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Fax us at 822.9364, the datebook times: barbara http://www.ams.ubc.ca/media/citr or just pick up a goddi pen and write #233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1 the distro times: CANADA. matt steffich the us distro times: g-baby resch the publishing times: printed in cascadia aaron nakama Dear Palinkas Airhead Eats #233-6138 SUB BLVD, VANCOUVER, BC, V6T 1Z1 Dear Airhead: In your November would tell Agnostic Front (big, tat office gofer if only for the sake MAJOR CHUTNEYS in truth it probably isn't and they '99 issue, you printed a review tooed ex-cons, by the way), of your publication's credibility. 3432 Cambie St. probably don't. Many restau and not even any Indians eating by Gibby Peach of Agnostic Rancid, and Epitaph to fuck off And Gibby — get a life, Have you ever been riding the rants that we consider "ethnic" there. Apart from the wonderful Front's Riot, Riot Upstart. Who is in person? Probably not And schmuck! Punk will outlive your bus, totally lost in thought, star (assuming that hamburgers are smell of the kitchen, Major this clown? And why do you give he/she says that "punk is dead" ing blindly at the neck of the devoid of an ethnic component), Chutneys could be any other him/her space to write in your and "hardcore is on its way out " person sitting ahead of you? I serve the "traditional" food from "non-ethnic" restaurant in the publication? Mr/Ms. Peach Again, who the fuck are you? Yours truly, found that I was in such a situa countries that are generally begins by labelling Agnostic city. The rice even had a sprig Those pronouncements might be Jim Fraser tion when considering what I among the poorest in the world. Front as "posers" and then sug of parsley on it. As vague as this would be writing for this month's That aside, what is "real" ethnic gests they are "characteristic of sounds, I thought it had a real one like Iggy Pop or Joe Keithley, Gibby Peach responds I review. Usually these bus food anyway? As I am sure any the [Epitaph] disease that has "West Coast" feel to it (whatever but from DiSCORDER bozo want to thank you (from the thoughts follow a forking path, student of the social sciences ravaged the punk/hardcore com the hell that is). I ordered a Gibby Peach? Give me a break. deepest recesses of my soul, I leading to a conclusion that has would tell you, the idea of an munity for too long " Nevermind chicken curry. You can tell that The likely truth is that Agnostic assure you) for the pick-me-up. I little relevance. At best, these authentic experience with the that Agnostic Front predates the they use quality ingredients Front were playing solid hard thought, upon first glance, that thoughts end up sounding half- "other" is one that has been seri Epitaph label, and has been because the entire meal was core when little Gibby was poo- you might be serious. It wasn't baked, and when I share them ously called into question. If we paving the way for NYC hard quite simply awesome The ing his/her pants and listening to until the part about Joe "king of with others the looks I get are are willing to admit that cultures core bands like Sick Of It All and chicken itself was sliced breast Sharon, Lois, ond Bram. the acoustic guitar" Keithley akin to the ones I reserve for late change and contain many dif Gorilla Biscuits since 1982, meat that my mom couldn't cook Admittedly, like any other band, (proud Ford Windstar owner) night drunken philosophers or ferences, then it is therefore we're supposed to give a shit if any better. The curry was spicy, Agnostic Front puts out a and Iggy "King of" Pop (great my parents (which sometimes impossible to speak of an they spell "mothafucka" with an but not to the point where the mediocre album from time to new album; MJ ain't got nothing are one and the same). All I ask authentic Thai, Indian, or O or with a U. I'm sure Mr /Ms flavour suffered. As far as the time But stating that they are an on the Iggster) that I knew you is for your patience while I try to Mexican. To expect some kind Peach is an authority on spelling rice went, it made me jealous embarassment to hardcore is like were just joshin' me Meaningful make a point, which hopefully I of generic or authentic Thai, "mothafucka" because he/she that I never have and never will stating that John Coltrane is a pronouncements about the punk will do. Indian or Mexican would grew up in the mean streets of be able to make rice like that. A jazz pretender. Now, I under rawk scene coming from them- amount to nothing more than the ghetto. Chances are pretty I have always known that stand that a CD review repre would be like the Rolling Stones racism. Why then do we expect great meal. On the down side good that Mr/Ms. Peach is a the act of eating out at a restau sents an opinion. But when the commenting on the state of rock an authentic Thai dinner? though, I really wanted a glass privileged, white, piece of shit rant is one that is based on cer review goes too far as to insult n' roll Your letter had me gig Thinking a Thai dinner to be of wine, but Major Chutneys is college kid who hides behind a tain values and privilege created individuals and a whole label gling like a pubescent cheer authentic is like going to one of not licensed. The bill for dinner flowery pen name and big words in a class society. Growing up in and then decrees from on high leader. Keep up the good work! those tourist's Luaus in Hawaii, for two was just over $25, not in order to compensate for low a family with relatively little dis that two entire music genres are thinking "this is what it is like to too bad. I can't believe that I self-esteem and a lack of social as dead as Elvis, well, that's a lit posable income, I know that used to live four blocks away See you at Warped Tour Y2K, be Hawaiian." standing. How else do you tle much. So, DiSCORDER starr, being able to eat out is based and have never been to Major Gibby Peach (privileged, explain his pretentious ranting? do yourselves a favour and rele on the ability to pay. This seems Thanks to early colonialists Chutneys before. Do you think that Mr /Ms. Peach gate Gibby Peach to the status of white, ex-college kid) obvious. Also, the decadent act bringing back the stories and I think that Major Chutneys of paying someone else to pre spices of far off lands, we have serves quality Indian-style dishes pare your food is a sign of your developed cultured palates. To without resorting to selling itself class position, or your desire to go out for Japanese sushi or as an "Indian restaurant." Major attain or emulate one, and in Indian curry is a sign of a cos Chutneys shows how a restau many cases this is the closest we mopolitan urban dweller. To "go rant can specialize in a certain for Indian" and encounter differ style of cuisine while still making firmly believe this is one of the ent cultures by eating authentic strongest motivations for people ethnic to dine out. Not only that, the shov .el of c doing, it gets away from restaurants that you choose may breeding. We are able to show "tourists" coming to see how the also reflect certain attitudes asso off our standing by thinking "Indians" eat. One footnote to ciated with the broader society. I about Indian-ness being con add: I have overlooked the fact am thinking in particular about tained in a bowl on our table. that there are Indians that I am "ethnic" restaurants. All this came from thinking sure would want to go to what I, e that a about what I would say about e poinl so self-righteously, called "an we have all said something to Major Chutneys. Major Indian restaurant." Have I been the effect of "that isn't real Chutneys is not what you think Indian food" or "they don't real of when you think about a typi a little short-sighted? More than ly eat like that in China." Well, cal Indian restaurant. There are likely. • 4 Jancember 99 playing shows in North America differ from those Where do you go from here? played elsewhere (especially in your native South Our dream, like so many other people have, is just to get one song America)? going around the world In the meantime, we continue to record RadioSyj!Jj| With a message of love and peace, music goes everywhere and music, write songs and try to keep up with the daily needs! audiences around the world have welcomed us It doesn't matter Anything else to add? where we play, if the public is receptive, they give us energy and Thanks for inviting us for this interview. make us feel good. When we play in South America, of course, Discography: 1 n t e r§gmmk there is no need for translations Cuando Saiga lo Lur i ("When the Moon Comes Up") CD (1999) You've also mentioned that you enjoy playing your Contact: shows with other musicians joining in. Undoubtedly, this Pancho and Sal adds individual flavour to each separate performance. #3-3548 Victoria Di Have there been any strange experiences of this Vane r, BC Live from Thunderbird Radio Hell can H_9 __H nature? V5N 4M6 be heard Thursdays trom 9-1 1 | _____Bfc_____B^^^^M We truly enjoy playing our shows with other musicians and we are Tel: 604.872.5409 famous for inviting them from the last band to join us or even invite Fax: 604.872.5426 someone from the audience. Our music is simple which makes it Cel: 604.644.3953 easy to jam with us. It's very magic when someone gets up and E-mail: pancho_and_sal@latin plays with you like you've played together for years. So far, only Web: www geocities.com/Fas PANCHO % SAL How many instruments (including percussion) do you traditionally take with you? Usually we take the guitar, the charango (a 10-string little guitar), lots of shakers, chas chas (a percussion instrument), and the Bombo, a South American drum, harmonicas and flutes. As far as your songs go, are they all Pancho and Sal DiSCORDER: Who are you? originals? Do you ever play any South American Pancho and Sal: Hi, we are Pancho and Sal. Pancho is 51, plays standard or traditional numbers? charango, guitar, flutes, drums, piano, a little of everything! Sal, Most of our songs are originals, but we definitely have our 37, plays guitar, lots of hand percussion and vocals. traditional and international favourites. After travelling around the Sal, please tell the readers how you and Pancho world, we have songs from many countries It's amazing how the became "Pancho and Sal," musical duo bueno. crowd reacts when they hear a familiar song and can sing along. A I became Pancho's partner 15 years ago when we met in Cuzco, couple of Spanish traditionals that we do are "La Bamba" and Peru. It was love at first sight and since then we have been making "Guantanamera," also "Jamaica Farewell" and others in English, music, children and a life together. Pancho played his guitar and some French and Swedish. It is always lots of fun to sing these sang, and I began to join in with him, learning the songs. On a recent bio for Pancho and Sal, it was written that Have you ever recorded any of your original music? "love" and "life values" play a large part in your music. In 1995, we took a serious decision to make some recordings and Tell us how these things influence and/or manifest completed a "demo" CD called Vivirei. We learned so much about themselves in your work. the industry and how it works. Our first full-length CD, which we Love is very important for everyone. That's why we concentrate on are very proud of, is called: Cuando Saiga la Luna ("When the all the positive aspects that love gives us when we write songs. Moon Comes Up"), that has just been released a few weeks ago. So Having played all over the world, how, if ot all, does this is another historical moment in our lives. Collection, 1996) A tasty slice of '80, Drlh redis: r;nng lot of major chords and rhyming Vancouver's scene in the mid- lyrics. They're also trying to make 905, this compilation includes or some reason, the best you want to dance. Think of those Vancouver Tonebursts, The demos are the ones that are festivals where random kids are Electrosonics, Readymade, Frecorded the worst. They jumping up and down like mani Gleam, Squeeky and only send a tape, no promotional acs. The Blues Berries mix swing, Special Speedbuggy stuff, and they probably spend country, blues and guitar solos. Various — Dominic Radio less than five bucks on the whole They sound really Canadian. BY JANIS McKENZIE & CHRISTA MIN (Transsiberian, 1999) An aston thing, including postage. They (Barry Bergkvist, phone: ishing accomplishment: more just record themselves at home, 604.816.2684) than 50 tracks on two CDs that no CD burning, no mixing, noth I was hoping for some punk ell, this is the last Jungle — It's So Fuck'n fake-fur bikinis caused a scandal are worth repeated listens ing fancy, and the result is so hon- rock from JETWICK There's a Vancouver Special of Great to Be Alive (Porcelain God, and this cheery/snotty CD rocks. straight through. Includes The g that it ,akes picture of a bomb on the cover of Wthe 1990s, and it 1997) So loud, so exuberant, My only complaint: where are Beans, Citroen, The emptys, me want to cry. ESTHER their tape. But no. Just your stan seems appropriate to look back such unapologetically 1970s- "Boy Groupies" and "Kill Kill and July 4th Toilet LEPATENAUDE s demo is one dard indie rock band. The over the local independent CDs style fun! Kill?" of these kinds. She plays piano singing alternates between a girl that have come my way over the Daytona — Chicane (Zulu, Neko Case — Neko Case Reissues/Revivals: Forget The and a badly tuned acoustic gui and a guy, both of whom attempt course of the decade. Ten years 1 994) Audacious, swirly, catchy, and Her Boyfriends (Mint, 1997) Beatles Anthology. I was delight tar while her pretty voice strug to add a weird twang to their gui ago, in this very space, I had the and totally obsessed with British Drummer for Maow, sultry old- ed when The Dishrags' gles to be louder than the tape tar strum they all use. Then in opportunity to do the same for motorcycles. They should have style country singer, apparently Love/Hate (Other People's hiss She's Barbara Manning other songs, they try to suppress local demo tapes (remember The been huge this girl can do anything. Music) came out in 1997, esque. Thanks Ester, for stopping the urge to strum that rhythm, Hip Type, Lost Durangos, Oh Susanna — Oh Saddlesores — A Fistfull of loaded with previously unobtain me from dumping all the demos even though they really, really Big Guns, or The Little Susanna (Stella, 1997) Another Hollers (Empyre, 1997) Yes, a able nuggets of first generation out onto a busy street. ( ing three years of weekly news of planets, creatures and Star feels as he falls in love with paper strips. I picked the work Wars technology. My only com Palomar. Another great thing is done by Goodwin and plaint (and yes, this is nitpicky Kill Your Williamson because almost and silly) is that Williamson usu santly. Usually a muddling gim every Star Wars comic since ally gets the image of Princess mick, but Hernandez works it to then has been vile tripe, espe Leia bang on but, halfway Boyfriend his advantage to the point where cially the new ones. Classic Star through the series, she all of a you can pick up the story from Wars got me more excited than sudden becomes this femme COMIC REVIEWS BY ROBIN fatale with gobs of make-up, itly eyes and every other comic, it's in the likes and collapses in tears, bones. Apart from his was possibly the hardest process of being made into a "WAHHHHH! MY BEST column I've ever had to movie. Besides, half the fun is FRIENDI", when all the while vith this t T write. Big deal, right? Well, waiting every month for the next Judy's telling this guy how great tion becc YOU try to come up with your Val is. Mistakes and wrong con tiki Good. favourite comics of all time. I clusions abound in every issue. I Willia also want you to remember that THIRTEEN GOING ON especially like the honesty. I for the job. The three these are MY favourites and will EIGHTEEN don't know about you, but when books are In Deadly be subject to change within 24 by John Stanley I was 13, I was boy-crazy and Pursuit, The Rebel (DELL) full of romance. It's nice to read Storm and Escape lo A 29 issue series I just discov a comic that reminds me of that Hoth. All three books PREACHER ered thanks to Trina Robbins' without it being too old. are must-haves for all by Garth Ennis and Steve book from Girls to Grrrlz. With Star Wars lovers, not Dillon utterly stylish art and marvey HEARTBREAK SOUP only for the art and (DC Vertigo) colours I couldn't say no. John by Gilbert Hernandez writing, but also for A series that spawned 66 issues Stanley used to draw for Little (Fantagraphics) the excitement of feel (yes, it's intentional and there are Lulu, so there is no lack of talent. I came into Love & Rockets rather ing like you're watch- Way more fun-loving and three- only 9 issues left) and never lost late for a self-proclaimed "indie n g steam. Dillon's art is functional dimensional than Archie, :d read Music for of the but distinctive and develops a Stanley's tales of Val and Judy Mechar (yes, I'm young! So?) befuddli ng in its majesty. between Star Wars and The familiarity needed for you to remind me of how silly and dra- t too impressed. But Empire Strikes Back, the three care for 66 issues about a small Heartbreak Soup, MAISON IKKOKU books chronicle the tales of Luke, group of characters. It's Ennis' by the other by Rumiko Takahashi Leia, and Han Solo and their writing that grabs you and Hernandez brother, (Viz) adventures. It's interesting Stuff that made me jump up and makes you wait apprehensively is enthralling. My boyfriend got me into this because there is still that tension down like a kindergarten stu for the next issue. It's a western Starting with all the comic. It's a funny, tortured, silly, that existed after the first movie. dent while reading it or waiting with a '90s feel revolving babies midwife love comic, kinda like a Goodwin is such a great writer for it. Stuff that wasn't in the sec- around Jesse Custer, a former Chelo has deliv Japanese Three's Company. It's that the < priest with a horrifying past. He ered, you're invited about Kyoko, the lonely, prema ru. neve* FOCWVE is infused with a power from into Palomar, a turely widowed landlady of the with the n \OU AS U0N6 H& heaven called Genesis which small Mexican boarding house Maison Ikkoku. Mot to 1 UVS, sow/ provides him with two things: the town. There is no She has two suitors: Godai, a the fanta word of God, and the knowl action or adventure shy student, and Mitaka, a ten edge that God has bailed on to grab you immedi nis coach whose advances humanity in general. (If it's not ately, yet somehow towards Kyoko are consistently obvious, Kevin Smith was influ you find yourself foiled. There are also the other enced by this comic.) His com devouring each tenants, who always manage to panions for his quest to find God story. At times, the interrupt and misconstrue every and make him face up to his story can be a little thing and anything that hap responsibilities are Tulip, an ex- pens. Not once did this 70 issue girlfriend he's still madly in love Hernandez tells the tedious and reiterating style of ond holf of my collection. (Come with, and Cassidy, a vampire tales of everybody boring, and I never failed to the weekly strip to book format, on, if I looked at my whole who once saved his life. The vil smack my head and groan, "Oh and he does it deftly. The art is comic collection, I would've lains are too numerous to list, bul Godai!! Just tell her already!" at utterly beautiful, and the page never gotten the column done.} the dead. Just like the end of each issue. I have to layouts add to the ambience of Stuff that made me really, really the main characters. And the any town, it's full of warn you, though, there are only happy. Stuff that made me real story just doesn't quit. Not once and conflict. two issues left after the current S Ihe pane -vith ! ly, really sad. Stuff from all does it stop pounding you, time 3. Like when Val Hernandez devotes time to vari one, and the last five have detail and colour, yet never too ages, for all ages. Stuff for boys and time again: from Herr Starr sleepwalk nd her new ous relationships and families, to ended in tears. much to distract from the story and for girls. And stuff I had almost being eaten by redneck the point where you know every line. With the density of every nothing bad to say about, that retards to Cassidy's heroin course, absolutely mortified and one and feel like you've known CLASSIC STAR WARS black brush stroke, he creates a was so good I had p*-> *-«<"- addiction, from Tulip's death and wishes that the earth would open them all your life. You know how by Archie Goodwin and Al darkne ; that is plaints. I know there care a ton resurrection by God to the friend up and swallow her whole; on happy Luba feels when she can Williamson of things I neglected to mention. ly serial killer they run into. I sug another occasion, Val sees her leave her life behind and dance (Dark Horse) But this is my list — for now, gest you start reading it as, like best friend Judy with a guy she for a little while. You know the Three trade paperbacks compil- remarkable imagination by way anyway. Are your dreads Y2K compliant? Don't wake up Jan. 1 st with straight, smooth, normal hair! 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Kaia left that band to sad song with sharp lyrics world is that little powerhouse scratch- T* :-:•••.•• :.w •?••• . v do her own thing, and her first (Smog Mountain Goats) on and-mix master from out east, the album, despite being absolutely his two-song release. This is def i ripping up a storm nothing like Team Dresch, ruled. initely my favourite "no hand t age 1 and i 7 I'm not so down with her current claps" record of recent months. soned veteran at 17. Holy inch (Southern, PO Box 577375, smokes Both tracks on this band, the Butchies, but Kaia's BY JULIE COLERC solo stuff still warms my heart. Chicago, IL 60657) release show where the mad mm She's got the strong folk songs Some more listenable tones skills are at. I really like this, arrived at my because it's jusf long enough to remain enjoyable. Too much verload!! Who let all this is actually some emo band little bit like Bedhead, and I fingertips c scratching drives me a bit batty. these bands near the from Massachusetts Dang I can't think of any band better to lesy of PEDRO Other things that drive me vinyl factory? I have thought I had more Canadian borrow a sound from than that THE LION O batty are bad funk and soul had an onslaught of hot platters stuff to play! And since it's so one. This music is quiet, sparse, bands. Unfortunately, that's what this monlh, and am tired from all darn boring, you won't be hear gentle stuff, a little post-rocky, but Stones Throw sent me, along the flipping of records and ing it again! (Dahlia Records, tastefully so The vocals are bare with the A-Trak. BREAKESTRA changing of speeds and hunting PO Box 852, Jamaica Plain, ly audible, and work perfectly have a funky soul sound, but the for those deelies that go in the MA, 02130) with the songs' dynamics. singer gets on my nerves. No, middle of them records with big Good Canadian stuff did (SpectraSonicSound, PO Box show up in the form of the 80067, Ottawa, ON K1 S 5N6) you are not James Brown I LAMBCHOP and DUMP am not being snarky, I saw this Quality pop with handclaps DESTROYER ond KEPLER 7*1 The Destroyer release features have put out a nifty little split 7" band live, and I can honestly say to keep everyone warm this win me this month from a band one new song, "The Temple," lhat what u lakes ter. Lambchop's "Up With called GOING STAGG. This and a band mix of a song from the band. Too bad. The other bit People" is a repetitive, polished band is hot stuff. It's got the pop the last album, City Of pop track with horns and a very "love"/"love lost" songs down Daughters, "Loves Of A EL CAPTAIN FUNKAHO 7 upbeat vibe. It sounds like Jim pat, and the guitar dynamics Gnostic." Somebody told me down. So does Sarah Dough* What the fuck. This is a painful O'Rourke's easy listening trend achieved are something lo that the "Loves..." track got for that matter. Thes is spreading. Dump's "Dive For applaud I am looking for more wrecked by the band, but I think deserve large and loyal follow- ings, and should be smashed to Your Memory" is more to my lik of this sweet action. (Kittridge, that everything Destroyer does is ings More releases like this one (Homemade Recordings, PO bits. I don't need to hear about ing, a very lo-fi, jangly, peaceful 9801 Geyser Avenue, a-okay. "The Temple" is my new should help that cause. (Mr. Box 1234, Coquitlam, BC V3J his quest for a "Space Slut," or pop song. It's a cover of a Go- Northridge, CA91324) favorite pop song For now, that Lady, PO Box 3189, Durham, 6Z9) hear his crap female vocalist I played the new MISHIMA is I'm bad that way, but maybe song, NC 27715-3189) Ther this label :alled croon on about the Captain's 7" twice on my radio program your attention span is longer. care.(Third Gear, PO Box 1 GEOFF FARINA is my new Stones Throw, belonging to Atari obsession. Yuck. So, to sum before I listened close enough to Keep an eye out for the new full- Royal Oak, Ml 48068) best buddy. He's in Karate, Peanut Butter Wolf, a very that one up, go A-Trak, leave the notice that it wasn't the band I length coming out soon, too! Another split arrived cour who I don't love, but his solo important fellow in the hip hop rest at the station. Better luck next thought it was. I was thinking I (Endearing. PO Box 69009, tesy of SARAH DOUGHER stuff rules the world. He's got that scene. PBW has done a good time, stick to the hip hop scene. had something new from the Winnipeg, MB R3P 2G9) and KAIA Records like this well-thought-out sensitive male thing by bringing some hip hop (Stones Throw, 530 Divisadero Toronto math rock enthusiasts Oh yeah, and about lhat make me feel good, even when song styling wrapped around his onto the 45 rpm circuit. The DJ St #208, San Francisco, CA who put out a CD last year, but Kepler 7"... This band sounds a both songs are awful depressing finger, and makes me think of A-TRAK release I got, "Enter 941 17) • that after the first few chapters I Klondike gold rush as much as I that, maybe, his version of the was agreeing with Flav. The did. Using Robert Service's "The shooting of Dan McGrew hype, to me, seemed based on Shooting of Dan McGrew" as deserves to be remembered right Das Book little more than fantasy. Buday's his seed, Kroetsch grows a novel alongside Service's. style was, I thought, unrefined at of Cascadian proportions. The The prairies are first in my best. I certainly didn't recognise characters are vigorous, viva heart, but the Pacific coast has any significant talent. And then, become my home over the whoa, like a lung-full of years and I can feel a sort bleached flour, the book just got of connection to the econo surprisingly terrific. I don't know my here thot isn't really GRANT BUDAY Others still hav Buday, so I snagged his n< if Buday intended this, but all present in Manitoba. Here, White Lung their respectiv book White Lung. The prem the characters became pro from the gold-rush econo (Anvil) companie: was strong enough: guy woi foundly interesting after about my to our current, shitty, ROBERT KROETSCH vith them for mass production bake page 50. His writing, as well, downsized production sys The Man From the Creeks ill of their eco bosses fight union, workers c got more flowery and colourful tem, an underlying social (Vintage) fucked. I gotta admit, thouc (without lacking in substance). history has always con geographic begins and e White Lung became, as I pro nected the reader to the gressed further into the read, regio e find o Bob worker to the economy. It planted in the middle of, has Kroetsch aii d Grant one of my new favourite books. almost makes me proud to always had a fascinating eco Buday a It's so shit-hot I might even buy re in Cascadia. nomic history. The interplay tellers They someone a copy for whatever Here, in Vancouver. When between citizen and economy that econoi Hallmark holiday comes up next I ride my bike down Powell here has more than once found made up pri (maybe you should, too... hint, I can picture the droned-out itself as the backdrop for a people (a nc hint). Buday, as the cover image workers inside their noisy novel Witnessing a flea-sized corporations, gove suggests, puts a human face on factories, possibly telling character pursue his or her eco ments, and their la your morning muffin. After read their co-workers about the nomic interest on the back of an ing White Lung, you'll never j tumultuous events that again eat a slice of factory-pro ever-moving dog can be fabu forget). H shook up their weekends. duced bread without coughing lously entertaining; a lot more so I'd read enough But I can also picture the up a little dust for Epp and Klaus than one might think. This issue, Saturday Mix "Grant cious, vibrant and so full of Stampeders, 100 years ago, and Stahl and the rest of Buday's I've got two local (one really Buday Grant Buday money-lust that the reader can boarding ships where the facto semi-fictional "Bestbuy" crew. local, one sorta local) examples Grant Buday" in the smell their calamities from ries currently stand, telling each I should admit, now, that I which illustrate the myriad ways Vancouver Scum to around the corner. The book other about the tumultuous events picked up Robert Kroetsch's The that people on the left coast have make me puke up my itself is resplendent with our rich that would soon shake up their Man From the Creeks knowing pursued their economic endeav toast. And, to quote Pacific Northwest history... a entire lives. Riding along, I can't that I would dig it. Bob Kroetsch ours as the area has blossomed. my boy Flava Flav, captivating history that shines prevent myself from thinking that makes me spin like a top. I dig Some have struck gold. Others "Don't believe the like a fist-sized nugget of gold. almost everything he's ever have worked themselves to the hype." But I just had to Polishing the nugget is a golden done, but I didn't think I'd enjoy point of exhaustion, ending up find out why Van City ending that only Bob Kroetsch is never be greater than the si his tale of the turn-of-the-century with little more than table scraps. was so excited about capable of. It makes me think its parts. • 8 Jancember 99 Louder Than A Bomb wo months ago, the very quickly and efficiently as possi Fortunately, the Students for scary right-wing group ble for some unstated evil pur Choice group successfully lob TGenocide Awareness pose. What their analogy fails bied the Alma Mater Society to Project was invited to the UBC wledge is the :t that impose strict conditions on the campus by certain pro-life stu of thhe genocidal acts to GAP to ensure that their actions dents. The GAP uses images of which they compare abortion sed the the Holocaust, the Rwandan were committed for political and il damage to genocide, and racist lynchings material gain: Blacks have been to promote their reactionary tortured and killed to maintain subjected to their brand of hate- agenda. GAP travels around white domination both during mongering. The rules were strict North America intimidating pub and after slavery; Nazis target enough that GAP realised their lic and private institutions into ed and massacred Jews for allowing them to set up their political leverage; the Rwandan jlised and they decid- offensive displays, deliberately genocide was motivated by ed not *. How, it the inciting reprisals, then using hunger for political power as end of November, a GAP dis these confrontations to present were/are the conflicts in the for play appeared suddenly outside themselves as helpless martyrs mer Yugoslavia. My point is that the main entrance to the Student (while reaping a tidy profit from Union Building. The whole fias lawsuits levied against institu ted to silence and establish co was so infuriating that it com tions for not providing "ade absolute power over another pelled some activists from quate security"). Their line of group. Abortion, on the other Students for Choice to physical argument links women who hand, accomplishes no such ly tear down the offensive dis have abortions with the perpe- feat. It is physically and emo play. The students now not only *s of ti tionally traumatic, and I chal face legal action and academic the cidal lenge GAP to demonstrate any censure, but slander. AMS Rwanda, and "ethnic cleansing" way in which the "wholesale President Ryan Marshall report in the former Yugoslavia. What massacre" of fetuses serves to edly said that these students is more offensive than their prac benefit women politically. What were "no better than Nazis." tice of intimidation is really in question here is not The attitude Marshall demon is their wholesale exploitatic fetus' rights; rather, it is women's strates not only flies in the face the suffering of e rights. Does a woman have the of the AMS' official position on GAP, but also demonstrates the ,fhnic/m >l/r« right to control what happens to and in her body? The right to same crass attitude towards the groups as a marketing tool. choose does not mean abortion victims of atrocities as GAP CEEEBKATE Ko^iMii DAY WITH BRYCE Trivializing tragedy by exploit as a "convenient" method of itself. Marshall's tacit support of ing these images to further an birth control nor enforced abor GAP's hate-mongering is unac essentially unrelated political D ©IFF EVERYTMIIUC; tions; it simply means the right ceptable: he owes Erin Kaiser agenda (thinly disguised as a to decide for oneself whether or and Students for Choice a pub IM THE STORE "fetus' rights" platform) is not not to go through this difficult lic apology at the very least, process. GAP and others like and, had he a conscience, he betrays a fundamental lack of them would take away not only would issue a general apology understanding or respect for the that choice but also the ability to and step down as President. victims of these atrocities. Even You can register your sup S OppOSlth 3 their , thei agen- port for Students for Choice and s based c supportabl* da. 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Who are three people is controlled by a supposedly !•••< who should never be in a claus benevolent dictator/ruling trophobic space movie together? class/machine, then rush out Kirk Douglas, Farrah Fawcett and get THX-1 138 As anyone he progressivist mantra, s that Mm mg <* Of course, things go awry and and Harvey Keitel. Though I who was silly enough to go and made possible by our rent obsessions, I only chose for the giant spaceship crashes off can't really say that Douglas is see Star Wars I: The Phantom friend Martin Luther and his my viewing and reviewing plea the coast of Sicily (where appar open jazz jam session T bad in his role as the leader of a Menace this summer knows (she delightful split from the back sure films made by people of a ently everyone talks in broken hosted by the james two-person colony on a Saturn said sheepishly), George Lucas ward medieval church wilh its similar psychosis: each one had English with Chef Boyardee forrest trio moon, he is a little old to be hasn't many new ideas in that priestly privileges and scant hon a number featured prominently accents) The only survivors are strutting around in beige poly- billion-dollar brain of his. The ours for the honest men of sci in the title (This of course does >nda guy audacious enough to rip off ence, has been chanted with not include sequels; much to my life for which (c ild Jesus for his middle-aged sci-fi fervour throughout the past three former-nerd friends' dismay, Star it be any other way?) goes miss with white and off-white tunics in mondays myth-and-money-maker had balls centuries. All good North Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was ing. Falling into the kindly hands the future? Are we all going to open mic night enough to rip off George Americans know that it is our nixed ) In a number of experi of an Italian zoologist and his pathologically fear loose-fitting hosted by dino dinicolo Orwell's 1984, and a little of Protestant work ethic that has ments conducted with the utmost pre-med, babe-alicious grand clothing and bold colours as Aldous Huxley's Brave New vaulted our continent — the one adherence to scientific method, daughter, the Venusian life form signs of our dark, slightly flabby World, as a first-time filmmaker. lhat used to be uninhabited — begins to grow with startling past?), fucking the baiely 25 Even by 1971 standards, there to the forefront of good living In thing: unlike the millennium, rapidity The essentially harmless year old Farrah, and wrestling are no new ideas in THX-1138. our technological Utopia, there space movies are very silly creature is provoked by ignorant naked with a (fully clothed) toonie tuesdays with Even worse, and despite a has been no unhappiness, no Heading the list of riotously man (mostly of the species Harvey Keitel. (In fact, I'm a little dj mike alleyne (funk, decent performance by Robert sorrow, only cell phones and Italianus) into a snarling beast, old for some of that naughti Duvall, it's really dull. According etc.) special $2 menu PCs for everybodyl And now all rious Plan 9 from Outer with all the horror that a clay- ness.) Throughout the film's 80 to Lucas, as cited in Peter we can talk about is how it's S^ace Often billed as the mation figure spliced into the minutes, Harvey Keitel looks like Briskind's Easy Riders Raging fucked Why? For one, because "Worst Movie Ever Made," this film can engender. While he's stuck in can't-get-out-of-my- Bulls, the studio "cut the fingers this continent wasn't built by Ed Wood gem was purportedly Twenty Million Miles to Earth contract hell, and it sounds like off his baby" by re-editing it for WASPs, only tenuously con financed by a Baptist church succeeds in its goal of thrilling _sro he literally phoned his part in. public consumption Perhaps a "funk with a facelift" trolled by them For two, who required that the entire cast small children, and those who His voice always seems to be masterpiece was left on the cut featuring various funk because underneath, despite all be baptised (also known as the wish they still were small chil coming from a speaker just off ting room floor. Perhaps George our atheistic bravado, we're all first sign of the apocalypse). The dren so they didn't have to go to groups camera, as he mouths the Lucas should stick to special painfully superstitious. And for film opens with a narrator seem work, I couldn't help but wonder words. And what words they effects and leave the filmmaking ingly hopped up on speedballs, why we were never given a rhre be. c are. Ever the smooth talker, to people who have a talent for who intones: "Greetings my glimpse of Venus which, accord are laziness and order. We all inside five minutes of meeting it. friends. We are all interested in ing to the lengthy testimony of secretly want to be billionaires Fawcett he drones, "You have a ___£ the future, for lhat is where you William Hopper, was a fabulous who live in a perfectly organised great body. May I use it?" As a gal with a talent for "jazz with an edge" and I are going to spend the rest place to visit. society and can spend all our Despite all the shocking revela mixing a cocktail and watching of our lives. And remember, my featuring various jazz time golfing or reading or drink In the spectrum of govern- tions I have just imparted, I have a flick, on January 1 I'm going friends, future events such as fusion groups ing Manhattans or pogoing to yet to mention the most startling to eschew sci-fi and settle in with these will affect you in the the Beastie Boys at the Fabulous kept secret from the public more fact of all. Saturn 3 was the last a delicious Manhattan and a future." From there, he goes on Commodore Ballroom or less criminal than one which feature film directed by Stanley lengthy Thin Man marathon. to say that what we are about to Two thousand years ago a the public witnesses, but which Donan, director of Singing in the There are no better companions see is a dark secret long hidden new year s man was born ("Ouchl" said his does not actually take place? As Rain. See it to believe it. to wipe away the pessimism of that will only now come to light. mother, "why couldn't I just huve it was advertised when it came If you really want to see a the millennium than a little rye Past or future, it only gets better and a lotta '30s chic. If you eve at the a baby like everyone else. .") out in 1978, "Capricorn 1 good space movie, just get it from there. According to the can't look forward to something, whose only recorded words The mission was a sham. The over and rent 2001: A Space plot, aliens have come to earth why not look back? • cellar jazz speak of love, selflessness and murders were real." Starring Odyssey (and maybe this time to destroy it in order to save it harmony. 1967 years after his James Brolin, Sam Walerston from destroying itself. If I say Videophilter Top Ten Moving Images I've Seen This Year death, he's the inadvertent cen and OJ Simpson as astronauts cafe more, it will ruin the astounding tre of a lot of talk about guns who are forced to take part in a surprises that the film holds for Action (TV - "I think you're really qualified for this job, but I think and tinned corned beef. How faked mission to Mars, I'm going to hire that hooker instead.") SPACIOUS COUCH the first-time viewer — like how Jesus and computers ever got Capricorn I is the least silly of 2. Get Real (Film -1 knew that "fag" thing would get them in trouble.) it could ever have been 3. Praise You (Music Video - Subtlety maVes a comeback) together to tango through this all the films I watched for two DJSHORTFUSE released My only word of 4. Shack out on 101 (Video - Snappy dialogue, bizarre gay flirtation with catastrophe is one reasons: it doesn't have aliens undercurrents and Lee Marvin. B-movie heaven.) advice is to keep your ears open of the strangest, funniest things and it doesn't take place in 5. Being John Malkovich (Film - Malkovich!) for the scene between the 6. Go (Film - These boots ARE made for walkin...) that's ever happened in my life space. As such, the filmmakers *S General and the Corporal in 7. Show Me Love (Film - Lesbian Coming-out Primer) (she said only days before the didn't have to waste their money which they discuss the army's 8. Ultraviolet (TV - Best British series since Prime Suspect, plus cheese!) unknown event and with great 9. White Heat (Video - Cagney melts down in a Freudian Atomi position on the existence of optimism). When I was 1 1 years nightmare.) aliens. A masterpiece of surreal crazy special effect monsters. 0. Run Lola Run (Film - It doesn't have to be art, goddamn it!) Saturday dec. 11: old and asked by my Grade 6 satire, it predates Dr. They could actually afford to hire pearl django teacher to envision my life at the a scriptwriter and some actors. the John roper trio Strangelove by six years, though oppiness by Miyu millennium, Y2K was not the fan And OJ Simpson. The all-star Saturday jan. 8: tastical future world I conjured libeatos cast — including Elliot Gould as You check your messages four times a day, and you feel up. Not yet old enough to enjoy Jan. 14 •• 18: Kubrick intended, Ed Wood a reporter who smells a set-up, little lost when there aren't any, so you send off a few a refreshing dip into paranoia, I brad turner quartet unwitted. Hal Holbrook as the NASA ills because maybe they'll send you one back, thought maybe there would be bunco & the single malt Moving back 12 months (to poster boy for two-faced bureau e's only bills in your mailbox, but you wouldn't know quartet flying cars. The fact that there 1957), yet light years ahead in crats, and Brenda Vaccarro as t a letter looked like anyway, so you send off twenty friday Jan. 88: aren't flying cars, that instead production value, is the ultra- the Christmas cards thot oil look exactly the same chris tarry trio we have ugly, pre-molded clone- cheesy, Sunday afternoon spe astro-wife — thankfully shoulders stamped and sealed, red envelopes, and you're horn- cars, is but one of the ways that cial Twenty Million Miles to the bulk of the action. Though alone and you con't find your god-damned cot, so you g< the makers of science fiction Earth William Hopper, known this isn't the taut thriller it wants ) walk and you run into that girl you know, and you 3611 west broadway films were so right about the to Perry Mason freaks as Paul to be, the snappy dialogue and stand there with nothing to say, ond she has to go, oi 7 3 8.1959 future and I was so wrong. wonts to go, ond she says "Take care," and you remember Drake: PI Operative, plays the numerous sub-plots keep the cafe opens at 8 pm thot you have nothing, nobody to take care of, so you dro* Knowing that the millennial action moving. Besides, what a few coins in the plastic boll beside the person with thi Video Philter was at hand, I to Venus. The project is kept other movie are you going to bell, ond you put your hands in your pockets, your foce ii turned my collar up and set out from the public until a tri rent that stars two Mr. Barbra your scarf because suddenly you feel how cold it is. into the cold reaches of space umphant return can be assured. Streisands? 10 Jancember 99 S. In terms of records? / I heard about a •certain label going U oiler, Hand hopes and aspirations going with it? v ^ A' house, drum _ bass, techno, hip hop, dub, trance, ambient, jazz, rare groove, progressive, breakbeat, BOOMTOWN new i used, import i domestic, Ifs, magazines, WW is Un Do vibe, dub, metru, echo, honey drop, lithium, TPHS, extra strength, BOOMTOUJN TIP 7WE 102-1252 BURRARD ST.(SOUTH of DAVIE) -893 8696 BOOMTOWN VICTORIA - 105-561 JOHNSON ST. -(250) 380 5090 ing a non-perishable food item for our christma and recieve a special discount on your pure ii E Millennium Project « ^ d release on Vancouver's Mo' Funk Scort Tucker on bass, John Raham DiSCORDER: How did you hook up with JR Sounds good. time to figure out how to do the work of building a Naming songs is hard when it's instrumental. Mr. Bill Laswell? JPC: Set it up. band; get some things in your head out, and that's You know, I was really drunk one night at JP Carter: The producer [Ian Menzies] thought it This is your second release. The first a project in itself, to find a bunch of people to make this lounge, and the DJ was spinning, would be a good idea, so he called him up We album was also done for Mo' Funk, what music with. playing the record On The Corner by Miles were pretty stoked was the response like from the first All the songs on Simulasticity are origi Davis. And the manager asked the DJ not I know that there's a mixdown that has album? nals. How do you come up with the titles to play 'any of this contemporary jazz.' to happen with any album, but that's not JPC: Better in other places than in Canada. for songs in jazz? Rumour has it that one Of course, On The Corner was released in something that is usually highlighted Who are your favourite Canadian jazz well-known jazz band watched pornos 1972, so I asked him what his definition with regards to a jazz album, you know, musicians? during breaks in recording and used that of contemporary jazz is. He had no idea. 'the mixer.' What did he do to it? How JPC: Um, um, um... as inspiration when naming songs. Do What is contemporary jazz? did it change after Mr. Laswell got his You can just cheat and say Oscar Peterson you guys do that? How do you come up JPC: I don't know. hands on it? if you want. with your titles? Maybe it's like, Kenny G. But that's not JPC Well, first of all he made it sound good. JPC: Well, there are lots of local people whose stuff JPC: No, we don't do that. I'm not, like, a writer, so contemporary jazz, because it's not jazz. It didn't sound good before? I love, like Brad Turner. it's tough to go through that experience of naming It's like, adult contemporary. John Raham: I think he has his stamp on it, but What plans to you have for the millenni something, and most of the time when I do it does JPC: With regards to contemporary and traditional without taking so much liberty that it turned out like um? n't translate into some easily accessible word in my jazz, some people think those are two opposites, a completely different record. I think he did a great JPC: We're going to play, tour fhe West Coast, do vocabulary. It doesn't really spawn one particular which they aren't. Traditional can be done now, but job, listening] to what we were doing and not fak jazz festivals, and then go fo Europe. idea that I can work with. You know, you have to that doesn't make it contemporary. I don't think that ing away from that do to his own magic tricks, but Why do you call yourselves the write a title. You do up some charts for the guys and 'contemporary' is a necessary label or moniker to just to support and augment what was going on Millennium Project? Why don't you call pass them out, and if there's no title on it... stick in front of anything, because it is what you hear. It's scary to send a project away and not know yourselves the Millennium Band? How is a You're in trouble! So how are people trying to define what's going to happen when it comes back. I felt project different from a band? JPC: Yeah. There was this one I just couldn't do, so Millennium Project? confident about sending it to him, but still, not JPC: I guess when if started out if was more... that, I just wrote this little shape on it, and I got lots of JR: It's back to the whole category thing again, it knowing what you're going to get sent back is and then it just became... a band. flak for that too. I'd say, 'Let's play this one,' and seems like consumers need to have a tag on it to scary I was happy when I got back to hear what So, no intentions of cashing in on the make a little hand symbol. So I had to contemplate consume it. If you say, 'This is crazy fucking new he had done. whole Y2K trip? what the tune is all about, and then I had to make shit and you'll like it!' they won't go for it. So do you get to go to New York and play JR: [Millennium Project] formed a while ago, in up a word for the tune, 'cause I couldn't find a How can we make jazz have a sexier rep at the Knitting Factory, now that you're 1996. It came about at a time when we all finished word that fit. utation? down with Bill? school, or sort of stopped going to school. It was JPC: And that tune is "Simulasticity," the title track. JPC: That's what we're trying to do here. • BROS COASTA] THANKS TO ALL OF OUR ADVERTISERS: GRECOR WITHOUT YOU WE COULDN'T SUBSIST IN EPITAPH • GREENTC WiiSSiiS^tSISSSi^ ALL OUR GLORY. ESTDON S •» HOI CELLAR HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND FUCK THE WTO! INDIE IS THE WAY TO GO! FebruarvDeadlines I PUFF • PU » — Book: January 19th j MAR ULJ.Co -' lv*i/v Art; January 25th Al.LMANRECORDS • SONAR N • STARFISH • SUGARREFIN- Streets: January 28 1DWIDE • TOPQUAUTY • TONI- AGE • UBCBIKEK1TCHEN IGINMEGAS- DiAlMS, HANOXK # 822-3017 X 3 H« All Y«JR A0\ JLUHCCGRDS 12 Jancember 99 BY MAR SELLARS & ROB BROWNRIDGE If you visit the Victory Records website, you'll see a banner • displaying a countdown to the release date of Snapcase's new album, Designs for Automotion, on January 25th, 2000. This will be their third full length, following up 1997's Progression Through Unlearning and 1994's Lookinglasself. Like a lot of people who are into hardcore, the members of Snapcase have a love-hate relationship with the scene that has helped them become what they are today. It is a scene dominated by aggressive, mostly white males who like to strut their stuff by dancing hard in the pit. Anyone who's been to a hardcore show has probably the seen the very, er, creative hardcore dance styles such as floor-punching, windmilling, and spin-kicking. Instead of taking an in-your-face, youth-crew approach to hardcore and its philosophies, Snapcase focuses on more universally accessible messages of individuality and self-realisation. As might be expected, this allows a broader range of people to be affected by their music. Snapcase are renowned for their powerful and emotional stage presence. That, combined with their less exclusive style of hardcore, has made them a favoured band to tour with. On their most recent tour of duty, they got to play shows with The Misfits and 7 Seconds. Last year they ended up on such high profile bills as Mar and Rob caught up with Snapcase when they played a The Vans Warped tour and The Deftones' US tour. Despite this, matinee show with Buried Alive, Kid Dynamite and 7 Seconds at they remain true to being an independent, all-ages band. the Commercial Drive Legion Hall in Vancouver on October 30th. DiSCORDER: Can you tell us a bit about the new album, and people of different backgrounds and cultures, so it can be kind of of the band. The kids that like Snapcase for the most part are all ages, how it compares to previous ones? embarrassing having them witness the hardcore scene I'm a part of. so we would never play a non all-ages show. We're not here to play Daryl It's more of an interesting sounding record than previous albums. Hardcore tends to be a very exclusive scene. It's not that girls need to be 'drink special night' or 'nickel-draft night' or whatever they call it. There's more diversity from song to song, and within the songs there's more more aggressive and fight their way in at shows. The guys that are already Does touring with big bands like The Deftones ever intensity changes. there need to help other people feel comfortable to be up front singing frustrate you, make you want to stop being independent? Do you guys consider yourselves a hardcore band? along — and that's what it comes down to.... No. I think a lot of people have misconceptions when it comes to I guess. The hardcore scene is where we come from and what we owe Straight-edge is one of those things that an individual has to define for major labels versus independent labels. A lot of bands on everything to. Without the hardcore scene we'd be pretty much lost; we themselves. Strangely enough, straight-edge has become something that independent iabels are making tons of money. Everybody knows that wouldn't be where we are right now. But people have different conceptions kids get into because of peer-pressure, to be cool or to fit in with certain Ian MacKaye and Fugazi have made tons of money, and that of what hardcore is, and we don't want to be pigeon-holed into what some kids. That's a terrible way to get into something. Dischord has racked up substantial profits. That's not a bad thing people might think hardcore is. Do you guys consider yourselves a straight-edge band? because when you're playing shows someone's making the money, be So what do you think hardcore is? Snapcase has never been a so_alled 'straight-edge band' although the it fhe club or the promoters or whoever. There's nothing wrong with I wouldn't try to define hardcore. I don't like defining different genres of members in the band are all straight-edge. It's not an important thing for us making money as a band — what's wrong is if that's the purpose of music; I think it just limits what people think. The best thing you can do is just to go out and say 'We're straight-edge' and 'Be straight-edge.' Our lyrics being a band. check out a band live, and I think, especially for hardcore, the best way to are about finding yourself; digging down deep and finding the genuine We've been touring for so many years now that we're kinda nerdy witness what it's all about is to see a live show. That's the most important individual that you really are; doing things that you're truly comfortable — just reading, or everyone's in the van sleeping. We're kind of a thing. with; thinking about your weaknesses and making yourself better; and jock band, so we made up a game called bagel-ball where we A lot of hard dancing was going on at tonight's show and a overcoming everything around you. It's unfortunate that most kids try to wrapped a bagel up in duct tape and made this sort of soccer game fight even broke out — what do you prefer to see a crowd identify themselves within a group, a scene, or a crew — something larger with it. We'd play in the parking lots before shows and even involve do? than themselves. kids that were waiting in the game. It was a lot of fun! I really like your I've never been a big fan of the windmill arm thing and the kicking, We've had a lot of people come up to us and say 'Through your lyrics Donnas pin, by the way. because you can't see where your arms and legs are going. If someone's and your music you've really helped me out. I had really bad Have you guys ever played with The Donnas? watching a band, they don't want to get kicked or pounded in the head by drug/alcohol/depression problems and your lyrics have really inspired No, but I'm a big fan. Rock V Roll Machine, and Get Skintight I someone else's fist. It's not fun, it's not cool, and it proves nothing. I'd like me to better myself.' I think that's more effective than a band coming out really like too. I haven't even seen them, but I really wanna see them to see more kids smiling at our shows, just kinda bouncing up and down and saying, 'Let's unite and be together! We're all straight-edge and we're play. and enjoying the music. a big crew!' For someone who has drug problems that doesn't work for Well hopefully you'll get to see them live and maybe play What's your view on the ongoing issue of hardcore being them; they're isolated from all that. with them in the future! Thanks a lot for the interview! male-dominated? Is there an ideology behind being independent and playing Well, thank you and thanks to everyone out there for all their support. Aggressive punk and hardcore have always been dominated by all-ages shows? It's always inspiring to see so many kids out al o show, especially at aggressive males, and mostly white males. As I've gone through life I've met Yes! We've been on the same label, Victory, for the whole existence a matinee show like this one, and on Hallowe'en weekend as well! Sadly, though it was Hallowe'en weekend, Daryl and the boys in Snapcase had nothing special planned for All Hallow's Eve. They were scheduled to play in Portland on Hallowe'en day, and although their booking agent suggested they dress up as the Backstreet Boys (which Daryl was quite confident they could pull off), when we spoke to them they didn't have anything locked down. Hopefully Snapcase will be back in Vancouver appearing as themselves some time soon. • 13__- Iff If if III IS if Iff if Iff Illfffill Hippies in Bellingham sure know how to make some damn mean grub. Me and the crew went to see that crazy bad-ass Atom break out the QY700 and rock it to a crowd of a-whole-lot-more-than-l By Gibby Peach, with Tesla Van Halen and Roberto Brownridge DiSCORDER: Today is the 20th of October tall, too. Chamberlain! than some boy playing with himself. which means there's only two months until Not big enough. Did you sleep with Wilt Chamberlain? We I can usually handle the criticism. the big day. Seeing as how the millennium I guess not. It kinda broke my heart want an answer! We're gonna print this Tess: Yeah, well, you can be a tough kid. is about to end and countless people have because I was going for the NHL and they in our magazine. But we can still kick your ass. You may proclaimed a new world order for January just didn't want me. That's the part that you can have blown up really big not know this, but Gibby and I are pro 1 st, can you shed any light on your plans Really? We're gonna put that on the cover! Atom fessional wrestlers. I'm 'Turntable Tess.' for this year's Christmas? Yeah... well, not really. — 'I Slept with Wilt Chamberlain!' And I'm Gibby, The Georgia Peach. You Atom: I'm starting a new world order with other Rob: Have you got any response from the I'd read it. I'd be, like, 'WHAT?!' ever seen Abdullah the Butcher? He was, Jews. We Kill Everybody, [laughter] NHL? Like, have any GMs called you say Okay. Okay. Back to the interview. How like, this six hundred pound guy from the Tess: Tou should ask him what he's doing ing, 'That's a really good idea'? do you feel about 'Package backlash'? Sudan and he actually bit people. He was for Chanukah, then. I actually did try to call the sports radio station in You know, people like Maximum Rock 'N a complete fucking maniac and I think he What are you gonna do for Chanukah? Philadelphia once, but they wouldn't take my call. Roll, and Todd from His Hero Is Gone, and used to wrestle in Winnipeg. Kill Everybody. I was, like, 'If you want the Stanley Cup in people saying mean things about you. Do Really??? Okay, so far, on the 'Making Love 1999' Philadelphia...' and they were just, like, 'We're you just take it with a grain of salt? Tess: [sarcastically] Oooohhhh. Well, Bret tour, have you run into many right-wing talking football tonight, buddy. Sorry.' Well, the MRR thing, I understand their opinion. and Owen Hart are from Alberta. assholes who've come to your shows Tess: If you were in New Jersey, though, You know, they want to cover music that they want Yeah, well, Bret Hart is in the new Rascalz looking to be dickheads, or have most of they would've bought it. to cover. I mean, they cover guitar punk, and I am video. the people been pretty cool? [offended] I can't give it to Jersey. They're rivals! not guitar punk. Their decision is fine. Some people Tess: Yeah, well Bret Hart could kick your Yeah You know, every once in a while people will Speaking of sports: with the sad, tragic write me and say things like, 'They suck. I'm gonna ass. come and yell at me and fuck with me, but I can death of the Wilt 'the Stilt' Chamberlain write them a letter.' And I'm just, like, 'relax.' I Yeah, well the Rascalz could kick your usually hold my own the other day, was your heart broken? mean my type of music is probably not for every ass. How's the love-making been going so far? 'Cause I know you've been reading his body. But, actually, there was this band in Tess: Yeah, well my mom could kick your Have you been making lotsa love? autobiography on the tour. Wyoming, recently, that got one of my shows can ass. No. In theory, this was a pretty good idea but, real My family and I, every year, go away to this place celled because they hate me so much. That sort of Are you gonna edit this so this big, long tirade that ly, it's been pretty boring. I mean I basically drive, in the Catskills where, I guess, Wilt worked as a thing is maybe stepping over the line. just went on will be, like, 'Atom is the smartest, most eat, play shows, and go to sleep. young Wilt Chamberlain and, every year, he goes Tess: I could understand if it was some That's why you should come to Canada there for a charity basketball game. I just saw him really crappy band... like, what's that Rob: 'He's a sound-bite machine.' and do a Canadian tour. If you toured this August. So I was one of the last ten, or twenty, really shitty vampire hardcore band from I'll arrange it so everything you say Canada it surely wouldn't be boring. or thirty thousand people who saw him alive. New Brunswick? sounds completely fucking intelligent. All [sarcastically] Yeah, I've heard that Manitoba and Do you have any nutty Wilt Chamberlain Ink and Dagger? right. Now, for the question that all the Saskatchewan are incredibly interesting drives. trivia. Besides the twenty thousand... Rob: New Brunswick? cool kids want answered: Is the Package They're so awesome. It's just one thing And one boy. Tess: New Brunswick, New Jersey. I mean Y2K compliant (seeing as how this is the they deserve it, if anyone does. after another. The Yellowhead Highway Everyone; Hhhuuuuuhhhh??? official interview of the millennium) and if Rob: Kinda like how Backstreet Boys don't Who was the boy?!? I never heard that! it's not, what are you gonna do? get the shitty press that N'Sync gets. Tess: Teah... the Yellowhead. [to Tess] Did you hear that? If the package is not Y2K compliant, I'm complete That's a travesty. Now, back to reality. Do you honestly Tess: What? ly fucked because if I have to upgrade, I'll lose all think that fat goalies would be really Wilt Chamberlain fucked a boy?!? I kinda like that new Backstreet Boys song, [singing] these songs that I have programmed in there. If it good, 'cause I used to be a fat goalie Rob: Was this in the biography? "Tell me why..." doesn't work, I'll just have to get a QY1000. I don't myself, and I sucked. Nope. But I know. Tess: You wouldn't if you had to hear it eight know what I'm gonna do. No. No. It's not just fat. The calibre of fatness has Tess: Were you the boy? hours a day. I don't know, I think I have Tess: Well, the world's ending anyway! to be Guinness Book of World Records. Well... more of a problem With some fucking hard If anything does get fucked up, I think that it will just I mean I was a BIG fat goalie. 'Cause I'm Tess: Shut upl You did not sleep with Wilt core whitey boys going '\ud jud jud jud' have to be Atom and I'll sing a cappella songs! • 14 Jancember 99 UP YOUR ASS WITH A CAN OF GAS OUT YOUR NOSE WITH A RUBBER HOSE CHUCK D DiSCORDER: Chuck, do it's really what you could call why is it that so many strategists, have found a way programmed to think on a very Public Enemy's never done two you think the shift in 'edge music' as opposed to people in the Black in the past to manipulate that limited basis; they're not albums that sound alike, so the r demographics something that would make communities have been system and project this and still thinking about fighting the idea of a 'different sound' is frc everybody feel comfortable, indoctrinated into get what they had to get powers that be when they're academic. You can't take two irily Black and but it [Niggativity] doesn't thinking that this without being accountable to supplied by those powers. So, albums that we've done and urban to white and make people that run the Black constitutes rebellion when the communities they were yeah, that's the reality in that say 'this is like that.' If you look suburban that happened communities comfortable they are simply portraying, that these artists respect. But you know, our back and say there's a Public somewhere in the late either. So, I don't think it replicating age-old white came from. I mean, regardless whole thing has always been Enemy sound, well, you can '80s/early '90s was at necessarily translates into stereotypes? of what anyone says, the bases fighting the structure because least in part responsible Alright. Yeah. of these artists come from the it's the structure that controls you can't find two albums that for a decline in conscious white kids bought the De La Actually that's part of my Black community. Now these the minds of the people. When sound alike. That was part of hip-hop in the Soul, and the Tribe Called next question. I know artists from the Black push comes to shove, you the whole premise of making it. mainstream? I mean, Quest, and the Public Enemy, you don't like to criticize community have voices and know, it's very convenient for I mean, Vol Bum Rush the Show quite often when I'm and the Paris as well. other Black artists in print they speak, but they have power structures — I mean I'm was as different from // Takes a DJing and people ask for Okay, cool. But I wasn't and that's fair enough, something behind it just talking even the music Nation of Millions... as this hip-hop but don't get really suggesting that rap but I'd like your opinion undermining it and co-opting it industry here cause I have a record is from anything we did. specific, and I suggest became more popular on this. Do you see the to be one way instead of a situation like Public Enemy — And Fear of a Black Planet was like PE or Paris or because of the whole explosion of real white- whole balanced point of view but I mean for example for totally different from It Takes a something, they say, Niggativity thing; rather, guy-in-a-suit corporate across the board. That one radio stations not to play our Nation of Millions. 'Nah, man, I don't wanna that the primarily white marketing support for sided projection can skew records and video outlets not to This album seems like hear any of that corporate system which gangsta rap as a way of people into stereotypical play our videos... it's very lyrically one of your conscious shitl' I get that marketed the artists promoting a certain thought, thinking this is who convenient for a nineteen-year angriest projects (along all the time. chose to promote one image of Black people in they are; that they're wild and old youth to come along who's with Apocalypse '91): I never seen us, who's judging Chuck D: What? Do white more comfortable image the mainstream media? I gangsta, and once things like like that. on those limited standards kids tell you that? in the mainstream (to know in Fight the Power: that are repeatedly projected You can't be angry for no conditioned by the media, and I've heard variations on suburban white teens) Rap, Race & Reality you and broadcast who knows how reason, but I've found some say, 'So who are Public that from people of many than another less talk about [gangsta rap] deep the influence can go. freedom to express certain Enemy? What's all' the attitude ethnicities. comfortable one. being potentially a kind I was recently reading things and some things that about?' 'Cause, you know, I don't necessarily think a Well, I won't necessarily argue of call for help, and that bell hooks' Outlaw need to be addressed, but our they follow MuchMusic and major shift happened because with that.. I mean if any kid the imbalance in media Culture, and in her whole thing is like, yeah, MTV and they're-not seeing us of that, 'cause., well, the says 'I don't wanna hear that coverage has really interview with Ice Cube Apocalypse '91 hit on some and all that, and they just go arenas of exposure might have exacerbated the problem. she repeatedly talks important points but I don't like By reinforcing stereotypes about being labeled 'anti- through life trying to get a decided lo play something else consider those kids racist? to talk about the same points that white society hold white' because she buck, and poppin' their acne, as opposed to what they were Yeah, I probably would twice. So, Muse-Sick-N-Hour- very deeply and attacks the white and shit like that and, you playing. So, those are because it's a matter of Mess-Age took a different know, that's outside our realm. exceptions to the rule, the what makes you feel safe approach, and I can't say promoting these icons as supremacist patriarchal So, the production credits people saying that I don't or comfortable. Especially Greatest Misses took any real desirable to Blacks power structure; I've on There's A Poison Goin' wanna hear that or whatever. if it's a white kid: if all through media saturation, obviously heard similar On exclude most of the approach rather than getting But I will tell you this: the you enjoy hearing is that are they just recreating criticisms being laid old Bomb Squad. I mean some things out of the vaults, overall focus in the United 'nigga/bitch/ho' shit... and reinforcing the 'bad against PE. So, do you I've heard criticisms but even the Mistachuck record States' popular media has I'm sorry, but if that's nigger' image as a way think these criticisms are about the departure from was a whole different always been on some 'killer what you're comfortable to justify continued a deliberate silencing the so-called 'typical' PE approach; it was the funk with, and that's how you oppression and inequality? tactic or are these people sound. At the same time I grooves and a more laid-back see Black music and goes against the grain would Yeah, in a way, right. I think so deeply integrated into think that there are many style The measure of anger Black people then I've got probably not be as favoured as the thing you have to the system that they can't elements which reflect happens to be 'did I nail a a real fucking problem something that follows that remember is that the music differentiate between classic PE and, well... topic?' and topics were to be with you. I mean what formula. So the formula of industry is not independent of targeting power what's up? nailed on this one. negativity or Niggativify rests you have to examine is politics The money all comes structures and attacking This record seems much comfortably in the minds of a why the jiggaboo thug from the same places. The people? Those criticisms, do they more contemporary than lot of heads. So that's one of image is an appealing leaders of the industry, with Most of the masses of America matter? It doesn't matter. But I other PE projects in that it the ways in which positive rap image of us Black people their gigantic teams of lawyers and even in different parts of would say that Public Enemy's isn't so much a really went against the grain: to others. Furthermore, and marketing the Earth have been always done different albums: pioneering or radically "But you know, our whole thing has always been fighting the structure because it's the structure that controls the minds of the people/' 16 Jancember 99 mention this ad and new musical approach. do you feel about that? bound to become big 10% offall{ While, as I said, I hear I didn't feel good about it. I better and you're goin many elements that mean my whole thing is that waterpipes clearly mark it as a PE artists should speak and not be independent TV statio record, stylistically it censored; I think they should shit. sounds very much like a igated. But < I know what you're more credible and , for , and saying about media creative reflection of a lot r with somebody else's control. I mean I didn't of contemporary hip-hop. juld not be artistically even hear about this case How do you stay on top ited. You know, a lot of until '93, and I heard ___r of the music scene so Jo things for popular about it when I was in consistently? but then at the same Europe. It was all over Well, the goal was to actually time they claim that they're not the place in many do something that we can different countries; every W trying to be mainstream. To me perform well, to make a street corner had 'Free muscular record. Also, to mainstream is all about doing Mumia' posters of some Colour Changers explore a different feel. We things for popular reasons. My kind and I was like, 'Who say with this album that what whole thing is to lead by the fuck is that?' Then, Detox Products we wanted to accomplish was 'holy shit! This is out of a project whose goal was to but the artist is only a slice of control.' Glass Pipes be like Redman bumped into the man, you know what I'm Yeah you took lines right out the Chemical Brothers, stayed of what I was about to say Hookahs at Pink Floyd's crib, and ended I'm involved here in because the first big up getting a ride from, like, Vancouver in the effort to coverage of Mumia was on Rolling Papers Rage Against the Machine. So, free Mumia and I'm posters and walls in Naples we thought that coming up getting really worried America refuses to admit with that sort of a combination Waterpipes what with the new death has political Downtown Location 684-PUFF (7833) r ^ , but at the Puff Pipes Outta Sight Smoke Shop useful for performance 712 Robson Street upstairs @ Granville "I think the Uptown Location 708-9804 hip-hop, but I don't Puff Pipes Smoke Shop like the fact that a lot thing you have of artists have not always complaining 4326 Main Street streetside @ 27th taken chances. You to remember is about human classic artists like that the music around the world, Kool Keith and Prince but they never Paul to see that. A lot address issues of people aren't industry is not like, for example, making records based the way Native on performance; independent of Canadians are they're making treated here and records based on a politics/' the way in which car or a radio. That's they deal with cool, but if you have Native political • BASSIX ten records that sound protests like the the same you have to confrontations at ask 'why the fuck are you warrant and shit. I know Oka and Gustafsen Lake. doing the album?' That's you've been working on I think what we have to do something that really bothers this issue quite a bit: with the Mumia case is to set me, that people really want to what do you think is a precedent for the next make safe music. going to happen if Mumia millennium saying: 'Okay, So, what's up with dies? Do you think the we're going into a new Confrontation Camp? Is anger that would realm but don't forget who's that coming up soon. surround his killing is in charge here.' That's why Yeah, coming up in 2000. going to fade away like this gnific Is that going to be on it has with so many other • ill i ! fre Atomic Pop as well? assassinated Black vill it be the illusion and the No. Right now the distributor leaders, or are people jura of freedom, and it has yet to be determined. going to get angry and night even pivot around this You've said many times, aware enough to actually quite explicitly in fact do something this time? Yeah, nd we are livin (especially on Muse- Out of sight and out of mind is .rid the Sick...), that you're 'not a terrible thing that's happened freedoms so many of us down with callin' my to a lot of people in America, take for granted are Brothers and Sisters Canada, whatever. 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It seems in, they continue to talk about how pre [andi by the ti recorded Guerrilla 'We've had about three albums and that Mogwai aren't the only British band posterous it is to be connected lo the word we really start. Into it and u mg we've never actually been hyped, but we on a hate mission against Damon and "psychedelic." Another band lhat was But Guerrilla is very did get good press. You could say the @)S*lo r«>05V company's chart success in North apparently part of that short-lived scene, organic as well." Bunf adds, "Ii has press Is sympathetic fo us," asserts Guto. America and the recent reinvention of Olivia Tremor Control, is brought up in always been our intention te use electron Perhaps it doesn't jusl come down to the D their sound from Bril Pop cabaret hi-jinks conversation. Conveniently fhey, like the ic equipment and experiment with it, but British press aiding SFA's ascent into C6lor;f,/V to arty self-expressionist composition. Super Furries, put out a new album this we consider ourselves more non-purists celebrity status in the UK, but some of their "Actually, we don't hate them," he hastily year as well, and are actually label-mates than experimentalists. After all, we are a own surprising publicity stunts. One was a (5) o*^**- -VU* adds. Perhaps Blur just brings back bad with them. Back in the UK, SFA are on guitar-based rock and roll band and not a military tank painted with their logo, and memories of when the Super Furries were Creation (home of Oasis, one of the few techno band. If we were purists, our another was a bevy of giant inflatable neatly squeezed into the category of Brit bands who still like to be called Brit Pop), sound would be all guitars, but we don't dolls displayed prominently at al! their live Pop with countless other bands during its but in North America their latest album, follow any specific rules. Quality is really gigs, "When you have limited resources explosion in the mid '90s. The guitarist, Guerilla, is distributed by Flydaddy, a our only criteria of the genre. We record Huw Bunford (just call him "Bunf), further label run by two humble guys from Rhode ed twenty-five songs for Guerrilla and ways of getting your message across, you comments, "The reason our band was Island. most of fhem were guitar-based, buf the know. We try not ta go for the obvious, J)*>/ery SoivW formed was because we hated Brif Pop. "Olivia Tremor Contra! supported us ones thot we chase work well and we i great 1999 poster campaign," says It was disgusting how it all came across, on a British tour a few years ago, that's thought it would be rjiore exciting to put a ml with a ofs< how we connected with Flydaddy," says digital slant fo the record." Probably the funr •ind most r< The writers for the British music press Guto. "We used to be on Sony in North The topic of the band being from ur de for mbinin 3 for are infamous for inventing ways of label America, but they weren't releasing our Wales had fo immerge sooner or later, European football and self-promotion, is ing every new band so they can eventu records because they've got Gloria seeing that at the moment in ihe UK there Super Furry Animals' sponsorship of their ^•'l*n*UM frozen ally lump them all together under one Estefan and bands like that ta concentrate seems fo be an influx of Welsh bands home football team so their name appears heading. The best one yet is the one that on. Sony just didn't know what to do with gaining a fair bit of popularity, most on the football uniform. Guto laughs, "It's was created only this year, supposedly us, so w© decided to start from scratch notably Catatonia, the Manic Street another one of our bargain basement pub ®^e slcW spearheaded by our Furry friends them again. Flydaddy have done better disfrib- . Preachers, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, and licity stunts. The team is Cardiff City, it's selves, called "New Psyche" (that's short uting us than Sony ever did." Stereophonies. Bunf sighs audibly and our hometown and it's cool as fuck. The [yi^ortaUoa"*jv for "psychedelic" —• a scene that occurred Ah, the ago-old problem of a UK band comments, "There's hundreds of bands in players have to go ouf on the field wilh in the late '60s whose adherents liked to getting poor distribution from their clue Wales, there always has been. But there's Super Furry Animals on their chests!" ingest ISD, played their music backwards less North American major label. Thank only about five that people have heard The band will always have a select and had on unhealthy lyrical obsession God for the hard-working indie labels con of." ^^^Ml audience In North America based on the .for Lewis Carroll}. Bunf explains, "that tinuously puffing out good music for selec "In Wales, most people used fo call sheer integrity and the creativity of their wasn't us, it was the NME — we never tive listeners. Guerrilla seems fo be a bit of England 'the old enemy,' and ihe English music, but their widespread popularity claimed to be the New Psychedelic move a departure in that it has some electronic used to say the Welsh were sheep-shag- back home also includes a large number ment and we never even heard of it. It just elements added ta their usual stunning gers, We've been victims of those kind of of football aficionados. Bunf considers, "I J) Sau| p cK happened io be convenient that the array of quirky guitar based melodies. generalizations ourselves. It's hard fo have suppose we could alienate rival fans by 0 Flaming lips, the Beta Bond and us came There's even the tiniest bif of drum 'n' bass an abjective opinion based on previous having our name on one specific team ouf with albums close to each other. The added fo the odd song, as well as blips, . tension between Wales and England, as shirt, but that's football 'innit?" • @ \oc-oA v/\ny *o W^\ sfonstfA W oT*.s lrecoriS6 v*o\j\c\ yo-j tOan\ \o viorVcl v "or aniito?i\\" o\.O\.0O— SOir* 19 E A ft 1 T WYHAIX* ,J|HI 20 Jancember 99 DiSCORDER: I know you don't like your art _ldub opinion on the imprisonment and persecution associated with rap but... of writer and former Panther sopkesman LKJ: It's not that I have anything against rap, it's just that poetry scene for over 20 years now. His combination of subtl•tiee and Mumia Abu-Jamal? I work in a different medium. I work in poetry. Rap has hypnotic music with poignant biting social criticism and direct It's disgraceful! Absolutely disgraceful! America likes to an organic historical relationship with Jamaican music pretend it's an evolved country with a liberal tradition, in so for as it has appropriated the techniques of dub confrontation make him one of the most powerful and respected poet yet it's involved in legalized murder for reasons of pure poetry. What they really have in common is the of the late twentieth-century. With four books, eleven albums anc politics. I think what international organizations like ascendancy of the spoken word. Actually the early Amnesty International need to do is focus more on American DJs were influenced by fhe Jamaican context. countless performances under his belt, LKJ has secured his place as \h human rights violations in the United States than in so- Yes, I understand that. I mean you're often world's finest Reggae-poet. So, you can imagine my horror when I arrive called Third World countries. described as the progenitor of rap. But what Hancunt: Why do you think that is? Is it at Sonar for the press conference and there was no one there. Can yc I am really trying to get at is do you think the because the funding for those organizations strength of the West Indian community's imagine? A press conference for one of the major international figures comes largely from the US? influence in British musk and popular culture, late twentieth century poetry and when he arrives not one member of I No, I would be surprised if it did. They [the US] have especially hip hop, acts as something of a their own human rights organization; I think it's called barrier to American musical cultural reactionary Vancouver press (besides myself, Hancunt, and a nice your Human Rights Watch or something like that; I don't fellow from BCIT) shows up! I mean it's cool to have an exclusive uf remember. They come down to the Caribbean quite often and complain about human rights violations and No, I don't think so. British rap is really influenced by close-and-personal interview with one of your most revered artistic icons, American rap. Most of the British rappers sound like J police brutality, but when the same thing happens in American rappers. The American influence is alk* but what the FUCK!?! This is LKJ! They were out in droves for mindless their own country they are silent. A Is the case as publkized in Britain as it is in pervasive: if you look at some rappers from, for''. drivel like the Spice Girls when they came to town! How humiliating example, France, like MC Solaar; what differentiates the rest of Europe? I mean we hear very little them from the American tradition is the language. This for Vancouver! I was so embarrassed that I wanted to crawl back about it in the mainstream media here for obvious political reasons, but the coverage is allows for a somewhat different sound and some small into the womb and never come out again. To make it worse, I resistance to the influence of American culture. British huge in Europe where the media owes less rap on the other hand is actually fai was expecting a rather more crowded press conference so I fealty to American racist corporate interests. because of the language. this in °nly prepared a couple of questions; I had to make most pervasive No. Most people in Britain don't know about it. What about the lyrical content? A Hmmm. Thafs really too bad. that ,s gangsta image seems far lesjf prevalent; many other 0f jf _p as | Went alonq. Fortunately, pissed off as he •* Yes. Tragic. places too.^H ,„, r i • i <*l*ji,e often artists seem much more consngpis and less On a different note, do you have any WCIS WQS QS enthralled by the whole for example ' ^ lOFgiVing OS he WOS artlCUIOte; pojntless to poblicatfoffikcoming up? American rappers. pidgin [English] in SO, although it took O while tO get OVer the differentiate: our No, there's lifflng in the pipeline. Well, the gangsta thing is very You mentioned Amiri Baraka as one of your ta^ndts^the SPOck Qnd chaOS' We Proceeded en^littandslo related to fhe dancehall style influences. What do you think of some of... colonizer's language to with the interview. follow the trends of our g rudely] Yes, [leaning in ominously] Amiri Baraka is a comrade and reflect their experiences southern neighbours whether mt vehicle for the voicele: a good friend of mine. I think very highly of him and his There seems to be a greater we like to admit it or not. popular/artistic commitment to anti- Not in cultural politics but in Mvie politics there is a shift experiences. It allows the culturally marginali; Of course, I am a big fan of his work too racist struggle in Britain than in North to the socalled'centre.'Eveiyone -vants to be'centrist.' expbre their experiences in a public forum. I think the but, -what I wanted to ask was: you use America. If this is so, to what would The New Labour party is si mply a slightly liberal version greatest rap of all tae is Grandmaster Flash': similar tactics in some of your work, but r/0ou attribute this gap? of old Conservatism. They have appropriated the Message.' JH what is your opinion of some of his more Nke! J|| Wtr inflammatory and violent poetry? I mean Hancunt. What were your poetic influences? lines like 'smash the Jew-boys in the mouth' * J probably wouldn't have heard of them. i the white women in their fur ts like Kamu Brailhwai'o (Barbados), la) — of the jpmerican poets Amiri .rally. He's lican spoken word d Bongo Jerry in the '60s. y has a well established No. I do a show incorporating spoken word music and is a and music and I sometimes get complaints predominantly Black muskal idiom, but what when I broadcast radical political music about jazz poetry? There is a common and/or present poetry or essays that perception that jazz poetry is primarily the question certain unpleasant aspectspecrs oofr 'domain of white Beat poets like Kerouac society, like the links betweeni i sexism, who have appropriated the music and the racism and capitalism. image. What about artists like Ntozake Yes. It's a matter of choice. If they an comfortable Shange? with what they are hearing they si I would say there has always been a strong tradition of examine their own reactions or tune out. That is what Black artists in jazz poetry. When you speak of that I art is all about! Art and poetry should make you think of poets like, well, Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka uncomfortable; [they] should wake you up. and Jane Cortez especially, and a host of others. Hancunt. There has been a lot of talk these Hancunt Poetry was originally a progenitor days about MP3 technology and the of song far before things were written down, Internet spelling the end of the record yet we seem to have lost sight of this industry. especially in the North American and Yes. When people finally start releasing albums and European contexts. Why is it that the oral marketing them there it will be very good for the tradition flourishes so strongly in Jamaica? Well, there is a long history of anti-imperialist struggle in policies of the right. It is the same package, simply Jamaica has historically been an oral culture; one of Yeah, actually Public Enemy just released the Caribbean and that struggle continued when we different language. many societies where the spoken word is important. It's their entire new album on-line through an relocated to Britain 50 years ago. The tradition Yes, that's the same predicament we face not ju_.t there; if you look all over the world you'll see independent Internet label and they have necessitated itself, and has continued for 50 her*. Our politicians' policies are essentially that oral culture is predominant in many countries. managed to keep a significant portion of Jamaica is a country with Iwo languages; English is the sense if you compare this to North Ameri interchangeable. OK, as a formerly active the royalties as well as retain control of official language but we speak something totally have been here for 400 years and fhey alr< •mber of the British wing of the Black marketing, content and distribution. different. Academics often speak of a 'language a long history of accomplishment and struggle It will be the best thing for the makers of fhe music. The continuum' wilh the 'Queen's English' on one end and. Britain it has been only 50: we are making the Party's been defunc eoh, profits and control will be in the hands of the artists Jamaican dialect at the other. Yeah alright, ifs just that Bobby Seale's still instead of the industry middle men. That's the only So, do you see the use of dialect or Patois So is the same disturbing shift to the nfligmH way to do it. I've been doing it [with LKJ Records] for and the reshaping of the language of the occurring in British cultural politics kicking about and he maintains an active colonial power as an act of resistance? happening here? *_ Panther web page, and people keep twenty years now. It's tough. Well yes, what Jamaicans have done is to subvert the Do you mean America or Canada? I popping up claiming affiliation so ifs never Mr. Johnson, thanks for your time. We English language to suit their existential needs. You see Well, unfortunately the American influence in certain if things are still really running or not. really appreciate it. our culture and politics especially is so Anyway, as an ex-Panther what is your You're welcome. • 211_. haven't yet been exposed to the ditional" music with electronic is sound of his Cockney accent becoming a little annoying. It's over top of that clean Telecaster all I seem to be reviewing. With Under guitar. The best thing about the the likes of Joi doing South album is that no two songs share Asian electronica, and Talvin any similarity other than his dis Singh spinning it up with South Review tinct voice and sharp, poignant East Asian music, why not tradi lyrics. The songs range from the tional Judaic music mixed with ALBUMS • ZINES • RECORDED MEDIA sweet and sad "Ontario, modern technology? Quebec, and Me," to pretty bal Hey, why not? It's actually a AIR bands like the Audience, disappointed. I might recom lads such as "Wishing the Days neat concept that comes off quite Premieres Symptomes Radio Berlin and the mend this double CD to you if Away," to straight-up pop num well — and quite moving, for BRICKYARD (Source) Rapture getting quite a lot of you're really down with this type bers like "Shirley." Although easily moved types like myself. Everyone has certain days. I the local and not-so-local spot there are only a couple of politi This album's sound is based on cal-commentary-fueled numbers Thursday 9th 9.30p have mine, you have yours, and light. Unlike the aforementioned wave, but if you're just a part Rabbinical chanting infused with on this disc, I am a fan of Billy some of ours overlap. This disc bands, Antarctica goes for time shoegazer, buying two long ambient electronica and the Bragg's more sensitive side (my of Air remixes and singles much less of the rock, and a CDs full of the stuff might be a occasional sample. ZENCEURRILLA favorite "lovey-dovey" lyric from FIREBALLS OF whole lot more of the atmos bit of a waste. If I were you, I'd And it's not just another this record; "Who cares about FREEDOM days, the days that groove. They phere on this double CD. Their stick to listening to the new Radio Enigma rip off, thank God, or the weather, we'll dance in the THE GIMMICKS don't come along often, but songs are all very long, melan Berlin CD, because Antarctica some light-weight attempt at town till the sun goes down and something deep. It is, at times, these are the days I get dressed cholic epics complete with ain't got nothin' on those boys. Friday 10th 9:30pm push our beds together"). Only absolutely chilling. The inner up real nice, the days I close my mopey, melodic vocals, layers of Chris eyes and see black and white one man could write love songs cover of the CD contains what keyboards, synths, and electron- THE TRAIL OF DEAD pictures, and the days when I BILLY BRAGG as perfect and sappy as these looks like a William Blake print. effects than you could shake a without reeking cheese, and yes, CLOSED CAPTION RADIO can sit downlown waiting for a Reaching to the Converted Song 2 begins with a sample of stick at. These kids definitely his name is Billy Bragg. I love KAREN FOSTER bus and reading a newspaper. (Universal) a woman telling you of her typi know what they're doing with These songs can be beautifully Let's get one thing straight here: I cal day in Auschwitz. their songs; it definitely seems Saturday 11th 10:30pm relaxing and floating if played am extremely biased in review Chris It's good to listen to, but not like they've sat down and lis THE CARTELS on the right days, but if you listen ing this CD because I absolutely for pleasant background dinner tened to their cool older brothers' BELVEDERE too closely on the wrong day adore Billy Bragg and have WALLY BRILL music. It's the kind of thing to lis or sisters' record collections. To DOWNWAY they can get quite repetitive. for quite a while. Reaching to the The Covenant ten and learn, to put on and con be completely honest, however, VICTORIAN PORK chocolate baby Converted is a collection of 17 (Six Degrees) centrate on a sometimes after listening to the first CD I songs from 10 previously Okay. So everything in my life is terrifying and sometimes humor couldn't really take any more Wednesday 15th 9:30pm ANTARCTICA released singles spanning the about Judaism these days. I have ous history put to music. Antarctica in one sitting. This THENEWWAVE-AOKE 81:03 years 1985 to 1995, and no idea why I am being attract Kudos to Wally Brill for mak isn't a terrible effort by any CHRISTMAS PARTY (File 13) includes a previously unreleased ed to it, nor why it is permeating ing a smart recording. Get out means, but after all the hype I Here comes the new wave of track. Unlike a whole lot of other everything in my life. But it is. I and buy it. Besides, proceeds go Thursday 16th 9:30pm had heard concerning this band new wave. This kind of stuff is "rarity compilations," this CD is am not questioning it. Such is towards the Holocaust Education — it features ex-members of worthwhile whether you are the BAD TASTE ART SHOW really getting the push in the life. Anyway, on to the review. WITH most avid Billy Bragg fan or indie rock scene these days, with Christie Front Drive — I was The movement to blend "tra Anthony Monday SATINA SATURNINA Friday 17th 10:30pm MIDCE THREAT FROM a few cop ten lists from the folks ot citr an OUTERSPACE HONEYSUCKLE discorder. more to be found elsewhere... SERONTINA Saturday 18th 10:30pm DSK The list that Anthony spent ® "Baisat Deevil" (slightly * "We like to Party!" (the ® MAD PUDDING Grand ® TOTAL ECLIPSE Are You THE ORIENTALS too much time on; the top less naughty Mennonite name of my new favourite Hotel Abducted THE RIFF RANDELS i ten things he loved/hated cuss-word) album by the VENGA ® LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III Wednesday 22th about the year. * "Back Deevil" (like telling BOYS. I play the title track Social Studies SHADOW AT DAWN TBA ® Being single the devil to take a hike in at the Emerson Inn and, ® KATE RUSBY Sleepless Friday, 6-8am ® ST. ETIENNE low German) like magic, the place starts ® NATALIE MACMASTER In ® THE ORB Little Huffy Thursday 23rd 10:00pm ® Racket Pig — I'm sorry ® "Damne Schende" (weak; hopping like a bunch of My Hands Clouds (Danny T's mix) DICK AND JANE THE VELVETEENS ® MAGNETIC FIELDS about as daring as "oh, "grenouilles" at the annual ® Highlight of 1999: ® DREADZONE Dream Within SOLARBABY ® The many random boys crap!") St. Pierre Jolys "Frog Manchester United — the A Dream that never amounted to ® "Blame it on the Boogie" Follies" frog-jumping Treble! ® HEMISPHERE Scetch (UFO wednesc much (thank you, JACKSON FIVE) competition) mix) THE HILL * My Cowboy phase A "Fcuk off, McClown" (fcuk PSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES ® ART OF NOISE We Never ** Good sentances [sic] and is a company with a funny THE EDGE ON FOLK Monday, 36am Promised You A Rose words name... McClown is a lying Saturday, 8am-Noon ® ELECTRIC UNIVERSE Garden (12" Remix) * Heroin, crack cocaine, and Fcuker) * LA BOTTINE SOURIANTE X- Meteor * SQUAREPUSHER THE DAYGLO God... no, really ® "Suck my dog's dick" ieme ® YUMADE Switch off Swifty/Winscale ABORTIONS -**- My bicycle, Henrietta (courtesy of WESLEY ® HABIB KOITE Ba Ma Ya ® H0LD0LIUM Q Sympton ® LTJ BUKEM James Bond DARKEST OF THE 8 The people I love/hate WILLIS) A TARIKA D ® ATMOS The Only Process Theme HILLSIDE THICKETS 8 "Christ Astie" (French; ® CHRIS SMITHER Drive You ® EARTH 77ie Quest ® MIX MASTER MORRIS PLUS GUESTS Gibby Peach's Ten Favourite extremely offensive to the Home Again ® SPACE CAT Invasion Nepalese Bliss Emerson, Manitoba old-timers at Barney's in ® TOM RUSSELL The Men ® INFECTED MUSHROOM ® FILA BRAZILIA Bovine Funk sayings (translated): Letellier) From God Knows Where Tommy the Bat (F+B mix) -*- "Schende Deevil" (the ® "Grab them cakes" (taken ® STAN ROGERS From ® TALAMASCA Alien Tribe ® SECOND VISION Italian Job baddest Mennonite cuss- from an old Junkyard Dog Coffee House to Concert ® MINDFIELD Valentine's Day ® ROB + GOLDIE The word) song on a WWF Hall Massacre Shadow Process Mix compilation) 22 Jancember 99 BULEMICS peak). Standout tracks include full of rich, sultry alt.country™ gibby peach Looks like I found the words after and I believe. Blurred Vision and Twisted "Father Silence," "Far Off," "The tasty enough to make the Dixie Jamaal Thoughts Fabulous Iron Serpent Whistles," Chicks eat their hearts out. The HEFNER (Man's Ruin) and "Sands of Iwo Jima." The disc is so good, in fact, that its The Fidelity Years MONKS Continuing the fine tradition of results lend themselves to impres appeal spans across multiple (Too Pure) LAU PUNA Five Upstart Americans hate-rock anthems spewed forth sions like driving down a long generations. Lemme explain: I On Hefner's second North Tridecoder (Omplatten) from their previous effort Old winding country road during recently jumped an aeroplane American release, The Fidelity (Darla) Those of you who have heard Enough to Know Better, the band interesting weather. back to the golden splendor of Years, the band has gone for a Wow! This has been in our the Evaporators' version of which has been terrorizing Is it post-rock? Prog-rock Manitoba (keeping my much more "produced" effort stereo ever since I picked up the "Higgly Piggly" probably think Austin, Texas for the past couple without the usual weighty pre Freakwater close to my heart the than on their previous works. For slightly boring looking CD two that you know what the Monks of years spit forward six more tensions? Perhaps these are entire time). Whilst there, I intro those who haven't yet heard weeks ago. Both my roommate are all about. Hate to break it to vile blasts that'll have you pulling questions best left for trainspot- duced it to my ma who, after from this British act, they have a (Hi Margie!) and I have been you, but you don't. Upon first lis out those old Dwarves records ters to muse over. Crashes To hearing it once, insisted that the pretty simple, catchy, and sent into the wonderful easy lis ten, the original, nearly all-instru and reminiscing about the good Light, Minutes to its Fall deserves CD was now hers. Her argument straight-forward indie rock sound tening realm of ambient back mental Monks version is almost ol' days of punk rawk. The to be heard on it's own merits was that because it's on Thrill with a bit of Britpop thrown in ground music. It's like unrecognisable in comparison. Bulemics are keepin' it real, without these limiting definitions. Jockey, she wouldn't be able to for good measure. The songs on Stereolab, but more engaging The Monks formed in Germany baby, but not before they ran PC find it in Win A Pig. "I'm sure this CD are quite memorable — less poppy and more electric. in 1965. Quickly learning to cre and tend not to bore the listener sack your house, kidnap your lit everybody and their mother has We spent the first couple of ate a healthy amount of feed with repetitive instrumentation, a tle sister, and torch your car. You FLASHLIGHT a copy of end time in Vancouver. hours trying to figure out what back, they developed their trap that many bands of this have been warned. Running Season You shouldn't have trouble find language the excellent (and unique barbaric sound. As part genre fall into. Along with the Bryce Dunn (double'A) ing a new one," she informed damn talented) singer, Valerie of the Monk get-up they wore regular drum/bass/guitar line Some days I wake up wondering me as she tried to tuck the disc Trebeljahr, is speaking. black cloaks and shaved the up, pedal steel, piano, horns, CUL DE SAC into her purse. Thinking quickly, I Sometimes English, sometimes crowns of their heads bald. Their some record scratching, and Crashes To Light, Minutes redoing the overdone. Today is gave her a karate chop to the Romanian (my guess) and some "pre-Gregorian Punk Chant" even a theremin bestow a very to its Fall not one of those days (well, it head and followed it up with a times Korean (Margie's guess). was generated by a typical full, nice sound to each track. (Thirsty Ear) was, but keep reading). Here to terse "Fuck thatl" so she'd know They're actually German. I can garage guitar/organ line-up The one thing I absolutely HATE I first encountered Cul de Sac rescue me from the monotony that I meant business. But my ma not say enough good things along with the strong presence about Hefner is the vocals. I find via their collaboration with avant that is modern pop-punk, ain't no wimp, so she picked up about these guys. They will do of a banjo. However, the best the lyrics to be incredibly preten folk-blues iconoclastic guitarist Toronto's Flashlight offer a the cat and flung her at me. amazing things with their aes description of the Monks would tious and stupid, and the out-of- John Fahey on the their third breath of fresh air in a musical With protracted claws stuck in thetic. Amazing. Good. Watch be a mixture of German folk tune, Jarvis Cocker-type release, entitled The Epiphany of dutch oven. Nothing crazy here; my neck like the song "Queen B" out. That is all I have to say. anthems gone bad and manic singing could cause fans of Glenn Jones, a couple of years no funtastic revelations; no trib stuck in my brain, I slipped and Anthony Monday garage stomp. Also included on Steven Malkmus to plug their ago. That album found them utes to Big Star; no reinventing dropped the Freakwater disc on this disc are two tracks by the ears. If it weren't for the singing, clearly in a kind of frustrated the chord progression; just MAKEUP pre-Monks, Five Torquays. the floor while my beloved moth I might actually be able to listen straight-up ska/punk/pop with While this album was not what I er darted forward with lightning to this record a few more times. Save Yourself absolutely no Barenaked was expecting, it is nonetheless explains the title) of their musical reflexes and kicked it into her Chris (K) hero coupled with a brave will Ladies influence. "Don't Look waiting hands. The gig was up. I Attention all adherents of the an excellent testament to '60s ingness to step out on to a sonic Much Like a Girl" is probably would have to depart for gospel yeh-yeh movement: the garage craziness. Pick up a edge with him. The result of this the funniest song I've ever heard Vo, vitho. HOOKERS II Make Up has not forsaken copy of this recording now and in my life, "Fatso" takes me back collaboration sounded perplex favourite CD, all thanks to my Black Visions of Crimson you. They have returned, bring to the mockery of my youth, ing, at times, but more often than stupid mom who feels that I owe Wisdom ing the doppelganger. while "New York City" sums up not strangely beautiful. her something for giving birth to (Scooch Pooch) • critic. the of Mike Davis what most Canadians know On their latest release, me. But fear not, my dears: using Since I'm no expert when it mankind. This being perhaps the about the great American Crashes To light, Minutes to its the oldest trick in the book, I comes to metal, I can't find the fourth or fifth installment from ONE LAST WISH excess: sweet fuck all. What can Fall, Cul de Sac find themselves pointed heavenward and gave words to tell you how brilliant America's sexiest, growth is in 1986 I say? These guys are great. So her the ol' "Look, it's the this is. What I can tell you is that the air. Production quality is up, (Dischord) many hooks. They just toured with composer/guitarist, the Goodyear Blimp!" routine, this five-piece from Lexington, "baby"s and "yeh"s are down, It would disappoint me to think Canada with Chixdiggit. aforementioned Glenn Jones, pulling the disc from her loos Kentucky has finally exorcised its and on the whole things seems that Dischord only put out this Convinced? If that don't get you, leading the quartet through sev ened meat-hooks. I was soon demons and let loose with the ubdued than past record to make money, so I tried you probably don't like this kind eral instrumental pieces that can aboard Canadian Airlines flight dark rock forces only glimpsed reiec ,. I M hard to believe that it was good. of music. be best described as mid-period 629 to Vancouver. Upon arrival on their last record, Satan's that this one's going to take Really, One Last Wish is Jamaal Can in a Moorish mood. Jones' in Raincity I called my loving Highway, or their 10" on Man's some getting used to, but I've up against itself. The band exist compositions are steeped in a mama, laughing maniacally Ruin. I gotta tell ya, this is pretty slept on it now, and I'm comfort ed after Rites of Spring and dark-hued romanticism without FREAKWATER while shouting "the disc is mine, powerful stuff, but with song titles able revealing to you (the before Fugazi. In comparison, ever becoming carried away. end time the disc is mine, you nutty crack like "Black Magic Stallion" and believer) that the prophet was OLW sounds pretty mediocre. The quartet itself (gui- (Thrill Jockey) er!" Her response: "Guess who "Ride the Dragon to the Crimson with me all thought the night. Guy Picciotto's vocals are tar/bass/percussion/electronics) Christa Min is a big goddamn went to Into the Music on Light," and when your guitar When my groove began to intense, but the music can't keep Osborne today, you little bas functions more like an improvis liar. Joel R.L. Phelps isn't the players' names are Stoney Tomb wane in the wee hours, the up with him. The music sounds tard? Keep yer goddamn disc, ing jazz ensemble: ebbing and best songwriter in the world... and the Blizzard of Hoz, how Make Up did appear as my sav- quite tame, and the guitars are Peach, I got my own. And tell serious can they be? Serious flowing, anticipating each the three folks in Freakwater wanky. Ed Janney (also of Faith that Christa Min, whoever she is, enough that therein lies the bril other's intentions while remain could write circles around Phelps the image of the prophet has not and Happy Go Licky, another that she should ditch the Phelps liance of this band: they keep ing open to serendipitous each day of the week (and twice left my field of view. There is no Dischord band that only lasted and get in tune with the times!" you guessing and me listening. unlike Can at their on Sundays). End time is chock- doubting the Word. I have seen, for a few months) sings lead on LIPGLOSS AND CIGARETTES alt. 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The result is indescrib (Spyglass) seems rather natural This EP together for three months I Chibougamou, Quebec. able and really, really fun. The This self-titled project is the was probably a chance to step don't understand. If this record E: Well put, Gene. I think we're music is fun and twisted, the debut EP from a promising up away from the things that were ing wasn't worth releasing thir gonna have to give Pure lyrics are fun and twisted, and and coming indie band from done before, so it may leave teen years ago, why is it worth Diamond Gold our patented the song titles are really fun Seattle. The band combines its the faithful fans of it now? If not for money, then "Two Thumbs Up" salute. and twisted (my fave: "Dork af pop sensibilities with dark and Portishead somewhat con it's to show just how good Rites S: Come on, Roger, let's get 1 2:00"). Solex is exploiting the introspective moments. David fused. I felt that the arrange of Spring and Fugazi are. those thumbs way up. Way up, glory of musical technology, Einmo's contributions on guitar ment of the song didn't really Chris iMm where the identities of audio- have a strong presence justify 22 minutes, since I think E: Certainly worth the old philes and instrumentalists are throughout, and I can't help they could have made the BUD OSBORN "TTWU"! fornicating hard in basements but feel that he borrows some same point to a similar effect Hundred Block Rock S: Wait a second, though, across the world to create won of his tricks from some world- in half the time. No, I can't (Get to the Point) Roger: I thought we were only der and joy. Pick up Pick Up, famous Irish rock group. imagine putting this on heavy rotation on my stereo at home, Here Osborn, joined by supposed to review movies! and slap my ass and call me Barbara Trentalange's vocals but I think I'll keep it around to David Lester on guitar and E: Yeah, well, look at you, Mr. Sally for making that fucking sit comfortably beneath the WINTER stupid, yet irresistible pun. impress the friends and scare Wendy Atkinson on bass, Smarfy Pants. Aren't you sup washing guitars, and her lead Hancunt & Mr. Hanky piano parts add to the laid- little children. speaks poems from his latest posed to be dead? LISTINGS back atmosphere prevalent Samuel Kim collection Hundred Block Rock. gibby peach throughout the album. I'm not sure which was record JOHN SOUTHWORTH Trentalange's placid vocals SUNDAY, DEC 12 ed first, the music or the words, SELINA MARTIN AND THE Sedona Arizona VARIOUS ARTISTS help establish the introspective but il seems like Osborn is try VERTICAL BROTHERS (Water St./Outside) Everything Is Nice MARTIN mood at times, but I found this ing to suppress the urge to Space Woman Pure genius. Every once in a (Matador) SEXTON same placidity failed I (Selma) while a singer/songwriter Oh yeah baby, is it ever fuck WEDNESDAY, between strained yelling and The first time I ever heard comes along that smashes your 1 for the *e EP. ing nice. Out of the 31 artists toneless singing. Selina Martin, I was cruising preconceptions about their Thei clam that on the collection, about half DEC 15 Someone told me that this along, listening to some politi- kind to bits. John were bands I love, and the SHINDIG FINALS! album was funny. Someone Southworth is, in my opin other half I had heard of but MANEATERS else said that there's nothing ty radio, when they played the ion (and I know this could stir never heard. Now I love them funny about the Downtown East song "Mad World" off her new up some major controversy), sound matures for their full all! And there's something for BEL RIOSE Side. They're both right. CD with the Vertical Brothers. It the first Canadian singer/song length release. everyone! Hip hop heads can THE RADIO Osborn's poems are dramatic was unbelievable. I'd never writer to accomplish this feat in Samuel Kim THURSDAY, DEC. 16 and hopeful. Positivify is almost heard anything like it. I pulled this decade. The late Jeff ness of new Matador signees always funny and drama is dif the car over, wrote the name Buckley is the only person I ADRIAN UTLEY AND Non Phixion, whose track DEADCATS ficult to take seriously. down, searched for it, found it, would currently classify above MOUNT VERNON ARTS pays homage to Chuck D and RALPH The music is the strongest listened to it, loved it again, e- Southworth in this aforemen LAB then some. People like me, TRANSVESTl/BMIS part of this recording. Lester's mailed, mail-ordered, received tioned category. Perhaps time Warminster who can't realize that 1992 is abilities are amazing. Ideally, and am now the proud owner might alter this perception, but (Ochre) over and cry every time they FRIDAY, DEC 17 the music would support and of (and, yes, I paid for this I doubt it. The Rheostatics It's another one from Bristol, remember first hearing about THE HANK not overshadow Osborn's one). Ever heard of Bob are closely affiliated with and from Adrian Utley even. the Pixies breakup, can roll WILLIAMS lyrics. It's unfortunate because Wiseman? Well, he produced Southworth both artistically This EP/single consists of one their heads ecstatically to while Osborn's experiences this album, so take that as you and as friends. It is easy to see 22-minute track, and I don't Modest Mouse's "Heart TESTIMONAL: and intent are undoubtedly wish. Did you know she's from why: Southworth is like-minded know about you, but I think it Cooks Brain." Every garage LINDA MCRAE Toronto? That's something to important, the result is not as had better be good in order to rock fan can jump up and LUKE DOUCET effective as it should be. think about. Oh, the music... It's and astounding ease and com justify such a length. down enthusiastically whilst folky, jazzy, weird. Very com Christa Min plexity of lyric. Southworth's counting along with JOHN FORD pelling. Do give a listen. musical ingenuity, which was tricks throughout, and you can Cornelius. When you're com RICH HOPE Seriously, why would I fuck THE SADIES hinted at in this 1997 debut, definitely see Utley's love of ing down there are some gor with you? What do I have to DOUG ANDREW Pure Diamond Gold belies his current 26 years of movie soundtracks and exotic geous and haunting tracks gain? (Bloodshot) age. Sedona Arizona adds a effects come through. Actually, from the lovely and talented SUNDAY, DEC 19 Ebert: Good evening and wel Jamaal new dimension to his musical it seems that most of the track Cat Power. The list goes on MIRACLE ON come to "At the Movies." genius through tunes so catchy seems to be a supplement to and on. As Matador grows HOMER: Tonight we'll be reviewing a SOLEX you hum them for hours after some dark movie that may and grows, it always remem number of new features — Pick Up wards. Think solo Lennon never be. bers the reason why: you and KEVIN mostly American, but the odd (Matador) meets Bowie in a disco hall The track uses everything I. That is why they release MACKENZIE international one, as well. Amsterdam's arty Solex is on E with a whole bunch of from Moogs, vintage analog these great compilations, so IAN SOMERS Siskel: That's right folks; we've really named Elisabeth '90s sensibility. Big things are synths, all the way to radio sta you can hear lots of stuff for got a wonderful show lined up Esselink, and each song on in Southworth's future if he tic, and electronic sound gen cheap and become an even LUKE DOUCET so don't touch that dial. Pick Up evolved from imagi- stays the course. erators (whatever that means). happier human. MARK BROWNING E: Well Gene, now that we're Spike The sounds are all scattered Happycunt DAN O'CONNELL through with all the perfuncto engaged in whilst on the toilet. about, and fluidly flow into ry blah-blahing, I'd like to start I am a potty mouth myself, and FRIDAY, JAN. 7 off with a look ot the new I love Solex. I mean, the origi JAZZBERRY album from Canada's Sadies. nal title for the record was the music that kept us from dying of boredom RAM It's called Pure Diamond Gold Bathroom Desires. Like, tell me this happy jancember... and, like the title suggests, it's a about it. Both Pick Up and her THURSDAY, first release Solex Vs. the new flesh for old • beat happening • rezillos • le tigre • god is JAN. 13 S: I'm in full agreement, Roger. Hitmeister were recorded in the SEAM The best back-up band in the basement of Esselink's music my co-pilot • beck • red aunts • c average • nation of ulysses • world takes center-stage with store, located in Amsterdam's SILKWORM red light district. Her first album this nugget of surfarollacoun- refused • can • parmela attariwala • guns n roses • li'l kirn • the FRIDAY, JAN. 14 trybilly madness. Fresh off a hot relied on samples from CDs lin MP3 CONCERT: tour with dirty old man Andre gering in the bargain bin. To Williams, the Sadies get down avoid the hassle of clearing mothers of invention • bruce haack and esther nelson • kukl • BIG COOKIE to business and promptly kick each sample, she found musi COZY BONES cians to mimic the sounds and kate bush • the sound of our friends being tear-gassed down in Andre (and their former matron FRIDAY, JAN. 21 Neko Case) to the curb with recorded that. On Pick Up, the an album so good the mullet- instrumental elements are com Seattle • bob marley • millennium project • meshell ndegeocello PUNCHDRUNK heads in lovely, downtown prised of bootleg recordings BRAND NEW Whalley'll be blasting the sped- that Esselink made on her DAT • archers of loaf • french paddleboat • the slits • tiger trap up numbers from their Camaros recorder. She went to jazz UNIT 24 Jancember 99 Monday, October 25 talked to the crowd, explaining ate watchers interrupted the Sonar himself, open, calm, cool — but speakers' sermon. Not only did Dub poetry. Johnson is a leg a fiery interior working its way these "patrons" have the audac Real Live end in this field of oral recitation out through words, finally ity to leave their ringers on; they and improvisation that combines revealed when he took off his proceeded to talk over the text poetry, dub beats, and a politi sunglasses after the last... track? being performed. Before I could Action cal ethic into a sort of prototypi Piece? Experience. An experi mute the nearest chatterbox with cal rap Beat poetry The crowd LIVE MUSIC REVIEWS ence it was, a night not to forget. a swift kick to the larynx, I for this show was incredibly Tobias stopped and realized that this diverse, reminding me of a folk was in fact a part of the perfor NOTES FROM THE LAB because I'm pretentious) worked ence that was fairly unwilling to festival meets 199 1 SILENCE DESCENDS mance and an integral one at Saturday, October 23 very well with both. I liked that engage in that sort of post-struc Lollapalooza meets 1992 rave. Wednesday, October 27 that. That the current cultural there was very little narrative turalist discourse. I don't think Hippies to suits, yuppies to Western Front noise of Fido™ and all of its "A. unique performance event form to the whole evening, just half of the audience realised young 'uns like me who weren't Silence Descends is a novel by cohorts marks "the beginning of incorporating urban beat along an amazing flow of sections and they were part of a show (grant even born when LKJ was busy George Case, set in the year the end" difficult with movement and theatrics." ideas. The dancers were great to ed, it was at Sonar, on a publishing and protesting the 2500, which looks back at the A tough mandate. A very tough watch, and at times, were Saturday night), which I think is conditions in Britain for people decline ofthe information age, a A scrim dropped to the floor. mandate, in my mind. But, lucki pulling my TV-addicted brain really sad. Any sort of perfor of colour and the rights of work descent beginning in the present As different rhythms, colors, and ers. Yet he is not solely focused ly, the Video In people were both away from the flashing lights of mance art piece is not for the day. ed through the on his political message. It is, smart and brave enough to pull the screens. masses, I think you have to be Silence Descends is also a , behind the after all, his incredible skill as a this one off. With snazzy (ULTRA Speaking to some of the per knowledgeable about the subject CD by several local visual & sheet were intc •nittently illumi- poet, a crafter of- word-sound, COOLI) visuals and amazing formers afterwards, I had a bet othe nuch audio artists: a cacophonous nated by fours* 3nd flashes that that has earned him his leg Djing by some of our finest ter idea of the whole concept of as you want. And if the majority plunge into our future. captured their ch and chang- endary status. locals — Rocket Girl, Jeet the piece, which was pretty neb of the audience is not willing to Silence Descends was pre ing poses ;erie shadow Kei Laung and Jacob Cino ulous to me at the time I walked deconstruct and participate in an formed at the Western Front on tablet of silent form. — the night went off successfully. in. The one thing they wanted event based on those specific trip into meaning and reason. October 27th utilising choreog Downright beautiful. Performance art is not the that didn't really work out so well ideals and principals, then its not Meaning for life, reason to keep raphy, film, and music as a A lone figure wearing an easiest thing to sell, especially to was the blurring of audience going to go very far. fighting. To try and keep up with means of interpreting the novel's accordion, a caricature fright West Coasters who are general and performer spaces and iden That's not to say Notes From the creative spirit of LKJ, like he ideas and presenting the CD's mask, and garb that Leo Gorcey ly far too relaxed to put any tities — which, in my mind the Lab didn't go very far. It did. was daring you to do what he auditory reworking of Case's would be proud to don, effort into anything, let alone a deserves an ENTIRE event to I thought it was an awesome was saying, to get out there. apocalyptic vision. "unique performance event." I itself. It's hard to break down event that broached a lot of sub Poetry should change things The evening began in dark voice the necessary failure and think this was the failing of the those sorts of boundaries when jects, and was both stimulating inside. Music is a sort of poetry. ness. Two performers emerged, ultimate destruction of our project — but more on that later. we are continuously being and enjoyable. But the criticism LKJ combines these two elements headlamps shining from their crazed over-dependence on The whole piece came pushed into those categories. "I lies with the apathetic audience. to change a lot of things inside. brows, reading monotonously technology and information together very smoothly, both the am the performer. You watch Anthony Monday It was a personal relationship. into steel buckets, solidly walk visuals and the music were great me," is one of the many mantras The Dennis Bovell Dub ing through the audience like ly in sync and the "theatrics" of this century. LINTON KWESI JOHNSON Band warmed up with their new-age miner druids. Much to (which I would have classified as I think that conundrum was DENNIS BOVELL DUB incredible talent, establishing a the attentive audience's annoy "movement pieces," but that's further compounded by an audi BAND rapport with the crowd. LKJ ance, cell phones of inconsider -y S^^V-(U^OW^roi oing the mask, she Still, I managed to commit some Bomb, by far the most captivat proceeded to play, assisted by hazy bits of the concert to mem ing band of the night (sorry another per former improvising ory for all those poor indie rock I). The entertaining duo wooden flutes. A ers who were unfortunate rocked out; they genuinely KE3S2___EE1 let ensued, perhaps enough to miss seeing their god looked like they were having for our impending whine out his tunes to an ador ind, as a result, the audi- i rely on technology ing audience. snce seemed to be really enjoy ing themselves for the first time Behind the two, a After playing "count the ,t night. screen showed real- horn-rimmed glasses" for about Joel Phelps took his sweet time imagi ; of their movements ,entym >, I v*. 2ved tc th a multicoloured i The Birthday Machine king time getting to the stage. delay. WoH, man. I thought I clamber on stage. They were a A waiter even teased me about a looonnngg time good opener, providing the mild looking like I was just about pre ly responsive audience with pared to pack it in. His set began well after midnight, and jurth and final install- background music which would most of his devoted adherents seven minutes or so of have been appreciated as sensi . --SVU8 * rUrttlT • SUNSXI tive and creative if only the fools seemed ready to die before their Silent images of fields, * IIUIAN t KIMO had been paying attention. The master appeared. Or maybe that was just me. Anyway, . IIINY * IMIU lit * KM Is ethereally haunted band members' sugary voices ed for me tegeodsry txjuir.g da> Nc m. MONDAY TOONIE MAYHEM with DJ Jeremy Warren A night devoted topas t and present hits from the 80s and 90s. the screen. A hushed room complemented their flossy girl- despite the fact that I got the feel Free Pool. Cover $2.00. All you need is yourToonies! watched these fluid images pop admirably — I just wish I ing the indie rock deify himself tensely, scared to breathe and could have heard the backing wouldn't even have faced the TUESDAY THE ORIGINAL KLASSIX NIGHT break the taut fixity of the room. vocals. I also wish that they had audience if the microphone 23 years strong! Vancouver's first 80's and Disco night Then the air fell into darkness looked like they actually wanted hadn't been at the front of the Cover $4.00 'Show up early to avaid Uni-up! again while the "soundtrack" for to be on stage because I wasn't stage, as well as the massive the previous images jarred the at all convinced they did. I was technical difficulties which WEDNESDAY YA LIKE IT HARD DON'T YA BABY! audience with a hypnotic drone. sorry to see them leave, not only scared the crap out of everyone A new night dedicated to modern hard-edged music The effect was a metaphor for because I enjoyed the perfor around 1:30 am, Phelps put on from Jane's Addiction to SlipKnoL Free Pool Cover $3.00 complete societal disjointedness, mance, but because they were a very moving show, somewhat an artwork out of synch, a quickly followed by the atrocity reflective of his ethereal reputa divorce of sight and sound. THURSDAY BEST OF BRITISH with DJ Jeremy Warren that was Slow Fresh Oil tion. He whinged out his The longest running Brit night in Vancouver! Brit pop (Blur) Silence descends indeed. "Oh... my... God" is a gen melodies earnestly for over an dance (Chemical Brothers) Manchester (Stone Roses) Note to Western Front: if, tle euphemism. The arrogance of hour; we watched his fingers 80s (New Order) Cover $3.00 — free passes available out of consideration for the the band was palpable, and left health and enjoyment of other me wondering "Why?" There awestruck eyes, and most audi COSMIC CONSPIRACY with DJ Brian St. Clair audience members, we have to was little to nothing for them to ence members, although Start the weekend off with electronica, indi. Brit pop. refrain from smoking, could you be proud about. Arguably the exhausted to the point of cross- & other groovy vibes. Cover $..00 'show up arty to avoid lim-up! ask people not to bring in giant best or the worst "cowpunk," the eyes, went home fairly satisfied dogs that bark along with the most memorable thing about the after hearing the strains of the SATURDAY ADRENALINE with DJ Jeremy Warren performance and seat them next fallow, abrasive noise which holy indie spirit. The best music of the week with an underground tweak! to allergic people? Or maybe passed for their set was that one alia Progressive house/techno and new alternative rock. that was part of the perfor of the band members mysteri Cover $6.00 mance? I'm kind of new to this ously donned a long shaggy wig THE BORODIN QUARTET "art" thing. which covered his face for the WITH LUBA EDUNA: SUNDAY SKOOL with DJ Jeremy Warren Luke Meat bulk of the performance. They The Music of Dmitri All the hits ofthe week! 80's. hard-edged. Brit, were the only band that night, Shostakovich alternative rock and progressive dance. Free pool. JOEL R.L. PHELPS AND THE as my friend pointed out, who Tuesday, November 9 No cover! Need we say more? DOWNER TRIO actually elicited audience heck Vancouver Playhouse JERK WITH A BOMB ling. And well deserved it was. iring c mble SLOW FRESH OIL Keep up the good work with The Borodin ALL NIGHTS FREE BEFORE 10:30pm THE BIRTHDAY MACHINE those cow-bells, boys. At this Quartet was a heady experi WITH THIS AD. Excluding special events. Saturday, November 6 point I closed my eyes, put my ence and the tightly packed The Brickyard head back on the table, and audience was understandably When I got to the Brickyard that actually tried to fall asleep. evening, I was so tired that even That move turned out to be action on poge my very favourite band couldn't a mistake, because I missed a 1275 Seymour Street have kept my head off the table. good deal of Jerk With A 29... 685.3288 27 [D PRESENTED BY: Thunderbird Radio Hell ^5^^^a^^ry^aF Your tia-roe... Your -band... Our shirts R THE MIV€ CiTR ™ ^ NewWus»j^0_ 101.9 fM»ETEJ»i«SsCH&PHtO VSStQN ^ [row ^S ^gag awed by their brilliant, if < something very ethereal. In the than what the Russian state transported to hopeful delight, cous event. Everything was in its being a steady stream of blood what mopey, performc third movement, all the parts believed in The way in which which was no doubt necessary place: screens were put up in ied bizzos bounced from the Only cellist Valentin Berlinsky, relinquished their conventional this wonderful third movement when the work was premiered front of the stage, security was 'Fish by their hair. Bassist Tony the .al place in the quartet range to a was approached was probably in Moscow. To visibly identify bolstered, the merch booth Barber, unimpressed by the seemed happy to be there high register, wherein a lyric part of what kept the composer with state subversion was to put teemed with over-priced goods, drunken hijinx, jumped into the Perhaps they felt Shostakovich' canon modulated and seemed (relatively) out of trouble. That, oneself at risk. mohawks stood at attention, crowd — guitar and all — and specific Zeitgeist of Stalin is to ache with a primordial inten and the final movement, which The second and final quar beer flowed, leather and vinyl did some pummeling of his own. Russia would be wasted on ou sity that would not have met fell like a brick into convention tet of the first half, "No.8 in C glistened, and two generations Of course, the bedlam did noth comparatively tensionless Wesl with unqualified state approval. al modes of state controlled of punks rubbed their hands in ing but heighten an already Coast The onus was in fact on Its ascent suggested a vision of string quartet behavior. The I960, well after Stalin's death. punkasmic glee. We were ready charged punk atmosphere. The them, as storytellers of a sort, to stone-faced quartet did not give While the influence of govern few remaining songs took on an render the atmosphere in ques much away, failing to appear ment on artists was still terrible, First up was the Lunachicks. added intensity as Shelley tion transparent. for Shostakovich the worst of The girls who steal lunch money wailed into the mic, Barber They succeeded. It state oppression was behind from the girl next door, this fear sneered and cussed, and Diggle was not a dramat him This quartet worked with some foursome is notorious for trashed his guitar. After a brief ic outpouring. The many more techniques, express its tight jams, its tattoos and its encore, the Buzzcocks mocked ing a terrible sadness for all that toxic shock humour. They the rambunctious Vancouver had happened in World War II. arrived on-stage in matching crowd by shadow-boxing their Shostakovich first heard this way out the door. Yowza! What quartet in his own home, per screamed "Step right up!" a few formed by the Borodin Quartet. times and then launched into a Jamie Maclaren For listeners, this work was speedy set of high-octane pop- trap Joseph Stalin more easily appreciated core. While Goddess Cleo belt ARCHER PREWITT created. because it was not written in a ed out snotty up-tempo tunes like THE SECRET THREE Beginning with specific code to protect the "Luxury Problem," "Crash" and Saturday, November 13 Shosakovich's players and the composer. crowd fave "Don't Want You," Starfish Room "String Quartet Perhaps this was the sort of con- guitarist Sindi pogoed, bassist I must warn you that I have not No.4 in D major, the mble Squid snarled, and new drum looked forward to a show this Op.83," gritty, appeared to feel would be lost mer Helen Destroy banged the much in about a year. I had melancholic accu on the audience. skins in relative obscurity. These high expectations that left me a racy pervaded the The second half included New York dolls hollered, little disappointed, but glad I evening. From Ms. Edlina for the composer's skanked, and clowned until lip went I hadn't seen the opening 1949, this quartet "Piano Quintet in G minor, stick smudged their teeth and band, the Secret Three, was short and Op 57." Written in J 940, it mascara ran down their cheeks. before. They were quite smooth, simple, neither represents a completely differ If they looked ghoulish before, scruffy and accomplished. raw nor ele ent preoccupation for they looked downright terrifying Surrounded by conversing The idiom w Shostakovich: his love for the now. And the crowd loved it; friends, the music made me feel radical, su. piano. It was awarded the middle-aged punks bumped bel alone. Seamless and energetic Stalin Prize, a coveted award lies in the pit while daddy's little in the quietest way. Did I men- for c grrls sang along in front. Great Dreamy and soundscapey, they merely sympto hindsight because Stalin was set. were a fitting opening band. matic of a feisty exactly the sort of culture thug Up next was Down By Law. Which really is the only con urban composer. Shostakovich disliked. DBL has been around the punk about The Secret Three — their If worked w It might have included some block a few times; Dave Smalley influences are blatantly obvious. blunt melot compromises (it did get him out and company have been play (See Tortoise, Sea & Cake material, whi ing angry mid-tempo political and splinters thereof.) But was reworked in opera he had written), but its ' punk since 1982. So then why sooooooo nice to listen to. different ways that sound was less political than the did their set suck? Well, terrible gradually ascend first half of the concert. It sound sound mixing had something to After a short intermission, ed from an unso ed like a brilliant young com do with it. DBL's strengths lie in Prewitt and his band came on phisticated, poser's infatuation with the its smart lyrics and anthemic with muted vocals and an over state-celebrating piano. When it was done the choruses, and with Smalley's powering wall of sound. Maybe chamber work to audience leapt to tender a stirring vocals drowned in fuzz, it's because I've always listened standing ovation, which great songs like "Punk As Fuck," to him during the quiet moments plus de top ten lists. studio recordings seemed to annoy the players. It "Last Brigade" and "Gruesome of my life that I found the live Evan Symons' Top Ten Local Shows ® SONNY ROLLINS At the Village Vanguard is not common for an audience Gary" were merely mediocre. performance too loud. 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I long ® FULL SKETCH @ the Lotus 50th Anniversary Re-Issue in all, disappointing. Friday, November 12 Maybe DBL's poor sound to see what he could accom ® RADIOGRAM, FOND OF TIGERS @ the Starfish Room was designed to make the plish with a full orchestra back THE ETHER TABLE: Top Ten Musicians I'm Sugar Refinery What do you get when you mix Buzzcocks sound even better, ing up. The ® UNCLEAN WIENER with blown amps @ the Going To Marry glam grrl NYC punk and because the crisp, clear guitars, trumpet/keyboard player straight-ahead SoCal punk with Anza Wednesday, Noon-lpm drums and vocals of the leg- added so much to the set. With the best in Olde English punk- four or five rockin' tunes to blot ® THERMOS @ the Railway Club ® Mike Paradinas heavenly than Handel's pop? Why, you get the 1999 Hallejuah Chorus. Original out the dreariness of outside, ® Radio Tragedy Go-Kart Punk Tour, of course. members Pete Shelley and Steve Prewitt played with passion THE JAZZ SHOW ® Jhon Balance And what a four it is. The Most of the songs were from his Tiggle blasted through faves "I Lunachicks, Down By Law new CD, White Sky, which was Monday, 9pm -12 midnight ® Sharon Topper Don't Mind," "Why Can't I and the Buzzcocks could all fill kind of unexpected. I love his ® CHARLES MINGUS the complete Atlantic ® Andi Sex Gang Touch It?", "What Do I Get?" the Starfish Room by themselves first CD, In the Sun, and I ® Robin Rimbaud and "I Believe," and the crowd recordings 1956-1961 (okay, maybe not the went absolutely bananas. So ® GATO BARBIERI Latino America $ Mick Harris Lunachicks), and here they were MILES DAVIS Miles Smiles ® David Tibet on one bill. 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That's what clubs are and our eyes began to burn we ?^3 bit about that bass with his pitch slider. 1 for Shut up already! Go home! And 1 don't know mean, Killer Kela — KILLER tried to leave the bar. We were Despite all these things, it anything about KELA — did a JUNGLE beatbox informed at that time that some was a beautiful set 1 didn't beat-boxing — track. He did DNB. With his one outside of the bar had been notice the time go by, nor did 1 but holy shit. Let mouth. 1 closed my eyes and pepper sprayed, and that we spend it wishing 1 were at home me gather my could not tell the difference. In were better off inside. That was listening to the flawless CD. The mind ... done. It's fact, when he and Mr. Thing just a whiff, shit, but it was our encore was acoustic and still reeling. went head-to-head, real scratch- first taste of what may be await accomplished what it set out to Killer Kela and ing those heading to Seattle to do, its haunting memory Blu Rum 13 got ones, it sounded like a DMC protest the WTO. Fucking nasty. on the mics and 2x4. Hang on, I'm getting shiv ingraining its melody in my Nasty, nasty, nasty. Back to the started wanking ers. All right. Let's just say head so White Sky stays in my music. The Ghoulies were relent jokes with their Rahzel has a run for his CD player for a long time. British accents. money. Brilliant. The skills are less, rocking like Dennis hopped Robin Kela is this pim up Frank Booth-style on a double ply-faced boyish world. If the Scratch Perverts dose of nitrous oxide — only a BIG BAD VOODOO guy, and Rum 13 ever come to town, drop every little more friendly-like. 1 serious DADDY is a dreaded thing to see them. Ditto for all ly enjoyed the Ghoulies, espe BLUE HAWAIIANS brotha. Some those hip-hop 'meisters. It's nice cially their brand new drummer. Monday, November 1 5 people were to see artists with skills. She hit hard and heavy with the Commodore Ballroom going, "What the Tobias power that comes from owning I've heard from a number of fuck, not another a pair a tits. Go Girl Go! And people that the swing scene in lame hip-hop THE MUFFS the Muffs! In between songs, Vancouver has pretty much dis show." Then 1 THE GROOVIE GHOULIES they shared their impressions of noticed Vadim HISSY FIT appeared. That maybe true, but behind the decks Vancity's Downtown Eastside you certainly wouldn't have with Mr. Thing, Saturday, November 20 (they had never visited before) realised that if you were one the mouthing what The Brickyard and expressed their surprise at 1 000 people who were at the the MCs were 1 suck so bad. Because 1 was sit not seeing Courtney Love try sold-out Big Bad Voodoo going to say, and ting in my sweetie's Honda with ing to score smack outside The Daddy concert at the new they both kept Meat and his companion, Muffers kicked ass. Meat and Commodore Ball Room. laughing at what singing all the words to Modest Mo and 1 danced around a lot; The show opened up with the two MCs Mouse's "Heart Cooks Brain" but 1 must confess, having never The Blue Hawaiians. 1 guess were doing. The and smoking pot, 1 only caught seen the Muffs live before nor you could best describe them as crowd played the last two songs of Hissy Fit's studied their music in depth, 1 along. And for Chris Isaak from Hawaii. set. And 1 was sorry, because it sounded really good, like good Now, that's definitely not a bad their instruments. While the total KILLER KELA because over the course of an how they played compared to thing. They were great. 1 just set was 16 songs, it seemed Monday, November 22 hour, complete with intense old fashioned girl rock n' roll, other tours, or what the new don't think the were the most like every few minutes there Sonar bouts of 2x4 madness from the the kind 1 know and love. Next album is like in comparison with appropriate band to open up was a solo. The highlight of the Holy shit. 1 pity da foo' who two DJs, Vadim and Thing, and time the local trio plays I'll make old. Basically, 1 am uninformed. for Big Bad Voodoo Daddy. The show was definitely "Jump with w issed this show 1 mean, 1 like tag-team freestyle rap versus sure 1 score ahead of time. But hey, it's a DiSCORDER tradi kids wanted to swing from the mv Baby". The horn section n p-hop, although 1 am not the beat-boxing from Rum 13 and Waiting for the Groovie tion!!! most w| second they got in the club. decided to jump onto the ^° edgeable sort about Kela, the crowd was literally Ghoulies to play, in line at the Hancunt Some even swung while waiting crowded dance floor and in line to get in. The Blue parade around for about five Hawaiians don't swing; if any minutes. The audience ate it up thing, they surf. and for good reason. The dancers got their first By the time the show came taste of swing during the inter to an end the crowd was still mission. The Blue Lizard rarin' and ready for more. After Dancers did a fantastic demon the band left the stage they all stration. This really got every et them know weren't done by one's swing motors going. shouting the signature "Go Big Bad Voodoo Daddy has Daddy-O." Within a few min come a long way since their last utes they were back, but with a nw___ r ***J mmw two appearances here in problem. For some reason there Vancouver. They've appeared was no power. The emergency • on Jay Leno, been in a few lights kept the stage lit, but that movies, even played in front of was it. Now some bands would ___*"ji 80,000 people at the half-time nave said sorry that's it, some Super Bowl show. So playing oands may have tried to do the Commodore might seem like something, but Big Bad Voodoo a step down for the guys, but Daddy seemed to use the power after talking with singer Scotty outage as an advantage. They Morris, he'd much rather play played a fantastic, unplugged, in a small venue. The one thing audience-participated encore they had over the last two that I'm sure won't soon be for Richard's on Richards shows gotten. was a larger stage. Of course If you're down at the all-new they all took full advantage of Commodore Ballroom in the that by parading and jumping next few weeks, I'm sure the around. The energy they all had loor will still be bouncing from was amazing. The only time this show. they stopped was when audi Gary Olsen ence members would buy Scotty Gin and Tonics. The nine mem DJ VADIM bers each took turns doing MR. THING some kind of solo with each of BLU RUM 13 3i$j^M»m fc # * * *_# * l5r • & Kt * * * everything's working out perfectly, we're in the list-moking spirit here in the freezing cold hoeir DiSCORDER office.- Ten Things To Do When And if it does, you'll wonder LUNACHICKS, DIESEL BOY Blacker A TIGHT BROS FROM WAY mainland on the Caught In a Moment of why that cheap flight home ® GANG STARR Full Clip BACK WHEN Runnin' Musqueum reserve —just Mass Hysteria or Personal on New Years Eve was TRAGIC ANIMAL STORIES A NEW BOMB TURKS The Big Thru... try and spot a salmon. Reflection on the eve of such a good idea. 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Trust me — A Realize that you forgot to 9 PLANET SMASHERS Life of EMPEROR Slow Riot For Favourites of Yesterday and HOT! flush the toilet at your the Party New Zero Kanada Today A A search for Stanley Park's boyfriend/girlfriend's house A VARIOUS Roots, Branch, A JAMES BROWN Live @ 9 DAVE DOUGLAS Charms Of rumoured lost cemetery. after a millennial dump and Stem Vol.2 Queen Elizabeth Theatre The Night Sky We dare you to find it. A Smile, because you may 9 THE CHINKEES Peace ® THE ROOTS Things Fall A CAETANO VELOSO Livro ® A free-paced game of never see so many Through Music Apart A BILL FRISELL Good Dog, "DESTINATION simultaneously smiling 9 FREETOWN Painless 9 THE BLACK HEART Happy Man RANDOMIZER" — you faces ever again 9 SKATALITES AND FRIENDS PROCESSION 2 9 THE CINEMATIC need a car and rules (ie. * Kiss someone, anyone, it's At Randy's ® NORTH OF AMERICA These ORCHESTRA Motion Water means turn left, a a guarantee they'll kiss you ® PERSIANA JONES Puerto Songs Are Cursed ® LTJ BUKEM The wS^^ park means head north back Hurraco ® THE RYE COALITION The Progression Sessions until you see the next * Fight someone, anyone, ® PIETASTERS Awesome Mix Lipstick Game ® GODSPEED YOU BLACK church, etc. A great way to it's a guarantee you may Tape #6 ® Dawson's Creek. EMPEROR Slow Riot For waste time and gas). start the riot 1998/99's extracheesy TV New Zero Kanada ® Finn Slough — Richmond's 9 Hope the world does come VENGEANCE IS MINE! season 9 MILES DAVIS The Complete ghost-town somewhere to an end because you'll Monday, midnight-3am Bitches Brew Sessions (Re near Steveston. Cruising never live down #8 ® 30 FOOT TALL Ever SHITMIX issue) for chicks. v* Fall into the fetal position, Revolving, Never Evolving Friday, Midnight-3am A Vancouver Airport for some you will either be ® THE LILLINGTONS Death by A SELINA MARTIN AND THE THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM Wayne and Garth-style PIRATE RADIO successful in shielding Television VERTICAL BROTHERS Tuesday, 9:30-l±:30am plane watching. 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Black Sails in the A MAKE UP Save Yourself CAMINOS et al.) activity. ® FLUXION Largo 9 Imagine what someone Sunset A SUPERSUCKERS How the ® THE FEVERS Show! 1" A UBC Observatory on a ® GAS Konigsforst who has lived in a jungle A ALL All Supersuckers Became... ® BULEMICS Old Enough to night it ain't open to the 9 PORTER RICKS/TECHNO their whole life is doing, A ENEMY YOU Where No One A JON SPENCER BLUES Know Better general public — lots of ANIMAL Symbiotics that's right, taking shelter Knows My Name EXPLOSION Acme A BANTAM ROOSTER live @ dials and knobs to turn. ® MIMIC + THE MODEL with their family, from the ® DOGPISS Eine Kleine ® FLASHLIGHT Running Pic A Shoplifting spree — Untitled rain, just like every other Punkmusik Season ® Las Vegas Grind '99 preferably at somewhere 9 PULSE PROGRAMMING night... 9 TEEN IDOLS Pucker Up ® G. LOVE AND SPECIAL ® TRICKY WOO Sometimes 1 like "Claire's." Untitled J- Hide, just hide. Maybe 9 VARIOUS Four on the Boor SAUCE Philadelphonic Cry/Live A The smallest salmon A LOW Secret Name midnight won't find you. A Runners up: ANTI-FLAG, A CHRIS ROCK Bigger and ® DONNAS Strutter 7" stream in the lower A BASEMENT JAXX Remedy *#^«#*#^^*^** NARDWUAR THE HUMAN DiSCORDER for many years e and do your o without being a student o A Hippies A People are learning that I'm SERVIETTE PRESENTS... A Sex, baby, sex an employee A Junkies not as "indie rock" as Friday 3:304:00pm A What else are you going to A Aldus PageMaker 5.0 A Yuppies they'd like to think. A People — the support I FOLK OASIS listen to? A Adobe PageMaker 6.5 ATeetotallin' liquor laws A | have new friends who received during my hospital Wednesday, 9-10:30pm 9 Nardwuar the Human A when someone stands on ANDP hang out other places than "visit" was absolutely A Rollerblades the citr lounge! incredible! 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I'll never forget you! into the Pacific anyways A Local Releases — tons of Production night essentials great stuff lots from bands Julie Cs top ten reasons by Barbara such as THE CHICK why december will not A Bananas MAGNETS, SPITFIRES, suck as bad as november A Rasta hat, dorky winter JUNGLE, JERK WITH A S GUY CLARK Cold Dog Soup Serviette — still absorbant a wheeled chair did. coat BOMB, HELL CAMINOS, A THE GOURDS Ghosts of after all these years -1-1 now have waterproof A Forgetting where I put the VICTORIAN PORK, Hallelujah A You won't get hit by the Top Ten Most Hated File shoes. fax sheet HOOKERS OF FIRE, RIFF- A KELLY JOE PHELPS Shine Venga Bus Types by Tristan: A My grandma sent me A Crying fit on the hallway RANDELLS, WISECRACK, Eyed Mr. Zen *You can say "cunt" on the A the GIF, JPEG, BMP and christmas money, so i can floor BURDEN, DISSENT, The A OH SUSANNA Johnstown air PICT buy comics again. A Printer malfunction(s) Transiberian and Crusty A BLACKIE AND THE RODEO A The Lone Rocker A RealAudio AI got a talking Arthur doll A Stupid layout ideas (see Compilations, RADIO KINGS Kings of Love A Mel ® the ARJ, HQX and DAT who will ease my troubles pp.32-33) BERLIN, ELECTROSONICS, A BUENA VISTA SOCIAL CLUB A the PRN on those lonely winter A Vow to obliterate memory HISSY FIT, DBS, JP5, Presents Ibrahim Ferrer DJ Hancunt's top ten jazz A Freehand days. of night with some sort of DESTROYER, SOPHISTOS, * CESARIA EVORA Cafe albums to listen to while A the clipping file A My little brother's put off debauched activity and way more! Go Atlantico coming down from an acid ® the XML, the PNG the wedding... for a while A "Sailors Board Me Now" by Vancouver Go! ® RON SEXSMITH trip (irrational fear) AI am learning to sleep THE FROGS A FLASH BASTARD signing to Whereabouts A BILL EVANS Live at the ® fhe WRI through the night without A Intense resentment of Nikki Sixx's (!!!) record 9 SUSAN CROWE Pilgrim's Village Vanguard A the fucking TTF waking up when people fellow volunteers label and getting kicked off Mirror ® BETTY CARTER Inside Betty ® the PDF pee. A The realisation that not one the MOTLEY 9 BRAVE COMBO Polkasonic Carter AI got to play OINGO but two ads were CRUE/SCORPIONS tour! ® MAX ROACH, CHARLES Rob's Top Ten reasons to gi BOINGO's "Wild Sex In the accidentally placed twice A THE SADDLESORES BY THE WAY MINGUS & DUKE the heck outta Dodge... < Working Class" at a BZZR on the dummy and no one playing a song for Lisa- alt. Wednesday, 7:30- ELLINGTON Money Jungle Vancouver Garden (16 Candles is the noticed until today Marie Presley in Los 9:00pm A MILES DAVIS Kind of Blue best movie ever!) Angeles! A AVOCADO BABY Voluptous A FLORA PURIM Butterfly ® THE BLACK HALOS getting and Supreme (not new, but Dreams flown to England to play a new to me) A ALICE COLTRANE A Love party for legendary metal A HOT HOT HEAT (demo) Supreme magazine KERRANG! ® PETTY CRIME s/t A SHIRLEY HORN You Won't A BIF NAKED on the Tonight A RADIO BERLIN (demo) Forget Me Show! From the Cruel A COUPON (demo) ANINA SIMONE After Hours ''r Elephant to Jay Leno! ®THE ALL-GIRL SUMMER ATHELONIUSMONK Monk's Wylde! FUN BAND s/t Dream A The Java Joint in Surrey — ® QUIX*0*TIC s/t A BRAD MEHLDAU The Art of finally a club for all-ages ® BUILT TO SPILL/MARINE the Trio Volume III rock action! RESEARCH (split) A The Drippy Gazette — a ARONDELLES/SKINNED Top Ten Hated Things super-duper new local TEEN/ANGORA/KNOCK- by Tristan rock/comics/culture/what UPS Battle ofthe Bands A courier (the font) ever you want it to be mag A the place where pirates A poorly scanned images helmed by Rob and Blaine! and comic books meet A the upcoming "millenium" A Seven Segment — keeping ® type 2 errors the all ages flame alive in Top ten reasons to love CiTR A entropy Vancouver through many a by Anna Friz, Programming A my most recent nightmare: happening gig. Coordinator ("Two words." A CiTR winning the A No ads "Hypenated." "Two words." referendum at UBC! What A We're the centre of news "Hypenated.") does this mean? You'll be and gossip A the realisation that i spend able to hear CiTR and read A If you hate this show, you 60 hours a week at UBC *#^«#*#*^*A* 33 & McLeod for a skillet-lickin' the grave Hampton (vibes) with Oscar good olde tyme. The best in BIRDWATCHERS 5:00- Peterson, Ray Brown and bluegrass and down-home 6:00PM Join the sports Buddy Rich... giants at play. OnTheDia groove. department for their eye on the Dec. 27: Ending the century BREAKFAST WITH THE T-Birds. with the famous "Jazz at BROWNS 8:00-11:00AM POLYFILLER alt. 6:00- Masset Hall" with Charlie Your favourite brown sters, 7:30PM Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Bud James and Peter, offer a AUDIO VISUAL alt. 6:00- Powell, Charles Mingus and 'OUR ON-AIR GUIDE TO CiTR 101.9FM savoury blend of the familiar 7:30PM Critical theory, Max Roach., more giants at and exotic in a blend of aural debate and dialogue on art play. delightsl Tune in and enjoy and culture, set to a soundtrack Jan. 3: "Milestones" by Miles SUNDAYS also Que «ili-,, each weekly brown plate spe of breakbeat, worldbeat and Davis with John Coltrane and ARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC THE SHOW 10:00PM- cial Instrumental, trance, other eclectic sounds. Cannonball Adderley An 9:00AM-12:00PM All of Dedicated to the gay, lesbian, 12:30AM Strictly Hip-Hop— lounge and ambience. PIRATE RADIO alt. 7:30- album that drummer Tony time is measured by its art. bisexual, and transsexual com Strictly Underground — Strictly BLUE MONDAY alt. 9:00PM Formerly "Love Williams called "the greatest This show presents the mosl munities of Vancouver and lis Vinyl With your hosts 11:00AM- 1:00PM Sucks," now at a new time. Jazz record." tened to by everyone. Lots of Checkmate, Flip Out & J Swing Vancouver's only industrial- BABYLON AFTER SUPPER Jan. 10: Multi-instrumentalist the world Ears open. human interest features, bock- on the 1 & 2's electronic-retro-goth program. alt. 7:30-9:00PM Yusef Lateef in a live club THE ROCKERS SHOW ground on current issues and THE CHILL-OUT ROOM Music to schtomp to, hosted by THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM- recording with trumpeter 12:00-3:00PM Reggae great music from musicians of 12:30-2:00AM Hiphop Coreen 12:00AM Vancouver's Richard Williams and pianist inna all styles and fashion. all sexual preferences and gen- and R&B with DJ Klutch, techno POP SCENE alt. 11:00 Mike Nock "Live at Pep's." BLOOD ON THE SADDLE der identities and house with DJ Decter. Lotsa 1:00PM jozz program. Hosted by the Jan. 17: No show tonight. 3:00-5:00PM Real .owshit HELLO INDIA 8:00 9:00PM greal tracks—come smell what SOUPE DU JOUR 1:00 ever-suave Gavin Walker. Jan. 24: Trumpeter Richard caught-in-yer-boots country GEETANJAU 9:00-10:00PM we're cookin'l Stay up late and 3:00PM Feeling a Ii tile Features at 1 I. "Blue" Mitchell in a fine quar LIPGLOSS & CIGARETTES Geetanjali features a wide French-impaired? Francoph* Dec. 13: One of the first tet with pianist Wynton Kelly... alt. 5:00 6:00PM British *-••<••: ol , VIBE 2:00-6:30AM music from around the globe, attempts to fuse "classical" and "Blue's Moods." pop music from all decades luding classical music, both sans Celine Dion Jan. 31: Charles Mingus SAINT TROPEZ alt. 5:00- nduslani and Carnatic, pop- MONDAYS A WALKABOUT THE WORLD feature tonight "The Modern "Cumbia and Ja* Fusi. 6:00PM International pop ulur from Indian movies BLUEGRASS FOR BREAK 3:00-4:00PM Jazz Society" with soloists Stan of the great bassist/com (Japanese, French, Swedish, 930s to the 1990s, FAST 6:30 8:00AM join EVIL VS. 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T CfJfl.'T T «___* Wan. 7HB MORtfWG AFTER f'OPf'IN uund *uys.\»nt airvuaves SHOW ^VGGM* U+l\}9 34 Jancember 99 12:00-3:0OAM Hosted by AND SOMETIMES WHY alt. flipped up, freaked out, full-on, Trevor It's punk rock, baby! 7:30-9:00PM sleater-kinney, funktified, sample heavy beat Gone from the charts but not low, sushi ... these are a few lain trip, focusing on anything from our hearts—thank fucking of our faveoh-writ things with breakbeats. Versatile at Christ. BY THE WAY alt. 7:30- any style. PSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES 9:00PM LITTLE TWIN STARS 2:00- CMnaUMi M 3:00-6:00AM FOLK OASIS 9:00-10:30PM 3:30PM The rootsy-worldbeat-blue- NARDWUAR THE HUMAN TUESDAYS grass-polka-alt.country-cajun- SERVIETTE PRESENTS... THE MORNING SPORTS conjunto show that dares call 3:30-4:00PM Have a good BWMau twilt W t. SHOW 6:00 8:00AM itself folk. And singer-songwril- lunch! Back on the air once WORLD HEAT 8:00-9:30AM again! THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUND- BLACK NOIZ 4:00 5:00PM 9:30- 11:30AM Torrid HAR 10:30PM-12:00AM Essays, poetry, social com- trash-rock, sleazy surf and pul- Let DJs Jindwa and Bindwa rhvuu ch "Radii knl satin' punk provide the perfect from a Black radical perspec scissor kick to your head every Bhungra! "Chakkh de phutay." tive. If you can't take the heat Tuesday morn. There's no sec HANS KLOSS MISERY listen to Z95. BY ANNA FRIZ ond chance when Kung-Fu is HOUR 12:00-3:00AM NOOZE & ARTS 5:00- used for evil with drunken fist Mix of most depressing, 6:00PM anuary 17 is art's birthday. You know art, it's always hanging around in gal Bryce. Kill-yaal! listenable FAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt. leries, parading across stages, and showing up on street corners. According to TRAGIC ANIMAL STORIES lelodie s and v 6:00-9:00PM 11:30AM-1:00PM FIRST FLOOR SOUND SYS AFRICAN RHYTHMS alt. JFrench artist Robert Filliou, art was born over a million years ago when some THE SELFISH SHOW 1:00- TEM 3:00-6:30AM 6:00-9:00PM David "Love" one dropped a sponge in a bucket of water. He decided art needed a good party, 2:00PM Poetry, piano and Jones brings you the best new so he declared January ] 7 art's birthday and called for it to be an international hol pretension. THURSDAYS and old jazz, soul, Latin, iday of feasting and celebration and making'presents for art. Eventually, there BELT OUT THE BLUES 2:00- AGAINST ALL ODDS 6:30- samba, bossa & African music 3:30PM Music for families 8:30AM from around the world. could be two days of international celebration, then three, four and so on until a mil- and little people. REEL MUSIC 8:30-10:00AM HOMEBASS 9:00PM- ion years ti *, every day is art's birthday. HIPS TITS LIPS POWER Soundtracks and classical. 12:00AM Hosted by DJ 3:30-5:00PM Featuring That STAND AND BE CUNTED Noah: techno, but also some This year marks the 1,000,038th birthday of art. In celebration, CiTR has Feminist Collective from CiTR. 10:00-11:30AM trance, acid, tribal, etc. Guest teamed up with the Western Front to celebrate art's birthday in style, with 24 Hours 10,000 VOICES 5:00- CANADIAN LUNCH DJs, interviews, retrospectives, of Radio Art. 5:30PM Poetry, spoken 11:30AM-1:00PM From Tofino to Gander, Baffin Island RADIO ACTIVE 5:30- to Portage La Prairie. The all- "Radio art?" you wonder. And just what might that dubious category include? 6:00PM Activism, issues and Canadian soundtrack for your SATURDAYS The soothing sounds of white noise and feedback loops? Someone gargling for half fucking up the corporate midday snack! THE MORNING AFTER an hour? • jfe ML • I powers that be. STEVE & MIKE 1:00- SHOW 3:00-8:00AM FLEX YOUR HEAD 6:00- 2:00PM Crashing the boys' THE SATURDAY EDGE It has been done and may be done again. But radio art is not merely an onanis- 8:00PM Hardcore and punk club in the pit. Hard and fast, 8:00AM-12:00PM Studio tic exercise designed to alienate listeners. It is a distinct artform that is fluid and rock since 1989. heavy and slow. Listen to it, guests, new releases, British RADIO ELLINIKATHIKO baby (hardcorel. comedy sketches, folk music immediate; you get one chance to hear it wifh no possibility to rewind. Radio art 8:00-9:00PM Greek radio ONOMATOPOEIA 2:00- ticket has no physicality, it happens in the space ofthe imagination: "I hear voices, but LA BOMBA 9:00- 10:00PM 3:00PM Comix comix comix 8-9AM: there's nobody there." And in that space, all sounds are possible. 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HOW THE CHARTS WORK CiTR The monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/LP ("long vinyl"), 7" ("short vinyl"), or demo tape ("indie home jobs") on CiTR's playlist Charts was played by our djs during the previous month (ie, "Jancember" charts reflect airplay over November). Weekly charts can be received via e-mail. Send mail WHAT'S BEING PLAYED ON CiTR 101.9 FM | to "[email protected]" with the command: "subscribe citr-charts"* jancember long vinyl jancember short vinyl jancember indie home jobs 1 stereolab cobra and phas elektra 1 all gi ^^^ban^ d s/l 1 coupon 2veda hille you do not live... independent 2 tentacles the touch 2 spacerock2000 butnuster 3 archer prewitt carrot top 3 destroyer fhe temple endearing 3thewoks dad, the emperor and me save yourself k 4 spitfires slick black cat 4radioberlin distance tilt o'whirl square dog 5 hot hot heat tourist in your own town selma 6dja-trak enter ralph wiggum tones' throw 6 full sketch soundtrack 7 sianspheric sonic unyon 7 magnetic fields i don't believe you hollywood calling 8 les savy fav cat and the cobra frenchkiss 8 dump/lambchop split third gear 8 team strike force bomb at the party 9 bud osborn hundred block rock get to the point 9huevos rancheros wild turkey surprise! 9 riff randells sweet sixteen 10 rondelles the fox teenbeat 10 tricky woo 10'he radio crystal blue 11 adri adrift 11 wontons extra spicy! 11 swank o'hara no one has a clue but you 12 flin Hon boo-boo teenbeat 12geoff farina steely dan 12 dreamy angel laudromotte queen(never out of style!) the days of our night* 13 going stagg sink and dream don't make me sorry 14 various artists the new women's... 14 smash up derby blow all the hell! there'll be other rainy days 15partsunknown dot-dash 15 bangs maggie the cat the light changed before i could blink 16 ihee michelle gun elephant rumble 16 north of america bayonet point catch that summer breeze 17 jerk with a bomb death to false metal seven segment 17 kaia/sarah dougher split smiling memories 18 icebreaker distant eaHy warning aesthetics 18 pedro the lion helicopter green sheep 19 various artists projector 19 various artists bumping up and down 20 di vadim u.s.s.r.: life from... 20 readymade the block alone 21 refrigerator glitter jazz shrimper 22 solex pick up matador 23 by a thread bst of Ihe daydreams revelation 24butchies population 1975 25°ir premiers symplomes itralwerks 26»nsteza spine and sensory makoto 27matmos the west deluxe i'V.crry 28 supersuckers greatest rock'n'roll... Chris*t>*i<**i**r 29 master faders identity crisis 30moev suffer carved out 31 various artists all points in 32 Ay pan am s/t constellation 33 jungle long time no see 34 clover honey ...clover honey independent 35le tigre Qood Voity Cc IGAOM 2)a £Uaa I SAT 15 Craig Baldwin's Spectres of the Specfrum@Blinding Light SUBMISSIONS TO DATEBOOK ARE FREE! SUN 16 Megadeth@Commodore; L Double@Sonar; Craig Datebook Baldwin's Spectres of the Spec*7x*m@Blinding Light TUE 18 Craig Baldwin's Sonic Ou'/aws@Blinding Light WHEN) TO 822.9364, WED 19 Craig Baldwin's Sonic Our/aws@Blinding Light )K." DEADLINE FOR THE THU 20 Rheostatics, VealOCommodore; BY08@Blinding Light FRI 21 Punchdrunk, Brand New Unit@Starfish WHAT'S HAPPENING IN JANCEMBER WED 26 Mark Farina: San Francisco Sessions@Sonar DECEMBER SAT 18 Veloce@Chameleon; Colourifics@Marine Club; d.b.s., FRI 10 Northern Lights Extravaganza (feat. Rich Hope Band, By A Thread, September, Burden@Langley Civic Centre; Not So Brundlefly, Solarbaby, Waltz Darling)@Anza Club; Me'shell Strictly Ballroom's Christmas Dance Party@Let's Dance Studio; NdegeocelloOCommodore; Chameleon Christmas Todd Verow's Addiction 7W/ogy@Blinding Light; Kyrestan Schmooze@Chameleon; Under the Table, Howard Roark, Trio@Sugar Refinery; DSK, the Orientals, the Riff- Otaku@Sugar Refinery; And You Will Know Us By The Trail of RandellsOBrickyard Dead, Closed Caption Radio, Karen Foster@Brickyard; HP SUN 19 Jingle Bell Rock (feat. UHF, Valdy, Kenny Hess, Tiller's Lovecraft Film Festival@Blinding Light Folly, etc.)@Commodore; A Miracle on Homer Street@Starfish SAT 1 1 Evil Eddie RichardsOSonar; Alpha Yaya Diallo, Los Room, Soul Christmas '99@10th Avenue Church; Todd Verow's MosocosOCommodore; Ivana Santilli@Chameleon; Big White Addiction 7n7ogy@Blinding Light Cloud, Full Sketch, [email protected]'s Cabaret; Peggy Lee MON 20 13th Annual Blues for Christmas (feat. Jim Byrnes, Band@Western Front; Naughty By Nature@Alpen Rock (Whistler); Incognito, Powder Blues, Habs Stamer, F-Jam, etc.)@Commodore; Ideal Mini School Winter BazaarOldeal Mini School; FWUH 5 Year Anniversary (feat. Swollen Members, Moka Only, Diversions@Sugar Refinery; Cartels, Belvedere, Downway, etc.)@Sonar; Saul Duck@Sugar Refinery Victorian Pork@Brickyard; HP Lovecraft Film Festival@Blinding Light WED 22 Dixies Death Experiment@Sugar Refinery SUN 12 Martin SextonOStarfish; Dal Richards THU 23 Vague Demons@Sugar Refinery; Dick and Jane, the Orchestra@Commodore; Ivana Santilli@Chameleon; DJ Velveteens, Solarbaby@Brickyard Phantasy@Sonar; HQ Communications@Sugar Refinery; Klaus FRI 24 Under the TableOSugar Refinery Kinski Marathi •©Blinding Light SUN 26 RascalzOCommodore TUE 14 Disc Night@Commodore; Millennium Project@Sugar WED 29 Dogfight ll@Sugar Refinery; the Hill@Brickyard Refinery; Air Cries, Empty Warer@Blinding- Light FRI 31 New Year's Eve Debauchery Ball@Chameleon; WED 15 The Secret Three@Sugar Refinery; CiTR PRESENTS Earthshakers Rhythm & Blues Big Band@Marine Club; Ray Condo, SHiNDiG FINALS: Bel Riose, The Radio, The Colorifix, Inspectors, Spin Master Todd Tomorrow@Waldorf Hotel; Maneaters@Starfi$h; New Wave-Aoke Christmas John Ford, Andre Williams, Countdowns, Miss Kitty@Penthouse Party@Brickyard; Air Cries, Empty Water@Blinding Light CiTR PRESENTS: THE CARRIBEAN MILLENNIUM CELE- THU 16 e.space Entertainment show (feat. 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Big Cookie, Cozy Bones)@Starfish; Outer Space, Honeysuckle Serontina@Brickyard raig Baldw s Spectres ofthe Spec/rum@Blinding Light Amsterdam Cafe 302 W. Cordova St. (Gastown) 683 7200 Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) 822 2678 Richard's on Richards 1036 Richards St. (downtown) 687 6794 Anza Club 3 W. 8th Ave. (Mount Pleasant) 876 7128 Garage Pub 2889 E. Hastings St. (downtown) 822 9364 Ride On 2255W. Broadway; 2-712 Robson St. (upstairs) 738-7734 Arts Hotline 684 2787 The Good Jacket 225 E. Broadway (at Main) 872 5665 Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus St. (at 16th) 738 6311 Astoria Hotel 769 E. Hastings St. 254 3636 The Grind Gallery 41 24 Main St. (Mt. Pleasant) 322 6057 Scrape Records 17 W. Broadway (near Main) 877 1676 Bassix 21 7 W. Hastings St. (at Cambie) 689 7734 Hollywood Theatre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilanc 738 3211 Scratch Records 726 Richards St. 687 0499 Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) 687 1354 Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main St. (Mt. 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Broadway Sugar Refinery 1 1 15 Granville St. (downtown) 683 2004 Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Granville Mall) 683 6099 Minoru Pavillion 7191 Granville St. (Richmond) Theatre E 254 E. Hastings (Chinatown) 6818915 Celebrities 1022 Davie St. (at Burrard) 689 31 80 Moon Base Gallery 231 Carrall St. (Gastown) 608 0913 Thunderbird Ent. Centre 1 20 W. 16th St. (N. Van) 988 2473 Cellar Jazz Cafe 361 1 W. Broadway (downstairs) 738 1959 Naam Restaurant 2724 W. 4th Ave. (Kitsilano) 738 7151 Tribeca 536 Seymour 688 8385 Chameleon Urban Lounge 801 W. Georgia (Downtown) 669 0806 Neptoon Records 5750 Fraser St. 324 1229 Tru Valu Vintage Robson (downstairs) 685 5403 Chan Centre 6265 Crescent Rd. (UBC) Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downtown) 665 3050 Vancouver E. Cultural Centre 1895Venables (at Victoria) 254 9578 CiTR Radio 101.9fM 233-6138 SUB Blvd. (UBC) 822-3017 Pacific Cinematheque 1 1 3 1 Howe (downtown) 688 3456 Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Main (Mt. 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Hastings (downtown) 681 6740 Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) 331 7909 Croatian Cultural Centre 3250 Commercial Dr. (at 17th) 879 0154 Plaza Theatre 881 Granville (Granville Mall) 685 7050 Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) 685 6217 Crosstown Music 51 8 W. Pender St. 683 8774 Puff/Beatstreet 4326 Main (at 27th Ave.) 708 9804 Western Front 303 E. 8th Ave (near Main) 876 9343 Denman Place Cinema 1030 Denman St. (West End) 683 2201 Puff # 14-712 Robson (at Granville) 684 PUFF Wett Bar 1 320 Richards (downtown) 230 6278 Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Garden Main Hall 578 Carrall St. 662 3207 Purple Onion 15 Water St. (Gastown) 602 9442 Whip Gallery 209 E. 6th Ave (at Main) 874 4687 DV8 515 Davie St. (downtown) 682 4388 Queen Elizabeth Theatre Hamilton & Georgia 665 3050 W.I.S.E. Hall 1882Adanac (the Drive) 254 5858 Fifth Avenue Cinemas 21 10 Burrard (at 5th) 734 7469 Raffels Lounge 1221 Granville (downtown) 473 1593 Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 732 4128 Firehall Arts Centre 80 E. Cordova (at Main) 689 0926 The Rage 750 Pacific Blvd. South (Plaza of Natio 685 5585 Yale Blues Pub 1 300 Granville (downtown) 6819253 F.W.U.H. Beatty 552 Beatty St. (downtown) 687 7464 Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir St. (at Seymour) 681 1625 Zulu Records 1 869 W. 4th (Kitsilano) 738 3232 38 Jancember 99 dje Zulu TDme? SONIC YOUTH THE ALBUM KID LOCO STAFF PICKS OF 1999!! SYR4 2CD/2LP LEAF DJ KICKS CD/2LP This volume in the "SYR" A REVIEW OF OUR FAVOURITES THIS YEAR An f 0% OFFAHT OF THESE TITLES TU. JAHJAPfY 3V2D00 sential American indie Orchestrated rock/noee outfit interpret a collection ot works by cc Rise to Fall CD temporary composers including John Cage Pauline reamy, advanced all mstniiYK Oliveros Sieve Reich Takahisa Kosugi Chrislifu DTristan main guy Jimmy LaValle TWsrei Wolff Yoko 0.0 and others Recorded with Jim nicely along with the most recent oceanic guitar (plus O'Rourke William Winaut Kosugi Wolff and Ctuistiaii Mardajf Envisioned as their millennial sen well Tris ott. this sonically impressive package set9 the tone lo alter ego, LaValle main • i music notation Happy New Year ever*, on*! is SONIC YOUTH lor deep-sleepers: fhe pace occasionally picks up, draw ing nice dynamics out of an economy i 2CD/2LP 26.98 music for a time when nights are long. Various Artists CD 16.98 GIVE'EM THE BOOT 2 CD BOTCH The second cheapo sampler trom Hellcat Records I contains 21 rock-steady, punk, hardcore and regg; We are the Romans CD songs trom HeHcefs finest bands, including unre 11 the Rocket Magazine is a true cultural indica leased tracks from Rancid, Hepcat and Joe Strimme I'new notse' within today's music circles, then as well as songs by the Dropkick Murphies The Seattle punk/prog/metal cover boys are definitely on the Piestasters Buj» Barton Buccaneer and many cusp ot underground greatness! Spoken mo,^e8ant same breath as last years new punk rock JH employs monstrous and crushing guitars with equally ballsy street walking chee- ANIMALS ON WHEELS 'ul electronics (to move the low end) and We are the I Nuvol I Cadira CD conquer!! moothed over stuff that owes much more to such CD 16.98 Slaid back Germans as To Rococo Ht*. M such hyb American artists as Matmat, than to any other Ninja Tune act Really, it's unfair to describe this record as JIM O'ROURKE either so-called electronica or so-called post-rock, mil ence from both sides ol this facile equation is clear. II Halfway to a the point must be made. Ibis record proves once mor Threeway CD-EP how close this particular circle is to being squared A The cast is gather. ' " I Prewrtt Sam Pri CD16.98 Gray Rob Mazurek Various Artists The rutlled feathered KINDERCORE this tap tap tap' — and shortly the musicians begin their CHRISTMAS 2 gymnastic shuttling of thread bouncing effortlessly down the busy Chicago CD avenues. The gutters are blocked with ombining the efficient Hair mals. If It rains ttiere will be a flood, Stop by lora listen. Col Bauhaus with the tree- CD-EP 14.98 teeling '60s West Coast pop designersB. Kindercore S0UIK3 ol school Music IS magic, and Christmas is the magic son so join 24 tweed pop contributors including: Richard Davies Of Montre «-T" NEW RELEASES: 'Bessy THTUCE NEuruWi <.*1-2> I*. l__Casoe noff FmnrnnnrEmergencvy ntCDl Calgary's garage SIK Cents And Natalie. The Ladybug Transistor Kincaid. The Essex Green Masters Of The Hemisphere, PHE Tba Elephant CD Pos Busytoby Ciao Bella Junior Varsity The Gwer Mendoza Line loi this Misslul seasonal sing-a-l CD-EP Very nice dynami Sinty stuff, CD 16.98 TANK Upwards at 66' CD The new sound ol the London We've recently moved, Truth Burns CD-EP Dual Bass ritts features men of Fudge so now you'll have "room to move" at Zulu! ^ •tft CD Ok finally here, their Check out our new expanded digs, just one block up and across the EXTENDED HOURS DIMES! ORE HALOS Revolt into Style CD Leather Plenty ol steel from our old address. Various SOMBRERO CD Siesta Records la THIS CHRISTMAS PS. ..At presstime, oar plan are comp Mmnn. BABY MAMMOTH Motion without Paiu CD Dark down open up a "SSteMte" Zula store at beats Irom this Pork Records duo. our previous 1869 West 4th address, by mid-December '99. It'll BUCK Buck In Black CD New songs trom this post-Cub feature used/new clearance vinyl, CDs, etc... + Ms more items un DECEMBER 16-23 OPEN Tit 9:00WI outfit. come across (after 18 years la one location, things can accu FUNKSTORUNG Post Art CD-EP Their lull length is great. DECEMBER 24 9:3OAM-6;00PM mulate!) DECEMBER 25 CLOSED How long will we keep it open? At least until Spring arrives, but " who knows? There's rm fixed time frame! While it's open, we'll be _ DECEMBER 26 9:00AM sure to keep it well stocked with m ever-changing selection of titles •6:00PM to rock you! "Satellite" Store Horns at 1869 West 4th: Monday-Friday 10:30am-?:00pm Saturday 10:30am-6:00pm Sunday 12:00pm-6:00pm