January 2012
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The Poppies Want to Grow a Little Taller
Hamish Kilgour hijacked 1600 words to talk about writing Anything Could Happen with the Clean. Interesting stuff at stuff.co.nz
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Hex Forever
Hex Forever
d/B Lathe Kut Records 2009
“Mostly in Vancouver / mostly live.” Still in high school, living in Abbotsford, starving for new exciting records, I drained hours on transit to spend a couple hours in a wet, cold, smoky East Hastings basement. Despite the excitement, I felt queasy when Emergency Room Vol. 1 came out, numbered. No one imagined there was no expiry date, but...
December 2011
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Crystal Stilts / Whale Tooth / Horseshoe /...
Weeks later, I’m posting this here instead of where it was going to show up. “I don’t know what I just read or attempted to edit.”
I walk into Whale Tooth’s press-kit-clear pub rock at the Horseshoe on Thursday, December 1. They’re stomping with seductive force; any cougars reduce themselves to torn hosiery and running mascara. The “we’ve-heard-of-punk” pop rock is...
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10 / Night Before
Squinting through cathode ray RGB murk, 45 minutes of jangles not set to expire December 26. Forgotten operating systems and a feng shui disrupting tangle of cables won’t hold back the snowbanks of fuzz. More Velvet chic, Big Star worship, Wu-appreciation, and Dunedin love. Happy birthday Jesus.
Night Before
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compiled December 2011 by Stephen Jersak
1 / The Feelies Only...
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November 2011
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Tape 9 / Novembrance
Post-Armistice India, New Zealand, Britain, Spain, Germany, and the USA. Sequel to last year’s cassette-only Novembrance / Revember mix. My Tiger MacBook won’t run any new browsers, and Mediafire won’t cooperate with the old ones I can run, so until I get a new computer the mix is on Sound Cloud.
CORRECTION: NOW AVAILABLE ON MEDIAFIRE
Novembrance II
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October 2011
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Thee Oh Sees / The Men / Young Guv
The stage bulged at the Horseshoe. Smash a guitar and pawn the keyboard, then flip a coin to decide if you’ll keep the sax or an extra guitar. A lot of people had fun during Young Guv, and a disproportionate number were holding instruments. The song-writing exists, but the polished pop rock is inefficient, bleaching away any power pop jags in the bloated ensemble. The saxophone added a...
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Tape 8 / Wednesday
After agonizing for weeks, here’s a goth party compiled in a power outage to get you hyper before Jesuswe’en.
Wednesday
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compiled October 2011 by Stephen Jersak
1. T. Rex Mambo Sun 1971
2. Beat Happening Pinebox Derby 1992
3. Iceage Broken Bone 2011
4. Le Tigre Slideshow at Free University 1999
5. Kiiiiiii Sweeeeeeetie 2007
6. The Fall There’s a Ghost in...
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Aunty Panty / Revenge Pregnancy / Castle If / GACK...
You feel GACK vs. Beard Closet in your guts. Not intestine-derived, it’s a physiological experience rattling the bits keeping you alive. Cold sweat breaks out, you’re sitting on the heavy machinery in the garage downstairs. It’s not industrial, the pieces don’t interlock, a factory isn’t in unison. The rite is harsh, but in a rugged approximation of something...
September 2011
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PSA: Canadian Internet Privacy
The Conservative government has promised to re-introduce and ram through a new set of “Lawful Access” electronic surveillance legislation (specifically, Bill C-50, C-51, C-52) and a handful of other crime bills within the first 100 days of Parliament. These laws allow authorities to access the private information of any Canadian, at any time, without a warrant, at cost to the taxpayer.
Remind...
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Tape 7 / Judgement
The sticky girth ending at Labour Day had been interned. Spin towards Autumn, discard Summer’s buoyancy and grin at negative thoughts before it gets too cold.
Judgement
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compiled September 2011 by Stephen Jersak
1. Tubeway Army Are “Friends” Electric? 1979
2. Sparks Achoo 1974
3. The Fall Repetition 1978
4. Richard Hell and the Voidoids Blank Generation ...
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August 2011
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