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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 "^ ^ '
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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
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. Neither is the fact that the Onya's eyes, looking for some with. The A-side, "Magneto RL/BB split. Roar! music is boring and uno S cool people to listen to Single-Fire," is all fuzzy, and the riginal. Stupid boy records with. I enjoy listening to B-side h are alternately jan- jnd a big old garage rockers! (Junk, pop, rock, and punk, as long as ock-solid. "T-Nee" The gui- PO Box 1474 Cypress, gly < Nanouk De Meijere, Marienstr. they're done tastefully. Maybe i of a Longstock- s slopf CA 90630) 2, 76137 Karlsruhe, Germany) we could go to rock shows ing tune, so you know that's in the vocals are just no "Black Forest No School I think that I maybe don't together? Or maybe we could my good books. The Moves good. Dang. The Violence meets Italian Metal hate country music. JOE even start a band! Okay, I know have a full-length out soon, but Beach Birds have a Scremo" — what d< 1 PERNICE is a bit country-pokey, that pleas for partners in crime the single is well worth scoop horrid vocalist, and •an? lis the and he's cool. On a split with will get me nowhere in the stuck- ing up. (Mr. Lady, PO Box 31 89 HEARTS-HIDE / COSTA'S CHETICAMP, his song, "The up world of indie-rock elitism. I Durham, NC 27715) with lyrii ' CAKE HOUSE split that this Two of You Sleep," tugs at all just thought I'd give it one sad Here's another hot tip for The; quote claimed to describe, and ie que the right heartstrings. I don't little try, hoping that there might you: get your hands on the new love songs stink! was not graced with any new really get what's happening to be a few of you i MICROPHONES single, They're so bad that insight. This is crazy loud hard the poor guy, but the song is "Moon Moon." I've never been they're funny, but I core music, and I think it's pretty jnd able to take , the slow, sad, and very pretty. much of a fan, but the two cool, but what do I know? The ending onslaught of new Cheticamp's tune, "Little songs that appear on this 7" are u to pick this up Germans scream loud, the vinyl releases made available to Rebound," is a gentle pop song both wonderful. I'm especially I'll tell you about the disappoint just for the i /elty of it all. If you Italians scream louder, and the masses. This month's column that serves as a perfect, equally endeared to the b-side, "I Lost ments of the month. Usually, care about The everyone plays really, really is supposed to be short, so I'm pitiable b-side. Does everybody My Wind," a sweet little pop Peek-a-Boo Industries puts out Primadoi las, then you'll fast. (Get Up And Go, C/O only going to tell you about the have such a rough life, or only song full of pretty harmonies, good records. I love Junior want this, as this is their new best of the best of the something blossoming country/pop stars? fuelled by a strong melody and Varsity, and I like The Kiss name. No wonder I never both or other, and then the really bad (Poster Girl, 1 23 Queen St. W, • some clever lyrics. The a-side is Offs a whole lot. Silver ered listening to that band. Box 1 46 Toronto, Ontario M5H a very dynamic tune, slow and Scooter isn't half bad, either. (Peek-a-Boo, PO Box 49542 3M9) intricate at times, frighteningly So what's up with the two new Austin, TX 78765) THE MOVES are a really Being brief is great. You loud and chaotic at others. The releases I got, GOLDEN One last dishonourable tight three-piece queer-core can either buy the good stuff to band has quite nicely packaged MILLENNIUM and a ROAR! mention - this one goes to the band on Mr. Lady. Sara enjoy, the bad stuff to mock, or the song's lyrics within a musi LION/BEACH BIRDS split? single with the worst cover art. Cooper, Sara Shaw and Rachel the foreign stuff for the joy of cal framework that could tell the Ouch! These records both stink THE ONYAS, a garage rock Cohen rock out like the big collecting weird stamps. That's tale of tides all by itself. like stinky stuff. Golden band out of Australia, have movers and shakers of their more than enough to keep you Charming. (K, PO Box 7154 Millennium is an "all-star" band released a three-song piece of scene, sounding like Excuse all very busy. • 17 and Slant 6 and whoever Olympic, Washington 98057) featuring members of The Kiss crap, complete with raunchy
SENSES© Simpsons), called Fleener. I'm not sure if it's still in print, but I do know that it's in colour. I have Kill Your yet to see one. I like the fact that her life seems so casual; it's like there's Boyfriend hope for me after all. Yeah, she used drugs, but so what — so did everyone else. She was a hedonist who was smart enough he first I heard of Mary Life of the Party, a collection of style is vibrant and chaotic — to stay alive and draw about it. Fleener was that her comic stories from Fleener's various your eyes can't stop travelling It's her honesty and lack of r the spectrum of her panels. With regret that impress me. It's like called Slutburger and appearances in that : B guy had gotten his Comix and magazin her sorta messy ways, Mary she learned from her mistakes entire back tattooed with her art. s from Slutburger itself. manages to slip odds and ends and now she's here to stay. Life Talk about devotion. But she was I was immediately grabbed into the panels. There's one story of the Party is an extensive work a "girl cartoonist," a rare phe by her art Commonly referred about her friend's husband's foot and you learn a lot about Mary. ; well with her scattered, aged to stay on top. Even when nomenon in her day and age. to as a "cubismo" artist, Fleener fetish: she depicts him climaxing Stories about the guy who tat blocky art Startling and obvi- she was expecting the cops to So logic prevailed and I bought s the of c but the flow of her art turns one tooed her art on his back and of his legs into the leg he covets. some of her more flaky friends bust her ass, she prevailed. She It's a small but great aesthetic provide you with the story of I also love the fact that, was one hardcore WOMAN. ^FU detail. Her art screams beauty. Mary's life. Though Fleener's era unlike some of her counterparts, From appearing in such Each panel is a rigid little box is a bit before my time, she has she doesn't feel the need to blud anthologies as Tits & Ciits to iW with tons of life inside. an attitude that I can relate to. geon us with her sex life. Nor doing art for Dignifying Science, In her stories you are treat When she was nine, she loved does she whine, preach, or over a collection about women scien ed to brutal honesty, as you're blues, funk, rock, soul: "That react like the stereotypical tists, to the book about Zora witness to every feeling Mary damn jungle music, it's too "female cartoonist." She has a Hurston's work and life, Mary has. They're kinetic, like strokes loud," yells her father. Yeah, she story to tell and some of the Fleener supports us all with of lightning. She also has a lot was pissing off her parents, but experiences she has are bizarre. class. She has attitude — atti of bizarre shading techniques; she boogied the whole time. In Mary writes about her inter tude that makes complete sense geometrical art, pick a shape another story, Mary the bass ests in her comic. Her book to me. She does what she wants, you want to colour. Her lines are player is having trouble finding Hoodoo is a highly educational she thinks for herself, and she confident, to the point that it's a band to play with. In this story story about Zora Neale Hurston, lets the reader figure out their almost a colouring book. I'm she depicts sex with a wonder a researcher of American own path. These are just stories glad her comics are black & ful lack of discretion. Her naked Voodoo traditions. Hurston is from her life and that's all I want. white. I don't think I could han boyfriend jumps on her, and the Mary's hero and it's easy to Life stories. I want reality with a dle big doses of Mary colour. reader gets to see everything understand why: she was intelli bit of humour, and that's Mary: I've heard that she has a kids' that Mary sees. Two panels gent, independent and full of a kfck-ass lady, a great artist show a million things going on gumption. It's the same way I who still plays bass and can Bongo Comics (home of The at once. Unreal. She captures see Mary. Hurston always man hold her own with any man.'
they are out of prison they justi to social and personal violence fy for the need for massive against women, against the spending on high technology poor, against poor women. This Exciting "job- "crime fighting" equipment, isn't just some idealistic acade opportunities Louder Than ironically often produced in part mic talking: Davis knows the at DiSCORDER: by convict labour. Davis high conditions from experience. She lighted the way in which the spent several years in prison on A Bomb labour conditions in "first world" bogus murder and kidnapping Utterly unpaid prisons (especially women's pris charges; charges that were fab but highly ons) mirror the conditions in the ricated, ironically, because of gratifying posi "third world" sweatshops that her work on prison reform and of the most exc funding were forced to look to society. horrify so many "good citizens." prisoners rights... that's how tions available things to happen it other similar sources of income Why is it that while said She also discussed the way in threats to the capitalist prison- for writers, O >st ' .nlhs (i.e. unwinnable, self-perpetuat groups comprise under 10% of which state violence against the industrial complex are dealt with proofreaders, this February courtesy of ing wars) and they found one: the total population in their disenfranchised is directly linked in the "free" world. • Vancouver Status of Women: Dr. the "war on crime." In order to respective countries they com photographers, S u g g e s R e a d i n Angela Y Davis' lecture at the pursue this war it was necessary prise 70% to 80% of the prison layout maniacs, Vogue Theatre. Her discussion to be able to galvanize public population? This is not just a masseurs, centred on "Gender, opinion against a clear and pre random injustice, this is an orga Globalization and Punishment," sent danger: a very real and vis nized effort to provide and typists and Angela Y. Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Random House, essentially a dissection of the ible "enemy." Whom better to maintain a cheap labour pool 1974. interlocking features of racism, choose than those already mar while subsidizing the survivors Women, Race & Class (ed. Angela Davis). New York: Vintage, sexism, capitalism, and the pun ginalized in society? The fear of of the Cold War weapons & 1981. ishment system which together crime is a deliberately construct technology industry. Davis If They Come in the Morning: Voices of Resistance (ed. Angela form a relationship she terms the ed paranoia; despite the fact reminded us that not only do Davis). New Jersey: Third World Press, 1971. "Prison-Industrial Complex." Her that statistically crime rates in prisoners provide a cheap Women, Culture and Politics. New York: Random House, 1988. Editrix at lecture was timely as statistical North America have remained source of labour without the fear predictions warned that three relatively steady (except youth of unions, benefits, workers 822.3017 ex.3, Other Authors days after the lecture (Feb. 15th) violent offenses), FEAR of crime compensation or any sort of email the number of people incarcerat is at an all lime high. The war on employer responsibility, the war Hermann Bianchi (ed). Abolitionism: A Non-Repressive Approach to citrdisccrderf* ed in the United States alone on crime provides an essentially Crime. Amsterdam: Free University Press, 1991. would reach the two million poor (especially women and unlimited rnarket for the military- Michel Foucault. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. New mark (basically the entire popu men of colour). An essential ele style technology used by "law- .« by TOOL. York: Random House, 1979. lation of the Lower Mainland!). ment of this system is racializing enforcement." Furthermore, the Joy James (ed.). Angela Y Davis Reader. Oxford: Blackwell, 1998. #235-6138 SUB Dr. Davis made it clear that the crime: the face of the enemy is prison system becomes the gen Joy James. Resisting State Violence: Radicalism, Gender and Race in punishment industry is exactly the young Black/Latino in the US erative element of the cycle of Boulevard on US Culture. New York: Vintage, 1996. that: an industry. Following the and First Nations (and now violence: juveniles who go in Matthew Mancini. One Dies, Get Another: Convict Leasing in the the UBC campus. collapse of the Cold War which increasingly Asian) in Canada. and out of prison become adults American South. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, essentially provided the military- Breed fear of these people and who pass in and out of prison. 1996. industrial complex with unlimited their oppression and unjust incar While they are in prison their support, the beneficiaries of this ceration will be condoned by labour is exploited, and while cinema, the documentary was Tom Ewell (The Seven Year Itch), exploiting themselves. Women so badly organized that it was a washed up agent, to make her in Revolt champions everyone's difficult to understand where, a singing star. The problem is, right to sit around in a bad wig when, and who the narrator she just wants to cook, clean screaming at your hairy, naked Video Philter was discussing at any given and pump out the puppies. (Teat houseboy while pondering the enough for all!) Contrary to rep dilemma of whether to join a teurisms, the thesis of the project utation, Mansfield is the only feminist group or make out with seemed to be the unintentionally actor who shows any talent in your lesbian friend. If you ever patronizing, "See, women did it this mid-'50s mess. The plot is so have a hankering to see a too!" The Women Who Made thin that about a third of the 90- "women's picture" that out-trash es John Waters and out-slacks am strong, I am invincible, I my mother suggests a luncheon World (USA, 1958) and The Movies never revealed any of its minute film is given (thankfully!) Slacker, or you just want to see am woman? Helen Reddy was and shopping date: What is Women (UK, 1939), I must con subjects as artists or people; over to lip-synched perfor what the girls in Lou Reed's trying to egg her gender Woman? Plugging the word into fess to having already imbibed. instead nauseatingly vague flat- mances by the greatest rock V I "Walk on the Wild Side" look mates on to greatness in a time the Videomatica database, a The only thing I learned about , thrc rollers of the day. Unfortunately, like, this is your picture. when women were finally wak barrage of definitions, or the women from these standard stu freely as dung at a cow chip- these musical segments are the ing up to the fact that being promise of such, came scream dio pictures was how annoying tossing contest. While I hate to only statically staged action in At the end of this column ovaried in Western society ing back at me. A Woman's a "good" woman could be if so harshly criticize a project an otherwise garish, ridiculous devoted to the truly worst in sucked, but even she must have Tale. The Truth about Women. A seen through the Vaseline- which probably had only the women's movies, I must add that cringed just a little at the bold Woman's World. The Women. smeared lens of classic best intentions, a film this poorly The last of my journeys into there are some great pictures out faced lie behind the sentiment I The estrogen high was making Hollywood. (If you hate June executed does nothing to create celluloid womanhood also suf there by, for and about women can be strong (as my friends like me giddy. A little research, how Allyson in those adult diaper or sustain the legacies of the fered from farcical ridiculous I don't want to be greedy and to add, smelling). I am at times ever, quickly dispelled my ads, you'll really loathe her in A women it's trying to celebrate. ness. Thankfully it was say, "No pricks allowed," so I'll impervious. Rarely am I invinci Woman's World.) The only A celebration of woman redeemed by a gratuitous use of let you discover them, as well as ble (except at "Isaac Asimov's humorous and touching tale, the redeeming part in either of these hood — of the double-D variety male nudity, drag queens, les your gender, by yourself. • Superquiz"). Sometimes I ques- words, "Martha is a modern films is that of the catty bitch, — is the main thrust behind the bians and the word "pussy." spirited woman trapped in a played in The Women by Joan 1956 Jayne Mansfield vehicle, Andy Warhol's Women in Happiness by Miyu Crawford and in A Woman's - Yeah, I've got breasts and the decrepit body," on the back of The Girl Can't Help It While Revolt was truly the grossest World by Clifton Webb. Meow. rest of the requisite equipment, A Woman's Tale (Australia, the film is an interesting study in diatribe on women's liberation In the morning, you lie in Having a little of the pussy but I just don't feel the race 1985) made me drop the box the correlation between director that I have ever had the plea and the dog present in my own your bed trying to figure memory in my mammaries. I quickly and walk away. (The Frank Tashlin's work as a car sure/pain to witness. In a style personality, I cannot refrain from out what yesterday me ENDEARING MEW RELEASES RUMTBEI CHRISTINE FELLOWS DESTROYER AO¥. TIX $7 AVAILABLE AT SCRATCH. ZULU, lOIZE, SIIGLES GOIIG STEADY $1 AT TIE lit! SIIWTME 9.31PM. ItttS 9.91PM WHtv.eiJear1ni.ciii WM.saliceis.com sal teens ©can aia.cint 313 CAflfUtlL STREET GASTOWN 9*3 337» ; A^JOJL zQOO In one of my first steps towards becoming more musically aware, I took to listening to some of the music coming out on Spool, a new Canadian label that supports a roster of classical, improvisation- al, and new music artists. Peggy Lee, a local musician who works wonders with her cello in many of PEGGY LEE Vancouver's finest ensembles, recently released an album on Spool of music she composed, per formed with a group of talented collaborators. BY JULIE COLERO PHOTOS IIY DIANE K\I>OIA DiSCORDER: I was told that you have had a lot of great improvisers, and they were also all music, but it doesn't really break from the tradition of very diverse, but it represents what we're trying to some involvement with the Women In composers. I was submerged in a scene that was written classical music. do. View series at the Western Front. very busy. We were playing at least once a week [at Since you're working in so many different And as for your own band, are you con Peggy Lee: I have in the past. I don't really know the Glass Slipper]. I was lucky to discover a lot of areas, do you find there's a lot of mixing? tinuing with new compositions? what's happening with that series. A band devel people here at a time when I was looking for exact Do you take aspects from the one and add [The Peggy Lee Band album] was recorded last June, oped out of that, which has continued, and we're ly that. v them to the next? and since then I've really only written one piece for hoping to do a tour next year. We're planning to When you did your degree, were you Definitely. People sometimes think I'm playing jazz, the band. We haven't played much, so whenever play at the Front next fall. One year we worked with trained in composition? [but] I wouldn't really know what to do if someone we play, it's nice to play the music on the CD. Tony an Indian woman singer and did her material. Other No, not at all. That's the thing — I don't know if put a standard in front of me and told me to impro Wilson has brought a couple of compositions to our years it's been open improvising. other schools are more open that way, but the U of vise on it. My improvising comes from my back repertoire, and I think that Chris Tarry, the bass play What kind of training do you have? T didn't even consider that someone in performance ground, which is classical and new music. As much er, is writing something for us. It's continually devel Classical. I did my bachelor's degree in would also want to compose. I had a friend that as I appreciate all kinds of improvised music, that's oping. It's difficult to get six people together, and Performance at the University of Toronto, and then I wanted to, but they told him he couldn't, and so he just my language. Everything complements each it's hard to find venues... It's good that we did some went on to the Banff Centre and did a year there. quit and became a psychiatrist. It wasn't really other. The thing about a group like Standing Wave, shows with Veda [Hille]. She did two shows at the That was all strictly classical. At the centre, they also expected. That's what I found interesting in the cre although it's generally written music, we do some Cultch, and I've played with her for a long time, so had other things happening, like projects for your ative music scene out here, was that it wasn't a big times go into the world of improvisation. I think it she asked me to have my band open. Veda's audi spare time — working with artists and filmmakers. I deal. Everybody wrote music. takes a little while for a whole group of classical ences are very open-minded, and I think we reached got interested in that, and started thinking that I With the Peggy Lee Band, did you compose musicians to be comfortable with that. a new and appreciative crowd. Our music isn't like might not necessarily just want to audition for orches all the parts, or just your own? Do you think that the musicians you're hers, but they complemented each other. tras. I thought I might try doing a little more experi I wrote all the music. Obviously, there's a lot of working with are willing to take chances? Can I ask a couple of questions about mental work. That's why I moved to Vancouver. improvising on that album, but I wrote all the music Yeah, that's the nice thing. The worlds are not as Spool, your record label? Is it a local label? Is there a better experimental scene here? for that. That was my first venture into composition. separate as they used to be. There's an appreciation Vern is here in Vancouver, and his business partner I wouldn't say that, it's just that if I went back to I really thought about those musicians that I wanted for what an improviser can bring to a score, and Daniel is in Ontario. [They] had talked for a while Toronto, where I was known for a certain type of to play with, and how they would sound, and they what an improvising musician can put in front of about starting a label. When [Dylan and I] recorded music, I'd be expected to do the same type of thing. inspired the writing. They're amazing. you. Ron Samworth's piece was mainly graphic, not an album, These Are Our Shoes, we sent it to Verge, If I moved to Vancouver, where nobody knew me, I And that came together well? really written notes, but just lines and dots and stuff. hoping that they would distribute it, and they were could decide what I wanted to do. I wasn't really It was a real treat. Right from the very beginning, And you managed to interpret that? very enthusiastic about it. It worked out that our sure what I wanted to do, but I had a feeling that it everything was working, which I realize isn't that Yes, and it felt really good. I think that we're becom release and Sponge became the first albums out on wasn't playing Les Miserables, which is probably common. Even with Talking Pictures, it took a while, ing quite cohesive. We're not just interpreters of writ Spool. The label is small, but very dedicated. It's what I would have done if I'd gone back. because it was a new group, and I hadn't done ten music, we can actually create sounds ourselves. nice lo have people that really believe in the scene What were the first steps towards finding much improvising. I wasn't a bass player, but I was I think that the music on the Standing Wave CD is something for yourself outside of the tra fulfilling a bass function. That group took a little bit ditional classical scene? of time, but now it feels so easy when we improvise. Well, I played in a pop band for a few years, called We like to rehearse, but even when we don't, we Memory Day, and it was good. 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It's not like I'm trying to go out and be a size stillettos and a mini skirt with my ass hanging out. 10, I don't care about that. I'm out for the music NC: I'll be watching a program on The Learning It shouldn't make a difference about my emcee status. and not anything else. Channel and I'm going to write a rhyme about That's it: next show, it's coming out... g-string, titties NC: Some women choose to come out like that. this... or I'll be going through my journal and I'll dis out, stilletto heels, wigs, fake eyelashes, Lee Press-on But a lot of women want to come another way, but cover some lyrics. Once I went through my journal Nails, that's it! Seriously, though, seeing you perform then the record label says, "No, you gotta do this and made everything rhyme. I don't know if I want is enough to show that you [Ndidi] aren't like those and that, because we gotta make money." to give my secret out, but that's what I do. [laughs] other girls. Vancouver has a scene that's split, divided. That's straight up wrong! QB I write about struggle. There's been a lot of There are these chickenheads who only go out on the NC: Bottom line: it's all about the skills. really interesting things that have happened in my weekends for the men. The majority of them dress like QB: One of the things that bothers me about life that I feel have led me to being who I am. I do that because they feel that they have nothing talented being a "femalp emcee" is that I find that we're a lot of reflecting on my own life and that pushes to offer, so they offer themselves up as, basically, automatically put on a lower level. For instance, me to ask: what do I want to say? What have a steak. So even though we have talent, we feel like when I'd like to do something on stage, I find that I learned as a person? What do I feel that I want we can't present ourselves in a "feminine" way, there's more of a hassle for me to get on the mic, ancouver it notorious for its active hip-hop to learn from writing this piece of music? Music, because we are portrayed negatively. I find that a lot than for a male emcee who may have half as much scene, and who better to talk to than the twoespeciall y hip-hop, is a real learning experience of times when I do dress that way, I feel like I have to lyrical skill than me. I don't feel that women should V lyrically gifted and spirited emcees Ndidi for me and I always feel that if it's not moving me, pull people aside and talk to them, really try and put get a head start because we're women. I know for Cascade and Matriarch QB? I was fortunate enough it's not going to move anybody else. If I'm not out who I am as a person. I dress how I want to dress. a fact that I fight just as hard as a man does, and to catch both performers doing what they do best on writing about something that I feel strongly about, It's about self-confidence, straight up. This is me, sometimes I feel I fight harder. And it's not like I'm Saturday, February 19th at Sonar. I picked up a then people aren't going to feel strongly about it. this is what I do. I'm really happy with what I do, asking anyone to feel sorry, 'cause I'm actually strong sense of versatility within their musical ability, If you don't take yourself seriously, then you just I feel proud about myself. It doesn't matter what thankful that you make me do that because it makes and that certainly didn't go unnoticed on the dance- won't be taken seriously. Not that that's my main anyone else thinks. it all that more satisfactory for me! Being a woman floor. QB set the fire with a mixture of deep, soulful priority, 'cause I make music for me and I'll get that NC: I don't like to be too extreme. I like to keep a in this game, some men automatically think that vocals and skalty rhymes, while Dana D and Bulldog straight. I really think that it comes from inside of balance. That's what I'm all about. My whole point you're easy to push around, or that you're dropped down some fine hip hop and drum 'n' bass. you. You are always going to be a part of what of existence right now is to achieve a sense of not going to represent as hard. I've always been Though hip-hop is their forte, Ndidi was feeling it yoo ore saying and obviously if you don't feel right balance. I'll dress "feminine," I'll dress "masculine," eye-to-eye with men my whole life. I've never enough to give the junglist vibe a try for the first time about it, you shouldn't be doing it. you know what I'm saying? And that's just me, a played any games and I'm not about to start at 23. and let her rhythmic voice be heard, sending the NC: Ifs really interesting with me cause I don't really reflection of who I am. I'm half and half everything: Come on boys, let's get it together! This is about now tightly packed room off the hook. On the hip- deal with one producer right now. Usually it's a unit: racially, socially, everything. The only advice I give music. This is something that doesn't have a sex. hop circuit for the past five years, Ndidi Cascade emcee, dj, producer together. With me, I'm solo, by to women who feel like they have nothing else to This is something that is for the masses, not for jaka Cassandra Onyejikwe) has spread the word at myself. When I write rhymes, usually I'll hook up with show of themselves other than their body is sure, a particular genre of genitalia. numerous events and has earned the title of best hip- a producer and somebody will lay a beat down and you look nice, but appreciate yourself for who you So what can we do about it? hop emcee at the DJ Soundwar in 1998. QB (aka I'll twist my rhymes to fit that beat. There comes a time are and not just how you look. NC: Write about it, talk about it with people. Kaytea Shakaun) has been dynamically speaking when I feel like I need someone to unify it. QB: That's right, try to work some other angles in, Mind you, it's a gradual process. You can't preach her mind in Vancity since she relocated from the QB: I get someone to drop me a beat, but I do a lot you know. You can still look nice. about it, you can't be so extreme about it and say, East Coast two and a half years ago. Though fair of four-track work to what I do is formulate my NC: You can still dress like that, but it's your "Whatever, no more men at our shows," you know ly new to the West Coast scene, this talented raps, put them to beats that I've got at the time. disposition. Just don't utilize it to spread negativity what I'm saying? You can't say that. Go out and woman is currently hard at work in the studio, pro Bounce it on that beat. I think it's best if you or to please other people. support women in the hip-hop scene and let's have ducing a I O-track album. I recently welcomed these produce a beat first... the beat gives you the QB: But you know what, though? I think tits and ass an all-female show, that would be cool. Just don't two highly driven artists into my home to discuss a feeling. The beat will move you in some way. are a good thing, cause for me it is femininity. I'm be as extreme as to say that men aren't allowed broad range of issues, including their Sometimes that doesn't work, 'cause maybe you've not a size 10 or anything, but I've got some nice in the show or that all men are wack when they're experiences of being women in the music industry. got these gangsta lyrics and you're running into titties and my ass is alright, you know, [laughs] on stage. They're not going to listen to you after some DJ Premiere beat and you know if-s just not Work what you got! I look at it this way: if I can feel that, it'll just get worse. That's what we're going Roots gonna work out. I feel you have to get the beat first. sexy on my own because of who I am, then I to do about it. We're going to be natural to cure shouldn't feel wrong about feeling sexy as an the insanity. MC QB: Hip-hop culture I suppose that it's always More Than Jul Booty individual. It's different for everybody. been in my blood. Hip-hop has always been NC: It's just the context in which you find it. There's Words of Wisdom an evolving music since I can remember, so I hung NC: I will dress as I feel, that's the bottom line. If I nothing wrong with being nude, the beauty of in for the game. I first got into R&B as a kid, and dress up "feminine," I find that sometimes I'll get being nude. It's pure, natural, earth, root, you know QB: Don't sell out. Don't give out. was really into old dance jams like Mr. Lee's these dodo heads coming up to me in the club say what I'm saying? Some people say that porn is NC: Be strong and know who you are. Don't be "Get Busy." There was the whole '93 Heiro ing, "Oh, I thought you were an emcee. It didn't good, everyone should look at it. I'm like no, look afraid to discover your different sides. Don't let explosion. Bad Boy dropped with Biggie, and then seem like you were." If I go up on the stage like at the context. The way that they're spread, the anyone push you into any position that you don't all that Wu stuff came out. that, people who've seen me before will say make-up they're wearing. Look at Foxy Brown and want to be in. That's it. Ndidi Cascade: I wrote my first little rhyme in "What's up with her, I thought she was all hard." Li'l Kim. They're like, "I'm a woman and I can dress grade 6 and I liked poetry too, so I would just put QB: Going into the club carrying billies and like this." That's cool, they seem confident. But it's Keep your ear to the ground for their next appear words together. Then one day I just grabbed the sluggies... [laughs] the make-up, the fabrication of their bodies, the ance: contact io snu^mo ( THESE ARE THE FEMINISTS IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD by Gloria Steincunt have to organize and find other strategies to ser What about the music you make ing at my relationship to people who are home his is basically just a vice our community. We will continue. together? less. Inter-racial and ethnicity issues. Trying to chance for people to take Would you define yourself as a feminist? "It's all improvised. We have kind of loose song stretch myself to think about how I perpetuate What is your own definition of feminism? ideas, but they're not really structured in any kind oppression. a brief glimpse into the It's such a controversial thing, especially in the of way. We might play one or two of those and Tell me about the work you do at T Aboriginal community, because our leaders, who just improve the rest of the night. The thing with psyches of a few passionate Vancouver Status of Women. are all men, hate feminists. Everybody gets into this band is that pretty much anything goes. My fundamental belief is that every woman people who not only challenge this lingo, but I totally support the emancipation Whatever anyone wants to try they can do. It's should be able to self-determine and reach her our one rule so far. Except there always has to be maximum potential, and be given all the support society, but carve a beautiful I would describe myself as a feminist, a slide whistle song." she needs to accomplish that. In the work that I life outside of it, by simultane yeah. In our culture our whole history is defined Do you think it's useful or relevant to do I endeavor to provide whatever support I can by men but it's women who actually make a define yourself as a feminist? to make that happen or contribute to a woman's ously creating and surviving difference. I talk about my grandmothers rather "Yep, I think it is." ability. their reality through activism than my grandfathers. But the men talk at the Big "I don't, I'm just a person and I wouldn't call What do you wish men would do to House and make all the speeches at funerals, and myself anything other than just me." contribute to the feminist movement? and art. the women aren't allowed to say anything. "But I do think that things that are meant to be I wish that men would stop men's violence. But it's women who have to cope and do used negatively against women, if you turn it I think they have a lot to learn from how women everything. Women are having their voices muf around and say, 'Yeah, I'm a Cunt and I'm proud have mobilized in the last thirty years. I think men Deborah Bell fled and silenced. That's why I like working for of it.' That makes me feel good." have a huge role in ending violence. Like, get on the Women of Our People. "I think it's just an adjective, it's like saying you're with it. I think the key role is to challenge them- Deborah is the Coordinator of The Women of Our The Women of Our People's main focus tall or you're short; I don't think it should have People Native Women's Sexual Assault Center. is to support Aboriginal women who are sexual negative connotations." A phenomenal mother, social worker and advocate iault and i in thei |ourney tc What are Cunt's plans for future Lama Mugabo for Aboriginal women, she still finds the time to aling. whatever route they take. Whether domination? be kind and patient with me while sharing her )urt system, or whether that's healing "Cunt's plans for the future consist of sitting out Lama is an educator, facilitator, and video-maker invaluable knowledge and experience. just sharing on a one to one basis. on the front porch when we're 80, whittling and involved in a variety of projects promoting singing tunes. Still singing." grassroots action and global change. In addition Cunt to speaking 7 different languages, he is wonder Naomi North fully funny, sincere, brilliant, handsome, and a blast For the sake of brevity, I am depicting the individual to party with. responses of the musical group Cunt in true feminist Naomi is the Program Coordinator at Vancouver fashion: collectively. Status of Women. Combining her dramatic back I saw Cunt at the Purple Onion for the ground with her quiet, grounded strength, she is Sugarbushmagazine.com launch party. The ladies the closest thing to activist perfection that I have improvised most of their set with expressive, impressive results. My favorite song was "Don't Mess With a Mennonite Man at Night." Deborah Bell: The Women of Our People w started by Aboriginal women for Aborigir women. Right now we don't have the gov? funding that we used to get to run the sexual assault program. And it's because we didn't have How do you define feminism? the ability to administratively run it with one staff Lama Mugabo: I think that the word feminism person, and we don't use volunteers. The ministry is still a threat to people that are less progressive, wants us to use volunteers. They would like us to it's like communism or something, because use funds to pay staff to train volunteers to work they don't know the meaning, or they haven't really taken the time to understand, to adjust, could do that, because of the smallness of our photo by c so it's very threatening. The way I see it, we need community, and we never wanted to breach the What is your own personal definition of Why did you call yourselves Cunt? to right history's wrongs, and [feminism] confidentiality of the victims that utilize our ser- feminism? Cunt: "Cunt started way back. I just wanted Naomi North: Feminism for me is acknowledg a punk band called Cunt, and it turned out that How do you think men can practice DiSCORDER: So the government couldn't ing the fact that every single human being should this wasn't a punk band. Cunt was basically just feminism? understand that an Aboriginal Women's have the right to self-determination — which a whole bunch of girls getting together and To people who are sold to the idea it's a non- Sexual Assault Center couldn't work means far more than equality — and addresses interpretive dancing, smoking up..." issue, but men who are not in touch with their sex the same way as the government-run issues of equal access at the same time. "I don't think it's very deep, it's just an idea. uality, feelings and beings have issues with it Centers? How do you practice feminism in your It wasn't any political thing, we just thought it because they see it as a threat. For me, someone From their point of view, they tried their best to everyday life? would be funny..." who is misogynist or homophobic or so on is not accommodate us and in part I think they did, but Urn, that's a damn fine question. Am I a feminist "I like the word Cunt because I like the fact that a friend. I tend to look at feminism along the lines we have some unique needs and one of them is at all? I practice feminism by working really hard a lot of people recoil in terror when you say it, of racism and homophobia, because I think it's that we need to have funding for more than one to be as aware of my many roles in my life that and I just think it's really fun to make people difficult to separate them. You cannot separate staff person. I just burnt out, really. I talked to our I play. In all my relationships I try to have an recoil in terror, especially when there's no them; it's all oppression. I don't think that I can board, and they were quite shocked that our awareness of power imbalances whether it's a good reason for it." fight a woman's fight. 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If you start a phone cam M^mShe does the metal sign on the cover of her album Myocycloni< Haden called Bella Neurox]? paign, I'll give you an original work Melodies, and even calls her accordion her "axe." Most importantly, her rea We did a sort of "satellite" tour. Also, of art by my cat Charlotte (she is the initials are A. Rose. She is more rock than you. I have a day job, so I don't really title of one of our songs, after all). have the time to devote to a regular 3 You grew up in LA. You just DiSCORDER Yo! I just got back so don't be shocked if you find them or 4 week van-across-America tour. turned 30. It seems like you from Paradise City [Portland] all dead with curlers in their hair, We do have a booking agent, were in the City of Angels at a and, while there, I made some Keds on their feet, and a red ban though, and she has kicked open pretty exciting time (musical casual observations. Among danna covering their faces when the new areas for us. I would be really ly). How did the LA "scene" them were: all the kool kidz bell tolls. Perhaps they will ascend to into opening for a fancy band for a affect your music? say "y'all" constantly. Patsy Cline's own personal heaven or week or so. We'll see. Well, the fact that my "real" last Everyone has a garden. They hell — who knows. And, oh yeah, I Now, you are the president of name is Rose and my dad's name all play Patsy Cline when you love my cats. Others should love my Nail Distribution so, obviously, begins with the letter A caused a lot came to my 1 8th birthday party. are at their house. And every cats. They are the best cats. If we all you know a little about record of exciting mayhem when it came to What a dream! I see pix of him occa one loves their cat. Can you felt like this, the world would be a bet distribution. Right? Right. Why mistaken calls. I think I started doing sionally in mags and I still swoon. explain any of these phenom ter place. then, after looking all over impressions of Axl when this began. With all the millennial ena? When you play in P-town do Canada did I have such a hard My parents didn't know what was mumbo-jumbo over and done Miss Murgatroid: Well, as far as lots of young'uns come out, or time finding both Myoclyonic going on. It was quite funny. The LA with, people seem to have for the cool kids speaking with a drawly are there a bunch of old Melodies and Bella Neurox? music scene in the '80s was actually gotten that the year 0 was southern slur — that's probably due geezers looking to hear "The 'Cause we do such a sucky job — pretty lame. I wasn't quite hip enough skipped and the baby Jesus to the overdose of caffeine they Beer Barrel Polka"? just kiddingl No, usually it's easy to to be in the punk scene, so I skirted will be 2000 at the end of this absorb. I hear the state government It's always a combo. When I play all- find stuff when it's a new release, but on the edges of goth and pop. I was year. So, really, the world will is pumping caffeine into the atmos ages shows I get a much more once it becomes a part of the cata id the end when the clock strikes phere. And you know what happens diverse crowd. I love tormenting new logue, things start to disappear. bunnymen. I also hur a lot with 2001! Do you have any plans on a caffeine diet, don't ya? Southern sets of ears. Whenever I play in LA, Everybody out there has more power the band The 3 O'Clock. They were for accordion world domina Accents! Now, I have no idea what is though, my 88-year old grandma than they think about this matter, friends with my pal Noelle, so I spent tion when the apocalypse going on with the Patsy Cline thing. comes out to see me — but she though. You can torment your local many nights at Canters in Fairfax talk comes? 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We may not be an International Conglomerate, but we make 4 M0N-SAT11AM-7PM SUN 12PM-6PM GARAGE, 0l!r SKA, HIP HOP, HARDCORE, EMO, ANARCHO-PUNK LPs • 45s • CDs NEW & USED COME VISIT VANCOUVER'S HEADQUARTERS FOR NEW VINYL 1250 Granville St ©Davie TOPS PAID FOR PUNK VINYL t's a sound that native English speakers can't really make. as Le Tigre (although we plan to play a couple of Julie Ruin songs in The press release sent out by Mr. Lady Records suggests that we our set too). Ishould try saying "lay tee-gruh." Those as insufferably pedantic Is the line-up of Le Tigre flexible, do you swap instru as myself will find this unacceptable. It's hard for me, because Le ments/roles? Who plays what on the album? Tigre is a band that I want to talk about to everyone. For the first little Le Tigre: We all sing and play guitar on different songs. Kathleen while, I stubbornly huffed out barely voiced velar implosives until I does most of the singing. Sadie and Johanna do the programming nearly choked on my own uvula. However, I quickly discovered that (beats and sequencing). Johanna plays keyboards, and Sadie punch no one understood me. es in some samples live. Sadie did the turntable stuff on the record. "What?" Since we use recording processes and programming to experiment "Luh tiiiigr." with ideas, sounds, and structures, the way we play the music live doesn't necessarily reflect who made up which part. We all collect "Who?" samples, make tapes, write down ideas to talk about when we get "Luh... Kathleen Hanna's new band." together. The process is also sort of strange because Sadie lives in It's a convenient little gloss on reality, one I prefer not to use. After Chicago while Kathleen and Johanna are in New York City. all, Kathleen is only one third of Le Tigre. Film-maker Sadie Benning Why did you decide to release your album on Mr. Lady? (director of Flat Is Beautiful, The Judy Spots, and other Pixelvision Kathleen Hanna: Mr. Lady was started by one of the best artists in works) makes up another third, and writer and artist Johanna Fateman the world, Tammy Rae Carland, and her girlfriend Kaia Wilson. completes the lineup. But everyone knows this. Tammy and I have been friends for years and years and I not only trust The players and their other projects are not the most interesting her implicitly but also really like the videos she makes and puts out part of Le Tigre. Their debut album excites me — musically, intellec through the label. At a time when so many people were forced to be tually, aesthetically. It's bright, positive, loud, funny, and well put ashamed of their ideals, Mr. Lady sprung on the scene calling them together. When they get the mixture of punk energy, girl-group selves a lesbian feminist business, and further [claimed] that their fem melodies, and experimental creativity right, as on "My My inism is a part of a larger anti-racist, capitalist-hating program bent on Metrocard," it's gratifyingly danceable. Le Tigre's music is also smart changing the world. What they were doing inspired me to not give — in a way that seems to evade some of their critics. "Hot Topic" up, so it only made sense to collaborate with them, business-wise. name-drops Ut, Urvashi Void, and Gertrude Stein, for Christ's sake. Le Mr. Lady seems to me to be a proud descendent of the Tigre's feminism is both unapologetically clever and accessible. lesbian separatist movement. Do you feel that separatism is still a valid and useful thing? DiSCORDER: How and when did the three of you come together and decide to create Le Tigre? Kathleen: Of course lesbian separatism is still valid and useful! As Le Tigre: We met at some point in the early '90s when there were a long as straight white men own and control the majority of every lot of incredible things happening in the world of underground/punk imaginable resource — including physical and psychological space feminism. There were a lot of really incredible girl bands forming and — separatism will always be important. I am sick and tired of people touring, new fanzines starting, intense penpal alliances were forged. always wanting to pick various forms of separatism apart (and, you Kathleen was touring with Bikini Kill, Sadie was touring with her know, claiming it's "reverse discrimination") rather than analyzing the videos, and Johanna was writing fanzines. Our paths inevitably sexist, racist bullshit that r akes separatism both needed and incredi- crossed. We started working together after Kathleen's Julie Ruin record bly important in terms of n urishing people who are so often derailed. came out. Since it was made as a recording project, the idea was to Johanna Fateman I : ;e Mr. Lady as a lesbian-owned business re-work the songs so that we could play them live and go on tour. committed to supporting art informed by radical values — I'm not Johanna would help with performing the music, and Sadie would sure if I would locate them within a separatist history. Personally, I make visuals — slides or video projections. But when we started work feel that any politics of exclusion is problematic by virtue of its under ing together we realized we really wanted to write new material and lying reliance on notions of stable categories or identities. At the same have a collaborative relationship with more fluid roles. We ended up time, I believe that it is better to participate in something problematic If yn<^cA 2D00 I think that many colleges, universities, etc. employ teach ers who perpetuate the status quo, thus alienating any student who isn't white, straight, young, middle class. However, it would be impos sible to categorize the multitude of academic experiences people have into a blanket statement containing words like "classist and repressive." I personally met my share of sexist, dehumanizing, anti- radical experiences in college (my art was censored, I was sexually harassed by my first professor, etc.) BUT I still feel incredibly lucky and happy that I went. I learned so much in school — a lot of what I learned I used to analyze the way oppression functions in my life, both in terms of my own privilege and beyond. I am wary of the idea that school is inherently classist, as I feel [this idea] discourages peo ple who are working-class, working poor and/or on welfare from dis covering or continuing to discover some of the amazing things college has to offer. This idea also erases all the people who have worked ten times harder than the trust-funded kids and are currently working towards making the college experience safer and better for every- Johanna, can you tell us about your zines? Johanna: I did a fanzine called Snarla for three or four years with my closest friend from high-school. I think we did about six issues. It circulated mainly through girls in the west coast punk scene. In terms of content, it would probably be grouped into a confessional genre of zine associated with Riot Grrrl Press in the early/mid-'90s, although we tended to deal with stuff in a slightly more aloof and abstract way. When I moved to New York to go to art school the terms of my work shifted away from the identity-politic issues of a punk scene to more theory-driven projects — I was fascinated by the sexual politics of conceptual art's recent history and the social structure of art school and the gallery system. The Opposite, Part I was "a fanzine about art," my first attempt to deal with disparate areas of culture (for exam ple, modernist painting and feminist underground punk music) with the same language. ArtaudMania!!! the Diary of a Fan was along the same lines, but a more specific project: I chose a figure (Antonin Artaud) that punks and academics shared an interest [in] so that a col lision of their discourses made sense. My Need to Speak on the Subject of Jackson Pollock is actually the transcript (in zine form) of a semi-facetious lecture I gave to accompany two paintings I made. It was my final semester of art school, and in a lot of ways the lecture was a final "fuck you." It was intended to ridicule the retrogressive val ues of a couple of the teachers in the painting program I was in, and continued valorization of Abstract Expressionist art and ideology among fellow students. I am working on a new fanzine that will hopefully be done before Le Tigre starts touring extensively. Who is your favourite feminist theorist, writer, or activist? Johanna: It's really hard to choose just one. Right now I am really into Donna Haraway's ideas about feminism and technology and The Need's new record. Kathleen: I like Sarah Lucia Hoaglund. Is "Dude Yr. So Crazy" about a real person or a "type"? Le Tigre: Both. Kathleen has said that Julie Ruin was a character that she "invented." Are the members of Le Tigre also "per forming" roles in this band? Johanna: I don't have a character worked out yet. But I do have a ritual eyeliner routine I do especially for Le Tigre shows. "Hot Topic" names a number of avant-garde women artists. Do you find that assumptions about women in the avant-garde are different from the assumptions about (imperfect, provisional, and experimental) than to allow unresolved women making rock music? Are they the same? I'm questions [to] exclude us from political mobilization. I'm really proud thinking specifically of Yoko Ono — she was a very that our band is involved with Mr. Lady. avant-garde artist, yet she tends to be perceived as a tal Your song "My My Metrocard" briefly mentions New entless groupie. York Mayor Giuliani's attacks on sex workers. Could you Johanna: Who perceives Yoko Ono as a talentless groupie? Sexist explain what is going on (for the benefit of readers here jerks are sexist jerks whether they are judging conceptual artists or in Vancouver who probably haven't heard of this)? pop stars, you know? Johanna: In the interest of "cleaning up" New York, Giuliani has re- Kathleen, what is your involvement with Atari Teenage zoned areas previously associated with adult entertainment and Riot? I read a review of one of their shows which claimed pornography. This has put a lot of people out of business — including you were singing with Add N to (X). sex industry workers. He's a fucking asshole in a lot of ways... Kathleen: I sang a few lines on an ATR song called "No Success" Kathleen: He has also been publicly abusive to the family members but I don't even know who Add N to (X) is, though if someone wants of people killed by the cops and supported police violence against to send me a tape I'd love to receive it! People of Color. I could go on and on. Johanna: Add N to (X) played before an ATR at a show we were at, There are a few lyrical and non-lyrical moments on your but we missed most of their set! I've seen them before. I think they album that hint toward a discussion of academia and are really interesting. academic life (or, more simply, knowledge and the What are your touring plans? Will you be playing any hunger for it). Do you feel that academia is an inherent shows with The Need? ly repressive and classist institution, or are there ways in Le Tigre: We will be touring the east coast with The Need from April which it can (and should) be changed to better benefit 7th to April 28th 2000. Please check for exact dates on the tour page people? of the Mr. Lady website at www.mrlady.com. • COWBOY JUNKIES mark her Sony debut, she's been THE HIGH LLAMAS Rarities, B-Sides, and Sad around since the early '90s pro Snowbug Slow Waltzes ducing and remixing. (V2) Under (Latent) You may have heard of The The Junkies released this col solid dance album with pop sen High Llamas, with reference to lection of orphaned songs on sibilities. When I say pop, how the name Sean O'Hagan (the Review their own Latent Recordings ever, don't start thinking you'll song writer) and Microdisney imprint, which they used to see this album crashing the top (a related side project). I saw release their first, and in my 40 charts in North America any them the last time they came to opinion best, record, Whites of time soon. It's probably still more the Starfish Room, and well, they ALIEN RADIO STATION DJ and the brain behind this at a premium. Blush has just Earth Now. A big fan of both comfortable in a club setting, but didn't impress me much. This Magnetic Trajectory album) might whine that there's enough of these qualities to mark that record and the subsequent the melodies are strong, the album is fortunately not nearly as Concern too much Indian stuff on it and it out from the crowd. Trinity Sessions, I sort of kicked arrangements are smart, and the boring: it's poppy, fun, and light- (Sweet Tooth) not enough Chemical Sam Macklin the habit when the Junkie's third lyrics... well, I guess they'll do. I hearted Jim O'Rourke It has bass-lines to rumble the Brothers pap But fuck them all release, The Caution Horses, was expecting to have more helped record the record at floors, and funky drums to make the way back to Europe. Sure BUGSKULL saw them veer away from drug drum V bass involved, but only Abbey Road. This is a good it all better, and yes, it's there are a few weak moments Distracted Snowflake gy blues and into the Adult with the last track do you see album to listen to while eating Canadian It's not hard to see on The East Infection but, hell, if Volume Two Contemperary market. So I was that come through. If you like, oranges in the sun. the influences of dub and jungle >ake luddite like rr (Scratch) enthused by the possiblities that you can import the UK version, Lop Loog throughout the album. Alien through over 60 minutes of com Bugskull Sean B is just one of this record had in store. Hit and which has a couple of more Radio Station goes for the puter-generated music then you a great many lo-fi space rock miss, hit and miss. The opening tracks in that genre. HOLLOWPHONIC minimal approach, and prefers know it's gotta be pretty damn obscurists committed to docu track, about being horny, is dom Undoubtedly, many will label this Hollowphonic to keep the bass as the anchor good. As for Blackalicious' menting the intergalactic travels inated by fabulous feedback and (Sweet Tooth) to most of the tracks. The seduc Nia... after listening, I called of their narcotized minds. B is epitomizes the country blues album, or as some British maga Be apprehensive when an album tive shuffle of "The Pyramids each of my parents and gave clearly committed to boldly raunch that a stoner like myself zines promised, DJ Rap would has a "Dream Sequence I and Didn't Walk Here" makes it one 'em hell for marrying white and going where Stars of the Lid, can relate to. After that there's become the new ambassador of II." This is music you take for of my favourite tracks. I fear say burdening me with chalk- Windy & Carl, et al have some great mellow moody shit, club music to the uneducated. insomnia on the plane. These ing something like "dark" or coloured skin that will never, already been. But, seeing as this and other tracks are a bit too Well, I don't think either exactly are six minute-plus soundscapes "mysterious" because it seems ever wash off. Nia is my most-lis- is B's fifth LP and all, it seems folky for me, but hey, if you're a happened, but this is a smart with vocals that are reverbed up like everything I've reviewed tened-to album of the month. unnecessarily glib to write the fan of the Cowboy Junkies or the piece of production, and hope the ass. It's still kind of cool, with lately seems to be that way, so Here's some advice for any 'Skull off as generic and indul idiom in which they play then fully, it's a sign of things to come. long keyboard and guitar tunes please insert your favourite word individuals of similar mind to gent. you've got yerself a goodtimes Samuel Kim and ridiculously slow pro with the same effect here. Who myself (brown, red, white, yel What marks this Portland- grammed beats. Still, it wears. It needs self-hypnosis when you low, whatever you may be): arm based act out from the competi Cunt of Ages DUB NARCOTIC SOUND does remind me, however, of can get Magnetic Trajectory yourself with Blackalicious and tion is an other-worldly variant SYSTEM MEETS THE JON My Bloody Valentine, but Concern? Ramasutra so you can fight the on that most treasured of quali DESTROYER SPENCER BLUES with an even more laid-back Samuel Kim white parasite before it ravages ties, namely soul. This, in turn, Thief EXPLOSION atmosphere. any more of our glorious earth. may stem from a disconcerting (Cave Canem) Sideways Soul Chris A23 BLACKALICIOUS And John Tesh... you've been mix of sparse, non-humanistic Thank God for local freaky (K) Nia warned. live playing and organically grit dudes. I'm a sucker for hard I have always been a big fan of KID DYNAMITE {Mo' Wax) gibby peach ty electronics. Either that or it sells. Since Dan Destroyer (I both of these bands, but this Shorter, Faster, Louder RAMASUTRA comes from the B's laconic heard this term from "Brave New album is much more interesting (Jade Tree) The East Infection BOWS vocals which evoke the stoned Waves'" Patty Schmidt) has than anything either of them has If I'm the one to break the news, (Tox) Blush mumble of Spacemen crazy songwriting skills and previously released. The Dub I'm hating it. Kid Dynamite Start running, Whitey... there's (Too Pure) Three/Spectrum/EAR main- lyrics I will never be able to deci Narcotic version of "Soul has just broken up in the wake a brown music brigade and it's Bows is the new project from man Sonic Boom (who must be pher, Vancouver will once again Typecast" on the Blues of their new record's release. taking up arms against ya! Luke Sutherland, ex of idiosyn something of a godfather figure limp past another potential Explosion Experimental The record, however, is more White folks, over the past, oh, cratic Scottish lo-fi act Long Fin to acts of this ilk). It is indeed national treasure. Dan tells you, Remixes album was proof that optimistic, hearkening back to few centuries or so, have dis Kiltie The lucky few who heard rather flaky stuff at times, with "Hey! Give it more than one full these two bands were meant to the days when post-hardcore played their own unique inepti anything of that band's queasy some tracks descending into the listen! My songs are like the be together. Something about bands were just called hardcore. tude in a number of fields. dream pop will find much to rel realms of truly shambolic movie Airplane. You'll pick up the mixture just seems to work. They're not really hardcore in the Consider, for example: white TV ish here, and more besides. noodling. Nevertheless, as a things you didn't hear the first This Dub Narcotic Sound Snapcase sense, though; they [Friends, Dharma and Greg), Sometime Mogwai collab whole, it's surprisingly accom time." This is gold medal pop: System/Blues Explosion jam ses sound more like Rancid when white sport (golf, polo), white orator Sutherland has previously plished and, often, really very melodies that lift and lower you sion is a fresh take on all that Lars sings than anything else. food (hamburgers, hamburger been responsible for music char lovely. someplace nicer, and a voice seemed to be getting old with Nonetheless, this is a refreshing helper, tuna helper, tuna acterized by a winning combi Sam Macklin with great emotional force. It's both these bands. Here Jon ly energetic record and I hope a casseroles). I mean I could go on nation of sparse-but-eclectic been a while since I've been Spencer, Judah Bauer, and few of their more anemic-sound but the examples I've given are instrumentation and quirky-but- CHOKE rocked by a CD, but Destroyer is ing Jade Tree label-mates pick pathetic enough. I may as well touching lyrics. His new project Foreword easily a gem for all to cherish. wicked 4/4 beat, replacing up a thing or two from it. write the white obituary while is a self-consciously contempo (Smallman) Chris-a-riffic Larry on the bells. Calvin lays out godfrey leung I'm at it It's in the white music rary development of this style, What is to be said? The ritual the classic monotone vocals arena, however, that one comes providing a lush, electronically search of the Review Bin pro DJRAP while Jon Spencer adds in the THE KISSING BOOK across the truly disturbing, flea- enhanced backing to LFK-style duces many punk bands of the Learning Curve odd "damn," "yeah, hey Judah," Lines & Color ridden underbelly of Western tales of awkward outsider love. Fat Wreck Chords type or some (Sony) or "do it." You won't find any of (Magic Marker) Civilization. We have, recently, This approach has its thing sickeningly similar. What Well, I thought this would be the classic Dub Narcotic beats Looking for something to listen to been bombarded with such nox strengths and weaknesses. Many has become of the state of punk rather interesting to review, par here, just good old Blues during family games of ious examples as Korn, of the songs on Blush are marred music today? It is utterly boring ticularly after last month's inter Explosion Rock V Roll drum Monopoly? Well, here is the Britney Spears, N'Sync... (like so many records nowdays) and routine. Well you know view with Andrea Parker ming. solution The Kissing Book like I said before, I could go on by the lazy deployment of dated what? I think we have something (who happens to be one of my If you have ever been a fan weaves eleven infectious pop forever. But, why bother? Our drum'n'bass and trip hop clich here. The headlines were favourites within the electronic of either of these bands, give this gems filled with heartbreak and darker brethren are pumping out es. For the most part, though, wrong: punk isn't dead. It just scene). For those who don't record an honest listen. I have to hand-holding. Some comparison some quality shit that proves Sutherland makes good use of moved. To Winnipeg? This is an remember, Parker mentions DJ confess that I had stopped buy could be made to Belle & white people are the watered- the new tools at his command. excellent melodic punk album: Rap in her discussion of her frus- ing Blues Explosion albums Sebastian, but this is not sim down, piss-filled Coors Lite of the The beats are rugged but intri upbeat, fun and sincere. vith hov the arket it because they were all starting to ply derivative. They definitely socio-cultural breakdown. cate, the samples otherwordly Admittedly this isn't musically prone to focus on the idea of a sound the same to me. did their homework on '60s Even though I thought it but strangely familiar. groundbreaking, but that does "female DJ" rather than the Moreover, I can't say Dub pop, even in the artwork depart would suck when I snagged it, At a time when many musi n't mean it can't be an enjoy music. As Parker mentioned, DJ Narcotic's most recent album, ment. This album would fit right Ramasutra's East Infection is cians wrongly assume that able listen; it's quite fun, Rap does happen to be a beau Out Of Your Mind, did much for in with your parents old LPs. I the kind of album that will access to high-tech gear will actually. So go get in/on your tiful woman, but it would be a me either. This record has defi have to say that on a sunny day embarrass most whiteys. The open a gateway to strange, transportation of choice and buy shame to just leave it at that. DJ nitely rekindled my interest in there is nothing quite as fitting as ones familiar with Ramachandra this CD. Rap is no newcomer to the scene both of these bands. a sugary sweet pop album. That Borcar (a slick Montreal-based jayd either, and although this may Mike Davis said, today is sunny, so The /6'^V*-A^£ zDoo Kissing Book has found its way back into a burning house to Crimson (I can't get rid of this n't such a modern girl with mod are backed //ith dru HK-hin, into my stereo. There is nothing retrieve this CD. ern problems. All I want is a and synthesizers. left to do but enjoy the sun and Samuel Kim nant of seeing guitarist Radio porch-swing and an uninterrupt The Pop Star Kids are At smile. Tragedy trapse around Yoyo A ed horizon. But who am I kid two punk kids named Anthony jayd MORPHINE Gogo wearing a Kedt-shirt) and ding? Neko and her BFs are and Andee who were kids in the Night Essential Logic battle for con modern folks too. Just call me old early '80s, but are definitely not sgar LUNAR DRIVE (Dreamworks) trol of The Need's musical ances fashioned when I say, "Neko kids now. Their songs about sex, All Together Here "It's all about simplicity, and try. "Blew Candy," "Eva Case and all your boyfriends, drugs and rock V roll are all (Beggars Banquet) playing with dynamics. It's about Carriere," and "Mono Tinsley" will you marry me?" Aw, shucks pretty cliche, and go well with Hmm, I think my editor is out to subtraction more than produc are quiet and dreamy while the cover art and the display of d»ns£avxnae get me. [/ am! — Ed] She keeps tion." — Mark Sandman, 1952- retaining their creepy edge. The their photos along with the likes enticing me with those groups 1999. deciding blow for this album's PLONE of The Cure, Madonna, Jimi that blend "traditional," "ethnic" Night has fallen, ripe with supremacy comes with the epic For Beginner Piano Hendrix, and Siouxsie and sounds with modern technology metaphor, and it's bittersweet- "Dark Sally" and "Hellfire," (Matador) the Banshees As a whole, the And what am I reviewing now? ened by my knowledge of heavy metal masterpieces that I've got an oxymoron for you: package is pretty fun. I suppose Another CD that blends tradi Morphine frontman Mark belong in every suburban rec likeable keyboard band. Really, it's best not to fight it, but rather tional music with technology. Sandman's death. The music on who knew that all those piano to embrace the cheesiness of the And I normally love it. Talvin Morphine's sixth release is sen I've proposed to Radio in lessons as a kid could equal '80s. 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What Tango ran through the show as tinctive Hot Club de Paris sound was she going to do with all a metaphor for human relation and, while it's a pleasant one, those flowers anyway? ships — hardly a novel idea — Real Live two sets of it (no opening band) I sat there, with my arms but by setting it in a much larger was pushing it a tad. Even with crossed, my forehead wrinkled, landscape, Gagnon and and left before the encore. No, Gingras turned it into a tantaliz Action the rhythm guitar strumming and I'm not bitter. I just went home ing image of life. Right from the tempos started to sound samey and put my face on the cold top, as they danced methodical Very nice licks pulled off in gui piano keys, slammed the lid on ly around the stage to the Lilies' tar and bass solos, but nothing my head, and cried like the stu Martin Jacques singing "Send in JOHN REISCHMAN & THE Canadian Federation of Students support of the underground tech to get up and dance about. pid kid that I used to be. the Clowns" in tango rhythm, JAYBIRDS to bring two djs from Detroit, no community. Although Sony Great sitting-on-the-left Bank, you knew that this would be a LUCKY PENNY spinning Detroit techno. Detroit Germany, after increased pres latte-in-hand type music; a lovely nice tilted ride. Jacques' end-of- Monday, January 17 techno is not rave music. Its roots sure from djs and producers and and sane way to pass a damp HOLY BODY TATTOO: Circa pier drag queen voice does the W.I.S.E. Hall go back to the birth of Chicago listeners from around the world, Sunday evening. Wednesday, February 16 same glorious things for his cov Bluegrass — it's not just for house and hip-hop, Kraftwerk gave up plans for the illegal Val Cormier Vancouver East Cultural ers of old nuggets as Tom breakfast anymore! What with and Afrika Bambaata, and a remix, BMG has now gone Centre Waits' warm growl does for high-profile releases last year by Roland 909 drum machine in the ahead with the plans. JUSTINA MAJ If you could commission the "There's A Place for Us." the likes of Steve Earle and early mid-'80s. Inspired by Alvin Information on resistance can be Sunday, February 6 soundtrack to your dreams and A whiplash inducing Dolly Parton, we could be Toffler's The Third Wave, Detroit found at www.submerge.com. Vancouver Academy of visions, who would you call? The sequence followed, in which the looking at a goshdarn begin- techno has a futuristic sound and Voice your opinions and let the Music names on your hit list would pro dancers sat in chairs and pro ning-of-millennium bluegrass philosophy, with a heart of funk majors know this kind of action When I was a kid, I hated prac- vide a huge clue to the flavours ceeded to abuse their upper tor- revival. And who better to lead and soul reflecting Detroit's the charge than one of North Motown roots. It is complex, America's finest mandolin play involving and intelligent music, ers, who just happens to reside and, as we heard from here? Rolando and Grant, some John Reischman has put times hard, fast, dark and angry. together a fine group of local Mike Grant played a pounding musicians on guitar, banjo, fid set on the Commodore's aug dle and standup bass, and mented sound system, producing despite his prowess on mandolin long and smooth mixes, drop he was happy to stand back and ping Surgeon's "Learning" and Richie Hawtin's "Spastik." shine. The stage setup was Mike Grant is a regular resident unplugged with two old-style at Tresor in Berlin, and the mics to pick up the music and German style of non-stop, vocals. There was enough of a pounding beats from this Detroit mix of instrumentals and songs native was evident in his velvet (with great harmonies), originals mixing. DJ Rolando came on after Grant had pummelled the and old standards to keep every sweaty and oppressed dance- one happy. No slouches here, floor, and although starting with but worthy of special note was his infamous track "Jaguar" bass player Trish Gagnon, also from the Underground ' r/ P* of Tumbleweed, whose high, f %M- M Lfi ^JJJH Resistance Knights of the lilting harmonies were a stand- Jaguar EP, moved from the funki Opening the evening was er side of Detroit into the hard Lucky Penny, a local blue- pounding minimalism of Jay grass band doing one of their Denham, Jeff Mills, and Rob first live gigs together. They're Hood. Using doubles and hip- young and rough around the hop tricks, Rolando impressed edges, but their energy and the crowd with his beat-juggling , w*J playfulness helped make up for tricks, throwing records in and the lack of polish. off the beat, in the mix, without cueing — this is something you a picture is vnrth... Great people-watching in a expect from hip-hop djs, but in seam @ the starfish room, photo by am goncalves crowd that included a mix of the commercialized pop-dom of Gram V Gramps Valley types, semi-rave dj stardom, it is some ticing the piano. I hated taking in your psyche. Noam Gagnon alt.country hipsters, and plain thing rare indeed. Rolando has Tobias lessons, I hated theory, and and Dana Gingras are the flinging. This and a few other ole folks. The fact that this hall skills. And not just dj skills — his most of all I hated playing in choreographer/dancers who segments reminded us of what was packed on a Monday production work as a member of PEARL DJANGO front of people. Like every stu make up The Holy Body the pair had been up to in previ evening is a testament to local the anti-corporate, anti-major Sunday, February 6 pid kid, I begged my parents to Tattoo and when they scooped ous works. She on the floor in bluegrass and this allegedly label, independent Underground W.I.S.E. Hall After last year's Alcan Performing Arts doggie position, for example, poor live music scene we keep Resistance has been incredibly i qui This Seattle group performs play my last recital (if you could Award, the resulting coin was so violently shaken by Him reading about elsewhere. successful. His title track of last gypsy swing in the Django call it that), my mom shook her ($50,000) allowed them to that I thought her eyeballs might Val Cormier summer, "Jaguar," was so suc Reinhardt/Stephan Grap- head and agreed that I should bring in The Tiger Lilies, The plop out and roll across the cessful with technoheads that it pelli mode, so I was surprised quit forever. Ever since then Dirty Three's Warren Ellis and stage. That sort of thing. DJ ROLANDO was stolen by two German pop- to see the hall set up with a large (don't tell my parents) I've the production talents of ex- Although staggeringly watch- MIKE GRANT trance producers and sold to dance floor, as though the swing regretted it. Banshee Steven Severin as able, these sections felt some Wednesday, February 2 Sony and then to BMG for a CD kids were gonna break out at Justina Maj practices for well c y of film what cut off from the atmosphere Commodore compilation and twelve-inch, all any time — wishful thinking for over eight hours a day. She is ind lighting designers. of the whole — like side-trips inro It is rare that certain types of without permission, copying the this mellow but surprisingly large considered to be one of the Only nominally a Vancouver postmodern danceville. More good music hit Vancouver. original tone-by-tone and turning Sunday night crowd. best, perhaps the best, young dance company, HBT has spent successful in this vein was an Although we have been inundat it into a horrible, cheesy blow- It's ;es thre pianist in Canada. She played much of the time since its birth in arm and head ballet, frantically ed with our fair share of the yer-whistle trance remix. This is of ther three hours of Chopin in front 1993 touring Europe, where its British super Liber-pop trance-djs, why the CFS and McArthur guitars on stage, of 300 people. I wasn't work has been both appreciated it is rare we get some true djs booked these two djs, especially beautifully crafted by rhythm gui impressed. Sonata 3 in B and nourished. This shows in the turn to page 22 with skills who are not of the hip- Rolando, as their official after- tarist (and token Canuck) Shelley Minor? Big deal. Sure, she's wonderfully wilted sophistication hop or house variety. February 2 party to the Day of Action Park. The violin-playing for more real live quick and accurate, sure peo that dripped through most of the was indeed a date for such djs, protest; UR has taken up the fight remained the focus, even though ple in the audience leapt up vignettes making up Circa. when promoter Hamish against BMG and Sony with the it was, sadly, low in the sound McArthur teamed up with the mix. This group makes no bones and shouted "Bravo." She's no The erotic push-pull of the z] nM&Simm synchronized to the rollicking known as No Wave? Not many, ics. It's the style, not the content "air-percussion," a strange mus Chixdiggit played their first Old tunes such as "Your Mom's tee-hee of "I'm Crucifying Jesus" most likely, but its aftershocks did of this work that is truly invigo cle-man conga line was started, live show in 3 months for the The Devil," "Especially You," (Jacques again). Gagnon and throw up the avant-Latin stylings rating. Her prose pacing is a stage-crew guy was recruited throngs of rawkin' fans in front "She Ain't No Egyptian" and Gingras have chosen strong col of Arto Lindsay and the mag dizzying, her charisma (in per to drive an imaginary car for of them. With singer KJ stand "Melee In Madrid," as well as laborators and things always nificent poison-pen rants of La son and in print) captivating, the tune "Honk My Horn," and ing in his low-down, spread-leg brand new ones such as "Rock worked best when they stayed Lunch. her William Burroughs- crowd members helped use a stance, Chixdiggit tore through Thy Neighbour," "Booze Can," cosied up to them. Most of those who made it meets-Bill Hicks delivery utter gigantic homemade slingshot to crowd favourites such as "Hip "She's Another Thing," "Kings Now and again a blood-red to Richard's for the Vancouver ly captivating. fire a giant puffy ball off the Hip Hooray" and "I Drove The Of The Party" and "Danko curtain would be raised to reveal installment of Lydia's Dirty Little The second half of the set, stage to Nardwuar on the Coquihalla." The boys seemed Jones' Pants." Of course, no Secrets tour seemed to have which involved Lydia reading 2 fb. ding to be having a grand old time, Smugglers show would be com William Morrison's film footage NO notion of her checkered < advi highlight was when Thee Dis„ and KJ led numerous crowd plete without the dance contest, of Euro cityscapes, street scenes, history Most of them had column Tough Love was less blins took the stage with gold cheers for the Ballroom, the and this time the lucky winner tango studios and clips of the apparently come to lend moral impressive. The impact of this capes and super-hero outfits, other bands, and the band of walked away with a smokin' dancers in rehearsal would seep support to spirited local come section was more reliant on Dr. then played disco-influenced honour — The Smugglers. KJ hot bowling lamp! During their into us to the fractured tango dy troupe 30 Helens. (As if in Lunch being right rather than rock!! I dedicated their closing song, "I new album's title track, "Rosie," score of Ellis' violin. The grave acknowledgement of this, Lydia just being impressive. Still, she The Black Halos were Wanna Hump You," to The Rose Melberg of The yard scenes were particularly performed first, like she was managed to take her readers' up next, led by the strange and Smugglers' front man Grant Softies joined singer Grant beautiful, reminding me of the the support act.) These were ludicrous missives (mostly made wild Billy Hopeless. With their Lawrence and roused the Lawrence for a duet and the really old bits of Highgate clearly not, by and large, peo up, apparently) and have her all-black outfits, rock-star hair, crowd into a cheer of "Grant!" two of them threw roses to the Cemetery. One recurring clip ple who had followed Lydia's wicked way with them. She tattoos and AC/DC-ish bass- "Lawrence!" crowd. During their totally that continues to titillate and ascent from guitarist with used them for what they had player, The Black Halos were a After much anticipation unpredictable encore, Billy haunt me was of Gingras drag Teenage Jesus and the and moved on. And that just fireball of non-stop rock energy and a closed curtain between Hopeless stumbled on stage ging a chair across the floor Jerks, through collaborations about sums up the (black) from the first to the last note. sets, California's queens of R- and sang a duet with Grant while sitting in it — head flung with Sonic Youth and magic of Lydia Lunch. Billy Hopeless teased (or should O-C-K The Donnas took to Lawrence, and Donna R battled back, arms gripping the sides as Michael Gira, to her current Sam Macklin I say scared?) the audience by the stage. After a brief glitch Nick Smuggler and Dave if tied, feet in three-storey high status as feminihilist dema slowly removing articles of his due to Donna R blowing her Carswell in a guitar-lick contest heels. It came across like a com gogue extraordinaire. SMUGGLERS clothing. Losing first his studded sub, this furious foursome blew which she easily won. They bination of de Sade and old The fact that Lydia is still DONNAS dog-collar, then his vest, shirt into a lengthy set of material ended off the night with yet Surrealist film. (I tried this later, working and receiving critical CHIXDIGGIT and belt, he undid his tight from all three of their releases. another one of their sizzling at home, and had to use some acclaim is almost certainly a BLACK HALOS vinyl pants to reveal his skimpy Once again they proved they hits, "Rock with The Smugglers very interesting muscles to make product of her own inexorable THEE GOBLINS black underwear. From there are truly a rock V roll Tonight!" and bid adieu to their any progress.) will to survive (not just artisti Friday, February 25 he pulled at his underwear to machine. adoring fans. It was a classic If all this sounds fragmented, cally but psychologically and Commodore Vancouver's own Canadian Smugglers show complete with it's because it was, but in a way even physically). Her progress As it says in The Smugglers' ble, stuck his hand down his Ambassadors of Rock 'n' Roll, their trademark choreographed that felt closer to the truth than seems to come from a shark-like hit song "Vancouver, BC," "The pants and then licked it, and The Smugglers, appeared in dance moves and singer Grant narrative flow ever can. It was need to keep moving, writing, sun don't shine and the rain finally stuck his microphone matching white sport-coats and Lawrence's horribly cheesy, yet as if the performers were testifying. g dowi ' Thus down there too. Oh yeah, his their signature rubber boots. somehow still kinda cool, stage- unrolling a map of desire and An unflattering appraisal, was fitting that on the night of on-stage hijinx also included a Fueled up and ready to roll, talk. It was a truly great rock V the end result was a constellation perhaps, but so what? Lydia the big CD release party for precarious perch on top of the their frenetic energy never roll party that no one should full of gaps and log-jams. Lunch hardly portrays herself as The Smugglers' new album, speaker stacks! waned for a moment as they At the show's close, the the baa-lamb petting type. Like Rosie, it poured and poured. After spending a cold, ripped through a marathon set Rob Brownridge dots were slyly joined up as the many truly creative people, she And poured. lonely winter in Calgary, of all the crowd's favourites. two stood in a shaft of glitter derives strength from being in This in no way stopped the that rained onto the stage. touch with her evil side. crazed masses from packing Poignant like the shabby glitz Indeed, if the excerpts from her the Commodt of an old vaudeville curtain, autobiography Paradoxia that capacity for a night of reminding us what a sad circus made up the first half of her control rock 'n' roll shi life is, it was the set design spoken word set are to be gans. It was a bit shocking to equivalent of sending in the believed, she's more in touch see the Commodore so full, but clowns. No wonder the with her evil than most. Her sto then it made sense cons ries are non-judgemental the bill. The swank bt Penelope Mulligan (amoral even), bitterly hilarious was abuzz with anticipation: tales of scamming and tricking mod rockers, punk kids, alter- LYDIA LUNCH around the back alleys and na-fucks, CBC radio whiz-kids 30 HELENS squats of punk-era Manhattan. and Betacam-carrying videog- Sunday, February 20 The few spectators who raphers all eagerly Richard's On Richards greeted Lydia's recounted vic The longevity of Lydia Lunch's tories over adversity by bellow Thee Goblins took to the career may be seen as proof that ing "you go sister"-type stage at 8:45 pm sharp in their every cultural movement, no mat platitudes were missing the signature cheerlead< ter how obscure, begets at least point somewhat. The true and white bedsheet outfits. one or two legendary figures. importance of her autobio Zealous fans rushed to the front Anyone remember the late- graphical tales is not that they of the stage to take part in this '70s/early-'80s NYC-centred provide a role model for young interactive extravaganza. explosion of Brian Eno-spon- women but that they comprise Audience members were pulled sored free jazz rock noise an object lesson in hip aesthet on stage to help Nard> April Issue Deadlines: Copy: March 15th Ad Booking: March 22nd Artwork: March 28th Streets: March 31st , ' Krj _ ijtUr---r \ TiTR The monthly charts are comp lea basedon the number of times a CD/LP ("lone LI 1 /~r\U vinyl"), 7" "short vinyl"), or demo tape fine ie home jobs") on CiTR's playlist was played by our djs during the previous month (ie, "March" charts reflect air- CV- h1 1art\A 1 L-Js l|§ play over F ebruary). Weekly charts can be received via e-mail. Send mail to [email protected]" with the command: "subscribe citr-charts"* march long vinyl march short \ nny\ march indie home jobs 1 kid koala carpal tunnel syndrome ninja tune 1 readymade the block alone endearing 1 p:ano all of november, most of October 2 neko case furnace room lullaby mint 2 destroyer the temple endearing 2riffrandells sweet sixteen 3 smugglers rosie mint 3dja-trak enter rolph wiggum stones' throw 3 the nasty on lester bangs 4 beekeepers the world won't... independent 4 spitfires slick black cat junk 4 the birthday machine the torch Svedahille you do not live... independent 5RC5 in the bottle my fat ass 5themetic je ne sais pas 6danko Jones my love is bold ep soundking 6pedro the lion helicopter homemade 6newhedron heap wonder 7 destroyer thief cave canem /triple crown 7 tremolo falls s/t faint 7 the radio crystal blue 8 le tigre s/t mr lady 8 huevos rancheros wild turkey surprise! mintall 8 full sketch soundtrack 9 buck buck in black sftri 9girl summer fun band s/t magic marker 9 swank o'hara no one has a clue but you lOsquarepusher selection sixteen interscope lOkepler s/t spectra sonic sound lOkidkordene karosooshka 1 1 songs: ohia the lioness secretlycanadian 1 geoff farina steely dan southern 11 kiltlifters gold digger 12 loud taikoelectric independent 12 starlet diary & herself parasol 12 hot hot heat tourist in your own town 13 various artists silence descends western front 3 subway thugs s/t oink! 13hughphukovsky jesus loves me 14 kids of widney high let's get busy ipecac 14midnight evils powerhead dart 14 coupon in their sleep 15 hell caminos s/t independent 15 busy signals s/t sugar-free 15 mark don't make me sorry 16stompin' torn Connors move along w/... emi 16 microphones moon moon k 16 new electric riot teenage blues 17b'ehl bright eyes endearing 17 dump/lambchop split third gear 1 7 sparrow orange the orange peeler 18 sonic youth goodbye 20th century syr 18 going stagg sink and dream kittridge 18 dwayne dibley i wanna see u die 19 joe keithley beat trash sudden death I9kaia/sarah dougher split mr lady 19david lester the light changed before i could blink 20 modest mouse building nothing... up 20 smash up derby blow all the hell! saxxon virile action 20 sex in Sweden bridge and tunnel 21 rheostatics story of harmelodia universal 22 electrosonics neutron lullaby drive-in TOP TEN FAVORI TE SEX TOYS hand, may have to be for ed into it. Women usu- 8 Butterfly knives, Switchblades, Hatchets, 23 supersuckers evil powers of... by LYDIA LUNCH |««d«i,.i, ally have no problem pleasing their female part Machetes, surgical stainless steel scalpels; in a ners... whatever it takes, they'll usually give. pinch, razor blades: Add the delicate essence of 24takako minekawa fun9 emperor norton 1 Electric Vibrator: Every ga needs at least one. To 4Medical Tubing: The best bondage available. enough fear to pump the adrenal overload neces 25 bob log III trike fat possum ways make the puss Cheap, sterile, reusable. 3nd cuts off enough of sary to give me a proper hard-on. sing is totally unfair and a ecipe for disappoint- the circulation to poun the pumpinq blood 9.My self: Only 1 know truly what 1 need to ta e 26arling and cameron music for... en peror norton ment. A Wahl or Sunbeam 'mini-me" hand held straight to the nugget. Looks hot and is a refreshing me over the edge and into the valley of no return. change from standard clothesline rope, black 27panamerican 360business/360... kranky plug in, or for extra horse Dower & only for the 10.Another human being who is advanced nylon or sticky gaffer tape. enough to realize that whatever happens in the 28deadbolt voodoo trucker headhunter Wand...which is like using c jack hammer to melt 5.Flat Tipped Tongs: Great for squeezing those bedroom is confidential (that is, unless 1 work it butter. places you'd rather not touch...just yet. 29 zen guerrila trance states in tongues sub pop into one of my sordid tales of psychosexuality, n 2.The Chili Pepper": A slee , tapered 10 inch red 6.Chopsticks: Yes, chopsticks. Wonderful for urgent need of making some sublimely ridiculo s 30 rothko truth burns ep hot replica, not of the male member, but more akin tongue-tying that blabbermouth that just won't to a huge jalapeno pepper. Sexy, cool, face it: leave the bullshit out of the bedroom. Pull out point) and that ANYTHING that CAN happen between consenting adults should be experienced 31 french paddleboat there's enough pricks walking around...our sex tongue (use tongs), place a chopstick over and toys do not need to replicate them. under tongue, clamp them together with black at least once, and the weirder the better, becau e 32 sally timms cowboy sally's twilight bloodshot 3 Black Double Headed Dildo: Insert one end in, electrical tape. Clever change from standard ball their is nothing more irksome than straight van 1- 33 swollen members balance battle axe and force your partner to fellate the other. 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THU 30 Broken Record Chamber@Western Front; Luna@Starfish; 30 ens@Richard's; Electrolush@Lavalounge; Sahara Macdonald Datebook Band@Jazz Cellar; Full Clit (Vancouver Women In Hip-Hop TO 822.9364, Showcase)@Chameleon FRI 31 Charlatans UK, Stereophonics@Commodore; Radio Berlin, Battles, Sinoia Caves@Marine Club; Structural Damage@Western Front; Robert Minden Duo@St. Mark's Trinity Church; Neko Case & r Boyfriends@Richard's; Flygirl 2000@Denman Station; Gord iina Trio, Tammy Weis Quartet@Jazz Cellar FRI 3 Ming & FS@Sonar; Anna Lumiere Quartet@Jazz Cellar; Monolith, Checkmate, DJ Mastermind@Sonar Knoxville Girls, Jerk With A Bomb@Brickyard; No Use For A TUE 14 2000 Maniacs, Young Hot and Nasty: Teenage Name, Mad Caddies, Consumed@Masonic (ahhhh!) Building (all- Cru/sers@Blinding Light ages!); Kim Mitchell@Commodore; Metalwood@Capilano College WED 15 Power Clown, Charlie Drown@Brickyard, Anson Performing Arts Theatre Funderburgh & The Rockets@Yale; Selassie I Power@Jazz Cellar SAT 4 Choke, Retreads, Layaway Plan, Frontline@Java Joint; Not THU 16 Methods of Mayhem, Crazylown@Commodore; So Strictly Ballroom@Let's Dance Studio; James Forrest with Bob Electrolush@Lavalounge; Julius Papp Maxi Records CD Release Murphy@Jazz Cellar; Arthur Funkarelli, DJ Skinny@Brickyard Party@Sonar SUN 5 Peter Murphy@Commodore, Figure 4, Erase, BLeeding FRI 17 upRooted@Black Sheep Books; Capozzi Park, Evan's New from the Forehead@Java Joint; Another Joe, Choke, Layaway Band, July 4th Toilet@Marine Club; Celtic Connection St. Patrick's Plan@Boot Pub (Whistler); Scott Fields, Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Celebration@Croatian Cultural Centre; The Tiller's Folly@Fort Schyff@Western Front; Fred Eaglesmith & The Flying Langley Community Hall; Flygirl 2000@Denman Station; Catherin Squirrels@Richard's; Open Jazz Jam Session@Jazz Cellar O'McLellan Band@Jazz Cellar; New Town Animals, New Electric MON 6 Open Mic Night@Jazz Cellar Riot, Nasty On@Ms. T's Cabaret TUE 7 Ricardo Lemvo@Richard's; UBC Humanist Society Abortion SAT 18 CiTR PRESENTS King Apparatus, Easy Big Debate@Norm Theatre (noon) Fella@Commodore, Salteens, Run Chico Run, Young and Sexy, WED 8 Mike Weterings Band@Jazz Cellar, The Female Fiesty@Brickyard; Canned Hamm, Full Sketch, Demon Gaze@Blinding Light Skull@Marine Club; Dollhouse@23 W.Cordova; Bunco & Single THU 9 Guster, Owsley@Richard's; Electrolush@Lavalounge; Malt Quartet, Leanne Averbach & Ross Barrett Band@Jazz Cellar; Sahara Macdonald Band@Jazz Cellar; Talking Pictures@Western Full Moon Fling (feat. Jack Assassin, Wow!)@Chameleon Front; Johnny Legend Psychotronic Film Festival (feat. My Breakfast SUN 19 Fiona Apple, Jurassic 5@Orpheum; Lois, The Birthday With B/assie)@Blinding Light Machine@Starfish FRI 10 In Reach, Seed, Afterthought, Part of their Plan, MON 20 Open Mic Night@Jazz Cellar September@Java Joint, Sector 9@Brickyard; Roots Literary TUE 21 King Anderson's More Art Than You Ever Thought Magazine Reading@UBC Bookstore (12:30 pm); Pepper Sands, Poss;b/e@Blinding Light Riff Randells, Thee Goblins@Marine Club; Lowry Olafson@White WED 22 Saddlesores, Cartels@Brickyard; BY08@Blinding Light Rock Playhouse; Flygirl 2000@Denman Station; Bill Coon Trio, THU 23 Veal, Hawksley Workman@Railway Club; Bunco & Single Malt Quartet@Jazz Cellar Electrolush@Lavalounge; Ev/o'ence@Blinding Light SAT 11 Women & Resistance 2000 (feat. Submission Hold, Tegan FRI 24 Veal, Hawksley Workman@Railway Club; Destroyer, Secret & Sara, Che:Chapter 1 27, Loud, Cease Wyss)@Vancouver East Three, Pipedream@Marine Club; Flygirl 2000@Denman Station; Cultural Centre; Robin Holcomb@Western Front; Joel R.L. Phelps, Alita Dupray Quartet, Midnight Special@Jazz Cellar; Better Dead Kinski, FCS North@Brickyard; Stewart Goodyear@Vancouver Than Red: Paranoid Propaganda Classics@Blinding Light Academy of Music; Bossanova, Clover Honey, Vancouver SAT 25 CiTR PRESENTS: FLAMING LIPS, Nights@Marine Club; Mike Henry & The Big Dawg Band, Christine LOOPER@COMMODORE; Montana, Notes From Duncan@Pitt Meadows Rec Hall; Dollhouse@23 W.Cordova; Alvin Underground@Brickyard; Susan Aglukark@Vogue; Jerk With A -Cornista Quartet, Noel Bennet Trio@Jazz Cellar; Bomb, The Radio, Tremolo Falls@Marine Club; Dollhouse@23 Stretch@Chameleon W.Cordova; Junction, Noel Bennett Trio@Jazz Cellar SUN 12 DJ Craze@Sonar; Eric ldle@Orpheum; Loud Taikoelectric SUN 26 Steve Lacy, Roswell Rudd Quartet@Performance Works Release Party@Western Front; The T.A.M.I. S/iow@Blinding Light MON 27 H20, Anti-Flag, Saves the Day@Starfish MON 13 Open Mic Night@Jazz Cellar; Kardinal Offishal, TUE 28 Wild Goose Yourse//@Blinding Light IMMfcHtHHIMaHl an:m»».)kw«i:mi Amsterdam Cafe 302 W. Cordova St. (Gastown) 683 7200 Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) 822 2678 Richard's on Richards 1036 Richards St. (downtown) 687 6794 Anza Club 3 W. 8th Ave. (Mount Pleasant) 876 71 28 Garage Pub 2889 E. Hastings St. (downtown) 822 9364 Ride On 2255 W. Broadway; 2-712 Robson St. (upstairs) 738-7734 Arts Hotline 684 2787 The Good Jacket 225 E. Broadway (at Main) 872 5665 Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus St. (at 16th) 738 6311 Astoria Hotel 769 E. Hastings St. 254 3636 The Grind Gallery 41 24 Main St. (Mt. Pleasant) 322 6057 Scrape Records 17 W. Broadway (near Main) 877 1676 Bassix 217 W. Hastings St. (at Cambie) 689 7734 Hollywood Theatre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilano) 738 3211 Scratch Records 726 Richards St. 687 0499 Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) 687 1354 Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main St. (Mt. Pleasant) 873 4131 Seylynn Hall 605 Mountain Hwy. (North Van) Black Dog Video 3451 Cambie St. 873 6958 Hush Records 221 Abbott St. 662 7017 Shadbolt Centre for the Arts 6450 Deer Lake Ave. (Bby) 291 6864 Black Sheep Books 2742 W. 4th Ave. (at MacDonald) 732 5087 Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pt. Grey) 224 8007 Singles Going Steady 3296 Main St. (at 17th) 876 9233 Blinding Light 36 Powell St. 878 3366 Jupiter Cafe & Billiards 1216 Bute (near Denman St) 606 6665 Sonar 66 Water St. (Gastown) 683 6695 Boomtown #102-1 252 Burrard (at Davie) 893 8696 La Quena 1111 Commercial (the Drive) 251 6626 Starfish Room 1055 Homer St. (downtown) 682 4171 The Brickyard 315 Carroll St. 685 3978 The Lotus Club 455 Abbott St. (Gastown) 685 7777 Starlight Cinema 935 Denman St. (West End) 689 0096 Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial (the Drive) 254 1195 Luv-A-Fair 1275 Seymour St. (downtown) 685 3288 Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station (off Main) 688 3312 Cambie 515 Seymour 684 7757 Medialuna 1926 W. Broadway Sugar Refinery 1 1 15 Granville St. (downtown) 683 2004 Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Granville Mall) 683 6099 Minoru Pavillion 7191 Granville St. (Rich. 3nd) Theatre E 254 E. Hastings (Chinatown) 681 8915 Celebrities 1022 Davie St. (at Burrard) 689 3180 Moon Base Gallery 231 Carroll St. (Gasstownt ) 608 0913 Thunderbird Ent. Centre 120 W. 16th St. (N. Van) 988 2473 Cellar Jazz Cafe 361 1 W. Broadway (downstairs) 738 1959 Naam Restaurant 2724 W. 4th Ave. (Ki 738 7151 Tribeca 536 Seymour 688 8385 Chameleon Urban Lounge 801 W. Georgia (Downtown) 669 0806' Neptoon Records 5750 Fraser St. 324 1229 Tru Valu Vintage Robson (downstairs) 685 5403 Chan Centre 6265 Crescent Rd. (UBC) Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downtown) 665 3050 Vancouver E. Cultural Centre 1895Venables (at Victoria) 254 9578 CiTR Radio 101.9fM 233-6138 SUB Blvd. (UBC) 822-3017 Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe (downtown) 688 3456 Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 876 4165 Club Vesuvius 1 176 Granville St. (downtown) 688 8701 Palladium 1 250 Richards (downtown) 688 2648 Vancouver Press Club 2215 Granville (S.Granville) 738 7015 CN Imax Theatre 999 Canada Place 682 4629 Paradise 27 Church (New Westminster) 525 0371 Varsity Theatre 4375 W. 10th (Point Grey) 222 2235 Columbia Hotel 303 Columbia (at Cordova) 683 3757 Paradise Cinema 919 Granville (Granville Mall) 681 1732 Vert/Futuristic Flavours 1020 Granville (downtown) 872 2999 Commodore Lanes 838 Granville St (Granville Mall) 681 1531 Park Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) 876 2747 Video In Studios 1965 Main (Mt. Pleasant) 872 8337 CNB Skate and Snow 371 2 Robson St. 682 5345 Piccadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (at Seymour) 682 3221 Vinyl Rekkids 76 W. Cordova (Gastown) 689 3326 Cordova Cafe 307 Cordova St. (Gastown) 683 5637 Pitt Gallery 317 W. Hastings (downtown) 681 6740 Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) 331 7909 Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Dr. (at 17th) 879 01 54 Plaza Theatre 881 Granville (Granville Mall) 685 7050 Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) 685 6217 Crosstown Music 518 W. Pender St. 683 8774 Puff/Beatstreet 4326 Main (at 27th Ave.) 708 9804 Western Front 303 E. 8th Ave (near Main) 876 9343 Denman Place Cinema 1030 Denman St. (West End) 683 2201 Puff #14-712 Robson (at Granville) 684 PUFF Weft Bar 1320 Richards (downtown) 230 6278 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Main Hall 578 Carroll St. 662 3207 Purple Onion 1 5 Water St. (Gastown) 602 9442 Whip Gallery 209 E. 6th Ave (at Main) 874 4687 DV8 515 Davie St (downtown) 682 4388 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Hamilton & Georgia 665 3050 W.I.S.E. Hall 1882 Adanac (the Drive) 254 5858 Fifth Avenue Cinemas 2110 Burrard (at 5th) 734 7469 Raffels Lounge 1 221. Granville (downtown) 473 1593 Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 732 41 28 Firehall Arts Centre 80 E. Cordova (at Main) 689 0926 The Rage 750 Pacific Blvd. South (Plaza of Nations) 685 5585 Yale Blues Pub 1300 Granville (downtown) 6819253 F.W.U.H. Beatty 552 Beatty St. (downtown) 687 7464 Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir St. (at Seymour) 681 1625 Zulu Records 1 869 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 738 3232 ^ yy^u^J, WOO QOOOGSQBOGG CONCERTS' hob.com H th« home of Ive music on the uiternet. (ommoDiM 1 DISCOTOWN STRUTTERS HHER STARRING DJ CHICLET AND MC VELVET K *. + special guests OVv SLEY SAT | RICHARD'S ON RICHARDS |l MAR J PETER THURS. MARCH 23 I MURPHY FRIDAY MARCH 241 i back 1 U U U U MERCAN DE 1 METHODS S3 ITOMM2fMVYH3Y LEE • TILOM l STEPHEN PERKINSl I CHRIS CHANEY KAI I HAWKSLEY charlatans^ WORKMAN Flaming Lips mEffiEsa with guests LOOPER * Stereophonies lFRIDAY MARCH Til SUN „ f API I. AL DIABLO NEKOCASE train 09 Jr WITH 0*£X£\ & HER BOYFRIENDS I TUESDAYS DISCO TRONIC ' " w WED. MAR. 29 PIEO PUMHIN [RICHARD'S ON RICHARDS III THURSDAYS Z 95.3 NIGHTS SAT. MAR. 11 CORONATION BALL FRI. MAR. 1? DJ OERRICR CARTER SAT. APR. 01 TOO SHORT FRI. MAR. 03 RIM MITCHELL SUN. MAR. 12 DAL RICHARDS FRI. MAR. 24 EDWIN FRI. APR. U BEENIE \ new circuitry at zulu DIRTmakY THREe thE e right connectioGIANT SANn Dwit h these sounKID KOALd componentsA ! WHATEVER YOU CHORE OF CARPAL TUNNEL LOVE, YOU ARE CD/IP ENCHANTMENT CD/ap SYNDROME CD/LP nfolding dew drop petals otthe odestly musing about his latest inja Tune starts the year of Unight sky. Enchanted Charmed Mdesert rock oeuvre, GIANT Nwith a new high watermark in Increasingly pitch black Without SAND s Howe Gelb remarks: "The DJ turntabiism. Having held court words, they are instrumentalists Swaggering, boozed up. overall sound could be summed up as a mix of slow burning with the likes of Money Mark and the the violin has really drunk a cup-full tonight. 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