"343e74cc-f1e4-4d53-a0ab-d41233940b51"@en . "CONTENTdm"@en . "http://resolve.library.ubc.ca/cgi-bin/catsearch?bid=1190017"@en . "Discorder"@en . "CITR-FM (Radio station : Vancouver, B.C.)"@en . "2015-03-11"@en . "2003-08-01"@en . "https://open.library.ubc.ca/collections/discorder/items/1.0049946/source.json"@en . "32 pages"@en . "application/pdf"@en . " Radiohead\nFRIDAY AUGUST 29\nSATURDAY AUGUST 30\nTHUNDERBIRD STADIUM\nBHH\n\u00C2\u00BB\nAi&MMTY,., STARRING\ndj CHICLET w\u00C2\u00BBththesugarcookses\n. asMISONEEDADRINKME *s thc funkostic cmmyblossoms\n^ MC VELVET K xfa~ *<*\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00AB*\"* as*? /S^^Ss\\nAStKOBSSORWmAHDUBEE jggf aBB?\" ^*^\^g/\n868'ciRfirttmKnR\u00C2\u00ABTy604-739-iHouj cyti/u/^5\u00C2\u00B13CD^7fnD\u00C2\u00B1cb^'C\nIQOK PIVINE OCT PAST THE LINE ... PRIZES F01 REST DISCO DUDS ... PISCO GEAR ENSURES PRIORITY ENTRY\nmamma\nl.l'KWWi\nDESTROYER\n? JJOKL R.L. PHELPS i\ntrR/L\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 MIMMHIMMMmc-\nI AUGUST 24 E\nciins\nAUGUST; ft\nyOSUE THEATRE\nANDREW W.K.\nfBOAT CRUISE^V\nCOMMODORE BALLROOM |1\u00C2\u00A3 SB HCHMQ-S ON RICHARDS fMjj|i^Mit\u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00AB^atfewM RICHARQS OH RICHARDS\nSATURDAY SEPTEMBER uB KePTEMBERU \"\nPaao\u00C2\u00BB,to,tli\u00C2\u00BBmmloofJ\nif\nBURNINGf\nPURCHASE TICHETS 3QQ10S AT hob.com OR ticketmastei\n0-4444/www.ticketmaster.ca DiSCORDER\nISSUE 243 \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 AUGUST \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 THAT IN-FLUX MAG FROM CITR 101.9 fff\u00C2\u00A7\u00C2\u00A7\npsiiip\nSpoon by Duncan McHugh p.10\nAnimal Collective by Merek Cooper p.12\nBoy by Kat Siddle p.14\nAppleseed Cast by sweetcheyanne p. 15\nThe Art of Sean Maxey p.l6\nCovering Fire p.4\nFucking Bullshit p.4\nThe Truth p.5 '1|JSij|\nStrut and Fret p.6\nPanarticon p.6\nOver My Shoulder p.7\nRoad Worn and Weary: The Nasty On p.10\nRiff Raff p. 18\nScrew You and Your Pointy Shoes p.l 9\nUnder Review p.20\nReal Live Action p.24\nMystery Takeout Box p.26\nA Kick in the Head p.26\nKickaround p.26\nCharts p.27\nOn the Dial p.28\nDatebook p.30\n\u00C2\u00A9roar\nSean Maxey designed the cover. I interviewed\nhim and we hit it off. He offered to help and I\nsaid yes. I didn't realise it would be so good.\nMuch credit must also go to Hana MacDonald\nwho took the wonderful photo which was his\nstarting point. They are both stars.\n\"DiSCORDER\" 2003 by the Studen\nreserved. Circulation 17,500. Subs\n5 for one year, to residents of the I\nver postage, of course). Please mak\nEditor:\nMerek Cooper\nAd Wrangler:\nSteve DiPo\nArt Director:\nLori Kiessling\nProduction Manager:\nEsther Whang\nEditorial Assistant\nDonovan Schaefer\nRLA Editor:\nGabby De Lucca\nWebsite Design:\nEsther Whang\nLayout and Design:\nMerek, Lori and Chris\nProduction:\nLori, Chris Parton, Keith\nTurkowski, Cheyanne, Patrick,\nUbyssey\nOn the Dial:\nBryce Dunn\nCharts:\nJulie Colero\nDatebook:\nMiss Whang\nDistribution:\nMatt Steffich\nUS Distro:\nFrankie Rumbletone\nPublisher:\nLydia Masemola\nRadio Society of the University of British Columbia. 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Send email to\nR can be heard at 101.9 fM as well\nir, BC, V6T 121, CANADA.\n66 water st Vancouver be\n604 683 6695\nfor more info on these shows and our complete calendar log onto\nwww.sonar.bc.ca\n3 DiSCORDER ''\u00E2\u0080\u00A2^W^M\na small Introduction\nb\"ilshit\nby\nDon't get me wrong,\nthere are lots of things\nthat I don't like about\nthis country\u00E2\u0080\u0094they're probably\nthe same things you don't like\nabout it. Come to think of it,\nthey're exactly the same things\nthat I don't like about where\nI come from; you know, lying\npoliticians, barely visiable social\nwelfare initiatives, and the seemingly unstoppable march of\nAmericanisation.\nThe one thing I do like,\nhowever\u00E2\u0080\u0094and I've an objective\nopinion about this, remember\u00E2\u0080\u0094is\nthis magazine, this radio station\nand, more generally, this town's\nfantastically rich cultural dirtiate.\nYou guys take it for granted\nsometimes, but you really\nshouldn't. I can honestly say that\nI've never known such an amazing concentration of talented\npeople. This magazine and this\nradio station reflect this.\nThe one thing that I would\nhave to criticise is the lack of help\nwe here at DiSCORDER receive.\nNo matter what you think, having\nRed Cat\nRecords\nNew & Used\nph. 708 9422 * email buddy *redtatca\nohr^ta'mi*\na magazine like this is really, really\nspecial. And to make this magazine we need help. And yes, YOU\ncan help.\nI put this photo in, not\nbecause I'm vain (well, maybe\na little bit), but so if you see me\naround town and you wanna\nhelp, you can come up and\ntalk to me. I'm a nice guy. Ask\naround. Or, if you want, you\ncould come right up and see me\nat the office. Or call or email. Or\nwhatever\u00E2\u0080\u0094telepathy maybe. I\nhear that sometimes works. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nAlright, . alright. Everyone\nkeeps nagging me for this\nlist. Some of these guys are my\nfriends, you know, so try not to be\njudgmental. Just remember that\nthe size of the porker isn't that\nimportant. It's more about how\ngood their band is. As you can\nsee, the cock hasn't much to do\nwith the rock.\nHere it is, you nosey jerks.\nJust try not to spread it around.\nDon't ask me how I got it, but it's\nall true.\nTHE BIGGEST COCKS IN ROCK\nAND ROLL! (From the greatest to\nthe least.)\nLarge: Sooyoung Park (nine inches\u00E2\u0080\u0094SOFT!), Marc Ribot, Michael\nDahlquist, Morrissey (plus or\nminus an inch and half standard\ndeviation, i.e. the state of the\ncurve), Michael Jackson, Don\nHenley, Dan Bejar (may or may\nnot be confirmed), Chris Wilson,\nTom Verlaine, Robert Gotobed,\nPink (her dick is way bigger than\nyou'd think), Dave Allen, Poncho\nSampedro, Krist Novoselic, that\nguy from Bush, the drummer\nfrom the Gin Blossoms, and Mark\nMothersbaugh (good enough to\nmake the big list).\nRegular: David Yow, Duane\nDenison, David Wm. Sims, Mac\nMcNeilly, Steve Albini, John\nFlansburgh, Henry Rollins (okay,\nirregular\u00E2\u0080\u0094more like a can of\nsoup). Thorn York, Yamatsuka\nEye, Phil Collins, Dean Ween,\nGreg Sage, Jimmy Fleming,\nDennis Fleming (Jimmy's has\ngot a little more style, if you hear\nwhat I'm saying), John Zorn,\nMark Eitzel, Lars Ulrich (believe it\nor not), Brian May, Sam Prekop,\nD, Q-Tip\u00E2\u0080\u0094oh, wait, that's not\noff the rock and roll list\u00E2\u0080\u0094uh,\nIan MacKaye, one of the guys\nthat was in that one REM video,\nMark Arm, KK Null, Glenn Branca,\nRobert Christgau, Bob Mould,\nDavid Thomas, Neil Hamburger,\nBob Weston, Al Johnson, and\nJustin Timberlake.\nSmall: Lou Reed, Nick Cave,\nMark E. Smith (sorry, buddy).\nEveryone keeps nagging me\nfor this list. Just remember thot\nthe size of the porker isn't thot\nimportont It's more obout how\ngood their bond is.\nStephen Malkmus (if he can get it\nup), John Balance, Arto Lindsay,\nSean Lennon, Pat Smear, Green\nDay's roadie (I forget his name),\nNardwuar the Human Serviette,\nRodney Graham, Meg White,\nJack White, Dale Crover, Iggy\nPop, Elvis Costello, Bryan Adams,\nNoel Gallagher, Johnny Marr,\nRoch Voisine, Ron Wood, Keith\nRichards, Bill Wyman, Charlie\nWatts, Mick Jagger (that's in\norder, remember), Jay-Z, Chuck\nGene Ween, Sting, all the girls in\nInterpol, all the dudes in Sleater-\nKinney, Robert Pollard, Jon\nSpencer, Merzbow, Bill Callahan,\nRoger Waters, John Reis, Glenn\nDanzig (surprise!), Cher (she just\nstarted to develop one), Dave\nMatthews, David Johansen,\nDavid Bowie, Britt Daniel, GG\nAllin (RIP), and Will Oldham.\nUnfortunately, Willy doesn't have\none at all. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nwi AW$on matj1 fock tfi0 ^turns \"^i\nmm then 2nd some unyon full length I\n11 new songs in a more mellow, mstorJic vein, f j\nCatch KITCHENS & BATHROOMS on TOUR\": \\\nAug22-Vancouver BC | Brickyard If\nAug 24-Victoria BC | Logan's Pub II\nl^^^l^^^ out July 29th 1 m\nmSBto ^^r^^Btojifa. -2003 11J\nA NORTHERN CHORUS OATES: \u00C2\u00A5\nSept 09 - Vancouver BC j Green Room If\nSept 10-Victoria BC | Steamers '1\nSept 11 - Vancouver BC J Sugar Refinery I\nSept 13 - Kamloops BC j The Grind '\n4f SONIC UNYON |\n^^NsSonic unyon records po box 57347 jackson station hamjltonon !8p 4x2 ph: 905.777.1223 fax: 905.777.1161 enuuiyerks@soflicunyon.com\n4 August 2003 as told by chris eng\nN^fc-w-\" \u00C2\u00ABs\nAll I want is what I like to\nbelieve most people\nwant: the truth.\nI like to believe that most\npeople want that, but I'm not\nsure. Because, much like Fox\nMulder, I know the truth is out\nthere, but not enough people\nare looking for it\u00E2\u0080\u0094fucking hell,\nI'm not looking for it. I'm sitting\nhere with a bemused expression\non my face while Skye Sweetnam\nparades back and forth on my\nTV set followed by Big Brother\n4 and sponsored by Pepsi. P.S.\nYou deserve a break today.\nIn a Ford fucking truck. You\nknow\u00E2\u0080\u0094the best a man can get.\nAnd as I was watching the\nidiot box tonight, singing along\nwith \"Pop Muzik\" by M, I realized exactly how much shite was\nstored in my head, and exactly\nwhy I had been christened \"Pop\nCulture Guy\" by my friends. It's\nbecause I know all this stuff. ALL\nthis stuff. And so what if I do?\u00E2\u0080\u0094it\nseems to be half of society's\nfondest wish to be able to\namass as much crap trivia as it\ncan safely (or unsafely) digest.\nYeah, it sure does\u00E2\u0080\u0094but then\nthat half just likes to lean back\nand breathe deep and hard\nafter sating itself on a weekly (or\nnightly) feast of Fear Factor and\nEverybody Loves Raymond, not\nwilling to dissect what it has just\ndevoured and certainly not willing to stay up until 11 to watch\nthe news and listen to the news\nand take apart systematically\nwhat they just saw on the news\nbecause they ' didn't\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\ncouldn't\u00E2\u0080\u0094believe a fucking thing\nthat was reported on the news.\nAnd to me that's shoddy living.\nAnd just to reinforce it one more\ntime\u00E2\u0080\u0094I'm as guilty of it as anyone.\nThree years ago, I was Mr.\nRah-Rah-Canada. I didn't go so\nfar as to get the flag tattooed on\nmy ass, but I got Peter Puck tattooed on my shoulder jockey\nwere, my soapbox (or website,\nwhichever term you prefer) failed\nand my voice faltered. I was still\nable to spout off in a magazine,\nbut personal difficulties crept in\nand my energies were stolen and\nrefunneled into effecting patchwork repairs on other aspects\nof my existence. The framework\nwas left in place, but the actual\nstructure was abandoned, and\nnobody even wanted to squat it.\nThree years on and nothing\nmuch has changed. I'm still a\ndumping ground for pop culture's detritus, but my willingness\nor sense of obligation to search\nfast as their clean-up crews can\nscrub the poison droplets from\nthe ground, and maybe it's just\nthat I'm tired of allowing myself to\nbelieve that a Burger King commercial is more important than\nmy soul, especially when I'm in a\nposition to do something about it.\nAnd I can do something\nabout it. I will tear apart their\nfacades and burn them to the\nground with the sheer intensity\nof my fury and indignation. I'll ferret out political travesties and\nbald-faced lie-mongering and\nshout it down from the rooftops.\nI'll kneel before their fat proffered American Idols and golden\ncalves, not in ardor or self-abasement, but because it gives me a\nbetter shot at their soft underbellies. I'll take whatever they can\nthrow at me and toss it back\ntwice as hard. I will use my knowledge of their sweetest offerings\nand cleverest tactics to dismantle\nthe Monster from the ground up.\nAnd maybe I'll only get\nas far as taking apart its thick,\ncoarse,, mud and manure-clotted back hoof before it raises a\nmighty leg and stomps down on\nme, but it's that or trudge along\ndutifully behind it, being shat on\nand cradling its every smelly,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0festering shit like it was manna\nfrom the Blessed Madonna herself. Just like the rest of the herd.\nLet me fill you in on something, though: that regulation\nissue shit-scooping shovel's\ngot a pretty mean edge on it\nif you sharpen it up. And the\nBeast towering over us? Its\ngorged, bloated belly hanging\ndown just over our heads? Well,\nthat's just a big fucking pihata.\nBatter up. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nI'm tired of allowing myself to believe that a\nBurger King commercial is more important\nthan my soul\nNight in Canada mascot in\nthe '70s; taught kids the rules\nof hockey\u00E2\u0080\u0094don't worry about\nit; there's no test on this part). I\ndidn't believe in the system, but I\nbelieved in the country. I scoured\nthe news like a motherfucker,\nscrutinizing every word, cross-\nreferencing stories, pulling apart\ncapsule stories like the crew on\nCSI dig through human filth. I tried\nto get the word out about what\nI found. I tried to make a differ- -\nence. Times being what they\nout the inconsistencies and\nbackstories in today's news tapestry hasn't returned. Until now.\nBecause maybe it takes realizing\nyou know the lyrics to the most\nbanal fossilized disco turd you\ncan imagine to shake you out of\nyour stupor and force you to use\nyour powers for good and not\nevil, and maybe it's knowing that\nevery word that falls from every\nelecteddfficial's lips is nothing but\npure, undiluted venom and their\nlies are only being covered up as\nSTOCKS & *0?MS . AlffiUST 1STH\n\" ' \"Every now and then a band comes along that breaks barriers,\ncrosses genres and blows the music formula out of the water.\nWarsawpack is set on bringing both a musical and political\nrevolution to the forefront.\nWelcome to the next generation of indie music.\"\ni (Impact Press}\nNEW ON G7:\n670331 warsawpack\nStocks & Bombs\nG7028|M\nOutside the Unbearable\nGrows -..\n5 DiSCORDER mm*\nPerformance/art\nby Penelope\nFish It a Train ot Okas\nTongue\nDancing on the Edge\nFirday. July 11\nFirehall Arts Centre\nI'm glad I gave Tongue another\nchance. When the L.A. based\ncompany crashed the stage\nat Dancing on the Edge two\nyears ago, everyone was duly\nflabbergasted by the dancers'\nathletic power and physical\nendurance\u00E2\u0080\u0094but it just wasn't\nthe kind of movement-for-its-own\nsake that can drag my imagination and emotions into the ring.\nEvocation was strangled by spectacle and by later that evening,\nI'd forgotten all about it.\nWith Fish is a Train of Glass.\nchoreographer Stephanie\nGilliland has proven that without\naltering one muscular syllable of\nher kinetic vocabulary, she can\nturn it into a vehicle for thoughts\nand images that stick to your ribs\nlong after you've left the table.\nFish is described as a\ncontemplation of \"intimacy,\nsurvival, image and perception\nfrom shifting perspectives and\npoints of view\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094which, broadly\nspeaking, pretty much sums up\nour concerns as we leap, plod,\nand shimmy through life in the\nworld. The dance progressed in a\nseries of vignettes; apparent non\nsequiturs, but all portraying some\nattempt at intimacy or connection. The message seemed to be\nthat the former is unattainable\nfor more than fleeting moments\nand that the latter is an illusion.\nNothing tragic or maudlin here,\nthough\u00E2\u0080\u0094just a kind of bittersweet\nexhilaration mixed with .Buster\nKeaton sadness.\nThe dancers used each other\nlike climbing frames in a crazy\nmelange of contact improvisation, gymnastics, and Capoeira,\nbut everything poured so seamlessly into the avalanche of\nmovement that technical references all but disappeared.\nEven the quieter segments\nhooked you. In one of them,\nseven people entered in separate compartments of the same\nmassive cope. Alone or in pairs,\nthey gradually slipped out of it\nand exited, leaving it to hang\nlike a useless burden on a lone\nperformer. In another, a man\nstuck his head under'a woman's\ndress as she lay on the floor and\ncarefully crawled into the garment with her. The accordion\nmusic which accompanied their\ngentle, comic duet put them\non a boulevard in Paris. (OK, it\nhelped that the woman was a\nringer for Isabelle Huppert.)\nParticularly impressive was\nthe way Gilliland used video.\nAlthough she conceived,\ndirected, and edited the segments using her own company\nas performers, they had the look\nof a hazy, '60s Euro-flick. When\n6 August 2003\ndancers would stop, mid-thrash,\nto lie down facing the screen, we\nwere watching the images with\nthem: a couple on a bed; people\nrunning in stop-motion across a\nconcrete expanse.\nThe piece roared to a close\nwith a demented game of musical chairs in which the company vaulted, cartwheeled, and\nflipped into and out of the flimsy\nfurniture with what should have\nbeen its last ounce of strength.\nYet all this thoroughbred virtuosity\ndidn't distance us from the performers. In an exaggerated way,\nthey were showing us ourselves;\nreminding us that our bodies\nare the resilient but expendable\ncontainers for everything we\ngo through\u00E2\u0080\u0094and when they're\nmulHgan\nlike a mafia don.\nAlthough the film opens with\nthe cautionary quote, \"He who\nseeks revenge must remember\nto dig two graves,\" it's hardly a\nmorality tale about vengeance.\nWhat we get is a giddy study of\nthe singleminded passion which\ndrives it\u00E2\u0080\u0094and, as the avenging\nVindici, Christopher Eccleston\nbreaks his own record for manic\nintensity.\nCox keeps comedy, tragedy, and horror in nice proportion, often firing off all three at\nonce\u00E2\u0080\u0094as when Vindici has periodic chats with his beloved's skull.\nThe man is in agony and the skull\n(still sporting long, auburn tresses)\nis grotesque, but the scenes are\nhilarious. The Duke (Derek Jacobi\nthe sound of spectacle\nby tobias v\nfinished, all the other stuff (as\nwe know it) is finished too. Hope\nI think of that the next time I look\nin a mirror.\nThe Revenger's Tragedy\nCinemuerte Film Festival\nSaturday, July 12\nPacific Cinematheque\nSomething about England makes\nit the perfect fit for centuries-old\nstories that get partially bumped\ninto the present. Perhaps because\nof its enduring love of costumed\nexcess and antique decadence,\nanachronism is never an issue.\nIt's also a great setting for post-\napocalyptic nightmares, and with\nThe Revenger's Tragedy, director\nAlex Cox (of Repo Man and Sid\nand Nancy fame) gets to have it\nboth ways.\nA screen adaptation by\nFrank Cotrell Boyce relocates\nThomas Middleton's 1607 play\nfrom Renaissance Italy to 2011\nLiverpool, where streets appear\ndeserted and flies buzz around\nthe corpses of passengers in a\nwrecked bus. Into.this wasteland\nwalks Vindici, a former citizen with\na Clint Eastwood-type score to\nsettle. Years before, his new bride\nwas murdered by a womanizing\nDuke who, along with a quintet of\nbaroquely punk sons, runs the city\nat his most squishily depraved)\ncoolly offs any lady who rebuffs\nhis advances, and his sons are\na parody of fashion-conscious\nthuggishness. One of them is\na lisping, spikey-haired blonde\nwho applies his make-up at the\nbreakfast table, the youngest is\nboffing his mother and most of\nthem have a ludicrous number of\nfacial piercings.\nCox is clearly enjoying himself\nwith all this outrageousness, but\nhe rarely allows the laughs\u00E2\u0080\u0094or\nthe gore\u00E2\u0080\u0094to overwhelm the\ntale's essential gravity. Things\nare also anchored by a complex\nand satisfying performance from\nEddie Izzard as the Duke's heir,\nLussurioso. He plays him impish\nand witty, but gives the character enough depth to make you\nregret the betrayal which Vindici\nhas planned for him.\nThe film rides along on a brilliantly appropriate soundtrack\nfrom Chumbawamba. Without\nmanipulating our responses, it\nnever lets us forget that this is a\ntragedy, after all.\nI'm baffled, though, by the\nfilm's final two shots. Either Cox\nwas being embarrassingly obvious or too elliptical for his own\ngood, and I'd like to ask him what\nhe had in mind. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nI\nOlympic Orgasms, On Tap\nDown high from the Mount,\nOlympia has crowned Vancouver\nfor 2010... And, like EXPO 86, the\nOlympics will bring irreversible\nchange\u00E2\u0080\u0094both pleasurable and\nperverted\u00E2\u0080\u0094to the West Coast\nParadise. But there's little point\nin fighting this impending behe-\nmouth of greed, televised stupor-\nsport, and corporate ad-guzzling.\nIndeed, let's all join hands in\na giant group orgy and Breed\nthe Olympic Spirit by Offering a\nfew suggestions to the Olympic\nCommittee, as we get down\non our knees and beg\u00E2\u0080\u0094like the\ndirty hypocrites we are\u00E2\u0080\u0094for that\ntasty piece of the funding pie...\nand thus I offer the first suggestion in what will become a\nnew series in Paharticon: readers are encouraged to write\nin their own brain-bubbles...\nNew.National.Anthem\nSuggestion Uno: A new national\nanthem. Our anthem sucks. Burn\nthe old dirge\u00E2\u0080\u0094not only because\nit's a diatribe of religious ideology\u00E2\u0080\u0094but because it has a hook/\nlimerick combination as rousing as\na funeral march\u00E2\u0080\u0094which it practically is: our nation's sing-song was\ncomposed as a hymn by Calixa\nLavallee in 1880 for a spirited\npoem by Judge Adolphe-Basile\nRouthier. We should have listened\nto history: nobody paid much\nattention to the damn dirge\nuntil... well, really until 1980, when\nit was all settled as Canada's\nnational anthem. For a while\nthere were several sets of lyrics\nvia competing scribes, including such memorable passages\nas: \"At Britain's side/Whate'er\nbetide,\" \"Guide then one/Empire\nwide,\" and\u00E2\u0080\u0094my personal favourite (and closest to the French)\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"Beneath the shdde of the Holy\nCross/Thy children own their\nbirth.\" (I'm not too sure whether\nI should feel comforted or frightened that \"I own my birth\".)\nToday's lyrics just compact\nthese imperialistic, good ol'\nBrit/French colonial and God-\nfearin' themes into only slightly\nmore metaphoric language:\n\"The True North, strong and free\n[note the 'true,' here]\"; \"True,\npatriot love [more true, of patriotism for the trufh]/ln all thy Sons\n[no women] command [obey,\nfuckers!\u00E2\u0080\u0094obey fhe frufh!]/God\nkeep our land/Glorious and free\n[Well, here it is\u00E2\u0080\u0094a plea to God to\nget into the action\u00E2\u0080\u0094in case this\nobeying stuff falls through].\" In\nFrench, Canada's national chant\nreveals its \"true\" origins\u00E2\u0080\u0094apparently jotted down in some frozen\nCatholic schoolhouse during\na particularly rotten Quebec\nwinter. Here's the official English\ntranslation, and I print it here in\nfull\u00E2\u0080\u0094my comments interpolated.\n\"Canada! Land of our forefathers [Well, not really: we're\ncompetitiveness as a \"people\"\nwould disintegrate, and a feeling\nof cosmopolitanism would flood\nthe \"glowing hearts.\" It would no\nlonger even be \"international\" or\n\"transnational,\" but something\nexterior to the \"nation\" altogether, something global, something\nof the multitudes... There would\nbe dangers in this tactic\u00E2\u0080\u0094any\nattempt to attach our \"nation\"\nto a fragment that could not be\nsung at all could result in bitter\ninfighting. We'd have to watch\nthat. Quebec would not be\nhappy\u00E2\u0080\u0094but they weren't happy\nthat Vancouver got the Olympics\nanyway. (Apparently \"it hurt their\nfuture chances.\" Quebec's petty\n\"nationalism'\" is not distinct\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's\nignorant. Viva autonomia, but\nWhat would be better then, instead\nof \"O! Canadal\"...? Easy\u00E2\u0080\u0094electronic\nmusic. That's right, bring on a completely non-lyric \"national anthem\"\nimmigrants, and this is certainly\nnot \"our land.\" The \"forefathers\"\nand \"foremothers\" are First\n\"Nations\"]/Thy brow is wreathed\nwith a glorious garland of flowers [Note the Christian imagery:\nthe poetic, historical, and patriarchal \"head\" of Canada is\nwreathed]/As in thy arm ready\nto wield 4he sword [Canada is\nthy North American saviour\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nHe carries Vengeance and\nMight via Death\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Sword]/So\nalso is it ready to carry the cross\n[i.e., salvation\u00E2\u0080\u0094wrought Tirst by\nthe sword; the cross is \"also...\nready\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094but not a necessity. In\nfact, the other \"arm\" remains\nempty while the sword must be\nput down to \"carry the cross.\"\nNote these are arms, as in \"bear\narms\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094not hands, which usually do other things\u00E2\u0080\u0094like caress,\ntouch, and love, as well as\ncreate. A \"handy\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094or, better,\n\"army\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094doctrine in dealing with\n\"Natives.\"]/Thy history is an epic of\nthe most brilliant exploits [Indeed,\nit is: exploit/ations]/Thy valour\nsteeped in faith [No Comment]/\nWill protect our homes and our\nrights [Take note: rights and property\u00E2\u0080\u0094capitalism\u00E2\u0080\u0094are entwined\nvia a Christian humanism].\"\nWell! What would be better,\n\u00E2\u0099\u00A6hen, instead of \"O Canada!\"?\nEasy\u00E2\u0080\u0094electronic music. That's\nright, bring on a completely non-\nlyric \"national anthem\" and I am\ndown\u00E2\u0080\u0094be it stoned and laughing or grooving out to our new\nOlympic microfunk (Montreal\nglitch massive, get down to\nthe new national anthem\nfrooooommmmm... AKUFENl).\nFor one, there would be\nno more bickering about lyrics.\nArguments over representation and interpretation would\nbe obsolete\u00E2\u0080\u0094all that would\nmatter would be bodily affect.\nFor nothing glues' the world\ntoday like the cross-cultural\nthudding of beats. Or, for that\nmatter, the beauty bong-hits\nof chill-out music\u00E2\u0080\u0094hell, drum &\nbass, whatever: we could have\nan uptempo version wrought by\ntechno producer Daniel Lui, a\ndark and evil minimalist version\nfrom Richie Hawtin, a cascading, granular-ambient epic from\nTim Hecker, and a cheesy prog\nremix from Chris Sheppard. Why\nnot? We're a cheesy nation. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nEmbrace the cheese! In fact,\nwhy not just commission an\nentire symphony of electronic\nrefrains? Every time we had to\nplay the \"anthem,\" there would\nbe such a selection to choose\nfrom that our \"national identity\"\nwould completely dissolve, our\nnot when it means exclusive\npolitics of \"home.\") Imagine:\nthe new \"national anthem\"\ncould not even be accurately\nhummed\u00E2\u0080\u0094the concept here\nbeing to create a \"national\nanthem\" that goes one step\nfurther to dissolving the nation-\nstate\u00E2\u0080\u0094but don't tell the Feds or\nthe Olympic Committee that...\nYes, Vancouver Does Cool Now\nArtist and freakster olo j. milkman wrote to tell me that Good\nThings are erupting in the summer of street madness (hooray.\nCritical Mass!). Apparently, the\nbeat collective Tribal Harmonix\nhas broached the threshold of\norganization and energy, throwing some solid events\u00E2\u0080\u0094including\na few powered by bicycle-generators (silent and nonpolluting:\nwicked). Fire-twirling, which I witnessed under a certain Bridge a\nfew months ago, has illuminated\na number of flagrations, including several on the Drive\u00E2\u0080\u0094see\n. Also,\nSecialconstruct.com has gathered together artists in a friendly\nand hopefully profitable fashion;\nfreak-energy seems to be flowing toward the Coast\u00E2\u0080\u0094Toronto's\ninfamous minimalist Tomas Jirku\nhas flown the coop to VanCity\nwith Robin Judge, while Daniel\nGardner (aka Frivolous) has\njoined us Montrealers. (And,\nfor those of you following Gl\nJoe Kiliaz\u00E2\u0080\u0094now known simply\nas The Kiliaz\u00E2\u0080\u0094this is why the\nCommander is now dead.) Then\nthere's this year's New Forms\nFestival, which hopefully will\npresent itself as a professional\nentity after last year's spectacularly deconstructive performance. \nEeeeoeooeo eoe BOOM eei-\neieieeee BOOM BOOM...! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 City Of My Dreams\nI owe Jhe title of this column to\nZsuzsi Gartner's short story of the\nsame name from her collection\nAll the Anxious Girls on Earth. The\ncity in question is Vancouver and\nLois, the protagonist of the story,\nhas an uneasy relationship with\nyuppies, hippies, and activists\nalike. In \"City of My Dreams\"\nVancouver's laid-back attitude\nis so aggressive that it is stressful\nto Lois.\nThe first time I read the story\nI didn't understand what Gartner\nwas aiming for.\nI missed all the references to\nthe lame aspects of Vancouver,\nlikely because mysuburban\nupbringing didn't include weekend Whistler getaways, trips to\nthe beach in the summer or East\nVancouver neighbourly love. I\nwas just thrilled that it was obvious the unnamed city in the story\nwas my city. As if one can own a\ncity, or take pride in it as if it were\na significant other.\nMost fiction is set in cities\nother than our little west coast\nmaze of leaky condos and houses so bland that they're labeled\n\"special.\"\nUsually the locale in question is the hometown of the\nwriter or the city they reside\nin. This being said, Douglas\nCoupland had to change the\nlocation of Generation X to a\nsunny American city because\nhis publishers didn't think that\npeople would care about a\nCanadian city. Now he's made\na career out of writing about\nNorth Vancouver and those who\nare from that suburb cannot help\nbut love even duds like Girlfriend\nIn a Coma.\nAfter relating my thoughts\non \"City of My Dreams\" to my\nfriend Anna (who moved from\nOntario to Vancouver in elementary school) things became clear.\nShe patiently explained why an\nangry character in \"City of My\nDreams\" shouts, \"Move back to\nToronto, bitch!\" at a pedestrian\nand the dozens of reasons why\nthat is funny.\nFinally, a trip to the centre of\nCanada's universe made everything very clear: Toronto is a city\nwe love to hate, while; tragically,\nVancouver is a place we love to\nlove. When I had my Toronto-\nepiphany, I started laughing on\na streetcar and I thought about\n\"City of My Dreams\".\nIt then occurred to me that\nthe official spin on our city is\nannoying. It'd be better if we .\nwere a city that people loved\nto hate: we'd be a city with\npersonality. Instead we're in\nthe same category as unicorns\nand rainbows. Our mountains\nand oceans make us lovely\nand innocuous, adored without\nthought. Worse yet, to give our\npretty little city more credibility, our tourism board casts\nVancouver as a handsome\njock who thinks \"Canada Kicks\nAss.\" You know, the dude at the\nmoving to a place that I feel\nI know because of television,\nbooks and movies. Farewell city\nof my waking hours. Hello city of\nmy dreams.\nStan Douglas\nEvery Building on 100 West\nHastings\n(Arsenal Pulp Press)\nThis is not a book of photographs,\nthough one might expect that\na Stan Douglas book might\ntake the form of a coffee table\nbook a cool kid would covet.\nInstead, this collaboration\nbetween the Contemporary\nArt Gallery and Arsenal Pulp\nPress is a collection of essays\nexploring Douglas' prints. Every\nYou get a poster insert of the print. I want to\nhang it above my desk so that I can see the\nbeauty in a place that has been deemed\nVancouver's worst neighbourhood\nbar who's confident and radiates a sense of self-entitlement.\nVancouver kind of comes off as\na guy who thinks a beer commercial slogan is the most clever\nmedia moment of the decade\nand thinks patriotism is highly\nimportant. If this is anything to go\nby, Vancouver is the kind of guy\nI'd kick out of bed.\nYet 1 love this city, despite\nall the plastic people, nice cars,\nand overpriced real estate.\nVancouver isn't just Kitsilano.\nNor is it Commercial Drive,\nStrathcona, the West End or\nMain Street. It's not Expo 86 or\nWinter Olympics 2010. It's not\nthe Downtown Eastside nor is it\nKerrisdale. No single neighbourhood or dominant group of\npeople can represent a city, just\nlike a single character trait isn't\nrepresentative of a person.\nMy Vancouver consists of\nthe same ten people. You know,\nthe same ten people you see at\nshows, restaurants, bookstores,\nlectures, artist talks, galleries,\nrecord stores, and sample sales.\nSome of them are friends, and\nothers have been well-dressed\nextras in the movie of my life. I'm\nsad that I never had dialogue\nwith some of these people. And\nthis month, I'm saying goodbye\nto my same ten people and\nBuilding on 100 West Hastings.\nFirst of all, you need to know\nthat the photograph the book\nis based upon is stunning. The\n100 block of West Hastings looks\ncolourful, inviting, and simply\ngorgeous through the lens of\nStan Douglas' camera. It brings\nto mind photographs from the\n1960s of Hastings Street that captured diverse crowds walking on\nthe sidewalk, though there are no\npeople in the print. Those older\npictures capture a time when the\nDowntown Eastside was a place\nthat families would wander, and\nthe residents of the area were\nnot yet scapegoats for the area's\ndecline. If you buy the book you\nget a poster insert of the print. I\nwant to hang it above my desk\nso that I can see the beauty in\na place that has been deemed\nVancouver's worst neighbourhood. v?^T4fe^.B\nAs for the essays, they are\nwell-researched, literate, and\ncompassionate. If I start talking\nabout them, I'll likely become\npreachy, so I'll stop here and just\nsay that it's an excellent read.\nEven if you think I've lead you\nastray in the past, this is a book\nworth reading. And finally, every\nbuilding on 100 West Hastings is\npart of the city of my dreams. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nT^\vm9SSi **III Essfty e&\nBREAD jSHMPW ... APPAMLf\nif\nDREAD STUFF\nHpfqrjural hair \"produc^Sr^\u00C2\u00AE^^\n^SUF maintaining dreadlocks! -\nwmsssmnsmiiBiim\n7 DiSCORDER nasty on\ntour diary\nThe War Begins...\nTuesday, May 27, 2003\nWhen I arrive at our space to\nload gear, I am greeted by the\nother men in the troupe: Jason\nGrimmer, Matthew Lyons, and\nChad Mareels. Chad supplies\nour vehicle (he began living in\nit May 1st and now has three\nsmoking roommates) for this tour\nof duty and has appropriately\noutfitted the windows of the van\nwith metal grating. Our 100% all-\nsecure mobile jail is ready to go.\nFirst battle is slated for Calgary's\nShip and Anchor.\nWednesday. May 28,2003\nWe arrive at the Ship to be\ngreeted by our already quite\nwasted tour-mates of the next\nweek. Honeysuckle Serontina.\nMuch drinking begins. First band\nsounds like Korn or something\nbad. Good players. Ha ha. HS\nbegins destruction of Canada.\nMy drinking causes much string\nbreaking\u00E2\u0080\u0094to the chagrin of HS'\nDave Truscott, who has agreed\nto change my strings this set. A\ntotal of four. Thanks, Dave. I'll get\nbetter. One man doesn't like us\nbut Jason points out that it is hard\nto hear exactly what he is saying\nover the yelling and screaming in\nfront of us. Ship rules. Nasty On 1,\nCanada 0.\nThursday, May 29,2003\nChad spends eight hours customizing removable grates for the\ndriver/passenger door windows.\nThis is funny later. We arrive at The-\nVat in Red Deer to find a poster\nlisting neither us nor HS. We call\nour pal Brad who says our agent\nnever confirmed the show. A\nkind band from Winnipeg leaves\nto make room for us. The battle\ndoes not go well but I know the\nbartender from the high school\nrock circuit of my hometown,\nNorth Battleford, Saskatchewan.\nHe was in Rubber Ostrich. He gets\nme quite drunk. Only one broken\nstring. We go camping after the\nshow. Nasty On 1, Canada 1.\nFriday, May 30,2003\nI wake up in the glory of nature.\nAfter some successful recon, I\nexpress my joy with some sort\nof towel dance that gets Jason\nand Matthew quite excited. I\nshould calm down. There may be\nenemy troops among us. When\nwe pull into Edmonton, we open\nthe windows to be bombarded\nby pollen. This is bad. We arrive\nat Seedy's. Our best fan, Susie,\nshows up with 24 Heineken for\nus. She has all our merch already\nand says it's all she can do for us\nnow. I tell her that we are going\nto stop making new albums and\nshirts due to this fine development. My allergies start going\nnuts. I know the sound guy from\nthe old Saskatoon all-ages scene.\nHe was in The Echoing Green. He\ndoes not get me drunk. The show\nis not well attended but, along\nwith HS, our heads are up and\nthe Canadian Warfare Tour must\ngo on. Nasty On 1, Canada 2.\nSaturday. May 31,2003\nI wake up with a fever and feeling quite hellish. Can't cancel\nbattles. The enemy will find you\nregardless. We stop in N.B., Sask.,\nfor Buffalo burgers at my parents'\nhouse. Next stop: Saskatoon's\nWash 'n Slosh. When we unload,\nChad leaves the gratings for the\ndriver/passenger windows leaning against a wall outside the\nclub. This is the last time we see\nthem. Ha ha. The venue is quite\ncool and Chad begins doing\nlaundry. Matt tells tales of the\nghost trucker he's been seeing.\nNo, not romantically. The show is\nvery fun and fairly well attended\nconsidering where we are. I cannot drink much but do anyway.\nNasty On 2, Canada 2.\nSunday, June 1,2003\nFever hasn't broken yet. I don't\nleave the back bunk of our\nvehicle. We drive to just inside the\nOntario border and set up camp.\nI don't rise 'til morning.\nMonday, June 2.2003\nThe fever has broken and moved\non to Jason and Matthew. The\nshower sucks and I'm still quite\nsick. I will have diarrhea for the\nnext few days due to not eating at all yesterday. We drive to\nThunder Bay for our show at The\nApollo. Can't remember the first\nband. Maybe there were two? I\ncan't move at all on stage and\ncannot sing either. Nasty On 2,\nCanada 3. The four kids that are\nthere lite it anyway and buy\nsome merch. Drive all night to \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nSault Ste. Marie.\nTuesday, June 3,2003\nWe arrive in The Sault at 9 am.\nThe next battle isn't 'til tomorrow\nin Hamilton so we find the local\nbarracks and get ready to fight\nthe sickness for the next 24 hours.\nMatthew vomits. Ha ha.\nWednesday. June 4.2003\nHamilton's Underground. We've\nplayed here before and look\nforward to having a better night\nthan last time. We've parted with\nHS for now and meet up with 3\nInches of Blood. Also fine allies.\nTonight is my first night back on\nthe horse. Jason and Matthew\nhave decided to drink the\nbugs away. We play quite well\nand seem to impress, although\nmerch sales do not comply. Next\nband And They Win Fall are from\n'Ronto. They play very furious\nblack metal. Very angry about\nsomething. Quite cool. 3 Inches\ndestroy what few remnants are\nleft of Hamilton and we disappear into the night. Destination:\n'Ronto. Nasty On 3, Canada 3.\nThursday, June 5,2003\nWe leave from Chad's brother's\nhome in 'Ronto and make our\nway to Montreal. We were\noriginally to be playing Casa de\nPopollo with Mico and Rocket's\nRed Glare but have moved\nacross the street to La Sala Rosa\nto play with NY's much-hyped\nA.R.E. Weapons. HS take our spot\nat Casa. The room is amazing\nand there are about 60 people\nwhen we play. They all like the\nshow and give much applause.\nA.R.E. Weapons take the stage\nand receive no response from\nthe 100 or so people there.\nMatthew leaves. The show goes\non and people start exiting.\nThe band declare that they are\ngoing to play until the audience\ngives some sort of response. No\nresponse. Matthew is told not to\ngo to the show by some people\noutside. Confident we have won\nthe battle, we enjoy some reefer\nwith Chloe Sevigny's brother and\nhe gives us the rest before departing for the border. This will be our\nonly payment. It seems you have\nto pay a lot for bad entertainment. Nasty On 3, Canada 4.\nWe'll be back, Montreal. This war\nis far from over.\nFriday, June 6,2003\nWhen we arrive at London's\nCall the Office we join in many\nembraces with our soon-to-\nbe-favourite war heroes. Black\nRice. Tonight's bill is filled with\nVancouver bands and sure to\nleave London in ashes. First band\nis terrible. Not from Vancouver.\nBlack Rice take the stage and\nmightily topple the oncoming air\nattacks. The Flairs take the stage\nand are from Vancouver as well.\nOur set has been well supplied\nLawrence introduces \"PBthy Part\nof Town\" from the pseudo-stage\non the sidewalk. I feel cool. No\none agrees, including the fire\nhydrant I'm standing near. Black\nRice tears Club 360 apart from\nthe bottom up. No one is left\nstanding. Limbs are everywhere.\nWhere the tuck did that CCR riff\ncome from? They are my new\nfavourite band. Our show goes\noff like a motherfuck. Jason has\nhand-to-hand combat with a hair\nen his microphone and a barstool\nthat is on the side of the stage.\nGood thing he had that towel\ncape so that people could recognize him for the superhero that\nhe is. Ask Joel for video footage.\n'Ronto is left with nothing left but\nits fine bands. Ha ha ha. Nasty On\n5, Canada 4. Many free beers follow but none of the record deals\nthat NXNE promised.\nSunday, June 8,2003\nThere are so many dead monkeys\non the highway between 'Ronto\nand Ottawa. Why can't Ontario\nmake nice with the monkeys?\nWe arrive at Bumpers for the\nfinal Vancouver deluxe bill of\ndestruction. From here on in we\nare on our own. First up. Black\nhelp from our friends), Canada 4,\nDead monkeys: DEAD.\nMonday. June9.2003 \"Kg^;\"-\u00C2\u00AB\nWe arrive in St. Stephen, New\nBrunswick (Matthew and Jason's\nhometown!) at 2 pm and head\nstraight to Jason's mother's\nplace. Cold beers await. St.\nStephen is a beautiful place on\nthe border of New Brunswick and\nMaine. Very Dawson's Creek. We\nwill spend the next few days here\nin a blur of turkey dinners, free\nbeer. Strawberry Alarm Clock\nrecords, Gooch's (Jason's hash\ndealer) place, free beer, kicking 1\nthe ball to Ihe dogs, walking,\nchecking emails, 10 lbs of mussels,\nfree beer, kind families, cleaning\nChad's house in fhe Lyons' driveway, healthy breakfasts, laundry,\nfree beer and solitude.\nTuesday, June 12,2003\nWe get up and check email\nbefore heading to Moncton for\nour first Maritime show. I receive\na link to a Chart Attack review of\nour NXNE 'Ronto show that calls\nJason homophobic: They got\nit all wrong. He's hobophobic.\nNevertheless Jason asks them to\nretract it and, reluctantly, they\nNo one is left standing. Limbs ore everywhere.\nWhere the fuck did that CCR riff come from?\nwith much ammo from our good\nfriend Tony Lima, and we begin to\nslash away at the ground forces.\nThe Spitfires take over for us in\nwhat is, I'm told, their last battle.\nJay Solyom takes many half-\nsmoked cigarettes and Jag shots\nfrom the battleground. He then\ninvites everyone starting with us\nto join him onstage. This turns into\na 15-minute kraut/Can-like jam.\nMany people playing Marty's\ndrums. That's a 10-4. London\nbridges falling down. Nasty On 4,\nCanada 4.\nSaturday, June 7,2003\nToday we are to do battle live\non CBC Radio from 'Ronto's\nHorseshoe. We show up in time for\nsoundcheck. I stand out front of\nthe club and smoke while Grant\nRice ted Ottawa-right away that\nthey don't like them and are\nnever going to play there again.\nOuch. Joel thanks his Vancouver\nfriends for coming out. Black Rice\ndestroys in the most appropriate\nof ways. I sure have come to like\nthem a lot\u00E2\u0080\u0094although they didn't\nbust a CCR move tonight. HS\nhave Andy's hometown crowd\nwhipped into a frenzy. They sure\nlike Andy here. We played a set.\nI guess it was okay. Doesn't strike\nme as a bad memory. 3 Inches\nof Blood finish off Ottawa like a\ngood old mediaeval beheading. They will now ride their dark\nhorses to NY. Black Rice and HS\nhead homeward to make sure\nthere is nothing left as we go off\nto prepare our battle against the\nMaritimes. Nasty On 6 (with a little\ncomply. We head to Shediac\nfirst which is 20 minutes out of\nMoncton on the ocean. This is\nthe first time I spot the Atlantic\nOcean. We do battle with the\nworld's largest lobster and,\nthough we emerge unscathed,\ndo not win. We have fish and\nchips. More free beer and burgers\nat Kathy Dube's (Cinch) parents'\ncabin. Off to The Paramount.\nThe club is awesome. The staff\nare awesome. Extra props to PJ.\nThe Mean are awesome. We've\nalways feli Canada's best bands\nhave been on the coasts and The .\nMean are our first Kve evidence.\nMachetes in hand, our set goes\nquite wei and Jason's dad enjoys\nit. Or so he says. Lots of merch\nsales. Good pay. The Maritimes\nrule. Nasty On 7, Canada 4. i \.\0&o&ru$rz?\nWednesday, June 13,2003\nWe were supposed to be going\nto PEI today but it fell through.\nFortunately, our friend Matt from\nHalifax's Hell City Love is able\nto get us a pick-up show within\nthree hours. We arrive at Halifax's\nSeahorse to friendly staff and\nreasonably good quesadillas.\nThe Ditchpigs from Moncton\nopen the evening with an amazing set. More evidence. Our set\ngoes off with moshing and much\nmerriment.- etc. I must get drunk.\nGood choice. The Hemingways\nhave made the same decision.\nAlthough they are a little too\nstraight-ahead for my liking, they\nput on a completely sloppy,\nbeautifully delinquent set. Nasty\nOn 8, Canada 4.\nThursday, June 14,2003\nWe head out for greasy spoon\nbefore finding accommodations\nin Halifax. It's best to get hotels in\ntt^rrJoshing as it maximizes comfort time and money. Turns out\nthat The Marquee has put us up\ntonight at The Citadel, two blocks\n-from the club. Showers are nice.\nWe head out for a MuchMusic\ninterview with Matt Wells before\ngoing to Hell's Kitchen (basement of The Marquee) for sound-\ncheck. We are given many drink\ntickets and food money. Hell City\nLove are awesome. Our set is\nworthy of celebration. Ten. drinks\nin at this point, I head upstairs\nto The Marquee where\" a post-\nSkydiggers/Roxy-esque dance\nparty is happening. No ladies are\nimpressed with me. Or my booty-\nshake-grinding. I manage to not\nget killed and we head back to\nthe hotel for more beer. Nasty On\n9, Canada 4.\nFriday, June 15,2003\nLast show before having some\ntime off. We make our way to\nSaint John, New Brunswick where\nwe are playing at Studio 112\nwith Moncton's finest. The Peter\nParkers, and local favourites\nThe Organizers. After settling\n. in we find out that we have to\nbe at the ferry in Sydney, Nova\nScotia tomorrow at 9 am to head\nto Newfoundland. We didn't\nthink the shows were going to\nhappen. The Peter Parkers are\nfucking amazing! Sonic destruction! More evidence! Oor set\ngoes very weS. impressing ali of\nMatthew and Jason's family and\nfriends (including Gooch, Jason's\nhash dealer) who came from St.\nStephen. We catch three of The\nOrganizers' hyper-mod tunes,\npose for some family pictures and\nhit the road for Sydney. Nasty On\n10. Canada 4.\nSaturday. June 16,2003\nWe arrive at 8:30 for the\nferry. I sleep all the way to\nNewfoundland. We drive from\nthe west side to the east side\nas fast as we can, but do not\nmanage to make last call in Sf.\nJohn's. We cannot find a hotel\nso we hit a campsite out of town.\nQuite nice.\nJune 17,2003\nAfter cleaning up our act we\nhead to Cape Spear, the easternmost point in North America.\nThere are icebergs!!! Amazing\nhuge waves crashing rocks all\nblue-crested and beautiful nature\nshit. We head to the venue to find\nkids loitering already. Classic all-\nages show. Trailer Camp are a\nhigh school Jesus Lizard meets\nEddie Cochrane. More evidence.\nSome other less memorable acts.\nThe show is at McMurdo's\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nsame venue we will be playing\nfor the older dudes tonight so\nwe take it easy and enjoy the\nfact that they are now serving.\nHardliner are stellar. They feature\nDan, the guitarist from Sheavy,\nand their singer, John, who is like\nOne Day At A Time's Schneider\ncrossed with Lester Bangs. Our set\nis appreciated and more drinks\nfollow. We head back to John\nand Paul's (promoters) place\nfor beer, reefer, and crashing.\nFirst my head into a wall, then\nmy vomit into a bush, and then\nactual sleeping. Nasty On 12,\nCanada 4.\nMonday. June 18.2003\nWe wake to showers, more reefer,\nand the beginning of what John\nsays is going to be a day filled\nwith nothing but The Who. He\nstarts with Live at Leeds and then\nmoves into Sells Out. We travel\nabout 3/4ths of the way back\nacross Newfoundland and stop\nto camp. The site is set right on\na river and is beautiful. The best\ncampsite showers of the entire\ntrip. Large fire. Jason has a torch\nthat he waves around in the dark,\ntelling stories with fire.\nTuesday. June 19,2003\nWe take the 5 pm ferry back\nto Sydney. Grab a room, some\nfood for Dad, and head out in\nsearch of booze. Chad stops at\na lounge in search of off sales\nonly to find bad R&B and $6.50\npitchers of Keith's. Price is good.\nWe end up coming back. Hot Hot\nHeat is playing on the stereo. The\nbar staff know who we are\u00E2\u0080\u0094by\nbrilliant small-town deduction.\nWe decline their offer to play us\nour album. We play dice and\nenjoy Deep Purple and Gordon\nLightfoot. Very drunk.\nWednesday, June 20,2003\nWe make our way back to the\nlounge for greasy spoon. Then\na nice relaxing day of emails,\nlaundry, and small-town mingling.\nThe all-ages show at The Steel\nWorkers' Hal is quite good despite\npoor attendance. The opening band. Teenage Hurricanes,\nare the best we've seen yet.\nFeaturing two 18 and two 19\nyear olds, one broken hockey\nstick/mic stand, many smashing\ntelephones, and body checks,\nthe TH took youthful abandon up\nquite a notch. We later find out\nthat this is their second show in\ntheir month-long career. The next\ntwo bands are emo. Or something else that doesn't get me\nWe wake to showers,\nJohn says is going to\ngoing. Rock Ranger are Sydney's\nfinest and, despite a terrible\nname (I should talk), they break\nout Tick after lick of jam groove\nrock that makes the kids smile.\nOur set goes over super weH with\nthe ten kids who are there. They\nspend thousands of dollars on\nour shit. We pack up and head\ndown to Chandler's Lounge (they\neven use the Friends logo!) to find\nRock Ranger already playing to a\nroom filled mostly with bar stars.\nA bit of a whirlwind setting up\nand tearing down with rocking,\nyelling, and some girt dancing all\nthrough our set. Like she actually\nliked it. Sel a couple things, pack\nup, get burgers, and start heading to Montreal. Fifteen hours. A\nlong haul. Hopefully worth it to\nmake it to our vengeance battle\nin time for some recon. Nasty On\n14, Canada 4.\nThursday, June 21,2003\nPuH into Montreal at 6 pm. Head\nto Megan's for showers (thank\nyou) and \"Dep\" beers. For\nthose of you who don't know, a\n\"Dep\" is a convenience store in\nQuebec. They will sell you a beer,\nput it in a bag already opened\nand you're on your way. That's\nculture. Head down to Barfly.\nThe place is an awesome hole in\nthe wall which makes Jason feel\nlike Warren Oates in Bring Me the\nHead of Alfredo Garcia. Or so he\nsays. Regardless, we have found\nour people. The Dropouts are\ndirty Montreal punk that do not\nbum us out. The crowd loves our\nset and even requests an encore.\nWe play \"7+7 Is,\" as usual. More\nstreet beers and laughs and then\noff to Erie's-fee nightcaps and Bob\nDylan. Nasty On 15, Canada 4.\nFriday, June 22,2003\nWe have today to chill (did I\nactually say chill?) in Montreal.\nGreasy spoon, full Montreal view\nintake from Mount Royal and\nthen back to St. Laurent for street,\nbeers and mingling. It's easy to\nsee why Montreal is the home\nof Vice magazine. I've seen too\nmany dudes with fanny packs\n(wearing them like purses!) to not\nhave wanted to start a magazine\nmyself. Chad and I saw a dude\nwith a black t-shirt tucked into\nthese super-tight, super-short\nshorts with a one inch rolled cuff.\nWe were stopped at a red light.\nHe was coming the opposite\ndirection but, unlike us, did not\nhave to comply with the light.\nHe simply walked through traffic, never once breaking stride,\nnever once causing a vehicle\nto slow down or speed up. It\nwas like seeing Jesus walking on\nfucking water. Depart at 11 pm.\nDestination: somewhere near\nWinnipeg. . L\nSaturday, June 23,2003\nWe stop at Sandbar Lake (west-\nem Ontario) to set up camp.\nThere have been many forest\nfires in Ontario and consequently\nwe cannot light a fire. This leads\nto a new score tally: Mosquitoes\n10,000, Jason's knees 0. I eat\nChad and paper towel remove\nthe beast. We perform an in-store\nat Music Trader that goes quite\nwell. Some dude yells out \"Black\nOak Arkansas!\" We play another\nsong. Then he yells out \"Cheap\nTrickl\" We play another song.\nThen, finally, he requests Lester\nBangs\u00E2\u0080\u0094something we can do.\n3 Inches of Blood walk in as we\nfinish and it's a pleasant surprise;\nI had heard we might be playing\nwith them tonight but it was still\nnice. Music Trader gives us each\nsome credit. I got Simply Saucer,\nJason got the Beyond the Valley\nof the Dolls soundtrack, Chad\ngot Diamond Head, and Matt\ngot a Johnny Cash DVD. We\nload up and head to The Royal\nAlbert. Jason gets a royal flush\nin video poker and wins $250. We\nget drunk. 3 Inches of Blood are\namazing. It really is nice to see a\nband after they have been touring for a month. So much fire. We\ndedicate \"The King: He Drinks a\nLot\" to them. Our set is fiery (3\nInches inspiration) and our usual\nWinnipeg fans are all there. And\nthe guy from the in-store. Nasty\nOn 16, Canada 4. We have drinks\nwith the bartender by our van\nand he tells us ghost stories of\nThe Albert.\nMonday. June 25.2003\nWake up in the van at 9 am. Load\nour gear from The Albert stage\nand make our way to Brandon\nwhere we'll cool off and hide\nmore reefer, and the beginning of what\nbe a day filled with nothing but The Who.\nthree steaks and a bag of chips\nbut fail to get drunk off of my\nBeck's keg.\nSunday, June 24,2003\nShower up and head off to\nWinnipeg. On the way a bird\ntries to kill me. Fortunately, we\nhave a windshield that foils his\nevil plan. Unfortunately, we have\nwindshield wipers that his little\ndead body gets caught up in.\nHe's looking right at me. He sees\nmy soul. Turning the wipers on .\ndoesn't help. It is more uncomfortable, though. We stop and\nout from the Charlie for a white.\nOur barracks are quite nice with\ntwo beds, a pull out love seat, a\nfridge,.microwave, good shower,\ninternet in the lobby, and free\nlong distance in the lobby after\n6. They also have an outdoor\npool and BBQs but it is not nice\noutside. We hit -a pool hall and\nthen after dinner the boys take\nme out bowling. Back home for\nTV and a midnight snack. It's\nquiet. Too quiet.\nTuesday, June 26,2003\nWe pull into Regina and stumble\nupon the Gaslight Saloon quite\neasily. It is a nice bar aside\nfrom the flame motif. The staff\nare easy on the eyes and quite\nkind. We have a warm meal, a\ngame of darts, pool, andJNouse\nof the Dead. Opening band\nsay they are emo but sound like\nNickelback. The second band\nopens with Nirvana's \"Territorial\nPissings\" and proceeds into\nNoMeansNo, Pixies, Sublime\n(which makes me leave), more\nNoMeansNo, Tool, and more shit\nI ignored. No offence to any of\nthe original bands, it's just that if I\nknew we were going to be headlining above The Pixies I'd've\nasked for more money. Our set\ngoes very well. Jason decides to\nrecord a live album and the audience is at least amused enough\nto pay attention. We play well\nand sell much merch. Nasty On\n17, Canada 4.1 finally beat Jason\nand Matt in pool by recruiting.:\na shark waitress .for a partner.\nMore drinks and hit the road for\nCalgary- I'm almost home, baby.\nFriday, June 27,2003\nPull in at our friend Janette's at\nabout 2 pm and get cleaned\nup. It seems the town has some- .\nhow built itself up since we\ntore it down a month ago. Our\nEdmonton battle for tomorrow will\nnot happen due to retreats. Head\ndown to The Castle and begin\ndrinking, stat. Many old friends\nand big Stella beers make for a\ngood time. Then Hip City Blues\nCombo hit the stage. This is the\nbest prairie band I've seen. Our\nset is more drunken live album\naction. The crowd is dancing\nand drinking as much as we are!\nFor the amount of drunkenness in\nthat room, I'm amazed only one\nperson annoyed me. You know\nwho you are. Calgary rules. Final\ntally: Nasty On 18, Canada 4.\n18,333 km.\nThursday, July 17,2003\nToday at practice Chad found a\nurinal puck in his hardware case.\nIt got there by traveling from a\nurinal in McMurdo's in St. John's\nNewfoundland to Jason's hand\nto Chad's case. Ha ha. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n9 DiSCORDER The Wajr They Sat By\nWhen Austin, TX's Spoon released KHf fhe Moonlight last si\nit knocked me on my prissy White ass. I had heard Girls Can Tell,\ntheir previous album, and was fairly non-plussed, but Kill the\nMoonlight was a revelation. Replete with gritty and catchy rock songs,\npunctuated by singer Britt Daniel's raspy voice, the album is destined to\nbecome a classic. I was lucky enough to sit down with Spoon drummer\nand co-founder Jim Eno before Spoon's Richard's on Richards show last\nmonth to discuss Kill the Moonlight's breakthrough success, reconciling\nday jobs with touring, and Mexican restaurants.\nDiSCORDER: I saw you in Seattle last November at Graceland, but\nyou didn't come up to Vancouver. Do you guys enjoy coming to\nCanada?\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's not something you do a whole lot of.\nJim Eno: I like it. The only thing I don't like about it is that it takes a long\ntime to get across the border. It's such a hassle. But once we get here,\nwe always have a great time. Toronto and Montreal, we usually have\na good time.\nIt's a big problem for Vancouver because there's not much of an\nincentive for bands to go through all the hassle of the border.\nThey just go to Seattle and that's it and you guys have to go down\nthere. Is it hard for you guys to cross if you're just going to see a show?\nYeah, no felonies, and no one of colour.\nRight.\nIn general, how does touring work for you? I read an Interview that said\nyou're an electrical engineer; how do you get time off?\nI just take a leave of absence, so I don't get paid. But they've been\ncool about it. I've had the same boss since 1993\u00E2\u0080\u0094moved around to\ndifferent companies, but same boss\u00E2\u0080\u0094you know, they know that I'm\ngoing to be leaving. I structure my projects so that I can get away.\nAnd it's always, you know, when you plan to get away, it's always the\nworst time when it comes down to it.\nBut that's great that it works out for you. You've got a real job.\n10 August 2003\nThey haven't forced me to make a decision yet.\nWith Kill fhe Moonlight. It seems like the amount of praise and press has\ngone up even more than where it was before (for 2001 's Girls Can Te/fl.\nWhy do you think Kill fhe Moonlight has garnered so much attention?\nI just think it's been a slow building process since 1996 [when they\nreleased their debut, Telephono, on Matador]. One thing we have\nbeen doing is we're just trying to keep putting out great records. We're\njust recording and Britt [Daniel, singer/guitarist]'s songwriting is just\ngetting better and better.\nIt seems that with this record there was a bit of a stylistic break; there\nwere different elements that were brought in\u00E2\u0080\u0094a lot more keyboards.\nAnd then there's \"Stay Don't Go\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094which has beatboxing. Were there\nany decisions about that, or was that just something that happened?\nIt's just how the songs start working out. We don't go into a record\nsaying, 'This is going to sound like this.' It just has to evolve into what\nit becomes. So, you know, working song by song, figuring what each\nsong needs and what it doesn't need. Sort of subtractive stuff: let's\nthrow a bunch of things down and pick off what's working and throw\nwhat's not adding anything.\nHow collaborative is the songwriting process?\nBritt writes the songs. A lot of times what will happen is we'll have\npractices beforehand where we'll work on arrangements and drum\nparts and things like that. And then when the recording happens, we\nrecord at my house, so it's collaborative in terms of sounds and stuff\nlike that... For the past two records we've used Mike McCarthy as\nproducer/engineer, so the three of us just hang out and craft and work\non things.\nSo there's Just the three of you who produce the music for the albums\nand then you bring in a keyboardist and bassist for the tour? I know\nthat you switched keyboardists recently.\nYeah, and Eric (new keyboardist] played on Girls Can Te//\u00E2\u0080\u0094no, I'm\nsorry, one song on Kill The Moonlight, but he did all of the Girls Can Tell\ntours. Josh [old keyboardist] played on one or two songs on Kill the\nMoonlight; also he played on all of Series of Sneaks. [With recording]\nsometimes we say, \"Hey, this would be a good day's part for this guy.\nor so and so,\" or \"This would be a cool .part to bring this guy in.\" And\nthen that's sort of how we play it. We'll have to see how the next\nrecord pans out.\nAbout the next record, where's it at?\nWe're already working on it\u00E2\u0080\u0094gonna start hitting it really hard after this\ntour; working on songs and getting things together. Whenever we're\nready, we'll start recording.\nHave you been playing the new songs during the shows at all?\nNo, it's not at that point yet.\nAny sort of ideas about where, stylistically, they might be headed?\nNo, no clue yet.\nAre they top secret?\n[Laughing] Well, top se\nI don't know if I can describe it\nOne thing I wanted to talk to you about is Mexican restaurants,\nbecause you guys have links to a bunch of them on your website.\nWhat's the best Mexican restaurant you know of?\nWhen it comes to authentic Mexican, I like a place called Polvo's in\nAustin. For Tex-Mex, I like a place called Chewy's. Yeah, there're a lot\nof good ones.\nHave you built a network of Mexican restaurants across the country\nthat you go to while on tour?\n[Laughing] No, no, they're usually not as good once we start moving\naway from Texas. Are there good Mexican restaurants here?\nI was trying to think about that. There's a great place nearby that's\ncalled the Mouse and Bean that's very authentic, but most of the\nplaces aren't all that great.\nHave you been down to Austin?\nNo, I have a cousin down there, but I've never been. I've made it to\nDallas airport but that's all.\nIt's a cool place. Austin is fun. I'd like to make It to SXSW sometime.\nOh yeah, it's a good time.\nYou guys play every year, don't you?\nYeah, we've played every year since 1995.\nWhy is that Important to you? Or Is It just that you're there?\nWell, we alwayssubmit. Yeah, we're there, and we usually get pretty\ngood shows. We're beginning to get better and better shows. The last\none we played with. Yo La Tengo and Cat Power, so that was really\nawesome. I just really like it because we tour around quite a bit with a\nlot of opening bands, like The Oranges. And everyone comes to SXSW\nso you get to meet all of your friends and you're in your hometown\nand see tons of bands. And even/one comes to your town so you get\nto hang out with all the people you've met over.the years, musician-\nwise.\nHow important do you think It's been to be in a town ike Austin, in an\natmosphere that's quite nurturing?\nThat's a tough one. I don't know how important it is, actually. It's good\nthat we have cool clubs to play. But you realise when you start touring\nthat it doesn't really matter where you're from because people don't\nknow you as soon as you leave your hometown. Geographically,\n[Austin] is great because we can do the West Coast in two weeks and\nwe can do the East Coast in two weeks, so it's a lot better than having\nto take a month if you're on the West coast or East coast. That's good.\nChicago is also good for those reasons.\nYou know, Austin's a great town. You get to see live music, any style, in\n40 different clubs every night. It's pretty amazing.\nI don't know what your politics are, but It also seems like this kind of\noasis of liberal thought In the middle of Texas.\nIt's sort of liberal, it's not as liberal as I would hope and you're still stuck\nin the middle of Texas, which isn't good, especially now. Especially\ngoing to Europe and [the reaction is], 'You're from Texas?'\nI guess George Bush hasn't done a lot for the travel prospects of\nliberals from Texas. Another thing I want to touch on is your artwork.\nThe artwork on the records is always really great, especially Series of\nSneaks.\nBritt usually looks around for that stuff. He found those paintings. I think\nthe Series of Sneaks was a futuristic artist and we tracked down who\nhad the rights to it and told them we wanted to use it for our cover.\nThe same with Kill the Moonlight.\nSo is there any significance to the\nit just an interesting visual?\ni think it's just a visual.\nhands [depicted on the cover], or Is\nAnd what about the title \"Kill the Moonlight\"? Was there any\nsignificance to that?\nIt is a Futurist manifesto, I think. Ah man, I don't want you to quote\nme on that, cause I don't want to get that wrong. [Author's note: Jim\nasked me to email him later so he could fact check this and then I\nforgot. A Google search revealed that it is, in fact, the name of an\nearly 20th century Italian Futurist manifesto.] With titles of records, you\njust want to, how do I describe it, sort of like imagery. You just want to\nhave something... that... sounds good.\nWed, it certainly works. It sounds intriguing and mysterious. I also\nwanted to talk about Merge a bit. I know you guys have been\nbounced around by labels, but It seems like, with Merge, it's really\nbeen stable and you guys have really taken off while with them. How\nhave you enjoyed working with them?\nOh, they're great. They're great people and they're huge music lovers\nand, as far as what a label needs to do, answer phone calls, they do\npress, they're on the ball. It's been great being on their label. They\ncame through when a lot of other labels wouldn't.\nWhat are some of the bands you've been excited about lately?\nIt's weird for me, because I have a recording studio, so I record other\nbands. So it's Spoon, other bands or I'm working, so I don't have a lot\nof time to go out and find other bands. But, for example, I just did the\nnew Mates of State record. That was really fun. I was a fan of theirs, but\nI really like the new songs. That's who I've been listening to lately.\nA Series of Peaks: The History of Spoon\n1993 - The love-child of guitarist/vocalist Britt Daniels and drum\nmachine Jim Eno, Spoon is born. Greg Wilson and Andy McGuire\ncomplete the instrumental line-up.\nn busting with the release of the Nefari-\n1995 - Spoon is signed to the six year old, fairly reputable Matador\nlabel. Appearances are deceiving.\n1996 - Debut full-length Telephono is released. Only Wilson has\ndisappeared and McGuire is suing the band for cash after break-\ning-up ugly. Telephono producer, John Croslin, plays bass as the\nband tours as a three-piece. Despite selling minimally, Spoon gets\nbracketed as too commercial for the indie spirit of Matador.\n1997 - Spoon begins to work with bassist Josh Zarbo. (Note that\nZarbo is the bassist that sticks, carrying oh to play with Spoon as we\nknow them today.)\n1998 -A Series of Sneaks is released on Elektra, amounting to\na somewhat seminal, absolutely beautiful car crash. Spoon is\nditched by the label almost immediately as Ron Laffitte [the vice-\npresident that backed them] is fired; the album sells poorly, people |\nfucking love it.\n2001 - Girls Can Tell is released on Merge and sells more than\nthe entire back catalogue of the band combined. It is widely\nconceded that this is the album whereby Spoon elucidated what\nIs uniquely their own. This album also has the best cover art to date |\nfor the band, a simple spinning record, a call to monkey-see-monkey-do.\n2002 - Kill The Moonlight is released on Merge. People freak out\nagain. People love it; can't get enough of it. After approximately\n10 record labels (including EP releases) and almost as many bass\nplayers. Spoon's reality appears to be coalescing into something\nsolid.\n2003 - Spoon comes to Vancouver. DiSCORDER interviews them.\nYou read this.\nsweetcheyanne \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n11 DiSCORDER Pet Sounds\nYou know that white snowy fuzz that yc*hg#t on an untuned TV?\nYou're not tuned to a station and the screen jiggles with white,\ngray, and black speckles. That's thousands of faint broadcast\nsignals, which, too weak to form a coherent signal alone or unable to\nbe interpreted by the crude mechanism of a TV, indulge themselves\nin a play of random movement creating the image you see. One of\nthose signals is actually the still-dissipating energy from the original\nBig Bang. Two scientists'found this faint signal in the '60s. Wherever\nthey pointed their instruments, the signal was there; a ubiquitous low-\nlevel hiss. Just a weak primordial celestial radio signal, in the diffuse\nbath of background radiation that we are all immersed in everyday.\nThis is the kind of natural, messed-up soundscape that the Animal\nCollective's music seeks to emulate. Like your detuned TV, you know\nthere's endless faint pop culture signals in there somewhere but you\ncan't quite isolate them and they're breaking up, coming in and out\nof focus. And there's natural noise too\u00E2\u0080\u0094the Big Bang and the endless\nchirrup of the earth's creatures. It's just like placing a microphone in\nthe forest at night; you'd think that it'd be silent, but when you listen\nto the play back, the noise is deafening, dense, and constantly\noverlapping. As a listener of the Animal Collective you kinda feel\nlike an archaeologist, constantly unearthing catchy melodies from\nthe sedimentary layer cake of the noise that they present to you.\nIn the three years since they have emerged they've released\nfour albums and a live compilation with their friends Black Dice, and\nevery release has seen a redefinition of their sound. Their first album.\nSpirit They've Vanished, Spirit They've Gone, was, a washed out\nfuzz of joyous pop melodies. Their third, Campfire Songs\u00E2\u0080\u0094released\nthis year\u00E2\u0080\u0094is an acoustic drone masterpiece. But it's their latest.\nHere Comes the Indian, that really made people sit up and take\nnotice. Make no mistake the pop melodies remain, but it's finding\n. them that's the fun. Where once, the noise only occasionally\nobscured the melodies, now it's the noise that dominates and\nthe melodies can only be enjoyed after a deep excavation.\nBut it's not just the music that has got Animal Collective noticed.\nThe outrageous masks and make-up have helped. As too have the\nrather unusual monikers: David Portner is Avey Tare, Noah Lennox\n12 August 2003\nis Panda Bear, Brian Weitz is The Geologist and finally (and perhaps\ndisappointingly) Josh Oeaken is The Deaken. I mean, come on. Aren't\nyou intrigued? I was. So when I heard that they were playing Pat's Pub\nthis month, I got all excited and set up this interview. On the evening\nAvey Tare and Panda Bear treated us to a sublime performance\nusing only two acoustic guitars, four niicrophones, and a big drum.\nThe Geologist was on hand, keeping his two friends company and\nmanning the merch table. The Deaken was suspiciously absent, as\nwere the much rumored masks and make-up. However, as t sat down to\nbegin the interview, apparel was still \"very much a subject of concern:\nGeologist: Are you gonna take pictures of us tonight?\nDISCORDER: Yeah\nGeologist: Aww, I'm always photographed in this T-shirt. Everyone's\ngoing to think I always wear the same thing.\nFirst of aU I have to say that your new album, H*n Comes the Indian,\nis unbelievable.\nAll: Thank you\nWhere did It all start?\nPanda Bear We all sorta met each other while we were in high school.\nThere's four of us, and The Deaken and these two guys [Avey Tare\nand The Geologist] all went to high school together, and the Deaken\nI've known since I was about second grade and he and I have been\nfriends for a really long time. So I met these guys and we all started\nplaying together through that sort of connection. These two guys had\na band called Automind back inhigh school and the Deaken was in\nthat for a little while playing keyboards.\nWhat kind of style of music did Automind play?\nGeologist: Automind? I don't know... It kinda started like indie rock,\nand then it got a little more experimental with psychedelic jammy\nstuff in between songs\u00E2\u0080\u0094a lot of weird noises and stuff like that, i\nA Conversation with\nthe Animal Collective\nby Merek Cooper\nPhotos by\nHana Macdonald\nAnd It all progressed from there?\nGeologist: Sort of...\nPanda: We were all playing music off and on, in different formations\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ndifferent bands and stuffcr^but nothing too steady until these guys\nwent to school in New York and eventually I moved there, too. Josh\n[The Deakenj and I went to school in Boston but I sorta dropped out\nand moved to New York, and that's whent2w*e and I started playing\nreally steady: that was three years ago.\nI heard this rumour that you're not planning on making music your\ncareer. I* this true?\nGeologist: I think the answer differs depending on who you talk to in\nthe band. I think that quote was from me.\nAvey Tare: We never depend on it being our career. We never want\nit to be a stressfeJ thing, tike, \"How can we make money?\" We just\nwanna make music.\nPanda: But if I could afford toliveoff it I totally would\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's not like I'd\nbe Rke. \"Whoa, no.\"\nAnd you're all still at university? -\nGeologist: Nah, we're done.\nPanda: Done or dropped out.\nWhat did you do. Panda Bear?\nPanda: Well, the Geologist is the only one who graduated; the other\nthree of us all dropped out.\nWhat was the reason for you dropping out?\nPanda: I think it's different for all of us. There were a lot of different\nreasons for me. I moved to New York to be with a girl at the time and\njust never went back. That's my story. [Laughs]\nHow does New York feel at the moment? It seems the scene there Is\ngetting a lot of media attention.\nAvey: It feels pretty normal to us. I feel like I know a lot of people there\nwho are really supportive and there's definitely other musicians that we feel pretty comfortable talking with\nGeologist: It's more a community than a scene because I feel like\nour thoughts on music and the way we wanna do things is all a bit\ndifferent. There isn't like a homogenous sound to anything. I don't\nthink we're part of any New York renaissance sound. I mean, we\ndefinitely associate with them and a lot of them are our friends, but...\nwe don't try and be part of it.\nWhat bands do you associate with?\nGeologist: Black Dice are really good friends of ours. But, like. The Liars\nand the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Strokes and stuff Tike Vna\\u00E2\u0080\u0094we're\nnot really... I mean, they are nice people, but I don't think people\nreally group us in with the same kind of New York thing.\nIt seems like there are two really big movements right now: you have\nthe disco punk scene with the Rapture and III, and then you have the\npsychedelic avant stuff like Black Dice, Lighting Bolt, and you guys.\nAvey: I think we all sort of came to it from different perspectives and\nthen have crossed paths at certain points. I mean, we are definitely\nreally good friends with Black Dice.\nGeologist: I think there are similarities in the way we approach\ncreating stuff, but we wouldn't say we sound the same. I mean, I\nguess you could say that we do here and there.\nI think sometimes In the more ambient stuff a connection between\nyou two could be made.\nPanda: There's probably been a lot of subtle cross-pollination.\nAvey: I think Black Dice for us, too, was as a big brother band\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nbecause they've been touring and recording longer than we have.\nSo it was nice to have people that we could ask for advice; they\nhelped us out on our first tour and that sort of thing.\nCan you tell us a bit about how you recorded Campflre Songs?\nPanda: It was out at Dave's cousin's place, out in rural Maryland. Out\nin the countryside. They have a little screened-in porch and we all sat\nin there, and we had, like, two mini-disc players recording inside, and\nwe put one outside so you could get the whole sphere of what was\ngoing on as we played. And we played it straight through.\nAH the way through\u00E2\u0080\u0094no stops?\nAvey: Yeah, it took us a while to get the right take.\nHow long Is the album?\nAll: 41 minutes or something.\nWow. So, you just went through It and picked the best take?\nAvey: YOah, it was an idea we'd been working on for a long time\u00E2\u0080\u0094\neven before we started playing things in that style. Right before Danse\nMantee was recorded we had started playing this style of melding\neverything together\u00E2\u0080\u0094like one song became another suddenly and\nthen became another without any stops. So we sort of took another\nidea that we'd had before to record stuff at night so it's warm and\npersonal\u00E2\u0080\u0094you know\u00E2\u0080\u0094just an album that someone could put on and\nfeel really close to nature and to the people who were making it. And\nthen we took it and started throwing ambient noise into it, once we\nhad come up with the songs.\nYeah, whenever I read anything on you guys there is this emphasis\non \"back-to-nature,\" \"tribal-dancing-round-flres\" kind of thing. Is that\nsomething the media has made up or is that just a jam session for\nyou?\nAvey: I feel like I grew up in that state of mind. Most of the time when\nI was young I just wanted to be outside and be running around\nplaying games, so I think it's an extension of that. I grew up in a really\nlandscape-y woody area, and I definitely think that is one side of what\nwe do\u00E2\u0080\u0094but then New York is another side with all the chaos.\nYeah, that's why it seems strange that you get this label 'cause you\nlive in one of the biggest urban areas In the world...\nAvey: New York just puts a different take on it all.\nPanda: We wanna take influences from both; we wanna produce the\npastoral landscape feeling, but it's hard to breathe sometimes in New\nYork and that definitely comes through.\nWhere did the whole \"animal\" thing come from? The nicknames, I\nmean.\nGeologist: The nicknames all come from different places. I think we all\nhave different stories.\nSo you are the Geologist: why Is that? .\nGeologist: I did a lot of science in college. I mean, that's pretty much\nwhat I've always done, but everyone from New York thought I studied\ngeology\u00E2\u0080\u0094and that was, like, one of the few things I didn't study. And\nthey used to call me Geologist and I just kept it as a nickname.\nAnd Panda Bear? Where did your name come from?\nPanda: I can't remember where I came up with it but I used to make\nthese tapes when I was really young and on one of them I drew this\npanda bear, and from there it's always been Panda Bear.\nAnd Avey Tare?\nAvey: Er, Avey Tare? 1 don't know.\nHow do you pronounce It?\nAvey. 'Avey' is like 'davey' without the 'D'.\nI thought K might be a joke on Avatar?\nAvey: That's what a lot of people think, but I didn't even know that\nword when I came up with it.\nThe Idea behind the make-up and costumes is...?\nAvey. I mean, like, we're up for anything that sort of happens. We did\nthat as a celebratory way of making music together and the ritual...\nWe're not doing it now\u00E2\u0080\u0094just because we wanted to change it up a\nlittle bit. We don't want it to be our thing.\nHow did you record Here Comes the Indian? What kind of equipment\nare you using?\nPanda: A lot of stuff. We're super into live mixing, seeing what we\ncan do with live mixing. At that time it was four of us playing so Brian\nand Josh, the Deaken, would do a lot of live mixing. And as far as the\nvocals go, we each have our own vocal mic, which would either be\naffected through a vocoder, a roland keyboard/an analog synth\u00E2\u0080\u0094or\neven just dry.\nYeah\u00E2\u0080\u0094the best thing about the album is that it sounds like you use\ntechnical, modern stuff, but the sound you achieve is very organic\nPanda: I think it's electronic because there's people in the band\nwho are processing the sound of somebody else in the band, but it's\norganic because we're all playing live together.\nGeologist: On Here Comes the Indian there's live guitar and drums\nand keyboards and they're done live in the room, and there's room\nmics catching it\u00E2\u0080\u0094but those signals also go to my mixer. And The\nDeaken was also operating. And Panda Bear's drums had contact\nmics on them, so you'd hear the live sound of the drum, but the\ncontact mic's signal would also go to mixer, which was then affected.\nThere was a lot of sending things different places.\nAnd live, can you always reproduce that sound?\nAvey: Not always tq that effect, but we came up with most of the\nmaterial for a live show, like we do with all our stuff. But an album, I\nthink, js something completely different.\nGeologist: And we enjoy studio work, too. I made a recording studio\nin our basement when we were sixteen or seventeen and we've\nalways enjoyed creating stuff in the studio.\nAnd the other question I have to ask is the drug question.\n[To which all three let out a groan.]\nI mean, there's obviously lots of people out there right now enjoying\nyour music under the Influence...\nGeologist: Oh yeah.\nAvey [Laughs]\nI've read stuff about how you're all sick of the drug question...\nAll: Really!\nGeologist: That's probably me. It's more because of our parents\u00E2\u0080\u0094our\nparents get really angry When they see that...\nAvey I just don't think we want to be a drug band, you know? I\nwouldn't want to lean towards pushing any angle on the band\u00E2\u0080\u0094like\nwe're intellectual or drug users or whatever.\nPanda: People have a good time listening to it whatever they do, so\nthat's cool with me.\nIt's just that your type of music lends Itself to that kind of interpration\nand enjoyment...\nAvey I mean, it definitely wasn't made on psychedelic drugs\u00E2\u0080\u0094but, I\nmean, we've had those experiences and learned from them.\nGeologist: But even so, I'm always drawn to the type of records that\nyou can listen to sober and it gives you the same experience as if you\nwere on some kind of altered journey. That's always the music that\nI've wanted to make.\nThanks, I just wanted to clarify things.\nPanda: That's all right, it just bothers us. I guess for one magazine we\nwere interviewed for two hours and there were, like, four quotes\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nit was just right in your face: \"They took acid...\"\n\"And that's why they make the stuff they do.\"\nchange quite a bit, but the recordings right now are really stripped\ndown. ^\"Ifpb\nGeologist: It's a really beautiful record. I've heard the raw mix.\nI think that wBI do. Is there anything else? Are you going to play songs\nfrom Here Comes the Indian tonight?\nAvey Yeah, that's one thing that's important for us to talk about. I\nfeet that we're always one step ahead of ourselves and our music.\n[Laughs} I feel like I always say this. but... we're not the type of band\nthat overdoes it, especially out on the road. We like to spend a lot of\ntime writing new material, and we'll go through short time periods of\nwriting stuff and then we'll just give it up. So, basically, after we record\na record we don't really play those songs again.\nNever again?\nGeologist: The only time where we felt we had to was when Danse\nManatee was going to come out and we felt like we should play a\nfew songs from it, but we played maybe, like, three.\nPanda: It hadn't even come out then.\nGeologist: Yeah.\nSo it's always going to be a new experience seeing you guys, then?\nAvey: Yeah, because, for us, live shows should be like that. I think the\nbands we like to go and see live\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's cool for us that it makes us go,\n\"Whoa, what was that?\"\nDoes that mean that your live show is improvised a lot?\nAvey: Not at all. We always have songs we're working on, but once\nyou've finalised them... I mean, there are definitely parts that are\nimprovised\u00E2\u0080\u0094especially how we go into songs. I think it's easy to tell\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 sometimes.\nGeologist: We just move really quickly. I mean, when I left the band, I\nknew when I got back it was going to be nothing like... I left right after\nHere Comes the Indian was recorded, and then the first time I heard\nthem again was on this tour. And what's happened in the last year is\ntotally different.\nSo it's moved on from Here Comes the Indian.\nGeologist: Oh, yeah. I mean. Here Comes the Indian is all four of us\nrocking out together.\nAvey: This is definitely a simpler sound.\nGeologist: It's still pretty out there, though.\nAre you going to ever get back together, all four of you?\nGeologist: Oh, yeah. The way we do things, music isn't a priority in our\nlives at certain times. We have to give some breathing room to the\npeople who just wanna go off and do whatever. I mean, I'm really\ninto other things, professionally\u00E2\u0080\u0094andj have, like, school and stuff.\nWhat is your profession?\nGeologist: Err, I'm moving to DC when the next session of congress\nstarts and I'm going to be an ocean conservation advisor.\nWho for?\nGeologist: I'm not sure yet. But I'm a big scuba diver and in the last\ncouple of yearfrif'sreally sad how dirty things are getting. That's what\nI want to do with my life: restore the oceans. Sometimes you have to\ndo certain professional things\u00E2\u0080\u0094even if that prevents you from touring\nor whatever. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nWhat are the plans for the future?\nPanda: I've got a solo record coming out.\nAvey We've got a bunch of things set to come out. The re-issues\n[Spirit They've Gone. Spirit They've Vanished and Danse Manatee]\ncome out in October; I'm doing one split twelve inch coming out with\nDavid Grubbs on FatCat, and we're going to finish mixing Noah's solo\nrecord.\nWhat kind of style Is that record going to take?\nPanda: Pretty much totally different. It's real simple, mostly just me\nsinging and acoustic guitar. [Turning to the Geologist and Avey Tare.]\nIt might change totally\u00E2\u0080\u0094these guys are going to mix it.\n(The Geologist nods and makes a mischievous face.] I'm sure it'll\n13 DiSCORDER J ust who is Boy? Pepper Sands' frontwoman Citizen A might\nhave summed it up best: \"He's a frickin' 19 year old genius from\nWhitehorse who makes records in his bedroom comparable to\nanything out there.\" She made this statement in the Georgia Straight,\nafter seeing Stephen Noel-Kozmeniuk's New Music West gig in 2002.\nA year later, Citizen A isn't the only one praising the now 21-year-old\nKozmeniuk: his live performances and self-produced album have\nstirred up quite a buzz in the Canadian music industry. Not only that,\nhe's also possibly the most punctual musician on Earth. I sent him a\nslew of questions and then went grocery shopping. By the time I'd put\nmy oranges and tofu away, he'd already sent me his answers. Lovely.\nHe may be young, but this singer-songwriter has been working on\nhis career for some time. At the point when most of us were languishing\nin teenage ennui, an underage Kozmeniuk was developing his act in\n\"shitty bars\" across the Yukon. When asked about his hometown scene\nand its influence on him, he writes, 'It is very folky, bluesy, bluegrassy,\nand supportive. Everyone is very close. Plenty of phenomenal players\nto learn from up there. I have never seen a more loving music\ncommunity. The R&B scene in Toronto comes close though.\" He's\npaid his dues in the provinces, though, spending time in Toronto and\nEdmonton. A good many of the songs on Boy's eponymous debut\nwere inspired by the year he spent at university in Edmonton. \"From the\nYukon you are able to step back from and look at the world to truly see\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2it as a spectator,\" he claims. '1 believe you also have to be part of a city\njust to realize the craziness and stupidity of humanity... but then you\nhave to know when to get the hell out before you turn pink and sour.\"\nKozmeniuk's talent hasn't always met with support, however. \"At\nschool my music teacher once told me that I would never amount to\nanything musically. That was after she heard me play the recorder.\nBut one day she was sick and her substitute came in and brought\na guitar, John Lennon's Imagine, and a Cream album. After that I\nwanted to play guitar. I started shortly after when I was 13 or 14\t\ncan't remember. Played in a whole shitload of bands. Started out in\na punk band, but that didn't really help me develop my chops, so I\nstarted playing in blues and soul bands (I love blues and soul music).\nThen I started filling in on odd projects like guitar and bass for a great\nfolk performer named Kim Barlow.\" Eventually, he felt the need to\nstrike out on his own: \"I started Boy when I realized 1 really wanted\nto express myself and not have anyone tell me what to do.\" Initially,\nBoy was a duo, but, as Kozmeniuk explains, \"the other guy wasn't\n14 August 200o\ninto it. He had other things oh his mind. Like my girlfriend ... hehehe.\"\nThis boy may have left punk rock behind, but he retained a\npunkish sense of DIY. With the help of Pro Tools software, he recorded\nAlex Murdoch's \"Polyphonic\" in his bedroom studio in 2001, making\nit the first release on Speedboatracer Records. The.sett-titled debut\nfrom Boy followed shortly after. Despite the praise Kozmeniuk has\nreceived for his skills as a producer, he still doesn't see himself as one:\n\"As far as I'm concerned I was just fucking around in my room. It's\nstill what I'm doing.\" When asked why he chooses home recording,\nhe says, \"I do it by choice. Started by necessity, though. You don't\nneed a monster fucking studio anymore. That's not to say that I would\nnever use one, but with technology, any schmuck with a computer\nand half a brain can make something that doesn't sound too bad.\nMaybe I am that schmuck. Plus, there isn't the hourly rate associated\nit his fife's mission to even the score with Johnny and his band. He\nwould get better than them and play all of the same venues in Alaska,\nNorthern BC, and the Yukon... but draw bigger crowds, receive more\nacclaim!\" While Kozmeniuk's tale is less complex than Workman's, they\nboth present a similar story. It is a young artist's movement from the\nwilderness to a more complicated urban landscape, where the artistic\npurity generated in obscurity is at once threatened and empowered.\nThe \"feral child of the wilderness\" doesn't mind the Hawklsey\ncomparisons. But certain others annoy him. \"Badly Drawn Boy ones*\nare stupid to make just because I'm called Boy. The first time I had\nheard of him was when my friend dragged me out to his show a\ncouple of months ago. He was drunk and played too long. I didn't\nhear any similarities in our songs, though. Not that comparisons to him\nhappen often (twice I think.... once in a bad way.... once in a good\nInitially, Boy was a duo, but, as Kozmeniuk explains, \"the other guy wasn't\ninto it He had other things on his mind. Like my girlfriend... hehehe.\"\nwith the bigger places. I like to record as I think of ideas and paying\nan hourly rate doesn't work well with my methods of madness.\"\nKozmeniuk's passion for \"fucking around\" with production\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncoupled with his original take on pop music\u00E2\u0080\u0094is faintly reminiscent\nof fellow Canadian Hawksley Workman. The two have already\nbeen compared by the media, particularly in terms of their\nshowmanship and songwriting. But it is his fictitious web biography\nat www.speedboatracer.net that truly indicates a Hawksley-esque\nsensibility. Penned by Burt Muston, (\"as told by Stephen\"), the story\nstarts simply: 'There is a certain Boy from Whitehorse.\" It continues\nlike a northern fairy tale: \"For fifteen years he was a feral child of the\nwilderness, the Yukon River his sole provider... From an early age this Boy\nlearned to communicate his thoughts and feelings through a primitive\nform of music. Whether pounding out an emotive rhythm on a log or\nstone, or howling crude choruses that smelted of earth, the lofty pines\nof the river valley rang with his melodies...\" The boy eventually opts for\na more \"unremarkable existence\" as a vendor of firewood. He joins a\nshabby group of touring musicians, who later abandon him \"perhaps\ninadvertently, perhaps not\" at a Grande Prairie truck stop. Only then\ndoes he start playing the bar scene: \"From that day forward he made\nway), but one reporter slagged me for ripping off all of his songs.\nObviously they never listened to me or him. Beatles comparisons\nare okay, though. I once got an Avril Lavigne comparison. That _\none came out of left field. Good for shits and giggles, though.\"\nAvril aside, Kozmeniuk is enthusiastic about the current Canadian\nmusic scene: \"I think it is an exciting time now. Who cares about the\nfuture? I try not to think that far ahead. Lots of great stuff going on right\nnow in Canada like Broken Social Scene, Stars, Pilate, Sam Roberts, Girl\nNobody, Motion Soundtrack, Hawksley Workman, Grace Nocturnal,\nDanny Michel the list goes on and on. I guess if I were to look at the\nfuture I think more artists are going to stay indie, or go with a label like\nMaplemusic who have a major affiliation. Cut out the fat so to speak.\"\nA summer tour accompanies the re-release of the Boy album in\nearly July. Whatever the outcome of this bid for wider recognition,\nKozmeniuk's definitely got a fighting chance. He's armed with\nsolid tunes and a hunger for success. Add this to shaggy-haired\ngood looks and a strange sort of Yukon exoticism, and you might\njust have the recipe for Canada's next indie pop sensation.\nThe frickin' 21-year-old genius from Whitehorse is potentially\non the verge, and I sense that he's more than ready for it. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2 This month marks the release of the Appleseed Cast's Two\nConversations, their first musical offering to the world since the near\nmasterpiece Low Level Owl volumes. Listening to these previous\nreleases, there are moments on the albums where the music is so\nsad and beautiful that it destroys all my senses besides the auditory\nin a strange numbing effect. I recently spoke to vocalist / guitarist\nChristopher Crisci: what follows are the best parts of our conversation.\nDISCORDER: My.first question Is completely stolen, but what Is your\nmotivation?\nChristopher Crisci: Playing music is kind of like its own motivation. It's\njust fun to do.\nIn the liner notes to \"Low Level Owl Volume I\", you speak of music as\ninducing the desired effect. What Is this, and how much of your music is\ncreated by the responses garnered from it?\nThe desired effect is the feeling you have and you're trying to express\nthat.\nDo you ever feel that the audience participates In the music as the\n\"fifth\" member of a band?\nOh, definitely. Yeah, that's the greatest thing about it\u00E2\u0080\u0094playing live\nmusic\u00E2\u0080\u0094is the response you get.\nDo you ever write your lyrics with the intention of bridging the gap\nbetween the \"you\" of the song and the \"I\" of the audience? Do you\nintend your lyrics to be applicable to other people, or do you write\nthem based on your experiences?\nIt is mostly just based on my experience, or a story I am trying to tell. For\nTwo Conversations it is half personal, but also half story. It is comprised\nof many different stories.\nDo you think that the stony is somewhat created by what people bring\nto It? For instance. Two Conversations is not a complete piece of art\nuntil it is received by the public?\n[pause] I'm not sure. If it is perceived in the right way, then I totally\nagree. That is kind of the point, I guess.\nAlso In the low Level Owl liner notes there is a great deal of explication\non how that album was recorded, and how it happened piece by\npiece. Does playing live because It is happening simultaneously yield\na different type of musical experience than what I would get listening\nto the album?\nKind of...\nIs there something bom out of the energy of coming together to create\nphysically tangible form of art, like liner notes or cover art? Or is\nyour experience of the Appleseed Cast a combination of both of these\nthings?\nTo be honest, I am not really an artist\u00E2\u0080\u0094I just put pictures together. I\ndon't really think about the artwork. I know lyrically the theme of an\nalbum and I try to match the art with the theme of the album. But there\nis not a line that I draw between them\u00E2\u0080\u0094like a balance or anything.\nI was reading...this Is a quote from Harry Smith, the man who put\ntogether the Anthologies of American Folk Music, talking about how\n\"When I'm writing and I finish something, and create a new song or\nwhatever I am working on, the reward of that is being able to look back\nand say, 'Hey, I made that!' That is when I am happiest in life.\"\nWell, the songs are originally written all together. We didn't write the\ndrums then write the guitars or whatever. So what we put down on\ntape is just the recording.of what we played together. Some of the\nthings, like keys and stuff like that, we do differently live. We try to just\nuse the guitar noises and stuff like that to try and compensate for not\nusing keys sometimes. But to me it is all just kind of the same thing. You\nrecord to do a song justice, first you write it and then when you record\nit you're just tryingto make the song as good as it can be on tape.\nWas the recording process for Two Conversations the same? Bit by bit\nlike that?\nThe recording process was a lot more... I paid a lot more attention to\nsmaller details on Two Conversations. But otherwise, it was pretty much\nthe same.\nOkay. So, I think there Is a general tendency of an audience to attach\ntheir experience of music to lyrics\u00E2\u0080\u0094maybe because these are the\nmost accessible aspects of song\u00E2\u0080\u0094and allow a reaction of, \"Oh, I felt\nthat same emotion oncel\" However, your lyrics tend to come last, and\nlistening to the Appleseed Cast, the music itself sounds peacefully\ntriumphant, as opposed to the lyrical content which seems destructively\nsad. Do you think that sadness can be triumphant? Or does your music\nsimultaneously communicate both sad and triumphant message?\nTo me the music is pretty sad as well. But I definitely like mixing two\nthings like that together\u00E2\u0080\u0094a bittersweet type feel.\nBut deliberately In tangent to one another?\nYes. Just for that bittefcweet type feel... Like our first album\u00E2\u0080\u0094the music\nitself was really negative\u00E2\u0080\u0094but after that it was just kind of flavourless.\nWhere do you, or do you/draw a line between musicianship and that\nyou could go Into a musician's home and look at a quilt that they\nhad made and then listen to their music, and he said, \"Everything\ncould be figured out regarding their judgement in relation to certain\nintellectual processes. Like Certain things sound good to a person in\nmusic, certain things look good to the eye. And at some level those\ntwo things are interconnected.\" Do you think that that is true for you, in\nthose processes?\nWell, if you were to go into my house, every room is kind of different\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nmy room in particular is kind of bland. There's nothing on the walls and\nstuff... When I was by myself the whole house was pretty much very\nutilitarian\u00E2\u0080\u0094there wasn't art hanging on the wall or anything. I had a\nutility shelf for my TV. So now, with roommates and stuff, the living room\nhas turned into this '70s dungeon look, which I like. To some degree, if\nyou go into... someone who has money to put towards having a lot of\nart or whatever, or furniture, for instance\u00E2\u0080\u0094then I guess you could. But in\nmy case, I just... I was renting a house for too much money a month by\nmyself, barely scraping by.\nDoes art make you sane? Does art serve to help you move through the\nworld? Does it help you make sense of things?\nOh, yeah. It helps me... it definitely... When I'm writing and I finish\nsomething\u00E2\u0080\u0094and create a new song or whatever I am working on\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\nreward of that is being able to look back and say, \"Hey, I make that!\"\nThat is when I am happiest in life, when I am actually producing and\nmoving forward with it. When I am most unhappy in life is when I'm in a\nslump or something. When I can't... when nothing sounds good. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n15 DiSCORDER SWiOL\ndifferent part*\nSean Maxey\n\"The Design Industry is a Motherfucker\"\nAn Interview with Sean Maxey.\nChances are you've seen Sean Maxey's art around. Maybe you paused to inspect it as you passed a lamppost:\nMaybe you saw it on the wall of a local record store. Or maybe you woke up after a night of drunken debauchery\nwith it screwed up in your clenched fist, unable to rernember how it came into your possession. As for me, I was\nwalking down Main when I passed Red Cat Records and saw a poster in the window which caught my attention.\nThe text, rendered in bright red, said. \"Never Ever War.\" \"Yeah,\" I said. \"That'sUghtr-'Never. Ever. War.\" It was around\nthe time of the first strikes on Iraq and it summed up my state of mind perfectly. After that I made inquiries and discovered that the artist, one Sean Maxey, was having a retrospective show at Red Cat (which is still gaing on, by\nthe way), and I made my way down there. I met the artist (a most affable chap), had a lovely chat, and arranged\nthe interview you're about to read.\nI hope you' II agree with me when i say that Sean Maxey is one of those people that makes Vancouver an interest-\ning place to live. Next time you're wandering around, try and pay a bit more attention\u00E2\u0080\u0094you might just see one of\nhis pieces\u00E2\u0080\u0094there's one\u00E2\u0080\u0094peeking out. between the boring billboards and territorial tags. And hopefully you'll stop\nfor a second, much like I did.\nDiSCORDER: So, you make a living designing stuff?\nSean Maxey Yeah, and illustrating. I have contracts with a couple of\nagencies 'round town and I try to stay outta the corporate realm as\nmuch as I can.\nWhere did you start? Are you from Vancouver?\nWell I grew up in Chilliwack.\nOn the \"Highway of Tears\"?\nYeah.\nThat's an interesting place.\nYeah, I grew up out there and I guess I just started doing art. I'd draw\npictures and stories and narrate them on cassette tape and... It's a\nreal hockey town and I just remember one of fhe neighbourhood's\n'hockey dads' asked me one day, \"So, all you do is draw?!\" All the rest\nof the kids were so into hockey, he couldn't believe I wasn't...\nYou were never interested in hockey?\nNah, I'm terrible at sports.\nSo, what brought you to Vancouver?\nI went to arts school\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cap College. It was a good program in the early\n'90s. And I worked in a record store for a while.\nWhich one?\nA&B Sound. I met a bunch of great people through that, and then I\njust started illustrating.\nWhat for?\nBr... well, friends from college just kinda got me doing stuff around\u00E2\u0080\u0094like\ncontracts and agencies\u00E2\u0080\u0094and then I worked in a studfo for a year and\na half. That was terrible.\nWhy was it terrible?\nAhh, it was just long hours, you know? Yeah, the design industry is a\nmotherfucker.\nWhy is that?\nOh, well, it's really cutthroat and, err... I just got out of it. I've, just been\npretty fortunate to hook up with good jobs and a lot of music stuff local-\nDo you do a lot of that local music stuff for free?\nWei, the Nasty On\u00E2\u0080\u0094I did their last City Sick cover\u00E2\u0080\u0094they bought me a\ncar. They bought me a station wagon\u00E2\u0080\u0094an old '77 Country Squire\u00E2\u0080\u0094like\na woody. So there's always some sorta token. That was totally sweet.\nI really liked that cover...\nYeah, that was a combination of the Mean Streets cover for the\nScorsese movie, and Loaded, kind of, by The Velvet Underground.\nWhat other influences do you have?\nWeU. Dan Clowes for sure. Eightball comics\u00E2\u0080\u0094have you ever read those?\nYeah.\nAnd Petlibone\u00E2\u0080\u0094Raymond Pettibone\u00E2\u0080\u0094who did all the Minutemen covers and Black Flag'covers\u00E2\u0080\u0094that stuff's great. And KQthe Koltwitz.\nWhich brings us nicely to the first of your posters: what's the story behind\nthe \"No War Never\" poster?\nWei, I have a print of that hanging in my living room. And i couldn't\nmake it to the peace protest\u00E2\u0080\u0094one of the ones going on downtown.\nAnd this was recently\u00E2\u0080\u0094for fhe war on Iraq?\nYeah. I was feeing 1. so. that was in front of me, her version of it...\nHow does her version dMer?\nWeB. it's in charcoal. It's the exact same pose, but he's wearing\u00E2\u0080\u0094he's\nkind of wearing rags\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's early Berlin, 1924, so she did stuff like\n\"Germany's Children are Starving\", and social posters.\nWas she part of the anarchist movement\u00E2\u0080\u0094or more socialism?\nSocialism. Hitler shut her down before the Second World War.\nHe's wasn't big on that stuff, was he?\nNo. [Laughs] He was an artist, too. though, I think.\nYeah, he used to paint postcards in Vienna. But, getting back to the\nposter, did you putt up al over the place? I saw it in the window of Red\nCat Records and other places down Main.\nYeah, I had a decent amount of contributions that paid for everything.\nI just sent out an email and we had 500 posters put up the night before\nthe first attack, or whatever it was.\nThe \"Shock and Awe\"?\nYeah. (We both laugh\u00E2\u0080\u0094in an \"isn'Mte-American-govemment-stupid\"\nkinda way\u00E2\u0080\u0094but with a hint of resignation because there wouldseem to\nbe very little that either of us can do about it.]\n16 August 2003 ues. \une10w\nThe Royaf\nSo, the red Station A one\u00E2\u0080\u0094that's your band, right?\nYeah, my now-defunct band. Those posters... have you ever read\nSalinger?\nYeah, pretty much even/ one. I'm a huge tan.\n[Like in] Catcher in the Rye\u00E2\u0080\u0094and he's commenting how 'fuck' is written\neverywhere. I was reading that book at the time.\nThere's also a strong Daniel Clowes influence there, too.\nYeah, pretty much. I dunno. I was just so into Bghtball that I had this\nromantic notion that the music of Station A was influenced by Dan\nClowes. 'f-'^SS^^\nWhat style of music was Station A?\nIt was loud and there was a tot of guitar. The Doers are acoustic now;\nStation A was compared to Sonic Youth\u00E2\u0080\u0094kind of aggressive, i guess-\ndissonant at times.\nDo you use models for your posters?\nNo, that's the thing...\nIt's straight out of your imagination?\nYeah. Actually, at the moment, I'm doing a portrait of a girl who's doing\nan art show that's coming up\u00E2\u0080\u0094Erin Cow. She came to the art show at\nRed Cat and asked me to do a poster for her art show, it's kinda weird,\nbut I said that the only way that will work is if I do a portrait of her.\nActually, I used models for these nudes here. And, err, I kinda loosely\nused myself and then a friend of mine for her and kinda myself for him.\nAnd after they got printed and put up this girlfriend of mine said, \"Oh,\nyeah, that's kinda nice\u00E2\u0080\u0094buti really pity that guy. He's got a really small\npenis.\" [Laughs] I mean, it's not an accurate representation of my\nbody, right?\nIt's smooth, though\u00E2\u0080\u0094I see you're shaved?\nYeah. I wasn't sure whether I was going to use hair; I decided not to. I\nthink that's the only one I've ever modeled. It's funny, 'cause that\nposter\u00E2\u0080\u0094I like the other ones, too, that I haven't modeled\u00E2\u0080\u0094but this one\nwas at the Brickyard when Don Caballero was playing, and the drummer, I guess, really liked that poster\u00E2\u0080\u0094it was up at the back or something\u00E2\u0080\u0094and he said, \"Who did this?\" And it was like, \"Sean did this, and\n. he also did these others,\" and he was ike, \"Oh, I can tell he didn't put\nas much time into these others.\" So maybe I should use models more\noften.\nHe actually asked me to do a Don Caballero cover, so I sent a\nbunch of stuff off to his address and we sat around arid talked about\nSCTV for a long time\u00E2\u0080\u0094which is where they got their name from\u00E2\u0080\u0094Guy\nCaballero. So I sent a bunch of stuff off and he never got back to me.\nI don't know what happened.\nAnd what's the story behind this Doers one? Sniffing glue, eh?\nYeah, yeah. Wei, it's an acoustic band, right, so... we don't huff glue.\nYou don't?\nNo, but I'm not condoning glue huffing. [Laughs] But I'm not condoning going around writing 'fuck' on windows, either. Like, I'd say maybe\ntag something with.something witty. 'Fuck' isn't... It's ike shit on the\nsidewalk; it's kinda funny but that's it. *\nSean Maxey's Retropecttve 1$ on now at Red Cat Records (4307 Main\nSheet: Tel: 708-9422).\n17 DiSCORDER Hey pal, why the long face? Oh,\nyou picked up last month's issue\nand searched high and low for\nRiff Raff but couldn't find it. Well,\nuh, you see, I can explain...oh\nand what happened the\nmonth before? Ok, so funny\nstory...wait, you actually read\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 he column? I had no idea.\nWell, thing is...uhh...between\nbeing somewhat lazy and a\niast minute editorial decision\nto replace vours truly, you, my\ndedicated follower of vinyl fashion, twjfe'had to wait much too\niong to get your dose. Let's do\nsomething about turning that\nfrown.'$giside down...yeah that's\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 ight...the platters that matter.\nLocal synth-punk quartet\naLUnARED will start a riot on\nthe dance floor with their newest release Elctrk! It'll have the\nSanctuary kids (y'know those\nSunday night ravers) up in arms\nand trying to dig up all their old\nSkinny Puppy records instead\nof whatever \"electro-slush\" is\nthe current flavour du jour. Both\ntracks (\"It Is Your Anthem\" b/w\n\"The Electric Blood\") give off a\nKilling Joke feel with their strong\npercussive backbones, but the\nkeyboards also provide the\nTiuscle to get the black pointy\nshoes moving to the sounds,\nend the vocals evoke a sense\nof urgency that could have\notherwise been rejected for a\ndelivery that may have been a\nbit more cold and detached.\nTake that Adutf(Gold Standard\nLaboratories, P.O. Box 178262\nSan Diego, CA USA 92177).\nFrom the buzz of the future\nto the jangle of the past, The\nTyde craft some fine pop music\nthat harkens back to the days\nof The Byrds, but also sits well\nwith contemporaries like The\nApples In Stereo or at times,\nThe High Llamas. \"Go Ask Your\n5RO\u00E2\u0082\u00AClip\nm.--Mm\nDad\" and \"Blood Brothers\" are\na testament to the fact that\ngood, lazy Sunday afternoon\nanthems are still being written. (Rough Trade, Chelsea\nHotel, Suite 103 222 West 23rd\nStreet. New York, N.Y. 10011).\nOf course the Saturday\nnight before; is.;, reserved for\nRocket From' The Crypt, and the\ntwo new get-up-to-get-down\nnew vinyl\nby bryce dunn\nstompers that Speedo and Co.\nare now famous for. Recorded\nduring the Group Sounds sessions with guest drummer Jon\nWurster (of Superchunk), \"On\nThe Prowl\" resurrects the main\nriff * from \"Slow Down\" and\ngreases it nice and thick like\nthe pomade in Speedo's hair,\nand the .flipside \"Come On\" is\na Harlem shuffle workout punctuated by the ghetto horns of\nApollo 9 and JC2G. Wrap it up\nin a sick-ass sleeve courtesy of\nNeil Cabrera ana you've got\n; the 666th release for Long Gone\nJohn's anti-corporate empire...\n(Sympathy For The Record Indus\ntry.www.sympathyrecords.com).\nI'll spend the other days of\nthe week trying to figure out this\nfour-way battle royal between\nThe Gossip, The Supreme\nIndifference, Erase Errata and\nSleetmute Nightmute. First off\nthe Olympian trio of Beth, Brace\nand Kathy weigh in and camel-\nclutch their way to victory with\nthe hip-shake shimmy of \"Snake\nAppeal\" over the star-studded\ntrio of Kim Gordon, Alan Licht\nand Jim O' Rourke's mess of a\nsong called \"A Lick In Time\". Sure\nthere's experience and wisdom\nseeping through every pore, but\nit's a simple case of whether or\nnot I'd prefer to have my brain\nor my feet hurt. I'll take feet,\nthank you. On the other card,\nthe California girls of E.E. lock\nhorns with the Portland ladies\nof S.M.N.M. and to paraphrase\nLL Cool J, \"E.E.gonna knock you\nout!\" with their minimalist B-52's\nstyle punk track \"O.M.S.F.N.\"\nSleetmute Nightmute came\nclose to winning, but lost me\nwith their not-grr! meets spazz-\ncore cut-\"The V&V Girls\". (Kill\nRock Stars, PMB 418 120 NE State\nSt. Olympia, WA USA 98501).\nTime now for o punk rock\nhistory lesson courtesy of The\nDoughboys and a re-issue of\ntheir La Majeure 1987 EP. Before\nthere was The Promise Ring, The\nGet Up Kids and the umpteen\nother \"emo\" bands that would\nsaturate the minds of depressed\nkids everywhere, these Montreal\nyoungsters gave us some\npretty sweet .punk rock fused\nwith personally inflected lyrics,\nmostly notably on their classic\n1987 LP, Whatever. The three\nsongs on this EP (\"The Forecast\",\n\"Stranger From Within\" and \"I\nRemember\"), were the original\nversions before they were rerecorded for inclusion on the\nalbum, but these versions have\na slightly more raw and vibrant\ntone, all backed by singer\nJohn Kastner's trademark hiccupping vocal delivery. Not\nonly is this particular piece of\npunk history worth listening to,\nbut also I can imagine not a\nlot of these were pressed due\nto the costs of cutting these\ntracks onto heavy-duty wax\nand a cool transparent yellow/\norange colour scheme. Ebay\nnerds watch out! (Scamindy\nRecords, P.O. Box 21663 1850\nCommercial Drive, Vancouver,\nB.C. Canada V5N 5Y1).\nRounding out the hit parade\nthis month is The Explosion,\nmelodic hardcore outta Boston,\nMass. Two new tunes grace a\nseven inch on their own' label\n(Tarantulas Records, www.tara\nntulasrecords.com) which has\nalso turned out to be the home\nfor some up-and-coming banc's\nthat The Explosion believe in\nand want to be hea.o. \"Original\"\nThought\" and The Crashes\" are\npure adrenalin rushes of crisp\nguitar fury backed by drums\nthat don't just sit there; they\nattack you and grab you by the\nscruff of the neck. This is back-\nto-basics hardcore with a noc!\nto forefathers Minor Threat but\nnot without melody where it s\nneeded; sharing the spotlight\non this release are The Tonsils,\nwith the songs \"Elephant Man\",\nwhich sounds a lot like early\nRancid or The Clash, and \"Red\nSensation\" a chant-a-long mid-\ntempo number that also echoes\n'77-style punk influences. As my\nhomies on the corner would\nsay, \"It's the shiznit. dog!\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nG O X X ! P\n#ii\nTHE....... .flMJPRBME ' 1 NO I fi\n\u00C2\u00A3\nit\nings mor^&wards\nma**, that waiting <*i\nuel seems almost tragic/\nV*A K\u00C2\u00AE^ Devotion is\n' focl^n*foli.cbr6Ured \\n\" A refreshing blast of l^prw\nfresh off a Met^eyside*^F^s^\u00C2\u00BB\nR&B hooks in retro ^i^^^^m\n^SEyfef High Dials liw\nAugust 4 Purple Onionv\nAugust $ RumWIefest (rumbteton\n...the High Dials sounds\ns\u00C2\u00BB twanging guitars and\nS^^piij^burce forlPerfect Guitar Pop\n*\u00C2\u00A3io4 wwWerainbowquartz.com\nin USA } Canada add $1 pe\n18 August 2003 SCREW YOU\nandyourpointy s/toes\n2 OO3\nAre you a local band or musician? We are now\naccepting entries for SHiNDiG! 2OO3. Send\nin your minimum three song demo of original\nmaterial (all styles welcome) for an opportunity to play CiTR's annual rock 'n' roll death-\nmatch! Toss your demo, contact information,\nand anything else you want us to see in an\nenvelope and address it to:\nSHiNDiG! 2003\nc/o CiTR Radio\n#233-6138 SUB Blvd.\nVancouver, BC V6T1Z1\nQuestions? Interested in becoming a sponsor? For\nA more information please visit www.citr.ca. Tou\nt can also call us at 604-822-1242 or email Julie\nat colero@interchanee.ubcca.\nHurry up already!\nThe deadline\nfor entries is\nAugust\n19 DiSCORDER recorded media\nLet Go \" '\"\"\" > - -\nNodo Surf\n(Barsuk Records)\nCall it the class of '96. local H.\nSuperdrag; the major label one\nhit wonders. Everyone figured\nthat's all these bands were\u00E2\u0080\u0094so\nwhy are they still around? More\nimportantly, why have their\nsubsequent releases been so\ndamn good?\nNada Surf was a member\nof this illustrious class. The\nbands experienced a brief stint\nof popularity with that song\n- about high school where the\n[\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 guy kind of just talks through\nf the verse, but were ultimately\nI dismissed as a novelty act.\nI End of story? Not quite. Since\nI their debut release, Nada Surf\n: has churned out two stunningly\naccomplished albums of pop-\nrock bliss. The latter is Let Go.\nin which the band sounds more\nconfident in its writing and its\ninfluences\u00E2\u0080\u0094notably Cheap\nTrick, who singer Matthew\nCaws paraphrases in \"The Way\nYou Wear Your Head\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094as well\nas more heady songwriters like\nBob Dylan.\nLet Go is a strong album\nthroughout. Its songs are varied enough so as not to bore\nthe listener, yet the album\nhangs together well\u00E2\u0080\u0094despite\nbeing recorded and mixed by\nfive different people (including Chris Walla of label-mates\nDeath Cab for Cutie). Though\nhailing from New York City,\nNada Surf stays away from\nany of the sounds that have\nrecently rekindled that.city's\nmusic scene. Caws once\ndescribed Nada Surf's sound\nas \"the gap between where ;\nyou know where you are and :\nwhere you know where you \"'\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nare going,\" an apt description )\nfor this album; Let Go manages |\nto create a sound which tran-'\nscends genre specificity and \\ntime. It could have been written in 1978, 1993, or 2007.\nNada Surf and other\nbands of their ilk have managed to survive the major\nlabel machine through the\nnovel concept of writing strong\nalbums that build on a sound\ndeveloped in each previous\nrelease. With production that\nsounds both slick and raw, Let\nGo continues this tradition, providing the perfect soundtrack\nfor all the \"...happy kids/with\nthe heart of an old punk.\"\n/an Gormley\nThe Ataris\nSo Long. Astoria\n(Columbia)\nListening to this CD is like reliving\nthe afternoon when you and four\nof your best friends (assuming\nthat these four friends are in a\nband, own their own indie rock\nand punk store, and cover Don\nHenley), skipped class in your\nsenior year of high school to go\nto the beach. But it's been a\nlong time since graduation and\nthose friends just can't fucking\nget over it\u00E2\u0080\u0094to the point where\nyou stop returning their phone\ncalls. It's good, but at times So\nLong, Astoria tries a little too hard\nto be the soundtrack for every\n17-year-old. (Cue the fan comment, \"It's like they wrote every\nsong for me!\") We all know that\n20 August 2003\n\"Teenage Riot\" so kicked the ass\nof \"In This Diary\", but \"The Boys of\nSummer\" makes this CD worth\nobsessing over.\nNiki Reitmayer\nCibelle\ns/t\n(sixdegreesrecords)\nCibelle came to international\nprominence as vocalist on\nSuba's brilliant album Sao Paulo\nConfessions three years ago.\nCibe//e finds the young Brazilian\nchanteuse stepping out on this,\nher international debut, mining much the same territory as\nexplored by Suba's previous\nproductions. Produced by heir\napparent to the late producer's\nthrone of Nu-Brazil, Apollo 9, and\nmixed by Morcheeba's main\nmen, this release aims at much\nthe same audience that made\nBebel Gilberto's Tdnto Tempo\n(also largely produced by Suba)\nsuch a surprise summer hit a\ncouple of years ago.\nThough not as initially catchy\nas Tanfo Tempo, nor as atmospherically groove-driven as Soo\nPaulo Confessions\u00E2\u0080\u0094both of which\nit can't help but be compared\nto\u00E2\u0080\u0094Cibelle nonetheless captures\nthe imagination in much the same\nway as its predecessors. Sung in\nboth Portuguese and English in a\nrather relaxed manner, many of\nthese tracks go down like a cool\ncocktail on a warm summer's\nday. Breezy bossanovas and sultry\nsambas lightly wrapped in a heat\nhaze of electronics and smoked\nfunk-lite will certainly appeal to\nthose looking for a soundtrack\nto waste many a sun-drenched\nhour by. Can someone pass me\nanother drink? I'm too lazy to get\nup right now...\nDJ Satyr/con\nCaitlin Cary\nI'm Staying Out\n(Yep Roc)\nRyan Adams. Whiskeytown.\nWith that said, I can now start\nthis review.\nAlternative country acts are\nusually labeled as such because\ntheir music is in some way more\nunconventional or less accessible\nthan their mainstream counterparts. However, about the only\nthing preventing I'm Staying Out\nfrom sliding into heavy rotation\nat JR FM is its release on an indie\nimprint. The mid-tempo ballads\nand warm production values\nthat permeate Cary's album\nare hardly compelling of original;;\n\"You Don't Have To Hide\" might\nas well be playing right now on\nCMT. Cary's character sketch\nlyrics of memories, loss, and\nheartache\u00E2\u0080\u0094while pleasant\u00E2\u0080\u0094fail\nto stir up much emotion. Though\nCary does manage a few truly\nintimate moments (\"Sleeping\nIn on Sunday\" and \"The Next\nOne\" come to mind), overall,\nI'm Staying Out registers as the\nmusical equivalent of floral wall-\n. paper it may be nice to look at\nand easy on the senses, but it\nfades into the background far\ntoo easily.\nNeil Braun\nDJ Cheb i Sabbah\nAs Far As: A DJ Mix\n(sixdegreesrecords)\nCheb I Sabbah is a curious\nanomaly in DJ culture. A man\nof Algerian birth now in his late\n. 40's who has collaborated with\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 an impressive list of musicians\nand other artists (Bill Laswell,\n: Psychic TV, Brion Gysin, and\n! Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan to name\n' but a few), he has been DJ-ing\n'% long before raves became com-\nI monplace. In the last few years,\nI he has released two impressive\nCDs [Shri Durga and Krishna Lila)\non sixdegreesrecords featuring\nHindustani and Camatic musical\ntraditions that incorporate master\nmusicians within contemporary\nsettings; the result is something\nfar more integrated and satisfying than the usual cut and paste\npastiche found in electronic\nproductions that simply sample\n\"ethnic\" music.\nAs Far As is not so much\na showing of a DJ's mad skills\nas it is a tasteful selection of\ncomparable musical stylings. DJ\nCheb i Sabbah weaves a mix of\nHindustani, Arabic, and North\nAfrican-inflected beats and\natmosphere\u00E2\u0080\u0094demonstrating in\nthe process their interconnected\nnatures. This cross-fertilization is\nfeatured in tracks like Salla by\nMakale, where one hears Turkish\nhip hop, while a remix by Jan\nRase entitled \"Gwana Impluse\"\nmixes ambient drum & bass\nwith call-to-prayer-like vocals.\nMeanwhile, Indian multi-percussionist Trilok Gurtu's latest experiments with African pop are heard\non the track \"Have We Lost Our\nDream?\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094featuring the voice of\nSaflf Keita. Cheb i Sabbah features some of his own Hindustani\nand North African-influenced\n(and previously unreleased)\ntracks alongside his remixes of\nthe late jazz legend Don Cherry,\nflutist Paul Horn, and Solace. Also\nworked into the mix are selections\nfrom Najma, Natacha Atlas (singing in French), Sekouba Bambino\n(Guinea), Tolres (Morroco),\nand the Asian Dub Foundation.\nSabbah reports that his next full-\nlength release will focus more on\nthe music of North Africa. His own\ntrack, \"Pour Matoub\", included\nhere gives us some indication as\nto how this will sound. The overall flow is a balance between\nirresistible grooves and haunting,\nambient interludes as one travels\nthrough these various culturally\ninfluenced soundscapes.\nAs far as DJ-mixed CDs go,\nthis is more for the eclectic listener than the all-night party raver. It\nalso demonstrates that music is\ntruly the universal language by\nwhich all cultures can interrelate.\nThat alone makes this a worthy\naddition to anyone's collection.\nDJ Satyricon\nChris Clark\nCeramics is the Bomb\n(Warp)\nLike nipples on a sow, the number\nof artists you can count descending from the belly of the mother\npig that is Aphex Twin on the farm\nthat is Warp Records is startling.\nChris Clark is one such nipple. To-\nbe fair, each of these artists brings\na different sense of form and\ncolour to the mammary arts, but\ntheir indebtedness to their mother's glands is clear; swap any of\ntheir tracks with any track among\nthe slow ooze that has been\ncoming out of Richard D. James'\nmind for the past few years and\nno one would be the wiser.\nThat's not to say, however,\nthat this tit isn't worth a suck (last\none for a while\u00E2\u0080\u0094I promise). In\nfact, each of the six tracks on\nthis EP is a sculpted, decadent\ngem of the IDM form. Melodies\nare deftly hammered around\nlike ping pong balls by erratically\ncrunching rhythms; deranged\nand detuned sound effects plummet into the flow of the songs at\nuncannily precise instants; the\nwelding of IDM conventions to\nhip hop and drum & bass beats\nis skilfully pushed forward, without\nslipping into the banalities that\nafflict either of those forms today;\nthere's even a kooky xylophone\nline or two, bouncing around like\na silly, oblivious piglet. No need\nto listen closely for fhe old swine's\nsense of humour, either-the\nanswering machine recording of\npeople with British accents saying\nfunny things is right there, plain as\nday, for the enjoyment of IDM\nkids worldwide.\nNo rest for the wicked,\nindeed. May the Boss Hog of\nIDM's legacy live on.\nDonovan\nFountains of Wayne\nWe/come Interstate Managers\n(Virgin)\nI thought I could blame Ric\nOcasek for this one. I swore I saw\nhis-handprints all over it. Forgive\nme. I've had a bad month. I was\npromised gold three times. What\ndid I do to bore Grandaddy\nand the Dandy Warhols into\nsuch a drooling state? And\nyou, Fountainersl You naughty,\nnaughty boys\u00E2\u0080\u0094with your 16 tales\nof urban bore-mania, are lucky I\ndidn't have to pay for this one.\nYou know what? It's not worth\nit. Let's just say it was formulaic\nand safe and dull and now it's\ntime for bed.\nChris-A-Riffic\nLisa Gerrard\nWhalerlder Soundtrack\n(4AD)\nThis is a soundtrack in the pur-\njest sense: 40 minutes of ambience that create an effective\nbackdrop, but hardly stand as\na separate work. To those who\nwish to make dramatic films\nabout marine mammals, I would\nsay: \"Go with Lisa! She really\nknows how to work that lonely-\nwhale-synth thing.\" Playing this\nalbum will make a messy room\nin a basement suite feel like a\nvast, undersea cavern. But to\nthe public at large, I would say\nit's only for those days when\nEnya is just too damn stimulating.\nCheck out something else from\nGerrard's oeuvre\u00E2\u0080\u0094like Dead Can\nDance's Spleen and Ideal\u00E2\u0080\u0094or just\ngo watch the movie instead.\nKat Siddle\nGoldfrapp\nBlack Cherry\n(Mute Coporation)\nWith Black Cherry, Goldfrapp's\nsecond full-length, the English duo\ndepart form the wintry world of\nFelt-Mountain and head straight\nfor the electro cabaret. On just\nover half the songs, Alison's\ncool siren vocals are grounded\nfirmly on the dancefloor by dark\nsynths and disco hooks. The rest\nare slower, lushly crystalline constructions that peak with the sixth\ntrack, \"Hairy Trees\". While these\ntwo sounds don't really mesh,\nthe album is held together by\nan almost campy sexuality that\nbelies its slick surface. Whiplash\nbeats snap over orgasmic sighs\nand trills, while the lyrics issue\nmore explicit demands. The final\nsong is the least radio-friendly,\nstarting with an ominous rumble\nof synths that quickly moves into\nS&M dungeon camp.\nIt's a good album, but it\ncould have been better. While\nall the dance tracks are pretty\ngood, they're good in the same\nways. A few songs stand out\u00E2\u0080\u0094\n\"Train\", \"Tiptoe\", \"Hairy Trees\",\nfor example\u00E2\u0080\u0094and a couple\u00E2\u0080\u0094like\n\"Forever\" and \"Black Cherry\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\ncould have been left off. But\nthe best songs aren't that much\nbetter than the decent ones, and\nthe worst ones aren't that much\nworse. By \"Strict Machine\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094as\ncatchy as it is\u00E2\u0080\u0094things are starting to sound a bit monotonous.\nWhile this repetition of sonic\nmotifs can sometimes make an\nalbum a better work as a whole,\non Back Cherry, the slower, more\nethereal songs interrupt any sort\nof groove that the dance tracks\nget started. It's good to see that\nGoldfrapp has the guts to try I The High Dials\n*\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 A New Devotion\ni (Rainbow Quartz)\nThe art of choosing a good\n[.band name sucks\u00E2\u0080\u0094just ask the\n\u00C2\u00A3. Montreal mod-pop quartet\nrj The High Dials. Their first kick at\nk&.the can as The Datsons caught\n^frthe attention of a certain hard\n^.'rocking New Zealand outfit.\n^Through the simple, amend-\n.Jfement of adding the number\nJffour. they thought they could\nI \"solve their problem. Not so, as\ntans would affectionately now\nwant to call them The D4\u00E2\u0080\u0094yet\nanother New Zealand combo\ncame calling and asking everso\nnicely for them to change their\nname again. So they did, and\nnow, in the next chapter of their\nfrustrating attempt at solidifying\na permanent, non-New Zealand\na new direction, however, and\nI'm definitely curious to see what\nevolves from here!\nKatSiddle\nin Medias Res\nOf What Was\n(Independent)\nIn Medias Res are not in it to\nblow you away, just to make you\nunderstand. The four-piece's\nalbum Of What Was is one\nof this year's most impressive\nlocal releases, largely due to its\naffecting sincerity. They have\nsomething to say\u00E2\u0080\u0094not just lyrically\u00E2\u0080\u0094but musically as well. The\nwork both begins and closes with\nhushed compositions, intertwined\nwith conversely more uptempo,\n\"get off your chair\" numbers.\nThey can certainly rock out (is\nthere no better term?) with the\nbest of them, but In Medias Res'\ntalent lies in evoking a response\nin the listener.\nThe music varies in movements, with busy drumming, supportive bass lines, and intricate\nguitar playing complementing\nthe songs rather than distracting\nfrom them. Infrequent touches\nof piano and cello impressively\naccentuate a few tracks, yet\noccasionally the vocals are indiscernible. This is not bothersome,\nas what's ultimately delivered\nare sweet melodies that deserve\nfriendly moniker, a recent visit\nto the High Dials website sees a\nletter written by ANOTHER New\nZealand band with the same\nname just informing the Montreal\ngroup that, \"hey, its cool we\nhave the same name, but\nmqybe you'd consider changing\nit?\" To which I'm sure by this time\nthe Montreal foursome is saying,\n\"NO FUCKING WAY, MATE!\" With\nthat sentiment expressed, an\nalbum is made, and the result is\na conceptual voyage of self-discovery on behalf of the fictional\nprotagonist\u00E2\u0080\u0094Silas\u00E2\u0080\u0094and simultaneously echoed in the evolution\nof the group themselves. Much\nin the vein of other musical\nodysseys like The Who's Tommy,\nThe Small Faces' Ogden's Nuf\nGone Flake, or The Pretty Things'\nS.F. Sorrow, A New Devotional\nneeds a lot of attention paid^j\nby the listener (18 tracks clock-J\ning in at just over an hour), but J\nin the end it's an enjoyabie-j\nride. Musically, The High Dials j\nhave shed some of their mod*]\ninfluences last seen on 2000's\nSee! for more sixties-style pop!3|\nand psych sounds, more lush -^T\narrangements, and exciting '.j\nnew instrumentation (listen to 5\n\"Things Are Getting Better\" for \u00E2\u0080\u00A2*\nample use of sitar and tablas).'S\nThings do seem to be getting '9\nbetter for The High Dials, andvj\nthis record is a hopeful and f\ninspiring progression in a style I\nthat's not always easy to mas- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0%\nter. Thankfully, for this reviewer, \u00E2\u0080\u00A2'?\nit accomplishes both. <$\nBryce Dunn - 1\nwhich demonstrates the wide\nrange of Maclsaac's influences\nwhile still maintaining a coherent\nCeltic feel.\nThe fast, step-dancing\nrhythms certainly got under my\nskin and got me moving. Of\ncourse, that could just be 50%-\nCeltic DNA affecting my bias, but\nwhat the Hell? Ashley Maclsaac is\na great disc with fun music.\nVampyra Draculea\nMagic Ass\nfe Confessions Of A Rocker\nI (Bush Party Records)\nConfessions of a Rock Fan:\n\"I'm listening to generic pop\nrock, yeah/Rocking out in mediocrity, uh, uhn/You can fill in the\nblanks in every song, yeah/And\nit's not that bad, but not that\ngood either.\"\nPatrick Finlay\nMorning Star\nMy Place In The Dust\n(D7 Recordings)\nUpon first listen to Morning Star's\nMy Place In The Dust, it immediately became my new favourite,\nalbum. I own nothing else like this;\nthere is no logical reason why\nI should find myself so absurdly\ndrawn to these.sounds\u00E2\u0080\u0094except\nfor the fact that that is what good\nmusic does to you. It is a primal\nanswer to aniptalistic intuitions,\nand I cannot remove this CD\nfrom my player. . .\nAt the heart of Morning\nStar is one Jesse D. Vernon of\nMoonfiowers and Invisible Pair of\nHands (an earlier incarnation of\nMorning Star). Though the ideas\nremain mostly his own, he recruits\nother artists as accompl^es.tcir\nthe performance. One could not\ntell for listening, .however. These\nsongs are smooth\u00E2\u0080\u0094flowing in the\nmost lazy of fashions from head\nto toe of ar\ audience. His voice\nis one that wants to tell-secrets,.\nto seduce with dance and the\nknowledge that every image is\ntemporary. I want this music, and\nthis man, cheek-to-cheek for one\nnight only in the romantic back\nstreets of an unfamiliar place.\nVernon could be a lover that I\nhave always only dreamt of in\nthe faintest of ways. The images\nof such composition are immediately recalled with the sound\nof his voice, somehow implying\nthe hazy dog days of summer\nand the possibilities that lay within\nsuch an itching.\nMy Place in the Dust will take\nyou far away from Vancouver,\nto a place where every note is\nlanguidly played out (which has\nno choice.in its reflection), the\ndelivery not in an explosion, but\nin the foreshadowing itself. This\nmusic is to be enjoyed fleetingly,\nnotes important only in themselves, beautiful with or without\nwhat came before or will follow.\nBut the most wonderful thing of. all'\nis that as a whole this album can\nimmerse a listener, interesting and\nemotional enough to play out all\nthat it promises.\nsweetcheyanne\nMotion City Soundtrack\nI am the Movie\n(Epitaph)\nEpitaph? This band is on Epitaph?\nHome of The Dropkick Murphys,\nBad Religion, and Guttermouth?\nMaybe it's the Moog\u00E2\u0080\u0094or maybe\nit's the clear, melodic vocals\u00E2\u0080\u0094but\nthis comes as a bit of a surprise to\nme. Aside from this initial shock.\nMotion City Soundtrack's latest release (and first release\non Epitaph), I am the Movie, is\nan album that can be fittingly\nlabeled as \"charming.\" .\u00C2\u00BB. The\ncharm goes beyond the oddly-\nfolded print-on-plastic booklet\nand the interesting blend of flowers and burning on the cover art.\nThe songs on this album\u00E2\u0080\u0094namely\n\"The Future Freaks Me Out\" and\n\"Perfect Teeth\"^blend rock\nmusic, synthesizers, and singer\nJustin Pierre's wide vocal range\nto create a sound that makes\nthe listener forget about the\nsimple lyrics and just sit back and\nenjoy the sound.\nKimberley Day\nThe Planet Smashers\nMighty\n(Stomp)\nI can't deny it. All this CD made\nme want to do was sit in the sun\nand smoke a joint. It was the best\nfifty minutes and thirty-seven seconds I've spent all week.\nNiki Reitmayer\nCar Paint Scheme\n(Warp Records)\nIn true minimalist fashion, Req\nembraces the glitch and meets\nyou halfway to the dance floor.\nStripping away all the fluff, Car\nPaint Scheme remains beautifully\nunderproduced\u00E2\u0080\u0094allowing for a\nprimal connection of electronica\nand hip hop.\nThe music essayist Rob\nYoung, in his Worship the Glitch\n[Undercurrents, 2002), explains\nthe glitch as \"the residue, detritus, fading light, the dead skin of\nindustrial standards\" and \"nicks\nand cracks (that) are wounds-\nreminders of the frailty, mortality and imperfection of human\nendeavors.\"\nContained within this frailty,\nReq has given us horrof, empowerment, and bare-bone funk.\nThese are tracks to lay your life\ndown onto, your thoughts filling\nin the digital lacerations.\nPatrick Finlay\nattention\u00E2\u0080\u0094and when the words\nare obvious, the overall message\nis clear: these four young men.\nhave felt as much joy and pain\nas the rest of us. This is what we\nare to understand, and it's worth\nit, for it's what music is aH about.\nOf What Was is an album that\nimproves with each listen, as\neach song becomes more lay-\neredandmore engaging. With a\nlive show that is both tenderand\na release. In Medias Res is a band\nto get behind.\nKevin Scofietd\nAshley Maclsaac\ns/t\n(Decca Records)\nOn pretense of getting in touch\nwith my Celtic roots, I picked\nup the latest album from Ashley\nMaclsaac. I have to admit, it\nsounds pretty much as I expected\na CD of modern fiddle music to\nsound, but I'm not selling it short.\nMaclsaac's music could\nbe described as existing where\nAcadian meets alterna-rock, with\nsome country, rock, and pop sensibilities thrown into the mix. The\npoint is to showcase Maclsaac's\nfiery fiddling.\nI thought the best tracks were\nthe defiant \"Fairy Dance\" and\nthe high-energy traditional Celtic\n\"Bog An Login\", but I thoroughly\nenjoyed the whole of this disc,\nt Dead Meadow\nj Shivering King and Others\ni (Matador)\n{\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0080\u00A2They hail from Washington, DC,\nI and Fugazi's Brendan Canty\nf produced this album, but don't.\nm expect any punk rock from Dead\nI Meadow. Billed as a \"power\n8 trio,\" they chum out vast and\n| expansive psychedelic rock with\n'\" obvious nods to led Zeppelin,\n, Black Sabbath, and Blue Cheer.\n\u00E2\u0096\u00BA Their sound is thick and heavy\ny and smothered under clouds of\nI stoner-rock tradition, but they\n( don't succumb to cliche, and\nI with three albums' worth of expe-\n; rience under their belts, they play\n! with a confident authenticity that\n! would do their influences proud.\n\u00C2\u00BB Jason Simon's fantasy-laden lyrics are frequently hard to discern,\nas his high-pitched moan is often\nburied deep in the mix, coated in\nreverb, and submerged contentedly below the brooding drones\nand fuzzed-out wah-wah solos\nthat dominate the album. The\npace is sluggish, but the band\nknows their limitations; after five\ntracks of sludgy, hypnotic riffery,\nthey switch up the pace and roll\n1 into the gentle acoustic interlude\n| of \"Wayfarers All\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094before roar\ning back into bludgeoning distortion\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0$\non \"Good MoanhV\". The title track is.\nanother acoustic ballad, expansive1\nand sleekly melodious, evoking the 2\nbittersweet, westbound departure^\nof .Tolkien's Elven swan-ships, and -s\nit begins winding the album down, j\nDead Meadow meanders through;\ntwo more brief acoustic tracks^j\nbefore unveiling \"Raise the Sails\", the 4\nalbum's magnificent finale, replete^\nwith blissed-out drones, spacey key-~\nboards, and Simon's most gorgeous-*!\nvocal performance yet, an echo-11\nsoaked croon that blends seamlessly j\nwith the escalating wall of virtuosic J\nnoise until the band's trademarked j\nmighty riffs take the helm once J\nagain. Dead Meadow prove that\nlooking to the past doesn't have\nto mean recycling it, and their\nunique take on '60s and '\npsychedelic rock is rewardingly \"\ninformed by the last 30 years of-*\nmusic as well\u00E2\u0080\u0094tying in strands of 1\nmetal, experimental drone, and \"\nspacious post-rock (in addition ^\nto the like-minded psychedelica \u00C2\u00AB\nof Spiritualized and Bardo Pond), ;\nemerging as a triumphantly well- \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nrounded tribute to the ongoing\nappeal of music to take drugs to.\nsaelan\n21 DiSCORDER The Riverboat Gamblers\nSomething to Crow About\n(Gearhead)\nSo lately I've been hearing a lot\nof noise about these guys, from\nDenton, Texas, on one of these\nrock and roll forum/discussion\nboard thingies, so I took the\nplunge and subscribed to it so\nI could become just one of the\nnewest music geeks that spend\nway too much time talking about\nthings like \"Fashion vs. Music\" and\n\"How Old is too Old to Rock?\"\nNeedless to say, the hometown\nbuzz surrounding this group was\noff the charts\u00E2\u0080\u0094people surrendering their first-born children\nand other worldly possessions\nin favour of their incendiary live\nshow and such\u00E2\u0080\u0094and that's reason alone for me to check out\nSomething to Crow About. Like\ntheir state motto, this band is\nnot to be messed with, and the\nexplosiveness of this record is best\ncharacterized by songs like \"Let's\nEat\", a 15-second call-to-arms,\nand \"Hey! Hey! Hey!\" answering\nthe charge; \"Ice Water\", \"Dead\nFrom The Neck Up\", and \"Last To\nKnow\" are sweat-soaked, blood-\npumping anthems that not only\nstick in the head, but go down\nsmooth\u00E2\u0080\u0094much like the chicken\nand beer being downed in the\ncover photo. For fans of The Tight\nBros from Way Back When, New\nBomb Turks, and other rock and\nroll savages that make music\nthat's fast, furious, and fun.\nBryce Dunn\nRock Ranger\nSing Along\n(No Records)\n\"Is there seriously a place called\nSydney, Nova Scotia?\" It's a\nquestion that few people truly\nknow the answer to\u00E2\u0080\u0094besides its\nlocals (of which there are few),\nand fans of East Coast Canadian\nmusic. Not only does Sydney.\nNova Scotia exist in all of its post-\nindustrial glory, but it serves as\nhome to the band Rock Ranger.\nKnown for their straight-ahead\nrock sound. Rock Ranger has\nbeen delivering the uncomplicated hard rock since 1999, and\ncontinues to deliver with their\nlatest release. Sing Along. This\nalbum is just what you'd expect\nfrom a band whose label refers\nto them as a \"Rock and Roll Party\nMachine.\" Wait, no, that's \"THE\nRock and Roll Party Machine.\"\nAlso, with Ian Blurton\u00E2\u0080\u0094the genius\nbehind Toronto's Blurtonia\u00E2\u0080\u0094as\nthe album's producer, nothing\non the album comes as a big\nsurprise. Despite the album's lack\nof inspirational musical innovations, Sing Along is quite enjoyable, with songs like \"That's The\nWay\" and \"Minute After Minute\"\nreminding listeners that rock nowadays doesn't always have to be\npreceded by the word \"fluff\" or\n\"crap\". This album doesn't really\nmake me want to sing along, but\nit does make me think thot the\nexistence of Sydney, Nova Scotia,\nisn't so pointless after all.\nKimberley Day\nSaloon\nIf We Meet Again In The Future\n(Darla)\nSaloon's If We Meet In The Future\nwas in my walkman as I left for\nwork this morning, slightly late\nand flustered. The opening song\nwas exactly how I felt. Anxious\nurgency under a cool exterior.\nThis track is great\u00E2\u0080\u0094the highlight\nThe album does not continue\nin such a fashion. Mostly, the\nsongs turn to love, broken hearts,\nand insinuated bodies in bed.\nInstrumentally, the tendency is\nsoft. Amanda Gomez is angelic\nwith a voice which can carry\nhonesty, mostly without the obvious pretensions that can sometimes be so sadly blatant. As for\npace, there is lingering and the\noccasional mild rush.\nIn general, despite a formula\nthat should work magic on me, I\nfound myself largely uninspired\nbv this album. Saloon has toured\nwith some amazing bands and\nhave garnered some truly fervent responses. I do not deny\nthat maybe I just don't get it,\nbut these sounds pass by me as\nbackground music\u00E2\u0080\u0094surely not to\noccupy the heart-space reserved\nfor real-life heartbreak, or joy, or\nlovers.\nsweetcheyanne\nSaybia\nThe Second You Sleep\n(Medley Records/EMI)\nAfter listening to The Second You\nSleep, the first full-length album\nfrom Danish rockers, Saybia, I can\nonly makle one clear assumption\nabout this band: every one of\nthe band members has had all\nof their relationships end badly.\nEvery single one. How else does\none explain this collection of\npainfully melancholy songs? \u00E2\u0099\u00A6\nBut I must get past my\nassumptions and acknowledge\nthe fdct that Saybia has produced a very good album. On\nfirst listen, the Danish group of the\nyear sounds a little like Our Lady '\nPeace and a little like Coldplay.\nThat means they are\u00E2\u0080\u0094despite the\nclaims of the promotional material calls them (alt-rock)\u00E2\u0080\u0094very\nmainstream. Their simple and\ncrisp emotional rock tunes show\noff the musical skills that the\nmembers\u00E2\u0080\u0094Soren Huss (vocals),\nSebastian Sandstrom (guitar), Jess Jensen (keyboards),\nJeppe Knudsen (bass), and\nPalle Sarensen (drums)\u00E2\u0080\u0094have\npracticed for years (a decade\nfor the original three members)\nin rehearsal halls and garages.\nThe album starts off beautifully\nwith two of the album's better\ntracks, \"7 Demons\" and \"Fool's\nCorner\", two songs lamenting\u00E2\u0080\u0094what else?\u00E2\u0080\u0094love gone\nwrong. Actually, so is just about\nevery other tune. Some, like the\ntitle track, \"Still Falling\", and \"The\nDay After Tomorrow\" are better\nwritten and more pleasant to\nthe ears. The album ends, disappointingly, with the slow and\nplodding \"The One For You\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\nwhich, of course, the lead vocalist sings about how he is actually\nNOT the one for you.\nAll right, I spent most of this\nreview sarcastically telling you\nabout how .all of Saybia's songs\nare about the dark side of love, j\nWhat I should have done, maybe, \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nwas spend more time telling you I\nhow pleasant The Second You\nSleep was to listen to, because >\nthis group produces some pretty\ngood music.\nWilson Wong\nWaterdown\nThe Files You Have on Me\n(Victory)\nListeners wanted: WATERDOWN. 1\nBrand new, 2003. White and |\nblue w/ hint of orange and blue 1\ninterior 5.5 x 4.75. German engi- 1\nneered, will rock you. Easy main- I\ntenance\u00E2\u0080\u0094just keep in CD player I\nNo rust, fully loaded. Comes w/\n\"Bulletproof\", \"Nails all Broken\nShort\", and \"At the Waterfront\". I\nCaution: has tendency to kick |\nyour ass and leave you beggin'\nfor more. See your local record |\ndealer. $14.50 (obo) Call 555- I\n0009.\nNiki Reitmayer \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nBut after a few listens. I gave\nin\u00E2\u0080\u0094apart from a lew obvious\nstinkers, this album goes down\neasier than ice-cold Koo*-Aid.\nBlame the summer, blame the\nheat, I'm too hot to be bothered\n\"Err. . Hello?\"\nAnimal Collective\nHere Comes The Indian\n(Paw Tracks)\nI've been tost in Ihe enchanted\nwood for a whole month now,\nand l-'don't think i wont to be\nfound/Every time I listen to this\nalbum-it'$ like I've scooped my\nbrom out, soaked it in the dreaded lysergic, ond then popped St\nback in trie wrong \u00C2\u00ABpy round.\nA mag'cal moonlit stro'I without\never leaving yotii apartment-\nAnd no nqsty bad Jr-ps. Highly\nrecommended for solo flying.\nTindersticks\nWaiting for the Moon\n(Beggar's Banquet)\nto the promotional.\ncopy I received for this album, the\nlatest release from Tindersticks, a\nprevious writer at DiSCORDER has\ngone on record in the pages of\nthis very magazine to describe the\nBritish group as \"masters of understated orchestral beauty.\" May\nI take this opportunity to whole-\ny heartedly second this assessment.\nDefining the Tindersticks\nfcound, as with most bands one\nP compelled by, is difficult;\nTindersticks in particular use a\nwide range of instruments and\nmerge their equally varied collection of stylistic influences with an\nalmost avant garde sense of pop\ncounterpoint\u00E2\u0080\u0094though their most\nprominent influences would seem\nto be soul and contemporary\nadaptations of traditional country,\nwhich I'm going to call alt-country,\nbelieving as I do that most people\nwould resist that label are\nthose that have something to fear\nfrom it. Such people know who\nthey are.\nTindersticks, for one, have\nnothing to fear from it; unlike many\nmusicians who are successful\nwithin a given genre for their effec-\nive exploitation of that genre's\nconventions, Tindersticks deftly\ntwist their influences into their own\ndistinct aesthetic. Whereas the\npreferred dlt-country template is\nto use the dtmosphere of simplicity\nand community evoked by acoustic instruments to portray a romanticized idyll of earthier values and\na more authentic experience of\nlife, Tindersticks seem to be citing\nthe genre much more slyly\u00E2\u0080\u0094as if to\nbelie the sophistication of their lyrics, the richness and texture of their\nvocal work, and their incredibly\ninventive composition with simple,\npoignant melodies\u00E2\u0080\u0094creating an\nalmost comic effect, as on \"Just\na Dog\". Alternatively, we also\nfind here the atmospherics of the\ngenre serving as a bucolic backdrop for more sinister narratives,\nas on the opening track, \"Until the\nMorning Comes\". A soul aesthetic\nalso informs this work, expressed\nthrough the exquisitely false\norchestral string arrangements and\nthe yearning, mellifluous vocals\u00E2\u0080\u0094as -.\u00E2\u0084\u00A2,\nwith the potently lugubrious \"My jf\nOblivion\". The results of this stylistic f**\npairing are consistently fascinating\nand beautiful. Clearly, Waiting for .'\nthe Moon is a masterpiece. \\nDonovan *s\n*&&&*&&\n22 August 2003\nthe Tyde\nTwice\n(Rough Trade) .\nI wanted so desperately to hate*\nthis album after first listen; tt'sSoJ\ncompletely , backwardi-loQJdnja,\nin every respect, Mot to meptiori\nthat gormless stoner grin, Whfc\u00C2\u00BB\nlistening to standout track \"Henry.,\nVill\", you keep'expecting o\nphone cat from ion Seed at any *\nmoment, asxlng you where -jS\nMelt Banana -\nCeil Scape.\n(A-Zap)\nApparently, according to Melt\nBanana's lead singer, Yasuko O,\n\"I car. do what I wcrntl I can die\nwnen l wish!\" But I jusi can't stop\nlistening to Ce;f Scope\nI missed their now legendary Sunday afternoon performance at,The Pic last year but\nmaking up for it tn fine\nChar\nme around tov\u00C2\u00BBn m 'he next fe*\nweeks, I'll have my headphones\non and be listening to this, feeling Nke an awesomely powerful\nJapanese cartoon character\nloosed on on unsuspecting city\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2'Aghhnhl'hhhhh!-!!!'*\nZoo Psychology\n(French Kiss)\nTheir last album. Other\nMathematics, was marred by\nan a It-consuming- \"tnfqtoatiori\nwith the Gong of Four. Thankfully, THE WEAKERTHANS\nRECONSTRUCTION SITE\nLIVE\nSept 9\nVictoria\n@ Sugar\nSept. 10\nVancouver\n@ Mesa Luna (all ages)\nSept 11\nVancouver\n@ Commodore Ballroom (19+)\nNew CD/LP in stores August 26\nProduced by Ian Blurton - Mixed by Adam Kasper\nEpitaph\nB3 epitaph.com theweakerthans.org\n23 DiSCORDER Yo La Tengo\nThe Clean\nJune 15\nVogue Theatre\nI've waited to see Yo La Tengo\nplay Vancouver tor quite some\ntime: in the six years- since they *\nlast played Vancouver, they've\nplayed Seattle at least three\ntimes. And yet. despite my anticipation, I wasn't all that excited to\nsee the show: I had a really bad\ncold and YLT was touring their\nworst (or, rather, least-enjoyable-\nfor-me) album in years. The prospect of listening to a band I love\nplay a song as awful as \"Georgia\nVs Yo La Tengo\" (from their latest\nalbum. Summer Sun) held tremendous potential for sadness.\nOpeners The Clean did a good\njob of easing the crowd into the\nshow. I'm not too familiar with\ntheir records, but the live the trio\nfrom New Zealand sounded like\nthe Yo La Tengo of yesteryear:\nrocking, groove-oriented music\nthat built up slowly. They fit into the\nbill very well and were received\nquite well by the audience.\nStarting off with the soft.\nmeandering melody of \"Beach\nParly Tonight,\" Yo La Tengo had\nme worried; is this what I had\nto look forward to for the next\nhour and a half? My fear was\nshort-lived as the next song took\nc Blur\na major tempo change. Not\nto disparage their slower, more\nethereal songs, but I prefer it\nwhen Ira. Georgia, and James\nkick it. I hold their 1997 album I\nCan Hear The Heart Beating As\nOne as sacred and those songs,\nwhich fend to be a bit more\nstraightforward and lively, were\nthe ones I was excited to hear.\nAnd I did get to hear a few of\nthem: \"Stockholm Syndrome\",\n\"Deeper Into Movies\" and\n\"We're an American Band\".\n(I'm told that \"Autumn Sweater\"\nwas played towards the end of\nthe show but, my cold having\novertaken my desire to listen to\nmusic. I had left by that point.)\nNot surprisingly, the songs from\nSummer Sun sounded much better live, making the whole show\npretty good\u00E2\u0080\u0094although \"Georgia\nvs. Yo La Tengo\" was still brutal.\nAs Bve performers, Yo La Tengo\nwere amazing, playing three\nencores, lasting two and a half\nhours, and taking several request* Their stage banter was\nalso commendable, as Ira scored\nmajor points for lamenting the\nsad deterioratiew of Bryant \"Big\nCountry\" Reeves' physique (Do\nyou remember the Grizzlies?).\nIt was quite a wait to see Yo La\nTengo, and while it wasn't quite\nthe dream show I had been\nhoping for, I was still taken by the\nband's incredible musicianship\nand intensity. Too bad it isn't 1997.\nDuncan\nEST\nSaul Berson Quartet\nJune 22\nVancouver East Cultural Center\nThis concert opened up with a\nset of Middle Eastern-inspired experimental jazz from Vancouver's\nown Saul Berson Quartet, which\nfeatured Saul Berson on alto sax,\n\"Tony Wilson on guitar, Paul Blaney\non acoustic bass, and Kim Darwin\non accordion. Yes, accordion.\nTheir set consisted mostly of songs\nftom their new CD, Not Here Not\nNow, though the songs were\nvery much improvisational. Their\ninfluences ranged from blues and\nrock 1o European folk music to\nSpanish and Jewish and Middle\nEastern styles; these influences\nwere blended wonderfully to create a cool, free-flowing hybrid.\nThese influences showed up in\nthe titles as well: apparently,\nthe first song was called \"Middle\nClass Dance\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094a poke at the\nway composers have always created dance music for peasants.\nBerson enjoys playing with overtones, color, and timbre\u00E2\u0080\u0094getting\ninto sounds that seem to quiver\ntogether over ostinatos. I could\noften hear microtone exploration\nand variations on tuning used to\nachieve differing effects. Being\nmostly familiar with Berson as part\nof Hard Rubber Orchestra, it was\na real treat tahear his own music.\nAfter the Saul Berson Quartet's\nhumor-filled set, it was time for\nthe headliners, EST. Sweden's\nESI (Esbjom, Svensson Trio) came\nback to Vancouver to be greeted by a very vocally enthusiastic\ncrowd; it would seem that many\nof them had seen EST at last\nyear's JazzFest and had eagerly\nawaited their return. And so they\nhave begun the process of creating a huge buzz over here like\nthey already have in Europe\u00E2\u0080\u0094a\nwell-deserved buzz, I might add.\nPianist/bandleader Esbjorn\nSvensson, bassist Dan Berglund,\nand drummer Magnus Ostrom\nplayed a wonderful set of their\n\"European \" New Jazz,\" mixing\nacoustic jazz with rock, funk,\nblues, art music, and drum &\nbass influences. They played with\nextended techniques on their\ninstruments, also processing the\nsounds of their acoustic instruments. Svensson's piano was\nhooked up to a guitar effects box\nvia a number of microphones, so\nwe got to hear hfe piano with a\n\"wah wah\" effect\u00E2\u0080\u0094distortion,\noyerdrive, echo, etc.\u00E2\u0080\u0094as he\nplayed, and mixed these distorted timbres alongside the \"normal\" piano sounds. Very interesting, and Svensson was sure to\nacknowledge their soundman as\nthe fourth member of the band.\nSo, like Berson, EST relies heavily\non sound experimentation and\ntimbral variations. It all worked\nJfc\nE June 21\nfc- Vogue Theatre\nit wasn't even 9 pm yet, and Blur\nFhad already played their first song\nhe evening, \"Ambulance\".\ns standing in the midst of a\n^ horribly sweaty yet completely\nit mesmerized crowd that consisted\ni largely of women in their twenties or\nn late teens, some with hapless\n' boyfriends who had to watch their\ngirls' eyes firmly fixed on two of the\nguys on stage: Damon Albarn and\nAlex James. People sitting upstairs\nin the balcony looked bored.\nSecond song into the set, when\nthe stand-in guitarist Simon Tong (of\nex-Verve fame) began playing the\nmonotonous yet eerily seductive\nintra of \"Bcstlebum\", I thought to\nmyself, \"no way, it's not right. It's\n} supposed to be Graham [CoxonJ's\nJ part. It's just not the same without\nI the shy guitarist, the \"Graham\" that\nf 17-year-old me once proclaimed\nto be my \"favourite Blur\" (a /a your\n1 \"favourite Beatle\") when I was a\ncollege freshman wnW Cutout Biur\nI interview and pictures from the\njl Melody Maker (oh, the good days)\ni the walls of my dorm room.\nFive years later. Coxon is no lon-\nir in the band, and I thought I too\nI would have moved on. I thought\nI the Blur show would now only be\nnostalgic\u00E2\u0080\u0094yet calm\u00E2\u0080\u0094homage\nF to my teenage obsession with Britpop. You know\u00E2\u0080\u0094I would just be a\nsort of \"observer\" watching them\nand their \"new fans.\" How wrong.\nIt hasn't changed. Albarn, the\none-time King of Britpop (now father of a 5-year-old girl), appeared\non stage in a gray blazer and wore\nhis trademark boyish smirk throughout the show when he wasn't singing. He danced, performed the\ncompulsory water-spraying of the\ncrowd, and mumbled things I never\nunderstood but everyone else apparently seemed to find funny. You\ncould just see that he was still his old\nextremely confident self, the boy\nwho never wanted to grow up, who\nsang about what \"rubbish\" modern\nlife was ten years ago, and who\ngenuinely enjoys all the adulation\nfrom fans. The music was even/thing\nyou expected it to be. \"Girls & Boys\",\nBlur's 1994 classic from a time when\ndanceable beats from rock bands\nwere rare, still made you bounce\nand sweat like mad; \"Sweet Song\"\nsaw the band's earnest, quietly\nreflective side; and \"The Universal\"\n(a song \"we haven't played for\nages\") was probably alone worth\nthe ticket price for many people.\nWhen I got home, I put on\n\"For Tomorrow\", a song that,\nincredibly, is already ten years\nold, and contemplated whether\nI should schedule my East Coast\ntrip around their Montreal show.\nJust like what I would have done\nwithout hesitation five years ago.\nPriscilla Chen\nmm\nwelt; though. EST have a habit\nof starting off their songs quietly\nand slowly, usually with a solo,\nand then building in texture,\ndensity, and intensity up to a\nclimax, and then either stopping dead at that point, or\ndropping off, coming back up\nin tension, and dropping back\nagain. It was Interesting to see\nand feel how they worked with\nthis energy to their advantage.\nThey were enthusiastically received, getting two standing\novations before the show was finished, and screaming cheers from\nthe crowd the likes of which I've\nnever heard at a jazz concert. If\nyou missed them, have no fear:\nthe shew was recorded for broadcast on CBC Radio Two, and I'm\nsure after their reception this time\nthey'll be sure to return next year.\nVampyra Draculea\nIII\nOut Hud\nJune 28\nRichard's on Richards\nAt a recent show in Vancouver,\nthe lead singer of the headlining band announced to the\nenraptured-but-sedate crowd\nthat the next song would be the\nlast of the set. \"So,\" he exhorted\nemphatically, \"you can go crazy\nnow.\" Promptly, several people\nstood up and shuffled toward\nthe stage, then stopped. A few\ndiehards shoved their hands in\ntheir pockets and began nodding rhythmically. One maniac\nbegan tapping his toe. And so\nit goes: another rock band had\nfailed, utterly, to make Vancouver dance. In a city known\nworldwide for its marijuana; touring groups must be confused\nto find audiences acting like\nthey're on horse tranquilizers.\nOpening Ill's latest Vancouver tour stop. Out Hud faced no\nsuch indifferent arm-crossing.\nMerciless programmed beats,\nslithery bass, dueling keyboard\nwaves, and a few semi-choreographed dance routines seem\nto be among the keys to the foot\nlocker in which Vancouver keeps\nher dancing shoes. Cellist Molly\nSchinct smoothed the edges\nof the angular time signatures,\nand the crowd showed its appreciation with rhythmic claps\nand, lo, movement of the feet.\n!!!, a larger band that shares\nsome of Out Hud's membership,\nbrought a little less melody and\na lot more rhythm to the stage,\ncourtesy of dozens of drums and\na sizable number of electronic\nelements. !!! makes music accessible enough to make even\nthe most stoic bartender pour\noverpriced drinks to the rhythm,\nbut complex enough that even\nthe biggest post-geek from CiTR\nwipes off his glasses to pay attention. With every member of\nthe group rotating between\ninstruments to play endlessly\ndiverging and converging lines,\nthe III disco juggernaut had\nthe sweaty crowd in the palms\nof the band's 16 hands. If not a\ngroup with a name and sound\nas exuberant as !!!, then what\nband could get someone other\nthan that one drunk guy in the\nhockey jersey to get down?\nAny small complaints,\nthough? Sure, thanks for asking. Although fusing electronic\ndevices with live instrumentation-\nyields great results tor these two\ngroups, it's always disenchanting when a band stops playing '\nand the music keeps goingr\nwith everyone onstage staring\nat each other while a collection\nof gadgets in the corner does a\nsolo. Thankfully, these moments\nwere few, for III, and the crowd's\nattention was usually diverted\nby lead voacalist Nic Offer's\ndancing, which was mesmerizing if nothing else. It's hard to\nbe shy about dancing when the\nmost spastic rump-shaker in the\nhouse is begging you to join him.\nMichael Schwandt\nSpoon\nJoel RL Phelps\nJuly 11\nRichard's On Richards\nI have this friend whose musical\njudgments I sometimes trust; he\nactually makes music and therefore is one step up on the authority meter\u00E2\u0080\u0094I feel it is only appropriate to at least listen to what he\nhas to say. A few months back-be\ngave me Spoon's Kill The Moonlight in a \"you-HAVE-to-have-this-1\nalbum\" gesture. My response\nwas middling, but I thought-that\ngiving Spoon a chance at a live\nshow would be the least I could\ndo, especially since I have since\nmoved away from this friend and\nthe reminiscence feels good.\nPre-game show was one Joel\nRL Phelps, as I was incredulously\ninformed by a fellow attendee.\nApart from hearing his name in\nthe ether of musical gossip, I admit my ignorance. Seeing Phelps\nperform, however, I was not realty sure why I had. To fabricate\na metaphor for his entire performance, Phelps did the whole\nthing seated, saying, \"Sorry I'm\nsitting down. It's because I'm\nold.\" But the guy is not even old\nat all. Not to mention the strange\ndynamic that having bass as sole\nman standing creates\u00E2\u0080\u0094which\nis too easy \ an escape when\ntrying to explain the seeming\n^Jaafc-of unity between the three\nplayers who were up on stage-\nSpoon, contrarily, looked like they\nwere having fun. They jumped\"\nup and down, smiled lots, and\nlaughed out loud. I could even\nsee them making eyes at one another, communicating assumed\nmusical secrets. This made for a\ngood-spirited rock show\u00E2\u0080\u0094though\npretty typically what one would\nexpect and not blowing any\nminds\u00E2\u0080\u0094although my reason was\nteased by the sight of the band\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthem not appearing as 1 had\nalways imagined: an incongrueht\nreality. Spoon gave the audience one good-hearted encore\nand on our ways we went, back\nto life exactly as it was before.\nsweetcheyanne\nMarilyn Manson\nCrystal Pistol\nJuly 11\nOrpheum Theatre\nFull Moon. How appropriate for\na night that saw both Marilyn\nManson and Cradle of Filth visit\nool^^-city to shake things up a bit. I laid my bet on Manson.\nManson has returned to his\nold policy of hiring local bands to\nopen for him, and the lucky Vancouver act this time around was\nCrystal Pistol, a gldm/goth metal\noutfit. They probably weren't\nfeeling so lucky after they got\nonstage, though, as 99.9% of the\ncrowd had a \"fuck you we want\nManson!\" attitug>, with the requisite jeers. This was quite unfair to\nCrystal Pistol, though, as they did\nan admirable job at an impossible task, and they did seem to\nwin over a little more of the crowd\nwith each song in their short set.\nI like to pretend I'm the omniscient reviewer, but I must admit\nI'm out of this loop and hadn't\nheard of these guys\u00E2\u0080\u0094but they\nmade a good first impression. This\nis the kind of music I raised myself\n, on, so it was right up my alley.\nSure, the songs have somewhat\ncliched lyrics, with titles like \"Live\nFast Die Young\" and \"Teenaged\nParasite\", but nonetheless I Ike\ntheir sound and attitude. Lyrics improve with age, anyway.\nAfter the intermission, it was\ntime for Manson. The Orpheum's\nornate elegance was a great\nsetting for the Weimar-inspired\nGrotesk Burlesk show, and the\nfact that another of Manson's\ncurrent influences is vaudeville\nmade it even more perfect that\nthe venue was an original vaudeville house. As for the show itself;\nit was a stripped down version\nof Marilyn Manson\u00E2\u0080\u0094mostly new\nmaterial, a much simplified performance from his earlier work,\nmaking more use of scrims than\nsets, and, of course the now familiar dancing girls in their fascist-\ntype uniforms and fake genitalia.\nManson himself was the same as\never\u00E2\u0080\u0094high intensity performances and sardonic wit in his commentaries. One of the few props\nused was a giant inflatable Man-\nson head with Mickey Mouse ears\nand blackface makeup, which I\nsuspect would give the little kids\nin the balcony some nightmares.\nYes, little kids\u00E2\u0080\u0094I have it on good\nauthority that there were kids as\nyoung as seven up there with\ntheir parents. There's a strange\naudience for the man so maligned by the family values freaks.\nThere was no encore to follow the 90 minute set, perhaps\nbecause keyboardist Madonna\nWayne Gacy busted his hand,\nor perhaps because it's just\nnot part of the Manson milieu\nanymore. All in al! a good show.\nVampyra Draculea\nEels\nMC Honkey\nJuly 13\nRichard's on Richards\nForgive me for comparing this\nconcert to the Spoon concert I\nsaw two days before, but it was\ninteresting to see all my CiTR\nbuddies at one show and not\nthe other. They could be onto\nsomething, because as eager as\nI was to see the odd and masterful \"E\" take to the stage, I kept.\nwishing there were more chairs\nat Richard's on Richards.\nJust a little about the opening act: MC Honkey is a DJ\nwho reminded me of when my\nGrandpa Elqert DJed in the '40s\nbefore the Nazis confiscated all\nhis gear. He was a portly, bald,\npipe-smoking\u00E2\u0080\u0094and apparently\nmute\u00E2\u0080\u0094gentleman with a cha-\npeau and a thirst for deep dance\nhall grooves. He simply went to\nhis decks, did his half hour set,\nand left. We were amused; he\ntipped his hat to us, ripped off\nhis jacket, set it on fire, and then\ndid a two-minute backspin on\nthe coat to put it out... I wish!\nSo Eels frontman Mark\n\"E\" Everett came through the\ncrowd and delighted us all. Then\nhe played songs from his new\nalbum. OUCH! I kid\u00E2\u0080\u0094I kid! \"Dog-\nFaced Boy\", \"Souljacker\", and\n\"Novocaine for the Soul\" were\nplayed with passion and super-\nness. However, I expected more\nfrom a guy who hasn't been\naround these parts for seven\nyears. It was good, but was it\nSpoon good? Actually, I kind\nof thought Spoon sucked, too.\nChris-A-R/'ffic\nNina Nastasia\nJoel RL Phelps\nJuly 21\nThe Royal\nNina Nastasia is one of the most\nbeautiful women I have ever\nseen. Something about the\nway there was pleat alignment\nfrom bottom to top, the way\nsandals expose a tattoo only\nassumed lo come from a past\nlife, and the wdy her hair was\nas a crown. And all of this just as\nshe brushed past\u00E2\u0080\u0094an off-guard\nbeginning to her whole affair.\nBe it a beginning in the middle,\nas it were, as Joel RL Phelps occupied the stage before Nastasia\neven stepped through the doors.\nGoing into this set with a bitter\ntaste in my mouth, I noticed immediately that this evening was\nnot to be a repetition of past\nexperience. Despite the fact\nthat Phelps is (by his own admission) old and tired, he roared\nwith a guttural energy that I\nhad not known him for. Though\nmany pieces could have been\neach other, they appeared to\nhave a sliver of Phelps in them;\nPhelps brilliantly read by his sole\n(percussive) accompaniment.\nAnd one thing that cannot be \"\ndisputed about Phelps is that his\naudience seems to unquestion-\ningly adore him\u00E2\u0080\u0094albeit sometimes a little too eagerly. (Please\nlet the quiet parts remain in\nsilence for there are truths there\nalso... [Take that, Christa. \u00E2\u0080\u0094Ed.])\nKneeling to reconfigure- all\nthe intimate details and speaking\nto men who could have been\nof an old world religious order,\nNastasia, then, was breathtaking\nin a sense an older generation\nwould have reserved the claim\nfor. So much of her performance\nseemed strangely out of time,\nfrom her physical embodiment to\nthe way her voice weaved in and\nout of the many strings, twisted air,\n\"and.inyisible pulse of the music\nitself. Nastasia told us stories, but\nones not her own, only that this is\nher craft and she comes to it with\na blood rich in the iron of earth.\nThe voice of these tales was not\nrestricted to her own\u00E2\u0080\u0094strings\nspoke volumes in subtle delicacy.\nShe had the most melancholy\naccordion player ever, one of\nmany tokens of a music rich with\nexplosions in places you'd least\nexpect, like a sadness that forces,\ntears before you can even reaize\nthat you have been overcome.\nAnd I surrendered at the end of\nthe evening to the arms of my\nlover, and to a night full of dangerous dreams. Waking to recognize\nhow fitting my denouement was.\nsweetcheyanne\nThe Immortal Lee County Killers II\nThe Gung Hos\nThe Sweet Fuck Alls.\nJuly 27\nThe Brickyard\nHow could the sweltering night\ncollapse, when all the children\ntestify? I'll lay it down right now\nto get it out of the way. The Gung\nHos put on a perfectly nasty and\nraw set. They let loose and held\nthe attention of a rather eager\nand expectant crowd. The Sweet\nFuck Alls played a little too rock\nstar- for my refined and cultured\ntastes, but they acted like they\ncouldn't give two shits on a Sunday. So, if for nothing else, I bow\ndown to their resolve. I'm here to\nspread the gospel like so much\nwild fire through the dried out\nhills; we'll let it catch and dance\nby the light of the world in glorious, reaching flames. The gospel\nwill awaken the meek to the rap\nture of the unhinged and brilliant\ntwosome, turning all the children\ninto Apostles. See. when you follow the Killers you walk with your\nbrothers and sisters, you all walk\nwith that fire in your eyes and that\nsound .in your heart. This more\nthan anything brought a grasping and sweaty smile to my face.\nThe Immortal Lee County Killers II\nseem to have a soft spot for the\nrelics of the street and the freaks\nthat dig them into the beyond.\nThey stood on the stage as some\nracy, near-vaudevillian busker\ndamned and endeared. The Killers stood silent, grinning\u00E2\u0080\u0094then, to\nlet him know his time had come.\nCheetah hit that string. Every song\nwas a rumbling, screeching fury,\nand the beauty is that everything\nwas brutally spontaneous (save\nfor the ranting performance\nof the Token One: he is truly all\nfury packed tight and snarling).\nCheetah (hidden beneath a\ntangled mess of hair, dressed in\nthe dark suit of some southern\ngrifter) is a fucking demon, and\nhe plays possessed by the dark\nforces circling all. around the\nBrickyard. He drained this town\nof evil, drank it up, and spat it out\nthe amp. Cheetah gives birth to\nguitar menace like he's building\nan army of sound. Let him take his\nhold on you. and while you stand\nthere\u00E2\u0080\u0094slack-jawed, stupefied\u00E2\u0080\u0094in\nstomps the Token One, then the\nonly question is who's gonna take\ncontrol when that boy finally lets\nloose with all that fire inside? He\nstood on that kit exposing us to\nthe word of the Killers; he wanted\nto reach our souls to let us know\nthat the so-called dark side really holds all the Sght and-divinity.\nAnyone else would have been\nheckled\u00E2\u0080\u0094not Token: he spoke\nof the heart from the heart and\nno one fucking thought of laughing. Those of us there witnessed\nrighteousness arm and arm with\nthunder; we witnessed a show\nwith two of the most serene and\nsurreal moments I've ever been\nfortunate enough to see. One\nwas J.R.R. Token taking on a\nLead belly tune as he stood leaning into fhe crowd\u00E2\u0080\u0094all wild voice\nand southern gothic charm. The\nother was Cheetah, solo\u00E2\u0080\u0094breaking down a tune so mournful and\ntortured it sounded as though he\nwould collapse; the night had left\nhim sweat drenched in the blue\nlight. As he trailed off, I'm certain\nall that held breath in the crowd\nwas released in one gasp of\nrespect. Tell your mothers and fathers, go on and testify, tell them\nthere's no church can hold you,\nnow\u00E2\u0080\u0094not anymore, not after you\nsaw the The Killers on a Sunday.\nDerek Sterling Boone \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nSsACHE\nPO BOX 1381001* W BROADWAY #101\nVANCOUVffi B.C V6H 4E4 CANADA\nWWWJLCHERECORDS.COM\n5*100*\n5. WW*WLy*\nimpco* tixiVA\n.\"k* W>\\t64o*\n7- |\u00C2\u00B0U Disk\ncA release\n%. \"CUe Ne^\nTke. G*\u00C2\u00BBtf\u00C2\u00A3S\nq. ttoMs vfo\u00C2\u00ABe\nMa\nft. \u00C2\u00A3or*\nVI. ?a.(cM*hxS*\u00C2\u00ABp\n~lf>. \L\ra Z6f*krSeta.\nP&KArtt- w/\nfW.J P. S\u00C2\u00BB\H\n2.H. SceM Ma!l~\nZS. Cur*\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A22.7. S4\u00C2\u00AB&n S*okx*\z\ntMvvian* thirty\ntjW\u00C2\u00ABJSiS\nkr^^es\neat fee*) U\n| LISTEN TO IWSK.!!\nMi \u00C2\u00BB*%>ulture\nby esther\nGluttony Is a Deadly Sin\nEarlier this year I became\na vegan on a whim, and\nexactly six months later another\nimpulse decision was made to\ncall it quits. During the course of\nour short-lived affair, I repeatedly browsed the internet for\npictures of dairy-rich and meaty\ndishes and compulsively dreamt\n. of doughnuts. I was fraught with\nthe regret-and shame of infidelity. Since then, my relationship\nwith veganism proved to be a\nshort love with a long divorce: I\nstill can't look at a cube of tofu\nwithout a pang of guilt.\nAtriineMeals.net\nfhflp://airlinemeals.nej/]\nMuch unlike Edward Norton's\ncharacter In Fight Club. I find the\nbest part of traveling by air is the\nfood: the single-serving entree,\nsingle-serving dessert, and so\nforth. People of AirlineMeals.net\nseem to share my sentiment.>\nSort of.\nA quick scroll through the\ncomments and photos was\nenough to tell me that these\npeople take their food seriously.\nA little too seriously. Growing up, I\ndidn't dare complain about food\nbecause a heavy lecture about\nthe starving children in North\nKorea would inevitably follow.\nRestaurants take note: I'm the\nfood critic of your dreams. With\nthat said, everyone's a critic on\nthis site\u00E2\u0080\u0094so much scrutiny, so\n/srnany.rpprB^g^ts,. ,J3| .imagine\nwebsite, hotornot.com where\nmen and women are routinely\nridiculed and graded based\non their physical appearance.\nIn particular, the \"Meal of the\nMonth\" thread on the forum conjured up some uncomfortable\nmemories of high school popularity contests. All right, I admit\nfood-criticism isn't nearly as vain\nas shows like America's Next\nTop Model. Then again, food\n'Jst^'^afit to be nitpicked\u00E2\u0080\u0094it's\nmeant to be eaten. Just ask the\nchildren in North Korea.\nthey are the type of people who\nsend back dishes at a restaurant\nbecause the pasta is slightly overcooked. The type of people who\nmake a big fuss over the texture\nof potato chips. The type I don't\nunderstand. I have never met an\nin-flight meal I didn't like. In fact,\nthe best creme caramel I've ever\nhad was on an airplane\u00E2\u0080\u0094and in\nthe economy section at that. Of\ncourse, not all ratings were negative. The comments from the first\nclass flyers were generous at\ntimes. They better not complain,\nor I'll launch my mom at 'em.\nAll this dissection and scoring remind me of beauty pageants, or that awfully decadent\n^ifilllls\nPocketpig.com\n[http://pocketpig.com/]\nIt's a doodle, it's a journal. She\ndraws what she eats on her PDA\n(see above pictures) with side-\nrunning comments about her\nday. Weird.\nI wish I'd come up with this first. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\nluke meat's\nmusical satori\nDesperate Bicycles\nRemorse Code\n(Refill)\nWhen I was 12 years old, I was\nin a shitty theatre production of\n\"Gypsy\" in Red Deer, Alberta,\nduring which I met a guy named\nCliff Lang. I looked up to him a\nlot because he was older and\nknew lots of really funny jokes.\nOne time he made me laugh\nso hard I pissed my pants in his\ncar. I'll never forgive myself for\nthat. However, previous to that\nembarassment, he loaned me\na third generation taped copy\nof an album, which to this day\nI have never seen, or even held\nin its original form: Remorse Code\nby the Desperate Bicycles. Cliff\nsaid he bought it when he was\nhaving a competition with a\nfriend to see who could find the\nweirdest band name (his friend's\nchoice: The Cramps' Bad Music\nfor Bad People). Remorse Code\nhas become my white whale\nof record collecting, catching\nas much as $80 US on Ebay.\n.1 tried to research this group,\nbut to no avail-^-not even\nallmusic.com could help with\nmy query. The only thing I could\nturn to was the Bible: The Trouser\nPress Record Guide, which\n26 August 2003\ndescribes them as a \"post-punk\nChocolate Watch Band\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094but\nthat still doesn't do these cats\njustice. As far as I know, they are\na three-piece whose guitarist is\nnamed (get this) Dan Electro.\nHow cool is that?! They putoota '\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nhandful of singles, one EP\u00E2\u0080\u0094New\nCross New Cross^and only the\none full-length album. They do\nsound of the neo-psych British\ngarage movement along with\nThe Soft Boys, but their sound is\nmore delicately innocent and\nthe tape loops that surround\n\"Acting\" sound positively\ntimeless. The social commentary\non self-improvement in \"Trendy\nFeelings\"\u00E2\u0080\u0094\"Time heals, but\nwho needs a vanishing cure?\",\nis about ten years ahead of\nits time. The slow and dreamy\n\"Blasting Radio\" ends the record\nwith the optimism of better\nthings to come from this seminal\nband, but alas. The Desperate\nBicycles vanished into obscurity.\nDespite digital file sharing.\nHe bought it when he wos having a competition\nto see who could find the weirdest bond name\ndefinitely more hummable.\nThe album opens with \"I am\nNine\", featuring lyrics such as\n\" I was nine and I was feeling\nfine/but somebody told me I'd\nbe ten next time.\" I was instantly\nhooked at the bass line of \"A\nCan Of Lemonade\", which\nalso contained the delightfully\njuvenile line, \"it didn't cure his\nthirst/it made it worse/it made\nhim burp\" with an actual\nbelching sound. The solid vocal\noverdubs of \"Sarcasm\" still raise\nthe hairs on my back; \"Pretty\nLittle Analyze\" contains the best\n'la-la' back-ups to this day, and\ndoesn't sound much better than\nmy Sony HF 90-minute tape.\nBleek Swinney managed to\nburn me a compilation CD that\nhe downloaded off of Soul Seek\nbut, unfortunately, there are\nsome glaring omissions: \"A Can\nof Lemonade\" is sadly absent,\nas'is \"Natural History\". I can only\npray that one of these days I'll be\nin some weird little town where I\ncan find Remorse Code on vinyl. I\ncan promise you one thing: If that\nday ever comes, I will lose my\nbladder control ten times worse\nthan the time Cliff Lang told me\nhis series of 'dead baby' jokes. \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nKicK dCbwf\o\ *WKIU*fc loo3\n\u00C2\u00B0Sco*b naaiU'v.-\nno^LAjr-COME. ^tfSVSr\nAugust Long Vinyl\nAugust Short Vinyl\nAugust Charts 20 Years Ago\n1 Frog Eyes\nGolden River\nGlobal Symphonic\n2 Superfriendz\nLove Energy\nOutside\n3 Senor Coconut\nFiesta Songs\nEmperor Norton\n4 Broken Social...\nYou Forgot It In...\nPaper Bag\n5 Von Zippers\nCrime Is Now!\nEstrus\n6 The Gossip\nMovement\nKill Rock Stars\n7 Hidden Cameras\nSmell Of Our Own\nRough Trade\n8 S.T.R.E.E.T.S.\nBo Bo Gnar Gnar\nGlobal Symphonic\n9 U-Ziq\nBilious Paths\nPlanet Mu\n10 Locust\nPlague Soundscapes Anti\n11 Nina Nastasia\nRun to Ruin\nTouch and Go\n12 Planet Smashers\nMighty\nStomp\n13 Kraftwerk\nTour de France '03\nAstra Iwerks\n14 Melt Banana\nCell Scape\nA-Zap\n15 Los Furios\ns/t\nSurrender\n16 Animal Collective\nHere Comes the Inc\nian Paw Tracks\n17!!!\nMe and Giuliani...\nTouch and Go\n18 Grandaddy\nSumday\nV2\n19 Ox\nDust Bowl Revival\nIndependent\n20 McEnroe\nDisenfranchised\nPeanuts & Corn\n21 White Stripes\nElephant\nV2\n22 Polysics\nNeu\nAsian Man\n23 Von Bondies\nRaw & Rare\nDim Mak\n24 Manitoba\nUp In Flames\nDomino\n25 Enon\nIn This City\nTouch And Go\n26 Tim Hecker\nRadio Amor\nMille Plateaux\n27 Yeah Yeah Yeahs\nFever To Tell\nInterscope\n28 Goldfrapp\nBlack Cherry\nMute\n29 Buttless Chaps\nExperiments\nLonesome Cowboy\n30 N. Pornographers\nElectric Version\nMint\n31 Moneen\nAre We Really Happy... Smallman\n32 Cuts\n2 Over Ten\nBirdman\n33 Radiohead\nHail To The Thief\nEMI\n34 V Village People\nRepent\nIMMTURMT2\n35 Four Tet\nRounds\nDomino\n1 Charming Snakes\n2 aLUnARED\n3 Tyde\n4 Microphones\n5 Hidden Cameras\n6 Papa M\n7 Zombie IV\n8 v/a\n9 v/a\n10 Earlimart\n11 KRMTX\n12 Channels 3 &4\n13 Starlight Mints\n14 Silk Flowers\n15 Lost Vegas\n16 Omega Cinco\n17 Ronson\n18 Doughboys\n19 v/a\n20 Pepe Deluxe\ns/t\nELCTRK!\nGo Ask Yer Dad\nLanterns/Antlers\nPlay \"Ban Marriage\"\nOrange World\nZombie\nGossip/Erase Errata\nDear Nora/Mates of...\nBurning The Cow\nIce Hatchets\ns/t\nBrass Digger\ns/t\nNeo Psych\nTriton\nFamily Switchblade\nLa Majeure 1987\nElectro Group\nSalami Fever\n1 Yello\n2 Talking Heads\n3 Violent Femmes\n4 King Sunny Ade\n5 New Order\n6 Malcolm McLaren\n7 Creatures\n8 Aztec Camera\n9 Southern Death Cult\n10 Danielle Dax\n11 Go-Betweens\n12 General Saint\n13R.E.M.\n14 Hunters & Collectors\n15 Clock DVA\n16 Tones On Tail\n17 True West\n18 Bob Marley\n19 Pete Shelley\n20 Herald Nix\nYou Gotta Say Yes\nSpeaking In Tongues\nViolent Femmes\nSynchro-System\nPower Corruption & Lies\nRuck Rock\nFeat\nHigh Land, Hard Rain\nSouthern Death Cult\nPop-Eyes\nBefore Hollywood\nStop That Train\nMurmur\nHunters & Collectors\nAdvantage\nBurning Skies EP\nTrue West\nConfrontation\nXL!\nOne Night Only\nC\nHOW THE CHARTS WORKJ\nThe monthly charts are compiled based on the number of times a CD/\nLP (\"long vinyl\"), 7\" (\"short vinyl\"), or demo tape/CD (\"indie home\njobs\") on CiTR's playlist was played by our DJs during the previous\nmonth (i.e., \"August\" charts reflect airplay over July). Weekly charts\ncan be received via email. Send mail to \"majordomo@unixg.ubc.ca\"\nwith the command: \"subscribe citr-charts.\" \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\nOur anlffl^N|ctory g^iclc full Jfjontact ffimbers\nand addresses of bands arid the people and\nbusinesses that support them, will be in tra3|\nSeptember issue. The deadline for entries is\nAugust 15\nSend your vital statistics in by fax or emaitl-\n604.a^364\ndiscorder @dub.ams.ubc.ca\nCIRCLE ONE\nband/musician promoter record label/distributor\nvenue manager studio zine other\nname: ,\t\ndescription (15 words or less):\t\ncontact:.\naddress:.\nphone: _\nemail:\t\nurl:\t\n27 DiSCORDER SUNDAY\nARE YOU SERIOUS? MUSIC\n9:00AM-12:00PM\nAll of time is measured by its art.\nThis show presents the most\nrecent new music from around\nthe world. Ears open.\nTHE ROCKERS SHOW\n12:00PM-3:00PM \u00C2\u00A3.$*\u00C2\u00A3/,\nReggae inna all styles and\nfashion.\nBLOOD ON THE SADDLE\n3:00PM-5:00PM\nReal cowshit-caught-in-yer-boots\ncountry.\nCHIPS WITH EVERYTHING alt.\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nBritish pop music from all\ndecades.\nSAINT TROPEZ alt.\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nInternational pop (Japanese,\nFrench. Swedish, British, US, etc.),\n'60s soundtracks and lounge.\nBook your jet set holiday now!\nQUEER FM\n6:00PM-8:00PM\nDedicated to the gay, lesbian,\nbisexual, and transsexual communities of Vancouver. Lots of\nhuman interest features, background on current issues, and\ngreat music.\nRHYTHMSINDIA\n8:00PM-10:00PM\nRhythmslndia features a wide\nrange of music from India,\nincluding popular music from\nIndian movies from the 1930s\nto the present, classical music,\nsemi-classical music such as\nGhazals and Bhajans, and also\nQawwalis, pop, and regional\nlanguage numbers.\nTRANCENDANCE\n10:00PM-12:00 AM\nJoin us in practicing the ancient\nart of rising above common\nthought and ideas as your host\nDJ Smiley Mike lays down the\nlatest trance cuts to propel us\ninto the domain of the mystic-al.\n\nTHE SHOW\n12:00AM-2:00AM\nFILL-IN\n2:00AM-6:00AM\nMONDAY\nFILL-IN\n6:00AM- 8:00AM\nBREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS\n8:00AM-11:00AM\nYour favourite browrvsters, James\nand Peter, offer a savoury blend\nof the familiar and exotic in a\nblend of aural delights!\nLOCAL KIDS MAKE GOOD alt.\n11:00AM- 1:00PM\nLocal Mike and Local Dave\nbring you local music of all sorts.\nThe program most likely to play\nyour band!\nTANZENIM4-ECKalt.\n11:00AM- 1:00PM\nHopefully happy music to get\nus through these rough summer\nmonths. Proof that Germans\nmake more than scary industrial\nmusic, too.\n28 August 2003\nPARTS UNKNOWN *v ^*\n1:00PM-3:00PM\nUnderground pop for the minuses with the occasional interview\nwith your host, Chris.\nSANDBOX THEATRE\n3:00PM-4:00PM\nA show of radio drama orchestrated and hosted by UBC students, featuring independent\nworks from local, national, and\ninternationat theatre groups. We\nwelcome your involvement. \nABSOLUTE BEGINNERS\n4:00PM-5:00PM\nA chance for new CiTR DJs\nto flex their musical muscle.\nSurprises galore.\nFILL-IN\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nCRASH THE POSE alt.\n6:00PM-7:30PM\nHardcore/punk as fuck from\nbeyond the grave.\nSOLARIZATION (on hiatus) alt.\n6:00PM-6:30PM\nMY ASS alt.\n6:30PM-7:30PM\nPhelps, Albini, 'n' me.\nWIGFLUX RADIO\n7:30PM-9:00PM\nListen to Selecta Krystabelle for\nyour reggae education.\nTHE JAZZ SHOW\n9:00PM-12:00AM\nVancouver's longest-running\nprime time jazz program. Hosted'\nby the ever-suave Gavin Walker.\nFeatures at 11.\nAug 4: The first great soloist in jazz\nwas Louis Armstrong. We honour\nhis birthday tonight by playing\none of his finest albums. Louis\nArmstrong plays the music of\nW.C. Handy.\nAug 11: \"Cannonball Takes\nCharge!\" is one of the great alto\nsaxophonist's very best. Julian\nAdderley in a quartet setting with\nthe magnificent pianist Wynton\nKelly and others.\nAug 18: \"Up With It\" is the latest concert outing with pianist\nKeith Jarrett, bassist Gary\nPeacock, and drum master\nJack DeJohriette. Nothing more\nneed be said except don't miss\nthis one!\nAug 25: Tonight we celebrate\nthe birthday of saxophone giant\nWayne Shorter (he's 70 today)\nwith Gavin's favourite Shorter\nrecord. Etcetera.\nVENGEANCE IS MINE\n12:00AM-3:00AM\nHosted by Trevor. It's punk rock,\nbaby! Gone from the charts but\nnot from our hearts\u00E2\u0080\u0094thank fucking Christ,\nPSYCHEDELIC AIRWAVES\n3:00AM-6:30AM\nDJ Christopher Schmidt also\nhosts Organix at Club 23 (23 West\nCordova) every Friday.\nTUESDAY\nyour gulde t\nCiTR ioi.9 m\nBluegrass, old-time music, and its\nderivatives with Arthur and \"The\nLovely Andrea\" Berman.\nHIGHBRED VOICES\n8:00AM-9:30AM\nTHIRD TIME'S THE CHARM\n9:30AM-11:30AM\nOpen your ears and prepare\nfor a shock! A harmless note\nmay make you a fan! Hear the\nmenacing scourge that is Rock\nand Roll! Deadlier than the most\ndangerous criminal!\n\nTHE NORTHERN WISH alt.\n11:30AM-1:00PM\nFILL-IN\n11:30AM-12:30PM\nREEL TO REAL alt.\n12:30PM-1:00PM\nMovie reviews and criticism.\nBEATUP RONIN\n1:00PM-2:00PM\nWhere dead samurai can program music.\nCIRCUIT TRACING\n2:00PM-3:30PM\nEN AVANT LA MUSIQUE alt.\n3:30PM-4:30PM\nELECTRIC AVENUES alt.\n3:30PM-4:30PM\nLast Tuesday of every month,\nhosted by The Richmond Society\nFor Community Living. A variety\nmusic and spoken word program\nwith a focus on people with special needs and disabilities.\nTHE MEAT-EATING VEGAN\n4:30PM-5:00PM\nWENER'S BARBEQUE\n5:O0PM-6:OOPM\nJoin the sports dept. for their\ncoverage of the T-Birds.\nFLEXYOURHEAD\n6:00PM-8:00PM\nUp the punx. down the emo!\nKeepin' it real since 1989, yo.\nflexyourhead.vancouverhardc\nore.com\nSALARIO MINIMO\n8:00PM- 10:00PM\nTHE LOVE DEN alt.\n10:00PM- 12:00AM\n\nESCAPISM alt.\n10:00PM-12.00AM\nes\u00C2\u00BBcap\u00C2\u00BBism n: escape from the\nreality or routine of life by absorbing the mind in entertainment or\nfantasy. Host: DJ Satyricon.\nAug 5: Pounding System: dub-\nwise and otherwise.\nAug 19: Church of Hell: Mars\nAttacks!\n\nAURAL TENTACLES\n12:00AM-6:00AM\nIt could be punk, ethno, global,\ntrance, spoken word, rock, the\nunusual and the weird, or it\ncould be something different.\nHosted by DJ Pierre.\nPACIFIC PICKIN'\n6:30AM-8:00AM\nWEDNESDAY\nFILL-IN\n6:00AM- 7:00AM\nTHE SUBURBAN JUNGLE\n7:00AM-9:00AM\nBringing you an entertaining\nand eclectic mix of new and\nold music live from the Jungle\nRoom-with your irreverent hosts\nJack Velvet and Nick the Greek.\nR&B, disco, techno, soundtracks,\nAmericana, Latin jazz, news, and\ngossip. A real gem! \u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n\nFOOL'S PARADISE\n9:00AM-10:00AM\nJapanese music and talk.\nEXQUISITE CORPSE\n10:00AM-11:30AM\nANOIZE\n11:30AM-1:00PM\nLuke Meat irritates and educates\nthrough musical deconstruction.\nRecommended for the strong.\nTHE SHAKE alt.\n1:00PM-2:00PM\nFOR THE RECORD alt.\n1:00PM-2:00PM\nTHE DIM SUM SHOW alt.\n2:00PM-3:00PM\nThe theme is: there is no theme!\nKat and Claire push around\ntrolleys of alt-pop, alt-country,\nCanadian indie, electroclash,\nand other delicious morsels.\nMOTORDADDY alt.\n3:00PM-5:00PM\nCycle-riffic rawk and roll!\nRUMBLETONE RADIO alt.\n3:OOPM-5:O0PM\nPrimitive, fuzzed-out garage\nmayhem!\nRACHEL'S SONG\n5:00PM-6:30PM\nSocio-political, environmental\nactivist news and spoken word\nwith some music, too.\nwww.necessaryvoices.org\n\nAND SOMETIMES WHY alt.\n6:30PM-8:00PM\n(First Wednesday of every month.)\nBLUE MONDAY alt.\n6:30PM-8:00PM\nVancouver's only industrial-\nelectronic-retro-goth program.\nMusic to schtomp to, hosted by\nCoreen.\nJUICEBOX\n8:00PM-9:00PM\nYour ears have never felt so\nnaughty!\nFOLK OASIS\n9:00PM-11:00PM\nRoots music for folkies and non-\nfolkies... bluegrass, singer-songwriters, woridbeat, alt country,\nand more. Not a mirage!\n\nHANS KLOSS' MISERY HOUR\n11:00PM-2:00AM\nFIRST FLOOR SOUND SYSTEM\n2:00AM-6:00AM\nTHURSDAY\nFILL-IN\n*6:00AM-8:00AM\nEND OF THE WORLD NEWS\n8:00AM-10:00AM\nPLANET LOVETRON\n10:00AM-11:30AM\nMusic inspired by Chocolate\nThunder; Robert Robot drops\nelectro past and present, hip\nhop and intergalactic funkman-\nship. ve@yahoo.com>\nFILL-IN\n11:30AM-1:00PM\nSTEVE AND MIKE\n1:00PM-2:00PM\nCrashing the boy's club in the\npit. Hard and fast, heavy and\n. slow (punk and hardcore).\nTHE ONOMATOPOEIA SHOW\n2:00PM-3:00PM\nComix comix comix. Oh yeah,\nand some music with Robin.\nRHYMES AND REASONS\n3.00PM-5:00PM\nLEGALLY HIP alt.\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nPEDAL REVOLUTIONARY alt.\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nViva la Velorution! DJ Helmet Hair\nand Chainbreaker Jane give\nyou all the bike news and views\nyou need and even cruise\naround while doing it!\nwww.bikesexual.org\nOUT FOR KICKS\n6:00PM-7:30PM\nNo Birkenstocks, nothing politically correct. We don't get paid\nso you're damn right we have\nfun with it. Hosted by Chris B.\nON AIR WITH GREASED HAIR\n7:3OPM-9:00PM\nThe best in roots rock 'n' roll and\nrhythm and blues from 1942-1962\nwith your snappily-attired host,\nGary Olsen.\n\nLIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO\nHELL\n9:00PM-11:00PM\nLocal muzak from 9 til 10. Live\nbandzfrom 10 til 11.\nwww.stepandahalf.com/\ntbirdhell\nWORLD HEAT\n11:00PM-1:00AM\nAn old punk rock heart considers the oneness of all things and\npresents music of worlds near\nand far. Your host, the great\nDaryl-ani, seeks reassurance via\n.\nWIRELESS CRUELTY\n1:00AM-6:00AM\nFILL-IN\n6:00AM- 8:00AM\nCAUGHT IN THE RED\n8:00AM-10:00AM\nTrawling the trash heap of over\n50 years' worth of real rock 'n'\nroll debris.\nSKA-T'S SCENE-IK DRIVE!\n10:00AM-12:00PM\nEmail requests to: \nTHESE ARE THE BREAKS\n12:00PM-2:00PM\nTop notch crate diggers DJ Avi\nShack and Promo mix the underground hip hop, old school classics, and original breaks.\nTHE LEO RAMIREZ SHOW\n2:00PM-3:30PM\nThe best mix of music, news,\nsports, and commentary from\naround the local and international Latin American communities.\nNARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE\nPRESENTS...\n3:30PM-5:00PM\nCITR NEWS AND ARTS\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nA volunteer-produced, student\nand community newscast\nfeaturing news, sports and arts.\nReports by people like you.\n\"Become the Media.\" To get\ninvolved, visit www.citr.ca and\nclick \"News Dept.\"\nFAR EAST SIDE SOUNDS alt.\n6:00PM-9:00PM\nAFRICAN RHYTHMS alt.\n6:00PM-9:00PM\nDavid \"Love\" Jones brings you\nthe best new and old jazz, soul,\nLatin, samba, bossa, and African\nmusic from around the world.\nHOMEBASS\n9:00PM-12:00AM\nHosted by DJ Noah: techno\nbut also some trance, acid,\ntribal, etc. Guest DJs, interviews,\nretrospectives, giveaways, and\nmore.\nI LIKE THE SCRIBBLES alt.\n12:00AM-2:00AM\nTHE ANTIDOTE alt.\n12:00AM-2:00AM\nTHE VAMPIRE'S BALL\n2:00AM-6:00AM\nDark, sinister music of all genres\nto soothe the Dragon's soul.\nHosted by Drake.\nSATURDAY\nFILL-IN\n6:00AM-8:00PM\nTHE SATURDAY EDGE\n8:00AM-12:00PM\nStudio guests, new releases,\nBritish comedy sketches, folk\nmusic calendar, and ticket\ngiveaways.\n8AM-9AM: African/World roots.\n9AM-12PM: Celtic music and performances.\nGENERATION ANNIHILATION\n12:00PM-1:00PM\nA fine mix of streetpunk and old\nschool hardcore backed by\nband interviews, guest speakers,\nand social commentary.\nwww.streetpunkradio.com\n\nPOWERCHORD\n1:00PM-3:00PM\nVancouver's only true metal\nshow; local demo tapes,\nimports, and other rarities.\nGerald Rattlehead, Dwain, and\nMetal Ron do the damage.\nCODE BLUE\n3:00PM-5:00PM\nFrom backwoods delta low-\ndown slide to urban harp honks,\nblues, and blues roots with your\nhosts Jim, Andy, and Paul.\nELECTROLUX HOUR\n5:00PM-6:00PM\nSOUL TREE\n6:0OPM-9:OOPM\nFrom doo-wop to hip hop, from\nthe electric to the eclectic, host\nMichael Ingram goes beyond\nthe call of gospel and takes soul\nmusic to the nth degree.\nSYNAPTIC SANDWICH\n?:00PM-11:00PM\nPLUTONIAN NIGHTS\n11:00PM- 1:00AM\nCutting-edge, progressive organ\nmusic with resident Haitchc and\nvarious guest performers/DJs.\nBye-bye civilisation, keep smiling\nblue, where's me bloody anesthetic then?\nhttp://plutoniq.Qrq\nEARWAX\n1:00AM-4:30AM\n\"noiz terror mindfuck hardcore like punk/beatz drop\ndem headz rock inna junglist\nmashup/distort da source full\nforce with needlz on wax/my\nchaos runs rampant when I\nfree da jazz...\" Out.\nREGGAE UNKUP\n4:30AM-9:00AM\nHardcore dancehall reggae.\nHosted by Sister B. 1\n<\n* 2 Z\n:Z50\n* 2 \u00C2\u00A3\n- 3 I\nnr\n\"3 E\nO LU\nu\n\"^r\ng\n5\nO\n\u00C2\u00AB/)\nui\nz\no\nco\ni\nOq\nzo\na 11]\nHT\n^\nu\nu\n\nNEW FORMS FESTIVAL\nJuly 30-Aug 2\n@ various venues\nJERK WITH A BOMB\nRadio Berlin\nAug 1\n@ Pat's Pub\nRETROGRADE\nThe Flairs\nCauterize\nAug 1\n@ The Royal\nAIKO SHIMADA\nAug 2\n@ Sugar Refinery\nBUG HOUSE 5\nAug 2\n@ Railway Club\nTHE WAY OUT\nJets Overhead\nThe Feminists\nAug 2\n@ The Royal\nVEDA HILLE\nAiko Shimada\np:ano\nAug 3\n@ Railway Club\nDESTROYER\nFrog Eyes\nJoel RL Phelps\nAug 6\n@ Richard's\nPETE MILLS\nThe Cinch\nZigmund\nAug 7\n@ The Royal\nROCK AGAINST\nPRISONS\nfeaturing Shelley Lennox, Stuart\nStonechild, Chrystos, Kathleen Year-\nwood, LOUD, and more\nAug 8\n@ WISE Hall\nTHE NEINS\nThe Graves\nAug 8\n@ Sugar Refinery\nLOS FURIOS\nThe Skatomatics\nAug 9\n@ Railway Club\nTHE HIGH DIALS\nFlying Dutchmen\nOrchid Highway\nNorton Niels & the Evil Band\nAug 9\n@ Pic Pub\nERIC VOLET art opening\nAug 10\n@ Sugar Refinery\nUNDER THE VOLCANO\nfeaturin&Proud Mary, Barleywik, Leonard George & Children of Takaya,\nBrigee K, Serwa Fiak & Cyrous Shari-\nspour, Eekwol 1, David Hilliard, Black\nPanther Fugitives, Blackfire, DJ High-\nstrung, Infernal Noise Brigade, Black\nRice, Deadsure, Squamish Nation\nEaglesong Dancers, Stuart Stonechild,\nKathleen Yearwood, Macklemore,\nAbyssinian Creole, Sinag Bayan, and\nThreat from Outer Space\nAug 10\n@ Cates Park\nOUT ON SCREEN'S\nVANCOUVER QUEER FILM AND VIDEO\nFESTIVAL kicks off their 15th anniversary\nwith The Wizard of Oz: Sing-A-Long\ngala. Think costumes, drags, and\u00E2\u0080\u0094best\nof all\u00E2\u0080\u0094prizes. (7 pm, Aug 7 @ Capitol\n6) I've been waiting for this festival all\nyear, so you can imagine the intensity of my excitement. And while you\nwaste your time hem hawing about\nwhich film to see, I'll steal your seat\nand laugh my most devious laugh. If\nyou don't want this to happen to you,\nget the pass and see 'em all. The festival runs from Aug 7-17 at various locations. \n30 August 2003\nAug 16\n@ Sugar Refinery\nMICROPHONES\nThanksgiving\nOldendays\nAug 17\n@ Sugar Refinery\nALL AGES HARDCORE\nBlue Monday, In Your Face, the Answer, and Chuck Norris\nAug 17\nUndying, End This Week With Knives,\nMisery Signals, Savannah, and Hope\nAgainst\nAug 25\n@ Snackerz\nNASTY ON\nThe Cinch\nSpeed To Kill\nand more\nAug 17\n@ Wardorf Hotel\nBONNIE 'PRINCE' BILLY\nAug 17\n@ Arts Club Theatre\nTHE BOUNCING SOULS\nHot Water Music\nThe Forgotten\nWorthless United\nAug 24\n@ Richard's\nSCOTT MALIN art opening\nAug 24\n@ Sugar Refinery\nDOMESTIC DISTURBANCE\n57 bands. Three days of sweaty boys\nand naked girls. Hmmm... They ve\nBOCEPHUS KING\ngot beer? Thank God. It's gonna be\nAug 10\na hootenanny!\n@ Railway Club\nAug 29-Sept 1\nPAUL KELLY\nCAROLYN MARK\nAug 12\nMeat Purveyors\n@ The Royal\nAug 29\n@ Railway Club\nDRIVE-BY TRUCKERS\nAug 12\nLOSCIL\n@ Richard's\nStrategy\nRandy Jones\nTRAVELLING VIDEO SHOW\nAug 29\nAug 13\n@ Sugar Refinery\n@ Sugar Refinery\nEDDIE IZZARD\nCORB LUND\nAug 29-30\nUncas Old Boys\n@ Vogue\nAug 13\n@ Railway Club\nREM\nWilco\nCORB LUND\nAug 29\nKent McAllister\n@ Thunderbird Stadium\nAug 14\n@ Railway Club\nRADIOHEAD AND STEPHEN MALKMUS\n& THE JICKS\nSUMMERFEST 2003\n1 thought 1 had dreamt this combo.\nfeaturing Los Furios\nThen 1 woke up and realized it was\nAug 15\nindeed a dream. Who knew 1 have\n@ Thunderbird Plaza\npsychic capabilities. Excuse me while\n1 set up a 900 number.\nMICROPHONES\nAug 30\np:ano\n\u00C2\u00A9Thunderbird Stadium\nPirate Migou.\nplaces to be\nactive pass records\n324 w. hastings\n604.646.2411 1\nbassix records\n217 w. hastings\n604.689.7734\nbeatstreet records\n3-712 robson\n604.683.3344\nblack swan records\n3209 w. broadway\n604.734.2828\ncellar 3611 west broadway\n604.738.1959\nclub 23\n23 west cordova\ncommodore ballroom\n868 granville\n604.739.4550\ncrosstown music\n518 west pender\n604.683.8774\nfuturistic flavour\n1020 granville\n604.681.1766\nhighlife records\n1317 commercial\n604.251.6964\nlegion of van\n300 west pender\nlotus hotel\n455 abbott\nthe main cafe\n4210 main\n604.709.8555\norpheum theatre\nsmithe@seymour\n604.665.3050\npacific cinematheque\n1131 howe\n604.688.8202\npat's pub\n403 east hastings\n604.255.4301\npic pub\n620 west pender\n604.669.1556\nrailway club\n579 dunsmuir\n604.681.1625\nrichard's on richards\n1036 richards\n604.687.6794\nridge cinema\n3131 arbutus\n604.738.6311\nred cat records\n4305 main\n604.708.9422\nroyal\n1029 granville\nscrape records\n17 west broadway\n604.877.1676\nscratch records\n726 richards\n604.687.6355\nsonar\n66 water\n604.683.6695\nsugar refinery\n1115 granville\n604.331.1184\nteenage ramapage\n19 w. broadway\n604.675.9227\nVancouver playhouse hamilton@dunsmuir\n604.665.3050\nvideo in studios\n1965 main\n604.872.8337\nwestern front\n303 east 8th\n604.876.9343\nWISE club\n1882adanac\n604.254.5858\nyale\n1300 granville\n604.681.9253\nzulu records\n1972 west 4th\n604.738.3232 | 57 Bands\n3 Days and Nights\nBeer Gardens and Camping;\nLabour Day Long Wei^^\nAugust 29 - September H\nYou're invited to the biggest PARTY of the summer! This\"ain't no family\nfestival, Domestic Disturbance 2003 is a three day music festival showcasing\nVancouver's BEST bands. 12 hours of live music everyday plus contests,\ngames and a ton of prizes! Jigfr\nscreTrrsr\nMystery Headliner\n3 Inches of Blood\nGod Awakens Petrified\nChrist Complex\nAgression Core\nMeatlocker Seven\nFuel Injected 45\nLos Furios\nStar Collector\nCatapult\nThe Bolsheviks\nThe Burn Project\nThe Rye Catchers\nKids These Days\nThe Rascalz\nBrougham Camp\nPepper Sands\nNew Plastic Society\nCyanotic\nMr. Underbill\nTen Ways Form Sunday\nGladyss Patches\nDJ Pluskratch, DJ G-Nius,\n0SC, Usual Suspecs, Chena Finess\nInsipid\nAbsence\nWrekinCrew\nMotion Soundtrack\nSam\nExithiside\nAdrianne Pierce\nPerfect Strangers\nComplete\nTrap Shadow\nPlayboys of The Western World\nPainted Self\nHoney Box\nClosure\nThe Spitfires\nHoney Suckle Serontina\nRetrograde,\nSpread Eagle\nBosephus King\nDay Theory\nMarried To Music\n; Mass Undergoe\nThe Gung Hos\nChina Town\nThe Stag Reels\nSubstance\nBilly The Kid and The Lost Boys\nFaces of Eve\nUnsung\nKan\nJoyKamp\nThe Golers\nCrop Circle\nThe Way Out\nGirth\nBlack Sunlight\nJuSFcnnwyTminewciffl^\nYale and Par Rd. More info\nRd. exit in Chilliwack. Entrance to property located on\nat www.domesticdisturbance.ca\nGet your tickets at Ticketmaster (604) 280-4444 or online at www.ticketmaster.ca\nDISCORDER\nCALBANDS.CA\nSupporting Vancouver Musicians f\ni CLOTHING CO1\nstraigM\nv.604clothingcof\nIffe VUGUST AND EVERMORE\nZULU'S SUMMER SOUNDS POSTCARD\nYQNKERS\nabve Love CD\nMbrandi\nas grown from the trunk of the \"early outsider primitive music\" tree. Curious? Sub Pop describes\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0EMELYflKEK' music in this way: \"the cave-man\nwiugviMnoftrBT>\u00C2\u00ABpiB.1r\u00C2\u00BB\u00C2\u00BB>wienor6o6 + thj^\u00C2\u00ABi\nflietap fuzz and feedback of 'I Heard iter Call My Name\"\nby teVtMs* the visceral howls of the Seeds or\nSunken* MENAEL's own home-made amps, pedals,\nand guaars + the twisted lyrics of Barrett or Erikson = a\nhue psychedelic masterpiece.\" Indeed. In fact, Sub Pop\nHrsHOUEL's music so much they put it out, saved\ntan 1968-era obscurity. Could this be guilty feelings\nalter releasing their fair share of '60s pop revivalist\nrecords? Who can tell \u00E2\u0080\u0094 and who really cares? What\nwe do know for sure is that this is pretty cool stuff,\nks Sub Pop, keep up the good work.\nCD 16.98\nKg Brother is Watching 2CO\nlames lavelle has friends (or is it enemies?) in high\nUptaces. As president of MoWax records, he's helped\ntarn out some of the biggest beat platters of the 1990s.\nMfhars more, he brought us the tikes of DJ Shadow, DJ\nMk.lt, Octagon and David Axelrod. One would think\nlathee time is at a premium for Mr. lavelle. Think\nagain! As tireless as he is stylish, lavelle still makes it a\nhaul to get out to the clubs and spin his set\u00E2\u0080\u0094and now\ntanks to this ultra limited edition (and quasi-official)\nMtfWax 2CD set, you can dig through his crates also.\n^^MMftnJliMlR,iiliiml mil including DJ Shadow\nand. yes, MOLE, bat also MIX, Queens of the Stone\nAge. Mereary tar, Fame, Halo, Peace Division,\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0atatead, Fleetwood Mae and more. It seems to have\nsome land of political message, too, something about\nnot fcusting government Go figure.\n2CJK26.98\nIN STOCKING:^\nMEJBv- AW MORE AGAIN CDEP\nKMI nGCHDOM-Brtcbes Without Britches CD\nAffy\u00E2\u0080\u0094jawaceir/CDEP\nTMEiAOCER-Melodies En Sous-Sol CD\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0Tft-SMMVE AND ADVANCE VOL 3 CD\nPtSTALSERVrCE-The District Sleeps Alone\nkaVMC-The Hfawts 12\"/CDEP\nIBM Muy to High Places Are Not Weil 2LP/CD\nJAMES WMTE MB THE BUCKS-Oft White\niy180glP\nCANNED HAMM\nKarazma Reimagined\nCD\nI sit possible? Is it necessary? A\nresounding YES to both, friends.\nKnowing that a good joke needs to be\ntold over and over and over before it\nsurpasses merely humorous and moves on to truth and then\nbecomes humorous all over again, CANNED HAMM's outrageous\nCarolyn Mark and many equally talented others. But so much more\nthan a comedy-type record, Reimagined has an important life-\nredeeming message to impart to us all: Love and treasure yourself\nfor who you are and always reach for the stars. Sniff...thanks guys.\nYou always say the right thing, even when you get others to say it\nfor you. Recommended.\nNORIKO TUJIKO\nFrom Tokyo to Naiagara CO\nOh man\u00E2\u0080\u0094this is one CD everyone should buy. NO REALLY, come\nget it Imagine a Japanese Bjork except with half as much stuff\nin the mix, more spare glitches and minimal beats and squawks and\nfuzz and buzz and, yes, Japanese cool, real cool, and a bit Cat\nPower sexy, too. If our opinion amounts to anything in the hallowed\n(but tarnished) halls of the music biz (and of course it does, writ\nlarge, although we don't want to toot-toot our ever-growing\nSon), we'd make NORIKO TUJIKO a huge star, Madonna size. Of\ncourse, there is no justice in the worid. We just can't count on the\nMAN, so tamed by the \"bottom line.\" Thus, it's up to the grassroots\nto make a difference\u00E2\u0080\u0094and this means you and us! Your patronage\nwill send the necessary signal: make her a star, MAKE HER A STAR)\nSOFT CANYON\nBroken Spirit,\nYour Wings CD\nI temple of electrified boogie rock. You've camped out and drugged up, meditating on the beauty of Oattoilver Messenger Service,\nbut the maiden of the cancer moon hasn't showed up\nyet Magically, the first rays of the life-giving fireball\npierce through the miasma, just as the opening chords\nof Canada's first bonafide body rock giants, SOFT\nCANYON, begin their late summery litanies of psychotropic fuzz. Featuring members of Tricky Woo and\nLocal Rabbits, this 5 piece should please any fan currently digging the sweet leaf crop of Dead Meadow,\nAdd MoflnnTenata and TIk Warlocks\u00E2\u0080\u0094and it also\ncontinues the trajectory of the final Tricky Woo opus Les\nSables MagkpeJ Sojftou are looking for a landing\nspot in the current revivalist haze of '60s inspired psy-\nchedelic pop, we've got the perfect SOFT CANYON you!\nCD 16.98\nSENOR\nCOCONUT\nm\nSUPER FURRY\nANIMALS\nPhantom|iirerCD\nlow with six gloriously lush pop\n^abt^ipnep^f^fj^prite sons (Tom\nJones is by now rnqnPof a father fig-\nit of mellow ballads. The perfect record to take things down a notch without\nlapsing into the turgid inertia of generic '60$ tinged Beadledom,\nPhantom Power effortlessly shimmers with light touches of the so-\ncalled mature instruments: pedal steel, pianos and acoustic guitars.\nStandouts include \"Golden Retriever,\" \"Venus & Serena\" and \"Bleed\nForever,\" conjuring up a dark folk vibe perfect for opium den crawls\n(or for safe domestic consumption, too). We recommend!\nTICKET GIVEAWAY:\nlata Presents... The Modern Troubadour!!\nEnter to win tickets to\nDESTROYER'S solo performance!\nitapst 6tt at Richards on Richards\nBONNIE PRINCE BILLY\ntaps* 17th at Arts Club Theatre\nCD 16.98\nOPEN UP AND SAY...@<%iPl CD\nCheck mis shit out. 24 fucked up and banging tracks of . 8\nTigerbeatS-style vocal numbers, featuring 80 long minutes worth\nof The Rip Off Art* The Bag, DJ rupture, Coma, Owayne\nSodanberk, kM606, Max Tundra, Stars as Eyes. Numbers, Electric\nCompany, Crack, Kimehandchop, Cex, Total Stoitdowa,\nZeigenbock Kepf, Terminal 11, Original Hamster, Nathan Michel,\nNudge and Dwayne Sodanberk on one damn CO. Wow! Awesome!\nEven Tigerbeat6 calls this the \"definitive Tigerbeat6 release of 2003,\"\nand they'd know. Let*s face it, you cant get of enough of this stuff\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nand we sure love to sett it to you! And did you notice the crazy low CD/LP 19.98\nprice? Dude! Makes for a great gift.. .just not for your rieSejdjtoipite-\nGermany and Spain are\nbasically like the same I\ncountry from the point of view of the average North\nAmerican record store clerk and customer. We just\ncant tell. Its over THERE, right? Shrewdly, SENOR\nCOCONUT has capitalized on this curious shortcoming\nof geographic know-how, producing Germanic-Spanish\nelectronic pop for some time, such as his you-must-\nhear-it-to-believe-n-arKl-yes-ifs-more-than-a-novelty\nreinteroretatHwof jallBn||^ni Atonal. This\ntime, however, Senor Coconut and his robot orchestra\nare taWngon the homeland, covering such North\nAmerican hits as \"Smoke on the^later,\" \"Riders gn the \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\nStorm\" and^es, \"Beat it,\" phis afew originals for extra\nmeasure. Good grief! So, forget that pirate captain rum\nguy, SEntW COCONUT is the real one-man trans-global '\nparty maker!\nCDfJB;\nH0M3TG0IJGHRY\nTmly She is None Other CD/LP\n\" ~ Ttfh a neat cameo on me most recent White Stripes\nalbum, Elephant mayt\u00C2\u00BBIUiy60U6l "Periodicals"@en . "ML3533.8 D472"@en . "ML3533_8_D472_2003_08"@en . "10.14288/1.0049946"@en . "English"@en . "Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library"@en . "Vancouver : Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia"@en . "Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these recordings must be obtained from CiTR-FM: http://www.citr.ca"@en . 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