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' V V JT \ / X f MM//V i j SONS OF FREEDOM Tex THE AGE OF ELECTRIC TKeU^yEP NO^USE FORENAME Leche Con Came J I'M] ill " \ \A SHISEBEBHpcraBSIED * i i V"' f*K-.^" i ^ If U-D02ER God Hears Rleas Of The Innocent H .ARCHERS OF LOAF yrith Weeze I March 13th at the fCfommoddr^ COMING s6pN.. ^ifewSN;FU! , i o Y VIS-contents LYNN CROSBIE MARMALADE KICKING GIANT BABE THE BLUE PLUTO TAMA ROISKAYA YSTinrACADEMY BAD RELIGION airhead Vancouver special interview hell i can read seven inch real live action under review on the dial charts datebook 10 11 12 12 16 18 4 6 8 20 21 23 24 27 29 30 VIS- cover More local popsters for ya' - this month it's those sweet lads PLUTO, sussed up and inimortilised hv Mr. Paul Clarke. March '95 #146 EDITOR Dylan Griffith ART DIRECTOR Murk Pilon GRAPHIC DESIGN/LAYOUT Mark Pilon, Tania Alekson, Randy hcata. Ryan Ogg ADVERTISING Kevin Pendergraft WORD PROCESSING Lulu Abou EUNmj, Samanlha Blackburn PROGRAM GUIDE Miko Hoffman DISTRIBUTION Matt Su,ffich US DISTRIBUTION Taco Bell Tania & Double Manhattan Mike ILLEGAL ADVICE Vinny Buchanan PUBLISHER & ALL AROUND BOSSY BROAD Undo Srholte.n ■822-301?: m UBC lo bmglty >nd Sawni-h in H,llinKh«n, CiTR l.r Iimi.I il 101.-) FM is wrll is through ill major cablr .'I3M, "i jus pick up i ,1-rrai Prn ind wriic: I233-M3S ON SALE THIS MONTH: PANSY DIVISION ° Pile Up «|9J7LP/cas$$ll93CD PLUTO • Cool Wflf To htl $12.50 CD BUM - Shaketown Live $9,87 LP $13.11 CD REFRIGERATOR • How Tou Continue Drawn*} $1.9) LP $14.92 CD NEGATIVELAND > Fair Use... JjlIM Book and CD GUIDED BY VOICES • Box Set $55.70 LPs/CDi KILLDOZER • God Heon Plea of the Innocent. 49J7 LP/cass $14.92 CD DOG FACED HERMANS ° Bump andSwinjj $9J7LP/cass$ll93CD STRAPPING FIELD HANDS. m the Pineys. $8.99 ir TEAM DRESCH" Persono/Best 49.65LHaoill-iMCD ROUGHAGE tim I^ery Room Saturday, March 4 1VEY SID FISHER r I I V |))} PttPabMawh 1hmfihmi**tm muOmdmomKi 3 ^g^mgx< Dear Airhead, Disclaims *: This was written by Musician s are scum. The scummy sheets are lull of them. For many i nusicians in the 90's (just had tc i throw in that "in the nineties" - makes it sound so hrutal and real) the slreel is the only place where they can ruh shoulders with their superiors. Ihe street is our lowest common denominator or LCD. (Blatant social division, tribal rivalries, petty revenge taking, thievery.) Two great ways to gel ripped off (I'm talkin'culturally here): A) Hang around Granville St., B) By a CD full of pop music. (Incidentally, going lo an art gallery runs a close third.) The irony is, wherever you spend your loonies, you support pop culture. That's because OUR CULTURE CAN BE PURCHASED like any other commodity. 'Hie point I feel I must make is - why support scumbag musicians to such an unhealthy and exaggerated extent when they 're really only interested in masturbating their own egos into (the) various media in the form of phoney cl iched poses (and) while producing infantile shlock pop music which will only be seen in decades to corneas being the sad result of a culture which is ridiculously egocentric (read: really fucking warped) and highly OVER-ENTERTAINED? Evolution© cannot happen until we grow up off the street. Finding enlightenment™ (for those of you who are interested in the process of un-learning practically everything you've been taught) means shaking off the primitive thinking of belonging to anything less than the whole ol humanities. Thank-you and goodnight. I've got lo go practice my scales. Cliuinpy Bolero, Lords of Kitsch Look {of our new release "And don't forget your rotten tomatoes!") and support MA MM IE (Musicians Against (other) Mu sicians Marketing (of) Inane Effluvium. Peace. P.S. We sure don't want to insult anyone, and it is not our intention to stir debate. Why support scumbag musicians? Well, it sure beats my last gig supporting a scumbag slit vedrive r who pa id me th c leas t amount of money the law would allow while demanding that I run my ass of serving his shitty product lo a hunch of ungrateful, inbred low lifes: Other than that, let's just say your mother new a thing or two when she named you Chumpy. Dear Airhead, Hi! I like the new issue, espy (sic) the Zumpano article by Grant. Just wanted to make a correction. In your page three intra you say hockey is Canada's unofficial sport. In fact, Parliament last year finally did something right. Hockey was declared the official national winter sport, while lacrosse, the former national sport, was relegated to the offi- •port. I t knov voted o the e ml I'm B this ethe UBC library could tell you. I totally agree with your comment on the current state of af- ^••TROj)^ rfcr* an YADOtPH/tT^riT^RT^iy; wovie* are in/ look at ItlCOHeRINTjSHOllJ-SiZ/ >W«ANVDl<*TRKY^ - 1 wess/ JB^dOnr^t** fa*******. Ofc. AT THEAI. (KEH tWf Sir*** tHR*6H te$W*Ai*At* fr ". or "Howard the VQQcu/iQktoRe!\ IW CALL THAT A »*HimuHHrt £ JGoiRRELS» MOVte ? VHAUEM BfcATTt AS "SHI*Y"f HK MEAD ft/RM* COWCfAHray THR006H0OT IHt-flUM/ (M.tHece was a H'<sh rat Of fEMAL-E P.A/SflNTHAT*gT. JDAlWrf DEVrtbAS u#>R6lS"? A WA WHO'S fAAD€ A CARES* Of RbMi-Jtfd "ms tv persona in* me Gftooftd AND NICHOLSON WALKS THR<HXaH Hji ROLE/WUCAHBPSis) &g«l*&*ttFcLoe* TWg SKOTS' AND WHO*? IDEA WA* IT fOR StHLOtit TO PM MB? fairs of NHL hockey. Although today's Canucks are among the most exciting teams in the league, I kind of miss thedaysof Thomas Gradin, Gary Lupul, Jere Gillis, Harry SnepsU* and Stan Smyl. I certainly won't be attending any games this season. Too many fans have been paying too much money for too long. Bob Mackin Disclaimer: This response was penned by DiSCORDER's sel- dom-heard-from (and soon-to- be-unemployed) Sports Editor Good for you. Bob! It's nice to hiow thai there are a few puck fans oul there who are reluctant to return to the Pacific Coliseum. Judging from the attendance figures for the 'Nucks this year, there are quite a number of us. It takes a lot of balls to turn your back on a passionate affair; we all love hockey but it's time to excerci.se a little self control. It's no one's fault that out- beloved game is also a business, but tha t damned strike only made me more aware that passion a Thockey is controlled by a pack ofFerragc rds. 1 too ■dftu long for the days of those morbidly clown-suited losers who took us on lhat springtime joyride so many years ago. Fact: the 'Nucks have a wealth of stud hockey players. Fact: the 'Nucks have the ulli- nutte hockey boss, the almighty Pa, Quinn. Fact: the 'Nucks have brought us to the brink of ecstasy many a time, only to have our inflated hopes dashed on the rocks of disillusionment. Now don't get me wrong. I mapuckjunkienow and there is no end in sight, bul this season 1 think I'd rather see those fa, cats eat a little humble pie 'cause my puckbuck is goin' Next year might be a different story. Ihough. PS. As for digging Zumpano. gel in Ime. pal. Hallo Canadians! My subscription expires in March, bul I'm not sure if I wanna delay it. I've been three times in Van., but it is sooo far away from my daily life that I can't handle the information in DISCORDER. but I really like this magazine. Anyways, I'll think aboul it But: You could do me a favour and print arecord review. It's aboul two CD's by Edward Ka-Spel and the Silverman, both known as the heart of the legendary Pink Dots. Edward released a few records with Kevin "Skinny Puppy" Key under the name The Teargarden. If you don't print it: The world wonl stop, if: Great! Sony for my grammar and Ihe mistakes, my German is a little bit heller.... Sven Your wish is out< command baby. See page 24 for the review. A NEWCOMER IN YOUR LIFE IS BECOMING MORE WPORTANT. 1 ? _ Hey! -fee you ever considered being ^rrt cljirector of that Magazine you all love to hate. Here's your chance... Here's an opportunity to be head art and design dictator in the presence of computer technology, and fun loving people who are waiting for your call! 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In conjunction with the Vancouver lire Department, the Commodore Ballroom will host the first benefit, featuring SNFU, Gus, Mystery Machine and members of NoMeansNo, The Hanson Brothers, D.O.A.,The Show Business Giants and Mr. Wrong Funds raised will benefit the survivors of the fire and will also go toward the purchase of smoke detectors and fire extinguishers, which will be distributed free throughout Vancouver to those in need. The second is an all-ages gig at the New York Iheatre on March 4. featuring Sparkmarker, Facepuller, Dog Fat Dogma. Aging Youth Gang, Hunting Humans and Scum Elements. February was a busy month on the live scene. Sparkmarker and Trufflehunt performed on an all-ages bill originally scheduled to include Portland's thirty ought six and Ha/el, but the show was shut down hy Vancouver Police soon after the marker finished then set. Punk rock antics, you sayV Rowdj teens donuts.' Nope, there was nothing out of the ordinary on this rainy Saturday night; the all- ages, alcohol free event was busted without any explanation from the fuzz. A phone call to Denise Sheppard, the show's organizer (and Vancouver correspondent for National Chan) revealed that the Pitt Gallery had been visited by members of the Vancouver Police Department on Saturday afternoon The city's finest (by whose criteria ve yel i lis: led the gallery staff lhat the show could not lake place without the necessary permit and assured them that it was too late to obtain one. However, the permit WAS secured, and the show began as scheduled. Neither Denise nor the staff at the Pitt 6 March 1995 Gallery have been given any explanation as to why the show was shut down, and an official comment from the Vancouver Police could not be obtained by press lime. (One of the VI'D employees we did talk to, however, declared, "The bastards!" when informed ofthe incident.) The l'itl Gallery has been hosting gigs and olher events for some 17 years without incident, cial thanks to those of you who didn't ask for refunds so that the bands could be paid: "I dare you to find a cooler group of people." Positive Records have organized an all-ages show with the honesl-lo-crucllers best roster in months. The pop/punk/hardcore talents of Sparkmarker. Mystery Machine, dbs. Seamen, McRackins and Gob will be on hand to punk rock your world February 24 at the I.angley Civic Centre. Wow. Don'l forget to come early for Nardwuar's "Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rawk Angst" wing-ding. March 9 at Studio J. Scheduled to perform are: The Tonics, Thee Evaporators, The Fallouts (from Seattle). Dub Narcotic (featuring K Records' Calvin Johnson, from Olympia), and I .As Harvey Sid Fisher (with his Vancouver lounge band containing members of /umpano. igglers and Superconduc- The material is being produced by Brian "Time Toy" Wilson, the man responsible for the Horrifying Circus Music Christmas compilation released months back. Drummer Chris says that the material will either be released as a four song 7" or a ten song CD, "depending on how it turns out " Chris also spoke of a WWF-streel-slyle altercation which saw Speedbuggy singer Simon throw Joe, guitarist of The Many, into a mailbox, where he temporarily lost consciousness. "We're still friends - we were just WWF wrestling like we always do. There might be a rematch soon." Apparently there was a videographer to record the punk-rock spontaneity, and the craziness might even Jo. Chei scheduled to make a special appearance. Nardwuar's third full- length LP compilation will be officially released, an incredible collection of "the best bands in the ■rid." .■ell a Speedbuggy video; maybe they'll get more footage next month when the two groups are set to tour together.. After a brief printing delay, Facepuller s new Bang-On (Cargo) release Anatomy of Noise is ready to hit the streets immediately. Facepuller play the I Iungry Eye on February 25 with 25tf, Peepshow, The Staasi Quartet & Wicked Swimming Dog. but this incident throws the gal snippets with Nardwuar vs. 'The Anza club was host of lery's future as a venue into Beck and Timothy Leary Doo two particularly memorable doubt Already, Nardwuar's do lo doo do... shows worth mentioning. I'm "Skookum Chief Powered On lo some band news. Gob not sure why the 70's brown Teenage Zit Rawk Angst" gig are sel lo release a 7" record at checkered carpet and dull, am has been relocated (see below). the end of the month with the bient lighting struck me as be and a benefit to raise funds for help of local Nefer Records. ing cozy this month, but both the a technical college on the Lytton who are financing the project. Gaze/Blaise Pascal/Jessamine Reserve that was to take place Gob are also sel to hit the road performance February 11 and on the Saturday following the soon. the Petrolia/Marvin Gardens "lug bust" had to be cancelled. Less than a month before February 18 shows were both Watch this space for further info their scheduled European lour. great in a lo-fi. loungey kind of next month.... Strain have lost another mem way. Gaze played their dreamy As for the show itself, ber (milarist Greg was replaced lo-fi wash of drifting soft vocals Trufflehunt (with cub's drum lasl month by BNU's Jinx, and and idiosyncratic rhythms well. mer Lisa on guitar and drums) a lew weeks ago drummer Len Blaise Pascal were particularly were a little too jangly for my mysteriously vanished: Len was good, texturing a technically taste, but it was neat when eventually Hacked down at a complex wash of guitar all over Denise did her acoustic number Hare Krishna temple, with no the sleeping indie rockers in at with a Fisher Price xylophone. immediate plans lo return to the tendance. Jessamine disap Sparkmarker. however, were band. Strain are currently audi pointed me. although for Heel fully up to par. nothing short of tioning a new drummer as Ihe ing moments theirs was sonic- amazing - although the lack of band jets across Ihe Atlantic bliss (must have been the band risers forced the majority next month. fuzzbox farlista). The next Of those standing behind the Good news - the word on the week, the Anza provided front line audience enthusiasts street is thai Victoria's Bum are Petrolia with an ideal atmos to only hear and not see the per once again a unit, with former phere to perform their heavily formance. The second half of Tankhog drummer Terry taking slacker-styled set. Pavement/ the show was relocated, thank the skins, and Smugglers/Ton Sebadoh comparisons sprung fully, to a house in Burnaby ics member Nick taking lead quickly to mind, especially (you rule!), where thirty ought guitar duties. The future of the when Ihe singer seemed lo all six and Hazel finished the legendary Victoria power-pop but mimmick Pavement crooner evening with amazing perform unit was thrown up in the air Steve Malkmus' worn-down ances - I Ia/.el's Jody said it was when founding singer Rob and shaggy yelps (read Crooked the best show they had played drummer Graham declined their Rain, Crooked Rain), but the in months. Denise would like to handmales" decision to relocate shifting tempos never broke thank everyone who attended in Vancouver. Check out the stride, and Petrolia waved the the show for doing the indie new Bum live album and new indie-rock flag proudly. The community proud by being so double split Bum/Teengcnerate band plans to release a 7" record understanding and cooperative single, with both bands cover soon, and are performing with and for not stooping to the level ing each other's songs. Bum Marmalade March 16th at the of one or two of the (ahem) play March l) at the Pit Pub Hungry Eye. more aggressive members of the (UBC). Co-op radio CFRO 102.7 is police force (A big wet kiss out Last year's Shindig winners holding a benefit March 4 at the to the Team Horton member Speedbuggy have exhausted Commodore Ballroom. The who. G.I. Joe-like, purposely their recording winnings and are fifth annual celebration of the rammed my leg with his pedal completing new material at Fun music of Latin and Central crunk and told me it was lime Strip studios, a basement opera- America will feature three of to 'move along,' while 1 was lion where Sister Lovers are Vancouver's best Latin bands, waiting for friends to exit the also rumoured to be working. Orquesta B.C. Salsa, venue. Maybe next time?) Spe- Piramide and Songo Son. Call Moira at 684-8494 for more information. Vancouver's 4th Annual Music West Conference is calling for volunteers. Volunteers are need in a variety of areas related to the music industry, including technical services, production assistants, hospitality, administration, media relations, on-site crew, transportation and registration. For more information, contact Jolene at 684-9338. For up to date underground musical happenings, call the Vancouver punk line: 684- PUNX. :xt Hackers can e-m "Vancouver Special <citr(*"unixg.uhc.ca> DAWS ReVtiWSf It's always a pleasure to get a tape from someone I have actually voted for in the past. The candidate in this case is none other than Wretched Ethyl. aka. Charmian Bullan, a mayoral hopeful for the City of Vancouver in 1993. Charmian's enterprising band, which has a quarterly newsletter, a T-shirt line, and an e-mail address for correspondence (and did I mention Ethyl-Net?), have added a guitarist since the release of their CD Ethyl Through the Window. I don't know if he's got anything to do with it, but this band keeps getting better with each new release, as the music on their latest attests. Their sound is heavy, yet nimble; sardonic, yet serious; crunchy, yet smooth. It won't stick to the roof of your mouth, either. For Ethyl- Net, point your* Web Browser to http://www.wimsey.com/~in- finity/ethyl.we_hp.html. Their jil addre infinity@wimsey.com, and for regular horse-and-carriage mail. they're at P.O. Box 3507. Vancouver, BC V6B 3Y4. The three songs I've got by the Insipids. recorded live in a boozecan, definitely show this new outfit to be a 'fun' band. Kicking off with a fuzzed-up surf instrumental, the stage is set for lurid scenes of punk insanity. I wanna check them out live after hearing this tape, so I think it's safe to say the three songs the Insipids fire at you like rock 'n' roll rocket launchers are totally effective in their promotional objective. The Insipids are here to kick some ass and, hey, watch out, it could be yours if you don't devote yourself entirely to their* raging, drunken I'm not entirely sure if this tape's been already been covered elsewhere in this esteemed rag, but I think that Giblet's 12- song cassette 1st Dibs deserves at least another mention. This one kinda reminds me of an Epitaph recording, but without the cloying singalong choruses you might expect from, say, the "O" band, or their labelmates. These fellows from Victoria definitely show their chops on this one; I might even go so far as to say it's the kind of hardcore old King Crimson fans might get into, if there are any left Giblet can be reached at 2347 Belmont Ave.. Victoria, BC, V8R 4A2. Speaking of prog-punk hybrids, Trapazoid are a new local quartet with a decent self- titled six song cassette. The "prog" label applies mainly because the last track, "Blindfold", reaches for that hallowed ten- minute mark. The sweet melodicism on "Garden of Eden" is only frosting for the bitter (but rich) cake of cochlea- scrapers such as "Rockslut". Vocalist Jay is the real chameleon here, bending and stretching her pipes to such an extent that I wouldn't be surprised if she appears in photographs with herself now and then. No address, but I think they live in East Van somewhere. I found a soft spot in my car- Harry S. Mudaliar, who may or may not be calling his band Magic Balloon. 'The three-song James Bowers production kicks off with the Richard O'Brien- ish "Dr. Weird", which is ostensibly intended as a kind of Hallowe'en carol but could easily provide the opening act for a Rocky Horror party any time of year. However, it's the other two, "Message to Receiver" and "Mrs. Brown/Butterfly", that really intrigued me. The cocktail of Bonzo Dog Band, Ween. The Beatles, Wonderstuff, and 10CC (or, more accurately. Godley & Creme) served up by Mr. Mudaliar is thick and sweet. but leaves you with a lightheaded feeling. Now someone give me a fucking aspirin... (Write 'im: 2436 W. 15th Ave.. Vancouver, BCV6K2Z2). Finally, I'd like to generate some hoopla about a couple locals who take a hard-line D.I.Y. approach to their craft. Chumpy Bolero, with his Head Trophies project, is committed ety. "Inspired by the intellectual terrorism of 'the imposed order of the prison cell, the psychiatric hospital, and the battlefield'". Head Trophies Never Sleep is a collage of what sounds like radio and TV noise, appliances, and steel mill-esque electronics. You can try and reach HeadTrophies, but they'll "just stare back at you". Using more standard instruments, but sounding not much more conventional, is Zio, headed by ex- Crawl and Trust Us drummer Tod Dorozio. This material stems from a side-project of Prof. Zio, who has a wonderfully eccentric tape in the stores called Hang Life Mask. \ Inlike Prof. Zio, Zio involves other musicians, most notably a violin player. If you're a fan of Faust and Henry Cow (and, hey, who isn't?) then this pastiche of vocal acrobatics, Kafka-esqi lyrics, clever found-percussi* rhythms, and fucked-up gui should tickle your buds Chambe c for the Anyway, gotta run: I hear they're gonna plant the stiff in Vegas. SKVu/rs R&fimi The Mysterons Velvet Walls (cs) The carnival-like atmosphere of Velvet Walls is wonderful and spirited, and the dirty rotten organ boogie pumps and shouts on "Stingray" and "Inferno" keep me back-stepping and snapping my fingers. A fine release, featuring 22 carefree farfista bliss. Fun. (#200-1220 Cardero St.. Vancouver, BC. V6G2H7) Submission Hold The Buzz of a Buzzless Sanation (cs) Intelligent, sociopolitically aware punk. Formerly Insult to Injury. Submission Hold delve into more obscure territory than on their first cassette, combin- pop-tart innocence to raging scream (Naked Aggression). 1 enjoy "Kids" and "Generated Generation"; "Masters of War" steps towards (dare I say?) a metal tip. "Mai Tete" is hopeful in its serenity. A 12-song DIY giant. (P.O. Box 21533. rock number; "Freightrain" 1850 Commercial Drive. Van- rumbles and bounces along. I couvei*BC.V5N4A0) like Seamen (sorry - couldn't resist). (3319 Shelbourne Street, Sugarcandy Mountain Victoria BC, V8P 5H2) Sugarcandy Mountain (cs) Featuring at least one member AU AGSS SHOWSt of Montreal's Les Minstrels (who now call Vancouver Friday, February 24: home), this two song demo has Sparkmarker. Mystery Machine, an airy 60s Beatles feel to it. Gob, Seamen, dbs * McRackins al "Hands in the Dark" is techni- the Langley Civic Centre (doors at cally cautious and melodic. 6pm). while "Mouth Full of Love" is Friday February 24: AIDS benefit well connected and artistically featuring DDT and gnosis al die blended. Reminds me of New New York Theatre. Zealand's Chills. Excellent cafe Saturday February 25: Pluto, pop. (2131 Southside Drive, Gob, Cinnamon & Queazy at Vancouver BC, V5P 4S5) Crosstown Traffic. Saturday March 4: Kon Jensen The McRackins Memorial: Sparkmarker, What Came First/ (cd) Facepuller, Dog Eat Dogma. Aging The McRackins hatch 15 adept Youth Gang flJBig^ -FRIDAY MARCH JRB \ UUMM^AlH hers on this driving power-pr and a nimble number about ps; chopaths: "willy killigan/i don know/if he gets out on parole "Bittergreen" (a Gordo Lightfoot cover) and "The La Liquor Face (cd) 'Ihe first Bad Robots release, a heavy hitting, quick and snappy power punk offering. "Bullet" is an uplifting and well crafted e Now York irday March 11: Wednesday March 15 MEMBERS Of NOMEANSNO M HANSON BROTHERS, D.0JL, w York Theatre yAprill: SNFU 'SPECIAL APPEARANCE BY OEMEAD* KEIlrllEY \ fOmmODORC INewlUlWre! ^fci To""e "■ —ZLvT*,^,,^ I <» 3 9 C...m,.l -. V, „ c „ u v c r DON'T YOU THINK THE GUILT IS PUNISHMENT ENOUGH? i ■MtfejffiiaM! N STORES NOW Who are you and what do you do? 24/SWF/NS/indoorsy/good at parallel parking. Oh yeah. I also write songs. Describe your sound in 25 words or less. Alternative adult contemporary. A pansy among riot girls. First album. Slumming, is half acoustic waltzes and half electric- grinds. Big on theme of accountability. Who is Kim Kinikin and what is the difference between Kim Linekin and Kim Kinikin? A consonant and a vowel. Other than that, I'm not sure since I've t nil . I he; Sparkmarker. I thought we might be cosmically fated to be together, then I found out he's shorter than me. Have you had trouble getting gigs? It's been no trouble getting gigs at midnight on a Monday where you make about $20. I don't seem lo lit the hard-core clubs or the coffeehouse scene, so I mostly play at the Railway Club (upcoming shows sometime between April f--Xlh and one on April 24Hi). Someday I'd like to play before my,.;heft-time. In a smokeleskiuonfl Will a Sound , system UiaJ...wo#t rip yoi$ cay*** off. 1 want a "lot "of things. Has anyone ever been rude to I played an outdoor gig with my old band Silent Party in Victoria. and some punker from another band was dared (and paid) to run across the stage with his pants down and try to yank my skirt up. He wasn't laughing when the police charged him with sexual assault afterwards. I don't know if I'd consider him rude or merely stupid. I only got upset when his groupies called me a "c**t" loi getting him in trouble - women's liberation indeed. Otherwise I sat back and read with amusement the huge debate it sparked. People wrote letters to the (TUV newspaper arguing that I'd "asked for it" because our band covered a Ouns V Roses song (remember their Appetite album artwork?), or else I was made into asshole upstage you. Simple. Of course, all they made him do was he suffered much. However, no one from that crowd ever messed Why are some people repulsed by acoustic guitar stuff? If this question is a nol-so-subtlc swipe al the fact that I've wrilt<$i .. ^w\io^sli^>un!%lllt4')i|i can shove your Les Paul up your snotty little alternative bum. Some people are repulsed by sex Who should be featured in DU- You mean besides me and all the bands I like.' As long as you never put Tom Cruise or Demi Moore on the cover. I'll lie happy. Without naming names, give a description of a band that you hate and why you hate them. If you can't name names, why bother. I hate Celine Dion because she makes Canadians look vapid and vanilla. But she's an easy target. Let me stick my neck oul a bit. I don't understand the popularity of, say, Rymes with Orange. Door hinge, ok guys' Say it real fast. 'Their songs sound like Mexican jumping beans to me. I think the Hip are over-rated. 'They haven't put out an album of good songs since Up to Here, and it's my guess lhal people like Ihe idea of them more than they actually like their music. I'm chee/.ed off at R.H.M. because Love. I think she's a better widow than Jacquie Kennedy ever was I love Crash Vegas. Sam Phillips and the Posies. I love my friend Michele's band. Taste of Joy, because I know who the songs are aboul and because they're awesome songs. 'That's enough for Explain the song, "Tired of Being a Man." It's aboul how in the I980's there was a big push to get girls interested in sports and science and all things 'masculine.' We were taught to be strong and smart and independent - to a fault. I think. I was a physics geek in high school, mostly because it got me instant respect (and no dates, but that's another song). I took the 'big girls don't cry' attitude into relationships and career aspira- and o rshed o Ihe t. In realized Do vou have anv good train stories? Last fall I went to Europe for a couple weeks and took a night train from Paris to Amsterdam. Got woken up every half hour by police to show my passport. Witnessed one poor black guy get tossed off the train for not having the right papers - or was it not the right colour skin. After I finished university I took Amtrak around the States (this was before they started derailing, thank God). I went from Seattle-Chicago-New Orleans-Houston- L.A.-Seattle. Everything but Texas was fabulous. I couldn't find one public washroom in all of downtown Houston. I got off the train in New Orleans and walked through the heavy warm mist thinking it was train exhaust tram travel, it's a lot of fun if you're careful. Women might consider wearing a wedding ring. I got hit on by a lot of male riders and none of them looked like Anything e nteresting t Yes, I hope so, but I have to finish writing three new songs in the two week's for the Rocktoria CD (due out in May), so I'd better get lo work. Thanks for the airplay' Discography Kim Linekin. Slumming. 1994 - songs. i the eing. lyrics whiny. I hat e thinks Liz Phair i cheap thnll Sting %,^u.'it>;;l'i!l\ :;;^.iiiplt%.UacciO:- whal!id| appointment. I love Courtney So what if I havePMS and! ge googly-eyed over babies and think free love is a crock of s**' and I like having shaved armpit: and a clean house and I'd rather spare someone's feelings than tell them ihe whole truth when come lo believe that womanly traits are a STRENGTH, not something to be ashamed of. MejSdesei ve the same respCctJ'or *w |ihe|d1f%^ce.::'te;i^,*?1ay| not be a startling revelation to ized all of New Orleans wa that. Bul they sure know h put on a good lightning s My favorite night \ like terra old i house, sipping a chocolate milkshake and reading Cosmo while watching the moon get blasted out of the sky. We have such wimpy weather in comparison. My besl day was Disnes land. I sat behind Robin Wi.Uiam^" on the Small World After All ridl| ji*4 gr.l .s%*i%aJgic in tljc Stq,? Wins exhibit I neai ly cried. As for ,rd Man. HMV. Zulu Kim Linekin. sell-titled, 1993 - 5 song demo Silent Party, Wake, 1990 - 5 songs, posthumously released Silent Party, Ihe Loud Empty Air. Sarah McLachlan Solace Live CD Fete McCormack Breathe CD Danielle French cassette Upcoming releases by She Stole My Beer, Richard Thomas and Balloon (U.K.) Kim Linekin < wted l-Jh mamlcrliors[f\ ... •■-•*, t 8 Piedmont D§\<> joria^y^jrJg^, c mini: mirthm: mindlink.bc.cn Describe your sound in 25 words or lr»-s. Straight.l;ri|hijth|fbalIs. piss on j yourhcsd/$ni-fflKc, no bullshit,,■■* fuck it all. against the grain, burger ami fries, Americanadian punk metal chaos. Who are you and what do you do in your band? Kid Cosmic: I rant and rave and burn for the backlash, try and and wait for it all to come to me Apocalypse: I deal wilh the dual rectum, fire pounding, UFO monster rig sound while romancing the senonlas and de- Threc: 1 shout at the devil and we talk beats and bass while he iries to peer through my S-boy facade of glasses and head- Masterbeater: I blunt, drink, and dreams about the right tight bass sound. Armageddon: I listen to Warner Hodges and Bob Dylan speak to me m tongues as I dream aboul the ultimate kill 'em all guitar onslaught. 8 March 1995 Is there anyone else playing; such bttft kicking Bnniaby> «%, oi, '11 sty-k-d beer gut rock ih Vancouver? WetlT'wben we're in thai gear we do it better than anyone else. We all went lo Burnaby North Secondary School and are from the same suburb, but the com- . The I who sgiind ,o*mJ w'e'Sth.ink' ,th%u for i^thrig/'Nowl know hof Wec/.er fell sound-checking with Bon Jovi. May they all perish in names. Recite a line from the song that changed your life. Kid Cosmic: ""Breaker One- Nine this here's the Rubber Duck, you got a copy on me Fig the "Co :\W. McCall. How many times did you plai the Lunatic Fringe? Are yoi .0 play the Fringe and played a least forty times in the space o 2 1/2 years. We are sorry it's his iry because it was the t we had to play aftei ined reasons. We got ban from 86th Street. 'Ihe Big F The Town Pump, The Cruel ephant. The Hungry Lye. Rock Cellar, and even ' Fringe a coupla limes, i Masterbealer: "Sunshine bores tlie daylights outta me." - from "Rocks Off by 'The Rolling 'Three: "More beer, more beer." ■ from -More Beer" by Fear (Lee Ving kicks ass!!!). Apocalypse: "Shot through the heart and who's to blame!" - from "You Give Love A Bad Name" by Bon Jovi. Armageddon: "Hey Ho, let's go!" - from "Blitzkrieg Bop" by the Ramones. Do you like Flash Bastard? If you mean the rhythm guitar player from Zodiac Mindwarp and the Love Reaction circa iKjK'al^iiYv".* ., •"]? -",; What are the'differences between Canadian and American beer? Canadian beer is full-bodied, great-tasting shit (even the Great White versions of American beers i.e. Miller Genuine Draft) with the alcohol content listed on the cans (real punks only drink sixes) while American beer is sweet tasting, watered down piss water with the content of alcohol unmentioned the best American beers all I the d >opul* graphic ( known as Afro-An Frank Booth (from Blue Velvet) has his psychotic amyl-nitrate huffing credibility ruined by drinking Pabsl Blue Ribbon (fuck dat shit!). What's a good question to ask The Starbovs? Q: Should the music industry suit and tie A&R assholes and their high-falutin' lawyers be subjected to a Slalm/Idi Amin like purge? A: Yes, How m.-iiiv times have vou played the Old American*? Ariijj? interesting stories? We-played at least three or four times. The best time was a Friday night when at least four fights spontaneously erupted during "Desolation Overdrive." Two girls fell fighting onto the stage and three guys were trying to pull them apart, but. as per our agreement wilh Satan. the train kept a-rollin' at a hundred miles an hour until we got shutdown. Which Thin Lizzy song has the coolest guitar sound? "Little Darling" off Whiskey in the Jar ', cause it has the same revolutionary guitar sound that "Go All the Way" by The Raspberries, "Mississippi Queen" by Mountain and "All Right Now" by Free have What's the song "China" about? It's about the character called Molly Million/Sally Shears from the William Gibson books is the physical augmentation of ■•thc:''\vo'i!id ,ii.hl NUHTy"-has' zciss icon eygs. iiizor|pig«r*-^s, and is the Queeffeuf lie Feiu-rfois. What's the most important thing we should know about your band? 'That we rock so fucking hard that we're out of phase and this town is totally alien turf to us. 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You imagine Lynn is tough: she would be playful, as is the poem about F.Ike Sommer beat up Malibu Barbie and make her cry. and Xaviera Hollander and so oil. There is a lot of Lynn is not, however, a rocker. She is a kind o\ serious intention in this book, but there is also a literary Jane-of-all-trades: poel. journalist, an lot of play with the kind of pop tropes that 1 grew thologist, and thesis-writing Ph.d. student. She has up with." a regular column called PopTart m the Toronto- I tell her that I grew up with Nancy Drew. too. based political monthly. 77m Magazine, and last and we agree that Nancy's friend George was a year she put together the girl wants lo. an anthol dyke "1 wrote that [-Nancy Drew's Theatre of ogy of -women's writings on representations of sex Blood"] because I was thinking of auto-erotic and the body hanging and I'd nevei beard of a woman doing When Lynn speaks, her voice seems to betray that That was the germ of the idea for the poem a certain jaded quality a bored, I've seen-it-all- wondering if women ever died during auto-erotic so-don't-lhink-you-can-impress-me attitude As hanging, and then making that the great mystery does the subject matter of her writings; after all. that Nancy 1 >rew uncovers m the poem." this woman lucks Jesus in her poems Bul Lynn discourages the reader from trying to access her ...I select emotion- psyche through her writings. "It [her work] lends lotion and find it spreads like itself to certain mylhologi/ing about a persona thai ice. and then burns - like reverent people assume I'm trying to create aboul myself fury - under my tongue the person, which I find disquieting. This book my father leaves out details o! was reviewed in Publisher's Weekly, and they wen! her death, a crossword i ipher she on a big thing aboul me being a Ramhoesque leather, garter, and chain wearing she monslei hours in the afternoon the rope. wilh the very serious work I'm living to do And I'm usually wearing very unattractive outfits w hen For the most part, what we think of Lynn re ally doesn't interest her. unless it becomes;, cata lyst for abrasive confrontations between her and her readers -Usually when people see me they relax because I'm nothing like a persona they imagined Fin a very low key reader, definitely not a performance poet I read in Detroit last year and later my friend who had asked me to read said thai all Ihe people there were contuse they'd expected a "big rock bitch" >f Ihe leviews at the back of my book They had found me quite diffident and were re lieved - but my friend told them I am a rock bitch." Lynn's most recent publication is her second book of poems. VillainElle. Like her first book of poems. Miss Pamelas Mercy, the poems in VillainElle start with familiar images of pop culture - Jack the Ripper, Betty and Veronica. Nancy Drew - and build erotic stories out ol what would the chandelier, her footprints a fresco on the papered walls the shal |ai on the parquet floor, laudanum. 'Nancy Drew's Theatre of Blood' > I the ie epigraph and the topic dto- Lynn .hi quietly uiiagi riding we had the creative ludacily to challenge the uder of things), but'about vhieh we would never dare o speak. VillainElle is an ippropriale title for this col- n: Ihe title poem is Ailene Wuornos. the And while this is the oi poem ofthe bunch that tt breaker, there is a sense len from the perspective .yiin explains. "It's Iso a pla Ol the j .rin, the v II,i cllc.v ses lots ol repc aled w ecause il e hi ik al epts and v nd image s thi rnghi -as a dep iilm e Iroi rst book. whit clhl h had gswht together and every thing was beautiful and fabulous and [they| escaped. I was letting women be a little bit more in this book - if they were villains, so be it - without having the urge as an author to create a conversion narrative links, as with the poem dedicated to Xaviera Hollander, the Happy Hooker, which begins with a quotation by William Wordsworth "They're all related in my mind. bul. yeah, you're right Hies might be more obscure lor someone else. Bul'i love that Wordsworth poem, and I love the notion known reason. I've never really thought about the epigraphs Fart of lhat is m honour of ihe work that informs my writings: part of it is jusl an entree into the work as well " Lynn describes her poetry as her freest form of writing these days, much more so than tier journalistic exploits -niel'opl'arlcolumnismylirsi real loiay into journalism, which is a radically different form of writing Ihe language has lo be so much more simple and accessible. I found these constrictions frustrating at Inst: I found I had to explain loo much lhat irritated me Instead ol saying 'Natural Horn Killers- I had to say. *the movie. Natural Bom Killers '. which reminds me make any assumptions, everything has to be pioven and explained. There is jusl such enormous liberty in wilting poetry that lo be always constricted in those other forms can be oppressive." I figure lhat Lynn is making artistic sacrifices to support herself as a writer, that journalism somehow funds her poetry. I'm wrong. While Lynn admits lhal il is impossible to make a living as a poet, she denies thai journalism supports her either. "I believed in Ihe project" she says. "PopTart doesn't pay a lot of money, but they've got a great stall [al This Magazine] and I have a lot of freedom lo talk about what I want lo talk about. I'm the kind of person who just sits around thinking all Ihe tune and getting either fascinated But 1 would'never take on a journalism assignment just for money because nothing interests me thai much." So as an anthologist, a poet, and a journalist, is there something that supports her in that little fO March 1995 "Besides the phone sex 7" today was a day like any other, I stayed in my room and burned inct love me fairy cones - and dreamed about Veronica. I saw her black hair, its streaks - lapis lazuli - in the crown of ash. I thought jealously of her small hands in his, of the squash-coloured stains at the nape of her neck, where his cold lips emb er beat (fron •Bell ndVen •■") I ask Lynn about the first poem that she ever wrote. "That I ever wrote? I think it was when I was 13. It was something about being lonely. And it probably had happy faces over the i's. 'Ihe first poem that I wrote that lead me to where I am now was this long poem called "Ann Romanologue" about the character on One Day at a Time. It was about her having sexual fantasies about Schneider. That would have been when I was 19 or 20." "Ann Romanologue" would have fit easily into Lynn's anthology, the girl wants to. A crafty collection of comics, poems, short stories, photographs and song lyrics by cool American and Canadian women such as Kathy Acker. Fifth Column. Julie Doucet, Evelyn Lau and Lydia Lunch, the girl wants to is. like VillainElle. a collection of writings by women who break the rules. And. to my knowledge, it is the first attempt to gather up such a diversity of underground feminist writings in a book which has enough mainstream appeal to attract a yuppie browsing at her local feminist bookstore, but which doesn't sacrifice the integrity of the fringe The women in the girl wauls to sell sex, fuck women, and play with electrical appliances. Inspired by Lynn's desire to honour women whom she admires and who inform her own work, the book is dedicated "to all the girls I've loved before". When Lynn joined the editorial board of Coach House Press, publishers of the girl wants to. the board asked her what she wanted to do. "The publisher said. 'Do you have something in mind'.'' and I had this chaotic idea about all this stuff I was mad aboul at the time - underground comics, lots of foxcore. really hot sex writing. itmg. . •cing e ■ery- and showed i rally nothing. I applied ible. Coach House at th uely a profit press now. ley in June, rt to finish hi where I looked. I grab to her and she told ir "All the women Explorations Grant I* was a non-profit pre: were so many contributors and we were ol lei ing of money. The royalties from the book were t Rape Crisis Centre. They'll be getting that mo "For me it was just a great feeling from sti these women contributed - many of whom can they were paid for that book - and that they di feminist collective." the girl warn to brings the underground into the foreground, bul does so without acquiescing to traditional, commercial forms. According to Lynn. "Some people were disquieted by that. A lot of people want to pick up a book, start at the beginning, and read it all the way through, but it has more of a collage t think the thing that I like the most about the book is that a lol < writers that are in it, when their* work has come into Ontario. been seized by Customs. I got to send it out of Ontario, so was no censorship. It's even in the public library system. For Lynn, anthology production meant insight into the pri tion side of things. "A lot of the work was a lot of wrai people's presses for permission. But some of the young, local ers I would work quite closely with, edit their work, ask them I through revisions, and so on." The technical side did not scan away from publishing, and she is presently working on an an ogy of feminist conversion narratives - a collection of momen radicalization - with a different press. Lynn admits that the conversion is typically used to denote religious epiphanies, hi blasphemous nature of the project does not scare her toward ventionality. This really shouldn't be surprising, though. Jesu low rider has visited her and she witnessed the final crash, the that killed him. I see myself have the gospel ich I like. I ng with foreii -.old a I have learned to live wilh si and I am a believer. Jesus ki me, hard on the cheek, befo turns, and rides away. (from "Jesus the Ijtwruh When I was young, my parents who have female singers..." - used to read me Paddington whether those comparisons arc Bear stories at bedtime. Pad- fair or not. dington loves marmalade and I Simon points out thai their couldn't get over the fact that I sound is. "What we ended up didn't. The preserve, however, with because everyone has such has grown on me and so have a different background . . . we Vancouver's don't consciously try to sound Hurythmics and Blondie. Stefan competition, but not to compete. likes The Velvet Underground As Trudi explains, "It was ex and surf-guitar groups like 'Flic cellent because wc weren't wor Ventures. The whole band can ried about the competition and agree on Pink Floyd, Jov Divi we were relaxed because it was sion. The Sugarcubes and so last minute." Aretha Franklin. A diverse mix That seems to be the way Mar- makes for an interesting sound. malade goes about getting Marmalade was one of the shows. "We're pretty lucky." stars of the semi-finals of says Simon, "because we know Shindig, so lots of other people who play own moody pop-rockers. Marmalade. One ofthe line comes out. It *<-*e participants in this year's Shindig, CiTR's annual battle of | the songs|. Most ame up with .fTrudi'sare I asked th m about their ex ^^r the bands competition, they recently invited me over to their practice space for a tea party where we ate crumpets (with What are their c are| harder penence petition. Simon it Ihe infamous com- Ama/.ingly enough, reveals that. "Those verc only our third we've been able to get shows based on who we know." The band finds the local mu marmalade, of course!) and had a chance to chat. Marmalade consists of Trudi J a m e s jg8 JS and fourth shows. so considering that, lit went sic scene really good, but doesn't think that most of the cool stuff gels the attention lhat it de Egerton Ball (guitar and vocals). Simon Woodcock (guitar). Stefen Udell (bass and vo V well|. It depends on the judges and what serves. Trudi takes Moist as an example "Sure they're all musicians, bul they're marketed cals) and James Adams (drums). clam 111 k they like. well . . . they get exposure and James and Simon played to %, We gel lo go places because the) gether in a band called Ihe Rodchester Kings, which have lots ol cash behind them while the bands who are really broke up in September of 1993. Trudi joined the two of them ,-*' **> SpB^»•" good just don'l get recognition." Specifically which local bands are they fans of? soon after the Pipedream. Squelch. Kid break up. Stefan came next, but left the band for t21 ~i' band and. according to Simon, a fitting one for thcin. "We have kind of a sweet side to us. like the pretty jangly poppy songs, and we also have a bitter side, sort of darker." When I asked the band members if they had a concept, a goal, for what they wanted to sound like when they gol together, they seemed stumped. They've been compared to Madder Rose. Bettie Serveert. and the (lowboy Junkies, so I asked them how they feel about that. Says James. "I guess when you have a female singer, you gel compared to all the other bands :^i -J/y'.t Best j fer —J. 'V*<^W/y '^arvtn'V ond step." adds James, "and the first step is just playing around and | getting a network] of pen pie who you know." Not a had altitude for a band lhal only gol then* final line-up AV< They s : pn\ always liked British music Smiths. Johnny Marr proj Billy Bragg - hi Adds Trudi, "I was actually eady lo vomit . . . people were ight." malade's first show was al famous Big Bam Boo on Iway. They got asked last e to play the Music Quest though, they seem happy ji have shows lo play, the Hungry Lye with friends Speeedbuggy and Squelch. // s^&umz Ridr 3 by samanth The name Kicking Giant conjures up images of a pretty damn intimidating nature; just think of it - a hulking beast tearing through the gentle, rolling landscapes, bent on destruction. For Tae Won Yu (guitar) and Rachel Cams (drums), the duo that is Kicking Giant, their 'landscape' was the stiff, cynical New York art world of the iate eighties. And the "destruction': the band's successful splitting apart of preconceived notions of what music should be by offering its version of what mu- ic can be. Discorder recently had the opportunity to speak with Tae Won Yu, who is exactly half of Kicking Giant. Elaborating on his experiences in Cooper Won (art school) in New York, we discover how fate delivered Kicking Giant into the warm, welcoming hands of the enterprising folks at K records in Olympia. Washington. Discorder: Where did the Kicking Giant name Tae Won Yu: It sort of came about a period long before we really started writing songs, at a level where people sit around and think about bands, so I bad a whole mess of names. I just liked the way it sounded and knew it probably wouldn't be repeated. I was working in theatre at the time and was really influenced by how words sounded and titles and I thought Kicking Giant would be a good title for a play. You met Rachel, your music partner (stand-up drums), when you were both going to art college back in the late eighties. When your first cassette January was released, what kind of reception did it meet with? Well, among friends, quite positive. At that stage it was all about experimenting, and to make the point that you can do things yourself rather than wait for opportunities to come your way. At that point I didn't play shows. I was comfortable nih * ting - making things myself. It wasn't really a traditional The original Babe was a neutered blue bull (always referred to as "she"), the gargantuan companion and faithful sidekick of Paul Bunyan. Rumour has it that she created the Grand Canyon and the Great Lakes. These days, Babe has stepped out of the pages of American folk legend to tour as a band from Brooklyn. She's their mascot; she's their alter-ego: three CDs and many gigs later, Babe's a joke that none of them are sick of. Behind paper mache blue ox masks and blue body paint lurk Hanna Fox. Rose Thomson and Tim Thomas. This trio is tight, loud, powerful, fast when they want to be, and (dare I say it) quirky. Not your run-of-the-mill cut of alternative rock rump roast, this is the whole ox. Describing their sound is tricky: imagine Captain Beefheart meets NoMeansNo meets Mudwimmin meets Charles Mingus. Hanna steers (no pun intended) the whole unpredictable sound from her sparkle- painted drum kit, Rose plays the bass as though it were an unruly lover, and Tim plays guitar and fills the rest of the stage with his "big hairy 200 pound" self. They all take turns singing and shouting. f2 March 1995 Babe the blue OX is not your typical alternative band. For starters. Rose, Hannah and Tim are years away from nineteen. They belong in a category of college graduates now work ing as artists and performers. part of the Great Over-Educated and Articulate, Unwashed Masses. When I asked what they were each currently read ing, Tim mumbled something about a book on the effects of cat food on cat's breath, while Hanna replied "a little ditty called War and Peace" But they are certainly not in the camp of cynics dubbed (and written off as) Generation X. This is evident from the titles of their songs, such as "Ole' Foggy Bottom"' and "There's a Hole in the Crotch of My, Workpants" Their world is one of grit, humour, and syncopa- Despite a month of intensive touring, the three groove together through soundcheck before opening for © at the Starfish Room on February 9. Tim plays with granny-style reading glasses. Hanna plays in her socks. One of them sports a sticker on their bag that says "Loud Pushy Jew Queer". When we sit down to talk, the banter is thick and fast. Babe the blue OX are often lumped together with all- women bands or bands headlining women. Their song "'Flowchart" is the first Hack on the A Ear Cry compilation, a ( D featuring bands like Team Dresch. Free Kitten. De Deo and Cod Is My Co-Pilot. Though-'Rose says she likes to play with or wants to talk about his pedal both Rose and Hanna are hot of what they dub the ""tit f* talk to "two members of the band". Rose and Hanna are inevitably the two in question. And though all three agree that efforts to promote female per- thing, they are wary" of ghettoi/ing women away from the overall stream of music cul- All three members of the band write songs and collaborate on the music. Hanna says Tim writes a tot of the lyrics i he's ediMy like the rest of us." Tim's also the one with the hole in the crotch of his workpants, apparently, because now there's a little red heart patch on the crotch Considering the variety of bands Babe the blue OX have been compared to (from Primus to the Minutemen), I was curious to know what influences, musical or otherwise, had shaped the band's eclectic sound. In response. Tim tells me a story of himself as a teen growing up in Minnesota (home of Paul Bunyan...) and exploring his sexuality. A male friend from New York used to play Michael Jackson's Thriller while they sat together in the dark listening and holding hands. At the time. Tun thought that's how all cool New Yorkers tened t . This friend also got him reading the new Yorker, alternative press. far-out than Michael Jackson." As far as what the band listens to now. Rose says "anything that'll make us cry" They all share au interest in musicals and music spectacle; Tim tells me that they all met while auditioning for Cats (Rose and Hanna fiercely deny this). I wondered what their fantasy "Babepalooza" would be like. "The Minutemen, P-Funk, Sly Stone and us" is Hanna's lineup. Tim is more vague. "It would be a rich variety, lots of different people, maybe even Iris Dement. And probably us too.*' After the show at the Starfish Room, Babe the blue OX were set to trundle back down the coast to play Olympia, They played Seattle the night before Vancouver. Three shows and five nights later they planned to play in Alberquerque. Two factors shaped this t ily • for £ month, and they wanted to stick to places warmer than New York. So far, their best gigs Were Alabama and the night they played Austin. Texas. Hanna tries to give me an idea of what their touring habits are like. "There was one wild night in Dallas where we got back to our hotel after the show and slept. We read. And then we slept." Rose adds. "I made valentines and talked about them obsessively. Then we slept." Actually, Tim, Hanna and Rose seem like very sociable people who stay up far to late laughing at their own jokes. If you missed the show on jffebruary 9th, never fear. Babe the blue OX will return. They plan on more smallish tours in the spring and hopefully a fourth album in the fall to follow up Color Me Babe. Maybe if we"re lucky Babe will make us a grand canyon of our very prolific guy He gets ideas all the tune instead of once a year Out to pasture hsitU babe iUe blue ox - by anm friz Rachel get in on e were both pretty frustrated with the narrowness of the altitudes at our school. We were very creative, ob- school. Cooper Union in New York. It was really, you know, a high profile, high pressure kind of school and everyone there was quite serious about entering the mainstream art world. You could see through all that crap and it was about as pretentious as anything. I can't think of a more pretentious environment. That must of been really stifling for both of you... Yeah, I'm surprised how unhip people were to the music and to doing things yourself. Everyone was just really dependent on galleries and tradition, which is good but it wasn't for me. We needed a very spontane. ous, immediate thing that we could be completely surprised about every day. When you were in New York, wkat bands did you see and what are some of those bands that ignited inspirations for tills innovative music that yoa create? . It was between the years of 1987 and 1989 and this was a really fun time for us, we lived in the East Village. There was a bar called the Pyramid Club. a drag queen bar, that had rock and roll shows on Thursday nights, Wednesday nights, Tuesday too. Every week we would go out to the bar, and we saw Half Japanese, Mudboney. Galaxie 500, Pussy Galore - ail those bands were really great during that time. The records that were being put out during that period were really new. How did you get involved with K records? That was a natural process. I have always admired their work and attitudes and music - doing things yourself. It initially started out with them giving us really great support. We would make tapes and sell these to K. who would distribute them. When we came out here, they continued to do that. We were really good friends with the people who run it so that sort of naturally came about. We cared about what other people's projects were; I would work with Calvin (Beat Happening) all of the time and so forth. When the time came to record again, it was just natural that they would pick it up. It's a good partnership, I feel very comfortable with it. What would yoo say was the major difference between snaking music in the environment you came from in New York and doing it in Olympia, Washington? Personally, I think in New York I wasn't able to get a lot done because I was young and my confidence in my abilities wasn"t great and whatever concentration I had was so that I could support myself and pay The bottom Hne! Yeah, and I tried to support myself so thatl could play music as well, but the situation was really the worst. It was the best because it was temporary, but 1 couldn't have lasted in that situation for too long: after a while, we didn't have a place to practice, all our equipment was trashed, we didn't have transportation... A lot of the places that would book us, there was a respectable following there but the New York crowd is just really cynical - they are into it in a very different way. It put me down so much; I could feel a lot of intellectual analysis of music, not a soulful celebration. That was the whole idea and I was totally seduced by that, the idea that it could actually be fun. Do you th iu k as a movement, experimenting with different sounds in music, as you do, is going to bit the mainstream even harder than it has with bands such as Paye- ment, for example? I think that what is considered experimental and surprisingly popular at this stage, if you really examine it on a wider scale, it's not so disturbing or challenging. I think that the best bands, often, what they do is take the old forms and add to it and it's this addition. That's a great thing to do, to have a place in the past to work from, and that's a real education. For us, we try to make music that's surprisingly fresh for us to play, and it's kind of hard for us to say or even worry about popularity or whether it's accepted by people or not. But 1 can say that what is actually different about Kicking Giant is we never consider ourselves to be in the same category as indie- rock bands. We like the music that comes out of there, but I can't listen to that, and I really like soulful, funky music like hip hop and jazz. I spend more time trying to dig that and understand it inside. Playing music from most of what's available in that indie-rock category is really easy to do. In our band, certain attitudes that we are working on is being professional, representations of our pride and also ex - pressions of my own as an immigrant, as an Asian-American, and Rachel's own experiences herself. We don't wear this attitude of we're slackers or we don't have something to say. That whole attitude is old and lame to us. I think that music can be such an explosion of potential, you can be on the side of giving, love, or something else and work towards that rather than play :lsc's licks. ne of the tracks on your bw CD Alien ID is a spoken ork track... The performer is Sue Fox, who lives in Olympia. and gether. People consider it as spoken word and I guess it works to say that, but to us, she is the freest, most rock and roll thing on the record. With spoken word, everyone has these expectations of what it's supposed to be about, but the way we do it, I think it is closer to more primal rock and roll. What do Kicking Giant have planned for the year ahead? We are going on a five week tour next week, actually. We will be making a big circle around North America, I'm hoping to gather materials because I've never really traveled around the country that much. I have my tape recorder, sketch book, cam- gather as much material as possible and see what happens in the end. We are hoping to have something along with the record, maybe a book - something other than just the usual CD. ticking Otompky m Seaflfeen Martft 11. crusn Crush Your Price "Affliction" at HMV AVAILABLE TUESDAY MARCH 7th, 1995 This collection spits out meaty industrial sound bites with a pinch of with this coupon techno, a squeeze of metal and a dash of heavy handed rock. 1 Present this coupon at any participating and recieve AFFLICTION for only $9.99 'HMV1 valid at all participating HMV lo Victoria, Vancouver, Calga , Regina, and Winnipeg. - f s late Friday afternoon at CiTR 101 • 9 fM in July of 1991. ^ f The phone rings. Nobody's around to Interview the bawd ok the line. I volunteer to do it. What follows is an excerpt of my first encounter with Courtney Love.... Nardwuar: I said, "Babes in Toyland." Courtney Love: Well, why did you even bring them up? Because I once saw them at a gig and they had Danelectro guitars. Well, I don't have a Danelectro guitar. I didn't know that. Now I know. Thank you. So what if I don't have a Danelectro guitar? What the fuck difference does that make? Fuckin' Mudhoney probably has Danelectro guitars. Redd Kross probably has Danelectro guitars. Tad probably has Danelectro guitars. Is Lux of the Cramps 53 years old? I don't know. I noticed your P.O. box says Hollywood, California.... You ■e, Courtney? You know what? I've It's really been fun talking to you. I'm sorry, Courtney — I'm glad that you like our band. I hope you come to our show. I'm sorry, Courtney — I'm super impressed that you have a radio show. I hope you have lots of listeners. And I hope that you have a great life. But Courtney, before you go, can I say something to you? Oh, you can say something. I am sorry. Here I am apologizing again. I'm sorry that I began off with that question: "Has anyone ever been mad that Hole isn't an all-girl band?" I didn't mean to bring that up at all — You're asking the most obnoxious questions. They're like rude and they're pointless and they don't mean anything about anything. Okay, well I guess in the future I should do more research. Possibly Would that have been better? Finally, here, what would have been the best question to ask you, Courtney of the rock band Hole? I have no idea, Nardwuar. Talk to you later, though. Okay, thank you very much. Goodbye. ^\ oping to ask Courtney a ™ few questions at Hole's August 1993 appearance at the Town Pump, I arrive extra early at the venue- Heiio, Courtney. Hi, it's me, Nardwuar. I told him to get you out of here. You're not allowed back here. I was going to say "hi" to you. But you're not allowed back here, Nardwuar. But I just want to say "hi" to you. I brought my camera here, too. Nardwuar, I fucking hate your fucking guts. You're such a pig. Oh, thank you! Oh why, again? Oh, thanks. You're not going to punch me yet. No, why? Why? I can't. I'd be sued. I don't understand what exactly was wrong with that Vanity Fair thing. Go get the guy from the upstairs, the promoter guy to get rid of Nardwuar. Go get him, Kristen, do it quick because I am going to beat the fuck out of him really soon! Courtney, can you say it into the mic a bit more? No, I am not going to say anything into the mic. Courtney, can I get an interview with you? No, I hate your guts, Nardwuar. You're such an idiot. Why would I give you an interview? You're an idiot. Why would I give you a fucking a interview? Get what? Courtney Love of Hole. Courtney (to promoter): You've already broken your promise to me. Promoter: I know, Nardwuar. Courtney: This is a bad sign. Courtney, can you at least, will you at least... Can you at least sign — You're the first person I've seen. I was like the whole way up here, "Nardwuar! Nardwuar! I can't wait to see that little—" Promoter: Do you have official permission to for this? Courtney: Do you have a laminate? Promoter: Yeah, do you have a laminate? I've got a laminate. Promoter: Where is it? Somewhere in my wallet. Promoter: Well— Will you allow me one final request, Courtney, like the phone call you get when you get arrested? (The interview continues on for another 25 minutes and ends on a high note after I offer to buy Courtney the cigarettes she wants.) Tuesday January 4,1994, Nirvana's playing the PNE Forum. 1 don't have a ticket but decide to "mope" outside the www. Out of the blue, Courtney arrives at the gig, gives me a LAMINATE, ahem, LAMINATE, and drags my sorry ass backstage. I've been forever grateful. Here's a snippet of our 15 minute conversation: Kurt, did you first meet Courtney Love, I heard a rumour; I think I read it in Interview Magazine, that Kurt and Courtney first met — (Kurt coughs. A lot.) Courtney: Stop. That's Did you first meet at a DOA gig in Portland, Oregon? Kurt: Mm-hmm. Yup. Courtney: (Laughs. A lot.) So there really is a Canadian connection then. Kurt: Wasn't it NoMeansNo? It was our show! Courtney: DOA! Kurt: It was our show. It was my show. I played with DOA a couple times. I don't remember where. So there is a Canadian connection. A Canadian band has something to do with Kurt and Courtney! Kurt: Like yes. Honestly I don't remember which show it was. Courtney: I don't remember, I was too drunk. Kurt: Me, too. y ole returns to Vancouver's ™ Commodore ballroom on Tuesday, November 15,1994. Security is ultra-tight. Somehow, mostly due to the efforts of John M from Geezuz Fanzine and Leora K from CPC's Realtime, I weasel my way through the bouncers to Courtney: First off, did you — Which one am I (pointing to Grateful Dead record)? Well guess, Nardwuar! Patti, Eric, get [Spin writer] Craig Marks! This is me on the back cover of Aoxomoxoa. Guess which one I am. Come on, everyone, guess which I am. I'm the one that doesn't like the Grateful Dead. There! (pointing) It's me! Where's my father? (pointing) See my father. No, right back there. There he is. Gross fat daddy. Did he live on Bowen Island? Yeah. There's gross fat daddy. Where's my mother? Let's find my mom. Come on everyone, let's find my mom. Where's Linda? Where's my mom? Can anyone else find my mom? I know where she is. She's right by Bob Weir. Did you just smoke a cigar with Danny DeVito? Yeah, the other night. I'm doing this movie that he's producing with Keanu Reeves. Mom! Mom, Dad, Courtney. How did this rumour start that you're on the back of a Grateful Dead record? I told people. It's the truth. Are you in the upcoming Quentin Tarantino film at all? No, I was asked to try out, but I had more important things to do so I didn't. You did give that baseball cap to Michael Stipe and I love it, that punk rock one? Mmm, yeah. I smoked a cigar with Danny DeVito and so did Patti.I'm doing this Keanu Reeves fuck movie. I fuck Keanu Reeves and I die, which America wants me to die and get fucked because that's all they talk about: is me dying and who I'm fucking. So I figure that if Americans can fulfil their fantasy through like a big heartthrob like Keanu, they can fulfil their fantasy of me dying, which I don't in particular want me to do right now. Look! Ifs Melissa the Canadian! (Melissa Auf De Maur walks in.) Melissa Auf De Maur! The Doughboys' song "Shine" was written about you! Melissa: Ha! Courtney: See, that's because she's a scen- ester like me and Patti. We all have songs written about us. Courtney, what's this thing Steve Hawkman wrote about you standing in front of clubs greeting fans after shows? Steve Hawkman hates me. He'll write anything mean... It got to the point where I would be in malls with people asking for autographs and like there would be weird Garth Brooks people that didn't know who I was and I would be like, "Do you know the name of my band?" 'cause they had watched a Current Affair or People Magazine and I would say, "Well, name a fucking song and then I will sign an autograph." And they couldn't. But if you're at a show, then you obviously know the name of a song. So Better Homes and Gardens, Spin Magazine — what's the difference? Did you read the Hole thing? It's about mothers crying. I know a lot of boys who became rock stars. Their moms were all abusive. It's four boys I know that became really big rock stars and all their moms were really abusive and after they became rock stars, it's like the abuse never existed. And they all got real Oedipal on It's great to have you back in Canada, Courtney Love. I'm a great Canadian supporter, Nardwuar. And you've got Melissa Auf Der Maur. She's paying Canadian taxes with X\i? ;/*^foih WQ5 our money. How's cub? Are they still around? Yes, cub are still happening. Patti: You are in this month's Flipside, aren't you? Yes, I am, wearing this exact same outfit, believe it or not. Hey, did you see my review in Melody Maker Yeah, I did. Thank you very much, Courtney Love. That was very nice of you. Talk about payback. Single of the Week #4!. That's pretty exciting — Yeah, I went to Rome the next day and Kurt OD'd, so that's kind of marred the whole Single of the Week thing. That must have been a let-down. What about that last thing, though. The Velocity Girl / Elektra deal and the Reverend Horton Heat / Interscope deal? I don't understand those ones. People are trawling. They're desperate. That's 'cause of Danny Goldberg, who's like in our will as the minder of our child, he's an insanely grea^guy but he's also the most powerful man in the world. He's the CEO of Time-Warner which means that our manager, Janet Billig, is now the youngest — at 25 — Senior Vice-President of Atlantic Records CEO. So we had to go to this management called Q-Prime which Veruca Salt are with and they manage Metallica and Def Leppard. So there's a bit of a gender and old school flip. And speaking of flip and Flipside and Bob Cantu, his good friend Joy Aoki, she said that once you were on an airplane in South America — by the way, you played the tune "Rio" tonight — Eric: No, we didn't! We did "Hungry Like the Wolf." You have your Duran Duran wrong! Courtney to Eric: It doesn't work when you talk back to him (Nardwuar) in his language. You have to be yourself. I figured Nardwuar out a long time ago. Courtney to Nardwuar: So go on. You played the song "Hungry Like the Wolf." Now, did you not once fly to Brazil and did not the airplane crash and you attacked the pilot almost. No. Me and Patti were leaving London out of Heathrow anc the plane crashed and we got really pissed off. We were first class, by the way. It was a 767 all the way across the Atlantic straight to Seattle and they flew the same one the next day. I went Concorde. I made Patti fly go on the 767. It was fucking United International. Courtney, who is Melissa Townsend? Eric: A psychic from New York. Courtney: Oh, yes, she's a really good psychic. She's your psychic and Madonna's psychic as well? Yeah, she did our charts together because Madonnna hates me but now she's trying to make up with me. So whatever. She's like saying things in the press like if she didn't exist, then Courtney wouldn't exist, 'cause she wants me to respond, but I'm not going to. Great! One last thing... (grabbing Nardwuar) I want to blow you! Thank you, Courtney Love. Nardwuar, why do you make yourself so sexless. Come on, MAN! I've got my hair shorter now. Can we — It's the woman in me. It's the killer in you. And Melissa Auf Der Maur binding with Billy Corgan. Me and Melissa have both bonded with Billy — Over the Piscean birthdates. Yes. and Kurt and Billy, both have the same birthday. Eric: What about Jello? Jello Biafra? Eric: Yeah, I heard you two have a thing going! (Nardwuar showing Eric and Courtney an ET toy) They've reissued those recently. Yeah, well under Eric's house is a vintage store and they just did a huge ET thing in the window like ET lunch- boxes and everything ET and Drew (Barrymore) saw it and she thought it was really funny. But she's not here tonight, is she? No, she doesn't follow Eric around like a dog except sometimes. Eric: No but I'm going to tell her all about you. Courtney: Eric wears the pants in this relationship — and I'm really happy because I was kind of worried because she's a starlet girl — is she going to dump you and break your heart? And Eric was like, "No rr irthe fuckin' pants." The last tune you did tonight could have had a Mecca Normal vibe. It was a Leadbelly song, Nardwuar. But it kind of had a Mecca Normal vibe... did you ever see Mecca Normal? If you say "Mecca Normal" around me again, I will kick you in the nuts. Okay, I will never say that again By the way, we are missing Lois the most tonight. Where are the Olympia Five? Who are the Olympia Five? Let's see. Candace, Calvin,... ...Lois, Pat Maley, who's the fifth? But Candace is so friendly. But this was what I was wondering. Have you seen this at all, Courtney Love. What is this? (pointing to Mad Love, a collection of Courtney's Internet postings) It's like your Internet communiques. Yes. Hey, Birkenstock, how are you? I'm all right. All right! Do you have one? No I don't. I'm not totally into it. I'm still into pen and paper. This is kind of fun and stuff but what is really weird is how they fucking give such a shit about how I'm spelling. It's like what, I work to be a clerical worker? I didn't take typing class, assholes. But the Olympia Five, like Candace is so friendly though. No, Candace is not friendly. Candace is the one — do you know the Internet posting that's like Sneaky Pete that's got all this crazy shit. It's like got Tm chasing all these rock star guys around, but when it's convenient, I'm in bed with them.' And it's really evil and it's really chronologically crazy and then at the end Mark Arm OD's in me and Kurt's hotel room and someone from the Supersuckers was like — and I got it from a really good source I heard it was Candace and I heard it was Candace who did the really evil fax because Danny said something at Kurt's funeral that was really beautiful and a couple of people crashed that. Slim Moon. And Mary Lou Lord and Candace. Oh, I beat the shit out of Mary Lou Lord the other night in front of Danny DeVito. It was really insane. She came up to me. Danny DeVito had just left and she comes up to me and says, "Hi." How did she get backstage? I fucking don't know. There were like only 20 people left. All the stars were gone and whatever. And I got up and I was like in the 1200 dollar dress and I'm barefoot and I started chasing her and these Samoan guys tried to stop me and I chased her and chased her all the way behind Gower Golds. I think she was hiding in a dumpster. Patti: You cleaned her clock first! Courtney: I fucking clocked her out, but I didn't clock her out enough because I wanted to kill her, right? But instead I look behind me and there were like 100 kids — But you were "pretty on the inside" and you stayed at "four star hotels." Didn't she say that? I know, but she slept in my park. She has a restraining order. She's had a restraining order — Kurt put a restraining order on her two years ago. She's crazy. Is that park called Vendetta Park, that park right next door to you house? Veretta Park or something like that. I know cause when we moved in, I said, "Kurt, that's a park. People can come there." It's like a public place. Yeah and he goes, "No one knows about that park." Which is a kind of a pain. And the Starbucks people live next door and they have a suit against the city now and they're trying take our land. We live in the house that Mr. Blaine built and we livi in Denny Blaine and they're taking our gave us that land. It'; Have you this tribute to Kurt Cobain mag featuring a "Courtney Carries On" story. It's kind of scary but I don't know who actually wrote this thing, this story on you. It's this magazine (showing it to Courtney). There's like no authorship credit. All there is is a barcode. Why these people not being punished for what they're doing? There is no information, they've a barcode but they've got a story on you and they sell it at the 7-11. There's a barcode on this? It's probably Rip. Rip can do this. But how can they do it without giving authorship credit or anything? They just do. I've gone to court... You see, one good thing about publishing is that they know I will put my money where my mouth is know because I've spent, and Kurt has spent, so much money on suing them, and a lot of times, especially in Britain and with tabloid journalism here, they think you're not going to spend the money to sue them. But once you lay down about a hundred grand on litigation, they start getting a little bit more careful. And finally, Courtney, what is going on here? I still don't understand this, (showing National Enquirer with Evan Dando and Courtney kissing) Ev and It's the only bought the kiss? Here, (kisses Nardwuar) Alright, Enquired (kisses others too) Voice in background: What about me? Courtney: I don't know you. And you've got a mustache. Me and Evan kissing, ha ha. I think it's funny. Juliana Hatfield Three who got kicked out for being a junkie. It his little girlfriend who Evan actually was fucking. And we thought would be a really funny idea to make out film. Do you remember the last time you were here with the Lemonheads at the Commodore Ballroom? Yeah, it was the most horrible show. You smashed your guitar. And what did you say to the audience? I said, "You guys don't know that it's cool to like us yet, so we will come back when you do." "And you will be lining up when you come to see us next." And it happened here tonight. Thank you so much Courtney Love. Thank you, Nardwuar the Human Serviette Turtle. Doot doodle doot doo... Radio free fucking Europe. Patti: Doo doo! This happened last time! Enquirer. What's so ing? Big fucking deal. Hey, you want a fs n^^m^ Pluto's trademark sound is an alluring bath of pop; "attitude pop" as singer Ian puts it. To know the band is to first hear their smooth, stylish pop gem, "Pretty Little Jacket," released as a 7" on Popgun. "Million and One", the b-side to their second record, Deathstar, was lovely, but it might have been mistaken for rock trying to pass as pop. Pluto, however, don't merely fill out their sound by spraying it with feedback just before the chorus; they manage to blend the divide between rock terrorism and pop purity by fuzzing the distinctions in between. Listen to the way "Thirsty" and "It's Over", both off the new album, slosh from one side of your head to the other. A progression from the band's previous two seven inch releases. Cool Way To Feel manages the trick of being dramatic without being sell consciously obtrusive or camp. I spoke wilh Pluto after one ofthe band's rehearsal at their After a short year and a half together, Pluto are one of the hardest working groups to emerge from these parts. Consisting of Ian Jones (guitar and vocals), John Ounpuu (bass and vocals), Rolf Hetherington (lead guitar) and Justin Leigh (drums), the four musicians have quickly established themselves as a permanant fixture on the Vancouver pop scene. Soon after the release of their first independent record, the swirling Pretty Little Jacket 7", Pluto were swiftly scooped up by candy-sweet indie mecca Mint records, home of cub and The Smugglers. Pluto have since released another 7" record on Mint, Deathstar, their Failure 7" on Ottawa's Shake Records, and their baby-fresh full length CD on Mint, Cool Way To Feel. Trackstar, they're pretty cool, they were good, but I don't think he was digging what they were doing. Either that or he just decided to get on stage a lot while they were playing." "He was telling jokes," explains Ian . "Yeah," adds Rolf, "if you have to stop and tune or change a string, he'll jump onstage and tell jokes to the audience that don't make any sense." Justin continues, "He makes fun of the bands while you're onstage, but it's fun. It's a fun club. It's small. The Smothers Brothers recorded a live album there - Phyllis Diller used to perform there. If you're in San Francisco, check it out." And he IS nuts," affirms Ian. Spontaneity and a sense of humour have brought Pluto in ich with n razy ce mil) i ■Sin Ik thei drafly Van- s. The members re vear -y el spiriled, after .u «Ped stu lio space to dis- <st ie ha id' <* origins, ad ven Mini full Icnlh, and lhal integral pari of the bands success - style. quarters. There is no doubt that Pluto is a travelling band, hav then sail have a juicy tale of how they formed; Pluto have ing toured to the Maritimes am back, and having reached as tai South as San Diego supporting two. The one lhal I gol suckered into believing had it well known acts such as Wce/.cr. C.nis Againsl Boys, that the band met through a classified ad that simply stated: "I like pop." This version is, as Tsunami, and Hue's Trip ""Vancouver is Pluto 1 Instates Justin, proudly, "but Ian gladly tells me, ••totally false. That's something we al than two months al a time, ever. ways told our interviews, but that's total bullshit" The ruse revealed, Justin When we are, we're willing new songs, recording or prac offers Ihe "true" story of ihe birth ol Pluto:'Mohii and 1 went into a bar ami ordered a drink, I think il was the Starfish we'ru out of town for a month" Any band that has travelled repeatedly has certainly experienced a different side ol life, Room. John was seeing this gui at Ihe time; Ian was there wilh Rolf, who siaried hitting number of unique experiences. When asked to choose their on the girl, and of course John was a bit drunk We didn't favourite road stories, Ian speaks first: "Well, we show up know each olher at all. Roll in Olympia, and we phone the and John started fighting together, Ian and 1 jumped in, and then we realized..." radio station - we had an inter view. We were supposed lo play live on KAOS. We gel "...thai we could be one big one- big happy family," finishes Rolf "And all Ihe songs are aboul that one girl," Justin jests. "Her name's Gretla. No, her name's there, ami ihe guy is like. "'Yeah. 1 really like your new CI),-" and we're like, "No, we don'l have a CI) out, we jusl have two 7"s oul." and he's like, "Oh, isn't this you guys", Beatrice. And that's the trulh." Yukkslers indeed. and we said, "No. that's the jazz band Pluto. So we played An underlying sense of humour is one o( Ihe things lhal on a jazz show." "An experimental jazz Americans; il has also netted the band a one-time deal with Shake Records "When we were in Montreal," recounts Ian, "we had this gig lined up at this shitty bar when we noticed that Stand GT and Punchbuggy were playing the ance al the Purple On- underground club i: Anolh and drove lo ihe olher show - Stand GT and Punchbuggy were awesome." "Ian Walker, one of the co- ted by the owners of Shake Records, was "clinically insane promoter", there and was really im- loin Guido. "He is fuckin'se- pressed," Justin says. "It was a riously gone, nuts," declares good show, a scene crowd. The Justin. "If him and Nardwuar girls from Bite were there, I ever got together and did a think Nerdy Ghi was there. We show, il would be a lucking just played, and they liked us. Adds Ian, "Legend has il basically a fan, and we talked lhal he inherited the club; we. to him on the phone when we don't really know." got back to Vancouver. He said, "Il hasn't been open lor 'I'd like to do a 7" for you twenty years anil he jusl guys.'We had some stuff we opened it," Rolf continues, "il wanted to put out, so we just looks the same | as m Ihe 70s], gave it to him." like, exactly ihe same." After getting scooped up by ""We're not knocking him Mint, "the coolest indie label at all," insists Justin. "When we in Canada" and one that allows say he's insane, it's the band to do one-offs like the because...he is (laughs). He Shake deal, life as a rock 'n jumps on stage during your roller seems pretty breezy for performance, mid-song. He'll the members of Pluto. Promo- stop a band if he doesn't like tion through live shows and them. We were on a three-band bill, and this SF band, "We don't wc be sold witl Labatt's m bra regular record releases is standard operating procedure for bands wishing to establish a key position in their universe. Currently, there are two annual outlets for young bands in Vancouver. One, focused exclusively on exposing brand new local music acts, is CiTR's annual Shindig competition; the other, a coiporately run and financed major-label star search, is Music West. Pluto declined to perform in either event. "Shindig is like this," Justin begins. "Shindig is for bands to get shows and to hopefully win recording time so they can put something out. If you're a band that's already getting shows, getting booked into clubs around town, and you have the ability to record, you have no right in Shindig, as far as I'm concerned. It's a competition for young bands. It's an opportunity to play, that's the best thing about Shindig. You get in there, and you're guaranteed one show. If you win, you get three shows, and you're gonna get some press. By the time Shindig came around, we had already been getting press, we had already by Sean Raggett didn- need U I like 11 Shin Shindig, we don't want I* in it.' What we would get of Shindig is nothing thai didn't already have." (apes "Yeah," says Iar if bands that ■aid of, and re good, but I.Andu bands can't reeor* ready can- Incidentally, who disagreed with the i come of the Shindig final: December, Justin has this nit our CD to t a case of Blue.- say: "I do like Mec they fucking rule. I estly say - and be cc with the fact - that bunch fuckin'* if hitche* n, I think can hon- mfortable I've seen ics, and as far ; go, I think ool. They're a , man. They're hilarious on stage, they're cool. 1 like the way they shit on their audience. They get up there and they're wearing these ri- thmk people-would be laughing at them, and [instead] they get on stage and laugh at the audience. It's pretty funny." Music West, unlike Shindig, is a festival which has no time for "indie cred". Festival organizers make no secret that the event operates to a large degree in the hope of uncovering the "next big thing", an act that will bring in the bucks, and fast. Many of these commercially-minded performers neglect to build an audience on their own, independent of a major label's financial clout, and, in the minds of many in the indie-rock community, groups such Pure and Moist are simply unable to resist the corporate carrot dangled in front of their snouts, quickly hading their integrity for a major label contract. Pluto acknowledge that the decision to participate or not to participate in a corporate convention like Music West must be considered carefully. "Music West is for bands that want to get signed, and Boat races? We wouldn't, because it's not our thing. We're a rock band. We don't want to be a band a major label makes. We'd like to build up our audience and then get it large enough on our own as an independent band. [Then we might] warrant being on a major label. We don't want to come out of nowhere being a band that doesn't have its own following, and then have the major label power everyone in the head with a repetitive video played on Much Music. So, would you play Music West - no, we're not interested. We don't want our CD to be sold with a case of Labalt's Blue." If the optimism Mint and Shake records have invested in pov of isider ild blast Ph i label ippy ■ uh," ; Records could do more fc-r Pluto than Pluto wants done for il than any Canadian major label could. It's a different scene, that's basically it. Music West is totally different from what we're about. It's noi that we're too good for Music into higher orbit m the future. What does the band expect of Cool. Way To Feci'' "I don't think we're gonna be the next Moist wilh this album," says Justin, "which is a blessing. If people like il, they'll buy il, ami will pla- , bu West elike,v dyou r the Draj inch here. I think v OK in Canada; I think we've got enough play from our 7"s in college radio across Canada that we can expect to sell a respectable number of CDs for a band that's on an independent label. As far as the States is concerned, what we sell is going to depend on how often we go down there and play, which should be quite often because we're just going to go up and down the coast from Ian has a slightly more far out prediction. "Basically, our goal is to storm into England and fucking conquer it. And ihen we're going to be- "By way of Spain," adds Rolf. "We're going to be on the cover of Q - we'll be wearing Bryll Cream." To fulfil the latter of these prophecies is going lo take a hand. Is Pluto up to the challenge'.' Justin thinks lhat at leasl one of their crew is. "John is without a doubt, the John lakes every single lucking lip in his wardrobe lighl rison in the early Ru .John explains, "bo Ui tally and musically. , lor his down-to- earth, humble qualities, lo keep myself humble and ing; John for his singing and his style. George Harrison had style. Rent the movie Help, and you'll see what I mean. In fact, 1 think I'm gonna rent lhal today." always," jokes Justin. "But more important than fashion is style," Ian adds. "Style is important to Pluto." .Instil "The one single connecting style in this band, except for Ian, is that we all wear Bryll cream. Bryll ci i Plui d. Of bul we use a very modest amount of Bryll cream We (ind it's more manageable in the hair; il doesn't crust up and dry and Hake, and you can wear il for a long time without washing your hair, which is important on the road. Il comes in a nice tube -it doubles as toothpaste on the road. We are a road band, after all." I have limited space and much maligning to accomplish so heating around the bush, or anything else for that matter, is out. If you hatethe Oscars™, known tothose who have enough cash and clout in Hollywood to care as the Academy Awards™, fuck off! livery- one has the right to bitch, whine, moan and complain aboul the way these gold-plated statuettes are handed oul - more often than necessary to mediocre talent who would be better to serve humanity in some way that didn't cost humanity eight bucks a throw - but to jusl offhandedly dismiss Ihe proceecdings is ignorant. Their relalionship lo the American film industry is analogous to the relationship between an old- style school inspector and a pupil: They only see each other about once a year; if the kid's lucky, he'll gel off without a strapping, and if he's really lucky, he'll be commended for his excellent work. Al worst he'll be embarrassed in front of Ins peers and probably be emotionally scarred for life. In any case, for the 80% : if the population who like watch ing movies, this silly, long- winded, entertainmentally-chal- lenged spectacle of Hollywood self-agrandization matters. And besides, its a great opportunity to see how really stupid most stars are without the safety-net of repeated lakes. This year's conlesl has been sized up by Ihe Province newspaper's esteemed movie critic. Michael Walsh (a man who prides himself in reaching the paper's lowest-common-denominator readership al their level), as a heavy-weighl houl between boomers and X-ers. For those of you not familiar wilh Ihe generalized and almost always incorrectly sweeping terminology of hack periodicals*, B<x>mers are the greedy, have-all, over-populated generation that were born between 1945 and 1955 and who call "Woodstock", "yuppie-lifestyles" and "granola crunching" theirown. In their corner is 1994's box-office juggernaut,Forrest (lump, the epic saga of an idiot. X-ers are those jaded, cynical, unemployed, morally-deprived, over-grown kids born from 1956- 1966 who love trash culture and computers. Their champion is this years' critics' darling, Pulp Fi< - lion. The other, and in the minds of Mr. Walsh and I.as Vegas bookies insignificant, films nominated for the big prize (the one given oul last and taken home by the kind soul who antes up the dough), are the fluffy, if enjoyable, British film Four Weddings and a Funeral; the annual statement by "Liberal Hollywood", this year called Quiz Show; and the uplifting, triumph-of-the-spirit prison picture, The Shawshank Redemp- Best Piclure will no doubt go to either Forrest Gump or Pulp Eiclion, with all smart bets on Ihe man with litlle brain, but I refuse to see this as either a victory of the sensibilities of an older generation over a younger one or a matter of box-office might makes right. Before all the hoopla about Gump - is it a Republican redemption piece? a Democrat's coming-of-age reminiscence? a plot to kill Kennedy? a plot to justify my c was funny. I laughed. I cried. Does it deserve to win? Did that slight-of-hand trick The Last Emperor deserve to win? Did a trite piece of Americana like Driving Miss Daisy? How about the decade's most over-praised lump of shit, Platoon? A film that rakes in $300,000,000 is undoubtedly loved by all; why wouldn't it be as well loved by academy members? My personal choice is, of course, Pulp Fiction, but I can hardly expect an institution whose membership has an average age of 65 and an average personal net worth of a milion dollars to choose as Best Picture a film that I can't recommend to my own mother. I'm shocked it got nomi- In a perfect world, Pulp Fiction's loss of the Best Picture statuette would be more than made up for by a nod to wunderkind Quentin Tarentino as Best Director; in a perfect world, I'd be getting paid for this piece. The odds are against both Qeuntie and me. Best Director has gone to the helmsman of a film that didn't win Best Picture only 17 the 68 years that the Academy Awards™ have been handed out. Thai also practically nullities the chances of Woody Allen (in his seventh directorial nomination) for Bullets Over Broadway and Krzysztof Kieslowski for Red (Ihough this leemed Polish auleur has declared that Red will be his final film) and Robert Redford (who already has >me for his directorial debut with Ordinary People) for Quiz Show. I'm indifferent to the fate of all the contest- anls except Tarentino (and Woody, but since he's disinterested in it himself and will no doubt be tootling his batootle stick at Michael's Pub in NY on awards night...), so if Zemeckis wins for Gump, his latest in a line of special-effects wonders, I won't kill myself. The former video-slore clerk with the heart of gold (well, Midas Touch) is a favourite for best original screenplay. His only opponent is Woody, and ot only does the schmuck ihow up to the awards hut he's also had some unflattering press in the last few years that the academy won't likely forget so soon despite their normally incredibally short memories, it looks to belong to Tarentino. The one award neither Forrest award that, year after year, is a pathetic joke of itself and the calling of female film actor. The excuse normally given for the fact that all the names in this category have appeared on previous lists of nominees is that a male-dominated Hollywood provides a dearth of good leading roles for women and that the few offered each year go to the actresses who have enough pull to snag them. This year, I refuse to subscribe to this exercise in passive agressiveness. This year's nominees are all fine actress. So fine that they already have 14 nominations, and three wins, between them. Jodie Foster is bound to win, since no one likes to break a streak and she's two for her last two (two for three overall). Her tum as a "wild-woman" in Nell brought this response from CiTR in-house critic Kevin O'Toole: "It was the most cliched performance of 1994 " Aboul Susan Sarandon's nod for The Client, her fourth nomination (no wins) and her third in four years, Kevin opines, "She does not warrent a nomination for this film. No way." Winona Ryder is an engaging ingenue but hardly a great actress. I enjoy her work and would definately place her on a tier above Julia Roberts, but if my life were in the hands of her emotive ability, I don't think I'd be long for this world. She does, however, already have a supporting actress nomination, for last year's Age of Innocence, so you can expect her name to appear on the roles in future years. Jessica Lange's nomination is her sixth (one win) and is for a film, Blue Sky, that was made three years ago. She was so compelling in it that it lasted about five minutes in theatres. Miranda Richardson was last nominated in 1992 for Damage and is here given noted for her work in the as yet unseen bio-pic of TS. Eliot, Tom and Viv. I'm sure her work is wonderful but I can'l really comment since, unlike the actors branch ofthe. Academy, I wasn't sent a video copy of the film "For My Consideration". There is a glaring omission in this list of Hollywood's leading female lights. Throughout her ca- projects or more pedestrian fare, Jennifer Jason Leigh has distinguished herself as an actor who can and does. Always convincing and never obvious, Leigh has been ignored by the Academy before, most flagrantly for Last Exit to Brooklyn. This year her exclusion from the Best Actress race is not just insulting, it is a travesty of truth, justice and the American way. Her sublime effort in the title role of Mrs. Parker and the Viscious Circle made an interesting look at a time and sensibility long gone - New York's literati of the 1920's - come alive. Mrs. Parker is the only artist biography I have ever seen that both painted a pshychological portrait ofthe subject without trying to explain or excuse and integrated the artist's work into the narrative with a minimum of obtrusiveness. Jennifer Jason Leigh carried the film and should have been nonii- I have nothing to say about Best Actor; it goes every year to a man who either portrays a person who overcomes incredible mental or physical deficiencies lo succeed (Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Daniel Day-Lewis in Mx Left Fool, Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman. Tom Hanks in Philadel- plete asshole (F. Murray Abraham in Amadeus. Michael Douglas in Wall Street. Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune). L(x*>k how long it took Paul Newman to win playing greal roles involving normal guys. The. only nomination that v fits the requisite Academy criteria is Tom Hanks. Repeats are rare, but Academy innovation is March 27th I will be drunk and glued to Ihe set, yelling obsenities at all transgretions of my will. So what if the Academy can't hear nie? They're all a bunch of brainless old farts. They sure know how to congratulate themselves. though. Subscribe to ^ Get a Free CiTR Promo 8»acSr! Yes! Send me DiSCORDER! And the CiTR Sticker button and magnet! Name _____^___________m____ TSen&cheque or money order to: I SubS c/o CiTR S- 233-6138 SUB Blvd** Vancouver, BC , V6T1Z1 .....•" $15 Canada • US$15 USA • $24 Foreign I f€ March 1995 his friends, and eventually he was making six thousand skateboards a day. attending skate conventions. etc.. until finally one day he just said. kind of far-fetched." Enough said. to he in popular bands." "Maybe what we'll see now. The final word on the matter unfortunately, is because of this comes from neither Jay nor my- rapid upswing of the music that self, but from punk veteran Greg *Cl ci pell BY MEGAN BOT 9 The same day that I heard that Bad Religion was coining to town, I started searching for a way to interview them. I figured it was an opportunity to not only meet my mentors, but also to have my many furtive questions answered. Let it be known that I have a colossal amount of respect for Bad Religion, as do thousands of other fans who appreciate the band's wicked, insightful lyrics, and who applaud the amazing efforts of the bandmembers. Slaying together for fifteen years and putting out eight full-length albums is an amazing accomplishment in itself, but Bad Religion has also managed to keep its hardcore edge and punk integrity intact. Considering that virtually every other band from the early eighties SoCal punk rock scene has since dissolved, changed, or sold-out (read Black Flag. Circle Jerks, Agent Orange, T.S.O.L.), I'm obviously very fond of the band and its work. However, my patting them on the back is the last thing they need right now. Bad Religion has re- cendy left its self-owned and operated label, Epitaph, to sign a major record deal with Atlantic/ Warner. As a fan, tliis change concerned me: Would they abandon their style and loyal followers to comply to a harsh standard set by bosses, who surely want nothing freedom and force them to sound like all the other hands of this newfound, overwhelmingly popular style of the not-so- underground? Would they all have dollar signs in their eyes when I met them'.' Whatever happened to their anti-rock star stance, and the idea of remaining true to the power of punk rock? I needed answers - and I needed them straight. By the time Bad Religion got to Vancouver, the band had completed a seven week tour in Europe and was wrapping up a six week North American tour. I met the group (including ex-Minor Threat guitarist Brian Baker, who is permanently replacing Bad Religion co-founder Brett Gurewitz) before their all-ages show at the Commodore. and.after the introductions, I settled down with bassist Jay Bent- ley to start my interrogation. Not wanting to heat around the bush, I got right to the point with my first question: Is punk dead, or what? "Not necessarily." Jay replied, "'because I think punk is something that's inside, not outside. I think that's where it got a little fuzzy - when somebody wrote up the Ten Commandments of punk rock. Punk rock was supposed to be about no rules, make up your own rules. 'Hie unfortunate byproduct of being around for fifteen years is that more pei iple hear about you and just because ol that - because you've become more popular than the underground can tolerate. -Okay, but what about this label thing'.' Do-it-yourself is just so/**// ik. "What people have yeah, we had our own label for fifteen years and it was work, work. work. We did everything ourselves because no one could offer us a better world than the world we were living in, and that's what we always said: What's the go to someone else if they're going to give us less than what we have right now? Which is now not the case. We have everything that we had before [now that we're] on Atlantic and Warner. We walked in and said. 'Here's what we do and here's the contract and here's how many records we sell. Match all of this - fine.' We don't have to do the every day 9 to 5 minutiae. We don't have to worry about whether or not there's a speck on the 8x10, whether the ad matte is pictorlated absolute. It's like, fuck that, you know, we just want to write music and be in a band again, not worry about all the workload. "Having y, greal and I would highly sugj 'Fuck! I just wanna skate, man Lei someone else do the work.' Even though I was totally impressed by what I was being told. I still had my foolish concerns about Bad Religion's jump to a major label. However. Jay soon made me feel like a jerk for ever doubting the band "To have that concern about a hand that's this old and has set its own standards is we're playing in this punk rock world that we've been living in pretty sheltered for the last fifteen years, maybe we're going to see a lot more upstart bands that just sound like Green Day . (M'fspnng. Bad Religion, and NOFX that ore coming out of nowhere. Because that's generally what happens when a music gets popular: people join bands because they want ion Hetson himself. He suggests lhal perhaps people should spend less time wearing this punk issue thin and just have fun. "Mr. Hetson" I ask. "This self-gratification of punk rock - what do you think ■'Self- stick down did a <elf. bee that if you're*, [that you | do: you learn so you're doing and why you're doing it. And also, when you go to the next step up, which is maybe on to another label, you know what they're saying to you. If they're saying, 'Well, we're going to do 30'/ recoupahle and. obviously, we have 75'/ packaging costs', you say. 'Fuck that. We don't need that.1 That's punk rock to me. It's being intelligent and well informed, and using that to your* advantage. Being independent, yet allowing people to help what the hand 1 a guy who 1 and he made his o ihen he started maki g^gs^P 1 think il is really important for everyone reading this column to realize that my listings are noi the final judgement on any zine. In fact, I don'l even want you to confuse these listings with zine reviews. The truth is that every one has their own opinion, their own favourite style, and their own needs 'lhal may sound corny, hut it is Uue. For example, last column my friend Marie helped me do some of the reviews because, and I know you must realize this. I don't like every zine that I get. Just because I don't like something doesn't mean it isn't valid. We found that the zines that I didn't like, she loved, and the ones that I went crazy for. she [nought As when I started this column, my intention is not to judge people's efforts hut lo promote communication. In our world loday. there is a greal need on the part of everyone to Whether the topic of a zine is kno\ live ways I e withoth- s like So don'l expect lo read lhal I think any zine sucks because 1 won't say thai. Even if the drawings are awful, and the spelling horrendous, ihere might he something in there lhal you relate lo anil I don't plan on spoil- Residenlial Garbage, and although it was a satisfactory read, I think that with A Girl she has found her niche. I think thai I identify with this zinc because it seems like Ibis girl is trying lo grasp the same thing I am: being an adult or staying a girl Body Function (8.5 X 5.5, 28 pages - colour!) This zine has a very original and excellent concept. Contains awesome poetry touching on different areas of the body, literally. "Posturing" is a great one. Please don't let the short length of this description stop you from sending for this, I'm only being brief because I can't do this justice. The layout is excellent and includes cut and paste and stolen graphics. The words are even better. Send three dollars for this colourful zine to: 4528 W. 12th Ave, Vancouver. BC, V6R 2R5. Butterfly #3 (5.5. X 4.25, 68 pages) from Seattle, Washington, Bul- terfty is a publication for women artists. Included are good short stories, even better personal accounts, and drawings. This is a women's publication, and I'm sure that women will identify with the topics touched upon, hut I encourage men to read this as well and try to get something from it I think that is what the editors hope will happen. Send US currency lo Faythe and Hilary at: 12911 NE 130th St. kirkland.WA. 98034. Caffeinenation Quarterly #2 (8.5 X 5.5, 24 pages) Coffee zines aren'l exactly original. In Vancouver alone. dollars to: 4024 W. 20th, Vancouver, BC, V6S 1G5. Do You Keep Your Brain In a Sandwich Baggie? #2 (8.5X5.5,16 pages) This zine is confusing and sometimes a little too vague in that some pieces start out being good rants and turn into anger fits, complete with racial slurs. The theme seems to be "Normality" and the destruction of that idea. Although the authors would like you to believe that they just want to convince people to he themselves, it seems more like someone needs a little reassurance because they aren't okay with the idea that everyone else is wrong. Write to: #5-1255 E. 15th Ave, Vancouver, BC, VST 2S7. From Hell to Breakfast #22 (5.5X4.25:18 pages) Okay, so I don't usually include comics m this column, hut this isn't really a comic boo, it is more like a picture book. Each page contains a weird ass drawing of something. The style is very busy, suggestive, and sometimes just chaotic. Send one dollar lo: Blair Wilson. PO Box 45654, Seattle. WA. 98145- even mentions Nardwuar the Human Serviette, I am going to freak! Seriously, you don't understand how popular this guy is within the scene. He is King of Indie Rock, blah blah, let's all just get over it and move on, okay? Two pages of this zine are dedicated to Nardwuar, and an- Motorcycho (5.5X4.25, 12 pages) This minizine is a local effort concentrating on motorcycles. Included is a biker videophilia, greasy spoon and re- Uicr page in here to Julie o *ip. A few music review: wn in to this chattery ne that also includes ; laic Fringe Benefits (8.5 X 11. 50 pages) lhal I hav Wan Ah and Ontario. It isn't really : more like a magazine :es on college rock. It iome interesting arti- icicle. a gig diary, and it pieces by D. Parker, .of music reviews and iterviews with bands on majors id indie locals. Send two dol- styh polaroid trick, an article on what to do when your favourite hands sell out, and a really cool drawing of what I think is the Velveteen Rabbit. Send stamps to: 133 Dorset Road. Scarborough. ON. M1M2T2. Loggerheads #1 Instead of a review. I have been asked to give the readers of Discorder a message from the editors of Loggerheads: Logger- views of biker songs. It is cool, the pages are all in colour, and that makes it a hit in my books. Send a dollar to: PO Box 1564, Point Roberts, WA, 98281. Psycho Moto - East Coast Exchange (8.5X5.5,44 pages) The concept of this zine is very interesting: It is a compilation zine that comes out once a year. East Coast Exchange is a non-profit underground organization that caters to the hardcore and hip hop scenes. This issue includes an interview with hardcore heavies Orange 9mm. a bunch of reviews, some interesting poetry, an essay critiquing Riot Grrl, and some comics. A very good project worth supporting. Send one dollar and fifty cents American to: 45 Avenue B #2, New York, NY. 10009-7450. Thrill #14 \rftfir -etccoHtptish MrheA you ;.geta THRILL! when we stand on the slage of our high school gymnasium, diploma in hand, we realize lhal we are supposed to lake off die Varsity jacket and take on this pcclanlly al ihe sides wailing for poetry, and these things make it unique among other coffee zines. Bul the thing thai I find almost sad about all coffee zines is that when you put aside the happy little coffee cups and rhyming poetry, what you have addiction If someone did a zinc- about how great it was lo shoot heroin u might be a little more I le. . 1 I lay Ik* really means lo not he me the child, hut lo be me the adult Like any other ensemble, one size does noi til all. This is Ihe lo: 024 L 15th St. N. Vancouver. BC. V7I.2S2. 20 March 1995 caffeine freaks aren't puking a over themselves and are a little purkier. hut ihe truth is thai these then* daily fix. Am I sounding lars lo: PO Box 1439, Stal preachy'.' I'm not trying to. I'm B. London. ON. N6A 5M2. just trying lo bring up something lhal I don't hear anyone Justy #1 saying. So I like this zine be- (8.5 X 5.5. 16 pages) cause il makes me think, iwo If I receive one more zine I upcoming issue. They say S.A.ST #206-10732 86 Ave. Edl ton. AB.T6E2M9. hold of this zine. Princes of the indie rock scefie themselves, the writers of this zine know what is available and what it is on. Even the hippest indie rock zines get covered in here. Schmoozing pictures and TV essay contests make this your complete indie rock guide. Send these boys a buck at: 722 11th E., Seattle WA. 98102. Vile (really just one piece of 11 X 17 paper folded up) I don't know what to think of this zine. 'Weird" about sums it up. hut I'm scared that I might actually like this kind of weird. If you like bizarre stuff, send a stamp to: PO Box 41023. Port Coquitlam. BC. V3C3G1. Keep the mail coming and thanks for all the zines lhat 1 couldn't fit in this issue. "legendary" Nils, so if all you crusty punks in attendance will bare with me...The Stand GT cover "When Love Puts On A Sad Face", a mid-tempo, rather long song which gets the usual As all of you regular this column should know, i of my very largest pet peeve: all-time favo mite groups break up. I've men tioned it time and time again when such past greats as Sc eeching Weasel. Unrest, Beat Happening, the A- Bones, the Devil Dogs. etc. etc ad infinitum have decided to bury their g reat bands. Most saddening i s when a group calls it quits when they a re on the V friends....(Leather Uppers Fun Club Info, P.O. Box 32. Station P, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S5 - I don't know if this address is still in tact, but try it anyway. Also. one more postmortem Leather Uppers' song can be heard on Nardwuar's new compilation Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rawk Angst.) Up next with a new 7" platter is another Ontario group who n the prime of their ■. Such v the case with the utterly tear-jerking demise of The Leather Uppers, Toronto's hottest rock' n'roll combo since the Ugly Ducklings. Known in tiny geographic pockets nationwide for their twin-guitar 'n' drums attack, outrageously hilarious on-stage performances, dance moves, costumes and bare- bones rock songs, the Leather Uppers ranked high in the indie entertainment field. The band's latest (albeit posthumous) offering is a swan-song EP entitled Cut Off Vest which chronicles the 'Uppers first jump to one of the bigger American independent labels, the fabulously tasteful Sympathy For The Record Industry. There are four marrow-suckers here: First, it's the title tune "Cut Off Vest" (tag line: "Rock is the best!"), and then it's on to riff-mania with "Separated". Flip the disc and chew on the "evil" garage punker "Gonna Get You", then listen as the record segues sadly to the final Leather Uppers' notch in the show-biz totem, the fantastic "Smoking Monkeys" (tag line: "Ooo ooo, ahhh ahhh!"). 'Tis a weepy day in have actually managed to hold out through thick 'n' thin since 1986 (!!!) - Glengarry's pride, The Stand GT. Always a favourite in this column, the Stand have finally found their legs and are quickly becoming better known outside of their own rural county (watch for their long-overdue debut album on Seattle's Top Drawer and Spain's Munster Records, on CD and vinyl, respectively). Before flying the Canadian coop, the boys pay tribute to one of their own, saluting Montreal punk pioneers The Nils on a split single with Newfoundland's Potbelly. Husker Du-r v- 1 pO** pop work-over the Stand GT known for. The problem is, I'd prefer almost any GT original tune over this supposed "punk classic ". On the nip. Potbelly sound plain godawful. It didn't help matters that the record label says 45 rpm when it's actually at 33 rpm, a discovery I made by frustrating trial and error. I hate that. Worse still. Potbelly's version of "Scratches And Needles" drags on and on. slowly turning this Nils' song into one of the more boring tunes I've heard in awhile. Jeez Louise... this tribute make the Nils sound like a pile of shit! (Mag Wheel Records, P.O. Box 1 15. Stn.R, Montreal, PQ.II2S 3K6). Kec icd and n 100% local with the help of a Tankhog on drums and a Smuggler on lead guitar. Bum are hack and rockin' Vancouver, their new hometown. As they ul ne\ mid sound like them, too, if e Ramones' tunes were played twice the normal speed. Such the case with the first ■engenerate song in this pack, itab Your Mind", but then the sens cover Bum's debut single -. Promise Is A Promise"". The suit seriously pales in com- irison to Bum's original, but punk the song o much. Worthy of i it from Vict i Rock Pal McEown (I Records. 1223 College Dr., Nanaimo. BC.V9R5Z5). More locals. WAHOO! First, it's the debut record from self- admitted "shoegazers" (hence their name) Gaze. This timid new foursome have just released a four song EP on their own label, following the very DIY steps lined in thi POWF.R to turn the "music" DOWN. The few times I have seen these angry lads play I've felt like climbing up on stage and handing oul acoustic guitars and maybe giving that lead love the spirits of sin and pidity that they have asseml a very special triple 7" box pourri of hootchy hits fi twelve of the best combos in the enter our cut-throat are armed with a p* double seven-inch pack that pits them in a cross-Pacific duel with Japan's premiere garage punks Teengenerate. Each band performs an original of their own and then a cover of each other's songs. Bum's new tune, "Here Comes The Magic", is rather ironicly titled since, after a few listens, it seems to come a wee bit short of the band's past recorded wizardry. Sounds rushed. The flip is Bum's take on Teengenerate's "Don't Come Close To Me" (already found on both the vinyl and CD versions of Bum's / Am Superwoman LP), which actually sounds better than Teengenerate's overdriven, lo-fi original version. For the uninitiated, Teengenerate are a band who look just like the Ramones and singer a hug or something. But garage rock'n'roll scene, ihe of course I never would, cuz that Estrus Cocktail Companion, is straight-edge stuff scares the a highly collectable comp fea- shit outta me. But about these lureing exclusive rave-ups from two songs. -Cataract" and Turn such personal favourites as Girl The Tide", they're a couple oi' Trouble. Man Or Astroman?. heavy-as-a-ton-o-hricks dooms- Southern Culture on the Skids, and Satan's Pilgrims. More than half of the romps arc instrumenlals. and hot ■„' boozy they are indeed, ihe package even comes complete with an Estrus coaster and stir slick, making this a very lellingham. 8227. USA). Now that I' s very col- -)4). Al inn ii ow. if I ready pi- and pos- idemned innocent using the er". get ugh they very tic strum- se three id a guy ey1 Their A nth...Duck my broth- and sisters, and hold ething tight! Sliding to death They can shake their and pound raps ("Eric Jol"). They it's Rancid1 For me. this Berkeley punk band is the best group going in the '90s so far Why' ENERGY! MELODY! TALENT! EXCITEMENT! No .uh.. ■ck'n'r i lose the blinding charisma of a band like the Leather Uppers, my ..the first /er actually mg by the plete with anno*) le glued-on sp :>r tho:- dad li who prel teak. ;ek Gaze. (Gaze. W 19th Ave., Vancouver, BC, V5Z1X2). And then there's hand out of Canada, even, on Germany's Heart First label. ("We would never think of doing anything with a Canadian label. It would be completely day dirges that feel like a soundtrack to my worst slow-motion nightmare. Whoooweee! I need a six pack! (Heart First, Bockhslr. 39. 10967 Berlin, Germany). What better way lo soak-up a six pack o' suds hut with up- stale New York's#l drunks,The That's why. Live and on Dugans? Definitely the hand's these rebel rousers creat poppiest and best yet, Ihis new record's a-side, "Whatever", is a humble rocker documenting the frustrating and all-too-real- this-sucks "life" of a bar hand. Do the Dugans break up because of endless letdowns? Hell I no! They do what every greal nowheresville band does they write a fantastic a-side! On the Hip, "Julianas Got II" is a cool and low-key compliment just what a b-side is for. When The energy pours out onto Ihe in Albany, NY, find a bar called h-side with "I Wanna Riot", a Bogie's. Then find Ihe stage. On bouncy number that barkens it, if you're lucky, you will find, back to Lint and Mall's earlier rocking in a drunken haze, Ihe ska-punk days in Operation Ivy. Dugans. (Kraneproof, 384 If the rumours are true about Hamilton St., 2nd Floor. Rancid signing to a major. I say Albany, NY, 12210, USA). more power to them. Rancid are Drunken hazes are a particu- on the constant attack, so either lar specialty for our next sub- get behind them or gel the boot! jecl of review, and m this case. OI! (Epitaph, 6201 Sunset it's also the theme. Blvd.. Sle I I 1. Hollywood. CA. Bellingham's Estrus Records 90028. USA), love booze. So much do they credibly e eetne a mospli ere exploding at Ihe s •ims v /ilh youlh-angs . The tw ) song on this new sin glc.-Ro* s Radical" and "I Wai na Riot- are n ore of the saint red-hot fire po wcr found on b ilh of th iir pas al- hums -Ro< ls"iseas lythe x*st song yel o '95. an incred hie punker w. th a era zy-cal .hy shout-chort s and in- your-hc ad- lay hooks ga- icking-I 2f E heart hayclen change of heart king cobb steelie plus special guest hayden March 3: The Hungry Eye 23 W. Cordova change of heart king cobb steelie tummysuckle project twinkle ^m YOUR TOTAL ENTERTAINMENT CENTRE O&Osound MARCH 4 FIRE PKYEHTWN/AWARENESS BtNtfll (OHCERT IN MEMORY Of KEN IENSEN AGING YOUTH GANG SPARKMARKER FACfPULLER HUNTING HUMANS DOG (AT DOGMA SCUM £If MINTS SPFCIA1 APPFARANCF BY lOf"SHITH{AD"KflTHllY admission by donation ($6 recommended) all ages * doors 7:30 pm ftoom NEW SIDE ROOM AVAILABLE FOR CHEEP SHOWS1 Capacity 100 people. I Small stage. P.A. board. 1 Only $125 during I Ihe week and S175 on weekends! A&B CLAIMS:! Action © BABE THE BLUE OX Starfish Room Thursday, February 9 On u crisp Thursday evening, 1 was pulling all my ear-hairs out. desperately trying In churn nut words in an attempt to keep a lined leaf of paper from remaining naked and blank, devoid of ihe essay lhat was due the next day. My fingernails were bitten should be taking over in a few days time, and 1 was working up a self-inflicted wedgie when my friend called and suggested the best cure for my homework blues: Babe the Blue Ox and © at the Starfish Room I am still without a complete paper to hand in. but dnl regret roy actions? Hardly. Babe the Blue Ox oiled my Bunyan hatchet that night, and 1 .mi left scarred for hie The perfor in ihe room h.u for Luvafair not long after ©' first two songs and about a quai was kind and consulei enough to sit through tunes, bm. alas. 1 too i pressed These guvs holding out on a new a while, so I was expecting new songs than patented Old ones No such luck Paolo "Rahca-licioitsizcd' S Jrn-ier SUBMISSION HOM) SHOTWELL COHO M-BLANKET ENFA/LAC Crosstown Traffic Friday, February 3 The first hand on this hill. Enfa/ lac. was not unlike the chi dien's formula, foreign and h ter to my palate, then overtly political stance passing right through me quicker than you could say, "Gee. the) ie punk1" However, the bands heaoin THE MANY FACEPULLER THE LOVED ONE PONYBOY Starfish Room Thursday, January 26 Starting out the night, three piece local band Ponyboy sulked their way through a set of last and furious inventions, complete with the lead singer's relentless challenging of a certain member of the audience lo join' him on stage. A consisl- aclionary theatrics - lake a pill! The second band on the bill was the ever mystifying, often- gigging outfit The Loved One than the musi eh was l.sh. hush seemed like k ig to tarry the n essagc that. CUB Yes, kids, drugs . 1 had seen Vietoi ia's M-hlan- SPARKMARKER GOB el the preyioi s week in New York Theatre Manaimo and was nessed with the >ands early Saturday, January 2X The New York Theatre Jawbreaker grand, and 1 was look style pop- ward to attending thiss thisone would've bee pecially Sparkmarker ocheck oul lowing the ESS- 'a new chapter In yc-m- life ts being --written" pecially towards the endol'Xheii oul of sync. Perhaps ii was ihe Paccpullei were tip next with age happening in Ihe room thai llighl 10 slued a lace or Iwo Solid, solid, solid shit. Willi Ihen guilars humming work. The Many provided the grand finale lollns exhibition ol up-and-coming acts ihe vocalist reminded me somewhat of a younger Ian MacKaye. grinding out his impassioned agenda, his kUil: s lllus spoil ta equipment. Then they launched into three back-lo-back, obliquely lyricized avante funk songs (beginning with "Ego Pimps.'' the first tune off then- latest CD), and they could not be mistaken for anyone else, ihe band's head-swaying, pro- swoon-like trai I had met up with at the gi .mission Hold, for I did not ' to see you, mainly to the lhal my night had already :en topped off by the "Soul rain "ensemble. Get de fin-i i Dunn an to drink Ik s). bul Ihere si be less drunken fools to off the ground in the pit tunately, this particular gig si a hole right through my ha* all-ages theory - people just 1 I Hi: MANY facepuller the Loved one PONYBOY Starfish Ro< Thursday, Jai Starting out the night, three- piece local band Ponyboy The band i: of humour, ihough.. baled by ilieir comii Vegas' Alier pounding out a solid quesled encore, the band look leave into the drizzly Vancouver night. Santantlta ('alvcri 23 m^$m±\ HUGGY BEAR alter all. Weaponry Listens To U)ve Poetry, rliylhin, and I (Kill Rock Stars/Famous Mon- here, fueled by an anger sters of Filmland) lhal goes beyond niosl Baggy Bear is not a band thai rhetoric. Huggy Bear' speaks to everyone. Wilh only a few emotionally unrestrained poppy exceptions, these girls and sound strange, bul it is Ihe dreat you understand or not. EDWARD KA-SPEL Weaponry Listens To hive sol- The Scripture of'Illumina lens the band's abrasive rills and THF SILVERMAN speedy beats with poetic lyrics, oc- Dream Cell casional trumpet and piano, and a (Terminal Kaleidoscope) harrowing emotional depth. The The legendary Pink Dots are h.i jumbly, often running off into a couver's Kevin Key (Skinny Pupp section is incredible, with dm DP lhal reallv shows* off I luggv Bear's* Ihei stuff by Ihcmse ves now. 11 talent. Tlieir poetry is pulled from IW( first issues are s* lo-reeords b Ihe gui. reaching past everyday language lo express something beyond the commonplace. "16-1 Suicide" i*:,u -ard Ka-Spel an ■•The Silvennai ' knight. I and "Obesity + Speed In fifteen oil iree years and hi instrument pictures of depression and despair. Pin ks are far bcyon. ( Dots song. Tlu sXormT and songs hke "Immature Adoles pai ling Ills atonal a .1 well-stru*. cence" and •'OnThc Wolves'Tip" lur*. 1 sound landscap s with digit continue with ihe band's familiar and analog inslniinen s. Sometime theme of alienation. These are the llns music builds up a wall of into words and Ihoughls of a person rid- ver ed emotions y hi can'l g< ccs. If you want these ai„i u win look so -your ability for a before ,i destroys.- aixompishment nale singer Chris in wj|| follOW With 24 March 1995 8253, 6503 Nymegen, The Neth- rhuuls. or fax 31-8812-3587 Sven Niechziol (He's German, ■> don 'I mind his English. I LAUREL MAC1X)NALD Kiss Closed My Eyes (Improbable Music) Laurel McDonald's first albui carry you on a voyage loheavi bring you back down into a s ing candlelit bath set on a enshrouded with swirling mist. ing strength thai it stills my in ■hit ai Mac does. The mu impelling and; originating from ancient texts of Greek chants and Gaelic music. For aficionados ol Dead Can Dance and This Mortal Coil. (Not available in siores. bul you can order il through the mail by calling 1-800-563- 7214.) VARIOUS ARTISTS The World Of The Zombie. (l'opllama) combo the Zombies. Bryce Dunn CATHFRINF (TVT) "Better Living Through Noi towheaded youngsters while Ihey wave back. On the back cover, a red and yellow beach ball has been added, about to be run over by the truck, so now it looks like the kiddies are waving frantically at the truck in an effort to save their ball. Sony is basically pop songs overlaid with walls of guitars, and that's One by me. It's exceedingly Brit lolk mber, while "Adoles- incrcil " is aCelln.-style song fully I iber (aboul the Russian/ of Pears" is for you. lis a slow song. THE THROWING MUSES nalily - one of the band's many (4AD/Wamer) strong points. "Suckerpunch The Throwing Moses are bade! Fbl- lune on the disc, and is also an ex- solo release Hips and Makers. eellenl tune to dance to. Kristin Hersh has emerged with yet TOTr also experiment with ska. another collection of moving, m- jazz-rock, and just about every olher sightful songs, accompanied by forinataiKlsiyleih.il is known to the longstanding Muses drummer music industry. If you are tjred of David Narcizo and newcomers purchasing discs with thirteen songs Bernard Georges (bass) and Jane which all sound pretty much the Scarpantoni (cello), same, you will not be disappointed Over the space of a generous with the musical variety this disc fourteen tracks. Ihe Muses succeed contains. in enrapturing their audience widi a Darren Abmmson tight cocoon of sensual sound, deli- SWEATY NIPPLES Bug Harvest (Megaforee Worlwide) TERROR OF TINY TOWN Terror of Tiny Town COMMUNITY BOX OFFICES TICKET PRINTING SERVICE Call us for your next event! 684-1234 • Competitive Rates • Next Day Service • Genera! Admission or Reserved Tickets liitiijiilij ii Community Box Offic 1234W.Hastings St. Vancouver, BC * tangles of IIershs bi "Bright Yellow Gun' oves biliously into sou me with the Smashing Pump- full I think I need a little ■limb you as I grow oh lis knees, and I'll end n If I were lo see these j in some sleezy bar. I i drunken state, find the However, in any other By combining hypnotic melo- aty Nipples is simply an dies with graphic, non-linear lyrics COMMON QUESTIONS: 1) IS THIS A NEW STORE? 2) DO YOU SELL USED FURNITURE? 3) DO YOU LIVE HERE? 4) IS THAT YOUR VAN? 5) DO YOU PEE STANDING UP OR SITTING DOWN? 2509 W. 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With vocals thai are reminiscent ofthe Beatles later stuff, (circa The White Album. Abbey Road), or even the Velvet Underground/Lou Reed (especially in the lyrics "He isn't good at anything but starting a re- i, by nov it's all he's paid brilliant, bul it's definitely Sleuth ?t proi of il COOL STUFF Levi 501 's Cords 50's thru 70's clothing 313 cambie street, Vancouver, b.c. Ph: 669-cool/669-2665 BATUSIA GOGO AT THE PIT PUB! LIVE BANDS EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT! i\ ADMISSION IS FREEII MARCH 2 MARCH * MARCH 1* MARCH 323 -MARCH 30 BANDS START @ 9:30 THE PIT PUB • IN THE BASEMENT OF THE STUDENT UNION BUILDING, 6138 SUB BLVD. • 604-822-6511 PLEA. Pacific Legal Education AssodgSion PHONE 291-0049 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED Are you an outgoing, spontaneous man or woman over the age of 19 with a never-say-die attitude and a good sense of humour? We are a non-profit iociety that helps young offenders and children aged 8 to 12 who are at risk of getting into trouble. 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This includes classical musk, both Hndustari and Camatk, popular musk from Indan movies from the 1930s to the 1990's, Semi-dassical musk such as Ghazals and Bhs*jans, and also Quawwals, Folk Songs, etc. Hosted by J. Dhar, A. Patei and V. Ranjan. RADIO FREE AMERICA 10:00PM- 12:00AM Join host Dave Emory and colleague Np Tud* for some extraoninary political research guaranteed to make you think t-wke. Bring you* tape deck and two C- 90s. Ohojn-«y broadcast on KFX (Los Altos, Caifomia). IN THE GRIP OF INCOHERENCY 12:00AM- 4AM Drop yer gear and stay up late. Naked rado for rake people. Get bent. Love Dave. MONDAYS BREAKFAST WITH THE BROWNS 8:15- 11:00AMYourfavouritebrawn-sters,James and Peter, offer a savoi/y blend of the farni- iar and exotic in a Wend of ami deights! Tine in and enjoy each weekly brown plate special. THE STUPID RADIO SHOW 11:00 AM 1:00 PM With you* hosts the Gourd of Ignorance and Don the Wanderer. What wi we play today? Rog wi put it away. 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FLAMING CATERPILLAR SHOW 6:00 7:00PM Paris Green explores woridieat musk with Captain Kirk, Spock and occasional THE PEAKING CANUCK 7:00 9:00PM If you are suffering an identity crisis you may want to tine into this show more than once. You host Bob WUston chronides Canada in 20th Century sound every second week. THE JAZZ SHOW 9:00PM-12:00AM Vancouver's longest nxming prime time jazz program- Hosted by the ever-suave Gavin Walker. Features at 11. March 6: The Jazz Soul of 'Porgy and Bess" The title suns this up, Bi Potts arranged, conducted and picked the band to play Gershwin's great musk. Art Farmer, Phil Woods, Bi Evans are only a few of the stare in this wonderful album. March 13: Part 1 of a 2 part feature. The Lee Konitz Quartet at the Half Note. With WartwM*rsh(tewsax)andB«Evans(piano). Done in 1959, but they sound so fresh and March 20: Part I of the Lee Konitz Quartet Martch 27: The Jazz Corps-a unique and highly original group made up of frustrated stu (to players from LA. who were detemined to play some daring and chalengng musk. Tommy Peltier, and guest artist Rahsaan Roland Kiric SCREAMING INCONSISTENCIES 12:00- 4:00AM: The ultimate contrast. Screwing you over with nostalgia, then bringing you back to what you might cal realty. We do TUESDAYS THIRD TIME'S THE CHARM 8:30- 11:00 AM That's right, bubl Punk-pop, surf- slop, and lots more trash for yer can. Tune in to me, Bryce D., for all the cnjd that's got dass every Tuesday morning. Yowza! MARY TYLER MOORE SHOW 3:00-5:00PM Women in musk and gnrris in musk; two hours of info and rawk. Ya don't need a peris to be a musical Genius! Coral and Trish. THE UNHEARD MUSIC 7:00-9:OOPM Meat the unherd where the unheard and the hordes of hardy herd are heard, courtesy of host and demo drector Dale Sawyer. Herd ip! RITMO LATINO 9:00-10:00PM Get on board Vancouver's only tropical fiesta express with your loco hosts Wend, Rolando, and Mateo as they shake it and wiggle it to the latest in Salsa, Merengue, Cumba and olher fiery fiesta favourites. Latin musk so hot it'H give you a tanl jjRADIO SABROSAII WOLF ATTHE DOOR 10:00PM-12:00AM Alternating Tuesdays. Live readings and the latest in techno twzarro vwth host Upus Yondertwy. AURAL TENTACLES MIDNITE - VERY LATE Warning: Ths show rs moody aid unpredctabe. It encoinges insomnia and may prove to be hazardous to your health Listener ctecretion is advised. The musk, news and 2:00 WWOD hosted by Pierre may not be stitaHe for the entire family. WEDNESDAYS MUSIC AS A WHOLE 8:30- 9:30 AM Bob?!? Maybe, kinda sorta, but not necessarily? YACHT CLUB 11:30-1:15Dropaichorwith our new all rap format. It's superkalifragalickin' ei-peakdopemix with DJ Gav 'n Matt. LOVE SUCKS l:15-3:00PMTuneinforthe musical catharsis that is Love Sucks. If you can't make sense of it, at least you can dance MOTORDADDY 3:00-5:00PM "ham a brother, steal his colors, insult the dub and, man, look out - you gotta pay!" This is the code that has escalated rivalry between Eastern cyde dubs into a blood feud... THECUTTINGROOMFLOOR5:30 6:00PM Join our own "best boy" Kevin OToole for news, reviews, interviews; all the shmooz in the film business that Mary Hart and Entertainment Tonight find unfit to broadcast, ESOTERIK 6:00-7:30PM (es'o'ter-ik), adj., understood by, or intended for, only a select number of dsdples; secret; mysterious. AND SOMETIMES WHY 7:30-9:OOPM**nd sometimes why are people so miserable? guess that's life... but we always have Sily Quadcy Utterly Elegant Elfy Kod Yofcs! STRAIGHT OUTTA JALLUNDHAR 10:00PM-12:00 AM Let DJ's Jindwa and Bindwa immerse you in radoactive Bhungra! "Chakkh de phutay*. Listen to al our favorite Puijabi hues - remixes and originals. Bnraaaah! THURSDAYS RADIO FREE WOMEN 1 0:00-11:30AM We're in your homes and in your heads. Anna and Deb insinuate their way into your life to entertain, provoke, preach, rant, seduce, and lie to you. "It's only 10am, ae they talking about sex agaJQr CANADIAN LUNCH 11:30-l :00PM Toques, plaids, backbacon, beer, igloos and beavers. Eat your lunch every Thursday with Skyler. STEVE* MIKE 1:00-2:00PM CrasKng the boys'dub n the pit. Hard and fast, heavy and slow. Listen to it, baby. FLEX YOUR HEAD 3:00-5:00PM —HARD ERIC— ERIC CORE— YOUR DREAM VACATION S:30-6:00PM If you move in your groove and notion to motion, If a backpack's your thing then here's what you do: Thursdays at supper tune in to ths show. OUTFORKICKS6:00-7:30PMNoBrtenstodo, nothing paitkaly correct. Wedon't get paid so you'redamn right wehavelunvrthitHosted by Chris B. OU)SCHC<XROCK*ROa7:30-9:OOPMRoolsof Rodr'n'Rol - If you don't get into Rock'n'Roll Heaven don'tbbmemel UVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HEIL 9:00 11:00PM Localmuzakfrom9. Live ban* from 10. March 2: Signal and The Minstrels March 9: The Mysterons March 30: Oown Corporation RADIO TRANSUBSTANTIATION YEA!! - Alternating with TFIL 11:00 1AM Straight from the mean streets, Ethan Meyer, Dylan Rymer, and mixmaster Kaplan Nero stradde and masssage your eardn.ms with non-stop horror. Inject and learn somethng! TALES FROM THE INFINITE LIVINGROOM - Alternating with RTY 11:00- 1AM Chris Pariah explores theMetanoid states and psyd«Honk scapes of The Infinite Uvingroom, that Nth dmensknalspacebetween perplexed ss and profound absurdty. FRIDAYS VENUS FLYTRAP'S LOVE DEN 8:30- 10:00AM Greg here. Join mein the love den for a cocktail. Well hear retro stuff, groovy jazz, and thicker stuff too. See you here... and bring some ice. XOXX LITTLE TWIN STARS Alt. with lo-fi 1- 2:30 PM Strap on yourvnyl Go Go boots for an intergabclk nde to the stars. Hello Kitty! NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS... 3:30-4:0OPMHavea good brunch! THE CiTR DINNER REPORT SOO THE MEAT-EATING VEGAN 3:00-4:OOPM I endeavour to feature dead air, verbal fbhience (only when I speak), a work of musk by a twentieth- century composer- can you say mnrnalist?-and whatever else appeals to me. Fag aid dyke positive. Mail in TUE SAT trtytk serfoks music? fi*amviii;ia|ii | SATURPAY wttk-ttu the charm HM(fc M « k-ett compact disco Uh* Out DIGITAL RLRRM CHHOROHETER R«dr« frit WOMEN 1 ?•>•** Norn*! MM WW helen's hut &cr^oo<l THE YACHT CW LUNCH ROCKERS SHOW POltViR\ CHORD HErlAIIHRL OBJEKT hue BLOOD ON THE SADDLE love sticks SAM lo fi little twin stars RLVTAAM/ $0*1 CUliTCrX M«*t-E*tiKj V-MM Mary Tylar Moor* Show MOTOR dAddv flSXVWR H£AD Sluggy & Dipo AFRICAN SHOW | NARDWUAR/ F-miMii-* Hy-I'iu | SLACK-STAN W&9ft&tfWl ■HUI!,r77lff^^ Vtrtry tktw | Hewer's Smw FUn-iMj C-tterfHUr Aw*r« Htwat? ESOTERIK ftttt for K*( NATION t NATION THE SHOW thlphop) THE PEAKING CANUCK/ kip k«p k«tit UNHEARD MUSIC and sometimes why OLD SCHOOL ROCK « BOLL 1 Lulu. Bat-it | in Tow**** ukiteierit takes j Cf-FTANJ-fcLi THE JAZZ SHOW RITMO LATINO AFRICAN VARIETY LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL HOME BASS shports 1 1 ONE STEP BEYOND/ RAPIOFREE 1 AMERICA molf it me door/ witchdocotor highball strS efcttw j-ftlltkHd-ftr Groom JUMPWG RADIO T.Y.I TALES FROM THE INFINITE LIVINGROOM IK THE GRIP OF INCOHERENCY SCREAMING INCONSISTENCIES A<*AL TEJVTAOU THEORY.RFH Uuf BOIlic solution SOMETHING 5:30PM Do you want us to make you a SaberToothTigar?Halfanhourof*jibeatable news coverage plus our weekly wrap up. F-TmBnghton,Eno^andcorrespondentAngus NATION 2 NATION 6:00-9:00PM Underground sound system-style mastermil radio. FOR THE RECORD 6:J0-6:45PM Ex- cerpts from Dave Emory's Radio Free Ameria Series. HOMEBASS 9:00PM-12:00AM The original live mixed dance program in Vancouver. Hosted by DJ Noah, the main focus of the show is techno, but also includes some trance, acid, tribal, etc... Guest DJ's, interviews, retrospectives, giveaways, and more are part of the flavor of homebass. SATURDAYS THE SATURDAY EDGE 8:00AM- 12:00PM Now in its 10th year on the air, The Edge on Folk features music you won't hear anywhere else, studio guests, new releases, British comedy sketches, folk music calendar, ticket giveaways, etc., plus World Cup fleportat 11:30 AM. 8-9 AM: African/World roots. 9-12 noon: Celtic music and feature perfor- P0WERCHORD 12:00-3:OOPM Vancouver's only true metal show; local demo tapes, imports and other rarities. Gerald Rattiehead and Metal Ron do the damage. THE SHOW 6:00-8:00PM Strictly Hip Hop - Strictly Undergound - Stnctly Vinyl With your hosts Craig G., Mr. Checka & J Swing on the 1 & 2's. THE BIG STOMP 10:00PM 1 00AM alternating with Groove Jumping Kiting ugly rado with one easy step. SOMETHING 1:00-4:00AM Icanwaita i long long time before I hear another love song. new stuff this month: NEW SHOWS SONZC SOLUTION (techno) wili be fiJLLin' in Thursdays lath from lam to Aaum tadcincj over* -front Laced in Dvl-tneaa 'til the end of thiB raonth QIRLFOOr* with Janis playing Canadian girl tunes (mostly) is now Fridays 1 1 -noon. SCHEDULE CHANGES: Blood on the Saddle will be back sometime this month! promise! MARCH 8 IS INTERNATIONAL women's DAY. TUNE IN TO CiTR FOR A FULL DAY OF W O M E N S PROGRAMMING! WHOM & HOW Andy Bonfi.ld ISIDIHT Saan l*gg«t A SUDDEN CHANGE IN PLANS WILL LEAD TO GOOD FORTUNE. 2? i^&AMm WHAT H*PP£Nt> ^o^M(j WomAn p/scov/ •^T^IfJG Hf-JCrf-e-fEtf -Wr/MMvi-WvV-H/*^ essf *«& &SfrAf4 Tt> Lj5 Ml ■&H0U<**HTt> L-OO HA**? ill Chtsirte ; danger gens I various artists , brainiac ; the Wolfgang prej 1 the stone roses I dirt bike naked I blaise pascal poor old lu i six feet deep ; some velvet sidewalk ■ the action swingers I dogbowl & kramer I otarf Iyer 59 evil bed set crunch melody the -secret of comedy shimmy-disc stars kill rock kill rock stars bonsai superstar grass funky little demons lad second coming geffen dirt bike naked independant are you going to eat that Bub pop foreward ep cave canum Btruggle rex rev epitaph impact, music vol. 5 impact shipwreck k quit while you're ahead Caroline hot day in waco shimmy disc starflyer 59 tooth and nail tender places come from ... amarillo aarcl '55INDIE HONE JOBS arch 'os SHORT VINYL 35 parch 'OS LONG VII \IYL50 1 zumpano look what the rookie did sub pop 2 various artistB trim crusts if desired cinnamon toast 3 fastbacks bike toy clock gift lucky 4 team dresch personal best chainsaw/candy-ass 5 jeBBamine jeBBamine kranky 6 raary lou lord mary lou lord kill rock stars 7 sparkmarker products & accessories final notice 8 free kitten nice ass kill rock stars 9 various artists periscope yoyo 10 throwing muses university warner 11 the new bomb turks information highway revisited crypt 12 lois bet the sky k 13 various artists a far cry ' C/Z 14 various artists my so called life atlantic IS the 5.6.7.8.'s the 5.6.7.a's au go go 16 good horsey kazue trackshun 17 huggy bear weaponry listens to love kill rock stars 18 pet lightning rootoguzzi c harge ra&m 19 various artists punkorama epitaph 20 bender funny kar ringing ear 21 the fakeB real fiction chainsaw 22 various artists beyond the beach upBtart 23 bikini kill last 2 records on cd kill rock stars 24 laurie macdonald kiss closed my eyes improbable 25 sookyin lee lavinia's tongue zulu 2G deutsch nepal deflagration of hell independant 27 bettie serveert. lamprey matador 28 magnified plaid pokinatcha tooth & nail 29 various artists love & a .15 epic 30 various artists fat music for fat people f.t wreck chords 31 face to face over it victory wandering lucy ! fluf . broken girl ; Bix cents Si natalie peBt 500 I the stand gtpotbelly larry&the left-handed teengenerate the volcanoes Bammyblonde redhead the grifters razor 18 clairmel liz phair black kronstadt supersuckers teen angels the wankin' teens turkish delight punk fell to ea go west young h split 7" dirty rotten finkB duh factor high wall rubber baby pigeon heaven dirty robber 20 high performance i like to eat fish krakatoa Bide swipe rubber goldfish birdmansound dionysus candy floss flying tart i present this queen of the table high intensity noise damn everything but c dust doesn't lie jesuB is on my side butterfinger johnny keep walkin' try harder popfactory 1 meow boy groupies 2 wandering lucy surly 3 unhappies peanut guy 4 lick the pole lick the pole 5 dbs solitaire 6 plump first gig 7 down corporation hi! 8 place in history groovin' 9 pifco 88 she says 10 paisley BuitcaBe reconcile 11 big gulp gutter 12 squeeky not all daiBies 13 mark (from good horsey) spring chicken 14 texture london 15 darkest of the hillside thickets colour me green 16 terror t & the beat assassinator true 2 tha game 17 Buckerpunch smack 18 lux indigo sh e's not on the menu 19 gonch messiali fecundicator 20 ten days late getaway COUNTDOft TO ARM) Q EOT 1 astro cat hidden dropbass 2 pulse move remixes harthouse 3 ege bam yasi pizzacid finiflex 4 chosen few white label mokum 5 system 01 mind sensations tresor 6 various artistB techno head 3 react 7 the source exp. different journeys IP r&s 8 miss djax x factor djax up beats 9 resistance d skyline remixes harthouse 10 search & destroy return to madness mokum HIP HOP 1Z- YINYl 1CiTR Mobile Sound i 1 '■■■■'. \ - * jjp-Ji. jjj - in MP Ma ™ H U 1 - i i ^SLmgin Call us for your next event- 8 2 2 alpes. -3 017 2 the re 5 pharcyde 6 keith murra 7 mobb deep do you want more? geffen tical lp def jam big poppa 12" bmg/badboy my soul 12" mad sounds get lifted 12" brag /jive shook ones pt.2 12" bmg/loud word ... life lp wild pitch soundtrack lp priority FREE PIERCINGS With a jewellry purchase you receive a free piercing by Canada's most experienced piercers MACK'S LEATHERS 1043 GRANVILLE STREET 688-6225 THE EXPERIENCED PIERCERS 29 FEBRUARY SAT 25 Pluto, Gob, Cinnamon & Queazy at Crosstown Traffic (ALL-AGES)...Pizzicato Five w/The Coctalis at the Starfish...Bughouse 5 at the Railway Club...Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Zydeco Band at the Commodore...The River Wild (7pm) & Stargate (9:30pn) at UBC Cinemas... SUN 26 G. Love & Special Sauce w/Lux Indigo at the Starfish.Bender at the Hungry Eye...GoGo Jazz Lounge w/D.ls Michael Coll'& Lovely Lisa at the Arts Club Theatre...Alternative Jazz at the Cafe Deux Soleils Ihe River Wild (7pm) & Stargate (9:30pn) at UBC Cinemas MON 27 Pat Methent at the Orpheum Theatre...Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K & Czech at the Starfish Room... TUE 28 Maria Muldaur at Richards on Richards..Cinderella at the Commodore ..Leisure Lounge w/dj's .Ion Hardy. .less, Druna (deep house/ambient) at the Shaggy Horse... WED 1 Solid Cold w/djs .Ion I lardy, T. Bone. Dickey Doo al the Shaggy Horse. .Wonderland w/D.ls Lace & l.illle T at MaRs... THU 2 LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL ON CITR 101.9 I'M SIGNAL AND THE MINSTRELS...Subsonic Thursdays at Ihe Pit Pub featuring Cub w/ Knock Down Ginger. .Boy/. II Men al the Pacific Coliseum...Eric Burdon from ihe Animals al Richards on Richards...Ass l'onys w/Technical Jed...Mary Lou J.ord w/ guest Elliot! Smith al ihe Starfish Room...Chocolate Milk w/DJ Michael Coll'(acid jazz) al the Shaggy Dorse. .'Ihe Bollle w/djs Clarence <& David Love Jones al ihe Piccadilly Pub... FRI 3 August Frost, Bill's Psychotic Mother, Black Dogs ol Depression al the Starfish Room...Weird Al Yankovic al Ihe Vogue Theatre Don'l Die in a House Fire! Ken Jensen Memorial at the Commodore, with SNFU, Gus, and members of NoMeansNo, The Hanson Brothers, 'l'he Show Business Giants & Mr Wrong. ..Matthew Sweet at the Town Pump.Sweet Dickal the Vancouver Press Club.King Cobb Steelie & Change of Heart al the Hungry Lye.Tear, l'he Lemons & Mil' Experience at the Off Ramp, Seattle... SAT 4 Ken Jensen Memorial featuring Sparkmarker, Facepuller. Dog Fat Dogma, Aging Youth dang. Hunting Humans & Scum Element at ihe New York Theatre (ALL AGES)...Lylc Lovetl at the QH Theatre.. Roughage al the Malcolm Lowry Room.Mul Calienle w/ BC Salsa, Piramide, Songo Son at the Commodore .The Irish Descendents at the Town Pump...Mad Pudding at the VECC.Thc Blue Shadows . The Rattled Roosters al the Starfish Room...Sweet Dick at Ihe Vancouver Press Club.Supersonic Soul Pimps, Gel it Curl, Pele Mciser & the 5 fingers of Punk al ihe Off Ramp, Seattle. SUN 5 GoGo Jazz Lounge w/dj's Michael Golf & Lovely Lisa al the Arts Club Theatre. ..Nick Lowe w/Jim Lauderdale at ihe Town Pump.Alternative Jazz al Cafe Deux Soleils.Bile. Virus 23, Halo Black. 16 VOLT at the Off Ramp, Seallle... MON 6 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS GEEK LOVE ATTHE PIT PUB...Women in Bluegrass al the Glass Slipper.Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K & Czech al ihe Starfish... TUE 7 1 xisure Lounge w/dj's Jon I lardy. Jess & I )i una (deep house/ ambient) at Ihe Shaggy Horse WED X INTLRNATIONAL WOMHN'S DAY! - TUNE IN TO CiTR 101 91*M TO HFAR AN ENTIRE DAY OF SPECIAL PROGRAMMING...Solid Gold w/djs Jon Hardy, T. Bone. Dickey Doo (progressive house) al Ihe Shaggy Horse... THU 9 LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL ON CITR I01.9FM:THEMYSTERONS...CiTR 101.9CM presents Subsonic- Thursdays w/Bum & Harvey Sid Fisher al the Pit Pub (no cover)...Celestial Magenla al the Hungry Eye...Chocolate Milk w/ dj Michael ('.oil'(acid jazz) al ihe Shaggy Horse.. The Bollle w/ dj's David Love Jones at the Piccadilly Pub.. Sol w/dj Markem al FRI 10 NARDWUAR THE HUMAN SERVIETTE PRESENTS Skookum Chief Powered Teenage Zit Rawk Angst with Harvey Sid Fisher, Dub Narcotic, The Fallouts, The Evaporators, The Tonics, Joey Cheezhee at Studio J (ALL AGES).. The Intoxicators at the Niagara Pub.Stonehouse at the Vancouver Press Club. Meat Men, Teen Angels, WiderMan & Mob Sled at the Off Ramp, Seattle... SAT 11 Spell w/Queazy at the Starfish Room...Harvey Sid Fisher at the Malcolm Lowry Room...The Beauticians at the Vancover Press Club I am a Wild Party! - Kim Mitchell at Breakers...The Rheostaics at the Commodore SUN 12 Toad the Wet Sprocket w/ Hootie & the Blowfish at the Vogue Theatre. ..Maceo Parker & His Six Piece Funk All Stars w/ The David Murray Trio at the Commodore...GoGo jazz Lounge w/dj's Michael Golf & Lovely Lisa at the Arts club Theatre.Alternative Jazz at Cafe Deux Soleils... MON 13 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS GEEK LOVE AT THE PIT PUB.Weezer w/ Archers of Loaf at the Commodore (ALL AGES). ..Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K & Czech at the Starfish TUE 14 Ixisure Lounge w/dj's Jon Hardy. Jess, Druna (deep house/ ambienl) al Ihe Shaggy Horse... WED 15 DRI. Sir Theatre (ALL AG1 Hardy (progress™ & len Days Late at the New York ild w/dj's T-Bone, Dickey-Doo. Jon e Shaggy Horse.. THU 16 CiTR 101.9fM presents Subsonic Thursdays w/BigC.uld & SF Fnvelope al the Pit Pub (no cover)...Speedbuggy. Marmalade and Squelch at the Hungry Eye...Chocolate Milk w/dj michael golf (acid jazz) at the Shaggy Horse...Sol w/dj Markem at FRI 17 The Paperboys at the Starfish Room...djs Jon Hardy & Druna al the Shaggy Horse.. SAT 18 Rumplesteelskin at the Starfish Room...Terror of Tiny Town at the Hungry Eye.. SUN 19 Alternative Jazz at Cafe Deux Soleils. ..GoGo Jazz Lounge w/dj's Michael Golf & Lovely Lisa at the Arts Cub Theatre... MON 20 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS GEEK LOVE AT THE PIT PUB...Reading Railroad (spoken word performances) at the Railway. Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K & Czech at the Starfish TUE 21 Leisure Lounge w/dj's Jon Hardy, Jess, Druna (deep house/ ambienl) al the Shaggy Horse. Garliconspiracy at Richards on Richards. . WED 22 Dave Alvin, Peter Case, Tom Russell at the Starfish Room...Solid Gold w/dj's djs Jon Hardy. T Bone. Dickey Doo at Ihe Shaggy Horse... THU 23 CiTR 101.9fM presents Subsonic Thursdays w/Age of Electric & Crankshaft at the Pit Pub (no cover)...The Bottle (acid jazz) w/djs Clarence & David Love Jones at the Piccadilly Pub...Sol w/dj Markem at Graceland. Chocolate Milk w/dj Michael Golf at the Shaggy Horse... FRI 24 Margaret Cho at the Vogue Theatre...Des'ree at Richards on Richards... Douse of Commons at the Niagara Pub... SAT 25 Tom Lewis at the WISE Hall....Silly Rabbit at the Niagara SUN 26 GoGo Jazz Lounge w/dj's Michael Golf & Lovely Lisa at Ihe Arts Club Theatre...Alternative Jazz at Cafe Deux Soleils... MON 27 CiTR 101.9 fM PRESENTS GEEK LOVE AT THE I'll' PUB. /Hie Fugles al the Pacific Coliseum...Pat Metheny fea- luiing Lyle Mays at the Orpheum...Celestial Magenta at Richards on Richards...Zoo Boogaloo w/djs Spun-K & Czech at the Starfish Room... Coliseum...June Tabor at the VECC...Leisure Lounge w/dj's Jon Hardy, Jess & Druna (deep house/ambient) at the Shaggy Horse. WED 29 Come on. there must be something goin' down... THU 30 LIVE FROM THUNDERBIRD RADIO HELL ON CITR 101.9 FM : DOWN CORPORATION...CiTR 101.9fM presents Subsonic Thursdays w/Terror of Tiny Town & Thurston at the Pit Pub (no cover)... FRI 31 We'll probably have another issue of this damn magazine ready by this day, so read it to find out what the hell is going on... AN OLD FRIEND WILL BE YOUR SOURCE OF STRENGTH. VENUESVENUESVENUESVENUESVENUESVENUESVENUES Alma Street Cafe 2505 Alma (at Broadway) Anza Club 3 W 8th (Mount Pleasant) Arts Hotline ©Gallery 110 W Hastings (downtown) Backstage Lounge 1585 Johnston (Granville Island) Cafe Deux Soleils 2096 Commercial (the Drive) Cafe Vieux Montreal 317 E Broadway (Mount Pleasant) Caprice Theatre 965 Granville (Granville Mall) Celebrities 1022 Davie (West End) CNImax Theatre 999 Canada Place (downtown) Commodore Ballroom 870 Granville (Granville Mall) Commodore Lanes 838 Granville (Granville Mall) Crosstown Traffic 316 W Hastings (downtown) Denman Place Cinema 1030 Denman (Weal End) District Coffee 1035 Mainland (Yaletown) Firehall Arts Centre 280 E Cordova (at Main) Food Not Bombs Vancouver Glass Slipper 2714 Prince Edward (Mount Pleasant) Graceland 1250 Richards (downtown) Hastings Community Centre 2096 E Hastings (East Van) Hemp B.C. 324 W Hastings (downtown) Hollywood Theatre 3123 W Broadway (Kitsilano) Hungry Eye 23 W Cordova (Gastown) Koemer's Pub Gate 4 (UBC) La Quena till Commercial Drive (the Drive) Luv-A-Fair 1275 Seymour (downtown) Lux Theatre 57 E Hastings (Gastown) Malcolm Lowry Room 4125 E Hastings (Burnaby) Maximum Blues Pub 1176 Granville (downtown) Odyssey Imports 534 Seymour (downtown) Old American Pub 928 Main (downtown) Orpheum Theatre Smithe & Seymour (downtown) Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe (downtown) Paradise Cinema 919 Granville (Granville Mall) Park Theatre 3440 Cambie (South Vancouver) Picadilly Pub 630 W Pender (downtown) Pit Pub basement, Student Union Building (UBC) Pitt Gallery 317 W Hastings (downtown) Plaza Theatre 881 Granville (Granville Mall) Punk Listings Railway Club 579 Dunsmuir (downtown) Ridge Cinema 3131 Arbutus (at 16thAvenue) Russian Hall 600 Campbell (Chinatown) Scratch Records 317A Cambie (downtown) Shaggy Horse Cabaret 818 Richards (downtown) Speedy O'Tubbs Fairview (Bellingham) Starfish Room 1055 Homer (downtown) Starlight Cinema 935 Denman (West End) Station Street Arts Centrc 930 Station (downtown) 3B Tavern 1226 Stale (Bellingham) Town Pump 66 Water Street (Gastown) Track Records 552 Seymour (downtown) Twilight Zone 7 Alexander (Gastown) UBC CINEMA (located in the SUB) UBC Grad Centre Gate 4 (UBC) Vancouver East Cultural Centre 1895 Venables Vancouver Centre Cinema 650 W. Georgia (downtown) Varsity Theatre 4375 W 10th Avenue (Point Grey) Video In 1965 Main (South Van) Vogue Theatre 918 Granville (Granville Mall) Waterfront Theatre 1405 Anderson (Granville Is.) W.I.S.E. Hall 1882 Adanac (the Drive) Yale Blues Pub 1300 Granville (downtown) Zulu Records 1869 W. 4th Avenue (Kitsilano) 222 2244 876 7128 684 2787 685 0509 689 7734 687 1354 254 1195 873 1331 683 6099 689 3180 682 4629 681 7838 681 1531 669 7573 683 2201 687 0032 689 0926 872 6719 877 0066 688 2648 255 2606 681 4620 738 3211 688 5351 822 0999 251 6626 685 3288 682 5455 685 0143 688-8701 669 6644 682 3291 665 3050 731 3456 681 1732 876 2747 682 3221 822 6273 681 6740 685 7050 684PUNX 681 1625 738 6311 874 6200 687 6355 688 2923 (206) 734 1539 682 4171 689 0096 688 3312 (206) 734 1881 683 6695 682 7976 682 8550 822 3697 822 0999 254 9578 669 4442 222 2235 872 8337 257 6205 685 6217 254 5858 681 9253 738 3232 Gra Starfish...Tlie Eagles at the Pa SUBMISSIONS FOR DATEBOOK ARE FREE! PLEASE FAX YOUR LISTINGS FOR THE APRIL ISSUE ATTENTION "DISCORDER DATEBOOK'' AT 822 9364, BY THE PRINT DEADLINE, MARCH 20th 30 March 1995 CANADA'S LARGEST AND BEST KNOWN RECORD STORES BUM VS. TEENGENERATE Split 7" International grudge match with Canada & Japan's top teen superpowers of punk! But it not total bloodshed as the forces "kiss and nakeup" on the B-sides by covering each others songs on this specially priced double pack 7" on Lance Rock Records! See Bum Live in concert at the Pit Pub on Thursday March 9th. $4.99 PLUTO Cool Way To Feel m<*m& H Like Teenage Fanclub with dirt- ncrusted fingernails. Pluto debuts his month with their first full-length CD 'Cool Way To Feel*. 13 power-pop blasts. -512.99 CO ALLEN DES NOYERS Sunset Theatre Des Noyers' acoustic guitar wizardry and wry poetic lyrics are enhanced by Eugene Martynec's crisp production in this jazz- infected folk album. "Bruce Cockburn. Stephen Fearing, Don Ross: add to that list of notable players...Allen des Noyers." (CBC TV) $12.99 CD $7.99 cass SPARKMARKER Gerberick lirst WRETCHED ETHYL Incision Dress "Another fantabulo a band who can do no wrong. they were a breakfast cereal they'd be Lucky Charms." - .. Schreurs, Terminal City $4.99 cass Attention All Bands!! Po you have an undistributed demo CD or tape? Sam's carries Western Canada's largest selection of independent products! The final installment of the 3 part series that documents the "Products & Accessories" CD on vinyl. This 7" includes th 3 songs from the CD with yet another fi display of artwork from Ken Gerberick. The missing link that completes the collection. $3.99 7" AVAILABLE AT 568 SEYMOUR ST (DOWNTOWN) PET Lightning Motoguzzi Charge Vancouver's rock n' Pet, sweat out a six pack of punk pop delight on their debut CD. Watch out for this broody trio at a tavern near you. Pet bites. $9.99 CD SLUDGE/RUSTY NAILS Split 7" Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry. $2.99 7" CURTIS BLAYNE Between Your Heart & Mine Produced by Bill Buckingham, this album is filled with radio friendly songs that are sure tc feed the palates of radio audiences. Curtis' latest single 'Georgia Rain" accompanied by a video can be seen on the New Country Network and heard on radio station's coast to coast. $7.99 cats, $12.99 CD GUPPY A Tasty Hearty Dish Discover a flood of new tones from local Indie band Guppy Excellent songwriting dominates this mix of subcultured noise pop that's *?;!@ good! So buy it! (Recorded in digital) $9.99 CD For More Information on selling your music at Sam's, ask for Rob Zga(jic at our 568 Seymour St. locaton All types of music accepted. FACE OF FEAR After School Special ati of tii. A taste of things to come on the forthcoming CD, "After School Special" is a smorgasbord of spite & sarcasm. "Fast and aggressive, hardcore for the 90's." - Exclaim 1869 W 4th Ave. Vancouver BC V6J1M4 CANADA tel 604.738.3232 STORE HOURS MontoWed 10-30-7-00 Thurs and Fri 10:30-9:00 Sat 9:30-6:30 Sun 12:00-6:00 Zu£aReayutod(ujA, Htkateil Kustomized • The Battle For Space Unfazed from their estranged and much overlooked 1993 EP, The Mystery of Kustomized. Boston's virile punkers Kustomized sum it up once again. As the title suggests, Kustomized are engaged in rebellion - rebellion within the milieu of critically positioned punk rock a la Volcano Suns and Missions of Burma. Another groovy Matador Records release. O 14.98 m 9.98 Archers of Loaf • Harnessed in Slums EP Just what the hell is un Archer of Loaf? As far as we can tell, it must have something to do with great rock music because that's what these Archers do. For them, and us, the "Loaf is a nourishing morsel of punk ingenuity. As far as their archery is concerned, every shot's a hit. An accurate, toe-tapping, pop-rock, bare-off, and these Archers know their Loaf. Come on in for a slice or three (new songs that is). © EP 7.98 Sebadoh • Rebound EP (Ltd Edition) Another complement to your weepy, sensitive indie rock library, courtesy of the boys they call Sebadoh. With such infectious introspection, Lou B's singalongable talk therapy amounts to another fine release. Batting your tears while pleasing your ears. Just try and listen to the acoustic versions of "Magnet's Coil" and "Rebound" without being overcome with a satisfying melancholy. Ahh, i think I'll go sit by myself for a while. O-EP 9.98 Guided by Voices •* Box Rocks. This "Box" rocks. Tliis "Box" is loaded with enough Pop to put you over the edge. Where you want to be. 5 CDs / 6 LPs of sunken treasure. A resurrection supreme of songs circa '87-'92 heard by only a lucky few. Put your ears in the "Box." Wait. Is that a smile on your face? 64.98 CD or LP Killdozer • Cod Hears the Pleas of the Innocent An ugly band for the common man. Hillbilly music for stomping on graves. The sound of redneck Wisconsin. A small man with a monster's voice, a big heavy bass. Guitar-skree-noise fills the space all around. Plod on good men. Portishead <D Sour Hmes EP Sour Times includes five additional new songs and remixes which weren't included on their phenomenal Dummy CD. From relative obscurity to one of the most-talked-about bands of late (who says rock doesn't pay!). O ep 10.98 Hazel • Are You Going To Eat That Their second big Sub Pop release. You know, wc just plain old like this band. I mean, they rock, write good songs and put on an energetic live show (although the "man" seems to disallow such examples - duh). Hazel asks, "Are you going to eat that?" If their record were food, I would, and I would be eating witb the biggest smile my face would allow. Because, without a doubt, it would be the best thing I ever ate. If Hazel records were food, my fridge would be full of them. O 16.98 m 10.98 O 14.98 I 10.98 Sons of Freedom ®Tex Long considered to be one of Vancouver's finest rock bands, these fellas have just recently reformed for a few gigs. Digging through the proverbial vaults, this recording comes up with 16 songs spanning the entire Sons of Freedom existence from the earliest demos in '87 to the latest recordings they made in '92. Aaaah... in the words of Peaches & Herb, "reunited, and it feels so good." O 12.98 Pluto * Cool Way to Feel Cute bands will never go out of style, so get used to Pluto. After 3 slick 'n' sexy 7"s, Pluto finally blasts off digitally with 13 tunes on shiny compact disc. Definitely a "cool way to feel." O 12.98 Royal Trux ® Thank You Nightmare fragments of the Stones lying all over the place. A kicked-in guitar genius and his girl, the new acid queen. Playing in a junk- strewn gutter. Marking a mess. Making you groove, where they want you to. Down with them. Get down with them. Alien space blues for the apathetic and disaffected. O 16.98 pg 10.98 Belly •King Continuing to carve a fresh niche distinct from the shadow of the T. Muses, Tanya Donelly's Belly shows considerable growth as a band on this second release. Featuring a new bassist and a much more united and confident approach to songwriting, this record should solidify Belly as a force in the pop-rock world. Q 14.98 ra 9.98 *h 31,1995. '.iMIifl ;:';'"
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