4307 j\f. New & USed cn-Ht^S ^Sre^er CZSniV l£3EZ2 66 WATER STREET G3L-JI NlC-Jr"! WWW.SONAR.BC.CA DiSCORDER WEEKEND ACTION ISSUE 248 • FEBRUARY 04 • THAT DREAMY MAG FROM CITR 101.9 FM Main Room: House-TechnoJ'rogressive WIVIm 3 FRIDAYS Urban Lounge: HipHop-Breaks Presented by www.tigerstone.tv / FEB ft! BATTLE SESSIONS 2 rCD.UO The, nrhj's tnn rii'« tortninrf anwiss' ft mini Brcaake Hs FEB^S SUPERSTAR DJ KEOKfcw rco. i u m|S FR|DAY THE ,j 3TH( BE QUR Ajyx^AuarriNE) Ilk, fcsi; Either loved or hated, Keoki is never ignored..« djk8oki.cem \^ib $15 m stores w/ CZECH, REV Beading Break Party FEBJB DONALD GLAUDEsa„oeB« Ita wrldVi most energetic DJ is back! Get ready for a 3hr set from "North Cox"! sres w/CZECH -SODA, PRICELESS - ttpftrj ' Features Nate Denver's Neck by Natalie Vermeer p.l 1 fflTAYLOR, The Peter Parkers by Jason Grimmer p.12 WEST COAST TRANCE PIONEER, 0FTE*I COMPARED TO 5ASHA The Front by Dave Gwilliam p.14 $10 in stores w/ JUUAN • OJ, CHET LEE, SHAKES i •wr^j Josh Martinez by Jennifer Wong p.l6 Raking Bombs by Susy Webb p. 18 Editor: Mar 5 FLAVE! feeattlej Insane scratching overtop of house & breaks All State Champion by Emily Kendy p.20 Duncan M. McHugh Ad Wrangler: Mar 12 HA'™" , Jason Bennett Mar 19 SGUMFRl Production Manager: Graeme Worthy Regulars Editorial Assistant: From the desk of... p.6 Susy Webb Fucking Bullshit p.6 RLA and Under Review Editor: Riff Raff p.7 Kimberley Day Panarticon p.8 Layout and Design: Strut, Fret and Flicker p.8 Duncan, Graeme, Susy, Kim, Chloe Lewis, Dale Davies Under Review p.21 and Shannon Bennett Real Live Action p.22 Production: On the Dial p.24 Jason, Kim Koch, Kat Siddle, Charts p.26 Hughie Tuscano and, as Datebook p.26' always, fhe Ubyssey Kickaround p.27 On the Dial: Bryce Dunn Charts: Luke Meat Datebook: Esther Whang Cover Distribution: Matt Steffich The cover was designed by the talented US Distro: Shannpn Bennett and uses a photo of The Frankie Rumbletone Front by the lovely Michelle Mayne. The above Publisher: photo, taken during an editorial meeting, was Lydia Masemola captured by Chloe Lewis. © "DISCORDER" 2003 by the Studen Radio Society of the University of British Columbia. 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SHOW 7:3OPM ! •I COOPER | I : TEMPLE * ***, 1 CLAUSE |fe|P- 1 mr*&6pww»3fM»d "W?- *M"t" Spebal guest*' ^ SbEr-EDL-Sba Children Of Bodom • o I U X^ URCHASE TICKETS SQQ0Q6 AT hob.com OR ticketmaster.ca by Duncan Editing a magazine is sort of like being in a doomed to feature two hip hop interviews, with Josh Martinez love affair. At the beginning, everything is dreamy and SHiNDiG winners The Front. We also managed and exciting and new. You can spend hours with to cover two local bands: Raking Bombs and All your new lover, not even thinking of the time, simply State Champion. And then there's Moncton's basking in a reflected amorous glow. But love is Peter Parkers (interviewed by The Nasty On's Jason fleeting, and eventually, being doomed, you're left Grimmer) and some dude from San Francisco feeling distant, alone, awkward and frustrated, a bit­ named Nate Denver. Yee haw. ter shell of your former self, defenseless and starving, In other news, DiSCORDER's amazing new and cold and disoriented. At least this is what edit­ website is up and mostly running. It was designed ing DiSCORDER was like. by outgoing editor Merek and art director Lori If you apply the relationship metaphor fully, Kiessling, and took a very, very long time to com­ DiSCORDER has been a fucking slut. I'm the fifth edi­ plete, so you best be paying your respect. Go to tor of DiSCORDER since September 2001. In that time, http://discorder.citr.ca and revel in the beauty of DiSCORDER's had Lindsay Sung, Barbara Andersen, its exquisite web design. There are even message Chris Eng, Merek Cooper and myself as editor. boards, where you can leave all sorts of messages, That's a lot of frantic blood tests, my friend. Fret not or something. Anyways, it's all very exciting. though, because as of next month DiSCORDER will Also, we're looking for some help from read­ have a caring, passionate editor, by the name of ers. For the next issue, we're going to be doing an Kat Siddle. Kat has a show on CiTR ( "Dim Sum"), interview with Nardwuar the Human Serviette to she's short and jet-lagged—but (but!) ready to be commemorate the release of Ripple Rock, the new the sort of editor that DiSCORDER has been waiting album from his band The Evaporators. In the spirit of for. Lord knows the magazine needs it. Nardwuar-style interviewing, we're calling on read­ As of this issue, our staff is made up of an ad ers to provide us with obscure facts and questions guy who's worked on two issues, a brand new pro­ with which to confront Monsieur Nard. Submissions duction manager (still figuring out the intricacies of should be emailed to [email protected] InDesign and the voodoo of DiSCORDER's comput­ Finally, please keep in mind that DiSCORDER ers), a one-off interim editor and a hodge-podge of is always looking for volunteers. We need writers, various art directors. I guess what I'm trying to say is, reviewers, photographers, designers, cartoon­ please be patient with DiSCORDER. The magazine ists, proofreaders, sushi chefs, human flies (that's. has been on the rebound (seriously), but things are Graeme's joke, I don't get it) and fancy dancers. going to get stable: new editor, new production If this sounds like your bag, drop us an email at that manager, new ad guy, new art director; things are address up there. looking up from here. Uh, yeah. Okay, that's it for me. I hope you enjoyed my Speaking of this issue, I think we've done okay, one issue at the helm. It's not the greatest issue ever, given the chaos. DiSCORDER is, sometimes criticized but none of us really knew what we were doing. And for its lack of diversity, but in this issue we managed the mescaline didn't really help ** ^>fjf chr ^ta-mln Hello! I'm back, fresh from my winter holiday! I'm allowed to take a holiday, aren't I? Apparently DiSCORDER lost hundreds of dollars in advertising Ht ffi niri ose fe> k>* Ke and hundreds of readers because of my absence last month. Sorry. Like I said, I was on holiday. 6M-S to <K OitW OA'i ^1l I was in. Finland with my old pal Jarkko Ruutu. You may know him as #37, the top sniper on the Hey you! The one one reading this Vancouver Canucks NHL hockey team. I know him as my good buddy from the old days. I met him a space. Why not advertise in couple of weeks ago in the Canucks' locker room, and he immediately invited me to go back with him ll to his homeland. mm § keU ^ You may find it hard to believe because of Ruutu.'s finesse game, but Jarkko can get pretty wild and crazy.