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BRIGHT EYES [sadd.ec, M.WARD • THE BRUCES EARLY SHOW! DOORS 4.30. uckinq bullshit by Christa Min SDAY oefW^ n 1568, beards in England smooth, clean faces like their shape every morning? Sonar [66 Water] were taxed according to own. They like men who look Obviously any cheap variation I their length. Do you know like women. It is clear that if a of the beard is only worn by the electroclash what that means? Good, 'cause woman doesn't like facial hair, someone who is too much of a I have NO IDEA. I'm guessing she is a LESBIAN. Which is just pussy to stand up to the dis PEACHES that the longer the beard, the fine, but why hide your true crimination and hatred that CHICKS ON SPEED more taxes you had to pay. Do self? You should be proud of may come with a full face of you know what that is? who you are. hair. TRACY + THE PLASTICS Discrimination! Perhaps this I should clear something up It's a little known fact that was the beginning of what I call here. A beard can be in any Verve refused to sign the W.I.T. beardism or beard profiling. shape or length. The only Velvet Underground until Lou Unlike racism and homophobia requirement is that no parts of Reed shaved off his beard. He in the last 500 years, the prob- the face may be shaven. A had a full beard his entire time at Syracuse University. He liked to rub it when he was writing It's a little known fact that Verve poetry. Reed once said "my HOT WATER MUSIC refused to sign the Velvet thoughts disappeared, just as the beard." It's TRUE! Could you THRICE Underground until Lou Reed shaved imagine how good his lyrics would have been if those COHEED AND CAMBRIA off his beard. beardist motherfuckers at Verve didn't ruin him? I mean, plus guests lem has only been getting beard is where it grows. he did okay without the beard, worse. Goatees, sideburns, chin but imagine what could've Only 1 out of every 100 straps, and such (the mous been. men in North America between tache has a different story—it We must band together to Tickets available at TICKET MASTER, SCRATCH, ZUI the ages of 20-40 has a beard. looks a little sleazy and suspi stop beardism. We have to NOIZE, TEENAGE RAMPAGE, RED CAT. The beard occurrence is higher cious, and it takes a solid pair teach our children the differ in the older, fatter men sector. of nuts to go around with one) ence between right and wrong. The number one reason why are signs of intense vanity. The next time you see a beard, men shave is so they can pick Who the fuck has the time to give it a little stroke or two. up hot chicks. Most broads MANICURE their facial hair And give the brave and beauti don't like beards. They like into some kind of retarded ful man a hug. • 4 September 2002 /strut, fret & flicker over mv performance/art by Penelope Mulligan book reviews by Dorito
MALDOROR Vendome to Trafalgar Square). lation involving forts and tun (As Doretta was unable to get September evening and told across the room and I suddenly Tuesday, August 6 A few episodes unfold in nels which I'm hoping we can her column to us on time this me she didn't want to go to found it in mine. "That's ballsy, The Blinding Light!! succulent colour, others are play in. month, we, the editorial staff at Dan's house alone, I was forced girl," he said to me. "Most peo There's enough going on in this monochrome dreams that One of the places I'll be DiSCORDER, were forced to to accompany her. So on ple wouldn't put their own cinematic deluge to keep one's seem lit by a torch with dying stopping for sure is The imagine what it would be like if through the night and the sub music into the stereo at some brain babbling to itself for batteries; segments morph Blinding Light!! (36 Powell she actually sent it in. Enjoy.) urbs we went, until the con one else's party. Not someone days. Its creators have called it from live-action to animation Street—as if 1 need to tell you), crete stopped and we kept they don't know, anyways. "the last film ever made"—and and back again as gangrenous where Laura Madera's piece I AM A WILD PARTY going. Ten minutes later we Drink up." the proclamation isn't as bol angels ascend to heaven and Private Moments in Public It's not very often that 1 look turned up a rough gravel drive Whether it was due to the shy and hubristic as it might mechanical dogs rip an unseen Spaces will feature a station back on my teenage years. 1 try way and two minutes after that acceptance I felt or the over sound. The implications of this child to shreds. Some films wagon with tinted windows not to since they generally we found the house, surround whelming pressure around my kind of filmmaking are huge. were so deeply atmospheric parked outside. You climb in don't contribute anything more ed by dozens of drunk shoulders, I did. Bottoms up. I The feature takes its name that you could only breathe and watch a video screened on chugged it down. And I felt from a novel written by Isodore your way through them. the front windshield. Now that On any given Saturday night, you'd proba good. I don't remember all of Ducasse in 1868 under the nom Simultaneously strange and drive-in movies are all but the next 12 hours, but what I de plume Comte de Lautrea- familiar, the images felt like extinct, this could become the bly find me at home cross-legged in front of remember was good. What I mont. Through his protagonist they might be coming loose last cry in customizing big old the stereo blaring Belle and Sebastian can still remember through the and alter-ego, Maldoror, the from your own psyche. cars. Inside the cinema, David smoke and JB and chronic and author vomits up visions of The ghost of Derek Jarman Yonge will try to turn us all through puffy headphones and scribbling 'shrooms was pure gold. visions of horror and beauty in treads softly through a lot of back into foetuses with his frantically in spiral-bound notebooks. And And as I stood there at the order to demonstrate the this—and that feels very right. sound and image work, Colour. fair, handing flossed sugar to inherent evil and hypocrisy of After all, he was one of the At Gallery Gachet (88 E. that was fine. There was nothing that a beer- bloated youngsters with a ric Cordova Street), there will be bong was going to teach me about the world tus-smile on my face, I remem an exhibition on the theme of that I couldn't learn from The Boy With The bered the lessons of Dan A few episodes unfold in succulent colour, employment entitled Working Taylor's. others are monochrome dreams that seem Like Crazy. Featuring the work Arab Strap. I took off on my lunch- of artists who have tangoed break and got shit-faced in the lit by a torch with dying batteries with the mental health system, than debilitating flashbacks. teenagers sharing plastic cups parking lot with my old friend the show is curated by self- There are occasions, however, and falling over. I was loath to Jack Daniels. humankind. Dying at 24, most resolutely underground described crazy-person, Per when its heady flashes of wis get out of the car, but, after a Ducasse not only snipped out of Britain's better-known film simmon Blackbridge. dom, fleetingly imparted minute or two of needling from before seeing his work makers. The mesmeric pull of This year's mobile event is through the bottom of a bottle, Janis, I relented and, pulling my acclaimed by other writers and the voice-over and the apoca a CIRCUIT VAN equipped with a demand acknowledgement. cardigan tight around me, artists (Blaise Cendrars and the lyptic bleakness of the images video recording and projection Like last week, for stepped into the cool forest air. early Surrealists were fans), recall scenes from The Garden unit. Not only will it film the instance. As I stood slack-jawed The inside of the house but he also missed one glorious and Last of England. goings-on at one gallery and at the PNE, doling out cotton writhed like a sweaty beast and fucker of a screen adaptation. The makers of Maldoror screen them while parked at candy to children slobbering it took a considerable amount The project began in 1998 are justifiably chuffed with like Pavlovian dogs and uncer- of effort to force our way into when members of two under what they've accomplished on ould go another the living room where AC/DC ground film collectives—the about a week's worth of utel t alo e fiv houi had presumably been shaking UK's London Exploding Cinema Spielberg's lunch money—or, think I might have left my body the floorboards all night long. I and Germany's Filmgruppe as they put it, making "a cult and returned to a different ended up next to a guy named Chaos—extracted 15 episodes movie for the price of a sec point in my life: Dan Taylor's Steve who was hunched pro from the book's six cantos and ond-hand car." Of course Grade lOkegger. tectively in front of the stereo distributed them among 15 of there's no virtue in involuntary To the best of my knowl like a denim-clad troll waiting their filmmaking comrades poverty, but where passion and edge in every school there's one for someone to trip-trop over with the proviso that they talent exist, it seems to beat guy who has the in on all the his bridge. Within 30 seconds MOTLEY CRUE shoot on Super-8 and fund the Dogma for stying pure. cool parties. Every weekend, all the CD ended and Steve looked The Dirt: Confessions of the work themselves. By 2000, 12 Resilient as cockroaches in a anyone would need to do was up at me for the first time. World's Most Notorious Rock had delivered, post-production nuclear holocaust, these film check in with him and they'd "Fuckin' A," he grinned. "What Band funding (all £2000 of it) had makers answer to nothing but have the confidential dirt on should I play next?" (Regan Books) been raised and the films their own vision. where the action was. And once 1 shrugged nervously and in An autobiography by Motley enlarged to 16mm. Maldoror vagueandsilly or twice a year, or maybe once a moment of weak indecision, Crue should include certain premiered in Germany that THE PLUGHOLE a month, his parents would passed him my Discman. salient information about the April. Now in its third year, SWARM the next, but it will also record leave town and he'd throw his Cracking it open, he dropped band, most notably who they Although the filmmakers has become a regular on the the view from the front of the own parties, sending half the the CD into the house stereo slept with, who they screwed- were all given hits from the first Friday of September, with van while driving and project it school population into the and twisted the volume knob to over and how much cocaine (or same state-inducing book, simultaineous events at artist- onto a screen mounted at the depths of Pilsner-soaked nine. I stood in mute amaze "krell," as they call it) they con their responses are as individ run centres and independent rear of the vehicle. That should debauchery. At my school, that ment as Pavement's "We sumed along the way. Luckily, ual as the techniques they galleries in the Downtown be enough to scare some guy was Dan Taylor and he did Dance" poured out of the The Dirt contains all of these. employ. Virtually dialogue free, Eastside and beyond. All hap motorists off their cellphones. n't throw parties, he threw speakers at levels unheard out Chock full of every piece of the collection is blanketed by penings are free and continue New this year is co//ectiVe Legends. Not that I was ever side of outdoor concerts. unsavory goings-on in the Crue the voice-over from a single through the evening of echoes, an outdoor installation invited to them. On any given The party stopped. Every camp from Day One, The Dirt is narrator. Some interpretations September 6 until late, so use which stays up all month. A Saturday night, you'd probably one stared at me. Everyone. not a bad piece of writing. are more impressionistic than your legs or your bike to rico group of socially aware artists find me at home cross-legged Seconds trickled by. The music Trashy and sensational in all literal, while others take a sin chet among them at will. will have their work on bill in front of the stereo blaring stopped and suddenly Dan was the good ways, Tommy, Vince, gle event or image from the The number of participat boards, bus shelters and in Belle and Sebastian through standing in front of me. He Mick and Nikki inject a degree text and run with that. Thus, ing galleries has grown from 15 malls to challenge the use of puffy headphones and scrib sipped a can of Kokanee as he of pathos into their taleand the mention of an omnibus on to 19 and a welcome addition public spaces for corporate bling frantically in spiral-bound sized me up. "No wuss music in emerge like tragic figures that a deserted street becomes a to the circuit is First Nations advertising. Not as subversive notebooks. And that was fine. my stereo. Steve, put in some tasted the heights of power brilliant claymation display of Creations (20 Water Street), and culture-jamming, but it There was nothing that a beer- 'Tallica." Steve obeyed and, as and the nadirs of defeat. It's a a surreal bus journey, and the where Random Indian Acts will could provoke some worth bong was going to teach me something harsh started blar rock and roll morality tale unforgettable closing segment, explore tradition and identity while thought. about the world that I couldn't ing from where Stephen beyond any previously seen, "The Spectacular Murder of within a modern context. Also That's only a taste, so for learn from The Boy With The Malkmus's dulcet tones had and that's good because the Mervyn," meticulously recre try to check in at The Butcher the full SWARM III menu, pick Arab Strap. been only moments before, book couldn't possibly sustain ates the end of a protracted Shop Gallery (194 East 26th up a list of venues or call the But now and again I'm Dan put his arm around my itself for 400 pages otherwise, saga in which a young man Avenue), a new space just off grunt gallery (875-9516) for forced to do things for my shoulders and shouted, "This and it certainly wouldn't have foolishly trusts the malevolent Main which opened in more info. • friends that I wouldn't other girl is fucking wicked! Get her ended up the page-turner that Maldoror (and relocates his February. It will host vaoue- wise and when my friend Janis something to drink, right?!" A hideous death from the Place andsilly, a collaborative instal called me up on a late- bottle was passed hand to hand 5 DiSCORDER radio zines. etc. by Bleek
'm writing this on a Compaq this zine plays off hetero fears, ranges from the ridiculous to 1200 that I recently spent giving the enemy more ammo the mundane and over to the 2 O O 2 I over $700 to repair, and than they can lift and destroy Liber-cerebral. A hodgepodge of with every keystroke I wonder ing coyness or self-loathing differing images and type that if it will be the last. Sometimes which keep these wonderful leave me with more questions Tuesdays at the Railway Club, it shuts down without reason folks from absolute personal than answers, but who am 1 to and other times it won't start acceptance. At times Faggo is talk? I'm a proponent of radio- 579 Dunsmuir @ Seymour up. My external hardware frighteningly audacious but art for god's sake. became "enemy combatants" down deep very courageous. After a year's absence, for a while upon upgrading to One of the few local zines QUEEN OF THE UNIVERSE is Windows XP. I hate computers from the '90s that still survives back—older and wiser—look ,but with all my responsibili today is Steve Richard's ing more like the zines from the ties—column writing, CD burn SOCKAMAGEE which reached mid '90s. Nobody told Nettie ing, illustration scanning and issue 14 this year. That's a long that zines are dead, so she con HUMAN HIGHLITEREEL plain ol' e-mailing—I can hard ride for a zine. Once again pPWiSls^ tinues in the perzine (personal I A VIRGIN IN HOLLYWOODl ly live without the little Loki. I we're invited into the editor's zine) format and it kicks some realize that I've lost perspective psyche and his retro-bizarre serious booty. There are plenty YOUR FUNERAL here. Only 1% of the world has fixations (umm.... this works for /OODY of perzines that just seem dull, a computer. The rest are com zines, dig?). Some of the ingre cliche and not particularly well IMYTIOJECT: BL|E| peting for food, fighting in dients listed on the front are thought-out. QOTU is fun, »OSHEN smart and intimately revealing. first round Onlyl% of the world has a computer. The Among the intimate news of rest are competing for food, fighting in some relationship woes and living quarters, Nettie has added war, or being exploited in some way or other, some good zine, music and and /can't live without this thing that show reviews plus an interview IN MEDIAS RES with the Austin, Texas band torments my soul. Knife in the Water. (Which |TH| BASEMEINf SWEETS| second round starts out with the question TteSKELETlmFOLK some war, or being exploited in "Actress Debra Pageant "Why does Austin, Texas seem some way or other, and / can't Profiled, Spike Milligan like such a cool place? Is it real live without this thing that tor Remembered, Meet the Black ly?" Where'd that come from ments my soul. Let's see if it Stools, Manowar!, The Rolling Nettie? I've spent a bad week in works this time. Stones—enough already! Austin. Sheesh.) A great and presented by ^ THE WIN* Hands-down the zine with [What we all want to tell them, much missed old skool-style IPEOPLEM^T the most local societal impact right?], Santos" and creative read. I'm gonna start stalking has to be FAGGO (a punk and writing, reviews and comics by Nettie now. JE FEMINISTS! queer zine) #3. Editor Kim Colin Upton fill the tank. I Hey zine dorks, you're Kinakin has really moved this expect to run across invited to be a guest on Radio indie project to incredible Sockamagee "when I'm 64." Free Press, the radio version. If heights, both in substance and On the pile of scratch-my- you have anything to say and style. This issue brings it all head publications sits LAST some cool music to expose, I back home with local writers CIGARETTE OF THE CENTURY. want you to contact me at sponsors include and content, offering encour This thick zine is a loaded dia
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6 September 2002 Li 11 youcomicrs anbod graphiv c art by Robin •••••••••III i, my name is Robin, and I every taboo so well. At times, pestuous women. on Showcase. The read porn comics. I mean I've found his plots confusing, Girls not only do great porn, goofy, funny, honest and H adult comics. I can't help but that's only because he never they're also the best at making ly don't require any large it. When I see a fine line here, a finishes them. My favourite sto me laugh. Molly Kiely's DIARY stretches of the imagination. soft brush stroke there, the ryline, which starts with SPIDER OF A DOMINATRIX is unswerv While flawed, the characters all sweat, the ink, 1 become a slob GARDEN and continues through ingly the first sex comic I rec share one thing in common—a bering pervert and I just have to HYDROPHIDIAN, mostly con ommend to the uninitiated. healthy appreciation of sex. have it. The comic. But you cerns court politics, intrigue, won't see me brown-bagging espionage and sex. Manning has it—I'll proudly display my adult also done a slew of short stories I NJ£V£R FAK£P comics because—you know in Cathaxis and Lumangerie, in what? Some of them are good. which you can see him grow as IT WITH you There are a couple of things an artist, refine his jagged edge AW I I look for in adult comics. First and slowly but surely capture N£V£R WIU./ off, they have to be well drawn. life and fantasy onto paper. And Sadly, there are a lot of adult it never ceases to be a turn-on. comics out there that only get Sometimes I find Ho Che published because of the con Anderson's art in the strangest tent and, consequently, you of places. Versatile in the really have to dig to find decent extreme, he's done kids' books, art. Secondly, there has to be a revolutionary biography comics plot. I'm sorry, but I'm a girl and and stories of young hoods in I require more from my porn. It love. What a lot of people don't can be a thinly-veiled plot; short, know is that one of his first unbelievable or confusing, but comics was / WANNA BE YOUR there has to be a reason for me DOG—a sex comic with heart. to get into it. Thirdly, and per Full of real people, real lives and haps most importantly, the one real women (and, boy, are we thing that grabs me every time talking REAL women—big is humour. There's got to be a women, strong women, domi fair amount of truth to the nating women and women who funny guy getting the girl just want it), this book is about because all my favourite porn power and the girls have it all. comics make me laugh. Dark and interesting, it forces With that in mind, then, you to enter their lives body and here are a few I guarantee will soul and ultimately question A Bitch in Heat shares a touching moment be a hit with the mister and the what the various relationships With a slew of short stories and With a touch of humour, she missus. found in life will make you do for some hands-on experience, she makes you laugh at the sheer Firstly, anything by Michael the thrill of sex. It's all about the teaches you how to make and humanity of their situations; Manning. He was my first. His mind fuck and it's hard to put bake yourself into the best dom- moreover, she makes you wish art style is as fluid, simple, deli down. The art oozes anger and inatrix a girl can be. How can you were participating instead cate and intricate as woodblock agony so raw it screams. It you not love a comic that dispels of just sitting there reading. And prints. You'll spend hours fol- faithfully delivers every slap, the beauty myth so firmly and the art, oh dear lord, the art. good-naturedly? Thick pencil strokes, deep lead, Ml- Orabhm Kiely's work has such a ball everything shaded just so. She sy sense of humour and is so doesn't have to go through the damn charming, you can't help effort of coming up with but like it. Girlie money shots, and punch line endings—her art role-reversing road trips, pinup alone is erotic enough. Hair darlings and bondage tips—her splayed on pillows, pendulous art style is a great little fantasy breasts begging to be touched— world, very cute and hardly her women are steamy like anorexic, Bunny Yeager with Sophia Lauren; earthy and ink. If that appeals, then I would warm, they are always the main highly recommend two of her characters. Her men differ from other books, That Kind of Girl, Kiely's pretty-boys with great and Tecopajane—a pair of sexy fashion sense; Casottos's stand desert love stories. A weird fas big and burly, young and taunt. cination for a Canadian girl, per Usually portrayed as clueless haps, but who knew trips to the tools, it's hard not to find them hardware store could be so fun? appealing. And in any case, the The last in porn comics 101 women always steal the show, is BITCH IN HEAT. Don't let the so 1 don't have to pay much • pw# H ^COKA • pwts crn^ ^m tem». title put you off—this is one attention to the men. With sweet-ass comic illustrated by women like Giovanna Casotto Helpful hints from Diary of a Domantrix Italian beauty Giovanna gracing the page, I keep my eyes Casotto, who, like Kiely, injects on the prize. lowing each design-heavy line, every sting, every line of her own likeness into brief erot Oh yes, my copy of Bitch In each dramatic and symmetrical remorse, every streak of tear. ic tales and slathers every damn Heat is well thumbed through. loop, trying to discern where it Dirty, cramped images of city page of this book with sexiness. I could tell you about so many all begins and ends, because and dungeon are divided by pure Her toes—hot, her ankles— more, but we've delved far Manning is very much about white, sexual bodies in motion, sexy, her calves—drool-induc enough in the "too much infor blurring the line—every line. creating a startling juxtaposi ing, her legs—slobber-rific. I mation about Robin" realm. Hermaphrodites, snake-people, tion that, if nothing else, suc covet her sleek, taut, curva People have always had sex and horsepeople—his characters ceeds in getting you hot. And, to ceous belly; the entirety of her people will always have sex. We flaunt their androgyny; every top it all off, Ho Che Anderson gorgeous divine body that she have to go beyond this anti-porn one is constrained with leather continues his characters from contorts and draws so well. comic taboo. We have to get and chains, molding themselves book to book, so keep reading Initially published in Italy, over it. 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on't be surprised if you A Bomb sneak out two cuts, ers, seeing as how these guys THE RETURN OF INTERNMENT: tionship in his attempt to create creating a discrete, sonic object? see the column take a the latter "Knife Fight, But probably catch shit from their ASHCROFT AND HIS LOVE OF Tonic, post-Schenkerian sound— It is his goal: and yet, as he D different turn over the Why?" has a cool, bouncy teachers and the clueless, this CAMPING following the sculptors Donald explains, he wishes to compose next few months—7"s haven't Casio rhythm track that punks could be the best form of The United States is edging clos judd, Carl Andre, and Robert goal-less sound, discrete from been getting much l-o-v-e things up for this normally revenge, and with many years er to a new style of fragmented Morris, the object of sound Dominant teleological composi lately, so yours truly has had sedate duo. Worth checking of punk rock yet to uncover, and partially secret internal could "be itself," outside of a tion. That he cannot create to get his fix elsewhere. Be out. (Global Symphonic, 7624 they can only get better. authoritarianism by creating a "goal" oriented composition— what he desires, and cannot cre prepared for a variety of stim Sussex Ave., Burnaby, BC V5J Electric Eye are the more new denizen: the "enemy com the final end-result of sound—a ate without desire, forms a ulants to be injected into 3V8). seasoned of the pair, with a batant." This Enemy is not found quick burst of sound, perhaps ceaseless paradox. After dis these lines, rock and roll to Vinyl Warning, a fresh pedigree that stretches seem on the battlefield but, like all "noise," ambiguous in "con cussing these problematics with save the soul. new label outta Portland, ingly quite far in the Portland paranoid signs of fascism and tent"—resembles and is indis Turner, I discovered that each Starting off with what 7"s Oregon, gives birth to two scene. What struck me right the rise of the police state, at tinct from the average product piece has a secret meaning and did come across the desk this hometown groups, THE off, though, was the vocal abil home and within. Unlike the of a VST-plug-in. If I had not a secret name that only Turner month, a local entry shared by DISKORDS and ELECTRIC EYE. ity of the Austin transplant, Japanese Internment Camps of read the accompanying theory, knows. A hidden Dominance? FROG EYES and JERK WITH A In the case of The Diskords, August. This guy shreds, and if World War II, this fascism oper which, interestingly enough, Whereas Cage proposed to "let BOMB gives me a reason to this clever use of wordplay "Muscle" is the first example of ates upon a micro-scale, a micro- neglects to mention Russolo, sound be itself," Turner careful take notice. Pretty interesting bears irony in that all four what this guy is capable of, I'm endo-colonisation for the select Cage, Varese, or Musique ly encrypts sound to be itself in cover art first of all; kinda members have just hit puber wanting to hear more. So I'm denizen; and like Stalin's Purges, Concrete, I would not have his own sonic image, which is a reminiscent of Robert ty. But don't let their age fool flipping over to the B-side and operates with secrecy and most known the difference: "I have secret gift to the Other. Williams' sexually metaphoric you: these kids breathe life getting a slice of tried and true ly beyond the public eye. composed pieces that do not Turner proposes that "Each imagery meeting Mark into punk by letting their Texas-style garage (the l. The suspect's Constitutional seem to be 'composed' out of a of my pieces are only meant to Ryden's knack for overempha influences—from the raspy Motards come to mind) with Rights in the US are stripped, hierarchical set of relationships exclusively contain the Tonic. sizing physical human fea Stiv Bators snarl of lead "Gonna Get My Way": huge, thereby allowing the suspect to even though they actually were The whole is something other tures. Whoa, I'm getting too vocalist Teddy Boy, to the less- chunky guitar and crashing be held without charge for any composed by interlocking hun than the sum of its parts." In this length of time. No evidence is dreds of anthropomorphic sam artsy now, somebody slap me. is-more rhythm section of drums all over the damn place. search for aimless purity, the necessary for this stripping of all ples at the macro-scale and I got confused at first spin as Nick and Dee Dee, and the Everything wraps up with telelogical returns in the Rights and Citizenship (a Federal then compressing the total to who I was listening to, cuz Ramones style guitar of Ryan "High Energy," a steady build attempt to create, through Judge was recently denied such composition down to size. the labels are mixed up, but (no last names please, that's up ignites this rocket and away painstaking process, that which evidence in the case of Yaser Regardless of the process, both Frog Eyes contribute a slightly not punk)—shape the songs is non-compositional, displacing it goes! Impressive debut from Esam Hamdi). the perceived content and Tom Waits-inspired dirge, without making them seem both bands and a label to the compositional teleology into traces of programmatic compo process and its exegesis, into that drunkenly plods along, too contrived. I could see watch, for sure. (Vinyl Warning, 2. The suspect, if even sition have been deliberately post-production where ail evi but doesn't get too slow, like "Heart Full Of Napalm" blast PO Box 2991, Portland, OR USA named or acknowledged, is held cropped from each specific dence of process is removed— it's about to fall flat. Jerk With ing from the study hall speak 97208-2991). • in prison, and subject to any means necessary to obtain infor audio object in the post-produc except for the theory explaining mation, i.e. torture. The Geneva tion phase." That hierarchy is the process of removing Convention no longer holds; and overdetermined in the moment process, non-process as a meta- no lawyer or judge can attain of theoretical exegesis, inadver process of sound-processing— confirmation of the suspect's tantly embraced through the and a secret, a lack in the existence within government secret of process, the creation exegesis, which gestures clutches. of form, and the crutch of theo towards the presence of a secret 3. The suspect may be ry, is not so much lost on Turner document explaining the secret indefinitetly interned at a new insofar as it forms the basis for names of each discrete object. invention of Att. Gen. John a degree zero art. For Turner, an This document exists. What Ashcroft: the Camp for Enemy exegesis naming the "obvious" does this mean? Combatants—if indeed the sus influences (as he puts it), i.e. the Why "remove" that which pect is not demurely executed Futurists and Musique Concrete, signifies, and leave only the through a secret military tri would delimit the process of trace? If one desires—for the bunal. "personification" that originates teleology is inescapable, as Cage each piece. To historicise the Throughout, the suspect found, silence unattainable—a sculptors draws attention to a receives neither lawyer, judge, movement beyond Schenkerian personal beyond the limits of nor jury. Prof. Jonathan Turley composition, then we edge clos normative history. For why go to of George Washington er to chaos, fractalising simu all the trouble of taking entire University, writing in the Los lacra. Heard without theoretical albums, zipping them down to Angeles Times ("Camps for explanation, these sounds are one-second samples, and stack Citizens: Ashcroft's Hellish indistinguishable from VST- ing them, when a VST plug-in Vision, Aug. 14,2002), says that plug-in burps—"glitches." And would do the same in less time? "Ashcroft's plan... would allow yet, they have been infused with The exegetical gesture of— him to order the indefinite so much significance, enough "regardless of"—process sur incarceration of US citizens and for me now to write sentences faces several possibilies. summarily strip them of their and paragraphs, composed and constitutional rights and access 1. Process becomes art, con articulated. to the courts by declaring them juring Cage; yet, "regardless;" Does not this sound lend enemy combatants... The pro 2. Process becomes Zen; itself to discourse, discourse posed camp plan should trigger work approaches degree zero art; becoming the sound of sound immediate congressional hear 3. Process becomes Calvinist: itself as itself? Is discourse a ings and reconsideration of work means personal salvation. deferring of the Dominant or Ashcroft's fitness for this impor That process remains hid its erotic doppelganger? Is the tant office," den save for the exegesis speaks discourse surrounding the DON'T MISS JEREMY TURNER a particular, secret relation small sonic object the sculp AND THE DISCREET OBJECTS between work/world, word/ tural "base," becoming art OF SOUND sound, to create a personified itself? Unless Turner simply [See
Who are you (names, instruments, hometowns, preferred mode of transport)? Adam: Bass and vocals. Grew up in Brighton, Ontario. 1 like driving. Shannon: Drums and vocals. Grew up in Brighton, Ontario. I like walking and taking trains. How many times has Mach Tiver been on tour and where have you Mach Tiver V* gone? We have toured five times, going pretty much everywhere in Discuss bands who have stickers in the urinal at Sneaky Dees in grandmothers and the people you most admire were all listening. Canada and about half the United States. We have played every Toronto. It can be said that there are no ridiculous questions. All questions province in Canada except Nova Scotia and played around 20-25 There are always stickers in the urinals at Sneaky Dees including are worthy of being answered. Their validity and relevance may states in the US. stickers of our good friends, Lungbutter. I was kind of thinking that fluctuate from person to person, though this fluctuation by no it is a little gross to be putting stickers in urinals, but I guess it is free means decreases their inherent value. Such a concept is taught to Tell us some interesting stories about playing small towns in advertising and they are dirty hippies (just kidding, maybe). school age children in an attempt to increase their confidence in Ontario. their ability to learn and also to value brainstorming as a method of Well we haven't played too many shows in small towns in Ontario Bubble about bands who bring you beyond. problem solving. However, over the years this approach falls by the except our own. A couple of good stories come to mind, though. The There are a couple bands that .we have been listening to for quite wayside as we reach adulthood and become too embarrassed of first one: we did a show for a band, the Dinks. After the show there awhile, and I don't think we will ever stop loving. Shotmaker is the our ignorance to ask questions or think that there is no need since were a couple of rowdy kids left over milling about. They were first, and the Mountain Goats is the second. There are a few bands we believe that we already know everything that we need to. (Or harmless enough, they just wanted to hang out for awhile. Anyway, though that have our attention right now. The Desaparecidos, maybe we just don't like to have fun anymore and take ourselves they left, we packed up all the gear and all of us headed out to our Andre's Last Chance, Neil Diamond and Pretty Girls Make Graves. way too seriously. That felt enough like a university lecture to qual house for some sleep. On the way we stopped at a variety store and ify as an important answer. • met up with the same rowdy kids. They liked the Dinks so much If you were an architect, what would you build for us? that they went back into the store and stole them a bunch of porn We would build the punk rock academy. A great complex that would Discography magazines. Threw the magazines into the Dinks' car and ran off include an all ages show space, recording studio and some rooms 1998-S/t 7" screaming down the street. for touring and recording bands. 1998-s/t demo cassette The second story: we played a show with our friends Three 1999-...Summer Ends Too Soon CD Penny Opera in Wooler. After the show we cleared out the hall and We noticed that there wasn't a keyboard player in your band. Any 2000-Thi's Paper Airplane Doesn't Fly So Well Anymore CD put up hockey nets and had a good ole fashioned floor hockey game particular reason? 2001 -s/t CD to close out the night. Three Penny Opera-10, Mach Tiver and We don't have any more siblings to join the band. 2001-Rock Fight of the Century split CD w/ Eighteen Hundred and Friends-8. Faked Their Own Death. How much work was it to get nearly 2000 plays on MP3.com? Coming Soon: Are there any punk or hardcore bars left in Toronto? It isn't much work at all. Most of the plays are from us sending out Split 7" w/the Creature After the Elmo closed down, there are a couple less noteworthy ones the link during the time when we are booking tours. Booking tours Split 7" w/five stars for failure left. The Qbar, where we have played a few shows and Planet is very hard, so maybe getting those plays is kind of hard work. New album. Kensington, where we have not. Ask yourself a ridiculous question and answer it as though your
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12 September 2002 We take turns breaking each other's hearts... An interview with Dream On Dreary
By Breezy Blast your ear up to the guitar and just play and play for weeks on end. Girl, boy, girl, boy, like a 1950s cocktail party. Dream On Dreary was a little golden treasure sticking out of The strings almost sound broken or out of tune when you plunk the sand. Each song they created was like a perfectly around on them. But then they form this very pretty melody. Amber: Roger's style is unorthodox! And almost sloppy. Almost formed cupcake, only there was an ant or a soiled DiSCORDER: Okay. Let's start with the dream-related questions. nickel in the middle, or even a prune. Each member "illegal." Almost sloppy but brilliant. Like you think for a second he Tell me about a weird dream each of you has had recently. can't play at all, and then all of a sudden.... brought integral parts together to form the sound of Roger: There was this brick building that I was in, and a staircase the band; seemingly "off" elements making a very going down. There was something saying the word "uncle" and right sound, crackling and low-humming like an old How did you form this band? there was a HUGE barrel of monkeys there, it was a wooden barrel Roger: Me and Amber started playing together. Jim had a shed. So record. There was a warm piano (the kind where you of monkeys, and I was looking down at myself and I was shitting can feel the yellowed keys being plonked in your we were like, let's play in the shed. I met Amber a long time ago and puking at the same time. I picked up these monkeys and they and I got her to sing for me. I was stoked. teeth), sometimes a nursery toy, sometimes fledgling were just huge and wooden. and "wrong" guitar, kick-bucket garbage pail drums Jim: I was drowning in a really deep lake with my friend Cam and he (as if the person playing them was about to fall off Didn't you first hear her sing a little Ani DiFranco? was laughing all the way down. I kept thinking I was hitting the bot the stool), and a voice that toppled the tight rope Amber: NOO! Goddamn, I never went that far down the road. tom but it was always just big fish. I woke up when I couldn't between country haven and church hymn. Seriously! This is getting published, brutha! No, it was Black breathe. Sabbath. Black Sabbath, "War Pig," man! I was like, come into this Sarah: I dreamt my work burned down with everyone inside, and it Roger Harris-guitar room and I will sing you "War Pig." was my fault. They all emerged from the rubble and I felt so awful Jim Risbey-electric piano, drums, guitar, vocals Roger: No, I had to almost force Amber to sing. She didn't want to. about it, and none of them even noticed it had happened. She was too shy. We locked ourselves in a room and then she sang Sarah Truman-bass, piano, drums Amber: I dreamt that monsters were eating my brain. Mr. Peanut Amber Webber-vocals for me. was eating my brains too. He was wearing his wretched top hat and Jim: The band started when Roger and Amber recorded some stuff monocle. They cut my head open from the top and they were eat in my shed. I liked it and added drums without them knowing. The ing my brain. liked it and we started playing.
Who would be your dream bill to play with, dead or alive? If all four of you were animals, which animal would you be, and Roger: Definitely Talking Heads! how does the animal you chose relate to your position in DOD? Roger: I would have to be one of those big tree sloths. Interesting... because you remind me very much of David Byrne. Your little idiosyncrasies, posture, vocal intonations. Totally Would you describe your guitar playing as sloth-like? David Byrne in True Stories when he's walking around in the mall. Roger: Yes! Jim: Right now at this point in time, probably Adult, Numbers and Amber: I don't even know what a sloth is. Kraftwerk. 1981 Kraftwerk that is. Roger: Sloths move very slowly. They are always late. That would Sarah: Probably Numbers, Peaches and Ladytron... but I'd also love be me for sure. I would be a tree sloth... a BABY tree sloth. to see The Smiths live. Amber: Willie Nelson. I love that guy! Or a Grandpa tree sloth. Jim: I would be an aye-aye. It doesn't relate to my position in the What Vancouver bands do you find dreamy? band at all. I just like them. Roger: The Organ. I think they're the best! Sarah: I would love to be an otter. They get to swim around all day Jim: The Organ, Radio Berlin, Jerk With A Bomb, Destroyer... too and they are so damn cute! I guess it sort of relates to my position many to mention! in DOD because I was always moving around to different instru Sarah: Jerk With A Bomb, Three Inches Of Blood, Operation ments. Makeout, Bakelite. Amber: 1 don't have an animal. But if I were a fruit, I would be an Amber: JWAB again, P:ano, Three Inches... Spreadeagle! apple. Apples are good times and wholesome... but sometimes they're mushy or sour and you get a bad one. Sometimes you get a Jim, your organ. The one with the keys... tell us about it. Jim: It's a Wurlitzer electric piano I got really cheap at an auction. I just like the sound of it. I think it's got an eerie sound, especially Dream On Dreary are posthumously releasing a 500-copies-only full since it's out of tune on three very important keys. length vinyl, available late September through the band (some- thing&somethinQ.com). through
Spreadeagle is: 8-BaII: I like Krokus, April Wine—you know, just everything, man. Ohhh. So you guys are a satanic band? Juan Bad-Mutha: Vocals. "Everything" is too broad a term for DiSCORDER readers, buddy. 8-Ball: Hallelujah! 8-Ball: Bass (named for the 8-Ball Jacket he wears, once the pride 8-BaII: I dunno. Everything, man. Like Coney Hatch, Pablo Cruise... Juan: We believe in the Lord. The Lord Of Beer. of some pawn shop owner; reduced to selling crack in the ghettos Juan: The rest of the band would probably say Mountain and 8-BaII: Jesus is Bored, man. of Mission). Foghat. Oak: Drums. 8-BaII: Know the Marshall Tucker Band? Like poor-man's Allman Bored of what? Donnie James Rio: Guitar. Brothers style music. 8-BaII: Being a spokesperson. Mattias Stabbz: Guitar. How has the summer been treating the members of Spreadeagle? Oh, I thought you were going to say "bored of Christian metal." Let me start by asking you when and where can a person expect a 8-Ball: Fuck, it's felt fantastic, brother. In fact, I still have another You guys big Stryper fans? Spreadeagle full-length? whole month to work on this tan. 8-BaII: I'm more of a Leviticus man, myself. 8-BaII: When does our parent's trust fund start? Juan: [Almost incoherently] Wanna know what our favorite movies Juan: When we're goddamn good and ready, that's when! are? Finish this lyric... "the cheaper the grapes are, the _ 8-Ball: I dunno, when does hockey start? October? Juan: I dunno, "the cheaper the grapes are?" This isn't the Smile of the Day or Cute Band Alert, pal. Are you 8-Ball: "The sweeter the taste of the wine." drunk? Juan: I'm not interested in when it's coming out, to be totally honest. 8-BaII: That's what happens when you put in your hours at the Right. Remember that one? 8-Ball: Yeah, to tell you the truth, man, I'm more interested in gain Legion. 8-Ball: Sure do. Great song. Kenny Rogers. ing subscriptions. Juan: Colt 45. Does it every time. What does that mean, do you think? What do those words mean Oh yeah, how many subscribers does Spreadeagle have currently? So you guys definitely like to party, we have established that... to you guys, in relation to Spreadeagle? Juan: Everybody who comes to our shows will be preferred sub 8-Ball: Any time, any place, brother. Juan: I dunno; I don't care. Sounds like bullshit. scribers. Juan: [Incomprehensible approval of last comment.] [With that, he slips in the kitchen, spills beer on something important and all hell breaks loose in the apartment again. After things settle Are there benefits to being a subscriber to Spreadeagle? Are you into any bands currently from Vancouver? What do you down, tenants are up and fixing for a sandwich of some kind. I con 8-Ball: Damn straight! think about the Vancouver music community? tinue the prodding of 8-Ball.] Juan: Actually, there's no benefits. Just a helluva lot of privileges. 8-Ball: There's a few good bands, but we don't really care, to tell 8-Ball: It's an 8-ball way of life, man. It means some of the best you the truth. We live in the bush so we don't have to deal with all things in life are FREE. And if they ain't FREE then they're pretty (Note: At this point, not two questions in, Juan's friends are already the bullshit. damn cheap and that's okay with me. starting to annoy me with constant interference and an apparent need to be included in the interview. I was reminded of little kids that What bullshit? What are Spreadeagles' plans in the short term? I'd imagine that crowd the background of a radical skateboard photo, waiting for 8-Ball: Everything, man. You know? playing with the Misfits last week would top a few bands' to-do their chance to be captured in the limelight. My fear was that the Juan: I like a handful. lists. tenants of our impromptu interview setting would awaken and the 8-BaII: To write dumber and dumber songs. You know, people com interview would turn to dust. Note to self for next interview: Take A handful of what? plain about the state of music here, but I think it can still get a muzzles, duct tape, shot gun. Competent and effective Leech dis Juan: Vancouver shit. [Laughter all around] whole lot dumber. posal.) Juan: A provincial as well as state-to-state tour, then a whole World So where are the rest of the members of Spreadeagle at 3am on a Rock-A-Thon tour. What does Rainbow have to offer in Spreadeagle's opinion? Wednesday night? 8-Ball: We're going to start our tour in the Fraser Valley and work 8-Ball: Red, orange, green, blue, brown, yellow.... 8-Ball: DJ Rio, Oak, Mattias Stabbz? Mattias Stabbz and Donnie our way west to Coquitlam, then Port Moody, then Whalley, maybe James Rio, being brothers, own their own drywallin' business, so New Westminster. That should be everything. That should cover I meant the band, Rainbow. What does it have to offer? they got a crew workin' night shift. They prefer to work in the dead an extensive tour. Juan: Dio. But I don't want to talk about other bands. They aren't of night. Juan: Campbell River. The Island, maybe. important. 8-BaII: That's right. Conquer everywhere. Today, Mission; tomor What about your drummer? What does she do when she's not in row, Comox. Well, with all due respect, you guys have a definite paying of rock Spreadeagle formation? homage within your music and you are definitely big music fans. 8-BaII: Oak? No one knows, to be honest. We don't know much Where can Spreadeagle be contacted about CD's, shows, tours and What bands do you like? about her, friend. Or what she does. the like? Juan: What's big music? You mean like Wilson Phillips? Meatloaf? Juan: She's a mysterious creature. With veins deeply rooted in the 8-BaII: www.spreadeag.com • The Fat Boys? I don't really care, man... I like Ann-Margaret. art of Satanism. 14 September 2002 Flying Folk Army By Brian Disagree
The Flying Folk Army creates one of the greatest musical sounds that We could pay somebody to go on TV for us and advance our ideas, time, and I heard that they still do that to a degree. So, obviously, anyone can dance to. They are relatively unknown beyond activist but you can't really play that game, either. if their politics are really like what they're about, one would hope circles, as they all lead full lives and use the part-time project as an that those people that are political would continue to live in a way extension of their hearts, playing mostly at protests for like-minded What about bands like Chumbawamba or Rage Against The that is conscious. Again, you don't have to live in a cardboard box folk. But that isn't to say people who aren't activists can't listen to Machine that have been on TV? Do you think that Chumbawamba but... them. The Flying Folk Army is more than a folk musical protest and thing where they have some kind of a message on their chest on Shawn: And being broke and not having anything doesn't really is more than just for the tight knit community called Activism. They MTV or some talk show makes a difference? make you necessarily righteous in any way, either. I suppose if Rage play political songs, but they do it in a way that isn't preachy—it's Megan: No, because it's that whole thing of co-optation absorbing Against The Machine and Chumbawamba are contributing some fun. One of their main goals is to hopefully add more future activists counter-culture. Rage Against The Machine is a really good exam thing or they're firing people up or they're pushing people or they're to the world or even just people to help create a more loving com ple of that. They have big shows; thousands of people come to their making them ask questions that they haven't before maybe that's munity in their town or city. The Flying Folk Army holds community shows; thousands of kids come to their shows. I think it's really their day's work done. next to their hearts and they'd like everyone to enjoy their music and great that they are doing what they are doing and I think Alison: It's the best you can do. hope you'll join them at their shows. Chumbawamba is an awesome band. But in terms of, like, does it have an overall impact? Not really, because this system of capital In regards to your song "Uncle Sam," could you explain who Uncle Your song "What Side Are You On?" reminds me of my physically ism has this amazing ability to sort of ingest that and use it for its Sam is and why you are against the war he creates? handicapped father who has been severely poor for the last 15 own ends. Shawn: Uncle Sam is the whole machine. That machine that all the years. He supports the BC Liberals agenda and he supports capi Alison: Chumbawamba was the flavor of the month for that one kids are raging against. That's who he is. talism. Why do you think he supports the very same people who'd song which was probably the least protest of any of their songs. Megan: Dwayne wrote that song in 1991 during the first Gulf War, like to see him living in the street? Megan: Now the cool thing about Rage Against The Machine and actually. He didn't think it was a political song, he just wrote it. He Alison: Well, I guess that's probably not what they sold to him. I Chumbawamba particularly [was] they were bands that made a lot was some 18-year-old kid and we're all old, as you can tell. We were think they wrap it up in a very attractive package [and] a lot of peo of money. I know from experience that they actually donate quite all 18 during the first Gulf War. For us as a group, it's one of our big ple go for that because they don't see what's underneath it and a lot of money to different political campaigns and stuff. Rage songs we do that we've done since the very beginning 'cause it's they don't see what effect it's going to have once the stuff is actu Against The Machine is really well known for supporting the about fighting the war machine. Really, the whole Uncle Sam con ally implemented. I think a lot of people have reacted that way Chiapas resistance movement and Chumbwamba, when they play cept—the cultural, economic, imperialist concept; Uncle Sam is since the Liberals came into power [and] are getting that kind of in Canada, give money to Anti-Racist Action and shit like that. So, everywhere. You go to any country and there is an influence there. reaction of like, "Oh, wait a minute. We didn't actually vote for all as far as it goes, if artists have the ability to obtain that kind of Alison: And it gets more and more relevant. Which is really too this stuff, we thought we were getting one thing and we were actu money and fame and if they use some of it for good ends, I think bad. I really wish that song would cease to be relevant. ally getting another thing." People are only getting fed one view all that's a really positive thing. So there's a positive contribution to the time. They don't realize there could even be another. There's that. When people come to see the Flying Folk Army live, what can they not another ideology out there unless they really look for it. Alison: If bands like that that are taking their proceeds and just expect? Megan: I think it's a deeper problem of, like, why do people contin donating them and not making a big media thing about it, then Megan: FUN! ue to support the systems that keep them down? Making six dol that's a very honest thing to do. That's the most honest thing you Alison: Noise. lars an hour, or taking away funding for ADHD kids in schools or can do, to take your profits and donate them quietly and not say, Shawn: They can expect to get my sweat on them, probably, if they whatever. It's just this internalized belief that nothing can ever "Oh look at us... we're being activists so we're giving our money to get too close. really change. this cause," and use it as another selling point. Alison: And they might come away with a few more political opin Alison: You have to give people something else. You can't just ions than they had before, hopefully. And, maybe they'll absorb resist; you have to say, "Well, here's what we could actually do." What about bands like Rage Against The Machine? Say they lived some of that. in million dollar mansions. Are they actually activists if they are Shawn: They'll meet some happy, funny, awesome people in the So do you think the media, corporations and capitalists are living the high life? crowds, too. We always get great people coming out to our shows. putting people under a mind control kind of thing 'cause the Alison: I don't think you want to go and live in a cardboard box just That's why they are so good, too. right-wing ideologies control pretty much all the mainstream to make a statement. You also don't want to be driving around in Alison: I don't think we would still be going and still be popular if media? limos and consuming mindlessly because then that would totally we just sat up there and hit people over the head. There's a lot of Shawn: Mind control? Well, TV is pretty much the greatest mind negate what you were singing about. really depressing stuff happening in the world and we're trying to control device ever devised, really. We've gotta get on TV; we could Megan: I don't know how the members of Rage Against The write about it, but we're also trying to make people have a good seriously control some minds. [Alison laughs] Well, nah, we would Machine or Chumbawamba live. I think that Chumbawamba prob time while they are questioning society. • n't do that well on TV. We're not TV friendly, that's the problem. ably still live collectively 'cause they always did for a really long
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hope to meet in the back hallway of a club or packing up
their stuff on-stage, there are still a few compliments that it
would behoove you not to pay them.
"Pretty good for a girl band," is one of them.
"Pretty good rock," would be a better way to put it, or,
perhaps, "Best friggin' rock 'n' roll I've heard since Robin
lander, Randy Rhodes ond Jimi Hendrix all jammed together
during my last mescaline high. "Because once the short-sight
ed look post the fact that the bond is fronted by two women,
they might see that the straight-ahead, high-octane rock they
play is not only on-pat with any of their male contempo
raries, it often surpasses them. And the fact thot it's not
performed by Ony Osboume, biting the heads off bats
because they look like chicken-wings through his bleary-eyed
PCP haze, or Hikki Sixx, coked to the gills and believing that
he really is Satan incarnate, makes it that much better,
because it means you might actually get to go up and talk
to the band without them trying to randomly murder you.
Just be sure to choose your compliments carefully.
Sarah: Well, actually, for the last six months I've been super- side of it at all. But I have to say that I think more about those DiSCORDER: Your music has definitely evolved over the past five obsessed with Led Zeppelin III. I really want to write a new song things now than I did at that time. Now that Riot Grrrl isn't this years, but it's been a gradual process as opposed to re-inventing that has an open-tuning on it because that's mostly what the gui actual, physical presence, like it was; now it's just this ideology yourselves from album to album. How do you see it? tar is on that album. But, yeah, I get a lot of my inspiration for gui that's evolved. I think more about a lot of those things now that Sarah Utter: I think that's accurate. I think every drummer helps a tar and singing and just performing from the classic rock era in the I'm older than 1 did when I was a teenager. They make more sense little bit with their own style, so there's always that. When Maggie late '70s. to me. and I started playing music together at first, we didn't really know each other very well. I think it's been a matter of getting to know You both hit your late teens in the early '90s, right at the point Are guys scared of you, Maggie? each other better over the years and getting more confident with when Olympia punk was at its zenith, Riot Grrrl was a force to be Maggie: Yes, they are, but I don't really know why! songwriting and also just being more confident to tell each other reckoned with and, for that matter, Maggie, your sister drummed Sarah: It's really weird. At shows—and I've noticed it more recent our ideas. for the preeminent Riot Grrrl band. What was that like? ly—boys will come up to me and ask me if it's okay if they talk to Maggie Vail: Also, I didn't play bass until our first practice, so it's Maggie: Insane. Maggie, or if I'd tell her that she played a good show because they're taken me awhile to learn my instrument. Sarah: Great! It was my favourite time of going to punk shows. It nervous to talk to her, and I always laugh. I think it's really funny, Sarah: But I think you were always good at it. It's not like you were was right when I started going to them, so I was brand new to the because you're really friendly and approachable, I think. just learning. You definitely had a natural flair. whole thing—this idea that you could pick an instrument and start Maggie: Well, I think, in the past, I've always been approached. Maggie: I've played guitar. I've taken guitar lessons and played a band, and you didn't have to be on MTV to be in a band. I didn't Sarah: I remember I always used to be like, "Everybody always drums. really know any that existed until I went to a show sort of by acci talks to you! Why am I so unapproachable?" and now, all of a sud dent when I was 16. That was such a great time because there were den, I'm like the band ambassador. When did you start playing instruments? so many venues at that point. They were mostly all-ages and there Maggie: I don't know what it is. Sarah: I played violin. I started when I was four and a half and I were so many shows and so many great bands coming through played 'til I was ten. Then I quit and I didn't play music until I was town; everybody was really excited and maybe it was because I It's because you have tattoos. 17—I got a guitar for my 17th birthday. was younger and I was more excited, but it just seemed like there Sarah: Yeah, you're just all tatted out. Maybe it's because I'm sin Maggie: I started playing cello and clarinet in school—4th grade, was so much energy in the air and so many people doing things— gle and you have a date? then I started taking guitar lessons when I was 14. My dad played putting out records and having shows at their house. Tons of house Maggie: What? Sixteen year-old boys can just sense that in the air? music and there was always a drumset in the living room and we parties with bands playing in the basement. Sarah: Yeah. had a practice room. My friend Brenda and I, we had a silly band Maggie: That still exists—there's a really strong community at called the Geoducks and we didn't even try to play our instruments. work. Still, it's not quite what it used to be. You've never been afraid to deliver 10 songs in only 20 minutes. We'd just bang on things and make weird songs about Smokey the Sarah: There was something about that time where it was break Do you feel that brevity is the source of wit or, alternately, that Cow Horse or weird library books that we saw. ing or brand new. It's always been happening, but at that time less is more? there was so much going on. Maggie: Yes, less is always more. Leave them wanting more. Bangs firmly embraces the heavier end of '70s rock, but sits com Maggie: Well, the possibilities were wide open, I think. Sarah: Yeah, never outstay your welcome. fortably in the present as well. What, if anything, do you think Sarah: I didn't really have anything to do with the Riot Grrrl scene, Maggie: The best bands should only play for 15 minutes. Somebody you owe to the past, musically? though. I didn't really connect with it at all, even though I was prob told me that when I was 17 and I believed it for so long. Then I was Sarah: Well, that's where I get a lot of my inspiration from, guitar- ably the prime age for something like that. 1 think it's because, like, "Wait a second—if Cheap Trick was playing, I'd want them to wise. All of my favourite guitar players—Tony lommi, Jimmy Page— growing up as a girl, my parents raised me with the idea that I could play for more than 15 minutes!" are from the '70s classic rock era. So when I started really getting do whatever I wanted. If I wanted to be an artist or a musician or Sarah: I think, for us, short and sweet is way better than making a into electric guitar when I was 19, that's what I was listening to whatever, that was fine. It wasn't about gender or anything like long, crazy concept album which sort of drags. Other people are mostly all the time. Now I'm sort of burned out on it. There's only that. 1 wasn't even really thinking about things like that at that great at it but, for us, I think it's short bursts of energy. so much of that music that you can listen to before you go crazy. I time; I was just thinking, "I want to see bands play; I want to go to Maggie: No filler. re-discover it every once in a while. a party; I want to have a really good time; I want to pick up an Maggie: Only so much Zep? t and learn it." I wasn't really involved with the political Skate or die?
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1) The Makers. Our tour mates, partners in crime, wrestling opponents, per sonal stylists, guitar techs and amp wranglers. A lot of people asked, "Why are YOU touring with THEM?" I guess it does seem like an odd match—us in our t- by Chris Eng shirts, jeans and unstylish haircuts opening for a bunch of fancy-boys with concept albums. I think it's the Eastern Washington/Western Washington connection or maybe our shared love of thrift stores and bouncy balls, I don't know—but it works. Makers/Bangs TLA! 2) Peter David Connelly. Our new drummer and a youngster at 22 years. Peter is a rock 'n' roll animal behind the drums, but he had never really left Washington State and didn't know how to operate a calling card. We had a lot to teach him. Skills he learned during our trip: how to use a motel phone, how to do laundry at a laundromat, how to close the van door, how to pump gas— next tour maybe we will teach him how to drive! 3)Jessica "Energy Drinks" Orr. Our roadie, with a penchant for gas station hot dogs and Red Bull. I think we decided at the end of the trip (after sampling 50 different kinds) that Rockstar is the best tasting of all the varieties of energy drink, despite its bad packaging and slogan ("Party Like A Rockstar"). Jessica is off hot dogs now after an especially evil one at a 7-11 in Denver made her violently ill (although it might have had something to do with the three Red Bulls she drank, followed by a fit of running around the motel at 3am, knock ing on people's doors and then running away with her accomplice, Jay, the Makers' drummer). 4) The Dodge Ram. Our van! Maggie and 1 have never officially owned a van before, though we've been playing together for five years. The van did an excellent job, with only one de-railment in the industrial wasteland of Hammond, Indiana... 5) Hammond, Indiana. After sitting forever in The Worst Traffic In America (a.k.a. Chicago rush hour), the van started to act a little funny—uh oh. Double uh oh because none of us are mechanically-inclined in the least. I usually like to say "check the fuel filter," 'cuz it sounds like I know what I'm doing, but this time something seemed to be wrong with the steering. By some twist of fate we pulled into the Cas-A-Roooo, located down the street from Universal Trucking, home of Bosko and the gang. Jessica used her amazing skill of blending in with the locals to befriend our savior, Bosko the Serbian. He stole the part we needed off of his boss's identical Dodge van and didn't charge us a penny. Crazy! If you're ever in Hammond, make sure to visit Bosko and send
6) Action Dan. We stayed in Brooklyn with Jessica's friend, Adam, who is hilari ous and has an impressive Homie collection. He also had something else on his wall that I became obsessed with—Action Dan. He was an action figure from the dollar store down the street, with a mysterious identity. The drawing of him on the package seemed to depict some sort ofAl-Qaeda fighter dressed in camo, but the actual doll looked like Ken dressed in a white skiing outfit. band. I was never the kind of person that liked to... I didn't hate it, Maggie: SKATE OR DIE! What? Adam generously donated Action Dan to us and he became the unoffi but I didn't like getting up in front of the class and doing some kind Sarah: Skate! Yeah, everyone in Olympia's obsessed with that cial fifth member of the tour gang, and though he lost a boot in Toledo (sorry, of presentation. I think it's just having confidence and knowing movie Dogtown and Z-Boys because it came to the film society. Dan) and one of his ski-poles somewhere else, I think he had a good time. Maggie: Tobi got a copy of it on DVD; we watched it the other night. that you can do something well. I feel comfortable playing guitar, I 7) Toledo, Ohio. We had a sort of depressing show, so we made up for it by Sarah: We went skateboarding afterward on our big old skate think. If I didn't have a guitar to hide behind, I'd feel a lot different. staying up all night jumping on the beds and going nuts. Somehow we got a boards from the '80s. I went home and I put on my old Vans and If I just had to be a singerrl'd be a lot more nervous. But I think my room that was two rooms—the sweet suite! We felt like royalty. Peter put on my stupid hat that I was trying to look like Tony Alva in and went actual singing ability has gotten better because of practicing. When we first started the band, I sang because Maggie didn't really want Maggie's slip and posed for some boudouir shots on the bed, smoking a ciga rette and reading Jessica's copy of Hollywood Wives—The New Generation. Maggie: It's all about big skateboards. It's not about new fangled to and there was nobody else. Jesse wasn't gonna sing, so... I didn't Jessica's obsession with this book peaked, I think, ii skateboards with little wheels. mind it, but I've never really thought of myself as a singer. I've n Cleveland when I woke up at 7am to find her reading and she shouted out, Sarah: Big wheels and little pants, not big pants and little wheels. always just thought of myself as a guitar-player; but the more I've isa's back together with done it over the years it's gotten a lot better—not that I'm born Greg!" After she finished HWTNC, she bought sc •e book about a cat that was a detective in Las Vegas. You still got your fat decks? with some great talent for singing. I'll always be a punk singer; I'll Maggie: Yeah. never be one of the world's great trained vocalists, but I've learned 8) The Squeeze Breeze. Our form of air-conditioning. Our van's A/C didn't Sarah: Yeah. a few things from friends that are actually good singers about seem to really work—good thing I had planned ahead and bought the best doing little warm-ups before you sing live and stuff. Those've product ever invented for summertime touring: The Squeeze Breeze. Besides Are you good? helped a lot. the catchy name, it comes with a carrying strap so you can wear it around Sarah: I get pretty radical. your neck, like if you're at an art museum or a demolition derby and you need Maggie: I tried for years to learn how to ollie in this one church Most of your songs, even the upbeat ones, are tinged with a bit a spritz. The Squeeze Breeze is basically a spray bottle with a motorized fan parking lot and i could never do it. of venom, lyrically. Is that intentional? attached to it, but you have to make sure you don't start to nod off when Sarah: I just cruise around. It's more of a mode of transportation. Sarah: I think it must just be how I am. you're operating it or else your lips will get caught in the blades. Maggie: Going fast is really fun, but the older I get, the more scared Maggie: Yeah. I don't really write when I'm happy. I write when I'm 9) Wrestling Teams. The Makers are obsessed with developing their own I get. There's this hill in Olympia and when I was younger we would upset. wrestling team. They all have their own wrestling alter-egos: Michael, singer- start at the top and just coast down to downtown, then you had to Sarah: It's hard to write when you're feeling really good about "Baby Lemonade"; Donny, bass-"Samsonite";Jay, drums-"Squatch"; Tim, gui- hang this really sharp corner by the park, but that sort of stuff's everything. It's much easier to write when you have something you tar-"Big Buffet"; Kyle, roadie-"Honeybucket"; Jamie, guitar-"The Controller" too dangerous for me now, so I just cruise around the neighbour want to vent. (he's the manager). We decided they needed some competition, and hood late at night and pretend I'm living in 1985. Maggie: Right. And I'm not necessarily very good at talking to peo established our own group. Introducing: "The Noggin" (Maggie), "Garden Sin- ple about stuff. Sation" (Peter), "Bruce, the Great Dame" (Jessica, the manager) and "The Ice Maggie, your vocal presence has definitely increased since Tiger Sarah: Exactly! That's what I was thinking. Machine" (me, although I think I'm better suited to choreography or costume Beat. Are you feeling more confident now? Maggie: I totally hate confrontation—both Sarah and I do—and I design). We haven't had a rumble (yet), but my money's on Baby Lemonade Maggie: Yes. Feeling much more confident about everything since don't like arguing with people. I just walk away. getting his ass kicked by the Noggin, or Squatch handing out a pummeling to Tiger Beat. Voice, bass-playing, playing live, going on tour—all that Sarah: Soon we'll be writing songs to each other. "Stop chewing Garden Sin-Sation, or the Controller and Bruce getting involved with folding kind of stuff. On the last tour, I was having a lot of anxiety about with your mouth ooooopennnnnn!" Just kidding. You don't do that. travelling, but, for some reason, I wasn't anxious playing shows. Maggie: Yeah. Okay. [Whispering] Sarah's a total jerk. 10) Trivia Wizards. No one cares that I scored a billion points on Trivia Whiz in Everything else about tour was freaking me out, but every time I Sarah: But yeah, I think that's why all the songs are like that. Lincoln, Nebraska. I think Michael even told me I was extra boring if I was played I was totally fine. Because I'm totally non-confrontational in my day-to-day life. good at trivia—/ disagree! Lincoln also involved Jessica taking off her bra to Sarah: It's so weird; I get so stressed out and nervous when we get Doing it and singing it in a song is much easier because I definitely throw at the Makers during their set, me and Jessica drinking Jdgermeister to the club and are setting up equipment or sound-checking, but as have a different feeling of who I am when I'm playing than I do out of a tiny metal boot to celebrate the Germans' loss in the World Cup, eat soon as we start playing, as long as there's no technical difficul when I'm at home or walking down the street or at work. It just ing really bad sushi and laying on the sidewalk after the show, blasting world ties, I feel totally relaxed and comfortable. It's really strange. 1 feels like a different person; you can be whatever kind of person music out of the boombox Peter had picked up at a thrift store. After the show, never thought that I would feel like that before I started being in a you want to be. • I sat down in a grassy field by the motel and got chiggers! Gotta love tour. •
17 DiSCORDER History Lesson: SHiNDiG! By Michael Schwandt Photos by Dan Siney
What do Three Inches of Blood and the Salteens have in common? Not a lot, you might suggest, and you might be right. But both Vancouver bands share the distinction of having won SHiNDiG!, CiTR's annual battle of the bands. For about 20 years (it's a SHiNDiG! fact that NOBODY knows the inaugural year exactly), local musicians have spent the cold autumn months fighting it out to be SHiNDiG! champions. The Railway Club is the host venue for the weekly skirmishes, which run from September until December. Bands are selected from a pool of entries submitted to CiTR. It's a long and difficult process to choose the best of the best entries, and to make sure that a variety of musical styles are includ ed. Once the 27 competitors are chosen, 3 bands play each week in an opening round. The winners of these preliminary rounds then compete in semifinals, from which SHiNDiGI's finalists are selected. Last year, on a cold misty night, the finals came down to the six-piece heavy metal juggernaut known as Three Inches of Blood, young punk rockers My Buddy Dave, and unclassifiable one-man band Motorcycle Man. Each of the wildly different bands brought impressive musicianship to the stage, but Three Inches of Blood had the presence and charisma to win over the crowd and judges alike. They had scream-alongs about slaying ores, one of their singers had his mic attached to a gigantic sword, and frankly the other finalists could only hope to fight for second place. By their last SHiNDiG! show, Three Inches of Blood had gained a reputation as a band—perhaps THE band—to see live in Vancouver, and many fans who had been won over by the Three Inches live show eagerly waited for the release of the band's first full-length CD. Battlecry Under a Winter Sun, recorded in part with studio time won in SHiNDiG!, ended up going to #1 on the CiTR charts. As well as the exposure to a new audience, SHiNDiG! offers large prizes of rehearsal and recording time at Vancouver studios (this year, Mushroom, the Hive, Backline, Bean Brothers, CBC Radio 3, Fireball Productions, and Video In donated prizes), as well as air- time on CBC's Radiosonic (with Grant Lawrence!) and a spot on just- concerts.com. And, every band that plays at SHiNDiG! is invited to play on CiTR's local music institution Thunderbird Radio Hell. Judges are volunteers from CiTR/DiSCORDER, and they are extremely qualified, the qualification being enthusiasm to watch bands that often come as complete unknowns. At a given SHiNDiG! show, five different judges busily scribble notes and try to rank the evening's bands. It's a tough gig. Compensated only with free beer for their efforts, and often dealing with the wrath of eliminated bands, tireless SHiNDiG! judges are valued by the contest's orga nizers. (Contact [email protected] for information on this fun oppor tunity.) Any history of SHiNDiG! would be shamefully incomplete with out a mention of Jokes For Beer. At every show, the intermission between the second and third band is a chance to win beer by sub jecting your best jokes to the scrutiny of the cruel, cruel SHiNDiG! Last Year's Winners: Three Inches of Blood crowd. Get on stage, spit out the knee-slapper you overheard on the bus ride to the venue, and if the crowd is pleased, you win. Jokes For Beer. It's like gladiatorial combat for masochistic extroverts, except the spectators show less mercy. Last year a Stephen Hawking impression got a prize, so check your most classy witti cisms at the door. Fans of local music have been flocking to SHiNDiG! for years, and for good reason. Many Vancouver favourites played their very earliest shows at the event, such as past winners like Clover Honey, Readymade, the Cinch and the Radio. The SHiNDiG! stage has also been given a beating over the years by a long list of bands including The Nasty On, Witness Protection Program, Trail vs. Russia, Operation Makeout, the Organ and the Riff Randells. This year, the first round starts on September 10, and continues every Tuesday until December 10. All shows are at the Railway Club, and the first band goes on at 9:00. • 18 September 2002 ii What s Right ft Two new comic collections get freaky on Canada Customs by Chris Eng
"You know, during the last trial, Little Sister's needed to get the to keep from society, showcasing various critiques of their policies like, "Sweet! I don't have to sell it or anything! It's done." But, I books that were confiscated for the defense, but every time they'd and celebrating sexuality in general. guess, you know, they really believe in the cause; and they really import them, they'd get busted. So, you know what they did? They "Well, the way it came about is there are a lot of people who took it on, because they had to get stuff really cheap and they man went to Celia Duthie. She got all of them, no problem." wanted to submit sex stories, right?" Fisher takes a deep breath, aged to find the cheap stuff, but they made the book look excel Robin Fisher is leaning over a plate of European food wearing a fires a bite of schnitzel into her mouth and keeps going. "And I don't lent. Like it's a beautiful, beautiful book, i could never ask for a t-shirt that bears a picture of her namesake, the on-again/off-again have a problem with that. I, in fact, enjoy that, but I knew that a lot better book, seriously." sidekick of Batman. This alone should be proof enough of her devo of other people would have a conflict of interest because of the con Fisher lays her cutlery down on her plate, a satisfied look on tion to the comic world for most people but, for the non-believers, tent, so I wanted the artists to have the option of doing a more G- her face. Somewhere along the line, in-between excited bursts of the fact that she more-or-less single-handedly assembled a book- rated story. That's why I decided to do two books. So, What's talking, she managed to consume all the food in front of her with size collection of comics (soon to be two) as a fundraiser for the Wrong? basically pokes fun at customs, embodies what Canada out paying it any mind. Still, that's how it is for her: food is food, Little Sister's Bookstore's fight against censorship should allay any Customs censors, and pokes fun at censors as well. What Right? is but comics are the air she breathes. She thinks of them in the morn- outstanding concerns. just specific stories of censorship—whether it's Canada Customs ing and late ii o the night, and she just wishes that people would The well-documented trouble between Little Sister's and censorship or just censorship in general—because I really feel this treat them wvit h a little more respect and tolerance—and she hopes Canada Customs started years ago and culminated in 2000 with is a topic that most people should know about, given the opportu her book w II help foster that in the world at large as well as aid a the ruling that Customs had not only unreasonably delayed and held nity. The next book is G-rated because I want little old ladies to worthy cause. much of Little Sister's imported merchandise, but also that they did read it; I want 8 year-old boys to read it; I want everybody to read "i hope it educates. I think that a lot of people don't know it through "systematic targeting" of materials bound for their store. it and not get hung up on anything in it. You know what I mean? I what's going on. It's just appalling to think that someone's telling It turned out, however, to be a hollow victory. don't want anything in that book to stop people looking at it." you what to read. My parents don't tell me what to read, so why is In February of next year, they will be forced to go through all of So, she set out, contacting all the artists she's met over the some government official doing it? I'm an adult—1 can read what it all over again when they take Customs back to the docket, this years and putting the call out on internet message-boards and ever I want. So, I hope with this book people start becoming more time over two collections of gay comics, Meatmen #18 and #24. through mass emails. And slowly the responses began to trickle in; aware and angry enough that they want to do something. I also While each of the issues is partially a collection of erotica for the a trickle which turned into a deluge which burst into a flood. "The hope it raises money because trials are expensive and Little Sister's gay community, Meatmen is also about half-filled with cartoonish book was going to be 90 pages; we got 200 pages and we jumped it doesn't have that dough just lying around. This is something I real commentaries on the gay community as a whole. The offending up to 160, so I still had to cut 40 pages." Startled by the response, ly think that Canada needs to address. It's something that's been comics were, however, special S&M issues and no amount of witty she went so far as to attach a warning to the solicitation for What kept under wraps and it's not the way the law should be. Finally observations or arguing for artistic expression were getting those Right? "I said that on the press release: 'We have 157 pages to fill— somebody's doing something about it and I'm glad that I'm helping. past customs. Not even in this post-lawsuit Canada, and apparent the exact amount. So, please don't be offended if you get cut.'" I've wanted to help for a long time." • ly not even when your government agency was brought to task on And at some point—one that Fisher isn't 100% sure the origins a similar charge only two years previous. Perhaps especially not of—Arsenal Pulp Press selflessly signed on as the publisher. (What's Wrong? is available now from Arsenal Pulp Press. What then. "Actually, I didn't even go to Arsenal. They came to me, which is Right? will be released in November. Robin Fisher's comic-oriented "Basically, what happened was when they won the trial, Canada really surprising. 1 guess they'd been talking to people at Little radio show, The Onomatopoeia Show, airs on CiTR every Thursday Sister's. You know, I honestly don't know how it happened, but all from 2-3pm. Her column, Kill Your Boyfriend, can be found elsewhere obscene." Fisher is trying to eat, but she's animated at the same of a sudden Mark was like, "Arsenal's gonna publish it," and I was in this magazine.) time and while it makes for an interesting show, not much of the food is going in her mouth. Still, she doesn't really seem to notice. "Before, the supplier or the seller or the [purchaser] had to prove that what they were buying wasn't obscene; now customs has to prove that it is. They confiscated Meatmen and had 30 days to return them and explain why they're obscene and they never did. They kept them for months and months, and Little Sister's did everything the proper way; did the appeals the right way, and noth f y v ing. So, they were just,'You know what? You're breaking the law. The Supreme Court of Canada says you have to do this and you're not doing it. It's illegal.' And they're taking them back to court and hoping that when people start dictating what we read—because obviously they feel it's necessary, whether what's getting put in is obscene or not—it should be somebody who takes the time and the effort to read it, to put it in context, to know what they're talking about; it should be an educated mind. It shouldn't be some over worked customs guy flipping through it, seeing anal penetration, getting all freaked-out about it and saying, 'This is offensive.'" Which is about the point when Fisher hooked up with Little Sister's. Having worked at a come store for a number of years, she was more than a little familiar with Canada Customs' various "pro cedures" they would implement when dealing with the adult comics—holding on to things for months without notifying anyone, * not giving any reasons for the delays, and bureaucratic runarounds revolving around works that often weren't obscene in any qualifi- able sense. "So, when I read about Little Sister's going back to court with the two Meatmen anthologies, I was like, 'Well, i should go over and meet them and talk to them about this, because I have experi ence and this is my cause.' So, I went and met Mark McDonald- he's the book-buyer at Little Sister's. He was getting into comics and we really hit it off and I just thought, 'Well, why don't we do a comic book to raise money for this?' And then I said, 'You know,'— famous last words—'I have a really big mouth, so I'm pretty sure I can get the word out there and get people interested enough to do something.'" That something has turned into a pair of books that have logged • her countless hours on the phone—and countless hours of long-dis tance bills—putting together a collection of art that at once show cases human sexuality and simultaneously takes apart the censors that try and keep the art from us. What's Wrong?, the first of the two books, is a collection of strips that shares much in common with the Meatmen collections. Filled with frankly honest, but often X-rated, stories and commentaries, it peers into the sexual side of the debate, flaunting the exact things that the border-guards want
19 DiSCORDER to the democracy that charac so far there's been no mention album, supporting the vibe terized the work of the semi of riding off into the sunset. thrown forth by the CD cover, nal alt-rock band, At Sixes and Douglas Harrison which displays a blue fin- Sevens is a megalomaniacal combed monster in the process project. In J-Lo's own words, CAROLYN MARK AND HER of accosting a bikini-clad MM dcr* "I wrote the songs, played the ROOMMATES blonde. i*eviewi/' instruments, schlepped the Terrible Hostess As implied by the title, gear and pressed the record (Mint) Instrumentais of Terror! avoids recorded media button ALL BY MYSELF!" This would be Mint's latest vari the use, or over-use, of the Anticipating this album, I won ation on the neo-country human voice, a daring decision FRANK BLACK AND THE tie rhyme. It's a fine collection charts. Which would be good dered how well Jason would be theme. Carolyn Mark often that spontaneously eliminates CATHOLICS of "true-school" songs, and for her but sad for me. 'Cause I able to effectively replicate a sounds like Natalie Merchant, 90% of potential listeners. Black Letter Days worthy of a spin at any house don't want to share. four-piece rock sound solo. but her Roommates take her There are several fleeting FRANK BLACK AND THE party. For those who are fans KatSiddle Would his playing be weaker much further toward twang moments on the album when CATHOLICS of the Herbaliser, Nightmares on any particular instrument? than the 10,000 Maniacs ever the Metalunas speak up, and Devil's Workshop on Wax, or DJ Food, 1 suppose DANKOJONES Would the songs sound sterile, went (apparently they actually on "Go-Go Gremlin," vocals do (Sonic Unyon) all this talk is pointless Born a Lion the way solitary, studio-based are her roommates). Some bar take the forefront. It was upon The Pixies influenced almost because you have the album (Universal) efforts sometimes do? The room swing, some plaintive hearing this playfully annoying every meritable guitar-rock anyways. For anyone who hasn't heard answer is a decisive no. moments, and some full-on hootenanny that I praised the band that came in their Danko Jones yet, imagine Samuel Kim There is not a single dud in hoe down as well. Metalunas for their vocal wake—and never got the cred what it would sound like if this collection of beautiful, Unfortunately, this CD just brevity. it they deserved. Why? EMM GRYNER Muddy Waters had grown up catchy, quality rock tunes. doesn't go down as smoothly Douglas Harrison Because the Pixies had the Asianblue listening to Led Zeppelin. That Jason's guitar work is incredi as the inevitable comparison, integrity to not buy into the (Dead Daisy) might be simplifying matters a ble, alternating between light being Neko Case's recordings, NO USE FOR A NAME system of marketed melodra Despite my usual disgust for great deal, but it gives you the ning-fast sharpness and fuzzy, also on Mint Records. The song Hard Rock Bottom ma that fuels pop music. the Top 40, I still really like general idea. I've always liked bendy, distorted deliriousness structures on Terrible Hostess (Fat Wreck) Thus, although every serious pop music. It's happy dammit. Danko Jones' attitude of just (esp. "Casserole" and "I'm a are a little awkward, and I admit that when I first guitar guy I've ever talked to So, it's a great thing to find a playing good old hard blues Carolyn is not always dead on. I Shit"). His vocals have also picked up the CD, I was a little knows and reveres them, their good indie pop album. At least rock for fun and not being a have heard that Carolyn is progressed to the next level skeptical and nervous. Yes, genius is lost on the A&B until everyone else discovers it pretentious preachy politicized excellent live, so I'm assuming (falsetto on "Roswell to they are punk rock and some Sound-engorged masses. too. bastard like so many rock that she has fallen victim to the Jerulsalem" and "Circles"). argue that all punk sounds the Although Frank Black's work Ontario singer-songwriter stars become. Born a Lion car usual poor translation to plas Jason's lyrics remain at the same. That is exactly what 1 with his Catholics doesn't Emm Gryner has updated her ries on this tradition of simple tic pitfall. 1 hope Mint doesn't same high calibre we had was afraid of. Don't get me quite come up to the level of self with this latest offering of yet powerfully hooked songs come looking for me. I did come to expect from his work wrong, I love punk rock a lot. I intensity of his former group, piano-driven pop. Spiked with honed to a razor sharpness enjoy the Roommates. They with Sebadoh, demanding just don't want every band to he's still made consistently a handful of new sounds, during live performances. Like are a solid band. attention and thought on the sound like Blink 182. I don't good records in keeping with Asianblue is polished and sum Danko's previous work, most Michael part of the listener, while still want to bore you so we will just the spirit that has worked for mer-sweet. The album kicks of these songs are related to being pretty to listen to. At stick to talking about this CD. him all along. Even on his off with strong, sparkly num sex and love, especially lost Sixes and Sevens is an alt-rock MEKONS Honestly, I can't tell one more mournful tracks— bers that are radio-friendly love, and they all have that Ooohl song from another as they almost invariably the best on yet original-sounding. "Young typical Danko feel of tightly tour de force. Until Sebadoh (Quarterstick) segue into each other. It sounds these albums—there's an Rebel" best represents written songs with no excess reawakens ("It's not dead, just Barry Zito is 23, 6'4" and like the whole album consists inflection of sarcasm that pre Gryner's growth as an artist in fat on them, slick yet retaining sleeping"), I think we all have 205lbs. He's a lefty. He's good. of the same four chords. I can vents them from spilling over the last two years: rhythmical a raw feeling. a lot to look forward to from into feeble, my-scene-is-dead- Jason. Although I still think he But I'd bet my "Work All Week" only see this CD as background ly layered and laced with Christa Min once wrote and-I'm-selling-my-own-sor- should have gone with the "J- 7" that he doesn't know who moshing music, nothing more. snaky computer sound effects, about rock needing more row sentimentality—as was Lo" title. the Mekons are. He says he The kids aren't going to care this song strays furthest from hard-ons to liven things up a my concern in picking these Susy Webb likes punk rock. His favourite about how awful it is 'cause the artist's formally acoustic little and get it back into the up. Some elements here may punk rock band is NOFX. He's they are too busy beating each stylings. Gryner's glittering gutter. Danko Jones delivers seem a bit roots rock band CORB LUND BAND also into Zen, man. Barry Zito is other up. Besides, kids will pop sensibility starts to blur on this idea, although, like his wagon at this point, but all-in- Five Dollar Bill a fucking hippie. But do you mosh to anything these days. by the seventh track, howev older work, the songs on Born all these are excellent, and a (Stony Plain Recording know what happens when the Shila er, as the solid songwriting of a Lion are more suggestive talented mix-tapist could cre Company) ladies see him? They go, "Ooohl the initial tracks fades. rather than explicit, leaving a ate something even better Just because you like the Barry Zito!" THE NOTES FROM certain amount up to the lis taking the best of them. They The pace of the album Smalls, doesn't mean youire Christa Min UNDERGROUND slows, thankfully, in its last tener's imagination. Danko were released together on going to like the Corb Lund s/t third, with songs that are always manages to keep August 20; if you only want Band, which is fronted by the METALUNAS (Stutter) more akin to Gryner's earlier things sleazy enough to keep one, get Black Letter Days: it now defunct Smalls' bassist, Instrumentais of Terror! With the Cinch's EP and releases. Here, her lyrics are a his songs appealing without has more tracks and better Corb Lund. (RIP) CitySick by the Nasty On under particular weak point, her tal being technically obscene, a quality once you get past the His new album Five Dollar Because there are so few well- the Stutter label's young belt, ent being more musical than combination pretty much first song. Bill is pure country music, known surf rock outfits in my they deliver yet another excel literary. They tend to weaken guaranteed to sell CDs in a Donovan without even a tip of the hat world, it is by default that I lent debut in the form of the rather than bolster her sim sex-crazed yet sex-fearful to the punkrockmetal that compare these reverb-sopping Notes From Underground. I'm pler, acoustic songs, especial society like the one below us. As his first major label release, flowed through his massive creeps to Shadowy Men on a hearing many different bands DSP ly in "Green Goodnight." Born a Lion has Danko poised fingers for the past decade. Shadowy Planet. I trust that here and it's all good. "Mes In the Red However, the delicate, ethere at the brink of major stardom With songs like "Time to they won't be offended by my Amis" is Black Francis and Lou (Ninja Tune) al "Christopher," written to in the USA. Let's just hope he Switch to Whiskey," "Roughest unimaginative comparison, Reed anally raping each other Ninja Tune have done it right commemorate astronaut Chris keeps things fun, crude and Neck Around" and "Daughter considering they cover the (and neither of them minding), with Dynamic Syncopation Hadfield's first free-float in lewd when that happens. Don't You Marry No Guitar Shadowy Men song, "Plastics "1 Saw Her First" is the best Productions' new release and space, is a genuinely pleasing Picker," Lund wrangles up a for 500, Igor," without even song Steve Kilbey from the it's worthy to be brought to surprise. Lyrically, this is the Vampyra Draculea new posse of listeners who mildly interrupting the vibe of Church never wrote the attention of those who are best song on the album (per probably appreciate Johnny their full-length album, and "Waiting for the Light'"s enjoying Blackalicious' new haps because it's not about JASON LOEWENSTEIN Cash and Merle Haggard more Instrumentais of Terror! By the falsetto-sweet sighing with a album from several months love), and the gloss that shim At Sixes and Sevens mers over the first tracks than Maynard from Tool. But way, the word "terror" is not to Mellotron tastefully in the ago. UK producers, Johnny (Sub Pop) lingers on this one as well. It's what seems like a 180 degree be taken literally in this con background is just off-kilter Cuba and the Loop Professor Everyone has a favorite gratifying to see that Gryner artistic turn is a mere shifting text; most of the songs on the enough to make ya get all bring together a potent com Sebadoh member, in the same can still handle the slow songs, of focus for Lund, who grew up album are less frightening than weepy and stuff. I bet these bination of skill-laden MCs way that everyone liked a dif especially after 2000's Girl in Lethbridge, Alberta and fol '70s B-horror movies, though I four gentlemen don't own the along with funky musical ferent cast member from Jem, Versions, a fairly painful cover lowed in the footsteps of his will admit that the intro riff to same record in their respective arrangements with great suc the girl-rock cartoon from the album that transformed the father and became a rodeo "Death Comes at Midnight" collections, yet they do agree cess. From the MC side of '80s. 1 always loved Stormer, likes of Blur and Thrush cowboy. In 1981, when he was sounds like something Slayer on when to rawk, and when to things, Phi-Life Cypher, the nice Misfit who was mis Hermit into slow-dragging, 15, the steer he was riding might use to evoke a feeling of not. After seeing them live a Eve.On and Dell Wells all treated by her nasty band- mock-Tori Amos piano syrup. bucked him off and stomped introspective hatred. few times, it's a pleasure to make important contribu mates. In the same way, I on his head. Shortly there Fortunately or unfortunately, hear them use the fun little tions, and it helps that this It's great to find a good always appreciated the under after, he discovered rock and depending on your taste, Mark goodies a studio has to offer. album could have been worth indie pop album. Unfortun dog Jason Loewenstein, whom roll, and left his country roots Brodie, the Metalunas' gui The organ is a great touch, listening to if it was an instru ately, if this summer's trend of I felt never got the props he in the dust. Now, with help tarist and prime songwriter, without being too overbearing. mental album. Having said piano-girl pop (Sarah Slean, deserved for picking up the from Nickelback drummer, quickly scooby doodles across The only criticism is the har this, I found Chill Rob G's Vanessa Carlton) continues, creative slack left by Lou Ryan Vikedal, and a herd of his fretboard to a much happier monica on "Nela"... but 1 never "Bullshit" track to be verging this album might just catapult Barlow on the last few other professional musicians, emotional place, where he liked the song "Cursed Female" on rant rather than clever bat- Gryner into the mainstream Sebadoh albums. In contrast Lund is back in the saddle, and remains for the bulk of the anyway. So the next time ya 20 September 2002 hear some over-hip scenester May by Total Science, is the VARIOUS ARTISTS in their promotions boasted Still, better than that, the this Brooklyn trio is establish complainin' that's there's no pattern and the cure for sum Location Is Everything Vol. 1 them as the new Nirvana and rest of their aptly-titled EP, ing themselves as the flag- musical community in this mer dementia. With its hyena (Jade Tree) compared them to the Teaser, is great, too. Sure, bearers and trash icons of the stinkin' burg, throw the entire hook and elephantine bassline For those who have been fol Beatles; due to such build-up I they're aiming for a shot in the reborn New York City rock Stutter records catalogue their (faintly reminiscent of lowing Jade Tree's better was expecting to be knocked slick alterna-pop ranks of the scene. way. Better yet, just play 'em "Dumbo"—Dom & Roland's lost known bands, this compilation off my ass, but instead kinda... MuchMusic Countdown, and if Listening to the five tracks "Run and Hide" off of this disc, masterpiece), it is the sound from the Delaware label gives a stumbled. But once I got over you're so wrapped up in your on the EP, one is treated to a raw and watch them try and stay in track to the circus in your sun good sampling of their widely the initial disappointment, I personal security blanket of combination of drums, chugging a bad mood. baked brain, still echoing after divergent roster, as well as quite enjoyed it. It's no Hives, pretension that you can't enjoy guitar and, most notably, the Luke Meat eight hours withering in an offering some goodies from the but it'll do. anything that the plebian brilliantly shrill vocals of Karen office. Then, weary and exploit indie darlings we've come to Parmida Zarinkamar masses might then you'll prob O, the band's enigmatic singer PRESHURE POINT ed, let "Love 2 U" on the B-side know and love. Notable tracks ably hate it, but for the rest of and brazen on-stage persona. The Only Constant Is Change help cool you down on those range from the stripped down THE WEEKEND us, we've been given a six-song The songs are visceral and lyri EP blissful Friday evenings, when rootsiness of Miighty Flash Teaser EP nugget of danceability. cally sardonic, charged with the (Farway Records) the amount of time between light, to the quirky off-kilter (Teenage USA) Get the CD. Kick your sexual bravado of "Bang" ("As a This.Saint Albert, Alberta band you and labour is at its maxi Owls, through a very cool, You know the feeling—the feel shoes off. Get up on that bed. fuck, son you suck") and the mum. Q-Project and Spinback, advertises their music as their quiet, piano-infused instru ing you get when a song so Get to it. riotous cacophony of O's (per together as Total Science, are own mixture of "speed, melody mental by Euphone, and over good, so unbelievably catchy Chris Eng haps) death metal-inspired too prolific to be consistently and emotion." However, even to the strong female fronted comes along and all you want vocalizations in "Art Star." It is in good, but more often than not "Mystery Girl," though, that O with all their melody and emo emo of Denali. Milemarker to do after hearing it for the YEAH YEAH YEAHS their techno-infused D&B style inadvertently captures her own tion, Preshure Point were impresses with their take on first time is loop it on repeat, S/t EP and hip hop sense of humour essence. "The girl hit hard like a unable to produce a very mem '80s new wave/'90s punk turn your stereo to 11 and (Touch and Go) come up with something barracuda, baby, she floated on orable EP. Titled The Only fusion. Several straight ahead dance like a berserk loser on NYC's Yeah Yeah Yeahs are worthwhile, this single and air like the crest of a wave, she Constant Is Change, this EP punk and hardcore tracks fall your bed? For the summer and everywhere. Not literally of their tracks on last year's was a primal institution, she contains six songs that most somewhat flat in the context of fall of 2002, friends, that song course, (Vancouverites will Tuned In LP eminent in that was a danger to herself." The would classify as alternative this crayon box of sounds, with is "80's Rockstar." Coming have to wait until their category. I'd been enjoying singer may be being ironic, but rock. I was torn between liking the exception of Strike across like That Dog at their September 25th show with the these tracks for weeks and was it doesn't change the fact that, and not liking this CD. The Anywhere s "SST," which kicks most rock, Scratching Post at Jon Spencer Blues Explosion to ecstatic to get them both on due to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the lyrics are not very complex or my ass firmly. Pedro the Lion, their most pop or Veruca Salt see them in the flesh), but the same album. world has become a more dan poetic but are very emotional Jets to Brazil, The Promise at their most accessible, The there is virtually no self- Donovan gerous and exciting place. and heartfelt. The songs, espe Ring and Girls Against Boys Weekend have managed to respecting culture/music/alter cially the first track "Seventh are present, with a track from construct a pop song so flaw native media rag that hasn't Andrew Dong lessly hook-laden that all you'll Day," are kind of upbeat and TSUNAMI BOMB an album and an unreleased already embraced the YYY be able to do for 12 hours after the vocals of the lead singer are The Ultimate Escape track from each. A highlight is phenomenon. And who can exposure is hum it until your strong, but I realized that after (Kung-Fu) David Bazan at his most politi blame them? With the re- vocal cords bleed. And then four listens through the EP, I Finally—a female-fronted, So- cal and caustic in Pedro the release of their debut EP and you'll come back for more. still had a hard time differenti Cal, pop-punk, over-produced Lion's "Backwoods Nation," an months of airplay in the UK, ating between the songs except force of nature able to shoulder out-take from the Control ses for track six, "From Here On aside all comers and take its sions. Sorry, I Wasn't Listening: Reviews of CDs I Didn't Listen To In," because the screaming that rightful place next to Lagwagon Jade Tree is doing mighty serves as background vocals is and Blink 182 on the summit of fine. My sister wants to be on By Chris Eng not something that can be eas the alternapunk scene. Oh this label. ily missed. The Only Constant is yeah, I've been waiting for this Michael INTERPOL Change is a wonderful CD for since 1995, and you know when Turn On The Bright Light background music at parties they play the Warped Tour next THE VINES (Matador) where most of the people are year, I'll be able to die fulfilled. Highly Evolved Interpol thwarts fun in the most outrageous arenas. They have task forces that combat football drunk but it's not a collection of Chris Eng (EMI) hooliganism and art theft, and provide security for the G-8 leaders. The International Police force is, great songs. Preshure Point are I once overheard a conversa quite frankly, a bunch of tired old by-the-book law-enforcers who are constantly stomping over heading into the studios in tion about the boom of under VARIOUS ARTISTS everything that young people see as moderately enjoyable. So, it was with no small amount of trep February 2003 to record a full- ground-inspired rock in the BiP_Hop Generation v.S idation that I listened to their namesake group, a band culled from various branches of the organi length album. Look for that mainstream since the Strokes (BiP_Hop) zation. My anxiety was apparently justified. Their debut album, Turn On The Bright Light, comes when it comes out as this five- have come out, and whether or across like an indie version of the McDonaldland characters singing, "Don't do drugs." It's insincere person band does seem to have This compilation showcases a not any of those bands had and no matter how good the music is, you know there's a message behind it running contrary to some good songwriting abili wide variety of left-field IDM staying power. Yes, the Vines, everything you stand for. They say they're down for good times, but you know they mobilize anti-riot ties—but skip past The Only artists from across the world. A a new band made up of four squads; they say "Say Hello To The Angels," you know they deliver Tasers to the backs of necks; they Constant Is Change. love for analogue synths, long guys from Australia, did come say, "Stella Was A Driver And She Was Always Down," but you know they're the Man. And no Wilson Wong builds of sound, and a little bit of up. playfulness unites these songs of posturing is going to change that. You may have heard their together. The Canadians repre "Hey hey, ho ho, co-optation of indie culture by undercover police officers has got to go RUSSIAN FUTURISTS single, "Get Free" or seen the sent through Andrew Duke, an Let's Get Ready To Crumble music video on MuchMusic. artist from Nova Scotia, and (Upper Class) Possibly you've sighted the reminds everyone that Canada Snappy, summery synth pop numerous posters and adver has something worth contribut that makes my head bob. 1 taste tisements for their debut ing when it comes to electroni the flavours of Sesame Street album, Highly Evolved. Maybe ca. I was particularly impressed and the Beach Boys. It's easy to it's only because of clever pro by BiP_Hop's selection of diver imagine the Muppets busting a motions, but they're definitely sity in terms of artistry and cul move to these songs. One-man a band whose reputation pre tural backgrounds. Particularly band Matthew Adam Hart cedes them. helpful were the small bios for writes songs that could easily Their rock sound uses the each person; references to pre slip into the realm of annoyance, repetition that Nirvana per vious works; and website and yet somehow never do. fected, with vocals by Craig addresses in order to spur you Melodic to a fault, but it's okay Nicholls that sometimes 1 to n because I can't stop grinning. A cfor reminded me of Scott Weiland yourself. I suppose it's also fine craftsman. Keyboards, and—at more brilliant times— worth mentioning that it's an drum machine, stringed instru leaned towards the stylings of A LUCKED THEORbW DECORA ments and other sounds that enhanced CD with a little music Lennon and McCartney. (ex-members ol THt AUTUMDVMNT) may or may not be electronic program as a bonus, and that Despite a few songs that make appearances (the liner may interest some for novelty t a global symphonic showcase wouldn't get out of my head, notes give no clues), with value at least. However, this Highly Evolved sounds too Matthew's vocals being the con album will probably not win any much like everything else out stant. I like every song on this newcomers to the cause of there to really impress. It got to septrj7.02 CD. An excellent guilty pleasure abstract electronica—don't the point where I wondered which I highly recommend. come to the party if you're into whether the Vines had their Michael clearly defined melodies, recy own style or merely combined cled loops, and club anthems. other bands' styles to create a But for those interested in hear TOTAL SCIENCE pretty unoriginal CD. ing sounds from other countries Hot SpoVXove 2 V (12") However, it's inevitable THE ORGAN "Sinking Hearts" CD-EP in that genre, this compilation (Timeless) with any new band with this may be worth investigating. Future Drum & Bass anthem, much hype to disappoint upon A LUNA RED /GHOST ORCHIDS split 12" 45 Samuel Kim "Hot Spot," released late last the first listening. Descriptions
21 DiSCORDER ber. Her rich and sparkling ered by many to be the queen of voice carried much of the underground hip hop, took the evening, with songs from stage, commanding attention Sympathique, reminiscent of with both her powerful pres l^IIHMA-^l Piaf, to "No Man Will Ever ence and performance. Some Reach My Cold Diamond where between Erykah Badu real live actioii Heart," an ache of Porter-like and Gil Scott-Heron, her versa love song inspired by the 1968 tile voice moved from saucy rap live music reviews Tokyo film, Black Lizard. to powerful gospel, easily mis- Pink Martini is a mix of tressing both styles. I barely READYMADE time to witness the stunning merch booth. Go figure. swing with a twist of salsa. But had time to recover before Killa MELLONOVA heroics of the mighty Lightning Saelan it took five songs before a few Kela was up. A scrawny little HINTERLAND Bolt. For whatever reason, crazed zombies wandered on to white guy from Manchester, has Wednesday, July 17 these brave champions chose THE VINES the dance floor and pretended mastered the art of multivocal- Purple Onion to eschew the elevation of the Monday, August 5 not to know each other. They ism. (As he told us: "That's what For the first Readymade show stage for a place among the Richard's on Richards were stirred, not shaken, and we call beatboxing in Europe.") in nearly two years, an impres people. In other words, while The Vines were late getting after a splash of vibraphone His particular style involved sive crowd packed into the the swirling cacophony of their into town for their show; we and other exotica the dance creating house tunes with his Purple Onion to see the bass-and-drums assault drove were late getting into the floor eventually filled and mouth. The crowd went wild as Vancouver shoegazers. The the kids into a reckless, thrash venue, and the bands were late stayed full all the way to the he mixed the chorus of Britney night started with a set by ing frenzy, they actually played taking the stage. Good start to last encore, a simple and lovely Spears' "Slave 4 U" with heavy, Hinterland, another atmos on the floor, surrounded by the the evening. Philipino folksong. thumping beats. If I hadn't pheric local band. Diminutive crowd. They had to continually I never caught the name of Exotica? I suppose. But any • been right there watching him, I singer Michaela Galloway has back up and back up, pulling the opening act, but it was one of their numbers would fit would have been sure it was a an absolutely stellar voice, and their gear with them, in order catchy indie-rock with loads of perfectly on CBC. Somehow DJ with a pair of turntables. By her huge range contributes in to avoid the fans that were harmonies, and a keyboardist that is the problem. Each song this time 1 was immersed in the no small part to Hinterland's falling on them repeatedly. who can play a mean trumpet... is perfect and nothing is new. crowd, getting jiggy in a sea of soaring sound. Hinterland's Their set was everything I was and then came the technical The edge has been practiced basketball jerseys and loving instrumentalists played com salivating for—a pounding, dri difficulties. The band did their away—which, after all, is the every minute. Finally, Rahzel fortably though a diverse ving, gut-wrenching rhythm best to pass the repair time very essence of the "Lounge" took the stage. The lights repertoire of sounds, from rock hurricane laced with the dis with jokes and some conversa sound. The album, Sympath dimmed even further, and the to curious ambient numbers. torted screams escaping from tion with a really wasted guy ique, is the perfect Xmas pre world's dominant beatboxer's The rhythm section was plainly Brian Gibson's throat mic. named Craig in the balcony. sent for your mother or your booming vocal power filled the solid—but at times solidly When they finally got to the But by the time they got going teacher. They will love it. It is Commodore. He sounded like plain—backing the songs more title track of their colossally again they'd lost their momen lounge-core heaven. something between a dinosaur than competently, but with few awesome Ride the Skies, the tum. Pink Martini's saving grace and an earthquake. The most creative displays. whole crowd lost their shit in Now, I don't want to give is that they play real instru prominent member of the Toronto guests Mellonova an orgiastic freakout that was the Vines a bad review. Maybe ments beautifully, from tickling Roots had whipped the crowd, were Part II of space rock night. n't matched in intensity all I just don't understand their the piano to searing the trum myself included, into a frenzy This band's orbital path was night. music, or them, or whatever, pet to shaking the gonads. It's when the Commodore's man less of a trip than Hinterland's Arab on Radar lost a lot of but to me their entire set was fantastic to see so many agement brought the lights up cosmic ellipses; their sound is a the crowd response playing half-assed—which unfortu accomplished musicians get right at two o'clock. What?! bit less Neptune and a bit more some of the most thoroughly nately left a lot of potentially ting paid. There is not a sam Rahzel had to leave the stage down-to-earth rock. The song challenging and repulsive music good songs sounding half- ple in earshot and they will set halfway through "If Your writing seemed at times to be I've ever heard. It was undeni baked. Craig Nicholls had all the candle light and wine scene Mother Only Knew," his great quite straightforward, and the ably ambitious, though—it's no the rock star moves down ablaze. est hit from 1999's soon-to-be- vocals were not especially com easy task to genuinely disturb (writhing around onstage, classic Make The Music 2000. pelling. Very nice twinkling gui a bunch of kids that showed up smashing shit), but seemed Adam & Rebecca Oh well. Perhaps the BY08: BRING YOUR OWN FILM | tars and effects, but things and paid money to see the unbelievably bored doing it. Commodore's ridiculous behav weren't really taking off. Locust, and they definitely suc The whole band looked like on 604 HIP HOP EXPO iour was a good thing; in the The headlining act did not ceeded. stage was the last place in the Friday, August 9 words of one young fan, if disappoint. Rising and falling The Blood Brothers were a world they wanted to be. I'm Commodore Ballroom Rahzel had finished, "I probably washes of guitar, pulsing bass, totally different story. not saying that no one enjoyed I walked into the Commodore would have blown my load on and subtle electronic elements: Obviously hometown favorites, it, but after leaving the stage, late and, in my attempt to the spot." And nobody needs all of the Readymade machine their brand of stylish, frag there were no shouts for an evade the mandatory bag that. was firing smoothly. Their set mented hardcore brought more encore, and a good chunk of check, lost my friends immedi mixed songs from throughout ass-shaking to the floor than the crowd had already started ately. I found myself alone in a Susy Webb the band's long history. any of the other acts. They also heading for the exits. sea of suburban hip hoppers, Guitarist/singer Arch seemed beat out every other band for GM their streetwear fresh off the THE MAKERS to be enjoying his return to the pure hormonal appeal, with Robson Street racks. Through HOTWIRE stage, and his strong delivery in two sexy, sweaty (and one PINK MARTINI the swirling artificial smoke 1 THE RUMORS the uptempo song "Wayfind- shirtless) stand-up vocalists Tuesday, August 6 could just make out the stage, Wednesday, August 14 ing" was a high point of the trading off edgy, angular Richard's on Richards which was bare save for sever Piccadilly Pub show. By the time Readymade screams that kept the crowd Soft blue and amber lighting al corporate banners. What had Anyone who wasn't at the closed the night, and the bar, excited. outlined spaghetti-straps and I gotten myself into? There was Makers / Hotwire / Rumors with the chilly drone of "Cold After the mass-appeal of dark suits as Richard's on a dude onstage distributing t- triple bill August 14 at The Pic Lamping," all the audience the Blood Brothers, the big- Richards filled to the brim with shirts, handing out "Baby-T's missed out on a helluva gig. could have asked for was more ticket band of the night was a a youthfully challenged crowd for the ladies first. 'Cause it's Makers fans bemoaning their new material—the lone new bit of a disappointment all- one Tuesday night. always ladies first." Hmm. I had most recent effort, Strangest song of Readymade's set around. Clear plastic bass gui Nine musicians slipped no problem with that senti Parade, were treated to many a ("Going Glass") was great. It's tar, emaciated limbs, and behind their instruments— ment, and couldn't believe surprise, as they were unable a testament to their chops that matching hoods and short- piano, violin, bull fiddle, trum what happened next: he to perform a majority of the Readymade is still very much shorts notwithstanding, the pet, trombone, timbales, shushed the crowd, and pro songs from that record due to on point after such a long hia Locust didn't really deliver the bongos, drums, congas, even a ceeded to do a duet with an some equipment problems tus from live performances. anticipated spectacle. Maybe it fish. As "Bolero" swelled, the Arabic singer. Wow. I decided to (previous shows, like their suspend my personal stereo Michael Schwandt had something to do with the band leader, Thomas record release show back in relentless heckling ("Get off the Lauderdale, rode his concert types about rap and hip hop for Seattle at the end of April, had THE LOCUST stage, you fat fucks!" "Does piano like Lawrence galloping the rest of the show. them re-enacting the entire across the Arabian dunes; the BLOOD BROTHERS your music sound slow when This was done a bit too album from start to finish). violinist intertwined notes like ARAB ON RADAR you're on all that coke?"), but early, as the Rascalz were up Therefore, original guitarist rising waves of heat and the LIGHTNING BOLT they looked pissed off and next. While the Rascalz began Tim Maker slashed out chords band seethed voluptuously in a GET HUSTLE unhappy to be there. They spat in Vancity in '93 at the cutting alongside Jamie Maker, who seductive desert dance. But Friday, August 2 out a few biting comebacks, edge of the Canadian under was on fire for the entire set seriously... These people can Graceland (Seattle) threw down some trademark ground hip hop scene, on-stage and who dueled it out with Tim play. Though individually As the unchallenged contender short bursts of crazed, sci-fi they seemed to have lost a lot at the start of the encore. restrained, collectively they for "most destructive line-up" thrash while standing stock- of that renegade energy. They Normally reserved and were impassioned and flam of the year, this show carried still and then left. There was lit bounced around and rapped, stoic, bassist Donny was the boyant. some pretty heavy expecta tle applause and no encore. looking and sounding like virtu most animated I'd ever seen on l hraiaiimiiHiir tions. I got to Graceland too From what 1 hear, however, Chanteuse China Forbes ally any other mainstream rap this night, his hands literally late for Get Hustle, but just in they made a killing at the floated on for the second num duo. The next act was much flying around his bass and even more exciting: Medusa, consid 22 September 2002 cracking a smile on a couple of proved that sk8-rock is more expected to see Peter Murphy to the Beard-Buddy as she essary for self-definition, like occasions. Proving once again than just a genre of music, pre emerge from the backstage walked down the street in the superpowers were to each why he's one of the best front- sent or past—it's a way of life— area, ready to lead the kids into defeat. other during the cold war. And men in the business, the sexy and the hundred-odd people black-Iipsticked revolt, but it Dalek, as Beard-Buddy two, that the subject is a mea swagger of singer Michael that were there to see them was just a nostalgic daydream. described them, were a hip hop sure of emptiness that always Maker had the girls swooning, play knew it too. Skaters old This music was not for me, but group breakin' down the walls remains empty even after it is and Jay Maker beating the liv and new packed out the con hey—I hate the Misfits, so what of perception. They had been supposedly filled in and made ing tar out of his drum-kit servatively-seated theatre and do I know? childhood friends with the Bad subjective, like shoes that are insured that this show was watched, letting tears fill their Up next was Bad Wizard Wizard members, so that too big but that fit just the going to be remembered or eyes and love fill their heart. and, judging from their name, I explains the show's apparent same, even comfortably. else. Musically speaking, we got Because skating begins in the assumed it would be a stoner- metal/rap visage. This was not In this case, McLean's pseu a healthy dose of new songs heart, and if you can't see that, rock type of band. Though I'd a "Judgement Night— do-childish characters and ("Addicted To Dying," "Laughter then step over here while I never heard them, my assump Live!'"kinda' night, though, as deliberately naive words only Then Violence," and the ballad focus your deck, poseur. tion was correct; I mean, can Dalek proved to be a most wor appear to proliferate without "Calling Elvis, John And Jesus"), Chris Eng you imagine a band named Bad thy hip hop complement to the obvious design. In fact, they're j. Kt>VU -&ne * rock and roll. All this on a They've just evicted their then you should be seeing this Jean Michel Basquiat and Joan McLean's intentional use of Wednesday night, no less. former singer (well, in the case band touring with the likes of Miro have come together to pop cultural references directly Bryce Dunn of Bison, screamer might be Andrew WK and the White eavesdrop on what appears to uncovers this paradox. Thus, H.?fcaooS&&fl£> more accurate), so vocals were Stripes, eventually. be a free-association session we can follow his free-associa mostly done by guitarist Kreg underway in the bathrooms at tions even if we don't com STREETS Saturn, whose demented gut Incidentally, while we were the Sugar Refinery. Literally pletely know how or why, THE SEARCH FOR ANIMAL tural barking of indecipherable talking outside, the lead singer covering the walls are drawings perhaps even if we don't want TSIZ. CHIN lyrics matched the noisiness of actually ripped off a panhan and text by the industrious to. Somehow, like an imaginary Friday, August 16 their short whirlwind paced dling hooker right in front of local doodler, Jason McLean. map of the city to guide our Blinding Light!! songs perfectly—some of the Pic! It was a smooth scam, Although this work at first sense of direction, or like the m booKVxuncw In 1986,1 was in Grade 8 and a which were only about 10 sec one which had probably been seems to relate only to a pri words to a song we don't big-ass dork. Seriously—I was onds long. Also taking up some perfected on the streets of New vate, stream-of-consciousness remember ever hearing, the \ getting my picture taken with of the vocal slack was bassist Jersey. She asked for change, monologue, it refers instead answers are already in our David Suzuki and all sorts of Jaymz 666, who has a more holding in her hand eight more to some commercialized, memory. Our sense of subjec other seriously uncool shit, like "traditionally punk" (if there is loonies. Beard-Buddy gave her mass unconsciousness than tivity is in us in the same way: hanging with the camera club such a thing) sneering voice on a five dollar CDN bill. He then strictly McLean's own. What totally familiar, yet totally enig geeks. Despite this, I wanted to their song "I Don't Care," which asked her for the $4 in change, looks to be personal and coded matic, too. Plus, having his be cool, and there was only one my friends and I agreed was and she was permitted to keep becomes uncanny and familiar, drawings in public washrooms way I was going to get there— the highlight of the set. the 5. Not knowing that there like trivia everyone seems to underscores this problematic: getting rad on a phat Powell- The show had lots of were more than four loonies know without knowing why. they're liminal spaces designed Peralta deck. humorous moments too—from there, he took the offered hand This presents an interest for intimate conduct in public, Know what? Never hap Saturn calling Jaymz the pretti of change, and there was the ing challenge: the notion of the in other words, a place to col subject is made to reveal its pened. There was no skate est one in the band (which is scam. As she walked away, lect one's self. 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SUN SEPTEMBER 1 SAT 21 Go catch it, you fairy, and dance like a little girl. Modest Mouse, Sonic Youth, Everclear, Buddy and Julie Miller, Kelly Zubot and Dawson@Van East Cultural Centre; Mark Eitzel@EMP Willis, Clarence Acox Sextet, The Shins, Damien Jurado, Wesley (Seattle); AngeIs@M's; Start smoking American cigarettes Holmes, Linton Kwesi Johnson, John Wesley Harding and SUN 22 OPEN CIRCUITS more@Bumbershoot (Seattle); Wilco@Commodore; Royals@M's; Sum 41@Commodore; Angels@M's; Vancouver Record Collectors' Third annual open circuits festival is happening The End, Ken Hope, Goat's Blood@Pic Pub Association record sale@Croatian Cultural Centre; The Volumen@Pic September 13-15 at the Or Gallery. Five acts of MON 2 Pub Wilco, The Minus Five, Jerry Cantrell, The Mekons, Maceo Parker, MON 23 experimental electronic music a night. Latops Blonde Redhead, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Marc Ribot Elvis Costello, Phantom Planet@Paramount (Seattle); Not By Choice, a-plenty. But remember to take your dancing Trio and more@Bumbershoot (Seattle); Linton Kwesi Johnson, Glasshead@Pic Pub; Start smoking crack shoes off. Sometimes itJsgood to listen. Loscil, Dennis Bovell Dub Band@Commodore; Tsunami Bomb@Mesa TUE 24 Luna; Beachwood Sparks, Jenny Toomey, Ashley Park@Pic Pub; Toshi Reagon@Vancouver East Cultural Centre; A's@M's +outhem acific-, DJ Aural, Pellucid, Agriculture, Twins@M's; Tim, Darryles Grocery Bag, One Shot Left, WED 25 and more. Five bucks. 9:30. Bring two friends. Complete@Brickyard Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, The Liars, The Yeah Yeah TUE 3 Yeahs@Commodore; A's@M's; Freeman@Pic Pub; Luna@Richard's; Mermaid Engine, INSIPID, Rakshasa@Brickyard; THUR 26 THE ROLLING STONES Mark Kleiner's Power Trio@Pic Pub Kreator, December, Cephalic Carnage@Studebakers; A's@M's MS. T'S CABARET WED 4 FRI 27 SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21 Shitfaced@Cobalt; Twins@M's; The Smears, Siobhan Duvall, The Buddy Guy, Shemekia Copeland@Commodore; M's@Angels Just kidding. Engaged@Brickyard SAT 28 THUR 5 Sleater-Kinney, Shannon Wright@Showbox (Seattle); M's@Angels Girth, The Ryecatchers, Six Block Radius@Brickyard; Notes from SUN 29 VRCA RECORD FAIR the Underground@Pic Pub; Mecca Normal@CBC Plaza; Bop Kings@Marine Club; The Frames, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER, 22 FRI 6 Young and Sexy@Richard's; Copywrite, Cage, DJ Fakts One, Mr. Lif, Kenny Rogers, Diamond Rio, Rebecca Lynn Howard@Pacific EL-P, Rjd2@Sonar; M's@Angels; New Bomb Turks, Spitfires@The CROATIAN CULTURAL CENTRE Coliseum; Default@UBC; M's@Royals; Red Scare, A Virgin in Royal Please take a shower and wear deodorant. It's Hollywood, Cartoon Lobotamy@Brickyard; John Guliak@Sugar MON 30 going to be packed. 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Miles and Roxxy are both in their late 20s, and worried they're getting top old: he's making a ChowYun-Fat Boy Meets Brownie Girl Shanghai Panic (China, 87 min.) (South Korea, 93min.) pretentious film fea Actually, several kinds of panic: AIDS panic (Bei thinks Nam Ki-Woong, director of last year's Teenage turing pussy wil he's HIV+), dope panic (Kika, Fifi and Casper live for Hooker..., starts to look like Korea's answer to Guy lows, she's trying to their next hit of "E"), sexual orientation panic (Bei says Maddin with this follow-up, a shall-we-say idiosyncrat he isn't gay but really wants to have sex with the reluc ic adaptation of the traditional folk story of a pond snail get her punk band tant Jie). Andrew Cheng's amazing DV feature might transformed into a beautiful young girl. With Yun Jin's off the ground. In just mark the start of a new chapter in Chinese cinema. short Pink Movie (South Korea, 16 mins), on the Dragons & Tigers Award nominee. solipsistic life of an "event girl." Jon Moritsugu's radical yet heartfelt lo-fi ode to the difficulty of making art today, melodra ma, humorous debasement and rock n' roll commingle with terrific results. Demonlover (France, 129 min.) Gaza Strip (USA/Palestine, 74 min.) Olivier Assayas {Irma Vep), known for more intimate, Gaza Strip, a feature-length video by American film sombre fare, throws us a marvelously subversive Suicide Club Morvern Callar maker James Longley, is a documentary to make the change-up with this Cronenberg-influenced high-tech (Japan, 99 min.) 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The Trials of Henry Kissinger Biggie and Tupac (Great Britain, 107 min.) Gambling, Gods and LSD Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary (USA/Great Britain/Chile, 80 min.) With his trademark mix of performance art, stalking (Canada/Switzerland, 180 min.) (Canada, 75 min.) Is Henry Kissinger, America's revered elder statesman and investigative journalism, Nick Broomfield timidly Blending documentary observation with lyrical cine Guy Maddin's {Twilight of the Ice Nymphs, VIFF 97) and Nobel Peace Prize winner, a war criminal? That's dips his Nagra into the mire of intercoastal hip-hop matography and expressive sound design, Peter extravagant, gorgeous retelling of Bram Stoker's the question posed by this startling documentary, rivalries, organized crime and police corruption. Mettler's {Picture of Light, VIFF 94) latest is a medita Dracula is an unforgettable visual knockout. 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