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B-Lines

It had just been short of 15 minutes since I had comfortably positioned myself in the Hindenburg’s smoke pit, and in a mere quarter of…

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Mudhoney

It’s been 26 years since Mudhoney defined Seattle grunge with “Touch Me I’m Sick.” The dirty distortion on both the track and their debut, Superfuzz Bigmuff, inaugurated…

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Homegrown Labels

“It’s exciting being on the ground floor of something. I put out White Lung’s first record when they were playing in basements of East Vancouver,…

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Dead Soft Tour Kick-Off

Saturday, September 27 was the perfect night to ride my bike to Red Gate to go see this wondrous lineup. I had gotten fired from…

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B-Lines

“We’ve learned nothing about anything, and we’ve forgotten most of what we knew.” Drummer Bruce Dyck may be quick to crack wise about the five…

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Vancouver's Waste-Makers

On a sunny Sunday afternoon in mid-April, I arrived at the Strathcona store-front apartment of Mark Richardson, one of the main Music Waste festival organizers,…

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Apollo Ghosts

Death is a hard subject to prepare for, even when you know it’s a long way away. When Apollo Ghosts frontman Adrian Teacher announced in…

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Capitol 6 & B-Lines

Over the past eight months, the Kingfisher Bluez Recording Company has been releasing a delightful string of singles highlighting Vancouver’s D.I.Y. musical lifestyle. Just about…

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Iceage

Wednesday was ugly. Serendipitously the tone of a rainy evening, barring too-hip Cascadian apathy synchronized mood with Wednesday’s foreign dignitaries: Danish youth, Iceage. Nonetheless, the…