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" BEAR MOUNTAIN | THE MOUTHS | ERIC CAMPBELL & THE DIRT | WHITE LUNG J JONATHAN DY | THE RYAN & AMY SHOW | TERRACE\nNOVEMBER 201M?hat^i^^p From.CiTR l$l.9 Fte\u00C2\u00A3Free! | %f porting Vancouver's Impendent Mt$c Community For 30 Years\nHP Wmm\\n1 \u00C2\u00A5m!m\nvo\nf\ni\nH 1 shindig\nShindig starts Tuesday, September 17 and rims until December 10 at the Railway dub.\nVisit wwwxftrxa/slUndig for full schedule.\nTHANK-YOUT0OURSTONSORS\nAMS EVENTS\nBackllne Musician Services\nBand Merch Canada\nCanadian Musk Week\nDiscorder Magazine\nFader Master Studios\nRain City Recorders\nLong&McQuade\nMint Records\nMusk Waste\nNimbus School of Recording Arts\nNXNE\nVbgvWIe Recording\nZulu Records\nUPCOMING\nSHOWS\nL\ntUCKSIJAW\nDEATH\nBefore Bad Brains, the Sex Pistols or even the Ramones, there was a band called Death. Punk before\npunk existed! 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Hosted by Patrick Maliha\nAdditional show listings, ticket sale info and locations, band\nbios, videos and more are online at:\nwww.liveatrickshaw.com\nHELLCHAMBER ALBUM RELEASE\nWith JAR, Nihilate, Deveined\nRED FANG\nWith Bison and Sandrider\nLO0T:ATRIBUTETOTOOL 1333 THE PHIL KEAGGY GUITAR\nss\u00E2\u0084\u00A2^ ^\u00E2\u0084\u00A2*NDFAMEXPt^\nUONSINTHESTREET B33 BLACKJOELEWIS\nWith Oh No Yoko, Amble Greene, k*1*I WithRadkey\nFactories and Alleyways\nWHITE RAVEN REVUE \" EE3 DIECEMBERFEST\nLucitera's Winter Fusion Bellydance HX\u00C2\u00A3] With Archspire, Burning Ghats, Sinned,\nStudent Showcase ^m^ Anion, Nihilate, Ogroem, and more\nONE NIGHT STAND\nNow on its 6th year, One Night Stand is coming to the Rickshaw\nwith some of the best musicians in the city.\nWith members of MOTHER MOTHER, SAID THE WHALE, YUKON\nBLONDE, DOMINIQUE FRICOT, THE BELLE GAME,\nBRASSTRONAUT, ADALINE, and ROCOCODE\nGet your tickets at LiveAtRickshaw.com\nLike us on Facebook: facebook.com/RickshawTheatre Follow us on Twitter: @rickshawtheatre Add us on Instagram: \u00C2\u00A9rickshawtheatre EDITOR'S NOTE: A KIND YOUNG MAN NAMED JC\nHave I ever told you the story ofhow I first got involved with Discorder? Apologies\nif you're already familiar with this tale, but I think it's important to mention\nbefore I get into the thesis of my Editor's Note.\nI can't remember exactly when or where I was the first time I read Discorder. It's\nmore than likely that I was just drunk at the Biltmore one night and picked up a\ncopy, but my memory, like most nights spent at the Cabaret, is blurry. I must've\nfound the magazine afterwards on Facebook because I ended up reading about the\nmonthly proofing party happening in the CiTRlounge that Sunday. At this point\nI didn't even know what a \"CiTR\" was but I thought the magazine was rad and I\ndidn't have a job at the time, so I hauled ass out to UBC to check it out. After 20\nminutes of me asking strangers where I could find Discorder, I eventually found my\nway into the Students' Union Building and into the wonderful world that is CiTR.\nThe proofing party was a goddamn disaster. The Editor-in-chief at the time,\nGregory Adams, was a pleasant, friendly guy and I was an anxious, sweatywreck.\nI remember trying to avoid eye contact, afraid that at any moment someone would\nrealize I had no idea what I was doing and boot me from the room. Everyone in\nthe room had some kind of musical trivia to contribute to the light bantering and\nI was keeping busy trying to put a cap on my self consciousness.\nAt one point someone offered me a fresh strawberry to snack on and I accidentally told them that I was allergic\u00E2\u0080\u0094I meant to say that they sometimes gave\nme hives but my anxiety muddled my words. I remember the person apologizing\nand me trying to assure the group that I wouldn't be dying from anaphylactic\nshock at any given moment, but I couldn't recover from the weird mix-up. I'm\npretty sure I just went to the bathroom and never came back. If you look at our\narchives online and find the April 2011 issue, I was credited under Proofreaders as\n\"A kind young man name [d] JC whom we know is very allergic to strawberries.\"\nThe issue marked the first time I ever appeared in Discorder.\nSo what do my bumbling personal encounters have to do with anything?\nWithoutvolunteers and people contributing to Discorder, this magazine wouldn't\nexist. Two and a half years ago, I was just some awkward guy wandering into\nCiTR, unsure of what I was even doing there. Now, I have weekly office hours\nand my own polaroid on the door. You never know where these kinds of things\nmight take you and I encourage everyone reading this, whether you're a writer,\nphotographer, illustrator, or even just someone who loves music, to get involved.\nCome out to one of our meetings, join us for a proofing party, or just drop by the\noffice and come say hi. There's something at this magazine for everyone\u00E2\u0080\u0094and\nyou don't even have to be allergic to strawberries.\nSo it goes,\nJacey Gibb\nFEATURES\nREGULARS\nt Cover photo by logo lettering by\nJONATHAN DY JUSTIN LONGOZ\nTough Age lettering by MOSES MAGEE\n8\u00E2\u0080\u0094Bear Mountain Leave your bear spray\nand climbing gear at home, 'cause all\nyou need to enjoy this Bear Mountain is\ntwo ears and a love for great music. After\nthe re-release of XO earlier this year, the\nVancouver-based group are back to play the\nVogue Theatre, by Max Wainwright\n13\u00E2\u0080\u0094The Mouths Pull up a bar stool and join\nDiscorder as we talk to Black Vinyl Project's\nfeatured band, the Mouths. Don't worry; we've\nalready made a couple puns about the band's\nname to help get you started.\nby Keefer Pelech\n14\u00E2\u0080\u0094Eric Campbell & The Dirt Discorder\ntalks to Eric Campbell about his band, the\nDirt, and tells us all about haunted music\nvideo shoots and why you won't find the\noutlaw rockers on the road this winter.\nby Curtis AuCoin\n16\u00E2\u0080\u0094Tough Age While not even a year old\nyet, Vancouver's Tough Age already have a\nlabel to call home and a self-titled debut on\nthe way. Read on to find out more about the\nband's relationship with the Ketamines and\nJarrett Samson's obsession with Mac Tonight.\nby Julie Colero\n19\u00E2\u0080\u0094White Lung Vancouver mainstays White\nLung have a new seven-inch out on November\n5 via Deranged Records. We talk with front-\nwoman Mish Way about the release, Songs\nabout the South, and the recurring fear of\nfinality, by Joshua Gabert-Doyon\nHere's The Thing Winter Reading List\nTextually Active CanzineWest\nI'm With The Band Terrace\nIn Good Humour The Ryan & Amy Show\nCalendar Kitsum Cheng\nProgram Guide\nArt Project Jonathan Dy\nDiscorder Staff Sound-off\nUnder Review\nReal Live Action\nOn The Air The Shakespeare Show\nCharts\nI NOTICE OF DIGITAUZATION\nI Dear readers, writers, photographers and past contributors of Discorder,\nI Let it be known that CiTR is currently working to digitalize the entirety if\nI Discorder's archives. Soon, all of the past issues you know and love will be I\nI availableforviewing online. Thanks, computers!\nI If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Brenda at\nI stationmanager@citr.ca\nEditor\nJacey Gibb\nArt Director\nJaz Halloran\nCopy Editors\nRobin Schroffel,\nSteve Louie\nAd Coordinator\nTBD\nUnder Review Editor\nRobin Schroffel\nRLA Editor\nSteve Louie\nWeb Editor\nChirag Mahajan\nCalendar Listings\nSarah Cordingley\nAccounts Manager\nCorey Ratch\nOfficial Tweeter\nEvan Brow\nCiTR Station Manager\nBrenda Grunau\nPublisher\nStudent Radio Society\nof UBC\nStudent Liasons\nEvan Brow,\nJosefa Cameron\nPhotographers & Illustrators\nCurtis AuCoin, Maria Asselin-Roy, Britta\nBacchus, Kate Brown, Tyler Crich, Jonathan\nDy, Gordon Halloran, Dana Kearley, Justin\nLongoz, Steve Louie, Gina MacKay, Moses\nMagee, Tierney Milne, Rob Ondzik, Kim\nPringle, Alison Sadler, Yu Su, Eleanor Wearing\nWriters\nMariko Adams, Curtis AuCoin, Willa Bao,\nAlison Braid, Evan Brow, Robert Catherall,\nErik Coates, Julie Colero, Natalie Dee, Fraser\nDobbs, Joshua Gabert-Doyon, Sam Hawkins,\nIbrahim Itani, Kami! Krawczyk, Erica Leiren,\nLuan Li, Monika Loevenmark, James Olson,\nKeefer Pelech, Nathan Pike, Karlijn Profijt,\nShane Scott-Travis, Lindsay Stewart, Duncan\nVieira, Jordan Wade, Max Wainwright, Zach\nWeiss, Bob Woolsey, Justin White\nAdvertise\nAd space for upcoming issues\ncan be booked by calling (604)\n822-3017 ext. 3 or emailing\nadvertising@citr.ca. Rates\navailable upon request.\nContribute\nTo submit words to Discorder,\nplease contact: editor.\ndiscorder@citr.ca. To submit\nimages, contact: artdirector.\ndiscorder@citr.ca\nSubscribe\nSend in a cheque for $20\nto #233-6138 SUB Blvd.,\nVancouver, B.C., V6T 1Z1 with\nyour address, and we will mail\neach issue of Discorder right to\nyour doorstep for a year.\nDistribute\nTo distribute Discorder in\nyour business, email distro.\ndiscorder@citr.ca We are\nalways looking for new friends.\nDonate\nWe are part of CiTR, a\nregistered non-profit, and\naccept donations so we can\nprovide you with the content\nyou love. To donate visit\nwww.citr.ca/donate.\n\u00C2\u00A9Discorder 2013 by the Student Radio Society of the University of British Columbia. All rights reserved. Circulation 10,200. Discorder is published almost monthly by CiTR, which\ncan be heard at 101.9 FM, online at citr.ca, as well as through all major cable systems in the Lower Mainland, except Shaw in White Rock. Call the CiTR DJ line at (604) 822-2487,\nCiTR's office at (604) 822-3017, email CiTR at stationmanager@citr.ca, or pick up a pen and write #233-6138 SUB Blvd., Vancouver, B.C., V6T1Z1, Canada.\nEditorial cutoff: October 20,2013 WINTER.\nREAQ1NG LIST\nbyfOB\nwooR?\nBooks' are the endless frontier. I feel constant guilt over how\nmuch reading I accomplish, always thinking it should be more.\nAt some point I got it in my head that intelligent people keep\nup on their reading and because I've always considered myself\nan intelligent person, you can see the vicious circle I've created.\nThat said, I do make it a point to come back to a book every now\nand then. My reading, if not streaky, has remained an important\npart of my life despite competition from other more alluring\nmedia. Plus, they read books on Star Trek. If they're still doing it\nin the 24th century, you know it's important.\nWhoever decided that summer was the time for reading\nmade a mistake. I don't know about you, but I like to spend my\nsummer out and about, enjoying the city of Vancouver. The\ntime for reading is winter. It's rainy, dark, and generally more\ndepressing than summer. What better time to escape into a\ngood read? I like to think that my crotchety anti-conformity is\nshared by more people than it probably is but if you agree with\nme about this coming time of year and its perfect conditions\nfor curling up with a good book, then read on! I have gathered a\nfew of my favourite reads as well as some I'm looking forward to\ndiving into this winter.\nPersonally, I tend towards genres like historical non-fiction, classic literature, and biographical/memoir-type stuff. Of\ncourse, my fascination with classic literature stems from my\nearlier fear that I don't read enough\u00E2\u0080\u0094an area I feel behind in, so\nthere's a constant desire to catch up.\nThe first book on my winter reading list is one that I'm characteristically behind on. Telegraph Avenue was given to me as a\nbirthday gift last year and I'm still not really into it yet. It's by\nMichael Chabon, who wrote other great novels like The Yiddish\nPolicemen's Union and The Amazing Adventures ofKaualier & Clay.\nIn the category of more modern/guilty pleasure reading,\nBobby Orr has a book, Orr, My Story coming out for Christmas\nthat I'm really looking forward to. For background: I grew up\nin a house with a signed picture of Bobby Orr above the fireplace. He's something of a Woolsey family hero and a very .\ninteresting figure. I'm also very much looking forward to Still\nFoolin' 'Em by Billy Crystal, another Woolsey\nfamily favourite. ft&f $\u00C2\u00A7!&,'j\nTo round this list out, a couple of my all-\ntime great reads from past winter reading\nspells. Firstly, The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis\nDrake by UBC professor Samuel Bawlf. In the\nbook, Bawlf posits a theory that Francis Drake\nwas the first European to circumnavigate\nVancouver Island while on a secret mission\nfrom the Queen to look for a backdoor to the\nNorthwest Passage. It's hard history that reads\nlike a swashbuckling adventure. I know we've\nall been on the Cormac McCarthy train since the Coen brothers\nadapted No Country/or Old Men but I do have to mention his\nmasterpiece Blood Meridian. It's an extremely violent book that\nhas haunted me since the day I read it, but in a good way.\nAnd that's my list, folks. Please don't let it make you feel\nmore behind in your reading. You see, here's the thing about\nbooks: they're important but not in any obligatory way. If you\nread, books will make you smarter, but that's not why you\nshould read. You should read because it's fun\u00E2\u0080\u0094LeVar Burton\nsays so! There's no other form of entertainment that fires up\nyour imagination quite like the written word.\nPLUS, THEY READ\nBOOKS ON STAR TREK.\nIF THEY'RE STILL\nDOING IT IN THE 24\u00E2\u0084\u00A2\nCENTURY, YOU KNOW\nIT'S IMPORTANT. WELCOME\nTO THE\nZINE SCENE\nby ALISON\nBRAID\nillustrations by\nMOSES MAGEE\nEver wondered how to get involved with the underground world\nof zines and independent culture? Still hung up on wondering what a zine is? Ponder no longer, as Canzine West is back\nthis year with a one-day festival that will knockyour hand-knit\nsocks off.\nCanzine West is an offshoot of Canzine Toronto, which first\nbegan in 1995, and has had a hugely successful history. The\nevent, organized by Broken Pencil: the Magazine 0/Zine Culture and\nthe Independent Arts, features a wide array of artists, writers, and\nperformers specializing in zines and independent publishing.\nFor those who've never dipped their big toes into the waters\nof alternative culture, coordinator Laura Trethewey says the\nbiggest reason to visit Canzine West is that \"you're just not\ngoing to see this stuff anywhere else.\" And she's right. In a\nworld where online publishing is becoming more and more\nprominent, the focus of Canzine West is on artists who know\nit's not all fun 'n' games. They know it's worth it to create\nsomething unique by hand.\nThe variety of talent you will see at Canzine West is also\nunparalleled. \"You get...indie publishers, artists, and creators...\npeople who create artwork and zines in their basements or at\nhome, people who run micropresses on the side, Emily Carr\nartist collective, [and] high school students,\" says Trethewey.\nThe list goes on and on.\nAnd for attendees working on their first piece, Trethewey\nencourages them to bring them along. \"[For] anyone who\n[does] not have a mainstream way to get it out there...this is\ntheir chance to showcase their work to the world.\"\nThis year, Canzine West will feature a couple of its tried and\ntrue events as well as some exciting new additions. Back again\nis the popular 1-2 Punch Book Pitch, where participants are\ngiven two minutes to convince the judges why their manuscript\nis a must-read.\nThe day will also include an artist panel covering the\nchallenges and craft of using the graphic art to portray\nreal life, a Vancouver writers series, and four eight-minute\nhyperspeed talks.\nA few well known presenters from Vancouver's publishing scene include Brian Kaufman, Kevin Chong, Sarah Leavitt,\nColin Upton, Geoff Mann, Catherine Owen, Catherine Busby,\nand more.\nDue to its incredible lineup and impressive turnout each year, Canzine West is also a fantastic place to Canzine West uull runfrom\nmake connections. Trethewey recalls an example from 1-7 p.m. on November 2\nCanzine Toronto, where comedians Amy Lam and Jon at Ukrainian Hall (805\nMcCurley met. They now run the improv comedy group Pender St. E.) Tickets are $5\n\"Life of a Craphead,\" and host a popular monthly com- at the door and will include\nedy night at the Art Gallery of Ontario. So no matter a Jail edition ofBroken\nyour experience, niche, or particular talent, Canzine Pencil. For any one hoping\nWest has something for you. to participate in the 1-2\nBefore November 2 rolls around, go home, get Punch Book Pitch, it's run\ninspired, and try your hand at being a zinester. There on a jtrst-come, Jirst-serued\nare no limits: you can create whatever tickles your fancy, basis. Sign up by emailing\nbe it a zine about the dangers of umbrella spokes, the canzine@brokenpencil.com\nperils of the jungle, or the 103 uses of garden gnomes. uuth your name, email,\nSo pull up those socks, drag that dusty craft box out of phone number, and two or\nthe attic, and get creating. In the time it takes you to do three lines describing the\nthat, I'll have thought of garden gnome use #87. project you'd like to pitch. I arrive early at the Media Club on October 3 to speak with local indie electro\npop band, Terrace. They released their first full-length, As Far As the Nyht Can\nSee, back in June, a versatile soundtrack for shoes-off dancing at a house party,\ntaking flight over the Atlantic, and every occasion in-between. Preparing for\nthe show tonight, lead singer/guitarist Simon Lock bounces around on stage,\nadjusting stage lights and pedals, chatting to everyone thatwalks in the room.\nTo each side of Lock stand the band's keyboardists, Chris Brewer and Jodi Kane\nHoesing. Terrace begin their soundcheck and Lock's guitar breaks high above\nthe thrum of synthesized bass. Everyone taps their feet, wanting to dance, as\nhe sings the first lines of \"Kane Garden Bay.\" After the soundcheck I follow\nthem outside the club to talk before the show.\nDiscorder: You just put out your first full-length album in Tune and have\nbeen touring over the summer. How has that been?\nLock: It's good\u00E2\u0080\u0094as good as it could go for a band independently releasing\nan album.\nWe're starting to break the Top 10s in the college charts and that's really\ncool because that's our audience. That's the people we want to listen to us.\nUltimately, they like the same music as us.\nI've been trying to place your music\u00E2\u0080\u0094the feeling it imparts\u00E2\u0080\u0094and it came\nto me that it's really that feeling of travelling, of leaving somewhere.\nHoesing: We love that type of music that makes you feel good when you're\ntravelling or just hanging out on a beach. So it's going to come out in our\nsongs for sure.\nLock: It took an EP and an album to get our sound, but we're finally getting\nit. It's somewhere far away and warm. There's a drink on special, and there's\nprobably not a lot of people around. We keep saying a beach in France...or a\nterrace in France.\nAre there any go-to bands you listen to when you're travelling?\nLock: In the Caribbean, I thinkit's got to be early, early Bob Marley. Anything\nthat Phoenix has done is awesome for going away; travelling has a way of making you listen to music you wouldn't normally listen to.\nHoesing: Air France, every time I went anywhere for about six months they\nwere on my playlist.\n\"WE DEFINITELY LIKE TO HAVE FUN.\nWE TAKE THE BAND SERIOUSLY,\nBUT WE NEVER TAKE OURSELVES\nTOO SERIOUSLY.\"\nWhat are your favourites that stand out on the album?\nLock: Our favourite song is \"Kane Garden Bay,\" just because it happened\nin about three hours. We hadn't written anything for months, and we were\nrehearsing for a show at the Electric Owl; someone started in on a keyboard lick,\nand then another... I went home that night and arranged it. It was recorded in\ntwo days. That song is hot, summer, desperation, and longing\u00E2\u0080\u0094still fun\u00E2\u0080\u0094but\nheavy. That was the first time we all sparked on the spot.\nAre you working on anything new?\nLock: Yeah, we've got some new stuff. We have skeletons lying all over the\nplace. We're going to start writing again in January, and go away somewhere;\nwe're looking at San Diego at the moment, somewhere near the beach. The\nthree new songs we have are decidedly \"speedo.\" Very summery, very dark-tan.\nWhat are your big influences?\nLock: Early '90s techno, acid house, post-punk, Joy Division, and the\nBuzzcocks. That kind of stuff. All the way up to bands like Interpol, Cut\nCopy, and Friendly Fires. Chris is really into hip-hop. Jodi likes a lot of polka,\nOktoberfest stuff [laughs].\nHoesing: We come from different places, but we also have bands that we\nall love; we're all going to agree Arcade Fire is awesome.\nLock: We meet in the middle with musical tastes, and where we meet is\nthe sound of the band.\nI think we generally take ourselves too seriously in Vancouver. It's nice to\nyou guys having some fun.\nHoesing: We definitely like to have fun. We take the band seriously, but we\nnever take ourselves too seriously. I think as individuals, we didn't before this\nband either. It's all so dreary [in Vancouver] anyway. We just want to play some\nshows, write an album, work together, and put something out that doesn't\nsound like everything everyone else is playing. iflo^rmojuru\nby MAX\nWAINWRIGHT\nlettering & illustration by\nJUSTIN LONGOZ\nphoto by\nJOANNA AMBROSIO\nUpon hearing the words \"Bear Mountain,\" you might conjure a tableau of fantastical\nimagery, marked by dark ominous woods and severe landscapes. More than likely\nthough, \"Bear Mountain\" evokes the fantastical sound-scapes crafted by the electro-\npop band of the same name.\nSince 2011, Bear Mountain have steadily made their presence heard (and felt) by\ntouring behind their indomitable EP XO. Released independently in 2012, and then\nre-released by Last Gang Records in May, XO is a collection of bold indie-dance and\nsynthpop. Featuring a mix of eclectic textures, each song soars higher than the last,\nmaking XO a careening listen. Bear Mountain's versatile and confident sound allows\nthem to fit snugly on bills alongside Bloc Party, Hot Chip, and Islands. Discorder recently\ncaught up with band architect, Ian Bevis, via phone during some downtime of his\nimmersive touring schedule between Los Angeles and Austin. Bear Mountain have become renowned for their ambitious\nlive show, one that seems to outstrip the small venues a young\ntouring band typically inhabits. When I caught Bear Mountain's\nopening set for Islands in late September, the humble Media Club\nwas bursting at the seams. The band, with Bevis on bass, twin\nbrother Greg on drums, Kyle Statham slinging the guitar, and\nKenji Rodriguez providing the light show and synth textures,\nprojected an arena-sized expansiveness with energy to match. Not\nsurprisingly, Bevis tells me the band has always had big plans for\nhis music in the live setting: \"Ultimately, that's the kind of show\nwe want to create. Something you can take to an arena and have\na massive production.\"\nIt'snptthatbigger is necessarily better, butBevis wants theBear\nMountain experience to be \"much larger than [them].\" It stems\nfrom the project's modest compositional origins on Bevis' laptop.\n\"The songs come first definitely.. .a song is not a one-dimensional\nthing. Music is very three-dimensional. It can be very all encom-\npassing...you can listen to a song and live in that world for three\nand a half minutes. So, by having this visual component and by\nbringing that alive in a show, really brings it to life.\"\nBear Mountain's live visual componentis a natural extension of\nhow Bevis views his songwriting. It has the same sort of function\nas a sample or synth part. Each Bear Mountain song is \"almostlike\na painting in a way\" with its own sensory territories. It starts with\na feeling or emotion and is realized by the exploration of sound\nand vision. Bevis' goal with songwriting is to be that explorer and\nrelay to the listener as much sensory experience as possible: \"I\nwould hope we'd done a good enough job that the feeling, or the\nemotion or the imagery is there.\"\nThere is definitely a strong theme of exploration running\nthrough Bear Mountain. As much as composition is an emotional\nand sensory peregrination, for Bear Mountain, it's also a ramble in\nsound itself. \"Ifyou can think of a sound, you can use itin a song,\"\nsays Bevis, \"that search for those sounds is what keeps it going.\nThat's the mostexcitingpartaboutwritingmusicformerightnow.\"\nAs Bevis and I talk about sounds and samples, I can't help but\nrecall the band's elaborate live gear and instrument setup. Bevis\nlaughs, \"Yeah, we each have our own little battle stations...We\nwere playing in LA on Monday night and some dude, right before\nthe show, he's like, 'Oh man, these guys have way too much stuff.\nIt's kind of overkill.' And then we played the show and that same\nguy was like 'Holy shit! Okay, I take it back.' We use it. Nothing's\nfor show.\"\nIt all leads back to the hunt for sounds, as Bevis admits: \"I\nactually brought a USB turntable and a bunch of records with\nme on this tour so I can pull samples on the road, and I've never\ndone that before. It seems a bit extravagant to be hauling around\na fucking turntable and a bunch of records...but, for me, when I\ndon't have any ideas, the best thing to do is to go through a bunch\nof samples and see if something jumps out\"\nAs Bevis and I conclude our discussion, a thought comes to\nme. \"The name [Bear Mountain] comes from The Dharma Bums\nfrom Kerouac... I was thinking ofwhat the connection might be.\"\nAfter a pause, Bevis remembers a partofthe novel that remains\nsignificant for him. \"There's this part where [the characters] go\nand climb the mountain and they have this amazing, euphoric\nexperience. They get to the top and are over the moon\u00E2\u0080\u0094elated\nthat they hiked the mountain. And then on the way back down, it\nturns to nightfall and they lose their way, and they start getting so\nangry.\" Much like all Kerouacian stories, Bear Mountain is about\nthe whole journey, both highs and lows.\nThough their journey has just begun, I'm sure itwon't be ending anytime soon. As long as Bevis and company continue to push\nboundaries, I'm sure the Bear Mountain experience will grow even\ngrander and more nuanced.\nBear Mountain play the Vogue Theatre on November g alongside the Belle\nGame and the Dary's.\n\"ULTIMATELY, THAT'S\nTHE KIND OF SHOW\nWE WANT TO CREATE.\nSOMETHING YOU CAN\nTAKE TO AN ARENA\nAND HAVE A MASSIVE\nPRODUCTION.\" When they're not dressing up as lesbians in trench coats, middle-\naged moms, or serial killer Aileen Wuornos from Monster, Ryan\nSteele and Amy Goodmurphy are bubbly, sociable people. The type\nyou wantto talk to atparties, who suckyou into their conversation\nand don't let go.\nSteele and Goodmurphy are the titular members ofThe Ryan\nand Amy Show, a sketch-comedy duo known for pushing boundaries with a wide-range of material. Who else would do a \"monster-\nin-the-closet\" horror parody sketch featuring soft Japanese pop\nand call it \"Asian Crooner\"? And while Steele and Goodmurphy\nshare a similar sense of humour, their paths to comedy certainly\ncontrast. For Goodmurphy, being funny and different was always\nsomething she wanted to do.\n\"I got caUed weird a lot when I was younger because I was\nalways trying to make people laugh. And they'd laugh or call me\nweird or laugh while calling me weird, but I realized then that I\nalways wanted to be goofy,\" says Goodmurphy.\nBut for Steele, comedy only came as a recent pursuit in\nadulthood.\n\"I was 29 and I did a speech at my best friend's wedding and\nthe room was in heavy laughter. That was the first time I believed\nthat, you know, I'm funny,\" says Steele. GOODMURPHY, ON A SKETCH SHE WANTS TO DO:\n\"Any time there's a sunny day, Vancouver freaks, the fuck out to English Bay. And I live in\nNorth Van. So I want to do this video where people are in different situations, like they're\n.sitting at work or they're sitting in their house, and then they see one sunbeam shoot\ndown and the city goes crazy and everyone gets in their car and rushes to English Bay,\n'cause it's always just a fucking zoo on a sunny day. People go nuts.\"\n\u00C2\u00AB,.\nComing together in 2007, the two have been producing\nlive shows and YouTube sketches ever since, with a number of\ntheir sketches boasting over 100,000 views. Their latest sketch,\n\"Undertaker Goes On A Date,\" features WWE wrestler The\nUndertaker, played by Vancouver comedian Cam MacLeod, enjoying drinks with a girl.\n\"I've been a fan of pro wrestling since I was seven or eight. And\nI was from the days of Hulk Hogan and Macho Man and Razor\nRamon,\" says Steele. \"I had this idea...to explore if we tookthese\nwrestlers and put them in real situations. And going on a date just\nseemed like the natural thing.\"\nThe video might even be the first in a number of fake WWE\nwrestling sketches.\n\"What came for me in the mail recently was a gold bodysuit that\nI ordered for Goldust, which was kind of mid-'gos,\" says Steele.\n\"And we're hoping Amy can do a Chyna one. I definitely want this\nto be a continuing thing.\"\nThe wrestling theme would join a growing list of the group's\nrecurring characters, which includes their most-played characters,\nMoms Over Miami, a fictional pop duo made up of middle-aged\nmoms Judy Campbell and Susan Derulo, who perform songs like\n\"Tiny Victories\" and \"YOLOT.\"\n\"They're fun,\" says Goodmurphy, describing Moms Over\nMiami. \"They love having fun. They're happy. They want to be\n\"I GOT CALLED WEIRD A LOT WHEN I WAS\nYOUNGER BECAUSE I WAS ALWAYS TRYING\nTO MAKE PEOPLE LAUGH. AND THEY'D\nLAUGH OR CALL ME WEIRD OR LAUGH WHILE\nCALLING ME WEIRD, BUT I REALIZED THEN\nTHAT I ALWAYS WANTED TO BE GOOFY\"\nfamous. They're best friends, but they get into tiffs, but they love\neach other to death.\"\nThe characters, recognizable by their excessive eye shadow,\n\"mom haircuts,\" and noticeable \"frontbutts,\" got their look from\na close source.\n\"I went into my mother's closet, and she hates me for this, but\nI steal all of her old clothes, and her clothes now, and put them in\nthe videos,\" says Goodmurphy.\nAnother of the group's well-known characters is Monster, the\ncharacter of Aileen Wuornos Charlize Theron plays in Monster.\nGoodmurphy, who plays the character, loves Monster's mannerisms and the immersion of playing such a unique character.\n\"I justwhite outmy eyebrows, wipe off my makeup, slickmy hair\nback, and put teeth in,\" says Goodmurphy. \"But I hate myself now.\nLately, the video's been getting around, so I'll be in random places,\nparties, whatever, and someone will say, 'Hey, you're Monster!'\nDon't know my name. And I've got full makeup on.\"\nFor the group, sketch comedy is all they want to do. From their\nlive shows to their video sketches to everything they want for the\nfuture, sketch comedy is their goal.\n\"I'd love to go on tour one day,\" says Steele. \"I'd love to travel\nwith this woman... and go to every singlestate in America, across\nCanada, and stay in cheap hotels and do the same show every\nsingle night, in front ofdifferentaudiences and watch the sketches\ngrow even more.\"\nWhile the group continues to produce their YouTube sketches\nand their live shows\u00E2\u0080\u0094put on at the Junction on Davie Street\u00E2\u0080\u0094the\ngroup is currently writing a pilot with a production company in\nLos Angeles. So the next time you see a middle-aged mom music\nvideo or the interesting mannerisms of a serial killer on TV, it\nmight just be Ryan Steele and Amy Goodmurphy.\nCatch The Ryan and Amy Show performing live at thejunction on November\n26 and November 28. 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Pmsittingwith\nguitarist/vocalist James Leung and drummer Ross Sheppard,\ntwo thirds of the local rock-outfit the Mouths (the bassist\nKett Panther is unable to make it tonight). Between talks of\nBritney Spears related warm-ups and mouth-based puns, we\ndiscuss the group's evolution, their relationship with Blank\nVinyl Project, and impending plans for the future.\nThe Mouths have a sound reminiscent of Arctic\nMonkeys and Is This It-era Strokes, but with a rougher finish. Complementing the driving quality of the band, Leung\nprovides catchy vocals, at times with a well-delivered rasp.\nLiving up to their namesake, the Mouths engage with articulate energy.\n\"I think the mouth is a good body part,\" says Leung\nwhen asked about the band's name. \"It's a really expressive\nbody part and that's important for music. It should be expressive.\"\n\"It also has a little sexual innuendo,\" Sheppard quickly adds.\nThe Mouths trace their history back to October in 2011, though\nthey'd been jamming together before then.\n\"That was our fist gig,\" Leung recalls. Their debut had the\nMouths opening for Oh No! Yoko and Said the Whale, something\narranged by the latter after they listened to the Mouths' early recordings. \"They did us a huge favour by letting us open. We started off\nright.. .and then we didn't play another gig like that for two years.\"\nSince then, the band has managed to string together other\nmilestone shows, graduating from playing locations like youth\ncentres to more recognizable venues. \"We played the Pit a lot last\nyear,\" says Leung. \"Those were the first gigs where people came out\nand knew the lyrics and stuff. That was really nice.\" The Mouths\nhave also had the pleasure of playing at Fortune Sound Club, the\nRailway Club, and Zoo Zhop, among others.\nAnother milestone for the band involved the departure of\nfounding member Justin Sheppard, Ross' brother. Without their\nlead guitarist, the remaining members had to pick up the slack.\n\"We've readjusted all of the songs so that it works without two\ndifferent guitars,\" says Leung.\n\"We've been playing a lot so we've gotten a lot tighter since\nthen.\" Sheppard agrees. The departure has led to a more experienced band.\nMany of the Mouths' recent opportunities have resulted from\ntheir relationship with Blank Vinyl Project (BVP), UBC's campus\nrecord label. The trio submitted a video audition to the label and\nwere asked to perform a subsequent live audition. \"[BVP] weren't\nsure if we sucked or not 'cause they couldn't hear me singing.\"\nLeung reflects on the experience. The audition paid off and the\nMouths were picked up as a BVP Featured Artist for the 2013/14\nperiod.\n\"Fortune was through them. They've hooked us up with\npeople. Gig's, promo stuff, and a fun weekend in Chilliwack.\"\nsays Sheppard\n\"Its really important that they're just there poking us every\nonce in a while. It's really easy to shut off your brain and forget to\ndo music when you're busy with school and stuff,\" adds Leung.\nOver the summer, the Mouths have been busy recording songs\nwith Curtis Buckoll from Rain City Recorders. Their plan is to\nrelease a series of3-4 song EPs in lieu of a full-length, with the first\nlaunch on November 9 and a release gig on November 15 to follow. EMpELL byCURTjS\nMHEJRI AUCOIN\nphotos by\nCURTISAUCO!N\nlettering by\nJONATHAN DY Sundays are typically made for hangovers and sleeping in. But\none blue-bird morning I find myself driving out to North Van\nfor an interview with Eric Campbell, frontman of the outlaw\nrock and roll outfit the Dirt As I walk up to his home, a decaying\nboat looms amongst the bushes of the frontyard, guarding\nthe residence. Avoiding ashtrays and empty beer cans up the\nstairs, his flustered roommate meets me at the front door.\nBarely poking her head out into the morning sunlight, she tells\nme that Campbell is still sleeping. Unsure what to do, I follow\nher through the unfamiliar halls and open a door adjacent to\na dirty dish-filled kitchen. Glancing around at the stacks of\nbooks filling the room, I meet the eyes of a complete stranger\nawakening to the warm newness of day. Without delay, we\ncasually slap hands and introduce one another. The nonchalance\nand confusion of the scene isn't entirely odd though because\nafter etching the Dirt's recent release Kill Your Love into my skull\nover the past few weeks, I expected nothing less.\nEric Campbell & the Dirt's music is a beautiful summation\nof human depravity. Kill Your Loue somehow conjoins the sadistic and the satirical into this great big catharsis of rock and roll.\nThe album drags you through mud and squalor, spits in your\nface, and will make a misfit out of the most morally conscious.\nWith sounds alluding to the Deep South and rock pioneers like\nEddie Cochran, Hank Williams, Little Richard, and Hendrix,\neach song plunges you deep into the dark depths of the human\npsyche, complete with lyrical mortification fronting twangy guitar lines and thunderous drum beats. Inspirations like the Gun\nClub are immortalized on the album's cover of \"For The Love of\nIvy\" and Gene Vincent's precious sock hop tune \"Who Slapped\nJohn?\" is transformed into a murderous bloodbath on \"Who\nStabbed John?\" Kill Your Loue was something that Campbell had\nto logically create as an artist, with its development traced back\nthrough the 10 years he has spent playing and performing music.\nAs Campbell sprawls out on the couch, with hands\nclasped behind his head, he reflects upon his first experiences\nperforming at open mic nights. \"Every weekend I went wearing\nthe same wide-brimmed hat, tweed jacket, flared jeans, and\nthese white cowboy boots with inverted crosses on them.\"\nLaughing, he speaks of how \"they gave you three songs and I\nonly played Bob Dylan.\"\nLike most musicians, Campbell began to feel a \"lack of\ninspiration in performing other people's songs\" and needed to\n\"espouse the shit building up inside.\" He then started to write\nand compose songs, all the while performing with bands like\nDirty Spells and No Sinner. Eventually Campbell developed a collection of songs that needed to be recorded, so he met up with\nlong-time friends John Mulder (bass) and Louis Edward (drums),\nand started jamming out the melodies inside his head.\n\"AT THE KILL YOUR LOVE RELEASE SHOW,\nTHEY WERE ABLE TO TRANSFORM\nELECTRIC OWL INTO A FULLY-FLEDGED\nWAR ZONE WITH BODIES AND BIRTHDAY\nCAKE FLYING ACROSS THE ROOM.\"\n\"For our first show we were booked for a 40-minute slot and\nended up stretching out Hendrix's 'Manic Depression' for about\nhalf an hour. Our songs were pretty much just a verse then some\nsort of an instrumental freak-out, then back to the verse again. It\nwas all about trashing our instruments.\"\nNow the Dirt's set has evolved into a well-polished musical\nmassacre. Their setlist inevitably starts a dance-mosh and at the\nKill Your Loue release show, they were able to transform Electric\nOwl into a fully-fledged war zone with bodies and birthday cake\nflying across the room.\nAt this point in the interview, I was dying to unveil the ghouls\nlurking behind the Dirt's \"Ropes and Chains\" music video\u00E2\u0080\u0094\nthough I never suspected to learn about a legitimate ghost story.\n\"The house was haunted, no doubt about it. It looked like a\nbomb went off inside. The floors were caving in, endless water\ndripped from the ceilings, and the rancorous smell ofblack\nmould definitely placed our health at risk. We spent the entire\nday filming in silence until the cops showed up and it became a\npretty heated affair. Their biggest concern was that the place was\ninfested with black mould and that it had once been quarantined\noff as a biohazard. Eventually, we heard through the grapevine\nthat a man named Gottfried Plank had hung himself within the\nhome's very walls and its good knowing our video gave his ghost\none hell of a send off.\"\nAs we take photos in the ruins of Eric's backyard, I ask him if\nthe Dirt has an upcoming tour for the album. \"I don't think we'll\nhave time. Besides, Canadian winters are insane. I was involved\nin a sketchy accident years ago where our tour van flipped and\nsince then I've kind of sworn against touring in the winter.\"\nLucky for us the Dirt, now a four-piece with the joining of Colby\nMorgan on guitar, will be unleashing their rock and roll doom\nall over the city for these depressing few months. So instead of\nmelancholically awaiting the sunshine, seek out the Dirt and awe\nat their malicious tunes spuming across a haze-filled bar. \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\n/*!\nTOUGH\nAGE\nby JULIE\nCOLERO\nlettering by\nMOSES MAGEE\nphotos by\nJONATHAN DY\nTough Age is a Vancouver success story in the making.\nThe band\u00E2\u0080\u0094JarrettEvan Samson on guitar and vocals,\nPenny Clark on guitar, Lauren Smith on bass, and Chris\nMartell on drums\u00E2\u0080\u0094was birthed out of the ashes of\nKorean Gut, and has ties to Collapsing Opposites and\nApollo Ghosts. My opportunity to chat with the band\npresented itself on the night they gathered on the floor\nof the Mint offices, stuffing 500 vinyl sleeves and eating\ncheesy bread and soggy shrimp pizza. As we all stuffed,\nsealed, and stacked, the band caught me up on their brief\nbut action-packed history together.\nThe band played their first show in January, and was\nsigned to Mint Records by summer's start. The self\ntitled album is out in early November, and Samson says\nthere are already four new recordings slated for release\non a seven-inch in the new year. \"I'm just going for it,\"\nsays Samson, \"Just doing it. Committing to the idea and\ngetting stuff done. There's no point waiting around for the\nperfect time for things. There's something more interesting\nto me in the immediacy of just getting it down and moving on.\nAnd I guess, clearly, it sort of worked.\"\nTwo of the record's tracks are remnants from Korean Gut\ndays, and Smith says it's \"a huge compliment\" when I compare\none, \"Cocaine Vouchers,\" to Apollo Ghosts. Samson played\nguitar in the Ghosts, and says he wrote it when he was joining the band, and that \"maybe it was subliminal.\" I ask if the\nband's folding was a good thing for Tough Age, but Samson\ndenies ever feeling held back. \"I only ever, felt supported by\nApollo Ghosts in every way. Those people are my family and I\nlove them all to pieces.\"\nSamson claims to have a long history of being in at least\nthree bands at any 6ne time, but is happy to focus his energy\non Tough Age, where he has the chance to take his frontman\nduties and varied influences and channel them into a good-\ntime, all-out rock-and-roll band. The band's gritty, garage-\nrock sound is transformed on the album into something far\ncleaner, and at times almost bubble gum-esque, courtesy\nof label-mate Jay Arner. Songs like \"Open It Up\" and \"Sea of\nWhite\" are anthemic gems, while others like \"The Heart of\nJuliet Jones\" and \"Seahorse\" offer up jangly, almost shoe-gazey\nromantic musings.\nThe band's debut album cover is a comic collage by\nSamson, composed of images from old Romance and DC\n100 Comics and the strange back-page ads. He's woven a few \"TOURING MAKES YOU BETTER. YOU'RE OUT PLAYING FOR PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW. YOU\nDON'T HAVE THE FRIEND CUSHION. YOU'RE PLAYING FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE ONLY GOING TO LIKE\nYOU BASED OFF WHAT YOU ARE DOING. THEY DON'T CARE THAT YOU HAD A BAD DAY OR HOW\nSTRESSFUL WORK'S BEEN. THEY JUST KNOW WHAT THEY HEAR, SO YOU HAVE TO SINK OR SWIM.\"\ninside jokes into the collage, including a saucy trompe-l'oeil in\nthe bottom corner (happy hunting!). He feels the collage is a fair\nUse of the images, much like the band's now legendary \"Make It\nTough Age\" T-shirt, featuring a parody image of McDonalds '80s\nspokesman Mac Tonight, which garnered the band a few mysterious emails asking them to contact a law firm.\n\"It's pretty small potatoes,\" says Samson, as they're not out\nto make money off of McDonalds. \"Pm absolutely obsessed\nwith Mac Tonight. He's my Reagan. To me, he represents this\nhorrible, bloated corporate indifference...As a kid, I loved him\nbecause he was so terrible. There's a perverse, sincere love for the\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 worst mascot in history.\"\nThe band had their controversial T-shirts in tow as they set\nout earlier this year on two short tours, touring Western Canada\nin June and Ontario later in the summer.\n\"Tour is really hard because you're always\naround people. It's hard to find alone\ntime,\" says Samson.\n\"Remember how handy that sage\nspray was, though?\" asks Smith. Everyone\nagrees that Smith's \"beautiful, green-\ntinted chill-out smell\" was a lifesaver in\ncombating smelly feet in the tour van during a hot Toronto tour with the Ketamines.\nThe Ketamines are Tough Age's best\ntour buds in the universe, as the two\nbands shared a van and a watery Sled\nIsland festival adventure. \"I've known Paul [Lawton] for over a\n\u00E2\u0080\u00A2 decade,\" says Samson. \"He's one of my best friends in the world.\nHe is a very high strung individual, but so am I.\" Clark laughingly describes the two as \"co-conspirators.\" Touring with the\nKetamines was an eye-opener for Samson, and a positive experience for everyone. Martell insists that touring has made the\nband \"grittier,\" and Samson puts it thusly: \"Touring makes you\nbetter. You're out playing for people you don't know. You don't\nhave the friend cushion. You're playing for people who are only\ngoing to like you based off what you are doing. They don't care\nthatyou had a bad day or how stressful work's been. They just\nknow what they hear, so you have to sink or swim.\"\nTough Age's ability to swim is what drew my attention to\nthem in the first place\u00E2\u0080\u0094during a show at Champion Jack's in\nAbbotsford in June, the mic stopped working. Tough Age, however, didn't stop. Samson just pushed his way into the crowd and\nyelled his lyrics at the top of his lungs. It was awesome, and the\ncrowd ate it up. That's what the band, and the biz, calls \"tour-\ntight\", and Tough Age had it by Day Two of their first tour.\nWhile Tough Age are rocking most aspects of music busi-\nness-ing, they still have a few hurdles to leap; for instance, none\nof them knows how to drive. That's rough for a band with a\ndesire to tour. The band enlisted two friends to take them to\nAlberta in June, and \"When we were out east, the Ketamines\nchauffeured us around like a bunch of chumps,\" says Samson.\n\"The Ketamines have offered us $100 from their band fund,\nand I have vowed to be the first to learn,\" declares Martell\nproudly. Clark chimes in with the caveat that the licensee will\n\"have to wear a Ketamines shirt in their license photo\" to get the\ncash prize, though.\nTough Age's self-titled debut album comes out Nouember 12, with a release\nparty at the Biltmore Cabaret on Nouember 16. :\u00E2\u0080\u00A2\n!sB WHITE\nLUNG\nby JOSHUA\nGABERT-\nDOYON\nillustration by\nALISON SADLER\n\"I don't like to think too hard about 'punk* or what that word\neven means. Basically, if you try to analyze it down to some\u00C2\u00B1ing\ntangible it's just ridiculous. It's like a dog chasing its tail,\" Mish\nWay explains to me over email.\n\"You ever watch a bunch of music nerds argue over what it\nmeans to be punkwhile they're coked at4 a.m.? Spare me. What's\nthe point in this argument? The definition of punk is decided by\nthe individual.\"\nWay is the lead vocalist for White Lung, a Vancouver-based\ngroup with a skittish, heated sound. Alongside guitarist Kenny\nWilliam, drummer Anne-Marie Vassiliou, and bassist Grady\nMackintosh, the group has recorded two full-length albums since\nthey formed in 2006. With a new seven-inch, Songs about the South,\ndue for release in early November, the four-piece is quickly carving\nout a niche for themselves.\nSongs for the seven-inch were written in the early summer\nwhile the band was between tours, but it isn't some sort of hard-\nrock Southern gothika. \"I wasn't trying to create an image about\nthe South and share it with people who buy the record. It's\nmore like we were on tour, I was writing a lot of lyrics in the\nvan because I was bored and inspired by things that were\nreally bothering me,\" says Way.\nShe adds thatlyrical contenton Songs aboutthe South deals\nwith complex issues related to \"sexual dynamics\" and \"desperation\" in drug abuse.\nThe paste of White Lung's sound is Kenny William's\nguitar work. It's a grinding, cranking sort of paste that\nbrings everything together. \"Kenny is like one part metal,\none part Johnny Marr, and one part smoking-speed-out-of-\na-light-bulb-at-5 a.m.-craziness, but it's what makes him\nso genius\" says Way. \"I would be a real waste without him.\"\n\"Blow it South\", Songs about the South's A-side, has an up-\nclose feel, without sacrificing the high-speed aggression\nthat evokes images of decaying, expansive warehouses. There's\na sense that the song is a move towards darker content, but it's\na hard call to make. Touring has certainly had an effect on the\nband's music\u00E2\u0080\u0094and with White Lung on the festival circuit, the\ntouring has become more frequent.\n\"I'm learning how to do the festival thing slowly,\" says Way,\nbefore making a quip aboutthe festival scene. \"I mean, [Pitchfork\nMusic Festivalin Chicago] was weird. Itwas like everyone on Twitter\nin one place drinking shitty wine and taking MDMA and kind of\nlosing it because suddenly they all had more than 140 characters\nto communicate.\"\nJesse Gander is the band's recording \"guru,\" according to\nWay\u00E2\u0080\u0094he recorded Songs aboutthe South as well as the band's other\nLPs. In addition to White Lung, Gander has worked with an impressive list of artists such as the Subhumans, Japandroids, and the\nPack AD.\n\"I get stressed out even thinking about recording,\" says Way,\nafraid of the finality it brings. \"Knowing that the song is coming\nto its final completion and with that, will become an expectation\nfor our audience, intimidates me.\" Way agreed to our interview on\nthe condition thatitwas over email because of the same concern.\nAside from her role as frontwoman for White Lung, Way is also\na freelance journalist for the likes ofVice, Noisey, the National Post,\nand others. In the past, reporters have typified the band and Way\nbecause of her support of feminist ideas in lyrics and in articles.\nThe fact that White Lung is a hardcore band consisting of several\nfemales has led many to clump it together with Riot grrrl, and it\noften overshadows the music. An inability to describe a band with\na strong female member as anything but \"feminist\" supports\nstereotypes and norms that often turn females away from the\npunk and hardcore scene. Way's lyrics touch on feminist themes,\nbut the band is a lot more than that; it's not a \"gendered\" band.\nWhite Lung is just a kick-ass four-piece making good, fast music. Jilt\n Afip&lL\nindustriJilll\n12\n1\n2\n2\nr*Bi\nThe Absolute\nValue of Insomnia\n(Generative)\nWWtsWs\n3\nCiTR Ghost Mix\n3\n5\n111\nlilill\n'\u00E2\u0096\u00A0?f^':.V-Or::-\n4\n5\nSUBSCRIBE TO\nDISCORDER!\nI WOULD LIKE:\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 an annual subscription to Discorder magazine.\n($20 for Canadians, $25 for US subscribers)\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A1 to support Discorder magazine with a donation of:\ntotali\nDiscorder is Vancouver's longest running independent music magazine. Show your\nsupport for Vancouver's independent music community and the development of\nnew writers, editors, designers and artists. 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Twitter:\n\u00C2\u00A9bepicrespan Blog: bepicrespan.\nblogspot.ca\nCLASSICAL CHAOS\n(Classical) 9-10am\nFrom the Ancient World to the 21st\ncentury, join host Marguerite in exploring and celebrating classical\nmusic from around the world.\nSH00KSH00KTA\n(Talk) 10am-12pm\nA program targeted to Ethiopian\npeople that encourages education\nand personal development.\nTHiROCKERSSHOW\n) 12-3pm\ninna all styles and\nfashion.\nBLOOD ON THE SADDLE\n(Roots) 3-5pm\nAlternating Sundays\nReal cowshit-caught-in-yer-boots\ncountry.\nSHAKEA\"TAILFEATHER\n(Soul/R&B) 3-5pm\nAlternating Sundays\nThe finest in classic soul and rhythm\n& blues from the late '50s to the early\n70s, including lesser known artists,\nregional hits and lost soul gems.\nMOONGROK\n(Eclectic) 5-6pm\nAlternating Sundays\nCHTHONIC BOOM!\n{Pop) 5-6pm\nAlternating Sundays\nA show dedicated to playing psychedelic music from parts of the\nspectrum (rock, pop, electronic) as\nwell as garage and noise rock.\nsbsALACIOUS\n(Electro/Hip Hop) 6-7'pm\nSkadz and Sprocket Doyle bring you\nElectro Swing, Alternative Hip Hop,\nDubstep, Acid Jazz, Trip Hop, Local\nand Canadian Content - good and\ndirty beats.\nMORE THAN HUMAN\n(Electronic/Experimental) 7-8pm\nStrange and wonderful electronic\nsounds from the past, present, and\nfuture with host Gareth Moses. Music\nfrom parallel worlds.\nRH\THMSINDIA\n(World) 8-9pm\nAlternating Sundays\nFeaturing a wide range of music from\nIndia, including popular music from\nthe 1930s to the present; Ghazals\nand Bhajans, Qawwalis, pop and\nregional language numbers.\ni TECHNO PROGRESSIVO\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 (Dance) 8-9pm\n! Alternating Sundays\nA mix of the latest house music,\ni tech-house, prog-house and techno.\nI BOdTLEGS&B-sVbES\nI (Dance/Electronic) 9-10pm\n| Hosted by Doe-Ran, the show was\n: a nominated finalist for \"Canadian\nI College Radio Show of the year 2012\n| in the Pioneer DJ Stylus Awards\". A\nj complete mixbag every week, cover-\nI ing: Ghetto funk, Breakbeat, Hip-\n| Hop, Funk & Soul, Chillout, Drum &\n! Bass, Mashups, Electro House and\n\u00E2\u0096\u00A0 loads of other crackin' tunes. Search\n' 'Doe Ran' at percussionlab.com and\n\ on facebook.com\n; TRA^ENDWICE\n\ (Dance) 10pm-12am\n: Hosted by DJ Smiley Mike and DJ\nCaddyshack, Trancendance has been\nbroadcasting from Vancouver, B.C.\nj since 2001. We favour Psytrance,\nI Hard Trance and Epic Trance, but\n: also play Acid Trance, Deep Trance,\n! Hard Dance and even some Break-\n\ beat. We also love a good Classic\nTrance Anthem, especially if it's\nremixed. Current influences include\nSander van Doom, Gareth Emery,\nNick Sentience, Ovnimoon, Ace Ventura, Save the Robot, Liquid Soul\nand Astrix. Older influences include\nUnion Jack, Carl Cox, Christopher\nLawrence, Whoop! Records, Tidy Trax,\nPlatipus Records and Nukleuz. Email:\ndjsmileymike \u00C2\u00A9trancendance.net.\nWebsite: www.trancendance.net.\n! GOOD MORNING MY FRIENDS\n; (Upbeat Music) MQ-tam\nBREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS\n: (Eclectic) S-Uam\n\ Your favourite Brownsters,\n: James and Peter, offer a savoury\n! blend of the familiar and exotic\n' in a blend of aural delights.\n\ breakfastwiththebrowns\u00C2\u00AE\nhotmail.com.\nvolunteers take you on a musical : issues and great music.queerfmra-\ncross-country road trip! ; dio@gmail.com\nWEDNESDAY\nSKA-T'S SCENIC DRIVE\nfS/jra;llam-12pm\nSYNCHRONICS\n(Talk) 12-lpm.\nJoin host Marie B and discuss spirituality, health and feeling good. Tune\nin and tap into good vibrations that\nhelp you remember why you're here:\nto have fun!\nPARTS UNKNOWN\n(Pop) l-3pm\nAn indie pop show since 1999, it's\nlike a marshmallow sandwich: soft\nand sweet and best enjoyed when\npoked with a stick and held close\nto a fire.\nTHE ALL CANADIAN FARM SHOW\n(Pop) 3-4pm\nThe All Canadian Farm Show cultivates new and old indie jams from\nacross genres and provinces. Tune\n\"in to hear the a fresh crop of CiTR\nTHE LEO RAMIREZ SHOW\n(World) l-bpm\nThe best of mix of Latin American\nmusic, leoramirez@canada.com\nNEWsioi\n(7a//cJ5-6pm\nVancouver's only live, volunteer-\nproduced, student and community\nnewscast. Every week, we take a\nlook back at the week's local, national and international news, as\nseen from a fully independent media\nperspective.\n4'33\"\n(Contemporary Classical and\nExperimental) 6-7pm\nThis program showcases \"new music\" - contemporary classical and\nexperimental music, especially highlighting Vancouver's local performers and composers of new music,\nto uncover a new musical niche to\nthe broader public in a friendly and\naccessible manner.\nEXPLODING HEAD MOVIES\n(Cinematic) 7-9pm\nJoin gak as he explores music from\nthe movies, tunes from television\nand any other cinematic source,\nalong with atmospheric pieces, cutting edge new tracks and strange\nold goodies that could be used in a\nsoundtrack to be.\nTHE JAZZ SHOW\n(VazzJ 9pm-12am\nVancouver's longest running prime-\ntime Jazz program. Hosted by Gavin\nWalker. Features at 11 p.m. Nov.4:\nThe month opens with, four musical giants together: Lionel Hampton (vibes), Oscar Peterson (piano),\nRay Brown (bass) and Buddy Rich\n(drums)..saynomore! Nov.ll: Tenor\nsaxophone pioneer Dexter Gordon\ncame home to the USA in 1976.\n\"Homecoming!\" celebrates his arrival with trumpeter Woody Shaw.\nNov. 18: One of the most swinging\nand elegant pianists was Wynton\nKelly. Here he- is with bassist Paul\nChambers and drummer Philly Joe\nJones. \"Kelly at Midnight\". Nov.25:\nRoland Kirk (\"Rahsaan\") blew 3\nsaxophones at once and also played\namazing flute. Here is his first album\nfor a major label. \"We Free Kings\"\nis a stunner.\nBUTTA ON THE BREAD\nffc/ecf/c;i0:30-ll:30am\nMORNiNG AFTER SHOW\n(\u00C2\u00A3c/ecf/cj ll:30am-lpm\nAn eclectic mix of Canadian indie\nwith rock, experimental, world, reggae, punk and ska from Canada,\nLatin America and Europe. Hosted\nby Oswaldo Perez Cabrera.\nSTUDENTSPECIALHOUR\n(Eclectic) l-2pm\nStudents play music.\nGWEEMTHEBObf\n(World) 2-2pm\nSample the various flavours of\nItalian music from north to south,\ntraditional to modern on this bilingual show. Folk, singer-songwriter, jazz and much more. Un\nprogramma bilingue che esplora\nil mondo delta musica italiana.\nhttp://giveemtheboot.wordpress.\ncom\nPROi^MFN?fRAn^NG'\n(TaW 3-3:30pm\nRADIO FREE THINKER\n(Skepticism) 3-4pm\nPromoting skepticism, critical thinking and science, we examine popular\nextraordinary claims and subject\nthem to critical analysts.\nDISCORDER RADIO\n(On-air version of Discorder) 4-5pm\nDiscorder Magazine now has its own\nradio show! Join us to hear excerpts\nof interviews, reviews and more!\nTHECITY\n(7aW5-6pm\nAn alternative and critical look\nat our changing urban spaces.\nNew website: www.thecityfm.org.\nNew twitter handle: @thecity_fm.\nFLEX YOUR HEAD\n(Hardcore) 6-8pm\nPunk rock and hardcore since 1989.\nBands and guests from around the\nworld.\nINSIDEOUT\n(Dance) 8-9pm\nCRIMES &TREASONS\nf/7/p-/?0/?;9-llpm\ndj@crimesandtreasons.com\nPACIFIC PICKIN'\n; (Roots)S-Zam\nj Bluegrass, old-time music,\n; and its derivatives with Arthur\nj and the lovely Andrea Berman. !\n! pacificpickin@yahoo.com\nQUEER FM\nVANCOUVER:RELOADED\n(TaW8-10:30am\n; Dedicated to the gay, lesbian, bi-\n] sexual and transexual communities j\n! of Vancouver Lots of human inter- \\nI est features, background on current \\nTWEETS & TUNES\n5-6pm\nSee Monday for description.\nAURAL TENTACLES\n(Eclectic) 12-6am\nIt could be global, trance, spoken\nword, rock, the unusual and the\nweird, or it could be something\ndifferent. Hosted by DJ Pierre.\nauraltentacles@hotmail.com\nSTRANDED\n(Eclectic) 6-7:30pm\nJoin your host Matthew for a weekly I\nmix of exciting sounds, past and i\npresent, from his Australian home- '\nland. And journey with him as he '\nfeatures fresh tunes and explores !\nthe alternative musical heritage j\nof Canada.\nAFRICAN RHYHMS\n(World) 7:3Q-$vm\nwww.africanrhythmsradio.com\nspectrum, then you'll like it. Sonic\nassault provided by Geoff, Marcia,\nand Andy.\nCODEBLUE\n(Roots) 3-5pm\nFrom backwoods delta low-down\nslide to urban harp honks, blues,\nand blues roots with your hosts\nJim, Andy, and Paul, codeblue\u00C2\u00AE\nbuddy-system.org\nMANTRA\n(World) 5-fym\nKirtan, Mantra, Chanting and\nCulture. There's no place like Om.\nHosted by Raghunath with special\nguests. Email: mantraradioshow\u00C2\u00AE\ngmail.com. Website: mantraradio.\nco.\nMOON GROK\n7:30-10am\nTHE CAT'S PAJAMS\n(hidiePop, Garage Rock) 10-11 am\nThe cat's pajamas: a phrase to describe something/someone super\nawesome or cool. The Cat's Pajams:\na super awesome and cool radio\nshow featuring the latest and greatest indie pop, rock, lofi and more\nfrom Vancouver and beyond!\nsfEREOBLUES\n(Blues/Eclectic) llam-12pm\nEvery Friday host Dorothy Neufeld\nsinks into blues, garage and rock\nn' roll goodies!\ndefinTtTonI soundwave\n(Folk/Rock)\2-\nm\nThe now of folk. The now of rock.\nThe now of alternative. Join Evan\nas he explores what's new, what's\ngood, and what's so awesome it\nfights dragons in its spare time. As\nalways, Evan ends the show with a\nspecial Top 5 list that's always fun\nand always entertaining.\nSKALD'S HALL\n[Drama/Poetry) l-2pm\nSkald's Hall entertains with the spoken word via story readings, poetry\nrecitals, and drama. Established\nand upcoming artists join host Brian\nMacDonald. Interested in performing\non air? Contact us: @Skalds_Hall.\nRADIO ZERO\n(Dance) 2-3:30pm\nAn international mix of super-\nfresh weekend party jams from\nNew Wave to foreign electro, baile,\nBollywood, and whatever else.\nwww.radiozero.com\nTHE BASSMENT\n(Dance/Electronic) 9-10:30pm\nThe Bassment is Vancouver's only\nbass-driven radio show, playing\nGlitch, Dubstep, Drum and Bass,\nGhetto Funk, Crunk, Breaks, and UK\nFunky, while focusing on Canadian\ntalent and highlighting Vancouver\nDJs, producers, and the parties\nthey throw.\nCANADA POST-ROCK\n(Rock) 10:30pm-12am\nFormerly on CKXU, Canada Post-\nRock now resides on the west coast\nbut it's still committed to the best\nin post-rock, drone, ambient, experimental, noise and basically\nanything your host Pbone can put\nthe word \"post\" in front of.\nTHE LATE NIGHT SHOW\n(Drum+Bass, Ambient, Industrial...)\n12-6am\nDrum+Bass, Ambient, Industrial,\nNoise, artist profiles with DJ Rea.\nSATURDAY\nTHE SATURDAY EDGE\n(Roots) 8am-12pm\nA personal guide to world and roots\nmusic\u00E2\u0080\u0094with African, Latin, and\nEuropean music in the first half,\nfollowed by Celtic, blues, songwriters, Cajun, and whatever else fits!\nsteveedge3@mac.com\nGENERATIoYS\n(Punk) 12-lpm\nOn the air since 2002,\nplaying old and new punk on\nthe non-commercial side of the\nspectrum. Hosts: Aaron Brown,\nJeff \"The Foat\" Kraft. Website:\nwww.generationannihilation.com.\nFacebook: www.facebook.com/ :\ngenerationannihilation\".\nPOWER CHORD\n(Metal) l-3pm\nVancouver's longest running metal I\nshow. If you're into music that's ;\non the heavier/darker side of the \\nNASHAVOLNA\n(HW6-7pm\nNews, arts, entertainment and music for the Russian community, local\nand abroad, nashavolna.ca\nLAFiESTA\n(World) 7-Zpm\nSalsa, Bachata, Merengue, Latin\nHouse, and Reggaeton with your\nhost GspotDJ.\nJUBIE\u00C2\u00A3PERREiiinBRtt\n(Heavy Reverb) Z-%m\n\"Bringing you the chillout world\nof the heavy reverb genres: shoe-\ngaze, post rock, dream pop, space\nrock, trip hop and everything in\nbetween, including new tracks\nand old favorites. Facebook: face-\nbook.com/adeeperreverb. Email:\nadeeperreverb [a] gmail.com\"\nSYNAPf IC SANDwicH\n(Dance/Electronic) 9-11 pm\nIf you like everything from electro/\ntechno/trance/8-bit music/retro\n'80s, this is the show for you!\nwww.synapticsandwich.net\nRANbOPHONIC\n(Eclectic) ll\}m-2am\nRandophonic is best thought of as\nan intraversal jukebox which has\nno concept of genre, style, political\nboundaries, or even space-time\nrelevance. But it does know good\nsounds from bad. Lately, the program\nhas been focused on Philip Random's\nAll Vinyl Countdown + Apocalypse\n(the 1,111 greatest records you probably haven't heard). And we're not\nafraid of noise.\nTHE ABSOLUTE! VALUE OF INSOMNIA\n(Generative) 2-Bam\nFour solid hours of fresh generative\nmusic c/o the Absolute Value of Noise\nand its world famous Generator. Ideal\nfor enhancing your dreams or, if sleep\nis not on your agenda, your reveries. ART PROJECT\nJONATHAN DY\nBased in Vancouver since 2005, Jonathan Dy\nis a primarily self-taught photographer.\nPeople are the subject of his first limited\nedition book, I Need To See You, focussing on\nVancouver's music, theater, and visual artists.\nThe book launch (November 20th at The Cobalt)\nwill coincide with the one year anniversary of\nSNAG, a live painting raffle event held every\nWednesday at the Cobalt. Andrew Young\n(hedrew.blogspot.ca), founder/curator of SNAG\nhas gathered over 120 artists to participate\nthus far, while Jonathan has documented the\nevent from its conception.\nPhotos taken with an Olympus E-500.\nNIENKE, 2013 \u00E2\u0096\u00A0% iH \u00C2\u00AB\u00C2\u00BB ^*^ * /. DISCORDER STAFF SOUND-OFF\nillustration by KIM PRINGLE\nHey there, readers. How'reyou all doing? Miss the sweetness of summer yet? While October\ngave us a few solid weeks of sun, it wasn't enough to defer the rainy-time blues. One of winter's most notable features is the resurgence of Seasonal Affective Disorder (S.A.D.), where\nindividuals have a negative emotional reaction to the changes outside. More time spent indoors; shorter days; they're all ingredients for the stew of S.A.D. That's why we asked the\nDiscorderstaii for this month's Sound-off: what's your favourite \"sad\" album?\nALISON BRAID, CONTRIBUTOR\nStrangeways, Here We Come (The Smiths)\nI remember being 10-years-old, sitting in front of our speakers, listening to the Smiths'\nStrangeways, Here We Come. I loved putting my hands against the black mesh, and pretending I felt sadness vibrating through. The album's smooth ability to draw you in and then trip\nyou up like a dog winding its leash around unsuspecting legs is beautiful, and an experience\nI seem to keep returning for. As the light dims, I can't think of anything better to listen to until it's socially acceptable to play Christmas carols. It'll make the holidays feel doubly as jolly.\nEVAN BROW, COLUMNIST & STUDENT LIAISON\nPink Moon (Nick Drake)\nPink Moon is the third and final album by Nick Drake before his death in 74 at the age of 26.\nThe bare and stark acoustic music Drake produced emanated his vulnerability, his pain, and\nhardship amidst the world, an acceptance of every failure. And in that despair of his, he created beauty. What became of this beauty? Nothing but death in obscurity. It always leaves\nsullen and quiet to hear Drake, the Van Gogh of folk, bare his soul, knowing this album was\nthe last mark he made before his death.\nJULIE COLERO, CONTRIBUTOR\nKnock Knock (Smog)\nBill Callahan is the downer king, even when he's trying to be upbeat. Knock Knock, my favourite Smog album, manages to deliver a punch to the ovaries every time. Part of the sadness come from the hopefulness of the first track, when he sings \"Let's move to the country / let's start a... /let's have a...\", which progresses to the moment, a few songs down the\nroad, when he doesn't know where he's going, but knows he has to \"hit the ground runnin'.\"\nThe album closes with a wish for the narrator's lover: \"I hope you find your husband / and a\nfather to your children.\" Heart-fucking-breaking.\nFRASER DOBBS, CONTRIBUTOR\nTransatlanticism (Death Cab for Cutie)\nThe answer that came most quickly to mind, and also the record I'm most reticent to write\nabout, is Death Cab For Cutie's Transatlanticism. I was at a ripe teen age listening to this\nvaguely conceptual record about separation, change, and familiarity to let each note seep\ninto my pores. Not only is it the best album Gibbard has ever written, it's also still, all these\nyears later, just as potent an emotional sponge. Sad never sounded so good.\nJOSHUA GABERT-DOYON, CONTRIBUTOR\nWorld of Echo (Arthur Russell)\nIt's not really a depressing album, but (4^/-/^ o/\u00C2\u00A3c/70 has that calm, ethereal aspect\nembedded in it that I associate with this time of the year. Arthur Russell is great, and\nalso very weird\u00E2\u0080\u0094most of his stuff is either disco or crooning country\u00E2\u0080\u0094but he always\nplays the electric cello. In World of Echo, he gets super experimental and minimalist. He messes with the cello in all sorts of ways to create percussion and these ghostly\neffects that work really well with his voice.\nKAMIL KRAWCZYK, CONTRIBUTOR\nWind and Wuthering (Genesis)\nJust looking at the album art for this 1976 progressive album invokes the feeling of a cold,\nwet, overcast day, slowly eating away at the spirits of all. As depressing as even a first\nglance may be, this album holds a special place in my heart as it is, for some reason, the\ngo-to album for typical post-September Vancouver days. With swirling, hollow synths and\npianos muddled with subtle drumming, guitar, and sorrowful singing, Collins and company\ndeliver a wholly remarkable experience that is as bleak as the weather we are just starting to experience.\nERICA LEIREN, CONTRIBUTOR\n/1fZasf(TheTouch&Go's)\nThe Touch & Go's were a late '80s/early '90s staple on CiTR and their cassette release At\nLastls a masterpiece. They always had great songwriting, with the most beautiful female\nvoices in all of Vancouver. Songs so gorgeously sad, they plumb a deep well of tristesse that\nis unfathomable, yet all the more lovely for it. Listen to \"Beaver Inn, Bellingham,\" a cool-\nweather love song that will make you cry it's so pretty; \"Christopher\" is another favourite,\nlike autumn itself, evoking the beauty and sadness of perfection and its inevitable decay.\nThen there's \"Pauline,\" a sinister black hole of a song with a guitar part that evokes terrifying angst. They do have light-hearted songs but since it's S.A.D. we're talking about, the\n. talented foursome in the Touch & Go's do it like no one else can. Now be a dear won't you,\nand pass me a hankie?\nLUAN LI, CONTRIBUTOR\nCowboy Bebop Original Soundtrack (The Seatbelts)\nCowboy Bebop is an anime about five bounty hunters in the year 2071 who traverse inter-\ngalactic space in order to solve crimes and arrest criminals. Along the ride, they confront\nold enemies, lost loves, and come to terms with themselves. I chose this album because\nthe studio composer, Yoko Kanno, did an amazing job in creating music that resonates perfectly with the scenes. Even after watching, the soundtracks can immediately teleport you\ninto the Bebop world, one that's psychedelic and nostalgic and futuristic all at the same time.\nand lost love, of living with depression, and of political fallacies, each delivered with painful intimacy. For me, HospitalMusic'will always be associated with personal failings and ongoing struggles, but also with tragic optimism. The album finishes with the perfectly haunting cover of Daniel Johnston's \"True Love Will Find You in the End.\"\nLINDSAY STEWART, CONTRIBUTOR\nStrange Cacti (Angel Olsen)\nThere's just something about a beautifully haunting voice serenading you from beneath layers of reverberation that effortlessly puts the tear ducts into action. Angel Olsen's debut EP\nStrange Cacti is so drenched in emotion that it can actually be uncomfortable to listen to.\nBut if you're in a state of heartache, headache or toothache, this bewitching record is the\nultimate companion. Her vibrato-laden voice is not of this world, and paired with her dark,\nintimate lyrics fosters the perfect sobbing environment.\nJORDAN WADE, CONTRIBUTOR & HOST OF DISCORDER RADIO\nMeat is Murder (The Smiths)\nThe magical combination of Johnny Marr's happy guitar riffs and Morrissey's sad, poignant\nlyrics invokes a feeling of melancholy, empathy, and quiet contentment; perfect for this time\nof year. This no-frills band from Manchester was only around for five years, yet produced an\ninternational cult-like following\u00E2\u0080\u0094most notably from their 1985 sophomore release, Meat\nis Murder. Even for fans like me, who discovered them long after they broke up, are left with\na strange sense of nostalgia for the hardships of the UK's industrial society of yesteryear.\nNothing gives me the warm fuzzies on a grey autumn day like walking into a pub and suddenly hearing \"The Headmaster Ritual\" or \"I Want the One I Can't Have.\"\nMAX WAINWRIGHT, CONTRIBUTOR\n0/? fire (Galaxie 500)\nThere are a lot of great sad albums out there, but for me, Galaxie 500's On Fire\loats to the\nsurface. Dean Wareham's impressionistic narratives leave just enough for the lonely imagination on tracks like \"Blue Thunder\" and \"Strange.\" Closing the album with a cover of George\nHarrison's \"Isn't It a Pity\" sums the mood clearly. However, it's Wareham's drifting guitar\nlines, Damon Krukowski's resonant shuffles and Naomi Yang's bobbling bass that make On\nFire a great sad sack album.\nJAMES OLSON, CONTRIBUTOR\nPinkerton (Geezer)\nPinkerton by Weezer is so fraught with tension and anxiety, it's sometimes hard to listen to. The album rocks but\nit's wrapped in an claustrophobic atmosphere of despair.\nThe listener shares in Rivers Cuomo's pain through his\nself-loathing, sexually frustrated lyrics. Even on a bounder, \"happier\" tune like \"Why Bother?\" the listener is\nconfronted by such starkly downcast lines such as \"Why\nbother? / It's gonna hurt me/ It's gonna kill when you desert me.\" Weezer's most emotionally frank album is a cathartic, painful, yet tuneful and memorable experience.\nNot recommended listening after a bad breakup though.\nKEEFER PELECH, CONTRIBUTOR\nHospital Music (Matthew Good)\nHospital Music swings with brutal honesty. The album was\nreleased in the wake of Good's crumbling marriage, Ativan\noverdose, and diagnosis with bipolar disorder\u00E2\u0080\u0094themes\nthat stood out when I first listened to the album, but\nHospital Music resonates deeper. It speaks of heartache COREY ABELL\n(Independent)\nBABYSITTER/\nMONSTER TREASURE\nBURNING GHATS\nSOMETHING OTHER THAN YOURSELF\n(Independent)\nWhile the tried-and-true pairing of soft vocals over\ninoffensive acoustic guitar strums will coax you\ninto listening to Rainwater Youth, Corey AbelPs\nincorporation of unexpected musical elements and\ninfluences are what keep you listening.\nThroughout the album, Abell's voice fluctuates\nbetween genres with a self-conscious croon akin\nto Sondre Lerche or Kurt Vile, a confident country\ntwang, and a pensive shoegazer. Exemplified by\nthe album's opener, \"Kids First,\" Abell's voice\nshifts from an innocent warble to a powerfully\nassured and almost powerpop howl. On their own,\nAbell's voice and guitar are a powerfully pleasant\ncombination on such tracks as the paired down\nyet catchy \"Salene\" and the quietly thoughtful\n\"Re: Geography.\" Some of the album's highlights,\nhowever, break away from the typical folk sound. A\nstandout, \"Georgie, Where Are You Georgie?,\"\nis a stirring country-blues duet that features the\nraw vocal stylings of Sabrina Robson, singer of\nlocal favourites this is THE SHOES. Another highlight is the album's title track, which, through its\nexpansive shoegaze-meets-folk sound, evokes the\ncentral theme of the album\u00E2\u0080\u0094the tension between\nresponsibility and youthful recklessness.\nThe nostalgia that soaks through Abell's\nRainwater Youth feels as familiar as a rainy day in\nVancouver. His collection of country blues and\nshoegaze-inspired folk songs are perfect for dodging puddles, pulling on a cable-knit sweater, and\npouring too much Baileys into your coffee.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Mariko Adams\nVictoria's Babysitter kick things off with a couple\nof fast, somewhat-sloppy, somewhat-hooky but\nnot-actually-that-melodic songs. The production\nvalues on the split aren't really the best (which I\nsuspect is by design) and the vocals are a bit shouty\nand too gravelly. I'm not wowed by much except\nthe hi-hatwork, which unfortunately only betrays\nthe sloppiness of the off-meter snare rolls. The\nthird song, \"Cemetary House,\" starts out with a\nvery melodic guitar line which is catchy as heck\nuntil you realise it's actually the Cure's \"Just Like\nHeaven\" guitar hook played backwards. The rest\nof the song then breaks down into annoying noise,\nwhich ruins it until the Cure hook resurfaces. The\nlast song by Babysitter is a sort-of \"Louie Louie\"\nin the Black Flag sense, and then we get into the\nsecond half of the split.\nSacramento's Monster Treasure is a bit of a\ncontrast, using dark melody, good harmonies, and\na consistent tempo. There is something Washed\nout and distant about the production, especially\nin the vocals, as if the band and the listener are at\nopposite ends of a long storm drain. A sound reminiscent of Vivian Girls, but not as good. Neither\nband is bringing anything new or groundbreaking\nto the table, and no one song stands out enough\nfor me to recommend.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Justin White\nIn early September, Vancouver hardcore band\nBurning Ghats released their fourth album,\nSomething Other Than Yourself. The release follows\nthe band's first tour through the States where\nthey got Brad Boatright, who also worked with\nVancouver band Baptists, to master the album in\nPortland, Oregon, and had the opportunity to play\nthe Punk is Dead Festival in Lancaster, California.\nFollowing two years' worth of writing, this\nrelease marks the band's first full-length, coming in under 20 minutes. In doing so, they have\nproduced a successfully dynamic hardcore album\nthat gives the Vancouver scene great representation. The album marks a significant transition\nperiod for the band as many of the songs included\ninput from previous members. The album shows\na band finding their sound and appearing a lot\nmore confident in their songwriting.\nThe transitions on the album flow effortlessly,\nas the tracks seamlessly work their way into a fantastic pinnacle, as first hinted on the third track,\n\"All Night Vigils,\" thanks to the building lead\nguitar parts. As the album moves forward, it's\ncarried forward by the intensity of \"Grief Ritual,\"\na song that is largely one long grind-crust riff. By\nthe seventh track, the album finds its darkest and\nheaviest moment in \"Carry the Head.\" The 10th and\nlast track on the LP, \"Gold Sores,\" is a bold and\nsignificant departure from the rest of the album,\nstarting with an extended 50-second pause and\ncomes in at just under seven minutes. It stands\nconfidendy on its own with a quiet gap enabling\nthe listener a moment to change gears and ready\nthemselves for a longer, slower song that features\nguest artist Night Mother's instrumental noises. Burning Ghats will be celebrating this hard-hitting\nrelease with a show on November 22nd at the Astoria.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Monika Loevenmark\nCONCORD DRUMM\n(Independent)\nAllow yourself to be entranced by the dream-like ambiance of Concord Drumm's first EP and I assure you,\ndisappointment will not ensue. It's a conglomeration of\nfluidity, bathed in reverbed vocals, synths, and moments\nof sporadic hip-hop. Emanating from the various hotel\nrooms in which the EP was produced in, each track personifies the ambiance of the city of its production. \"Only\nthree songs long\" is a statement that doesn't give justice\nto the lasting impression that this almost 13-minute\narrangement of composed electronic music has on us.\nA distinct murmur opens the EP, bringing to life a\nmedley of reverbed vocals and synths in the opening\ntrack, \"Alone.\" Before you succumb to the soothing\nnorm established by the track, the tempo hastens and\na glimpse of hip-hop only to return to the calming lull\nthat had initially mesmerized us. An upbeat arrangement\nof synths immediately sets the tone of the second track,\n\"Run (Somebody).\" At this point, our minds already\nin a daydream of ambient electronic music, we enjoy\nChris Brewer's mesmerizing vocals and lyricism that\nemphasize the heterogeneous nature of this mix. As\nthe second track fades away, a mimicking undertone\nblends neatly behind the crescendo of a single sound.\nAt its peak, however, our hearts empty like the sudden\ndrop in the track, only to remerge with an indelible\nrhythm and entrancing vocals.\nThe Hotels EP mirrors the journey of a blissful hallucination, numbing the mind of worry and leading it\non a wonderfully synthetized adventure.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Ibrahim Itani\nTHE CYRILLIC TYPEWRITER\n(Jaz Records)\ntTT\ni\nArt-pop and spaced-out Moogs rarely cross\npaths, and, given the common fare of the Cyrillic\nTypewriter's previous recordings, it would be\nhumble to say Custodian is a conceptual leap for\ncomposer Jason Zumpano. On his third full-\nlength under the Cyrillic Typewriter moniker,\nZumpano entertains this crossover on the opening \"Somewhere\" before the layers of introspective chiming on \"Lament 1\" and \"Doorway\" culminate in nearly 10 minutes of obtuse, seemingly\ndisconnected compositions. Based on lastyear's\nThe French Door, it will take about three songs for\nmost (who haven't read this spoiler) to get up and\ninvestigate whether the needle has truly been dropped\non Custodian before the words \"Original Soundtrack\nRecording\" jump off the record sleeve.\nBy the fourth track, Zumpano has interposed piano\nchords with the omniscient tubas of a regal procession\nthat strike with a surprisingly familiarity to his earlier\nworks. Lyricless and abstract, Zumpano has cleverly set\nup art-pop and choose-your-own-adventure on a blind\ndate, and by the end of Side A, they're already at third\nbase. Flip the record and songs like the ethereal \"Steps\"\nor feverish \"Hands\" illustrate how Zumpano seamlessly\nmixes instrumental conversation with subtle pop playfulness to encourage interpretation of the otherwise\nmysterious Custodian.\nAn unprecedented testament to the breadth of his\ncomposing, the record sculpts seemingly synthetic\nabstractions that could just as easily be the score to an\nexistential thriller as a B-rate acid drenched sci-fi. More\naccurately, Zumpano has given listeners a score to a\nmovie that in fact doesn't exist. Being caught off-guard\nwith this record is part of his plan, though, as Zumpano\nadmittedly created a composition that forces itself into\nsubjective caprice\u00E2\u0080\u0094a score with no film; an accompaniment to the immaterial. 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GOBBStL' 'I'^JS;':\nINF0ATMRGC0NCERT5.COM TICKETS AT' NQRTMRHTlCKm.m\nCiTR H#<#ft*rK\nKEN MODE\nwith FULL OF HELL\nSAT. NOV. 9\nThe Bitmore Cabaret\nTHE BELLE GAME &\nBEAR MOUNTAIN\nwith THE DARCYS\nSAX NOV! 9\nVogue Theatre\nTHE PEAK PRESENTS\nPROTESTTHEHERO\nI withARCHITECTS\nI and THE KINDRED, AFFIANCE\nSHAD\nwith WE ARE THE CITY\nAIDAN KNIGHT JULYTALK\nwith JUSTIN RUTLEDGE with SPECIAL GUESTS\nFRI. NOV. .15\nThe Rio Theatre\nESCONDIDO\nwith SPECIAL GUESTS\nFRI. NOV. 15\nThe Media Club\n102.7 THE PEAK PRESENTS\nGOOD FOR GRAPES DERRIVAL\n(Independent)\nCompared to Derrival's previous work, Youth\nCaptured is less immediate-sounding than Where\nThere's Smoke and not as light and bouncy as The\nAutumn Game/Modern Age Kids. They have blended\nthe upbeat and heavy while also incorporating\nsome new sounds, such as swells, guitar effects,\nand other percussion techniques.\nDespite the album's theme of youth, it simultaneously has a mature feel to it. The only hint\nof teenage awkwardness is in the opening track\n\"Camera Lens\": \"Oh now love / Would you care\nto dance / Even though I / Well you know I can't.\"\nTheir single, \"Victoria Day\" has an epic quality,\nfeaturing a galloping rhythm, dancing bassline,\nand sustained vocals (side note: the music videojs\ndefinitely worth checking out). The instrumentals\nin \"Flood Gates\" are as lulling as lounge music;\nvery chill and pairs well with a craft beer or 50-50.\nInterestingly, the album ends with \"Camera LeUs\n(Part 2),\" the first track's chorus set to some heavier\nchords and electric guitar noise. It's similar to what\nMother Mother did on The Sticks, where they had\nrepeating motives for opening and closing tracks.\nThe musicality of this young band is superb:\ntheir sound is controlled and has variations in\ndynamics. Each song has well-balanced vocal harmony and pulsing chords that provide energy without needing a pounding beat. The textured vocals\n(think a younger Aidan Knight) and somewhat\nambiguous lyrics draw the listener in and emphasize the reflective nature of the album. The rolling\npercussion gives songs forward motion, creating\nmomentum to counteract the mellow vocals while\nbasslines are varied and work well with the percussion. In \"Young Bodies,\" for example, the bass\nand percussion play off of each other under the\ngrinding sound of the guitars. Lead guitar doesn't\nneglect higher up the fret board to produce catchy\n4-5 note, retro-sounding riffs that add brightness\nto the mix. The keyboard contributes to the fullness of the overall sound, as well as ties the other\ninstruments' sounds together.\nHaving so: much to say about a seven-track\nalbum is a testament to how well-composed it is.\nIf you don't believe me, go to Derrival's Bandcamp\npage and have a listen for yourself!\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Willa Bao\nThe long-awaited follow-up to the acclaimed debut\nalbum from Vancouver two-piece Hermetic doesn't\ndisappoint. Though Heartbreakoloflij is only half\nthe length of a regular LP, it's better than most.\nBetween Heartbreakolo^i) and their last recording,\nHermetic have not only gained focus and coherence as songwriters, but also the willingness to\nbranch out. \"Company You Keep,\" with its whistled intro arid catchy drumbeat, almost comes\nacross as, dare I say, happy? But being chipper\nisn't Hermetic's forte, as demonstrated by the\ndark harmonies and depressing harmonica in\n\"Goodness Greatness/Murder Ballad,\" probably\nthe best sOng on the release. This is the perfect\nrainy-weather driving music, and it even comes\nin a cassette, so you know you're rocking it in\nyour rusty Civic.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Justin White\nPRAIRIE CAT\n(Triple Crown Audio Recordings)\nSuccinct and breezy, the first release from Prairie\n. Cat in four years is just n-miriutes long, but the\neffort by Vancouverrbased musician Cary Pratt\nshows that he hasn't forgotten how to create a pop\nEP worth listening to. Having recently performed\nat Rifflandia, Pratt shows that he can hold his own\nwhen he's not working with other local bands\n(including SHiNDiG alums Pineapple).\nWith sharp, honest-lyrics and a catchy keyboard\ntune, the titular track has a direct message: \"If\nI've got nothing nice to say /1 just say nothing\nat all.\" The simplicity of the track compliments\nthe downhearted lyrics, effectively tying the song\ntogether.'After that is \"Beautiful Baby\" a notably\nupbeat track in comparison, with crooning vocals\nand cheery guitar overlaid onto a rhythmic keyboard track, upholding the minimalistic feel of\nthe release. The final full-length song on the EP,\n\"Some Friends May Go,\" is a return to melancholy,\nmaking the most of Pratt's percussion talents. He\ntakes the emphasis off of the lyrics and onto the\ninstrumental, the utilization of sweeping strings\nand slow builds setting this song apart from the\nrest The 19-secondoutro, \"Music Box,\" is exactly\nwhat the title promises, a simple tinkling melody,\nwhich fits perfecdy into the refreshing less-is-more\nfeel found throughout Got Nothin'.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Natalie Dee ^f^^g I NO JOY/DIANE\nOctober 2/TheMedia Club\nWith the clouds finally parted and a pluvial lull setting over the city, Wednesday night's No Joy show\nseemed to be rain checked by many a potential\nattendee. So sparsely populated as to arouse some\ndisappointment, the porosity of the Media Club left\na more substantial and developed atmosphere to\nbe sought after. However, without the usual clutter of a shoulder-to-shoulder audience, the opposing candors of the two performances were easily\ndistinguishable.\nOpening band, local rockers Diane, reflected the\npedestrian atmosphere one could expect on a lonely\nstreet, or in an empty auditorium. While playing a\nfew tunes that might normally incite some sort of\nflurry or fervor, Diane's trio fell short of inspiring\nmuch excitement. Exhibiting their usual penchant\nfor chugging riffs and monotonous melodies, what\nwas heard in their brief bit of banter, and could be\nseen on the still of their faces, was a certain degree\nof disillusion. Even in the concluding moments of\ntheir set, which included one of their stompers,\n\"Religion,\" a seemingly indifferent crowd perfunctorily reciprocated their inhibited tenor.\nLuckily enough, No Joy's cross-country trek\ndidn't go entirely unappreciated. Livelier than it\nhad been only moments before, the ballroom began\nto instantiate its familiar feeling of welcomed belligerence. Their set, which included a slew of songs\noff their new album, Wait to Pleasure, seemed to go\nunaffected by the modestassembly, and truly shone\nwith all sorts of dynamic colours. Having mastered\nthe implementation ofvocal loops and effect-laden\nmelodies, songs like \"HareTarotLies\" and \"Hawaii\"\ninvolved an intricacy worth marveling at.\nAny sort of reticence expected was completely\nand utterly curtailed. And although relying on\ntropes pervasively employed throughout many of\ntheir songs, there was never a lack of interest or\nvisible commitment seen in the musicians themselves. Ending offthe night with their new album's\nintroductory song, \"E,\" No Joy showcased their tacit\nconviction that both professionalism and passion\nare essential to even the smallest show.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Sam Hawkins\nB.A. JOHNSTON / NEEDLES//PINS /\nI BABYSITTER\nOctober 4 / The Astoria\nB. A. Johnston is partly responsible for the ache in my\nhead and the sketchy memory I had the morning of\nOctober 5. To be fair, this is just part of the deal when\nHamilton, Ontario's favourite son drives his mom's\nminivan into town with a new album to promote\nand a few new bad sweaters to shed.\nThis time around, the Astoria played host to B.A.\nJohnston's antics and it seemed to work out well for\nhim. I unfortunately missed openers Babysitter, but\nwhen I arrived the place was encouragingly teeming with an amped-up crowd. It wasn't long before\nJohnston hit the stage.\nFavouring material from his ninth album,\nMission Accomplished, the chubby lovable song-and-\ndance man was in top form and had the crowd in the\npalm ofhis clammy hand. When the man spoke, the\nentire audience responded; when he told a crappy\njoke, they happily forgave him.\nJohnston was already half in the bag when he\nambled onto the stage. Pulling out his trusted \"iPad\ntouch MP3 player with all the latest apps\" (actually,\nan old discman) Johnston opened with \"Deep Fryer\nin my Bedroom,\" givingitthatspecial well-lubricated\ntouch that he's loved for. From there it was a dizzying run through a set that made everyone happy,\nespecially when he pulled out \"Douchestorm\" and\n\"GST Cheque,\" both torn into with a beer-soaked\nvengeance.\nOf course, no B.A. Johnston show is complete\nwithout a bathroom encore. For the uninitiated,\nthis is where the entire crowd packs into the guys\nor girls can while Johnston stands on the sink and\nbelts outa couple of guitar ditties. These are usually\nthe haziest parts of the show for all involved but also\nthe most fun. It's what everyone is waiting for before\nbeingvomited out the frontdoors and into the night.\nB.A. Johnston definitely has a shtick that he\nsticks to and it doesn't necessarily change from\nshow to show, but that isn't to his detriment because\nhe's just so damn entertaining. There's something\noddly endearing about an overweight skid getting\nhammered on the countless drinks bought for him\nby fans, singing songs about hot dogs, paltry GST\ncheques, and fanboy crushes on '80s TV starlets.\nThe themes are simple but relatable. This slacker\neveryman performer has a talent for making music\nthatyou can't help but kind of fall for, and apparently\nI'm not the only one who thinks so.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nathan Pike\nJACCO GARDNER /THE ROYAL 001/\nVILLAGE\nOctober 8/The Biltmore\nThe audience was sparse even for a Tuesday night\nas local rockers Village, featured in the October\nissue of Discorder, opened at the Biltmore Cabaret.\nThe group's music has recently taken on a generally\nlouder sound, forced by their currentrehearsal space neighbours, and it suits them well.\nThe band's setlist sounded heavier than the shoe-\ngazey dream pop posted on their Bandcamp, though\nit still seemed like they were holding their volume\nback a bit. Regardless, the songs were varied, layered,\nand highly enjoyable.\nNextupwas singer-songwriter husband and wife\nduo, the Royal Oui. The show played a dual role for\nthem: itwas their firstlive performance and also the\nrelease of their seven-inch When You Lose Your Mind.\nBut throughout the set I found myself wondering\nwhy tonight and why at the Biltmore? Their soft,\nsensible, and stereotypical love songs, obviously\nwritten for each other, didn't match the excitement\nof the other bands. The Royal Oui might suit a cozy\nliving room where newfound couples snuggle up to\na Nick Cave cover, but the Biltmore is much larger\nthan a living room.\nTwenty-five-year-old Dutch baroque pop multi-\ninstrumentalist Jacco Gardner, accompanied by\ndrummer Jos van Tol, bassist Jasper Verhulst, guitarist Keez Groenteman, and '60s black and white\nvisuals, finally started their set at 11:15 P-m- By then,\na third of the audience had already left, missing out\non a great Canadian premiere.\nOrgan and harpsichord sounds originating from\nGardner's keyboard were the centre of the evening,\naccountable for taking the night's attendees back\nto the psychedelic '60s. Lyrics about forgotten tales\nand personal journeys from his debut album Cabinet\n0/Curiosities left a haunting but warm sound for the\nlistener. Though Gardner is viewed as the front-\nman, his experienced companions' translation of\nthe studio produced sound into a live set were not\nto be overlooked.\nOne of the highlights was the brand new single\n\"End of August,\" which Gardner introduced as a celebration ofhis favourite season and a perfect example of the clever atmospheric pop songs Gardner is\ncapable of writing.\nThe 45-minute set proved Gardner to be well-\nworth checking out the next time he and his band\nvisit North America in the (hopefully near) future.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Karlijn Profijt\nTHE PASSENGER / CLOUDLAND CANYON\n/ NAM SHUB / HIGH SCHOOL HEROIN\nADDICTS\nOctober 14 / The Cobalt\nIn hindsight, I shouldn't have been surprised to see\nso few heads turn out on Thanksgiving Monday to\nthe Cobalt. Still, itwas disappointing that not more\norphans wanted to see touring actCloudland Canyon\nsupported by a chill collection of local bands.\n\"I hope you like count-ins because our drummer\nloves them,\" giggled High School Heroin Addicts\nguitarist Pete Moss before hitting the play button on\nhis iDevice. The charm inherent in a pair of musicians making slick lo-fi sad pop to a drum machine\nliving on a phone is an easy tale to tell: a mix of minimalist Flaming Lips and Casiotone for the Painfully\nAlone. Moss had his own name stenciled on the\nside ofhis guitar, and his synth bandmate \"Savage\"\nSam spent most of the time staring down into his\nkeyboard. Songs were quiet, catchy, and simple, but\nthe bestpartwas the duo flailing knobs and making\nnoise to wash their set away.\nNam Shub's music won't make complete sense\nto anyone who isn'ta member ofNam Shub. There's\na little something of everything in the quasi-jam,\nquasi-structured quartet: drone fills, psychedelic\nrumbling and prepared guitar segues, and post-\nrock-ish crescendos. A band thatis best experienced\nrepeatedly in different live contexts, their set was a\njoyous jam session accented by a tight like-minded-\nness and mutual musical understanding. Admittedly,\nthe group took their time warming into each other,\nbut managing to find and then ride a peak of awesome riffs for 10 minutes was an excellent feat\u00E2\u0080\u0094considering the sound guy had no idea how to balance\nwhat was going on onstage.\nThe touring partners ofCloudland Canyon aren't\nreally afraid to wear their influence, singular, on their\nsleeves. Ifyou like kraut, and you like synths, there's\na ton of room for you to enjoy the duo's contemporary take on the sounds of 1960s Germany's rotund\nexperimentation with electronica. The San Francisco\nnatives, who've released records on Kranky Records\nand Not Not Fun Records, among others, cranked\nout a solid set of undulating synthetic voices and a\nsurprisingly heavy drum machine kick, but their lack\nof dramaticism on-stage made their performance\nseem more one-dimensional than it ought to have\nbeen. Even though Kip & Kelly Uhlhorn were perched\nover monster synths and analog drum machines,\nit felt eerily similar to a DJ hunched over a laptop.\nThe Passenger is such a pleasure to catch live\nbecause you never know what artist Jesse Creed is\ngoing to whip out. It's a moniker that has, at times,\nbeen the platform for dancey techo sets and, at others, a seriously spaced-out drone bed. On this night,\nCreed went the quiet route, building his characteristic warm chirps on top of layers of bass-heavy,\nbeatless waters. That Creed is a synth nerd is apparent\n(even to a non-synth nerd), but his kineticism is what\nkeeps the Passenger interesting \u00E2\u0080\u0094 whether Creed\nwas moving back and forth between his various\napparatus, changing a patch, or checking the connections on the back of something, his constant\nattentiveness paints a wonderful overlay to his live\nperformances.\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Fraser Dobbs\nKING KHAN & THE SHRINES/\nHELLSHOVEL / INDIAN WARS\nOctober 15 / The Rickshaw Theatre\nKing Khan is notorious for having more charisma\nand drive than mostpeople could muster in a lifetime\nof trying. From what I was assured beforehand, I\nhad little doubt that this freak-funk garage party\nfrom Mars would be a blast of energy\u00E2\u0080\u0094and for the\nmost part, itwas.\nOpening up for such a riotous affair mightweigh\non the side of intimidating, but local gypsy jangle\nfolk-rockers Indian Wars managed to bring on the\ncountry fuzz and get the growing crowd going.\nMontreal's Hellshovel was up nextand although their\nwarped brand of rock from the garage is probably\nbetter suited to a smaller venue, they still played hard\nand undoubtedly brought a few new fans onboard.\nWith little time wasted between sets, the Shrines\nwere already on stage when I returned from replenishing my beverage. The buzz in the building was\nmounting and most assuredly the die-hard fans in\nattendance were ready and willing for anything; what\nwe got was a band on top of their game. The Shrines\n7-piece brass and tacks orchestra were massive and of\ninexhaustible energy, sweating, rolling, and jumping\nthrough a set that spanned their 13-year existence.\nThey hit old favourites like \"I Wanna Be a Girl\" and\n\"Land of the Freak\" in the way only a crack funk R\n& Brock band can.\nWhile the Shrines are great, people come to see\nthe enigmatic frontman, King Khan: a crazy, pudgy\nEast-Indian man, who lets loose with howling vocal\ntricks and a sparkle in his eye. But time and life have\ntaken their toll on Khan and the assured insanity was\nmost definitely at a lesser volume.\nWhile the band picked up and delivered intensity\nat the halfway point, Khan kept it tame, relying on\nbelting out the words to songs that clearly mean a\nlot to him as opposed to acting a fool. That's all well\nand fine as long as you're not just going through the\nmotions, but that's how it felt at times.\nMaybe the hype got expectations running into\noverdrive and maybe expectations are too explosive for my own good, but to see a band give it their\neverything\u00E2\u0080\u0094even when their everything might be\nthe obligatory stage dive, keyboards lofted over the\nhead, and big smiles all around\u00E2\u0080\u0094there's still the\nfeeling that there could have been more.\nKhan and company definitely delivered to the\nfaithful. Sound and quality of music alike, they were\nawesome. With a rip-roar through funkfrom the past\nmelded with futuristic garage-rock from another\nplanet, they bring fun music with a current message,\nand at the end of the night, shakingyour tail feathers\nand having fun is all that's really important\n\u00E2\u0080\u0094Nathan Pike \u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A0\u00E2\u0096\u00A01 I\na^iiii\ni THE SHAKESPEARE SHOW\nwith Dan Shakespeare\ninterviewed by ERIK COATES\nlettering & illustration by BRITTA BACCHUS\nI first met Dan Shakespeare almost two years\nago when I started volunteering at CiTR and we\nwere both young, starry-eyed music lovers. Now,\nI'm a slightly older, starry-eyed music lover and\nShakespeare is a bonafide radio DJ, with his own\nshow: The Shakespeare Show. On the air since last\nApril, The Shakespeare Show is an hour full of great\ntunes\u00E2\u0080\u0094mostly old, but some new\u00E2\u0080\u0094handpicked\nby Shakespeare himself, as he adds insightful\ncommentary and interesting stories throughout.\nListening to the show is a bit like hanging out\nwith Shakespeare for an hour, which is certainly\nan hour well spent.\n[Interview has been condensed and edited]\nDiscorder: What is The Shakespeare Show about?\nShakespeare: Well, it's basically just a lot of\nsongs from all over. It's just a bunch of non-hits\nthat I know.\nOn the CiTR program guide, your show is classified under the genre \"Oldies,\" but you play more\nthan just that, right?\nYeah, I play some new indie-rock songs, some\n'80s, '90s, 2000s stuff. It just depends on the day.\nHow did your show get started? When you first\nstarted at CiTR, did you know you wanted to\nstart a show?\nI was sort of planning on having a show, but I\ndidn't know that was going to be the second part\nof the production training. After reading the\nCRTC regulations, the second part of the training\nwas getting my own show. It was a big surprise,\nI didn't know that was going to be a part of it. I\nthought I was done for the summer last year.\nHow do you enjoy having your own show\nat CiTR?\nWhen I broadcast on-air, it's a bit nerveracking\nsometimes because it's public. I'm more used to\nit now that it's been 25 episodes.\nDo you get lots of calls coming in while you're\non-air?\nI've had quite a few calls come in. They're kind\nof annoying sometimes. I can handle it, but if a\nsong's really short, then I can't talk for too long\non the phone. Audience participation can be\ngood, but sometimes I just want to do my show\nand not be disturbed.\nDo you think you'll expand or change the show?\nI'm going to do both. It's slightly different now\nfrom when I started. I ran out of Canadian hard\nto find stuff or Canadian hits, because you can't\nplay the really popular Canadian stuff.\nWho's your favourite Canadian artist and why?\nTo tell you the truth, I don't have a favourite\nCanadian artist. If I did have one, I'd have to\nsay Gordon Lightfoot is definitely up there. He\nplays folk music and he's from around the '60s\nand '70s.\nHow long do you think you'll do The Shakespeare\nShow for?\nIt could be years. For quite a while at least, until I\nhave, you know, a career.\nDo you want to hit 100 shows?\nOh, at least!\nWhat can we expect from future shows?\nYou can pick all the songs for a party someday.\nHave you done any collaborations on your show?\nWould you like to have a guest DJ come on The\nShakespeare Show?\nYes actually, I'd love for that to happen. It hasn't\nyet, but anybody's welcome.\nDo you know anyone in particular that you'd like\nto share the stage with?\nIt could be anybody here at the station that I see\non a regular basis.\nThe Shakespeare Show blesses the airwaves of CiTR every\nWednesday jrom 12:00 p.m. until 1:00 p.m. CITR 101.9 FM CHARTS\nHITZ OF OCTOBER 2013\nCiTR's charts reflect what's been played on the air by CiTR's lovely DJs last mon\nthose marked (+) are local. Most of these excellent albums can be found at fim\ncan't find them, give CiTR's music coordinator a shout at (604) 822-8733. Her\ntell you how to find them. Check out other great campus/community radio chari\nti. Records with asterisks (*) are Canadian a\nindependent music stores across Vancouver,\name is Sarah Cordingley. 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"Periodicals"@en . "ML3533.8 D472"@en . "ML3533_8_D472_2013_11"@en . "10.14288/1.0200808"@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 . "Original Format: Student Radio Society of University of British Columbia"@en . "Rock music--Periodicals"@en . "Discorder"@en . "Text"@en .