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Raven Chacon

There’s a certain cleverness to the name of the venue: Deep Blue. For one thing, its role as a hub for DIY, experimental electronic music…

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Tidal ~ Signal

Take a look at any festival lineup, and chances are that not all genders are equally represented. That’s what SFU MFA students Rebecca Bruton and…

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Vancouver Noise Fest VI

On May 7, I was to have my first experience with “unlistenable” sounds in a musical context, and for 7 hours, no less. While I…

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Mass Marriage

“I’ve always been drawn to the tragic female figure in literature, film; the hysteric woman.”

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John Wiese

I was at The Getty last August. The afternoon hovered around 30°C: desultory conditions for tourists like myself. So, walking around the museum’s grounds, I…

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Pharmakon

There’s something to be said about the Fox Cabaret hosting a night of noise music: the juncture between a restored porn theatre and harsh electronics….

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Weed

On a Thursday night, a scene recognizable to generations of West Coast freaks — and perhaps to every fan of underground music ever – transpired at…