WORDS FROM THE WIZARD HEY OTTAWA!! WE’VE GOT A HUGE MONTH OF ENTERTAINMENT AND FUN PLANNED FOR YOU - WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF TARG, OTTAWA’S ONLY TRUE CLASSIC ARCADE!! – Check out our awesome lineup of classic games and try a plate of our world famous handmade perogies - we’ve got a sweet new mystery plate debuting this month and we couldn’t be more excited - help us tweak/dial in the fl avours and join us in naming this delicious creation - we love your input and ideas!!! Things are always a little bananas at TARG but this month really takes the cake - we are very proud to be presenting 2 nights of shows (one of which is ALL AGES!!) with hometown heroes and DINE ALONE RECS heavyweights NEW SWEARS in celebration of the release of their new record ...AND THE MAGIC OF HORSES - this is even more personal for me as I have been lucky enough to spend some time with these cats recording/producing their latest musical offering - hands down some of the best dudes I have ever met/worked with and I couldn’t be more stoked on their growing success as musicians/artists/weirdos - congratulations fellas, well deserved and well received!! Huge thanks to everyone who brings life and energy to our humble ARCADE - your support is priceless and we will always endeavour to serve you to our full potential - let’s have some fun and #nevergiveup

- YOGI NEW RELEASE

LOVEHAUS - DANNY July 1st: A special Voice of the REBEL & THE KGB People SKA NITE SKANADA DAY STOMP RECS 2017 edition featuring DJs Longshot and Snappy + Live music from Danny Montreal’s Danny Rebel Rebel & The KGB (MTL Ska/Soul and the KGB are the kind of CD RELEASE) + The Sentries (local band that pulls a little bit of Ska heroes) + FoOlish (MTL everything out for their fans. Reggae trio). From instant classic reggae hits like “Take Me Away” The VOICE OF THE PEOPLE DJs to soul scorchers like “200 playing nothing but the best in Ska, Proof”, there’s going to be Rocksteady and Reggae all spun something for everyone. The live on vintage 45s. Expect classics whole album feels like the such as Toots and the Maytals, “Party after the Party”, which Derrick Morgan, Prince Buster, and if you’ve ever been lucky much much more! enough to be in Montreal at 3AM, you know it’s just as hot as ever. -Lou Le Blanc

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Unlike some fruit brews, the berry notes from this summer super star are very subtle, buried deep under a soft and velvety wheat beer body. Level Up with this refreshing, no hop bitterness wheat ale. Look for it on our rotating Bonus Tap this month. the chance to play was the Korg JESS FORREST - MS20 in a band when I was 18 years CASTLE IF old. FIRST SYNTH: My fi rst synth was my Moog Little Phatty. I’ve had it for ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON about ten years now, and I still play it TO SYNTHS: Switched On Bach basically every day. by Wendy Carlos (1968 Columbia Masterworks) ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU is no ‘right’ way to do it. If you ON TO SYNTHS: Wendy Carlos’s ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT want to play complicated stuff on “Switched On Bach” (1968 Columbia TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC 3 keyboards, go for it. If you like Masterworks) is the fi rst synth record MUSIC: The most important is to building electronics, rig up whatever I listened to that made me think develop your intimate relationship with crazy stuff you want to try, take it “Damn, this is DOPE!”. I originally sound. up there and have at ‘er! Or go the wanted to be a screenwriter, not a other way and use Makey Makey to composer, so my musical tastes were SEE XARAH DION FRI JUNE 16 at make a fruit or jelly synth (I still very infl uenced by fi lms. Maybe that’s S.O.S.fest totally want to do this!) and play with that. If you mostly want to wear why my work is so soundtrack-y now. great outfi ts, or fool with fl ashing lights and video and robots and play ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT mostly preprogrammed, or sit in a TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC cardboard box so no one can see MUSIC: Stay stupid. Trust your GAENOR HOWE - RATIONAL you when you play everything live, instincts. The idea you’re most drawn go for it. If you can’t fi nd anyone to — even if it’s your dumbest idea, YOUTH to be in a band with, go solo. Don’t especially if it’s your dumbest idea FIRST SYNTH: My fi rst synth was be tentative, don’t be shy, and don’t — is probably your best idea. Don’t actually a software synth called think you have to be like anyone worry if it seems too hard, too easy, E-volution Music Creator. My fi rst else. Just really fi nd out who you are too dark, too boring, too stupid: don’t hardware synth was actually my right now, fi t it together with what concern yourself with what other MicroKorg. you want to do and do it. And let people think. If you feel compelled by who you are and what you do change it, go for it! ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON and adapt as you go on. Or not. Just TO SYNTHS: Landscape – From go and do and be. SEE CASTLE IF THURS JUNE 15 at DOUCE ANGOISSE the Tearooms of Mars…to the Hell- S.O.S.fest FIRST SYNTH: My fi srt one was a holes of Uranus - (1981 Cherry Red SEE RATIONAL YOUTH FRI JUNE 16 MicroKorg Vocoder. Got it when I was Records). at S.O.S.fest 17 years old ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT ALBUM THAT SWITCHED YOU ON TO TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC SYNTHS: Depeche Mode - Music For MUSIC: Be brave. I’m a total the Masses (1987 Sire Recs) Grandma Moses, because I was too shy and thought I wasn’t a good ADVICE FOR WOMEN WHO WANT enough instrumentalist. I also TO START MAKING ELECTRONIC thought my voice was too weird, so MUSIC: DON’T GIVE UP EVER I ended up wasting all those years watching other people perform when I was young and could have been SEE DOUCE ANGOISSE SAT JUNE having fun on stage. So just get up 17 at S.O.S.fest there and follow your own star. The joy of synth music is that there XARAH DION FIRST SYNTH:The fi rst synth I had WELCOME TO THE SECRET UNIVERSES OF MY TOY COLLECTION. our video arcade cabinets/games will of Horses” on DINE ALONE RECORDS!! be switched over to FREEPLAY mode - *HORSE of TARG!!! game on!! SUN JUNE 25 - House of TARG presents: SUN JUNE 18 - Switched on Synths WIZARD WORKS SUMMER CRAFT presents: TOUGHEN UP! S.O.S.FEST SHOW - ZERO DOLLARS/ALL AGES!! A GUIDE TO ALL THE CONCERTS TAKING PLACE AT WRAP PARTY: w/DJ KJMaxx & B-RAD This Craft show is so bright ya gotta wear spinning 100% all wax synth jams. shades! New season, new vendors, new HOUSE OF TARG THIS JUNE. PLUS unlimited arcade action for just 5 treasures! Check out some of Ottawa’s bucks. craftiest vendors selling unique and inspired items all in the comfort of our SAT JUNE 3 - House of TARG, Crucial ambient emo grunge indie shoegaze! MON JUNE 19 - House of TARG and humble Arcade. Records & Ashton Brewing present: Swirly indie pop with ethereal vocals. PandaMonium productions present: VOICE OF A GENERATION VOL. 4 w/ Celebrate the release of their new album PLAGUEBRINGER (Calgary Blackened WED JUNE 28 - House of TARG, Bleak HARD CHARGER + SATANARCHIST “Pillow Talk” now available on No Sleep Deathcore) w/sg MARTYRS (Ottawa Life and PBR present: EXTREME NOISE + ASILE - a seriously heavy nite of recs. Deathcore) and LIFE ON TRIAL (Ottawa TERROR w/sg NAPALM RAID + ASILE + devastating d-beat action in Canada’s hardcore/thrash crossover) - Stop in, FRAGMENT Pioneering English CRUST capital!! Super pumped for the return of WED JUNE 14 - Switched on Synths get heavy, play some games, and down PUNK band formed in 1985, considered our pals HARD CHARGER, can’t wait to presents: S.O.S.FEST: SYNTH MEET- some perogies! *EARLY SHOW - Doors one of the earliest and most infl uential see yu what you got cookin’ - big thanks UP + $1 OFF PEROGIES!! Zero dollars at 7pm European grindcore bands, particularly in to SKA JEFF for being so damn crucial!! all nite/all ages - meet peeps from the the crustgrind fusion genre. Noted for one Ottawa synth community. checkout their WED JUNE 21 - House of TARG of the earliest uses of dual vocalists in WED JUNE 7 - House of TARG and synths. learn stuff & twiddle knobs. The and PBR presents: MY SON THE hardcore, and for recording a number of Ottawa Punk Pinball present: FREE offi cial kick-off to Ottawa’s Synthesizer HURRICANE w/sg THE BRISTOL sessions for BBC Radio 1 DJ John Peel, PINBALL TOURNAMENT (JUNE EDITION) Festival - 5 days of synth fueled concerts HUM - Major funk action going down Extreme Noise Terror started as a crust Tournament Format - ‘Strikes’ Knockout & events ahead featuring Drone/ Synth- at the House of TARG!! - MY SON THE punk band and helped characterise the Style. Players will be randomly assigned Pop / Darkwave artists from all over the HURRICANE is a 14-piece brasshop early, archetypal grindcore sound with an opponent and a pinball machine to globe. funk beast hailing from Niagara/Toronto fi ercely political lyrics, grinding guitars, play a match. Losing a match will get - super stoked for their return, DO NOT extremely fast tempo and often very short you a Strike - 3 STRIKES YER OUT! THURS JUNE 15 - Switched on Synths MISS THIS SPECIAL EVENT!!! *TOM songs. THIS IS A BIG DEAL FOLKS!!!!!! Last player standing will be crowned the presents: S.O.S.FEST: DRONE NITE: GREEN approved winner. FREE/NO COVER OR ENTRY FEE w/ CASTLE IF + INFINITY’S ASTRUM THUR JUNE 29 - House of TARG, - All Ages & All Skill Levels Welcome! + MUFF WIGGLER + PH. an evening of THUR JUNE 22 - House of TARG Spectrasonic and Whitewater Brewing highly experimental sounds from way and Whitewater Brewing present: present: GATES w/sg VASUDEVA + THUR JUNE 8 - House of TARG, Crucial out. HOOTENANNY: featuring - OLD HEAD NORTH + NIGHTTIME IN KANSAS Records & Whitewater Brewing present: MAN GRANT + OLD TIME HONEY - a very special night of indie/rock, this FRUSTRATION (France) w/sg SPECTRES FRI JUNE 16 - Switched on Synths + JORDAN & WATTS - Hootenanny: show is ALL AGES!!! To quote our pal + PALISSADE + DURS COEURS - A presents: S.O.S.FEST: SYNTHPOP NITE The TARG Folk Music Series!! Join us SCORPION of MORTAL KOMBAT - get post punk mega show brought to you by w/ RATIONAL YOUTH + XARAH DION for the fi rst event of our music series over here!!! CRUCIAL RECORDS “Powerful, potent + AUTOMELODI + HARD SCIENCE. dedicated to live traditional & folk revival songs yield a brutal post-punk sound. Celebrate the 35th anniversary of “Cold performances. FRI JUNE 30 - House of TARG and Beaus Just imagine WARSAW meets WIRE War Night Life” the debut album by All Natural present: BLACK CAT ATTACK meets the FALL and you will already have Canada’s 1st synth band RATIONAL FRI JUNE 23 - House of TARG, Dine w/sg THE ANTI-QUEENS + IN HEAT - a good idea of their musical universe.” YOUTH. Alone Records and Beau’s All Natural Check out this stacked rawk bill, fast & present: NEW SWEARS WEEKEND - All furious straight ahead punk/metal tinged FRI JUNE 9 - House of TARG, Shade SAT JUNE 17 - Switched on Synths Ages Nite featuring: NEW SWEARS w/ rock with a heavy emphasis on horror. Nyx’s Theatre Macabre present: SCI- presents: S.O.S.FEST: DARKWAVE sg CRAZY BONES + WARP LINES - Hometown heroes IN HEAT round out this FI BURLESQUE SHOW - Shade Nyx NITE w/ PSYCHE + DADA POGROM + The ALL AGES NITE of two back to wicked bill featuring our very own wizard is once again bringing you the best of DOUCE ANGOISSE + THE MARQUIS. back NEW SWEARS shows to celebrate LEXXI on vocs - let’s get bananas!!! Ottawa’s burlesque - this time with a SCI- The Dark side of synth w performers the forthcoming release of “and the FI twist. Special guest co-host: ADAM from Iceland, Germany & MTL including Magic of Horses” on DINE ALONE TUPPER! *A SCI-FI Trivia segment with Darkwave Legends PSYCHE, Unreal! RECORDS!! **ALL AGES!!! EDDIE SPUHGHETTI from Here Lies with EVERY SUNDAY NITE - House of TARG great prizes! *JAIME JONES is back to SUN JUNE 18 - House of TARG and SAT JUNE 24 - House of TARG, Dine & Collective Arts present: TOUGHEN UP! slap and tickle with her Spanking Space Cloud Forest Coff ee present: THE TARG Alone Records and Ashton Brewing SUNDAY FREE-PLAY w/DJ KJMaxx & Booth! FATHERS DAY BRUNCH BUFFET!! We present: NEW SWEARS WEEKEND guests spinning 100% pure wax Sleaze all know moms are the greatest but hey, - 19+ Nite featuring : NEW SWEARS Rock, Punk, Metal & Synth Pop. Unlimited SAT JUNE 10 - House of TARG, dads need some lovin’ too!! Join us w/sg BUDDY SMILES + SHRIEKING Arcade action for just $5. STASH ALE Tall Spectrasonic and Ashton Brewing from 11am-2pm and treat your dad to EELS - Nite 2 of two back to back Cans only $5. 9pm-2am 19+ . present: PINE w/sg SAFE TO SAY + our fi rst ever FATHERS DAY BRUNCH NEW SWEARS shows to celebrate the HEAVY HEARTS + KAMEN. Alternative BUFFET - feed yer dads face and enjoy forthcoming release of “and the Magic our magical/bottomless coff ee cup, all of THEM? HERE IN BURGER TIME P.P. HAS TO START! HELP ME SLO’! Signed – ENVADE MR. HOTDOG, MR. EGG AND MR. KnobTwyster PICKLE (WHO APPEARS IN ROUND 3), ALL THE WHILE WALKING ACROSS BUNS, LETTUCE, DEAR KNOBTWYSTER: The best AND MEAT SO HE CAN CREATE HIS BURGER way to get started doing sound is to MASTERPIECE. approach a local tech and ask if you can ‘shadow’ them for a few shifts. AS FOR HIS ENEMIES, P.P. ISN’T WORRIED, That will give you an idea what you’re BECAUSE HE HAS A SECRET WEAPON: getting yourself into. There’s a ton PEPPER. WHENEVER MR. HOTDOG, MR. EGG, of stuff you need to know to be a OR MR. PICKLE GETS TO CLOSE PETER CAN good sound technician: how to run a mixing console, wire a stage, place GIVE HIM A SHOT OF PEPPER TO NEUTRALIZE microphones, follow signal paths… and THEM. THE ONLY PROBLEM HERE IS THAT a lot more. But the hardest part by far PETER ONLY HAS FIVE SHOTS PEPPER SO USE is the inter-personal skills you need to THEM WISELY. OUR QUICK THINKING CHEF DEAR MR. SLO TOM: I’VE GOT manage and organize 2, 3 or even 4 CAN CLAIM AN ICE CREAM CONE, A COFFEE THE BLUES! HOW’S THE BEST bands so that the night runs smoothly. CUP OR FRENCH FRIES TO GAIN MORE WAY TO GET OUT OF A FUNK? Trying to sort out gear and set times PEPPER. THE FOODIES WILL TRY TO BLOCK WONDERINGLY: Thanks Mr. Bum- with a dozen half drunk musicians in PETER FROM REACHING THE POWER UP SO IF more a dark, loud club is like herding cats! THAT HAPPENS USE THE PEPPERS YOU HAVE Not everyone’s cup of tea, you know? WITH TIMELY CARE. DEAR MR. BUM-MORE: How do Anyhow… good luck, KnobTwyster I get outta a funk? First off: don’t fi ght it - embrace it! Slap some IN CLOSING, MR. PICKLE IS FASTER THAN MR. DEAR SLO’ TOM: MY BAND GOT super bummer music on (maybe HOTDOG OR MR. EGG. KEEP ENVADING YOUR ASKED TO PLAY A SHOW WITH FOOD IN VIDEO GAMES ALWAYS SEEM TO GO some Nick Cave or PiL) and darken ANOTHER BAND AND WE WERE ENEMIES AND YOU’LL DO WELL. the room. Get some hard liquor WELL TOGETHER AND BURGER TIME IS NO STOKED! WE HAD A GREAT GIG, and start knocking it back. If you EXCEPTION. IT PAVED THE WAY FOR OTHER SEE YOU NEXT MONTH GAMERS! have any break up letters from your BUT AT THE END OF THE NIGHT THE FOOD RELATED GAMES TO MAKE THEIR MARK high school fl ame lying around, OTHER BAND ONLY GAVE US $50. SUCH AS BOBBLE BOBBLE (1986), PIG OUT pull ‘em out and start digging a WHAT A RIP. WHAT SHOULD WE DO? (1988) AND POPEYE (1986). SUPER BUMMER VIBE! Don’t fi ght Signed – RippedOFFRocker it! Keep drinking and get into it. THE OBJECT OF BURGER TIME IS SIMPLE: Start thinking of all the mistakes DEAR RIPPEDOFFROCKER: I hate HELP CHEF PETER PEPPER ASSEMBLE 4 you’ve made and start obsessing to sound like your Dad, but there’s BURGERS ON EACH LEVEL. THERE ARE SIX over what you SHOULD have done nothing you can do except learn from LEVELS IN ALL (SO I’M TOLD. I’VE ONLY or SHOULD have said! Man, when this experience. If you accept a show without agreeing on payment then you REACHED LEVEL 2). THERE IS NO TIME you wake up the next morning you just end up with whatever the band LIMIT SO P.P. CAN GET THE BURGERS READY won’t remember anything and you’ll be preoccupied with puking and or promoter feels like giving you. You BEFORE HIS ENEMIES REACH HIM. trying to fi gure out who you phoned can’t negotiate after the fact! Next at 4 am all crying and stuff... yeah! time, make sure you have a clear WAIT! ENEMIES? WHAT VIDEO GAME THAT’S how I get outta a funk! record of the agreement via email: who WOULD BE COMPLETE WITHOUT Good luck, Mr. Bum-more else is on the bill, what the band order is, how long a set you’ll have, and how DEAR SLO’ TOM: I’M INTERESTED much you’ll get paid. And remember – IN BEING A SOUND TECH BUT if you don’t like the deal, don’t accept I DON’T KNOW WHERE TO the show! THIS MONTH: MY TOP 5 ‘SYNTHPUNK’ RECORDS. SYNTHPUNK (ALSO KNOWN AS ELECTROPUNK) IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT DESCRIBES THE COMBINATION OF ELECTRONIC MUSIC WITH THE ATTITUDE OF PUNK MUSIC. LEARN ABOUT SOME OF THE CLASSICS THAT DEFINE THE GENRE:

#5. BIG BLACK - LUNGS (1982 - Ruthless/Touch And Go Records): From Evanston, Illinois and active between ‘82 and ‘87. This band featured a very young Steve Albini. Cool fact about this demo; it was recorded on a TEAC 3340 loaned to Albini in exchange for a case of beer.

#4. COMIX - TOUCHE PAS MON SEXE (1982 - Virgin Records): French coldwave, minimal electronics, synth punk fusion duo formed by André Demay and Natan Hercberg around ‘79. They released a self-titled LP and 2 singles including Touche Pas Mon Sexe. DID SKA JEFF’S HI #3. SUICIDE – SUICIDE FIVES GIVE YOU THE (1977 - Red Star Records): American electronic proto-punk musical duo, intermittently active MUNCHIES FOR SOME since ‘70. This was their fi rst release and ultimately is a classic, being one of the fi rst punk MORE ELECTROPUNK? bands to use synthesizer. Checkout the incredible line-up he put together for THURS JUNE #2. DEVO – Q: ARE WE NOT MEN? A: WE ARE DEVO! 8 featuring FRUSTRATION from (1978 - Virgin Records): Formed in the late Paris France. This one is shaping ‘70s by a group of art students at Kent State University by Mark Mothersbaugh and Jerry up to be one of the best concerts Casale. Cool fact; the cover is based on an of the year. An extra big TARG image of the famous pro golfer Juan “Chi-Chi” Rodríguez that they had found on a golf strap. Hi Five to Ska Jeff of Crucial synthesizer. Records for making this amazing show happen. #1. UNITS - DIGITAL STIMULATION American electro/synthpunk founded in San Francisco in ‘78 and active until ‘84. They along with The Screamers are credited as the pioneers of the genre now known as synthpunk.