September 1996 • That Magazine From CiTR 101.9 Fm • Free Ar0i~+j(^<y-AAArJb\,. The Local Music Issue Also Featuring: The Tonics Sawaigi Taiko The Molestics BNU Under the Volcano Public Dreams Society PLUS: The 1996 Local Music Directory! CALL ANSWER. FOR MESSAGES THAT ARE MXJXJm /0FLAKEY ROOMMATE PROOF. No more trying to decode messages will alleviate the frustration of roommates scribbled on the back of Cheese Puff taking your messages. Call Answer does bags. Because Call Answer from BC TEL 60 DAYS FREE not, however, alleviate the frustration takes clear, concise messages when of trying to get you're away from home. Or on the line. roommates to And when you sign up for new telephone scrub their own BCTEL service, you get two months free. Which 1-800-422-9966 tile mildew. 'Offer applies telephor restriction THURSDAY, 5th THE TONICS UBC STUDENTS APPRECIATION NIGHT SAWAGI TAIKO STRANGE UNION, HEE-HAW, BNU & CUSTER'S LAST BAND STAND THE MOLESTICS FRIDAY, 6th PUBLIC DREAMS | THE SPIRIT MERCHANTS (AUSTRALIA'S} JEFF LANG MECCA NORMAL UNDER THE VOLCANO SATURDAY, 7th RAY CONDO •Si THE RICOCHETS with SURFDUSTERS editrix VANCOUVER SPBQAL miko hoffman THURSDAY, 12th art director BASSUNES ken paul COWSHEAD CHRONICLES INDEPENDENCE DAV 3 ad rep VELVETS CHRISTIAN COMICS CONTENTION, WITH QUEAZY, kevin pendergraft IMAGINEERS, & JAR production manager INTERVIEW HELL barb yamazaki SEVEN INCH FRIDAY 13th graphic design/layout BETWEEN THE LINES JAZZBERRY RAIN/1 atomos, ken paul, scratch, UNDER REVIEW suki smith, barb y SATURDAY, 14th production REAL LIVE ACTION MUSCLE BITCHES frank?, miko gh, megan ClTRjSflARTS PUNCHED UNCONSCIOUS, BRUNDLE FLY mallett, tristan, barby photography/illustrations OjrfTHE DIAL barb, cat, paul clarke, JEPTEMBER DATEBOOK ><&&^ FRI, SAT, 20th & 21st adam monahan, suki smith, Folk Funk'en Hemp Bash! marlene yuen Noah's Great Rainbow, Cozy Bones, 10ft contributors Henry, Silicone Souls, Peal, Mya Eaxell, Side barbara a, britt a, andrea & Shows, and more! 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Just about what you'd expect: tastily loud and snotty, with a very Local CD Reviews! tongue in cheek surprise bonus track (all they're giving away is Well, it's my first month as local that its original version was writ­ CD reviewer here at Vancouver ten by Neil Diamond; I'll only Special, and I'm still digging my add lhat it may have been per­ pologies lo everybody twisted perversions writhing off name, or the cover, or what, but way out from the heop of local formed on o certain '60s TV se­ who was expecting to the lyric sheet. Even your names I anticipated some kind of grrl trash and treasures lhat has been ries), and revealing liner notes rex A see some demo tapes are wierd: Mancoat, Mousey band experience. Other people piling up here ot DiSCORDER. So where the band members thank waltz (southern) covered in last month's VanSpec. Connexion, Schwantz Plench, I know did too, and they were a rather than describing everything the Vancouver Canucks, Fisher­ modest mouse Something so damn important as and a fluid filled sac. Ye Godz. tad disappointed when they saw that's come in, here are just three man's Friend lozenges, and the interstate. 8 (up) that should never given the kind And the music! So zany! Noise, Ihe 3:1 guy:girl ratio. Bullshit! You of the notable entries you may Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. of shoddy treatment that went distortion everywhere. Can't think guys flat out rock, plain and sim­ want to look for in the record land of the loops down last month. straight. Must... remain ... con­ ple. Punk edge, too, as in the das- SURFDUSTERS bundle of joy (up) There. Now let's oil snuggle scious. Yet it's only guitars, bass, I'm lethin Raincoast Rumble team dresch up for a big huggy. People just and drums. How do you do it? change/there's got to be a bet­ VARIOUS ARTISTS (Fireball Records) captain... (candy-ass) You must have some poet with the don't touch eoch other enough ter way" ("Static"). I even have o Tiddleywinks Volume Ones The fabulous Surfdusters have versus devil, or one of his buddies. How these days. From here on in that's new-found appreciation for Fun for Kids of all Agesl been around for a long lime now, can I describe your music to our secret swingers gonna change. I want to touch Courtney Love, as you got her (Chester's Funtime Record playing iheir originol surf crea­ readers? I can't compare it to any­ (Caroline) all of you. All at once. I'm feel­ ear-splitting scream down pat. Collection) tions as well as the classics in thing, since groups like yours tiger trap ing bigtime love here, folks. Let I'm not going to touch you This CD is loaded with various places like the Railway and (sniff) don't get famous. I have only two me touch you. Except you. I'm not guys in Cinderpop eilher. I'm varieties of local pop, ranging the Commodore. Now that the s4(k) words for you guys: send more. I touching you. You're in that thinking of licking you, though, from the quiet, to the hopping up tape I once bought from them ot buffalo daughter must hove copious quantities of group Daddy's Hands. You but only when I'm ready for des­ and down, to the space-age, and a show (which come with a free captain vapour ... this stuff. I will repeatedly listen guys are sick. So sick you make sert. Sweet and sugary, these is cool enough to make me wish package of generic macaroni- to your madcap concoction: (grand royal) me sick. You're sicker than Sick boys. Like a sweet sugar pie. I'd had the brains to get in on and-cheese dinner) has finally Sick Yeah!, although you do Only ' low^y^jp II I hav *d) With a nice tender, flaky crust. this myself. Unlike most compila­ succumbed to warm tempera­ the curtain... (vyr) sound a little bit like them. That crust being you, wiggly gui­ tions, you won't have to program tures, they have finally put out a I hod no idea of what I was in Hissy Fit. Over here. I'm tarist Mark Jowett, whose howl­ your CD player around the weak CD of their very own, loaded wi th A unrest A for when I read your interview definitely touching you guys. Very ing, soaring tones I last heard tracks here — my only complaint 15 seductive instrumentals plus a perfect teeth (4ad) hell in the virgin pages of quickly, ihough, as I'm expecting wrapping around the electro-pop is that at least Iwo of the bands short extro by our very own tullycraft DiSCORDER a few months back.