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now accepting entries, send SHINDIG! 2004 your min. 3 song demo to: c/o CiTR Radio BRYCE DUNN #233-6138 SUB Blvd. Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1 With summer in full swing, I don't need to remind you audiophiles out there to take care Questions? Interested in becoming a extra care with your vinyl cat — stay cool, stay sponsor? For more information please visit dry and everything will be A-OK. That said, http://shindig.citr.ca You can also call we'll keep this month's foray into the oasis of waxy wonderment brief and relaxing, so as not Duncan at (604)822-1242 or email Ben at put any undue stress on your already sweat- [email protected] soaked brow and my sweat-drenched fingers. 'Course my fingers had gotten considerably sweatier once the new Dirtbombs/Adult split single came my way. Being a big fan of Mick and Co., I knew I was in for something either incredibly beautiful or incredibly strange. I mean, consider the outcome: an electroclash duo covering the rock 'n' soul of Detroit's finest? Well, apparently there's more to this single than meets the eye — both groups are from Detroit, both cover each other's tunes, and plucked from the Elephant Six Collective's both bands shot the cover photos of each back pocket; think the effervescent Apples other, and shared the release responsibilities. In Stereo meets the morose Jesus And Mary Whew! It better be damn good — and it is. Chain. The caricatures of the group on the The Dirtbombs tackle an early Adult song, cover allude to them being some sort of "Lost Love" to almost Kraftwerkian perfection, white-hooded cult, but just to be on the safe as Mick's voice is tempered to near robotic side, don't be drinking that kool-aid offered to tones, but the drumming duo of Ben and Pat you. (Loud Devices, loud-devices.com). keep it grooving. If it's a heart attack you want, look not to Adult take on a relatively obscure grape kool-aid, but to the strangely named Dirtbombs track "Pray For Pills", which was XBXRX, a collective of musicians based in released on an Australian tour seven inch (long Oakland, California. Their latest offering is time readers of this column, yeah all two-of a cardiac arrest set to the tone of sonic you, will remember I reviewed this way back), revolution: four blasts of intense noise-core on but the result is pretty much what I expected; a one-sided, blood-red coloured single, with rigid drum machine backed with spooky a simple message scrawled on the record's vocals, but still bouncy and toe-tappin'. From label: "We Hate The President", and a deeper what I gather this was pressed in very limited message scrawled on the asphalt by a young quantity, so perhaps only the purists will seek girl on the cover. I'll leave it to you to find out this out, but I look forward to the Goldfrapp/ what it says, and for that matter, deciphering Greenhomes split coming soon... just kidding. the words to the songs, but all I can say is: "Take that, Georgie!" (Namack Records, 381 (Ersatz Audio P.O. Box 02713 Detroit Ml USA th 48202). Broadway, 4 Floor #3 New York, N.Y. USA 10013). Our last serving of seven inch comes from some troublemakers from Portland, Oregon known as The Observers. Four tracks of SoCal-influenced punk rock — at least the production makes it feel that way — like listening to Channel 3 or T.S.O.L. back in the day, with lyrics dealing with fitting in, not fitting in and the like on tracks such as "Lead Pill" and "Can't Be Sad". I liked the drum'solo in "Short Day", that's punk rock. Man, Portland can do no wrong these days, with so many good bands to choose from, add The Observers to that list. (Super Secret Records P.O. Box-1585 Austin, TX USA 78767). Well, get out there and enjoy the summer while it lasts, and we'll see you next month with a fresh batch! D

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Friday, June 18, 3:12am, Barcelona asking why—I've been writing on electronic music, media and culture for close to a decade, and I Western Theatre Conspiracy Because her engagement in the politics of —contents under pressure already had plane tickets booked, so I figured a bit Omniscience «,*". "*^°j^J war is so immediate, Anna is the most grounded of an explanation was owed. Sonar responded by Wednesday 2 June character—and Nicole Leroux played her with I've been reading Anselm Jappe's book on Guy granting me accreditation, as well as a request to Performance Works explosive invention. Anna's battlefield epiphany Debord. Debord was the prime mover behind discuss the situation with them... which is where I slip may have left her a pill-popping wreck, but the Situationists throughout their 10 years of into gonzo... a very nervous situation, sitting down Our worst fears about high-tech authoritarianism Leroux gives the impression that without it, she'd existence from 1958-1968. Centred in Pass, the with the press director of Sonar, in charge of some are being borne out so rapidly that science probably be walking prisoners on a leash. As critical yet creative publications of the Situationist 800 plus press corps, and trying to contextualize fictionalizing them has become quite superfluous. Beth and George, Jennifer Clement and Craig International in part spurred the uprising of May '68, the aims of such writing for an organisation that is By setting Omniscience in a near future complete March were sometimes too consciously hard- leading to what we know today as culture jamming an industry, and a culture that, according to a few with sleek, minimalist decor and a bit of Star Trek boiled in their delivery, but the dynamic between and hacktivism. The SI investigated if not invented of my good Spanish and Catalonian friends, has gadgetry, Tim Carlson has prevented his hyper- scientific objectivity and a thuggish, power-mad concepts of detournement (altering existing never known a counterculture... And me: a small­ relevant play from landing as hard as it could administration was nicely observed. Warren was slogans, images, representations) and the derive time "journalist" with pretentions to claiming that have. more of a problem. The story revolved around (a form of "drifting" the city, of psychogeography journalism can act as a tool to express other forms There's nothing terribly futuristic about the him, but he was much too weak to warrant the and of radical intervention in the flows of urban of meaning in popular formats (like this one). plot: Warren, a film editor at the state-controlled attention and Camyar Choi's hangdog portrayal planning and architecture). Jappe renders a They're still very worried. Accreditation was media outlet, has been assigned to work on a only made things worse. specific observation of Debord: he only wrote denied because of the article written. Which documentary about insurrection in a rebel territory. The real hero was Paul—a character who never what he wanted, at his own pace, and never on worries me. Can I write freely here? I am, and I have Increasingly baffled by cryptic footage from his appeared onstage—and thanks to video designer '•demand. He never wrote for an editor or at the made the choice to think about it aloud, here in this war correspondent buddy Paul, he's hard put to Flick Harrison, the AWOL correspondent became behest of anyone else. His book Society of the month's Panarticon. Not as a sensationalist ploy or give it the "correct" spin—particularly since Paul is a symbol of independent journalism's potential for Spectacle, some 200 odd theses, was written far a lame vendetta (far from it), but to exemplify the suspected of defection. Guilt by association and counter-spin and subversion. Eloquent, complex from the pressure of publishers or.publicity agents. parameters under which most writing is performed circumstantial evidence soon land Warren on the and frightening in their implication, Harrison's [Ah, Tobias, you can only dream... - Ed.] today. Writing that, in the past, from the pen government's hit list. Meanwhile, his soldier wife contributions were the production's biggest asset. Last year, this magazine published an article I kO^ThbrBpsbn, or say Tom Wolfe, was thekprwo^ Anna has returned from active combat with a dirty Though billed as a dystopian thriller. wrote on that little Spanish electronic music festival vitriol of a generational insurgence. Today, at the little secret and a serious case of post traumatic Omniscience didn't so much show where we're i known as Sonar. My writing unfolded in (mock) heart of "underground" music—across almost all stress disorder. Beth, the company shrink, tries in headed, as remind us of where we already gonzo fashion, miming the energy of not only genres—it is incredibly difficult to find writers willing vain to keep the couple's psyches cruising along are. Carlson handles the material with a tough, Sonar's overwhelming heat (it was dangerously to write. smoothly while she herself is leaned on by an desperate intelligence, and the futuristic gloss intelligence heavy named George. hot last year), but the crowds, the hedonism, the Should I be writing about this? Does it even forced a distance that just wasn't necessary. D attitude, the absynthe. Gonzo is a "genre" of surprise anyone and does anyone even really give writing that mixes the elements of documentary a shit? THE PLUGHOLE (think Michael Moore) with the flavour of a critical That's a different question. Today it's more or Okay, they look like auteur (Think Lars von Trier). And like von Trier, one less the point that the question never even occurs a bunch of dorky little often abuses the actors to sketch exaggerated to most "journalists." It is the perogative of Sonar's freaks right now, but characters of the everyday. Like a surrealist Press Director to worry about what is written. But seriously, before you painting, it is through gross distortion that a it is the responsibility of the journalist to cover not know it The Penguins glimmer of the grotesque can be viewed in all its only the hyped music of the moment, but the are gonna be about the normality—and banality. And, one would hope, atmosphere in which we respond to it. Create it. M? hottest guys in town. its humour. Question it. If more journalists did this—the ethic *» I mean, they're already Gonzo is a style—but more than that, an of investigative journalism—global culture might •» in bands and they're irrepressible way of life—pioneered by '60s develop a sense of involvement rather than 5 TEN! Give them 2 years. counterculture writer Hunter S. Thompson. Beyond accepting its role as a (mostly) passive consumer 5 Uh, I mean, 5 years. being a drugged, dangerous journalist (all too of entertainment. Music is not television and it often, his only contemporary image), Thompson shouldn't be. is also deadly serious. His cutting wit, barbed There were hundreds of thousands of people at commentary and incisive maneouvres of the pen the 1970 Isle of Wight Music Festival. Almost double all serve the age-old tradition of the wordsmith: Woodstock, and a documentary crew covered the knife of the question, the perspective of two the entire thing—from backstage drugs, organiser Look who's turning ten this yearl It's July Fourth Toilet—and they're inviting you to their thousand years (if not more) of cultural baggage stress and payola to police beatings and hippie birthday celebration at the dear old barn in East Van. Seems like only yesterday that I first saw them to weigh the actions of the present. With force hypocrisy (the absolute trashing of the land, for at the Columbia doing a Southern-fried rock show. They would have been about two then. How ancLpunch. The mocking not only of tradition but example). Today, such a documentary would be time flies. of the official byline that runs, incessantly, like an almost impossible to film. Real access, unfettered All of the Toilet's shows ooze an odd combination of looseness and control that one automatic answering machine. There is something access, is a pipe-dream. The ideal of exposing normally associates with pagan revival meetings or family sing-alongs. Otherwise, each one of Debord in Thompson, and vice-versa: an the moment not for the contemporary but for the is completely unique. Even so, their tenth anniversary performance should be especially articulation of the structures of contemporary future is all but buried in the paranoia that controls groundbreaking. It will involve an 18-stro'ng, costumed ensemble playing Rock Fantasy, a times. Or in more Thompsonian terms, of the beasts the spectacle of the now. As Debord writes with 1975 children's concept album from K-Tel. that carve out evil in the heart of society. Fear and such prescience, images must be perpetuated to The troupe has been rehearsing extensively for this gig—since February, in fact. Equally loathing. form the real, the real being representations that unprecedented will be the addition of an all-ages show for children and families. And then sell. This process is largely-not of an elite cabal's Gonzo is not mere cinema verite—it claims no there's opening act. The Penguins—a quintet of 10-12 year-old musicians who play classic making but operates independently, a machine truth (fiction, writes Thompson, is often more true). and contemporary rock covers along with some originals! It knows no strict boundaries of what is considered unto itself. The Press Director worries that she July Fourth Toilet founders Robert Dayton and Julian Lawrence will share the stage with "fair game." It requires lived experience. It often hasn't done her job properly, and that this is why a cavalcade of Toilet regulars and special guests. Among the former will be Big Hamm, calls for altered states to achieve this difference I have written what I have—as if it was personal. Susan Box, Clancy Dennehy and Jody Franklin, while the latter will include actor/comedian in perspective that turns the mundane into the It is this perspective that is already a function of a Paul Anthony, Buy Nothing Day founder Ted Dave, cartoonist Robin Konstabaris and singer- fantastic, the carnivalesque, the horrific. (CiTR's system that demands personal investment in the songwriter Mark Szabo. own Nardwuar the Human Serviette is in many propagation of one-way, transmitted imagery. If you're wondering, "Whatever shall I wear to this party?", consider that Rock Fantasy is a ways a true heir to this tradition—although straight­ It is always personal... in the sense that it is rock'n'roll musical set in a land where animals are people and people are the animals. edge.) the person waking up to the historical flow that This Sonar article nearly landed me without unhinges the boulder, loosing the rolling thunder... Rock Fantasy is at the WISE Hall on Friday 23 July. All-ages show at 5pm/Grown-up show (in a press credentials. I was originally denied a sudden flash flood. manner of speaking) at 9pm. Tickets—available at Scratch and Zulu—are $8 for adults and $5 accreditation for this year's Sonar. I wrote back. Until thenl D forsprogs (13 and under).

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Does sex permeate music or the other way around? Where joy and ecstasy that went into this record are clear. Steve's protest music or just for the hell of it music. It seems like now does one end and the other begin? As you may already vocals blend together with Ashley Webber's like the perfect its at a point where you can meld the two, protest and fun, know, dancing inevitably leads to sex. Really. This is true. So simultaneous orgasm. No song has ever made me as horny into one thing, with the state of the world as it is. Generally, true that many fundamentalist Christian organizations have as "Sweet '69". The intuitively primal percussion and blatant you might want to talk to the people who make protest kind decreed an all-out ban on dancing. Feel free to take a trip yet enticing lyrics had me and everyone I played it for of music and you want to party with the badasses. Now you to Abbotsford and see for yourself. Only hymns or Christian positively seething with sexual energy. Every song on the can sort of do both. Rock are allowed, and the only thing you can do to that shit album exudes a playful, celebratory understanding of sex is worship and awkwardly sway. and intimacy. One doesn't want to just get laid after listening Definitely. So was it just that the concept was so different from Though I don't think the anti-dancing crew is on the right to this music. I want love dammitl I want it all. Apparently, so your normal stuff that you needed a new name? track, the correlation is clear. Music is conducive to sex as sex do the Pink Mountaintops. And with a debut like this, they're Yeah, we were tiring of the name JWAB, with all the catch is conducive to music. Both celebratejcieativity, humanity sure to get it. phrases people would apply to that. The music was changing and freedom. Channeling the divine, they expose us to new Over beers in an east-side park, Steve and I discussed drastically. With the Pink Mountaintops I just wanted ways of being and thinking, higher peaks dt pfj^sure and love, sex, touring and music history... something that was quick and honest and documented and pain. Both encourage us to engage with others/the world done: pure. I didn't worry about anything, it just came out. I and ourselves in exciting and terrifying new ways. Sex and Given that you guys sort of fit into the random mix of sex was having fun writing songs in my room, and I think it turned music are fundamental parts of humanity that cannot be music, how do you feel about the genre as a whole? out okay. replaced; only altered and re-contextualized, changing Well, we're not specifically about sex, it just turned out that across different cultures and time periods, but serving the way. It's more of just a celebration of being who you are and It must be so much fun to get up on stage and sing about same essential purposes. doing what you want to do. Having fun. giving head and alt that fun stuff. Apart from spiritual meanderings, there are many That's what it is, its about fun. There's that whole genre of practical reasons to combine music and sex. The most salient How did it just sort of "happen that way"? shock rock crap like the Mentors and whatnot, singing about example involves limited space and the proximity of friends, Well, Jerk with a Bomb was on tour last summer and we sex in a way that's really derogatory towards women. And family or roommates. While many of us prefer making our had just toyed with the idea of changing our name to Black then there's other sides, singing about it in a liberatory way. own beautiful music, courtesy often forces, us to use music as Mountain, which we eventually did. I believe the initial It's fun, there's no harm. a cover-up. We all know that "listening to music" is basically a concept came up when we were driving through the Rockies universal code for "making out". to Colorado, drinking Red Bull and taking ephedrine to stay What kind Of reaction have you got so far, from new fans and Different types of music create different moods and can awake and listening to Pink Floyd's The Final Cut and then old school JWAB devotees? drastically alter a sexual experience. You know you're in for Pink Mountaintops popped into my head as a great name It's been good. A bunch of people hugged me after various pussy-licking of your life when the boyfriend drops the needle for a rock 'n' rod band. shows on the tour, they were excited. That's all you can on Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation. In the same way, you wish for. That people have a good time and they leave with know to put your panties back on and call a cab when that From that, we were on tour and the whole myth of the rock something to take home and carry on with their lives. guy you met at the bar double-clicks on the Dave'Motthews 'n' roll tour lifestyle is a farce. Well, at least to me it is. 'Cause MP3s. I have my lover that I love, I'm with her, and that's that. So, Is the album a cut and dry deal? Will we see more from the The power of sex makes it an essential marketing tool, I was missing her and I started writing songs in my head at Pink Mountaintops? and artists and music corporations exploit it accordingly. rest stops, took notes, and then came back and wrote and It'll continue, but it more than likely won't be about sex. It's Britney Spears epitomizes this at it's very worst. The bitch can't recorded the record in about three weeks. It just all kind of not going to be sex band or whatever. Musically, I'll probably sing worth shit, but that virgin/whore image sells damn fine. came out. Certain songs that weren't necessarily about sex keep the same vibe but I'm sure the subject matter will Boy bands are another example; their sterilized offerings of , sort of morphed into being about sex in other ways. There change. eternal love are perfectly geared to the culturally implanted were a few songs like "Bad Boogie Ballin'" that were laying desires of pre-teen hetero girls. around for a while and it kind of took on a new meaning with What's your favourite music to get excited about love/sex, Then there is fhe rarest and greatest kind of sex music. the Pink Mountaintops as opposed to if it had been a Black etc.? What kind of music really gets you in the mood? Music that gets you genuinely enthused about sex for all the Mountain or JWAB song. Songs like "Sweet '69", which you Well, the last record I had sex to was Black Sabbath right reasons. Music that incorporates technical skill with raw, can think the obvious meaning, but its also the year I was Volume IV. It was perfect. It all depends on the mood, but compelling lyrics to elicit feelings that we all wish could last born in, and a celebration of the music that was coming out at that point, Volume (V was perfect. Old stuff like Serge forever. Music that observes the beauty, spontaneity and at that time, sort of an ode to it so to speak. Gainsbouroug too, the album with Jane Birkin is about as sanctity of sex. sexy as it can get. I really have a thing for Missy Elliott's...not Enter Vancouver's own Pink Mountaintops. With a little So sort of a fusion of past stuff, present feelings and Ideas the new album, the one before [Under Construction, 2002]. I help from his friends. Black Mountain (formerly Jerk with a about love in general? can't remember what it's called. It's a great album. D Bomb) frontman Stephen McBean wrote and recorded the Yeah, and to say "Sweet '69" is liberating. I think music has •self-titled debut album in an astonishing three weeks. The gone through all kinds of important phases, whether its or the last three months I have been listening to I do my best to extoll the virtues of Tommy to all I meet, her debut album or perhaps "Magic in your eyes" from Tommy February6 almost exclusively. Friends have from having sit-down video watching sessions to starting Tommy Airline. Ears will perk up, toes will tap, and yes, Fbecome concerned and are planning some sort of impromptu dance parties. In fact, I was the jackass who asses will shake. To test this theory, I streamed a select intervention involving a white van, a chair, a video screen, spent damn near 75 dollars of grocery money to import few Tommy February6 songs over to the DiSCORDER office and Creed videos on repeat. The secret they don't know her latest record, so I'm teasing you with the inaccessible during the production of last month's issue (Attention is that I'm so far gone down this path that nothing short while 1 eat beans for the fifth time this week. No, you can't litigious record company execs. I imported the album. of lobotomy would quell my interest—and even then it have a copy of the album. And get your fucking eyes off Fuck off.) and I have it on very good authority that they would still be a great reason to throw a party. Everyone my beans. danced like motherfuckers when "Magic in your eyes" 6 can dress up as doctors and nurses. It would just be like You will also not be able to see Tommy February playing came on. Often times in sync. In fact, it was through these the Danielson Famile without the religious subtext and at any venue around town, or around this country for non-stop dance sessions that I was commissioned to write caterwauling. that matter. One would think that someone studious and this piece as it is deemed that I am an authority on these Much -pondering has lead me to the conclusion that- obsessed enough would take it upon himself or herself types of things. Really. I'm not obsessing per se. I've merely reached a point in to arrange such a thing. I'm sure there are people out my life where I have discovered the perfect music and there who would like to do so. Don't look at me; I'm too .The videos are great if not fantastic. really, truly don't need to listen to anything else. I'm done. busy playing online backgammon against "Poopsie They are also they most fucking surreal things I've ever I can look you in eyes with the kind of offsetting stare Paddlewack25" and "SooperDoop46". It would be a treat seen: intergalactic break-dancers, ex-pat cheerleaders, indicative of murderers and federal NDP candidates and though. telephones that turn into cake, and wildlife completely 6 tell you that Tommy February satisfies every single musical out of context. Dear god! Why did that cheerleader just need that I have in my body. Who needs other music explode? when you've found something so close to perfection that Arguments against Tommy February6 everything else seems so boring? Tommy February6 is the project of Kawase Tomoko. The Japanese always do weird shit like this. I recently came across sosnetJve footage while Tomoko was She has put out two albums and several singles under Counter Japan can churn out crappy music as well as any touring her first album and almost stopped breathing in mid- the Tommy February6 persona. It is a persona. There's Eurovision participant. In fact, in conjunction with Korea download. Dear god, it was the most spectacular thing I no disguising that her day job so-to-speak is with a band and Hong Kong they are the undisputed kings of the have ever seen in my entirely inconsequential life. I, of course, called The Brilliant Green where she is joined by her crappy power ballad. Don't believe me: go to any Asian gathered everyone under duress and made them watch it. husband. She also spends time in another side project restaurant on Robson. The trick is to filter the garbage Reactions ranged from aghast to overwhelmingly happy. called Tommy Heavenly6 but that's a little too Avril for me '(Ayumi Hamasaki, M-Flo) from the good (Sugar Plant, Oddly, some people were fixated upon her glasses and the to feel comfortable talking about. Let's move on. Luminous Orange). fact that very few prominent female musicians wear glasses Tommy is a hard sell in North America. Its difficult to say (with the exception of Lisa Loeb and a few others). I tried to if the Western world is ready for shimmering late-'80s style Only creepy, basement-dwelling anime nerds are counter by saying that they were actually non-prescription dance pop as opposed to the current crop of ultra-slutty into this. and part of her costume and besides, singer-songwriters aren't real musicians anyways. D R' n' B tinged pop. I could make arguments on the entire Counter Okay, yes I'll relent on this point but it's only valid in Britney vs. Christina debate but I'll save that for another North America. However, I believe that Tommy February6 article. Go Britney! - ".' has the ability to move beyond this questionable Tommy February6 is more closely aligned with other demographic and into far greater musical scope ranked classic pop acts. I'm talking Bananarama. I'm talking up there with such contemporaries as Bananarama and Debbie Gibson. I'm fucking talking "Locomotion"-era Mitsou. Kylie and not in the ironic, saux-cool Electroclash '80s throwback kind of way. Fuck that noise. No, this music is This is some sort of Asian fetish thing, right? I mean, for people who think that Belinda Carlisle was better off fuck.she has cheerleaders and wears a school uniform! without those Go-Go's and that Debbie Gibson was a Counter No, no, no, no, no, no! My admiration of beautiful . child prodigy (She was. Look it up.) I really need to sit you and talented women are not confined by things such down and make you listen to "Heaven on Earth" or better things as geography and race. Suffice to say, I believe that yet Tommy February6's "Je t'aime". Trust me, you'll come there are a disproportionate amount of talented women around. to men. And no, this isn't a desperate bid to curry favour Some may disparage this type of pop music as with the fairer sex. My desperation leads me to a far more vacuous and insipid. Well, like, duh! Of course it is. That's creative methodology. Ladies just wanna have fun why it's so much fun. Stop taking yourself too seriously. (without the irony)! Even respected pop-tunesmith Stephen Merritt's favourite 6 band is Abba which I'm sure he listens to quite obsessively Arguments for Tommy February Eric Skilling is alive and well and living in Vancouver. when not composing Chinese operas. He spends his evenings alone, has problems with Full Disclosure: I'm ashamed to say that you can^t get This is the perfect irony-free party music. commitment and ugly toes. He runs a website which Tommy February6 at any local record store in Vancouver If you absolutely, one-hundred percent have to get the can be seen at: and it's certainly not for a lack of trying on my part. party started right now may I suggest, "Hey Bad Boy!" off www.flashcube.org DiSCORDER, JULY'0 4

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IFAQ—Montreal's Mutek is an international festival of cutting-edge unsheath it's knives to slice through the "slick" veil "Is that what people in the Civil Rights movement died for., to experimental electronic music in its fifth year, consistently that has circumscribed almost all reflection on these issues in dance around in malls..?" curating in an intimate environment. That said, nothing is the "electronic music journalism" press? Or will this niche forever - Herbert on Fat Boy Slim's sampling of a Civil Rights song. beyond examination... remain wrapped in it's nibbling, unaware of it's art histories? If it thinks it is through sound, and it is through soundprojects that The debates are stirring on the sampling panel. John Submerged encounter time. Time where digital culture is able to ponder its Oswald throwing down the history. Jason Forrest, a.k.a. Donna Responses to this year's Mutek are mixed fike an abysnthe own death. Summer, with the straight-up take-no-prisoners aesthetic, martini. Love it or hate it, Mutek 2004 was the most organized, apparently through the perspective of semiotics. Herbert, quality production so far. The acts displayed a level of Weather Report: Fragments arguing for the sampling-of-the-worid, with a political edge professionalism which was almost unbecoming. 2003 was the Mutek always hits with the heat, but this year it dropped with that slices into sampling the works of others—why sample other .peak year, the entrance of Mutek into the global arena where thunder and drizzled the downpour. Its been a slow creep into a music when we can sample anything^ Mark Quail, sound it asserted its nodal status in a network of festival cultures. week that has snuck up with punch. What would Mutek be like lawyer, instructing all on how it works. Stefan Betke (aka Pole): Mutek's fingers reached South America and Europe as the crew this year? With the late line-up announcement, where are we let the artist do what the artist does. travelled worldwide... at with the digeratti, the mountain of avant-garde electronic Over the past five years, Mutek has grown. New issues have music and culture at 4 dots into the 21C? End to End, Techno Again. arisen as the assembly rolls like a juggernaut. Whether through Chessmachine: Richard Chartier and COH (Ivan From here sleep deprivation begins to strip everyone of the the panels—which were insightful, thoughtful and articulate, Pavlov). The game: pink vs. blue. Sonic chess. Microscopic ability to comprehend basic logic. Just yesterday I was saying: blending questions of culture, the arts and industry—or in the to noise. Moves and parries. At this point, sound has become Mutek needs some pounding hard techno. And they did it at talk that pervades the rounds of drinks and sleep deprivation, a conceptual: the entirety of the performance mimes Duchamp's this free cinq-a-sept. Lead on into the world of Mike Shannon sense of angst drifted alongside the slickness. chess game in New York, on the arch above the park. Low and Jay Hunsberger, and Montreal's Martin Dumais. But also Distributors and labels have gone bankrupt; the digitization rumbles and hard hits from Pavlov; complex rhythms and the energetic house of Daniel Gardner, aka Frivolous, ex- of music and it's dissemination remain unresolved; sampling strategies from Chartier. Increasing frustration as Pavlov gets up Vancouverite, who in a chef hat, rocked the piano chords in a and property law are hazy for both labels and artists; costs are from his chair. Deadpan, in his blue. Chartier, in his-pink. Each set that damn deserves the title—live. rising; and the unspoken question—is there still an audience?— with a coloured flag, hitting the chess timer with a mark of haunts every utterance. More artists than ever vented against combat and a gentleman's agreement. Recycled Plastik: [CTRL] the current United States administration. Unsuprisingly, more Crammed into the SAT yesterday, for the Thinkbox Rewind nine years: Plastikman live, 1995. Transcendence. questions were raised than answered... Collective from Windsor/Detroit, unwinding to the melodic loops As expectations were astronomical it follows that Where is this globalizing, "digital culture" heading? Can the of techno in the breaking afternoon. Ah, techno. Forget pop— disappointment was inevitable. For the record, Hawtin had two hand-wringing over distribution and pressing costs be translated all of pop's offerings are exciting only insofar as its horizons are technical difficulties—his earphones kept bugging out, and his into a broader cultural recognition of economic and political clear. Pop will and can mutate. But pop's strain is a horizon that visuals were not working. Yet one felt that this new technological issues that exceeds the music biz? Can this self-proscribed says: here I am, singing that same ol' song. beast he had created, this jet plane of gear surrounding his DiSCORDER, JULY'04

identity on three sides, was not the graceful, agile bird he so The Rip Off Artist—while beginning on the cut-up, Mr. Artist vegetation on the island: murky, fighting for breath, crawling... desired. A jumbo jet on the verge of ballet... or crash-landing. settled into his Californian groove, lending a tour-de-force No matter. For now, Vancouver's Loscil is playing sonar Talking with Hawtin later, he mused on the metaphor of flying the of glitch, sampledelia, microsampling and microhouse that to the depths of dub techno. With a twist—tonight's theme is music. It must be understood that Hawtin was playing an entirely gestured toward the future of the art. The Rip Off Artist picks up instrumentation, be it sampled in Loscil's case, or played as new instrument, not only for the world's air traffic control, but where Akufen left off, and the result is admirable, danceable, live electronic jazz. Either way its the perfect re-entry into the for him. No autopilot in this [CTRL]. While the minimalist intensity invigorating and surprising. Much the same can be said of Krikor atmosphere of the black box. Burnt Friedman with Jaki Liebezeit of Hawtin's compositions were as strict as to be expected, and Isolde. Isolee's set was an acid revival rewind that also saw (ex-Can drummer) is a lounge spectacular with the brush of indie the flightplan was unclear. Where were we going through this a remix of Ricardo Villalobo's "Easy Lee." Krikor was all rewind on fame. In the presence of wired history, a sampfing of time as the stratosphere of rumbled bass? Where had we been? And why? the analogue gear, cracking out mid-performance, calling for rhythms unwind. Is Hawtin the new Bowie with his identity sequences, a cult inventive MDI stop/start techniques. At one point, sftftng up on After much weirdness—this strange man offered me of personality? Does the look echo louder than the sound? It the balcony, I turned to some acid freaks and said: "Krikor has mosquito netting for my DV cam—Jamie Lidell, the human is only with the deepest of bows that any questions are posed, achieved what Plastikman attempted." beatbox machine, anti-christ, apocalyptic harbringer, and mad and it is only in light of the proposition set forth by Hawtin that we If only the same could be said for "Donna Summer"—sorry, genius, his video camera strapped to his head. join him on his aerial journeys, head bent forward in the crash Jason Forrest. Or, is it "Jason Forrest," a.k.a.. Donna Summer? One Jamie Lidell studied philosophy, helped found of infamous position, speaker-worshipping until the wheels touch on alien or the other, Forrest/Summer needs both names to pull together techno label Subhead, formed Super_Collider with Cristian planets. his noisy, ramshackle mash-ups stolen from 70s and '80s pop and Vogel. Interviews indicate that he works only under pressure, rock music. And what he gets here he deserves. critiques himself relentlessly, teHs the world to fuck off when he Metropolis all night, all night, all night, WHAT THE FUCK, all night all When a performer comes on and says "FUCK YOU" to the wants. Onstage his mouth and resampling techniques send night all- audience, throwing water bottles and attitude, knocking other speakers into frequencies approaching the heart-attack level. Saturday—time for movement and body gyrations. A stunning, performer's gear in his onstage Mailings, then a sif^i^iesponse is The windows are flexing and I cover my ears and prepare for all-night visual arrangement in bright colours and 2-dimensional only to be expected from the audience, which booed Summer the worst. It gets so much better it is worse, which is to say, it gets overlays, introduced an intimacy to this otherwise overbearing Forrest steadily toward the end. Poor programming—unless the louder. space. Unfortunately the process of getting into the venue was curatorial intent was the ultimate destruction of the festival, a If ever the word has been abused, Jamie Udell can claim disrupted by the harangues of security forces. Because yes, nagging feeling I couldn't shake by the end of Sunday night. it now. Deconstruction. There is not nothing left after Lidell. This is ladies and gentlemen, this was a "Waves'' which means dumping To finish—because the rest of the night was dreaming. not the end of music. This is the phoenix, the fire, the ashes, aU at everything out of your pockets. Despite a press pass it took Crackhaus, the Steve Beaupre + Scott Montieth duo, rocked the once, in no particular order. This is the remake. Pure, unfettered, some convincing to bring in my digital camera—a ridiculous house. Crackhaus is perverse: the construction of complicated urifiltered expression. Expression. Violence. The machinic conversation given that this is festival is about digital culture and sequences of percussion amidst loopy samples. Yelling "MORE aesthetic fed back into the head of a certain human, and this . that security should stick to its job: looking for weapons. FARM SOUNDS," most of us cracked a rib and pulled a groin inhuman stretching his:guts to accommodate the entire room, Saturday night was a good night. Fax was playing dancing to this barnyard techno jig. fhe SAT, the street, the park. Montreal Quebec, North America, as we entered, unfortunately a bit lost in a venue this size. Egg the world. Taking it all back in through ali the wrong orifices that launched into their cartoonist) beats, which have developed Sunday Smoke somehow feel so right. I am in love with Jamie Udell's fist. significantly over their earlier work. Kind of like Cirque du Soleil: Sunday afternoon, we go to Piknik Electronic on the island to Mutek is over. Repeat. D there is something about it that screams "only in Quebec"—men drink and smoke the pain away as the giant modernist sculpture in red leotards leaping around with weird wings on their back is splays the sun above our heads. On the soundsystem, m_nus http://www.zed.cbc.ca/mutek -2004 video, text, photos one thing, and Egg is another. label cohorts and Herbert. By new I'm at the level of most http://www.dustedmagazine.com/ - full feature GUITAR SUNGIN' (WEED SMOKIN', ACID DROPPIN') DEMON Val Cormier

I'm Johnny Cash when I'm drinkin', different stuff. EHiot Smith these days, a lot of Frank Black. I was Injeti. There were maybe 25 of us chosen for the course. I'm the Clash when I'm thinkin' just introduced to Elliot Smith by a roommate, and I think he's Chin and I hit it off, and started working together right awesome. I've also been listening to Fountains of Wayne, PJ. away. We did a couple of demos, "Pastures of Heaven" and I'm Mad Max when I'm drivin', Harvey, '.i^^fe "Suicidewinder". They sounded wicked, so we decided to work I'm Mike Diamond when I'm rhymin' together and create a CD. He also hooked me up with his If you could collaborate with anyone, who'd you like to make manager, Allen Moy, who's now my manager. I'nrrHumphrey Bogart when I'm smokin', music with? The record's coming out on MapleMusic, which is distributed I'm Bob Marley when I'm tokin' Frank Black is at the top of my list. I'd love to sit with Veal, through Universal. A new thing with Universal that I think is really they're one of my favourite bands. Danny Michel, got to know cool is that now there's a price cap. CD's can't be any more him, he's another guy I'd like to collaborate with. Aaron Grant, than $15, or something like that. i%ndin bed when I'm'dreamin' a guy in town who's unbefievably good. The Seams, Rae Spoon ;. I'm a guitar slingin' demon. —everyone on the tractorgrease.com site. Sounds like a response to that whole downloading thing. What are your thoughts on that issue? From "Suicidewinder" by Ridley Bent I remember being at a gig where you introduced a song by To me, the more people listening to my music, the better. saying you'd been reading a lot of Louis L'Amour lately. Did he Especially if they're enjoying it and downloading it because they When I mentioned East Van songwriter Ridley Bent recently influence your writing, and who else has? love it, you know? Then I think, yeah, if I come to your town then to a friend, she replied: "Oh, yeah, Ridley. Every song he writes I was a security guard, so I could read a lot. The easiest books you'll come and see mei is about pot!" An exaggeration perhaps, but hasn't it been said for me to read at work were fast-paced action westerns, so I I have heard that some people are playing my stuff at places that you should write what you know? read a lot of them. I have a couple of songs where he was a big where they work, and I like that. That's good to hear. A master storyteller, Ridley combines elements of country, folk, influence. Also John Steinbeck—I do one song, "Fruit Pickers," reggae, hip hop, and more into what he calls "hick hop". Think which is basically a musical version of his book In Dubious Battle. Looking into your future, what do you see yourself doing? Buck 65 if he were to get into a dust-up with a young John Prine I tried to tell that story using rhymes. And Quentin Tarantino is one We really want to get lots of live [video] footage on our out behind the Cobalt. of my favourite storytellers of all time. Kill Bill just raised the bar. I website, www.tractorgrease.com. Me, my band, my friends' Ridley's already set up with a manager, a Toronto-based loved it. I'd love to collaborate with that guy! bands have all got together and made a webpage. I have these agent, and a Chin Injeti-produced CD, soon to be released on friends who are incredibly talented and we figured this would be MapleMusic. Some primo recent opening spots for the likes of How long have you been writing? a great way to get the word out about them. Sam Roberts, Great Big Sea, Danny Michel, and a tour with Buck 65 likely indicate his days of Jiving under the local musical radar Maybe 6 years or so. I moved here about 4 years ago to are numbered. pursue a music career. At that time, what it meant was doing So is this instead of making videos for broadcast on TV? open mics, trying to meet people on the scene. Before that I was No, I'd like to do that, too. The thing is, a video will getjnade, DiSCORDER met up with Ridley in the W.I.S.E. Hall lounge in Whistler. I can remember writing the very beginnings of my song I'm sure—at least one. Even if Much Music doesn't play it, we'll during the NHL playbffs. "Bad Day" in Whistler. be able to put it up on tractorgrease.com. I would like to see my song "In the Trunk of a Black Lexus" on video. That would be my DISCORDER: Is it true you used to play baseball with Buck 65 when Do you remember the very first song you wrote? vote. you lived in Halifax years ago? It was called "As Sweet As Morphine". I used to play it live, Ridley: We talked about that when we were on tour together. but I don't anymore. I also remember I wrote a poem for the . Would you consider what you do folk music? We played ball with some of the same people, so maybe, just yearbook in high school, it was about Duran Duran and Iron I do consider it folk music. I know the record doesn't sound maybe, we played against each other. I don't know. Maiden. "folky," but I'd love to play folk festivals. When I do my stuff on an acoustic guitar, it sounds very folky. Storytelling, you know? The How was that tour? What's your upcoming album going to be Ike? lyrics are definitely important, so it's always a better show when It was awesomel Nanaimo was just a rockin' show. We did There's songs on there like "Black Lexus," "Gunsllnging Dog," people are listening. 4 shows together: Nelson, Whistler, Nanaimo, Victoria. Of those, "Rattlesnake Moonshine," "The Devil In Coltrane." The album has Nelson was the best. t'^r^' programmed beats, live drummers. There's some sweet players I have noticed a lot of your songs are about marijuana. Would it and wicked talent on the album. What I've been doing live is be fair to say there's an autobiographical element in your writing? Your bio says you grew up as an army brat. my acoustic set, mostly, so it's a lot different than that. When [laughs] Well, "David Harley's Son," for instance, is complete My dad was an airframe tech. I was born in Nova Scotia, I envision my live show in the future, it's going to be very close creation, a fantasy. It's all about pop culture: drinking, smokin' where he was stationed in Shearwater, working on helicopters weed, droppin' acid, doin' mushrooms. I have something to say, I on the boats. Then we moved to Germany, and he was working . to the record, but with live musicians. When I opened for Sam guess, and I try to make it as entertaining as possible. D on the planes over there. Then we moved back to Canada. I Roberts at the Commodore, I played with a band. That was my remember Europe as being such a great place. School trips to first and only experience so far with really rocking, being really loud. That was really a good experience for me, and I'd like to be Amsterdam., [laughs] Moving around being an army brat sucked Ridley's next shows are In Chilliwack Jury 8 (with the Seams. J. in a lot of ways, but I did get to go to Europe when I was a able to do that every night. '^MeM'"'T% teenager, and that was fun. Uefos and Rote's Jetboat) and July 9 of ffie WJ.S.E. Hall [opening How did you originally hook up with your producer Chin Injeti? BC Festival of the Arts a few years ago. I sent my songs in, and What bands do you like listening to? for Austin, TX band The Gourds). if they like your songs, they give you a free course on songwriting. Corb Lund Band, they're just a rockin' band. I like Wilco, I I had two mentors: one was Mae Moore, and the other was Chin www.tractorgrease.com like Hank Williams a lot, Jim Croce, Willie Nelson. I like a lot of 1HSC ORDER. IULY'04

much as there is one. the book falls slightly short, Dark Light seems particularly focussing sheerly on Calvin's WextuaUi^Ud^^ fractured in Part III, before t?md|on:al torture, Vermeersch ending as abruptly as some ignores the genuine physical of its sections do. It is sorely in cost of obesity. His viUians need of a conclusion to tie are the advertisers and all the loose ends together fashion designers, who are And My Shoes Keep Walking and Stephen King. So you're in and address some of those evil to be sure, but doubly so Back fo You a band with a bunch of well- unfinished trains of thought. when teamed with the food By Kathi Kamen Goldmark known writers, huh? This would Also, in the introduction p*oVr«s,$©rs and marketers Chronicle Books point to conclusion 4£exce^f; Simon states these fears about who seduce us with health- Grab your detective capl that I want to give evefcjr&rje electricity were the same sort destroying t^dnd sugar. Dig out your tweed coat and else the benefit of the doubt. of thing as our fears about Regardless of its flaws, fhe faf your notebook! Bring a pipe, if So I'm going to settle on cloning and genetically kid should be required reading yOu must. And don't forget a conclusion 5) Goldmark is modified crops. It would have in high-school English classes. magnifying glass—we have a blackmailing everyone in the been nice to address how Listen up, B.C. school districts, mystery to solvel publishing industry. Junior the-electricity fears subsided. it's time to replace all those First, the evidence: Kathi detectives, our mystery is. Did people decide they were copies of The Outsiders] Kamen Goldmark's first novel. solved! unfounded?'!^;they just get - Susy Webb This chick-lit-meets-honky- PS. If you wanna read a real used to electricity and stop tonk story about struggling book about musicians, find a thinking about it? And if so, Scrapbook, Uncollected Work: country singer Sarah Jean copy of Guilty of Everything were any of the original fears 1990-2004 Do you think Adrian Tomine likes the chesty ladies? it's Pixlie comes complete with by local punk John Armstrong, founded on real issues that By Adrian Tomine hard to say; he draws them lots, but, honestly, big boobs lyrics. It's TERRIBLE. It's really published by Vancouver indie have not been resolved? Drawn & Quarterly Publications are easier to draw. • not a good book at all. press New Star Books. It's a Concerns about power lines There are so many reasons Goldmark's characterization thousand times funnier and and cancer rates come to to like Adrian Tomine. This a bunch of one-page comics obsession with pretty girls. So, stretches to reach one totally unpredictable. Plus it's mind here. tremendously gifted artist's (the best of which includes fans out there, if you're feeling dimension, particularly with all true! Honestly, I don't know While the book was ari distinctive, immediately "Dormitory Regret " and "My flush or if you have a birthday the minor characters. This isn't why this memoir of Vancouver's enjoyable read as snapshots engaging style encapsulates First Girlfriend"), album art that coming up, Scrapbook is a lot helped by her irritatingly self- late great punk rock scene of history, it really didn't go everyday ennui, a difficult Tomine's done for everyone of fun. conscious depiction of the isn't a cult classic. any deeper than a superficial thing to do. He contributes from The Softies to The Eels to If, on the other hand, you're music scene. "Look, we're a -Kat treatment (and sometimes to a number of prestigious The Aisler's Set. It also collects not really familiar with Tomine, bunch of wacky musicians! outright sidestepping) of the magazines and has done work a bunch of drawings Tomine I'd recommend seeking out We^e so CRAZY!" Everybody's Dark Light: Electricity and issues it purports to address. for a number of great bands. did for The New Yorker (mostly his Optic Nerve comic series. wacky, and not much else. Anxiety from the Telegraph to-Drake ' Unfortunately, his new book to do with movies). Esquire and They're only $5 a pop and The plot is as contrived as the the X-Ray (the one I'm trying to review) (ack!) YM. It's enjoyable to see reading one is a great way to characters, ticking along as Linda Simon '""V- ~ 1 The Fat Kid is $36. Should you get it? If the way Tomine deals with spend a summer afternoon. regularly (and predictably) as Harcourt Books Paul Vermeersch you're a fan of Tomine's Optic various subject matters and Oh my god, I'm such a hack. clockwork. Some heavy issues Linda Simon sets out to tell the ECW Press v&j?* Nerve comic series, you'll styles. Tomine also includes his - Duncan are introduced,,, but treated story of how electricity and Obesity is central issue for probably dig this book. It has sketch book, which confirms his so shallowly that unexpected specific electrical djev-fces modern Canadians. We're pregnancy, childbirth and developed, were introduced affected both physically single motherhood come to the market and received and mentally; people of off as no big deal. If you find with varying degrees of all shapes and sizes suffer the novel funny, you could enthgsiasm. She also seeks to crippling insecurity about their probably ignore all these discuss how people feared appearance at the same time flaws and be entertained in a as obesity wreaks havoc upon Red Cat Records these new inventions and beach-book sort of way. For discoveries before eventually people's quality of life. The me, the humour collapsed accepting them into daily life. problem is a double-edged under it's own obviousness, sword: heavier people deserve 4307 Main " While Dark Light is well but I do have one friend who written, interesting and support rather than shaming, found the story amusing. amusing, Simon unfortunately and at the same time the issue And now for the mystery: the uses a writing style that needs to be critically examined back cover and first page leaves much unfinished and and combated. of this book are covered— unexplained. Her background In this tragic battle, the covered!—in glowing flattery is in writing biographies where casualties are those already from respected writers and this sort of serial anecdotal most afflicted, overweight critics. The phrase "dazzling style can work well, but writing people themselves. Toronto tour de force" is used. Even histories requires a little more poet Paul Vermeersch's verse if you thought the book was coherence. There were some narrative describes the tragic funny, it should hardly garner very interesting sections that life and times of a fat kid this kind of praise. stopped abruptly in the middle growing up in the hinterland So, junior detectives, let us of things, and then jumped to of Canadian suburbia. With get to the heart of this puzzle. something else not clearly Dickensian. transparency, There are a few possible related. the protagonist is named reasons for al! this: 1) Chronicle The author does give an Calvin Little. Calvin is easy to Books have more problems with overview of many Victorian empathize with; we cry along typos than the DiSCORDER, anxieties regarding electricity, with him through sweaty 2) Nobody actually read the but many issues thus raised are fumbles in changing rooms, book before reviewing it, 3) left unanswered. For example, high-school ritual torture, All the reviewers are smoking if people were so freaked out and the development of a crack, or 4) Goldmark has by the idea of alternating bona fide eating disorder. friends in high places. current after it was used in the Vermeersch's writing is clear Searching on the internet first electric chair execution, and powerful. For example, at for more information on the how did they come to accept the outset of Calvin's eating author, I discovered that it enough that A/C power disorder: "The days will pass Goldmark is, in fact, the is now the primary mode tike picking daises once / you founder of the Rock Bottom of household electricity? get accustomed, learn / not to Remainders, a publishing- Conversely, there are other listen to the voice in your limbs, world musical supergroup tangential "sections that never the lactic moans / pleading for whose members include Amy really get to the central theme the end." Amen, brother. Mew & Used CD's & Yinyl Tan, Dave Barry, Molly Ivins, or tied back to the plot, in so However, ideologically. ph. 708-9422 * email 1mddy^recleat.ca post-rock or jazz (where jazz tends room doing a wierd synchronized court elsewhere, but Drakes to focus on perfection of style dance. Dancing for all the world seemed to do OK. They brought over expansion of style), I think like it was Sunday afternoon, no- a lot of their friends, who promptly I'll leave that to the guys in High one was home, and the music disappeared after they loaded Fidelity (A.K.A. Zulu). As far as the was up really loud. out. Tight, heavy, melodic, emo: fans were concerned though, I Channels 3&4 rocked out in they did it well. E for effort. feel confident to say that none exactly the way they always rock I've praised AttaclcMachine left unhappy. Tortoise put on an out, but I've totally seen them a in these pages before, as their incredibly tight show, which is million times. So, yeah. previous incarnation: Sharpteeth. something that too many people Graeme Worthy They've dropped the old material, seem to forget can be an art in added new members and have itself. Challenger hit the ground running. If you like The Roots w/ Sklllz, Jean Grae, Built to Spill but with cleaner before a concert starts is to go up Soren Brothers AttaclcMachine tightly-wognd, multilayered post- Martin Luther guitars, less pretentious lyrics, to the stage and examine all the Drakes - hardcore with scream-and- Thievery Corporation and refreshing vocal harmonies instruments that are already set The Blow June 12 response vocals, played by. guys May 28 that come courtesy of bassist up. In this case I counted upwards Anna Oxygen The Brickyard who fall down a lot and have a Eric Corson. Lead singer John of ten keyboards, three drum Plaza of Nations Channels 3&4 Sunday shows can be sweet soft spot for Gravity bands of yore A 7:30pm start on a Friday evening Roderick's between-song humoun sets, two sets of xylophones, and June 6 sometimes, in a blessing/curse (Clikitat Ikatowi, Heroin, Antioch'-. is a tough task for any band to most of which was centered on a maze of microphones, guitars, Pat's Pub sorta way. This gig featured a Arrow), you are very much in the lack of enthusiasm shown by and effects pedals. Unfortunately, undertake. That, coupled with the There was no one at Pat's low turnout (40? ish?), but a cozy luck. In other words: yikes, which fact that hip hoppers dominated the audience, was often more whatever excitement this led to when I arrived at 10 o'clock vibe, more like a basement show is exactly what you'll be thinking ... the crowd, didn't really help engaging than his band's music. fast drained away as The Eternals or so. Everyone was at the or a gathering of good friends. when frontman Nick falls off of the f Thievery Corporation get the Unoriginality aside, the Long took the stage. A Chicago three- . Pink Mountaintops/Frogeyes/ Some nights you feel like stage, bringing two mic stands] Winters had a tight performance piece, they blended some superb audience it deserves. That pisses Destroyer show at Richard's. getting lost in the haze of noise, down with him, in your direction. me off and successfully • primed the drumming with good snaking bass Heck, I'd been there, but I and a faces and cheap draft, but nights I wasn't sure what to expect minuscule crowd for Portland's lines, and something like Jamaica Musically, The Roots and few others felt the need to leave like these are amenable to actual from Challenger. I mean, orie The Decemberists. rapping. . Thievery are not TOO far off, but early to try to cram two shows into conversation, especially since I would expect a band consisting one had to be curious about The mid-tempo "Lesley Anne Theoretically, it 'could have the night. The crazy hedonists who was looking forward to chatting of 3/4 of Milemarker to sound a the mix of crowds. As I got there, Levine", from 2002's Castaways been awesome, except that took a risk were in for a treat... all with some of Challenger's lot like....uh huh. Not so. In the Thievery was kicking 'Facing East,' and Cutouts, heralded the the only really good thing about 30 or so of them that decided to members: Jessica Hopper (Punk absence of MM's keyboard- with their band of 6 musicians beginning of a wildly eclectic and the lead singer was his dancing: show up. Planet columnist. Hit It or Quit It heavy tunes, these were strong (drummer, percussionist, bassist, shamefully short performance. something like a reggae robot. If As per usual, I was talking editor, PR magnate and much- songs from seasoned musicians, sitar/guitar with Rob on labtpp The opening song featuring only his lyrics or voice had been loudly about things I really don't needed post-riot grrrl shitcaller in with a taut, straightforward sound, and Eric on decks) with Pam the skilled accordion playing of that smooth. have the knowledge to talk the punk rock sausage party) and but with enough danceable Bricker on vocals. Lou Lou also keyboardist Jenny Conlee, and Further draining my reserve about when The Blow started. Al Burian (writer of the delightfully bounce to keep any potential did a couple songs, followed by foreshadowed the diversity of of happiness for the night was She was so small and quiet that I sardonic & re-readable Burn Jaks-wannabe-in-skull-skates- Jah Roots and Zeebo AKA See-I instruments to be featured on the realization that the second didn't notice her standing in front Collector, my fave zine next to hoody/ jock-in-Hatebreed- in tandem. stage. A xylophone, an electric act. Beans, was not the post-rock of a microphone in the center of good ol' Cometbus). wiridbreaker-two-man-pit away twelve-string guitar, a mandolin, Vancouver group I'd expected, the dance-floor-level "stage". As the sun went down, the On the subject of good convo, from the front (you know those and a gong cymbal all found but instead was a solo rap act Roots took the stage. The last In a shaky voice, barely and in staying true to DiSCORDER chumps too? I hate those guys. their place in the nine songs with his very own CD player full Roots show, in Feb. 2003, didn't audible above the crowd, she form [Snap! - ed.], I missed most I'm glad they stayed home). It felt performed. of beats. Granted, Beans was live up to my expectations, but murmered, "Umm, no-ones's of the first band. I was holding oddly honest. this one blew that notion outta my The third song of the set, a talented (and, upon later really heard this song, except my dome as they took off right where "Apology Song", illustrated the realization, important) rapper boyfriend." 1 "The Seed" took them on their last quirkiness of lead singer Colin and got the crowd dancing, and Which prompted the wiseass album: Rockin' away from the hip Meloy's lyrics and reiterated the had (as far as I could make out) next to me whisper that he, while hop jazz sphere and just jamming Decemberists unique niche: no the best lyrics the night had yet he wasn't her boyfriend, had with up tempo, funky, breakier other band could play a song encountered, but there wasn't heard it before,, but / believed shit. The middle portion was more about a stolen bicycle and have too much variety to his set and her. I believed the whole gosh standard hip hop, with the other hipsters nodding. his beats still just didn't stand out darned thing. okay Players/Playettes hoppin' in Though the venue was only for me. The Blow's live performance with the band. half-filled, the audience's talking Finally, Tortoise slipped onto is more of a play punctuated by Then Black Thought did his nearly drowned out the plaintive the stage and started doing what songs. Their most recent album. rendition of Dave Chapelle's "Clementine". Such impoliteness everyone had been waiting for. The Concussive Caress makes "I'm Rick James, bitch!" skit, then was soon quashed, however, Xylophone trios, double drum set so much more sense when you proceeded to do "The Seed" by the boisterous fun of "The action, post rock guitar riffs, and get all the inside information. It over "Super Freak" (I shit you not). Chimbley Sweep", accentuated videos that mostly concentrated was the of fhe kind of beautiful Each musician did a solo that by a mid-song accordion-versus- on psychedelic squares and a honesty that you don't care if it's showed hip hop audiences what guitar duel. The show reached its distorted city life were all part of fiction or hot. "concerts" canstillbe (theguitarist most abrasive and eccentric point the spectacle, but I think what So we sat there and listened to went straight "roots" and did a during "The Tain", a nineteen- may have stood out the most the whole thing, quiet and kind of blues guitar solo and proceeded minute test of the audience's to me is the absolute absence stunned. Then, out of nowhere... to give the Vancouver audience attention span. of audience interaction. There A dance party broke outl a blues version of "Summer of 69". As a much-needed change were no hellos or goodbyes, no The Blow + Yacht's next Seriously, I shit you not again!). of pace, Meloy emerged alone intersong banter, no outward album contains some sort of Anightencompassing Thievery for the encore and played an display of personality at all, and dance-frenzy inducing subliminal Corporation (THE live "electronic" acoustic ballad, "Red Right instead it became evident that messages, and all 30-or-so of act), the Roots (THE live hip hop Ankle"; one of the pinnacles of these are musicians who really us (give or take a wallflower or act) and Talib Kweli later that their latest album. Her Majesty, love their music and are here to two) gathered in, pressed onto night at the Commodore (w/ The Decemberists. perform it, bringing it as close as the dance floor, while she sang Black Thought, Jean Grae, and Ever the unpredictable possible to perfection. along with a CD she'd brought Sklllz hoppin in) has to be one of performers, the Decemberists It could have made a up with her. If was surreal. Totally the most memorable nights for ended the night by breaking challenging show for youth raised and utterly. I still can't figure out shows in this town, period. out the synthesizer and on pop-punk short attention exactly what happened, except Boon /Condo performing a cover of Echo and span orgies, but for those that somehow I didn't feel like a the Bunnymen's "Bring on the coming from a background of spectator anymore. That's the The Decemberists Dancing Horses". Had the show jazz or even classical concerts, goal right? Long Winters not been so short, I just may have -it was perfectly fitting. After all, I Things calmed down May 28 danced. thought. Tortoise has a reputation somewhat as Anna Oxygen Richard's on Richards Josh McNorton for frustrating rock critics who took the stage. Her magical Despite a late start resulting in an expect their, favourite bands to tale of travelling into the body extremely brief set, opening act Tortoise reinvent themselves after every was accompanied by a huge the Long Winters were undeterred The Eternals album, and I might be the first to projection of eclectic computer- in thrusting their melodic rock Beans agree that most of their songs are generated images (sadly too upon the sparse Richard's on May 29 recognizably similar. As tempted green). It wasn't long before we Richards audience. The Seattle Commodore Ballroom as I am to enter a philosophical got our kicks back on, and the The Roots at the Plaza of Nations band have a sound similar to Often, my favourite thing to do discussion of whether Tortoise is night concluded with the whole Photo by Jason Levis DiSCORDER, JULY'04 n

Al kept the good vibe these were beautifully in sync delivered it with a very strong sang it hunched over and went summarized the band's musical months on the.road have led going, chatting up the crowd with their playing. The songs pounding riff. The highlight of the anywhere the mic cord would aesthetic in visual form. the boys in an' improvisational about unemployment and our varied from spacey, new wave night was when a crew guy used let him go. Then, after the song Onstage, the six-member direction, and their utterly upcoming election in between melodies, to beautiful simple his flashlight to provide a mini ended, he casually threw the mic Philadelphia troupe • brought original, almost indescribable songs. So, we danced, hung out, vocal/cello-lead songs that grew light show while the band played across the stage. Leave it to the out all the bells and whistles, brand of instrumental rock was all bought zines, talked more, and darker overtones. during a brief stage blackout. bassist to do the job right; he used complete with bicycle wheel the better for it. it was nice to not stumble home This band had the best Even though the crowd his guitar to knock over the drum percussion. Front man Jeff Spencer's guitar playing is at 3 in the morning smelling like a ending. They shredded apart, their cheered for an encore, they set, and then added the mic Bradbury played a crazed, similar to Lee & Thurston of Sonic brewery, for a change. As stated: melodies and had an instrumental never came out again. Maybe stand and other stage materials bearded beach boy, with Youth's, in the sense that all wring Sunday shows can be sweet, meltdown like a filmstrip dissolving they were busy looking for a map on top of it, like he was building better style and stage presence. as-yet unheard sounds from sometimes. from the screen. to get back to Seattle. a bonfire. His vocals and theatrics were the instrument. Strange ways of Christopher Olson The band with the most _ The Stills were the last band Emily Khong frantic and poised all at once, rubbing the strings while strumming buzz was the Von Bondies. This on the bill. They're sketchy, to and the rest of the group them simultaneously created The Stills was garage rawk, through say the least. There were doodles matched his intense energy. sounds and melodies that, had Von Bondies and through. The minute they plastered all over the amp covers Need New Body Keyboardist/vocalist Jamie Spencer not been standing Sea Ray walked onstage, their attitudes and on screen. This was their last Raking Bombs Robinson resembled a manic there with his guitar, I would June 15 and fashion sense were loud tour date and they were happy June 18 Muppet (in the very best sense have assumed were samples. As Commodore Ballroom and clear. It was strange how to be back with all things familiar, The Brickyard of the word), and drummer always, Zach's drumming was a Get your art on. The bands that loud each successive song like loonies. The drummer had Over the past few years, under Chris Powell spent most of the tour de force which left his hands graced the Commodore tonight got. Everything but the vocals a usual stage spot, right on the the sage guidance of a much- show with his eyes rolling up into bleeding, and his clothes soaked could have been art school rock seemed to get amplified; edge of the right-hand side. beloved Premier, the homeless the back of his head, looking with sweat, as-if he'd been fully like he was in the middle of the dropouts. Someone obviously apart from Jason Stollsteimer's "Of Montreal" was a great population in the Downtown immersed in water. screaming, it sounded like I was most amazing orgasm he'd thought that these bands had opener. The frantic, sped-up songs East has doubled. The harshed- In conclusion, I love Hella. wearing earmuffs. "The Fever" ever had.The melodic, complex something in common, because matched the' sad desperation out scene was perfect for Judging by the amount of merch and "Broken Man" stood out the yet concise music was manic they decided to combine of Tim Fletcher's vocals. "Lola" Vancouver's best show of the sold , the rest of Vancouver loves most. The Von Bondies drummer, and highly danceable. NNB's these originally separate shows and "Changes Do No Good" summer, if not ever. them too, though obviously (for Don Blum, laid it on thick. Another overwhelming charisma and together. had the crowd madly singing Hometown favourites Raking so many reasons) not as much treat was hearing the female chemistry kept the crowd rapt. The second act of the along. "Animals" had the crazy Bombs started the late show, as I do. band members deliver their By the time the group had evening. Sea Ray, didnit look like never-ending outro. The Stills can with their characteristically fight Sasha Webb finished, we were sweaty and typical rockers, but they could back-up vocals. definitely stretch out songs to let art-punk set. Scattering the smiling, primed and ready for hold their own on stage. This 6- Most of the set sounded them breathe and each band stage "with leaves, a Dionysian Hella. piece band's strongest player the same but the songs with member wove in details. orgy ensued which left the band was the drummer; he played the catchy dance beats were For their encore, Fletcher glassy-eyed with ecstasy, and Simply put, drummer Zach like a human drum and bass the most fun. At one point, the came out and handed out every eventually 75% on the floor. Hill and guitarist Spencer Seim machine. It was also surreal to guitarist, Marcie Bollen, asked the piece of a bouquet he had, right Need New Body's merch was are visionaries. I'm not the only see a head-banging cellist. Sea crowd to dance and said how the down to the baby's breath. The the perfect introduction to the ones who think so: virtually Ray's aesthetic tool of choice Seattle audience was better than charismatic drummer, Dave group's... uh... 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For those of you not To The 5 Boroughs anyone else think they sound are unearthed. also encouraged to masturbate lucky enough to have witnessed Treddin'onThinlce .. (Capitol) just a little like Girls Against Drake to said disc. - Ed.] They Shoot Horses... in action at (XL) New York City's most beloved Boys? Tracks like "Dirty Love," Ian Gormety one of their many local house Wiley is the founder of London's trio of Jewish boys are back "Does Compute" and "We Are Hinterland party gigs, this EP is the perfect Roll Deep Crew, which once again with their sixth album. To Numbers" ooze the same sweat, Under the Waterline Minus Story introduction to their high-energy, numbered Dizzee Rascal The 5 Boroughs was recorded sex and seduction as their North (HybridElectricRecords) The Captain Is Dead, Let the Drum klezmer-meets-soul-meets-indie among its members. Though and produced entirely in the American cousins, but themes Vancouver's Hinterland have Corpse Dance (Jagjaguwar) rock sound. The self-described both artists' sounds are rooted Beasties' new NYC home of frustration, disillusionment released a debut that beautif uHy Like a long lost member of the "noisy old root-a-ma-toot band" in American hip-hop, dancehall studio. Every song is laden and desperation are mixed with captures the soaring epic feel Elephant 6 collective. Minus features rollicking rhythms, a reggae, as well as UK garage with references to New York a hopefulness that cements of their rock-meets-ambient Story create sweet, sweet (did I horn section (yes, for reall), (although Wiley adamantly subway stations, streets, and of the notion that they sing from milieu. Under the Wateriine has mention sweet?) pop melodies and CiTR's own Chrfs-a-rifflc on distances himself from that course, the outer boroughs. The personal experience and want a sweeping, cinematic feel, and infectious harmonies with Casio. Jazzy guitar balances scene by proclaiming "It don't cover art is a detailed sketch to break the barriers of the setting off Michaela Galloway's a do-it-our-way indie approach tight miBtary-esque drumming, sound like garage" and "I don't of Manhattan's famous skyline, simple love/hate dichotomy melodies which include her to songwriting and recording. horn blasts and melodies, and care about garage" in "Wot as seen from the perspective prevalent in most rock 'n' roll clear, bell-like voice as well as This album is the third offering lots and lots (and lots) of joyful Do U Ca|l It," the album's first of B'klyn. This drawing, which songs. Unes like "I believe in the her flute and oboe playing. from this group, and their first singing and shouting, creating single), their work affects the includes the World Trade Centre, brokenhearted/and I know that Tones are layered with subtley, with Jagjaguwar. The record's a luscious, party-rocking vibe. listener very differently. Dizzee is borrowed from Matteo your time will come/I close my but are powerfully evocative. enigmatic nature, hinted at The band themselves are a busy Rascal's album grabs your Pericolli's Manhattan Unfurled. eyes to get it all undone" (from There is something new to hear by the title, is confirmed by bunch, involved in many other head, knees you in the fucking It's now almost 20 years "Loveless"), and "Think about with every spin. storylines described on the interesting projects around the face and knocks you right down since the Beastie Boys started the things I've done/all the The sonic focus here is label's website. These include: city, which you can read about on your ass, mostly providing rapping on Def Jam in 1985. things gone wrong/past mistakes textural juxtaposition, giving that of a yOung boy who rallies on their adorable website. The accounts of his experiences in Perhaps unsurprisingly, the Boys' that now seem colourful and the album a floating, quivering together an army of children, a site, featuring art by drummer the rough neighbourhoods of old age has affected the quality beautiful" (from "To The Other flavour that is hard to describe black cloud that eats birds, and Julia, is worth seeing if only for East London. Wiley's album is a of this album, with MCA's voice Side") are fuzzed-out standouts in print. You must hear it! some girl who comes back as a the digital pickle-crunching much more laid-back affair. full of optimism, but there are sound. sounding noticeably hoarse. There, that's all my left brain is ghost in a marching band. Oh The beats aren't as hard, some sombre moments like However, Mike D and King contributing here — go find out yeah, now I totally get it, guys! www.theyshooothorses.org and the subject matter doesn't "Breathe Breathe" and "There's Adrock haven't changed a for yourself. Your right brain will Lo-fi music is surrounded Susy contain the same despair A Last Time For Everything" that bit, with the same high-pitched love you for it, by what the band themselves and angst as is the case with retain the moodier elements of bounce in their vocal chords. Vampy ra Draculea call their "wall of crap" sound, Tijuana Bibles Dizzee Rascal. Take "Got the band's JAMC-influenced While the Beastie Boys which I suppose refers to an F/sfsOfFuiy Somebody," in which he states, repertoire. All things considered, have been incredibly innovative The Kicks update of (or regression from?) (Independent) "I want to settle down now," DOLL have successfully bridged throughout their entire career, Hello Hong Kong Phil Spector's symphonic pop Trust the Bibles to go over the and "my head is screwed on the gap between the lovers there is definitely less freshness (TVT) production of the '60s. The top (rope) on their third ringside tight." He also proclaims that and the fighters, making a solid on their newest LP. Could this be Arkansas's The Kicks are album's three core songs are spectacle of surf 'n' turf; each "this is it, I'm stoppin' now, I'm sophomore effort. a result of the corporate climate everything that's been hip especially addictive (and did CD comes hand-numbered, not a player." However, this Bryce Dunn of 21s' Century New York culture, in rock over the last couple I mention, sweet): "Open Your specially designed with a perceived confidence is curbed as helmed by billionaire Mayor o years all rolled into one Eyes," my personal favourite, picture of your favourite Bible by frequent injections of "yeah, Mike Bloomberg? Anyone who Fen neatly-packaged, major-label which contains a spine- member staring seductively at right," after almost every verse. has recently visited 'New' New Heron Leg endorsed, radio-approved ball. tinglingly beautiful melody; you, as if to say, "We got you Wiley sounds like a man who York, p^>st-Rudy Giuliani, can (Freak OX Records) Yet no matter how jaded and "You Were on My Side," now, suckers!" And alas, they knows what he wants but attest to the tragic Disney- The latest from Fen evokes weird, cynical I try to be (and believe with swirling harmonies; and would be right, as the infectious accepts of his faults and his fication of Times Square and slightly disturbing childhood me, I try hard) I can't deny my "Joyless, Joyless," the closest this pound of Super Destructor, situation. This is also evidenced Greenwich Village. Since the memories. For example, the affection for this disc's twelve album gets to an all-out romp. the hypnotizin' horn section on the title track, for example, album is an ode to the city, one image of dragonflies mating is sweet pop-rock songs. The Robert Ferdman of La Felina Negra and La where he admits "I'm treadin' can't help but wonder how city contrasted with death scenes... trendy elements thrown into Chupacabra, gut-busting guitar on thin ice/It's like I don't politics and economics might making me wonder .about their tunes can't hide the fact Steriogram and bass from The Crippler, learn 'cause I make the same have affected the Boys. lyricist/vocalist Doug Harrison's that they were written by fans Schmackl Sonny Boy Liston and Sky HI mistakes more than twice." < The album's best tracks are life. Are the songs a mix of of Cheap Trick and The Cars, (Capitol) Lee will take a (choke) hold and Robert Ferdman "Ch-Check It Out" and "Triple reflection and distorted dreams giving Hello Hong Kong a vibe This Kiwi five-piece deserves a make you shake it 'til you break Trouble," which incorporate or slices of real life? For his sake, akin to Superdrag or Nada Surf's big fat schmackl upside the classic drum breaks and samples hopefully more the former than best work. Not even poor lyrics head for trying to pull this crap. The Organ reminiscent of the seminal LA- the latter. on some tracks ("She's my stars Their eye-popping video for Grab That Gun recorded Paul's Boutique. Is Heron Leg is an interesting come out/she's my everything" pseudo-hit "Walkie Talkie-Man" (Mint/604) this LP any good? It is okay at musical trip aside from from "What do I have to Do?" is will certainly draw your interest. Is this that new album by that local band? Yup. best, but not as amazing as pondering what's behind a glaring example) can squelch .'On first listen, you might think it's The band that's on the cover of all those newspapers? Yup. their first three. Quite honestly, the lyrics. The mood is darkly this group's appeal. It's like the a bunch of indie kids trying to Other than being a bit more slick, does the album sound much mediocrity is part of a larger atmospheric, underpinned head is saying no but the body's be cute by throwing out lame different than their EP? Nope. problem in hiphop. Fresh ideas with heaviness and hard edges saying... let's go! rhymes at breakneck speed. Is this a bad thing? Not at all. and ill concepts are rare, even —Fen is a metal band, after all. ton Gormety However, when you realize that Is the running time less than half an hour? Yes. in the underground. But enough Textural and dynamic contrasts they're actually trying to stick it Is it depressing? Only in a good way. hating. When it comes down to are frequently employed, Kinski to the man (in this case some Can Katie Sketch "not believe the word love"? So she says. it, I'm just glad that the Beastie framing the lyrics in unusual Don't Climb on and Take the kind of security guard), the Seriously, do they really thank Chad Kroeger in their liner Boys blessed us with this treat sonic contexts: the creepiest Holy Water novelty wears off. Beyond the notes? Yes. of 15 tracks. As long as this lines are often the most delicate (Strange Attractors Audio glaringly, bad lyrics about the But he co-owns the label they co-signed to so that makes it okay, legendary trio wants to release sounding. House) plight of the white, 20-something right? Sure. new music, I'll be more than The songs reveal a According to the little sticker slacker, this modern rock-radio- So, the album, it's good? I would say so. glad to (ch-J check it out. sequence of events, each on the CD case, the new Kinski ready disc just doesn't have the Even though they repeat three songs from their EP? Yup. Frank Uao exploring from a different angle. album is not the NEW Kinski hooks. What they lack in quality, Aren't they a bunch of lezzies? I'm not really sure. While concept albums have album, but rather a stopgap EP they make up with in crotch- Aren't they a bit static live? Yeah. Division Of Laura Lee a bad rap these days, that's of improvised material, which is grabbing riffs and a false sense Are you going to see them at Richards on July 8 anyway? Das Not Compute simply because most of them normally performed under the of self-importance. So if that's Probably. your scene, by all means pick (Burning Heart/Epitaph) aren't as good as this one. This guise of Herzog. With that in mind, Isn't the whole "Sketch Co" thing played out? Maybe a bit. this one up ASAP. [And make The Swedes are back for is one of those great CDs the this disc is not recommended This is a pretty stupid format for a review, isn't it? Maybe a bit. sure to buy it at Virgin or A&B another kick at the can with the listener can get into more and to new listeners, though this Duncan nisr. ORDER. JULY'0 4

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O^Gf.NEWMAN The Slow Wonder The Blue Ou$l|K||§| Woteiaoh &<&&&£&**, Grab That Gun '*ii|lr''w! 03 TUUANA BIBLES* Fists of Fury Indie 04 FEIST* Let it Die Arts and Crafts 05 CAROLYN MARK* The Pros and Cons... vMint'^ 06 MltAlRPLANE M>V N C'mon DJ Sympathy 07 MISSION OF BURAA A Onoffon Matador Saturday, July 3 Rix, Los Nitros, The LHtra Vixens Railway Club (that's 22 bands 08 LOSCIL* first narrows Kranky Demolition Doll Rods, Ladies Peep Show @ Marine Club for 10 bucks!) 09 JEFF1E GENETIC AND HIS CLONES* need a wave . Dirtnap /'"£•*, Night @ The Brickyard "Organized Crime," recent iOlES SAVY FAV:'-" Inches French Kissw^yS The Cape May, Gordon B. Isnor, paintings and installation by Sunday, July 18 . 11 WM.CQ A Ghost is Born Nonesuch Clover Honey @ Pat's Pub Andy Dixon @ Misanthropy Dr. Ring Ding, Eastern Standard 12RJD2 Since We Last Spoke Definitive Jux Josh Martinez, Threat From Outer Gallery Time @ W.I.S.E. Hall t3 YOH$#>ffi&8J ATTACK Mouthful of Love Space @ The Metropole Pub The Evaporators, The Fleshies, jftFSJXDAHOUSEC AT Devin Dazzle and the Neon Fever Emperor Nort$$ri*sh3 Surf vs. the Hying Saucers Bughouse Five, Kevin Kane, Sunday, July 11 Toys That Kill, Short Circuit 15 URBAN SURF KINC»S * Indie 16 YOUNG HEART AlTAC K • Mouthful of Love XL Graham Brown, The New Nard Wars II: Return of the Nard Transfer @ Endoplasmic Good News for People... Epic Modernettes, Kevin House, Joe on MuchMusic at 10AM Entertainment, Langley (All P^n^r MOUSE Louden Up Now ISfeiicVandGo i Mavety @ W.I.S.E. Hall. (Watch it while recovering from Ages) isS^^P^^^^ 19 GOLDFRAPP Strict Machine Mute your hangover!) 2QTOROCCOROT Hotel Morgen Domino Sunday, July 4 Monday, July 19 21 NJN*\JMASASIA Dogs Touch and Go Manitoba, Kinnie Starr @ The Monday, July 12 The Icarus Une, The Evaporators, BtAYliEN* " Eft: Lake Serenade Universal --IPllllSli Commodore Ballroom Braid, Recover, Moneen @ Mesa The Battles @ Richard's On 23 ANIMAL COLLECTIVE Tung Songs Fat Cat Misanthropy Gallery Fundraiser Luna Richards 24 TIGER ARMY Ghost Tigers Rise Hellcat w/ DJs MylGaylHusband! and 25 DJ SHADOW T^ In Tune and On Time Live! Geffen DonnaJotanner @ Misanthropy Tuesday, July 13 Wednesday, July 21 SJ^^NOGRAPHEF S UNION* Live on Sonarchy Radio Accretions slli3§ Gallery Sonic Youth @ The Commodore Scissor Sisters, The Fitness @ 27 ROWN JUDGE* Pattern Noise Factory Ballroom Richard's On Richards 28 JOa Rl. PHELPS Customs 12XU Wednesday, July 7 29 TimMmm$Et«W^-^i 40 Days j4#^^STBeach 'Viva Zapata!' benefit for the Wednesday, July 14 Thursday, Jury 22 30TANGIERS* Never Bring You Pleasure Sonic Unyon V* S/T Eastside Women's Shelter w/ The Gossip, Robosexuals @ Mesa Mongoose, Sulturro @ The 31 SKALPEL Ninja Tune 32 DESTROYER* your blues Merge . Vancougar, Clover Honey, Luna (All Ages 6pm early show) Brickyard Gangbang, Cunt @ Railway The Suicide Girls Live Burlesque 33 PJ^tARVEY' .- Uh Huh Her Island 34THETHERMAJL5 - fuckin' a SubPop Club Tour @ Mesa Luna (9pm) Friday, July 23 35 ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Mantra of Love Alien8 Potus, AHey Mattress, Teenage! Los Furios, Secret, Secret, Secret Sparrow, P:ano, The Battles @ Leather! Fight! @ The Cobalt @ Railway Club The Media Club The Stunts, Hurricane Kitty Sober Unit, Snake Run @ Video- @ Marine Club Friday, July 16 In Studios (All Ages) VENUES RECORD j§ffi&|9j Gomez, Polyphonic Spree, The The Cinch record release w/ Thursday, July 8 Thrills @ The Centre (All Ages) EHzabefh @ The Brickyard anza club 3 w. 8th ave 604-876-7128 active pass records 324w.hasfe^S The Organ record release w/ The Rock Fantasy w/ July Fourth brickyard 315carrall 604.685.3922 aucfiopHe records 2016comm^^« • R.A.D.I.O, BakeRte @ Richard's Saturday, July 17 Toilet @ W.I.S.E. Hall cafe deux soleils 2096 commercial 604.254.1195 bassix records 217 w. hdsffr>ij§lf oh Richards The Young Professionals, Prlm35 cellar 361.1 w. broadway 604.738.1959 beatstreet records 3-712 robson j k @ Alley Gallery (All Ages) Monday, July 26 cobalt 917 main 604.764.punk black swan records 3209 w. broadway Friday, July 9 Johnny Sizzle, The Wetspots, Evan Janet Panic, Tamara Nile, Emely commodore 868 granville 604.739.7469 crosstown music 518 w. pender All State Champion, Facing Symons, mr. plow, Dan Scum @ Jordan, @ Railway Club - lotus 455 abbott 604.685.7777 highlife records' 1317corrm^it||| New York, The Sourkeys @ The The Cobalt the main 4210 main 604.709.8555 noize! records 540seymour Brickyard Reverend Horton Heat, The Saturday, July 31 marine club 573 homer 604.683.1720 red cat records 4307 main The Spinoffs, THE BADAMPS, The Forty-Fives @ The Commodore Che Chapter 127, Rae Spoon, media club 695 cambie 604.608.2871 scrape records 17 w. broadway Neo Nasties, Bacon, CRU @ The Ballroom The Kings of Vancouver, DJ Ugly pat's pub 403 e. hastings 604.255.4301 scratch records 726 richards „*« Underwear Farm (All Ages) Face Fest 2004: Wet Exit, Pax @ The Brickyard pic pub 620 w. pender 604.682.3221 zulu records 1972w.4frJI| Blue Monday, Desperate Reverberators Remix Betty A virgin in Hollywood, The Vanity pub 340 340 cambie 604.602-0644 Measures, Mental, Lights Out Kracker, The Hunter Cometh, Press @ Pub 340 railway club 579 dunsmuir 604.681.1625 @ Video-In Studios (All Ages) Vancourtland Rangers, Pretty Girls Make Graves @ richard's 1036 richards 604.687.6794 The Gourds, Ridley Bent @ W. 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