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careful that the image we're exact same. Outside the Rob, run for cover" at me, I'd be sending out to Canada at large son, there ain't none closer, far more likely to drop trou is not only accurate, but will but in the 'hood business and hop into the sack than bring others here and revital­ is business for him and the if she unloaded that unmiti­ ize the areas of the city that NExpresso Thuggs. gated electro-country pap in DEATH FROM ABOVE are in dire need of an economic And that's the way it is, my direction. If she started revitalization. This is why l was was and always will be. From crawling up my stairs in some HEADS UP CD/LP (ACHE 009) happy to see Swollen Members the VPL to the 7-11, the R to the skin-tight grey bodysuit sing­ EX BLACK CAT #13 /CURRENT FEMME FATALE MEMBER? ^ AOIir mentioning Vancouver on their O to the B is the only life we've ing "Round and Round" by video for "Steppin Thru" the known. 5-0 sez that a coffee's a RATT, I'd think, "Wow, sheis other day. coffee and we need to increase genuine." If she clomped up my the peace on the downlow at stairs barking, "So, don't try to "New York to London/Yonge Thurlow because silence has run, honey—love can be fun/ Street to Robson/We get the it all over violence, especially There's no need to be alone, job done." with a double espresso in hand, when you find that someone," but you tell that to someone I'd be obliged t shut the door All I have to say is, "F'rizzo, who grew up here—someone and pretend no one was home. yo." I don't know how many who remembers a time before Because love can't be faked times I been chillen wit' my Sears, before Virgin, before and that kind of emotion can't homiez and I say, "Shit, dawgs, Guess, even before Bollum's. be concocted. Shania, stick to we most definitely gots to The storefronts change, but pontificating about the previ­ cruise Robson, so I can score our street's all we got. The NE ous locations of your fella's some sizzoap at Lush. They corner may have a split-level, boots and leave the love songs gots this sandalwood-musk but it's got shit for street- to people who know how to blend that makes my bath­ seating and the rhymes that write—like the Scorpions, room smell mad dope, g." My Swollen Members be kickin' WASPorWhitesnake. • boy Geek-1 knows what time ain't always pretty, but that's it is and he rolls up next to me, the way shit goes down in the 40 in hand. "Yea yea, MCE," he V-Dot—knowhatumsayin'? sez, "my biyatch got mad love Wait, what was I saving? 6 November 2002 "David Yonge is the vaudevillan of the art world...it seems that whatever he creates, constructs or finds becomes set and props for a methodical rampage of actions under various aliases." over my Penelope Mulligan, Discorder book reviews by Doretta iiiiiiiiiiiii "David Yonge's courage as a performance artist is remarkable...rigorously THE SELF INDULGENT TAKE engaged in one com And now, the book review theoretical, Yonge is daring to go where few artists do these days, reminding ON TOURISM or another. returns to this column, which us of the brutal underpinning and physical risks characteristic of the The question that has been The whole scene was is supposed to be a book review Vienna Aktionistes." bothering me for some months weirdly community-like, though column after all. now is does everyone really really, we were tourists in the Michael Scott, The Vancouver Sun hate a tourist? This has noth­ Downtown Eastside. We had LYNN COADY ing to do with the fact that Saints of Big Harbour I've spent the last month (Doubleday Canada) in Olympia and a suburb of For the past month I've been in Halifax. No, this question has Cole Harbour, a community in been haunting me since the the Halifax suburb Dartmouth. summer. I've spent some time at the Prior to the question com­ local library and it was there I ing up, my friend Aaron and found a copy of Lynn Coady's I had been listening to Pulp's second novel, Saints of Big Different Class. We were danc­ Harbour. Coady's book is very ing to it and singing it on the fitting for this month's column streets. We were practically because she was raised in Cape parodying ourselves. We were Breton, Nova Scotia, and now acting like we were in a bad resides in Vancouver (and yes, movie, a poorly lit one with she's a graduate of the UBC dialogue that is too self-con­ Creative Writing Program, but sciously cool. that topic is something of a One night, in the Sugar controversy—she doesn't even Refinery, we were waiting mention the fact in her bio—so for Mimi's Ami to play when it belongs in parentheses). Aaron remarked that all the Saints of Big Harbour is an tourists going through the ambitious work, written from Sugar Refinery made him feel simply transplanted our gath­ several points of view and a little uncomfortable. Sure, ering from one neighbourhood encompassing a year (1982) I'd noticed the guys who looked to another. I wondered if our in the lives of folks in the ficti­ like they had captained a high presence was positive, or if it tious Nova Scotia towns Port Saturday November 30th 8:00pm school sports team in the past. was disruptive. My roommate, Hull and Big Harbour. The There were also the girls who who grew up in Strathcona, protagonist is Guy Boucher, 110 West Hastings St. Vancouver $8/6 students looked like they stepped out finds it disconcerting when an Acadian teenager, who suf­ of the pages of Vogue. These students from West Vancouver fers from the oppression of a guys and girls were there for decide to "slum it" in her small town and a charismatic, the food and drink, not the neighbourhood. So I wonder, alcoholic uncle, Isadore. The shows. I thought their pres- when we enter the Downtown book begins in first person,

The whole scene was weirdly community-like, though really, we were tourists in the downtown eastside.

ence w s air ing, but nothin Eastside as a group, are we the from Guy's perspective, but gentrifying force we so abhor? opens up. into a narrative A little while later, I found Or are we just trying to break that includes the third person myself standing in line to enter down the barriers between viewpoints of a number of the Pat's Pub. It was the weekend neighbourhoods and address people in the Port Hull and Big of Powell Street Festival and the class divide that most Harbour communities. Coady's it so happened that Destroyer Vancouverites pretend does book successfully dissects the and the Battles were playing at not exist? way relationships play out in Pat's, which is located a block I'm not sure what the enclosed communities where from the infamous Downtown answers are, but we've got to everyone knows everyone Eastside intersection Main and ask the questions. Otherwise else's business. She is able Hastings. As I stood in line, we're no better than people to jump from the perspective I overheard someone saying who complain about pan­ of the town beauty to that of that they had seen a woman handlers. (Incidentally, the her fat-and-therefore-invis- take a shit in front of a bus Vancouver international ible best friend in the space of stop. Film Festival reports that a big, yet continue to hit the When I finally got inside, 1 there number of guests had tone of each character with ran into a friend who pointed remarked that it seemed like remarkable precision. Coady out that Pat's is owned by there were more homeless documents the insecurities the parents of a high school people on the streets this of every character—from the acquaintance of ours. The year than in past years. Is it town's golden boys to its draft Battles started playing and I coincidence that this comes dodging, alcoholic English ran into people I never thought after the government slashed teacher- with a sly sense of I'd see again: a girl who I'd welfare and cut other social humour and a gentle touch. gone drinking with when I was programs? While I'm on a tan­ The book isn't a whirlwind tour 17 who couldn't remember gent, please see Nettie Wild's through small town life; it is a my name, a boy who made documentary Fix: the Addicted meditative look at the inter­ it very clear in class that he City. It's about the struggle to connected nature of the people hated my short stories. When end the American-style war on in a community, how they live, Destroyer played it seemed drugs and start implementing love and survive —themselves like the show was happening in harm reduction strategies in and each other. • 6(U.87-*J?773 another room. Everyone was Vancouver.) 7 DiSCORDER eUMGlETONE rCOOUCTIONf pftEfENTS riff raff by Bryce Dunn

ll that vinyl hugging last with other Vancouver notable Box 21249, Seattle, WA 98111) month has cramped my punk predecessors like The Those wacky kids at Gold GoGmiffl Stiffs and The Furies back in Standard Laboratories are JAPAN'S AMBASSADOR'S OF SURF Ahands and left square indentations on my chest—not the day released a five song EP at it again, this time with such a good idea after all—but of unabashedly scrappy, some­ ARMATRON, The Locusts I still managed to squeeze times out of tune, yet alto­ sludge-ier cousins. Spanning some "good good lovin'" outta gether fun music in under ten five songs of electro-gloom this latest batch. Speakin' of, minutes. Catch up with a cool that resemble a fight between THE FLAKES deliver a frantic piece of punk history—check Servotron and The Melvins, version of that James Brown it out. (Dionysus Records, PO my favourite cut is "Tallest classic on their latest. They've Box 1975, Burbank, CA 91507) Mics In The World," where got two out so far, but this is a What's not always fun is they scream the name of the first for the fans on the other getting your eye poked out song over and over again while side of the Atlantic. An uber- by a scalpel—didn't you kids playing at a hundred miles an group of sorts, featuring the in THE DISTRACTION learn hour. You so crazy! (GSL, PO (33MS multi-talented Russell Quan anything last time? Obviously Box 178262, San Diego, CA s^SS pounding the skins with one not, since each member of 92177) Doors 7pm, Show 8pm $14 the band sports a sharp blade And finally, sometimes dangerously dangling within it pays not to judge a book eyeball's reach. Thankfully the by its cover, as was the case SHENANIGAN'S 1225 ROBSON ST only person that receives any with YOUNG HEART ATTACK. serious injury out of this is Looking at the sleeve with its FROM DETROIT yours truly from pogoing fran­ cutesy animal drawings, I had tically and suffering from sore written this off as a wimpy ••OTHEfr- feet whilst blaring the two indie-pop act (not that there tracks "Transmission Ignition" isn't a time and place for and "Nothin' To Me," a pair of wimpy indie-pop, just not now snarling, Sex Pistols-meets- in this sentence), but instead The Stitches punk riffage. A was pleasantly surprised by full length is coming down the its AC/DC marriage to The of several groups he sneaks pipe as we speak, so if you dig Headcoatees rock and roll. his way into—I swear the man that, make sure to wear solid The singer has the Bon Scott S2KTS is trying to set some kind of footwear and thick glasses and vocals down, and the guitars Guinness Book record for you'll be ready for the "Beach are nice and loud and choppy, THURSDAY NOVEMBER 14 most bands played in—it's a Brat Sound" (try trade mark­ but then the girl-gang back­ sweaty, manic, garage ROCK ing that, why don'cha?) of The ups kick in —like on the song HE PICCADILLY record with just enough Distraction. (Pelado Records, "Mouthful Of Love"— and I'm oomph to get you out on the 521 W. Wilson #C103, Costa reminded of the lasses from dance floor. The other track, #\ ,<<^ WITH ••• •••••• *•• * ••• • '•• • "Jerk Store" relies on a more Paul Revere and The Rai­ 4( il ORCHID HIGHWAYAND ders-style pounding backbeat, but is no less fierce, thanks also to some sweet guitar CLOVER HONEY dueling that punches the cho­ rus and spits up blood. You'll pay a bit more for this at yer local wax shop, but it's worth FRODAY GSDOW 2§IK3 ^gfl© it. (Screaming Apple Records, Followed by Dustemichstr. 14 50939 Koln Early SHOTGUN? 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Which is also where the track "Switchblade" so If you're a glutton for this record is from, see? as not to exclude their fran­ punishment you may need (Rex Records, PO Box 23084, cophone fans and voila\ Une extra strength relief after London UK Wll 2YW) disque magnifique! (Box P62- listening to THE EPOXIES That's it—send your The Polynesian Room, Hula Hut and Twilight Lounge with Luehy (Seattle), 275 King St. East, Toronto, ON newest effort—it's a synth- Christmas goodies (that M5A1K2) pop headache worth inducing. means 7"s, dummy) for review Bai-on Samedi esq., The El Dorados, Todd Tomorrow and special surprise A blast from the Canadian "Synthesized" rides a great next month care of this col­ guest. Plus more to come! past revisited, reissued, and keyboard melody and some umn and this fine rag—I'll be a heck of a lot cheaper (for smooth-like-butter vocal Advance tix at Zulu, Noize!, Scratch Red Cat, Kawabata-Ya and Hi'ghlife. those of us not scouring the delivery from singer Roxy dreadful eBay collector scum Epoxy; "Clones (We're All)," is tunnels), is GENTLEMEN OF an Alice Cooper cover done INFO: tW 878-COCO • WiVW*ftUMftiETONE,fOM HORROR. The group which faithfully and with... roto- probably shared equal billing toms! (Dirtnap Records, PO 8 November 2002 road worn radio free DITC&BK and wcai zines, etc. by Bleek Tour Diaries

'm still wading through a perspective, or at least it and space aliens conversing THE TENNESSEE TWIN TOUR up scared, not knowing where ever again after she plays The stack of California zines should. You'd be hard-pressed with the editor. The last zine, DIARY HIGHLIGHTS AND she is or who's knocking. Louvin Brothers' Satan Is Real I from last month. My friend to find the difference between JIBBER JABBER, is at least LOWLIGHTS: MINI-CANADIAN We collect "li'l smoky" in album. Some are shocked to Dave went to the San Francisco it and other punk-lit zines till three times as thick as the oth­ TOUR, SUMMER 2002 Calgary and caravan slowly learn of the age-old driving zine fest and picked up another you read the editorials. A col­ ers and continues down paths and carefully to Edmonton. rule which dictates that the wad of zines for me to look at. umn that reprints a chat-room of what might be taken for Major Players Nen and Neil are probably driver chooses the music. I'll never see daylight again. conversation shows the igno­ mental illness. Is it nightmare Cindy Wolfe: band leader, hung over. Cindy is surely hung Back in Edmonton, Nen's Remember Lisa (Suckdog) rance of an "open-minded" sequences in a paragraph per vocals, mandolin, tambourine, over. After arriving at The Rev parents decide to host a BBQ Cabaret, we eventually dis­ Carver's Rollerderby zine? This male and the assumptions he page, or is it stream-of-con- lemon shaker. for us. We all gleefully stuff our cover that our promoter has is one of America's funniest, makes about transsexuals. sciousness creative claptrap Sarah Wheeler: drums, vocals, faces, some with big steaks. called in sick. We are forced to most shocking and plainly dis­ These topics, with the added concerning green bugs? I don't whistle. Nen's mom finds places for us play early and don't succeed in gusting things in printed form punk perspective, are rarely know. I'm a visual artist: I kind Monica Chattaway: fiddle, all to sleep at the expense of getting sufficiently fed. No one from the last couple decades. visited in publications. Find of like a beginning and an end. I vocals. those who live in the house. out more by writing to PO Box admit that I like my surrealism Nen Jelicic: electric guitar. wants to party with us. We sell She even provides us with Not that it's grosser than say, no merch. Answer Mel, but it draws you 1611, Santa Cruz, CA 95061. in pictures and sounds and I'm Neil Walker: the roadie. fresh pajamas. in like a fun little girl zine and Just who is Mr. AKA? not so good with the written soon you're being assaulted He sent me three zine-like version. If you are you can con­ Every year the City of DAY 4, Saturday, August 31: DAY 6, Monday, September 2: by subversive lists of sex acts, things in the mail (or was it tact Mr. AKA at brownblobbloo Vancouver shuts down the Edmonton to Saskatoon Edmonton to Vancouver interviews with famous misan­ a dream?), and these three [email protected]. Vancouver Public Library Somehow and sometime very Alarm clocks wake us up very thropes, and an underlying or really break the mold. Often for the entire week before early in the morning, Monica early. We find Nen and his dad overt violence. If you like that I'm not so fond of this sort of zine BABYSUE continues its Labour Day to "save" money. sort of thing you have to check minimalism which wraps itself long journey across the under­ Being VPL employees (except out FLATTER.'This is a product in high art poetry by printing belly of the underground. Sarah) stiffed out of work, we of Lisa's friend Jaina, another one confounding sentence on There's something to be said decided it was a good week to postmodern woman with one otherwise blank page. You about staying with the same tour what we could of Canada. that bizarre fascination with know, it's like the easy joke for basic format for many years Here is our story. pop culture combined with an the comedian, the cock joke. because when you see Babysue unrelenting nihilism and fuck- Always sure to make an impact you always know what it is and DAY 1, Wednesday, August 28: you attitude. Picture Hello and cause a stir. So lately i look what you're in for. Nearly every Vancouver to Calgary Kitty as Hannibal Lecter. For through a shit-load of fucking cover is a different version We leave Vancouver at 5:30AM, the jaded, city-dwelling, nut­ poetry zines which employ tiny of the original and the com­ girls in the rental mini-van, ter Flatter! serves as a dialogue words of nothingness on a big ics never change much either. boys in Nen's vehicle distin­ between everyone with at least blank page and immediately Baby Sue always looks the guishable by a ratty Canadian a modest historic and cultural they're hoisted to the realms same although she has differ­ flag flapping from its antenna. awareness, but a healthy dis­ of high art. But no, these zines ent ways of being cruelly funny After not so many miles, we satisfaction and contempt are not necessarily all about each strip. Cruelty is a major stop for breakfast in Hope at a for everything sacred or pro­ this phenomenon. Take the component of Babysue's social family-style restaurant. Sarah fane. It's all up for grabs and example of the ELIJAH WOOD commentary and they love to immediately spills her orange it's genuinely funny. Write to zine, that's right, the elfin actor poke at you till you say uncle. juice all over the table and her Flatter! at 661 Shotwell St., San from Lord of the Rings. While it Lots of it speaks of mere undis­ crotch. Although irritating Francisco, CA 94110-2623. has the anally-retentive atten­ ciplined punk rock and all, but many, Monica's exceedingly other times it challenges what Missing that cut and paste tion to detail usually found in high decibel level manages to we consider "beyond good look? Tired of zines moving the "fan" zine, there's a kind attract some cute city work­ taste," as in the ongoing "Black toward a more polished pro­ of fictional stalker aspect to ers in red jumpsuits. Before Ladies" strip. 1 mean, what is duction? A Santa Cruz zine it, including fantasy interviews leaving, we bicker over our it? It's a jab at political correct­ called ZENBABY is a hodge­ with Wood and a "Girl" or "Man first bill. ness and it's offensively racist. podge of stolen items, collages, with script idea" and "Mom." 1 By taking a bad stereotype to rants, poetry, lyrics, anarchy didn't think I would like this DAY 2, Thursday, August 29: a ridiculous exaggeration are Cindy and Neil get naked on the road and the mishmash of clutter thing, but it sure won me Calgary to Canmore we fighting it or succumbing that recalls the punk zines over. It's original and almost At the Canmore Hotel, where purchases a hideous moose crashed out in front of the TV. to some philosophy of "no of years ago. From reading disturbing. But there's more, we are to stay and play, every­ baseball cap. We leave "li'l How cute. After eating cereal, message, no future, no solu­ through a lot of this (and it will of course. one gets their own room. smoky" with Nen's parents Nen's sweet mom gives us each tion, no hope, no worries?" I take a while) I've learned that PEEP THE VISION, another Cindy snags the only room in Edmonton, and Neil com­ a little parting gift. Leaving don't know, I'm just too old- Zenbaby is the lovechild of a zine in the package, is pure with its own bathroom and mandeers the rental eastward. Nen and "li'l smoky" behind, we school liberal for these times. female to male tranny (a.k.a. Breton-era-surrealist dreams- TV, thus dubbed "the party Back on the highway, Nen depart Edmonton by 7:30AM. Babysue is $3.50 from PO Box "addadictomy"). This gives cape, including TV interview­ room." We are charmed and tickles Neil while he's driving After hours of smooth sail­ 33369, Decatur, GA 30033. • the zine something of a unique ers dropping out of the s immediately bond. Super cool and we careen toward a truck ing, we encounter a line-up at bartender Desi feeds us lots of in the next lane, narrowly the Coquihalla tollbooth. After fine beer all night long. A very escaping death. A rare quiet eating all the stray snacks in drunk Canmore Hotel employ­ moment ensues. the car and a brief argument ee, Linda, informs us that she At Amigos in Saskatoon, over who will eat whom, we is "the crazy spoon lady" who our promoter, Brandt, is very discover a small opening in will play during both bands' sweet and takes good care of the highway median near us. sets. The bar fills with an odd us. Even the vegetarians are We decide to take this open­ assortment of frat/sorority well fed, and we get to stay ing, turn around, go back to types and trashy aggressive in a cool old hotel called The Merritt, and take the Highway locals who'd rather hear some Senator. Cindy is banished to 3 detour toward Vancouver. At rock. Monica tries to oblige the small, cold, haunted room dusk, Cindy is finally elected to by screaming "I Wanna Be while everyone else shares drive. Complete darkness, tor­ Your Dog." During our set, we "the party room." rents of rain, hairpin curves, are oblivious to continuously and an excess of backseat hurled epithets, such as, "show DAY 5, Sunday, September 1: driving make this task extraor­ us your tits!" Saskatoon to Edmonton dinarily difficult. But we do In the morning we locate a veg­ survive, arriving back home in DAY 3, Friday, August 30: etarian and otherwise friendly Vancouver by midnight. We Canmore to Edmonton breakfast joint. Unfortunately, all have to work the next day. Very early in the morning, the rest of charming Saskatoon We kiss goodbye and secretly Buttless Chap Morgan knocks appears to close on Sundays. hope not to see each other for on "the party room" door to Everyone tries desperately to awhile. • retrieve his shoes. Cindy wakes prevent Cindy from driving

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And of the kill, as we bomb the liv­ couldn't wait any longer, so he lunch. And dinner. ing shit out of Iraq; or, as the to tell the philosophers of his enough to convince the White pro tennis player, currently time to read the newspapers. Man that he too had to do it, ranked 130th in the world who, jumped in his Tahoe, drove to For your information: FBI's planes circle and circle over—not only Washington, [Pollution control officer it seemed so cool. However, since turning pro in 1996, has Metal Mike's place, and started Stephen Malkmus likes to eat DC—but the entire country, Richard Anderson shot and the big joke was that the a total of $1,488,938.00 in banging on the door. It was Chile Picante Corn Nuts after perhaps even Canada, in that killed two colleagues before Schwarzkommando were jok­ career earnings, and who, truth early, and when Metal Mike blazing a huge J, Chan Marshall uncanny hunt for that elusive turning the gun on himself ing the entire time... [and the be told, even if he is my GOOD answered the door he was likes to snack on celery sticks sniper in the white van. This Tuesday after getting a let­ Pentagon has authorized the BUDDY, isn't much of a tennis month's column will inter­ ter of discipline.] Today, the use of Army surveillance and player—told me what METAL Justin Gimelstob told me what METAL sperse itself between quotes same duty requires us to find reconnaissance aircraft in the MIKE EATS FOR BREAKFAST! and links. Insofar as it is a "col­ out how news is made, and hunt for the killer.] I can tell you're dying MIKE EATS FOR BREAKFAST! umn," it sediments itself and by whom: the daily papers, to know, and I'll tell you in a extends its tendrils past its the weeklies, and the TV news And There's Just Nowhere to wrapped in lettuce to keep her minute, but first, I should just wearing puffy hair and slip­ limited graphemes in memory as well. We need to insist on Stay inform you, for reliability's pers. "Let's go get some break­ from turning into a REAL fat of one Walter Benjamin and looking at them from the ...while, at the same time, in sake, that my good buddy fast," Justin had said, but Metal ass, Thurston Moore snorts a the Arcades Project, a man sui­ other end: that of the press BC, derelict buildings rot in Justin Gimelstob is one of Mike refused, He said that he litre of banana milk through cided by society if there ever agencies as well as that of our downtown cores while Metal Mike's clients. My good had already eaten even though one nostril, and a litre of was one. 1 leave references to the tele-prompter. And we the homeless suffer on the buddy Justin Gimelstob pays it was clear that he'd just got­ strawberry milk through the spurn further reading. should never forget what this streets... and now that "they" Metal Mike a percentage of ten out of bed. "Why don't you other before he plays a show, entails: whenever a journalist (they aren't real people, real his measly losing salary to do come in," he said. "Just let me Nelly Furtado treats herself to or a politician appears to be citizens, right? I mean they October 6th his taxes. Mr. Saunders, as he's take a whiz." a couple of deep fried beef balls speaking to us directly, in our have no homes) have taken known in the business world, is While Metal Mike was every once in a while, AND if 20,000 people in Central Park an accountant. going pee (which he does you really want to know the gather to protest war over Iraq (www.nyc.indymedia.org). A few months ago, Justin while sitting down; this Justin details, Elton John and George "Not In Our Name"—"and let Gimelstob, my good buddy, also told me) my good buddy Michael enjoy eating each it not be said the citizens of called me up and started Justin Gimelstob went totally other's dinks for a midnight the West did not resist." But complaining about how Metal wild and opened the fridge. snack! I shouldn't say that. I the question remains of the Mike was really hard to get a Inside there was a CARTON OF don't know that for sure. • name. Where the proper name Ti-:: ~~*" hold of and how he refused to MILK. That's it. So Justin got speaks—even collectively— and where the "our" voices the force of a multiplicity, there occurs the risk of effacement and erasure of the name as the State response. Not In Our Sterling Boone Name—"Fine," says the State; The Beatup Ronin "Then you are no longer With Tuesday 1:00 to 2:00 pm Us, but Against Us: You No *&< Longer Have a Name." Indeed, homes, and looking us straight a unilateral—if not ethical, will we see this development in the eye, he or she is actu­ justified, and necessary—deci• Record played most often on your show: in positions where the debate ally reading, from a screen, at sion to occupy these buildings I'd almost say Television's Marquee Moon, but I think it's edged out by The over nomenclature, over who the dictation of a 'prompter,' (Hell, not so much to occupy as Dirtbomb's Ultraglide in Black, and The Mooney Suzuki's Electric Sweat can claim to speak—people or and reading a text which was to have a place to call home), Record you would save in a fire: State—precipitates the overt produced elsewhere, on a dif­ the Government's move, Most definitely a dilemma in decision making would surface and I'd go out like a manifestation of State power ferent occasion, possibly by backed by a complicit and viking with the vinyl. If it came down to it though, most likely—The Rolling Stones over its own people—what other people, or by a whole often malicious police force, Aftermath. Virilio calls "endocolonization." network of nameless writers is to arrest those without Record that should burn in hell: (See Speed and Politics.) and editors. [His unflinch­ homes, steal and destroy their Anything electronic can take the fast elevator down, and I Peking hate Fleetwood "I have such a horror that ing message yesterday: The only belongings—donated Mac's Rumors. this is going to go on and on," violent shooting deaths had blankets—and cart them off Worst record that you like: said Mabel Dudeney, 76, a nothing—repeat, nothing—to to the Courts for daring to find Huey Lewis and the News, Sports, or maybe some nostalgic run with DJ Jazzy Jeff survivor of the 1940-41 Battle do with the government's con­ a home... would we approve of and the Fresh Prince. of Britain in which much of troversial program of down­ this anywhere else? 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Artax is a band out of Abbotsford with no particular defining genre;— a band to which using a vague description like "punk" would be not only boring but unfair. At an Artax show, you can sing, dance and eat, and songs of apocalyptic potatoes and video game faces suck you into their whirlwind of confusion that actually makes sense. Well, Adrian: Last show we had six people licking it off of me! Anyway... maybe. Ifl could actually explain them any more, they wouldn't be as so lyrics I think, just to challenge people's perspectives in a way fun, so let's just get to the questions. that's, I don't know, humorous in a way? It's just more fun that way.. Last time I saw you, you threw out your lyrics on sheets into the crowd- DiSCORDER: Who are you, officially, and what do you do? Do you listen to any other bands with Neverending Story-inspired Adrian: Yeah, every show we do that. Julie: Julie, otherwise known as J-Dawg and I play bass. names like Atreyu or Falkor? Julie: You've seen us before? Frank: My name's Franklin, code name Falkor... [drums] Julie: Yeah, there is that band Atreyu—i wanted to hear them but I Yeah, twice. Once at the Chilliwack show and once... Julie: I thought 1 was Falkor! didn't get a chance. They're like a metal band. Adrian: At our first show, right? [Frank] had just had a spinal tap Adrian: I'm Adrian and Morla [guitar/vocals], the wise turtle in the Adrian: We should make a compilation album! five days before! movie, [ed.note—They're talking about The Neverending Story. How about if you could play a show with any band, who would it Frank: Yeah, five days before our first show! I started being able to Where the hell were you in the '80s?] You were the horse! be? walk the day before the show. I hadn't gotten out of bed for three Julie: Artax? But that's the band! What about the bat? Julie: I don't know, The Red Light Sting maybe. days, so I swallowed a lot of Tylenol-3s and I felt pretty looped. Near Frank: You're the racing snail. Frank: Any band? The Police. the end of the show 1 guess the medication was wearing off and the How did you guys start up and why? Julie: Dead Kennedys. pain was starting to come back in my head, and so yeah, it was bad. Julie: Adrian and I started playing our instruments and we sucked. Adrian: Or d.b.s. if any of these bands existed anymore. 1 paid for it, but it was tun. We needed a drummer so we could make a band. What's been your favorite show so far and favorite band to play Hey what about this Allen Greenspan song. When I hear that, I Adrian: We were in FSR, our first band. There were 5 people in the with? imagine everyone holding hands and swaying. Is that the idea? band and the visions were so [different]. It just had too many people. Julie: The Skids. Julie: We want them to sway! Julie: We just wanted a three piece. We decided to have some jam Frank: Well, let's clarify the bias here—she's going out with one of Adrian: Yeah, totally. Hey, you know what I found out? I was always —nothing official—but then we clicked and Artax was born. the members! wondering where I got the inspiration for that song and really Adrian: Our shows and practices are pure therapy—probably the Julie: New World on Fire. what's it's from is "I am the church, you are the church, we are the main reason that we play music. It's really inconvenient to be in a Adrian: Yeah. church together." So I just realized that "I Am Allen Greenspan" is a band, because you have to organize every week: the jams and the Frank: At the Chilliwack [Art Centre] show, it was short but the peo­ church cover song! shows and the promotion. ple were into it. Do you have any plans to record anything soon? Frank: And you have to live at the same time! Adrian: New World on Fire is crazy: the energy in the place, the peo­ Adrian: Yes, in December we're recording a full length. Adrian: Live and go to school and work and deal with... ple just went insane. Julie: We're just totally busy with school and all... Frank: Ex-girlfriends! Julie: It was s Frank: It'll be about 10 songs. Adrian: Well the crazy thing is, me and Julie went out for three Adrian: But n vthatplai s shut down forever. At that Friday the Adrian: Lots of art and amazing amounts of written stuff. Hopefully you won't be able to close the CD; 1 want that much! My main thing years! 13th show—some girl went crazy and ripped down all the about art is 1 want to know what [artists] think in a different medi­ Julie: The beginning of Artax was kinda rough! the art area and destroyed it all! And now there's this huge deposit um. 1 hear their music and I try to understand it, but words are just Adrian: The only thing we did together at the time was play music- and people can't put shows on there. so lacking! Almost half the albums you buy, you just get some pic­ we couldn't even look at each other. What do you feel about bands losing places to play in? tures in the CD. Either they're afraid what they've said is not good Julie: We wouldn't talk to each other. Frank: I think it sucks. Frank: And I didn't know either one of them at the time. I was the Julie: We've been through so many in the past year and a half—it enough... "new guy" and in the middle, playing the drums; it was really weird, started with the Java Joint and then the houses in Abbotsford. Frank: Or they just don't have the money to print books like that! Adrian: I think the main thing about Artax is it's therapy... Frank: I've been working on putting together a venue with a buddy Adrian: They just want to make it professional-looking, right? Well, Julie: In a good way. It's not the whole point, but it's healing. of mine and it's slowly fabricating and it's gonna work out; it's gonna if we have to, I'll just photocopy stuff—like the way [Frank] did his Adrian: And it's a community—it makes life worth living. be swell. That's all I can release! tape is brilliant! Julie: I'd agree. Adrian: It's a punk rave! What was your tape? That was very nice... so why the name Artax? Is it just the horse Frank: It'll probably be in some dumpster. Frank: I do solo acoustic stuff—it's kinda where my heart is; I made that died in The Neverending Story or is it something more? Adrian: You can bring glowsticks! a recording. [Check out www.franklyncurrie.cib.net], Julie: Well, we all really liked the movie and we wanted a one word Frank: Yeah, definitely by early 2003, there'll be a new venue in Adrian: It's really good. name that people could relate to. People of our generation have all Abbotsford! Julie: Excellent. seen it. Adrian: As long as there's a scene, you can't stop it. Is there anything you wish I'd asked, 'cause I think that's all the Adrian: Yeah, we named our band after a dead horse, but it's also Julie: It just keeps popping up everywhere. Like mushrooms! questions I have... The Neverending Story and everyone can identify with it so it has Frank: It's like that adolescent zit on your forehead, the one that Adrian: Well, it's funny, the only thing I was preparing for this inter­ different levels. It's better than an acronym. We used to be an keeps popping up. view was "What's your deserted island CD collection?" acronym because we couldn't decide on anything. Julie: It just migrates around your face. Julie: No, don't go there. FHS? What do you hope to convey with your sounds and your lyrics? Adrian: That's an impossible answer. Adrian: See, that's what I mean, acronyms are the worst! Adrian: Music is totally organic. I don't even make it up; it just hap- Julie: 'Cause it changes. What did it stand for? pens. The music just sort of comes out of nowhere. It just grows like Adrian: What- do you think Julie? Do it now! Julie: The first one was "Fonzie's so rad." a weird moid or something. Julie: I wouldn't take CDs! Batteries would run out! I would take What do you interpret "The Nothing" to be, in the movie? Julie: We just want to have a reaction from people - whether it's a instruments... Julie: It's the loss of the fantasy, like kids not believing anymore, positive or a negative one. Frank: Solar powered... Frank: The Nothing is when we're jamming and we can't seem to Adrian: And lyrically, we have a combination of things. Some of Julie: I'd rather take a hand drum, a guitar and an acoustic bass get anything together. them deal with issues, while some of them are just plain fun; and some coconuts and make music! I'd be wearing the coconuts Adrian: Yeah, no communication! our"Kuchen" song is about cake! Then there are other songs that while I played* Frank: That's what The Nothing is. are about genetically modifying foods. (Artax rock against The Nothing at the Seylynn Hall in North Van on f Adrian: Totally! It's like musical block; writer's block, definitely. Julie: Yeah, we have this cake and everyone can lick it off his face Saturday November 9 ". See them with Billy the Kid and the Lost while we play funk. Boys, St. Tibs Day, and Drakes Advantage for seven lousy bucks.) 13 DiSCORDER By Chris Eng "But it's those kids' faults—they're to blame. They're to share the blame is what I'm saying. Fuck, they've gotta know. C'mon, kids are so grown up nowadays. Y'know, seriously—you don't walk into a confes­ sional booth and see scented candles and an empty box that says 'The Violator' on it and not go, 'Huh?' I don't care if you're eight years old and innocent—figure it out!"

Oh yeah, you think you're witty. Your dad got up in your face the of Toronto, but I love Vancouver and I love Montreal. I really, real­ morning after you'd been out tossing back gin all night and ly like those two places. screamed, "Where the hell have you been?! Are you drunk?!" And you looked back at him—calm, steely-eyed—and said without a Funny, that's what most Canadians who don't live in Toronto say. hint of a smile, "No, I've been touring the night shift at a rubbing There's not a lot going on there and it closes really early. I love alcohol factory." And despite (or perhaps because of) getting Montreal for that—for its happening... cultural... heroin access. smacked around by your old man, you knew you were the king of incisive wit and sarcasm. And Vancouver for that too. Well, let me tell, you—you just lost your throne, motherfucker. Yeah. Even assuming that, by some amazing chance, you actually man­ aged to be the wittiest fucking person on the planet—some Boys So considering that much of your material is intentionally based From Brazil lab-grown hyper-intelligent CHUD-like Oscar Wilde on pushing boundaries, what do think the place of political cor­ clone—you must realize that was only true in a world where David rectness is in society? Cross hadn't released a CD of standup comedy. I think it's only apparent when people call it "political correctness," Because David Cross is funnier than you. He's funnier, smarter because I don't really see that many examples of it anymore. I don't and more in control of his shit than you can ever aspire to being. He consciously see it. It seems to be almost a trend, in a way, that's knows how to work political humour (with the acumen of Dennis dying down—at least the idea of calling somebody on their politi­ Miller) and he knows when to take the piss out of rednecks (with cal correctness or incorrectness. But it's manufactured; it's fake; far more vitriol than Jeff Foxworthy will ever contain in the course it's not organic; it's not real. So, as well-intentioned as it may be, it's of his sad little life). He makes fun of Christians and Jews (with the usually covering up something else that's more important. I don't matter-of-fact attitude of Lenny Bruce) and bends society over, know what that means, but 1 can't wait to read this interview and pokes out its eye and skull-fucks it harder and with morejoi'e de find out. vivre than he ever put forth during his run on Mr. Show. Shut Up You Fucking Baby! is the double-CD set documenting Well, I'm sure that Mr. Show got called on its shit a few times. his tour across the US earlier this year—more than two hours I think everything we did was in the boundaries of being correct, if worth of that learning that you don't get in books; that old-school not politically correct. We didn't pick on defenseless people, we oral education in a dirty shotglass with a venom chaser. So why picked on assholes—whether it was religious or big business or two discs? Why not distill it into one and toss the dregs? Because whatever. it's all gold, baby. The vitamin C-rich golden urine of David Cross pissing all over all of your sacred idols not because he had too much Your track titles were hilarious and, appropriately enough, had %%: coffee, but because it's funny. nothing to do with the tracks. Is that coming from sheer disdain So wipe it off and laugh, goddammit. for the pithy titles that other comedians come up with? Absolutely. Yeah, that's it exactly. And they asked me about the DiSCORDER: Is there a point where funny switches over into track titles and it just occurred to me, "Oh, here's another place for I tasteless and from there switches back into really fucking hilar- humour." I could call it the real thing, but fuck that. Why would I do | ious? that? Extra bonus laughs! Before you even open the disc up; before J David Cross: Well, 1 don't know if it switches back; it just goes fur­ you even pay for it or burn it! ther until it meets itself in a weird Moebius time-strip. But yeah, there's definitely a thick line between funny and tasteless and Word on the street has it that you're working on a Scientology tasteless and funny, but that's just a matter of relative taste, too. comic. Oh, yeah! It's not a Scientology comic, but I was working with an Well, I found the whole Catholic Church bit on the CD really funny, artist who unfortunately is a little... crazy, and backed out of it and but— said he couldn't do it, but'the stuff he was drawing was amazing. I That's just such obvious sarcasm, you know, and plus I'm also a just have to find a different illustrator for it, but I have this whole card-carrying member of NAMBLA, so I feel differently than other story. It involves Scientology, but it's not about Scientology. people do. I'm not a member of NAMBLA; I just have their card. I hold their cards for them. Is that a big interest of yours? I'm a little obsessed with it. I've a fascination with it that goes Playing cards? beyond interest, and it makes me angry in a way that other reli­ Yeah, they're playing cards. They're pretty hot—I mean, if you like gions don't, but it's not a religion, so I shouldn't even give it that "W young boys. credibility.

I There's a long-standing tradition of in-your-face social commen- In what way does it make you angry? I tary in comedy stretching back through Lenny Bruce to Bill Hicks Just that human beings are that susceptible such absolute and you, now. What do you think you can impart through comedy blatent nonsense, made-up fiction, garbage. that you can't get across any other way? %- Well, it's a way to be angry and palatable. Nobody's going to pay And the Bible too, for that matter? money to see somebody rant and rave—"This is bullshit! This is Well, the Bible is also ridiculous—but it's less ridiculous than bullshit!"—but [this is] what Jonathan Swift did; it's what Voltaire Scientology. That's just crap. ii^ did. It's a way of dealing with something that's inherently not H funny, that people might find strident and self-righteous and then The Bible at least has a couple thousand years of history behind r- make it digestable. it? Yeah. I can understand believing in that way before believing in Do you think, as a celebrity, you have some kind of social respon­ this science-fiction writer's poorly-written, random, illogical stuff. sibility? No. I think I, as a person, do. I don't feel any kind of responsibility And since I've got you here, do you have any feelings on Bush and as a celebrity, except maybe to try to be more polite than I nor­ the latest push to take out Iraq? mally would be, or more tolerant of insensitive, stupid people. It's very disturbing and upsetting to me and, much like my feelings That's it. on Scientology and the Bible, it's also very dismaying because of how manufactured all this stuff is. Especially knowing the history So what do you see as the salient differences between the US and of manufaturing this kind of... it's just, there's nothing funny about Canada? it. It's just really disturbing and awful and mean and selfish and... Well, the maple syrup industry is the future for both countries. The that's it. Just really selfish. I wish I believed in Hell because I believe main difference, I think, is that people are less uptight here. My he'd go to Hell.' experience is limited to Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver—I've never really been in the country or anything. I'm not that big a fan David Cross: Funnier Than You 14 November 2002 The Gourds are currently Austin's hottest band. This is no small feat in a city that bills itself as the "Live Music Capital of the World." That's standard Texas hyperbole, perhaps, but Austin City Limits and SXSW are worth boasting about. Austin is still considered a mecca for songwriters and has nourished the careers of the likes of Doug Sahm, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alejandro Escovedo, Nanci Griffith and Lucinda Williams. Lurking in the Americana and roots corner of the alternative music parking lot, Gourds' music is hellaciously hard to describe. Various sources have offered up labels like: The Band meets The Pogues (or London Calling-era Clash); backporch hillbilly punk; Tex- Mex-Cajun-rock-grass-trad. Take your pick. The band's unofficial motto is "music for the unwashed and well read." While they are in no way a jam band, the Gourds enjoy a large following among fans of the Phish / Leftover Salmon / Widespread Panic scene. A distinguishing feature of this band is the presence of two songwriters with differing styles. Songs written by Kevin Russell (vocals/guitar/mandolin) are more likely to sound as if they were plucked from an Appalachian picking party, while Jimmy Smith (bass/vocals) tends to careen through lopsided landscapes inhabited by shadowy char­ acters. What the two share is a love for what Robert Bly calls "leaping poetry" and the type of imagery found in the works ofNeruda and Baudelaire. My introduction to the Gourds came in the spring of 1998 in a college town in north Texas. The owner of a local club renowned for booking fine indie bands ran into us at a festival. He waxed poetically about this great young band from Austin that we absolute­ ly had to see. Ifl recall correctly, the phrase "future inductees to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" was even uttered. At the gig, even though the bass player had lost his voice, I could see and hear that there was definitely something to this scruffy-looking bunch. Myfan- dom was not instant, but has increased steadily and mightily with each new album. The Gourds' sbcth CD, Cow Fish Fowl or Pig has already garnered heaps of praise and college radio airplay. They recently performed in front of a crowd of 10,000 at the Austin City Limits festival. Looks to me like they're on course for a 2022 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Kev "Big Daddy" Russell took time to ramble amicably via email about songwriting, great Canadian rock bands, and the "Gin and Juice" phenomenon.

By Val Cormier THE GOURDS Music for the Unwashed and Well Read DiSCORDER: The Gourds achieved some notoriety on the inter­ asleep out there in the dunes at 5am, but all the cars cruising up the greatest rock bands of all time from anywhere in the world. net for your version of Snoop Dogg's "Gin and Juice." How'd that and down the street were blaring our version of "Gin and Juice." Their record Not Fragile is one of my all-time favorite records. I happen? always dreamed of being in a rock band like that. I did a lot of my Kev "Big Daddy" Russell: Well, I first played that at a birthday Rumour has it that Snoop his fine self has heard your version and pre-pubescent mirror-guitaring to that record. party for our sound engineer, Rche [sic]. That was back in 1997 digs it. Is that true? sometime, I think. It went over very well, lots of laughs and jaw Yes, there is a video clip of him listening to it on the website. You recently released a fine solo CD which includes a song dropping. You'd have thought I had reinvented the wheel. [http://www.thegourds.com] ("Somebody Bring Me Flowers, I'm A Robot") written with your I just liked that song so much when I first heard it, which was son Guthrie. Is the co-write process different with a 3 year old? sometime after the fact, probably 1994 or 95. My sister Erin played The Gourds website says "there is just absolutely no way to cate­ And does he get a cut of the royalties or are you just paying him it for me over the Christmas holidays that year up in Denton.TX gorize this music, these songs, without tearing up the English lan­ off in ice cream? where my folks live. I wanted to figger [sic] out a way to play it, guage." But let's try anyway. Where do you find your songs? What He gets a roof over his head and all the Disney movies he can just for kicks. I could not rap, thank the Lord, so I had to come up gets you riled up enough to write? watch. He uttered the phrase one day while playing Legos and I with a melody that would support all those words. It was like learn­ I write usually when I am sitting around outside. And it all starts asked him simple questions about what he wanted to say. A ques­ ing "Louie, Louie" if Bob Dylan had written it. with a chord progression and a melody, which has a certain rhyth­ tion per line. He would answer and I would write it down in a way One night at the Electric Lounge in Austin I told the guys to fol­ mic pattern, of course. Then the words I dig up from old notebooks that would rhyme and fit with the musical idea I had for it. We have low me on it and we would play it. They had never played it before. or magazines or symbolism or great works of literature. I do cut worked on many musical collaborations. I am going to give it a few I told them it was just A and D chords, very simple, and we did it. ups or collages of words and phrases and then add on bits to make more years before we record and tour with this show. It needs Again, the place came unglued. I think we all were a bit disturbed by it all rhyme and connect somehow. some time to mature. the reception of this monster song. It gained in popularity around 1 get ideas from anywhere and everywhere. I can write a song these parts. Of course our record label at the time wanted us to about the sexual habits of a blade of grass if I want to. There is Are you happy with how the new CD turned out? record it, so we did. They went out of business before they could nothing in the world that can't be explained through music and Well, it seems like a regular Gourds record, which usually does really work it. words... well, maybe not explained, but at least represented or pre­ mean there are some surprises. 1 think the main difference is So it disappeared into the internet netherworld. I think it got sented in an odd way that might make the listener think it means Jimmy's songs on this one seem to me more structured and fully on Napster first under Phish because it was on some stoner's CD something more than it does. That is the beauty of the imagination. realized. He was really into the minute and a half song for a while burned comp. That shit gets traded around without any real liner 1 like the sound of words put together that one might not there. I really am interested and impressed with where he is going notes. So once everyone thought it was Phish, it took off on expect to be used in the same song or sentence. It is fun to rip up as a songwriter. I feel like he is taking it less seriously and at the Napster. At one point it was the most downloaded song, I heard. I the English language. I think that is how the English language same time creating some really classic songs. He is growing and contacted them about it, but they were of no help, claiming sys­ became so bizarre and in need of all those stupid rules we learn in learning like the rest of us and it shows in his songs, of course. temic incompetence by design. I realized at that point 1 could school. It's been ripped up and stuck back together and interjected The whole feel, actually, of this recording has that "not trying upload the entire catalog of the Residents under the Gourds and with so many other languages that it is honestly a product of our too hard" quality to it. At the same time there are some really won­ everyone would think that was us. Who needs integrity when music diverse, crazed, misled and entertaining culture. derful moments. "Bottle & Dime" is flat out balls-hung rock. is free? Of late I like to call our music "Rag & Bone" or, as Tom Waits "Blankets," a Max song, is a beautiful little thing that I always like It was probably for the best though. Now we are not known as coined, "Surrural." It is something of a game to try and make a to play and hear. "Ceiling's Leaking" is really a cool Sticky Fingers- "that Gin and Juice" band in the way Dynamite Hack became name suitable for it. And, no matter what we call it, we will always era Stones thing that is fun as shit. "The Bridge" is a really fine, known shortly after as "that Boyz In The Hood" band. I think we have to be put into one of those categories one finds in the bins at fine song that I think is played very well. It has a great group of dodged a bullet there. the record stores. lines in it: "If the billy goat was Bootsy and the troll was Maceo, I think rap was the last accepted category of the 20th century. only the godfather of soul could really take you to the bridge." Do you still perform it in your live sets? It really takes a huge cultural movement to get the retailers to We still play it when we feel like it or when it seems like a good make plastic signs for their bins to sell it. We are not there yet. Canadians have some pretty interesting perceptions of Texas. So time to play it. We played it at the Kerrville Folk Fest. Everyone That must be the ultimate accomplishment for any musical artist— what do Texans really think about Canada? said we shouldn't because it might offend the marijuana, wine and to be instrumental in creating a new genre of American music. Bill I don't know, really. Most Texans like the idea of Canada. But we are cheese crowd. But they didn't seem to care. We try to offend peo­ Monroe comes to mind, James Brown also. such an arrogant bunch down here... nothing is sacred but the ple, but we never seem to really get it right. Cowboys and the Alamo. I know in the middle of August most any­ The most surprising thing to me is when we play a wedding Is it true you're a closet Triumph fan? Any other Canuck bands one would love to be in Canada. BC bud? We might know about it, and the bride requests it. It is easily one of the most misogynistic you've ever dug? 1 really can't say if we do... mum's the word. • songs of the last 10 years. But even my mother loves it. Well, I love Magic Power and some of the other tunes on Armed It really has a life of its own. And I never tire of seeing where it Forces, but I would have to say I am not a "fan" more than a man goes and who it finds. Keith recently was drunk down on the coast who likes a good laugh with his rock 'n' roll. Tons of Canuckrock is of Texas on the beach in Galveston. He said he was trying to fall great. The greatest of all, of course, is BTO. They flat out are one of 15 DiSCORDER zorn in contro Bailey's Company Week; the list goes on. He's tackled experiments in rock music with Locus Solus, dab­ "I think I have here all that I could possibly want. bled in speed metal and thrash with groups like Painkiller, explored dynamics, tempos and textures with Naked City, avant lounge I have my books and my music and mother's art music with The Gift, fully notated compositions like "Redbird" (influenced by Morton Feldman), "Cat o' Nine Tails" (a commission collection and a visit from a beautiful lady from for the Kronos Quartet), solo piano pieces like "Carny," and full time to time and what I value most: My privacy." orchestral scores like Angelus Novus. At the same time, he's shown an unwillingness to let his audi­ ence get too close or become too comfortable, subscribing to the By NOU Dadoun The eastern European voice on the answering machine sounded like "Art is not a mirror, it's a hammer" philosophy. He has a predilec­ it came from an old movie but, rather than inviting a message, it tion for disturbing images, sometimes drawing from violent delivered one: this is a man who indulges in artistic and sensual pornography for album graphics—the original cover for Torture pleasures, whose world is self-contained and who does not wel­ come uninvited intrusions into that world. I left a message anyway Garden prevented the disc from being sold in the United States. and John Zorn phoned back about five minutes later. We had a chat One of his Naked City compositions is entitled "Eat Shit Jazz Snob!" that was at turns revealing, evasive, frustrating, friendly and sometimes retitled "Eat Shit Naked City Snob!" in performance. rushed. My overwhelming impression was of someone who hated Since the early '90s, he's been a leading proponent of the being pinned down or restricted in any way—who hated not being "Radical Jewish Culture" movement which has created contexts for in control. the intersection of contemporary music with Jewish culture in com­ positions like Kristallnacht and ongoing projects like Masada and John Zorn has been one of the most important and controver­ sial figures in contemporary music in the late 20th century and Bar Kokhba. Zorn has been the nucleus (the grit that created the looks to maintain that standing in the dawning of the 21st. To pearl?) of the New York "downtown" musical community whose someone not familiar with him, his music, and his contributions, it Theater of Musical Optics evolved into clubs and showcases like the may be hard to grasp his importance. Knitting Factory and Tonic. His game pieces are a category unto themselves (e.g. Pool, He's a cultural sponge with an enormous artistic appetite. An apocryphal story has him listening to music on a walkman modi­ Lacrosse, Cobra, Xu Feng etc.)—based on 'war games' in which up to fied to play one-and-a-half times normal speed so he can cram 20 musicians/players dynamically team up in shifting groups of var­ more in. His record and book collections are legendary, displacing ious sizes and improvise with (or against) each other. The teaming furniture and even the kitchen in his apartment ("I eat out"). and improvisation rules are usually controlled by flash cards and Previously having lived in Japan for a number of years, he's fluent in gestures of the prompter, often Zorn himself. Perversely, although Japanese and well-versed in Japanese film and art. He wears the there are recordings and performances of many of the game pieces, running threads of his own Jewish heritage like a tallis. His 'top ten' Zorn doesn't usually reveal the rules and cards which guide the CD, book and film lists on the Tzadik web site reveal a man who "game," thus leaving the audience "out of the loop." swallows genres whole, from the cartoon music of Carl Stallings to Some of the concepts of the flash cards in the game pieces Indonesian gamelan to beat poets to film noir. evolved into his "file card" studio constructions: The Big Gundown (settings of the music of Ennio Morricone), Godard (his tribute to These influences and cultural references all feed his muse in a body of work staggering—not only in its size—but also in its Jean-Luc Godard), and Spillane (derived from the Mickey Spillane breadth. Explorations of technique in solo alto saxophone impro­ pulp fiction of Mike Hammer). visation inspired by Anthony Braxton as the "art of strategy"; Zorn (at last count) has released 13 CDs of his own soundtrack reworkings of the hard bop repertoire in the Sonny Clark Memorial compositions in the Tzadik Film Works series, and we launched into Quartet with Wayne Horvitz and then, its logical extension, News a discussion of film music: for Lulu with Bill Frisell and George Lewis; psychedelic country and western with Eugene Chadbourne; funky Hammond B-3 groups One of the things that I know about you is your admiration for with Big John Patton; free improvisation as a participant in Derek film composers; one of my first exposures to your music was the Godard Fans record, which was a wonderful thing and ear-open- 16 November 2002 ing for me. I know that it was at the time a new experience for silent films... piano." ing and [took] a lot of rehearsal time. Masada is not like that. We you in terms of studio possibilities and you went on to explore The way you describe it, it sounds like another vehicle for impro­ can get up and we can play without rehearsing the music. It's hard that for a while. Is there any of that studio [file card] stuff there visation. to say no when someone says, "Hey, we'd love for you to play"; it's in the back of your mind in terms of future projects? Yes. fun to play and all we have to do is get up there and play. In that Always!... [T]he studio is a tool and I continue to do studio work Maybe it's better not to let the pianist actually see the film before sense, it's probably something that I will continue in the future. that is along those lines. Songs for the Hermetic Theatre, I think, is they sit down and accompany it? an example of a record like that. Or 1AO that just came out. Well, you know, once or twice to get an idea... [laughter] Masada's previous visits to Vancouver have been with the Conceived and created really to be a CD and nothing else but that. So you don't get too surprised and drop your hands right off the ensemble now subtitled "acoustic" Masada. In fact, their first visit If it can be done live, it would be learned after it was created in the keyboard. in 1994 pre-dated the release of any recordings of the group and studio. Right... definitely. prompted a comparison to Ornette Coleman's early acoustic quar­ I know some of the Ennio Morricone stuff was eventually per­ tet, a comparison that Zorn refutes: formed live, but it seemed more like a studio construction than Perhaps his most surprising project is his latter day role at the "A lot of it is chordal, a lot of it is modal, a lot of it is totally anything else. helm of Tzadik Records. When I chatted with Zorn back in the mid open, a lot of it has nothing to do with harmolodics... That's the Yeah, very much so. And it's a pain in the ass to do it live. '90s, I'd mentioned that as a record store owner and a fan, I'd music I happen to play with Dave Douglas, Joey Baron and Greg Have you ever thought of doing anything with the music of always had trouble getting his numerous Japanese releases and Cohen, you know, the surface of what's happening is a pianoless Bernard Hermann? enquired whether he was interested at all in pursuing any record quartet and people immediately go to Ornette. I've been influenced Ah, that music is sacred. It can't be touched. That's the way it is. distribution. He expressed no interest at that point but then two by Ornette; my personal playing has been influenced by what he I would have thought that Ennio Morricone's music was sacred in years later his label Tzadik started releasing material, now with does, but, you know, it's gone to a lot of different places. So when over 200 releases to date. Wmr you interpret the written melodies, you can interpret them in many Mmm... There are a lot more possibilities with what you can do "Well, see? I can't say what I'm gonna be doing with anything many different ways. That particular quartet because it doesn't with his music. Hermann's music really has to stay the way it is. at any time. Sometimes 1 think I'll never play the horn again and have a piano in it, people immediately gravitate towards, you know, The orchestration is crucial and if you think about it, it's very sim­ turn around and create Masada... You never know what's gonna Ornette. And I like Ornette's music very much, but if you look at ple motivic music with very simple harmonic motion and it doesn't happen. Tzadik came about as a result of wanting to keep stuff in the compositions and what we do with them, I would say 90% of it lend itself to interpretation, to wide interpretation. It was really •int, wanting to^^HJe community that nurtured me, wanting to is nothing that's anything remotely like what Ornette would ever music that was not pop music in that sense. Morricone w ^BRMtfig with the pile of money I got from doing, more or less, have done or would ever do. AJ|>t of it is very, very different from of very big pop songs. He worked as arranger for [It; ow, kinda Hollywood film shit, which I do not continue to his approach." ... so, that really opens up the interpretation possib give me a pile of money, what am I gonna do with it? Here's Although the Maj : is most widely associated with music, whereas Hermann's is tied to the film i ; to do with it. Best thing I ever did was to start that label, the acoustic quartet, ctually refers to a song cycie pro- in a very deep way and doesn't len. as really a good thing to do... We're lucky with the distribu- jeet (i.e. a "book" < s) which has been performed by a :ion by a rock group... it's gotta be what it is. So och]. It's a lot of work and sometimes I wonder how much number of differed From the chamber ensembles of 3t any better or worse than what Mon flonger I can keep it up, but I think it's one of the more important Bar Kokhba and The CjJ er to Acoustic Masada to Elect n't think I wiRbe doing anything of Hermann's. things that I'm doing. I hope to keep it going." Masada, the current S e jam band with Zorn, Marc Ribi Jrersion of "Taxi Driver" in Naked City ... there In a way, Zorn is a contemporary version of John Cage, identi­ John Medeski, Jami<^ r Dunn,.Kenny Wollesen and Cyr Bdoing a pop song. So, you can't take the theme fying the boundaries for people then crossing them and extending Baptista, the raw^H : same book whose from Norl thwest and give it to guitar, bass, and drums and the music and how people hear and think about music in different i over the expect that Klly gonna have the same impact... ways. One of the things about Cage's musical philosophy was that Although, ling from Psycho might... sometimes stuff worked or didn't work, but it always made you :herhe uses H jer source rr Yes and no. reard people try to do it and I just think it's unsuc­ think, it always made you question your assumptions and lea •feeveryl cessful. It's not because the musicians aren't being creative. It's something new. ^^briginal mtj because the music itself inherently needs to be exactly what it is. Zorn denies it: "I try to challenge myself and keep myself, f Masada bdlH Handing:^ Now, you're also an admirer of Maya Deren ested in doing music... but I don't know how close I am to how till tunes herMand there. I w^| ^BK fi'm S0J Very much so. Yeah. Cage works. I guess a musician doesn't think in terms of bour| ; in [the springj-and I think,we § Have you ever thought of scoring some of her work? aries, you try to make music. And you experience a lot of differej p^e tunes out of that and they kindjj Well, not yet, but I did some music for two Ken Anger films last things in your life and they all go into the music at some point." not something I spend a lot of time o Halloween. That was very successful and Ken was there, was real­ that pretty much ended after the f irg ly excited and there was talk about synching my scores to a couple Well for example, one of the things about jazz, per se, is that, in couple of tunes pop out once in a while, but it's^ of his films. And I did it recently for Harry Smith, Early Abstraction terms of improvisation, it's caught in a rut in terms of soloing on work on consciously. and the Oz film and I did a whole program of Harry Smith work a changes or soloing within the head-solo-solo-solo-head frame­ "The thing about this band is: Other bands jj couple of months ago. That was also really, really successful. I take work. Communities of improvisers like Derek Bailey and very much in control; I had an idea of what I these things a step at a time. If it's appropriate, I'll do it—if I'm Company and Time Flies in Vancouver go to the other extreme was on everybody's case to try and get it. Witrl asked. Seichi Ito's scores to Maya Deren's films are wonderful and insisting on 'pure' improvisation with a 'no tunes' philosophy. see what happens, what these musicians do m I don't know whether I wanna replace anything like that, but maybe And you've gone beyond that in a lot of ways, by taking new struc­ have an agenda—'it's gotta go this way, it's gotta go that way.'— if there's footage found or if there's film that doesn't have any tures for improvisation, looking at game pieces and... more 'let's see what we can do.' And I respect and trust all these sound synched to it at all, I might consider doing something like Yeah, but at the same time the basic Masada book is a book of s and I'm still at the helm, but I'm very open to where they that. tunes that function in the head-blow-head format. So, there is a may wanna take [it]... The heads ar all there, we learn it and we That brings to mind something like Un Chien Andalou or L'age challenge that I set for myself as a composer and as a performer: take it somewhere. I try to guide thi -|, but in this particular case I Dor. Can you do something in that format that's exciting? You know, think I'm gonna be letting them loose iiin a lot of ways. We'll see. Right. Silent films to me need piano accompaniment. sometimes, you're right, you try and take something and explode it. Could be pretty wild." You think so? Hmmm... Sometimes you take something and explore it. So, ultimately, it's Having heard a recording of the one Ir e show that this band has Yes, that's my personal opinion. I don't like rock bands doing such just about music-making. done at Tonic in New York, I agree that it :ould be pretty wild. But I and such, orchestras doing such and such. I think it's about one Do you think of Masada as something that you're going to be have trouble believing that John Zorn wor 't be fully in control. • person at the keyboard interacting with the images on the screen. doing for a long time? Because it seems as though Naked City ran When you score something immediately, it becomes a mood type its course, in a way... John Zorn's Electric Masada plays at the Vogue Theatre on November thing. It's very hard to really follow the action the same way that a I can't say, how long, how short I'll be doing anything. [Naked City] 8 at 8 pm. Tickets are available at Black Swan, Highlife, Scratch or pianist can. Or it just becomes so stiff because you're tying it exact­ served its purpose. That was the end of it. The thing is, to get Zulu Records or through Ticketmaster. ly to the action in one specific way that... I don't know. No, I think together and play that music was very difficult and very challeng­ 17 DiSCORDER H-J1 .rr

In the basement of their dilapidated apartment on Commercial tion, 94.5 The Beat (which doesn't play the music of these artists this unoriginality, others enjoy the more commercial sound that is Drive, the Low Pressure All Stars laugh about the neighbourhood of since it is considered too abstract). The rapid growth of the city's more popular at clubs and parties. Toronto is also often accused their newly adopted city. own hip hop scene has helped create an atmosphere that artists as being closed to outsiders, suggesting that if you're not from "If Vancouver is the most expensive city in Canada, then East all over Canada are finding very attractive. The city's scene is con­ there, you're not going to make it there. For the artists that have Van is the cheapest place in the world," says DJ Moves, the produc­ stantly described as being "friendlier and more open." moved to Vancouver and who make a far more unconventional hip er and Voltron head of this underground hip hop collective. "We're a bit more open minded out here—it's a West Coast hop sound, Toronto was an obvious push. While trash-talking wrestlers drop elbow smashes on the tele­ thing," says Birdapres, a native Vancouver MC who has worked on But Toronto still remains Canada's capital for the music indus­ vision, Moves, Rhek One, Tachichi and Cee!!!!!!!!, who are all origi­ albums with both Moves and mcenroe. "People have a willingness try. Canadian hip hop artists that have received the biggest distri­ nally from Nova Scotia, joke about their fondness for Fast to accept a form of music that they aren't used to. It's the same bution in the United States have all come out of this city: The Vancouver as they drink beer and pass around blunts. Cheap Asian thing in LA, San Francisco, and Seattle. I guess being a port city Dream Warriors, Michee Mee, Choclair, Kardinal Offishall, and fruit markets, 99 cent pizza, lesbian hookers, and a high minimum we've always got music and people coming in giving exposure." Saukrates. wage (which would matter if any of them had a job) were all excel­ The proximity to California played a major role in shaping the However, the success of Swollen Members and BattleAxe lent reasons for them to have made the move across the biggest city's tastes. While the rugged sounds of New York, the birthplace Records has defiantly challenged that dominance and acted as a and most sparsely populated country in the world. of hip hop, play a prominent influence, Vancouver has also great inspiration. The DIY approach that MC and label CEO Travelling across the sprawling Canadian landscape from one embraced the funkier style of California artists who have come up Madchild pushed, shows that Vancouver may be ripe enough to act coast to the other fueled by booze, break beats and big dreams, to play, such as the Freestyle Fellowship and Hieroglyphics. as an alternative. More importantly, the Members have managed to some of Canada's finest underground hip hop artists are now call­ Unlike in the US, Canadian artists have very little choice in the maintain their independence yet cross over into mainstream ing Vancouver their home. As if part of a perfectly timed reloca­ way of large markets. There's Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver. appeal. tion program, over a dozen MCs, DJs and graffiti artists hailing But Montreal is considered to have a more francophone dominat­ The reach of the internet has also helped teach artists that they from cities such as London, Winnipeg, Ottawa and Halifax have ed hip hop scene, while Toronto remains the domain of an exclusive don't necessarily have to be situated in the largest market. Both packed their bags and headed West. and elite music cartel, where a certain sound and certain artists Peanuts and Corn and Low Pressure have had success in cultivating The invasion force consists of artists that originally hailed from tend to dominate the city's scene. a fan base online. Following the examples set by Bay Area's smaller cities and make a more abstract and intimate form of hip DJ Moves left Halifax four years ago to explore Canada's largest Hieroglyphics, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, and Anticon, underground hip hop. The Catch-22 for the hip hop scenes in the small markets of market for a couple of years. He had been a landmark figure in the hop artists are quickly learning how to use the internet as a tool to Halifax and Winnipeg is that their isolation helped creativity but burgeoning Halifax scene as a member of the playful Hip Club get their music out to the public. hampered exposure. Many of the pioneers of the internationally Groove. The group gained national attention in the mid-'90s and "It's the way to go out, everybody basically knows that. If praised Halifax hip hop scene have now left the city, looking to helped put Halifax on the hip hop map, which was in the midst of you're in the underground or if you're not really big, if you don't branch out elsewhere in bigger scenes. producing a plethora of talent including Buck 65, Sixtoo, and The have a commercial deal that's not publicizing you out on the street, Led by two of Canada's most praised beatmakers, Low Goods. Moves' beats have since matured and vary from the dark shit like that, it's the way to go," says Tachichi. Pressure's DJ Moves and Peanuts and Corn's mcenroe, the move­ and twisting to the upbeat and playful sound reminiscent of his So Moves and Bolts came to Vancouver and set a trail soon fol­ ment has been slowly gaining speed over the past couple of years younger days. lowed by others. The role call of migrants is impressive. From the and has snowballed into the creation of an entirely new and eclec­ In Toronto, Moves had success when he became a member of East Coast are the potty-mouth sailors from Halifax: DJ Moves, tic hip hop scene in Vancouver. the pop group Len, whose hit single "Steal My Sunshine" blew up MC's Tachichi, Oracle, Josh Martinez, graf artist Rhek One as well as The globe-trotting MC Josh Martinez, also originally from beyond anyone's expectations and was the summer jam of 1999. Miles from the We Stain Porcelain production team. From the flat Halifax, spent time in Australia, Montreal and parts of Asia before He also began working with London, Ontario's Governor Bolts, a land of Winnipeg is Peanuts and Corn Records' head honcho, mcen­ making the move to East Van. "Out here, there is a fairly large freestyle legend who has adopted a number of surreal personas, roe. Vancouver has even welcomed hip hop refugees from central amount of people that are tuned in and have good heads on their the most popular being a dirty, demented drunk. The Governor Canada—like London, Ontario's MC's B-Side, Governor Bolts (who shoulders, and you do need a big city to do that. You do need, at Bolts album A Crooked Mile, which was named 1999's album of the recently went AWOL only to land back in London), and Futility some point, some exposure to people—and it wasn't an established year by Vice Magazine, is a perfect example of the diversity of Records' DJ Neoteric. And from Ottawa is Solspirit, who is part of scene that had sort of locked things down and decided this is what Moves' sound. Strange vocal samples, swallowing organs, and crisp the expanding Nextraterrestrial camp, which includes the leg­ was good and this is what is bad; it was just open. The whole thing breakbeats allow Bolts to compose a new character and a different endary underground rap group Supreme Being Unit. The Nextra is you could actually have an open scene with everyone kinda con­ story on each track. crew is spread out over four cities in Canada and has since induct­ tributing in their own way here, and probably only here in Canada But Moves says he soon became frustrated with the city's ed Moves, B-Side, Rhek and Bolts into their family. can this exist, just because people are easier going," he says. image. In an interview from his East Van home, he says his beef This relocation to Vancouver, though, started as an uncoordi­ Vancouver's hip hop scene has only really begun to blossom with Toronto is that it suffers from a "hardrock" syndrome. nated development. Those that were part of the first wave of over the past four years. While the Rascalz laid the groundwork in "Everybody by now knows that Toronto does sound like New arrivals have similar reasons for making the move. Vancouver's cli­ the city, it is groups like the Swollen Members and the City Planners York—and that's not even a diss, that's a truth. To get anything big mate and scenery has always worked as a magnet that attracts all who are leading the next wave. Vancouver now has three weekly there, you're forced to be what it is." types of people. Josh Martinez followed the call of the wild to help nights where you can see live hip hop, plus other monthly and irreg­ This copycat sound that Toronto is often accused of acts as a run Low Pressure Records with DJ Moves. He is an extremely intro­ ular events. Vancouver also recently got its first urban radio sta­ push and pull for the city's scene! While many are turned off by spective MC whose content matter ranges from the Holocaust to

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his refusal to conform to society's idea of normal. He says he was so label mates to do shows, and working with other artists such as Josh be said," says Tachichi. A number of other artists have already come struck by his new city's landscape that it inspired him to write an Martinez. He has saved the Moves and Birdapres album Alleged and gone and another group of Halifax artists have expressed inter­ ode to the city entitled "BC Trees." The tree-planting MC uses a laid Legends from tape obscurity by releasing it on his label. est in making the move. Low Pressure Records are in the midst of back, soulful style to praise the city by crooning, "I love chilling in But besides Birdapres and Surrey's Ink Operated, there has been signing a deal with Universal Records to distribute the new Governor the city / but most of all I like its leg room / I like how people here very little work among the locals and the newcomers. This is not an Bolts record and are creating a side label called Fried Chicken appear to do whatever they please / Vancouver, BC / I love these uncommon thing, as crews and labels tend to work solely among Records for Tachichi and Cee!!!!!!!! Josh Martinez has parted ways big huge trees." The coastal atmosphere of Vancouver and its small themselves, and is not to say that the different camps don't get with Low Pressure for "personal and financial" reasons, but mcenroe downtown has been a big pull for the Halifax artists, who say they along. has added Birdapres to the Peanuts and Corn family and continues feel being near the ocean makes Vancouver a home away from "Any time that you've got a label, it wants to make a point with to expand its distribution. In the meantime, the city of Vancouver home. its sound. All sort of have a mission statement," says Birdapres, who has the opportunity to experience an amazing collection of Canadian But the movement also signifies a change in personal develop­ stands out as a bridge between the two scenes. "But people are hip hop artists—at least until they leave for somewhere else or a ment that every individual goes through over the course of their accepted here. Each one complements each other in different ways new batch arrives. • life. Halifax graffiti artist Rhek One came out to help with Low and they each fill a role." Pressure and run its art direction. Rhek is also a member of Halifax's However, collaboration between the different camps is begin­ HomeWreckers graffiti crew, which includes Sixtoo and Thesis, and ning to grow. This is an inevitability as time creates new connec­ whose disfigured, drunken characters are now imprinted on the tions. Right now it is mainly the City Planners that are collaborating walls of Vancouver. His reasons for moving stem from an urge sim­ with the newcomers. Sichuan produced a beat on the new Josh ilar to the one that made these other artists bust out of their home­ Martinez 12" and Peanuts and Corn is distributing the new Jeff Spec towns. "You can't live in the town you grew up in forever," he says. record. "[Vancouver] is still the best place to be and we plan to take it as far How long these artists will remain in Vancouver is anyone's as it goes." In this regard, much of the redeployment has been coin­ guess. These transient travellers offer no insight on how long they cidental as artists from all over Canada in their early to mid-20s plan to stay. "It's wherever the music takes me. It's the way it has to break out of their hometowns and their parents' basements to head for a bigger city. The more recent arrivals of MCs Tachichi and Oracle are a tes­ tament to the influence and pull that DJ Moves has already had on the scene. The rapid fire Tachichi is a master of irony who weaves through topics of innocence and debauchery and has already recorded an album with Moves entitled Truth of the Trade. The album includes the song "Bush Gardens," a tongue-and-cheek pubescent love song that was declared the "best rap song ever" by Vice. Oracle, now known as Cee!!!!!!!! (the eight explanation marks are explained as a necessity, since the name is to be shouted), has already worked with Sixtoo to create an album, Jesus Christ Never Existed, which madly races through subjects of atheism and con­ spiracy theories in Hunter S. Thompson-like rants. Known for his proficiency with profanity, he says he was getting depressed about the lack of intellectual inspiration in Halifax and knew it was time to hook up with Moves. "I just thought Vancouver was the sureshot. I've always felt that Moves gave me inspiration. He was the main cat that makes some of the hottest beats. I'm trying to work with cocksuckers that are hardcore that actually drink every night and fucking talk shit but at the same time keep things in perspective. It was just a matter of utilizing the potential and making us a hot-ass collective coming out full circle." Moves and mcenroe are both regarded as two of the most pro­ ficient beatmakers in underground hip hop. Their arrival to the city explains why others soon followed. Simply put, MCs need beats. No matter how great the lyrical skills of the MC, if the beats suck, the song sucks. Winnipeg's MC/producer, mcenroe, is at the opposite spectrum to his emigrant counterparts. The self-proclaimed "biggest nerd in hip hop" and former engineer is a workaholic with his music and label, Peanuts and Corn Records. With each release, he has con­ stantly been gaining praise as reviewers drool over his carefully crafted, moody soundscapes that sample acoustic guitars, wood­ winds, and strings. He and his label mates, Gruf the Druid, Pipi Skid, and John Smith, have created a series of conceptual albums that cover topics of politics, spirituality and mass consumerism. His label has been recognized as one of the "next 100" in the popular Urb Magazine and the impact his music has had on hip hop has garnered him comparisons to the legendary Pete Rock. But mcenroe remains aloof from Vancouver's hip hop scene and his presence in the city is felt more subtly. In a recent interview from his Richmond-area home, he admitted that he's not the pro­ totypical hip hop performer since he's not out playing shows, "pay­ ing my dues and nurturing a fan base." He says he is more involved with his new distribution company and making all the music for his other label mates. But mcenroe's influence in the city works by adding Birdapres to the Peanuts and Corn roster, bringing out his

19 DiSCORDER By Steve DiPo e to be created, there must be the corollary genesis of two and back, and all around touring solo trombone. to play and for people to see others who they wouldn't normally see phenomena: space and time. I put a microphone on the table in the playing music. back corner of the Sugar Refinery and discussed the geometry and So how does he find out about you? How do you find out about him? funk genocide of Parallela Tuesdays with curators Skye Brooks, Masa S: Coincidentally, it came up on a web page called the Tentacle, which So what were some of the highlights looking back into the last two J Anzai, andJP Carter. We laughed a lot more than the text shows. is this creative music page. It's really good. years? Is there anything that stands out as just amazing? M: So many. DiSCORDER: Is it "Parallel" Tuesdays or "Parallela" Tuesdays? Is it locally based? S: Personal ones for me? It's really hard to say, but obviously Rob Skye Brooks: "Pa-ra-llel-a." It's often broken into two words. S: No, it's out of Seattle. It's really, really good. Wright was a highlight. That was huge excitement for me. It was so Masa J Anzai: It's always broken into two words! M: Covers the Northwest. good. It was so fun. To me they're almost always good. I always feel S: Yeah, it's a Northwest thing. Some Vancouver, but mostly Seattle, like it's a good show. I can't remember many times when I've walked So is it the female form of "parallel" or the musical form of "paral­ Olympia, Portland. Then they have links to lots of other really cool away from playing one of these shows, unless I'm really tired or lel"? websites all the way down to Santa Cruz. But yeah, I had [the trom­ something and it's for my own personal playing reasons. But for the S: It's just a homemade word. It doesn't have anything to do with bonist] calling me relentlessly, and then his car broke down and he music, I always walk away feeling good about it. anything. couldn't make it to the show. How about you Masa? Over the last 104 Tuesdays? 'Cause I was sitting around one day thinking about parallel lines Oh man. Car troubles. Do you guys ever get in shit for playing too M: I can't think right now. Some of it's good, but some of it's not as and parallela Tuesdays and I was like, "Yeah! It's like two lines... loud? good. But every night there will be something that happens that that never converge! They just travel and they go on and on and on! M: Always (laughs). They don't like loud music here. makes it work. They're equal, but they never meet! Don't you get it?" So I'm pleased to know that none of that went into the creation of the name. Did they make an exception for Rob Wright? How about you JP? Any standouts? JP Carter: It's got nothing to do with umbrellas? 1 always thought M: Oh, I think they did. JP: Yeah, it really is hard to say. It's hard to remember perfect ones. there was an umbrella thing going on. It's easier to remember particular ones that I played in more 'cause I S:No. So when is the official two-year anniversary celebration? It's was there or whatever. I remember once Masa and I did one with the M: What country are you from? comin' up. Dylan van Der Schyffe trio. That was pretty cool. And Skye and I did S: Parallelogram. Parallelogram. That's where the original idea comes S: It's November 8th. one with Chris Kelly at the beginning of this month, and that was from. pretty cool. What kind of things can people expect for this? Are there gonna be S: That was great. That was a recent highlight for me for sure. Is a rhombus a parallelogram? like 50 musicians in here? S: I don't think so. I dunno. S: Oh, on that night? Last year was just awesome; it was so good. Does anybody ever bring in any really unconventional instru­ What we tried to do was to invite everyone. Me and Masa called up ments? Does anybody ever walk in with a hammer dulcimer or any­ It's got parallel sides. everybody, everybody that had ever played—almost, probably. So thing like that? S: Yeah, a parallelogram is anything with two parallel sides. we said we're having a party on this night in celebration of doing this S: At the end of the month we're having a show with a shakuhachi thing for a year, so come down and bring your instrument. There was player. And you don't see that every day. A trapezoid would not be. [Interviewer's note: this is wrong if above also a thing in the Straight about it, which probably helped 'cause definition is correct.] attendance was really good. It was packed and it was just a really Wow. What's the instrumentation gonna be that night? S: A triangle is not a parallelogram. It's a long story. fun time. Somehow it worked out that people just sorted it out play­ S: It'll be congas, shakuhachi, harp, and sitar. ing amongst themselves. Sometimes it was chaotic. So when did it start? M: Yeah, it was pretty crazy. Sounds intriguing. Well, where can people find out about nights S: JP actually originally had Tuesday nights, and then he went away S: Everyone had respect. They wouldn't hog the stage: once they had like this that might appeal to some more than others? Have you to Europe. Then Steve Horwood asked me if I wanted a regular night their five minutes or whatever people would switch. got an email list? when JP went away—around two years ago I guess—and I said yes, M: There were some weird things here and there. S: There is an email list, and if people want to get on the list they can I'd love a regular night. Then I just got talking to Masa and I didn't S: Sure, for about a half hour period, there was this funk jam going email me. We've got a pretty big list going now. There's always really know what 1 'd do, and then I was like, I'll just have people down on. posters up at Zulu, Scratch, here at the Sugar Refinery. In the future, that I'm comfortable playing with and just improvise. And then Masa M: And it was those guys who hadn't even played. my brother's actually making a website for Almost Transparent Blue got involved too and we started making it way more open to any and there'll be a section that we'll update every month. people we knew who were interested in improvising and it just went They crashed the celebration! from there. And now it's growing all the time: there's always new S: Anyways, we fixed that funk jam [everyone laughs]. Actually, it was How often are you surprised by the other players and how often do people playing. me, and Masa, and JP, and Steven Lyons. We ruined the whole thing, you surprise yourselves? fucked shit up. M: All the time. Every night. Awesome. So what's the most exciting country of origin of one of S: All the time. Even Masa and I, or JP and 1, we play together all the the performers you've had here to play? How far away have the (Insert a welcome food service interruption here, at which point JP time, and I still get surprised all the time by each one—by everyone— people come to play Parallela Tuesday? starts askin' the damn questions.) I play with all the time. M: Japan. JP: What purpose do you think these Tuesdays serve the communi­ Anything else to add? Japan!? Anybody from Germany? ty? S: I suppose we should thank the Sugar Refinery 'cause they've let JP: Yeah, there's Joe Williamson, but he's from Vancouver originally. M: Well, it's an outlet for doing this stuff. It's here every week so the us do this for two years. There's nowhere else that we can do it so consistency is important for the musicians to play and the audience we're really grateful to have this place to do it. • I don't get it. What, you do a solo tour as a jazz musician and try to to listen. It's there. Once a week. Always. Parallela email list: find gigs all along the way? S: Without this, there's a lot of people who probably wouldn't—I Website (under construction): www.almosttransparentblue.com S: Some people do that. know they wouldn't—have a place to play this kind of music in this Celebrate the 2nd anniversary of Parallela Tuesdays on November M: Some people make a living doing that. way. And it's very easily accessible, to set it up I mean. You just call us 8th—after all the other shows you have to go to. S: I don't think a lot of that h- s happened here, but there's one guy up. They don't have to have a demo. They just have to have an inter­ from Texas, a trombonist, who s actually going across North America est in doing it and that's it. So it's just a good opportunity for people ?0 No.ember /002 From the Mole to the Molar: Dirt, Decks, and Dub "Colin By tobias v the Mole" is showing me his first record on his own Then, label, Next Door. "Look," he marking the spot— says, pointing excitedly at a sometimes with tape, other and locked groove cut into the times on the record label with mystifying technol­ vinyl, "It isn't cut properly!" a pencil—Colin the Soul cut the ogy on the other, this is a dedi­ Oddly enough, the grinning record with a knife, cross- cated aesthetic agenda Mole isn't upset. In fact, he hatching deeper cuts for designed at creating a slow and seems to enjoy the manufac­ smoothness and assembling deep relationship between turing mistake that resulted in cuts of different lengths and audience and performer a single groove splitting into strengths across a total of 20 through a new arrangement of three—for it allows him, with records for the performance. sounds and performance. just the precise weight adjust­ The result? A skipping locked Taking known techniques— ments on the tonearm, to make groove that metamorphoses turntables—and subtly turning the groove skip at odd inter­ the sound of Eric Idle slapping everyone's ideas of this format vals. his cheeks together into a per­ upside-down, Colin breaks The same can be said for cussive splatter, and transmo­ down the audience's concep­ the dirt. As 1 walk into his small grifies the ending note of The tion of the DJ and the foi studio room, he plays me some Muppets' "Pigs in Space" into a and purposes of the very muffled and dense hissing spacey-tom-rim-shot. Mixed turntable—like a dub and beat- sounds, obviously originating and blended with the precise driven Janek Schaeffer. from some sort of turntable- use of effects—namely a And it isn't easy. All of this record combination. "I took dirt space-echo—the ensuing mix is thought and planning is to from the floor!" he says—I look a soft homage to the loop and avoid sounding repetitive and down at the dirty floor, and a wonderfully relaxing listening boring. "The toughest part," notice the sludge—"and 1 put it experience that is nevertheless says Colin, "is not sounding like on my records!" The result? A precise, intricate, and surpris­ a loop, but like it is music and dense, skipping atmospheric ing in its complexity of sounds. not just skipping." To not get layer of sound that could only Deep, rich bass resounds while too caught up in the loop, to be captured by an analogue clicks pop across a spectrum of keep it moving, and most of all, needle and a creative mind... spatialised and atmospheric to have patience—"Silence is Colin, a native of Victoria, washes; it's a tactile perfor­ always key!" it says in his note­ BC, now lives in Montreal. In his mance-dub that contrasts book—this is the nut of the former days at CFUV, UVic's sharply with the nano-bot moment, the crux of the per­ campus radio station, he was rigidity of the all-too-ubiqui­ formance. Hans Molar the Sole known as the "Mole of Soul," tous laptop performance. Solar Mole has learnt his although he tells me that now I began asking the Mole lessons well from John Cage, he goes by the elusive "Hans how he assembled this many and I am happy to say that the Molar" alias, even though he is records and made it all work, elusive Octa-Mole performed known around Montreal simply and why he decided to play it spectacularly at the as "the Mole." the way he did. For despite his Micro_Mutek, slowly sucking As a fellow ex-BC-patriate hip hop skills—the Molar origi­ the crowd of curious onlookers 22 GOLDEN NUGGETS FROM myself, I was immediately nally mentored as a hip hop into a deep and mental sonic VANCOUVER/VICTORIA RJLNJGH. COMMUNITY drawn to Colin the Molar Mole DJ—Hans had a different idea landscape spread across the as someone I could talk to in mind for the Tikiman show. physical environ of five turnta­ about trees and the ocean in He shows me his yellow-bound bles. this land of cement and pou- notebook of drawings and What's next for the Molar tine. But more than that, Colin handwritten notes that log Mole? He is currently hoping to GRAHAM BROWN the Hans Mole is a talented conceptual ideas on how the release his mixed-cd of turntablist and electronic musi­ performance should sound, as turntable-skip-work, titled The BUTCH MURPHY cian whose love of the warm, well as organizing charts for Starchy Root Machine, some­ stripped, deep, and sensuous gear placement and the setup where soon, and he has a THE BUTTLESS CHAPS minimal groove has landed him of five turntables. To make it all record coming out on residencies in the city alongside piece together without becom­ Portland's Starbass Records Algorithm and Mike Shannon ing one big mess, Colin invent­ with his good friend Mike Bisco CAROLYN MARK as well as holding down ed a script for the looping of called Like Disco. Colin also has Saturdays at the legendary samples which represents the a track on Victoria's itiswhati­ new media hangout, Laika. five turntables, their samples, tis East Meets West Vol. 1 com­ Back in May,- Colin had the their durations (1-4 beats), and pilation as "Bodensee," and a ffiS^rt* PLOUGHBOYS opportunity to open for gives markers for the place­ track with Mike Shannon on Germany's dub legends Scion ment of effects. In his note­ the Mutek 2002 compilation and Tikiman at the prestigious book are two carefully CD. "The Mole" continues to Micro_Mutek 5. This was no elaborated concepts that pump out the deep BC-influ- ordinary opening—Colin the define the combination of ele­ enced grooves every Saturday BIG JOHN BATES "Octa-Mole" was going to be ments that comprise his style: at Laika, 4040 St. Laurent, in playing his own hand-cut Montreal, the City of Sin. • GEOFF BERNER DAVID P. SMITH records on five turntables, two "Don't dazzle them with all mixers, and a couple of careful­ eight hands. Cloud them with FLOPHOUSEJR ROCKIN DADDYS ly chosen effects boxes. the ink and pull them in slowly Hunting through old bargain with all eight, surround and bins and digging through crates swallow. BOCEPHUS KING of dub, he assembled every­ "The Question is not the thing from The Muppets to speed which 1 can move, but the Monty Python and Walter quality which I can deliver." I BLACK HEN MUSIC Carlos, noting specific spots *r P.O-BOX -Nbbi. tot,*™ meanwhile back at... where a weird sound could be (# Vancouver BC VbK MPH wWW.ranch.ipfOX.COITI In today's world of flashy ir http://home.ifrir.cj/~Mvec lifted out of context and heard showmanship on the one hand as something entirely different. 21 DiSCORDER innovative, although the Instead, the lead Flipsides seem to realize this, vocalist Sabrina and therefore have fun with the Stewart is, well, not genre. Sure, the Flipsides are (Her lyrics about puk­ stereotypical punk pop. While a iinder review ing don't count.) Her chorus or two may get stuck in voice is refreshing to your head, the lyrics aren't nec­ recorded media listen to as she has a essarily worth writing home raw yet perky quality; about. Perhaps the Flipsides' A LUNA RED would be shocked to hear "Fake," 1997. This is garbage: unoriginal it suits the fast-paced So-Cal music is not so clever after all, SLMZK! the first single, spun by any rep­ beats, irritating vocal samples punk songs found on this 12 but they're definitely solid and BK (Action Driver) utable DJ: an excellent example and nauseating, watered down genuine. Don't buy this expect­ track album. She's also the gal jazz thrown in to complete the Industrial music, here is your of how not to do a vocal D&B responsible for the band's ing a new format, but if you're a track, the harmonies sound like illusion of substance. Avoid this much-needed blood transfu­ catchy guitar riffs which typical­ fan of the punk frequently asso­ they were pulled off of a like you'd avoid an uncooked sion. Stand up! Wreak havoc! ly stick to the three-chord punk ciated with the San 9^s Christina Aguilera song. It seaweed stir-fry that you found Get the party started! format. Francisco/So-Cal scene, you'll CAN 6E POUI^D AT C/ ' occurs to me that AK1200 is try­ in a pail in the cafeteria. A Luna Red have been play­ To put in a shameless com­ enjoy The Flipsides' Clever One. \U5 b^NMVILLE ST ing with gizmos for a few years ing to address the "Where the Donovan < i parison, I couldn't stop thinking Robyn TEL: fc04-"55l-»\ D i Drum and Bass at/Go back to that the Flipsides were like a Europe"-mentality still in effect perfect balance of that which is DREAM ON DREARY sarcastic, punky cub. Maybe it KOTTONMOUTH KINGS on the American party scene and hip (no-wave, if I dare) and that S/T was the rawness of Sabrina's Rollin' Stoned „ Fro.Acine K«*«©! cal scene, I suppose it's only log­ The number one reason to get within songs. Maybe it's because Do albums like this really matter stream-scale profits). But the ical that Skinny Puppy would this record is because you can't the songs are interlaced with that much to people that don't 2.Rirtri£- changes, much hard work, and With his association with brain- while the pessimistic would appeal outside of the head-shop some silly dancing) into an FLIPSIDES dead, machoistic MCs, and his claim that the ninth track, market to sustain them. insanely well-crafted oddity— Clever One (,. rWXo^JoO-X contemptible predilection for "Tough Love," kills the rapid I mean, come on—they've and-the kids love it! A Luna Red (Pink & Black) 0 pop formulae, nothing on this flow of the album, I'd say that got two guys in the band who w/CoWn rA^keV\ was definitely ahead of the pack Holding The Flipsides Clever One f , album is going to win AK1200 this jazzy number is a welcome dress up like nu-metal clowns! V^ 1 '^..^v'^ on this one, being the best in a in my hand, I looked at the cover any converts that "Porn Breaks" change in pace; it also highlights And not even the scary ones like small-but-growing pack of new- and thought, "Here's a girl who didn't already entice. Sabrina's singing ability. Slipknot; the loser kind like no-industrialists. Or whatever. seems gung-ho to be fronting a Donovan The first two songs, "The Best Insane Clown Posse. Is there ancvvver&oxvi paaN This stuff defies both logic and three-piece band." I was biting of Times" and "Two Weeks," are anyone who's not constantly classification, and would make my nails with fear, expecting to fun and fast-paced— and they high who thinks the antics of any young Blixa start dancing in BECK hear severe candy-coated voices introduce the Flipsides' catchy dope-smoking evil clowns is in his gumboots. Yeah! Sea Change like those of Nina and Louise of punk style—but it can lose its any way interesting at all? I U. lytrxb.rte WrWk Ko^ko Julie C. (DGC) Veruca Salt. I have this deep- originality after that. The mean, all they do is talk about Please stop saying that this down feeling like I should sup­ songs—while short, sweet and dope and killing people! How is AK1200 album is a masterpiece. This is port females who play in cute )H. A/V LoA^e, to the point—start blending into that interesting? little guitar-driven rock groups, Shoottokill one extremely bunk idea. Beck each other, especially after a As for the rest of the band, 16. COA\ W/EA Oor-vdo but not if they're going to nause- (yrunrecordings) has, of late, gotten very good at few listens. There's nothing they also enjoy the loco weed \t.SparrouJ wj 5\«eio.CaoeS Don't hold AK120O s past failures copying interesting things, as in mixes (let alone his puerile mil­ evidenced by his fine work on itaristic vocabulary) against him: Midnight Vultures. Sea Change is IS- Dan Q,ftoc^<- "Tr;0 as a producer his perfectionist no different. Boy, is Beck doing 2-0- 3o*fc WW leanings have served him and his a great job of manipulating v Ybeurt -I* 8rv*e. listeners well in the past, and the other people's musical ideas! tracks on Shoottokill that are Most of this album sounds like l\. Oeo£.r»eroie hrt £A«**>^ good are gold. Unfortunately, it could be any old alt-country there are only a few of these extravaganza, which is nothing Z1. Brokfeo CYov-> Go*rk.T ("Junior's Tune" with Junior Reid, to complain about, but—and "Midtempo Deluxe" with here's the key—it's nothing to 2"*. Sealed ^O,A->J Timecode, and "Seared Rare," for get excited about either- The 2.4. GcWftetf ^ v my money) and there's no get­ most blatant of the rip-offs is ting around the impression that "Paper Tiger," which has the 25. C\*seA AK1200 is a man of pre-simian same guitar riff and sound (not intellect. Exhibit A: he thanks i.7. rWtoWWA Linkin Park and Blink 182 in his arrangement) as the first track 2*. r\/v" UA^S/ liner notes (which might be off the Serge Gainsbourg album 2.°l- Then*** , . excusable if the defence were, Histoire de Melody Nelson. Now you know, 15). The rap tracks— if you want to talk master­ r ^)0 • Soo^e + 0 jco^ *-y- "Contact" with Last Emperor pieces, that album would be a and "Take You There" with Phife much better contender. Dawg (of A Tribe Called Quest)— It is true, however, that I would make Vanilla Ice cringe— can be a bit of a polar-opposites n^e and I am not a man who speaks type of girl when it comes to from a condition of unfamiliari- reviewing music. I should stress ty with the works of Vanilla Ice. that this is not the worst album Amplified pop musi We're talking "Huh/Uh huh/True ever, just kind of dull and unin­ become a huge menace 'dat"-bad. "Drum, and Bass/In spired. 1 was never a "Folk- public eve rywhei your face"-bad. D&B sounds Beck" fan, but am not opposed ridiculous with rap lyrics to begin to the idea that it might be his with; this is the worst of the thing. Just need a little more to worst. "Lycan" with Dom & work with, is all... Roland—a far superior producer Julie C. who, nonetheless, also occasion­ ally struggles with mediocrity— DZIHAN & KAMIEN was a disappointment, too. (Dom Gran Rise'wa should know better than to col­ (Six Degrees/Couch) laborate with AK1200—it was all It distresses me that people too predictable—"Lycan" is think it's okay to make music quickly written off as generic, this boring and then sell it. too-fast D&B constructed with­ empo out skill or real ideas.) And I Drawing By Andrea Nunes

22 November 2002 yet slow unpredictable verbal parts of it and make them your UBERZONE manoeuvres. Noah23 pulls own. If you're lucky and/or tal­ The Digital Mix words and phrases out of the ented, they'll be the good parts. (Moonshine) stratosphere and makes them And if you're The Organ, you'll This is an unexceptional album move and sing in laughing, not only score the good parts— in a moribund genre. As I lis­ playful rhymes. you'll release of a six-song EP tened to it I had to keep turning Sometimes the deliberate that has audiences clamouring it down, so concerned was I disconnection between words for more. that my neighbours would FYl: Nostalgia sucks, but think I actually listen to this energy and obvious vocal skill The Organ rule. kind of thing—and 1 am not a carry the album . He flows "I'm Chris Eng man easily swayed by the opin­ the verbal version of those ions of his neighbours. On clos­ green/With my germ terminol­ SAINT ETIENNE er inspection: although the ogy protean/And there's no Finisterre songs are dull, the multi-plat­ machine" with an early '90s- (Mantra/Beggars) form digital mix is excellent. In style jazz-sampled flute loop A dance pop band that's been my limitless mercy, I have con­ and alongside drums fluctuat­ together for over ten years? trived three possible uses for ing between 80 and 160 beats That has a devoted cult follow­ this disc: as a mixing primer per minute. I find the album ing? Such things usually require (Dick, Jane, etc.) for beginning reassuring and warm—there is some manner of divine influ­ DJs, as a wheel for a small, ence, but in Saint Etienne's lightweight wagon, and, if it coldness to his rapping. It case, perhaps it's just a matter can be found as a 33 on vinyl, sounds and is so good to listen of skill, perseverance and some as a 45. catchy tunes. Their latest Donovan Arthur Krumins album, Finisterre, finds them combining the stripped-down, UNDERWORLD THE ORGAN subtle pop of 2000's Sounds of A Hundred Days Off Sinking Hearts Water with the sophisticated (Junior Boys Own) (Global Symphonic) lounge/disco hybrid of older Underworld returns—sans for­ Let's face it, the '80s are no albums—along with some new mer member Darren Emerson. place to spend your life. Pastel surprises. Songs like The songs are full of hypnotic, golf-shirts, leg-warmers and "Language Lab"—a violin/key­ groovy beats, and Hundred Duran Duran are not worth board/drum machine chill-out Days does a good job of repeat­ worth putting on an altar and instrumental—sit alongside ing Underworld's past musical venerating. The only fashion "New Thing"—and its primitive palettes. For one, the group's example from the entire synthesizers—and "Action," a trademark of using snare decade worth emulating was standout dance track which drums along with stream-of- Judd Nelson's "John Bender" in features the always-sultry consciousness lyrics is back in The Breakfast Club, and only a Sarah Cracknell cooing over a full force. Their current single fraction of the bands that set of beats that sound like "Two Months Off" is the stand­ released albums were worth they were lifted from Kylie out track and does an listening to. When you narrow Minogue's last album. Then admirable job of building up the '80s music down to '80s there's "Soft Like Me," with main beat, eventually having dreamy synth-pop, the number female rapper Wildflower (a Karl Hyde's hypnotic vocals of viable candidates drops to rapper on a Saint Etienne kick in for the better part of less than five. Trying to track album?) rhyming over the vers­ five minutes. The only other those select releases down es. Even more amazing is that, track that gets close to repli­ would drive a sane man mad, whereas a band like Morcheeba cating its energy is "Dinosaur but luckily you don't have to. would horribly mangle such a Adventure 3D." Don't let the You can just listen to The concoction, Saint Etienne name throw you off—it's a rich Organ, a current band that's makes it sound effortless. ride through a landscape of distilled the essence of those Between songs are spoken- trance and jungle—but then and discuss it on such tracks as: by someone called Tchad Blake. results) reflect this particular­ albums and transended them. word pieces by a chap with a again, Underworld has always "Light It Up," "Pot Head," Admittedly I haven't heard of ly, both songs demonstrating The bodies of work from Echo haughty English accent, who been good at breaking the tra­ "Strange Daze," "Rest of My this guy, but his resume— the sense of life's difficulties and The Bunnymen, Siouxsie shares revelations like, "The ditional genres of dance. "Sola Life," 4-2-0," "Full Throttle," and, including Pearl Jam and, er, being confronted—and ulti­ and early Depeche Mode have world began in Eden, and Sistim" is a seductive track that well, pretty much the whole Latin Playboys—doesn't exact­ mately , transcended—that been put under a microscope ended in Los Angeles" (chuck­ plays like hip hop in slow damn album. ly inspire confidence. Before we characterizes Low's best work. by the five girls who make up le). The title track ends the motion. You won't find any Cypress Hill did it better, hastily proclaim Low to have It's tempting to ascribe this The Organ. They've figured out album, with Cracknell declar­ dance floor-friendly tracks Cheech & Chong did it funnier abandoned all artistic integrity redemptive quality of the songs what made them work the first ing: "Finisterre/To tear it here, but what you will find is and any other clown on the face in the hope that they might to Low's religiousness, but this time round, and adopted and down/And start again." If they an enjoyable, ambient ride. of the planet did it scarier. Let's attain the star-struck heights fails to explain the universal transformed their styles, creat­ keep making records this bub­ Don't expect immediate payoff: face it, if you have the need to of the Latin Playboys, however, appeal of their music; Low's ing a wholly classic yet thor­ bly and fun, Saint Etienne could it's a record that gets better puff mad ganja then $20 worth it should be noted that Albini music is religious, but in the oughly personal style for go another ten years without with repeat listens. of weed is going to do you better has a few skeletons as well— spiritual, not theological, sense. themselves. having to tear anything down. James Hsu than this sad-act CD will. Bush being the name that Their relevance in an age dom­ You can't own the '80s Neil Braun Chris Eng immediately springs to mind. inated by irony and lightness (and why in God's name would Anyway, a cursory listen to might, instead, be attributed to you want to?), but you can take LOW Trust revealed my worries to be a common instinct to derive

Trust unfounded. There are new ele­ meaning from life. Low articu­ . ,:*-•. (Kranky) ments to Low's formula— late a yearning for spiritual Over the course of six LPs, Low notably enough reverb on the commitment to the unknown, have maintained an admirable drums to make any self- which transcends the merely faith to their artistic vision, respecting '80s pop outfit jeal­ religious: Trust. altering their sound so subtly ous—but they serve to Sam Wiseman with each record as to render delicately complement the the changes nearly impercepti­ intense solemnity of the songs. NOAH23 ble—but all the more signifi­ Sonic integrity aside, Trust Quicksand cant for that. Low's music has demonstrates Low's continuing (Plague Language) a fragility that should not be commitment to a more funda­ This marks the second full- casually tampered with; there mental ethical vision—their length independent release by is a sense that one misplaced unflinching confrontation of hip hop recording artist snare, one over-enthusiastic whatever emotional depths Noah23. Produced by label- guitar solo, could render the they encounter in the writing mate The Orphan, the album is intangible beauty of it all irre- of their songs. The funereal a mix of breakbeats and melod- trievably lost. "Candy Girl" and sublime "In ic samples, often cutting in You can imagine my worry, The Drugs" (on which the insa­ with double-speed rhythms then, to see that on Trust Steve tiable lust for reverb is extend­ and jungle programming which "Safe Hands" Albini has been ed to Mimi's backing vocals, flows toward and against the A DIVISION OF VITAMIN INDUSTRIES, INC. usurped on production duties with startlingly beautiful alternating speed and sweet 23 DiSCORDER ture guitar-swirl melting into a er headspace to figure out to MOTORAMA wicked percussion samba. how to play it that time around. BLACK RICE Songs like the crowd favourite The members of the group all BULLBUCKER "Words" and the soaring seem to function as three parts Tuesday, October 8 "Satellites" were performed of the same mind when play­ Railway Club with tripped-out perfection. ing, and they have all talked It seems that every year's real live action Unfortunately, lead Jimi about feeling a deep instant SHiNDiG! has one night during Goodwin's voice began to tire kinship with one another that its preliminaries where the, live music reviews near the end of the set result­ allows them to be of a single shall we say, heavier bands of ing in so-so vocals on "The Man spirit when playing. This the competition are show­ MOONEY SUZUKI try rock vixens!" I wanted to everything went right for those Who Told Everything," my incredible unity is something cased. Well, this round was that SAHARA HOTNIGHTS shout as they left the stage who braved a school/work favourite Doves tune. Guitarist that is all too rare in music night. Ears were left a-ringin' THE ENGAGED with a wave, coy smile and a night to check out a stellar Jez Williams proved to be a nowadays and the effect was after sitting through this one, Monday, September 30 thank you, but I was too busy evening of rock and roll. I went great sport though as he enter­ mesmerizing, holding the near- no doubt about it. Piccadilly Pub trying to pick up the pieces in home thoroughly spent, going tained the crowd during "tech­ capacity audience at rapt The first band up were Opening spot jitters got The time for New York's answer to straight to bed and giving my nical difficulties" with some attention despite the extra- Vancouver stalwarts Moto­ Engaged, who started things the energy crisis, The Mooney personal foot massager the psychedelic guitar licks. A three long length of some of the rama, who seem to have gigged off a little cautiously and never Suzuki. night off. song encore ended with an pieces, which lasted up to 20 around town in the past more quite caught the audience's Yes, they sarcastically Bryce Dunn incredible surprise as the band minutes. than the majority of peers fea­ attention long enough to make claimed to have created the brought out an old favourite The group played wonder­ tured in this year's competi­ a lasting impression—seems to solution to our West Coasters' DOVES from their years as mid-'90s fully well together as a result of tion. Maybe it's just me and the me they need a bit more prac­ wanton misuse of technology— MY MORNING JACKET house act Sub Sub and invited this unity of mind and spirit; places that 1 frequent, but this tice and less attention paid to most importantly, our person­ Friday, October 4 the crowd onstage. That's seamlessly flowing from one is the only band this year who I pulling their friends on stage al foot massagers—but they Commodore Ballroom right... the crowd. It was chaos piece to another and from one was even remotely familiar for birthday songs. indeed produced enough elec­ An enormous crowd of 20- as I found myself squished solo to another as the players with. They were noisy, abrasive However, that 30 minutes tric sweat to probably power a somethings packed the right up against Jez, and we, traded solos in the traditional and rocked! The drummer of awkwardness was quickly small Third World country. Commodore for the the drunken onstage mass, Persian call and response style. flailed away like a man pos­ erased by current Swedish fan- They needed no stage to Manchester band Doves who rocked like Weebles to their Amir Koushkani sung beau­ sessed and provided much of boy crushes Sahara Hotnights accomplish this feat either, as have been gaining a powerful bass-heavy electronic musings. tiful songs in Farsi while the visual focus for the band. who, without a word, launched both guitarists spent more Vancouver following, widened Doves cranked the volume accompanying himself on the The only thing that I could into "Out of the System," from time in the audience than on further this year with their lat­ to 11 and made the evening tar, an exotic and delicate complain about in their set was their North American debut what ended up being no more est, The Last Broadcast. with that final, unsafe invita­ sounding instrument related to the lack of any really memo­ disc Jennie Bomb, and never than a platform for the drum­ The opening band, My tion. (That's gotta be a fire haz­ the guitar and lute. Francois rable riffage. This apparent looked back. Half the crowd mer to prance around on with Morning Jacket, won the crowd ard!) They proved that they can Houle played some incredible deficit could, however, say stood stone still, like they had a cobra held up over his head. over with a high energy set of deliver a wild show and, as they solos on his clarinets, exploring more about the fact that I am been hit by lightning; the other This form of worship was a bit songs that started out sound­ say, they're "not at all like U- different effects and sounds to getting old and require more half imnrediately flipped out, troubling to me, so instead I ing like Sigur Ros, but ended in fucking-2." Keep an eye out for add to the moods of the music. melody. That aside, they were banged head and screamed, paid my own form of idolatry a fiery retro-rock jam session. My Morning Jacket, who had Being a percussion freak, I of decent. "Sahara HOT DAMN!" in utter by hoisting my index finger in The five-piece band from not been forgotten at the end course took note of Sal The next band, Black Rice, amazement. Barely in their the air at the appropriate Kentucky amused the audience of the night. Expect big things Ferreras' great metronomic were heavy as well, but in a 20s, these gals had more chops times. Not the middle finger, with their face-obstructing from them. timekeeping on various drums way which juxtaposed different than a butcher shop and style folks—INDEX finger, as in curls, making them look like Jeff Sanders when he wasn't doing amazing styles and musical eras in one to spare. We were treated to "Number one!" Songs were not lost Fraggle Rock characters. intricately-rhythmed solos in cool hard-rockin' package. most of the tunes from their simply played, but sliced, diced Lead vocalist Jim James dis­ SAFA complex irregular meters. Consisting of two rather hairy new record, with notable and served up hot and spicy in played some impressive stage Wednesday, October 9 Special guest Celso Machado mustachioed fellows on 6- standouts including "Keep Up an R&B-mixed-with-Motor- presence, really getting the Vancouver East Cultural sang, played additional percus­ strings and vocals, a Jack the Speed," "Fire Alarm" and City-madness stew from both crowd going and the beer flow­ Center sion, guitar, and a great solo on Bruce-circa-1969 looking bass­ "Alright Alright"—all souped-up LPs. The current hits "in A ing, and drummer Patrick In the two long sets of their CD- the kora, a kind of West African ist, and a heavy-hitting lady doses of glam-pop rock-'n'- Young Man's Mind," "Natural Hallahan wins the award for release concert, Safa only harp with 21 strings. drummer, they had many roll—but midway through they Fact" and "I Woke Up This best musical performer of the played a few numbers of their It's somewhat difficult to memorable elements to their blasted through an awesome Morning" were given equal evening. beautiful Persian-inspired adequately describe the expe­ set. The two guitarist/vocalists version of Suzi Quatro's "Can billing with older cuts from The audience was pumped ethno-fusion jazz, but all were rience of hearing Safa play. (who looked like brothers, inci­ the Can" that had all the sub­ their Estrus debut, like "Make for Doves when they hit the extended improvisational ver­ Time seems to stop and you get dentally) sang late '70s UK tlety of a sledgehammer My Way," "Half of My Heart" stage, starting things off beau­ sions of songs from their new caught up in the moment of punk sing-along choruses while pounding your skull into little and "Everything's Gone tifully with "Pounding." "There debut CD Alight. But this was just being absorbed in the wash banging away on their bitty shards. "Not fair, you sul­ Wrong." On the contrary, Goes the Fear," the weakest expected since Safa's whole of sound. Telecasters. The bass player song off The Last Broadcast, concept is essentially coming Vampyra Draculea played John Entwistle-like lead became a mesmerizing number up with a sketch of the piece bass runs, but with a heavy, that ended with Doves' signa­ and then getting into the prop­ SHiNDiG! distorted bass sound. The over­ all effect sounded like a mix­ ture of musical eras: a bit of Stooges/MC5, a bit of English punk, a bit of newer stuff like r~' fee r Royal Trux. They were hard to , D^ describe but don't worry, read­ ers—seeing as they won this round, you'll be able to see them again in the semi-finals. The last band of the night was a heavy, sludgy Fu 3*fk Ortt "fa Manchu-esque power-trio from the woods outside Nanaimo called BuIIbucker. Stripped down to their shirts, they sure stood out visually— especially their beast of a drummer. A great big guy with a mat of hair on his chest, a bald pate with long shaggy black hair down the back and sides and a prodigious belly, he pounded the drum kit into total submission. The wah-wah'd bass and guitar, both fuzzed out to match, provided a set of cool heavy stoner rock. ' H -~T<* V"Hr The only unfortunate part of the evening was that whoev­ er was doing sound made him­ The Goxxipl Photo By Lindsay Sung self scarce for much of the 24 November 2002 your resumes. guitar. This band has potential, about everyone who likes to Helio Sequence fuzzed the but instrumentation seemed to ROCK in Vancouver. club with reverb-heavy, take a back seat to the vocals Finding myself unwittingly shoegaze pop. Nice sound, real­ because the sound was pretty squished into what might \nmmumm ly. I've always been a sucker for much inaudible. Looking as if grandiosely be termed the pho­ that guitar "Bwawawawawaw" they just started playing tographer's pit (that is, the [anarjiirjAJSP sound since it's the closest I together, perhaps they are yet square meter or so between the ever come to illicit drug use. to blossom. monitors) for Melt Banana, I Reports from scenesters all Next up was an inspired, was fortunate enough to be over Vancouver tell that this but by no means phenomenal, periodically hit in the face by Tuesday night after Thanks­ twenty minutes by Subcon­ Yasuko's microphone lead as she giving day was a dull one and scious Satellite. These guys subjugated the Pic beneath a few were out to do much of were definitely into their relentless barrage of frenzied anything that night. Too bad: Yes/Genesis-era prog rock. vocal assaults. 1 should like to say I was also flecked with spit­ ENON gave a good show. John Avoiding the typical shortfall of tle, as a cheap device to try and Schmersai led the band most SHiNDiG! bands, Sat­ communicate the intensity of through much of their new ellite's songs were varied in this performance to the reader, material while handling a load composition. A weak-ass Jokes but Melt-Banana are too of small electronic devices and For Beer followed the second focused—too calculated—for showing a penchant for hammy band—the highlights being the spittle. And therein lies the bril­ showmanship. Recent ENON drunks yelling unintelligible words at Ben and another pint liance of their music. They con­ and former Lapse member THE SPIRIT WRESTLER, successfully quaffed by yours fidently eschew the typical Toko Yasuda has added her truly to dull the pain. Although I methods by which hardcore very yummy and gifted new enjoyed their enthusiasm, bands obtain their potency— presence on bass, keyboard Raksasha was a hard nightcap random, chaotic aggression, and and occasional vocals. Both she to swallow. All their youthful a deliberately low standard of and John made their way into exuberance and angst resulted musicianship—for something the audience, singing into our in a Creed-esque cacophony of ultimately purer, more deadly in faces—you know, "keepin' it sound that didn't make my its precision. This is truly orga­ real," as you kids say. peanut brittle. I endured long nized chaos. Admittedly, things In many ways ENON is pri­ enough to learn Subconscious went a little astray during an marily a studio band, a goulash Satellite was the night's winner. inadvisably long theremin work­ of pop genres colliding with This was truly an anomaly of a out, but ultimately this primed found sounds and unusual night for SHiNDiG! the crowd for the resumption of instruments, so I wondered Agata's brutal chainsaw riffs, Fly Pan Am. Photo By Lori Kiessling what they would do to present Robert Robot spiced with a bewildering array this mix in a live performance. of effects, ensuring we all went night. As a result, the mix was piano with expressive enthusi­ Of course, through the miracles MELT BANANA home satisfied—if a little disori­ shoddy at times, handicapping asm, and drummer Dave of digital recording, they were STREETS ented. Vancouver wasn't quite some of the bands to a fair Robbins, who plays with such able to bring some of the stu­ THE NONS prepared for such an efficient extent. Other than that, it was explosiveness at times that you dio to us—you know, "keepin' it Sunday, October 20 attack. a great night. All three bands get the idea during some of his fake." Piccadilly Pub were good fun and my ears climaxes that he will not be Would I see ENON again? Slightly delirious with anticipa­ Sam Wiseman kept ringing their approval for done till he snaps his drum-set tion at the prospect of finally Hell yes. For those that missed ORCHESTRAL AMAZEMENT! the entire walk home. in two with his sticks. It's really it, find yourself some ENON witnessing Japan's finest GWAR Michael Staniszkis something to see. and a pair of headphones. You deranged punk/thrash/hard­ Sunday, October 27 I can't think of words to may be pleasantly surprised. core merchants, my appetite Commodore Ballroom HARD RUBBER ORCHESTRA sum up this concert. After it Blique was pleasantly whetted by the There are times in your life HUGH FRASER QUINTET was through, I had a conversa­ detuned twin-guitar antics of where there is a hole right in WITH STRINGS tion with a friend of mine, and SHiNDiG! The Nons (think early Sonic the middle of your being and Thursday, October 10 he summed it up better than I OLDEN DAYS Youth with less ambition and a you don't even know it's there Vancouver East Cultural could. To paraphrase: "Hard SUBCONSCIOUS SATELLITE greater predilection for until it gets filled. GWAR and Centre Rubber is, no question, consis­ RAKSASHA garage). They didn't blow us its collective members filled my Hard Rubber were their usual tently the best Vancouver band Tuesday, October 15 away, but support bands aren't hole swiftly, efficiently and BY08: i BRING YOUR OWN FILM ( magnificent selves. The band event you can see. It's such a Oh, the institution that is supposed to, right? bloodily. started off with a swing chart simple idea, I wonder who SHiNDiG! At this juncture it would To say that 1 was baptized and then played a 9-movement thought of it: 'Hey... let's get all If you haven't been down seem apt to proclaim that would be putting the point orchestra piece written by the best jazz musicians in the to the famous Railway Club for STREETS demonstrate an mildly. By the end of the Hugh Fraser. The pieces con­ city together and make a really CiTR's battle o' the bands admirable lack of respect for evening, I was covered in blood, ALCATRAZ IS NOT AN ISLAND tained alternating movements big band. Hey, then let's get all before, then don't let this this axiom. Their irrepressible cum, pus, viscera and all man­ of full-band sounds and instru­ the best musicians/composers review discourage you. Some of blend of West Coast punk and ner of fluorescent bodily fluids. in the city to write for our Vancouver's now known bands twiddly metal—the songs, Yes, it was a glorious baptism; mental duets. Notable were FIFTH ANNUAL but a rebirth? I dunno—I think solos by Dennis Esson on trom­ band. Okay, now let's play.'" I have gotten good and drunk apparently without exception, VANCOUVER UNDERGROUND I bone playing a beautiful muted found that funny. Such a sim­ and started their long journey based around extolling the I'm still covered in afterbirth. FILM FESTIVAL ballad, an introspective duet by ple idea and it works so well. into rock 'n' roll stardom in this virtues of skateboarding- Chris Eng Rebecca Whitling (violin) and Lucas TdS hallowed railway car. Unfor­ seem to be beloved of just John Korsrud (trumpet), and a tunately, none of the bands this WALKING WOUNDED: humorous exchange between ENON night compared to their prede­ THE FILMS OF cessors. Daniel Miles Kane (bari-sax) HEUO SEQUENCE LECH KOWALSKI and Brad Muirhead (trombone). Tuesday, October 15 Arriving early to get a seat Hard Rubber finished with a Piccadilly Pub was unnecessary since this was blistering tune that saw Bill Something has to be done the most poorly attended Runge (sax) and Vince Mai about the scourge of annoying SHiNDiG! I've been to. I'd like to (trumpet) exchange hot hot baby boomers at local clubs. I think the poor attendance was solos. mean, let's consider the bois­ a result of ENON playing that The Hugh Fraser Quintet terous, barrel-chested fool with same night, but I'm not entire­ with Strings opened the night a misguided loyalty to CCR. ly convinced of this. Shit, even with a pile of cool bopesque This yahoo (who no doubt the ubiquitous hecklers weren't pieces. I appreciate the fact dwells in high school sport-hero present! Unlike other prelimi­ that Fraser was experimenting glory) yakked-up everyone that nary SHiNDiG!s, this night was by adding a string quartet to made eye contact, flirted with a musical grab bag comprising his regular quintet, but I found the Pic staff and extolled the three very different sounding them a tad distracting. They virtues of classic rock. So now acts. took away from some of the I'm setting aside some time for The Olden Days took the spontaneous chemistry that a personal business venture. I'll stage first and looked to have makes a tight group like his so set up something like a 911 potential. They're a quaint little k\ entertaining to watch. 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27 DiSCORDER GIRLFOOD alt. 11:00-1:00PM the core of the show is engaging at the College of the Pacific. PARTS UNKNOWN 1:00- young people from all walks of VENGEANCE IS MINE 12:00- 3:00PM Underground pop for life and all spheres of influence in 3:00AM Hosted by Trevor. It's the minuses with the occasional punk rock, baby! Gone from the interview with your host Chris. MY ASS alt. 6:30-7:30PM charts but not from our hearts— OM "lite; dial SANDBOX THEATRE 3:00- Phelps, Albini, V me. thank fucking Christ. 4:00PM A show of radio drama WIGFLUX RADIO 7:30-9:00PM PSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES 3:00- your guide to CiTR 101.9fm orchestrated and hosted by UBC Celebrate the triumphant return of 6:30AM DJ Christopher Schmidt students, featuring independent DJ Vyb. Listen to DJ Vyb and also hosts Organix at Club 23 (23 works from local, national and Selecta Krystabelle for your reg­ West Cordova) on Friday nights. international theatre groups. We gae education. SUNDAY QUEER FM 6:00-8:00PM latest trance cuts to propel us into welcome your involvement THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM- TUESDAY Dedicated to the gay, lesbian, the domain of the mystical. 1 2:00AM Vancouver's longest ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC bisexual, and transsexual com­ [email protected]> Nov. 4: The Order of Good Cheer running prime time jazz program. PACIFIC PICKIN' 6:30-8:00AM 9:00AM-12:00PM All of munities of Vancouver. Lots of THE SHOW 12:00-2:00AM (UBC production). Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Bluegrass, old-time music, and its time is measured by its art. This human interest features, back­ BBC WORLD SERVICE 2:00- Nov. 11: A spotlight Walker. Features at 1 1. derivatives with Arthur and "The show presents the most recent ground on current issues and 6:00AM Beckett. Nov. 4: The Modern Jazz Sextet—a Lovely Andrea" Berman. new music from around the great music. ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS 4:00 one-time only all-star band with HIGHBRED VOICES 8:00AM- world. Ears open. RHYTHMSINDIA 8:00-10:00PM MONDAY 5:00PM A chance for new CiTR trumpet master Dizzy Gillespie and 9:30AM THE ROCKERS SHOW 12:00- Rhythmslndia features a wide DJs to flex thei alto saxophonist Sonny Stitt. THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 3:00PM Reggae inna all styles range of music from India, includ­ BBC WORLD SERVICE 6:00- Surprises galor Nov. 11 Arguably the finest tenor 9:30-11:30AM Open your and fashion. ing popular music from Indian 8:00AM WENER'S BARBEQUE 5:00- saxophonist in Canada, Kirk ears and prepare for a shock! A BLOOD ON THE SADDLE 3:00- movies from the 1930s to the pre­ BREAKFAST WITH THE 6:00PM Join the sports dept. for Macdonald has come up with a harmless note may make you a 5:00PM Real cowshit-caught-in- sent, classical music, semi-classi­ BROWNS 8:00-11:00AM their coverage of the T-Birds. winner in Pure and Simple with fan! Hear the menacing scourge yer-boots country. cal music such as Ghazals and Your favourite brown-sters, James CRASH THE POSE alt. 6:00 drum master Terry Clarke, bassist that is Rock and Roll! Deadlier than CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING alt. Bhajans, and also Qawwalis, and Peter, offer a savoury blend 7:30PM Hardcore/pl Neil Swainson and British piano the most dangerous criminal! 5:00-6:00PM British pop music pop and regional language num- of the familiar and exotic in a fuck from beyond the gravi genius John Taylor. from all decades. blend of aural delights! SOLARIZATION alt. 6:00- Nov. 18: One of the best Big Bands BLUE MONDAY alt. 11:30AM- SAINT TROPEZ alt. 5:00- TRANCENDANCE 10:00PM- LOCAL KIDS MAKE GOOD alt. 6:30PM Kenneth Chan brings ever! Tune in to find out! 1:00PM Vancouver's only indus- 6:00PM International pop 12:00AM Join us in practicing 11:00-1:00PM Local Mike and you a current affairs sh< Nov 25: Never before released trial-electronic-retro-goth program. (Japanese, French, Swedish, the ancient art of rising above com­ Local Dave bring you local music other. Sola .xplor material from pianist Dave Music to schtomp to, hosted by British, US, etc.), '60s soundtracks mon thought and ideas as your of all sorts. The program most like­ issues that make the headline: Brubeck's alma mater. Dave and and lounge. Book your jet set hol- host, DJ Smiley Mike lays down the ly to play your band! form a different perspective, but alto saxophonist Paul Desmond live LA BOMBA alt. 11:30-l 2:30

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28 November 2002 REEL TO REAL alt. 12:30- 9:00PM indie, new wave, Promo mix the undergi ound hip 1:00PM Movie reviews and punk, and other noise. hop, old school classics and orig- FOLK OASIS 9:00-10:30PM inal breaks. BEATUP RONIN 1:00-2:00PM Roots music for folkies and non- THE LEO RAMIREZ SHOW Where dead samurai can pro­ folkies... bluegrass, singer-song­ 2:0O-3:30PM The best mix of gram music. writers, worldbeat, alt-country and • S-f^Ury • j. W>lc\4,C • CPR 2:00-3:30PM more. Not a mirage! mentary from around the local Buh bump... buh bump., and international Latin American the sound your hearl makes STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUND- when you listen to science talk HAR 10:30PM-12:00AM NARDWUAR THE HUMAN and techno... buh bump... Let DJs Jindwa and Bindwa SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30- ELECTROMAGNETIC PULSES radio 5:00PM alt. 3:30-4:30PM Bhungra! "Chakkh de phutay." CiTR NEWS AND ARTS 5:00- ELECTRIC AVENUES alt. 3:30- HANS KLOSS' MISERY HOUR 6:00PM A volunteer produced, 4:30PM Last Tuesday of every 12:00-3:00 AM student and community newscast month, hosted by The Richmond FIRST FLOOR SOUND SYSTEM featuring news, sports and arts. Society For Community Living. 3:00-6:00 AM Reports by people like you. Music and spoken word program "Become the Media." To get with a focus on people with spe­ THURSDAY involved, visit www.citr.ca and cial needs and disabilities. click "News Dept." THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN BBC WORLD SERVICE 6:00- FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. 4:30-5:00PM 8:00 AM 6:00-9:00PM 10,000 VOICES 5:0O-6:0OPM END OF THE WORLD NEWS AFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. 6:00- Poetry, spoken word, perfor­ 8:00-10:00AM 9:00PM David "Love" Jones mances, etc. PLANET LOVETRON 10:00- brings you the best new and old FLEX YOUR HEAD 6:00- 11:30AM Music inspired by jazz, soul, Latin, samba, bossa, 8:00PM Up the punx, down Chocolate Thunder, Robert Robot and African music from around the emo! Keepin' it real since drops electro past and present, the world. 1989, yo. hip hop and intergalactic HOMEBASS 9:00PM- 12:00AM http://flexvourheod.vancouver- funkmanship. Hosted by DJ Noah: techno but hardcore.com/ CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30AM- also some trance, acid, tribal, SALARIO MINIMO 8:00- 1:00PM etc. Guest DJs, interviews, retro­ 10:00PM YUKON HO alt. 11:30AM- spectives, giveaways, and more. VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 1:00PM BREAKING WAVES IN YOUR alt. 10:00PM-12:00AM STEVE AND MIKE 1:00- HEAD 12:00-2:00AM 2:00PM Crashing the boy's THE MORNING AFTER SHOW SOULSONIC WANDERLUST club in the pit. Hard and fast, 2:00-4:00 AM alt. 10:00PM-12:00AM heavy and slow (punk and hard- Electro-acoustic-trip-dub-ethno- SATURDAY groove-ambient-soul-jazz-fusion THE ONOMATOPOEIA SHOW and beyond! From the bedroom 2:00-3:00PM Comix comix THE VAMPIRE'S BALL 4:00- to Bombay via Brookyln and comix. Oh yeah, and some music 8:00AM Dark, sinister music of back. The sounds of reality with Robin. all genres to soothe the Dragon's remixed. Smile. hotrr>ail.com> 5:00PM THE SATURDAY EDGE AURAL TENTACLES 12:00- LEGALLY HIP alt. 5:00-6:00PM 8:00AM-12:00PM Studio 6:00AM It could be punk, PEDAL REVOLUTIONARY alt. guests, new releases, British ethno, global, trance, spoken 5:00-6:00PM Viva la edy sketches, folk music calen­ word, rock, the unusual and the Velorution! DJ Helmet Hair and dar, and ticket giveaways. weird, or it could be something Chainbreaker Jane give you all 8-9AM: African/World roots. different. Hosted by DJ Pierre. the bike news and views 9AM-12PM: Celtic music and per­ you need and even cruise around formances. WEDNESDAY while doing it! www.sustainabil- GENERATION ANNIHILA­ ity.com/dinos/radio TION 12:00-1:00PM Tune in BBC WORLD SERVICE 6:00- OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-7:30PM for a full hour of old 7:00 AM No Birkenstocks, nothing politi­ punk and Oi mayhem! THE SUBURBAN JUNGLE cally correct. We don't get paid POWERCHORD l:O0-3:0OPM 7:00-9:00AM Bringing you so you're damn right we have fun Vancouver's only true metal an entertaining and eclectic mix with it. Hosted by Chris B. show; local demo tapes, imports, of new and old music live from ON AIR WITH GREASED HAIR and other rarities. Gerald the Jungle Room with your irrev­ 7:30-9:00PM The best in roots Rattlehead, Dwain, and Metal erent hosts Jack Velvet and Nick rock 'n' roll and rhythm and blues Ron do the damage. The Greek. R&B, disco, techno, from 1942-1 962 with your snap- CODE BLUE 3:O0-5:0OPM From soundtracks, Americana, Latin pily-attired host Gary Olsen. to urban harp honks, blues, and gem! RADIO HELL 9:00-11:00PM Andy, and Paul. FOOL'S PARADISE 9:00- Local muzak from 9. Live bandz ELECTROLUX HOUR 5:00- 10:00AM Japanese music and from 10-11. http;//www.stepan- 6:00PM talk. dahalf.com/tbirdhell SOUL TREE 6:00-9:OOPM From THE ANTIDOTE 10:00AM- WORLD HEAT 11:00PM- doo-wop to hip hop, from the 11:30PM 1:00AM An old punk rock heart electric to the eclectic, host ANOIZE 11:30AM-1:00PM considers the oneness of all Michael Ingram goes beyond the Luke Meat irritates and educates things and presents music of call of gospel and takes soul music through musical deconstruction. worlds near and far. Your host, to the nth degree. Recommended for the strong. the great Daryl-ani, seeks reas- SYNAPTIC SANDWICH 9:00- THE SHAKE 1:00-2:OOPM i diggers DJ Avi Shack and quake. Hosted by Sister B. • SUBMISSIONS TO DATEBOOK ARE FREE. FOR THE JANCEMBER ISSUE, THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 2. FAX SHOW, FILM, EVENT AND VENUE LISTINGS TO datebooL 604.822.9364 OR EMAIL what's happening in november lllllllllllll

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1 Pink Dots, Origami GaIaktika@Graceland (Seattle); Shifting Light: Shelley Adler@State Gallery (1564 W. 6th, exhibit ends Films by David Rimmer@Blinding Light!! Nov. 9); Hildegard Westerkamp CD release@Western Front; TUE 19 Apecial event* Blinded@Langley Civic Centre; Lester's Wagon, Bush League, CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG! WITH THE FEMINISTS, BLACK RICE, AND Lauren Klein Band@Brickyard; Andy Stochansky, Emm Gryner, SUBCONSCIOUS SATELLITE@RAILWAY CLUB; Add N to X, Soviet, Luce@Richard's; Shoofly@Silvertone; Badly Drawn Boy@Vogue; Cobra High@Richard's; Beth Orton@Commodore; BY08@Blinding Blue Rodeo, Sadies@Commodore; 7e#tovvne@Blinding Light!!; Light!!; stroke Brent Sopel's hair CiTR PRESENTS: Heather Griffin@The Main WED 20 SAT 2 Stephen Fearing@Cap College; Alcatraz is Not an /s/and@Blinding RYE COALITION, FEDERATION X, WITNESS Blue Rodeo, Sadies@Commodore; Floyd Favel-Starr@Native Light!!; campaign for a Brent Sopel bobblehead PROTECTION PROGRAM Education Centre (285 E. 5th); Echophone, Good Night Irene, THUR 21 Hunter Gracchus@Brickyard; Tegan and Sara@Richard's; John Prine, Todd Snider@Orpheum; Captured By Robots@Pic Pub; FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 ye#cowne@Blinding Light!!; Blackfeather, Rob Wilks@The Main VUFF@Blinding Light!!; The Circus In Flames Trio@The Main PIC PUB SUN 3 FRI 22 BB King,JustinKing@Orpheum; Hoobastank, Greenwheel@Richard's; Mad Bomber Society, Dance Craze@Royal; David Wilcox, Barney If you want to get kicked in the face by ac­ ye^ftowne@Blinding Light!! BentalI@Commodore; VUFF@Blinding Light!!; The Colorifics@The cident, you should go to this show. MON 4 Main Filter, Exies@Commodore;Je/frovvne@Blinding Light!! SAT 23 TUE 5 SK Robot@Anza Club; New Town Animals, Knucklehead@Brickyard; JOHN ZORN'S ELECTRIC MASADA CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG! WITH COLLAPSING OPPOSITES, VUFF@Blinding Light!!; Late Tuesday, Conrad@The Main KIDS THESE DAYS, AND THE HEARTACHERS@RAILWAY CLUB; SUN 24 FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 8 Ben Lee, Vanessa Carlton@Vogue; STREETS@Snacker's (Surrey); Joe Satriani, Ned Evett@Commodore; Cato Salsa Experience, The VOGUE THEATRE Je_#towne@Blinding Light!! Soundtrack of Our Lives@Richard's; VUFF@Blinding Light!! WED 6 TUE 26 If you want to piss all over yourself by acci­ NoMeansNo, New Town Animals, Moneyshot@Richard's; CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG! WITH THE STUNTS AND TBA@RAILWAY dent, you should go to this show. Scene Creamers, Red Light Sting, The Accident@Pic Pub; Neko CLUB; Walking Wounded: Films of Lech Kowalski@Blinding Light!! Case@Commodore;ye#toivne@Blinding Light!!; Origins@The Main WED 27 THUR 7 DJ UFO, Kuma, Mechwarrior@The Drink; Sigur Ros@Vogue; Thievery DIAMANDA GALAS Low, Pan American@Richard's; Remy Shand, Dayna Corporation@Commodore Manning@Commodore; Guns 'n' Roses, Mix Master Mike@GM THUR28 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 9 Place; Vicente Amigo@Vogue; Diese!boy@Sonar; Prison Brundlefly, Hinterland, Anabret@Purple Onion; Afro Canadian All Ce//u/oi'd@Blinding Light!!; Clay George, Amy Honey@The Main Stars@The Centre; cut my hair like Brent Sopel's; Antoine Baby VOGUE THEATRE FRI 8 Harry Calaway@The Main We at DiSCORDER are so frightened by Dia­ CiTR PRESENTS RYE COALITION, FEDERATION X, WITNESS FRI 29 PROTECTION PROGRAM@PIC PUB; Lazarazu@Anza Club; Tom Landa and the Paperboys, Ivonne Hernandez@WlSE Hall; manda Galas that we can't even talk about Blue Rodeo@Queen Elizabeth Theatre; John Zorn's Electric Richard Buckner@Sunset Tavern (Seattle); Daisy Duke, Ann Louise it. We're just going to go and cover our eyes. Masada@Vogue; The Spirit Wrest/er@Blinding Light!!; Eugene Genest@The Main Ripper@The Main SAT 30 SAT 9 Jim Brickman@Vogue; Brent Sopel's hair gets tangled with Ricci's KIM MITCHELL Bowling for Victory: COPE Fundraiser@Commodore Lanes; hair in a scrap; Kris Demeanor, Chantal Vitalis, Matt Allen@The Engine Down, Hot Hot Heat, Dismemberment Plan@Commodore; Main SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Diamanda Galas@Vogue; Superstar:The Karen Carpenter SUN DECEMBER 1 COMMODORE Story@Blinding Light!!; Blind God@The Main Beck, Flaming Lips@Queen Elizabeth Theatre SUN 10 MON 2 What the fuck? George Clinton and Parliament/Funkadelic@Commodore; New Rocket From the Crypt@Commodore Town Animals, Wednesday Night Heroes, The Riffs@Brickyard; TUE 3 Jackie and the Cedrics, Go Devils, The Satisfaction, Ramblin' CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG!@RAILWAY CLUB; Nelly, The Clipse@GM SHiNDiG! Ambassadors, The Radio@Shenanigans (1225 Robson); Fata Place; The Blue Pony Videos of King Anderson@Blinding Light!! TUESDAY NIGHTS! Morgana w/ Eye of Newt@Blinding Light!! WED 4 TUE 12 Film 1999@Blinding Light!! RAILWAY CLUB! CiTR PRESENTS SHiNDiG! WITH HUMAN HI-LITE REEL, MY THUR 5 PROJECT: BLUE, AND IN MEDIAS RES@RAILWAY CLUB; Blue Strange Grey Day Thi's@Blinding Light!! States@Richard's; !CTV@Blinding Light!!; comb Brent Sopel's hair; Ev'rybody Wants to Be a Cat@The Main WED 13 place* ta he Julio lglesias@Orpheum; Painters Painting@Blinding Light!!; Joel Gibb (Hidden Cameras)@The Main bassix records 217 w. hastings 604.689.7734 pic pub 620 west pender 604.669.1556 THUR 14 Black Heart Procession, Jerk With a Bomb, Pleaseeasaur@Richard's; beatstreet records 3-712 robson 604.683.3344 railway club 579 dunsmuir 604.681.1625 Kid Koala@Sonar; Mr. Otto Biograffiti@Blinding Light!!; Robyn black swan records 3209 west broadway 604.734.2828 richard's on richards 1036 richards 604.687.6794 Carrigan, Heather Griffin@The Main blinding light!! 36 powell 604.878.3366 FRI 15 ridge cinema 3131 arbutus 604.738.6311 Paul Plimley, Mei Han, Ellery Eskelin, Akikazu Nakamura, Jason cellar 3611 west broadway 604.738.1959 red cat records 4305 main 604.708.9422 Robinson, Robin Fox and Anthony Pateras@Planetarium; The club 23 23 west Cordova royal 1029 granville Anniversary, Burning Brides, Pris@Pic Pub; Mediaeval Baebes, cobalt 917 main 604.685.2825 Cirque Vampyre@Croatian Cultural Centre; STREETS, Burnside scrape records 17 west broadway 604.877.1676 Brawlers@Cobalt; Radiohead Vs. 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With lots of dif­ able Mr. Scruff, knows his stuff. Heavy on the 70s a mesmerizing in-store performance, a lesson in lap­ dency at a classic Las Vegas hotel like the Flamingo. ferent instrumentation (including clarinet, trombone, violin, and funky-jazzy soul, with some quirky genre hopping here top dynamics. Submers, his second recording, is a Have you seen them live? The uniforms, the big band, glockenspiel), Litterbug brings together elements from the and there, Trouser Jazz is classic Ninja Tune material: a concept record, each song dedicated to a different the giant snakes, the stage presence - they'd feel right at Feelies, Danielson Family, Yo La Tengo an Neutral Milk Hotel playful, entertaining romp; some honest, right-on party submarine, the final track a requiem for the truly terri­ home. Here's the basic equation: experience + skill + a to create an enjoyably wide-ranging and sometimes off-kilter music. Like his appealing, childlike graphic art, Mr. fying yet darkly poetic sinking of the Kursk. As the fine tight as fuck band + Americana = RFTC hard rock action pop album. This one's for those of you who long for the heyday Scruff's music is completely and straightforwardly light- people at Kranky describe it, "Submers is an album all night long! Las Vegas? Hell yeah. Seriously. They play of the late-'80s indie boom as much as those who enjoy the hearted and good. In short, Mr. Scruff wants you to get that easily merges ambient, contemporary classical the crowd like putty. They ask for a call out, we call out. somewhat weirder indie rock of today. Some dancing required. music and minimal techno in defiance of the current They want to see our hands in the air, we put them up. down and enjoy yourself, something his famous DJ sets mania for micro-genres." Indeed. And we must add, It's as easy as that. More undeniable proof comes in the are, well, famous for. So lighten up, Vancouver. SEE CD 14.98 "Highly recommended," too. form of Live From Camp X-Ray, their latest full length. PAGE 4 OF THIS ISSUE FOR MORE NINJA TUNE SPE­ CIALS THIS MONTH AT ZULU. SIGUR ROS CD 16.98 Okay sure, it's a studio album. But it's all there, man, every last guitar squeal and rocking refrain. Sweet. CD/LP 16.98 ()CD CD 16.98 LP 14.98 he long awaited new capital "C" Concept Record from these PAVEMENT CATHERINE IRWIN Tmysterious Icelanders. With a cryptic symbol for a title, {) is Slanted and Cut Yourself A a thoughtful follow up to the atmospheric and beautiful Agaetis GODSPEED YOU BLACK Byrjun. Often subdued and understated, the eight long untitled Enchanted EMPEROR Switch CD tracks on () - each track guided by one central, repeated musi­ 'ith her stirring cal idea, such as a piano figure or spooky guitar line - form a Luxe and YANQUIU.X.0.CD/2LP WAppalachia! n timbre, 71-minute progressive rock masterwork. Like the absent album Reduce 2CD ransmission received from Godspeed HQ, dis­ title, untitled tracks and blank-paged CD booklet, the possible Tpersed and noisy: "u.x.o. is unexplod- Irwin has always meaning of the lyrical content - now sung entirely in Sigur Ros' ed ordnance is landmines is cluster been much more of a traditionalist imaginary language, Hopelandic - is also up to the individual lis­ othing sums up the '90s pop underground quite bombs... yanqui is post- than most of the alt- tener. Yet, for all its "absences," () is heavy with powerful emo­ Nlike Slanted and Enchanted. Basement suites colonial imperial- s \ country scene. With The tional content, invoking a truly moving journey in sound. and university dorms everywhere were filled with the ism is international Carter Family, Hazel slack, self-reflexive and smart (maybe too smart for CD 18.98 police state is multi­ / Dickens and Roscoe some) music of Steve Malkmus, Spiral Stairs and national corporate oli- -^MLSM^ '* Holcomb in the back­ the rest of the boys. Yes, this record changed the YEAH YEAH YEAHS garchy. ground, Cut Yourself A field, spawning many, many imitators, but none as you! black Switch, Irwin's first solo Machine CDEP/10" inspired as the lackadaisical original. At a time when complicit is guilty is album, draws on this rich aven't heard of them yet? Sure you have. The/re a dirty rock­ notions of "the canon" and "great works" were assid­ resisting... the new history to produce some Hing three piece from New York City, fronted by the command­ uously called into question, Pavement went ahead album is just music... awfully mournful, stripped ing, fashion-forward Karen 0 (chutzpa-wise, fast in the footsteps and produced an era-defining album anyway. Ah, recorded by steve albini ± bare country downers (but of punk icon and other famous "0", Wendy 0. Williams, we won­ those were the days. Now re-released as a deluxe, der?). They recently opened for Jon Spencer, and from all reports at electrical audio in ^ with alew lights on the hori­ embossed 2CD set (with bonus tracks, Peel taught the old man a thing or two about rock and roll. This second Chicago... mixed by zon, too). With excellent play­ Sessions, the Watery, Domestic EP, a live recording EP is the lead-in for their anticipated, soon-to-be-released full howard bilerman and god- " / ^ ing and great production, this and more), Slanted and Enchanted reaffirms its length (check this space for it, too). More of the screaming bump speed you! black emperor at recording is mighty fine country much-celebrated status in the recent history of popu­ and grind that they do so well. How much noise can three people the hotel2tango in montrfeil... avail­ music. While you're at it, make sure to lar music. Probably see you in ten years for the box make on voice, guitar and drums? Check it out, man. able on single compact disc and double check out our newly developed Roots set - and we don't mean that ironically. phonograph record... stubborn tiny lights vs. clus­ Section, bringing together traditional folk and country with CDEP/10" 8.98 2CD Re-issue 22.98 tering darkness forever ok?" Transmission over, decoded: the newest wave of alt-country music. redouble the efforts, storm the barricades, and change the MORE FALLING LEAVES world one living room at a time. Massive new ambient CD 19.98 SMOG ADD N TO X- Loud Like Nature CD/2LP instrumental rock from this progressive-minded collective. Accumulation: Heralding times to come? OUT NOV. 11TH BADLY DRAWN CADARET VOLTAIRE- Nag Nag Nag CDEP None CD CD 12.98 2LP 16.98 BOY CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS- Model 91 LP/CD DEADDEAT- Wild Life Documentaries CD alk about your mixed Have You Fed The Tsignals. Smog has THE DONNAS DEATH CAB FOR COTIE-You Can Play These long employed the emo­ Spend The Night Fish? CD/LP Songs With Chords CD tionally challenging mind- o sophomore slump for this HANGED UP-Kicker In Tow LP/CD fuck as an aesthetic device, not only in the content of CD/LP Ntoque wearing singer-song­ RICHIE HAWTIN & SVEN VATH- The Sound of the his moody, moody songs but also in the very prac­ ow on a major label, The writer and former Mercury Prize winner (and we certainly tice of producing records. Each Smog release is a Third Season CD NDonnas seem right at home. don't mean to under-appreciate the quality soundtrack mixed blessing, both great and terrible. We're thrilled I AM SPOONBENDER- Shown Actual Size CDEP Glossy and bright production music he did for About a Boy, which was great as well, but to get knocked down and kicked in the guts by really brings out the truth of their not exactly an "album" album, if you follow our distinction). RONI SIZE- Touching Down CD Smog's grim and dark sensibility. Even when he style, like all those high '80s rock records rolled up into Both poignant and irreverent, Have You Fed The Fish? SUICIDE- American Supreme CD seems happy he's so damn black. Of course, howev­ one, a cool hybrid of the Runaways in Kiss make up. Full of shows a maturing Badly Drawn Boy (or Damon Gough, to ANDREAS TILLIANDER- Elit CD er, we love and savor every last sadomasochistic sing-along choruses, thick power riffs, awesome leads, his family), honing his craft and lyrical depth, culminating minute of it, always ready for more. Oh, make it bad, KEITH FULLERTON WHITMAN- Playthroughs CD pick slides and a little cowbell to take it to the next level, with the first single, "You Were Right." Not a moment too Smog, real bad. Accumulation: None is a collection VARIOUS- Clicks & Cuts 3 2CD Spend The Night is the real deal. With driving tunes like soon! AVAILABLE NOV. 5TH of past Smog singles and EPs, from 1991 to now, VARIOUS- Digital Disco CD "You Wanna Get Me High", "Take It Off", "I Don't Care (So CD/LP 16.98 including one new track, the stirring "White Ribbon". There)" and "Too Bad About Your Girl", this album should VARIOUS- Trash Companion #1 CD Ah, sublime. AVAILABLE NOV 5TH blow the roof off your next an night house party. Bug your CD 16.98 neighbors, buy The Donnas. (For a limited time, Spend The Night comes with a cool DVD with a band interview, a Zulu Records STORE HOURS SALE PRICES IN EFFECT video and more). 1972-1976 W4th Ave UNTIL NOVEMBER 30, 2002 CD 16.98 LP 14.98 Mon to Wed 10:30-7:00 Vancouver, BC Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 IN THE AFTERNOON EVENTS: Sunday November 3rd at 4:00 PM tel 604.738.3232 Sat 9:30-6:30 I K£CdPb3\ Sun 12:00-6:00 The Carrie Walker Art Opening: 'Two primates, three varmints and some docks." wvvw.zulurecords.com