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that emotional motor crash from citr 101%9 fm our fifth annual women's issue featuring: le tigre ndidi cascade & matriarch qb miss murgatroid | peggy lee and more* •. March 2000 Free F.T.T.W. "H20 fuses the early sound and power off NY hardcore {the best in the world, come on, admit Itf) with melodic sounding punk to SBC H2H HlfP create inspiring and amazing music." These guys deserve everything March 27 at they can get for not forgettin' their roots." Hie Starfish Room -UNDER THE VOLCANO "Gratifying hardcore" -SUBURBAN VOICE www.eDiaDh.cetii e•• www.ft2ag8.com album available everywhere Epitaph E^gSSSMS iSUE 204 • MARCH 2000 • THAT MAGAZINE FROM CITR 101 .9FM Irregulars GIRLS RULE? PEGGY LEE 9 /MATRIARCH QB & NDIDI CASCADE 10 THE FEMINISTS IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD 11 MISS MURGATROID 13 LE TIGRE 14 Regulars INTERVIEW HELL 4 editrix: 7" 5 barbara andersen KILL YR BOYFRIEND 6 ad rep: LOUDER THAN A BOMB 6 maren hancock VIDEOPHILTER 7 art director: UNDER REVIEW 16 jenny watson REAL LIVE ACTION 21 production manager: CHARTS (WARNING! CONTAINS LYDIA LUNCHI) 23 tristan winch GOOD TASTY COMIC 23 art and design: ON THE DIAL 24 jenny, ken paul, tristan DATEBOOK 26 photography and illustrations: jason da silva, ann Cover goncalves, colleen heslin, diane kadota COLLEEN HESLIN TOOK THIS GORGEOUS PHOTO OF LOCAL proofreaders: ACCORDIONIST IDA NLELSON (BEANS, RADIOGRAM) AND WE kerry bleek, nick bradley, LIKED IT SO MUCH WE PUT IT ON THE COVER. LAYOUT BY OUR ciprian gligor, duncan BRAND NEW ART DIRECTOR, JENNY WATSON! mchugh, christa min, cat moore, gibby peach, katie © "DiSCORDER" 2000 by the Student Radio Society of the riecken, anthony schrag, University of British Columbia. 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Ask yourself a question and answer it. Inter! Question: Can someone really accuse one of being a post-modern feminist apologist wimp and expect it to be an insult? Answer: Well yeah, someone did, and he was really angry. I almost view peed myself laughing while trying to sputter out, "Them's fightin' http://www.passive-aggressive_records.com <[email protected]> • [Silence (consulting lawyers)] DiSCORDER Who are you (names, instruments played, If you could change one thing about the Vancouver favourite kind of monkey)? music scene, what would it be? Is it perfect just the way Sanne: (Vocals/guitar) Homosapien. it is? Walter: (Bass) Baboon; I don't understand how they can have such Alex: I would change it to Seattle. serious expressions while possessing such colourful bums. Walter: There is no scene and that's just perfect. Alex: (Drums) ??? Sanne: Yeah. Cage, we here at Radio Hell are honoured to have you Given an unlimited budget, what one piece of gear Sanne doing your FIRST IVER performance as Cage with the lineup we see before usl That's exciting! You don't look would Cage blow it on? like you are new at this, though. From where has each Alex: Neil Peart's drum kit from 2112. of you come, and how did you end up where you are? Alex: We haven't come a hell of a long way. Walter: Sonne's house Sanne: Nanaimo Station, and how did we end up here? Jake's Lambert Walter, were you, in a past life, a jazz bass man? If not, do you wish that you maybe could have been? Do you wish Alex would use a brush more often as he's beatin' the skins? F>,'f n Walter: Despite my best efforts, I cannot recall anything about my with Cage past lives; as to being a jazzy bass man, it would probably be a sight better than being the potato farmer I probably was. Alex using brushes? That's just being cruel Have you ever been caged? Or been cage dancers? Vancouver ^ W^l KILL ROCK ^ 4C^f ^ " ™ STARS "^ ^ ' Lois Maffeo & Brendan Canty t's funny. There really are good never a good idea if you ask LEY AND HIS MAGICAL The Union Themes CD bands in Vancouver, but they me. Yeah, yeah. I know what HAIRY AIRY OLAS, what Ichoose not to send me demo you're thinking. People say it to would you think of? Garbage, tapes. The best local bands try me often. Who asked you? you say? Good thought. With really hard to pretend that <[email protected]> songs like "Morning Boner" and they're not from here. They're I went through a ska phase. "Pig Fucker" you know you have ashamed to be associated with It lasted for about 16 minutes. I a winner. Dwayne Dibley Sleater-Kinney Vane Drld- don't know where NOT FOR sounds like a sixer of bad beer. 'AIL HANDS ON THE BUD ONE' LP/CD music scene. Come on, every THE CROWD is from, but they He likes to use metal fonts and body. Bryan Adams is from umlauts as well. Included in the our beautiful city. Aren't you tape was a sticker of a pair of proud, damn it? breasts. Thanks, thanks a lot. (PO Box 59, 1895 Commercial This month I have something BANGS Dr., Vancouver, BC, V5N 4A6) good to write about. P:ANO's Before putting this tape in, I demo tape is impressive. Of •SWEET REVENGE' LP/CD held it up in the air and said, course, I had to hijack the tape "Please be good, please be from someone else because the good." I knew it wouldn't be hor band didn't send me a copy. rid because I have heard The Thrones P:ano play model pop songs ROBERT IAN HERRE s music with strings! The lead singer's before. Some of his songs are •SPERM WHALE' 12" EP voice is comforting, and the well written, but I could do with back up vocals blend in quite out the hippie rhythms and the (CD has 'WHITE RABBIT nicely. It might make the band taped over Joe Jackson's Look reverb on his guitar. His vocals WHITE RHBBIT WHITE RABBIT' EP) very happy if I compared them Sharp. Some might say that's ter are much lower than I remem to Low. Yes, imagine Low as ribly wrong. Well, their tune ber. Maybe it's not the same teenagers and you might just "Luciano" ain't half bad. guy. On the inner cover, Herre for a catalog write ta hear P:ano. Unfortunately, the Danceable, at least, although a printed "The Mocking Bird," a PMB 418 tape takes a turn for the worse little boring. And the horns are Bukowski poem. I like Bukowski on the second side. P.ano turns meek. Yup. Ska music. (No too, but I'd never admit it. (2- 120 STATE ST. NE into a heap of bad samples and kSSS&i DLYMPIA,WA 98501 address) 3318 Main St., Vancouver, BC, loops. Sampling the same sam If I said, DWAYNE DIB- V5V 3M7) • ples as The Beastie Boys is lyww.killrackatarg. dftatributea by Maraa*' 7 ^^cAzDOO Offs, The l-4-5s, Spoon, and Silver Scooter all joined together in order to wear lots of must have had a lot of make-up, glitter wigs, and tight fun cutting and pasting pants. Oh yeah, and they play the lady-bits together for 7 W0* glam rock, too. I know what inch you're thinking —"Covers of 'Suffragette City' and '20th Century Boy' on one album? I the orange, pixelated just can't get enough!" Boy, are flesh in the world could you dumb. It's no not distract me from the WF, 5'8", brown hair and else you'd like to compare them good.