doing the sions proved to be the last hur­ when I hear it, but this is the more hi tech. production than owner seems to have disap­ www.interlog.com/~mknaomi/ laundry in a laundromat as the rah for its namesake show, but, first SP CD I've actually sat his previous one. It isn't just peared from anywhere, the ab­ the_story.html for more information. band looks on), the music con­ man, whatta way to go. down and listened to. What Elliott singing and playing his sence of the two complimentary tained on this CD is Listening to this scant 36- I've noticed in general: I don't guitar any more, either. Now he items is comparatively unremark­ Punchbuggy's yummiest to minute-short session not only normally turn my home stereo has more back-up musicians as­ able. Less remarkable, certainly, NINETY NINE date. makes me pine for the return of up more than halfway, but this sisting him in his melodies. than the defense argument later 767 Like fine wine, this band gets Nightlines to the airwaves CD sounds better the louder I All things considered, this is used which depends in part (Endearing) better with age. The band has (RadioSonic is a lacklustre alter­ play it. a good, consistent piece of upon the defendant being able Summary: Suzanne Vega been well-seasoned by extensive native, unfortunately), but it also Each of the tracks is remixed work, still along the same lines to catch from the witness stand sound-alike tried to be Bjork North American touring between makes one see what Mr. Wisdom by some particular music-world we expect from the old Elliott one juggling ball in each hand; sound-alike, while alternately albums; as a result, the musician­ sees in the band. Quirky odes to personality, some of whom I sus­ Smith. a feat itself remarkable only in playing vibraphone against ge­ ship (which now includes a full particular listeners of Nightlines pect may not be lifelong SP Katrina that it involves eight balls. neric fuzz-guitar; though not nec­ horn section on a couple of tracks), ("The Pooby Song"), touching yet fans. The results are variable in Clearly rooted in Hindu tra­ essarily desirable, an interesting songwriting, and singing is ten­ still tongue-in-cheek love songs extremity. "Killing Game" (the SQUIRREL NUT ZIPPERS dition, Once Upon an Elephant effect. fold better than on their last re­ ("Baby, I Love You"), songs which Autechre "Bent" remix) has no Perennial Favorites lacks some of the tension of more At the risk of coming off as a lease, 1996's Grand Opening relay the stark realism of life tempo or "beat" to speak of, no (Mammoth) typical crime and courtroom dra­ forensic, perhaps if we examine Going Out of Business Sale. But ("Frank") and others that are all- evident pitch structure, or other It's that swing thing that all the matic novels, in that it is a bit of some songs, we might hypoth­ be prepared, Punchbuggy has out flights of whimsy ("Henry's musically normative referents hip kids have been listening to. a non-murder non-mystery. But, esize some recurrent mechanism Music Beard" and "Ugly Manhat­ other than something akin to an Plinky plonky banjo and bap upon abandoning such obvious whereby Lora Macfarlane cre­ ditching its previous punk-pop tan") reign supreme on The arbitrarily articulated "phrase." bap de bop horn sections. Pass­ criteria, it is not difficult to find ates this overall impression: leanings in favour of a more '70s/ Nightlines Sessions, much like It is also refreshingly ungroovy; able Billie Holiday influence, a good deal of value in the hu­ "Car Song" is short and '80s-influenced rock-pop/new these qualities do on all of the the only track here immune to slow numbers (although I find mour of this book. Most of the sweet, an ad-jingle for self-reli­ wave flavour. 'Statics studio albums. dance interpretation. myself singing along meow story is presented through brief, ance, apparently. The words are This four-piece is finally begin­ If you have never heard The "Love in Vein" (the meow meow), frantic upbeat personal accounts of the various interesting, but difficult to follow. ning to hit its stride. This is best Rheostatics before, this is a good Neotropic "Go Girl Trio" mix) group efforts like "The Ghost of events provided by the judge, "Vox" is one of those slow, self- displayed in the mixed salad of primer. If you pine for those old features all the subtle-yet-juicy Stephen Foster," and even a the police officers, the lawyers, indulgent, slowly pumping, strum- tunes such as the horn-garnished Nightlines weekends or simply harmonic enhancements my fel­ weirdo extended "art" number members of the media, and the forever on-a-major-seventh-chord "Smash It Up," the crunchy, driv­ missed the last installment be- low Neotropic fans will recog­ about that favourite mythical "victim" himself, very much af­ songs. "Manga Girl Cut" sounds ing "Around the Clock," and the ;r the nize, making this track ironically deep sea beast, the Kraken. I ter the fact. like Tom Waits, but really short sizzling Trooper-esque lead-off death of Di and Dodi (which sweet and festive, at least in was disappointed by the non- This book is very light read­ and simple. "Dorsal" is a hit sin­ track, "Make It Up to You." Full of weirdly coincided with the airing comparison to pure SP. Let this sequitor-ical lyrics; better a ing and I can recommend it to gle for commercial airplay. No chewy hooks and riffs and hearty of the final show), this is must review serve to document that I "Hidey Hidey Hidey Ho" than anyone who can accept the no­ joke. "Pavlov's Dog" is straight- drum beats, My Norwegian have souvenir. Nightlines, RIP! promise to buy more Skinny "if ships were made of cello­ tion that, whatever else religion ahead indie rock. Why is it seem­ Cousin will keep you coming back Mike "Spike" Chilton Puppy CDs if they let Neotropic phane we'd all get stinking is, it is, at times, funny. ingly the only track that doesn't for seconds and thirds. do more of their mixing. drunk much faster," in my opin­ Joshua C. Broyles use some kind of a bell? "Popu­ Mike Chilton DUKE ROBILLARD Other tracks are remixed by ion. The packaging is nifty, lation 100 000" is another hit Stretchin' Out Live Adrian Sherwood, Ken though, and if you buy it in the JANA McCALL single. No Joke. Lyrically self-de­ REEL BIG FISH (Stony Plain) "hiwatt" Marshall, Gunter stores, you get some CD-ROM Jana McCall structive. The line about her do­ Why Do They Rock So Stretchin' Out Live is the re­ Schultz of KMFDM, Ogre and stuff which my promo copy (Up) ing a Ph.D. on Sonic Youth is Hard? sponse to the requests Duke Mark Walk, Rhys Fulber, lacked. This album is listenable, An impressive debut from an art­ particularly telling. (Mojo) Robillard has received for a Chino, God Lives Under­ but not outstanding. ist from the Pacific Northwest, My hypothesis: the project is It's about time. After a two year live album. For years, his live water, Chris Vrenna, Guru, fiende CiTR dis' pix for the best of 1998

TRAGIC ANIMAL DEAD AIR LlPGLOSS & CAUGHT IN THE RED VENGEANCE IS ONE LOVE STORIES ALT. FRIDAYS CIGARETTES FRIDAYS MINE FRIDAYS TUESDAYS 12.-00-3AM SUNDAYS 6:30-8:30AM MONDAYS 8:3LESS THAN JAKE PLUS TAX 4. ATIVIN GERMAN WATER IN MOTION" [ST. ELMO'S HARDCORE (LIVE) HELLO ROCKVIEW 5. SON VOLT WIDE 5. ROADSIDE MONUMENT THEME) 5. MASSIVE ATTACK 5. THE MAKERS 5. DISGUSTEENS SWING TREMOLO / AM THE DAY OF CURRENT MEZZANINE PSYCHOPATHIA SEXUALIS NOTHING PERSONAL 7" TASTE

LIVE! AT THE BREAKFAST WITH THE ETHER TABLE THE CHILL-OUT HI-HAT! THE NOOZE THE THE BROWNS TUESDAYS ROOM ALT. SATURDAYS FRIDAYS ONOMATOPOEIA MONDAYS 2:30-3:30PM SUNDAYS 10:00PM-1AM 5:00-5:30PM SHOW 8:00-11AM 12:00-? ... 10 YEARS AND 1. THE BODY LOVERS THURSDAYS 1. GODSPEED YOU BLACK 1. Liz PHAIR STILL HOT DEAD ... PART ONE OF THREE 2:00-3PM TOP 5 SONGS EMPEROR F#A#°° WHITECHOCOLATESPACEGG 1. FRANCOIZE BREUT 2. MJ HARRIS & 1. FAITHLESS "INSOM­ 2. GLYN STYLER LIVE AT 2. THE MAKE-UP IN AAASS FRANCOIZE BREUT MARTYN BATES MURDER TOP 5 COMICS NIA" THE MERMAID LOUNGE MIND 2. PERFUME TREE FEELER BALLADS: INCEST SONGS 1. OPTIC NERVE 2. OUTKAST "ATLIENS" 3. ARAB STRAP 3. ATOM AND HIS PACK­ 3. ADJUSTERS BEFORE THE 3. VARIOUS THEME: 2. CAFFEINE 3. DAFT PUNK "REVOLU­ PHILOPHOBIA AGE REVOLUTION DESIRE 3. NON TION 909" 4. THE MAKE-UP IN 4. MILES DAVIS SKETCHES 4. VARIOUS ORCHESTRAL 4. FETISCH PARK ALLUVIAL 4. ACTION GIRL 4. T.Q. "WESTSIDE" MASS MIND OF SPAIN PARTY ACT 2 5. VARIOUS INTERIORS: A 5. ONI DOUBLE 5. UNION STATE "THE 5. Doc BOGGS COUN­ 5. DESTROYER CITY OF 5. NILS PETTER MOLVAER SENTRAX CORPORATION FEATURE ONE" TRY BLUES & His DAUGHTERS KHMER COMPILATION FOLKWAYS YEARS

MARY TYLER SKA-T'S SPIKE'S MUSICAL LOVE SUCKS MOORE STAND AND BE SCENIC DRIVE FILIBUSTER PINS AND NEEDLES WEDNESDAYS ALT.WEDNESDAYS CUNTED THURSDAYS FRIDAYS SHOW 12:00-2PM 7:30-9PM TUESDAYS 10:00-11:30AM 10:00AM-12PM WEDNESDAYS 3:30-5PM 1. BIS, LIVE IN NEW 9:00-10AM 5 MUCH ADMIRED RECORD­ TOP 5 OPPRESSED INSTRU­ 1. THE ADJUSTERS BEFORE INGS: JERSEY THE REVOLUTION DJ HANCUNT'S TOP 5 MENTS (FEATURED IN 2. BIKINI KILL THE 1. LEN "GET YOUR LEGS PLASTIKMAN CONSUMED 2. THE SLACKERS THE COOLEST FEMINISTS FILIBUSTER) SINGLES BROKE" NOTO ENDLESS LOOP QUESTION 1. BELL HOOKS 3. DISCOVERING THE 2. JUNGLE "GUNSHY" EDITION 3. DR. RINGDING RAM 2. ANGELA DAVIS 1. ACCORDIAN GO GOS 3. CUB "OH CANADUH" MUSLIMGAUZE SYRINGIA DI DANCE 3. MICHELLE CLINTON 2. BANJO 4. IDA HUSIK COVERING 4. GRIMSKUNK "LA GAS ZAUBERGERG 4. GANGSTER POLITICS 4. PAT CALIFIA 3. KAZOO THE JAM'S "MONDAY" PISTOLERA" DOWNPOUR WIND­ GANGSTER POLITICS 5. ANNIE SPRINKLE 4. ONE-STRING GUITAR ON FAITH IN SPACE 5. TRICKY WOO "TEACH STORMS, BROKEN MICRO­ 5. VARIOUS SKA UNITED 5. YOUR FACE 5. LITTLE RED CAR US AMERICAN" PHONES WRECK MOTOR LIKE A MOTHER v_ 22 Dec 9S/9M 99 HOW THE CHARTS WORK . CiTR The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape ("indie home jobs") on CiTR's playlist was played by our djs during the previous month (ie, "Dec/Jan" charts reflect charts airplay in November). Weekly charts can be received via e-mail. Send mail to WHAT'S BEING PLAYED ON "[email protected]" with the command: "subscribe citr-charts"-» dec 98/jan 99 long vinyl dec 98/jan 99 short vinyl dec 98/jan 99 indie home jobs 1 murder city devils empty bottles broken hearts sub pop 1 disgusteens nothing personal longshot 1 full sketch sketchersize 2 spitfires spitfires sonic swirl 2 longstocking will you stay? k 2 tampax twin swamp foam 3 icu chotto matte a moment! k 3 various record number 2 magic teeth 3 bishop of battle coldward & stormward 4 mark mark independent 4 forbidden dimension i kiss yer shadow ship rec'd 4 clover honey three four 5 various artists cd sampler thingy damaged goods 5 make-up/lung leg split southern 5 team strike force lager + lime 6 various artists in their eyes rhino 6 rondelles revenge k 6 sophistos military surf magic 7 euphone breaking parole hefty 7 ladies who lunch everybody's happy ... grand royal 7 dreamy angel laundromatte queen 8 mk naomi tonkababy ep independent 8 franklin major taylor tree 8 fridge art tiara untitled(?) 9 blonde redhead in an expression of ... touch & go 9 eric the red life after tuesday caulfield 9 lamps freedom drunk 10 jim carroll pools of mercury mercury 10 juliedoiron/snailhouse do you remember ... stereo-type 10 leeches donkey kong 11 johnny favourite .. holiday romance universal 11 tren brothers gone away sec etly Canadian 11 capt. cook i'm glad for you 12 pj harvey is this desire? island 12 curse of horseflesh the fuck you say! ship rec'd 12 the drove he stinks 13 various artists flaming cow disease spawner 13 bangs maggie the cat ten-in-one 13 chick magnets make-up girl 14 rondelles fiction romance ... smells Hike records 14 rizzo shymaster cher doll 14 retreads everybody wants something 15 front line assembly monument roadrunner 15 capt. qitn i do turducken 15 destroyer karen is in rome 16 talvin singh ok island 16 the unameds them and we independent 16 mr ultra cool mr ultra cool 17 slackers the question hellcat 17 kiss offs bottle blonde peek-a-boo 17 kirby grips mod boy 18 belle & Sebastian boy with the arab strap matador 18 burning airlines carnival/scissoring de soto 18 transvestimentals incidental transvestimental song 19 julie ruin julie ruin kill rock stars 19 small stars moths up 19 touch & gos campus radio boy 20 electric frankenstein spare parts get hip 20 tight bros take you higher ten-in-one 20 dixie's death pool she rides a bike with an engine 21 satan's pilgrims 22 mcface not the green torn show ceiling fan 23 exhaust exhaust constellation 24 silver jews american water drag city favourite holiday tunes what we listened to ... 25 beekeeper beekeeper southern discorder took an informal, random poll ...

26 cadallaca introducing cadallaca k the spinanes (den trawler) • elvis presley (i'll be home for christmas) 1 the aislers set terrible things happen 27 jad fair & yo la tengo strange but true matador • dr. seuss (you'r e a mean one 2 pedro the lion it's hard to find a friend 28 jon spencer bx acme matador mr. grinch) • david bowie & bing 3 seaweed actions and indications 29 beck mutations geffen crosby (little ^.

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23 E^g£[I@Iffi THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN 3:00- heavy Hank Mobley. THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 9:30- 4:00PM I endeavour to feature dead Dec 21: Hancock's beautiful creation 11:30AM Torrid trashfock, sleazy On The Dial air, verbal flatulence (only when I Speak Like A Child. surf and pulsatin' punk provide the perfect speak), a work of music by a twentieth- Dec 28: Hancock with Inventions and scissor kick to your head every Tuesday century composer — can you say Dimensions. morn. There's no second chance when minimalist? — ond whatever else Jan 4: The great soprano saxophonist Kung-Fu is used for evil with drunken fist appeals to me. Fag and dyke positive. Sidney Bechet with boss trumpeteer Bryce. Klyaalll! EVIL VS. GOOD 4*00-5:00PM Who "Wild Bill" Davison. TRAGIC ANIMAL STORIES alt. will triumph? Hardcore/punk from Jan 11: Big band jazz with Stan Kenton: 11:30AM-1:00PM Tales of puppy beyond the grave. Standards in Silhouette. love gone awry, and of baby ducks SUNDAYS identities. MONDAYS BBC WORLDNEWS SERVICE 5*00- Jan 18: Piano giant Tommy Flanagan crossing the street, all backed up by a ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:30AM- HELLO INDIA 8:00-9*O0PM BLUEGRASS FOR BREAKFAST 6:00- 5:30PM Sunset ond the Mockingbird. sad soundtrack of various inditnock 12:00PM All of time is measured by GEETANJAU 9:00-10:00PM 8:00AM BIRDWATCHERS 5:30**O0PM Join Jan 25: One of the most popular groups bands for your own enjoyment and its art. This show presents the most Geetanjali features a wide range ol BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS the Sports department for their eye in jazz in the 1950's led by baritone education. Cry in your beer, please. recent new music from around the music from India, including classical 8:15-11:00AM Your favourite brown- on the T-birds. saxophonist/composer Gerry COLONEL SANDER'S HIDEOUT world. Ears open. music, both Hindustani and Carnatic, sters, James and Peter, offer a savoury POLYFILLER alt. 6:00-7:00PM Mulligan with Chet Baker. 1:0O-2:30PM Canadiana trash rock THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:0O-3KX)PM popular music from Indian movies blend of the familiar and exotic in a MUSIC FOR ROBOTS alt 6:00- VENGEANCE IS MINE 12:00- that you can pilot your Camaro to. Reggae inna all styles and fashion. from the 1930's to the 1990's, semi- blend of aural delights! Tune in and 7:00pm Viva la Robotica 4:00AM Hosted by Trevor. It's punk Chris and Jeff supply the rock, you BLOOD ON THE SADDLE alt. 3:00- classical music such as Ghazals and enjoy each weekly brown plate special. Revolution. Estrogen-charged robots rock, baby! Gone from the charts but not bring the Camaro. 5:00PM Real-cowshit-caught-in-yer- Bhajans, and 'also Quawwalis, folk Instrumental, trance, lounge and on Planet Noiz. from our hearts — thank fucking Christ. ETHER TABLE 2:30-3:30PM boots country. songs, etc. ambience. HIP HOP HAVOC 7:00-9HX)PM STAND AND BE CUNTED 3:30- THE SHOW lO*00PM-l:O0AM Strictly WIRELESS alt. 3*00-5KX)PM BLUE MONDAY alt. 11:00AM- THE JAZZ SHOW 940PM-11O0AM TtJBSDAYS 5:00PM DJ Hancunt urges women Hip Hop — Strictly Underground — Vancouver's longest running prime time QUEER FM 6.-00-8.O0PM Dedicated 1:00PM THE MORNING AFTER SHOW 6:00- to get down with their cunts while Strictly Vinyl With your hosts jazz program. Hosted by the ever- to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and ECHOES FROM THE SUGAR CUBE 8:00AM listening to women in jazz, funk, rap, Checkmate, Flip Out & J Swing on suave Gavin Walker. Features at 11. transsexual communities of FACTORY alt. 11:00AM- THE CLASSICAL SHOW 8:00- soul, worldbeat, disco and beyond. the 1 & 2's. Dec 14: Pianist/composer Herbie Vancouver and listened to by 1:00PM 9:30AM Listen carefully as Johnny BBC WORLDNEWS SERVICE 5:00- everyone. Lots of human interest THE CHILL-OUT ROOM 01:00- Hancock from his early Blue Note SOUPE DU JOUR 1:00-3:00PM B. brings you the classical music 6:00PM features, background on current 4:00AM DJ Clutch spins hip-hop. ..DJ period. Hancock's second is called Feeling a little french impaired? show featuring Canadian composers, RADIO ACTIVE 5:30-6:00PM issues and great music from musicians Decter spins techno. So chill out with "My Point of View" with guitaris t Francophone music from around the amateur hour and more. Radio con Activism, issues and fucking up the of all sexual preferences and gender us. Have a nice day. Grant Green and tenor saxophone globe, sans Celine Dion. fuoco for the masses. corporate powers that be. FLEX YOUR HEAD 6:00-8:00PM tive Bhungra! "Chakkh de phutay." Latin, samba, bossa & African music Hardcore and punk rock since 1989. Listen to all our favourite Punjabi tunes from around the world. /V\BANWH\LB, IN RAQ\OLAND.... http://flexyourhead. — remixes and originals. HOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM vancouverhardcore.com/ HANSKLOSS'MISERYHOUR 12:00- Hosted by DJ Noah, the main focus of SAREGAMA 8:00-9:00PM 4:00AM Mix of most depressing, the show is techno, but also includes Featuring traditional (classical, light unheard and unlistenable melodies, some trance, acid, tribal, etc. Guest and folk) and contemporary South- tunes and voices. DJ's, interviews, retrospectives, Indian music. giveaways, and more. LA BOMBA 9:00-10:00PM La THURSDAYS UMP SINK alt. 12:00-6:00AM Bomba (the bomb) explodes with the RADIO EUINIKATHIKO 6:30-8:30 Rant, phone-in and kiss your mother best salsa and merengue, with your with the guests. AM Wake up to the sounds of Greece papi DJ Papilicious. with Elena and Niko. DEAD AIR alt. 12:00AM-LATE Exceptionally interesting girl talk. WITCHDOCTOR HIGHBALL alt. REEL MUSIC 8:30-10:00AM 10:00PM-12:00AM Noise, Soundtracks and classical. ambient, electronic, hip hop, free FILIBUSTER 10:00-11:30AM SATURDAYS jazz, Christian better living LP's, the Part accordion-tinged musical THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- occasional amateur radio play, meanderings, part experiemental 12:00PM Studio guests, new whatever. weirdness, with a little bad hill blood releases, British comedy sketches, folk VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN alt. thrown in for good measure. This music calendar, and ticket giveaways. 10:00PM-12:00AM Join Greg in show is a genre-free zone. 8-9AM: African/World roots. 9AM- the love den for a cocktail. We'll CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30AM- 12PM: Celtic music and performances. hear retro stuff, groovy jazz, and 1:00PM From Tofino toGander , Baffin ON THE CORNER 12:00-1:00PM thicker stuff too. See you here... and Island to Portage La Prairie. The all- Julz spins classic experimental jazz bring some ice. Canadian soundtrack for your midday with forays into the lands of funk, AURAL TENTACLES 12:00AM-VERY snack! acid jazz and trip hop. LATE Warning: This show is moody STEVE&MKE 1O0-2O0PM Crashing the POWERCHORD 1:00-3:00PM and unpredictable. It encourages bays' club in the pit. Hard and fast, heavy Vancouver's only true metal show; insomnia and may prove to be haz­ and slow. Listen toit , baby, (hardcore). local demo tapes, imports and other ardous to your health. Listener dis­ ONOMATOPOEIA 2:00-3:00PM rarities. Gerald Rattlehead and Metal cretion is advised. Ambient, ethnic, Comix IX oh Ron do the damage. funk, pop, dance, punk, electronic, yah and some music.With Robin and LUCKY SCRATCH 3:00-5:00PM synth, blues, and unusual rock. Jules. From backwoods delta low-down BOMBSHELL alt 3:00-5:00PM slide to urban harp honks, crooners WEDNESDAYS RHYMES AND REASONS alt 3:00- and tunesters in the blue degree. SUBURBAN JUNGLE 7:00-9:O0AM 5:00PM Blues and blues roots with your hosts A perfect blend of the sublime and COUNCIL CRAP 5:00-5:30PM Anna and AJ. absurd, with your refined and exotic SHAPE UP alt 5:30-6:00PM RADIO FREE AMERICA 6:00- hosts Jack Velvet and Carmen Ghia. ENTERTAINMENT DESK alt. 5:30- 8:00PM Join host Dave Emory and SPIKE'S MUSICAL PINS AND 6:00PM Movie reviews and criticism. colleague Nip Tuck for some extraordi­ NEEDLES 9:00AM-10:00AM OUT FOR KICKS 6r00-7:30PM No nary political research guaranteed to Spike spins Canadian tunes Birkenstocks, nothing politically cor­ make you think. Originally broadcast accompanied by spotlights on local rect. We don't get paid so you're on KFJC (Los Altos, Cal.|. artists. Weekly "Vintage Vancouver" damn rightwe have fun with it. Hosted LIVEI AT THE HI-HAT!! alt. segment takes a look back at this by Chris B. 10:00PM-1:00AM "Sho nuff city's musical past. ON AIR WITH GREASED HAIR 7:30- bumpin'I "-Popular Music. Phone, BOTH SIDES 10:00AM- 12:00PM 9:00PM Roots of rock & roll. write or call for reservations. Dance Jose Luis discusses free trade and UVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO 10 till 1. Admission $6.00. other issues in the Americas. HELL 9:00-11:00PM Local muzak PIPEDREAMs alt. 10:00-1:00AM LOVE SUCKS 12:00-2:00PM Music from 9. Live bandz from 10-11. SOUL TREE alt. 1:00-4:30AM at work. (Cut up mixed genres — SLIPPERY SLOT alt. 11:00PM- EARWAX alt. 1:00AM- 4:30AM eclectic, electric included but not 1:00AM One step beyond logic. Noiz terrorism cut thru raw rhythms/ mandatory). PLUTONIAN NIGHTS 1:00- as punk rock dissects Detroit AUDIO SPROCKET 2:00-3:00PM 4:00AM Late nightvinyl. Occasional minimalism/my Motor City madness MOTORDADDY 3:00-5:OOPM "eat, skips. Cheers. runs tragic/my Jungle-ism spawns sleep, ride, listen to Motordaddy, breakbeat sporadics/while the FRIDAYS hardcore be open to these lyrics I BBC WORLDSERVICE 5:00-5:1 OPM CAUGHT IN THE RED 6:30-8:30AM flash/Da truth will be found bound in RACHEL'S SONG 5:10-6:00PM Info sounds/locked in my ears like Garage rock and olher things. on health and the environment. From Earwax. Word. -Guy Smiley ONE LOVE 8:3O-10:O0AM Anything recycling and conservation projects to and everything from the wonderful REGGAE LINKUP 4:30-8:30AM diet, health, and consumption and world of music, as long as harmonies with Sister B. sustainability in the urban context. can be sung, and the melodies be SOLID STATE 6:00-7:30PM Featuring the latest in techno, trance, SKA-TS SCENE-IK DRIVE! 10:00AM- WHOM acid and progressive house. 12:00PM Listen in to win a date with Spotlights on local artists, ticket one of the co-hosts! HOW giveaways, & live performances. THESE ARE THE BREAKS 12:00- Hosted by M-Path. 2:00PM DJ Splice brings you a AND SOMETIMES WHY alt. 7:30- flipped up, freaked out, full-on, advertising thafs 9:00PM barbara manning, the funktified, sample heavy beat-lain trip, built to last make-up, cat power, sushi ... these focusing on anything with breakbeats. are a few of our fave-oh-writthings. la Versatile at any style. la la! UTTUE TWIN STARS 2-OO-3:30PM MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW alt. Underground, experimental, indie and 7:30-9:00PM Girl music of all women. Jacuzzi space rock at its finest. shapes and sizes. NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVI­ Itook Space January 10 FOIKOASIS 9*00-10:30PM Featuring ETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4:00PM *jr| Artwork; January 26 the latest local and international NOIZ 4K»-5KX)PM self tided *» On the Streets: January Z9 releases in folk/roots/world music, BBC WORLDSERVICE 5:00-5:30PM phone interviews, in-studio guests and FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. 6:00- more. Requests always welcomed! 9:00PM STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR AFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. 6:00- SZZ-3017(ext.3) for info 10:30PM-12KX)AMLetDJsJindwa 9:00PM David "Love" Jones brings and Bindwa immerse you in radioac­ you the best new and old jazz, soul, 25 nm&°Mmz SAT 9 Royal Grand Prix, Metronome Cowboys@Starfish SUBMISSIONS TO DATEBOOK ARE FREE! SUN 10 Superhero Shorts@Blinding Light MON 11 Rocksteady Ska@Gate; Lawn Dogs, Modu/ations@Ridge Datebook. TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, FAX ALL THE REL­ TUE 12 Cinema of Phil Hoffman@Blinding Light; Tales of Ordinary Madness@Bukowski's EVANT INFO (WHO, WHERE, WHEN) TO WED 13 Slam-Bam-Jam-a-Rama@Marine Club; Cinema of Phil 822 9364, ATTENTION "DATEBOOK." DEADLINE Hoffman@Blinding Light; M-Strain@Starfish THUR 14 Birds and Buildings: the films of Patrick Halm@Blinding AT'S HAPPENING IN DECEMBER & JANUARY FOR THE FEBRUARY ISSUE IS JANUARY 15TH! Light FRI 15 764-HERO, gaze@Starfish; Todd Verow's Little Shots of FRI DEC 11 CiTR PRESENTS SHINDIG! FINALS: Clover Honey, Lhasa@Vogue; Joey Keithley@Sugar Refinery; Saddleson Happ/ness@Blinding Light Team Strike Force, Feisty@Starfish; Chris Isaak, Jude@Orpheum; ers, Plantains@Columbia; Crash@Chameleon; Paperboys@Cultch; SAT 16 Fryer Tuck@Starfish; The Imposters, Big Nighl@Ridge Deftones, Quicksand, Snapcase@Croatian Cultural Centre; Molestics Dance for Children of Poverty@Hot Jazz Club; The Black Market Ba­ SUN 17 Solo 2 Trio@Cultch; The Imposters, Big Nighf@R\dge CD release party@Railway Club; Squeeze: A Duet for Musician and bies, The Firecrackers, The Spitfires, The Catheters@Pic Pub MON 18 Rocksteady Ska@Gate; Wizard of Oz, Big Ch///@Ridge Dancer@Cultch; Jon Moritsugu's Fame Whore@Blinding Light; Furios, SUN 20 Holly Cole w/ Vancouver Symphony@Orpheum; The Fal­ TUE 19 Tales of Ordinary Madness@Bukowski's Chapter 3, High Test@Columbia; View New@Maindance (828 E. 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Astors, Aqua TUE 26 Tales of Ordinary Madness@Bukowski's; Halifilms: new Fellinis@Chameleon; Maxx Average Corporation, Rootes Group, Velva@Columbia; Damien Azriel@Naam shorts@Blinding Light Disgusteens@Pic Pub; Squeeze: A Duet for Musician and THUR 24 Sonar X-mas@Sonar WED 27 Halifilms: new shorts@Blinding Light; Slam-Bam-Jam-a- Dancer@Cultch; Video Rampage@Video In, Rock for Bread@Langley FRI 25 IT'S CHRISTMASI Rama@Marine Club Vineyard (5708 Glover Rd., Langley); View New@Maindance (828 SAT 26 Spearhead@Richard's on Richards; Socratic Method, Vinyl, THUR 28 New(Cine)Works@Blinding Light; Flamenco E. Hastings); Blue Plate Special@Richard's on Richards Dog Eat Dogma@Columbia (premiere)@Ridge SUN 13 Ian Tyson@Cultch; Gone with the Wmd@Ridge; Jamie SUN 27 Leesun@Naam; World's Best Commercials@Ridge FRI 29 Transgressive Cinema: Nick Zedd@Blinding Light; Strapping Clark@Naam; Time Stands Still, Somewhere in _urope@Cinematheque; MON 28 Rocksteady Ska@Gate; World's Best Commerc/'a/s@Ridge Young Lad@Starfish; Velvet Goldmine, Boogie Nights@Ridge The Preservatives@WISE Hall TUE 29 Tales of Ordinary MadnessOBukowski's MON 14 CiTR PRESENTS: The Hellacopters, Watts, WED 30 The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe@Pacific Theatre; Slam- Spitfires@Starfish; Mediaeval Babes@Vogue; Slam & Funk Bam-Jam-a-Rama@Marine Club; Miriam Davidson@Naam; Team Strike D'Void@Sonar; Rocksteady Ska@Gate; Saving Private Ryan@Ridge, Force@Columbia; Urceus Exit@DV8 The Ducktape Platypus X-mas Special@Van Press Club THUR 31 slide your eyes over to that black box to the right ... 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The Abyss 315 E. Broadway (side entrance) 488 6219 Hollywood Theatre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilano) 738 3211 Russian Hall 600 Campbell (Chinatown) 874 6200 Anderson's Restaurant (Jazz on the Creek) 684 3777 Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 873 4131 Scratch Records 109 W. Cordova (Gastown) 687 6355 Anza Club 3 W. 8th (Mount Pleasant) 876 7128 It's A Secret 1221 Granville St. (downtown) 688 7755 Seylynn Hall 605 Mountain Hwy (North Van) Arts Hotline 684 2787 Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pt. Grey) 224 8007 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 6450 Deer Lake Ave. (Bby) 291 6864 Bassix 217 W. Hastings (at Cambie) 689 7734 Jupiter Cafe & Billiards 1216 (near Deman St) Singles Going Steady 3296 Main (at 17th) 876 9233 Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) 687 1354 La Quena 1111 Commercial (the Drive) 251 6626 Sonar 66 Water (Gastown) 683 6695 Black Sheep Books 2742 W. 4th (at MacDonald) 732 5087 The Lotus Club 455 Abbott (Gastown) 685 7777 Southhill Candy Shop 4198 Main (at 26th) 876 7463 Blinding Light 36 Powell St. 878 3366 Lucky's 3972 Main 875 9858 Squish'd Knish 4470 Main (at 29th) 879 9017 The Brickyard 315 Carrall St. 685 3978 Luv-A-Fair 1275 Seymour (downtown) 685 3288 The Space 316 Hastings (downtown) Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial (the Drive) 254 1195 Mars 1320 Richards (downtown) 230 MARS Starfish Room 1055 Homer (downtown) 682 4171 Cafe Vieux Montreal 317 E. Broadway (Mount Pleasant) 873 1331 Maximum Blues Pub 1176 Granville (downtown) 688 8701 Starlight Cinema 935 Denman (West End) 689 0096 Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Granville Mall) 683 6099 Medialuna 1926 W. Broadway Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station (off Main) 688 3312 Celebrities 1022 Davie (at Burrard) 689 3180 Minoru Pavillion 7191 Granville (Richmond) St. Regis Hotel 602 Dunsmiur (downtown) Cellar Jazz Cafe 3611 W. Broadway (downstairs) 738 1959 Moon Base Gallery 231 Carrall St. (gastown) 608.0913 Stone Temple Cabaret 1082 Granville St. (downtown) 488 1333 Chameleon Urban Lounge 801 W. Georgia (Downtown) 669 0806 Naam Restaurant 2724 W 4th Ave (kitsilano) 738 7151 Sugar Refinery 1115 Granville (downtown) 683 2004 Chan Centre for the Performing Arts 6265 Crescent Rd (UBC) Old American Pub 928 Main (downtown) 682 3291 Theatre E 254 E. Hastings (Chinatown) 681 8915 Club Mardi Gras 398 Richards St. 687 5007 Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downtown) 665 3050 Thunderbird Ent. Centre 120 W. 16th St. (N. Van) 988 2473 CN Imax Theatre 999 Canada Place 682 4629 Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe (downtown) 688 3456 Vancouver E. Cultural Centre 1895 Venables (at Victoria) 254 9578 Columbia Hotel 303 Columbia (at Cordova) 683 3757 Palladium (formerly Graceland) 1250 Richards (downtowi 688 2648 Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 876 4165 Commodore Lanes 838 Granville (Granville Mall) 681 1531 Paradise 27 Church (New West) 525 0371 Vancouver Press Club 2215 Granville (S. Grc Hie) 738 7015 Cordova Cafe 307 Cordova (Gastown) 683 5637 Paradise Cinema 919 Granville (Granville Mall) 681 1732 Varsity Theatre 4375 W. 10th (Point Grey) 222 2235 Denman Place Cinema 1030 Denman (West End) 683 2201 Park Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) 876 2747 Vert/Washout 1020 Granville (dowtown) 872 2999 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Main Hall 578 Carrall St. 662 3207 Picadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (at Seymour) 682 3221 Video In Studios 1965 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 872 8337 DV8 515 Davie (downtown) 682 4388 Pitt Gallery 317 W. Hastings (downtown) 681 6740 Virgin Mega Store 788 Burrard (at Robson) 669 2289 Firehall Arts Centre 80 E. Cordova (at Main) 689 0926 Plaza Theatre 881 Granville (Granville Mall) 685 7050 Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) 331 7909 Food Not Bombs Vancouver 872 6719 Purple Onion 15 Water St. (gastown) 602 9442 Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville I 685 6217 Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) 822 2678 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Hamilton & Georgia 665 3050 Western Front (303 E. 8th Ave) 876 9343 Garage Pub 2889 E. Hastings (downtown) 822 9364 Raffels Lounge 1 221 Granville (downtown) 473 1593 Whip Gallery 209 E. 6th Ave (at Main) 874 4687 Gastown Theatre 36 Powell (Gastown) 684 MASK The Rage 750 Pacific Blvd. South (Plaza of Nations) 685 5585 W.I.S.E. Hall 1882Adanac (the Drive) 254 5858 The Gate 1176 Granville (downtown) 688 8701 Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir (at Seymour) 681 1625 Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 732 4128 The Good Jacket 225 E. Broadway (at Main) 872.5665 Richard's On Richards 1036 Richards (downtown) 687 6794 Yale Blues Pub 1300 Granville (downtown) 681 9253 The Grind Gallery 4124 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 322 6057 Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus (at 16th Ave.) 738 6311 Zulu Records 1869 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 738 3232

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MONO Formica Blues NAOMI Playback Singers humour, this is neat, lo-fi electronica at its best (and throughout the States! Check them out now least come up with some colourful names for them! 8. SERGE GAINSBOURG Histoire De Melody Nelson (reissue) we think the cute thing is probably a ruse). Lots of before they hit the high road with the likes of 16.98 CD (SALE) 9. DAVID HOLMES Essential Mix 98/01 catchy songs that get stuck in your head. Rancid, Drop Kick Murphy's and more! 10. Various ULTRA CHICKS VOL. 3 BABY POP! 14.98 CD (SALE) 16.98 CD (SALE) HELLACOPTERS GRANT H. 1. MARKHOLLIS Ma r* Hoi lis REFUSED The Shape Of Punk To Come 2. GODSPEED YOU BLACK EMPEROR F# A# ROCKET FROM THE CRYPT RFTC Payln' Dues CD Infinity P.W. LONG WITH REELFOOT Push Me Again PROPAGANDHI PIANO 3. BEDHEAD Transaction De Novo SLOAN Navy Blues • u Super Shitty To 4. REFUSED The Shape Ot Punk To Come TRICKY WOO T he Enemy Is Real Where Quantity MAGIC 5. 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