// SUPPORTING Vancouver’s independent THAT MAD AT LINDSEY FOR NOT PARTYING MAGAZINE FROM CiTR 101.9 FM MUSIC COMMUNTY FOR OVER 25 YEARS MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE CAITLIN GALLUPE / HIDDEN TOWERS / HALF CHINESE / NEVER ON A SUNDAY PT.3 / KIDNAP KIDS! / THE OLYMPICS / THE FUNDRAISER / CHIN INJETI / SALAZAR / A TRIP TO CITY HALL 1 EDITOR editor’s note Jordie Yow Dear Discorder: ART DIRECTOR Well, by the time you read this the Olympics will be You will notice a band by the name of Makeout Videotape Lindsey Hampton upon us and our city will be swarmed with tourists here on the cover of this issue. The photo-ish image was taken for the biggest two-week party in the world. Maybe you are by Robert Fougere, who we think did a lovely job of getting PRODUCTION MANAGER even one of those tourists, in which case, “Hello tourist, all three band members into the shot. Debby Reis we are conflicted about you being here.” Perhaps the most important announcement that COPY EDITORS The Olympics are a mixed blessing at best, and they’ll we’re making this issue can be found on page 19. To keep Liz Brant, Corey Ratch, Debby Reis, always be a contentious one. For Vancouver’s music fans Discorder in print and continue informing you of what’s Miné Salkin, Al Smith they certainly have some benefits. There are plenty of acts going on in Vancouver’s independent music scene, we’re that will be coming to town and you will get the rare chance having a fundraiser. We’ve asked a number of our favourite AD MANAGER to see them play for free. (Check out our picks on page bands and DJs to play a concert for us on March 5 at the David Stansfield 12). I, for one, tire of hearing about the Olympics though, Biltmore and to our surprise (and endless gratitude) a UNDER REVIEW EDITOR so that is the last I will write of them (Editor’s Notes get lot of them agreed to play! 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TABLE OF CONTENTS / FEBRUARY 2010 / WWW.DISCORDER.CA // FEATURES // REGULARS 06 / TEXTUALLY ACTIVE 08 / MAKEOUT VIDEOTAPE Vancouver Special by Charles Demers This Vancouver transplant is something you should be listening to. Glenn Gould by Mark Kingwell 12 / THE OLYMPICS 10 / FILM STRIPPED The Olympics isn’t just bringing tourists to town to ruin your commute, they’re The Salazar Collective: Music video masters also bringing cool tourists to town to play music. Check out our guide to things worth seeing that are part of the event. 18 / VENEWS The Regulatory Review for Live Performance Venues 14 / HIDDEN TOWERS (it’s more exciting than it sounds) Scott Lyon sat down with Hidden Towers to talk about their Shindig win. A rare win considering they’re a metal band. 20 / CALENDAR Art by Francesca Bennett 16 / HALF CHINESE Masks and conspiracies to destroy their rivals are what make this band tick. 22 / PROGRAM GUIDE Also they seem to enjoy playing music. 25 / INSTRUMENTAL LOVE 17 / NEVER ON A SUNDAY PT. 3 Kidnap Kids! Your continuing guide for things to do at night: This time with a look at Rock & Roll Pizza Party and the Astoria Soul Revue. 38 / CHARTS 26 / ART PROJECT: CAITLIN GALLUPE Caitlin Gallupe is a lovely artist whose work you may recognize from Immacu- late Machine’s album covers, a band she plays bass in. She also has a love of wheatpasting. Check out her d.i.y. guide. 36 / CHIN INJETI Vancouver-based Chin Injeti has been producing hip-hop tracks that actually make the Top 40. Right in our backyard! Who knew? // REVIEWS 29 / UNDER REVIEW Anami Vice / Beach House / Four Tet / Modern Lakes / Montag / Petroleum By-Product / the Slew / We Are the City / Bob Wiseman / Woodhands 32 / REAL LIVE ACTION Califone / CiTR Fundrive Finale / Fine Mist / the Intelligence / Japandroids / Magik Markers / Peace / Pointed Sticks / Woodhands DRAWING BY EHREN SALAZAR // TEXTUALLY ACTIVE VANCOUVER SPECIALBY CHARLES DEMERS ARSENAL PULP PRESS, 2009 REVIEW BY DEBBY REIS have a parallel existence to Charles Demers. We went to the same Burnaby I often found myself laughing aloud while reading the book, especially at I high school without ever meeting. We were both involved as editors at The Demers’ observations of what any Vancouverite knows to be true Vancouver- Peak, SFU’s student newspaper, albeit at different times, and we seem to run isms. In describing the Naam, for instance, he points out that “on Friday and into each other at publishing events, comedy shows or just randomly on the Saturday nights, after the shows and the clubs let out, the patchouliati are street far more often than seems possible. I think the first time weactually met joined by the chachi nightclub crowd, and the smell of incense mingles with was at a youth labour conference. It is perhaps due to this parallel existence that of Joop! and Right Guard.” that his book of essays about Vancouver resonates so strongly with me, but Demers’ comedic wit is obvious throughout the book, even when dealing then again, it’s more likely because I grew up in Vancouver at the same time with difficult topics. In “First Nations” Demers tells his reader about Chief Dan as Demers. George and E. Pauline Johnson, cultural figures revered by Native and non- Vancouver Special is a well-researched collection that begins with neigh- Native alike, along side that of Frank Paul and the disappearances of women bourhoods, moves towards peoples and then to movements and issues that from the Downtown Eastside, emblems of the racism towards aboriginals in are prevalent, including “Vanarchism,” “Racism” and “Homes.” The simply Vancouver, to show the dichotomic relationship the city has with its original titled essays are accompanied by bold yet stark black-and-white images by inhabitants. But Demers jovially admits to feeling insecure about being a white Emmanuel Buenviaje. guy writing about these issues, saying, “What if I spelt something wrong, There’s a nostalgia that runs through Vancouver Special that’s pointed to in marking me as a racist?” the introduction of the book. As Demers explains, “This is a book … written Demers also draws from other local comedians, placing their hilarious on the eve of the 2010 Winter Olympics by a Vancouverite who grew up with annotations of the city throughout the book, such as Erica Sigurdson’s note and after Expo '86.” And now the Vancouver between Expo and the Olympics that she doesn’t have kids because she doesn’t have “the uniform for moms is at risk.