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Fax us at 822-9364, email us at: [email protected], visit our web site at http:// www.ams.ubc.ca/media/citr or just pick up a goddamn pen and write #233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1, CANADA. Printed In Canada TICKETS AT ALL. CHARGE-BY-PHONE 280-4 Grumpy B3 1 ^ :!lM_A5MJJMI byTedvave Old Dog BY BLAINE K omen play a very porters.) And whether or not Starr, and Veda Hille. But how different role in to­ she had anything to do with many of the high-profile women W day's music indus­ Kurt's death, she certainly un­ in the industry today are really try than they did 50 years ago. derstood how she could ben­ in control of their own destiny? Back then there were few solo efit from it. Courtney has Can we put Celine and Jewel women artists ("girls" were part walked the same road as Ma­ and Alanis in the same cat­ of duos or groups). Back then donna. No longer do we see egory as Ani, Jean, Jane, and Courtney the foul-mouthed Kinnie? Sure, the Spice Girls all the decisions. All that has druggy. We see Courtney the had something to say, they changed, now. Women are tak­ custom built movie made lots of money, and they ing control: making decisions, may even have inspired a few forming labels, maintaining Ani Difranco and Jane young women. But whose artistic integrity. Siberry run their own record brain-child do you really think The change was initiated, labels, Righteous Babe Records the Spice Girls was? I'll bet that at least in part, by Madonna. and Sheeba Records, respec­ the idea came from some ex­ She may have started out as a tively. Ani has been successful ecutive (read: man) who was label's sex kitten, but enough distributing her own dreaming up the marketing music that she actually has an scoop of the decade. Better cross-marketed herself. Now office and staff. And Jane, who than Diana. i complete control of her formed Sheeba to get out from My point is that perhaps life. No c takes decisi under the oppressive roof of Re­ the best indication that women behalf. If Madonna prise/Warner, may not have have found a definite, incon­ wants to be thought of as a sex the benefit of Ani's experience, trovertible place in the music symbol, it will be on her own but she is holding her own. industry is that there are good Sarah McLachlan has her women artists and bad ones, Courtney Love — Ms. De­ Lilith Fair, which will tour all of those who are in control and termined — makes her own de­ Europe next year. The Indigo .trolled, cisions. If she says she's going Girls have their Rolling Thun­ tho: who ( t for the to do something, it gets done. der Pussy Review, an extended, music and those who are out (Courtney's to do list: marry ris­ traveling jam session with tal­ for a buck. Women can now ing rock star; start own band; ented women musicians. be found in every corner of the become friends with Michael Locally, we have active mu­ industry. Stipe; get famous; terrorize re­ sicians like Jean Smith, Kinnie They're here to stay.* FEIIDART1999 write far a free catalog of records shirts and shit to: V __ V W IS 8 IB IK IB SI (B LB tB §\ IBM nm\ ster is lapping at a six-shooter; rip-roaring versions of Stones, Vancouver Cramps, and Sonics songs (among others); around a ton of classic surf licks; and even some hockey references, and the Special PPPTf band's own description is "ex­ treme swing"? Well, you have to call the Deadcats some­ BY JANIS McKENZIE thing, I guess. Whot they sound like is the weird descendent, elcome to the March issue of Vancou­ one features a quavery male vo­ cal style some of us remember somehow, of '50s badboy mu­ ver Special, but be warned: in spite of from the '80s, and sure enough, sicians who drove all night from Discorder's theme this month, the only the main singer/songwriter used gig to gig with their feet up on W the dashboards of their chrome- women you'll read aboul here this time around are to be in a band, The laden convertibles, a wash­ the near-naked models posing on the back cover of Actionauts, that was a fave at the UBC beer gardens around board-toting refugee from De­ the Deadcats' CD, and the front and back cover of then (or at least so I've heard). liverance, and a brain-dam­ Swag's. Not that I didn't try to put together a woman- There are violins too, some aged Dick Dale mixed up with the sensibilities of Billy Zoom, themed column, but according to my own rather un­ Celtic bits, and even C&W-fla- voured moments, as well as a Lux Interior, and Don scientific calculations (based on the last 25 CDs I've cover of Hole's "Violet." Cherry, as well os several grams of cocaine. You may not received), only about 10% of the bands I get to re­ Once again, I wonder if want to date them, but that view have any female members, and less than 4% of Swag may be trying to do a lit­ doesn't have to stop you from tle too much here, or in the case the total number of musicians on these CDs are the pleasures of scaring the of supplying a costume to the neighbours with this twisted women.