Mil SPELL 13_3__ D.R.I. *& ARCHERS OF LOAF Full Speed Ahead ^j{ The Speed Of Cattle IN CONCERT APRIL 4TH AT THE TOWN PUMP tvuuiitmvuii* MILLENCOLIN £ KEVIN KANE Life On A Plate t£t, Neighborhood Watcl Available April 23 LOCAL OfRT It's April now, and with Spring fully sprung (and fhe prairies de-frosted), it's safe to say that more out-of-town acts will return to our fair city. Conversely, more Vancouver bands will take to the road themselves, and if you're in one of them, here are a couple of opportunities for you. First, check out a fabulous World Wide Web site- http://www.islandnet.com/ ~moron/deterrent - where you can find an incredible array of information on booking a tour for yourself. Contacts for every part of North America, who to call for specific venues, etc, etc. And if you're in a group that plays somewhat garage-y music, you may be interested in an event happening in Calgary this May 23 to 25. Dubbed the Rock 'n' Roll Boat and Trailer Show, Al Charlton of Calgary's Night Gallery and Roto-Flex Records is organizing the event in lieu of Bellingham's Estrus Records' 'Garage Shock' festival, which won't be happening this year. For more info, phone 403-237-3582...Speed Buggy sure seem fo be benefitting from that Squirtgun Records connection — not only will their new full length be released by the London, ON, label, but Squirtgun will include them on a compilation of new material along with Eric's Trip, Hayden, treble charger and about a dozen other bands. Look for it in July, about the same time as they'll be touring throughout Canada...Sarah Lapsley, formerly of Kreviss, debuted her new group this past month, called Foo. Apparently it's an indie-pop/rap group that includes John Collins and Scott Livingstone of the Evaporators...The Surfdusters will have a self-released CD out soon, with a mystery bonus track to watch for. It's not at the end, but before the first song as track - 1 . .Nomeansno will be releasing a new 12- inch record, Would I Be Alive, on Alternative Tentacles UK only, and then touring with DOA. NoMeansNo's alter egos, The Hanson Brothers will be releasing their second fulUengther on Essential Noise/Virgin records by the fall...Pluto will be touring Canada with Cracker and filming their first Virgin video in April. Look for a re-release of their debut on the major label in June...Finally, The Real McKenzies will be touring the US Northwest with San Francisco's Pansy Division in late April... [p^©[L0[P0(S?ooo TERRIFIC!! 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Available at the finest stores everywhere.. If your favorite store doesn't have it...tell them they are not so fine. The first time I heard Petrolia's 5-song demo tape, I hit the Pavement. Thereafter, it was Pavement on the brain. Fortunately, that only really bothered me during the first listen. Nothing wrong with Pavement (except for a few of their live performances in town) but the singer for Petrolia was so unabashedly, shall we say, slanted and enchanted that I was about to coin a new throat condition, Malkmus Mimicus. But, after sticking it out for a few more listens (hey, I liked the band name, made me think of an oil-soaked prairie oasis), well, cut my hair and put me in a matador costume if these aren't fine ditties in their own right. "Warbride" comes out with guitar guns blazing and a lunking 3/4 time that you could dig a trench to. "1753" says "1753/lt's the year of the dog/It means nothing to me", the last line ringing especially true when you try to decipher the bizarre, colourful lyrics (transcript, please?). "Sweet Industry" sounds like a hit through and through with its huge, epic chorus and chiming guitar fanfare. Might as well get used to the situation, since the recent cloning and expression of the spiralstairs gene in mammalian tissue means we'll all be familiarized with the Stockton Sound before you can say "wowee zowee, we're westing by musket and sextant". Let's hope at least some of the future fakes are as impressive as Petrolia. One act that has done a live show with Petrolia in the past is Tickertape Parade. Not really a group, as that term sounds like there should be more than two people, but a duo consisting of Adam Gejdos, ex-Oversoul Seven, and Scott Morgan, from Meet Daisy. One gets the impression higher musical prin ciples are being tackled by these two fellas, as evidenced by the sole track on their debut demo, "Audience With the Pope". It starts very quiet, gets really minimalist quite fast, and crescendos to a kind of vocals/guitar round that takes me back to some of the stuff on Simon & Garfunkel's 1968 bleak and win- tery Bookends album, especially the title track. Okay, now you're laughing at me. Go ahead. In thirty years they'll be studying this tune alongside Bartok, Reich, and Pollard and you'll be laughing out the other side of your Marshall stacks, you pagans. I ain't goin' to the bad place, nosirree, not me. Good to see some bands following through by releasing fulHength tapes after putting out shorter works. I don't know if CD releases are planned for any of the titles mentioned below, but the cassette versions presently in hand indicate that these artists, who were starting from a strictly grassroots level only a year or so back, are now blossoming into creative entities capable of producing musical collections that conceptually and/or rhythmically justify their 40 - 60 minute lengths. The Unhappies' Fifteen Flavours is tasty fun, with samplings from all sorts of buckets, including Badfinger-ish pop ("Peanut Guy", "Acne Cream"), novelty country ("The Town Where UFOs Don't Land"), and twisted folky dirge ("Bury Me"). Several times it sounds as if Lou Barlow, or someone else from Sebadoh, is doing the scooping. Stervus (not Sturvis) don't wander all over the Rocky Road map like the Unhappies do, but the 1 8 short-and- sweet buzz-crunch vignettes on There is a Fork in My Heart keep the attention span baited and the auditory cortex sated. Fishburger's intense jams on 3-D House of Fishburger bristle with harnessed energy, yielding sparks of rest Cordova Street Vancouver, PC Canada V6& HI PH: 617-6555 • FAX: 687-0481 TlJRMTAeLES • NEEDLES /^^ ACID JAZZ • HOUSE ♦ HIP HOP I*A, Pi' E-REGOAE fc«. hup jvima m fcm xbd tapes ^55^ club-8&h-& & BixmyB BflSSIX 'AM WbSI HASTINGS IAT CAMBIE1 VANCOUVER B.C. V6B 1H6 madness, dissonance, and uncertainty. True insanity is explored on Ant God Ant by Prof. Zio, 25 snippets of other- and nether-worldly gloom that dare the listener to tread the shallow waters of reality before plunging the hapless auditioner into the unfathomable depths of the professor's tortured psyche. And, along similar lines, the individual members of Victoria's Dixie's Death Pool seem to have had all rationality tortured out of them a long time ago in order to produce an album as twisted and delerious as the 22-song blue bird. Just 'cause they make a demo director's life hell doesn't mean I don't love 'em. And like they say, April showers bring May flowers. The dark, dreary despair of the winter season will soon get very boring and necessarily stand aside for the dark, dreary despair of Springtime in Vancouver. Don't say I didn't warn you. AU-AGeS SHOWS Sunday, March 31 Sno Jam '96 w/No Use For a Name, Hi-Standard, Ten Foot Pole, Trigger Happy, Mock & Ten Days Late at the Commodore (7:45pm). Sunday, March 31: Sparkmarker, Torches to Rome & Malcreada at 1067 Granville (alley entrance - 2pm). Thursday, April 4: Arts County Fair w/Ashley Maclsoac, Pursuit of Happiness, Bass is Base, Barstool Prophets & the Superfriendz at Thunderbird Stadium (noon). Sunday, April 7. The Goops & Joykiller at the Town Pump (3 pm). Saturday, April 13: Facepuller, Celestial Magenta & Dr Yasue at the St James Community Square (3214 W. 10th). Saturday, April 20: Voodoo Glowskulls at the Town Pump. coujshead chronicles my sister is a twelve stepper, a woman who spent a certain amount of her formative years relying on a shopping bag selection of different drugs and a\coho\ to help her make it through the day. i have said before that the only thing my sister and i have in common is that for certain parts of our lives we were both chemically dependent, she's the greatest but i stiil think our paths will never really match up and i'm pretty certain we'll never end up on the same page, my point before i get lost is that those who belong to and are card carrying members of any twelve step organization have a process that helps them to complete each and every day. one of these steps is to take an account of each day and take stock of what happened that day. what went wrong, what helped them, what they could have done differently, etc. i rarely take stock of anything and let each day run its own course and let the chips fall where they may. what else can i do? i feel change comes as some sort of natural progression not by intervention, i'm probably wrong, i usually am. i have been told, by people who i am suspect of because they are far too happy, that you make your own happiness and that only you can change what happens in your life, right, when you wake up just say today i'm going to have a great day and be happy, i have to be told this by one such individual, what? do people do this? i find the harder you try to change something the slower the process becomes, i have, and i hate to admit this here, been trying to run into someone on the street near where she works, in the old days this would have been called increasing your chances of a chance encounter and even romantic, but now it's like stalking - not really - but i'm here to say it's not working, i used to see her all the time and then finally met and spoke to her. luck, sheer luck, no amount of my time or effort could have set that up. so what about taking stock? i don't know, my point has become somewhat lost but...no, look, i believe happiness comes in spurts and you can't expect it to happen, you can't make it happen, you can work hard at loving yourself and then one day you will but i'm sure it will have more to do with a natural process within yourself than whatever you've been doing to improve yourself, i could be wrong, so i've gone back to my daily routine and then maybe i'll run into her again, maybe not. probably not. whatever, it's not like i have anything better to do. gth The debut solo lp from ex-Cardinal/Moles main man. Eccentric pop under the spectre of Spector, Kinks and early Bowie. Liscenced from FLYDADDY mr022 co/if Zumpano "The Only Reason Under The Sun" HONE Who are you (names, ages, instrument played)? Morgan the Mudshark: Drums - did you know that smurd is drums backwards? Andrew the Anonymous: Sitar. J.C: Your personal trainer. I drink my weight in water everyday! Ryan: I uh..1 uh...snowboard! Yeah, that's it. We believe age is a state of mind. You are 3/4 "Upper Lonsdale" and 1 / 4 "East Van" - explain. Well, we really just use the "East Van" for street cred. You know, cuz we're punk and shit. Really! What's happened to the South Wall? A religious cult led by Luke Skywalker assembled at the last show held there. Upon arrival, Luke proclaimed, "Hear me out, me and my fellow Earth Christians declare war on the so- called North-Shore hardcore scene and all other things deemed 'punk' by you puny Earth- lings". Shortly after, Luke and his cronies exposed their genitalia to all present, including two off-duty RCMP. OK, I'm running out of ideas, next question. How has Another White Male influenced the development of Honeybucket? Another White Male came with us from our mother planet, Cygnus X-l. Actually, I think they filmed some Rush videos on that planet. Yes, they did. So yeah, that's about all as far as A.W.M. goes. Where's the best place to take hallucinogens in North Van? Well, if Another White Male plays there, you'll find Honeybucket in the bushes nearby poppin' reds. Favourite Canadian Metal Bandz: Funny, I never thought hockey players were good for anything. Favourite ska band: Let's Go Bowling did kick ass. We haven't seen too much ska action locally but we'll keep looking. Of course, there's the Specials, but even they went through a New Age phase. Favourite web site: The world wide web (www, wwf, kkk?) is an elitist technology whereby corporations hope to make more profit and left-wing idealists seek freedom and democracy. Fools! The Internet is the system of power and oppression described by Foucault and mapped out by Bentham (his panopticon). Use the web at your own peril, it's no paradise! Hey, someone's been going to college! Since you have a tune called "Let's Have a Blast From the Past", Honeybucket surely must be qualified to answer the question, "Who was responsible for the break-up of the Mamas and the Papas?" I'll ignore the second part of the question and ask myself, "What is that song about?" Well, we at Honeybucket Incorporated have been working (for the past decade) on a revolutionary new data bank of cryogenicalry frozen sperm which, when implemented, will fertilize unmodified Barbie dolls. The offspring will instinctively behave as mindless automatons. Scary. Would you let Bif Naked join your band? Definitely, we need all the talent we can get, and hey, she has cool tattoos. Who should be on the cover of Discorder? Noam Chomsky..Oops, that's already next issue. I guess we'll have to hunt down another hip anarchist senior citizen. Actually, I think fhe next trendy intellectual for Gen-Xers will be...Joan Baez! Ask yourself two questions and answer them. Q: If you could be any Ewok, what would you say to Princess Lea? A: I won't answer because you spelt her name wrong! Draw a picture of Honeybucket surrounded »c.l.briti.s»^J ^J^ ^^y VU;. A v/o,\.WUe_< 1 Le*\5JU\e' 6^^ i>^*r, Anvil, obviously. Actually, a friend of ours one opened for Anvil. I think Nirvana played that show, but you'd hove to ask Kurt about that one. Favourite fanzine: Talk to our attorney or see the Strain/Discorder interview. Search for the riot grrrl jokes. Hey, we drive Mustangs foo, ya know! Favourite Gino Odjick fight: Uhh...l don't watch hockey, but I saw him and his jock hooligans beating on Billie Hoe and Tim Armstrong behind a Burger King in L.A. Q: Are cats generally right-pawed or left- pawed? A: That's a fucking stupid question! Discography: Honeybucket, What Kind of Candy -cassette with ten songs. Available if you find us and beg for one. We've got a new one coming outwhen someone gives us some money to do it. Contact Honeybucket c/o: Morgan 253- 1354, Andrew 985-1779. Phone us, we're lonely males. D E - Who are you? (Names, ages, instruments) Dan, 23. Strings, organs, skins etc. Where is Carl Newman? I don't know. CaH has nothing to do with Destroyer, aside from a very strained set opening for the SF Seals, which somehow was billed as a 'Destroyer' performance, instead of 'The Carl Newman Three' or 'Barbara Manning and the Blue Boys'. Whafs the importance of Zumpano manager/Superconductor dude Scott Gobbels in the Destroyer scheme of things? Is his word god? Scott is putting out a Destroyer CD on his label Tinker Recordings, so in that respect he's pretty important. Aside from the actual recordings, he did just about all the work in putting the CD together. He doesn't give me pocket money, if that's what you mean by the second part of your question. How come no drums or keyboards were present tonight on Live from Thunderbird Radio Hell? - I didn't have the full Lido ensemble tonight (that night). Three guitars sounded like a good idea - background noise/accompaniment with a nice country porch feeling, if you can call it that, which you can. Were you mad that after Destroyer played on GTR, they followed it up by playing the new Mommyheads CD? I'm not sure what the relation is. I'm not familiar with their music, but I requested something catchy and that song they put on sounded pretty catchy. With a name like Destroyer are people a bit disappointed when you show up donning an acoustic guitar? I usually don't use an acoustic guitar but it doesn't seem like something people should be disappointed about. Although, Destroyer does seem to attract hecklers. And I can't really blame them. Trembling folkies are no match for a KISS tribute band. Perhaps. In some mag, maybe even Discorder (?), someone really slagged your band in a show review. How does this make you feel? It's kind of funny, but his heart (the reviewer's) was in the right place. Since Destroyer is more of a "studio project", if it sucks live I'm not bothered as much. That night was a write-off from its very conception a few hours beforehand, so I think we just played it up. Of course, just because a band appears to be having fun on-stage doesn't entail the music being any less shitty. Although I thought Carl's renditions of "American Rose" and "Barlow's House" stirring, from a bongo player/spectator point of view. I also thought Barbara Manning kept things cheery and relatively pleasant. I guess I thought wrong. Explain a bit about the song that contains the lyric, "She fucked a cop". The lyric is - "So you wanted to fuck a cop..." I thought it was a catchy first line, welkuited for a waltz, of sorts. I guess that's what the song is. Have there ever been any good bands from Toronto? We Plough. Do Marshall stax scare Destroyer? What would be your ultimate recording environment? How does static mean punk? Please elaborate. An amp is not a scary thing. I like loud, noisy things. An ultimate recording environment? I guess one of those many, many-tracked studios with a Phil Spector-like person to come up wifh harmonies, string arrangements, wall- of-sound stuff. All for free, of course. Static doesn't mean punk. From which it would follow that tuning does not, in fact, mean junk. I guess I was being "tongue-in-cheek" or ironic, or something, with those lyrics. Which is always a stupid idea. What was the last show you paid more than $ 15 to see? I can't remember. It's been a while. Anything else to add? I don't think so. It is awkward filling out a take- home interview/questionnaire. Discography: Destroyer - s/t cassette - 1995. We'll Build Them a Golden Bridge - CD - 1996. Contact name and address: Daniel Bejar, 2604 E. 21st Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5M2W1. JUNG RO BOTS Who are you? (names, ages, instruments, marital status) Jung Robot Member #1 Noel Christopher La Vieille 22 years Jung Marital Status: Single Jung Robot Member #4444 Eric Lawrence Dickstein 26 years Jung Marital Status: Married Are you Christians? Noel: No. Eric: No. I am a Jew. I wonder if UBC would be into having an international Jewish Day. I feel the Jung Robots have been discriminated against. If my people could survive the holocaust we will find places to perform or we will create our own. The one message I would like to express on behalf of the Jung Robots is SHALOM, which in Hebrew means hello, goodbye and peace! Why are you obsessed with Winona Ryder, haven't enough bands paid homage to her? E: I cannot tell whether or not you are being sarcastic. I was not aware of other bands paying homage to Winona Horowitz. I don't realty think I'm obsessed with her, but if you call masturbating nightly to the thought of her and her rock star boyfriend Dave Pirner, who dumped his girlfriend of ten years to be with Winona, and having every picture of her in print including ones with her past boyfriends CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE... 6 APRIL 1996 SKREW shadow of doubt IN CONCERT APRIL 2W - STARFISH ROOM EXPERIENCE "SKREW'S AUDIO ARMAGEDDON - THE FUTURE OF** INDUSTRIAL NOISE"- SPIN MAGAZINE I ^x$ x@x# Bandit Queen hormone hotd ONE OF THE MOST HIGHLY PRAISED NEW UK BANDS: "A DIVINE, SWEATY, SEXY SOUND" - NME "YOU WON'T IMAGINE A SWEETER MASOCHISM" -TIMEOUT COME SEE WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT! APRIL 3rd - TOWN PUMP FREE ADMISSION WITH FOOP PANIC P0NAT10N SPECIALLY PRICED UNTIL APRIL 30, 1996 MORE INTERVIEW HELL.. a problem, then I guess I fall into this category. PS. Winona if you are reading this, can you give me a call. I want to ask you a question about a birth mark I saw in a photo of you. Sincerely, your number one fan. (604) 251-3961 c/o the Jung Robots. Do the Jung Robots really do gigs on the Skytrain. Explain. Yes, we really do! We have done it one time and plan to do it annually. Because we don't have permission from BC Transit, we are unable to give an exact date. Look for our underground information between the months of March and May This year expect more bands and more art work. People ask us, "Why on the Skytrain?" As members of the World Famous Jung Robots, our objective is to play our music and to get as much attention as possible in the process. Places affected by our attention-seeking ways: Denmark, California, Texas, Washington, D.C, Toronto, Japan and Israel. The Jung Robots think all of these places have excellent public transportation! In Los Angeles, Eric, wore you involved in the "music thing"? You're not AMERICAN, are you?? If so, have you ever done smack? What brought you to Vancouver? Yes, I was involved in the music business That's all it was. The band I was in was called Minus Adam. The only thing that exists in my life from that band is the drummer and my friend Dave Keys, who is presently in a band called Chaucer is Naked. Minus Adam has one CD out called Whose Ass Do We Have to Kiss. I tried to be the singer and ring leader of that band. I was unsuccessful. The Los Angeles music scene is dead. The majority of the bands pay to play. What does that mean? If you have $ 1500, you too can play at the world famous Roxy or Whisky and have your band name on the marquee. Basically you rent out these places. Minus Adam was NOT a part of that, and neither will the Jung Robots, if we decide to play in L.A. I was born in America, but it's up to others to decide my American-ness, not me. I don't know what SMACK is, therefore I have probably not done it. I moved here last year after marrying a Canadian woman. I'm sorry, I mean Canadian person for all you politically correct people and vegetarians!! Any good Compton/street stories from LA, Eric? During the time of the L.A. riots, my friend Derek Rhys and I went down on Normandie Street to check out the destruction. It was exciting. We saw a gas station on fire, small businesses with broken windows, and stores that were looted. We were advised to leave the area due to the circumstances. What hair salon do you work at, Erie? Who has the best/worst hair in Canadian rocknroll? Whafs your favourite style? I do not feel comfortable mentioning the name of the salon I work at, because I fear they will terminate me for my answers to theses questions. I work in New Westminster on Sixth St. If there is anyone who wants to look cool, maybe I can help. If you are a punk rocker or some alternative person, I can color your hair groovy colors. I don't want to hear how you can't afford it if you were able to find money for some shiny new Dr. Martens! I don't know Canadian rocknroll except for Rush, Bryan Adams, The Band. Oh yeah, and the Neil Young revival. I am a dumb Yankee! I don't know what you mean by my favorite style. Do you mean hair? Noel, why were you fired from your job? I was fired from my job because I poured a cup of coffee on the cash register 5 times in one week. .3 times on Sunday, once on Wednesday, and again on Thursday, February 1, 1 996 I was fired on Thursday. Is New Westminster REALLY the Royal City? I don't feel like royalty, so I would have to say "No". What does A D I D A S stand for? Eric: Back in the '80s, it stood for All Day I Dream About Sex. For me, adidas stands for being replaced. We are all replaceable. In fact we are being replaced as I write this. Noel: Adidas also stands for forgetting about what I thought I cared about...a cat, shoes, a girl, and an unconfident feeling...all have been replaced. Ask yourself TWO questions and answer them. Ql: What is the purpose of this "Interview Hell"? To create the most attention for all parties involved. Thank you, Jung Robots. Q2: Why do I have such a hard time answering these questions? Because I am an indecisive jerk! Why won't the Jung Robots go to hell? The Jung Robots will not go to hell because we have our own religion and we don't believe in the concept of hell. It is called Robotology, and if you need something to believe in, please call Noel or Eric, founders of Robotology and members of the Jung Robots. We can come to your house and talk. Discography: Look for our first major release by March 1997. Contact names and addresses: Noel La Vieille, 2640 William St., Vancouver, BC, V5K 2Y5, (604) 251-3961. Eric Dickstein, 606-21 1 1 1 St., New Westminster, BC, V3M 6B3, (604) 524-3704. tamric@direct.ca A~AsA u ft THE DOGE Who are you (names, ages, positions)? Carl Baird, 28; weeping lotus. Shane Legresley, 21; missionary. Greg Holmes, 22; doggie style. Clinton Gore, 23; sixty-nine. NickWasko, 19; (virgin). Describe your sound in six -words. What punk is supposed to be. Where is the beer worse? The American or the Ivanhoe? Consensus is that the beer at the 'Ho is worse. None of us really care why, or care to speculate on what may be added to either. Besides - we started drinking at the Niagara because we wanna play there - beer is the same price and actually tastes good. Do you believe in "Three Chords and the Truth"? Never really gave it much thought, but if you need some snappy headline to pigeonhole us under that would be as good as any. "What punk is supposed to be: 3 chords and the truth." ?? If d.b.s. fought silverchair, who would win, and why? It's a band secret, but fuck it - I'll tell you anyway, we actually really like d.b.s - so, to answer yer question, d.b.s. would win cuz we'd be there to back 'em up. Why does Clint have a barcode on the back of his leather jacket? Who cares? What did the Dole learn from the CiTR Week label discussion with Cargo, Nefer, Figure IV, Bliss Out, Zulu and Mint Records? (Way to slip that in Nardwuar) Let's see: 1) Apparently somebody out there thinb they can make money if 'punk' makes a comeback, 2) CiTR would like you to vote "yes". 3) Nardwuar is a feeb. 4) Marzie from Nefer is gorgeous - Clint wants her to call him. 5) Maybe places like CiTR and the Niagara who say they're trying to help local bands aren't actually full of shit like we used to think. Are the Dole the Cocksparrer of Vancouver? "The Do£e, the Cocksparrer of Vancouver. What punk is supposed to be: 3 chords and the truth." ? Gimme a fuckin' break man, why do all you 'industry' fuckheads have to classify everything? We're the do£e - not "the Cocksparrer of Vancouver", just the do£e. If you need to find a slot on yer rack, put us under 'D'. Not under 'Punk' or 'New Punk' and definitely not under 'Cocksparrer of Vancouver'. Have u ever washed windows at stoplights? Greg took a piss off a highway overpass once, does that count? Whafs your favourite household cleanser? Lysol and a cigarette lighter. Kills household germs. Do not depress valve for more than 3 seconds. In case of eye contact - go to the hospital. Leaves a nice fresh scent. * Why was Clint a wise ass to Mr. Dodd in his Grade 8 math class at Kits High? It was Dodds with an 's' - and who cares, and how do you find this shit out anyway? "dogsdon'tknowifsnotbacon"? What da fuck? It went with the picture, we thought it was funny, and the spacebar was busted when we were doing the layout. Other than that, we'd like to think it is the real bacon - and fuck what the dogs think anyhow. Why do you have a song called "Bitch"? It's a song about denial. Anyone who thinks it's sexist or misogynist is a dipshit, 'cuz everyone has been there. It's not right or wrong - it's a state of the human condition, and we're not saying how things should or shouldn't be, but how things are. If you don't like what we're saying, go listen to Bryan Adams. By the way - thanks to Gus for the tune on that one. Shouldn't you be covering the Angelic Upstarts instead of the Sex Pistols? I mean, come onl Carl thinks so, but we're really just trying to get some new, original material down. Besides, we figure we play "Bodies" better than they ever did (or ever will again). We just jammed it one night and got it bang on - everyone knew it - it was cool. Rate the following in terms of their importance to your band: [See scan DOLE TIFF] Anything else to add? The media puts things into easy-to-purchase, easy-to-consume, easy-to-understand packages, and then tells you to like them. Don't let the media tell you what to think. Bands don't sell out anymore - the media sells them out because people are willing to buy whatever shit is packaged right. Remember that music is art, and no one can tell you what it is you like or don't like about music. Use yer fuckin' brain and buy what you like - not just what's on top of the charts. Discography: Our demo is "dogsdon'tknowifsnotbacon" but it's practically a collector's item now. We're gonna put out a live album of our show at the Hungry Eye on January 24. Keep yer eye out for it. Contact name, address, 'phone #: Contact the do£e at #107 - 242 E. 14th Ave, Vancouver, BC, V5T 2M6, or call 879 0468 or 736 7941. The do£e cannot be contacted via the Internet. PS. to Marzie from Nefer - Clint will be waiting for your call. OH DARN, MORE INTERVIEW HELL.. Rate the following in terms of their importance to your band wallet chains 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 lfl, V&° duct tape 1 2 matching band shirts glue 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 (Tfj) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 J. 3 -1 5 6 7 8 9 10 , ESK> MusicWest 1 2 34567891D [/{j $£ all-ages shows 1 2 beer I 2 3 4 5 6 7 % 9 W Dunderheads 1 2 Blur 1 Oasis 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 *>##<•« 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 L^1'0._ 1 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 i^HO ' this interview 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1/jAJ ; e9 APRIL 1996 «___■.- LENNIUM Who are you? Chris Bowman - drums. Stephen Geary - bass. Jason Schneider - guitar/vocals. Ric Shorten - guitar/vocals. How does it feel to have been recently billed as "Johnny Millennium (the band who opened for Pavement)"? Ric: Cheap and dirty. Jason: Sexy. Stephen: Overwhelmed and underpaid. (If anyone wants to know, Pavement were great guys.) What is your deal with Converse all about? Have they given you any free shoes? S: Basically, they help fund some of the ads for local shows with Red Kimono bands. That's about all we know. You'd have to ask Adad for the inside scoop. R: Negatory on the free stuff, though. J: We all had to get Converse tattoos. Your manager, Adad, went to clown school with Tres Cool of Green Day, was the runner-up in the Much Music VJ search and basically loves your fucking guts. What is going to happen if you lose him? Give a brief list of his good qualities. R: It's a non-issue because Adad will never lee till vith nifty J: He's a crazy boy! He pacifie: clown tricks. S: We love Adad! (Except when we want to kill him.) Ric, has going to school with the Sonic Unyon guy, Hayden, shaped Johnny Millennium? R: Not in the least, well, except for the fact that now I wear my underwear inside my pants and that makes for good band dynamics. Why were you rejected by 510 records? Was it because of your looks? J: I think we were all a little over-anxious to get on with Ben at 510 and we may have made a bad impression. Johnny Millennium has a comic book/ space/sci-fi thing going and we wanted to assure Ben that we know a band's image is very important and shouldn't be overlooked. Thinking back now, maybe Chris dressing up as Luke Skywalker was a bit unnecessary. S: Our looks are often a problem. Jason, who made your silver jacket? J: Jack Clark. He is a local designer who specializes in sequinned and lame outfits for strippers. He has a new office and display room on Richards and Georgia called Sew What. If you're lucky, he might invite you into the back where you can see pictures scattered on his office walls from his "Las Vegas show days". I think he still periodically works on these shows as a custom/set designer, choreographer, or some such thing. Does the name Puke Theatre mean anything to the members of Johnny Millennium? S: It's always hard living in the shadow of your past fame. Puke Theatre's original line up stopped working together in the late '80s, yet to this day I'm constantly asked about the band. So many people now say they love those classic Puke Theatre albums. It's strange what a legend we've become. The fact that the band has been hailed as a major influence by so many prominent 'alternative' icons in the last five years (Trent of NIN and Billy from the Pumpkins to name a few) hasn't hurt either. In fact, the industry surrounding the band's back catalogue and memorabilia has expanded 100-fold since 1992. What most people don't know is that I have not seen a penny of this money. While Bryce and Colin have raked in millions and are still living the jet-set lifestyle they are well known for, I have received zero, nada, nothing. With things tied up in litigation, I can't say much more. I just want people to know that I will be having no part of the rumoured reunion tour (no matter what that NME cover story said). Who is your favourite Bangle? Why did you play 'that song' again? We thought you swore never to play 'that song' again. J: We were all hoping to shelve that song, but Linda from Celestial Magenta insisted that we keep it in our set. My favourite Bangle is the cute little singer - I forget her name. S: Wait till you hear the Josie and the Pussycats cover we have in the works! Who gives the best massages in Vancouver? J: That's between me and Chris! Anything else to add? S: Make a point of going out to see some of Vancouver's great young bands. Go to a Red Kimono show. Adad always has cool new groups playing (check out his ads in DiSCORDER for dates), or just go to any local show for that matter. Stop sitting at home watching Melrose Placel This is an exciting time in local music, lots of diverse stuff is going on, take advantage of it. J: Hope you caught the "Mr. Dressup Retirement Tour". C: Have you ever noticed that the people who say the least always turn out to be the most intelligent? 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APRIL 18 & 19 ^*% STARFISH ROOM ! **,■ VOOMOGlOVSKvUS SAT. A.WU0-The Town PUMpi 2SH0VS! AU AGES AniRKOOH $6 EVIK1HG HO fflKORS $9 TiX at Tra£> & ZuJu^ '. 3o*n 0<pQW with guests G. LOVE & SPECIAL SAUCE doors 8 30 pm TUES. MAY 21 • THE COMMODORE ottmar liebert + luna negraE3___E______fl Thurs. &Fri. May 9&10 Fo»t)«B»Mr§i-Vogue Theatre fflmm^ IPrdvinccl .y4™. Nardwuar: Who are you? The Beav: I'm Jerry Mathers. For many, many years I was the Beaver on Leave it to Beaver. Do you mind being called "Beaver" at all? Not at all. it's something I'm very proud of. so it's nothing that I'm ashamed of. It's a great show, it's stood the test of time. It's been on almost forty years, it's on in eighty countries in forty languages; so it's, you know, it's just an honour that it's even still on. It's not the first time you've been in Vancouver - you're always around Vancouver, aren't you? Didn't they bring you up for a Beaver promotion as well, something at Science World? Actually, there's a Stephen Lowe production which is in the Imax format, and it plays all over the country, and I go and I lecture on beavers when I'm with that film. It's a very interesting, uh...the Vancouver area's very, veiy interesting. I like it up here a lot. That is wild - the Beaver lecturing about beavers) Well, it's the kind of thing when you've been associated with something like that for forty years, you tend, even peripherally, to pick up a lot of information about it, so it's something that's very, very easy to talk about. Mr. Mathers • is it Mathers' or May-there? Well, it doesn't really matter. Actually, it is Mathers', but everyone up here seems to think it's 'May-there'. But I answer to both. Tou know why, because Bryan Adams - Banal Adams, that rock star - he lives on May thers Avenue, so everybody probably thinks about that. That'd be fine with me, as long as they know, you know... As I say. if it's close, then I answer to it. Well, Beaver then - what is happiness? Happiness is...? Well. "Happiness" is a record that I did for Atlantic about...oh. probably thirty years ago. It was number one in Hawaii and Alaska. His name is Richard Corelli. He played Richard on Leave it to Beaver. He's now a director, he directs a lot of the Saturday night fine-up on ABC. The lyrics for Happiness were pretty wild, like, "blowin' my mind" and "comin' down". What exactly was that alluding to? \S£ Yeah, happiness is money, and actually I got that record, I have it here, it's on a compilation, Hipsville 29 BC , and there's a song here that goes "Happiness is money" by Beaver and the Trappers! It's "Happiness is having". "Happiness is having", sorry. So there are several things that happiness is having. But it was Beaver and the Trappers. We recorded for about three-and-a-half years, it was when I was in high school. We used to play all the sock-hops and things like that. That was after the show, wasn't it? It was from about 1963 on. On Hipsville 29 BC I found it fascinating that there's a song on there by Beaver and the Trappers. Who's this guy who co- authored the song? Well, it was actually what happiness is. "Blowin' my mind" and "comin' down"? And what about the other great lyric on there, "C'mon baby, spread a little happiness my way"? Well, I don't remember that one, but as I say, it was a long time ago. What do you think Ward, your dad, Beaver, would think about you singing a song like "C'mon baby, spread some hap- pin As I say, I don't quite remember the lyrics going that way, but it's pretty close. One of the songs also that you did was "Wind-up Toy" - that's more fluffy, isn't that's nicer, it's not as controversial? Well actually, we did about 15 all together, so there are quite a few songs with Beaver and the Trappers. I've never heard "Wind-up Toy" - do you know any more songs like "Happiness Is" and "Wind-up Toy" - what was "Wind-up Toy" about? "Wind-up Toy"...let's see, not really. Oh, you began to sing it right there. Well, I was trying to remember the nelody, but it's very, very hard - it was almost thirty years ago, and as I say, we only - We would do each song for about six r eight weeks and play it. "Wind-up Toy" was done for Atlantic, this one was done for Adco. wliich was Atlantic's second line. But they were mostly done...there was never an album, they were all 45s. It's quite interesting that a lot of TV stars who were younger got involved in bands. Like Don Grady of My Three Sons had a band called the Yellow Balloon. Actually Don Grady still does a lot of music work. He now does music for movies and TV. Did you ever play with the Yellow Balloon? No actually, each band was separate, so you wouldn't, you know, cross over. Did play with Desi Arnaz a lot, 'cause we would play the same...He was a contemporary of mine, so when we'd play, a lot of times we'd jam together. What was his band called - Dino Desi and — Dino, 'cause it was Dean Martin's son, who was killed in a jet crash, he was flying an international guard plane. And I can't remember who the third person was. But it was their three names. And then there was Don Grady's, and there was Beaver and the Trappers. Any other kind of teen-TV star-bands? Actually, you seem to be the band expert. I remember that Don had one... Let's see, Desi Arnaz had one. The guy from Courtship of Eddie's Father - actually, he still has one. He now has a punk band. Yeah, Brandon Cruz. Mmm-hmm. I don't know the name of his, but I know he still works the circuit. Harmful if Swallowed. I think it is. That's...Yeah, you coulda got it by me. Oh yeah, and Billy Mumy from Lost in Space, Beaver, he also has a band, doesn't he? Billy Mumy, you know, from Lost in Space? He could. As I say. I'm not really sure about that. But if you say so, I'll believe it. [ once saw him in a guitar shop and I heard he did. Well that's probably true, then. they? What was the scenario, what was the plot for that one? Actually, it was a two-hour movie, so I was in a very small part of it. I was at dinner with quite a few, uh...let's see, I think it was Ricardo Montalban and some other people. It was a fun time. As I say, I just went in, I worked one day on it, they tried to have as many people as they could because it was their last show. You never did Hollywood Squares? Actually. I was the centre square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks. Who else was in the show at that time? Hollywood Squares? Was Paul Lynde on at that time? No, I took Paul Lynde's place. Was that after he passed away? No, he was doing something else at the time. This was in the... The Beaver replaced Paul Lynde? Well I don't know if I replaced him. He had something else to do, and I went in - I was w Me tieavet Who were you hanging around, at that time, with? Like, what particular people? Did you ever get to "come on down and blow some brains" with, like, Agnes Moorehead or Lisa Loring from The Addams Family at all? No, I actually didn't know them. Those shows were done in the late '60s. Leave it to Beaver was actually off the air by then. So who was the crew that was hanging around you at that time? Actually, it was mostly people from high school. It was mostly not actors, it was people that I was in high school with at the time. Jerry Mathers, the Beaver, guess whose favourite TV series is Leave it to Beaver? Oh, probably quite a few people. It shows in eighty countries in forty languages. Kurt. Kurt Co... Kurt Cobain of Nirvana's favourite TV series was Leave it to Beaver. That's what he said. I guess we'll never get to verify that now, but I had heard that. But there are several people who have said that. That must make you feel kind of nice. Yeah, actually, it's nice to have people like that who are very, very talented - actually, he's a very sad. sad case in some ways, 'cause he was very talented and then, you know, committed suicide. So...he should have taken a little more from Leave it to Beaver, possibly. Gilligans Island, are you aware of that show at all, Beaver? I'm aware of it. I don't watch it very much, but I'm aware of it. Well, actually, on a nautical theme, were you ever on The Love Boat ? Yes I was, I was on their very last episode. What happened on that episode, 'cause I think they're coming back with it, aren't the middle square, he was the centre square, so...As I say, I wasn't really like a replacement, those squares switched all the time. That's kind of a big chore to fill, Paul Lynde. Actually, it was the centre square. Paul Lynde wasn't the only person. There were quite a few different people - Phyllis Diller used to do it. I can't remember all the other people, but...It was a fun time, it was very challenging, 'cause they'd go in and ask you a lot of very obscure questions and you always had to come up with an answer. Jerry Mathers f2 APRIL 1996 You've done stuff at the Imax theatre for beavers, promoting beavers - you are the Beaver. Very definitely. j» And now you're at the Boat j'"'"'*""' Show and I mentioned Gilligan - No. no, no, I'm at the Home Show. Oh my god, I'm just getting : confused here, 'cause I'm looking at Jerry Mathers, the actual Beaver, he is the Beaver, this is the Beaver - hello, bow are you doing? Pretty good. Gilligan was at the Boat Show, 'cause, you know, Gilligans Island and boats kind of go together, right? Sounds good to me. Now how, exactly, does Leave it to Beaver and the home go together? What's the correlation between that? Doesn't that feel a tiny bit like stretching it, you know, beavers on Imaxes and beavers at home shows? Actually not, I've done quite a bit of home renovation. I just got finished redoing my house, spent almost a year because of the earthquake in Los Angeles. One of the companies I work for. I just rehab'd a building - I took it from an auto parts store, I built basically five offices, a tech room for my computer people. What do you do with the computer people? I have severed computer companies. One of them I have a programme for wide-format printing. I have a beauty programme. So I have several different programmes that I own for printing. Have you met Bill Gates at all? I've been at seminars with him, I haven't met him and spoken with him for a very long time. But I've been at different seminars with him. 'Cause you seem deserving to be invited to his wedding - Alice Cooper was invited to his wedding - was the Beaver invited to Bill Gates* wedding? Nope. Sony, no. Also, finally, winding up here, Beaver, Jerry Mathers - Harry Shearer, he was the guy from Spinal Tap and The Simpsons, he was originally going to be Eddie Haskell, wasn't he? Actually, he was in the original pilot. The character's name at that time was not Eddie Haskell, but he did play that part. So what happened? They found Ken Osmond and thought he was better. 'Cause it would have been wild to have had Harry Shearer of Spinal Tap as Eddie Haskell. Well, this was before he ever did that. I don't think he'd worked very much when he did it, and they just thought that Ken Osmond played the part better. But I'm sure he wouldVe done a good job had he gotten it. And then there were all those other weird kind of tie- ins, like who really was Eddie Haskell - like who was Paul McCartney, who was Eddie Haskell? A lot of people thought he might have been John "The Wad" Holmes, the porn star, did you ever hear of that? Oh, very definitely. In fact, John Holmes took his name, did several movies under his name. Ken Osmond sued him, it was about a $25 million \ suit. He lost it because they I said that it actually w satire of him. So they lost the suit. He lost the suit. But he did I sue John Holmes for using his name and, as I say, they said it was satire. I California precedent-setting I case. It's in the California | Supreme Court. But I guess in the end Eddie Haskell got revenge because poor John Holmes died. Actually it wasn't Eddie Haskell, it was Ken Osmond. All right, but you are Jerry Mathers, the Beaver. That's right. Anything else you'd like to add to people out there in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Jerry Mathers, the Beaver? No, I think you pretty well covered it all. 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AVAILABLE IN COOL RECORD STORES Local punk pioneers Nomeansno may not be new- or British, and they have been featured piayers in DiSCORDER in tne past but I've found they usually have something refreshing to say. Bassist Rob Wright talked a bit about their new release, The Worldhood of the World (as such), set the facts straight on Victoria rock history and dropped some heavy science over a long drawn-out plate of chow mein at the Aristocratic, good as the last one, cuz if the joke ain't funny, it ain't worth doin'. But we think the songs stand up on their own, even beyond a joke, in some perverse sort of way. So, with this new album The Worldhood ot tho World (as such) do you think that It's a half Hansons/half Nomeansno abum? I mean, muslcaly, anyways? It did end up sounding a little more guitary-punk- |-.rocky than most of our dltsijms, and that might have'fcjeen due to the fact that" tor one thing. I was playing 'a -Utile more guitar in general because I was playing a tot of "gui; band program. I've listened to music, but I've never really studied music at all. When I started playing I didn't have any knowledge or technique, I just played what I played. Eventually, we took it seriously. There were a lot of post-punk bands coming out of England (at the time) who were rejecting the simple rock format of the original punk bands, and we sort of really got caught up in that, which is why we started playing as a rhythm section. We borrowed from people like PiL and from all sorts of what were then avant-garde bands, and that was sort of the cool thing, to be really different. No one was trying to be the Clash anymore - that had to wait until Rancid came along. It was just about being completely different, and also it was really a desire to express ourselves and what was going on in our lives. It had a lot to do with feminist ideas that started to come around then, and it tar for the album before '-.(xid a lot to do with the basic distrust of DISCORDER: So, what's been up with the band lately? Rob: We just sort of finished a little spate of touring. We went across Canada and down the States for about five weeks with Alice Donut and Ultra Bide and then to Australia and New Zealand. We came back in late November and then we took some time off for Christmas. It's just actually today that my brother and I are getting back together and will start demo-ing some Hanson Brothers stuff. So, what's going on with the Hanson Brothers right now -1 haven't seen them In awhile. We did the last Nomeansno record and we spent about 6 or 8 months preparing it and making it and then I've been touring on it, so the Hanson Brothers took a back seat, of course. But now that that's out we still have a bit of touring to do and we are going to go to Europe, probably in the spring, as Nomeansno and maybe down in the States a little bit more. But we wanted to get some songs for the Hanson Brothers at least recorded in demo form and/or bed tracks and see how they sound, or whatever. We're kinda concerned, we want to make sure that if we do another record it is as that, and 1 write for the Hanson Brothers on guitar. Also, the last record we did was sort of bass heavy and sort of moody and medium tempo and a lot of sort of long songs. I think it is just naturally (that) you seek a balance...you just get sort of tired of doing (the same thing). Did you think that you had something to explain to your audience with this album? Well, yeah, I think that's why the title's a bit of a pompous joke and the songs seem to be all concerning outward whqt are the perceived mores and norm's -of reality around you, in a social, personal and metaphysical sense. It was sort of just a *6tg doubt and a rejection too, (hence) thd*name Nomeansno. Would you say that Mama Is the definitive Nomeansno album?' If -you had Just called It quits after that would*that have been fine? *••. In a sense it was, because it was th^ purest. It was the one that had the least idea of what we were doing, the one that had the most spontaneous. ..urn...whatever this is, we are just going to do it. It was the one that NOMEANSNO DOES THE RAMONES AT THE ARTS CLUB things. We've never been much of a political band, most of our songs are about people on the personal level, and sort of personal emotions and stuff like that. The title is taken from a quote from Heiddeger, who was a German philosopher, and also a bit of a Nazi, and we thought it fit the tone of the subject. My hobby is reading unreadable books and (Heiddeger's) Being and Time Is one of them. Getting back to the early days of Nomeansno, how did It all start? Did you and John have jazz training? John did, he was in a very good school formed us into the band that we did become because the fact that we were working just as a rhythm section, without a guitar, not by any plan of ours, just made it completely different. So, when we added a guitar player, what we were doing was already set. When did you wake up and say, "I can't believe It, I'm a rock 'n roller! This Is what I dol"? That's exactly how it happened. We never planned it, we just suddenly looked around and said, "Oh my God...we're doing this." What did you think after that? Well, It was a problem, actually, because the whole business of making music is detrimental to making music. To worry about tours, managers, records, money, audience - all that stuff has nothing to do with music - that's a whole different thing you have to deal with, and the more it (grows and becomes) a part of your life, and it becomes a big part of your life when that's how you make your living, that becomes a distraction and often you don't really see it coming that way. You wake up one day and say, I spent all my time thinking about guarantees and press, or avoiding ft, you know all the politics that are involved in music - especially in our kind of music, which had this real streak of having to be in the business of making music, but yet outside of it and against it, which it was a trick that not many people could accomplish; especially these days, you know, it's impossible. You're in a capitalist business, the most you can do is try to "♦keep it at bay, from the creative enti^avour that you're doing. It becaffte.a problem and I think that's one of the"re.asons why Andy (Kerr) left the band. He'fjpver got to the point where he wanted* Ta .do that. Speaking of Andy KerV/when he wrote the song "Small PaHs^." What was It like playing that song live? ..••'*" He didn't write that,s»h*g. Andy wrote a lot of spies', but he sang a majority^, the songs because I lost j«y" voice at one point. I ..■hfcfd operations on my vocal chords at the very beginning, right when we started to do c majority of our touring, so Andy used to sing most of the songs I wrote, cuz could only, even as I better and better, sing a few songs. I'm back to where I can sing a total set and stuff. How can people even less than half your age, 14-year olds who come to your all-ages shows, maybe even younger...Intellectually you'd be bounds above them. How :J Is It they understand and enjoy your music? Well, a lot of them are really smart, (although) I think I'm bounds above them experience-wise. I think it's/ because music is something you don't have to enjoy on an intellectual level. And, I think that a lot of things that you get out music are things' you don't know, and that is one of the 14 APRIL 1996 main attractions to it. Music expresses a variety of depths, colours of emotion and experiences which words will never do because words are distinct and intellectual and cold and objective. So Is It an attempt to approach the abstract with music? No, it's exactly the opposite, it's an attempt to reach people under that abstraction. You use ideas and thoughts and language, of course - it's all polluted, there is no purity in music, or anything else. But music doesn't use language the way a poem or a short story or a novel or an essay does. Music is feminine and in that sense it deals with things that transcend the rational, distant, and uncaring view you could take. And that's why 14-year olds would appreciate our kinds of music, because they're not cramped into their own clear-cut view and the mechanics of being alive. They're still just like, "where*. Hopefully, Ihey can retain some of those feelings and that energy and that openness as they grow older - and I hope that's some- more educational to get into^betftings you don't know than.io'constantly restate and repftifm the things you _ do kncjwr'and everyone around Y.yoeJ'la-iows...going around think- fing we're these gods on a stick K who know everything. TFf*.Jnfamous Scientists, you produced aseven-lnch with "CKDA" on It. HoW.did all that happen? Cuz It w<_9.gevln Lee of Bum I and John and*Andy and you 1 produced It? ""*-*.. [ At that point, John'toain't leven in the band. Tfle.. ^Infamous Scientists were a ^ band before Nomeansno |^was a band, and people in Pink Steel, which L became The Sweaters, ^and the Wardells, _ which became The Sweaters - ^they're all old ^Victoria boys. And of course, \\ Dayglo Abortions were the first, f and the most obnoxious - and they f retain those credentials to this date. r All cottage products, people who had no idea really what they were [ doing. I knew nothing about recording, j I just did it. At that point Andy didn't I even have any distortion on his guitar. r Actually, I think he was against that at that point. He wanted a nice, clean guitar sound...pure. When he started getting involved with us, over the years it got dirtier and dirtier and dirtier. Anything else you'd really like to talk about? ^ I'm still glad to see that the DiSCORDER is still taking an interest in the band. We got our first major exposure In Vancouver through a big DISCORDER interview. It happened at a show that we did with the Violent Femmes, in the first of the '80s. We did this demo of "Self-Pity" on the four-track and CiTR played the shit out of that, and that's basically how we got established and sort of got the name and could come over here and play. We were so far out of the stream of things in those days. We still try to keep the business at arm's length...although we might put out the Hanson Brothers through Essential Noise, which is our manager's label, which has a promotion and distribution deal with Virgin. We may, we haven't decided yet. because the Hanson Brothers are a band who a) no one can change the creative/aesthetic purpose of the (Hanson Brothers), it's set in stone and b) it's sort of a show biz band, really. I mean, it's a joke, it's an act. Do you think that things like Mr. Wrong and the Hanson Brothers are ways of distancing yourself from...you know, you're always wearing masks. Well, with Nomeansno we always try to keep our personalities to a minimumjir"' our promo pictures, only rare|y«d*d we actually appear in them*" because music is not abou+'fhe personalities involved. I r\eve*f met Stravinsky, I never met VYagtier. (Personality) can be inter- t£stirig, but it is more interesting in terms ment entity, and that's where it becomes really important. It's more important that Michael Bolton be Michael Bolton than that he sing those songs. Whereas with us, the songs and music do the talking. I don't really much like being involved as a personality, that's not something I aspire to, and I don't know why anyone does. It seems to me the people who are really extremely famous, it just does nothing but screw them up completely, and that should be obvious to everyone - from Elvis to Michael Jackson. Look at these people, their lives, they've turned "into shit. Look at (Elvis): he died on the toilet-ipt and in his 40s - and he was the King! AnfHthink eventually Henry Rollins suddenly b"e*ii§ved he was "Henry Rollins", not Herfry. Rollins the person, whoever that wa*s*>..He suddenly believed that he was th'e-L-jenry who was on the album covers and The. Henry who was on stage - the personaV-Wp one is a persona. A persona is a comic*- book, it's an image like Mr. Wrong. It's clear to me, I'm not Mr. Wrong. Thai's why I take it to the extreme, that's why it's such an extreme costume, I'm saying, "Look here, this is an icon". There is something removed from all of us. Even if I tried to get up there and be myself, I don't think that's possible. But I also try, when I'm Mr. Wrong, to, in the course of the evening, peel it all off. And that's partly because the costume is annoying to wear, but it's also that I want people to say "It's coming off now". I'm letting down my hair and showing that it is show, and I'm trying to break those boundaries a little bit. (Although) I don't think that you ever can - just look at how hard it is to know anyone you do know. personally. I mean, how many people do you really know and really know you, and even those people, how much of what they do and say...What's really going on there? And how well do you know yourself? These are the kind of things I like to deal with in Mr. Wrong and Nomeansno. I certainly don't want to buy my own schtick, or become a parody of myself, and that's a constant danger. But, in a way, I'm also saying that everyone also is that. That's to some extent what a personality is - it's I first did it, it was like "wow", but after you do It a few times you know what's going to happen when you get there: you're in a bar where people are having drinks and picking up girls instead of listening to you. But if the rewards weren't there of actually getting up on stage and actually having a good time and feeling like you are doing something good, having people appreciate it, if that wasn't still happening, we probably wouldn't do it. It's hard to keep that going, it's hard to keep focussed on the THE COMMODORE, 3/1995 an act, it's a lie. You're trying to be somebody, you're not somebody, you're trying to be somebody. You're frying to be who you are. Always? Almost always. That's what a song like "Cats, Sex and Nazis" is about. Your life, from the moment you get up to the \\ important things, which is the music. That's it, getting in front of people, doing something with all the energy you have and equipment you have and then people responding in kind, and creating a real feeling, you know, which is fill of all sorts of different feelings, that's what it's about. That's it....all the rest is bullshit. Your life, from the moment yOU get Up to the moment you go to bed, is the process,pf selling yourself.,. moment you go to bed, is the process jnto'-vieW bV Stev/e DipO of selling yourself as this person that you ' ,v^' y want other people to know you are, .and that you want to know you are. Main PhotOS by Pou! QOfke, Ottv tve^jf those two are changed, you'll be of-? from DisSCQRDER archives. trying*to.fool people and maybe you're frying to focJ. yourself in the same way, and to try to flndJhat real little core...ha ha...keep looking, Vdgn't know, I never found it. (laughs) I dont^ink it's there, (keeps laughing) **♦.. Wow....Speaklng of the whole live thing, has the feeling of doing this changed throughout the years, Is It still...? Well, I'd be lying if I said it was as exciting as the first times we did it. After you do something for IO years the novelty wears off, and also, perhaps, your tolerance level for the nuts and bolts and the annoying things about it becomes less and less. I don't enjoy spending eight hours in a van driving to Winnipeg. When fs n^^sm^ between SOQSUVWXYZ i s .rbylc-ndrea & amber dawn * » ; «»; lines This spring, all the zine kids will be com ing out to play at conventions and festi vals. By the time you get your hands on this issue of DiSCORDER, the New Bedford Festival, the Cleveland Underground Music Festival, and the Detroit Rock City Long Music Weekend will have occurred. These hardcore festivals are one way of meeting and trading with zine writers in person. Winnipeg will also be the host of a hardcore festival on May 10- 12 However, June and July are the months that I look forward to. Three girl conventions in three weeks makes it perfect for a tri-city tour. The tour starts off June 21-23 in Santa Barbara and then moves to Portland on June 28-30 and ends in Seattle July 5-7. All of these conventions will feature workshops, live performances and zine exchanges. If anyone is looking for more information on these conventions and festivals, please send a self-addressed stamped envelope to Andrea at Between the Lines c/o DiSCORDER. Birds of a Feather # I (one page) Billed as a queer networking/ awareness monthly newsletter, this one-pager has a lot of promise. The first issue is basically a blueprint of what Gracie hopes to accomplish with her newsletter, which is a tool for queer punks to share emotions, ideas and projects with other queer punks, as well as to show the punk community that queers exist. Gracie promises to have classifieds, guest columns, and letters. This is a project that could help a lot of kids network and get the support they need, especially when they don't receive any from those around them. Send a stamp to Gracie Bartlett, 2424 Carpenter, Hamtramck, Michigan 48212 USA. Sola Mente #3 (5.5 X 4.5; 24 pgs) 5o/a Mente is a collection of stories and observations of everyday life in New York City. Danielle and her contributors write about what is going on around them in a thought-provoking manner, leaving the reader to decide the meanings of the situations described. Danielle also talks about privilege, about kids who are rich enough to be punk-rock because they can afford the indie labels, records, stereo equipment and musical instruments. Kids who can be punk-rock because nothing is on the line for them and their 'ideals' aren't threatening the way they live. Danielle is a skilled writer, and she was a breath of fresh air for me. Send a buck/ trade to Danielle, 4509 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11235-2524 USA. I'm So Fucking Beautiful #3 (8.5 X 11; 64 pgs) The long-awaited third instalment of the ISFB series is finally out, and even better than ever. This zine changed my life and made me realize that fat oppression is real, and it made me deal with my own issues of self-hate. This zine has various contributors, and it talks about all the different aspects of fat oppression. Nomy writes about mind/body separation (and war), "separate mind from body, cuz we are told to believe that our only real self is inside of us What if you feel at fault for everything exterior, and can't find anything within? What if you're taught everyday since you can remember to hate your body, don't look at it, everyone else hates it too and it's your fault..." It contains a discussion between Mary and Nomy about their experiences in the sex industry, and letters to friends that were both critical and recognitive of their support. Nomy's writing style has evolved - she is no longer angry, and she wants to reach out and build community. I recommend this zine for people who are dealing with size oppression and those who want to understand it. Order from Riot Grrl Press, Box 33-345 E. Broadway, Van couver, B.C., V5T 1W5. Lisa UonhoartZino #2 (11 X5.5;48pgs) Besides being huge, this zine is amazing. Kate and Katherine discuss various topics intelligently and conscientiously. Katherine talks about going to the Dominican Republic with an organization called Amigos de las Americas, and how she came back thinking that it was a great experience, until she came across a quote by Birute Galdikas in Reflection of Eden saying how students and researchers who go into the field for a year or two usually come back thinking that they themselves are experts on the host country, when they really remained outsiders. Kate and Katherine also discuss the I.Q. Bell Curve and how it really excludes people who are not white and upper-middle class. Coming out and wanting to have a girl/girl relationship and affirmative action are also discussed. Send $2 to Katherine Aaron, 17 Farewell PL, Cambridge MA 02183 USA. Humor and Dark Truth # 1 (8.5X5.5; 14 pgs) There's a new kid in zineland and her name is August. Similar to many first zines I've read, H&DT#1 seems to be an explosion of previously unexpressed emotion and thought. However overwhelming this zine may be, the writing is well-managed and August conveys herself quite clearly. This zine mainly examines the mother-daughter relationship. August confronts her mom's failure to protect her as a child from her oppressive stepfather, and other abuses she faced, as well her mother's denial of her being queer. What she has realised is that growing up in this kind of environment had negative effects on her partnerships with wimmin and her attitude towards men. I feel that this zine is important because it has shown me not to hesitate in criticising my own parents. And how appropriate that this zine, being a first issue, focuses on the author's first exposure to conditioning and '')) oppression, her mom. Write August c/o See the World, Chicken, 406-1701 Powell Street, Vancouver, BC, V5L 1 H6. Boggs and Aching #4 (8.5X5.5; 31 pgs) It's been a while since I last reviewed a zine or comic solely because of its artwork. Not that the written content is lacking. In fact, some of the subtle humour and intriguing storylines pleased me as much as the illustrations. B&A#4 is a collaborative effort featuring artists Ron Turner, Jason Rains, Will Yum, Mike Reid, Phil Dion and Kacey McDougall. With the exception of Dion's and McDougall's strips (which are leaning towards sci-fi), all of the comics are about the strangeness of everyday life. I suggest Beggs and Aching even for those who aren't frequent comic readers. It's like going to see an animation festival, comic-style. It gives a glimpse of new, independent and talented artists, and best of all, it's from Vancouver. I picked up my copy at Scratch Records. Otherwise, write the man who put it all together, Black Belt in Tofu Publications, 406-1915 Haro St., Vancouver, BC V6G 1H9. The Nerdy Grrrl Revolution (8.5 X 5.5; 55 pgs) I love it when a zine has the ability to pull me in right from the beginning and hold my interest until the very last page. Val and Nomi of The Nerdy Grrrl Revolution have done just that and more - they left me with a lot to think about even after I had finished reading. In the first piece Val remembers an all-girl picnic she attended where one of the activities was to hit large red, white and blue papier mache penis pinatas with baseball bats. She mentions that this was a funny and creative way to get the message across; however, she questions how empowering the picnic's penis-bashing theme really was for the wimmin who attended. This humorous but always analytical approach to writing is predominant throughout this zine, even when discussing issues such as racism and classism. Val and Nomi also discuss the power struggle, and other problems, within their own friendship (a topic that is probably applicable to anyone dealing with communication difficulties in a relationship). Whether you're a nerdy grrrl or not, this zine is filled with lots of revolution. Write 1 20 State N.E. #1510, Olympia, WA 98501 USA, send trade US stamps and/or $$$. I'm Jonny and I Don't Give a Fuck (4 X 5.5; 22 pgs) Your pal Andy is back and as hilarious as ever with this illustrated mini called Punch Drunk. This zine is actually a pictorial history of his life as a fighter. It seems as though Andy was the target of many a bully during his childhood years, and even the battles he initiated were lost. He has been beaten by almost 'everyone', from a nudist to the cops, his big brother to Paul McKenzie of the band The Real McKenzies. Considering that Andy is now a non-fighter and a big wimp (his words) makes this zine even funnier. Punch Drunk is free, so send challenges and tofu dessert recipes to PO Box 21533-1850 Commercial Drive, Vancouver BC V5L 1H6. t6 APRIL 1996 Hullol We're going to start off this month with a pock of three mostly instrumental bands. We hear lhat Flowchart, formerly Heroine (until ihey found out lhat there is already a heavy metal bond of the same name!), and currently darlings of John Peel have broken up. Their Acoustic Ambience 7", released on their own Fuzzy Box label, is quite different from iheir full-length (on Carrot Top Records), which we liked despite, or maybe because of, ihe fact lhat it sounds amazingly similar lo Stereolab. This 7" is aptly titled - layered sounds of keyboards and drum beats on (he Aside, followed by the B-side's "Wurlilzer Inn", a more dubby song with atmospheric female vocals. (Fuzzy Box, 35 Horseshoe Dr. Mt., Laurel, NJ, 08054) We pretty much knew what to expect when we saw the new 7" by Deluxx, a band featuring Bob Fay (Sebadoh) on drums, Ann Slinn on bass and congas and Mork Perrelto on (crazy) guitar and olio clarinet. We weren't surprised or disappointed to hear these three works of well-constructed guitar- noise-rock-art. "Spreadable" and "Barn Taco" both push the limits on how far Deluxx can wank, distort, and be loud while retaining some sort of melody, thanks lo Slinn's catchy bass lines. "Pocket Watch", ihe last song, is less chaotic, wilh the more subdued sounds of the clarinet. Fans of the older, more experimental Sebadoh should check this out. (Lissy's Records, who didn't have the presence of mind to include an address! Dumb.) A*., which is the thirteenth letter of the alphabet, is also the name of a band. Since it is part of the Palace Records family, and since our copy of their family tree was eaten by our dog, we can't tell you exactly who ihe eleven members of M are. We believe thai M is basically David Pajo (of Slint, Tortoise) joined by members of King Kong. We know lhat the music created by ihem is pretty darn pretty. "Safeless" b/w "Napoleon* are two lush compositions of soothing pop originals. Completely instrumental, this is a Codeine-styled soundtrack for your indie-rock dinner. (M Headquarters: 5007 Old Federal Road, Louisville, Kentucky, 40207; or available through Drag City: PO Box 476867, Chicago, Illinois, 60647-6857 or email dragcity@mcs.com) The second Palace Records release of this month is by songs:ohia. "nor cease thou never now..." contains two songs lhat sound more like the Palace Brothers than ihe Palace Brothers themselves. Both songs are tilled very literally, so you can guess the song themes before listening "Freedom Part 2" is an upbeat, traditional folk melody with acoustic guitar and what sounds like conga drums, while "Soul" is more soulful and bluesy with very Wil Oldham-esque vocals. Two extremely emotional and melodic Iracks to tide you over 'til the nextOldham- fueled release, (c/o Drag City Records, see above.) News from the riot grrrl world: Seattle's Tattle Tale have broken up. But don't despair, cuz Modigan has just released a new single, entitled Madigan Plays With Herself Not only does she play wilh herself (buy the record and you'll get stickers reminding us all that "Masturbation is Safe Sex"), she also harmonizes wilh herself nicely, doing a good job of making up for the loss of Tattle Tale's Jen on vocal duties. We like the A-side, "Curse of Superman", which boasts cello and guitar and sounds similar in style to the angst-folk-acoustic-punk of Tattle Tale. "2nd False Start" doesn't appeal to our indie rock ears - it's ihe softrock ballad on this record, featuring a full band sound, with drums, piano, and guitar - a bit too schmaltzy. This is a co- release by Moon Puss ond Live Transmission, formerly HorseKitty Records/Studios. (Moon Puss, PO Box 55091, Seattle, WA, 98155) We loved Weeping in Fits and Starts' track on The Long Secret (a cool CD compilation celebrating Harriet Records' fifth anniversary), and were excited when we figured out that the Bridge to Nowhere 7" wasn't yet another attempt by the major labels to 'break' the indie market (the slick, full-colour packaging rirew us ofR). Greg Jacobs, lormerfy (?) ihe drummer of twee-poppers ihe Lotus Eaters, played oil instruments on former WIFAS recordings, but now seems lo be letting olhers join ihe parly. Anolher notch on his indie rock belt is that he also frequently accompanies Helium on stage with his accordion. This record is comparable to old R.E.M. (you know, lhat '80's college rock sound) in its folk-rock leanings, with violin, plenty of distortion, and steady rock drums. Look for a full-length CD soon! (Rhubarb Records, PO Box 1295, Brookline, MA, 02146.) When we reviewed Orange Glass' last 7", it was just Ron Bales; now, they're a full band, with Tara S'Appart on bass and vocals, and Chris Flonnagan on drums. Once again on Soppy, this record is similar in appearance to the last one, wilh its use of photographs and silver ink. Side A's songs don't stray far from the Easl Coast rock formula: fast, power-chord pop with sincere, melodic, boy vocals. The second side is more rockin', starling off with "A Year and Some", the one track sung by Tara, who can really belt it out! (Sappy Records, PO Box 25097, Moncton, NB, E1C 9M9) Vancouver label Trakshun Industries, home to local superstars Good Horsey and Pork Queen, have released their third volume of the Optional Ingredients From a Vile Recipe series of 7-inches with always original cover art. We claim no knowledge of 'noise' and whatever fits into, around, or above the category, but we wanted to lell you aboul this release anyhow. The first track is by San Francisco's one-woman noise project, Teensy Weensy Operator. Her "Bite Me" is full of balloon-powered sounds that remind us of bed springs. The Shaking Ray Levis Double Keyboard Band play keyboards reminiscent of Atari and we've been warned lhat people in the first row will gel wet. Japan's Everest contributes the prettiest piece on ihis record, wilh their new wave, lo-fi techno which alternates between extreme fuzziness ond cleanliness. Dylan and Lisa are Prick Decay, from Scotland, who run Iheir own cassette label called Chocolate Monk. (Watch for a guest appearance by Thurston Moore on an upcoming Prick Decay re- | lease.) Last on this compilation is a noisy bit (sur- J prise, surprise) by Bone Cure, featuring Eric, gui- i tarist from Bellingham's Noggin. (Trakshun c/o 1 09 j W. Cordova St., Vancouver, BC, V6B 1E1) Paula Frazer, who coincidentolly appeared on Volume 2 of Optional Ingredients..., and is in the country band Tarnation, has released a solo 7" on Sunday Driver Records with three tracks which also appear in different versions on Tarnation full-length, Gentle Creatures. All three songs are much rougher and more echo-y sounding than the band versions, so it's worth it to have both the single and the album. This 7" contains Frazer's wonderfully strong vocals and strummy folk guitar on "The Hand", "Is She Lonesome Now" and "Two Wrongs Won't Make Things Right", all of which make you feel that you and Frazer are alone in your backyard on a sunny Sunday afternoon. (Sunday Driver, 2017 Loweriine, New Orleans, Louisiana, 791 18) The pop hit award of this month goes to LA's Sissy Bar, who have come up with a good cept for their cover: Iwo different ones to please everybody. One side is '80s notebook chic adorned wilh hearts and colourful unicorns, the olher is mod in subdued shades. The A-side on this swirly rasp berry record is "Sod to Say", which is a lush sounding hi-fi production of funky drum machine beats and simple, fuzzy guitar chords similar to those used by Charles Brown Superstar and ihe Strawberry Jams (both found on ihe Poop Alley Tapes compilation). The band is able lo stay pretty and melancholy without sounding sappy (even though we like a little bit of sap every now and again!). Side B's "Free to Be" makes good use of the interesting combo of banjo ond distorted guitar. The pretty and smooth anlhemic female vocals only add to ihe salty flavour of this song. You may already know and love Sissy Bar because ihey released a 10" last year on Love Kit Records featuring two different cover versions of Snoop Doggy Dog's "Gin and Juice". (Moo-Tron Records, 4470 Sunset Blvd., Suite 527, Los Angeles, CA, 90027) More along the lines of indie-pop, Tart have released Lunchbox Style Disaster on Sweet Pea Records. The first song on the A-side, "Shut Up", nearly cracked us up because of its incredible similarity to "99 Red Balloons", wilh its upbeat and cute folky harmonies. Unfortunately, this is the most memorable track on the record; by the time we'd reached the last song, we decided that the record as a whole didn't quite have 'it' - whatever 'it' is. (Sweet Pea Records, PO Box 408967, Chicago, IL, 60640) Another of our favourite singles this month is by Pennikurvers, who we think are named after a '70s skating star. A pretty blue and silver cover, thick clear blue vinyl, and three charming chansons. We love their brand of discordant pop and their pretty, soft vocals that remind us of ihe fragile quality of Jen from Tattle Tale and Rose Melberg. Our only criticism is that the vocals are eilher too low in the mix or too distorted, and their last song, "Autumn in February", tended to drag. (Dieselhead Records, Inc. 9349 Greenwell St., Bellflower, CA, 90706) Taft Hotel are apparently a band comprised of college radio kids from San Luis Obispo. We can imagine whal their playlist must include: Unwound, Slint, Codeine, Rodan, Drive Like Jehu... Side A's "Free the Witches" is primarily quiet and slow and keeps you waiting for the burst of noise ihot inevitably interrupts ihese kinds of songs, but in ihis one it comes at the very end as a sonic blast of raw bass and drums. Side B's "Purple" is the kind of fast-paced hardcore that makes our throats hurt just listening ta it. Screaming, and lhat's about it. Released on Co-Dependent, which is "a cooperative organization which funds creative projects by pooling a little bit of money from a lotta bit of people. Any profit made from the sale of these recordings will go to the next Co-Dependent project". (Co-Dependent, PO 1625, San Luis Obispo, CA, 93406) Last of the month, we bring to you Super 5 Thor's Tubeless Ignition EP on Los Angeles' No Life Records. Do you wanna know what ihey sound like? Like ihis foursome has spent many a sleepless night listening to the Jesus and Mary Chain and Galaxie 500. Pleasant and tranquil. No Life, PO Box 461778, IA, CA, 90046) Olher. relec Our Stupid Noise - a compilation featuring Speedbuggy, Radioblaster, Thee Suddens and The New Grand. Codislributed by Chester's Funtime, Bubblegun, Squirtgun and Sappy. A celebration of up-and-coming independent bands from across Canada, (c/o Chester's Funtime Records Collection, #603-1483 Larney's Mill Road, Vancouver, BC, V6H 3Y7) Pumpernickel "Lovely Dear" +2 - the third release from Girl Afraid's cool Pop Kid Records featuring these Scarsdale, NY rockers. 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JAMES COMMUNITY SQUARE 3214 w lOtti WE iindeii review BUTTERGLORY Arc You Building A Tompkt In Uemveat (Merge) Debby Vander Wall and Matt Suggs return with a collection oi more pop hits lo laze away the spring blues (that's blue skies ..). She clicks Ihe slicks and sings, he strums the strings and alternately sings deep like Calvin Johnson and high like Steve Malkmus on helium, and they've apparently even gol a new permanent bassist. The instrument list this lime is extensive: wilh the added touches of saxophone, cello, clarinet, trumpet, organ, and piano, the resulting Butterglory 'sound' is pretty much what we might expect as a follow-up to Ihe greal but simple and sparse Crumble released a couple ol years ago. These Super- chunk pals are more polished this time 'round in both the recording/production (by infamous Dave Trumfio) and Ihe song writing, and although not even Are You Building...'s "She's Gol The Akshun" can lop Iheir "Wailing on Ihe Guns" (now covered by the Wedding Present), this is still a heavenly release not to be disregarded. miko D.O.A. The Black Spot (Essential Noise/Virgin) Maybe il was the limes, bul during Ihe lale 80s D.O.A. Ireaded in a wasteland thai seemed oul of synch with Ihe era. Joey Shithead and Co. appeared tired and missing the spark ol earlier punk dassics such as 1982's "War On 45". Blame it on a genera- lion thai embraced crass commercialism wilh such zeal that Wall Street still gels an erection over Ihe fond memories that produced Ihe baby boomers. Many a punk had washed Ihe dye oul of Iheir hair and donned suits to enter the real world of mortages, minivans and Elton John. Trying lo bludgeon the bullshit of Ihe 90s, D.O.A. has re-merged wilh one of their belter albums in years. Aggressively defiant and humourous, The Black Spot lobs the spittle with a wonderful fury reminiscent of the heyday of punk. Ripping through 16 hardcore ditties, D.O.A. put Ihe boots lo a reworking of David Peel's "Have Marijuana" and blast through some of the bands stronger material in years, including "Blind Men", "More", and "Road Kill". The perfect house wrecking parly album. Pieter Hohnann THE EMPTYS Coolers Are Not Bear Proof (Independent) This is pure pop music for "shiny, happy people". Styled in an R.E.M.- or Pavemenl-iike fashion, The Emptys, a Vancouver band, can brighten your day or make you sick, depending on your taste in music. The only Ihing lhal really differentiates ihem from R.E.M. is Iheir vocals, bul everything else sounds like the/re covering some*hing from Green or Murmur. Fast-paced pop songs for those of us who sometimes don'l feel like being force-fed feedback or being surrounded by chunky power chords. The highlight of the five-song cassette is the tune "Opportunists' Holiday". I like Ihe whole tape. Chris Corday JUNED Cvmry Night For You ("Pi I'm not a big fan of psychedelic guitar. However, I like Juned because lo me ihey are one of Ihe few '90s bands lhal incorporates the sound of psychedelic guitar without sounding either wanky or cheesy. The originality of their sound also lies in their use of girl harmonies, because psychedelic rock has tended lo be the domain of whining boys. The softness of Ihe vocals caught me by surprise. They smoothly meld lots of styles within songs - moving from psychedelic lo pop lo garage - without choppy transitions, leaving you wondering later on when the tempo shifted and how it shifted without you noticing (see "Possum"), and sometimes by successfully blending at once elements of the different genres lo produce somelhing all together new (check oul "Dig" and "When It Stops"). Oh yeah. And all you hidden track freaks have cause to rejoice. Krisla James movie nights. pop; na/i#-e>u£,wa&Affwm'&f, ea?/w/ia>. one on one peer suport. freedinner! * *> aooat/vod, #wdram, aooddrinA, aaodfam&) ™ 3 day retreat free cA/wrtuaito fa aefout t>f?Ae a'fo a/u/Area/Ae domefrejAacr sounds interesting? # 650-2649 YOUTHCO'S POSITIVE-YOUTH OUTREACH I PROGRAM (POP) IS RUN BY YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV FOR YOUNG PEOPLE LIVING WITH HIV. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT THEN CALL US ON jr private & annonymous pager because we're aU fa this together. hell, we might even go bowling! KILUNG JOKE Democracy (Big life/Butterfly) Wilh the original line-up of Jaz Coleman, Youth, Glover, Walker and Dugmore (without the help Ihese days of Atkins and Raven), Killing Joke's current foray into the 1990s (after Iheir return. Pandemonium) reminds us just how much things stay the same Ihe more Ihey change. Killing Joke inspired Ihe current punk-driven techno movement, gave industrial its artistic edge, makes metal stomachable, and still remains the lasl vestige of '80s thrash. Their bass player, Youth, is even the producer for many a fine lechno-ambienl band (e.g. System 7 and Ihe Drum Club), while Killing Joke themselves spawned the Orb. Bul ihey have kept iheir sound all their own and Democracy is proof of lhal. While labelled as 'metal' in record stores, one can tell bands like Lush, Aztec Camera and Britpoppers are all mere derivatives. Admittedly, Democracy isn't Ihe strongest album - I still think Pandemonium and Laugh? I Nearly Bought Onel are more clever - bul Killing Joke created the template. It's time to face your maker... Christian KNOCKIN' DOG (Independent) Il is sometimes the case that bands which are amazing, crazy, outrageous, inventive, entertaining and jusl alive when they play live fail to cap- lure thai energy when Ihey come lo record, and thus lose a lot in the translation. Happily, local band Knockin' Dog have not been a victim of this syndrome, and Simplex is a wonderful record. These guys draw from more musical styles than you'll find represented by a cruise through your local record store and weld them inlo something distinctive and unique. OK, OK - Ihis is my way of saying lhal Ihey defy detailed description in anything under 1000 words, and lhal Ahmet and Dweezil Zappa should give in now, because Knockin' Dog are Ihe true heirs of papa Frank's musical genius. Simplex is different lo Knockin' Dog's live show, but jusl as good - they can work within the studio environment and create somelhing appropriate lo lhal, while also being able lo explode live into a glorious sonic Hydra, making both experiences an exquisite musical trip. Run, don'l walk, to the mail box to send $10 to K-9 Unit, PO Box 291 44, Delamonl Postal Outlet, Vancouver, B.C., V6J 5C2. Sophie Hamley HOLLY MCNARLAND (Paradise Alley) I don't like Ihis EP. Holly McNarland has an incredible voice lhal is wasted on this album: when I listen to it I always find myself wishing the band would jusl go away so I could listen to her voice without distraction. Admittedly, pari of why I found Ihe instrumental lhat Ihe ri rlish photo of Holly sucking her pie- fingers on the EP cover had lead me to expect a less marketable and more in-your-face style. Bul the real problem for me is lhal the band seems lo be trying lo make Holly sound like Sarah McLachlan; and while Ihis works for Sarah, Ihis sort of instrumentation drains the energy oul of Holly's songs, waters ihem down and makes them too palatable. Il is Ihe two least Sarah McLachlan-y Iracks on Ihis album that work the best. The softly acoustic "I Won't Stay" exploits the rawness of Holly's voice, whereas the louder and harsher "Sick Boy" makes room for her anger.On both Iracks the band seems lo have slopped trying lo turn Holly into the easy listening mall rock she isn't, either by shutting up and just letting the girl sing, or by Krisla James MARK BRODIE AND THE BEAVER PATROL Tho Shores of Holl (Shredder) I've seen the name Mark Brodie and Ihe Beaver Patrol around for a while bul always stayed away from Ihem because I figured that, wilh a name like lhal, ihey must be some bar band specializing in the 'hits'. Well, although their name is pretty lame, ihey are in fact a fairly decent surf trio. Pretty much whal you'd expect from a surf band: guitar, drums, bass wilh a little (very) Hammond B thrown in for Bty. Bad name, good "Cat 3da*s combo"?? I popul urfin THE MEANIES 10% Woird (Frontier Records) Sprung from the same fertile loins as those bastard products of punk eugenics. Green Day (albeit second cousins once removed), Ihe Meanies, Australian experts of the shorl/sharp/ shokl school of floorboard-shaking rock, have whipped oul yet another platter o' gems. One might take ihem lo task for mining the same musical vein for loo long, but when they do il fasl'n'furious'n'fun. Thanks, boys. Angela Danes MINISTRY Fihhpig (Warner) I really loved the new Ministry album until I actually heard it. Allow me to explain. In small doses (say, two or Ihree songs a week), Fillhpig sounds like it was intended to - heavy, sleazy and gleefully surly. Taken in its entirely, Ihough, Ihe album sounds more lhan a little cheesy, repetitive and tedious. There's a cover of Dylan's "Lay Lady Lay", so straightforward you kind of wonder why they bothered, and a number of songs thai sound like they got stretched out lo five minules against their will. O.K., it's not as godawful as I'm making il sound - "Reload", "Crumbs" and "Lava" are all pretty cool - but it is disappointing. Oh well. Is Ministry becoming a chore? Have Ihey just plain outlived their purpose? Only Al Jourgensen and Paul Barker know for sure. Yeah, Ministry are a metal band for the '90s - bul lhal band could jusl be Spinal T6p. Tara Nelson NOFX Heavy Petting Zoo (Epitaph) Besides having ihe beslest, moslest punk rock title of recent memory, this CD by fan favourite NOFX is like manna from heaven when compared with some of Ihe other drudge on Epitaph's roster (rip-off wannabes Rancid and Offspring lake heed). Not one hinl of recycled Clashl Noi one iota of regurgitated leen spiritl NO ONE singing in Joe Strummer's voicel So already it's good. Bul there's more - witty lyricsl Sincere inlrospeclionl Nudity! Fun I All ground up, irradiated by eleclric distortion and stuffed inlo links of human D.N.A.-compatible Yuml If you have a nose-ring you already have il. If you're new lo punk you can't afford not lo be without itl Namiko THE PASTELS Mobile Safari (Up) The Pastels are from Glasgow, Scotland. The core of Ihe band is made up of Stephen Pastel, Aggi and Katrina Mitchell. All three alternate on "Mandarin" is a song that sounds so innocent, with sweet, almost childlike Slereolab-ish sound, with keyboards and backing chanls, bul the Pastels also maintain Iheir own distinctive style within it. "Coolport" is an amazing song with Stephen on lead vocals thai evokes emotions of sadness and sincerity. Mobile Safari is soothing and sugary and I like il. CQ SHONEN KNIFE rhe birds and tho b-sides (Virgin) It's not an easy thing being a feminist and a fan of Shonen Knife. I getdissed time and time again for wanting lo listen lo Ihree cute girls wilh strong Japanese accents and guitars stumble over choco bars and fruit loops in brightly-coloured matching go-go girl Bul Ihere are a lol of things lo like aboul Shonen Knife. Instrumentally, these girls know whal they are doing. They play an energetic show. They sing aboul goofy things like spaceships, catnip dreams and strawberry creampuffs, which might sound as sacchrine sweel as a lot of the music coming oul of Ihe Hello Kitlyl generation but for Shonen Knife's sense of the absurd: "Shaking her hip, blue eyed kitty cat dances Ihe mambo"; "Johnny, Johnny, Johnny, Johnny he's a regular boy/ He's the best boy in Ihe lown/ He's good al bowling. It's all very up, bul it's not the strongest portrayal of women. I have trouble not seeing Shonen Knife as part of a general culification of non- English speaking women in film and music, as buying inlo the idea thai Japanese women should smile demurely, look cute and decorative, and are incapable of complex thought. So while part of what I like about Shonen Knife is thai it's so gosh darn cute thai Ihese girls can't even pronounce the silly English words in their songs prop erly, I gel uncomfortable about why il is thai I find thai so cule. Somelhing to think aboul, kids. All that said, this is not my favourite Shonen Knife album. The Iracks were recorded in different locations, so Ihe sound quality varies, but, in general, Ihe covers of songs from the 60s and 70s, the live recordings, and the inclusion of some of Iheir earlier recordings combine lo make Ihe album sound somewhat hollow and a lot less polished and more garagy lhan RockAnimals and iefs Knife. The acoustic/electric version of "Fruit Loop Dreams" is slowed down and sc vchedeli .. Bul rr slower, mellow stuff doesn't quite work. It's kind of like Shonen Knife on Demerol. Other lhan the cover of the Carpenters' "Top of the World", which I may like mostly because I've always liked the song, the best sluff is the older candy-fixated stuff lhal Shonen Knife recorded before ved inlo ■tables SKINNY PUPPY The Process (American Recordings) Yeesh. How does one go aboul reviewing Ihe lasl album by a music genre's most influential band? As one might expect of an album three years in the making by a band being bro- tracks feel like holdovers from the lasl two albums. Yel afler a few listenings, il really grows on you; hidden sounds emerge and unique Iracks become ever more interesting. I can't help bul think of Led Zeppelin's (yes, Zeppelin) lasl sludio album, In Through the Out Door, released shortly before Bonham's death. Like Out Doot, some of the Iracks are "different" from what was expected of Ihe band; The Process hints at what might have been, giving ihe album a frustrated, sad feel lo il - perfect for whal the album represents. Listen closely..that's ihe sound of a greal band dying. Gustav SMAK Live and Naked EP (Staclc-A-Records) I seem to remember dancing during a live Smak performance some time lasl year, enjoying myself immensely yet not really knowing why. I guess Ihey had Ihe whole freaky^clec'ic-neo-jazz- core thing going for ihem, and if there's one thing I'm a sucker for, it's The good memories are whal made me pick up ihis CD, and it's cool. Twenty-something minutes of sax and silly rapping over hardcore riffs, jusl short enough lo be tolerable, and jusl original enough lo be interesting. However, I think Smak are definitely more fun live (i.e. al a show, in person, with dancing and a crowd) and I shall use this album as an incentive lo gel me lo go see Ihem again. THE SMUGGLERS Selling the Sizzle! (Mint/Lookout!) This is Ihe most recent of the numerous releases of Vancouver's own fabulous Smugglers. Selling Ihe Sizzle! starts appropriately enough wilh a song entitled "To Serve, Protect and Entertain". Most of Ihe songs are short, groovin' and dance inducin'. There is some nice variation in style - "Queasy" is a counlryish, hillbillyish-sounding song, while "Especially You" has a more melodic alternation between singer Grant Lawrence and a backing chorus. I especially like "Bishy- Bishyl". Also included al the end of of "Little Red Riding Hood". , lift s by Nardwuar the Human Servie of pictures and a Smugglers discography. The album sizzles, bul you can really gel the flames jumping and smoking when you turn up the volume. GQ UNTITLED Untitled (Drag City) This record is so beautiful that I'm almost inclined lo agree with the Drag City folk when they say themselves lhat "there aren't supposed lo be words for ihese Ihings... it's best lo leave them secret, nameless, untitled." (Never thought I'd quote from a catalogue ...) Untitled is basically Cyndi Dall's solo project, wilh accompaniment by Billy Caliahan (Mr. Smog himself) on guitar and vocals, Jim O'Rourke (Smog, Gaslr Del Sol) on piano and production, and a hosl of others.The primary work comes from Cyndi Dall, playing piano and guitar and most importantly, singing on all tracks except "For Tiara", a beautiful, short piano instrumental.Nine tracks of moody, mellow, intricately composed tunes; the mosl mesmerizing song begins the record: "Christmas (California)" is like Ihe "Summer Babe (Winter version)" of this self-titled release; you might find yourself programming your player to repeal this one, as Dall's voice wanders over the lyrics, "What are you buying me for Christmas/ Il belter be good/ You better think hard 'boul whal you're buying/ Or I'll find all year you've been lying." Dall's soft, whispery voice transforms her disturbingly insecure and optimistically morbid lyrics into slow-paced lullaby tunes which won't put you lo sleep, bul instead will prepare you for it. miko VARIOUS ARTISTS Planet Dub (Mammoth) For years I've been listening to techno, ambienl and just plain any weird experimental electronic music I can get my hands on, bul il hasn'l been until fairly recently that I clued inlo one of the major influences on Ihe aforementioned musical genres: the fascinating world known as "dub". If experimentation and originality are whal you dig, then you'lllikey become addicted lo dub like I am. A good place lo start your dub journey is Planet Dub, Iwo discs of beautifully crafted dub from Ihe likes of: Silicon Drum, Children of the Bong, The Power Steppers, Slrangebrew, The Rhythmites, Roolsman and many others. This compilation is filled with slow V chunky chilled oul beats and reggae-influenced rhylhms from a myriad of artists, providing a lasle of the many differenl styles from the past lo Ihe present. Find out what's been influencing all the latest basshead junglists and trip hop producers for years. Brian Wright VARIOUS ARTISTS Slow Children at Play (5th Beetle) From new Canadian label 5lh Beetle comes Ihis noisy, eclectic little wonder. I was planning a slick little name- check of all the best lunes, bul a funny thing happened on Ihe way to...The tunes all turned oul lo be good. The usual vagaries of compilations (some outstanding, worlh-every-dollar-songs and the sonic bile that composes the rest of the LP) are happily absent from this little ensemble. The production is fairly low-key on all of ihe tracks, lending a welHoved, sel-up-lhe-amps-in-lhe- den-kids kind of feel to the record, bul this will obviously not appeal to the overly digitally inclined. A brief mention of some Iracks in order, Ihoi azzy discordance of Soul-Junk, the fuzzy, brooding menace of Princess Superstar, and a fab song by Square Root of Margaret which rocks and rocks and Ihen turns inlo a quasi-ethereal thing of beauty, which is exactly how Benna Cohen's "Figure Eight" could be described. But this doesn't even really begin to illustrate Ihe breadth of slyles and influences on Ihis compilation, which also has songs from Licorice, Merseysippi CollecliT Band, Champion Sprout, Murder She Wrote Me and the additional moog. If this CD marks the beginning of the life of 5lh Beetle, this label is one baby who has bypassed the crawl and toddle stage for the 50m hurdles. Sophie Hamley SVEN VATH Touch Themes of... (Eye Q Records) If you're a fan of German trance, or of Sven Vath anyhow, you're going lo get Ihis one. Sven Vdlh, he who today defines lhal Teutonic sound of pounding bepls mixed wilh Cyclopean (lo borrow from H.P. Lovecrafl) melodies, is remixed here by Hardfloor, Underworld, ALter Ego, Speedy J and B-zet. It's all a little monotonous, repetitive and yet, for some reason lhat I can't explain, really kind of fun. I mean, it's just pounding wilh sound effects thrown inl The original grooves from Ihe previous LP, Har/e- quin, Robot and the Dancer, are stripped down and fooked wilh a bit. But again, it's fun in some way. In lhal "crank il loud al nighl and visualise you're in some club called the Kitchen in Berlin" or somelhing, and you'll just...well, the ambienl Iracks are decent but the pounding, again (the Underworld/Hardfloor Iracks) is jusl, well, cyclopeanl In some ways, if it's early in the afternoon, this CD may seem as exciting as Psychick Warriors of Gaia (i.e. not very) or even worse, something by Chris Sheppard; bul in the righl black-lighled, Germanic frame of Christian WESLEY WILLIS Greatest Hits (Alternative Tentacles) Wesley Willis is a 350-pound schizophrenic man from Chicago who draws pictures and writes poetry and songs for a living. This album shows of his so-called "greatest hits" in a 22-song package. Whal can I say about il? With song lilies like "The Chicken Cow", "Kris Cringle Was a Car Thief" and "I Wupped Batman's Ass", this album is...interesting, often funny and definitely weird, but I sure as hell wouldn't pay $15.00 or whatever lo buy it. It's jusl loo damn weird. 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Gol a quarter then call someone who FEMNINE HY-JNX 4:00-5r00PM For women who sometimes don'l feel fresh, but always gel fresh Spoken word and music: light to heavy flow. Maximum protection recommended for male listeners. Holy Hannah! It's a Femininsl show. BIRDWATCHERS 5:30-6:00PM Join Colin Pereina for all the weekend sports shlock from the high altitudes and thin air of Point Grey. POLYPHONIC alternating 7:0O-9:0OPM Listen for all Canadian, mostly independent tunes, and band interviews at 7:30! THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM Vancouver's longest running pnme lime jazz program. Hosled by the ever-suave Gavin Walker. Features at 11. April 1: Justin Ho (of Justin's Time, heard Thurs. 2-3pm), mans The Jazz Show tonight. April 8: "Damn" is a new one by Hammond Organ master Jimmy Smith, with Roy Hargrove, Nicholas Payton, Abraham Burton, Chnslian McBride and others plus the last recorded appearance by drummer Arthur Taylor. April 15: One of the great drummers "Papa Jo" Jones wilh Count Basie, trombonist BenmeGreenandunderrated Lucky Thompson on tenor saxophone. Greal informal Jazz April 22: To celebrate the late Charts Mingus' 74th birthday, we present "East Coasting" from his "blue period." Bassist/composer Mingus with Jimmy Knepper (trombone), Shafi Hadi (saxophones) and Bill Evans (piano) plus others. April 29: "Swingin' New Big Band" CiTR 1.Q-L9 £xa drummer Buddy Rich , who proved that big-bands and Jazz were not dead, on this great re-issue. TUESDAYS TURD TIME'S THE CHARM 9:O0-ll:O0AM Hear! Music that makes you feel burned alive on an altar of flame! Shake with laughs! Shiver with suspense! Tremble with thrills! Not for sissies or children! It's scary! It's screamy! It's screwy! MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW 4:0O-5:0OPM Women in music and grrrls in music; two hours of info and rawk. Ya don'l need a penis to be a musical Genius! K3RA 5:30-6*OOPM News, issues, and concerns facing Muslims throughout the world. THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:OOPM Meat the unherd where the unheard and the hordes of hardly herd are heard, courtesy of host and demo director Dale Sawyer. Herd up! RITMO LATINO 9:00-10*OOPM Gel on board Vancouver's only tropical fiesta express with your loco hosts Rolando, Romy, and Paulo as they shake it and wiggle il lo ihe latest in Salsa, Merengue, Cumbia and other fiery fiesta favourites. Latin music so hoi it'll give you a Ian! iiRADIO SABROSAI! WOLF AT THE DOOR 10:00PM-12:00AM Alternating Tuesdays. Live readings and the latest in techno bizzarre with hosl Lupus Yonderboy. AURA1 TENTAClfS MIDNITE - VERY LATE Warning: This show is moody and unpredictable. It encourages insomnia and may prove to be hazardous to your health. Listener discretion is advised. WEDNESDAYS LOVE SUCKS 11:30AM-1:00PM Tune in for the musical catharsis that is Love Sucks. If you can't make sense of il, al least you can dance to it! MOTORDADDY 3:00-5:00PM "Al club functions there is lo be no shooting of firearms or setting off fireworks." ESOTERIK 6:00-7:30PM Ambient/ eleclronic/induslrial/elhnic/ experimental music for those of us who know aboul the illilhids. AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:OOPM henry'sdress, cyndi dall, sissy bar, karate ... these are a few of our fave-oh-writ things, la la la! TROPICAL DAIQUIRI 9:00- 10:00PM Zouk, Soukous, Samba, Salsa. Yes! Even Soca. Enjoy thi s Tropical Daiquiri wilh El Doctor del Rilmo. STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR 10:00PM- 1200 AM Let DJ's Jindwa and Bindwa immerse you in radioactive Bhungra! "Cbakkh de phutay*. Listen lo all our favorite Punjabi tunes - remixes and THURSDAYS RADIOFRBWOMB410:00-11:30AM It's not a free cuntry. And we're demanding acunlabilily. Wake up wilh our collective CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30-1:00PM Toques, plaids, bockbocon, beer, igloos and beavers. STEVE & MIKE 1:002:00PM Crashing the boys' club in the pit. Hard and fast, heavy and slow. Listen lo it, baby. JUSTIN'S TIME 2:O0-3:O0PM For some cool jazz by some swingin' singers and boppin' players, tune in and don't miss out on some happy times! OUT FOR KICKS 6:00-7:30PM No Birkenslocks, nothing politically correct. We don't get paid so you're damn right we have fun with il. Hosled by Chris B. ONAKWnHGREASEDHAR7:3O-9:00PM Roots of rock & roll. LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL 9:00-11:00PM Local muzak from 9. Live bandz from 10 FRIDAYS VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- lOKJOAM Greg here. Join me in the love den for a cocktail. We'll hear retro stuff, groovy *azz, and thicker stuff too. See you here ... and bring some ice. XOXX TUE serious music? SATURDAY EPGE wrtkfte BroWMf the charm frtyfiHtr musio-al interludes ton Dtn/ DIGITAL flLMffl CHRONOMETER Radio frte Tt\t$\S JTW KAflO MOW BLOOD ON THE SADDLE Sk_-t'» Scenic love sucks LUNCH ■gl=_-B_H ROCKERS SHOW solid stare poirveR\ CHORD MEHHIIKHL OBJEKT NOIZE Mr/fax S£M justin's time Little Twin Stars 1 f KtVT AKOoi SCToUV M«*r-E*tm-; Get The MOTOR dAddy Fl£K YOUR HEAD AFRICAN SHOW NARDMJAR/ F-rmiHiN-f Hy-(i*« Mary Tylfir Moore Hewer's C«f«rpll"_T Aw*r<** Howt ESOTEMH fort for Krtf NATION NATION THE SHOW (hiphop) polyphonic/ kip hop k<*.lir UNHEARD MUSIC and sometimes why ON AIR WITH UREASE*) HAIR 1 cobra. synoptic sandwich fecT«MMli THF. JAZZ SHOW RITMO LATINO Tropic*! dtti^hiri LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL HOME BASS 1 ONE STEP BEYOND: RADIO FREE | AMERICA wolf al Ihe door witchdocotor hig hball StT$ Ohtt* JAllitHtW live at the 1 hi-hat/5 1 hour lunch 1 RADIO T.Y./ GROOY£ Jl/MPWG IN THE I GRIP OF 1 INCOHERENCY SCRfAMWG WCOrV- S/STfrVC/fS TEVTACLLS THEORV.HFH titof ft* fill-in slot from hell SOMETHING THESIS lfcO0-ll:OOAM Tune in for discussions, interviews & information relating to people wlio live with physical & mental chafienges. SKATS SCENE-IK DRIVE! 11:00AM- 12.-00PM SkaPunkSkaSwingSka Polka SkaCoreSkatanicSkaJazz etc.efc.etc. UTTlf TWIN STARS 2*00-3:30 PM Kiki Liki' Kiki Liki NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4:00PM Have a good brunch! NATION 2 NATION 6:00-9:00PM Underground sound system- style mastermix radio. FOR THE RECORD 6:30-6:45PM Ex--* cerpts from Dave Emory's Radio Free [ America Series. HOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM The - original live mixed dance program in Vancouver. Hosled by DJ Noah, the main focus of the show is techno, but also includes some trance, acid, tribal, etc... Guest DJ's, interviews, retrospectives, giveaways, and more are part of the flavor of homebass. LIMP SINK 12:00AM-2:42AM On alternating weeks join Dr. Killdare on "The Doctor Killdare Show." Contact: limpsink@broken.ranch.org SATURDAYS THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- 12:00PM Now in its 10th year on the air, The Edge on Folk features music you won't hear anywhere else, studio guests, new releases, Brirish comedy sketches, folk music calendar, ticket giveaways, elc, plus World Cup Report at 11:30 AM. 8-9 AM: ; African/World roots. 9-12 noon: " Celtic music and feature performances. POWERCHORD 12:00-3:00PM Vancouver's only true metal show; local demo tapes, imports and other rarities. Gerald RatHehead and Metal Ron do ihe damage. THE SHOW 6:00-8:00PM Strictly Hip Hop — Strictly Undergound — Strictly Vinyl With your hosts Mr. Checka, Flip Out & J Swing on the 1 & 2's. SOMETHING l:0O-4:0OAM "You can tell by the way I use my walk. I'm a woman's man ...no lime to talk." WHOM & HOW Arts Ian McKinnon Board Chair Harry Hertscheg Business Mgr. Current Affairs Andrea Funk Demos/Cassettes Dale Sawyer Engineer Richard Anderson Entertainment Chris Allison Librarian Clarence Chu Mobile Sound Andy Bonfield Music Megan Mallett President Namiico Kumimoto Production Aaron Robertson Programming Miko Hoffman Promotions Selena Harrington Secretary Chandra Lesmeister Sports Dave Ryan Station Manager Linda Scholten Student Engineer Fern Webb Traffic Grahame Quan Vice President Ryan Ogg Volunteer Coordinator John Ruskin BUS. LINE 604.822.3017 DJLINE 604.822.2487 MUSIC DEP'T. 604.822.8733 NEWS LINE 604.822.5334 FAX LINE 604.822.9364 24 APRIL 1996 REGULAR EVENTS (Net*: This section hasn't been updated for a while, so be warned that this information isn't 100% accurate!) MON: CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS WORLD VIBES W/EL DOCTO DEL RITMO (WORLD BEAT) AT THE PIT PUB...Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K and Czech (jazz, funk, reggae, hip hop) al Ihe Slarfish Room...Blue Room w/dj Isis (ambient) at Automotive...80's Dance Nighl w/dj Brian St. Clair al Graceland...Readings, Music •_ more al the Grind Gallery (every olher Monday at 8pm)... TUK: CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS INFUSIA W/DJS GANDORF _ CO (JAZZ, SOUL, HIP HOP & FUNK) AT THE PIT PUB...Winter Mountain w/dj James Brown al Graceland...The Magic of Disco at Richard's On Richards...Boogie Ave w/ dj Maggee (70's old school) al Ihe Heritage House Hotel (453 Abbott)...Disco Night al the Commodore...The Greasy Spoon w/Slick at Ihe Hungry Eye...Klassix Nighl w/dj David Hawkes at Luv Yr Hair...New Wave/Relro 80's Night w/dj Atomic al Ihe Twilight Zone...Aural Fixation at DV8 (poetry - sign-up 7:30, show at 8:00)...The Tongue of Ihe Slip al Ihe Glass Slipper (scheduled readers and open limited open mike - 9pm on Ihe third Tuesday of the month)...Live jazz w/ dj Brian James al the Purple Onion... WED: Melange w/dj Quest al the Purple Onion...Velvet w/djs T-Bone, Dickey Doo and special guests (deep house) al The Underground...Reggae Nighl al Graceland w/dj Silk...Ginger Snaps w/dj Mike & Soma and live electronic guesls al Mars...Gin & Sin Lounge al Niagara...Punk Rock Wednesday w/dj Twigboyal Ihe Twilight Zone...Nitro (industrial progressive indie) w/dj Czech al Luvafair...Max Murphy Collective al Raffels...Open Moulh (open mic) w/ hosl Carolyn Mark atthe Malcolm Lowry Room (9pm - call ahead lo read)...El Famoso (raregroove, funk, hip-hop, jazz, reggae) al Ihe Red Lounge... THUR: Sol w/dj Markem and guesls (progressive, trance, tribal, hard house) al Graceland...The Bottle w/djs Clarence and David Love Jones (soul, jazz & rare groove) at Ihe Piccadilly...Soul V Funk in the Basement w/dj Marc and guesls al ihe St. Regis (bsmt)...Nocturnal Injection Revelation w/dj Wonderbread al Ihe Twilight Zone...Cal House w/dj Mick Shea (house) al Celebrities...Blowfish (soul, jazz, r&b, latin, worldbeat) w/ djs Al Testa and Thomas al Ihe Red Lounge...Step Hard w/Andy B Luke al 898 Richards (2-4)...Strictly Business wilh djs Luke, Andy B. and Wundertwins al the Hungry Eye... FRI: Sugar w/weekly rolaliong djs al Graceland...Lowdown w/djs Lovely Lisa and Dick al the St. Regis (bsmt)...Explorations in Outer Bass (ambienl) al Melriches Coftee House (1 244 Davie)...Planet ov Sound w/James Brown and guesls al the World (1-5)...Homo Homer w/dj Jules (house _ disco) al Ihe Odyssey...Malebox w/dj Mick Shea (house) al Celebrities...Blitzkrieg (tribal, industrial, goth) al the Twilight Zone...Low Down (funk, jazz, hiphop) al Ihe Si. Regis Basement Lounge...Lounging w/ dj T-bone (house, jazz and beyond) at the Red Lounge...Groove w/djs Marc and Todd Keller, 154 W Hastings al SAT: Noah's Arc w/dj Noah at the World (l-5)...Yo Mama w/djs KiloCee and J Swing (hip hop) al Ihe Twilight Zone...Bad Boys Nighl Oul w/dj Jules (house) al ihe Odyssey...djs Storm & Dickey Doo (house) al Celebrities...Lounging w/dj Soul Kid (jazzy, groovy) al the Red Lounge... SUN: Uranus Invades Mars w/djs Dickey Doo and Quesl al Mars...Alternative Jazz al Cafe Deux Soleils (every other Sun)...dj Jules (house & disco) at Ihe Odyssey...Ska Night w/dj Pig al the Twilight Zone...Movie Night al Ihe Railway Club...Pressing Poetry atthe Press Club (7:30).. Lipstik Doom w/ Doctor Killdare al 1 250 Richards 9pm-1 2am... IRREGULAR EVENTS APRIL MON 1 CiTR 101 9fM PRESENTS GAVIN FRIDAY W/ THE LEGENDARY JIM RUIZ GROUP ATTHE STARFISH ROOM.Skatalites w/ Something Ska at the Town Pump.. Colin Hay at the Railway Club.. T.S. Monk Sextet at the Cultch...Kate McKenzie at the Glass Slipper...Heat at the Ridge...Nosferatu the Vampire and Woyzeck at the Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 2 Angelique Kidjo at Richard's on Richards..Rose Chronicles at the Railway Club.Kreator w/ Skrew at fhe Starfish Room...Heat at the Ridge..Gito, the Ungrateful at the Pacific Cinematheque.. WED 3 Bandit Queen w/ Nickelback at the Town Pump (FREE SHOW!)...Rose Chronicles at the Railway Club...Chris Field Band at the Unicorn...Shanghai Triad and The Blue Kite at the Ridge. .1 Love Vienna and The Quality of Mercy at the Pacific Cinematheque.. Tattoos at the Cultch... THURS 4 The Super Friendz, Ashley Maclsaac, the Pursuit of Happiness, Bass is Base, Barstool Prophets at 5th Annual Arts County Fair at UBC Thunderbird Stadium, noon-9pm, tickets atTicketmaster.My Heart Beats Green: Tribute to Green Party founder Petra Kelly featuring Bigfoot, the Stellar Jays, Cirkus Mind and the Demolition Dollheads atthe W.I.S.E. Hall...D.R.I, w/ guests at the Town Pump...The Monoxides at the Hungry Eye.Emmylou Harris w/ Innocence Mission at the Commodore...Bass is Base at Richard's on Richards...Green Room w/ guests at the Starfish Room...Minority w/ Bombscare at the Niagara... Wynona-Sue & the Turnpikes atthe Railway Club...The Hard Rock Miners at the Pit Pub.. .Cinderpop and Feel w/ The Floor at Gastown Music Hall...Shanghai Triad and The Blue Kite at the Ridge. .1 Love Vienna and The Quality of Mercy at the Pacific Cinematheque...Tattoos at the Cultch... FRI 5 Sandbox w/Sunfish at the Starfish Room...Cracker w/ Pluto at the Commodore... Wynona-Sue & the Turnpikes at the Railway Club...Ani Kyd w/ Puncture at Gastown Music Hall...Barstool Prophets at the Town Pump...Mad Pudding at the Cultch...Michael Coleman at the Yale..The Roswells and Big Cookie at the Niagara...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...Cobra Verde and Echoes from a Somber Empire at the Pacific Cinematheque...Bach's The Passion According to St John w/ Vancouver Chamber Choir ot the Orpheum... SAT 6 The Super Friendz w/ Molly's Reach at the Starfish Room...ten days late w/ Technicians of the Sacred and Crave at the Niagara...Bughouse 5 w/ Justin Curtis & The Continentals at Gastown Music Hall...Holly McNorland/Mathew Good Band w/guests at tlie Town Pump...Trie Pasties atthe Hungry Eye...Charlie Major w/ Carlene Carter at the Orpheum Theatre...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...Cobra Verde and Echoes from a Somber Empire ot the Pacific Cinematheque... SUN 7 Reform School w/ DJ Wretched Rachel at rhe Niagara...Trie Goops at the Town Pump (All Ages, 3pm)... Land and Freedom at fhe Ridge...Where the Green Ants Dream at fhe Pacific Cinematheque... MON 8 Spacehog w/ Mr. Mirainga at the Town Pump...Rick Bochner and Marjorie Cardwell Band at fhe Railway Club...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...Aguirre: The Wrath of God atthe Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 9 Kofybrown at the Starfish Room...Rockin' Steady w/ guests at fhe Hungry Eye...Captain Tractor at the Railway Club...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...Stephen Rappaport at fhe Cultch... WED 10 Oasis at fhe Pacific Coliseum...Captain Tractor at fhe Railway Club...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...You're Driving Me Crazy and India at the Pacific Cinematheque...Stephen Rappaport at the Cultch... THURS 1 1 Lush w/ Mojave 3 and Scheer at the Commodore...The Scofflaws w/ the Pietasters at the Starfish Room...Eve's Plum and the Monoxides at the Pit Pub...Dr. Tongue at the Railway Club...Land and Freedom at the Ridge...You're Driving Me Crazy and India at the Pacific Cinematheque... Stephen Rappaport at the Cultch... FRI 12 jale and Zumpano w/ Pal Joey at the Starfish Room...The Irish Descendants at the Commodore...Tone w/ Spiritual Heroine and Creature from a Faster Planet at the Niagara...Dr. Tongue at the Railway Club...Chicken Hawk and Celestial Magenta w/ Keychain Toker at Gastown Music Hall...The Young Poisoner's Handbook at the Ridge...Loves of a Blonde and The Firemen's Ball at the Pacific Cinematheque...Stephen Rappaport at the Cultch... SAT 13 Red Hot Chili Peppers w/ Toadies and Weapon of Choice at the Pacific Coliseum...Sparkmarker w/ Superconductor and Seismic at the Starfish Room...Bughouse 5 at the Railway Club...Jabber, Torture Animals and the Happy Campers atthe Niagara...Doug Deep w/Mizmo 'al Joey ot Gastown Music Hall...Facepuller, Celestial Magenta & I St. Jai The Young Poisoner's Hanc The Firemen's Ball at the Pa the Cultch... SUN 14 The Young I ity Square 3214 W. 10th (All Ages) at the Ridge, loves of a Blonde and linematheque... Stephen Rappaport at oner's Handbook at the Ridge...Scream of atheque... MON 15 Rheostatics at the Railway Club.. Ammonia w/ Skunk Anansie ot the Town Pump...The Young Poisoner's Handbook atthe Ridge...Scream of Stone at the Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 16 Rheostatics atthe Railway Club...The Young Poisoner's Handbook at the Ridge... WED 17 National Semi-Conductor w/ guests at the Hungry Eye...The Young Poisoner's Handbook at the Ridge...Memories of Underdevelopment and Death of a Bureaucrat at fhe Pacific Cinematheque.. THURS 18 Junkhouse w/ the Pasties ot the Town Pump...Skydiggers w/ Holly McNarland atthe Starfish Room...Dick'n'Jane and knock-down- ginger at the Pit Pub. .Dobb & Dumela at the Railway Club. Down Corporation at Gastown Music Hall .The Young Poisoner's Handbook at the Ridge...Memories of Underdevelopment ond Death of a Bureaucrat at the Pacific Cinematheque... FRI 19 Speedbuggy and knock-down-ginger w/ Squeeky at Gastown Music Hall...Skydiggers w/ Holly McNarland at the Starfish Room...Junkhouse w/ the Pasties at the Town Pump...Dobb & Dumela at the Railway Club...Severe, fhe Dole and Civic Pride at the Niagara...City of Lost Children and Brazil at the Ridge...The Shop on Main Street and Dito Saxova at the Pacific Cinematheque... SAT 20 Voodoo Glow Skulls at the Town Pump (All Ages in the afternoon, 19 plus in the evening)...Soul Crib at the Railway Club.. Cozy Bones w/ Something Ska and the Hounds of Buskerville at the Niagara...Annette Ducharme ot Gastown Music Hall...City of Lost Children and Brazil at the Ridge.. The "! op on Main Street and Dito Saxov6 at the Pocific Cinematheque... SUN 21 CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS THE POGUES AT THE COMMODORE BALLROOM...City of Lost Children and Brazil at the it the Pocific t the Pacific Ridge...Herdsmen of the Sur and God's Angry Man Cinematheque.. MON 22 Grrrls with Guitc rs at the Railway Club.. Ridge...Herdsmen of the Sur and God's Angry Man latheque TUES 23 CiTR 101.9fM PRESENTS FRANK BLACK W/ JONNY POLONSKY AT THE COMMODORE BALLROOM...Middlesex & Dust Radio at the Railway Club.. Nixon at the Ridge... WED 24 Middlesex & Dust Radio at the Railway Club.Georgia and Frankie Starlight at the Ridge...The Last Supper and Up to a Certain Point at the Pocific Cinematheque... THURS 25 Sex With Nixon and Big Gulp at the Pit Pub. ..Sweet Dick at the Railway Club. ..Georgia and Frankie Starlight at the Ridge.. The Last Supper and Up to a Certain Point at the Pacific Cinematheque. . FRI 26 Sweet Dick at the Railway Club.Psycomania w/ Johnny Millennium and Pinwheel at Gastown Music Hall...Facepuller and Dog Eat Dogma at the Niagara... Paperboys at the Commodore. Chungking Express at the Ridge..Capricious Summer and Cutting it Short at the Pacific Cinematheque... SAT 27 Texture at Gastown Music Hall.. .Surfdusters w/ the Mysterons and the Lunar Marmots at the Niagara...Chungking Express at the Ridge...Capricious Summer and Cutting it Short at the Pocific Cinematheque... SUN 28 The Amps w/ Imperial Teen at the Storfish Room...Iggy Pop af the Commodore...Chungking Express atthe Ridge...End of a Priest and Trie White Plague at the Pocific Cinematheque... MON 29 Buffy Sainte-Marie at fhe Vogue Theatre...Chungking Express at the Ridge...End of a Priest and The White Plague at the Pacific Cinematheque... TUES 30 Chungking Express at fhe Ridge... EVERYTHING YOU The Abyss 315 E. Broadway (side entrance) Alma Street Cafe 2505 Alma (at Broadway) Anza Club 3 W. 8th (Mount Pleasant) Arts Hotline Bassix 217 W Hastings (al Cambie) Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) Black Sheep Books 2742 W. 4th (ot MacDonald) Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commerciol (the Drive) Cafe Vieux Montreal 317 E. Broodwoy (Mount Pleasont) Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Gronville Mall) Celebrities 1022 Davie (al Burrard) CN Imax Theotre 999 Canada Place Commodore Ballroom 870 Granville (Granville Mall) Commodore Lanes 838 Granville (Granville Moll) Cordovo Cafe 307 Cordova (Gastown) Crojjlown Traffic 316 VV Hastings (downtown) Denmon Place Cinemo 1030 Denman (West Enrrrd) DV8 515 Dovie (downtown| Edison Electric Gallery/Cafe 916 Commercial (the Drive] Firehall Arts Centre 80 E. Cordova (at Main) Food Not Bombs Vancouver Frederic Wood Theatre (UBC) Goroge Pub 2889 East Hastings St (downlown) Gaslown Theotre 36 Powell (Gaslown) Glass Slipper 2714 Prince Edward (Mount Pleasant) Graceland 1250 Richards (downtown) Greg's Place 45844 Yale Rd. (Chilliwock) The Grind Gollery 4124 Main St. (Ml. Pleasant) Hastings Community Centre 2096 E. Hastings (ne Hemp B.C. 324 W. Hastings (downtown) Hollywood Theatre 3123 W. Broadway (Kitsilano Hot Jazz Society 2120 Main (Mt. Pleosant) Hungry Eye 23 W. Cordova (Gastown) Jericho Arts Centre 1600 Discovery (Pt. Grey) La Quena 1)11 Commerciol (the Drive) The Lotus Club 455 Abbott (Gaslown) Lucky's 3934 Main Luv-A-Fair 1275 Seymour (downtown) Malcolm Lowry Room 41 25 E. Hostings (N. Bun Mars 1320 Richards (downtown) Maximum Blues Pub 1176 Granville (downtown) New York Theatre 639 Commercial (the Drive) Niagara Hotel Pub 435 VV. Pender (downtown] Odyssey Imports 534 Seymour (downlown) Old American Pub 928 Main (downtown! Orpheum Theatre Smilhe & Seymour (downtown] Pacific Cinematheque i 131 Howe (downlown] Paradise 27 Church (New West) Paradise Cinema 919 Gronville (Granville Mall) Park Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) Picadilly Pub 630 W. Pender (al Seymour) Pil Pub basement, Student Union Building (UBC) Pitt Gallery 317 W. Hastings (downlown) Plaza Theatre 881 Gronville (Granville Mall) Roffels Lounge 1221 Granville (downtown) The Rage 750 Pacific Blvd. South (Plaza of Notions) jr PNE) noby) >ur] s On Richer* Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus (at 16th Ave.) Romper Room 639 Commercial (the Drive) Russian Hall 600 Campbell (Chinatown) Scratch Records 317A Cambie (Gastown) Southhill Candy Shop 4198 Main (al 26th) Storfish Room 1055 Homer (downlown) Starlight Cinema 935 Denman (West End! Station Street Arts Centre 930 Station (off Main] St. Regis Holel 602 Dunsmiur (downtown) Theatre E 254 E. Hoslings (Chinatown) Town Pump 66 Water Street (Gaslown) Track Records 552 Seymour (downtown] Tree House lounge 602 Dunsmuir St. (downtown) Twilight Zone 7 Alexander (Gaslown) UBC CINEMA (located in the SUB) UBC Grad Centre Gate 4 (UBC) The Underground 1082 Gronville (downtown) Vancouver Eosl Culturol Centre 1895 Venables (at Victoria) Vancouver Little Theatre 3102 Main (Ml. Pleasant] Vancouver Press Club 2215 Granville (S.Granville) Varsity Theatre 4375 W. 10th (Point Grey] Verl 2412 Moin (Ml Pleasont) Video In Sludios 1965 Main (Mt. Pleasant) Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) Waterfront Theotre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) W.I.S.E. Hall 1882 Adanac (the Drive) Women In Print 3566 W. 4th (Kitsilano) Yale Blues Pub 1 300 Granville (downtown] Zulu Records 1869 W. 4th (Kitsilano] SUBMISSIONS FOR DATEBOOK ARE FREE! TO HAVE YOUR EVENT LISTED, FAX ALL THE RELEVANT INFO (WHO, WHERE, WHEN) TO 822 9364, ATTENTION 'DATEBOOK'. 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Hailing from Leeds England, their 13 song debut effort, Resident Alien, has already been compared to some of David Bowie's best early work. What makes Spacehog different from the more ephemeral "fashion conscious" bands is great songs, and quite simply, the fact they can rock. (Price in effect until April 30/96] See them LIVE with Ruth Ruth, April 8 at The Town Pump. HMV Ii i LIVE IN CONCERT SPACEHOG APRIL 8™ • THE TOWN PUMP 1160 Robson Street • Park Royal Shopping Centre (North Mall) Guildford Town Centre • Willowbrook Shopping Centre HMV Eaton Centre-Metrotown • Sevenoaks Shopping Centre Abbotsford Richmond Centre • Coquitlam Centre 1869 W 4th Ave. Vancouver. BC V6J 1M4 CANADA tel 738.3232 IT!S SPRINGTIME IN ZULU COUNTRY! Halo Benders "Don't Tell Me Now" cd/lp Widi the combined talents of Doug Martsch [Treepeople, Built to Spill] on guitar and swei vocal harmonies, Steve Fisk [Pell Mell, produc er extraordinaire] on fun[ky] keyboards, and Calvin Johnson [Beat w^— Happening, Dub Narcotic, K Records] doing his trademark semi-spoken, deep-vocals thing, the 'Benders have produced anoth- jCun r D P er catchy, pop-filled full-length to help you dance the night away. This indie-rock supergroup sure know how to party - Don't Tell Me Now is guaranteed to liven up your backyard BBQ and keep your summer samba sizzlin'! 14* CD 12* LP Doo Rag "What We Do" cd/ip Let's see... what do we got here... cardboard boxes, vacuum cleaners, a customized six-string and a slide. What Doo Rag do with it is tap into a speedy, hyper-frantic dimension where the Blues is king. With equal amounts of reverence and craziness Doo Rag put a new twist into an old sound and Doo it right! 16* CD 10* LP Mark Eitzel "BD Watt Silver lining" CD/cass Mark Eitzel was the man behind the American Musk Club. Though this band, sadly, is no more, Mr. Eitzel valiantly continues on. With this, his first solo release, he stays true to his past visions with a stirring collection of songs that reveal an open, honest display of human experience and emotion. 16s1 CD 10* Cass COME REEL IN SOME FINE NEW MUSIC THIS MONTH... ? Year Bitch "Gato Negro" ce/cass Goto Negro: (a) A charm tc see you through an evening of red wine libations, (b) Trans, literally "Black Cat" a symbol of bad luck, the sultry night, restricted films, etc. (c) The latest 12 song full-length from San Francisco's pent-up punkers 7 Year Bitch! (d) All of the above. Enter at Zulu. 14» CD 9* Cass The For Carnation "Marshmallows" cd/ip The Slint sound has become a reference, an idiom within pop music. For Brian McMahan [an ex- Slint member himself], it is a subject of personal history, a past-tense of creative output. Not contained to the history of style he has helped to define, McMahan has moved on. The For Carnation do reference Slint [more like reverberate with] but manage to point to new stations of development; the extension of an aesthetic along favorable lines. Thoughtful and playfully abstruse, Marshmallows establishes new ground. 12* CD 8* LP Papas Fritas "Papas Fritas" co Do you like catchy pop tunes? Do you like melody and harmonies? If I you have answered yes to either of I these questions, or even if you hes- > itated in answering, come to Zulu and pick up Papas Fritas. This is a very well played record from a trio whose songs will squirm into your mind [in the shower?] and, be warned, may even cause humming. 16* CD STORE HOURS MontoWed 10:30-7:00 Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 Sat 9:30-6:30 Sun 12:00-6:00 AZCdTPDS Rheostatics "Music Inspired by the Group of 7" cd A band never afraid to experiment and evolve, the Rheostatics on this recording create a nearly entirely instrumental work honoring the 75th anniversary of the Group of Seven and the art it represents. Commissioned by the National Gallery of Canada and brought to life by these talented musicians, this recording proves to I be ambitious, meaningful and above all, very good. 14* CD Kevin Kane "Neighborhood Watch" cd Too long in exile, Kevin Kane surfaces with a post-Grapes of Wrath solo release ripe with idyllic introspection, harmony and idiosyncratic soul. Neighborhood Watch, out on Kevin's own label [ON/OFF], carries a moody feel with its square one pairings of acoustic guitar and voice, while segueing into interesting drony interludes. Another fine tenant in the temple of song. 14" CD "Available April 23 Guided by Voices "Under the Bushes Under the Stars" cD/cass/LP Topping many critic's lists with last year's Alien Lanes, Guided By Voices bse no ground with the latest evocative full-length Under the Bushes Under the Stars. Blessed with a knack for prolific hookery, frontman Robert Pollard here effortlessly pens 24 pure poppers for now people! 14* CD 9* Cass 12* LP Money Mark "Mark s Keyboard Repair" _■/_.» Since tinkling on his ivories for the Beastie Boys, Money Mark embarks on the gooey- organ funk Mark's Keyboard Repair, his solo debut on the much-celebrated "Mo' Wax" label. The 70's hammond sound comin' back with a vengeance delivering wonderfully cheesy hooks that grocery clerks nation-wide will be sneaking into the big bosses sound systems. It's slimy keyboard west coast love! 16* CD 10* Cass Swirlies "They Spent Their Wild Youthful Days in the Glittering World of the Salons" ci A recuperative sabbatical in glittering salons was a time well spent for these youthful popsters. Reinvigprated with newfound inspiration [and a few new band members] the Swirlies have matured within themselves, developing the appealing sound that they outlined on their eaHier recordings [informed by the English pop of the My Bloody Volentine/Stereolab variety]. A good, idiosyncratic musioal vocation - thanks, Swirlies. 14* CD Run On "Start Packing" ci/cus/lp The assistance of a host of producers helps to emphasize the diverse craffwork of these New York rock/soundscapers, who's populist/academic exploration of American rock definitions [a revi- talization?] places them alongside such conmtemporaries as Yo La Tengo, 11 th Dream Day, Walkabouts and Tortoise. Run On's debut reflects a talented and experienced effort by a knowledgeable band [re: well listened]. 14* CD 10* Cass/LP The Sonnra Pine "The Sonnra Pine" cd/lp Is there life in the body of rock? What life is contained in its well traveled boundaries? For the new- rock geographers of the predominantly ex-Rodan membership of the Sonora Pine, innovation is an excercise in reorganization and integration. Delving into sound structure experimentation [as well as a diversity of instruments], these indie-rock veterans are not content to replicate the passages of Slint style songwriting. Instead, they challenge the too-soon-in-coming "post-rock" anti-canon with a moody neo/indie/prog [if you can imagine] recuperation that does as much to renew as it does to try and transcend the increasing flexibility of contemporary rock. 14* CD 12* LP Sale prices in effect until April 30/96.
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CITR-FM (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.) |
Publisher | Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia |
Date Issued | 1996-04-01 |
Extent | 28 pages |
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Provider | Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library |
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