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JULY HENEVER I SIT DOWN TO write my hup...). It is in this vulnerable emotional state d Regulars W editorial I feel hke I'm composing an that I find my grandiose plans for this little acceptance speech for the Grammys. It's a block of text slipping away, and my need to _ODG delicate balance to strike, trying to adequately thank our lovely magazine staff growing ever 3 The Gentle Art of Editing thank all the kind folks that help pull the stronger. So big up to the production crew, David Ravensbergen magazine together, and still have a few sound for sticking out the unreasonable hours and Editor bite-worthy bits for Entertainment Tonight. creating a beautiful issue out of chaos. Much DAVID RAVENSBERGEN 4 Eater's Digest Of course my parents, who've made this all appreciation to all who contributed text, even Art Director Coral Short possible, simply must be mentioned, but I fear if it didn't find its way into print this month. WILL BROWN 4 Riff Raff if I start listing off names you'll be tempted to Thanks to the loyal proofreaders, and the Production Manager ALANNA SCOTT Bryce Dunn change the channel and pick up a stray copy of attendees of the emergency strategy session 5 Cinema Aspirant 24 Hours instead. I imagine Grammy winners the night before final deadline. Finally, a Allan Maclnnis go through the same gut-wrenching process hearty pat on the back to everyone that helped 5 Strut, Fret and Flicker the eve before their big night. But when their out with our guerilla distribution plan this Penelope Mulligan name finally gets called, all that meticulous month. speech preparation goes out the window, and Taking a page from the book of Bono, no 6 Mixtape they all reach for the sweaty napkin with the Ladyhawk Grammy speech/editorial is complete without dreaded list of thank-yous. a mention of social activism or progressive 6.. Spectres of Discord The night before everything is sealed up, politics. I leave you this month with a call Review Manager KatSiddle JORDIE SPARKLE pdfd and sent to the printer is an emotional for everyone to inform themselves about the Layout & Design 7...... Textually Active time for us here at Discorder too. While this impending Gateway Project; if more pavement WILL BROWN Inkstuds, Down By Law? Field Notes From A month has featured the usual laughs and doesn't strike you as a good solution to the ALANNA SCOTT Catastrophe occasional hysterics, the most prominent Lower Mainland's transportation woes, then make your dissent heard! Jane Jacobs and a 14 Calendar feeling in my text-addled brain right now is Production plain and simple fatigue. We've been cooped up group of concerned citizens halted the Spadina WILL BROWN Sandra Kang for days while the air outside is hot and thick Expressway in Toronto, and we can foil Kevin MARLO CARPENTER as molasses, and I've come down with some Falcon's short-sighted plan here too. Check ARTHUR KRUMINS MIKE LAPOINTE 22.... Under Review ungodly variety of the whooping cough to out www.stophighwayexpansion.ca to learn QUINN OMORI The Goslings, Pony Up!, Big Star, Andrew boot. Plus my serotonin levels have been at an more, or visit www.thedemos.ca and tell your DAVID RAVENSBERGEN Duke, Peaches, Shapes and Sizes, Six Organs of all-time low ever since the Netherlands lost in MP how you feel about fossil fools. ALANNA SCOTT Admittance, Mojave 3, The Blank-Its JORDIE SPARKLE that tragic match with Portugal (Hup, Holland, CAROLINE WALKER 24.... Real Live Action GRAEME WORTHY The Boy Least Likely To, The Bicycles, Bright David Ravensbergen, Editor Eyes, Sex Negative, The Apes, Liars [email protected] Photo & Illustration 25.... CiTR Charts JENN AIRD The Dopest Hits of June 2006 MEGAN BOURNE WILL BROWN 26.... Program Guide MELANIE COLES CARSON DALEY Features BEN FREY JACKEE GUILLOU SANDRA KANG SOPHIA KINACHTCHOUK QUINN OMORI <*> OF LUCAS SOI SASQUATCH MUSIC WASTE Charts W p NXNE LUKE MEAT Distribution PUCO 8,9,10,11,12 LASSE LUTICK US Distribution FRANKIE RUMBLETONE •~1.?.FAN FICTION: THE AGE OF ELECTRIC Publisher STUDENT RADIO SOCIETY OF UBC PEACHES MR. LIF 17,18,19 JUANA MOLINA
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IME, THE BEST TURKISH RESTAURANT item, the Sigara Boregi, just brings us down. R in town, doubles as a wonderfully The mild feta with black sesame seeds in a' CAMERA OBSCURA supportive live music venue, allowing spring roll-like wrap is just too greasy, and bands to play without charging the pomegranate sauce fails to live up to its w/ GEORGIE JAMES them for the space or taking any of Persephonic reputation. their money at the door. They don't treat However, the service is charming and MONDAY, JULY 24 their diners too poorly either. My date and I beautiful, the atmosphere enchanting, are seated at the back of the dim restaurant my date fabulous, and the mains arrive with a lovely carpet hanging behind us, to the appetizing sounds of a live jazz trio. surveying the room filled with candle-lit Upon consulting with the well-informed tables and soft dark pillows on comfortable waitress, I opt for the Karnibahar Graten, couches and chairs. My fellow eater this and Emily has the Iskender Soslu Bursu month, Miss Emily Beamer, proceeds to Kebap. These fanciful names require a bit of order a mojito, which she exclaims several an explanation, so let me break it down for times is the best she has ever ordered. For you. The Karnibahar Graten is described aspiring bartenders, mojitos are composed as cauliflower baked in a bechamel sauce WHJ.MACK WEDNESDAY $2 HIGHBALLS of crushed mint, sugar, lime juice, light (which is just a fancy word for white sauce), rum and club soda, and mix well with patios HIGHBALL WEDNESDAYS Hip Hop - R&B - Reggae topped with cheese. It turns out to be soft and sunshine. cauliflower absolutely immersed in spicy, J SWING - FLIPOUT We start off with some Cacik, the ultra-creamy cheese. Emily's dish translates waitress's suggestion for the hot first day as chunks of tenderloin kebab in Alexander P*S^»L^W^o of summer. The creamy yogurt with diced sauce, a rich and tasty clam/shrimp sauce. cucumber, dried mint and sumac keeps Emily declares the kebabs to be delectably us riding high on the mint train, and tender, and the sauce "lovely and peppery." along the way we discover that the Turks The evening nearly ends in disaster, SIXY actually invented yogurt. I always knew as Emily, clad in her new beautiful white that tulips originally hail from Turkey, but summer dress, leans into her steak by FRIDAYS • J-SWING (THE BEAT) & DJ DAVE the yogurt fact comes as a revelation. The accident, smothering sauce all over her food itself is a sensual epiphany—a zesty, nice rack. But even the stains can't ruin the smooth, cool cucumber dip that comes with mood—the whole place is an aphrodisiac. the perfect proportion of pita. We almost Wine and dine your date here, stare into their have that polished off when our hot starter candlelit eyes and there will be a delightful -"".,: arrives, which unfortunately is not as party indeed, (JL. 604.646.00i4 WWW.PLAZACLUB.NET 881 GRANVILLE STREET gobsmackingly good. We were all fresh and perky from the first appetizer, but the second
-fl«rir ? R SUN s i_k#i 0 *l| \ 1 P3%# m Bryce Dunn REETINGS, VINYL CONNOISSEURS, AND V (Zaxxon Records, www.zaxxonrecords.com) myspace.com/suddeninfant). these are the bands Bart Simpson would have used G to the all-Canadian edition of Riff Raff. Join Just over the Rockies in Calgary is a new Over the fields we go, we go to Ontario, to piss off the non-locals like he did in that famous us as we traverse the tundra, parade through dance-punk phenomenon known as Sudden Infant and the capital city of Ottawa for The Fucking episode. Gilbert Switzer are noisy and bratty punk, the Prairies and land on Maritime shores in our Dance Syndrome. No babies were harmed in the Machines. These guys are pissed off, and for good like early nineties bands Cows or God Bullies from coverage of phonographic excellence from coast making of their debut 7" platter, but after spazzing reason—somebody stole their quarterl And they the Am Rep stable, and The Hold are angry young to coast. Sorry to sound all Tommy Douglas on ya, out to the five tracks on this EP, it's"definitely gonna named their EP after this discouraging event! And men and women who sound like a cross between but we here at RR central get pretty excited when leave a mark. Each of the tracks has a slightly it takes two singers to tell you! Musically, these Crass and Submission Hold, speaking about the we can unapologetically endorse our homegrown different take on the new wave of New Wave, so guys worship at the altar of Black Flag and make vices of alcohol, crime and being oppressed by talent. Beginning on home turf of course with it keeps things interesting. From the barely 40- no apologies for it—the five songs laid down here "the man". Certainly not the majestic picture one Raised by Wolves, three cuts recorded in "Howl-O- second shout-along of "(Who You Gonna Take to are short, fast and loud. 'Nuff said. (Last Drag would paint of the wonderful Maritime province, Phonic" sound from an older batch of recordings the) Prom," with its manic drumming and crash- Records, www.Iastdragrecords.com). but then again, there's something good brewing grace a new seven inch.' These cats break down in bang keyboard clang, to copping a page from The Finishing up in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the over there other than beer and its worth checking tornado-like fashion with their call-to-arms theme Blood Brothers songbook on "Dr. Awkward," with Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage out. (Divorce Records, 2687 Fuller Terrace Halifax, song, "Raised by Wolves," then proceed to "Burn its choppy guitar and helium-induced vocals, has some 'splaining to do with their split single Nova Scotia B3K 3V9). ,- it All Down" with a huff and a puff and some hot there's plenty bounce for the ounce here. The kids ambassadors Gilbert Switzer and The Hold. twin guitar action". "Caveman Stomp" on the flip are hot tonight, whoa, so hot tonight, but where Travellers from abroad will be shocked to learn does exactly what it says, and would make any will they be tomorrow? Probably dancing up a that this is not Great Big Sea or whatever Celtic Neanderthal shake and shimmy to the garage beat. storm to SIDS. (This is DIY, kids, so order it from banner Nova Scotians want to use to welcome you;
4 JULY 2006 IS CINEMA FOOD FOR YOUR SOUL, CINEMa ASPIRANT AND IS YOUR SOUL HUNGRY? Allan Maclnnis aesthetic. Like Faces, 4he film doesn't wince at Both based on novels by Laszlo Karsznahorkai, showing us its characters at their most pathetic which Tarr's partner, Agnes Hranitzky, helped The and embarrassing, and individual scenes carry on adapt, the sheer beauty of the cinematography far beyond the point where the audience starts to and the metaphysical scope of Tarr's project truly squirm. Our self-perceptions end up being affected, do make the films Tarkovskian (an adjective often Transfer since we can't help but recognize ourselves on mis-applied to any art film from the former socialist screen. The film isn't as powerful as Faces—in bloc, but quite fitting here). Tarr shows a universe mative the end, it seems a rather "small" film, though out of order, where people are drawn into chaos admirable and effective—but the comparison and conflict for lack of a spiritual centre, and odd to Cassavetes is worthy. (So is comparison to the events—such as the arrival of a preserved whale Vision of work of British social reajist filmmaker Ken Loach, in a truck, in Werckmeister Harmonies—take on a though Loach's politics might sit ill with Tarr, for bizarre and resonant meaning. Tarr is reluctant Bela Tarr whom life in socialist Hungary was by no means a to discuss the meaning of his work, but even if worker's paradise). one fails to fully understand what his films are o YOU EVER WONDER WHERE the Antonionis, Berlin International Film Festival, is 7 hours long Starting with 1988's Damnation, however, "about," one cannot but be overwhelmed by their D the Tarkovskys, the Bergmans, and the and currently only available in a somewhat inferior things began to change. The gritty, verite style images. The opening tracking shot iii Satantango, Cassavetes of today are? Is the reason that there and, for me, unwatchable bootleg DVD. Facets are is replaced with something more composed and of cows wandering around a field, is one of the seem to be no heirs to these filmmakers that working on an official, multi-disc release as of this poetic, and individual shots begin to extend to most affecting images I've seen, though why it there are actually no auteurs who are producing writing. I'm not thrilled with Facets' presentation great lengths, with Tarr's camera tracking through should be so is in fact somewhat puzzling to me. sufficiently morally and aesthetically ambitious of Tarr's work—DVDs are without extras and have elaborately choreographed scenes in single takes. Tarr's films teach a new way of seeing to those works to fill such sizeable shoes? Or are there great non-removable subtitles—but since they are at (Those familiar with Gus van Sant's later works who engage with them, which places him in good filmmakers currently active who are simply not least making his films available, it seemed an ideal might note that van Sant is imitating Tarr, though company with the greats of European filmmaking being widely talked about? time to write about him. to no great effect). Werckmeister Harmonies, which of the 1960s and 70s. For whatever reason, Hungarian filmmaker It may already seem odd to compare a lasts for 145 minutes, is comprised of a mere 39 Tarr's next film, The Man from London, was Bela Tarr, currently at work on his ninth feature, is filmmaker to both Cassavetes and Tarkovsky, shots. The longest of those, the opening sequence— adapted for Tarr by Karsznahorkai from Georges only just beginning to get the recognition he merits. two filmmakers who could not be more different. in which the philosophically-minded naif Valushka Simenon's thriller. The story of this film, the Thoughheiscompared by those critics who triumph This is because, generally speaking, Tarr's work directs the drunks in a bar in a dance meant to initial shoot of which was interrupted when the his work, like the late Susan Sontag or the Chicago falls into two distinct periods. When he was illustrate the motions of the sun, the earth, and producer committed suicide, makes for a bizarre Reader's Jonathan Rosenbaum, to Cassavetes, a young filmmaker in socialist Hungary, his the moon—lasts for eleven minutes, a constraint read, but I'll direct those interested to IMDB for Antonioni, and Tarkovsky, most people I mention primary concern was to depict the bleak social imposed on Tarr by the fact that that's how long more. Meanwhile, come to Blim on the 21st for him to draw a blank. I'll be projecting from DVD conditions around him. The Prefab People (1982) Kodak's rolls of film are. The slow, dreamlike black Werckmeister Harmonies. Tarr's films should be what is generally regarded as Tarr's masterpiece, is generally regarded as the best of these films, and white camerawork has a hypnotizing effect on seen projected, even if off DVD. t Werckmeister Harmonies (2000) at Blim on July 21st and focuses on two people trapped in an unhappy the viewer. (www.blim.ca). His other master work, Satantango, relationship. Like Cassavetes' Faces, it's filmed in Werckmeister Harmonies and Satantango were which won the Caligari Film Prize at the 1994 black and white, using a rough-hewn, handheld both made after the fall of socialism in Hungary.
THREE ONE-EYED SHREWS OF STRUT, FRET FATE, SUMMER OFMALICK AND FLICKER Penelope Mulligan
THREE ONE-EYED SHREWS OF FATE Days of Heaven The Ayden Gallery beginning a series of moves that riffed on the spirals particularly the Elizabethan stuff—worked a yourself away from the gorgeousness of summer I Friday June 16 and contractions of Martha Graham. Their sense of treat. evenings to sit in a big, dark room. They're called space was acute, as they ended in exactly the same But it was with the last offering that we saw films and, provided you choose them well, you'll
LOTHING DESIGNERS AND CHOREOGRAPHERS spots as they began. Ronya Lake's "When Crucifer the show's goal fully realized. In "The Dreamers," be fine. Besides, retrospectives—a summer staple C HAVE always done business with each other. Fell from the Sky" was rocked by a major wardrobe Gretchen Eisner's garments were not merely of art house cinemas—are a great way to catch up After all, fashion shows need some degree of malfunction when a stretchy top sproinged what the dancers wore. They were part of a subtle on things you missed, buff up your film history or choreography, and dance works usually require underneath a dancer's breasts. Leaving aside the narrative and integral to Kristine Richmond's experience the cult hits of other generations, often costuming. What this event attempted, however, question of why the garment wasn't road tested at choreography. Exquisite flaps at the hips of skirts in spanking new prints. was a much deeper kind of collaboration—dance rehearsal, it was interesting to note that it was a opened to reveal tiny embroidered worlds that were This month's hands-down recommendation and fashion arts so mutually embedded that no one much better fit where it landed. To the performers' displayed to the audience. At times; lite performers is a serving of Terrence Malick, perhaps best was a hired gun. credit, nobody missed a beat of the mercilessly seemed to be peeling back layers of their own skin. known for his 1973 debut. Badlands, in which a The show's title references Greek mythology's bouncy choreography. Deb Head worked the fate Set to the music of Sigur Ros, it was an eerie and murderous teenaged couple (Martin Sheen and Three Fates: Clotho who spins the thread of life; idea in a more literal way with "Prognostications," provocative watch. Sissy Spacek) goes on the lam. Consisting of only Lachesis who determines its length; and Atropos in which dancer Julia Carr recited weather reports Music duo Chunks & Doosley rounded out the four films, with the second and third separated by who cuts it off—kind of the ultimate stitch-and- and distributed scratch-and-win tickets while night with a short set that was extremely funky 20 years, Malick's is a curious body of work. His bitch. Though the works presented weren't always executing technically precise movements. Carr and tight, though it was odd to see a guy toiling existential war film, 1998's The Thin Red Une tied to the theme, a mood of ritual and fantasy danced flawlessly, taming Monica Strehike's prom righteously on baritone sax while his partner sat may be more relevant than ever, while last year's prevailed. queen gown like a highly-strung debutante, but grooving away to the sounds coming out of his critically divided and theatrically short-lived The the piece felt somewhat forced and pretentious. The evening began with salon-like class as laptop. New World is up for re-evaluation. The greatest soprano Christine Buhr performed an aria from On a couple of occasions, the programme was The Ayden is an ideal venue for blending indie treasure, though, has to be Days of Heaven, his Puccini's La Boheme. In the pieces that followed, punctuated by burlesque winks at the catwalk fashion with performance. Along with sculpture sophomore film from 1978. The first time I caught contemporary dancers animated garments that, as "collections" were strutted out. My favourite and two-dimensional art, the gallery sells clothing this was on a crappy black and white television for the most part, are only found in role-play and was designer Tyr Jami's vamping, lolly-sucking by many of the shows' designers. Its setting in the and I could still hardly believe the slow, gonad- dreamlife. A pity, because some of this clobber was assortment of slags in ripped tights. Jami also strange wasteland of International Village gives it grabbing beauty of what I was seeing. gorgeous—layers and wraps, slits and pouches, costumed Lisa Gough's charming "The Dwarf, the a dreamlike quality that's starting to work in its Summer of Malick plays the Vancity Theatre from tunics and tulle. We should all dress like this more Rose and the Swallow." Beautifully choreographed favour. July 14-18. Call 604-683-3456 or visit www.vi/c. often. and cheekily performed, it featured a trio of org for times. ^: In "What to Do?", choreographer Holly Holt historically punky characters who filledth e space THE PLUGHOLE and her two dancers blindfolded themselves before like elegant drunks. Kris Mitchel's music collage— There are some good reasons for tearing | DISCORDER 5 rv SINCE THE SPRING OF 2004, DUFFY DREIDIGER AND HIS BAND of hairy men have been peddling their brand of backyard rock in sweaty venues all over Vancouver.•The perfect MIXTAPel soundtrack to shotgurming Pilsners, the Ladyhawk sound can now be taken out of the bar and into your bedroom with the release of their self-titled debut. We asked them to compose this month's mixtape, and the following list eventually trickled into our inbox. No doubt hangovers and an upcoming North American tour got in the way ivhawk of any further description, but we can only assume that they enjoy these songs. Photo by Quinn Omori 1. Light: Look at Your Sun | Ash Ra Tempel 12. Blue Sky Mine \ Midnight Oil 2. Slow Death | The Flamin' Groovies 13. Here is the House | DepecheMode 3. Morning Dew | Grateful Dead 14. I Am the Resurrection | The Stone Roses 4. Bertha | Grateful Dead 15. Got to Give it Up | Thin Lizzy 5. Penetration \ Iggy + The Stooges 16. The Things I Do for Money | The Northern Pikes 6. The Freezing Moon (live) | Mayhem 17. The Man in Me | Bob Dylan 7. Salmon Falls | Harry Nilsson 18. Effigy I Creedence Clearwater Revival 8. Darling Nikki | Prince 19. The Dark Ages | S.T.R.E.E.T.S 9. Witch Queen of New Orleans | Redbone 20. Ophelia | The Band 10. Breathing NovmWonderboy 21. Kill the King | Rainbow 11. Stranglehold | Ted Nugent f. OOKING OVER OLD ISSUES OF that magazine cultural consciousness until 1995 at the earliest. people living together but this has nothing to do withBu t some small details stick out and ring false: a. L from CiTR 101.9fm gives me a funny feeling But I can almost always find a few bands I know, marriage in itself. character in the distant future gets out of a hover- sometimes, like the past captured in those or Discorder writers I remember. Today, the words car to use a phone booth, or types a message on yellowing newsprint pages really isn't very distant "Bronski Beat" brought me to this month's Spectre Uliana goes on to mention a few other a typewriter. Typewriters and phone booths? at all. of Discord: Lloyd Uliana's interview with S03, bands: Bronski Beat, as I mentioned. Ministry and Alongside rocket ships and laser guns? These This morning, I woke to up to CBC radio the synth and guitar player for the Belgian gay Vancouver's own Front Line Assembly. This gave details are sometimes the only thing that reminds and a discussion of the gay marriage debate in industrial group a;GRUMH (July 1990). I read the me another start—has anyone else noticed the me that these stories were written decades ago. Canada. The program was "The Contrarians", following excerpt with something like deja vu: posters for Front Line Assembly currently plastered They leap out like ancient artifacts in an otherwise a show that focuses on unpopular opinions and all over Commercial Drive? Between the continued familiar landscape. unconventional ideas. Today's unconventional Discorder: Right wing homophobia and AIDS gay marriage debate and apparent resurgence of Old issues of Discorder read much the notion? Apparently, some gay people don't want hysteria have pushed the topic of legalised local industrial acts, it seems like not much has same way. The cultural landscape seems almost to get married. I lay in bed listening to people homosexual marriage to the forefront in North changed in the 16 years between the July '90 issue the same: the same points are made in the same debate the merit of marriage in any variation until America... What are your views on homosexual and this one. I told myself that I was only eight debate I woke up to this morning, the same band I gathered the strength to heave my corpse off the marriage? when the 1990 issue came out, I'm too young to names recirculate. Only the details change. mattress and into the shower. After I'd caffeinated So3: I don't care personally about weddings and feel Discorder deja vu. And yet... Instead of phone-booths and typewriters, we have myself to a semblance of life, I made my way to UBC marriage: 1 don't see why I should ask permission, It's pretty much the same trippy feeling I get compact discs (not CDs) and cassingles, and full- to leaf through the Discorder Archives at CiTR. authorisation or any kind of regulation about my from reading Phillip K. Dick. His sci-fi visions of page ads for the most cutting-edge Walkman that When I'm going through the archives, decision to live with somebody or not to live with the future—surveillance technology, totalitarian money can buy. ^ I'm always surprised by the number of names somebody ... Of course, homosexual people livingstate s and corporate agendas—have remained I recognize. After all, I didn't gain any sort of together shouldhave the same rights as heterosexualcompellin g because they still feel conceivable. 6 JULY 2006 TEXTUALLY ACTIVE Field Notes from a Catastrophe, Bound By Law? Tales from the Public Domain, Drawn & Quarterly Showcase, Mome Field Notes from a Catastrophe Bound Bylaw? Tales from the Public Domain ISffiiHworibraWHe.**** ; by Elizabeth Kolbert JJ5t§|j| by Keith Aoki, James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins One of the artists Mome exposed me to is Jonathan Bennett, and DukeCenter fortheStudy of the Public Doimd^M I've since been a devoted fan. His work is reminiscent of Adrian As I remember JL9gl. Jjsn||Bfcjan Over the next few pages you'll find reports, anecdotes and downright lies from the Sasquatch Festival, May 26-28 at The Gorge in Washington; North by Northeast, June 8-10 throughout Toronto; and Vancouver's own Music Waste, June 1-4 in the lovely Downtown Eastside. If it's objective reporting you're after, We suggest you stick to the photographs, but if you don't mind a little individual interpretation, enjoy our madcap tour around the festival circuit No disrespect to the bands, because the weekend's lineup was a formidable one; literally something for everyone. But it was Mother Nature that would stand as tJieWstivaVs most memorable performer. E] CASE Idol-style rendering of the songioff of Multiply. Rather N M^F HER than pressing play on a DAT machine, the man who WAY through a makes up half of electro superstars Supercollider built «ffiIJ_TCH lone song before up each song individually, from a combination of pre a little thunder started to shout down her powerful recorded beats, on-the-fly keyboard riffs, and live pipes. At first,th e few rolling claps were only followed by samples of his own voice. Some songs stuck quite closely a smattering of rain, but shortly after the skies opened to their recorded counterparts, but for the most part, up and unleashed a torrent of the most ridiculous hail his set was a how-to lesson for electronic artists who O I've ever seen. I say "ridiculous," because, in all honesty, C think firing up Reason on a PowerBook and twiddling people were giggling about the marble sized balls of ice 3 a few knobs can pass as a performance. The breakdown at first—until we realized it wasn't about to stop. The Qof "When I Come Back Around" jammed like a one-man helplesband perseveres smile and fod rquipped one mor, "We'le songl bbefore righte Nek back.o gav" She ae 2 technchest oshakin Gratefug lbas Deads ap, and dsquealin "A Littlge Biecht More,o can" onlwityh itbes never returned to the water-logged stage. In fact, the described as an utterly delightful mindfuck. 25-minute downpour ended up producing a two hour No offense to anyone who starts swooning when delay on the main stage, and the only cancellations they hear Ben Gibbard's dainty lyricism, but JE'd rather due to inclement weather in the more than two decade wait in a 20 minute line up to buy overpriced, crappy history of the Gorge, effectively killing the side stages American.beer than pay attention to Death Cab. I for the day. actually took a nap instead, awaking in time to squeeze Getting soaking wet is never fun, but in retrospect, onto the floor for Beck. the freakish precipitation really added to the event. Everyone's favourite indie rock Scientologist Strangers held hands and splashed about in the must have thought he had a score to settle with Wayne formidably deep puddles. Dudes who had clearly had Coyne after the Flaming Lips and their army of waltzing one too many overpriced tall boys slid down the muddy mascots blew him off the stage night after night when hills to the exuberant efaeers of onlookers. A group of they toured together a couple of years ago, because his people huddled under a smuggled-in tarp near the main stage show pulled out all the stops. Backed by a sizable stage. A smaller group under the same tarp offered to band and accompanied by a break dancer, Beck also share their blow, which they were snorting right out of shared the spotlight with a miniature version of the the plastic bag (I declined). At one point, I found myself stage, and a set of doppelganging puppets. Broadcast crammed into a port-a-potty with three strangers (from onto a screen at the back of the real stage, puppet Vancouver, Wa and Portland, Oregon), one of whom Beck and his band mimicked their living counterparts kindly shared her contraband booze in an effort to fight almost exactly, thanks to a quartet of very talented the cold. Would I have preferred to stay dry and see string pullers. The attention to detail was astounding, Neko put in a full set? Of course. But, if nothing else, with Mr. Hansen's puppet counterpart even changing everyone who attended the Saturday of the festival has guitars at the appropriate time. With the spectacle a story to tell. going on behind them, they probably could've got away I started off Sunday by taking in Jamie Lidell's set with calling in a half-assed performance, but the band was tight as hell, and the songs sounded sharp, without at the re-opened side stage. While he creates electronic- Photos by Melanie Coles based music, he wasn't about to call in an American being exact replicas of their recorded counterparts. ooooooooooooooo T WAS WITH WET PANTS, welted feet, and the crowd's gaze away from the live I a belly full of bear claws that I wiggled view. Everyone had a digital camera and ' through sweaty teenagers to get a everyone had the same fuzzy picture of a better view of The Shins. We had endured silhouetted guitar player. a five-hour drive, eked out our square of The Shins played like we all expected camping lawn, marched through perfectly them to play, like we were in their good rattlesnake habitat, basked in Iron basement waiting for kool-aid and our and Wine's inspiring set, and survived an turn with the nintendo. I closed my eyes apocalyptic hail-storm (hence the pants and saw wood paneling. I can't imagine and feet). I can only assume that Neko' it's easy to make tens of thousands of Case survived as well. An hour earlier! people feel like they know what you're she had gathered up her gear and pride > talking about. I wouldn't know where to and made a run for it, never to return. I'm ' start. I'm glad they figured it out though. pretty sure she didn't get electrocuted. To . It was the difference between going to be honest though, I was preoccupied with a festival and feeling completely alone protecting my toes and beer at the time. and going to a festival and feeling like Maybe someone should check up on her. everyone is somehow the same. One is From my vantage through bobbing much better than the other. shag-cuts and rain-coat hoods, The Shins On the way home we managed to were taking turns with the halo provided squeak in a visit to the Petrified Gingko by the setting sun. James sang "Fate isn't State Park. We learned that the Gorge what we're up against" and I'm pretty was formed during the last glaciation by sure he meant the weather, just this once. a giant ice dam that created a lake the A girl standing to my left with smeared size of Lake Erie and Ontario put together. eyeliner sang every word of every song. When the ice dam receded and broke, A kid behind me in full raingear tapped all that water rushed out to the ocean, me several times on the shoulder to tell carving out the gorge on its way. So, if me that he was from Portland and that it wasn't for the Ice Age, there would be the band also now lives in Portland. The no Sasquatch Festival. 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Without the shitty music playing [Zulu getting the ol' bear hug from the bounce you can have a beer and pleasant conversation. | at the Pic on Friday. Oh, and apparently Sean After some scrambling on the part of the lOrr got punched in the head at The Columbia organizers and a no-show band, the night was Ion Saturday duringiBakelite's set.jRuckus! ostensibly back on track. Ignoring my better sense I braved the downpour and found myself SUNDAY: EOXUMDIA at the Pic in time forlThe Mutators' seUPerhaps ; Very little reason to be anywhere else tonight. it was the drink, but I am now the proud owner ! Unlike the other nights of MW that found of an oversized tee proclaiming "I like mutators, j the line-ups begging for venue shifting, the ok". The statement holds true in sobreity too! I Columbia on Sunday was solid. Arrived in the Wish I caughtjAl Gore's set.! ! midstofTheParallels' setandstayedtillthebitter end. The big cap of the evening and perhaps the FRIDAY AND SATURDAY: QUESNEL entirety of MW was the unexpected appearance (most concentrated industrial center in BC aka of The Book of Lists at the end of Anemones' Gold Pan City) set. They played one song, their best of course, Friday and Saturday found me visiting my and were appreciated. To preface, there was a 90-year old grandmother that I hadn't seen in certain amount of controversy surrounding nearly a decade at my parent's (and gasp—my the Book of Lists non-participation in MW and adolescent) home in Quesnel. That bitch is by their treatment by Only. A month after the fact, far the most impressive thing I witnessed all if you don't know about it whatever and if you weekend and that is no slag against MW. do...well, whatever. In the end, what mattered It seems that the back, to back all ages was that Sean Orr was there. If ever was distilled §< shows at the I Ukrainian Hall [were a hit with the spirit of Music Waste this is it: Not only do S: the people appropriate to such a venue. I you get a punch in the head, but you return "• respect that all ages show exist and would to the scene of the punch in the head the very Portland's Bird Costumes at The Pic Pub, Friday, June 2 Photo by Sarah Cordingley g. even say, yes, there should probably be more. next night. A fine way to end what amounted jg However, I'm not sad I missed this, because it to a festival that delivered what it promised to: (puvdq dniq <$ ui/of Buoi) S9jmid uipd ^ doesn't seem right for me to rain scorn upon music and waste. There you have it, my Music 'SuiqjAUB 3>iq Aqeaj j.uop 3M pus c those blissfully ignorant that something better Waste 2006 •aAqe AJIO sun Suidaasj %p\ sSuiqj pooS K\ao aqj jo auo si a?SBM oismn -UMOjq spuim j§- exists. Plus, standing in darkened periphery Caroline Walker ano pBq aM jBqj JOBJ aqj mojj PBJJSTO jou pip 'spusq aqj jo auo SB \\OM. SB dn SuiMoqs „u3 punos B jo 3[aBi aqj -ami} jaijaq B pBq aABq IOU pmoo aM -jjuBjp aM pajtBjd aM The Mutators sell Lucas Soi a. 5! ** i fi s_ 9- a H H c I. 5*8-1 ft DEST YENUE: PUB 3_D The venue provided a decent atmosphere for the eclectic punk inspired festival. The Is- event sponsor Only magazine put its flag up II" behind the stage, and there was a minimum of drama with management and bar fights, in contrast to Music Waste shows at the Pic and Columbia. The sole bad thing was not enough people attended. Arthur Krumins 10 JULY 2006 NORTH BY NORTHEAST MUSIC AND FILM FESTIVAL IS ONE OF CANADA'S BIGGEST AND BEST ARTS FESTIVALS. IT IS DEDICATED TO INDEPENDENT CREATORS AND PRODUCERS OF MUSIC AND FILM, AND HAS BEEN AROUND NOW FOR 12 YEARS. THIS YEAR THERE WERE OVER 4OO BANDS PLAYING IN OVER 30 VENUES AROUND TORONTO DURING A PERIOD OF 3 DAYS IN EARLY JUNE. IT IS A FAIRLY EPIC EVENT. flit DfJIN" TIME IN THE CITY fJF SMQKE ADVENTURES AT NORTH BY NORTHEAST 2006 HERE WERE ALSO A LITTLE more than 15 of foxes on roller skates who sing and dance a rugged watering hole for people of the T music-related indie films playing around and generally cause mayhem. It is rumored psychobilly persuasion, located in beautifully town, including one produced by Stewart that they glide the avenues near College & fragrant Chinatown. There's a statue above Copeland that collected some of his backstage Shaw, but tonight they were laying down a the entrance of a screaming, guitar-wielding super-8 footage from his days with the Police. relatively earthy Girlschool vibe that I did not ghoul with a mohawk if that gives you any I-had the opportunity to attend NxNE this year find displeasing. They also play a lot of euchre idea. Happily, Montreal's The Besnard Lakes with the masterful Calvin Sweers—whose film" F and sleep on couches. We all eventually made were on stage, and in the middle of throwing reviews are located at the end of this article— g our way to the poorly named but ambient down an assault of chiming guitars and wide- and the uber-talented photographer Sophie 3 Ciao Edie Roxx. It's a little lounge on College open jams. My notes say something about Kinachtchouk. Q Street where we saw a fairly awesome band 'windblown Arizona desert ditties', 'sweet It would be impossible for anyone to § named Girl + the Machine, a four-piece solos', and 'the whiskey-soaked madness of the attempt to cover every aspect of NxNE. It's 5J* art rock ensemble from Toronto that came Supersuckers'. Make of that what you will. "just too huge. It sprawls in all directions like -5 across with a kind of psychedelic, flanger- something out of an HP Lovecraft story. Yet infected sensibility. Girl—as she prefers to be SATURDAY JUNE TO NxNE's greatest strength is this immense kpown—is a lithe Malaysian beauty with a diversity of scope. With so many different styles gorgeous voice and a seductive stage presence. Saturday had a good feeling about it, of music showcased in so many venues, it's She belted and purred her way through every and we shook away the cobwebs of the night amazing to think that there's enough people song. The Machine are a fine band featuring before with an afternoon pow-wow on a Queen to go around. There's so much opportunity some great guitar playing and a heavy rhythm Street patio. We got to the Horseshoe Tavern for random encounters, weird surprises section. Their set was really well-executed early, and were treated to one of the best shows and drunken decisions that even the most and infinitely superior to the band that came of the festival right off the bat. Sylvie, a four- persnickety planner is doomed to eventually next. Stop Resuscitate Die were the final act of piece from Regina, hit the stage like a house go with the flow. Thursday evening at the Ciao Edie, and they on fire. They had a rich, driving, distorted rock We decided to forego all of the standard were not good. They offered punkishness and sound like All State Champion swapping spit 'must-see' events. We turned down Television, vague political rants between-songs. I didn't with the long-defunct Closed Captioned Radio. the Buzzcocks and Pink Mountaintops in favour care. I was already looking forward to Friday Singer/guitarist Joel Passmore rocked out on of bands like Girl + the Machine, The Besnard night. his Rickenbacker while the band's bassist Riva Lakes and Sylvie. We weren't interested in that Farrell Racette was pure elemental magic. other stuff. It seemed hke too much hassle. FRIDAY JUNE D9 During the third song her bass strap broke but NxNE schedules every band for an hour she continued to thrum from herknees on the on the stage. This timeline includes set-up and Friday night in Toronto is always a good stage like she was possessed. She even belted tear-down of equipment before and after the time. The streets were full of weirdos and ne'er- out the chorus though she was nowhere near show, so it usually works out to a 40-minute do-wells of every stripe. The studded belts, a mic. They eventually borrowed a strap for set. Bands tend not to bring the flash pots and leather skull caps and red bandana wrist bands her and continued to slay the stage for the rest hydraulic drum risers for these gigs, and that were everywhere. We started the evening of the show. I hope they make it to Vancouver, Dietzche V because I would definitely see them again. & the Abominable makes for a compact, stripped down show. It by catching the Cyberkrib showcase at the Snowman allows the audience to be a little closer to the wonderfully funky Gypsy Co-op. Kitchener's From there we went off to a very tiny band musically, and makes the players work a Embassy kicked things off with a little Roots- room called Holy Joe's and caught a band little harder. With the music as the sole focus, inspired hip hop. The stylin' MCs had some called Doris Day. They are apparently the pride there can be too much emphasis on the sound real chops, but their all-white backing band of Barrie, Ontario and there's no question that crew to make the right adjustments from band came across as a bit, um, white. Next up was I they came to play. They laid down a high- to band, and in some cases the bands lose out. the highly anticipated Kobayashi; I have energy show full of waving tambourines, It's a bit of a crap shoot in some venues. Some their first CD at home and have always liked soaring electric-guitars, crashing cymbals and 1 bands can overcome this and others get lost it. Unfortunately, they were sunk by terrible ( a definite groove. The good news is that I'm and frustrated. sound quality—mics that worked sporadically, , at a loss for comparisons for this band. They Knowing that this was going to be a loose grounds, lost vocals. Their set ended up' swagger like dangerous sex and hit you in the steady, 3-day assault on our senses, my crew resembling a Herbaliser remix of the Moody stomach like a swift descent on a rollercoaster. and I developed a plan. There were 2 cardinal Blues in mono. To their credit, Kobayashi gave They packed the place and played with passion, rules taken from the King Crimson school of the performance everything they had, but it and everyone left happy. Girl + the Machine songwriting: let's ease into this thing slowly just didn't translate. Another great show that night was and never be afraid to improvise. We had every intention of catching , hometown boys Crash Kelly at the Reverb. They We would use Thursday night as a kind the acid-infused madness of White Cowbell came to throw down an absolute no-nonsense of litmus test. We'd casually check out a few Oklahoma at the Horseshoe, but not even ! lesson in rock 'n roll with a side of glam. From venues, gauge the crowd and feel out the our all-access media passes could get us in the red and black wide-striped jacket of the general vibe. Friday night we'd take it up a for that show. The line-up was around the lead singer to his shameless mugging for the notch. We'd find a few bars with character corner an hour before show time and the place camera, this show was an event. Crash Kelly and good lighting, and fire back a few shots was already jammed. We wound up catching worked to invoke the combined spirits of Alice of tequila between sets. By Saturday we'd be the last song of their extended set—which Cooper, Marc Bolan and Ace Frehley, shredding ready for the crush. We'd start that night at somehow included a topless dancer and a the wallpaper with guitar solos, tight jeans and the epicenter of the Toronto rock scene—the tonne of confetti—but not before hitting the El quivering hips. They had a lot of fun on stage legendary Horseshoe Tavern—before hitting Mocambo for a thorough schooling in Kraut- and we all had smiles on our faces for the entire the streets in search of new musical stylings. rock energy from Edmonton's Dietzche V & the performance—even if we were occasionally •From there all bets were off—we'd cast Abominable Snowman. My scribbled notes shaking our heads in disbelief. ourselves into the hurricane of chance and see from that session mention that they sounded The night kind of faded to black from where we ended up. like a weird collision of Eddy Grant, New Order there. The last two shows that we saw couldn't and Sign o' the Times era Prince. They pounded hold a candle to the high standard of Doris Day, THURSDAY JUNE 08 their keyboards and twiddled endless knobs like Crash Kelly or Sylvie, and it's not eyen worth Nevermind never happened, and they danced getting into. We left the Reverb that night We spent the early hours of Thursday and sang like pagans around a bonfire. A great blissfully drunk on music and liquor, weaving evening devouring king cans of Heineken show and highly recommended. Who knows our way home past packed pizza parlours and on the patio of Action Jackson's-Bohemian whether that kind of energy can translate into big crowds of rowdy drunks at other bars. It Bordello on Shaw Avenue with the Smoke a studio recording? I'd be interested to know. was the end of the line, but that was alright. City Betties. The Betties are a loose-knit posse From there it was off to the Silver Dollar, We couldn't have asked for more. RivaFarrellRacette -FILMS CfF NXNE— • by Calvin Sweers MUTUAL APPRECIATION; HIGH AND DRY *T i YES, THEY HAVE MOVIES AT NXNE this year; sixteen, High and Dry * * actually. No, it's not just bands." Such was my Directed by Michael Toubassi refrain, usually shouted over a sonic boom of gee-tar or intoned over coffee to the server at brunch. And if the Tucson doesn't know if it wants to be a big city or a two great indie flicks that I managed to take in are any small town. And therein may lay the source of inspiration indication, they'll certainly be doing it all again next year. for the legion of musicians that have marinated in that desert, simmered, boiled and exploded out onto the larger Mutual Appreciation music landscape. This documentary attempts to capture Written and directed by Andrew Bujalski. Starring Justin Rice,thei r stories. Rachel Clift, Andrew Bujalski Watching the interviews, the old concert tapes, the grainy house, party footage, we get a glimpse at the Once you've had your fill of summer blockbusting, innovative history, the friendly folks and the trying times why not take a little stroll down Believability Boulevard from 1980 onwards. You would not be alone in trying to by catching Mutual Appreciation at your local rep cinema? decipher the exact ingredients that produce the range of Writer/director Andrew Bujalski has created a subtle and talent and eclectic array of sounds and styles born out of clever examination of friendship, family, love, lust and of this arid corner of the world. course, music—all with the simplest of situations. But with each hilarious story recounted, each Alan (Justin Rice) has left Boston, arriving in New revolutionary moment re-lived, a little piece of the city's York with his guitar to start anew his musical career. personality falls into view and we begin to understand the He hooks up with a couple old friends to help him settle, mind-state, the romance and the reason. This place, these and all he wants or needs is a drummer, and maybe a job. people, their sound is grand. The stakes may not seem high, but don't let that fool you. As for the term 'desert rock', many of the artists tend Bujalski reels you in to Alan's story with coy discussions to scoff or question just what the hell it's supposed to mean. between all sorts of locals, using some languid camera Some of the artists confess its meaninglessness; an imposed work and gritty candour to create a refreshingly natural branding used to package the sound and market the music. fly-on-the-wall feel. The loose, rambling dialogue and In short: bullshit. But I'll let the reader watch Michael (which I thought were, but later discovered weren't) Toubassi's Tucson-scene retro/proto-spective and judge for improvised performances left me incredibly happy for three themselves whether to remove it from their Lexicon of Rock reasons: finally some real acting, some real behaviour, and and banish it to the ranks of 'fly', 'boss' and 'white rapper'. no pretense. So for the uninitiated, don't let names like Calexico, The joy in this movie comes from seeing beautifully Supersuckers, Giant Sand, Bob Log III or Rainer Ptacek ordinary and honest portrayals—like Alan phoning his intimidate you; let them pique you. And for the already dad for money, or Ellie (Rachel Clift) wrestling with the initiated, how are you, good to see you, come on in, it's hot concept of monogamy. Bujalski has managed to evoke a out, can I get you a drink? ^r wide range of bright, awkward, funny and introspective moments. At some point in this movie you'll want to call up the cast yourself and go for a beer. If it's 109 minutes of 'new' that you're after, check this one out. a new shop in gastown, open every Saturday, starting July 22. CLOTHES BUTTONS BOOKS ZINES ETC 305 CAMIIg AT CORDpmftfW SAfWPOs^i 3JAM - 7PM www.gllbertandgilbert.ca I 604-801-5163 12 JULY2006 by Curtis Woloschuk | ILLUSTRATION BY CARSON DALEY THElgE OF ELECTRIC EMPIRE A well-placed boot to Kerns' head sent him face the floor. The vividly garbed duo's eyes were fixed first to the ground. Then, Grimmer hoisted up the shut while their lips moved of their own accord. prisoner's fresh CBGB t-shirt only to find his worst "They told me that they're attempting to access the suspicions confirmed. Kerns' back was composed astral plane to seek the counsel of the 'dovetailed of an intricate lattice of wires and circuitry. starfish guardian of the primordial psyche.'" A Grimmer pushed the "Call" button on his cell pregnant pause followed. "They kind of weird me phone. As a static-scratched connection was established, he started issuing directives. "Jack, it's "They weird everyone out." A series of shrill beeps " I dre w the short straw," chagrined Jason Grir Grimmer. We've got ourselves a situation. Kerns is called Glimmer's attention back to the command "McBean and Bejar are on tour. Newman's on his loose. He duped us with a bloody android. Hit the counsel. "It's Jack," he informed Dahle. With a annual sex tourism romp through Thailand. I'm streets and start shaking things up." Eyeing the volley of keystrokes, a connection was established left to play nursemaid." The scruffy vocalist pulled expired automaton, the potential repercussions of with Jack Duckworth's camera phone. The initial a Bolivar Corona cigar from his jacket and sparked Kerns' escape raced through his imagination. "We video transmission was alarming. The Super aKhter. Trips to the TASCAM (Terrorist Assaults/ need to find this guy ASAP." Group's dark avenger seemed to be reporting in gftlless Crimes Against Music) Detention Facility from ground zero of a devastating natural disaster. Bvays made him edgy. When he got edgy, he liked "What the hell happened?" to puff on something Cuban. "The Buffalo Club's welcome wagon," shared Ifan't smoke that in here," advised Big Hamm. Back within the confines of The Super Group's Duckworth. Unconscious and badly beaten bar T% burly, sequin jumpsuit-clad warden nodded headquarters/rehearsal space, Grimmer was patrons were perched atop the stools to his side. rewards the sprinkler system nestled overhead. perched at the edge of his command chair. Clouds Behind him, collaterally damaged neon signs I "»u'll set off the waterworks." of acrid smoke billowed from his smouldering flickered at the brink of death and a large mirror "This place could use a decent soak." The dingy, cigar. In front of him, a video display broadcast boasted a prominent web-like crack. Shards of <§>ncrete innards of the subterranean prison were events unfolding in the tech room two floors broken glass littered the bar top hke confetti. rank with the feuding odours of mildew, human below. Grimmer watched plaintively as Shawn "Kerns' favourite lap dancer put me onto this Jwaste and artistic bankruptcy. Bristow sifted through various components he'd place." A smirk curled Duckworth's lips. "Get this. : "Hey! Hey! You gotta get me outta here! I don't culled from the android's torso. At Bristow's side, Kerns ends up sobbing like a baby every time she belong here!" A dishevelled Matthew Good Andy Dixon industriously catalogued information bumps and grinds him. Then, he heads over here pounded desperately on the solid bars of his cell. into his laptop. Grimmer activated the intercom to drown his sorrows." "I'm trying to bring down the industry by operating and enquired, "You guys have anything for me?" "What did you turn up?" inside the system. I want to tell you about my new Bristow shook his head in dismay. "The "I had to liberate some teeth before anyone direction!" His petitions went unheeded. "At least Robosexuals and I have tossed together some would loosen their tongue." Bruised and bloodied give me back my glasses." pretty decent 'bots in our time," he muttered over knuckles were presented as evidence. "Kerns made "Shut the fuck up!" Hamm slammed his nightstick the corn-link. "I mean, we once built a cyborg a cameo appearance last week. Just long enough against the cell door and sent Good scurrying in sheltie with just a Kleenex box, candy bar wrapper, to pick up his bro..." toothbrush and Jack Russell terrier." retreat. "Any more of your shit and you're sharing The transmission abruptly cut to static. Confusion a cell with the 604 Records boys. Simkin's been "That doesn't help me," chastised Grimmer. "I guess what I'm saying is that this stuff here is gripped Grimmer's face. "What the..." A digital begging for some fresh meat." With Good reduced hash-heavy image of Duckworth was briefly a little beyond me," replied Bristow. "I mean, this to a whimpering wreck, Hamm guided his guest resuscitated only to die out a second time. On has all sorts of metal and wires and stuff." He past another three cells and on to their target. this occasion, it dragged the entirety of the Grimmer stepped to the door and peered beyond held aloft a circuit board as an example. "I'm also headquarters' interior lights along with it. the reinforced steel stanchions. Todd Kerns sat kind of freaked out that I might get electrocuted. I "Damn it!" railed Grimmer amidst the darkness. slumpedagainstthefarwall.Madink-bearingarms already got some solder on my hand." Rubbing his "Those jackasses in the tech room probably blew hung to the floor and gave him the appearance of palm, he grumbled, "Still kind of stings." a breaker." a puppet minus its master. Grimmer felt a fleeting "Hey," chimed in Dixon. He was keenly surveying pang of pity before recalling the damage wrought his laptop's monitor. "You guys should see what "I don't think that's your problem," advised an unfamiliar voice. by Static In Stereo's self-titled debut. Freshly that android's nuclear fusion engine is going for motivated, he barked, "Kerns! Hamm here tells online. We should totally eBay this shit!" The overhead fluorescents flickered back to life. me you've been a model citizen. Keep up the good "Jesus!" disparaged The Super Group's acting Grimmer spun his chair about and met with an behaviour and we might just book you a show at leader. "I need you guys to find something. Serial alarming discovery. The nefarious Todd Kerns had the Backstage Lounge. Maybe even something on numbers. Anything. We need to trace where these breached the defences of the heroes' sanctum and a weekend." parts came from." now stood but three metres away. Compounding matters, he wasn't alone. Two similarly attired "You guys have been great," offered the dark- A defensive air overtook Bristow. "Damn it, men flanked his sides. Rattled by the rapid turn of tressed prisoner in a disimpassioned tone. "I just Grimmer. I'm a multi-instrumentalist, not a events. Grimmer struggled to identify the villain's want to thank all the fans." miracle worker!" accomplices. "Who...?" "Yeah, whatever." Grimmer cut the video feed. "This had to happen " Good god," gasped Dahle. "That's his brother John "You guys have been great," Kerns repeated. "I... while I was in charge," he mumbled. "I was going and my brother Ryan." Shaking uncontrollably, just... want..." His monotone voice began to slow to start two new bands this week." His rampant he swallowed heavily. "Grimmer... He's... He's as if he were a wind-up toy in need of a decent aggravation edged closer to the redline as he reassembled Age of Electric." crank. "To... thank... aaaaallllllll..." became attuned to a guttural chanting echoing "Not quite," corrected a smug Kerns. He offered Hamm huffed derisively. "Jesus. This guy's a real about the room. "What the hell...?" a sly smile and flung a pointed finger in the piece of..." "It's The Winks, chief." Grimmer had almost direction of Dahle. Relishing the theatrics, he forgotten that Kurt Dahle was standing behind dramatically intoned, "I believe your Super Group "Shit!" Grimmer reached for his pocket and him. The nimble percussionist waved cigar smoke retrieved his cell phone. While scrolling through has something that belongs to us." away from his face before gesturing towards the his contacts, he turned to Hamm and demanded, centre of the large room. There, Todd and Tyr of "Get that room open. Now!" After a moment's pause, the warden punched a password into the The Winks sat cross-legged on a throw rug. A To be continued... ^ locking mechanism's keypad. 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It's about the gay hankie Hang on, hang on, I think I can help we have already gotten to know a the good part of being solo and doing really light, and it's fake platinum, code, a traditional form you with this..." bit about one another, I decide to everything and proving that you and it's horrible...[but] I got a little As earlier albums The Teaches of signaling sexual pre ask Peaches if she envisions Impeach can already do it," Peaches explains phone charm that says "Welcome to of Peaches and Fatherfucker have ferences and interests My Bush booking newer, younger when I ask her how she manages to Las Vegas" on it, so I've made it my signalled Peaches' penchant for hot through 'flagging' a audiences with its racy refrains. join forces with a team of musical own." topics to her listeners, her third full- "What, like five?" Peaches fires heavyweights and yet remain an coloured or patterned length LP Impeach My Bush plunges ^O* Although the polka dots on back. "Like, how much younger autonomous artistic entity, "because my hankie are white on a blue hankie from a back the body politic further south of can they get?" Always on the edge then'you can expand it and it's stUl pocket. It's Friday, just the border for another campaign background, Peaches informs me of willingness to participate in our you. And people are like, T can get that, according to the hankie code, before noon, and the through forbidden territory. Peaches, exchange, she continues, "Umj yeah, behind that. I can get in front of however, downplays the political "If you are wearing a white hankie Canadian-born, Berlin- yeah...No, I think this album should that.'" Sure enough, as Peaches tells with multi-coloured dots, that means significance of the titillating title be a mainstream album. And I mean it, it was Joan Jett who made the first based minimalist pop when I ask her if the name alone is you're hosting an orgy or looking for that in such a good way because I move ("She's always wearing [a] an orgy." By the end of the interview. rock sensation and sub- enough to make Impeach My Bush think everybody should hear what I black hankie...on the left.") to get a mainstream political album. "I Peaches and I know a bit more about cultural sex symbol has have to say." behind Impeach My Bush. each other's personal preferences, agreed to play some always thought that if I made a greatest hits or a last album, I'd say Peaches is equally forthright Joan Jett, for instance, called but I still want to know how a gender- 'getting-to-know-you- 'impeachment,' you know? And it when I ask her what she thinks will me and said, 'What are you doing? bending groundbreaker who once games' with me before just seemed like a good opportunity,. be dirtier about Impeach My Bush I heard you're in L.A. and you're referred to herself as a "conduit for we talk about her forth a good time...with what's going for audiences already accustomed making a record. Can I come by sex" in a 2003 interview with Spin coming album, Impeach on in the world, to use 'Bush,' and to the controversial. "Well, what do and listen?' So she came by, it was magazine thinks Impeach My Bush 'Impeach' and 'Impeach My Bush.'" you think?" Embarrassed because her 47th birthday and I'm like, 'You will push new boundaries in the wake My Bush, due out July 11 the shock-pop sovereign has caught like it? You like this song?' She's hke, of an album as sexually charged as More candidly. Peaches remarks on XL Recordings. 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"Oh, mostly it's just that her third album will say comes DiSCORDER 2 7 SIJ^GIN$ IN T0NGUES" / by Chris Little | ILLUSTRATION BY WILL BROWN\ UANA MOLINA IS AN ARGENTINEAN national treasure. anymore and starting all over again. new songs. I wasn't very aware of what I was doing, so Once a celebrated comedic actress and television when I decided to make a new record, the first thing I did Jpersonality, she is now a renowned singer-songwriter Did you always have a desire to merge electronic was sit down and take a listen to what I had. I found that who creates music of subtle depth and beauty. By music with singer-songwriter elements, or is that maybe 70 percent of the record was already there and I embracing elements of traditional folk and enveloping, something that developed only recently? didn't know it! I got so enthusiastic because I thought them in swaths of minimal electronics, she is able to JM: When I returned to music the only instruments I that I was going to need almost two years to finish it, generate a surprising variety of moods and textures, had at home were a bass, a guitar, and a drum machine, as with the other two records. But I finished the record using hypnotic repetition and the gradual addition of so all the arrangements were made for those and in two months because I had been recording all these unusual sounds to produce an irresistibly charming vocals. I didn't even think about keyboards, because at things. That's how Son came out...very easily. sense of controlled psychedelia. Her approach is simple that time I didn't like them. I thought that keyboards and intimate, yet her artistry is unique. were cheesy and that everyone used the same horrible So you didn't feel the same pressure to change as Although the vast majority of Molina's songs are sounds. But then a friend of mine taught me that you you'd felt before? sung in Spanish, they radiate a universality that defies could actually program your own sounds, and that's JM: No, because what I found when I was listening to linguistic constraints. Currently on tour promoting when I got interested in synthesizers. I didn't know you what I had was that the sounds were new, at least for > her third internationally-released album Son (Domino/ could do that. me. Something was different. I don't know exactly what, Outside), I had the opportunity to sit down with this but the spirit was more energetic and alive than on the lovely and talented artist prior to her solo performance tb Were there any particular artists that influenced other two records. on June 20 at Richard's, sandwiched in between you when you were exploring what could be done U.K. chamber-pop act Psapp and the Swedish singer- with synthesizers? In the past you've expressed regret about leaving songwriter stylings of current indie-darling Jose some of your more adventurous material off of Gonzalez. JM: Just my friend. He wanted me to listen to some of his songs, and I invited him over. He came with a keyboard your albums. Are you still in the habit of holding and I thought 'This is gonna suck!', but then he started back, or do you now let all of your creative OOOOO OOOOO OOOOO , to play some sequences he had and I didn't understand impulses flourish no matter how crazy they might seem? where the sounds were coming from. I didn't know you You don't tend to make a lot of information about could sequence anything...I didn't even know what a JM: I think I've become more secure in some ways, your personal life available, and you rarely use sequence was. That's when I learned that the presets in because when I knew Segundo was going to become a images of yourself to promote your work. Was that a keyboard are just to show you what the instrument record I mixed some of the arrangements really low. I a deliberate decision you. made at the beginning of is able to do. So I immediately bought a keyboard and didn't dare put them too loud, but I didn't want to get your musical career? started to work on my own sounds. I got rid of all the rid of them either. For example, at the end of "Misterio Juana Molina: It wasn't even a decision—I just don't do presets, of course! Uruguayo" it seems like there are a lot of people it. I'm not very careful about my website or my image, screaming and singing and saying insane things, but and I'd rather not be. That's why I'm not on the covers of It seems that your songwriting approach has you can barely hear it. I don't regret that decision, I just my records either. changed from album to album. On Tres Cosas the regret the fact that I didn't dare. arrangements are more stripped-down than they Was your attitude a reaction at all to having your are on Segundo, whereas Son feels like a more Are you planning to write any more material in face constantly on television? developed version of both-. How do you approach English? the creation of each new record? JM: Maybe. When I was an actress and very famous and JM: I think language is something that really represents JM: I don't know. I don't have any preconceived ideas of blah, blah, blah, I wasn't at all into being photographed who you are. I am a little bit like the Woody Allen movie what I'm going to do. It's just something that happens. like all the other celebrities. I never did that. Now when Zelig with languages. If I spend some time with Galia Segundo for a long time was my favourite record, because I watch TV, I feel so relieved that I know I'm not going to [Durant; of tourmates Psapp], after a while I begin to it's freer than the others. I wasn't thinking about be there. It's very comfortable to know that you're not speak exactly as she does. She's from England and she making a record at the time I recorded it. When I made going to be on TV, that you're protected. has her own vocabulary. the others I was already in the "industry," although my I don't have roots in different languages, so even industry is pretty small. When I recorded Tres Cosas I Did the persistent media attention have anything if I know what I'm saying in English, I don't know how had a base of concerns about what people might think. I'm saying it. I know it's a big barrier, and that it would to do with your decision to abandon television in I was very afraid that the encouraging and supportive favour of pursuing music? be much more commercial if I did my whole thing in fans I made with Segundo were not going to like it, so I JM: No, no. I abandoned music without noticing what English. But if the barrier is going to prevent people from started to think a little more. I didn't want it to be as full listening to my music I have to take that risk, because I I was doing. I started to work on TV because I wanted a record, so it's more stripped-down. I could have added to have money to be able to keep taking guitar lessons, really need to be sure about what I'm doing. I wouldn't layers and layers because I love to do that, but I decided be myself. I could do it in French, as I did in one song pay rent, and play music. Then I got famous without not to. noticing it, and I got away from music for several years. on Tres Cosas, but French was for some time my second But that wasn't at all my plan. When I recorded Son the process was totally language, because I lived there when I was a teenager. different, because I was using a lot of new ideas to play I can recognize who I am in French, so I know what I'm saying. I really don't feel like I could sing in English. So it wasn't a difficult decision? the songs from Segundo and Tres Cosas in a different way in my live shows. I realized that if I didn't record them I JM: It was difficult for other reasons. It was difficult was going to find all these new ideas old when the time because I had to abandon a very huge career and all came to make a new album. So when I went back home in the facilities that gives you. Everything comes easy. But after each tour I immediately recorded my set in the at that point I really didn't care about having money studio because I wanted to put all these new ideas into lULY 2006 by Graham Preston | ILLUSTRATION BY BEN FREY URING/THE LAST FEW post-modern material from albums such as Mr. Lif s I Phantom, Aesop Rock's Labor Days D WEEK?, I'VE BEEN OBSESS and El-P's Fantastic Damage. At the time, I IVELY LISTENING TO EITHER paid little attention to this disjunction; it was just part of the show designed to rock the Mo' Mega, THE NEW RECORD crowd. But now, especially after the release BY BOSTON, MA'S OWN MR. of Mo' Mega, I am struck by the contrast LIF, OR REALLY OLD SCHOOL between the pure fun of the routines and the relatively serious nature of the songs. RAP OF THE LATE 1970S AND EARLY I98OS FROM ARTISTS SUCH AS BUSY BEE AND Mo' Mega, though—and this is the GRANDMASTER CAZ OF THE point that really makes this record and its COLD CRUSH BROTHERS (WHO progenitor so worthwhile—combines the playfulness of the routines with Mr. Lif's WERE APPARENTLY A VERY serious and political ethos into one package. YOUNG JAY-Z'S FAVOURITE In other words, he takes his latent Busy GROUP). Bee—the earliest party-rocking solo emcee (think Jeezy for 1980)—and combines it with the Public Enemy-inspired "robo- Rakim" vibe that Lif has been noted for by writers like Peter Macia since the late 1990s. Critic Tom Breihan calls the new record "the E HAND, COMPARING THE CADENCES first album where he abandons abstract and flows used by Lif and Cold Crush sets apocalyptic parables and lets his humanity these records far apart. There's also the shine through," while Macia spends most of monumentally different beats, which are just his time in the review telling his readers that house-band-replayed disco breaks in the old Mo' Mega is Lif at his most personal. But both school songs, contrasted with the blistering, reviewers miss the point entirely, since Lif sample-heavy, futuristic boom-bap of Mr. has always been spitting personal raps about Lif's producers, who include El-P (the man humanity, such as I Phantom's "Live from the in charge of thee prominent indie rap imprint Plantation," which details, in horrifyingly Definitive Jux—Mr. Lif's label) and Edan of accurate terms, a typical work day. On Mo' Beauty and the Beat fame. Mega, Lif augments his personal style with a much more playful and ultimately fun But, on the other hand, the old school approach. For example, check out the absurd and Mr. Lif dovetail so well that one could fantasy of "Murs Iz My Manager," where reasonably draw a continuum of hip-hop guest emcee Murs tells Mr. Lif that Al Gore, history that would place Caz on one end and Ben Affleck, Eminem, Jay-Z, Andre 3000 On "Washitup," he adopts a Bajan accent and food in "The Fries" while aptly piling intricate Mr. Lif on the other. Throughout his career, and Rakim want to collaborate with him. On H does his best dancehall impression to rap about yet discernible poetic conceits on top of each Mr. Lif's work has played with and relied upon the sex-epic tracks "Washitup" and "Long an encounter with a woman who, despite other. George W. Bush and other politicians, of the signifiers, cliches and guaranteed party- Distance," Lif puts his newly relaxed craft to appearance, is "smelling unstable," which course, do not escape the ire of Lif. On "Brothaz" rocking techniques that were pioneered o in turn leads to Lif's "frustration from a vile Mr. Lif raps, "the Bush administration is during the earliest days of recorded hip hop sensation." He then advises her to "wash it up worth nothing / Just fuck 'em / Throw 'em in culture. This is not to say that Lif is merely Despite the overall genre's reputation before you make me cry / You look good, smell the barrel, buck 'em." He later makes sure to derivative of a bunch of now washed-up and for a tendency towards misogynistic and bad, girl, bye-bye." The tone of the song is clearly note, "Fuck Clinton too / You ain't really down nearly forgotten pioneers. Rather, he takes sexually explicit subject matter, strangely, w playful, but instead of relying upon cliches or because you live uptown, bitch / Rwanda." these signifiers and makes them his own, underground hip-hop is relatively free of such "pre-pubescent reference points," Lif is both Additionally, "The Come Up"—featuring fellow which is one of the reasons why I find him material. If anything, the underground didactic and entertaining. "Long Distance," on Boston-based emcee Akrobatik and Columbus, usually displays a certain shyness and juve w one of the most vital and interesting artists the other hand, features Lif at his most serious Ohio's Blueprint—turns its attention to a series in the now maligned and basically stagnant nile attitude towards sex. The sexual honesty and seductive, as he lovingly and realistically of parables about the ills of the inner-city black subgenre of so-called underground or and directness of groups like Atmosphere describes the passion, energy and stamina of community. is derided (or celebrated, depending on "backpack" rap. Instead of just repeating the sex during a much-anticipated rendezvous in In a sense, on this record Mr. Lif is doing his your temperament and orientation in the past like, say, Jurassic 5, Mr. Lif consciously— a long distance relationship. As in "Washitup," best to counter pioneering hip-hop journalist scene) as mere emo-rap, or outright ignored in both senses of the word—tries to make the Lif s lyrics are never exploitative or juvenile but Nelson George's assessment that "[h]ip-hop is in favour of the hypersexual crack-rap of past part of his future. earnest and enjoyable for the listener. not a political movement in the usual sense. Its artists like Cam'ron or Young Jeezy, or the On a very cold early March night in advocates don't elect public officials. It doesn't seemingly ironic porno-rap of groups like While I have been speaking primarily Toronto during Canadian Music Week, I present a systematic (or even original) critique Spank Rock. Indeed, the underground hip found myself in an insanely over-packed of white world supremacy." On Mo' Mega, hop world might share more with the indie Opera House for a three-hour-plus Def Jux Lif definitely tries to articulate his original scene than it would like to admit. As critic H All Stars show that featured Mr. Lif, El-P critique, and perhaps also solutions to these Carl Wilson recently wrote, the indie scene and Aesop Rock on the bill as headliners. problems, through an approach derived from is dominated by a "pervasive glorification After roughly ten opening acts including about the purely amusing cuts on the record, a balance between the fun of the park jam of pre-pubescent reference points and [an] fellow Jukies Cage and Camu Tao, Lif and there are also many instances of the angry and routine and the serious political issues that awkward relationship to sexuality." Wilson crew finally jumped on stage, immediately political Mr. Lif that made hip hop heads first underpin hip-hop culture itself. In the end, here could just as well be describing the launching into a call-and-response routine take notice of his talent. For example, he rallies Lif's focus is both global and local. |C that wouldn't have been out of place in a crowd at the Def Jux All Stars show in against the outwardly harmless evils of fast legendary Kool DJ Here park jam in 1978. March. After this traditional hip hop introduction, On Mo' Mega, Mr. Lif raps about sex they ran through a set of their own decidedly with a sense of humour and t I DISCORDER 1 9 FROM ttftlMMH-PKNAM/i. ARE YOU A LOCAL BAND OR MUSICIAN? WE ARE NOW ACCEPTING ENTRIES FOR SHINDIG! 2006. WE NEED FROM YOU: 1. THREE SONGS OF ORIGINAL MATERIAL 2. CONTACT PHONE NUMBER AND EMAIL ADDRESS In 2804, Michael Franti decided to "walk his talk" and traveled to the war zones off Iraq, Israel and the Occupied Palestinian SEND YOUR CD/DVD/MD/ Territories. 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Well, one simple solution rides than late-night cuddle audience on the dance floor of latest cut lacks in catchiness, it The Goslings have been get a David Lynch film. Later on, is to just up the tempos and dust sessions. Overall, the band has some all-night party in a derelict makes up for in its evocation of ting a whole lotta attention it's a haunted house My Bloody off some underused distortion succeeded in releasing a very factory. a cold yet fascinatingly intricate lately, especially for Between the Valentine. They're crude, self- pedals like Mojave 3 does on confident record that throws For Consumer vs. User, landscape. This is definitely Dead, which made some year- released recordings of a band their new LP, Puzzles like You. something new into the Mojave however, Duke seems to have not your summer barbecue end lists and had people wetting finding its feet, but the ideas and On their fifth album, we find 3 formula that shouldn't put off led us into the still-active soundtrack, but it makes for themselves in general, myself the skill for perfecting them are these ex-Slowdivers opting to any loyal listeners. electronics manufacturing plant a fantastic listen at 3AM on included. Crucial Blast have all here. They're one of the few record a much more upbeat and BRock Thiessen next door to said all-nighter. We your basement surround sound done themselves and us a favour, power-drone-doom-whatever pop-oriented record that sounds can still hear the muffled bass and packaged up two of the The bands that don't sound like a more like something Teenage through the walls, but the snare Goslings' earlier CD-Rs. Peter C. clone of anything, and they craft Fanclub would release than a drums have been replaced by I guess the word on Between a massive, psychedelic world to Mojave 3 record. The generally Consumer vs. User hydraulic spurts and the high- the Dead was that it combined get lost in, if you wanna get lost. sombre, Dylan-esque ballads (Cognition Audioworks) hats with electronic sizzles. the plodding heaviness of Sunn that the band has become known Tracks like "Raven" march on David Nichols Halifax's Andrew Duke has Big Star, Small World: A Tribute O))) with deranged male/female for are few and far between here. with a perseverance only factory to the Music of Big Star been producing electronic music vocals, and the gauzy, ethereal The record barely stops to catch machinery could maintain. (Koch) for almost two decades now, quality of some 4AD thing from its breath as it briskly races With the exception of some generating a voluminous and Think back to 1998. Put the 80s that I've never actually through rock 'n roll tracks like delayed treble loops echoing Puzzles like You varied discography. A quick yourself right in that time. Doing listened to, like Cocteau Twins "Truck-DrivingMan," "Breaking through the open skylight from (4AD) glance at his New Music Canada it? Okay, good. Then this is a or something. Far as I can tell, The Ice" and "Running With next door, most of the songs' page reveals that, over the past decent little tribute that fans they've got a particular talent for Any band worth anything is Your Eyes Closed," before melodies are made up, not of couple of years alone, he's made of Big Star or of any of the both beauty and malevolence, always at odds with their own coming to a lovely halt with one different notes, but of variations everything from ambient drone contributing bands should and though these EPs aren't as evolution, for fear of finding an of Neil Halstead's best ballads in sound texture. arrangements to bumping tech- polished, they've each got plenty early grave in some stagnant yet, "The Mutineer." The punchy of both. and forgotten pool somewhere. house tracks. And though Duke The album sits on the border othe guitars, cheerful handclaps and between IDM and ambient, and 22 JULY 2006 And r err present day, and think about really felt a lot more like an EP. It one first hears of a local band surprising here) over military through like crystal. To drag out just how much you care about was cute, lacked funding, and from the site of a Wyoming oppression. Musically, "Fuck this fruity simile to unnecessary Matthew Sweet performing a was only seven songs long. "Shut record label. Shapes and Sizes or Kill" is Impeach my Bush's lengths, I'll say that Chasny's pretty faithful cover of "Ballad Up and Kiss Me" shone as the seem to be getting a lot of buzz most pared-down song, while infusion of swirling electronics of El Goodo." Therein lies the standout track on the album. It for signing to Asthmatic Kitty, a the rest of the album feels more and eastern mysticism adds problem with Big Star, Small was poppy and frustrated, a song label with a resume of names like intricate. A rich sound binds the lemon juice to the mixture, World. For one reason or another about less talk and more make- Sufjan Stevens, Half-Handed the clever lyricism ("clubs for preventing the indeterminately it was shelved for eight years, outs. It was probably the song Cloud and Castanets. This roster bravin', flags for wavin.'...walls boring brown colour that can and time has unfortunately responsible for the existence would humble any band asked for scalin', temples for wavin'...) result without a little acid (so to taken its toll on most of the of the second album that I am to join, not to mention a band and the sugary bassline of speak). world's enthusiasm for hearing listening to right now. Between just releasing their first album. "Downtown"—a tune about So while nothing is exactly The Afghan Whigs make their these two albums the band may The ten-track self-titled giving Peaches what.she wants, new per se, there is room for a way through "Nighttime." have lost a member to Sunset album features such musical downtown. This transitions well new permutation to stand alone. It's not. that any of the Rubdown, but the loss doesn't oddities as whistling, ukulele, into "Two Guys (For Every Girl)," Ben Chasny's latest offering The record's covers are bad. In fact, seem to have hurt them in the lap steel and flugelhorn. The a joint call from The Gossip's Sun Awakens gives a greater nod some of them are splendid. The slightest. lyrics are distinctive and bizarre, Beth Ditto and Peaches for more to Sufism and finds fewer sounds aforementioned Afghan Whigs These Montreal girls' soph sung by three different vocalists. guy-on-guy-on-girl action, an leaving Chasny's mouth than track is nothing to scoff at, and omore release gets off to a slow While I found it an interesting acknowledgement that will last year's School of the Flower. Wilco's cover of "Thirteen" is start With "Dance with Me," in album, with skillful lyrics and surely please a hitherto ignored On the scheme of Chasny's work almost an improvement on the which sometimes lead singer unique use of instruments, sexual demographic. "Do Ya," the new one sits comfortably original, its tale of adolescent love Laura Wills sings a sad song of interesting does not always "Give'er," and "Boys- Wanna between the accessibility of dressed up with some tasteful temptation. The lyrics, some equal entertaining or enjoyable Be Her" exhibit the most punk School of the Flower and 2004's slide guitar and filtered through of which are taken directly for an entire album. Overall I influence, and are grounded by The Manifestation, an album Jeff Tweedy's gravelly croon. But from famed Victorian bawdy found the album to be somewhat satisfyingly bare guitar hooks. drenched in psychedelic there are two things that make novel Fanny Hill or, Memoirs of disjointed, including within the "Rock the Shocker" unveils a mysticism. tribute albums interesting. One a Woman of Pleasure, provide a songs themselves. I also found new sex act, so listen carefully. With the exception of the is when the contributing bands level of sexuality that is undercut some of the vocals and guitar Impeach my Bush doesn't 20-plus minute length of the take the songs of another artist by the lamenting nature of the parts to be quite harsh at times. meander far from Peaches' drone-filled final track, "River Happy Accidents and make them their own, and song's tune, slowly building and The first track, "Islands Gone classic shtick and could have of Transfiguration," the 7 (Empty Records) the other is the curiosity that's echoing despair. This unusual Bad," starts out promising but done a better job living up to its tracks settle between the 2 and attached to hearing some of your start, perhaps better suited for enters a somewhat sour chorus title. But It's still smart, and it 5 minute mark, and left me less Seattle's answer to the perfect favourite bands of today take a somewhere in the middle of with high-pitched female vocals still sounds good. Pretty hot, I than satisfied. The recording marriage of The Spits' spunky stab at the songs of one of your an album, is quickly forgotten and yelping males. I would like say. has the same super-slickness punk and The A-Frames' dark favourite bands of yesterday. by the next song, "The Truth this album a lot more if they Alison Benjamin of School and gives an overtly wave is this threesome and their Wilco, of course, are still about Cats and Dogs (Is That toned down the extremity of the cinematic quality to a few tracks. nine-song debut disc. Listening relevant, and there's probably They Die)". This song is a solid vocals. I did, however, enjoy the "The Desert is aCircle" side-steps to tunes like "Johnny's Tongue" quite a few people out there hit that will secure these girls fifties pop-esque background the eastern influence found in and "Road Rage" feels hke an whose interest is piqued by the a place in people's minds. The vocals on "Northern Lights," The Sun Awakens the other songs, giving a tip o' aural car wreck, with swerving prospect of Teenage Fanclub or catchy and playful interplay which softened the song up. (Drag City) the hat to the best spaghetti bass lines, jabbing guitar and The Posies paying tribute to one between Wills' keyboarding that Ennio Morricone can offer. frenzied drumming. But there While I enjoy elements of So this fruit salad I made has of their main influences. But the and Sarah Moundroukas' guitar If I may align Morricone with are bright lights at the end of this album, the band has a lot been chillin' in the refrigerated number of people dying to hear work is exemplary and works Sergio Leone, then Chasny may the tunnel in "Puppy Love" of room to grow. I guess a side- section of my home for about a Juliana Hatfield singing "Don't to maximum effect, bringing be found closer to Jodoworsky. that sound hke The Buzzcocks' effect of having your first album week. I thawed it out today and Lie to Me" probably isn't very Moundroukas' voice out on this An enjoyable listen, no doubt, tour van crashing into Alien released on a prominent indie found that the individual fruits big. track. Combined with the urgent label is that a lot of people are just a bit of a theme destroyer. Sex Fiend's jam space, and "Hit drumming and well-timed back had reorganized their fruitiness Me" drives you head-on into As for bands adapting going to hear the first thing you All the sounds found on the up vocals from the rest of the into a world of hybrids; one its wall of distortion and Wire- Big Star's songs to their own ever put out. album are good sounds, rest band, this song is easily the best uniformly oxidized bowl influenced punk intensity. You sound, the differences between Melanie Coles assured, but there isn't anything on the album. ful of apple-peach-plumness can't sit through this entire covers and originals here are here that makes this album stand that tasted not unlike fruit. record unless pain medication is pretty minimal, although out from the rest ofth e Six Organs To a lesser degree this dy However, this bowl of similitude at your side or you've had a few Whiskeytown and Kelly Hogan discog. Although, if this year's namic continues throughout had developed flavours that stiff drinks to numb your senses , do add a little twang into the musical releases are anything the album, as with each song Impeach my Bush only come from the complete suitably enough for this happy mix. No one is setting out to like the last you'll be seeing this they weave a new melancholy (XL Recordings) immersion in the influences of accident to take place. It's a big, reinvent any of these classic melody around the words of album on more than a few "best Easily the most mainstream- other fruit. This is not unlike bad beautiful mess and just like tunes, and maybe that's not Moundroukas or Wills. For or lists, much fike School of the sounding of her recordings. most everything that comes tag a car crash, you won't be able to entirely bad; by being fairly those seeking'a fresh sound in Flower was smattered about Peaches' third full-length studio ged Six Organs of Admittance. look or listen away for too long. faithful to the originals, there at the indie rock scene, this album last time 'round. On a track-by- album combines palatable Each album is essentially a fruit least isn't anything offensive in is highly recommended. There's track basis The Sun Awakens is Bryce Dunn electroclash and the trademark salad of excellent influences, but the bunch. Unfortunately, there a lot of raw talent here that just a more interesting album, but raw sexuality we've come to the proportions differ slightly isn't a whole lot that stands on needs to be refined, which leaves Unfortunately nothing is gained love from Ms. Nisker. Peaches' from record to record. Thanks to its own two feet as memorable me greatly anticipating their or feels particularly binding explicitness has always been the rise of, and I shudder to use either. next release. Stay gold Ponygirls, in their proximity on the same political because of its lack of the term, "freak folk," many of stay gold. release. On the scheme of fruit Quinn Omori subtlety. Impeach my Bush is a these influences have reached Jordie Sparkle pandemic status among anyone salads perhaps this is one that logical progression. hasn't sat for long enough. Each "Fuck or Kill," the album's within arm's length of an acoustic guitar. But also thanks component a fine upstanding first track, pits the rhyme "I'd component yes, but lacking the Make Love to the Judges wtth rather fuck who I want than kill to Chasny's touchstone status Your Eyes Self-Titled in the current (worthwhile) thematic ties that are needed for who I am told to" against a dirty an album to rise above into the (DimMak) [ (Asthmatic Kitty) beat that sets the thematic tone musical world, the influence of his work with Comets on Fire and clouds of greatness. Pony Up I put together a self- I was curious to hear this for the album, championing Current 93's David Tibet comes Caroline Walker titled album a while back. It album, since it's not often that sexual expression (nothing DISCORDER 23 The Boy Least Likely To The Bicycles May 30 The Plaza Twee as fuck. Toronto openers The Bicycles looked like they were part of a cheer leading team from the 1950s, as they wore t-shirts emblazoned With a giant "B". It was very appropriate for their hyper sugar-sweet pop. Their sunny reminiscent of The Archies' "Sugar Sugar" with two males taking turns on singing lead; maybe there ti of helium in the back, sat The Malkin Bowl Photo by Kimberley Day as both of their voices were sky high. The female drummer, had a chance to show off her voice during a slow-sounding 60s pop glockenspiel never sounded so tunes like "Laura Laurent" were Parking Lot any other equipment ensued. "Commie" hat. The vocals number. It was hard to pinpoint good before tonight. given a twangy kick in the ass. An impotent rage was apparent were of the chanted manifesto their style as the songs ranged Emily Khong Oberst was (thankfully) sober, Sex Negative has two golden as the drums got harder and variety, but rarely stood out over from rockabilly to straight pop, and sounded great; he was rules: 1) No practicing allowed, the guitar seared our ears in the rest of the mayhem. Leaning but all had upbeat choppy chords focused but amiable, and easily and 2) Only play in parking lots. the relentless echo of the cool over to an enraptured concert- and creative hand claps to keep Bright Eyes shrugged off the intermittent They performed on a Tuesday concrete parking lot. Vocals goer between songs, I "again the good mood going. June 4 screams of "Conor, I love youl" night—fittingly underground— escalated into yowls, as plugs inquired to see who the band For The. Boy Least Likely To's Malkin Bowl Much to the joy of those intent on the bottom level of the parkade and cords were thrust in and was. "Dude, it's The Apes." Just first headlining North American on letting their adoration be underneath Emily Carr, a school out of their inputs. Keith started as the revelation sank in, a wall tour date, the duo expanded into "Some sad singers, they just known, he even jettisoned the that two-thirds of them attend. to smash the aluminum tube of bass from the next song set a group of six on stage, playing play tragic." That line from band at two different points in Next week they embark on their flat, between tippy-toe dancing my chest to throbbing and my a multitude of instruments "Lover, I Don't Have to Love" the evening for a pair of solo first tour down the Oregon coast, and beating up the helpless foot to stomping, and I closed my including a recorder and was a pretty good summation performances that were among performing in whatever parking woody organ. When the high- eyes. Feeling like the inevitable glockenspiel. They were excited of my assessment of Conor the night's highlights. garages suit them. hat came apart and the mic was wastoid at every rave that to be there, and kicked things Oberst before the release of "First Day of My Life"— Heading to the show knowing broken through and through, spends the entire night blissed off with. their current single I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning. which is already cute enough to little (ok, nothing) about "noise" Keith wandered offstage left, lit out in front of the speakers, I "Hugging My Grudge." There I always found the "emotion" melt the iciest heart—was the music, I was expecting at worst a smoke, and the set was over. swayed to and fro with a dopey was lots of foot stomping and channeled into the Bright Eyes perfect soundtrack to someone's that the performance would Everybody clapped. grin, savouring the distortion fist pumping from lead singer frontman's vocals irksome on teenaged first kiss, stripped back be 'about the music' I was Robyn Croft and rhythmic beatdown. The Jof Owen and instrumentalist earlier releases, and some of his to guitar and vocals (he is the pleasantly surprised, as it proved set ended to the roar of fickle Peter Hobbs. They ran through best songs were buried under reigning king of emo, after all). to be a totally entertaining and fans praising the genius of The pretty much the entirety of messy instrumentation. His And, while the song selection wonderfully visual event. The Apes Apes; now that they weren't The The Best Party Ever, and the latest, however, is a tastefully was a tad obvious, I don't Demonstrating my noise- Liars Rabbits, their middle-of-the- songs sounded stronger and performed, classic-sounding know of a better way to ring music unawareness, I didn't June 9 road cacophony got the official much fuller live. Too bad the American singer-songwriter in summer in Vancouver than notice that the opening act had Richard's On Richards sanction. sound system allowed for some record. With that in mind, it was sitting outdoors and listening to started until about five minutes With extra drums and effects feedback. with mild trepidation that I made the encore opening performance into his solo-set; I was quite pedals strewn about the stage, In high spirits, Owen happily my way into the heart of Stanley of "June on the West Coast." convinced he was just doing a With a final nip from my flask Liars.launched into a crowd- chit-chatted throughout the Park to a show advertised as The show closed with the really lengthy sound check, and I headed through the Richard's effacing set led by the towering night, introducing each song Conor and his band "performing one-two punch of "Lover, I Don't having technical difficulties. doors, where the bouncers were pillar of Angus Andrew. Having With quips like, "This song is songs from the entire Bright Have to Love," followed by "An Then Sex Negative quickly shaking the place down like it recently read David Byrne's about sex...slugs having sex." Eyes catalogue." Happily, the Attempt to Tip the Scales." The assembled themselves between was an LA high school. Blinking review of a Sunn O))) show, The band even indulged in a brief restraint evident on the recent former was given some new life a modest crowd and the in the dim and din, I paused to I was hoping to see another Q&A period. Questions included, record also lent itself to a live by Nate Wilcot's trumpet lines equipment: black PA (right), get my bearings, asking around rendition of noise music as "Are you two married?" to setting, on songs new and old. blaring out in place of the thick a woody air-organ that they to determine if the band on modern theatre, but I was a little which they replied, "No, we're The show may have indeed strings on the original, with acquired for free (left), and. stage was The Rabbits or The disappointed. Angus did some just friends". Another question featured music picked from the latter bringing things back a white drum kit (center). Apes. "Oh, it's Rabbits," I was nice circular hip-thrusting and probed Owen's relation to the entirety of the very large down to earth before the band The art-school trio dressed assured, "This shit is okay, but it Lanky Kong-style arm flails, but Michael J. Fox. Bright Eyes canon, but it was said its goodbyes. in complementary-coloured gets boring fast. I'm waiting for it could have been more sinister. Set highlights included the characterized by that same Those "next Dylan" shirts: one purple-maroon and Apes to go on—they're gonna The music, though, was full of bouncy and poppy "I'm Glad classic sound that drips from comparisons are still a little the other acid yellow. It looked slay." Drawn by the psychedelic menace. With an effects-heavy I Hitched My Apple Wagon to the grooves of his latest long- laughable, but if this show was fabulously staged; awkward but wash of the keyboards and the floor torn skillfully re-creating Your Star" and the heavy, chant player. Backed by a band that any indication, Conor's growth confident. autistic fervour of the man in the unique rhythms oWrum's Not like "Monsters". A sweet surprise featured Azure Ray's Maria as a musician means he's getting The band started off with the knit headband and vest Dead, Angus' dissonant guitar was the addition of a tender Taylor on drums, the evening a raw deal from any remaining little noises; Keith's ghostly wails on the drums, I made my way work filledth e room with an evil PG-version of George Michael's was dominated by the hum of detractors. . sounding simultaneously cutesy closer to the stage, unswayed by air. If you allowed yourself to be "Faith" that had the crowd fiddle and slide guitar. They were Quinn Omori and spooky, amplified by a few prophecies of suck. swept up in the glorious mess, singing backup. The surprises tight and professional, but loose feet of some aluminum. Things At first I was skeptical. The their set was utterly captivating, didn't end there, as machines enough to avoid sounding too inevitably got harder and faster. distorted guitar kept straying a short relief from the burden of sent a blizzard of bubbles to polished or stiff. "Train Under Sex Negative A round of endearingly futile into funky territory, and I consciousness. engulf the crowd during the Water" swung like an outtake June 6 attempts to shove the little mic couldn't shake visions of Tom David Ravensbergen poppy "Be Gentle with Me." A from The Band, while older Granville Island Underground into the PA, the air organ and Morello jiving around in a 24 JULY 2006 fi *«§_-! | 11 CITR CHARTS! : a 3 ja 2 -a _ TS //////////////////////////////// Strictly the dopest hits of June L 1 (_ "g I Kill fiitmiiiii III •'# ARTIST TITLE' LABEL • :# ARTIST Time LABEL ! 26 Feist* Open Season Arts & Crafts 2 Leather Uppers* Bright Lights . 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