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My first band was called Lobster Stew. It was a garage band (location-wise, people's music to a bar full of friendsan d strangers. I'm overwhelmed with not genre-wise) formed in spring of'98, a duo with my eighth grade best emotions and memories tied to songs and their settings, for myself and the friend. I played drums and yelled. She played guitar and workbench. After two bar patrons, whether they were even listening or just yelling in conversation jams, things like rowing or swim practice, drinking slushies after school, and with their friends over beers, or more interested in the TVs and the street folks our general musical inability set in, and we fizzled. 15 years later, I'm in my that stumbled in every so often. That feeling when someone approaches you second-ever band with my present roommate/platonic life partner (PLP). We and asks, "Who is this?" with intrigue, because they're hearing someone new haven't practiced yet, but we have a few whiteboards worth of ideas, a bitchin' who they like and want to know more. band name, and I'm slowly learning to play glockenspiel and a mini Casio That's our goal at Discorder every month. We encourage you to explore live to catch up with her violin and button-pushing skills. We'll keep you posted. and recorded music on your own terms, but there's so much music to hear I've never played a show in a band, but in March, said PLP and I had a DJ and artists to see that it's close to impossible to discover everything on your night for the first time. I know people often slog on DJs, but hear me out. We own. If you leaf through this issue or scroll down these pages and are intrigued rounded up our favourite vinyl fromou r collection and played records-only for enough to say, "Who is this? I want more!" we're doing something right. four hours at a local pub: anything we wanted, from Robert Palmer to Joan Jett We've focused a lot of content on the heart of music this month. From to Beastie Boys to Nick Cave to David Byrne to New Values to Black Eyes and so the D.LY. process of making music on page 18, to the places people practice, on. It wasn't so technical that we had to beat match, but we got the fade down in our new column Jam Space on page 11, to the then-and-now of Record pat by the end (!), and even turned the grimacing face of a twentysomething Store Day on pages 9 and 19, and heaps more, we hope to stoke the embers fellow—clearly forced there with his family for a meal—into a chipper smiling in your musical soul, whether it be as an enthusiastic participant or bashful one through great tunes over the course of their visit. Buttons and T-shirts spectator. Spring is in the air. Shake off those dull grey cobwebs and get were made in honour of the night. Bands and "real" DJs might guffaw, but I musically twitterpated. April is on. had the most fun day of my life. My point is that playing music for people is awesome, whether it's a Read on and stay rad, syncopated cacophony of sound in your garage to nobody, or playing other Laurel Borrowman
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ON BOXIKG DAY, 2004,1 PACKED MY LIFE into the back of a U-Haul truck and travelled south to what was then the third largest film production centre in North America. My mother wept as she watched me leave. My father wor ried that my chosen path wouldn't support me. I had no idea what I was doing but I knew I had to go try it out despite the misgivings of my fam ily. There was a clear moment when I realized •2 flb,ajfm y parents didn't quite fathom the idea of me going to school to learn how to write cre atively, much less actually finding a job that would support me. My dad sat me down one day as I applied for student loans, looked at me compassionately and said, "Maybe you should just get your electrical and, you know, have that as a backup." One year later I graduated from the screen- morning just so they can pay the rent on their trade, but I can see it in his eyes. They are the writing program of a pretty decent institution. I shoebox and buy ramen noodles to sustain •" same compassionate eyes my father had: they was instantly unemployed and wandering from themselves. So why do we do this? care, but they don't quite understand. coffee shop to coffee shop with my resume in I believe the answer is rooted, as are many While a good chunk of the population is hand. This was during the pre-2008 boom for awesome things, in the *8os. To say that I'm a spending their weekends getting drunk at clubs pretty much everyone in Vancouver—except product of this decade would be an understate and watching mindless TV about catty house newly graduated writers .looking for someone to ment. I own He-Man toys, Star Trek: The Next wives from all over the place, my artistic barista hire them on the strength their epic sci-fi space Generation shaped me in a fundamental way, brethren and I are out there trying to make stuff. opera script. I did finally find gainful employ ±e Challenger disaster was etched upon my Good stuff that has a chance to effect an audi ment. Yes, it was removed from my chosen pro toddler brain, and I believe, above all else in ence. Here's the thing about trying to make a go fession, but it was money and I've been support this world, that I can be anything I want to be of it in any artistic profession: at the end of the ing myself ever since. so long as I put my mind to it. Because I was day, it's about communication. I like expre^sX ': \ All the while I've been hustling any way I taught that. In the '80s. ing myself through stories about other people. can to keep my dream of being a professional I've had my mind set on this writing thing It's how I process my life and all the crazy stuff writer alive. It's been a tough and winding for a long time now and I still don't make any in this world. If I wasn't trying to make a real road. As much as I like to whine about how money off of it. In fact, it costs me money to writer out of myself, I don't know what I'd get hard my magnificent life free of war and pov continue to do what I want. My financial advisor out of bed in the morning for. It sure as shit erty has been, there are a lot of Vancouverites tells me that paying a large chunk of my income wouldn't be to fixth e wiring. Even if that does just like myself who are magnificent artists to a "job" that's doing nothing to pay my bills pay significantly more than my current rate of be it written, musical, film related—the list is a bad idea. He says I'll never get rich this way. zero dollars per hour. goes on and on—who serve you coffee every He stops short of telling me I should pick up a lJRlL 2111 I EAT. DRINK. DANCE. PARTY. (AND NOT NECESSARILY IN THAT ORDER)
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EVERYBODY LOVES AN UPLIFTING RAGS-TO-RICHES story, where the impossible becomes possible. In the case of Sound City, there are many instances of the staple underdog tale, but the reality is that life is like a roller coaster. To say the legend albums from the living owners and artists who worked at Sound ary Sound City Studios had its ups and downs is an understate City. The emotional, sometimes intense stories—particularly those ment, as we see in Dave Grohl's directorial debut, Sound City. of Rick Springfield—from those who were there, shed light on the Sound City summarizes the rises and falls (you bet that's plu studio's importance. ral) of the Van Nuys, California, recording studio. To quote the film, However, those illuminating interviews span about 70 minutes it was best described as a "dump." Empty beer bottles were strewn of the film's 108-minute run-time. The next 40 minutes follow Grohl about, chunks were missing from the walls, and floor tileswer e shat and several key interview subjects (Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Rick tered. This, we quickly learn, was part of its charm: Sound City Studios Springfield) gushing over each other while recording songs dedicated wasn't some glamourous high-end establishment. It was a place of raw to the establishment. The problem here is that all this occurs in honesty and the home of a literal one-of-a-kind model of "the Neve Grohl's own Studio 606, not at Sound City Studios. What makes the Console," a very expensive, custom Neve 8028 mixing board. This con scene's sincerity more questionable is that Grohl, as filmed, purchased sole was the studio's livelihood and brought the likes of Fleetwood Mac, Sound City's signature Neve Console for 606 studio in 2011, thus Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Charles Manson (yup!), Nirvana, bringing Sound City Studios to a close. Weezer, Rage Against the Machine, Johnny Cash, and dozens of other There's a lot tackled in Sound City that often feels jumbled and artists through the doors. unbalanced. That said, the studio's history and the effect modern tech Opened in 1969, Sound City Studios had some of modern his nology has had on the recording process are important topics the tory's greatest albums recorded there in its four decades of exis movie covers. Grohl's directorial debut is, like Sound City Studios' tence. Fleetwood Mac (1975), Holy Diver (1983), and Nevermind (1991) own endeavours, an honest effort meant to encapsulate great moments all were recorded at the studio, and we hear the stories of these in music history and music's future. Unfortunately, the disconnect between the two suggests Grohl should have con sidered making two separate movies. EMPTY BEER BOTTLES WERE STREWN ABOUT, As a music enthusiast but non-musician, I recommend Sound City for those who have been CHUNKS WERE MISSING FROM THE WALLS, (or hope to be) involved in the recording pro AND FLOOR TILES WERE SHATTERED. THIS, WE cess. The film is a great introduction to the art of QUICKLY LEARN, WAS PART OF ITS CHARM: recording and inspiring in terms of musical devel opment. If you're looking for a filmjus t to pass SOUND CITY STUDIOS WASN'T SOME GLAMOUR some time, Sound City might be the history lesson OUS HIGH-END ESTABLISHMENT. you didn't ask for. T The February 1993 issue marked the tenth glorious birthday of Discorder magazine. There was chocolate cake and goodie bags for everyone. . Give birthday bumps to this cover and 29 others in Discarded 15-month wall calendar. •e&efi£&
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t The June 1994 issue featured Boneclub, the Inbreds, Music Waste, and Urge Overkill. Discorder, you'll be SEPIATONIC a woman soon. POIITLAND- OR Serenade this cover and 29 others in Discordefs 15-month wall calendar. RU//ELL BRUHSR « BLACKBERRY WOOD BflfWnflFI/H DflnC€ ORCHE/TRfijft BjEILE, DEE THE CREAKMG PLAflK/ * JpTiPftnY B /UPER AflD THE YfinCOUMER TAP QgUCE jfipaETYw,.;dkh j| T The May 1995 issue featured Simple Machines, Mystery Machine, Glueleg, and cover illustration by I, Braineater. No cats were harmed in the making of this issue. Gently pet this cover and 29 others in Discordefs 15-month wall calendar. L_ RTO>STO*£ THE LINEUP OF DENIM-CLAD DUDES, HIP, STROLLER-PUSHING PARENTS, and dreadlocked twentysomethings clog the sidewalk, the mismatched crowd eagerly anticipating something. Judging by the varied demographics, maybe it's customer , appreciation day at the coffee shop. Maybe the latest iPhone is finally available. Or maybe it's April 20 outside the local independent vinyl joint, and music lovers from miles around are flocking to take part in Record Store Day's sixth year. by ALEX Happening on the third Saturday of every April, RSD is known for its vir$rl sales, live in-store performances, and limited edition albumifieassues. Since 2007, it has grown DE BOER from an American grassroots movement into an international event. RSD has become a global celebration and local pulse-check of community and culture. lettering by Independent record stores align themselves with community through their business KIM PRINGLE approach, amongst other things. RSD is often a record store's most profitable day of illustration by the year and the special releases significandy contribute to the influx. Snatching up one OLA VOLA time reissues is a major priority for many collectors, just as selling them is a •-• "WE USED TO JOKE THAT RECORD STORES WERE THE FIRST PLACE YOU CHECKED INTO IN TOWN TO FIND OUT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING GOING ON." crucial source of revenue for many stragglingjplres. whether it'^^a^wi^^^^'dr'tf^pf lajbet commercial." <' Unfortunately, they also have Craigslist profiteejs^ com ; Some of the dayfs corruptions, however are more obvious ' pete with, who often buy and resell rec^ras ^nnV# ^^^OT[^K.%ai^p^s^wws^^^^^^^^|^« higher price. Still, business is business rip^^'^ Not for most independent record storesih Vancouver. j^Sces. '^^^usua%lrar^Jra^^e^Eexlo^stpisOt Rob Frith, owner of Vancouver oJ^ffS|ftviv|ng record fe^&M^ Tr||y sometimes m^W0'^^m^i mmfis|p*C;'',V store, Neptoon Records, addresses this issue by explaining \sQrfe1^es they end up on eBa^pbS'^enj-^^y|^cking <~ mejjlotment and selling procedureof RSD releases.Afte r v> OT RSD onto Black Friday iSalsoVj^t^ti^lsswthat;^ placing orders on desired jjiDrds' IBfe:(ft^^^p^^^ Bragg likens to "arbitrarily deciding to have a Boxing Day percentage of those that ali|e is ippis a^^^tst^^^r^g in the middle of the y^/_'Atife^|$^w-|ssiagated^^^# ^^S^m^^^^i only get 2,^^-says. This potential short- major labels, Bragg isn'tibo quicl^p^dge. "The re#tste^ ^^^^^fel%cerbated by those who buy multiple copies business is tough^p thS is just^oiher opportun^^^y ^^n^^^supply records just to rfSlsIl tiie^^&g survive." wring more for real music fanslhan making a b^p^ The goal on RSD|atfu perhaps the industry's im^nfC'il Fritttxplains that Neptoon will hoMofd^^^^MrM8^ fc#eivM tactic is, as Braggl^^^tO^m&d peop|^!^fefe%^ theiStaff, northekbestcustomers. Instead,theyhoj|>|(|| Be nrosic and record stores and brick-and-mortar loads ' | the sacred justice or b$§ag|lggt InMfcAs fef«^^^ted|*'-- ^^o^cMisinesses have in the ^^^fi^^^MrMt's OfMC -^ catiojl to fairness, lfefe)on|Jso limits sales to one>cd^wi ion is Similar andjboAr ffl^mall stories of how ofeM^ of eA limited release per person. Most RSD releases end the years, customersAve become friends, with some of up s|png out either way, but implementing Ibese rules > mosefr4jendjfe|^w|a&ging their kidwnto the stores. A still fjjsks sales losses. May^S's rock 'n' roll capitalism. reiodLSto/e j^^^^^fa fun meeting place," Frith sum- * d Maype it's the bonding of art and business. Eithet^ay it ^^^keS lightly and the rela^nships that rest^;'areper - ' l prov|| irid^peadent record stores side with culture^K^ ^i.ps the roost siheere,*e^ampie of the importance of record comlferce.^^ '.^tes, 2Mu ^B^ffl^:man%er Nic Bragg recalls host; "We used p^^ffl^ugh$||^riyink4^ttttprovementi|^flieday Jo joB jwft^cp^^to^lKlft^ft^M^^bi checked *^M^tc<^f from Joc^-bands releasing their own Hmiied Jj||to & lo^ti ^^fij^mif there was^^ip^jping on." ^a^^alblaifts^wS'ieherally pleas^Woi^^S^^ jo^^ji Jl^oflingroJfeagg, in both the early days a^^feow, record the way it is. And as our interview concludes, a man comes* ^^^ttbtv^W^^f^^tioned as "cultural ambassadors." to the till at^^toon to buy a Solomon Bu^e-tecord'Thfi1^ Despite their decli»Afban presence, Bragg has noticed f financial transaction ignites a discussion about the soul a revival in their on^iau&rnportance in the past few years. elements of Burke's voice. Frith points out his favot^^Ss Working at Zulu, he's seen how people tend to "burn out ^ song on the album, and this over-the-counter exchange on streaming music" and accidentally remember what it evolves iriSfeliicw |han just the purchase. feels like to interact with a physical piece of music. Since it began in 2007, RSD has helped those people stuflsu^^^to Check out local record stores ltke#$»mfe l^ghlvfe, Audtoj?ile,jR&l- -/ Jpileilght direction. cat, Zulu, 7x$^^^^^^^^^^§^l^iUm^^^^^ iffl &Wbough Zulu Records also puts a cap on the num- ^W of records customers can buy on RSD, Bragg says such as the ^^Mmr%^^^^^0Mxa^ album reissuesjrom U over-commercialization is still an issue. He explains^^rf# tltelifcesaf Bob Dylan, Elliott Smith, Built to Spill, Titus Androg always hard to measure when something's too commercial ens, R. &MfyMe$^y&;dti4 many, many more. because efery^ting about Record Store Day is commercial, TOO HIGH CREW by ALEX DEBOER illustration by MICHAEL SHANTZ photo by RYAN WALTER WAGNER Who: Vancouver 25-person rap gang, Too High Crew. Where: A roof. On a Fraser Street rooftop, above the Fray and across the road from a giant joint- shaped shrub, I chat with five members (Chris van der Laan, a.k.a. Chrissy; Highchair Shorty, a.k.a. Jenya Patrief; Cody Fennell, a.k.a Brodie Michaels; Ryan Wagner, a.k.a. RyRy; and Stephen Hardie, a.k.a. Pussy Pete) of Vancouver's 25-piece rap ensemble, Too High Crew. The subject at hand is their jam space. The object in hand is weed. Brodie moved into the apartment above RyRy, and discovered a hole in his closet, which led to an abandoned ladder, which led to their present practice spot. A short climb later, these guys were on the roof of their apartment building, and what is now their jam space. Spacious, free, and ideal for a band with no equipment, this crew only has to deal with soft spots in the wood. Discorder: How long have personalize the roof? RR: Our jam space used to be you practiced on the roof? C: No, not really. on top of the Bloedel Conserva Chrissy: Dunno about prac HC: We did have the bleachers tory. ticed... up there at one point. HC: Until you fell through. Pussy Pete: We rapped. RR: We pee up there a lot. Everyone: (Laughs) RyRy: Two years on the roof. BM: Fraser Street is just perfect RR: Yeah, the floor kept break Brodie Michaels-. Two years. the way it is, you know. We just ing so we had to switch, but we What do you do when it kind of embrace it and let it be. like to rap on top of things. So CIGARETTE PAPERS rains? C: We feel like a moon landing. after that fell through... RR: We still go up there. Snow, We'll leave our footprints there, Everyone: (Laughs) HC: I like the fans. The exhaust • HC: And some skylights. sleet. We're like mailmen. our flag flying... RR: Luckily Brody moved into fans. BM: And it's just dangerous Highchair Shorty: We have PP: One of those special flags. that place up there and the C: The floor lighting. getting up and down that thing, friends that live up there So you guys dont really plumber or electrician left a BM: Just being one with nature. and like 90 percent of accidents sometimes. care about the aesthetic of ladder behind. Everyone: (Laughs). happen on ladders. BM: Sometimes we rap to make a jam space? BM: And that's where we started HC: And you get a good tan in HC: And there's usually drugs it rain. C: Well, at our Donkey Party [the meeting and where we really the summer. and alcohol involved. PP: Yeah, we rap to make it studio space] we have the giant honed our craft. BM: Many red faces have come 90 percent of all accidents rain. painting of Darth Vader. So we C: That's where we induct new down from there. happen with ladders? How does the roof compare' care a little bit. members into the group. It only Are there any rules on the BM: Yeah, I read that. with other spaces you've HC: At our inside jam space. happens on the roof. roof? HC: Look it up. Wikipediabitch. jammed in? RR: We only hang up stuff that HC: And we throw the old ones RR: Watch where you step. com RR: It smells the best. Chris is paying for. off. What are you watching HC: And you also get that deep So you never looked for Can you each say your out for? Too High Crew celebrate 4/20 with fryer smell wafting. another space? favourite thing about the RR: Falling through. their next show at Zoo Zhop on RR: That's true. It's like the best BM: I think just being rappers roof? HC: Yeah, we learned that at April 20. of both worlds. we have the luxury of not hav PP: Gravel. The gravel. ttelast jam space. Have you done anything to ing to worry. RR: I think I like the skylights. RR: Soft Spots. byJACEY GIBB *s\Me*JI illustration by S b TYLER CRICH a|lN»fi ^ photos courtesy of STUBBORN BLOOD Westminster. "'How much Curtis and Campbell were the forefathers of do we get paid and what's the Stubborn Blood, with Darrell Stables (drums) guest list situation like?'" and Clint Murray (bass) filling out the rest It's okay if the name of the roster. The two founders met when Stubborn Blood doesn't stim they were 15 and 19, respectively; Campbell ulate any memory muscles. was already playing in a band when he was Despite winning SHiNDiG approached by another musician, Curtis, while 27 years ago and enjoying in a bar in Gastown. "He saw something in the successes that came with me, and I saw something in him." Campbell it, the group was never able remembers quitting his band at the time and to make that leap from local lugging all his equipment across the city favourites to mainstream to practice with Curtis for the first time. "I IF I MAY, I'D LIKE TO TAKE YOU ALL ON A TRIP recognition. But that never stopped the musi showed up and asked, 'Where's everyone else?' back to 1986: Vancouver has just turned the cians before; and now, after a 25-year hiatus, and he said 'It's just me!' and there he is with ripe age of 100-years-old, the Lower Mainland Stubborn Blood is reuniting for a show at the his crappy acoustic guitar." is a-scrambling to prepare for the upcoming Railway Club on April 10. During Stubborn Blood's heydays of the mid Expo '86, and folks over at CiTR had just put a The show has been about a year in the mak '80s, the Vancouver music scene was bolstering, wrap on their third-ever SHiNDiG .competition, ing. Peter Curtis, who also played guitar and full of youthful bands driven by a "We can do crowning local rockers Stubborn Blood as the sang vocals, explains over email how the event it! We can take on the world!" mentality. Clubs best up-and-coming alternative band in Vancou manifested. "Plans were being hatched for in downtown Vancouver like the Town Pump, ver. Everything's looking up for everyone. my high school reunion. Because playing in the Venue, the Arts Club Lounge, and the "When we were asked about playing Stubborn Blood was such a big part of my high Commodore made sure there was always a stage SHiNDiG, we had two questions," singer/ school experience, I started thinking about the to perform on, band lineups (like Hip Type and guitarist Dan "Danger" Campbell recalls band reuniting for a gig as well." After a bit of Pointed Sticks) were a revolving door of local to me over a few pints at Hops Pub in New back-and-forthing, the stage was set musicians, and a group's name changed on a CAMPBELL GIVES PARTIAL CREDIT FOR THEIR VICTORY TO PERFORMING AT THE END OF THE NIGHT. "USUALLY THE LAST BAND PLAYED THE BEST BECAUSE EVERYONE WAS SO DRUNK." monthly basis—though Stubborn Blood, for some unexplainable reason, managed to retain its title. The name came from a sign Campbell saw in a hospital, informing how to remove stubborn blood stains. Curtis thought the name was too harsh, prompt ing them to drop the "stains" and just go with Stubborn Blood. "Everyone who could ever move our career forward told us to change our name," Campbell says, with even Paul Westerberg of the Replacements telling them to go with something else. "Maybe it was innocence. Maybe it was stupidity. There was no good reason not to." While the Internet now reigns as the juggernaut of music distribu tion, spreading the word about a band wasn't always as easy as signing with Bandcamp and getting Twitter. CiTR was, and still is, a launching pad for local musicians to gain a following and be a part of the community. "CiTR, it was like fresh air coming out of the radio," band that year were 24 hours of recording time, We're doing this to have fun and to indulge in Campbell recalls fondly. "When I heard those which Stubborn Blood used to record a four- a little nostalgia." Campbell hopes to give peo bands, I wanted to be a part of them... CiTR track demo at Mushroom Studios, and a music ple a taste of what music was like in Vancouver was the medium to hear music you wanted to video with Shaw, which was shot, but was nei during the '80s, even if the environment has hear—especially on Sunday night." ther edited nor ever aired. Even now, Campbell is changed since then. "If people wanted to know Performing gigs like UBC frat parties also in disbelief that the top honour ended up going what it was like, this is what it was like." played a big part in drawing Stubborn Blood to to Stubborn Blood. "We went to Round Two, After enjoying mild success post-SHiNDiG, CiTR, A show on Sunday night's called Demo then went to Round Three, then to the Finals. Campbell left the group and eventually formed Listen gave their demo a healthy amount of radio And then we won... I thought us winning was the band Danger Company with Stables and play, with Stubborn Blood claiming the show's a fluke." While the competition was tough, Murray. The band played together for a few number one spot for 22 weeks. Campbell gives partial credit for their victory to years, but other life commitments led the mem SHiNDiG '86 was divided between two performing at the end of the night. "Usually the bers to drift apart Memories from the expe bars in Vancouver: the now extinct Savoy, and last band played the best because everyone was rience haven't faded though. Campbell still the Railway Club. "Back when we were in it, so drunk." believes to this day, "I'm a better person for hav SHiNDiG gave Vancouver bands a boost in terms The reunion show on April 10 isn't about ing stood in front of a microphone, singing a of local recognition and bookings," says Curtis kickstarting a comeback or making a quick mil song that you wrote in your bedroom from when about the impact the showcase has on the local lion dollars; instead, Curtis is just glad to be you were 16." music scene. The main prizes for the winning doing the gig: "We hope to have a good time. ifyi^fp i JEJ* mm 9* TOBEATIC by COLEMAN INGRAM photos by JONATHAN DY Illustration by MARK HALL-PATCH "WE TRIED OUT THREE DIFFERENT THE REVEREND AL GREEN IS NOT THE SORT OF MUSIC ONE WOULD SINGERS BEFORE WE FINALLY expect to hear in the East Vancouver jam space of the six-headed beast that is Tobeatic. The group—Gordon Smith on vocals and guitar, Mike Gittens on CAME BACK TO GORD," SAYS keyboard, Rick O'Dell on bass, Joel James Lowen on drums, and Troy Horton GITTENS, AS THE REST OF THE and Broc Machines handling guitar duties—describe themselves simply as "a BAND JOKES ABOUT ONE DUBBED rock band," which is both reductive and expansive, depending on how one r-.iriews-k. Though prone to the heavier end of the spectrum, Tobeatic's sound MR. ENTERTAINMENT. runs the gamut of rock 'n' roll, producing music that's sludgy yet upbeat, devastating yet melodic. The Sabbath influence is clear, but here it sounds mixed with equal parts Thin Lizzy and Motorhead, raising the band to Cor rosion of Conformity or Clutch territory. ^#^ wife imw&kimf- 1B'" Sl« F *L 1 ^tek, i \ ! f\>\ ftk So it might be surprising that the gang is jam with all the other bands, but as long as we all band chose. They're hoping the second release ming out to Shaolin Soul, a Wu-Tang Clan-arranged show up here Thursday nights, it works." date coincides with a short tour through Alberta, oldies compilation, as they set up their massive Work is precisely what Tobeatic has been doing including Calgary's Sled Island Festival, if all— amount of gear for the evening's practice. It seems a lot of. show booking, festival applications, and above to be this open appreciation of music that helps All to Hell, their debut full-length, took three all, coordinating the schedules of six band mem define Tobeatic's sound. "We listen to all different different recording sessions to reach its current bers—goes accordingly. kinds of music." says Smith, with Maclnnes add incarnation. "First we had someone come in and "It's a miracle just getting us all in this room ing "It's how we end up playing with bands like record us here in the jam space. Then we spent a once a week," says Gittens with a grin, "but as 3 Inches of Blood and then opening for Howlin' bunch of money recording at Mushroom Studios long as we're getting together and making music, Rain, who sound totally different." and the songs still didn't really sound right So we that's all we care about" It was Smith and Maclnnes who jammed went to work with Jesse [Gander] at the Hive," says As we wrap up and they get ready to rip, Gittens together first before Smith met and recruited the Gittens, to which the band all agree was an obvi asks, "Do you want earplugs?" and with that the other four over the next year. "We tried out three ous and rewarding choice. "We recorded it pretty beast called Tobeatic awakes from its slumber. different singers before we finally came back to much live off the floor," says Horton. The group forms a semi-circle in front of me and Gord," says Gittens, as the rest of the band jokes With that, in a swift and speedy four-day ses plays 11-minute epic All to Hell-closer, "Frozen about one dubbed Mr. Entertainment. sion last November, the record was finished. Ocean," followed by the bluesy dirge of "That "He bailed; said he was following a trail of When asked about the ease of working at the Hive, Boy's Got the Devil In 'Em," crushing me in my panties to California," says Lowen, laughing. Gittens adds with a laugh, "Well we better have seat with waves of sonic heaviness. As they kick The six members that became Tobeatic formed known the songs by then!" The seven songs, like into uptempo head-banger "The Axe and the Fire," later in 2011 from other bands, like Cooked and the band's name, are inspired by the Tobeatic one thing is certain: they definitely don't suffer Eaten, Smith's death-grind project with Dan Wilderness Area in Smith's native Nova Scotia, from a lack of volume. And (Bison BC), who are wrapping their jam as where he spent a lot of time before moving west Tobeatic begins. Now that Tobeatic has released All to Hell digi Catch Tobeatic decimating, eardrums urith Anciients and "Sometimes that's how it goes, one right tally (February 11), next is the physical edition Wiser Fool at the Astoria on April 19. into the next," says Smith, smiling with a planned for June. "It's just easier sometimes to half shrug. "I'm actually down to one band do it yourself. You don't have to wait on anyone," now," says Gittens, laughing. "It can be tough says Gittens about the self-releasing route the $AKM SARA BYNOE BY EVAN BROW photos by VICTORIAJOHNSON lettering by GINAMACKAY ON DISCOVERING HER COMEDIC MINDSET: "I was a punk rock kid, wore a lot of black for a while, and then as I got older I got into the rave scene, and just thought 'I want to dance!' Maybe that was the shift, when I started to have more fun with what I did. But the comedy thing kind of came later. I was 19 when I came up with the idea for Teen Angst Night. It was more a way for me to stand out of acting, and I thought 'Well, this is fun. Let's read bad poetry and it'll be funny.' And I slowly started to realize that it was kind of a stand-up show." sj&gT i or anything so long as the show have included Tig Notaro, Cameron ,-,/j'j.^ it was written as a teen MacLeod, Ivan Decker, Caitlin Howden and ager. "I always say that Taz Van Rassel of The Sunday Service, as well |l|||||§|§§|k i», every timesomeon e as Chip Ellis, who deconstructed the oedipal does a reading, I fall complex in a Caillou book. jijl a little bit in love with On top of these two shows, Bynoe decided them," says Bynoe. "It's to create a weekly dance class called Dance Dance sort of a slumber party Party Party, where there is no leader or, essen feel. I get a lot of audi tially, structure. "The official trademark is 'No ence interaction at my booze. No boys. No judgment' It's just a dance •P* shows, but it's never class for anarchists or a dance class for girls mean-spirited. It'S who like to dance, but don't want to go to the just that people are so club and get hit on." The class reflects a lot of engaged with what's what Bynoe appreciates in terms of humour, going on that they have the vulnerability of a crowd and its "safe zone" their own punchlines, mentality, even fostering Bynoe to adopt the and I'm totally fine with name DJ Haute Couture. FOR VANCOUVER «FUN FACILITATOR" that." And as Bynoe states, "The more embar "The moments I enjoy the most in that class Sara Bynoe, comedy and art are D.I.Y. projects. rassed you are, the better it is for the audience." are when we have impromptu choreography," "A lot of my own stuff is me just going, 'Well, Teen Angst Night began in 2000, when Bynoe was says Bynoe. "Girls are going nuts and rapping no one else is casting me in anything, so I'll just just 19. "It was in Calgary at a restaurant called along with the song, or we're booty shaking and create my own work.'" In the 13 years she's been The Newt in Kensington," she says. "There were just acting ridiculous. Just being care freean d producing shows, she simply does what she maybe 35 to 40 people there and it was friends not worrying about anybody judging, and being . wants, striving for what she describes as verba and friends of friendsan d we laughed so hard silly and joyful is what I enjoy the most." tim humour. The feeling of openness and emo we cried. I was so horrified by what I was read From what it seems, Bynoe has no shame, tional honesty a performer reveals on stage is ing, and mosdy embarrassed within a safe zone, but she also seems to elude being identified as what Bynoe is most interested in. and couldn't believe I wrote it And it was so any particular genre of work. "I straddle high "When people are earnest, you know, even funny. One of my friends literally peed herself. and low art a lot and I still feel not quite part of those moments on stage when a performer You can see it through the audience's eyes the the comedy scene. There's a lot of times when is bombing and they don't know what to do? first time you're reading it, and I'll never again I'm emailing the Georgia Straight and asking, Sometimes that's my favourite part of the show. experience that sheer embarrassment that was 'Yeah, can you put this in the comedy listings?' It's kind of painful and mean, but it's a real hilarious." because literary people fucking hate me." But moment" While she doesn't consider her In a similar vein, Bynoe began Say Wha?! regardless of how Bynoe defines herself, she self a comedian in a traditional sense, Bynoe Readings of Deliriously Rotten Writing in 2010, will continue doing whatever she so pleases, acknowledges the comedy she produces, as a performance where people take the worst seeing as, ultimately, it works. well as her comedic mindset. "I like to just look writing they can find and read it on stage, at something and go, well, here's 50 Shades of providing it the love and laughter only Tommy For more information, visit sarabynoe.com. S£y Wha?! Grey, and I like to get at the truth of it and high Wiseau's The Room can sympathize with. Readings of Deliciously Rotten Writing is on the light its absurdities. [For example] where she's "Everything is covered. Self-published books, third Wednesday of every month at Cottage Bistro, 4470 a 21-year-old virgin who's never masturbated. self-help books, genre fiction, romance or Main St. What? And there's this whole thing, in the first mystery novels, and celebrity-penned books," Dance Dance Party Party is on Tuesdays two chapters, where she doesn't own a com says Bynoe. "My favourite tides have included from 8:45 to 9:45 pm at Mount Pleasant puter. She's a university student in 2011. How How to Good-bye Depression: IfYou Constrict Anus 100 Community Centre. the fuck can't she own a computer?" Times Everyday, Malarkey? or Effective Way? and a Bynoe, Studio 58 graduate, is perhaps best title I read called How To Pick Up Topless Dancers. known for her Teen Angst nights, a performance That was pretty good. Oh, and a book called in which people share their embarrassing writ Wet Goddess: Recollections of a Dolphin Lover, about • ings that include poetry, journals, letters, songs, a man who fucked a dolphin." Performers for showed me that you can just do that It's just a lot of work. All you have to do is findan d schedule a recording studio; find and schedule someone to mix and master the album; press it digitize it, and send it to every media outlet available; book a tour, venues, and accommodations; make and sell merchandise; save your receipts for tax time;an d finally, prac tise and play music. If you don't want to live out of a tour van, you'll be busier. Veda Hille teaches piano lessons and collaborates with the Leaky Heaven Circus, the Folk Fest, and the City of Vancouver. Jenny Ritter teaches guitar and banjo, and leads two choirs. Barry Mirochnick—drummer for Hille, Neko Case, and Jacob Dylan—hires himself out as a studio musician. (Lucky for me, also on my EP.) ' j&|;V" i 2. DON'T EXPECT TO "MAKE IT" AS A MUSICIAN. I put my student loans into recording this winter so I'd have something to submit to music festival applications, so that they'd book me to play next summer, bringing me fame and fortune. Friend and fellow songwriter, David Newberry, tells me that's not how it works and I'm missing the point Newberry has been touring Canada off and on for years, so he knows how to prioritize the doing of music-Recording is fun and fulfilling in its own right and having an album forces you to findway s to sell it. It doesn't have to lead to a "big break." In fact, years into a career, even your most dedicated fans "may still flakeo n your shows. But if they don't, music might put some food on your table. That's success, as far as he sees it. IT'S AFTER 10 P.M. ON A SNOWY NIGHT IN DECEMBER. 3. BE NICE. I'm in the old Ted Harris paints building on Hastings Street, No one likes an ass-hat When you make your living being the clapping into a microphone with John Collins (New Pornog- centre of attention, it's easy to forget that you're no more spe raphers). This is JC/DC studios, run by Collins and David Car- cial than any other person there. If you're just as glad as they swell. We're almost done recording my EP, but one track is are to be there, everyone wins. missing something. That something is claps. I funded my album in part through an old fashioned music Collins asks me why I've'burst into giggles. If someone show fundraiser at the Artbank. The event relied on people had told me two years ago that I'd be recording an album, showing up and spending money, and on professional musi here, like a real musician, I'd have screamed, sat on them, cians (like Newberry and Ritter) singing for free, not to men and demanded they told me how. It never occurred to me that tion the last-minute volunteers who worked the door and sold you can just do that. raffle tickets—something I expected to do myself. The night Mosdy, I still have no idea how it all works, but for a cou was fabulous and raised over half of what I spent on record ple years I've been playing shows, writings songs, and mak ing. It would have been impossible if it weren't for the rela ing records under the name Young James. I've been able to do tionships I have with the people who helped. these things because my musician friends offered helpful tips 4. BE GOOD. that every fledgling like myself should know. Being friendly doesn't make you talented, so practice a lot. 1. MUSIC IS D.I.Y. If you want it to pay your bills, spend money on lessons and It's easy to think of musicianhood as either something that gear, then practice some more. Take it as seriously as you just happens, a la Canadian Idol, or as something that comes want to take it, and as you want people to take you, and you from taking your first instrument lesson might make back in cash what you spent in time and effort. alongside your first steps. For years, that's 5. HAVE FUN. how I saw it. Have fun and your audience will have fun and your gas station But when I firstme t my roommate ham sandwich will taste better. This is a job, but if you really byJAIMIE Ryan Boeur, he was hand-gluing CD cases want to do it, it'll be the best job you ever had. for Fish and Bird, his indie-folk band that KENDALL-WARD successfully tours for over six months Jaimie Kendall-Ward, a.k.a. Young James, releases We Don't every yean As I wrote an essay for school, Know Anything this May. 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BRAIDS: Co-residency and Collaborative Installation by Rua Minx and Aja Rose Bond March 4 to April 27,2013 Access Gallery (222 E Georgia St) ART RUA MINX & PROJECT AJA ROSE BOND T TOD: Rua Minx, Untitled (Fire), textiles, wood, metal 160x20x20 cm, 2012 Bottom: Rua Minx, Untitled (Dragon), painting on canvas 120x140 cm, 2012 Right: Rua Minx, SADE ONDMT, 2012 installation view ART PROJECT §11 RUA MINX & I AJA ROSE BOND jE Rua Minx, SADEONDMT, 2012 installation view Rua Minx, Untitled (shirt for body), textiles on wooden frame 160x140 cm, 2012 I 28 EP. The track consists of a blend of snazzy guitar tricks similar to the band Body Language, and raw passion like Young Galaxy's "Fall For You." It's (Independent). not often a band sounds like they are made up of mermen, so I'd advise you to soak up BESTiE as a fun gem of a band. Put on your pretty bathing suits and lean towards their charm, even just for the summer months. —Josefa Cameron GAL GRACEN BLUE HEARTS IN EXILE (Green Burrito) It seems as though this summer's tropical shabop Hooves' first EP, Dear Neuada, is required listen is last summer's surfpunk . So Shalom to the noisy ing for the edgier kids in high school. The ones mess of double snare taps, cheap cigarettes, and whose younger siblings might overhear Hooves grainy vocals: this year's heat wave is awaiting playing in the bedroom next door and dip-dye the flushed bobbing of pigtailed girls in bathing their Barbies in glitter glue along to it If bands suits, with handsome boys lucidly playing their were people, Hooves would be Madonna and the instruments. It's as if the city has agreed, with Yeah Yeah Yeahs' youngest sister. Equipped with locals BESTiE spearheading the metamorphosis throaty vocals, fuzzed-out pop guitar, and effec by leaning towards the charm of Elvis over the tively spare drums, the band's sound is already sweat of Dick Dale. The four-piece band bounces mature, delivering their complex dance songs through its freshan d polished EP, Pineapple, with While it's not totally out of sync with Patrick Ger- with an assured ease. a cool vibrancy that makes you want to get up, aghty's other outfit, Role Mach, Gal Gracen feels The song lyrics drift through subjects like writ put some coral lipstick on, and twirl about in a like a bit ofa n anomaly on the local scene. Instru- ing a diary, wandering away from school, the stars, linen dress. mentals alternate with songs on this seven track Rocky Horror Picture Show, and knowing what you Having recorded at the Greenhouse with release, the common thread being shimmering want The song "Wolf Howl and the Church Bell" Digory Smallz, the sound comes across as eager guitars and simple beats very reminiscent of Vini shows off the band's range, with spiky guitar riffs and glossy. Pineapple carries you through a carefree, Reilly's The Return 0/the Durutti Column. dancing over a shadowy bass line and winding colourful trip of Cobrasnake-esque neon brace The instrumentals are exotic and dreamy, around psych-rock vocals. The band's sound is let party passes, and pink straws sticking out of and that side of things takes on a more dramatic consistently edged with a fun giddiness, which half cut coconuts. Tristan Orchard's voice pierces dimension on stage with the help ofjay Arner and dissolves into almost 20 seconds of giggling at through like a less intense version of Woodkid, Adrian Teacher. But it's the four songs that get me. the end of the last track. On its Facebook page, in the EP's single, "Pineapple," accompanied by Passionate and longing R&B-tinged ballads that Hooves has been spreading rumours of an upcom Jamaican-esque yelps, African-styled drum rolls, bring to mind George Michael, Prince, and even ing cross-Canada tour, which will likely be the and ultra-surfy guitar riffs. It's like the younger, throw back to the soulful pop of Tommy lames and sassiest road trip ever. newer cousin oflzabo's "Summer Shade," fitting the Shondells on "Love Fantasy, My Beautiful Girl." —Penny Clark in flawlesslywit h the sunny radio waves. Geraghty's soaring melodic hooks work particu A less epicurean, "Asleep on the Bus," is remi larly well against the ephemeral guitars. And he's JOYCE ISLAND niscent ofFamil y ofThe Year's "St. Criox." Echoey not afraid to sing it out in falsetto, which sounds guitar picks graced by drum tottering comparable moving even on "Sylvan Tragedy," where it's hard T (Independent) to early Strokes, smoothly carry the listener to to fathom what he's singing about I'd love to hear On her debut, Joyce Island, songwriter, guitarist, a drifting Utopia invested with palm trees and a little more Al Jackson Jr. timekeeping lending and vocalist Lisa Joyce assumes the confident oleanders. the thrill of genuine soul in future recordings. swagger of Tom Petty-styled Americana before Both Tribe of Zebras and the Slow Waves Nice cover photo on the Green Burrito cassette drenching it in blossoming female vocals that remixed chilled outversions of "Foolish Hearts," release, but the lack of an information insert is triumphantly stand their ground against a series of the original being my personal favorite on the frustrating. —Matthew Budden troubled experiences. Backed by the driving guitar aural tidal wave engulfs you, leaving you gasp as bedroom-pop (all the songs are worked around ing for air. When you catch your breath you'll electronic drum samples from a Roland TR-707). have a curious desire to continue tempting the However, at every other turn, it fights against this oceanic ebb. It's an EP that harnesses the danger and aims towards anthemic pop. Times A Billion and unbridled energy of the raw elements of life is a fitting title for the resulting expansive and before turning them into verses of self-reflection ambitious tone of these songs. and doubt. "Let's Get Divorced!" demonstrates how Rec This album should be the soundtrack to sum Center uses bedroom-pop tropes in big ways. mer evenings at the beach, where close friends Hudson's roommate/producer, Jay Arner, offers pass around their vulnerable introspections with streaks of electronic texture to the propulsive drum carefree exhilaration. machine beat, which stays basically the same —Robert Catherall throughout—but you wouldn't even notice. It's ofMikey Manville (of the now defunct Manvils) and Hudson's keen sense of melody that guides the rhythmic confidence of Chris Jaggers and Flavio REC CENTRE song around a couple of jangly guitar lines in and Cirillo, Joyce leads the quartet from heavy blues TIMES A BILLION out of an ascending chorus. Textures and melodies psychedelia to modern traditionals. (Independent) slowly morph above steady rhythms, which give a There's no fillero n the Vancouver songstress' The bedroom recording prpject medium has been first effort, as Joyce's tenacity surfaces with rau around long enough that it deserves its own genre, cous atonement on the opener, "Mercy on Me," one often typified by hushed vocals, digital reverbs, while "World Full of Pain" explains her sordid electro flourishes, drum machines, and pensive relationship with spirituality through the simple lyrics. It could be yet another example of form yet poignant refrain, "I tried to love the lord / But influencing content. The process of composing, he's a world full of pain." arranging, and performing in near solitude at Joyce uses a touch of southern grace to amplify a computer is conducive to these brooding and her lush west coast charm on tracks like "Forgiven" textural sounds. and the album's finallament , "Ain'tGot Y°u," to Enter the Vancouver-based Rec Center, featur transcend her contemporaries. Add this to the fact ing Alex Hudson at the helm. Rec Center's full- that she's downright cuter than hell, and Joyce's length debut, Times A Billion, is easily categorized PERCHERON '* • v Krocwuoe FRED HL6-4N trancelike sense of fluidity to the song's pacing. listen; the only overdubs on the record are Vernon's Mary Chain-esque vibe. Next, the soft doo-wop All the songs on Times A Billion are concise, vocals, for instance, and every other sound on the tuneofPup's "Cement" suddenly and unexpectedly catchy pop songs with distinct sonic fingerprints album comes, live and in one take, from Stetson's transforms into a racing, surf punk tune. (see the nu-gaze krautrock of "Look Alive" or the saxophone. But what is immediately obvious is that After the alluring glam-wave melody of muted synth-reggae of "It Won't Mean Anything"). To See More Light is the work of a once-in-a-lifetime Fanshaw, the album dives into several stoner rock Despite Times A Billion's relatively humble origins, composer and virtuoso musician. tunes hammered out by Aaron Read, Korean Gut, it achieves a sense of grandeur (maybe because It's hard to fathom here just how each sound and Needles//Pins, thrusting the listener in and out Hudson's voice sounds eerily similar to that of is created, and at once, by a single instrument, of a noisy whirlwind which ends with "90210" by Phoenix's Thomas Mars). But it's this understated ranging fromth e jarring and synthetic to the lush the lovely Courtneys. expansiveness that makes Rec Center's full length and melodic; Stetson's work in exploring the limits A molding of'90s angst and apathetic '70s debut such a charm. It's like those filmsabou t the of the bass saxophone are similar to his Finnish sawiness trails out of the speakers throughout vastness of space projected on the ceiling of the contemporary Kimmo Pohjonen, whose work in Babysitter's "Be Cool," followed by a catchy and planetarium. There's that impression of being experimental accordion was the subject of the 2012 fluid, "JD" from Bankrobber, a personal favou dwarfed by something huge and mystifying, even documentary Soundbreaker. While To See More light rite. Its buttery orchestral sound lures the listener if the reality-is solely a well-executed spectacle. may not be quite theatrical enough for a film crew, through tribal drum beats, drippy guitar riffs, and —Max Wainwright its scrutiny of music itself it is no less thorough. spastic, gypsy-like wails. While the daring finalet o Stetson's trilogy will not Finally, Weed bangs out "Even Black" with fuzz COLIN STETSON sit well with everyone, those that are able to find similar to Aaron Read, but with darker undertones NEW HISTORY WARFARE VOL. 3: the beauty past its harsh exterior will be rewarded. and heavy effects, before the album concludes with —Fraser Dobbs "Apocalypse, Please Sign the Release Form First" (Constellation) by Sleuth, mixing nuovo disco with '60s inspired VARIOUS ARTISTS guitar, unimpressed vocals, and synths similar to VANCOUVER POP ALLIANCE COMPILATION Molly Nilsson. It's clear the summer months will be flooded (CiTR/Mint Records) with good, solid music played by Vancouver's and Victoria's best. —Josefa Cameron am Am 731 "And In Truth" is one of the cheekiest opening tracks on any record in decades. There's no better setup for the practical joke Colin Stetson plays on the legions of casual Arcade Fire and Bon Iver fans out there who have probably sought out his If you missed the release of the third volume of solo albums based on the bands he's in. The bass Mint Records/CiTR's Vancouver Pop Alliance and saxophonist, whose remarkable jazz-inspired the Fundrive finale at Chapel Arts on.March 8, experimental composing borders on the insane, you missed out on one good night. Masterfully opens To See More Light, the conclusion to his Neu> compiled by Duncan McHugh and Shena Yoshida, History Warfare trilogy, with a beautifully organic the album has 14 freshVancouver - and Victoria- piece accompanied by Bon Iver's Justin Vernon. based bands, featuring a colourful array of nuovo While Vernon contributes vocals to a number of disco, stoner rock, gypsy pop, and garage fuzz. tracks on To See More Light, "And In Truth" features A precious "1-2-3-4 Get Fucked" by Movieland his most recognizable, replete with the waves of kickstarts the solid track list. The surfy girl group multi-tracked harmonies that Bon Iver is so well mimics a less intricate Bleached, with calm vocals \ known for. It's a genuinely stunning song. and driving fuzz. And during Peace's "Your Hand It then will be no shock to new listeners when In Mine," it's easy to imagine a heartbroken teen "Hunted" takes over and slues the record into brave" age boy, styling a Bowie lightning bolt across his new territory, mining a field of influences from moonlit face. sludge metal to industrial drone, to produce one Jay Arner's "Bad Friend 2" follows, similar of the most unique offerings Constellation Records to Peace, with a Sean Nicholas Savage twist, and has put out in recent memory. Stetson's amazing quiet POND-like vocals. The fourth track, from Gal approach to recording might not be evident on first Gracen, blends dreamy guitar riffs with a Jesus and ANCIENTS/WITCH MOUNTAIN/ As quickly and cleanly as the group switched TOBEATIC / GALGAMEX / ASTRAKHAN / up their music, Kenny Cook's sweetly-sung vocals HOPELEUS took a dark shift into a deathly scream without March 1 / the Rickshaw Theatre taking a breath. Their dense, complicated sound It was fitting for the Rickshaw to hail in the month could have presented problems in the stonewalled named after Mars, the Roman god of war, with its Rickshaw Theatre, but the sound engineer drew March i show featuring Anciients, who towered the band's complexities fromth e venue's naturally over the crowd on a laser-lit stage like a psychedelic muddy mix. Pantheon. These crown princes of Vancouver's Anciients resembled an Opeth of our own: heavy metal scene were supported by great metal progressive extreme metal that maintained a bands in their own right—Witch Mountain, Tobe scuzzy, Pacific Northwest vibe. No matter how atic, Galgamex, Astrakhan, and Hopeleus—but the out-of-left-field their ideas got, they maintained stars of the show were clear. Featuring members a stoner-metal-cool, making their website's tag- of other local metal bands, such as Spreadeagle, line, "Smoking the Hashes of the Pharaohs," a Anciients must have felt that playing ass-kicking fitting motto. Their love of melodic guitarmonies, rock'n'roll was getting too easy, so they created this such as on "Overthrone," also placed them in the thundering, agile beast to destroy all in its wake. Vancouver scene with S.T.R.E.E.T.S., Bison B.C., Their sound is indefinable, even in the ill- Pride Tiger, and lovers of Thin Lizzy. defined realm of heavy metal's endless list of sub- Anciients were on fire from beginning to end. subgenres. On "Falling in Line" they jumped from Cook (lead vocals/guitar), Chris Dyck (guitar/ southern rock ballad to traditional rock guitar vocals), Aaron "Boon" Gustafson (bass), and solo, then veered into raging speed-metal thrash- Mike Hannay (drums) played like a well-oiled fury and off-kilter Mastidonian time changes that killing machine—the Judas Priest kind—and the ended with a doomy coda. They accomplished audience responded in kind, headbanging and this feat with gusto, making disparate sounds fit moshing along, even after hours of intense crowd together throughout the set. interaction. -•• If this show wasn't the crowning for these apparent heirs, Anciient's coronation as kings of Vancouver's metal scene may be only a few shows away. —Brent Mattson EVY JANE / ORA COGAN / NAM SHUB March 5 /theAstoria It's not often that the Astoria is packed at 8 p.m. on a Tuesday night. The sizeable crowd—who could have indicated of an out-of-town couch-surfing convention—took over the bar before bands started setting up; the din of European languages bouncing around the room added an interesting buzz of mystery to the groups showing up just in plenty of room for heavy low note beats. While BURGER RECORDS time to see openers Nam Shub. this arrangement might leave guitarist Bill Young REVOLUTION SHOW Recently, Nam Shub have been doing a bit with a little too much room to twirl his fingers THE JOLTS/THE COURTNEYS / of an instrumental switch-up. While the band between atmospherics and tremolo-picked riffs, NERVOUS TALK/TOUGH AGE is still drums, guitar, bass, and synths mashed it proves Nam Shub are a continually evolving March 8 /the Electric Owl together in a psychedelic alternate-reality ver post-rock amalgam. Where were you on March 8? That day, amongst sion of the Beades!'hallucinogenic era, the way There's no such thing as "your typical singer- International Women's Day and the CiTRFundrive those instruments interact has been changing songwriter" these days. It's hard to explain without Finale, the tide of revolution washed up on our over the course of their last few shows. For their first-hand observation just what sets Ora Cogan shores: the Burger Records Revolution. . Astoria show, bassist Caton Diab was responsible apart fromth e rest, but the term "ethereal" comes A loose series of concerts promoted by the for handling melody and bass leadlgfjaying his to mind. Cogan's stage presence is phenomenal: southern Californian cassette and vinyl label four-string like a big guitar and leaving the synths part phantom, part folk, the audience was pinned — which has released albums by Ty Segall and in place from the second she got on stage to Vancouver's own Nu Sensae — the revolution five minutes after her last song ended. Along was felt from Tel Aviv to the suburban wilds of with a long-lost Londoner friend playing Fullerton, CA, the label's home base. Here on INTRODUCING bowed guitar, Cogan's reverbed crooning home turf, local purveyors of garage-punk rock and bright, simple chord progressions were 'n' roll gathered at the Electric Owl, ready to blast lush and articulate, despite some annoying the audience's ears to smithereens. Oddly enough, PosterLom feedback issues in the first half of her set. none were on Burger's catalogue — yet, that is. 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I appreciate what he does. Good Morning, My Friends, one of saying, "Go do this radio thing at What sort of music did you grow He really has great passion with CiTR's newest shows. With its time CiTR." So then I went and met my up listening to? his show. He gets me into danc slot of 6:30 a.m. Monday mornings, good friend Robin [Alam, Program I used to listen to a lot of Bob Mar- ing mode. the program plays upbeat music to Manager], and it just went from ley. My mother used to play it ... You host one of the newest shows get people going about their day in then on. on the weekends. She played it to at the station. What does the future a positive mood. The always-exu In the program guide it says you entertain me while she was clean hold for Good Morning, My Friends? berant Sualim speaks jovially about play "upbeat music." What would ing up the house. As I was matur Whatever I do, I want to make sure the ethos of his show and his expe you classify as upbeat music? ing and got older I started liking the show continues to be a positive rience with the team at 101.9. Anything that's joyful. Anything a lot of upbeat music with good message. I want to make sure it is Discorder: What's the show about? that gets you feeling good about rhythm. a positive show for the listeners. If ABRAHAM SUALIM: Pretty much yourself. Anything that gets those In your collection of music do you I achieve that then I feel that I've trying to get positive energy "feel-good chemicals" flowing have an album that really gets you been doing my job. No negativity through the radio. Not every through your whole body. It's all going? though. That doesn't happen on one drinks coffee in the morning about energy. I get phone calls I like Yukon Blonde. I try to play a my show. In the coming months, so they need some other way to from people saying, "Oh wow, I lot of the [station's] Playlist stuff. I'll be focusing a lot more energy get them ready to move for work, like that! This is pretty good!" so I I try to make sure I play as much on the show. I'm excited for what school, or whatever they have to do have good taste in music [in terms CiTR stuff as I can, like Femcon the future holds. I can't wait for the in the morning. So when you lis of] stuff people like. I always get and Cancon." end of this year to see how far the ten to my show I do just that. [My phone calls so I'm fortunate with What's your favorite radio show show has progressed. That's my show] is another option than just that. I also have a friend who sends besides your own? biggest joy right now: to see how coffee. I play whatever sounds good. me a bunch of songs and I look at I like all the people here and all the well the show has progressed. If it sounds good you're going to it and see which I will pick from radio shows. They're all unique. hear it. there. A phrase I use when I'm on They all bring a different blend. Good Morning, My Friends airs How did the show come to be? the radio is, "I'm here in your ear. Ever get yourself a nice, tasty, won every Monday morning, bright and I always wanted to be a part of You're listening to a modern mix- derful smoothie? You feel really early at 6:30 a.m. on CiTR 101.9 FM. CiTR's charts reflect what's been played on the air by CiTR's lovely DJs last month. Records with asterisks (*) are Canadian a those marked (+) are local. Most of these excellent albums can be found at fine independent music stores across Vancouver, can't find them, give CiTR's music coordinator a shout at (604) 822-8733. Her name is Sarah Cordingley. If you ask nicely sh CITR 101.9 FM CHARTS HITZ OF MARCH tell you how to find them. Check out other great campus/community radio charts at www.earshot-online.com. 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