Category: music
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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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I’m pretty excited that my band, the Starling Effect, will be on the Unsigned BC radio program, which airs on Saturday (September 13) at 4 pm on Vancouver Co-op Radio (CFRO-FM 100.5 for local listeners, but you can also listen live on the Co-op Radio website). Because we will be there to promote our September 19 show…
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I recently interviewed Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean for an upcoming Montecristo feature on the 45th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. It reminded me of the time I interviewed Dean on the eve of Loverboy’s induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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The impending release of Jehnny Beth’s latest solo album, You Heartbreaker, You, reminded me that I once interviewed her for the Georgia Straight ahead of a Vancouver performance by her band Savages. Savages bemused by Mercury nod (This article originally appeared in The Georgia Straight.) It’s arguably the most prestigious honour in British music, so…
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