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Unplugged sounds are Tom Taylor’s first love
By Steve Newton
The local roots veteran hasn’t lost his passion for the guitar-based music that caught his ear in Grade 10, and is now focusing on laid-back folk-pop and country-roots stylings.
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Outlaw Social forges some new traditions
By Tony Montague
Outlaw Social was conceived one evening four years ago at the Lucky Bar in Victoria, when Oliver Swain was made an offer he couldn’t refuse by a pair of young women with good times on their minds.
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Vancougar preys on girl-group stereotypes
By Jenny Charlesworth
In Canadian Tuxedo, the Vancouver-based band draws upon the musical ingenuity of past decades to formulate enchanting upbeat melodies of their own.
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Painted Birds not afraid of the dark
By John Lucas
For someone who named his band after a Jerzy Kosi?ski book and penned a song called “East of Eden”, inspired by the John Steinbeck novel of the same title, Dominique Fricot has a surprising admission. “I wouldn’t call myself a big reader,” the Painted Birds singer-guitarist-keyboardist says, reached in Toronto in the middle of a cross-Canada tour.
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Christa Couture channels pain into heartfelt songs
By Alexander Varty
Turning heartbreak into art is standard operating procedure for songwriters. But when it comes to specifics, a lot of lyricists just don’t want to discuss it. “It’s all there in the music,” they’ll say, or, more bluntly, “That’s none of your business.”
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Jolts make unapologetically old-school punk
By Adrian Mack
“We’re still a bunch of guys who can’t hold steady jobs and who fucking play rock ’n’ roll," says Jolt's Joey Blitzkrieg. "That’s what punk was, right?”
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Swank sings hymns for hell-bound heathens
By Adrian Mack
It appears that Mormon season has begun. Outside Falconetti’s East Side Grill on Commercial Drive, pizza-faced missionaries barely out of high school slouch by in the cold rain, followed a few minutes later by more of their brethren. Inside, Swank vocalist Spencer McKinnon and guitarist Doug Liddle have joined the Straight to talk about their own inimitable take on American-fried religious dementia, as laid out on the band’s newest album, Campfire Psalms.
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Hawaiian Bibles stay unabashedly earnest
By Shawn Conner
Don’t mistake the sentiment behind “There’s Good People in the City”, the title track of Hawaiian Bibles’ debut, for irony or sarcasm. The drum-and-bass rock duo means just what the title implies.
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Lord Beginner builds a buzz
By Elaine Corden
The indie-rock scene in Vancouver can sometimes seem like an insular little world, constantly cannibalizing its bands to make new ones. Lord Beginner is a classic example of this. Though you might not have heard of it (the group has played just three official shows), you’ve almost certainly heard of some other projects the band’s members have been involved in.
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Dawntreader’s persistence pays off
By John Lucas
The band has had more drummers than Spinal Tap, but Santa Fe Stalker suggests it was all worth it
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Jaybirds and Red Chamber quartet ready to coexist
By Alexander Varty
One style was born under the karst crags of the Yangtze River valley, the other in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains in the southern United States. Superficially, few sounds are more dissimilar than Chinese music and American bluegrass, but two bands of bold adventurers have just set out to prove that they can, in fact, coexist.
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Adaline does parents proud
By Shawn Conner
When it came time to write her debut album, Adaline decided to get away from it all. So she went on a cruise. By herself. “With couples, and old people,” says the singer over a glass of Pinot Noir on Commercial Drive. “It was kind of…” And here she lets loose with a big, self-deprecating laugh. “Well, it was depressing at first.
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Rat Silo swaggers to life
By Alexander Varty
Those who remember Sons of Freedom—the Vancouver postpunk band of the 1980s and early 1990s, not the lumpy, nude Doukhobor protesters of the Wacky Bennett era—probably retain a clear mental image of singer Jim Newton.
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Elias embraces sensitivity
By Elaine Corden
In the “funny because it’s true” department, Elias singer-guitarist Brian Healy gets big laughs when he announces that “Coldplay are, like, the new Phil Collins.”
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Chaps celebrate 10 Buttless years
By Ron Colham
Vancouver’s favourite country-folk fusionists, the Buttless Chaps, are celebrating a decade of making music together, and I am in desperate need of an angle for my interview with the band’s frontman, Dave Gowans.
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Go Ghetto Tigers aims to be tighter than most
By Elaine Corden
If you fell in love with the songs on 2007’s Go Ghetto Tiger, the eponymous debut from the Vancouver trio composed of MarQuo Blacquiere, Jason “Super J” Urquhart, and Skoty B, you’re out of luck if you want to hear them live anytime soon. In February, the group—which has been drawing fans with its mix of industrial noise, ’80s new wave, and ’90s indie rock—lost guitarist-vocalist Skoty B to time-commitment conflicts.
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Spirit of the West marks a milestone
By Alexander Varty
Vancouver’s long-running Celtic-rock quintet turns 25 in fine form
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Threat From Outer Space MC catches a break
By Adrian Mack
According to not totally reliable sources, rocket scientist and father of the Apollo space program, Wernher von Braun, spent his dying moments in 1977 confessing a dark secret to his closest colleague. The former Waffen-SS officer alleged that America’s path toward space-based weaponry was being carefully engineered by its very own national security apparatus.
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Certain Breeds walks on the creepy side
By Gregory Adams
Certain Breeds loves a good horror flick. Huddled together in vocalist-keyboardist Jen Riego’s Mount Pleasant bachelor pad, the quartet’s members are doing their best to answer questions surrounding their achingly gloomy self-titled debut, but the distraction of Italian splatter legend Dario Argento’s Deep Red playing across the room proves too much.
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Guitarist Steve Dawson open to anything
By Alexander Varty
Vancouver will never rival Nashville in terms of sheer density of musicians per square kilometre, but it is—as Steve Earle once famously said of the capital of country music—a guitar town. Our city is home to a variety of six-string specialists, some acclaimed and others obscure, and of the former the most well-rounded might well be Steve Dawson.
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Puro Son digs Cuban roots
By Ken Eisner
The ceiling is low, the sound system is muffled, and the lighting is murky at Commercial Drive’s the End Café, where Miguelito Valdes and his band, Puro Son, play most Saturday nights. But when Valdes puts his shiny trumpet to his lips the sound infiltrates every corner of the room, and the dancers—already twirling like dervishes—go into a salsified frenzy.
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Sojourners get back to gospel's roots
By Alexander Varty
The trio, an offshoot of the Good Noise Vancouver Gospel Choir, gets it God groove on
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Celtic rockers Town Pants come home for 10-year hootenany
By Shawn Conner
"After a decade, it’s nice to round up everybody who’s seen us to come and see us again," says Town Pants multi-instrumentalist and backup singer Aaron Chapman. "There are probably some people who saw us in the first few years and haven’t seen us as a six-piece, and would find it interesting. In terms of local music I hope, since it’s a local-music bill, if it’s successful, there’ll be more."
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Beats Without Borders make responsible worldbeat
By Tony Montague
What's in a name? Three years ago, when DJs Nils von Hahn, Tarun Nayar, Lady Ra, and Adrian Blackhurst decided to create a worldbeat fusion collective, they needed the right moniker one that would encapsulate their outlook and stick in the public mind. At a brainstorming session von Hahn hit the bull's-eye with Beats Without Borders. The tag had an alliterative hook, and gave a clear indication of the four spinners' music and ethos.
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Hundred Years digs in for a long metal war
Over the surging noise of a Commercial Drive bar on a Friday night, Kyle McLean guffaws and then intones, "The metal war hath begun."
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