Category: music
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The bassist will allow that working with the notoriously obstinate J Mascis is considerably easier now than in the ’80s, when it was, he says, “a mind fuck, to say the least”.
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I guess I’m making this a monthly thing? In any case, here’s a roundup of some of the writing I have done recently, including freelance pieces and a couple of things I wrote just for fun.
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The coming of the Halloween season put me in mind of Dead Man’s Bones. I interviewed the duo back in 2009 and their self-titled album has been an October staple for me ever since.
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Just for fun, I decided to post a list of Halloween-appropriate music videos on Medium. You might have to be logged into a Medium account to read it, but it’s worth signing up to follow yours truly, isn’t it?
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Meet John Lucas: writer, musician, and frontperson of The Starling Effect — a Vancouver indie-rock quartet pulling from classic alternative, post-punk, and shoegaze.
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It’s a safe bet that no one watching the “Enter the Ninja” video had ever seen anything like it before. While Ninja spits head-spinning rhymes about decapitating haters, Vi$$er does a Lolita routine in a bedroom plastered with pictures of her bandmate and crawling with rats.
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It’s time for another roundup of some of my most recent written output. I am particularly proud of this batch of articles, all of which have to do with anniversaries, from a Canadian rock classic to a trip-hop/dub landmark to a milestone in the development of television.
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Exactly 15 years ago to this day, the Georgia Straight published my interview with Benjamin Curtis of School of Seven Bells. I was really keen to talk to him, because I was a big fan of that project and also of Secret Machines, the band he was in with his brother Brandon.
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An old favourite of mine, the Icelandic “weird pop” collective múm, has a new album slated for release on the same day. I interviewed founding member Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason for the Georgia Straight back in 2009.
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Just a reminder that the Starling Effect will be live on the air on Co-op Radio on Saturday, September 13.
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