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FRIDAY sunootf moij 2s AUGUST 22 ID1 plozo o4 noTions THUNDERBIRD STADUM inmui TicneTs also OT zulu, SCPOTCH ono noize T^.^-tt-VT^;,;--,^-, Bu^tjSftrff • W m^W jm~jl$i Ply jtk^H WfH|§ mm. W^^BTLH DiSCORDER Editron: Vancouver Hardcore Scene Report by Sean O'Leary p.l 5 Chris Eng Sahara Hotnights by Christine Gfroerer p. 19 Deputy Editor: Art Spread: Women Are From Venus, Men Are From SARS Merek Cooper by Gareth Gaudin p.20 Ad Master: Paper Lanterns by Chris Eng p.22 Steve DiPo Broken Social Scene by saelan p.23 Art Directors: Geoff Berner by Val Cormier p.24 Chris & Merek Stephen Malkmus by Merek Cooper p.25 Editorial Assistant: Ben Kweller by Natalie Vermeer p.26 Donovan Schaefer RLA Coordinator: Gabby De Lucca fepfe Website Design: Music Sucks p.6 Esther Airhead p.7 Layout and Design: Panarticon p.7 Chris & Merek (Like Smokey and Fucking Bullshit p.8 The Bandit, but way cooler and Vancouver Special p.8 without the moustaches. 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From UBC to Langley and Squamish to Bellingham, CiTR can be heard at 1( as through all major cable systems in the Lower Mainland, except Shaw in Whiti CiTR DJ Tine at 822.2487, our office at 822.3017 ext. 0, or our news and sports Ii ext. 2. Fax us at 822.9364, e-mail us at: [email protected], visit our web site at www up a goddamn pen and write #233-61 38 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, CANADA. I got mad at The Cheat for screwing up the Jumble Caper. I hope I don't see his name in the paper ir obituaries, because that would mean he's dead. The Cheat is not dead. I'm so glad The Cheat is not dead. for more info on these shows and our complete calendar log onto printed in canada www.sonar.bc.ca 5 DiSCORDER milAIC AMC editorializing by Chris Eng kay, here's how it is, idea with Lollapalooza I, back their Big Chill-sty\e tours this and I know it hurts, but in '91.1 mean, it was kinda cool year? The Allman Brothers, Oyou have to hear it and that they had bands like Ice-T, Meat Loaf, James Taylor, Duran you have to acknowledge the Siouxsie, The Violent Femmes, Duran, KISS, Aerosmith, Joe inherent truth in what I say: and Fishbone playing on the Cocker, King Crimson, Ringo bill, but who did they get the Starr & His All-Starr Band, CONCERT TOURS ARE ONE next year? Soundgarden, The Santana, Rolling Stones, The OF THE BIGGEST LOADS OF Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Paul BULLSHIT EVER VISITED ON FUCKING PEARL JAM! One McCartney, The Yardbirds, and THE GENERAL PUBLIC VIA year—one single year—and a Steely Dan. STEELY DAN! THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. semi-decent idea was twisted "Hey guys, 'Rikki Don't into a flaming bag of turds. A Lose That Number' is the They are crap. All crap. Loads flaming bag that over the next surprise hit of the year! We're of crap. Mountains of lumpy decade spawned other horrific putting the band back together smelly feces baking on the tar­ flaming bags like The Family and heading out on the road!" mac of a converted speedway Values Tour and Ozzfest. I Christ, these guys were for an afternoon, near the $5 mean, how badly do we need "Reelin' In the Years" back in hot dog stand and adjacent to to witness a bunch of senile 1972—1 can only imagine how the booth selling $40 t-shirts. geriatrics shambling around the intervening 30 years have A chance for people to shell out vacantly on a massive plat- treated them. Hang it up! GO HOME! Retire! All of you! If you want to make a fast buck, sell autographed press photos of / yourself on eBay! And while < mi you're at it, make sure they're u pictures from 1979, because we really don't care what you L t look like nowadays. Actually, * worse, we fear what your •'h, i J*>%. • ^•B saggy, wrinkly ass looks like today! It scares us. Debbie . Harry on 1990s Escape From :M Wt, >^?aH New York Tour scarred me for RADIOGRAM | www.radiogram.org life! And that was more than a h& full decade ago! Thirteen years past that point, The Eagles are probably forced to wear MELIGROVE BAND ON NATIONAL TV KISS-style makeup simply to CBC Newsworld's PLAY hold their faces in place and keep their jowls from sinking May 8th (8pm) • May 9th (5pm) • May 10th (4pm) m toward the ground like Droopy • -".$ in an old MGM cartoon. $60 for the privilege of seeing their favourite band play a Concert tours are mountains of lumpy ENDEARING RECORDS EVENING half-assed, hung-over, 20-min- smelly feces baking on the tarmac of a AT NEW MUSIC WEST ute set in the blistering heat; a chance for them to pay for converted speedway for an afternoon. Thursday, May 22 @ The Purple Onion heat-stroke because there's no shade and they can't afford the form and trying to pass them­ So, what 1 > the readymade $12 Evians to keep themselves selves off as Black Sabbath? I tives?t Well, there's only one the waking eyes hydrated—a chance to break think it's somewhere right in in all of the aforementioned paper moon the bank while simultaneously the area of "not at all." And cases: DON'T FUCKING GO. having a shitty time. that's just the outdoor festival Stay home and spend $60 on the meligrove band How shitty? So shitty that shows! a decent CD, a flat of beer, and dion (ex - salteens) everyone has to spend ali their Summer is also the time a lawn chair. Put your stereo money on all of the aforemen­ when all of the sad, old cod­ speakers in your front win­ tioned junk, because if they gers who have spent the win­ dow.