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Not having any other matter I still want to thank you for your kindness in reading my letter and to tell you I would be very haughty to wear a t-shirt with an advertising of your radio station, or t-shirt of Vancouver, of course, if it in your hand to satisfy my it is he gets a page every month. Utopia is to be (not) found? Shit, man, is anybody supposed to understand that? And once I do decipher an idea of yours, I find I don't I desire you all the luck in the world. God ble: j and all Canadian people, care anymore, because it's already been said before, by Camus, or Tolstoy, or take yours truly, your pick; it was said in a tiny paragraph on the way to a much more powerful idea. If Felix Rojas you're going to talk about a concept as ineffable as faith, man, don't play word-games. Havana City, Cuba So I just want to say, once and for all, fuck you man. Fuck you, because in the last 7 months I've read you, you haven't said shit that anyone hasn't already talked about Dear Mr. Poulin at party or at a stoned busstop, except that you doll it up with words like "ancillary." Why, why why are you getting printed? Every month, I try to get through one of your And fuck you because you're getting published and I'm not. essays. But, despite an earnest belief in the use of intelligent discourse, I don't think Love, I've gotten through one. I come away disgusted each time, either by your arrogant, Andrew Turner pseudo-intellectual, brat tone of voice, by your incoherent and ambiguous language, or by the utterly pedestrian and recycled ideas that you are trying so hard to spout. I Thank you for the good advice. I quit. (K. Poulin} just don't have the strength. And what I want to know is, man, is anyone reading your stuff? Do people actually enjoy watching you masturbate all over the page? I can't imagine it. Or maybe this is it: maybe everyone, including your editors, is too intimidated by your self-satisfied smirk (I'm sure you've got a great smirk) and by sentences like, "The same non-place, that is, utopia, is to be (not) found" (Oct. '97) to tell you that your writing is a bunch of self-satisfied bullshit. Somebody, please come to his defence so I can understand why
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What is the connection between Could you tell us what the antithesis of Thrillseekers and restaurants? your band is? view Don We like lo eat in ihem, especially the lentil Don Mean people with un-positive energy who slew with lahmi at Deserts If they want lo sponsor cannot see the beauty that is around them our band, I would be happy to shove a big mouth Seiichiro Shouting al people thai we kick ass so ful of it in as we're accepting our Grammy award hard that they will bleed Seiichiro Don and I used lo work at the Japanese Kacey I think Marilyn Manson is a booger. restaurant called the Eatery. That's where we met Current most-hated song? Kacey Restaurants are node points where musi Don Whatever song that all of the hippy kids are cians, or people who think they wont lo play in playing on their drums on Commercial Drive all bands congregate for food, employment or both the bloody lime Hippy children, put down your So too, have we, Thrillseekers, congregated Thus drums and go back to juggling slicks ond hackey- sack before there is a blood bath in the streets, I'm Any messages for Thrill Squad, who you begging you ironically opened for on your first gig? Kacey I don't know what song I hate the most, Don The olher night I was driving home in the but I'm excited that drop-in hockey season is almost rain and my windshield was kind of fogged up and I wrote the name Thrill Squad on it with my Ask yourself two questions and answer finger A couple of nights later, I was again dri them. di ving home in the rain, and on lhat very same Don: Have you ever thought of expanding lo a Who are you? Cinnamon, Vancouver? And (b) Redd spot, on my fogged up windshield, appeared four-piece? Ooh ooh ... Ooh ooh. Kross was spotted backstage at the the phrase 'Satan walks among us.' I cannot Yes Please give us a family tree for Rage with a Cinnamon tape in hand, explain this If you did, who would you want in the band? Saturnhead ... April 1997. What came of that? Seiichiro: How's it going? A nice guy named Kevin who, if he grew his mous The Olive tree: 'Saturnhead' comes from the (a) Cinnamon Toast ... Cinnamon the band was Kacey No special message for Thrill Squad, but tache again, would look just like a blonde Robbie Robertson, circa 1971. Greek work 'Ptolomas' which means (rough named after secret agent girl Cinnamon on the that story Don wrote is absolutely true Pro-sports or anti-sports? Discography: translation, because the literal doesn't make any TV series Mission: Impossible. But Cinnamon Don: Pro-Sporrsdeslc, which I watch at work. You sense) 'He who laughs at luggage.' (Canada) did come before Cinnamon Saturnhead's music is created by one mind, two (Sweden). And what exactly does Cinnamon hands on a ten-year-old four-track recorder. have lo do with Saturnhead? Absolutely noth Saturnhead is, for those of you who may not ing ... sorry. In the wake of the prohibition... know, a one man four track band. Terry Miles (b) Yes, Redd Kross have family ties to bolh lays all the instruments and writes all the songs. Cinnamon and Saturnhead: all three are eter Now, this would be quite a bit to accomplish nal spirits of '76. Redd Kross is another This balancing act. live so, enter the live band. band lhat has toiled in relative obscurity for What music is on your answering many years. That is, of course, Saturnhead's machine? only aspiration, relative obscurity ... how Beach Boys ... again .... romantic. Is Boba Fett a female? Which character If you could combine all of the Spice did each member of Saturnhead play Girls into one 'Super Spice Girl,' would as a youngster? she rule the world with her uniquely Boba Fettl Boba Fettl enhanced 'Girl Power?' Who are Resolution Records? Are there Well, how many navels would she have? I think not any labels in Vancouver 'worthy' with all of that talent, yes. But you can leave out of releasing The 'Head? Sporty. We don't really need Sporty Spice in READYMADE Resolution Records are the beast from the east. the equation. Under 'Spice' rule, would we be Toronto independent pop music specialists with forced to wear the very big shoes? What would a deep appreciation for a certain Canadian lo- become of MENSA? WOMENSA? fi pop guy with a very large record collection. What time is it? Vancouver is mainly a movie town — anything It's time to break out of the Pablum and crank extraordinary is skilfully ignored by everyone in up those K-Tel albums It looks like we've got a the business. And it is sad, because it is very mighty indie-pop lo-fi bug music convoy, much a nice place to live. gonna take ya' downtown. Saturnhead's new How has your band used the internet album will be available this winter on Darling The Dramatic Balanced LP to further your career? It's quite a story, Music, check that web. And remember, always eh? Plus, any hints on how to stop get floss, and keep an eye out for the Knights Available now downtown ting porn and get rich quick junk e- Templar ... shriek! mail? Discography: Yes. We have created the world's first virtual 1997 Introducing ... Arizona's Thin Mistake church of lo-fi indie-pop, the first church of (Resolution/Sonic Unyon/F THE SALTEENS VANCOUVER KNIGHTS SURER CHIEF _^ J _J\J __£__ _L ^ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 1 9th AT THE STARFISH ROOM SERVED UP EVERY TUESDAY AT THE RAILWAY CLUB 9:30 PM AVOLLE ~ MUSICWEST 98 CUSTOM DRUMS V_>/ nx greenhqijse ne 1998 UNIVERSAL CONCERTS [J^^MMZ PRODUCTIONS^^ much, even if only about lies upon lies. All this objective sense of this behaviour tt can be so is too much for the concrete-heoded; besides, weird Even a concrete head like me slill knows I'm talking about much more — or rather, much enough to marvel at what an awesome abstrac less — than stupid, self indulgent self-loathing. tion the commodity is This was how I was ready WHERE IS NOI Tdon't eve n care that much, remember, and to ease into concrete headedness, actually, the that's the trick. Gone. Structures don't matter. transformation was staged again and again in All this seems very disgusting and ugly be popular culture, t just fell into place and out of cause it is basic, butbeing banc makes it blank nowhere. But I'm not pointing any fingers or WHAT YOU WEAR It is not disgusting and ugly, or appealing and anything. Who am I to blame, how am I to here is a block of dull gray and dried begin to do or say anything enough to alter beautiful. And so, to call all this miserable or blame, whom am I to blame ... you get the concrete inside my head. It is waste em this multiple burden, except the something that to say that I am suffering by it is to say far too idea, I'm sure — although I don't get It anymore, Tbodied, slowly becoming unbecoming is nothing. Even nothing can't express my ab much, overstating the crucial simplicity of this because I don't care at all. I haven't joined or Even waste has too much descriptive charac solute attitude, which is so gone that it hasn't happenstance In this case, it is unwritable left, I just haven't-haven't But I definitely haven't ter here, in fact. This comes as no surprise to even started. Save the adjectives, the best thing about this become fractured into oblivion, dematerialized some readers and acquaintances, I'm sure. This Luckily, even with my concrete head, I was development is that it means not even nothing, within a swirling bricolage of bricabrac. That may even be my most distinctive feature, next just able lo force out one last small observation not even nothing crossed out. Take my word bullshit line only carries so far. A smoke screen. to my paranoia, but both are really quite obvi for old-time's sake: as much as I would like to, for it. While the last moment of corporality is This is the obsequious car crash — it comes to ous to see, as they dip out of sight This block I will never understand anything except good- spent reveling in nothingness — the funny little you: an endless, nameless avalanche of stuff. is cake-like and cumbersome, with veins and enough lies; and the term "lies" is just a loaded non-hinge — I'm ready to move on or out, to We have no shortage of stuff, except for the arteries running through it for no reason. What's shorthand offered to capture something of the step aside, well off the stage, quite out of the less financially fortunate, who maybe only have more, it flakes and chips apart when I move, sense of relative functionality I am trying to ex theater So long bodies, texts and discourse. no shortage of desire. Even the grossly fortu slowly becoming smaller and less useful For press. The same goes for everyone, it seems, And I could give a shit for any final anti-totality nate have no shortage of desire, however. my own good I should leave it alone, or else for this business with lies. But this pseudo rev of absence or whatever. Let the other players Maybe desire is the final leveler, where every I'll be left with only blood-soaked dust; a mucky elation is only partial. Because not even the contend with such silly complications, I am not one becomes common. Certainly need can't swamp-liquid sloshing between my ears — as self-knowledge of this (in)capacity is truly mine, interested in fhe game anymore, and I can't be. Does the commodity secretly tell us all this? if it makes a difference. And so, with this prog it is always already not even there. Not even be. I'm ripe for the in-between parts that never Hard to tell, desire does all the talking. The nosis in front of me — and with little real choice nowhere, that's the ticket. Navel gazing with end or begin, where necessity and its antith nature of the commodity hides behind the sur on my part, actually — I am giving up trying to out the help of a navel or the Tightness of a esis blow each other out as if they never were, face of the incidental "whatever" it empowers. deny or to do anything about my transforma gaze, l-less. Even a good, discrete sense of and where words never materialize in any form. How can it non-speak in so many ways at once? tion. Why not? And so, accordingly, everything failure, disappointment or some other compa Because it just doesn't matter, and it never did It is so sublime. Its glorious radiance dries the about me has now become increasingly slug rable and more comprehendable form of frus or will. Just like me Not even Other — who concrete more and more. If ever there was gish and uninspired, more so than ever before, tration would be a suitable refuge, a structure cares for Other? My concrete head slowly turns something that is beyond us, with a machinic all the way off the map. In short, I am all crumbs of some sort, providing context enough to be to dust. No, this isn't about death or rebirth, or transcendence, enabling a lazy totalization, it and hot gas: i.e. nothing in particular at all, gin explication I know, I know ... oh boohoo anti-anything. It is the is-less and it-less. And I surely is the ghostly commodity, as firm as our hardly a register, a bona fide waste of effort to you, concrete head. Ah yes, but such angst dare say, we all have one foot in it already. hands. If gratitude mattered anymore, I would segueing into less and less. This is neither bad is a washout really, a dramatic make-believe Once you have two, then you have neither. bow graciously, thankful for it's inhuman "wis nor good. So long, human world, you're wel ritual and pretension, a game for privileged dom," providing insight into the less than less. In the meantime, fuck popular culture and come to it. Time, space, language, culture, eco romantics, of which I was once one. Like de But in polite indifference, it is the commodity all its ups, downs and ironies. It's all so tire nomics, people, and what not, are all too much pression or anomie, angst relies too much on a that bows and bows. Hey, I'm as tired of it as some. It is what it is, okay, and everyone knows for the concrete-headed like me. I can't even psychology and a culture that assumes too you are. it already and then some. A thousand plateaus of endless intricacy that never take form, where If I was able, I would — critically minded — everyone is right and wrong all at once, all the say: APEC and the Christmas season are both upon time. Suffer, enjoy, or do both. It is just one out us. Their significance is overshadowed by the of so many good-enough lies, all right. And it smoothness that surrounds them. The cult of the can be so much fun and meaningful, or the non-sequitur probably exists to replace the grim inverse. Congratulations. I don't care for any obviousness of power doing what it typically one's agreement or disagreement on this, share does. But I've given up that pastime as much it amongst yourselves, it all amounts to the same as it has given up on me. This is sad recogni thing anyway. Remember, my head is now de tion. In this way I betray the blankness. I am crepit concrete. But popular culture was the last grateful for my lapse into beyond fictionality, sufficient push that tipped me over, that gave although even here my all too human-ness me the big shove Funnily enough, it also gave seems to draw me into unwanted solipsism. And me the necessary will to cancel my will beyond this is true in the sense that it is pathetic and negation, all without my conscious participa unlikely. I don't go further than the end of the tion, mind you. A last moment of psychic can- page, as far as you and me both are con nibalization, this was my self's last political ac cerned. This has become a third, an absolute tion. It was so much more than theoretical mas soliloquy. Pornography of the highest order, turbation, pal. It was so fucking heroic and fan after all. And more than this, it is transparent. tastic, and then not even nothing. Not bliss or It is the smoothness. That's the rub with blam terror. If my former concern regarding popular ing, really. Am I really just dying to say that all culture was the final "in" that was also my way we need is love, like a introspective transform- "out" of needing ins and outs, then it did me ing-in-place young man might say. Or a foul some service after all. Or maybe, I should say, pop icon. Or a billion greeting cards. I con I am now no longer in the position to judge all fess, I am a liar, or at least confused. Maybe this by any standard or practice. I have no feel there is no concrete, only a sense of common ing in the future and my memory is emptying frustration, of stupidly grasping for my own and closing up. These few words are the auto gain, of wanting verification. And here I matic writing of my fading human capacities, become even more right while I realize how giving up a last spasm of empathy for no par wrong I am. My confession is an omission. ticular reason. An unromantic mirrored hori But over what? It is chicken-shit. A last stab. zon. A haunted narrative or self epitaph. As Oh no. Swan song. Boohoo. It is the mo insular as a drainpipe. Big deal. ment of transformation. The concrete is crumbling for real. Look closely at this It is odd, however, this popular culture stuff. page, not at the words. The ink stains and I mean, what a fine sham. But there it is. All paper fibers are wonderful. The texture. The these things, choices and stress. The luxury of smell. I am envious of this simplicity. Push being burdened by incidental cultural forma it further. Last. The lighthouse. Improvised. tions is enough to make any fair-minded per Our hero. He's lost in space. He's lost his son a little cynical and reclusive. Nauseous, mind. But never mind him. He's a goner. even. But en masse it has created a profoundly Over and out. obsessive sense of all thingsconceivable. Try out attempting to have a brief — albeit fictitious — mr. kitty poulin a.k.a. concrete head 8 december 1997 'Z7€Z^____7^Z7ZAY7 anin Elias delivers sonic terrorism via Atari So they are totally into that? front of such a big audience so the people q They wanted us to call them Once who don't know us can see us and start think Teenage Riot as well as Carl ond Alec were somewhere else, in ing It is important lo play in front of a big on her own terms in her Spam os djs and mcs, and we hod this gig audience as well as small club lours — solo work (There is No in Berlin and I had to form a band very fast do both So I took Gino Irom Ec8or and Patric and You have a sub-label, Less Than I Love in Tekkno, we made this totally experimental thing, one HI Showj. Aliens ..: anarchy ... aggres day before the show We had this taped Alec That is the label where people under I sion ... Hanin smashes the patri thing; we lecorded some lyrics and voices the age of 20 years are allowed to do stuff archy — don't get in her way. Let's and I sang We put it faster and we played I mean 'allowed' it is the idea lo destroy J live guitars to it So we didn't sing at all on this barrier between ... I mean the younger i start the Atari Girl Riot ... (Alec stage, we |usl had this tape And we people they just look up to us and we don't Empire sits in ...) played, but nobody knew how to play any like this. So we want lo show them that you instruments! Bul it sounded really cool and can put oul stuff by Siobhan Twin Stars the kids liked it Hanin They should kick us one day when That's sorta how Bikini Kill started. we are loo old, we don'l want lo be like the It wasn't about knowing how to i DiSCORDER: Hanin, have there been with aliens [laughs] play your instruments. That whole Alec fne idea is for the future At the moment 1 any movements in Berlin, like Riot In your solo work do you have any Riot Grrrl thing, just starting up we just have two guys One is 1/ and the Grrri? specific agenda? bands. other is 15, one is called Bomb 20. Have nin: In Berlin I |usl know girl bands who Hanin This record was meant os a provo Hanin: The lyrics are much more important, rl punk rock than, explodes when it counts lo 20, it thinks itself I feel totally alone in this male structure thing. music I was also Irying to be difficult. say, the Sex Pistols ever were I think they [the so you can't stop it And he recorded these So there's not very many women People didn't like it? Sex Pistols] were loo controlled great lines .. he did an EP already doing stuff, even in the under Hanin It was split [Free for all talk aboul girls in bands and the Hanin: I think more people should send us ground? Have you squatted? history of girls in bands] Alec. Me, I didn't, but she and Carl did. stuff Maybe we can wnle the address Hanin In the DHR [Digital Hardcore H was just a total reaction; girls' expe Hanin Have you ever squatted? down. Recordings] scene there is rience at rock shows — being exclud But nothing else? No. Did lots of people squat [in ed, male violence. You know that Alec A lol of people send us stuff Hanin: The women in techno they are more Germany]? hardcore scene — boys onlyl Do you Hanin Yeah, bul under 20? like I mean, the djs are the heroes and Hanin Yeah. In Berlin it used to be many like playing these huge coliseums? Alec Yeah, okay but . they are only men. And the girls are more people And after the wall came down, East Hanin: It is strange as a support band. I All the bands on DHR are German? dancing around them and shaking their hips. Berlin people, most of them, left directly to mean, it is really early. Alec There's one guy, Dj Skud, he is from It is like in the rock and roll business: the girls come to the west to live because they were People seem confused. England We are gonna do another new are just the smiling, screaming groupies of the scared that maybe somebody would build the Hanin: Yeah, ihey are! fhat is what it is label lhat starts in September, it is called djs like the rock chicks are for the metal gui wall up again! Thot was the situation when always like Our music really provocates, Geisl Thai's gol my new records thai [should tarists It is the same all these weird clubs opened because all especially ihe rock audience And as well, the be2] on Mille Plateaux, because I got really How did you get involved in music? these houses were just empty Wu Tang Clan audience; most of them were frustrated with lhal scene Hanin (Alec and I] started to make music I moved out of my parents' home when I like while, middle class kids — veiy small, but It got over-intellectual? together. He had his new computer and I was was 15 because my father suddenly started bodybuilding guys .. Alec That is right, but it was always this a singer in a punk, underground trash band lo (real me no longer like his child — more With baggy clothes? approach We did this tour [with] Ed Rush, DJ and then we met each olher and decided to like a girl he was scared of losing. He is Hanin: Yeah We had a fight with some of Spooky and some of the other guys DHR is make music because it [techno] was something Arabian and this got really slrong because I like a movement in a way, all the bands deal new. I thought it was really interesting lo make was free until that time, and suddenly there Alec: Sometimes we used lo jusl jump down with each olher in a certain way II is not music by computer We formed this ATR style was all of these forbidden things. And he about competing against each olher and I of music. After this, we met [ATR's] Carl [Crack], started hitting me and punching me really Hanin: To fight for the shitl saw it wos totally different [with Mille Plateaux What is your song 'Tie Me to the badly And then I moved out and went lo this [lo Alec] We thought you were gonna artists] Il wenl into the wiong direction, with Wall' about? left-wing punk scene. They took me [to what] chuck your mic stand at that guy. people like DJ Spooky and stuff; they talk more Hanin Ah, you know this song [laughs] was in former limes an old hospital and peo Hanin I smashed il on the security guards. about this stuff than ihey actually do. Have you seen the video as well? In the video ple squatted there And I lived there until the When we came here tonight, the Hanin: Once we saw him acting like he's there is this alien which ties me to the wall. It time I met Alec. security took away my chokerl mixing or scratching looks like this alien that fhey found I can iden And that's where you started your Hanin They took it away? Aw lhat is Alec: And he jusl had this record playing. tify more with the other tracks on the album. punk band? because of Rage, I think. They are scared Really?)? Holy shitl There's the track where you sound Hanin [laughs] I started many punk bands some right-wing people are going to hurt Alec Yeah, but I mean he is a nice guy. really soft or something ... them It is totally the wrong way, lo make this Thai is why I stalled this new label The First Hanin Yes, it is kind of dark It is called Did you put out anything on record? big barrier theie and these security people, record is going to be a triple CD of my stuff 'You Will Never Gel Me.' I sang this lo all Hanin No, it was just on tapes, we never the energy can never (low in this kind of Some stuff from the Mille Plateaux albums, these guys who always think that backstage I really put anything out. venue. We were happy thai there were no but put in a new context The difference am the groupie or something 'Tie Me to the Do you have any other bands now? seals [tonight] between Geisl and DHR is gonna be that Wall' is because of all the sexual experience Hanin. No, not yet. I make my solo stuff. 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Dec. 12th » BANDS, 3 NIGHTS • (PROCEEDS TO BENEFIT THE MEOCA NQRMAL,COAL f THE EiWHS Sat Dec. 13th Thurs. 27: REVULVA, THE DIRTMITTS, GAZE (aOVER HONEV THE WHEAT CUBS, JESSES GIRL jf JET SET Sat. 29: LIQUID AMBER, PUNCTURE, HISSV FIT, __•__*% »£* WWD»J7_J MONEVPENNV^SUNNV QW *_( FORGET VOUR FACE Fri Doc 5th TERROR OF TNY 7XXVN, THRU SQUAD JTHEBBKEBBK Fri. Dec. 19th Sat Dec, 6th THE CARTES ( THE RETREADS RACE ( BETTi MOON Tues. Dec. 9th BfvV iQUONSETfHGHSFORJIV- Thurs. Dec. mn Wed. Dec. 10th 'PATHBB^fflT (MALB/OUENCE DeCARTOPBWG Q^i-fll iftTTYSEft raT-yrsr? WOODEN1J YSTAR HANSEL & GllKTKSL DiSCORDER: There's a rumour floating around It's not like Ornette Coleman with three jazz Julian Yeah, we really liked it I think everyone else that there's a split 7" with Julie Doiron on one drummers at once, is it? did too We will be doing more things with Julie, side and Snailhouse on the other. Could we Andrew No, we never play together because it hopefully recording. have some information on exactly what and was three different sessions. I've done other things Andrew Definitely. who and how that is done and if you guys are I'm not going to tell you about. So none of you were on [her new] album. related to it? Like total Black Sabbath tribute bands? There were lots of other people on it, but none Julian We're cousins Snailhouse is Mike's thing. Andrew Yeah! of you guys. Mike's the other guitar player [and] singer in the The gentleman who played trumpet on 'Mardi Andrew Yeah, that album was recorded before we Wooden Stars It's his solo effort There is a 7" com Gras,' is he an old friend? were involved. ing out, I'm not sure when, but it's being worked Andrew Mark Walters. He's a friend, I've played How do you know her? on currently There's a new Snailhouse album com with him before. I've done a few jazz gigs with him Andrew Mike's from Moncton, so he knows a lot ing out sometime in the next six months Andy plays over the years He's probably one of the better trum of the same people They've known each other for a lot on it and I play a little bit on it pet players in Ottawa. He only played with the a long time. Which label is it coming out on? Wooden Stars on one gig and then he went away There's plenty of banjo on the album, played Andrew Some guy, I think he's from Victoria I on a cruise ship for a long time. by your bass player, but there isn't any don't really know the details That's really good money and good food, too! played live. Are there any more side projects that you two Andrew Yeah, oh yeah, except you can't socialize Julian: That was my brother Matthew, but he's not are working on? That was one of the rules he told me You can't in the band anymore Andrew I've done a lot of other things like play associate with the people on the ship You're con My friend lives in Ontario and went to school with lots of other people I'm one of the drummers sidered a member of the crew, and the crew can't with Matthew. She said that in high school he part of Julie Doiron's band, on a record that's coming out from a jazz sort of socialize. It's pretty weird had hair like Astro Boy —you know how Astro they returned to play their guy from Ottawa It's pretty modern and out, his How was the Julie Doiron thing? I went to Boy has those spikes in his hair? He also wore name is Justin Dean. I'm one of the three drummers that, and your playing style changed dramati black turtlenecks a lot and he was the really WWII t.UlllfJU3HIUIIi. IV — I'd say the lesser of the three — but [it's] pretty cally when you started playing with her. Is that moody Astro Boy of high school. Do you of the four Wooden neat stuff It's very modern, out. avant-garde jazz something you like doing? remember that at all? Did he at least have Stars (drummer . vaguely spiky. Astro Boy type hair? Julian He may have had that hair style for a cou Andrew and } ple of days He may have. He went through a lot guitarist/vocalist \ of styles Julian) were Andrew I could see him being Astro Boy, he's pret ty moody. He's also much like a super hero in some apprehended behind ways He does wear a turtle neck. the Starfish Room by A Wooden Star isn't anything, is it? the DiSCORDER Andrew No. and it never will be anything. Are any of you guys married? I know Julie is ! , ~ >w alliance married and has two kids. It seems like all .... as Hansel and these rock bands are growing up. Andrew No, we definitely aren't married. You see, Gretel. Looking we all made a pledge when we were eight or nine bedraggled from their years old that we were never gonna get married. ? touring scht And we're gonna follow through with that. Julian Unless we meet the right person, then we're all gonna .get married to her • The interview drew to a close wh vi wi' all sudden • thai the Inbreds (heatlining that night) ported prawn chips that we weren't going to be back any tine soon We then brought them as a present. proceeded to eat most of the ba lanas and toffees on their rider fust anothei perk of hard-hitting, investigative tourihtli'jn if you love clxristnias so much With a jewelry purchase you receive a free piercing by Canada's most experienced piercers MACK'S LEATHERS 1 043 GRANVILLE STREET Why dontcha merry It.. teenage USA recordings PH: 688-6225 689 Queen St. V. Box 91 j SUN - WED 11-7 Toronto, Ontario, Canada M6J1I6 THURS & FRI 1 1 - 8 pecota / smallmouth split 7" (416)703-9320 j fax 703-9317 j available now $5.00 Distributed by Sonic Unyon | 11 ®L^°SE__L u 9 oy $ your ,ab K After a three week European tour with the Silver Apples and in fhe midst 7_ A , _ T T" * £ . , J^f_, W We don'l put an awful lot out We visited K Record* and to or a month-long American four, Windy and Con drove into town olympithink ota th ane td* they've slurringot theg biggestrecords, annicesd mailint operatg the, m out Irom our recenfly fo play us some space-rock to dream to. DiSCORDER's pretty measly compared to what we saw today. Brian Wieser spoke wifh fhe Dearborn duo before fheir headlining Bu< •wou,d be •*• if we could d°•» MUHT». »°»has to do with i , ,i rj . I I money We both work Kill-time jobs to pay the bills and it would be >uld put o ind play shows all the ti efora ing It's just not a level that w DiSCORDER: Where is Dearborn, Michigan? AH things considered, if you had the choice between W Twelve miles southwest ol Detroit It's very quiet doing the legwork yourselves or having someone else there put out your records, which would you prefer? C tit's a] suburb like everywhere else in Detroit, a W In most cases, I'd rather do it myselt because then you're in com medium size city Henry Ford used to live there and plete control ot everything that happens everything is Ford Motor Company, Ford Motor C It's really hard to finance something like that, and you've got to Company The Henry Ford estate is a nice place lo keep up on the promotion and distribution The tew records we've go il you ever go lo Dearborn put out on our own label, it's so hard to keep up with distributors, to Can you see Detroit burning from there? gel them to pay you on time. It's really such a hassle and there's not W No' much time tor it unless you want to dedicate full-time to it C You can smell it sometimes I don't know il it's the Do you play festivals like CMJ [an industry event in New burning or the smell ol the trash incinerator burning York for campus radio programmers]? It's pretty nasty You have to hold your breath and W We played at CMJ and it was a pretty good experience, plug your nose in some parts ol Detroit [playing] to over 100 people What's unfortunate about CMJ is What is music like in Detroit Rock City? it's really easy for bands to go there and play and expect won My impressions have been ... well, let's Interuiew by Brian Wieser derful things to happen And because a lot of the bands that play put it this way: I drove across northern at CM) are new or they're naive aboul things, the club owners Michigan once and I kept expecting to really take advantage ol that and they don't pay you. It's not all see Ted Nugent jump out of the woods of them, but there are specific clubs that are notorious for not tak with a crossbow. Is that representative ing care of people, so that's how we learned about making sure of most of Michigan? that we had a guarantee betore we went to play at a club. We W Michigan is pretty rock oriented People real played at Terracestock in Providence, Rhode Island this past April ly love rock 'n' roll and that's what they want. and that was a wonderful experience. ]lt was] at this crazy old C They love their rock 'n' roll hometown people mill building and it was three days. Forty bands played and we like Bob Seger and Ted Nugent MC5 really does had a wonderful time Everybody that we met was fantastic and n't get that much recognition in Detroit. no one was there to say, 'My band is better than your band.' We Everywhere else, whenever we go to other cities had the best time imaginable. There's going to be another one this land] tell [people] we're from Detroit, the (irst thing coming April in San Francisco and we're going to play at that we gel is, 'MC5I Yeah!' They're one ot the belter bonds Irom Detroit, as tar as rock 'n' roll goes, but You are a duo, but you were once a four-piece. people trom Detroit don't seem to care about them at all, except in the underground. C A tour-piece question yeah we were. When we started record W Whal we're doing is not real popular I mean, ing together in mid-1992, we put out a single and we wanted to start there are other bands who are doing similar music playing live We had a couple of friends we asked to join us, and generally, whenever we play, we go and see because at the time, we felt if there were tour ot us it would be more each other. There's just a small crowd. A lot ot it is rounded out and we were really scared to go on as just the two ot because we're local People can come and see us play us So we asked my triends Brenda and Randall to play live with us any time they want, so they're not real worried about and they had the time, a guitar, and we had a cymbal. It was nice coming to see us But we do occasionally have people and convenient tor us, so we played live as a tour-piece for a sum ask us il we open tor a bigger band, like when Ghost mer We did a little bit ot recording which eventually came out as a came to town and we opened tor them, sometimes peo record called Once Dreamt, a 12" EP. After about a year of playing ple will ask us, 'So, what city are you trom? Where are live together, we parted ways, [which was] a bit friendly at first, you guys trom?' and we're like, 'We're trom here.' But I [but] then things got a bit ugly after a while. guess that's okay. W. It's easier as just the two of us. We live together. It we want to argue about something, there's no-one else involved, there's no other Does twee-pop go over well in Detroit? feelings to hurt or problems to deal with We generally find ways to C Like the stutt we do? It does with our triends and there's a work out whatever's wrong. So we're just not really interested in little bit ot public radio support and some ot the college stations working with other people I don't know it it's that we're too hard to are pretty supportive ot it As tar as the papers, it's really hard get along with, but we're really set in our ways about [how] we like to get reviewed to get any kind ot recognition or even any men things done and it becomes unfair to expect that from other people tion at all in most ot the papers. when they're just not used to the way that we do things. Did you ever find that you had to leave the area to get C. I wouldn't rule out working with other people, but we are pretty more recognition? comfortable with what we're doing right now. Collaborations are W. Yes — the first time we ever played Chicago about 300 peo never out ot the question — it is possible.* ple came. It totally shocked us because nothing like that had ever happened. C We had all these crazy people, who actually became good Windy ond Carl can be heard on a new 10" record from fhe triends ot ours, at the bottom ot the stage screaming out songs they English label, Oka Records, ond on a new Kranky Records release, wanted to hear and we were like, 'What's going on here? This is like available in January Write them at 25439 Stanford, Dearborn the total opposite ot what happens back home when we play.' Heights, Ml, 48125 . 12 december 1997 [>i_£c:i_2Me:_£_ NCIM MU_^IC JONATHAN FIRE * EATER SPACE MONKEYS THE SUNDAYS A3 "Wolf Songs For Lambs" The Daddy Of Them All" . "Static & Silence" ~ _^.^ "Exile on Coldharbo © ven ihough it's still early evening and even though it's only the first week of Cornershop's month-long tour of North America with Helium, Tjinder Singh (vocals, guitar, scratching, dholki) already looks tired and road-weary. Add to this Ethe fact that he seems to be low-key and reserved, and it's easy to forgive him for being vague and out of sorts during the interview It's even easy to ignore the fact that he can't remember little things, like which city he was in the day before, or where they were work with Ginsberg? Why did they lhal it's almost as if they ai Dling a headed to the day after. As it turns out, Cornershop was in Boulder, Colorado, the pre- covei 'Norwegian Wood'2' I think culture of their own, * vious night on the road to relay the pan-cultural feel-good rhythms of their third album, there's too many 'whys' in there for 'I play [electric] guilar and acoustic When I Was Born For The Seventh Time. people noi lo ask questions." guitar now, bul I started off playing Indeed, it is hard not to be curious bass When I was younger, I played Their music could be called "(eel about a band whose very name is an Asian drum I also mess around good" music, not in the classic sense meant to evoke preconceived images with a lol of technology, and comput BY ANDREA GIN of '60s doo-wop bands, but more lhal have meaning in almost anyone's ers so it's whatever, whenever" for their lale '90s way of finding a day lo day existence, no matter On their latest album, Tjinder has PHOTO BY RICHARD FOLGAR healthy balance between taking a where ihey live nued tc - 'yc 3 tool IC stand for whal they believe in and 'I ihmk the name transfers quite voice discontent, but not only on polit K-k,nn : that's well," he says For instance, a cor ical or cultural issues Many of their interesting nershop brings lo mind a racial topics revolve around challenges they Cornershop is a band who is as stereotype in every country Singh face as a band The words "reclaim well known for its politics as it is for its points oul lhat wheareas the stereo ing looted uniforms" are written across Asian-inspned grooves They caused typical cornershop in America is a page of their CD's liner notes a media stir when they burned Korean-run, in Pans it's Arab-run, and "It's a line from 'Easy Winners,' Morrissey posters (lo protest what they in England, it's Paki-run which is on the B-side of 'Brimful Of deemed as homophobic language he In trying lo both blaze trails in Asha'' He pauses "Well, you see, used in one of his albums) outside of music and be outspoken aboul their we're a band who's going to split his record label's office That hap actions, il would seem lhal Tjinder is up in a week or in five months. It's pened three years ago and people looking foi the pressure and attention never been easy and it's always are still talking about it In the mean that comes wilh being a spokesper been part-time, and it's part-time iMk time, musically, they have accom son — not only in music, bul in music now People are taking time off plished much in the way of bringing combined with culture and politics work to do this At the lime of writ Asian influences into the world of pop "People expect thai Bul all I'm ing that song and doing the artwork, music —and even though it still seems doing is reflecting myself and express there was very much a feeling that like the music gets overshadowed by ing myself. If people can gel inlo that, we weren't going lo be lasting for the politics, it mailers little lo Tjinder. on whatever level, from whatever longer than a week." To him, politics is a big part of the rea country they're from, good But there's "I've always thought we should son he is in a band al all no pressure in expressing myself " express ourselves openly as much as "I'VE ALWAYS THOUGHT WE SHOULD EXPRESS OURSELVES OPENLY AS 9 if V together anymore And no one's MUCH AS WE CAN, WHILE WE CAN. NO ONE'S GOING TO LISTEN TO US going to give us shit about il either. In IF WE'RE NOT TOGETHER ANYMORE." - Tjinder Singh England, in particular, we've pushed a strong wave of Asian influences "Whatever people get oul of a He started Cornershop five years that have been used by a lot of peo song, they get out of it," he says ago with Ben Ayres while he was in ple, and we're not getting credit for "Whether lhat's just an unbealness, college in England His brother was lhal. We're only starling to gel lhal and no politics, then that's fair enough. also originally pari of the band credit very, very slowly now. People Or whether lhat's an intrigue as to "I never really wanted lo be in a have nicked logos from us, nicked Why did they choose [thai record band," he says. 'It's just somelhing quotes from us. One of the things label]?' then I think that's commend lhat I sluck with because of laziness was our logo. I suppose 'reclaiming able as well and not wanting to gel a |ob And looted uniforms' means taking il back "Music should reflect what's going because of good luck, as well as and gelling credit for what we on around us and how thmgs have because of things happening, with us deserve, rather than letting people been shaped around us And it should signing so quickly lo a small indepen who are in a lot better circumstances try and shape things around us Bul I dent label " than us do it." can also understand it as a way of His love of traditional ethnic music It's this sort of attitude towards their switching off. Both ways are pretty began with his parents playing music that has garnered Cornershop good, bul I don't actually think lhal Punjabi folk music lo him as a child. altention in the past and it's what will there's lhal many people who can jusl He is quick to point out, ihough, that keep the masses interested in what switch off, because everyone has lo ihere are a lol more influences in they have lo say in the future — a ihink aboul things lo a certain extent Cornershop than jusl Asian. There is worthwhile thing, if it's for just a week, Even to Ihink, 'Well, fuck the politics. not onfy a lot of cultureweaymg going or five months. • I don't wanl lo go in to that area,' on in their sound, but also a careful If you missed Cornershop when there's loo many things there for them incorporation of technology, in the they were in town with Helium, check not lo be swayed inlo thinking, 'Why form of beats and scratches. And it's 'em out opening for Oasis on their have they done this? Why did they done so comfortably and seamlessly forthcoming North American tour. 14 december 1997 various artists Exclusive tracks from an international line-up of techno producers, including Starfish Pool, Mark Broom, Riou, Unit Moebius, Transformantra, Minion, Phaedra, and Algorithm & Jeff Haynes. Out now. transformantra Distinctive, addictive techno grooves and dub-scapes. Funky and atmospheric, hard and sweet — all at the same time. Features a bonus remix by Freaky Chakra. Out January 27. Dark hop beats pound along to a throbbing sub-bass undercurrent, as nightmarish drones 01 and voices swirl overhead. Out now. CD broken magick Live tribal drumming interwoven with atmospheric electronics. Loops, r loise and melody converge to create world music for a dark world. Out now. OUTSIDESfi WHAT FOLLOWS IS A LONG, RAHBLING CONVERSATION i HAD WITH THE MEMBERS OF S.C.O.T.S.: RICK, MARY, AND CHRIS. WE TALKED ABOUT MUSIC, FOOD, STOCK CARS, AND ART. •••••••••i I DON'T REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I LAUGHED SO MUCH AND LEARNED SO MUCH AT THE SAME TIME MAYBE YOU HAD TO BE THERE, I DON'T KNOW DER: I figured you guys might be music on. [It] sort of formed my musical How does the record company treat you Rick That's rock and roll. opinion, so that is how I got to have a guys? So it's a fair progression and it's not a .that? Lazyboy on the cover of one of our records. Rick: We have a good record company. I like big stylistic leap because rock is the bas I brought you a poor northern imitation Yeah, it's a bad-ass chair. And like I said, ours. They kind of know what we can do tard child of blues and white country. Of BBQ. I'm thinking, 'OK, if we get rid of the and what we can't do. Rick: If it wasn't for white people and black ^Kp**nan, we'll be diggm' it. Oh, God, couch, I might be able to do that,' 'cause Mary: We'd probably get lost in the shuffle people getting together, there wouldn't be ^^B^to much, man. Hey Mary Mary ... I work in a cabinet shop and we also do in a lot of other places — like majors And any rock and roll. ^^Q deaf, deaf in that ear. re-upholstering. You ever seen outsider Geffen is pretty well grounded. I don't think so either. In the '50s, there I love southern BBQ. I've been lucky art magazines like Robert Williams? Rick: Yeah, they're pretty good. I mean we was 'Blood Shot Eyes.' Winona Harris' ^P-Qn to travel in the States a bit, and Rick: That's what we're into — folk art and have our complaints, just as I'm sure they version rocks, but that wasn't the orig n Canada don't know about it, all kinds of stuff. Down south, we have a lot have theirs. Overall, we are working with inal — it was a country guy and they piss they've gotten a chance to go of folk artists that really inspire us. people we like. stole off of each other. Borrowed from p there. I just saw something on Von Franco, just Mary: We know everybody on a first name each other. ', have you been to Alabama? a little while ago. He was on the cover basis. Rick: You listen to any ... you listen to Chuck e really good BBQ in Alabama. of an air brush magazine. I like that kind Rick: We still got to argue with them over Berry talk and he said he always listened to had BBQ in Tennessee, of outsider art. what songs we think should be singles, blah, hillbilly radio. Rick: And I find that stuff to be sort of folk blah, blah. Money. Stuff like that. But that's Or Ray Charles. art too, it's just a different cultural mix. inevitable. You'd do that with any label. Rick: And that's where he got a lot of his It's just a different medium, you know, Independent, too. melodies from, you know. Ray Charles wrote s, you are starting to get into like hot rods ... You were talking about art being an Modern Sounds in Country and Western s beef and not pork. Rick: Totally. Don't anybody ever let anybody influence on you guys as well. I read a Music. That's a landmark record, man. >, it's pork. Memphis is tell you anything different either. Those fine review [which] I thought was an unfair I'd read about it but I'd never managed )his, Arkansas, Tennessee. art fuckers. Fuck those guys. tag. The guy said you were something to see it. . That's the BBQ belt there. That Robert Williams has got his tongue like southern-fried Cramps and I thought Rick: But that's what rock and roll is. It's a e Bible belt, that's a little in his cheek. Not to say that what he's that was more indicative of the guy not bastard child. There's nothing pure about it. ^Chris, he brought us BBQ. doing isn't fine art, but he's got more of knowing his musical history. That's why when I start to hear people talk tey Mary, there's BBQ. a sense of humour about it. Rick: I think everything is kind of an influ about it, like it's some virgin thing, that's Well don't get too excited 'cause I didn't Rick: Well, there's irony in it. And it's kind of ence on us, because, like I was saying, where total bullshit. have a lot of time, and I cheated. I did it where we're coming from too. We're sort of we live is a big influence on us. A lot of our I was really happy with it. I liked how on a gas grill and it was raining, so I did born of the same sort of exploitation car cul songs are just kind of written about things 'Dance with Me' did that weird. Middle n't have time to be standing outside. ture, all that kind of stuff — but in more of a we do, things we see, people we know, Eastern belly dancing thing. The first time Rick: Oh, don't worry about it. southern thing instead of a California one. where we live. I heard it, I was like, 'How the hell did Chris* Hey, most people pressure cook it Yeah, I think that a lot of people up here Is there a surfing scene? they do that?' Because, [there were] two anyway. ^^^ aren't familiar with white trash culture. Rick: In North Carolina, there's very good surf very distinct styles, but you guys seam Mary: What are you all doing? Oh, sam They might get white trash confused there. It's the best on the east coast. You get lessly put the two of them together... pling BBQ with rednecks. these huge breakers. But out there, 'specially Rick: He gets it! Chris: Are you bringing Skookum burgers? Rick: That's true. That happens all over the during hurricane season, it's really good surf. Mary: Yeah, definitely. I'd say you win. I don't know what that is. I didn't have a place. But see, there's white trash every As far as musical influences go, a lot of Well, I'm white trash and proud of it. recipe for Carolina-style 'slaw. where. Rednecks you can identify with a cer people get kind of pissed off when My friend in Nashville was playing Chris: Vinegar and mustard 'slaw is your tain region, like the south. But you know, somebody changes from record to some dates in Austin and Houston. basic. redneck came from when you worked on a record, but at the same time, if you don't Me and my brother rode our motorcy The main reason I really wanted to come tractor all day or in the field. You just had a kind of progress and grow ... cles from Toronto down to Nashville, and meet you is 'cause I figured anybody red neck 'cause you're sunburned. But you Rick: You stagnate. caught him there, and then went to that would commission a chair like [on know, some people just don't tend to have a Well, if you don't stagnate you could still Austin for Aquafest and then did a your CD cover] and have Von Franco air sense of humour, so they kind of miss the be putting out good stuff but somebody side trip to Houston. Somebody said brush it, is gotta be somebody that I'll whole point. is going to come and tell you, 'Nah, it's to him, 'Can I talk about this in front have something to talk to about. [The album title] Plastic Seat Sweat the same as last time.' of them guys over there? And he said, Rick Bu need a Lazyboy. reminded me of when I was a kid, Rick: Yeah, but I'll tell you what. I think you 'Oh, yeah, don't worry about them, I never wanted a Lazyboy before, but I because my mom came over from Italy kinda got to grow as an artist or you lose they're good southern boys. It's saw the picture in the CD booklet and it's and in Italian culture, it's a big thing to interest. You gotta keep posing problems for OK.' And I pulled him aside like, 'Holy fuck! What can I throw away have two kitchens and two livingrooms. yourself in the sense that I want to do this later and said, 'Warner, to make room for a chair like that?' What My grandmother had the livingroom now, or I want to try this and I may not quite what the fuck you telling made you guys wanna do that? that you didn't use. know how to do this, so I need to learn. them we're southern Rick I was tired. We got off the road and I Rick: Well, my grandmother's was like that I think it's like a logical progression for boys for? I'm from go, man. Well, it goes way back to when I too. I remember that a lot of my friends' par you guys 'cause you got a lot of that Canada, dammit.' was a kid and my Dad had a Lazyboy reclin- ents didn't have plastic on the sofa and stuff. kind of funky, white boy kind of stuff. I And he goes, 'You er... it had an eight-track stereo in it. And it But we did have a whole naugahide den set, keep reading in the paper that it's about all's from southern was a Lear Jet eight-track and you had to see. Where we're from, the den is where the the voice and cultural appropriation. Ontario, ain't ya?' |Hg it [and] push a button on the side. It TV was and that's where you basically hung Rick: It's what people want to hear. Rick: That's right. ^b^_ up and it had two stereo speakers out. And then there's the livingroom, which [With] Muscle Shoals and Steve Cropper, Southern Canada. ^Bnd your head. And that was our stereo, you never even went into unless there was [you have] white boys playing like black I'm a true southern rw>. That was what I listened to a lot of some sort of formal happening at the house. ; in producing and stuff like that er. So I remember WoAfoTs 16 december 1997 SwiiltewC Richard Petty's car with that big huge — I don't know why their editors give them had a violin, I played cello for a long time. I was thinking that maybe your musicds wing on it in the '70s and stuff like that. space in magazines that are nationally pub but I can't play violin all that well, so I've got a little more adult-oriented, 'cause stfWy Rick: I know. The Richard Petty Museum is lished, because they obviously don't know to hold it between my legs like a cello. second song isn't about how misera!" in Randalman, North Carolina, which is less anything about music. They are just more Rick: It's really fun watching her play it life is. than an hour from where we live. I had a about fashion than about music. though, man. Rick: The kids don't get it! great story about an old friend of ours I used to have a subscription to Mary: So it didn't sound quite as good. Mary Really young kids like our musi-4 [who] used to live in a cabin with about Rolling Stone, but I gave it up years Anyway, I got it goin' on and had the disco Rick: The scary thing is that n eight other people — sort of a hippie thing. ago 'cause I don't need to hear about string thing going, and then I realized from 15-18 don't know what r And Richard Petty came by one day and he what big rock radio is beating you to afterwards ... roll is. Somebody asked me the_ said, 'You all are gonna have to ... you all death with. That you were playing the theme from day, 'You guys are doing rock^j are gonna have to move.' They asked him Rick: And you can't get space in those big S.W.A.T. do you think the kids get it?' Anc/ why and he said, 'Well, you guys have got magazines anymore unless you're pushing so Mary: Catchy for a reason. ized it isn't for kids, or at least^ about two acres of pot growing out there many units a week. It's not even based on art Well how's about maybe doing a cover everybody. We get a real diversity**! and it can't be on my property' But he was anymore. Our music is just based on sales. of Shaft on a B-side or as a buried track? audience. The older c n't mean about it or anything. He didn't call Sales, sales, sales. But, what the hell. Mary: Actually, Dave and I can play it. Dave, back, the younger ones are ucC the cops, he just came out and said you Mary: Their own sounds even changed over the drummer, and I used to play in cover and even some kids with thej; guys are going to have to move. I thought again this year. I think we heard through the bands 10, 12 years ago. That was one of noses and stuff com^^it anj thatwas pretty cool. grapevine that they won't review our record. our staples for when the guitar player broke good time. ^""""V Jj Well, it's kind of the whole live and let What? a string. Chris: What's our average on live sort of thing. You guys put that Mary: And that they're primarily focusing Do you get down to Charlotte much? buttons for this tour? stock car track on the record the last with the industry's ... Mary: Oh, yeah. Rick: About half and half. time around — was that like the big oval Rick: With the big sellers. Do you go to Macdonalds Cafeteria? What do you guys do? Puts at Charlotte? Mary: You know, right now they are only Mary: What? detector at the door? Rick: No, no, no. That's dirt track. I've got focusing on records that are going to sell a There's a place called Macdonalds, it's Rick: No, no, we have 'Dance for Mji to admit I took it off a dirt track, an old million or more. like a meat +3s joint. Chris: They come up and belly^"^ record I found at a thrift store. You can Rick: For reviews and things like that. But Mary: That is the, like, the soul food place show it off. <^tffl hear the scratches in it. No dirt tracks start then, everybody can bring in their little pet down there. So you're reaching out to the younger up 'til April, at the earliest. And not only indie band to give it some sort of credibility. Rick: No, we never went to Macdonalds. audience? that, but you've gotta drive quite a ways Mary: Spin is a piece of shit. I don't care Where we go is like a meet +3. Rick: We're trying, we're 'ryrpfrj^ to get to them because most every about that. Mary: Isn't that the place beside the That's commendablptq^^^Afl body's into the NASCAR thing and the At least they reviewed Emmet Miller. Milestone? Rick: But I like that because nowadays, Sportsman's classes and all that kind of That CD that came out, Emmet Miller Rick: No, I don't think so. There is a soul music is segregated. I'd like to see our music stuff. 'Cause there's so much money in and his Georgia Crackers. And every food joint down the road from the reach out to more people. I saw a Hispanic stock car racing. body said that he was a big influence Milestone. But it's in an old 7-11. I can't guy in the front row in Calgary and he wa*, There's too much money and they're tak on Hank Williams. He did 'Love Sick remember the name of that, but the place so into it and he came up to me later and ing all the fun out of it. Blues' and he used to perform in Black where we always go ... where's the place we said, 'How do you know Santo?' I told him Rick: They're painting cars green. Nobody Face. His original recordings with the always went? Remember we went there at that I grew up with a lot of Hispanics and used to paint their car green, 'cause that was Georgia Crackers was actually the least twice, at least four times a week. have a lot of respect for Santo as a wrestler bad luck on a race track. Dorsey Brothers. You make reference to 'meat + 3s' in and as a role model. Oh. I didn't know that. Rick: Right. 'Banana Puddin'.' Can you tell us what Do you wear masks for that song? Rick: But if Skoal will pay you a million and a. You know, 'cause everybody used to that is? Rick: No, we usually get someone from the half dollars, sure, I'll paint my car green. play with everybody else, and this stuff's Rick: 'Meat + 3s:' basically you get your audience who looks like they could channel I'd paint my ass green and run around got this tin pan alley vaudeville kind of choice of meat — beef, pork or chicken — the spirit of Santo that night. And lately, naked. vibe with horns and stuff like that, but and three sides/vegetables. Sometimes since we have two masks, we have chal Rick: Put the old racing stripe right up the what I've read about him is that he had dessert will be a side, like banana pudding, lenges — a Santo face off. old ass there. a huge influence on Jimmy Rogers and lima beans or fried apples or cabbage. Chris: Duelling Santos! OK, what do you want? Hank Williams. Do you make cornbread? A Santo grudge match! Rick: What's that? Rick: Sounds like it's got a little jug band in it Mary: I try to be good to my man, and then Rick: It can get wild. The other day, q What do you want in this inter too. [I] fuck it all up and get frustrated. picked up the other guy over his heSoTjj view? As far as the song 'Plastic Seat Sweat' Rick: I like my cornbread a little sweet. Chris: Mic stands flying! Rick: Oh, this is fine. goes, I was catching echoes of, I don't Chris: You need one of them little boxes of Rick: It's a public spectacle! That's^ That you don't usually know if it was Starsky & Hutch or Jiffy Cornbread Mix. we're into. Nothing's too good for u?fl get to [talk about]. Kojak, or ... Rick: You got grits up here? ing's too good for our audience! Rick: We've already got Rick: Everything is in that damn thing. No. Anything you want to add? ^ it. Like, just what you There is one riff in it. Rick: You can't get cornmeal up here? Rick: We're gonna be in a movie real s3 said about'Dance for Mary: Oh. It's Shaft. You can get the real coarse stuff. Why is Know What You Did Last Summerly Me' is more than OK. Shaft, because... it that everything that tastes good is bad exploitation slasher m any critic has ever Mary: No, no no, it's not Shaft. What's the for you? band playing in a bar at the beginning: .* fucking gotten out one [hums a tune]... Rick: Sugar and lard, man, what can I tell Dan: How'd that come about? of it. I'm serious, Rick: Oh! S.W.A.T. ya? You ever had a crispy cream doughnut? Rick: The producer liked u man. To me, most Mary: S.W.A.T. Actually, I didn't realize I had That is the quintessential sugar and lard us. Pick up the record and strike"! rock and roll critics done that until way after the fact. 'Cause I experience. rock 'n' roll. Fun music!' 17 um&umm John: We possess possibly the greatest ... In your new CD [Let Us Play], you have a because it's quite interchangeable You can do a dif Matt: We don't 'possess' ... whole page of assorted charities and dif ferent show quite easily by Julie Colero John: Kid Koala is signed to the label. We came ferent activist groups that you support. Do Matt: It's the kind of show that hasn't been done Julie: Who are you and what do you do? up to Canada quite a way back now and we djed you support them with any funds, or do before, with all the new gear and software, with Jonathan More: We ore Coldcut, and we do as in Montreal at this massive rave. We were in an you do any benefit shows for them? no rehearsal at all. So it's been a bit rough in much as possible. What do we do? We just play, alternative room, layed some of the Ninja stuff on Matt We've done our share of charity shows over the places, but I think that it keeps us interested in it, as basically, with lots of toys. Both Matt [Black] and I them and they liked it. We came back again, met years They do tend to be very badly organized ... started as djs — Matt, when he was at school, and Kid, and he gave us his tape, Scratchhappyland I John: A nightmare ... John: People realize that it's not like just playing me, a few years later when I was at art college. went to see him play with Frog-something or other, Matt: But we have done quite a bit We've donat records. There's enough people out there who just Djing, for quite a long time, was a hobby — a bit I can't remember the name of his band ... ed bits of money to various people [The informa play records for us to be allowed to move on and of an earner and we hod day-jobs. I was a teacher, Matt: Bullfrog tion is] there as contacts, as information. try something completely different It has gone over Matt was a computer programmer. We met in a Do you do a lot of work remixing other John: We believe in the notice board. We have quite a few people's heads and it's quite funny to record shop and decided to go professional We people's work as well? space and it's good to put up a notice board see that Fair enough, as we're playing our own took it from two turntables to four turntables ond John: We have done, yeah Recently, really, for with lots of shit on it, information for people to music, so if they're not into that or don't know then we added lots and lots of toys Now we do a the last 18 months, we've concentrated on our own deal with in whatever way that they want. That's about it, it's all new. And now we're doing the visu lol off of the laptop, using software lhat we've material. At the end of the day, that's better for us. why there's so much stuff on there. A lot of it was als, so it's difficult to watch and dance. At shows, developed with Hex, who we met about seven We love doing remixes. We've done quite a lot in [put] together by Bongo, who we worked with one minute the floor will be rocking and then ... years ago. the past. We've turned down quite a few as well, on the track 'Pan Opticon,' which features lots of There was a wonderful moment when we did We set up Ninja Tune in 1991 as a kind of Japan, we had two screens, on each side of the alternative label that we could use to experiment, audience I looked down and the audience was do research and put out our findings. The problem split down the middle, with each side staring at the with a major label is that they try and polish what screen and rocking a bit. they get They'll pick up somebody from an under About your vocalists: do you pick them or ground scene and they try to manipulate them so do they pick you? that they have a certain amount of underground- John: A bit of both, really. With Jello Biafra, who's ness and a certain amount of overgroundness and on 'Every Prison A Home' quite often, that just doesn't work. It certainly didn't Matt: 'Every Home A Prison ' work for Matt and I. We weren't into that way of John: I do [that] every time! We should have called trying to be creative, i.e. a part of a committee of it that, much simpler ... We'd used some of his stuff people who all had their input. The best way to get in Journeys by DJs, from a vocal poetry album that those ideas across to people was to do it ourselves he did We used to mix quite a lot of that — still do, and to tell other people to do it themselves actually — on the radio show that we do Matt and Matt: We have an organization now with a lot of I have always been into records like that, that you different people working with us and decisions that can mix with other beats so that you can layer it up we make come out of that. Because Ninja Tune is probably more than we've actually done. There's samples from real live action. [The video] fea and make it more interesting It helps to get your motivated more by the music than by the money, no point doing stuff that you don't want to do. tures footage of real live demonstrations that she point across and to involve listeners It puts some that makes it a bit of a healthier environment. We've turned down Duran Duran and the Rolling sampled. content into this sort of music, as it quite often does What kind of power do you ultimately Stones, which is quite amusing. Matt: It's excellent because that kind of stuff does n't feature content It's more about itself, about how wield at Ninja Tune? Who is the best person you've worked n't really get shown on TV loud it is, how heavy it is, how wonderfully out there John: Top. Top power. Friendly power. We don't with? John: It's just pure action footage, not featuring and abstract it is. We thought it was good to do want to be the power merchants. I don't want to John: When you do a remix, you very rarely any of the artists involved in the music something with content. So I phoned him up after be a statue, I want to be the plinth. When they top work with the person involved in the original piece Matt: Our CD-ROM comes with eight videos, and that, and that was it We sent him a backing track, ple statues, they usually reuse the plinth. We want I'm quite pleased, as they hardly feature us at all. he freestyled some poetry over top of that, sent it people with us that are motivated, lhat understand But have you had positive feedback? Except in the cartoon form, in 'Beats & Pieces.' back to us, we fed it into the computer and used and are willing to get up and get on and do it, John: Yeah, yeah. With Elvis Costello, for exam Is Ninja Tune constantly touring? Playtime, which is on the CD-ROM, to make the which is why we work with a lot of different people. ple; we did a remix for him of 'Little Atoms' and John: With an interchanging roster of artists, Ninja backing track for it. So we've actually given away There's Strictly Kev, who's port of the DJ Food crew, that was really good. Basically, he said it was up to Tune plays pretty much all over the world now. This the machinery lhat we used to make the backing who djs with PC and does the artwork for Ninja us what we wanted to do and he didn't really want tour we've played UK dates, we've done Japan, track for that track. That track is a demonstration of Tune. We have a lot of people like that who we his voice in there. We wanted to have his voice in we've done the East Coast .. East Coast? Yeah, what you could actually do with that software pack work with, a whole group at Ninja Tune. All the there, we really fucked it up. He was pleased with 'cause we're doing the West Coast now, right? We're age. With Salena Saliva, she appeared at Stealth in artists record their material themselves; we may re that. He was really into the idea of somebody turn going off to Europe. This is our fourth visit, building up London, doing some poetry I was walking through, sequence it on th% album in a different order, but ing his voice, treating it, fucking it up. It was a very steadily. Each time there's different acts involved, to do my set, and I stopped to listen to her because that's about as much that our input is. We want to different way of approaching things. [In] most which is what keeps it fresh for people. This is the first she was absolutely brilliant. I could hear her on this do our shit and we want to deal with artists that remixes, people throw the voice away and put in time that we've come wilh Hex and with a different track we had done, so we got her, and that's are interested in the same thing; they do their shit, brand new backing tracks, quite often an invention show, really. Before, it was more turntable-based and 'Noah's Toilet '• they bring it to us, we put it out and do our best to of their own, maybe with one or two sounds from we hadn't had the visuals with us. This time it's more get it across to people. the original piece. That was a different thing; to based on the digital, on the laptop. We use turntables Check out Coldcut's website at: What Canadian talent do you possess at take the vocal track and fuck that, keep that, and as well, but mainly as a device to enable us to escape http://www.obsolete.com/pipe/ and watch out for the throw the backing track away. from one program and load another. It's good, a Ninja Tune tour coming your way soon ... - 0aragE8tiock q| four action-packed days at the end of October, the (regularly sleepy) lit What really blew my mind during The Makers fuzz guitar. THE VOLCANOS erupted on deck tle hollow known as Bellingham, Washington played host to 24 of the set was original guitarist Tim Maker coming on next. This instrumental combo from Michigan world's top-notch Ambassadors of Trash in what some have called the slage, troding (guitar) licks with Jamie Maker on did its best to get my feet moving, with only half "Train Kept A-Rollin"! Eeyowl [SL] hearted results ... that was until the Mod-pop Garage Rock Summit or Grand-Daddy of all Garage Gatherings. We have explosion known as THE INSOMNIACS took chronicled each day's events in all their unbelievable glory. Read on ... ^aturdau, Boocmbcr )Bt :t; the floor. This paisley-garbed trio from NJ Donned a suit for fhe lounge/jazz portion of inspired many to Boogaloo, Frug and Shimmy J by JBrucc Bunn and ;5can Ham Saturday evening. MADAME X performed sul with delight. [BD] " photos b|j Hflaru fiosick try torch songs, including a version of Bill By Sunday, I was so sick with the flu I could * \ff X Haley's "13 Women" (done as "13 Men," barely stand to be in the place. However, The natch). The CROWN ROYALS impressed with Insomniacs definitely hod me ignoring my illness thurBdau, (October >oth t Finally, THE DRAGS hit the stage (with the sterling musicianship. Their material might be and shakin' to their way cool buzz-pop. If you After a somewhat tension filled ride we arrived at drummer from Scared Of Chaka filling in) initially mistaken as the type of crap spewed own a scooter, trade in all your Oasis records Rock'n'Roll Mecca. The first thing I noticed was and laid waste to the crowd with their patented weekly by House of B/ues-inspired Fern Bar for Insomniacs records - NOW! [SL] the atmosphere inside The 3-B Tavern. Il didn't lo-fi rumble. Lorca Drag hit all the right notes bonds, but these guys play with actual passion feel, look or sound "Sold Oul," but instead felt (and screams!) and C J. Drag throttled the neck and soul. Astounding! [SL] comfortable and easy-going Portland, Oregon's of his guitar like that of a rotten landlord. They THE QUADRAJETS from Alabama turned SCREAMIN' FURYS were on stage belting oul played material from both Estrus LPs as well as "I in fhe most explosive performance of the night. the Alarm Clocks' nugget "No Reason To Like To Die" and covers of "Real Cool Time" They started with AC/DC's "Whole Lotta Rosie" Complain " I found no reason to complain either: (The Stooges) ond (surprisingly) "Livin' After and ended with total obliteration of all their decent band, good chops [BD] They were cool Midnight" (Judas Priest) [BD] instruments SUGAR SHACK proved to be the punk rock on the Heartbreakers' tip Halfway through The Drags set, my brain highlight of the evening. Twin guitar growl! How (Thunders, not Petty, ya dumbass!). They actu started liquefying and running out my ears. I could THE MONO MEN even think of going ally did cover "I Wanna Be Loved" too. [SL] don't think standing in front of the bass cab on after that powerhouse? They didn't quite Then along came BLACKJACK Imagine, if helped much but they were so riveting have it — I went outside bwl returned you will, a scrawny Glenn Danzig fronting a — what could I do? [SL] just in time for Sweden's unsung poor man's rock band like early Supersuckers, heroes of ragnarok 'n' roll, THE and you've gol Blackjack. [BD] They were OK. I jfndau, October iist * NOMADS. Age notwith got off on them more lhan most of the other peo THE VON ZIPPERS were standing, they turned in an ple there, I think — mainly because he's a big quick to shake us out of impressive set, particularly Misfits fan {Blackjack are sort of like near-bla Leiderhosen, as the square the material from their Cold tant Misfits wannabes. Not that they'd really head stampers straight outta Hard Facts Of Life LP [BD] THE UNTAMED YOUTH began by crown admit it). [SL] Calgary, Alberta had me I came down with the flu ing bassist Mace "King Of Men," then leapt into >n Saturday and was doubly THE FELLS, from Tuscon, Arizona, reminiscing over the loss of The Coastliners' "I'll Be Gone" with reckless pissed off when I had to miss impressed me with their no-frills, straighl-up rawk The Mummies [BD] abandon. Each member got a turn in the spot Charlton Heston kick mutant ass 'n' raunch — especially their bassist, who dis Those ant-head MANTS were light with Mace on "Beer Bust Blues Pt.2" and The Omega Man. Highlights of played the classic "I've got ants in my pants" cool, though they nearly made "Mailbox Jamboree;" organist Steve Roger on the night included The Mono Men (was I style of playing for the duration of their set. [BD] vomit when I envisioned the "mating with "Dance Sammy Dance," drummer Jet Trueblood the only person who enjoyed them?) and The I dug The Fells (especially when they did a female human" that they kept threatening to per celebrated his birthday with gifts of a Pabst Blue Nomads. [SL] Saints cover), but I spent most of their set stand form. They made up for this by performing, Ribbon-shaped cake and an armload of Sonics ing near the bar drinking and talking lo other instead, a rendition of The Milkshakes' "Red and Waiters records; while ace guitarist Derek record geeks. I liked the SPLASH FOUR, espe Monkey " I was thrilled to finally get to see The Dickerson interjected humour at every turn, cially the singer's Avengers t-shirt (the punk Von Zippers — including a guest appearance by including a pseudo-ode/sendup of former rock band, not the TV show, ya dumbass!) and Tom Bagley, donating an organ for "Mighty Red Mummy/Phantom Surfer Trent Ruane [BD]. the fact that they do a song about legendary Baron." [SL] I love "I'm More Punk Than You," especially weirdo British record producer Joe Meek THE GALAXY TRIO s spaghetti western surf the bit about owning "96 Billy Childish poet ("Telstar Man"). [SL] sounds kept many ears attentive throughout their ry books." Other essentials The Youth touched Unfortunately, these Parisian punkers set. GASOLINE set the joint ablaze with the help on during their set: The Collins Kids, Sonny seemed to suffer from a bit of jet lag (not ta men of their maniacal guitar player, who, between Burgess and the Pacers and The tion a faulty bass amp) a few songs info their bouts of hair-combing and Townshend-style Shadows of Knight [SL] set, but took il in stride, alleviating the uncom posing, would shout, "This crowd is very good Portland, Oregon's SATAN'S PILGRIMS fortable lull by announcing that all Splash Four crowd ... I want to marry you!" This Japanese trio had the unenviable task of closing out the merchandise would be free tonight — this gar was a dynamo of hyperactive rock 'n' roll. When 'Shock, but succeeded in spades. For the major nered more than a few amusing retorts from the the LORD HIGH FIXERS broke into The ity of their instro I was front and centre, a veri crowd. After that, it was back to the slash and Morlocks "One-Way Ticket," I was grinning table dancin' fool. The surfin' sounds carried me burn and they finished with kicks in style. Just in from ear to ear and remained so for the entire Sundau, Tloocmbcr 2nd :* away to another dimension, they are THAT time too cuz THE MAD 3 dropped a helluva set. Seeing (the real) TIM KERR flail around the Interesting to see MAN OR ASTRO-MAN? go good. [BD] Even though Satan's Pilgrims were bomb on us as we rejoiced in a festival of instro- stage (in his '40s!) was simply amazing: sonic on first and speed through their trademark space trimmed down to two six-string guitars (from the fuzz from these Tokyo madmen for the next 40 and intense voodoo blues punk. Can THE MAK rock in just over 40 minutes. They kept visuals to usual three), they still delivered. By this point I minutes. Even the classic Kinks' cut "I Need ERS ever NOT have a great show? The "Masters a minimum and no Tesla Coil, but Coco did set was surfin' a river of snot, so I had pretty much You" got the thick-as pea-soup guitar treatment of Smash" did their ferocious garage P.U.N.K. — his computer on fire so that was a plus. If THE had it [SL]. • as they sweat sauna-style through their black led by vocalist Mike Maker who prowled the GIMMICKS had had some gimmicks to spruce leather duds. Banzai! [BD] They were so boss! stage like a coged tiger while Jay Maker pound up their largely forgettable set, I would have ... After the usual good-byes and last-minute Mix one part Eddie Cochran with one part ed the primitive beat again and again. Jamie and paid more attention. To their credit they did do a record purchases it was time to go. We praised Davie Allen A The Arrows, smother with Don howled ond wailed while we twisted and cover of We The People's "You Burn Me Up Estrus and the 3-B Tavern for all the good times. leather and tattoos, plug it in, and voila! [SL] shook to their savage sounds. [BD] And Down," which benefitted from some greal Cheers, gang! If: 20 december 1997 ew directors have cre niggers," Fassbinder was to tight, highly-claustropho ated an oeuvre with the the ... well ... bic, arch, heavily-stylized F scope that Rainer Fassbinder's paranoid, chamber melodramas and Werner Fassbinder did claustrophobic, manic and black comedies, to sprawling, Relatively few directors (in the autobiographical role in his painful, allegorical, historical modern era, at least) have own segment for the omnibus examinations. made as many films as he film Germany in Autumn The Best Books: I did. No director that I can prompted Thomas Elsaesser Antonin Artaud, Van Gogh: think of made/has made as to write that the performance Suicide through Society 2. many feature films in as little evoked a "Jew for the 1970s" Arthur Schopenhauer, The time as Fassbinder did (39 in within Germany's near-mar World as Will and Represen 13 years!). Many directors tial law conditions during the tation 3. Louis-Ferdinand have identified with the "rock- latter part of that decade. Celine, Journey to the End of n-roll lifestyle," but few have Fassbinder's early links with Night 4. Sigmund Freud, lived it to the hilt the way the Baader-Meinhof group Moses the Man 5. Alfred Fassbinder did. and his continued belief in Dbblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz "THE SPREADING CANCER — V/A-Cinema Beer Nuts THAT'S THE WHOLE THING" HR623-video/cd VOODOO CLOW SKULLS • IGNITE • LESS THAN JAKE MUSTARD PLUG • THE MARSHES • VANDALS QUEERS • LINK 80 - MxPx - ASSORTED JELLY BEANS HORACE PINKER • SHADES APART • HI-STANDARD MILLENCOLIN • LUNACHICKS • NOBODYS GOOBER PATROL • STRIFE • A.F.I. 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Personally Having once been involved in selected by Michael Dog, several Planet Dog projects, founder of Planet Dog these three gentlemen add an Records, Toby has enjoyed basslines earthy flavour to otherwise underground cult status with by dj noah ([email protected]) mechanical techno sounds, his previous releases Maya and do so without sounding and Last Train to Lhasa Now, like every other Goa act out with "Drunk as a Monk," the there. Its invigorating, ethni first single from his new album housey. "Sleeping Solus" is, cally-edged rhythms will trans Big Men Cry, Toby will un dare I say, a beautiful piece port you to an enchanting vil doubtedly become a much that lifts one's spirits with its lage, high atop an Asian sought after live act. This sin irs, up, on the single that masterfully com release, "tape yr tv" (Bug Girl whimsical keyboards and bub mountain. gle is very complex, incorpo homefront are NUMB bines industrial and techno in Sound), a refreshing look at bly percussion. I would think rating traditional instruments and PELLUCID The a sonic onslaught. The the use of electronic equip It is not uncommon for art F that Phil is mostly responsible and sounds from various cul latest offering from Numb Phaedra remix is a pounding ment in creating music. Arlo ists to borrow various styles for this trock, as anyone who tures along with modern elec (Don Gordon and David techno mix with only the oc uses non-conventional sounds and sounds, while remaining has heard his Off and Gone tronic equipment Passionate Collings) is the single "Blind" casional time-stretched vocal in this recording, like tel completely unique. They are material could attest to. rhythms enveloped in spiritual (Metropolis) from the recent that likens it to the original. ephones, toasters, tin cans, called innovators and crea harmony have just a hint of full length release Blood Me And from Pellucid (Arlo and the TV (hence the title?), SUPERSONIC is Slapper tors. They are the ones who levitation "Drunk As A Monk" ridian. This is an explosive Renwick) comes his first 12" and manages to entrance the Dave and Darren Pickles, and create what we label, such as got its title from two sounds listener with his creative skills their recent album, Wall to drum V bass and house. in the song itself. Toby thought Watch for the album Motor Wall Moustache (China One such enigma is BUGS that one of the samples of Joy, due out in the next Records), is a likely candidate from San Francisco. David sounded like the words, month or two for album of the year I am Biegel is a studio genius and "Where's my lager?" and that Also out of Vancouver is not a fan of breakbeat, but Andrew Jervis has djed the another one sounded like the newest offering from those these guys manage to inject world over for years. For their banging on a table Toby "what will they think of next" new life into a tired sound. first full-length release, Infinite could just see these Tibetan tek-heads, DOWNLOAD "Jim'll fix it" is a smokin' cut Syndrome (Ubiquity), they monks sitting around a Ex Skinny Puppy member that could be 808 State enlisted the help of three guest wooden table, banging on it cEvin Key, local jack-of-all- meets Altern 8, while vocalists, Terra Deva, saying, "Where's my lager?" trades Phil Western, and stu "Spacemaker Deluxe" ex Christiane, and Storm Large. hence the appropriateness of dio guru Anthony Valcic are pands on what The Chemi The beats are wicked and the title. (Speaking of Michael the three wise men that have cal Brothers have done for wild — some hip-hop, some Dog, he will be playing at come up with /// (Nettwerk) techno. Don't let this one get drum 'n' bass — and the vo Mars on Wednesday, Decem These guys are as unpredict awayl cals are moody, ranging from ber 3rd.) able as the lottery Their pre Blending live percussion peaceful and ethereal to an vious offerinqs have been with modern techno, the trio gry and biting. I hope you have a happy relatively dark experiments in that is MEDICINE DRUM Toby Marks, sole member holiday season, spent with techno, but this album is up has released Supernature of BANCO de GAIA, has people you care about and beat, happy, and surprisingly (91 1 Entertainment), a Goa been writing "earth music" for filled with music.• three songs on the disc, and the lullabies, all of ther Fell. two longer ones show off the pret robo-indies and Up tier, more melodic side of the labelbrolhers Satisfact do band However, just because the same thing, but wilh less something is pretty doesn't mean lethargy. Goodnight!" that it's sliallow or harmless Ac (Up, PO Box 21328, Seattle, tivism and art aren't mutually ex WA, 981 1 1) clusive Pay attention lo Submis "What? Is it morning al sion Hold, they deserve it1" ready? I can see a sort of pink (Farmhouse Records, 448 Madi and blue dawn being born on son Drive, San Jose, CA, 95123/ Submission Hold, PO Box that's no sunrise, that's the 2 1533, 1 850 Commercial Drive, cover art from some iSCORDER regretfully in The Invisible Claire speaks obout the music of the future — Vancouver, BC, V5N 4A0) CORNELIUS record. Hmmm. forms its readers thai ihe "Is this thing on? whoah "You know, shortly before Fluffy, pink, gentle — wait a D usual writer of this col Sorry this machine freaks me brainwaves instead of Barbara went strange, she spent 151, Japan) second, this music isn't fluffy, umn, Barbara Andersen, is un out Heh Okay So you want me soundwaves. That must be sometime in Japan I don't think "I've always had a bit of a pink, or gentle! In fact, "Mexi able to perform her duties this to talk about records now? Hmm what's going on here Maybe the two incidents are related; thing for fairies. Seeing as can Table Service" is the monlh. She is suffering from a What records have I heard re the) •enhn i pare not deeply, anyway It could be how they operate below the temporary — but nonetheless se cently ... hmm well, now that digm, however, thai possible, however, lhat the cul sight of humans, one can't help punk song on the menu today. rious — form ofdelerium brought you ask, not a whole heck of a cuse for being boring I guess ture-shock loosened her few re but compare them to my invis I wonder what the B-side will on by eating too much mouldy lot Nothing new, I mean Lots of it's also kind of ridiculous that maining screws. Well, proof that ible self. I'll be darned if ELF sound like? Oh no. No ... rye bread and undercooked ve 23 Skidoo, oh, and I found some artists such as these play off Mr. Big, bis, and The POWER isn't a chorus of Wee please, no. Please stop that gan cake She is, appropriately, old recordings of Finnish Christ the idea of being futuristic de Beatles aren't the only foreign Folk struggling valiantly to taking a small sabbatical and has mas carols at the University Wom spite the fact that Joe acts to catch Japanese attention your ridiculous blues-rock pos ceded the task to her good — en's Club book sale ..but os for Szmalitszynik was doing the is this lovely little split number ments And what a lot of in turing. Please? .... Mom! Make albeit elusive — friend (The Invis those little records, the 7" ones, same thing back in 1929 from the Tokyo label 100 Gui struments there are: bass, gui ible! Claire, whose report on the it's been a dry season indeed with his electric can-opener tar Mania Now, the record is tar, drums, keyboards, (Miga Records, PO Box 7" situation was caught on "Sometimes vinyl just isn't the and mono headphones." called Stolen Ecslacy 45 Chap rainstick, violin, saxophone, 20216, West Village Station, dictaphone during the month of right formal, you know? Like with (soundlab@culturalchemy com) ter Six because it is — you flute, accordion, and moog New York, NY, 10014)*** November really droney, empty, ambient "Me, I put no faith in the idea guessed On the Winter Hawk EP, odd stuff that puts you to sleep Fall that technology can save human ,Sofn , So, *, art pop is the inevitable result ing asleep with the turntable on ity from itself At best, it detaches get TULLYCRAFT doing "She's of the collision of natural and is pretty annoying Unless it has us from responsibility, at worst, it Got the Beat" and Newcastle's fo, an automatic stop function, which allows us to exploit and control darlings AVOCADO BABY do (Kindercore, PO Box 46 1, Ath mine doesn't, it'll keep turning all one another even more efficiently ing a couple of numbers named, ens, GA, 30603) nighl long and you'll never know Knowing, as they must, how per respectively, "I Wanna be "DUSTER took too big a because — as I said before — sistently destructive power is to Where the Girls are" and "T-r- dose of the fuzzy pills and you're asleep For instance, I human happiness and freedom, o-u-b-l-e." Since genuinely fun wound up tripping through the bought this expensive limited edi maybe some of those SUBMIS and original indie pop is as dif cosmic melee Song titles on the tion 7" from SOUNDLAB which SION HOLD people have enter ficult to find as okonomiyaki in Transmission, Flux 7" prove it: describes itself as "Live Acoustyk, tained a similar notion Anyway, Vancouver, my lastebuds are "Orbitron," "Fuzz and Timbre," Intergalactic Fluga Concrete Au their new 7" is called Flag + satisfied with this morsel." (100 "My Friends Are Cosmonauts," dio " It makes me think of some Flame = Fun and comes complete Guitar Mania, 1-4-4-201, "Closer lo the Speed of thing a friend of mine once said with a pack of matches There are Sasazuka, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo Sound," "Stars Will Fall" — 22 december 1997 STANISLAW LEM descend to his audience though eyes." Unable to cope with peo Peace on Earth he will explain invented terms ple — including his lover — be (Harcourt Brace) when necessary, often for bolh cause ol this peculiar psychoso ARTHUR NERSESIAN the reader and the protagonist matic/moral/spiritual disease, The Fuck-Up False expectations have mo he evades them by venturing to (Akashic) mentarily crippled all of us ot the provinces where he cannot JEAN-PAUL SARTRE some point, but few are demol help befriending some of the lo Nausea ished so catastrophically as cals Instead, the nausea comes (New Directions) Nersesian's protagonist in The forward more frequently until an JEANETTE WINTERSON Fuck-Up. Having moved from the epiphany strikes, the nausea is u Gut Symmetries American Midwest lo New York the euphoria of truth. This knowl (Knopf) some years back while living a edge enables him to accept all NDERGROUND This set of four could belong to pleasant, stable (and boring) life the dreadful horrors to come the categories of both literary fail with a woman, he decides lo calmly and with equanimity. Ex ures and obsession. However, improve his lot. This is a modern pressive, wondrous, and invigor neither category is absolutely ac Faustian tale wherein the contract ating, this first novel displays wis curate Lem's Ijon Tichy is not so made with his childhood inten dom and inspired comprehension * much a failure as he is a success tions condemns him to debauch of the hypocritical and deceitful ful bumbler and his obsession to ery and depravity. He loses his vileness of human nature. discover what happened to him home, his girlfriend, his job, The unfortunates of the fourth is entirely understandable every sense of security for a du- work ore confronted with the uni Nersesian's unnamed protago plicitous, indifferent woman. His versal traumas of life Jeanette nist is a failure due to his obses oldest New York friend falls vic Winterson's seventh novel, Cul sion for self-advancement at any tim to a virago. Briefly, he loses Symmetries, travels the routes of price Sartre's Antoine everything. The narrator is hon winning, losing and regaining Roquentin might be considered a es! and objective and quietly an love and respect, bul, as always, failure by Jeanette Winterson s nounces the moral: don't screw she refuses to make the voyage troika of misery, Alice, Jove and yourself by destroying the good eight id min.d-numbingiy JEE^SSE™ 8 4 8 G R A N V 1 L 1 E SI ((IN 1 H 1ROW A 1) H1 1 1 1 1 1'HON 1 604 6,81 87 32 Stella oren'l failures in the regular around you for immediate and/ son has her three un- conception thereof. All are ob or uncertain gain Nersesian's an English physicist ^>^lfry XMAS HOURS MON thru F 110-9 SAT 10-8 SON 128 sessed, however. language is deceptively simple; (Alice), American physicist Dreamers, bumblers and lucky indeed, it is precise, vivid, and (Jove), and his wife (Stella) ex srumblers know of no greater cham perfect The character develop plore the bizarre intermingling pion than Stanislaw Lem. It's not lhat ment of the narrator and his fel of the masculine world. Science his characters — Ijon Tichy and Pirx low victims and tormentors is in seeks to define all physical phe the Pilot, in particular — are such sightful and colourful. This is a nomena as deriving from a sin idiots they are expendable, but work of grace and style. gle principle, the Grand Unify that ihey often find answers to ing Theory, a process defined by nigh-impossible questions stum logical deliberation Fate, how bling towards them. Within ever, shifts and fades unless one Peace on Earth, Tichy returns to pays attention to one's instincts Earth with serious trouble, as he and gut reactions. The paths of faces amnesia and a callotomy the three characters cross at a (an operation sometimes per terrifying point, the nexus of formed on people with severe epi logic and emotion, which results lepsy — the severing of the cor in catastrophe While logic is es pus callosum, the bond between sential in developing processes the hemispheres of the brain). for understanding life, it can, Thus, the two sides of his body through its basest minion prag act independently, the right side, matism, be horribly brutish and which is directed by the logical, violently animal. The novel re rational left side of the brain re volves around a discussion on mains functional; but the left side, how the past affects the present and that time may not be exactly which has been long restrained, -itialis, linear when confronted by will. flowers in outrageous displays of mly togelhe These struggles are perfectly rowdy, raunchy Behaviour. only because so much of exist crafted by Winterson's powerful, Slowly, clues reveal that Tichy has ence is unsatisfactory — in Jean passionate imagery and her Paul Sartre's first novel, Nausea ability to unite seemingly dispa to the moon. The nanotechnology A young writer, Antoine rate elements into an inventive, sent there is immediately ren Roquentin, travels to a small, intelligent, and thoroughly en dered inoperable Are the lunar northern coastal, French town tc thralling work. machines a threat? If so, can do some research to escape Pari; Tichy stop them? Lem's warm and and the main causes of a bizarre Taken as a whole, these four humourous style, here at its sa I he t< "the n works show the immutability and tiric height, ensures that the which Celine expressed three permanence of bumbling and reader will forgive him, although years prior as: "When you stay obsession throughout the entirety Tichy's compatriots probably in a place long enough, people of human existence. That said, won't. Unlike many science fic and-lhings begin to dissolve, de I'm off for a drink . tion writers, Lem refuses to con cay, and putrefy before your very 23 E^mi3& joke song, coupla fast songs ond with strumming guitars, simple mefo- when bonds (or their promoters) so on I guess you can't expect dies and soft harmonies, and catehy describe their own lyrics as "ul- too much else from a punk bond lyrics and syrupy, Frenchoccented tro-intelligent," especially when Dave Tolnai vocals from Dominique Durand Who wouldn't want Apart clever — not even Let's try, HEUUM ment Life* It's got nostalgic "not stupid," which is slill respect The Magic City charm, all modern conveniences, able in this age of Oasis under (Matador) and is bright, upbeat, and per ManBREAK presents standard This album, seems like songwriter fect for entertaining '90s resentment under the guise Mary Timony woke up on the Cristy Baker of happy, hyper pop other side of the bed, the one The Liverpudlian band's first review facing the window — ond the single, "Ready or Not" (which US SECRETAIRES VOIANTES forecast calls for a warm, sunny Thermoplastique could just as aptly be called "Do COMET GAIN believed, from the soulfully aug you hooked on Digital Hardcore day Compared to the dirt and (Pinchless) You Wanna" or "Round ond mented rock group revival of 'Amiga trosh sound' is the sound darkness of The Dirt of Luck, I ask the reader to keep in mind Round" — no, wait, that's the (Wiija) 1998-2002 The confusion of the future, here and now Helium comes across as a hap that I am not a huge fan of punk name of the seventh track) is Comet Gain is yel onolher Eng stemmed partly from dating the Warning may make you pier bunch these days, opting for music Les Secretaires catchy enough It's punchy I lish, punk influenced pop group severely corroded condition of all want lo kill keyboard heavy, prog-rocky, Volantes are very punk That danced The basic sentiment is who is struggling lo differentiate artifacts found ond partly from the Miss Lata Twin Stars poppier sounds said, I have to admit that I was "quit conforming to societal self fro II lhal c 5 befor bands' origins in Canada, which drawn to this album by the ex molds " There's an original them (Blur, Heavenly. Huggy until recently was thought lo be ELEVATOR TO HELL accepting this new band who still otic title and promise of French thought Their stob al universal Bear, Oasis lo name a few) mythical New discoveries have Eerieconsilation call themselves Helium — at first, lyrics The band consists of five controversy, "God's Never Heard Snealty, their second album, sur firmly placed them in rock history (Squirtgun) I wasn't particularly attracted to members playing instruments of You," is a lovely piano ballad, prised me wilh its brood spectrum as contemporaries of Three Dog JUUE DOIRON the pastel colours and reelings from the ordinary guitar to xylo and one of only two slow songs of tracks. Night, Blood, Sweat, and Loneliest In The Morning that replaced the black ones The phones and maracas. All the The other is a sweet arrangement If fast, concise punk is your Tears, and Chicago Illinois (Sub Pop) elements of Helium that I loved songs are of the typical hard-hit of strings, and ends the album thing, check out "The Language and Nash Elevator to Hell contains 50% before, however, haven't really ting, guitar-smashing, fire-light with a gently whispered of the Spy" and "Final Horses," Mark 52a80 of the now-defunct Eric's Trip gone anywhere Mary slill has ing, pogoing, punk style And the "goodnight, everybody" Both for more melancholy moments, try and of all the spinoff bands, they her airy, meandering voice, she meanings of the words are pre are a welcome departure from "Raspberries" or the acoustic, DOWN BY LAW have Ihe most faithful (to ET's) continues to write bizarre, crea sented clearly in the context of the barrage of driving guitar and melodious "Steps to the Sea," for Last Of The Sharpshooters sound The songs on tive lyrics, and Ash still does with the song to those who aren't lucky drums which attacks you for the solo guitar fixes and dominant (Epitaph) Eerieconsilation are heavier and a bass whal most bassists do not enough to speak French (so don't rest of the album brass sections, "Strength" will de Down By Law, members of the most are in triple time, but the Therefore, I condede This is a worry aboul a languoge barrier Unfortunately, ManBREAK growing Epitaph family, provides recording style is the same old great album And I guess I, loo, need — punk is universal) Is have a fondness for pseudo-rap, Overall though, this band still a somewhat mellower punk Stereo Mountain Unfortunately, to believe in smiles ond Mogic Thermoplaslique a revolutionary chont I the, wh,le doesn't breoV enough rules lo sound when compared to a lot of songs are ruined by proto- Mya Lowe new punk record? No, but it is crunchy arena-rockish guitar sound unique Maybe ihey should labelmates Pennywise, NoFX, psychedelic noodling and dis definitely worth o listen. So spike grinds away beneath the vocals and Ten Foot Pole, whose torted vocals One of the better HOWIE B your hair, tear your clothes, put But they are good at what they songs is "Backteeth," which I rec Turn the Dark Off on your best pair of bondage do Their pop is a little more fren musicality for • change 1 If you ore os over the com and aggressive Too bad I prefer ognized from the last lime they (Island) pants and enjoy zied than I like, but is, neverthe mercial soundhtg Brit-pop scene the latter type of punk rock Down played here A big, heavy, dis Howie B has been a mainstay shane van der meer less, socially pleasing Tape it as me, this is one to add to the By Low ought to go for a more torted bass riff clunks along in of the electronic music scene for from a friend (Shhh ...) slack of "san******* os" CDs crisp, clear guitar distortion front of Mark Gaudel's effortless some lime now While contem LIPS, HIPS, AND LONG BUS alia hussey Cdtty Baker sound and improve their vocals drumming and Rick White's shy poraries such as The Chemical TRIPS zine — boy, does Dave Smalley need vocals If only Rick would let Tara Brothers and The Prodigy #1 NAKED FOR JESUS COPYRIGHT to learn how lo sing! He sings in S'Appart sing sometimes — I have become mainstream, com (16pages, half size w/ Looks Like Love Love Story tune, bul that's countered by the heard her 7" and really liked it mercial music makers, Howie B 8pages quarter size insert) (Independent) (BMG) dreadful monotone of his voice Julie Doiron has probably has maintained hi* underground This was written by Brie, the Hypnotic pop best describes the I can't think of enother way to de He writes about a wide range of matured more from the breakup status and remained loyal to the writer of she's only laughing to music on this album The lyrics scribe this album, except as dis life experiences, including vio of Eric's Trip than any other mem concept of experimentation with stop herself from crying, a zine blend together with vorious back appointing. Fin* known as Slow, lence in society, painful relation ber Musically, her full-length falls sound Turn the Dark Off retains which I've heard relatively good ground sounds and melt a fractal this Vancouver band has been ships, and patriotism. much in the vein of her Broken things about but haven't a chance like image in your mind. The title My favourite tune would have Girl releases, but her lyrics draw breakbeat and techno that gives to read After I read it, I came to track, 1 1 40 minutes long, dis signing lo Zulu Records and a lo be "Urban Napalm," which us deeper into fyer world than Howie B his edge The use of the conclusion that it was going plays the band's uniqueness and brief stint wild Geffen, they are discusses the racial tensions be ever before "I am inspired to xylophones and horn section to be hard lo review — not be talent There really isn't another now signed to BMG The first sin tween while and black people make little things," she confesses, samples in a non-traditional con cause the content itself was ex band that Naked For Jesus gle released Irom this much an This song provides a dramatic "but there's not a whole lot more text also gives this album a famil tremely difficult to follow, bul be can be compared to — the clos ticipated album, "Transfigura change-up in musical style, offer that I want " The intrusion of her iar feel, despite the fact thai the cause I hod a variety of conflicting est that comes to mind is a heavy tion" is fontojlic, echoing sounds ing a Sublime ish ska feel to the producers into the recording is music is all original opinions about this zine as a whole. metal Pink Floyd, which is still ol U2 wilh tynlhetic, sketchy CD Instrumenlally, these guys do unfortunate there's unnecessary Turn the Dark Off is a com First of all, it is obvious that pretty far out. Check for some background music combined a good job of integrating guitar keyboards on almost every song plex album full of light, airy, trip- Brie has experienced some type thing that Looks Like Love the next with vocals resembling Robert solos and rhythmic changes in The only time lhat their talents hop and breakbeat tracks remi of catharsis or self-discovery time you're record shopping. Smith of The Cure their music really succeed is on "Sorry Pt 1," niscent of Primal Scream s (most of the content of this dealt Big Cheese As I searched the album, how I commend Down By Law for with the addition of a shimmer newest album, Vanishing Point. with "discovery ofthe inner-self"). ever, it become clear why this veering away from the punk trend ing pedal steel The album ends The more upbeat tracks are ad I can feel some of her energy in NOT FAR ENOUGH zine track is the first single and open of sounding pissed off about everyfiing wilh a lovely French tune. This is dictive and strategically placed that way and that is a positive "Understand oppression and ing song on love Story I found the perfect thing when you're feel to wake you up jusl as you begin aspect of this zine But a good become a worker of your own myself craving change-ups in the ing loneliest to get hypnotized by the slow portion of the writing seemed to independence " music, backing vocal**, harmonies EC80R Hansel and Gretel stuff The final track is definitely be too transparent and bubbly for That's the first line of Not Far and steadily moving riffs, but was All of Us Can Be Rich... the best on the album, an infec me The roadtrip stories and Ihe Enough: an anarchist feminist left starving While a couple of (Grand Royal) GUTTERMOUTH tious mix of low-fi bass, looped poetry interested me, but the on- perspective. This small zine cov songs are decent— "Love Story," The folks at Grand Royal have Musical Monkey keyboards and a beat that gets Ifner insights and the article on ers a wide range of topics from "Overexposed," and "A-Frame" kindly compiled most of Ec8or's (Nitro) your feet moving Ani Difranco didn't really womyn's issues to animal rights all standing oot — on the whole, self-tilled olbum and their Spex is I love Guttermouth There Patrick Cross swing me My complaint isn't so in an outright manner that is in this CD offers me little more than a Fal Bitch EP onto one release aren't loo many bands out there much with the clarity of the writ telligent and focused. The author ing (being artsy is OK with me) - a simple lesson to approoch al for our listening pleasure They're that make fun of more things than IVY discusses the topic of sexism in as it is a desire for having more bums with little er no expectations darker, more bratty and have less I do This album is no different Apartment Life the hardcore scene, criticizing it depth and sincerity Daniel Abrahams of the in-your-face sloganeering r the c of Ihe (Atlantic) for not tackling the issue of sexual of iheir Digital Hardcore Record Guttermouth tackles many impor- Ivy is a three-piece that could be Now that I've created a sense violence. A highlight is her criti CROWBAR ings counterparts. Atari Teen described as 100% uplifting, of intrigue and curiosity around cism of Earth Crisis (the vegan Larger Thorn Life (and liver age Riot Gina D'Orio's high ing, rollerblading, sex with don happy pop Apartment Life, their this zine, perhaps this review will warriors themselves) for their pro- than you'll ever be) pitched screaming would make keys and beating up your mom second album, was released af prompt you to write Brie yourself life stance which seems to be an (Stony Plain) any riot grrrl proud Punk rock However, even though the lyrics ter a two year musical famine. (at 1805 Dublin St, New West attack on women's bodily rights. Archeologica'lly prominent for attitude, chaos and beats that are funny and sometimes down Reasons for giving this album a minster, BC, V3M 3A2) The zine also discusses the grass their "oowooh what a feelin', could send you to the hospital right unbelievable, this isn't great go include guesl input from Dean Jack D. roots efforts of Food not Bombs what a rushhh" hit of the late 20th (which has apparently already music Don't get me wrong, I en Wareham and Stanley Demeski century, this live album is a prime happened to one female fan) joy listening to Guttermouth, but of Luna, Chris Collingwood and MANBREAK with Vancouver's Submission example of the soulfully aug gives us teen angst at its best This everything seams kinda repetitive Jody Porter of Fountains of Come and See Hold The author lays down mented rock group era of 1968- is the stand-out hit record of the The album's sorta fast song, slow Wayne, and James lha of (Almo) some thoughts on the relationship 1973 and not, as previously year — the perfect album lo get song, slow song, death metal Smashing Pumpkins, songs It's always a little embarrassing 24 december 1997 rights in the section titled "Human Recorded over four shows ot Side one kicks sand in your Othar Turner Fife and Drum in old school ska and punk This and Non-human Liberation " Fi lor sound Not thai bands The Bottom Line in NYC last De face while enjoying thot favourite Band A few tunes are worth the album Is sorta a compilation and nally, the zine ends with a sobering signed to Kranky sound like cember, Child is a live album and post of "Pool listen, but don't let the cover fool Hellcat sampler rolled into one response to the date rape issue bands signed to Too Pure Bul I as such, conveys the loose, free Hoppin'" and "I'm the Mailman" you: this is no Folkways original There's a bunch of old school ($0.50 to #1-6050 University digress feel of her concerts, somelhing I is a garage punder with extra gin-house blues Even though punk type bands such as The Ave, Halifax, NS, B3H 1W5) Seely creates o brand of enjoy and appreciate Unfortu punches courtesy of new guitar Twenty Miles manages to pro Swingin' Utters and The Jamie Doucette indie-pop which really defies the nately, the live format leads to my ist Jeff Jefferson (guess old gui duce a raw, dirty, drunken blues Dropkick Murphy's; there's a stigma of indie-pop Experimen sole complaint about Child there tarist shaggy didn't make his sound, there is something crucial bunch of old school ska type PRAXIS zine tal segments a la Tortoise and ore some rather abrupt, even weight class in time) Feelin' missing that would transform this bands such as The Pietasters #2 Flying Saucer Attack, jazzy harsh, edits on the CD Obvi dizzy? Then just "Do the Stand " and The Slackers; there's a (98pp, half size wide) progressions reminiscent of The ously, Siberry was removing un "Don't you move a muscle/ Stay moment instead of the pale imi really cool Rancid song that's while, I Sea and Cake are stewed in necessary material, but the tifi < i board," •ell ( tation that it is The vocals lack quite different from anything I've 3 politi' :olly-orienled zine that with raw noise indie-rock not un flow of Child may have been neckbreaker gang You're face the emotion and hard livin' of a heard from them before, and to e right off my feel Praxis like Tristan Psionic The mix better suited by fades down in thr> dirt, and the record's Fred McDowell, who they top it all off, there's a painful, yel has done just that and has left ture makes for an album which is Aside from this, the live olbum cover Their gravelly voices are hilarious, cover of Rancid's me lying on the ground, wonder texturally diverse and unforgetta suits her and she seems more After dustin' yerself off, the the result of mic distortion as "Roots Radicals" done by a Latino ing what has hit me I'm serious ble The talented musicianship on comfortable than ever with her much as heartbreak or moon band Anyway, you're bound to When I opened the first pages of this olbum is disguised by the audience, treating each venue as two "Super Stuff" goes down shine But a few tracks are pretty find a couple of songs on here this zine (actually, this thing ex seamless composition of songs; her living room, each guest kiss town and then slaps you upside jumpy in a Blues Explosion kind that you like, and seeing as it's ceeds zine quality), I was instantly Seely plays as a whole, not as a ing each on the cheek under the the head, followed by a rancous of way, and Othar Turner's drums only seven bucks drown in by its sensible compu group of individu mistletoe rendition of '60s psych-rock add a unique sound Now if onfy Dove Tolnai ter layout complete with illustra lelodie subtle yel A two-CD, 22-song collection, group Love's "Can't Explain " ihey could resist the urge to sing ... tions and pictures and on over catchy While not everyone will CM, 100m After huffin' and puffin' and Anna Friz VARIOUS ARTISTS magazine-type flair love this album, it is difficult to of Christmas music, including blov Women of the World Celtic The best part was that when I find fault with it The songs are obscure traditional songs, more Jorgensen, bassist with the best THE VEES (Putumayo World Music) got down to reading it, it actu well written, sincere, relevant and familiar carols, her own Christ- set of pipes this side of the The Vees EP If you are a fan of Celtic music, ally had substance Con you be emotional This is one of the best mas-y songs, and even a funny Hanford Nuclear Power Plant, (murderecords) you must buy this compilation of lieve that? Praxis consists mostly releases of 1997 little story ab>out taking commun ]dy to "Rip it, Rip it up" With the departure of two band Celtic and Celtic-based songs of a variety of political pieces, Patrick Cross ion one Christmas mass My fa s all c members and the addition of a performed by women. These ranging from vegan recipes to vourite tracks, though, are a ver i' "The Flop" while your girl- token boy drummer (Mike women include well known Ca personal essays The essays are JANE SIBERRY sion of "Hockey," from Bound by Belitsky), the remaining members nadian artists Mary Jane actually researched and complete Child: Music for tho Christ the Beauty, and "Are You Burn sorry, 98 pound ci of jale have abandoned their Lamond and Natalie with examples and anecdotes, mas Season ing, Little Candle?" previously New Jerseyian acronym and renamed them MacMaster Lamond was made rather than empty rants that go (Sheeba) available only on compilations linked a selves The Vees This EP is a famous for her vocals in Ashley nowhere "The Guide to Student If there is anyone other than my But Christmas isn't all happy sd yet? Then I synthesis of the best elements of Maclsaac's hit Her vocals in Protesting" particularly caught my family I would like to celebrate and sweet, and in true Siberry strongly urge you to get with the Canadian indie-rock When Mike "Bog A Lochain" are entrancing attention because it seemed to Christmas with, it would be Jane fashion, Child is tinged with the program that hundreds of previ sings, he sounds a little like sd by cover all the bases At times, I Siberry She is one of very few bleakness of wind-driven snow ously pint-sized punks swear by! Hayden Jennifer and Laura hit Ashley Maclsac *>n the fiddle swore that I was actually read people who can, so easily, evoke over the prairie, frosted with de Don't let The Swingin' big, beautiful Inbreds-like har once again ing some Noam Chomsky es- the sweet innocence of childhood spair. "New Years's Baby," for Neckbreakers ever "Kick Your mony chords One of my favour This albun .n't all Cape say — it's that good The fact that and the glowing surprise of example, is a prose poem about Ass" again! ite things about this EP was that Breton Gaelic iic that most a myriad of writers from a com presents in the early Christmas a young attempted-suicide 8ryce Dunn it was slightly less rock and roily Canadian list munity could collaborate to do Alternating between light, than earlier jale work I really ith Irish-born Eileen Ivers in this is a feat in itself Even now I Siberry is wide-eyed in Hash airy celebration, and sombre TWENTY MILES didn't like the low, low female corporates Celtic tradition with a still pick it up once in a while just ing red and green lights and eats hush, Child is a diverse and wel (Fat Possum/Epitaph) vocals, though, and some of the mix of jazz in the fiddle piece to make myself realize why I popcorn from the bowl as she come addition to any Christmas Judah Bauer (of Jon Spencer guest guitar solos seemed a little "The Rights of Man " Susan found interest in political zines strings pop kernels onto thread tradition. Blues Explosion fame) gets gratuitous Nevertheless, you McKeown is a vocalist who in the first ploce (insert cries for the tree Siberry gets lost in bk down with brother Donovan should buy this EP just for the too- cannot be placed in any specific of joy here) tradition, finding comfort in fam Bauer to record in a urinal some perfect contrast of vocal colours category Her songs have been Jack D ily around the fireplace, watch THE SWIMGBM'NECKBREAKERS where in Mississippi Yup, a uri on the chorus of "Denied " said to be "equal parts rave and ing sparks dance, listening to Kick Your Ass nal: sounds like one, and there's Hansel and Cretel Irish Beat poet," and that about SEELY coals hiss Siberry is the earnest (Telstar) •n Ihe inside c< sums up the song "Jericho " This Seconds child who pulls everyone to their Yes, the trio from Trenton, NJ look of the boys in a shadowy can, VARIOUS ARTISTS is one of those songs that you will (Too Pure) place around the family piano, ready to do just that on the cover caught in the act of oozing the Give 'Em the Boot find stuck in your head all day The Too Pure record label is one hands them their song sheet, and of their third long-player, but how blues The Bauers had some help (Hellcat) Every performance on this album of the most consistent record la leads them in her favourite car about them songs? Do they flex Hellcat records represents Epi is original and yet, at the same bels around. Only Kranky gives ols Jane Siberry is, herself, a enough musical muscle? You "authentic" blues experience: the taph Records' attempt to cash in time, on the same level. Too Pure any competition with Christmas child. betcha, string-bean. album features R.L Boyce and on the public's increased interest Erin Nicholson Mwruurm bxj Jason da Silva v ^-y-jf ,/"• COMWISONT CRO-MAGNON*" : PEATH of| 25 ®jRg°5®E& fans (i.e., their friends from work), during the first half of their set. DJ Spooky came oul of Scan who entertained me with their Intensity was lacking from the get- ner's set with a loop lhat was drunken versions of the go, excluding their exceptionally slightly off but worked as patter Riverdance energetic drummer. By the end of that darted around the close of Thank goodness, also, for the the set, however, they rebounded Scanner's set This brought to happiness that is Plumtree, to deliver the power that's to be mind fhe controversy amidst more whose bouncy, surfy guitar-pop expected from five really loud "technical" djs who have made enthralled the kids in peak danc guitars, plus bass and drums DJ Spooky fhe target of harsh criti ing performance. Plumtree al When GBV finally hit the cism because he doesn't beat ways seem like they're having a stage, il was BAM with one song mix Spooky has apparently re good time and their enthusiasm and BOOM with the next, relent sponded that he can beat mix, is always contagious lessly, one after another Any but chooses not to as he mixes realhveaction individual GBV song could be a sounds, not rhythm The Rock & Roll sign lit up, THE SELECTOR their label allows them to be in definitely a band that doesn't signalling the start of a full-on rock pop masterpiece with their irrev The overall package of who the studio (read overproduction) DUOTANG need projection screens to get the spectacle The Thrush Hermit erent lyrics ond simplified verse- and what DJ Spooky is works and Saturday, October 4 The philosophy of this band fans going, hopefully, we won't chorus-repeat style of is undeniably like no other DJ on is simple "Let's just play music have to wait another five years Starfish Room heartthrob mode, bul I had heard songwriting These works are all the plane! It is refreshing to see and feel good " They ore con for them to come back lean, muscular and sporting a of fire-breathing in Waterloo, in aboul melody, without fhe unnec the scratch skills of a hip-hop DJ cerned not wilh statements, bul Erin Nicholson freshly shaved head, Pauline strument-balancing in London ond essary filler found in so much of applied with industrious ambienl with having fun in creating catchy Black, the lead singer and only Ian stripping down to his briefs modern music. Over the next 90 and experimental sounds pop songs With plenty of friendly original member of The Selec SUPERCHUNK in Toronto Apart from Joel's spas minutes, they played almost 45 After roughly an hour of non audience interaction, The Refresh tor, was fired up and ready to PLUMTREE modic seizures and Ian taking off of these songs, each with so stop sonic chaos, Scanner re ments played for Iwo solid hours, show that her band is slill a con Thursday, October 16 his cap, showmanship was lim much power and vitality, fhey joined Spooky for an illbient duet mixing songs from The Bottle & tender in the increasingly com Starfish Room ited that night The show wos a should have overwhelmed the as the two played off each other Fresh Horses with songs from petitive ska market Ms Black's Plumtree popped their way blast: a hi-octane exhibition of audience Even more surprising and, although rhe headliners Fizzy Fuzzy, Big & Buzzy , and bond, featuring some members through a decent set of east coast everything that is good and was Pollard's state: despite con ended early, the show continued throwing in a cover of Pave from later incarnations, sounded melodies The four Canadian ROCK They played some old suming a half dozen beers in the true ambient sense of back ment's "Cut Your Hair" for just as tight as the original They lasses were grateful to be open favourites, a lot of throughout the set, he swag ground music with a DJ named good measure Of course, they played many of their classics, in ing for such a fine band Their Swee/ftomewrec/ter stuff, and gered and staggered about Howard This tour was one of the ended the show by handing cluding "Celebrate the Bullet" tunes were nothing new, but it's forthcoming material from their while still maintaining most of his most experimental electronic out beer to the audience and and the ska flagship "James Bond hard not to like a straightforward catalogue of angst-driven, '70s composure: his body language events to hit Vancouver this year slamming inlo a speed-driven (the Killer) " In between sets she pop bond infused pop-rock The crowd was coupled with his dynamic facial version of "King ofthe Hill." Dove Baphomet teased the audience, taking play Superchunk hit the stage awed by their sonic power and expression made for one of the ful stabs at Americans, Paul most entertaining stage shows The tequila-bearing fan is with "Burn Lost Sunday," the sec two drunk moshers were incited THE INBREDS Weller and people who live typical of The Refreshments' au ond best number off the new plat to violence and lame displays of THE WOODEN STARS south of the Thames River Despite dience Dedicated followers ter, Indoor Living They only strength and physique Brian Wieser SORRY some annoying sound problems who know oil the songs by played one really old song, At the end of the night, my Saturday, October 18 and whal I was told was a blown heart and show up at every "Cool," so there were a few dis feet hurt from dancing and my SCANNER Starfish Room PA, and despite the v. show for a good time weren't let appointed ears who missed tunes head ached from all the guitar DJ SPOOKY Was this night a test to see how down tonight from No Pocky For Kitty The pre- or_ed n , The violence, but I left with a smile Friday, October 17 few people the Starfish Room can bk Indoor Living songs rawked wifh Selector can slill make you skank thanks to Plumtree So yes, shar Chameleon hold? I was disappointed to see your brains out ing the show with violent drunk I was a little surprised to find that such a small turnout for such a As for Duotang, everyone people and missing ABC's TGIF the focus of this event was on the powerful batch of Canadian tal already knows they are the was worth it "illbient" sounds of DJ Spooky ent. First to play was Sorry, from coolest dressers around (let's face more than the equally illbient vet- Victoria Their stage presence it, mod aesthetic rules and every eran Robin Rimbaud, better showed how apologetic they thing else sucks), but as for their GUIDED BY VOICES known as Scanner. were — it was if they were try music? My problem is that a duo SUPERCONDUCTOR The music of Scanner went far ing to shy away from the perform is a very limited combo — you Friday, October 1 7 beyond the media hype, as he ing experience. need bucket loads of talent or Starfish Room hit the stage early with unprec When The Wooden Stars your songs all start to sound the Stories of drinking, debauchery edented sonic texturology. While took the stage, the crowd began same This issue is compounded and excesses in the Guided By the intrusive MC bigged up the to get into the swing of things. They by having a duo made up of two were absolutely amazing: fhey had rhythm instruments bass and Vices er, Guided By Voices their set down pal and had such drums In my books, the Wright comp, coupled with singer Robert to respond by peaking out all the enthusiasm and power, I was sad brothers (NoMeansNo) are the Pollard's affection for early '70s frequencies within the MC's vox- to see their set end. bass ond drum duo to beat (and range to lose him in a myriad of feared this band would follow so sounds, samples, deep percus The Inbreds played a solid they became a Irio fairly early THE CHARLATANS UK reckless abandon, but the new many of Pollard's drunken heroes sion and of course, cellular tel set, just a bit too reminiscent of on) Bul hey, at least Duotang is THE DANDY WARHOLS songs didn't come across so well down a path of mediocrity ephone scans His set built into their last Starfish Room show. the coolest looking band around, Wednesday, October 1 5 without some of the embellish glossed over by some three-ring one serious abstract dub/trip- They played a few new songs which is not bod when you con Rage ments included on the album (key Cfrcus of style over substance. hop/breaks session layered with and a lot of old standards. The sider that "it's all about the The Dandy Warhols acted as boards, vibes etc ) About half On tonight's undercard were sounds that took me forward inlo show was enjoyable, but not par friggin' clothes " in this fickle, if there were projection screens way through their set, Mac com local heroes Superconductor a ploce a cycle up from the origi ticularly thrilling The Wooden heartless world of ours in front of the stage: iheir perform plained about a high pitched Rough and ragged after a few nal illbient of the 1970s, circa Stars were definitely the bright ance lacked energy, as if they James Boldt squeaking and I'm sure thai I weeks on the road opening for Throbbing Gristle and Caba est stars out that night couldn't wait lo get off stage wasn't the only one thinking GBV, they showed some wear ret Voltaire Julie Colero THE REFRESHMENTS People go to concerts to see the about yelling out, "Hey Mac, it's Tuesday, October 14 band, if they jusf wanted to listen your voice!" They ended on a Starfish Room to the music, they would buy the double high note with an encore It's hot in Arizona And don't album of "Like a Fool" and a feedback- believe those who say that it's not During their set I sat with some drenched "Precision Auto " so bad because of the "dry heat " of The Charlatans Their open Say what you will, but the That's crap. 100 degrees is 100 animosity towards the Dandy's 'Chunk can still bring on the Al degrees, dry or wet was made very clear when they mighty Rawk! Tempe, Arizona's The Re shouted "Bullocks!" and "Rub Charlie Church freshments play a curious bish!" every chance they could blend of southern/Mexican gui gel I *) the c THRUSH HERMIT tars, rock rhythms, ond no-non big fan of the Dandy's and left PLUMTREE sense vocals When The Refresh very disappointed. AGUE VELVE ments emerged at fhe Starfish, a The Charlatans returned to Friday, October 17 row of tequila shots lined the North America after a five year Columbia Hotel stage, a welcoming gift from a absence and proved that they still Aque Velve's name suggested particularly dedicated fan. know how to rock After the Dan a laid-back, velvet-toned sound to Starting off with a song from dy's dull performance, the Char match their slick suits and ties the new album, which on the ra latans made coming oul worth Instead, they incorporated every- dio sounded suspiciously like the while The fans went nuts as soon _ thing bland inlo their top-40 as now defunct The Gin Blos as ihey came on stage and didn't pirant formula: snotty vocals for soms, The Refreshments re stop until the last song The en the "punk" effect, guitar-heavy deemed themselves and proved ergy was there and the music was anthems for the "Bush X" effect, ihot they are far better live than The Charlatans are etc etc. Thank goodness for their 26 december 1997 KELLY JOE PHELPS off speakers ond generally jusl alongside characters like barfly Unfortunately the same could and simply nod their heads in HALLOWE'EN IN SPACE: A DAYNA KURTZ freakin' out Oh yeah, yeah Buddy Cole and the narrow not be said for the evil emperors approval to their Nation of House-Free Gathering Saturday, October 1 8 Billy the Bass Wolf had the most minded mother who laments thai of the Ninja Tune beat factory, Ulysses meets the Blues Ex Friday, October 31 St. James Community Square wicked dragon tattoo her son has come oul of the closet DJ Food Rather than interact plosion style of bluesy rock Crosstown Traffic Nothing like sitting for three hours Finally emerged The Regardless of form, his hu- and respond to their audience, and roll Instead, they want the Collective pursuits seems to be in a crowded de-sanctified church Cramps who, due to their they chose to hide behind sam crowd to let it all loose and as the theme embraced by the to give you the blues in them hard legendary status alone, swept thought-provoking, often tongue- plers, computers, kangol hats and their arms and hips sway and Worldfamousorangedrink and pews But lap slide guitar player everyone off their feel — okay, in-cheek points Perhaps it's be two giant video screens Very lit to the sweet sound of the blues, its brainchild the Erythro Group extraordinaire Kelly Joe okay maybe Guitar Wolf kicked cause I've seen too much of his tie of their set seemed spontane they will hopefully be emanci in their mission to invent a new Phelps has got religion, and his their ass energy-wise, but with material, but it was difficult lo be ous, with 75% of their samples pated from the grip of the oh- Vancouver scene This night had brand of Mississippi goin'-home- crowd pleasers like "Can Your coordinated with video feed and so-jaded indie rock scene. a freshness to it that may have to-my-lord blues was right in char Pussy do the Dog," "Garbage sow him on television As funny must have been impossible to On this night, the members been lacking at olher Halloween acter for this intimate wood- Man," and "Mean Machine," as the show was, it didn't exceed manipulate They did, however, of the Delta 72 taunted the events The venue was home to floored space Intense acoustic who wouldn't have been able to my expectations However, he know exactly what their drug- spectators seated high above some of the more abstract dj blues and a bar in the bock of shake their (hang? On top of it pulled off an impressive encore addled fans wanted a series of the bar and invited everyone work that Vancouver has seen in the room more than compensated all. Lux repeatedly grabbed his After his seventy minute routine disintegrating loops of King Louie down to the floor to shake their a while The dynamic basslines for aching butts was complete, he returned to the from the Jungle Book saying, money-makers The singer was Kelly Joe Phelps is a onoman humped the mic during "Surfin' stage, dressed only in sheets He "Crazy!" a dynamo, lo say the least, Chris P and Jacob the Baker slide guitar gone-down-South Bird." So, in the end, I'd say il ripped off his covers to reveal his Tragically, the whole show preaching his gospel in a likely- rattled the bones of many ghosts show He may be from Portland, was a super duper kick ass show! naked body and yelled, "I want seemed over in less lime than it phony southern drawl He and ghouls. The combination of Oregon, but if you close your pmk meal my foreskin back!" And that was takes for a 275 pound slonefaced •swung his body around in a live bassist and dj combining eyes, you too would be a believer it. Certainly it was one of the best bouncer to double-check your ID every possible direction, on their talents left many hypnotized that this man wos born in the SCOTT THOMPSON and frisk you I left the show wrHn by some pretty unique sounds Delta He sings, but it's more of a Friday, October 24 the satisfaction that comes from the floor in a "splits" position Skill, competence, and thai moan than words He played Vogue knowing that nine months from After a while, the sound of his beautiful scratching of records mostly his own tunes, as well as a There's no question in my mind STEALTH TOUR: COLDCUT, •vill be . I Ihe odd, grainy guitar became re characterized the set of Sleuth number of covers (including a ver Scott Thompson is funny In addi DJ FOOD, DJ KOALA cover of Rolling Stone and petitive, but, nevertheless, they and made way for the sion of Leadbelly s "Goodnight, tion to the work he's done with Monday, October 27 I'll be able to gripe about all "bonesplitting" trip drills, breaks Irene" that few people recognized The Kids in the Holland The Larry the 13-year-old teenage girls Man or Astro-man, on and D&B of Paola. Finally, the until the chorus) This is where Sanders Show, he is a capable First up was a young boy named who buy their albums and the other hand, did not impress limbodomizing brand of drum & Phelps truly shines: he plays the stand-up comedian whose schtick Eric San, known to his pink-haired don't really understand whal bass preached by Otaku con whole guitar from sliding on the blends a straight (pardon the and retro-ortired admirers as the il was like when they were, tained some of the best slips, strings to striking the strings and punj-forward stand-up routine inimitable Kid Koala His set like, totally, underground and scratches, and backward spins the body to create crooning notes relating his life as a gay man with was the thorough exploitation of shit. album, I've heard for a long lime The and percussive punctuation He DJ Rudy Technecli Erythro Group proclaim that they also plays finger-pickin' country dinary a, sounds I,to exist to open the door that was blues style, doing covers of "Poor MAN OR ASTRO-MAN? gem :k than surf By thi never locked and translate what Black Mattie" and "Big Mama's THE DELTA 72 d of the evening, I had los is behind it, indeed, when com Door," as well as tunes from his Thursday, October 30 almost all of my faith in thes. pared to a growingly conserva new release, Roll Away The Stone Starfish Room individuals who claim to be tive rave scene, it appears that Most everyone who flocked The Delta 72 aren't your ordi not from this planet. The the combined strengths of this to see Phelps had heard him al nary DC or Dischord Records looked like mere mortals oi fluid collective offer a welcome ready at the Vancouver Folk Fes type of band: they don't want this occasion start in another direction. tival this summer, so the real sur their audience to stand around Chris Corday Day Jamie Doucette prise of the evening was the opener — newcomer Dayna Kurtz. She hails from New Jer sey and plays an urban acoustic blues made of equal parts down town sophistication and hayseed slide guitar. Wilh a voice remi niscent of Janis Joplin on a relatively calm day, Kurtz mes merized the crowd Her songs ranged from standard blues themes of love-come-and-gone songs to a biting women's com ment on to the Beat boys, to a song about Patterson, New Jer sey lhat ended in a sweet sad Ital ian melody Anna Friz THE CRAMPS GUITAR WOLF DEMOUTION DOLLRODS Friday, October 24 Graceland Unfortunately, compulsive obses sive drinking kept me from catch ing the entire Demolition Doll Rods set, but all the fleshy flesh, duct tape and big pink toy cars phata by Corin Sworn which masked the band's unspeakables was definitely a visual experience that was the the characterizations and sketch- three turntables and a mixer. I'm cause of many a dirty girl fantasy acting for which he has become perhaps not the most knowledge for nights and nights to come famous. He told stories of grow able guy when it comes to turnta Next up was Guitar Wolf ing up, of working as an actor, ble pyrotechnics, but the dynamic They're sooooo rock V roHl All and of life in general. frenzy that swept the crowd was leather-clad, sun-glassed, and Fortunately, this show (appar obvious. I couldn't help bul be spewing attitude, they had the ently only the third he had ever amazed by the'smooth elegance crowd awe struck with tracks from performed) included much that with which he coaxed stunningly their CD Planet of the Wolves. was out of the ordinary as well. complex and innovative rhythms Seiji brought the punk-a-billy In a collection of monologues, from his multicoloured vinyl. He show to a crazy improv level Thompson incorporated charac threw down amazing breaks and where he seemed an insane con ters and skits seen before on Kids deftly scratched around that para ductor driven by some sort of ... with new material in this show. gon of lame '80s rap, "Mr. Bob Anecdotes about fame, buying a Dobalina." So tastefully groovy sure if I got it) He was all jumpin' car, and falling in love flowed and so undeniably live. 27 ®^g£5®!ffi EVIL VS. 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Chew on thai shit Mix of mosl depressing, unheard and future favourite bands before they THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:00PM unlistenable melodies, tunes and voices become huge distant stars Hosted by Meal ihe unherd where the unheard RADIO BLUE WARSAW ak. 6:0O*7:0OPM Daniel Abrahams. and the hordes ol hardly herd are Join Ubrary queens Helen G and Kim on THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 9:30 -11:30AM heard, courtesy of host and demo SUNDAYS GEETANJAU 9:00-10:00PM Geetan-ali ol the fomiliar and exotic in a blend of their info quests set to only the best Torrid trash-rock, sleazy surf and director Dole Sawyer Herd up1 New 1 ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC 8:30AM- leatures a wide range ol music from aural delights Tune in and en*oy eoch music Oct 13 The history of Cider Oct ptdsotin' punk provide the perfect scissor music, independent bands 12:00PM All ol time is measured by its India, including classical music, weekly brown plate special Instrumental, 27 ThelifeandworksofElisabelhSmort kick toyou r head every Tuesday mom. RITMO LATINO 9:00- 10:00PM Get on ort This show presents ihe mosl recent both Hindustani and Carnalic, konce, lounge ond ombience THE CANUCK STOPS HEM ak. 7fl0*9tf)PM There's no second chance when Kung* board Vancouver's only tropical fiesta new music from around ihe world Eon open popular music from Indian movies THE STUPID RADIO SHOW 11*00AM 1*00 Usten tor al Canodkn, mosly independent Fu is used for evil wilh drunken fist Bryce express with your loco hosts Rolando, THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00-3:OOPM from the 1930's to ihe 1990s, Semi PM Playing a spectrum of music Irom tunes Romy, and Paulo as they shake it and Reggoe inna all styles ond fashion classical music such as Ghazals ond Garage Band lo Big Bond acoustic lo THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM FIVE HOUR LUNCH 11:30AM-1:00PM wiggle il to the latest in Salsa, BIOOO ON THE SADOIE 3:00-5:OOPM aft. Bha|ons, and also Quawwalis, folk VcraWs longest running pnme time pzz 'Have a rock n' roll McDonald's for Merengue, Cumbia and other fiery Real cowshil caught in yer boots country Songs, elc NEEDLEPOINT 1:00-3:00PM Mismatched program Hosted by fe ever-sucwe Goin lunch today1' fiesta favourites. Latin music so hoi WIRELESS 3-00-5.O0PM oh. THE SHOW 10:00PM-12:00AM Strictly Bop rod, o quick nde downtown Don'l Wdker Fea_res-.ll. POLYFILLER 2:00-3:30PM TWO WORDS it'll give you a tan! jjRADIO DAVID ESTRELLA PRESENTS 5:00-6:OOPM Hip Hop — Strictly Undergound — miss the Snow White Float I love ihe Dec.l: Guitar great Jim HaB with a 70's AVANT GARDE FOLK SABROSA!! Thebesl ol Spanish music, news and Stnctly Vinyl Wilh your hosts Mr Checka, Snow White Float classic 'concerto' LADY DEATHSTRIKE'S BENTO 3:30-5:00PM NAKED RADIO oil. 10:00PM* 12:00AM interviews for ihe Sponish and English Flip Oul & J Swing on the 1 & 2's THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN 3:00-4:00PM I Dec. 8: Percy, Jimmy and Albert The Heath A combination platter of feminist issues, From Tfielomous Monk toMendit h Monk speaking communities IN THE GRIP Of INCOHERENCY 12:00- endeavour to feature dead air, verbol Brothers wilh iheir latest lesbionicrock and everything else Unagi ... we'll play it Genre-busting, cutting- QUEER FM 6:00-8:00PM Dedicated lo 4:00AM Drop yer gear and slay up late flatulence (onfy when I speak), a work ol Det. 15:Benny Goodman and his all star maki for giHs ond boys! edge jazz and other experimental the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and Naked rodio lor naked people Gel bent music by a twentieth century composer CiTR DINNER REPORT 5:0O-5:3OPM Our sounds, plus informative label/artisl Iranssexuol communities ol Vancouver Love Dave Eclectic music — can you say minimalist? — and Dec. 22: By tradition, Miles Davis, Thelonious dedicated newsteam bnngs you the best features. Join Mike and Sean and listened lo by everyone Lots of whatever else appeals tom e Fag ond Monk and Mill Jackson, Christmas Eve news about student life, community WITCHDOCTOR HIGHBALL ak. 10:00PM- MONDAYS human interest features, background dyke positive Mail in your requests, 1954 organizations, festivals, orts even's, youth 12:00AM Noise, ambient, electronic, BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS 8:15- n current issues and greal music because I am not a human-answering Dec. 29: Solo piano at La Scala by Keith culture, and social / political issues Real hip hop, free jazz, christian belter Irving 11:00AM Yow favourite brown sters, fro ol all machine Gol a quarter ihen coll someone Jarret voices bringing you news you won't Ip's, the occasional amateur rodio play, James and Peter, offer a savoury blend i ond gender idcnl DRUM'N' SPACE 12:00-2:OOAM hear anywhere else AURAL TENTACLES 12:00AM-VERY LATE Movie reviews and criticism REBEL JAZZ 10:00PM-1:00 AM Join Ginsh Warning Thii show is moody ond un OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-7:30PM No for some — rebel |azz predictable It encouroges insomnia ond Birkenstocks nothing politically correct EARWAX ok. 1:00AM- DAWN 'Utile bil of Wedon'lget pa id so you're damn right we drum, bit of bass and a wbole lot ol may prove to be hazordous toyou r show profile: health Listener discretion is advised hove fun with it Hosted by ChnsB noize ' Late night rodio soundclash Ambienl ethnic, hjnk, pop, dance, punk, ONAIRWTTHGREASEDHAIR 7:30-9:OOPM destined to fist you hard Sne features, electronic, synlh, blues, and unusual rock Roots of rock & rol phal experimental chunes, and the WEDNESDAYS UVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL occasional turntable symphony 'Money, MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW 8:30 9:00-11:00PM Local muzak from 9 Live we'll rock you on 'til the break ol dawn ' 10:00AM Gid mic of oil shapes and bandz from 10-11. -G Smiley SLIPPERY SLOT 11:00-1:00AM farm o^-O- DIGITAL ALARM CHRONOMETER 10:00AM onimals, plush toys and Napalm Death -12:00PM electronic These are a lew of my favourite ihings Rachel's Song is a weekly show on Wednesday evenings LOVE SUCKS 12:00-2:OOPM Music ol It's all aboul shootin' the shit and rock *»' attention, all from 5:30-6:OCpm hosted alternately by Karen F (esoteric) work (Cut up mixed genres — eclectic, roll, baby and m-path (solid state). The show's focus is on the electric induded bul nol mandatory) Women MOTORDADOY 3.*00-5*OOPM No indie FRIDAYS environment and the health of individuals and society. rock here — |usl some good ol1 Soulhem VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- interested in Topics such as recycling — with an emphasis on the 10:00AM Join Greg in ihe love den for fried biker boog-el programs currently operating in Vancouver—-diet, health, CiTR DINNER REPORT 5K»-5:30PM a cocktail We'll hear retro stuff, groovy l>ein£ a part Community/campus news and view •azz, and thicker stuff tooSe e you here and lifestyle will be recurring themes of Rachel's Song. RACHEL'S SONG 5:30-6:OOPM inlo on ... and bring some ice. XOXX ofa collective | There will be a strong educational component of what can health ond the environment, with o focus SKAT'S SCENE-IK DRIVE! 10:00AM* on Vancouver Topics ranging 12:00PM Ska in*x>allstylesond fashion i .. i _ i and cannot be recycled and where. In addition to the Hi]-- UKjy fromrecyding, conservation protects, to even some o'dot reggoe shil actual environmental impact of recycling (which should diet, health and consuplion and UCORICE AliSORTS 12:00-2*00 All kinds programme suslainability in the urban context of music spoken word, interviews Phone be the last resort), the importance of refusing, reducing Comments ond ideas are welcome. in for comments or requests Tune in and and re-using will be emphasized* Recycling one's garbage ESOTERIK 6:00-7:30PM aft. Ambient/ expose yourself tone w music and ideas or any other electron, c/induslrial/elhnic/ LITTLE TWIN STARS 2:00-3:30PM is beneficial/ but a fundamental change in the individual's expenmenlal music (or those of us who Underground, experimental, indie and radio show, and society's consumption habits will be far more know obout the illilhids. women Jacuzzi space*rock at it's finest beneficial. Interviews of local activists and spotlights on SOLID STATE alt. 6:00-7:30PM Featuring NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRE please contact the latest in lechno, trance, acid and SENTS ... 3:30-4:00PM new technologies, organizations (such as the South East progressive house Spotlights on local NOIZ 4:00-5:OOPM sell tilled namiko at False Creek Working Group), and companies will serve to artists, ticket giveaways, & live CiTR DINNER REPORT 5:0O-5:3OPM inform the listener on how to reduce one's "ecological performances. Hosted by M-Poth FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS 6:00-9:OOPM oh. 831.1343 for AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:00PM Sounds^ the transpacific underground, footprint" and be a more informed and aware consumer. 2, ida, miranda July.. from west -ova to east Detroit Sound more info! Upcoming events, such as talks, presentations and rallies/ are a few of our fave oh- system operator, Don Chow wril things, lo la lal AFRICAN RHYTHMS ah. 6:0O-9:00PM David will be announced to encourage the listeners to become FOLK OASIS WXHOflOPM Acouslic/ 'Love' Jones brings you the besl new and more involved in the evolution of their communities* By roots/folk music in the middte of your old Jazz, soul, latin, samba, bossa & week Focus on locd and Canadian singer- Africon Music around the world. creating awareness in the listener's ability to become songwriters, regular features on oher HOMEBASS 9:00PM- 12:00AM The directly involved in the decision making process in their regions with in-house visits. original live mixed dance program own community, we hope to stimulate a greater sense of STRAKMOUnAJALLUNDHAR 10:00PM- in Vancouver. Hosled by DJ Noah, 12:00AM Let DJs Jindwa and Btndwa the main focus of the show is self determination. Alternative construction/ architecture lechno, bul also includes some CiTR immerse you in radioactive Bhungra! and design of buildings will be discussed/ such as the 'Chakkh de phutay.' Usten to ol our trance, acid, tribal, elc... Guest favourite Punjabi tunes — remixes and DJ's, interviews, retrospectives, Choy Building at UBC. Of particular interest is alternate onginals. Brrooooh! •ways, 101.9 fM energy sources, water supply and treatment, and overall s flovour of homebass THURSDAYS UMP SINK 12:OO-2:30AM The show that construction. The example of "happy house" in Toronto THE LAST DESK 8:3O-10:OOAM Listen doesn't hate you. Friar Fritter Abfakdn will be used as an example ofthe possibility for residences carefully as Johnny B brings you CiTR's ond Poslman Pat alternate wilh Tobias' to be "off the grid" and self-sufficient. The show will also classical music show. 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ENTERTAINMENT DESK 5:304:00PM ok. 7J 29 ^m^amms de< '97 LONG VINYL dec '97 SHORT VINYL dec '97 INDIE HOME JOBS 1 various artists fame whore apathy 1 murder city devils the murder city ... empty [ the tonebursts masters of karate 2 coldcut let us play ninja tune 2 lake of dracula untitled skin graft ! dirtmitts amaze me 3 stereolab dots and loops elektra 3 the kiss offs love's evidence ... peek-a-boo ) the colorifics "47 (now i see heaven) 4 coldcut more beats & pieces ninja tune 4 reclusives more of the same empty I quonset desert blade 5 ec8or all of us can l>e rich ... grand royal C mocket fanfare k 5 the mait from uncle friends to none lance rock > plumtree in the sink " lonesome orgajiist collector of cactus .. thrill jockey 6 jumprope the pensive ep motor way J squeeky ten twenty-three 8 the need the need chainsaw 7 celestial magenta clivedon independent • touch and gos campus radio l>oy 9 the cramps big beat from badsville epitaph 8 juno magnified and reduced _ jade tree ! dreamy angel laundromatte queen 10 the smugglers ln.ldy holly convention lookout/mint 9 von zip]>ers hot rod monkey screaming af^e ) thee goblins golden tokens 11 mecca normal who shot elvis? matador 12 negativland ipsdesip independent 10 vehicle flips terminus harriet ) the lamps freedom drunk 13 pellucid ta*>e yr tv bug girl sound 11 sloppy seconds minnie greutzfeldt get hip I harvey switched muddy eyes 14 sukpatch honky-tonk operation slalxso 12 sarah dougher lireakin' in a lirand new „ k > the t>eans italian vases 15 helium the magic city matador 13 jale true what you say ready to break J mizmo sprite 16 the sea and cake two gentlemen thrill jockey 14 make-up free arthur lee k I the hounds of buskerville sorry 17 loop guru loop bites dog world domination 18 syrup usa all over the land flydaddy 15 love battery snipe hunt letdown > radio star radio star 19 guitar wolf planet of the wolves matador 16 victory at sea victory at sea villa villakula 5 the floor better men 20 mr. t experience revenge is sweet ... lookout! 17 thrush hermit giddy with the drugs murder r the eh-team the edge 21 pizzicato five happy end of the world matador 18 sloppy seconds where eagles dare get hip I wiggler bad man hank 22 apples in stereo tone soul evolution elephant/spin 19 the ids locked in a room hive ) bonafly dandelion 23 frigg-a-gogo penetrating ... 360 twist' s/t matador 24 cornershop when i was born ... warner 20 jon spencer bx ) the spitfires so lonely 5 man or astro-man? made from technetium touch ai*i go 26 brand new unit diddley squat creative man WITCHDOCTOR HIGHBALL TOP 10 various artists up in orbit up ALTERNATING TUESDAYS 10PM-12AM 28 the tonics looking for the good ... lance rock /I mouse on mars antoditacker 29 sonic youth slaapkamers met slagroom bmi 2 donald antrim 100 brothers 30 modest mouse the lonesome crowded west up 3 autechre chiastic slide 4 the nice film ponette 31 portishead ~\ CiTR 5 the plastic project at the cultch 32 longstocking 6 david f. Wallace a supposedly fiui thing 33 the exotics ill never do again 7 the nice film lost highway 34 butterglory 8 squarepusher hard normal daddy 35 aerial m 9 Jeffrey eusenides' short story real estate charts ^10 the nice doctor sic to work fc ~ longstocking ~ polvo - plumtree ~ cornershop ~ him ~ john fahey with cul de sac - - cat power ~ stereolab ~ Jonathan fire eater ~ ~ readymade ~ containe ~ v/a what's up matador ~ huevos rancheros - fluke ~ helium - paul miller ~ ~ the lookers ~ tim brady ~ windy & carl ~ - golden lake diner ~ Juliana hatfield ~ bardo pond ~ purple ivy shadows ~ harmonia 76 ~ and, of course, CiTR 101.9fM 30 december 1997 Steele@Vogue... Third Eye Blind@Palladium.. Veal, SAT 20 The Colorifics@Starfish Room... Ray Condo & the Melt@Railway Club... Richochets@Railway Club... Blammo, Trike Wipeout, december SUN 30 Fred Penner@UBC Museum of Anthropology... Malevolence@Brickyard... Vancouver Chamber Choir, Ed MON 1 Spirit of the West, Mary Jane Lamond@Vogue... Henderson@Chan Centre... TUE 2 CiTR PRESENTS SHINDIG! Semi-finals! The Salteens, SUN 21 Poetry Panache: Xmas Edition@Death by Chocolate... datebook Vancouver Knights, Superchief@Raihvay Club... Gus Gus, Sugar Rum Cherry@VECC... Vancouver Chamber Choir, Ed Q Burns@Palladium... Blue Rodeo@QET... Henderson@Chan Centre... WED 3 Michael Dog@Mars... Blue Rodeo@QET... MON 22 Grrrls with Guitars@Railway Club... FRI 21 Uz Jsme Domo, High Llamas@Starfish Room... Lee THU 4 Prong, Sister Machine Gun, Noise Therapy, TUE 23 Ronnie Hayward Trio@Railway Club... "Scratch" Perry@Sonar (early show)... Soul Crib@Chameleon... Gun@Vogue... Wow, Cooking Purple@Railway Club... WED 24 Ronnie Hayward Trio@Railway Club... Stereolab, Mouse on Mars, Plush@Palladium... Rhythm FRI 5 Lee Aaron, Colorifics, Molestics@Vogue... Terror of FRI 26 Bughouse Five@Railway Club... Roundup@Willow Street Cafe... Tinytown, Thrill Squad, The Beekeepers@Brickyard... Eugene MON 29 Money Hungry Newlyweds, SAT 22 Coal, The Beans@Railway Club... DDT@Starfish Room... Ripper, Beauventure@Railway Club.. Nummmb@Railway Club... Soul Crib@Chameleon... Matthew Good Band, SAT 6 John Hokem, the emptys@Rage... TUE 30 Oh Susanna, Kevin Kane@Railway Club... Junkhouse@Graceland... Co-op Radio & ICTV benefit: The Linda Velver@Chameleon.. Kevir Yost@Sonar... Eugene Ripper, Jelly McRae Band, Joe Keithley, Flatland 6@Legion... Farm@Railway Club... SUN 23 Steve Locy@Starfish Room... Simon Townshend SUN 7 Open house@Dr Sun Yat-Sen Cla alChir Band@Gate... David Grisman Quartet@Vogue... Reba McEntire, Garden... Brooks & Dunn@GM Place... Big Bad Voodoo Daddy*@Richard's TUE 9 Hard Rubber Orchestra@VECC.. Carmaig on Richards... DeForest@RailwayClub... Quonset, High5 for Jive@Brickyard... MON 24 Grrrls with Guitars: Emma Carter, Connie Saulnier, U2, Smash Mouth@BC Place... Andy Summers Group@Richard's Nadine Davenport@Railway Club... on Richards... TUE 25 CiTR PRESENTS SHINDIG! Semi-finals!: Bless the WED 10 CiTR PRESENTS Atari Teenage Riot, Shizuo, Pod, Bossanova, Hounds of Buskerville@"Railway Club EC80R@Palladium... Audio Active, Adrian Sherwood@Starfish Princess Bride, Trainspotting@UoC SUB Norm... Room... Knock Down Ginger, Carmaig DeForesr@Railway Club... Glimmer*@Gate... THU 11 Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra@Chan Centre...Sweet WED 26 Midge@Starfish Room... Paradise Lost: The Dick@RailwayClub... Molestics@Anza... CD Release: Rain@Railway Club... Xmen, FRI 12 Cherry Poppin' Daddies@Starfish Room... Yellow Scratch Kilz, Beat Junkies@Sonar. Productions@Sonar... Mecca Normal, Coal, Emptys@Brickyard... THUR 27 CiTR PRESENTS GIRLFEAST: Revulva, The Sweet Dick@Railway Club... Dirtmitts, gaze, Clover Honey@Brickyard... The SAT 13 G-love and Special [email protected] Room... The Wheat Ruins@Starfish Room... Skydiggers@Richard'son Richards... Para Chiefs, Jesse's Girl, Jet Set@Brickyard... 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