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WMSM JULY 2009 www.discorder.ca the Trdnmutors by robarazzi.biz FEATURES n 10. Safe Amplification Site Society The directors of this non-profit society are determined to open a dedicated aU-ages venue in Vancouver. Isn't that a good idea? 12. Life After Radio Host Sarah Buchanan chats with our reporter about her narrative based podcast, and gives us some insight into Why it is so rad. U%«*' * 14. Unfamiliar Records Vancouver's newest label is fast making a name for itself as one of the best at picking talented acts to back. Their local rep Edo Van Breemen, from the Chps and Brasstronaut, spoke with our reporter about their quick (and ongoing) rise. 19. Twin Crystals Lead singer Jesse Taylor from Twin Crystals waxes about the Okanagan, Vancouver's music scene and Twin Crystals' prolific nature. 22. Green Mount Music Festival Chicken Soup for the Indie Music Fan, this Nanaimo fest is probably the most universaUy posi tive and heartwarming festivals in existence. 24. Art Project: Andy Dixon He runs Ache Records, has been playing in bands since he was 11, does freelance graphic design and exhibits his visual art internationaUy. Damn. 28. More Than This GranviHe street has a thriving late night party • industry, but not everyone finds it to be wdcoming'. Jessica Barrett puts together a diverse body of opin REVIEWS ions to look at what hope there is for live music in Vancouver on GranvUle and off. 6. Textually Active 31. Real Live Action Alex Ross' The Rest is Noise Animal CoUective | Black Dice | Julie Doiron | Chain & the Gang | Handsome Furs | Jens Lekman 7. Riff Raff | Mt. Eerie | the Tranzmitors Pretty VanUla | the Jolts | Let's Dance | Jeffrey Novak | the Shackles 36. Under Review Animal Names | Apostle of Hustle | Falcao 8c Mo 8. Venews nashee | Field Assembly | Ford Pier | Grizzly Bear | Bicycle Tour | Heather Deal | Location X | Pro Fun Kathryn WUHams 8c NeUl MacCoU | SUBB | Sunset City | the Cobalt | Little Mountain | the Peanut Rubdown | The Wind Whistles - GaUery | the Rickshaw Theatre 9. Film Stripped Barry Doup£'s Ponytail 16. Program guide 20. Calendar 35. Charts Textually Active: The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the R.I.P 20th Century | by Alex Ross by Andy Hudson listened to Alex Ross' popular his Ives ran two marching bands past tory of avant-garde music whUe each other just to sit and hear them Idriving a rented Dodge Caravan clash? Sure I do. And I can't believe for 11 straight hours, up from our an orchestra played Strauss' Sympho- nation's capital to the mosquito-rich nia Domestica to 5,000 New Yorkers MJ hitch-hiker's heU of Wawa, Ontario. packed into the city's first two-Mock The idea, I guess, was to subvert the department store. wUds of northern Ontario. Thunder Ross excels at detailing changes in ing past a mess of porcupines, "Jesus public taste and lifting juicy tidbits Saves" bUlboards and a container from composers' private lives, like truck painted with the American flag- the three-hour therapy walk where raising at Iwo Jima, we heard Ross Freud and Strauss decided that his explain how in the cafe's and concert music stemmed from a childhood *r haUs of 19th century Europe, compos episode where Strauss ran into the ers like Strauss, Stravinsky and Bartok street to avoid his fighting parents opened the door to the kind of ob and heard the cheerful folk tunes of a 8 scure, atonal music that sent box-seat street performer. ** **w, - The book also does a good job situating these Do I care that the detaUs in a sweep of 20th century history—we learn American composer what the Kaiser said about Charles Ives ran two Mahler's "Symphony No. 8" and hear how Hitler and marching bands past Stalin changed composi each other just to sit tion. Ross pays special at tention to racial politics, and hear them clash? describing how first Jewish fVraK and then African-Ameri Sure I do. can composers struggled FawaH to find work in the midst of sophisticates into fist-fights. a racist upper-crust The Rest is Noise reads like a pack But when Ross writes about pure of biographies. Ross skips back and music, Whether it's a six-tone gamelan forth across decades as he revolves scale that inspired Debussy or an around the public reception and hour-long tone poem by a composer private lives of composers from steeped in Dada, we found ourselves Sibellius to John Cage. In a velvety switching the Dodge's stereo over to style that wUl please the CBC Radio NPR, the Sabbath channel and Play 2 crowd, Ross the scholar detaUs how boy's sexy stories. Ross is best When Mahler circled this particular line of chronicling the personalities behind Nietzche's Zarathustra or explodes the music—to explain the sound it that long-running rumour about self, I'd rather turn to books by John Debussy leading a weird order of Cage. Catholics who claimed to know the Still. The Rest is Noise is a weU- secrets of the Holy Grail. researched, detaUed sweep of a huge In the Dodge, Ross' chronicle of shift in what used to be a popular form 20th century Zeitgeist had to compete of music. If it faUs to evoke much of with my first taste of satellite radio—a the music itself, you can always read good test of his storytelling. Do I care it with The Rite of Spring on the stereo that the American composer Charles beside you. anonymous fan art found by Debby Reis Riff Raff by Bryce Dunn ummer is here and we've got more bounce Cars" takes the Clash to task with a punchy number for the ounce this month, dear readers, with a about running from the law, whUe "X-Ray Eyes" and Scouple local acts to kick off the proceedings. "Outta Time" barely leave you time to breathe with Firstly, I can imagine Pretty Vanilla caused quite their manic hardcore-styled hijinx. You've got some the stir by bringing the glam and shazam to the heavy duty dancin' and listenin' to do. Vancouver Aquarium in order to create the cover Lastly, two new records from the Sweet Rot Re that adorns their newly pressed EP, 7 Inches Deep. cords factory of twisted punk and fractured pop ThankfuUy, no animals were harmed in the photo deUghts: the first, a solo outing from Jeffrey Novak shoot—'cause the music does the damage instead. (main man behind NashvUle band Cheap Time) Recorded at the upstart studio to the stars, Little which displays his affection for Donovan on "Short Red Sounds, the four songs herein each dip into de Trip Home" with its shghtly anglicized 70s glam- cidedly different waters, but they do so with a strong pop stance and "One Of A Kind" which flirts with undercurrent of fun and catchy rock andxoU. From psychedelia whUe buzzing around your brain. The the Dion-esque doo wop of "Lost in the Soda Shop" second being the Shackles, a Seattle-based band to the bubbly Bay City Rollers stomp of "Radio with at least one member of the Coconut Coolouts Glow" to the T-Rex inspired rocker "Paper Tiger" and more off-kilter pop than you can shake a stick and the roUickin' Romantics-styled power-pop of at. "Broken Arm" will resonate with anyone fanul- "New Love," Pretty VaniUa will have you shakin' in iar with the Clean due to its subdued, but playful your skinny jeans and rarin' for more deep sea ad keyboard and drum interplay, and "Funeral Shroud" ventures. Recommended. rings loud and boisterous, not gloomy and dark like Another local by-product of the aforementidned the song -name may suggest. With its choir-like in Little Red Sounds stable is the latest baU-bustin' tro and snappy halftime beat, the song happUy skips slab-o-wax from the Jolts. Just like the explosive along only to derail around the halfway mark, but it firebaU depicted on the front cover, Joey Blitzkrieg quickly shifts the tempo into overdrive and finishes and company blaze through two new tunes of chew with an almost Sunday service-inspired finale. 'em up, spit 'em out rock of the highest order. Both And with that, I am done. Thanks, as always, ft»r "Born Speedin" and "Gimme GasoUne" conjure the reading. spirits of Nordic riff masters like Gluecifer or the 20°/OOFFNEW VINYL Hellacopters, but if you need further convincing, close your eyes whUe listening to each track and tell me you don't hear either of those tracks being out Pretty Vanilla 40% OFF USED VINYL & CD's of place on Turbonegro's ear-shattering Apocalypse Paper Tiger Productions Dudes. Once finished, open your eyes to watch the www.myjrpace.com/prettyvaniUa SATURDAY JULY 18TH ft SUNDAY JULY 19TH video shot for "Born Speeding have a chuckle at the expense of the other local band featured in their piss The Jolts take of the rockers versus mods (and therein lies Eat Shit And Die Records your first due) clash of the titans, and catch these 12012 95th St. Edmonton AB, Canada T5G 1M7 leather-clad no-goodniks on a stage near you. • Let's Dance Armed with more reasons to let your inner mosh No Front Teeth Records out are frequent show mates of our beloved Jolts, www.nofrontteetl"U"«t :Mj Edmonton's pogo-inducing punks Let's Dance. Their new EP displays keen songwriting thanks Jeffrey Novak / the Shackles v to hyperkinetic front man Ben Disaster and even :%»<•CJA L DRIVE. V^ * some pseudo-ska flourishes thanks to some added Sweet Rot Records keyboard in the tune "Out On Top." "Calling AU www.myspace.com/sweetrotrecords tew.AUDK)P>l£.COI __S__J___l_Wi photos of various venues visited with city council by roJbarazzz'.Jbiz Venews: Discorder and Pro Fun City take city council for a ride by Jordie Yow n a sunny evening in June, city councUlor faced and what could be done to make it easier to tive channels at City HaU and the actual musicians Heather Deal from Vision Vancouver, my run a venue in Vancouver. Deal put forward some and music fans. Oself and Kalin Harvey from Pro Fun City big ideas for change that could help venues run in In the case of Location X, Deal said that people went on a bike ride. On our ride we stopped by a the city. seem to be coming at it with an attitude that "mu number of venues that seem to keep coming up in The owners of Location X identified an attitude sic equals excitement which equals trouble which the pages of this paper for the trouble they've been problem amongst those who enforce the bylaws that equals bad." &P^Wiil having with Vancouver. We met with those who venues have to abide by. PoUce and bureaucrats who This may be changing with some priorities for run Little Mountain Studios, the Cobalt, the Peanut dealt with the situation universaUy came at Jack say^ bylaw enforcement being rethought Deal said. "My GaUery (now defunct) and some of the directors ing, "We wiH shut you down," he said. highest priority for [bylaw] enforcement is health of the Safe Amplification Site Society [ed. We don't At a hearing to determine the fate of Location , and human safety," she said. get into the discussion with SASS much here, but X's Uquor license, Jack and Jill related that the adju WhUe Deal said she was unlikely to get in there check out the profile on them on page ten]. We also dicator of the case told them their business should and micromanage staff decisions about individual met with one other venue that preferred to remain not be run Uke a community haU and that if people situations, she and her party, Vision Vancouver, anonymous out of fear of reprisal. For the purpose don't buy food they should be kicked out.' want to prioritize issues such as human safety rather of this article we wUl refer to their venue as Loca This exemplifies one of the biggest problems in than foUowing a strict rules-based bylaw method of tion X and the owners as Jack and Jill. These various Vancouver's music scene: the seemingly antagonis enforcement. , liijyl groups spoke with Deal about the problems they'd tic attitude between the more official and authorita »cont. on page 38 Deal said that people seem to be coming at it, with an attitude that "music equals excitement which equals trouble which equals .bad." ftcwfCf OUR .':l^'QUIET WHILE EXIT Oft OUTSIDE "''/?'• Barry Doupe's Ponytail: A movie that is really, truly strange. by Sarah Buchanan \\LTT dthin k the term 'Lynchian' is lazy? claimed of cheezies, find a good chair (one that is hopefuUy more than... weU... Vancouver? Apparently not. "I 1 BBarr y Doupe", a Vancouver artist whose first more comfortable than those provided by VIVO at had made some previous films using text-to-speech L feature-length computer-animated film Pony- the film'sVancouve r premiere—let me just say that in English, but people couldn't really understand tail-Lf ha( s eUcited many a comparison to the work of I totaUy love that space and value their program what they were saying," he claimed. "So as an experi David Lynch. "There's a lot of work out there that's ming immensely but they really need to do some ment, I did a talk in Chicago and tried one dip in creepy and weird and interesting, but there's an au thing about those chairs), and take in the amazing German text-to-speech with subtitles. Afterwards thenticity about some weirdness. There's something visual wonderland of computer-animated colour people were talking to me about things characters truly strange. Like, you start to think that a person and movement From the first images of a woman's were saying—it felt to me like people knew what couldn't have made that, there had to be some kind face spouting ink from her eyes, a telephone off the was going on." of macrobiotic fungus that formed it" hook and a tape player turning itself on, you get the The subtitles really did add another dimension Ponytail is a movie that achieves this level of true feeling that these images interact in a similar way to to the dialogue, which helps viewers interpret the and unadulterated strangeness, leaving a wake of the characters, who aU speak a sort of broken-Ger sometimes cryptic-yet-beautiful phrases that seem frustrated narrative-hounds searching for a coher man dialect of pop-culture references and truisms. to come out of nowhere. Phrases like "Do you like ent structure, and the rest of us searching for the Doupg's attachment to text-to-speech technology, finger?" or "Does anyone notice when the young fungus that created it. But you can't watch a Barry in which a computer translates text into a mechani move youthfully?" The final effect comes off as the Doupe* film if you're looking for something. You cal spoken language, mirrors the unnatural imagery, mutated offspring of a hacked copy of The Sims and also can't watch a Barry Doupe* film if you have taking it one step further with inverted syntax and (caU me lazy) a David Lynch film, with the kind an aversion to computer-animated nudity, rotting jarring sentences. of narrative stream that runs through your weird computer-animated animal corpses and dialogue And why choose German with subtitles instead of est nightmares. It makes sense on one level of your that references both NeU Hamburger jokes and B.C. EngUsh? Was it simply ah effort to add another layer brain, whUe the other level is trying to figure out filmmaker Stan Douglas in the same breath. of weird? Have his screenings st the Tate Modern what the fuck is going on. I realized upon viewing the film for the second and various European gaUeries made him reach out time that the trick is to kind of lean back, grab a bag for an audience that seems to appreciate his work »cont. on page 38 You also can't watch a Barry Doupe film if you have an aversion to computer-CLnimqted nudity, rotting computer- animated animal corpses and dialogue that references both NeH Hamburger jokes and B.C. filmmaker Stan Douglas in the same breath. I Ponytail stills courtesy Bairy Doupe I s^pl r"lp^ SAFE illustration by Monika Koch kMFLIF! by Jordie Yow V\ .TThave a seven- year-old son who has seen me play 1 • • **>* ™ . ^ twictwicef in his life/-'.This is., a heartfelt statement by Rose Melberg, a director for the not-for- SITE I profit Safe Amplificcdibn Site Society and a local singer-songwriter best known for her beautiful S-frilTT acoustic live set. T5 "We're in the business of selling alcohol. We're not a fucking daycare." -- Though the seven-year-old Sam may be a bit young that SASS hopes to run; located in East Van, it acts Tfes, that's what Vancouver needs,'" MattataU said. er than the average, youth trying to see some live as a jam space and smaU venue that's popular for They're still a long way from achieving their fi music in Vancouver, Rose brings up a good point. those who don't feel it's necessary to drink at a show. nancial goals, but they're working towards it with an Venues in town that are bars may have their own set It's a great space and popular with the younger admirable determination and patience. of problems, but rurming an aU-ages venue in this folk in Vancouver's music community, but it does "We want to find a space that's right for us, but we town is a whole lot tougher—they can't seU Uquor have some problems. It's just a shed in someone's want to find a space that's right for us at the right to minors and that cuts a big source of revenue that backyard—tiny, not soundproofed (jamming ends time," said McCormick. They're not going to cut helps most venues in tpwn pay rent. at 9 p.m.), is being sustained by the goodwiU of the corners to open a space before it's able to sustain Jarrett Evan Samson, another director of the so itself through some sort of funding. ciety and a musician who plays with CoUapsing Op XX The group is spending a lot of time brainstorm posites and Shipyards, had a story that reaUy drove I don't think there's one ing ways to gather the funds that wUl be necessary the point that bars and kids don't mix. When he was to run this space. 16 he desperately wanted to see Matthew Sweet play artist yet who hasn't "We're artists primarily" said Samson jokingly. at Richard's on Richards. He wanted to see Sweet so "We don't have bags of money." badly, but he had a conscience, so he decided that said Yes, that's what They've been looking at other cities for inspira instead of sneaking in, he%ould try to appeal to the tion on how such art spaces are run, such as the owners of Richard's to work out some way he could Vancouver needs/" Vera Project in Seattle, the SmeU in L.A. and the go. They have lots of concerts there, they must love Department of Safety in Anacortes. These spaces music. Surely they would understand the desire of a Mattatall said. are able to operate because of private donations rabid music fan to get in and see his favourite band. and government grants in addition to any revenue So he sucked up his pride, asked his mom if she brought in from concerts or retaU sales at the lo would be wiUing to come supervise him at the show home's tenants and neighbours and is definitely not cation. As McCormick pointed out, they're not too and caUed Richard's. After explaining his desire to zoned or Ucensed with the city as a proper venue. picky about what sort of organization wants to fund see Sweet he was rudely told "We're in the business "We want something that's sustainable, that's per them either. of selling alcohol. We're not a fucking daycare." Then manent," said McCormick. "This is an opportunity for CEOs to get in touch he was hung up on. Samson got a fake ID and went They've got a wish Ust of their ideal space. They're with the grassroots community' McCormick said anyways, but the memory of those final words stuck working towards creating a venue/art space that is with a grin. He said it jokingly, but you can teU he with him. iWmm soundproof (or soundproofable) with a capacity be meant it. This space is important to SASS. Situations such as the ones described and more tween 85 and 200, that is accessible to the people Until they get some heavy hitting donors or gov prompted the directors in the group start thinking of Vancouver, legal, affordable (for the society and ernment grants, though, the group is happy to put about the necessity for a dedicated underage venue people who go there) and most importantly, aU ages, events together with the proceeds going to the even in Vancouver. When they realized that they'd aU so it won't be making its money on alcohol sales ei tual funding of the space. There have been concerts "been thinking the same thing they realized they had ther. That's a taU order, but SASS has a lot of deter and film screenings and they are currently putting enough people to start an organization dedicated to mination, and it goes beyond the fivedirector s who together donations for a garage sale which wiU have their coUective goal. ^ot^ spoke with me. aU proceeds go towards the society. If you're inter Samson and Melberg were sitting in a circle in SASS currently has 35 people signed up and ested in donating, volunteering, attending an event the Shed with three other directors of SASS: Ryan those members participate in various commit or just want more information about SASS you can McCormick from CoUapsing Opposites, Caitlin tees that are working towards goals such as raising check out their website at www.safeamp.org. Gilroy from Melodia and UnreUable Narrator, and awareness and raising funds. The group is getting a David MattataU from Shipyards. It's easy to see why lot of support from performers and the local music they wanted to meet to chat with me in the Shed. community. The Shed is pretty much exactly the sort of place "I don't think there's one artist yet who hasn't said Ii II by ^Robert Fougere he foUowing is an interview with Sarah Bu chanan, host and inventor of the internet Tpodcast Life After Radio and former host of Tiny Machines, a Uve broadcast radio show aired on CFUV 101.9 Victoria. Sarah's radio experience has also included a stint at CBC Radio 3, where she was trained as a producer. Buchanan's current project Life After Radio, is a monthly podcast focusing on the most interesting and lesser-known aspects of life in and around Vancouver. It is avaUable for free download from www.lifeafterradio.ca. Discorder: So Sarah, what have you been up to since the days of Tiny Machines. Sarah Buchanan: I kinda bumped around Van couver for a year, got into doing some writing and more media stuff and wasn't doing radio the first year I was in Vancouver and missed it a whole heU • of a lot. D: How did you get back into radio? SB: I started working in a smaU position at CJSF at SFU, which got the bug going in my system again. An Interview with D: How did you land your job at CBC? SB: I just land of applied on a lark to Radio 3 Sarah Buchanan of because there was host position open. I knew I wouldn't get it, but just wanted to get my resume in there. A couple of months later I got a caU to come do some production. D: How was that? SB: I feel like I learned a lot there. They were so great about training me and being patient. Work ing there made me want to do my own thing more and more. I reaUy liked it but it wasn't always the style I wanted to foUow. I was working on contract there when the economy went to shit After my last contract was up, I had the feeling they weren't going to caU me anymore and I felt as though I had to sink my teeth into something, so I started podcasting in February of this year—on Valentines Day! D: Do you have your own home studio now? SB: I've got a really good field recorder and Adobe Edition on my laptop. I'm pretty addicted to it! D: Do you get a lot of comparisons to This Ameri- can Life from National Public Radio? SB: Yeah, I find them funny. I understand it with Ski the first episode, because it was in three parts. I find it reaUy amazing that people seem to be in contact with so few narrative-based shows that it would au- tomaticaUy be assumed that I'm trying to copy this 12 one show. It seems intuitive to me that this would be a formatpeopl e would want to Usten to. D: Are your friends receptive tobein g interviewed for the show? SB: The ones that seem to Uke it and do weU with it are the ones I go back to. There are certain people that seem to be knowledgeable in a lot of areas So they just have a charm about them. I like the idea of repeating characters and people that you might be able to hear from again and again. D: Are you hoping to get more expert opinions on the show in the future? SB: I'm not trying to be the kind of show that picks a topic and gets one personal story and than an ex pert That whole idea of always having to have an expert on something is getting journalisticaUy tired. There's something refreshing about people's person al experiences and stories. D: I remember you used to have a lot of call-ins and give-aways of things like baked goods on your old radio show. Do you miss that interactive ele ment of live broadcast radio? SB: I do miss it I have phone interviews now and they get to be chopped up and produced and I feel ated with it. I record aU the music for the show too, D: How many people do you think listen to Life like I can do a Uttle more with them now, but I miss usually last minute! After Radiol the spontaneity of it. I miss that a lot—and Rick! SB: I've got analytics on my site, and about 200 Us D: So you're not playing any bands? ten that way. But that's not taking into account those SB: There's one show, the bear story show, where I that subscribe directly through iTunes or Usten with DrRick? play a 20-second clip of an old blues song. I've had other people. I'm linked to by a lot of sites SB: Yeah, he was a repeat caller that Uved in a shack friends let me record them. near Port Angeles, which could somehow miracu lously receive the signal from Victoria. He would D: I noticed a donation button on your website. caU in totaUy drunk every show. If he caUed earUer D: Is that for copyright and royalty reasons? Have you been successful in generating a bit of in the night he would be somewhat coherent, but SB: I want to keep it local. There are so many great income from the show? later in the night totaUy incoherent As much as Rick musicians and great things going on in Vancouver it SB: Initially when I first put up the button I had a disturbed me, I miss the spontaneity of having him would be a shame to play music from outside that bit more of a push for it. I get enough to pay my web and having his feedback! scene, and I do want to make sure it's legit Mostly I developer, Graeme Worthy, and artist AUi Meutzner. just want it to have that "home done" fed to it. It was great to know that some people could and would support the show. D: Do you manage to keep in touch with anyone from Victoria? D: Speaking of home done, you introduce some SB: Yeah, people like Emerson, who used to caU of the guests on your Fermenters show as "post- D: So Sarah, last question: Is there life after ra into my show in Victoria when he was driving cabs hippie d.i.y. punks." What do you mean by that dio? around at night, and now he's taking part in it. term? SB: WeU that's kind of up to the listeners, isn't it? So SB: People have rejected the term "hippie" a Uttle bit far it feels like there is. lately, and some of the visible culture that goes with D: Do you have any plans to go back to radio? it. There's discomfort with the word but people still SB: Broadcast radio for the kind of show I want to carry a lot of that culture with them, so I call it "post- do right now would be reaUy difficult A radio show hippie" to take the surface veneer off of it d.i.y. punk' would have to be weekly, and I don't have time to is a self-described term used by some of the people produce the kind of quaUty show I'd want to, weekly, on the show. d.i.y. is tied in a lot with punk. by myself. The amount of work that goes into a spo ken word show is totally ridiculous. Every minute of the program has probably an hour of work associ 15 IN Fir i *Jlf I RE Jby leanna Orr "The bands are diverse," said Van Breemen, "we're not or an independent label that is basically after a certain sound, just something that's special." Ipp founded UnfamUiar in 2005 and A&R quick a two-man show, Unfamiliar Records has ly emerged as the label's strength. Its first release, the Paper Cranes' Veins EP, rose to the top fiveo h both been soaking up a lot of attention lately. CBC Radio 3 and national coUege charts. Talent ac F quisition happens in the casual, slightly nepotistic, With Pitchfork's recent "Best New Music" tagging manner common to many independent labels. Van Breemen plays for both the CUps and Brasstronaut, of the Japandroids' album, Post-Nothing, the and most of the bands were friends with manage ment before being signed. If not, they are always label has become, well, less unfamiliar to the friends afterwards. "I reaHy like hanging out with No Gold," Van Breemen mentioned. "Except that musical masses. Run by general manager and when I go to see them play, I always seem to wake up on their couch." A&R rep Edo Van Breemen in Vancouver, and The label's A&R method, according to Van Bree men, usuaUy consists of coming across an album owner Gregg Ipp in Toronto, Unfamiliar boasts or sound he finds exceptional from a famiUar band, then "Greg and I take a look at finances and see a solid roster to back up the buzz generated what we can do." Any worries about personal ties muddying the artist-management dynamic would by Japandroids. Vancouver bands the Clips, be misplaced, however. Ipp and Van Breemen have impeccable taste, in both music and friends. Brasstronaut and No Gold call Unfamiliar home, UnfamUiar s relationship with Japandroids start ed in the usual way. "Edo was a friend," said the duo's as well as the Paper Cranes, the Two Koreas, j^j drummer-half, David Prowse. "Greg saw us play at Pop Montreal and liked the show, but he hadn't Snailhouse, Stop Die Resuscitate and Toronto/ heard the record. We emaUed it out to a bunch of friends, and Edo Ustened to it then passed it on to London's Flowers of Hell. Greg." By this point, Japandroids had already self- released two EPs, and were planning to do the same with Post-Nothing, their third—and possi bly final—album. "Brian and Dave were almost done," said Van Breemen. "They had paid their 14 "A big bargaining chip that Unfamiliar has i^their flexibility,'' said %ivi<^Prdwse of Japandroids. nWe have absolute control over anything to do with our album," illustrations by Jill Southern of Edo Van Breemen (left) and Greg Ipp (right) dues and weren't seeing the results. But I loved Both Ipp and Van Breemen stress UnfamUiar's Ipp maintains that he started UnfamUiar with the album right away, and really wanted to release slim (or non-existent) profit margins, but neither a vision of the label as a vehicle for artists to have it. I just hoped they would be willing to try one seems jaded. "Over the years far more money has their music heard "We're always here to offer ideas, more time." gone into the label than has come out of it (anyone and to help, but ultimately, we're a conduit for their "We had maUed [Post-Nothing] to so many labels," who thinks they should run an independent record music." he explained. "When we choose to work explained Prowse in a phone interview, as guitar label to get rich,thin k twice!)," Ipp wrote in an emaU with someone, we are confident in their abUity to ist Brian King packed the van for a trip to Seattle. before he enthusiastically dove into describing the create great aft" "When Greg expressed interest in putting out the label's philosophy. Van Breemen, similarly smiled Even without their artistic ideaUsm, Ipp and Van album, we were pretty much Uke 'Yeah, sure.' Any and admitted, "We're aU Uving back at home again." Breemen are stretched too thin to micro-manage body on board would have been great." Of course, Ladies, however, should not worry: Mr. and Mrs. the creative process. "The last couple of months those labels who have Post-Nothing in a stack of dis Van Breemen are spending the summer in France. have been crazy and we're doing everything we can carded demos are now kicking themselves, and per Considering UnfamUiar's consistently upward to continue the momentum," admitted Van Breemen.' haps reviewing their A&R procedures. The album trend, the outlook is good for the parents of Van Nevertheless, in early June Japandroids signed with has garnered the duo magazine covers, spots at the Breemen and Ipp to once again reclaim the nest Illinois label Polyvinyl, handing over the worldwide Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago and the Capitol That is, if the men are willing to give up open ac release of Post-Nothing to the outfit that handles Of HiU Block Party in Seattle, and guaranteed packed cess to stocked fridges any time soon. Convincing Montreal and Architecture in Helsinki. UnfamUiar houses for the upcoming tour of North America. a young man to do that, my mother once said, is remains in control of the Canadian market and The success of Post-Nothing proves that Unfa akin to convincing the same man to leave behind an wiU soon be re-releasing the band's first two EPs mUiar Records has come up with a winning for open bar. Difficult, at best. on vinyl. The Polyvinyl deal does not seem to have mula for an independent label. Start with' two mu The managers' personal Uves aside, UnfamUiar created conflict between Japandroids and UnfamU sic geeks, add some serious ideaUsm, subtract any Records has come into its own as a legitimate and iar; apparently, Ipp and Van Breemen know their ambition for personal wealth and station them in professional label. "We made what I would consider limits. Relations between the two labels are said to different cities. AUow them to mix freely with the the move from a basement operation to a boutique be exceUent, and though nothing has been signed, local music scene. As long as success is measured label within the last six months,* said Ipp. This tran Ipp forecasts continuing cooperation. "You wUl be in critical and pubUc acclaim and not profits, Van sition, he wrote, began last summer with the release seeing more Unfammar/Polyvinyl collaborations in Breemen and Ipp are finding it. The label appears of SnaUhouse's Lies on the Prize. Shortly thereafter, the future," he said. twice on the current Polaris Music Prize long Ust Van Breemen came aboard to share management Even with much of Japandroids-related pressure for Japandroids' Post-Nothing and SnaUhouse's Lies duties. aUeviated, Van Breemen and Ipp wUl continue to , on the Prize. Both bands face stiff competition from Throughout the label's evolution, the policy of have their hands fuU for the foreseeable future. New the likes of Leonard Cohen, Chad VanGaalen and aUowing bands complete creative freedom has re albums from No Gold, Stop Die Resuscitate, the Pa Wolf Parade, but past-winner Caribou proves the mained a key tenet. For artists, this laissez-faire at per Cranes and Brasstronaut are impending, as are $20,000 award has Uttle to do with star power. Win titude is extremely attractive. "A big bargaining chip several yet-to-be-announced projects. UnfamUiar ning would carry big payoffs for either band, both that UnfamUiar has is their UexibUity" said David Records is proving itself a label with a sharp ear for financially and pubUcity-wise, but in the short term, Prowse. "We have absolute control over anything to quality, an ear that wiU hopefuUy, one day, aUow the the label would benefit only in the latter realm. do with our album." managers get their own places. 15 'MSi '.' -:• "' ^& ||& .' 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(World) 8-9pm .' Punk Heart: Jesse Taylor on himself; Vancouver, and Twin Crystals by Quinn Omori hen I met up with Jesse he was drawn from his hometown of wasn't until he formed Twin Crystals appear Forever that we only did 31 Taylor of Twin Crystals, Vernon to Vancouver. with drummer Jordan Alexander that copies of. And then we did a lathe 10 Wit was in the building that WhUe the Metro Vancouver area one of his projects garnered a larger inch and we did 51 copies of that. And the band shares with a few other Van boasts a population of over two mU- foUowing. then we did the Two Girls 7 inch. We couver bands and artists—fittingly lion, it didn't take long for Taylor and "1 don't know what happened in weren't even going to do Two Girls, named the Secret Space. The artists' his cohorts to carve out their place Vancouver, but nobody cared before," but Summer Lovers reaUy thought enclave exists in one of the few ar in Vancouver's music scene. "We had Taylor said, explaining the climate that was the hit and wanted to keep, eas of Vancouver that hasn't yet been always aspired to move down here in Vancouver five years ago. "Even going with it," Taylor said, explain touched by the forces of gentrification, and play, but we thought it was like a when the ER started, there were still ing just a handful of the releases on just a few doors down the alley from big city? he recaUed. "We didn't know only 20 people at the shows. And then the band's biggest label to date, the the sadly, now defunct Emergency what we were getting ourselves into two Halloweens ago there were 500 relatively small Summer Lovers Un Room, the former home base of the and that it was just another small people there and it's been Uke that limited. The rest of the band's output, musical scene that Twin Crystals are town." ever since," he noted with a smUe. "It's including their latest, a self-titled LP, at die forefront of. After relocating, Taylor was in a scary sometimes. Ifs weird to see a fan have been spread out on tiny, d.i.y. "AU of us—pretty much anyone variety of acts, most notably no wave base shifting from your friends... but imprints, which fits with the band's who's involved in the ER and most outfit Channels 3+4, and he's stiU in things are awesome now." fiercely independent outlook. of the bands—are from the Okana volved in multiple projects outside Twin Crystals formed when Chan "I don't reaUy think any of our gan," said Taylor, harkening back to of Twin Crystals. But while Channels nels 3+4 was winding down and it bands have a mainstream rock sound the days before Twin Crystals, when 3+4 garnered some buzz overseas, it solidified when Taylor and Alexander at aU," Taylor said when asked about rounded out the line up with Jeremiah the prospects of Twin Crystals or - Hayward on synthesizer. This freed any of the other recently christened *Even when the ER started, there Taylor to pick up a guitar and com "weird punk" bands in Vancouver plete the band's mix of hardcore, new garnering a larger foUowing out were still only 20 people at the wave and noise. "Since then, we've side of their hometown. "Sometimes shows. And then two Halloweens never looked back," Taylor explained. there's bits from emaUs and stuff that "Never looking back" has meant make it'seem like things are going that ago there were 500 people there a prolific output for the trio, who, way? he said before pausing. "I would according to Taylor, in the last year totally have fun with it. Ifs not a fun and it's been like that ever since." alone have put out "seven or eight re business to be in, so you've got to do leases." And that's just the vinyl. . •'•%$ things to amuse yourself. We'd do it on "We had a lathe 7 inch called Dis our own terms." 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After several months of recovery,1 Wood was, incredibly, ready to mount a third Green Mountain Festival. "Putting the festival on again this year has been the only way for me to deal with the passing of my drummer? Wood said. "We're dedicating the whole festival to the honour of Mike. He was just a huge help when I organized it in previous years. He was right by my side, digging up heavy rocks, helping to WAS. buUd the stage? by Dan Fumano Things wiU kick off on Aug. 8 with an opening set from the Hotel Lobbyists, the band that Wood and Gurr founded together, rounded out by bassist n2007, JconesWood, Just through word of mouth, they managed to Jordie Dammet and guitarist Jordan Isaacs. Friend bring out about 250 people to the inaugural Green and Minto member Jimi CueU wiU back them up on the front man for lo Mountain Musk Festival, all to raise money for a the drums. It will mark the Lobbyists' first perfor cal rock group the cause very close to Wood's heart: cystic fibrosis, a mance since the accident, and according to Wood, it I genetic disease affecting multiple organs, primarily wiU also be their last. "We're gonna retire the name Hotel Lobbyists, put tiie lungs and the digestive system. CF is the most after that? common fatal disease affecting young Canadians, The festival itself promises to be another great together a little sum including James' girlfriend at the time, Kim Black. event. If you ask any of the people -who attended mer music festival in his In 2008, Wood did it again. Same location, same over the past two years, you'U hear nothing but good cause. Only this time, about 450 people came out. things. i$lo% hometo\vn of Nanaimo. And this time, Kim was James' fiance"e . The Green Mountain Music Festival is like Chilli He secured a location This summer, on Aug. 8, the third annual Green wack corn: locally grown, organic, wholesome and Mountain Music Festival will rock out, spread good • good for you. The distinct B.C. flavour of the festival on his sister Tara's farm vibes and raise money and awareness for the same is one of the things that make it both fantastic and worthy cause. But it wUl be the first year that Kim unique. Over the first two festivals, local bands such on the outskirts of town- and James attend as man and wife. as the Pack A.D., Japandroids and Bison B.C. have arid recruited some of In spite of tins happy news though, ifs amazing been involved with Green Mountain and have just that the festival is happening again. This year, it's re been on a hot streak since then. his iftends from the Van ally remarkable that Wood is putting on this festival "It feels like a bunch of these bands are just about couver music commu after a year of incredible tragedy. to get huge, so this is like a sneak peak? says Graham Last September on the home stretch of then* first Myrfield, bassist and singer for the Stumbler's Inn, nity to bring thek bands cross-Canada tour, the Hotel Lobbyists were in a who are making their third consecutive festival ap along" and play. horrific road accident in Manitoba that claimed the pearance this year. Ufe of drummer Mike Gurr, and very nearly took In an interview with the Skinny Magazine late "Putting the festival on again this year has been the only way for me to deal with the passing of my dtummer," Wood said. "We're dedicating the whole festival to the honour of Mike." —James Wood, founder last year, Bison, B.C. front man James FarweU gushed Fundraisers for the Festival: about the festival. "We played the Green Mountain Music Festivalin Nanaimo! It was absolutely one of ssraourai Thursday, July 23 the most wonderful experiences of my Ufe. ReaUy good vibes, reaUy good cause, the organizers were at the Biltmore: charming as heU, and it's outdoors! You're playing The Stumbler's Inn, Buf fcdpswans, outdoors and surrounded by mountains, and the Surf Messiahs, Shiloh Lindsey and sound was reaUy great. Mostly Vancouver bands David Chenery 8c the Lonesome too!" Valley. Singers The Pack A.D. hjf-ye had ,a_ .simUarly huge year since playing the first Green Mountain, and they couldn't be more stoked to be coming back this year. Friday, July 31 "We're both reaHy looking forward to it. I think the at the Biltmore: whole day is going tol>e great. AU the bands wiU be Minto, No Horses, Sun Wizard and super because James picked 'em? enthused drummer Adelaide • ' Maya MUler, before urging that "everyone should go to it. That means you too, gentle reader." For more information, check out The Pack A.D. wUl be joined this year by their Mint Records label mates (and Vancouver Island these websites: representatives) Immaculate Machine, as part of an The Green Mountain Music impressive 14-act roster. The full line-up includes Festival (including directions and the Hotel Lobbyists, the Pack A.D., Immaculate accommodation info): www. Machine, the Stumbler's Inn, Minto, Buffaloswans, ojeenmountcrinmusicfestival.com the Beladeans, the Surf Messiahs, Chasing SateUites, Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Adelaide, Sun Wizards, ShUoh Lindsey and David www.ccff.ca Chenery and the Lonesome VaUey Singers. Festival poster by Carina Piccioni "We're super-excited to be doing this again this year, and the thing I'm most excited [about] is . that James is stiU putting it on, and with the year he's had," said Myrfield. "The guy is Uke a walking miracle. It warms my heart that it's getting done and that the quality is stiU there, and it's getting bigger and better." Wood is quick to put the focus off of himself and on to the importance of the cause. "Last year was the first year where there were more adults with CF in Canada than chUdren. That just goes to show what the research and the funding are doing to extend Uves, and the awareness that comes from events Uke this is important... The main thing is I'm trying to ensure that my wife wiU also be a grandmother." For a fun, summertime music festival, there's a lot of emotion involved With the third Green Moun tain. But after aU of the hardship, and the heartbreak of losing a dear friend, the festival is aU about love. 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At pres to have fewer live music prospects and stricter bar Head half a block ent, GranvUle Mall is a stunted neon caterpillar regulations than her hometown of Edson, Alberta. F scheduled to emerge a modern pubUc pavUion— Population: 8,365. west and you're in just in time for the Olympics. Melissa James, also, inked and raven-haired, had DJ beats and top 40 hits permeate the air, a base much the same experience. "When I moved here Gastown. It's a slightly layer for the cacophony of high-heels, car horns, from Montreal I thought it was weird there were street fights and the eccentric yeUs of panhandlers. no music venues," she said over coffee in a Hornby more mature, less man Lineups are long and rowdy, comprised of tipsy Street cafe\ "When I found the music venues, they ic incarnation of the young women and hair-geUed young men, coUared were aU Ulegitimate. They didn't have licensing and shirts' unbuttoned just so. Men in black lord over the it started from there." city-sanctioned Gran queues and roaming cops try to keep a Ud on it all. "It" is No Fun City, the documentary James is ville Entertainment Dis Vancouver's is a standard club district. But what's making with KroU about Vancouver's live music unique about it, according to some, is that this is aU scene, or lack thereof. trict (GED) a few blocks the city offers when it comes to youth-oriented en To be clear, there are Uve music venues in this tertainment. That's a problem for a large swath of city^$^ering gems such as the Commodore BaU- away. Ij^jW young Vancouverites who consider few things more rob*&»JStichard's on Mchards, the Media Club and The same distance repeUent than GranvUle Street on a Friday night. the Railway Club religiously cater to the Uve crowd. "The thing with GranvUle is: who reaUy wants to That's four venues compared to dozens geared to east is the apex of the go to GranvUle? I feel like Vancouver has a certain the more popular DJ culture on the GranvUle strip. Downtown Eastside—its idea of fun for a certain type of person. And if you're And there's a reason for that: what's more popular is outside of that realm, they don't get it? more profitable. own Dickensian revelry That's Kate Kroll. Dark-haired, tattooed and Jeff DonneUy is a veritable entertainment-indus pierced, KroU considers herself distinctly outside try whiz kid. He knows how to give people what how in full swings the GranvUle realm. A good night for her includes they want. DonneUy got his start at the age of 23 as live music, cheap drinks and r | Ifjne. part owner of a Victoria strip club and Uttle more A typical trav-^plant, KroU ;o Vancouver a than a decade later he owns 11 Vancouver venues. •//////^/////////^:w////. Name pretty much any club downtown and there's a whether or not they know the latest hot spot or the for any kind of venue in any neighbourhood. Van good chance it's DonneUy's. Bar None, RepubUc and Uttle pocket of areas they can go to and hang out, couver's iron-fisted stance on Uquor Ucensing, he Pop Opera are just some of his dance party pads. they know they can go up to GranvUle Street and said, is one of the major factors hamstringing at Sports-fan friendly Library Square, and the recently there's 20 venues. They're going to be able to find tempts to get a more eclectic cultural scene going acquired Lamphghter are a sampling of his success something they Uke? outside the GED. ful pub empire. DonneUy is also a restaurateur with With 11 venues, there's a good chance people are Liquor primary Ucenses (which are granted to • his original Vancouver venue, KitsUano's Bimini's going to find something they Uke in one of Don venues that deal primarily in liquor sales—as op (currently under renovation). neUy's clubs. The places are routinely packed, and posed restaurants whose primary sales should be . Given his roster of properties, it's easy to under each one offers an atmosphere designed to appeal to food) are a huge barrier to independent venue own stand why DonneUy doesn't buy into the idea that a large cross-section of people. You don't have to be ers "because you can't get one. And the Uquor Ucense Vancouver is shortchanged when it conges to enter in the know to find his clubs and you don't have to wiU cost about $100,000, too? PickersgiU said. That's tainment. be a music junkie to recognize the big-name acts he an amount of cash most would-be independent "There's an idea that Vancouver has that kind of brings to the city: Mix Master Mike, Grand Master venue owners just don't have. culture and GranvUle Street, to be honest, is reaUy Flash and Dj AM, to name a few. He makes it easy Then there are also zoning restrictions in mixed- quite top 40. But I don't believe that. There are some for you to be part of the scene. use areas that mean venues there have, to close ear- clubs that are the exact opposite and if you want to WhUe a downtown full of DonneUy-style venues Uer than those downtown. And then there's noise. find it, you can find it," he told Discorder in a phone might be good for business, this apparent homog- "There's primacy given to' residential interests interview. enization isn't great for culture. Or so says planning because that's what makes developers the most "People have this idea that other cities have these expert and musician Mark PickersgiU. money," PickersgiU said, adding that when it comes crazy club scenes and these awesome Uve venues "As busy and successful as it is, it reaHy is de to Uve music venues, the B.C. Residential Tenancy and these amazing DJ selections and it's just not void of any kind of personal character? he said of Act offers the first stumbling block with its "right to true. We keep up with pretty much what everybody the GED. "I know that's a reaUy subjective thing to quiet enjoyment" clause. else is doing. At some points in time we're- a Uttle say, but you're not going to see a lot of independent As a result, the alternative cultural scene—the more cutting edge than them. In the DJ scene, we artists or creative people be able to enter into that, Uve scene—is largely confined to a steadUy growing are so close to L.A? partly because they can't afford the rent but also be crop of Ulegal, underground venues that regularly WhUe DonneUy concedes there's a certain simi cause that's just not the culture of the place? change name and location to stay under the radar. It larity between venues in the GED, he's of the opin The culture of the GED is largely described was at one of these venues, the now defunct Emer ion that that s a good thing. as one of drinking, flirting, fighting and a regular gency Room, that documentary makers James and "I think every city needs an entertainment area. haunt for gangs. The disruption it causes has City KroU met and hatched their plan. They were sick of I think that people take tourism for granted in HaU reluctant to hand out more Uquor Ucenses. It's their favourite places getting shut down. Vancouver. You know it's our only industry these a legitimate concern, but PickersgiU, who wrote his Vancouver's underground has been doing a pret days—it's our only industry in B.C. pretty much. master's thesis on Vancouver's music venues, points ty good job of nurturing a culture of creativity, but I think when people from out of town come here, out that alcohol sales are the primary money maker it's rife with potential problems. "As busy and successful as [the Granville Entertainment District] is, it really is devoid of any kind of personal character/7 —Mark Pickersgill "ST "It's kind of sad and scary when the only place you most recent project is a synthpop group caUed One ment," she said. "The cultural industries and the can go and see a band is underground in some dUapi- Night Standard, whose lead singer found marginal creative industries in the city are reaUy important. dated warehouse," PickersgiU said. "If there was ever a fame with the Canadian boy band soulDecision We've been focusing on that for years? - fire or something Uke that, people would die." (think back to around 2000 and the song "Ooh It's But the Downtown Eastside might not be it. An It's a genuine concern. Remember that intersec Kinda Crazy"). But when it comes to nurturing lo ton revealed that coming by a Uquor primary Ucense tion at the top of this story? It was home to at least cal bands and original music, DonneUy said it just in that area is even tougher than in the rest of the one iUegitimate venue that Friday night—the site doesn't pay. W>-f& ?^ city. of a Music Waste show, the city's festival of indie "I'd love to do that and I think it would be a reaUy "I think at Main and Hastings, there's the issue mus*c* t!iJl»$sl 30 REVIEWS Animal Collective photographed by GtercUd Deo REAL LIVE ACTION Animal CoUective riweather Post Pavilion they seem acutely aware of Sade, manipulating the hum from a blank cassette Grouper \ a new fan-base and those fans were in evidence, for played on an old Walkman with a variety of effects, May 24 better or worse. A smattering of semi-aggressive panning the resulting sounds across the BUtmore's The Commodore frat-bros and their bleach-blond cohorts would sound system. The result was like some sort of audio have seemed absurdly out of place at an Animal Rorschach test. And no matter how you interpreted In a musical climate where a majority of new "indie" CoUective show a couple of years ago, but there they it, it was compeUing stuff. acts faU in to the unfortunate genres of experimen were, and mere you are. Animal CoUective would Wolf Eyes were up next, unleashing their brand tal, fuzz-pop, lo-fi, no-fi, shit-fi, and whatever else be silly not to diversify their fan portfolio in these of crashing, uncompromising "music." Using effects, has emerged from the journalistic meat-grinder tough economic times, and maybe I'm just being a conventional sonic weapons like guitars and horns, recently, one sometimes forgets that Animal Col dick anyway. and some makeshift instruments, the Michigan lective has been creating their particular brand of Since I was a last-minute stand-in to review this three-piece showed why they're one of the genre's experimental pop for nearly ten years now—and show, I missed the shockingly punctual Grouper, most revered performers. they stiU do it better, with a novel, more tradition- which is a damn shame. But she wiU be playing at Black Dice finished the evening with a set that atty structured five format that marks a departure St Andrew's Wesley Church on July 18, and I highly treated the ears and the eyes, playing in front of stut for the band. recommend that you attend. tering visuals that should have come with a warning Animal CoUective are notoriously hit-or-miss —Alex Smith to epileptics. Although they stiU sound rather "out Uve performers—the classic "they suck Uve" band there" to most music fans, considering that the band, whose records are good enough that it doesn't re comes from the same untamed, improvisational aUy matter—which made it mildly surprising that BlackDice reaches that Wolf Eyes stiU inhabits, Black Dice's this show was so fan-friendly. As the musk industry Wolf Eyes musk has become far more structured as they've tortuously reconfigures itself, bands have become in Sade Sade grown older. Rather than free-form noise coUages, creasingly reliant on tour revenue, since nobody buys May 25 their songs were grounded by synthesized beats and albums anymore. This may have something to do with The BUtmore buzzing synth patterns. It would be a stretch to caU the fact that Animal Collective played actual songs! them "danceable? but the industrial rhythms that From their actual albums! Anyone who's been to For noise fans, this bill at the BUtmore was a no drove their set coerced more than a few bodies into their shows before knows what I mean—they are brainer, offering up a Uttle something for every fan motion before the night was through. i usuatty a mish-mash of new material and largely of harsh sounds. —Qtdnn Omori Wt_0& *§ improvised Jams. With the (relative) success of Mer Gabriel Saloman started the night off. The ex- YeUow Swans member performed solo as Sade ai i5IiPif MYIM& Julie Doiron photgrophed by Quinn Omori Chain & the Gang and wise cracking with the audience. band as Svenonius—Bret Lyman (Bad of you coUapsing on the floor of a The Hive DweUers Best known for fronting the Make-Up Thoughts), Brian Weber (Dub Nar soon-to-be demolished Vancouver Rose Melberg and Nation of Ulysses (Sassiest Boy in cotic Sound System), and Fred Thom stage in a coUeetiv|Iy-formed puddle May 30 America '91, yo!) and more recently, as (Saturday Looks Good to Me, City of sweat, exhaustion and reverb, as a Little Mountain Studios ^|fgt|lf Weird War and the Scene Creamers, Center)—Johnson crooned twee love capacity crowd of famUy, friends ind Svenonius is also the author of The ballads in his distinctly cadaverous total strangers cheers you on, you This was the show that nearly didn't Psychic Soviet, a slender-but-essential baritone and improvised deUberately Uve a charmed life indeed. Such was happen. It had been scheduled for the volume- of rock phUosophy. He hasn't wooden dance moves on the smaU the scene during Handsome Furs' lat Sweatshop (shut down), the Peanut been here in years and we were very stage with the endearing awkward est visit to our.iair city on one of the GaUery (shut down) and a commu keen to see what he woukLdo with ness of a limp-wristed Frankenstein. most unseasonably hot nights of the nity center (presumably still open), his new band. We're happy to report It was a rare kind of show indeed, and year, where husband and wife duo before ending up at Little Mountain. that he and his Gang brought it and Svenonius is unlikely to return any Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry spec But then, a few weeks before the show, brought it hard. With his players lay time soon, so it's safe to say that the tacularly sweated it out in skintight Little Mountain had their own noise ing down a sick, stripped-down groove small but faithful crowd went home outfits (a denim suit for Boeckner, complaint woes and it looked Uke the reminiscent of Dr. John's psychedeUc satisfied. white zebra leggings for Perry) and show might not happen there either. soul, Svenonius—in a white suit with —Duncan McHugh and Saelan made the best of an already excel The show did go on, but the raucous a mop of black hair—pranced ^bout Twerdy lent situation. The two were so over Cham & the Gang were moved to the stage pontificating about everything whelmed by the totalizing love in the middle of the bUl, putting the mosdy from reparations to the true nature of room, in fact, that they thanked us re acoustic Hive DweUers on last. the dollar ("An internationaUy traded Handsome Furs peatedly between songs that included Rose Melberg started things off increment of work!"). Johnny & the Moon a vast sampling of Face Control, their with her sometimes bandmate Larissa The Hive DweUers had a bit of a June 4 recently-released sophomore album, Lovya, performing pretty pop songs tough job foUowing up Chain & the Richard's on Richards and ended with select gems from with minimal guitar accompaniment. Gang's high-energy set with some their 2007 debut Plague Park. "This Melberg has a new album coming out thing more low-key in a room already Think of the moments in your Ufe is like the best Christmas ever? a on K in the faU and she previewed a foggy with hot perspiration, but for that you'U carry with you always. grateful Boeckner told the crowd. He number of those songs. mer Beat Happening frontman and K You are lucky if that includes falling thanked his father for coming to the As for Chain & the Gang's Ian Records boss Calvin Johnson kept the in love—luckier stiU if it's making show and dedicated a song to an old Svenonius, he's a consummate Uve crowd's attention with his inimitable music with the one you love. And if friend who had borrowed his parents' performer, shimmying, screaming stage presence. Backed by the same even one memory includes the two van to support him at his first-ever 32 —i REVIEWS performance. His Wolf'parade vo for an 11 song set of gorgeous pop cal chops were not lost in the midst baUads written in the sanctuary of his of the drum-machine ifgfficjhes and living room. Subtly eking out tones of guitar-focused pieces that mark their pathos and comedy from the poUshed latest work, and his relaxed, humble keys, Krgovich sang of the death of stage demeanor laid the groundwork HoUywood, the cold epistemology of upon which Perry could go nuts— love and the whimsy of relationships and she did. The foot-stomping, the in a way that left everyone begging for high kicks, the chest-thumping, the more with wUd, uninhibited applause. cardiovascular endurance: it was a lot After these feats of virtuosity, a to take, and a little distracting, but the performance by Mt. Eerie seemed Uke crowd ate it up. Fittmgly^tiigjet ended an afterthought. Nevertheless, front with Boeckner burying his head into man PhU Elvrum took the stage with the bosoms of a cluster* of enthu Krgovich in tow to perform Wind's siastic male faris whUe Perry took Poem, their yet to be released album. people's hands to kiss. The passion The soaring guitar and organ drone of ate performance seemed to actuaUze the songs were lush and transcendent, what poor-man's Born Ruffians open but the heavily contemplative energy ers Johnny and the Moon seemed to of the music seemed to lose the crowd want to communicate so desperately slightly—except for the kids of course. in their set: everyone just wants to be A huddled mass of devoted teens sat loved. Or, as the Furs song goes, "AU in front of Elvrum during the perfor we want, baby, is everything? mance, hanging off of his every note. —Jackie Wong Some demanded more volume; some sat staring in awe whUe others laid on the floor to soak up the reverb spUling Mt Eerie aU over. Elvrum dished out a rock steady Beat Happening cover to finish Nick Krgovich the Tranzmitors photographed by robarazzi.biz GR8-2000 off the night, sending everyone home June 5 thoroughly rocked out in classic Twee St. James Community HaU Death fashion. —Justin Langille Despite two postponements due to scheduling problems, Anacortes, Washington analog rock heroes Mt. The Tranzmitors Eerie and local concert promoter Kris June 6 Charlton of Twee Death finaUy came Jericho Sailing Center . s through with this long awaited con cert experience. Inside the wondrous, According to the great actor Peter yet hopelessly stuffy St. James HaU, a Fonda, the sport of sailing is "involved substantial crowd packed the hard with action, life and survival." It car wooden pews for a unique night of ries with it a certain aesthetic and song and performance that was weU sophistication. PUoting a yacht, or worth the wait. even a smaU sailing dinghy, requires Vancouver's GR8-2000 (a.k.a. an intimate knowledge of knot tying, Tom Whalen) opened the night up points of saU, rights of way and a feel proper with his baUs-out blend of for the tUler. And no one exemplifies • • programmed beats and electrified, this better than local power-pop out primal-scream lyrics. "My parents fit The Tranzmitors, making them the • * are here tonight? Whalen announced natural choice to headline the UBC proudly in between songs, adding Sailing Club's, first beach party of the "and look at the mess you've made!" season. before launching back into rhythmic The band members were weU chaos. His raucous set (complete with aware before the show that they were dancing teenage groupies) ended with not playing to their usual fan club, and a raunchy, blues-powered guitar ex took to the stage with a bit of appre plosion, indicating a powerful direc hension. It took some coaxing from tion of creative exploration for this singer Jeff McCloy and bassist Mike local talent. FUntoff to get the crowd to tack and Things were lit up nice and ready gybe their way to center stage, but to fire, but Nick Krgovich (P:ano, No the party did eventuaUy make its way MUSIC-GOMEDY-ART-FILM Kids) took the energy of the show in a from the beach and into the saUboat AUCUSTI3162009 different direction, providing the left- repair hangar, where the band was set field highUght of the evening. With up. The surf-rock undertones and vo WWW.QL»FESTIVALCM the lights dimmed low and only the cal harmonies that The Tranzmitors sounds of the wobbly ceUing fans au have gained notoriety for struck a •irarS CITR dible, Krgovich stepped to the piano chord with the audience, and the band & /JW/M7/////. soon had the prettiest girls and some of the jauntier fellows shaking in their summer, attire.. Between sets the gang mingled with the crowd and enjoyed the open-air venue. A party of this sort was a welcome relief from the usual trip to the bar. The band seemed to enjoy the atmosphere as much as the other revelers did, and they really drove the show home with their second set, complete with en core. If you missed this chance to see The Tranzmi tors, not to worry—drummer. Bryce Dunn assured me that the band aims to play about once a month this summer. '—Robert Fougere Jens Lekman June 7th Richard's on Richards This being Jens Lekman's first visit to Vancouver (as far as I know, anyway), it was bound to feel like a major event. The Swedish songwriter has buflt up a devoted fanbase over the last few years, no doubt thanks to his highly boyfriendable personality. Let's face it: Jens is a heartthrob. He's handsome in a soft, harmless way, he's charmingly self-deprecating and his quirky, intimate songs are loaded with highly personal anecdotes. If you're a fan,'you probably feel like Jens is already your friend, judging by his performance at Richard's, he feels the same way, and he's eager to cultivate the sentiment. He started the evening with a modest plea to the audience to not put any photos or videos of the show on the Inter the Tranzmitors photograhped by lobaiazzi.biz net: "Let's keep this night to ourselves—because it's special." True to his teary, tender-hearted music— fregHeMy bombastic in its declarations of shyness— maybe even sing a personal song or two), and I don't Julie Doiron took the stage solo, playing a the night was fiUed with simUar emotional gestures doubt that quite a few folks took him up on that. handful of her trademark softer numbers before and cute displays of affection for the audience. In —Saelan Twerdy and Curtis Collier welcoming her band on stage, setting the sort of "The Opposite of HaUelujah? he claims that that he quaint, intimate mood that would carry through can't communicate and "all his metaphors faU flat," the evening. That's not to say the band, which fea but he's clearly a consummate showman. When that tured fellow Mt. Eerie coUaborator Fred Squire, song sampled "Give Me Just A Little More Time" by was sedate though. In fact, at times they downright Chairmen of the Board, Jens mimed his need for Julie Doiron ''f»S^?%iS^ rocked. An amped-up version of "The Wrong Guy" time by tapping his wrist and then drew a swelling Dog Day segued into a fuzzy version of "No More" before heart in the air as the backing track sang "our love June 14 returning to the former again during one of the wUl surely grow." His. voice doesn't disappoint in The BUtmore set's highlights. WhUe the set opening and set clos the Uve setting, either: his fuU, deep croon inspires ing solo portions of the evening were great, the full comparisons to Morrissey and the Magnetic Fields' For the fivenight s before this show, I ran (and bussed band interpretations of Doiron's songs, especiaUy Stephen Merritt. Oh, and the costumes! Jens and the and cycled) all around Vancouver to catch as many the ones that are soft and soothing on record, were other men in the band all sported matching blue loud, obnoxious, and heavy bands during Music a treat for longtime fans (like me). With more than chambray shirts with red ascots and red pants, and Waste as I could. By the time Sunday roUed around, nine albums worth of studio material to potentially the two girls were in pink chambray dresses. What I was exhausted. I didn't want to see another bar for cover, there were some rough patches, but the cre else? He had the crowd sing along to the "bum buh a few days, and I sure as heU didn't want to see any ative ways that the quartet re-imagined some of bum" heartbeat in "A Sweet Summer's Night On live music. I only made it down to the Biltmore be Julie's most loved songs overshadowed the odd mu Hammer HU1" and the "oohs" in "Kanske Ar Jag Kar cause I told (Discorder RLA Editor) Al Smith that sical misstep. I Dig," which he explained means "I Think I'm May I would. What I didn't realize, though,, was that this —Quinn Omori be In Love With You" in Swedish..." but tonight, I'm show would be the perfect palate cleanser after a crossing out the maybe." On another tune* the band week of hard drinking and hard, noisy music. closed with a sampled-beat disco coda and they all I stumbled into the BUtmore in time to catch the last left their instruments to do a choreographed swoop- hatf of Dog Day's set. The four^pjece pop act hails from ing-airplane dance around the stage in figure-eights. Halifax, but the music they play is less reminiscent of So it was fun. It was very sweet. Those of a less sug the melodious rock that the East Coast brings to mind ary disposition would probably caU it cloying, but and more akin to the big pop sound associated with Artist OpS3 Album;. Label ••.•-•'. Artist Album _r_lafcgaL._- Ihe Evaporators* / A Wild Pear Mint 26 Sonic Youth The Eternal Matador Andrew W.K. Pretty Vanilla* 7 Inches Deep Little Red Sounds 27 Sunset Rubdown* Dragonslayer Jagjaguwar . The Tranzmitors* Busy Singles Deranged 28 Voivod* INFINI Sonic Unyon Various* Vancouver's Punk As VPAF 29 Those Darlins s/t Oh Wow Dang Fuck Volume 2 Clues* Clues Constellation 30 The Woolly Woman of Mass Citation- ' . Bandits Destruction Dirty Projectors Bitte Orca Domino 31 Los Straitjackets The Further... of Los Yep Roc Straitjackets Apollo Ghosts* Forgotten Triangle Independent 32 Elvis CosteUo Secret, Profane & Hear Music Sugarcane King Khan & the What Is?! Vice 33 AniKyd* Blues Experience Independent Shrines Phoenix Wolfgang Amadeus Glassnote 34 Various* BloodKlub7" INW/Thankless/Deer Phoenix &Bird Dinosaur Jr. Farm Jagjaguwar 35 BUI Callahan Sometimes I Wish %Ve Drag City Were An Eagle The Gruesomes* Hey! j Ricochet Sound 36 Tosca No Hassle !K7 Superchunk Leaves In The Gutter Merge 37 Throbbing Gristle The Third Mind Move Industrial ments Falcao & Monashee* s/t Independent 38 Years* "F'tM^ Years Arts&Crafts The Coathangers Scramble Suicide Squeeze 39 The Field Yesterday and Today Kompakt Peaches* I Feel Cream * XL Recordings 40 Kronos Quartet Floodplain Nonesuch Depeche Mode Sounds of the Mute 41 Add Mothers... Lord of... Vishnu and Alien8 Universe ParaisoUFO the Magic Elixir , Camera Obscura My Maudlin Career 4AD 42 Jeffery Lewis & the 'Em Are I Rough Trade Junkyard iggy Pop Preliminaries EMI 43 Pink Outside Love Jagjaguwar Mountaintops* Iron Maiden Flight 666 EMI 44 Adjective* I Am Sorry for Independent Your Loss t Au Revoir Simone Still Night, Still Ught Our Secret 45 St Vincent Actor 4AD Mika Miko WeBeXuxa Post Present 46 Black Moth Super Eating Us Graveface Medium Rainbow Mokira Persona Type 47 Metric* Fantasies Last Gang Easy Star AU Stars Easy Star's Lonely Easy Star 48 The Crystal Method Divided By Night Tinye Hearts Dub Band Prefuse 73 Everything She ... Warp 49 BeU Orchestre* As Seen Through Arts&Crafts Turned Ampexian Windows JoelJPlaskett* Three MapleMusic 50 Future of the Left Travels With Myself 4AD and Another CiTR's charts reflect what's been spun on the air last month. Rekkids with stars (*) come from mis great land o' ours. Most of these phat platters can be found at fine independent music stores across Vancouver. If you can't find'em , give the Muzak Coordinator a shout at 604-822-8733. His name is Luke Meat If you ask nicely hell teU you how to git 'em. Check out other great campus/community radio charts at www.earshot-onUne.com. r^liir i -35- Under Animal Names/Apostle of Hustle/Falcao 8c Monashee/ Field Assembly/Ford Pier/Grizzly Bear/Kathryn "vVMiams & Neill MacColl/SUBB/Sunset Rubdown/The Wind Whistles stumbles through some darker, but light? which is probably the album's there is definitely a mid '90s fed to a mostly famiUar material. The album best. Monashee Sun's vocals feature lot of these tunes, but not in a Hootie Animal Names begins with the track "Eazy Speaks"— prominently in every song and are coUege rock way, more like if Seam Oh Yes You Better Do homage to the late Eazy E—that de reminiscent of the '60s folk songstress made an acoustic record and Touch (Boat Dreams From the HiU) spite its catchiness, does Uttle more Joan Baez. and Go dumped them immediately than revel in its own insinuated irony, The lyrics are sUghtly indiscernible after the rdease. Fox's voice is hon Vancouver's Animal Names seem to whUe simUar pop numbers "Soul Un and a little abstract so you'U probably est and hummable but the Ustener be caught in an innocent time warp, wind" and "Xerses" serve up some in have to read the Uner notes to get a should take a minute to hear what's coming from a simpler place where offensive indie vanUla. The dub-influ good understanding of them. This coming out of his mouth. Personal the term "emo" has nothing to do with • enced "Perfect Fit" means weU but is album isn't something you're going to lyrics without being emo, these songs eyeliner or cutting oneself. The cover an awkward interjection in an already Usten to for the words anyways, as its make for great rainy day music. Even art of a baUoon-headed, lime green patchy amalgamation of material. The strength Ues in the talented intertwin though the release is on CD, the tracks canary, along with song titles such album's audio-coUage interludes offer ing of the duo's songwriting skills. In are divided into side one and two seg as "Crunk Crunk Croatia" and "My brief glimpses of the band's cut-and- addition to their vocal duties, each ments and the songs flowaccordingly . Friends for Mayor" indicate that the paste hip-hop influence, but machine member plays at least fiveinstrument s Gorgeous artwork and limited to only Ustener is in for something quirky and gun sound effects and cartoon-like i on the album. They draw on what we 500 copies—check this out if you like interesting from a band that doesn't vocal samples ultimately come off as can only imagine is almost every mu your music personal, weU played and take themselves too seriously. banal. sical instrument at their disposal to inteUigent. The first line of "Rolling Paper Air Eats Darkness is described by lead put together this album, even going so —Luke Meat plane" sets the pace as Chris Vander- composer and Broken Social Scene far as to indude some field recordings lean proclaims, "I've got no goals and guitarist Andrew Whiteman as being of birds on the opening track "Tele- nothing good to say about you or any "Uke tapas at the banquet of conflict" portation? which seemed cheesy, but thing / So let's drop the talk to start With its array of different sometimes maybe someone who enjoys nature this off? What foUows is a coUection .dashing morsels, the album certainly would appredate it. Despite some Ford Pier of songs brimming with joyful angst holds true to this aesthetic as it rounds minor flaws this album contains eight Adventurism containing aU the ingredients of a true out at a quick 35 minutes and seems tracks of beautiful musicianship. (Independent) emo record. Awkward male vocals are to have been haphazardly slapped to —Jordie Yow complemented by pretty female har gether in a post-siesta haze. Adventurism is Ford Pier's fifth fuU- monies. The lyrics are clever, whim —Chad Thiessen * length, and Usteners' enjoyment of the sical and oddly poetic. The music album wUl likely be determined by is fraught with changes in emotion, their tolerance for the former D.OA. from melancholy ballads to roUick- Field Assembly member's theatrical vocal delivery and ing power-pop blasts. It is futty d.i.y. Broadsides & Ephemera, schizophrenic songwriting. Although indie with a punk rock heart. Most of Falcao & Monashee (Independent) he utilizes typical rock band arrange aH, Oh Yes You Better Do, is just plain FalcaS & Monashee ments, Pier's vocal style is more akin fun. (Independent) What the heU has ever come out of to a cabaret singer, incorporating spo —MarkPaulHus the pit of humidity known as Wind ken word and dramatic yelps and hol This Vancouver duo's debut album sor, Ontario? WeU this year alone, the lers into his edectic, genre-bending has an immersive sound with lots of Phog Lounge in Windsor was voted songs. On "My New Bar? he switches slow builds and a gradual intertwin Best Live Music-Venue in Canada by between tender crooning and ear- ing of melodies. It's an urgent sound CBC Radio 3 Usteners prompting a spUtting shrieks, with the tempo and Apostle of Hustle that carries forward the ideals of the slew of bands to start visiting whUe instrumentation varying accordingly Eats Darkness post-rock movement of the '90s and touring "Down East" as Ontarians (moving from a sparse keyboard (Arts&Crafts) early '00s, as they use instruments of caU it. Also, they are starting to boast ballad to an overdriven rocker). "So ten associated with the rock tradition a strong (albeit smaU) local scene, in Many" is nearly eight minutes of dis Eats Darkness, the third fuU-length for making dearly non-rock sounds. cluding Field Assembly. sonant guitar chords, punctuated by from Apostle of Hustle, boasts a They also use instruments from other • Field Assembly is actuaUy one per fractured drum fills and Pier's oper heavier sound than on their previous genres such as the banjo, mandolin son, L. Adam Fox. With the hdp of an atic hoUering. records. Those expecting an album and harp. Rodrigo Falcao's drumming amazing group of musician friends he With its wUd shifts in tone, Ad that pushes boundaries wiU be dis seems to indicate some krautinflu- has assembled a beautifuUy modest venturism is a chaUenging listen, and appointed to find that Eats Darkness ences, especiaUy bn tracks like "Star debut MeUow, sparse and heartfelt, Pier's seemingly unending supply of 26 REVIEWS mm m VECK ATM, vfl ;KT fill vocal energy means that the album patches on the beach, and of gnarled start to finish is like being wrapped haU legend Jah Cutta contributing on never drags. Unfortunately, he lays driftwood washed up along the shore. in a warm and favourite blanket Tom vocals does not harm their credibUity on the quirkiness a Uttle too thick; it's With strong hints of the Sea & Waits' "Innocent When You Dream" is either. When they dedde to infuse the hard not to groan during the hokey Cake's summer-inducing, post- especiaUy memorable and wUl leave punk and ska, it comes off without an vocal inflections of "Things Hap jazz lUts, the album veers towards you dreamUy humming even after ounce of kitsch. PartiaUy due to the pened to Me" or the synth squiggles of the Ughter, breezier notions of jazz. the first Usten, whUe opener "6am lack of a horn section, and largely due opener "Siege Perilous? After wacky Hdped along by heavenly, cherubic Corner" is a great way to start those to good song writing, tracks like "III tunes such as these, the breezy south layers of voice and sound, Veckatimest sinuous days when the world can Be Waiting" intertwine the genres per ern rocker "Lethe" comes as a breath is an album of dazzling proportions, pass by unheeded. "Armchair" is a fectly without sounding like a car full of fresh air, its sun-soaked organ and cinematic in its scope and vision. sweetly sardonic refrain about find of downs. The diversity of the songs is dazzling harmonies providing a much With aU band members contributing ing comfort in the familiar when life complemented by a weU-constructed needed moment of prettiness. Of to vocal duties, and with four songs just becomes too overwhelming. This track Ust aU together creating a sur course, the song does include a brief boasting string arrangements from sentiment sums up the recording as a prisingly enjoyable album. atonal interlude, but this trick works the much loved Nico Muhly, Vecka whole; it is like an aural cocoon—safe, —MarkPaulHus weU in moderation, providing a quick timest offers a glimpse of an altogether warm and welcoming—and Usteners contrast before returning to the sun different, matured Grizzly Bear, and may very weU emerge transformed ny groove of the verse. It's enough to we are grateful for it after Ustening. make you wish that Pier could tame —Amy Scott-Samuel —Melissa Smith his self-indulgent artistry more often Sunset Rubdown and aUow his songwriting to shine. Dragonslayer —Alex Hudson (Jagjaguwar) Kathryn WiUiams & Neill MacCoU SUBB For anyone who has been foUowing Two To This Beat recent developments in the career (Nettwerk) (STOMP Records) of Spencer Krug, Dragonslayer won't Grizzly Bear I come as much of a surprise. Like his Veckatimest With its cover art containing a mete Punk rock and Jamaican music have recent albums as a member of Wolf (Warp Records) orite with a vaginal looking gash (cre always enjoyed a certain connec Parade and Swan Lake, Sunset Rub- ated by WiUiams), a Tom Waits' cover tion, compelling many bands to try down's latest opts for simpler arrange Inspired by a smaU uninhabited is song, liner notes listing a shed, base and mdd the two genres musically. ments, eschewing studio trickery in land perched vicariously along the ment and garage as recording venues, Some, like the Clash and Operation favour of Uve-off-the-floor immedi southern-most tip of Cape Cod, Veck potential Usteners might expect a re Ivy, have done this with great success, acy. "Blade Swan" sets sparse, clatter atimest is the latest offering from the cording that is dark and foreboding. whUe other attempts have resulted in ing verses against fuzzed-out guitar Grizzly Bear camp, foUowing the great Add to this mix the accompanying in nothing more than irritating carnival breaks, which are rawer than anything success of Yellow House in 2006. Griz strumentation of dulcimer, autoharp, music. Krug has produced since his early zly Bear do not falter in their latest ex* organ, harmonium, melotron and Montreal's SUBB are one of the home recordings. Lead single "Idiot change, an album that transforms the flugelhorn, descriptors such as ex few bands to come out of the '90s Heart" is simUarly immediate, with physicaUty of land, sea, doud and sky perimental and quirky come to mind. Ska-punk explosion that manage to chugging power chords and a propul into a sound both otherworldly and Yet these preconceptions could not be combine the two genres with palat sive, disco-infused middle section. Of of the earth, conjuring up images of a farther from the deUcate and sooth able precision. Their fifth fuU-length, course, todescrib e any of Krug's work lush and untouched wUderness. With ing sounds found on Two. Produced To This Beat, kicks off with a furious as "immediate" is purely relative. The such an unusual and enticing name, by Phil Brown (the Stones, Zeppelin burst of mdodic hardcore whUe de album has plenty of head-scratching Usteners might fed impeUed to seek and Roxy Music), this beautiful offer nouncing the world coffee trade. The moments, from the baffling time sig out those rare, enchanting sounds, ing of sun-dappled folk represents a band then spends the next 40 minutes nature oPSUver Moons" to the cryptic unique to the wUd isle of Veckatim week long coUaboration between the moving through 16 compelling tracks lyrics of "Dragon's Lair? which warns est and crafted so beautifuUy on this • musicians on the occasion of their of punk, reggae and ska. WhUe there is "to say the war is over is to say you are album. Veckatimest fiUs the heart with third meeting. Released to unanimous a certain irony in reggae and ska jams a widow? hot breaths of south easterly winds, critical claim in the UK in 2008, the written by a band that dweUs in a city Unfortunately, the bare-bones whipped up afresh from the foam- melodic and understated Two finally that spends a majority of the year cov production means that Dragonslayer spray of the Atlantic. It invokes im hits these shores. ered in snow and ice, SUBB manage lacks the heady deUghts of Krug's ages of wUd dandelions bUlowing in Although the entire album from to puU it off Of course, having dance- best work—there's nothing here that 37 »Under »Venews cont. from pg 8 Review cont. matches "111 Believe in Anything" or WhUe at the Cobalt, Wendy 13 and KaUn Harvey from ficient beast that is the bureaucracy of City HaU, it's cer the ethereal "Stadiums and Shines II? Pro Fun City agreed. Bylaw enforcement needs to be "less tainly hopeful to see that some of these changes might be The dosest he comes is "Nightingale/' rule-based, more outcome-based" Harvey said. made—which would make it a lot easier for someone to December Song? with its hypnotic We also discussed that there is no way for businesses to run a venue in Vancouver. waltz-time strumming and ominous be classified as art spaces. Though a number of ideas were Though it didn't come up on the tour, it would be a ly droning organ. New listeners might passed around, what seemed to be the best solution to the shame to write this entire column without mentioning the want to start with one Of his eariier Ucensing problem was Deal's idea to simplify business li opening of the Rickshaw Theatre at the old Shaw Theatre albums, but for Krug die-hards, Drag censes in order to treat businesses as "black boxes" which location on Hastings. The newly renovated buUding is run onslayer is yet another worthy addi would attow them to be run with multiple uses. A space by Dave Duprey (a.k.a. MaUce), who previously ran the tion to his rapidly-expanding canon. wouldn't be Ucensed to simply be a retail gaUery, venue, bar Sweatshop. It's got a capacity of 700, which makes it one —Alex Hudson or restaurant, it would get a more general designation that of the biggest venues outside of the downtown core. And it would allow a business to operate in a more general sense. wUl be able to host both aU-ages and Ucensed events. There's. This would aUow venues to run as other businesses during not a lot of info on events posted on the Rickshaw's website the hours that they aren't hosting musicians which would (rickshawtheatre.com), but having a theatre this size is big aUow multiple revenue streams in a single location. news and we can't wait to hear more about it Harvey said this was a great idea, not just from a cultural And to finish: a couple downers. It looks like the long ru The Wind Whistles perspective, but also from a business and environmental moured dosing of Richard's on Richards wUl happen July perspective "Its a different way of increasing density? 21. The Georgia Straight reports that the buUding wiH be which he noted ahgns with City HaU s goals to find more demoUshed and turned into condos. A new venue with the efficient ways to use space in Vancouver. same Ucense wiU open downtown in mid-October, which One other bit of good news that came from the tour is wiU only have Uve music Sundays through Thursdays. that Deal believes that the infamous audience participation In North Vancouver, Seylynn HaU dosed its doors af bylaw that prevents people who are Ustening to music at ter serving as a landmark institution forVancouver' s punk venues without a cabaret Ucense from dancing or otherwise scene. In the 13 years it was open it hosted a lot of shows participating in the performance "needs to go right out? and affected a lot of lives. It WiU be missed. WhUe aU of this wiU take awlule to get through the inef »Film Stripped cont. Animals Are People Too iiiiTiiiiiOiCi (Independent) from pg 8 Love, nature and being a genuinely rad person seem to be the gist of Animals It would be easy to reduce the film to an exploration of Are People Too from this Coquitlam- virtual gaming culture and the restrictions faced by the based duo. The album starts off with avatars we create, but this isn't reaUy Doupe's vision. "I'm charismatic and catchy tracks, about not actuaUy interested in the social aspect of all these on keeping it real in "Turtle? "Judo" and line games; I'm interested in the aesthetics. Video games "House for a Mouse." These trades often have these cinematic, interstitial moments where feature some delightful drumming you've done your job, you've kiUed your guy or whatever, and a bouncing bass that fosters but then there's a Uttle story that keeps you going, or a folksy lyrics, an acoustic and electric Uttle movie that plays, and that's what interests me? guitar into a pleasant pop package You could think about Ponytail Uke one of those Uttle I- while, "Making Your Own Stuff" and just-beat-levd-three movies, except die characters even "Sleeping Lions," promote a message tuaUy divorce themselves from aU human control, and of cultivating a harmonious ecological begin stumbling around of their own accord and having consciousness. This message becomes original thoughts, speaking German, licking toUet seats, dormant in "Bats in-FUght" and "The realizing their inabUity to achieve personal desires and Sun" as the subject matter focuses on not wearing any pants. Much Uke the tape player turn life and love. The theme of love con ing itself on at the beginning of the film,ther e is a creepy tinues on "The Fish and the Worm? a strangeness that results from this loss of control—the kind weU told story of a relationship on the of control we're used tohavin g over computer avatars. rocks, when someone realizes the oth Personally, I think it's much more interesting to let er is putting the kibosh on it. During them run wUd, even if the characters end up as lost as the song the counterbalance between their human counterparts. After all, why create a comput the duo's voices is fuUy reaUzed, and er world where characters can do anything if we're just go the Wind Whistles catch saU and set ing to make them do the same boring things humans do, course for exceUence. Uke wearing pants and speaking properly? Thanks, Barry, —L.E. 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