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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Fresh at Twenty The Oral History of Mint Records by Kaitlin Fontana Duncan's Donuts // A radio show on CiTR 101.9fm. LAST WEEK: Mint’s 20th! Interview with author Kaitlin “The Great-lin” Fontana. Happy 20th anniversary, Mint Records! And congrats to Kaitlin Fontana, on the publication of her book, Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records. The Cookies, Randy P:ano, Storm the Gates P:ano, Sweet Sweets Nick Krgovich, I Can’t Bring Myself To Smile Duplex!, Ya Mama Kellarissa, Old Money cub, Killed by Death Lou Barlow, Run To You Tankhog, The Freight Train Song cub, My Chinchilla The Smugglers, Especially You The New Pornographers, The Slow Descent into Alcoholism The Riff Randells, Somebody’s Mom Bossanova, Closet Sounds Battles, Lycanthropy. Share this: Like this: Related. This entry was posted on October 13, 2011 at 4:20 pm and is filed under playlists, video. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site. One Response to “LAST WEEK: Mint’s 20th! Interview with author Kaitlin “The Great-lin” Fontana” Shimano reels For sale Cheap Says: September 1, 2017 at 8:45 am | Reply. Shimano reels For sale Cheap. LAST WEEK: Mint’s 20th! Interview with author Kaitlin “The Great-lin” Fontana | Duncan's Donuts // A radio show on CiTR 101.9fm. Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records by Kaitlin Fontana. Vancouver music history chronicled at Soundscapes. Stay in the loop. If you're a city that's established itself as a music scene, then you need an oral history. Toronto got its due in 2009 with Stuart Berman's This Book Is Broken, which explained the genesis of our chief supergroup Broken Social Scene by examining the rise of Wavelength Sundays. Montreal's music scene has yet to be immortalized - I nominate Said The Gramophone scribe Sean Michaels for the job. But from Vancouver comes Fresh At 20, a new revelatory book about upstart label Mint Records. Music writer Kaitlin Fontana conducted over 90 interviews (!) to trace Vancouver's music history from its dangerous late 80s punk days to the rise of The New Pornographers, the homegrown superstars that put Vancouver on the map. It's an inspiring read. Mint was founded by two college radio geeks Randy Iwata and Bill Baker in 1991 who built their label slowly in the model of Sub Pop. Signing friends, former roommates and quasi-frenemies, they built a solid roster of Canadian talent, fostering an indie community in a coastal town only miles away from Seattle's grunge explosion. The bands Mint signed varied from adorable girl-groups (the band cub coined the genre "cuddle-core"), queer punk rockists (The Buttless Chaps, The Pansy Division) and zany new wavers (The Evaporators and The Smugglers, fronted by Nardwaur The Human Serviette and CBC Radio 3 host Grant Lawrence, respectively). Like any label Mint went through several ups and downs - they collaborated with California punk label Lookout Records! (famous for signing Green Day and Operation Ivy) to release their albums stateside, which might've worked if their relationship wasn't so fraught with tension. They made a killing with cub but then plummeted after the band broke up, until a girl from Tacoma named Neko Case decided to release a groundbreaking country album. And as the record industry devolves into scattered MP3s and Soundclouds, Mint still keeps trying to release handcrafted, innovative records. One of their coolest products was a split seven-inch released in 2009 between Andrew W.K. and Nardwaur titled A Wild Pear. Their current signees include The Pack A.D., Immaculate Machine and Hot Panda. In her introduction Fontana writes about how Vancouver's music scene was almost formed in opposition to Seattle's grunge boom. Free of intense scrutiny, Vancouver could turn into whatever it wanted. There may never be a defining aesthetic to Mint's 20 years of music - the label has signed surf rockers Huevos Rancheros, released a children's album and burned their bridges of Gob. But from the well-meaning intentions of two college programmers came a rich legacy of rock n' roll. Maow, Pluto, the Gay, Operation Makeout and Members of Cub Reunite for Mint Records' 20th Anniversary Concert. Last month, writer Kaitlin Fontana released Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records , which looks back on the two-decades-and- counting success story that is Mint Records. Now, the Vancouver label is preparing to celebrate its 20 years in the industry with a concert that includes performances from many artists -- new and old -- on its roster, plus some notable friends. The show, which is really more like a mini-festival, will take place in two separate rooms at Vancouver's Waldorf Hotel on November 25. There are 13 bands currently on the bill and tickets cost just $12 in advance ($15 at the door). The performers so far are: Maow, Kellarissa, Hot Panda, Vancougar, Fanshaw, the Evaporators, Cub member Miss Marr & Friends, the Gay, Volumizer, Operation Makeout, Pluto, the Maxines and My Friend Wallis. Yes, you read that right: Neko Case's early garage rock project Maow are reuniting for the occasion, though at this point it's still up in the air as to whether Neko herself will make the trip to the show, according to organizers. Of course, this is hardly the only band reuniting for the party. The Gay, Operation Makeout and Pluto are all getting back together and playing their first shows in years. Also, Lisa Marr will be roping in some other members of her much-missed '90s cuddlecore outfit, as well as a few friends, to do a pseudo Cub reunion show. Again, we're unsure if Marr's friends include one-time Cub drummer Neko Case. This concert will be taking place in lieu of Mint Records' annual Ridiculously Early Xmas Party. The doors open at 8 p.m., and there will be prizes for the first 50 concertgoers. And yes, there will once again be copious amounts of free Pocky. Part of the proceeds from the night go to Vancouver's Safe Amplification Society. And for the purposes of full disclosure, Exclaim! is helping sponsor the event. Our Contributors: Kaitlin Fontana to Launch Fresh at Twenty. Congratulations to Kaitlin Fontana on the upcoming launch of her first book Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records ! Kaitlin’s Creative Non-Fiction story ‘Sleeping with the Dead’ was the winner of our 18th Creative Non-Fiction Contest, and was first published in EVENT 34/3. Kaitlin’s story also appears in our Fall 40 Year Anniversary Issue. It was chosen by former EVENT editor Billeh Nickerson to appear in our special Retrospective section. You can subscribe online right now! Fresh! Fresh at Twenty: The Oral History of Mint Records by Kaitlin Fontana. CURRENT CUB BIO (originally for Artoffact’s BNW Session, revised for Mint Records artist page): When Lisa Marr, Robynn Iwata and Valeria Fellini formed cub in early 1992, the plan of three Vancouver friends (who had met while working at CiTR, the campus radio station of the University of British Columbia) was to get together in the basement to write and play music and have fun doing so. Simple as that. The fact that they were virtual neophytes at their respective instruments did not hinder them; and despite having no grand aspirations, the trio were determined and steadfastly D.I.Y. Iwata even had to play sitting cross-legged on the floor for the first several months because as she herself admits, “ I just needed to keep a close eye on my hands and my chord cheat sheets, and in cub that wasn’t a crime. It wasn’t a gimmick. I wasn’t trying to be twee. We always encouraged one another to just do our best by whatever means and at whatever stage we were at. ”[1] Mint Records’ co-founder Bill Baker recalls, “ It was pretty charming to see this girl sitting onstage, cross-legged. [laughs] It was pretty good, actually. More gutsy than anything. ” [2] As a result, their decidedly rule-breaking, self-taught-from-day-one approach and lo-fi recordings caused quite a stir, ruffling a few feathers in the musical establishment from the get-go. However, the girls refreshingly unbridled and enthusiastic ’crush pop’ (or if you prefer, ‘cuddlecore’) sound, as well as Marr’s knack for penning a deceptively simple and infectiously catchy lyric, swiftly endeared them to music lovers across the board and around the globe. Indeed, their plucky gumption to get out there and play before they were ‘camera- ready’ would inspired many to start their own bands or pursue other creative endeavours. “ A lot of girls have told us that they’ve started playing music because of us. That, to me, is really cool ,” Marr told Rolling Stone Magazine.[3] As Smugglers’ frontman, CBC Radio host and former Mint Records PR ace Grant Lawrence describes in his 2017 tell-all tome, “ cub's deceptively simple, incredibly catchy twee-pop timing was perfect. The early 1990s was dominated by dreary, dark and distorted grunge music played mostly by men. cub provided the musical opposite, a sunny antidote to the male storm clouds, at least in sound anyway, creating a unique style of indie-rock that was eventually branded ‘Cuddlecore’ ”[4] — the micro genre originally coined and bestowed upon cub by Iwata’s friend and Zulu Records cohort, Nicolas Bragg (then guitarist for Blaise Pascal and later for Destroyer).