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Cynic, Intronaut, Dysrhythmia at the Venue July 26th

Cynic, Intronaut, Dysrhythmia at the Venue July 26th presented by Live Nation Have we established that I'm a huge prog nerd? Good. Here's three progressive metal bands I saw in one night. Dysrhythmia's music is hard to describe withou...
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Author: Morbid Alex

Mother Died Today, Archspire, First Reign and Woods of Ypres at the Biltmore Cabaret

Mother Died Today, Archspire, First Reign and Woods of Ypres at the Biltmore Cabaret. June 26th presented by the Invisible Orange. I missed Mother Died Today's final Vancouver show, and judging by the songs on their Myspace, I would hav...
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Author: Morbid Alex and photo by Dean McLean

Mattress from Portland is Better than a Mattress from the Portland Hotel

"Mattress hails from the desert of Las Vegas. Shadowed in neon lights and creeping like a sci-fi prophet, Mattress explores the nuclear love song. A prison work chant shrouded in buzzing synthesizers, Mattress looks into the future and hope...
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Author: Tanya Harding

The Spitfires, Battle Snakes & The Jolts @ The Media Club June 19th

The Spitfires, Battle Snakes & The Jolts @ The Media Club June 19th By: Denis Maile On this night of rock n roll The Jolts opened the show because their bassist was busy eating poutine. To make up for this The Jolts had not 1, but 3 dif...
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Author: Denis Maile

METAL METAL METAL

METAL METAL METAL by Morbid Alex Show review: Fallen Decade, Sinned, Tyrants Blood and Pestilence at the Rickshaw Theatre. Local thrashers Fallen Decade were the bills openers, and in my opinion they have the sort of live show which cou...
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Author: Morbid Alex

Look but Don't Touch! OR ELSE!!! An interview with the Voodoo Dollz's Little Miss Risk

Look but Don't Touch! OR ELSE!!! An interview with the Voodoo Dollz's Little Miss Risk by the Skinny Magazine. The Skinny: How long have you been dancing burlesque with Big John Bates in the Voodoo Dollz and did you bring all the ideas ...
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Author: by the Skinny Magazine

Thundermonkey Remembered

Thundermonkey Remembered by Gaalen Engen. There is a tight-knit committed group of musicians in Vancouver who have made melodic expression their life, regardless of the hardship. They are tireless warriors frequenting the shadowed hollow...
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Author: Gaalen Engen

A Seven Inch Mixdown - Myelin Sheaths, Cosmetics, La Corde, The Orpheans

A Seven Inch Mixdown by Rene Milord: First up is an Albertan band called MYELIN SHEATHS with a disjointed, noisy, poppy, post-punk EP. It’s kind of sloppy, perhaps better live? Hozac Records 047 (at Pat’s Pub, May 6) Next up ...
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Author: Rene Milord

An interview with David Hayden of BOATS! By Tanya Harding

An interview with David Hayden of BOATS! By Tanya Harding Boats! are a Sacramento power pop punk band, brother band to The Enlows and typically could fit nicely with the Tranzmitors, and I am sure have before on tour but here and now the...
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Author: Tanya Harding

The Bobblehead Speaks!

The Bobblehead Speaks! The Skinny sits down with legendary DOA frontman Joe “Shithead” Keithley by Kristina Mameli, the Skinny “We still raise shit, we’re still good live and we keep trying to say stuff about what’s g...
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Author: Kristina Mameli

Vancouver Killing Spree proves it’s really not about murder

Vancouver Killing Spree proves it’s really not about murder by Kristina Mameli, the Skinny Despite its rather aggressive moniker and sound, the gentlemen of Vancouver Killing Spree are amongst the most honest and genuine you’ll...
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Author: Kristina Mameli

The Wrecktals – Speaking their mind from time to time.

The Wrecktals – Speaking their mind from time to time. An interview with bassist Christoph Leon by Denis Maile of The Skinny DM: How did you come up with the band name? CL: As a reminder to never take ourselves too seriously, re...
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Author: Denis Maile

Stolen Organ Family Band - ALBUM REVIEW

The Stolen Organ Family Band Horse Treats (Indie) It pays to have an open mind in this business of writing about music and putting it to press, especi...
Published by: The Skinny Magazine
Author: Nathan Pike

Scatterheart w/ Bike and Los Furios

Scatterheart w/ Bike and Los Furios @ The Commodore Saturday March 27 2010 Love: A deep, tender, ineffable feeling of affection and solicitude toward another, such as that arising from kinship, recognition of attractive qualities, or a s...
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Author: Nathan Pike

MOTORAMA

I entered Pat's Pub on Friday March 12th in the year of our lord 2010 to experience Motorama for the first time. There were three bands in the evening and Motorama opened. When I say opened, I mean OPENED. This power trio of punk dug int...
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Author: Gaalen Engen

Little Guitar Army show review

Blue Oyster Cult appeared at the PNE years back and gifted their audience with a towering fury of ten guitars driving their howling classic,”Godzilla”. The overpowering glory of their stringed abundance ground itself into the memory of...
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Author: Gaalen Engen

Anion Tape Review

Find someone who thinks tapes aren’t cool and I’ll shove my Sony Walkman up his bum. Tapes are still rad and this Anion tape is no different. It’s red in colour and resembling the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles soundtrack cassette tape ...
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Author: Dennis Maile

A Talk with Autrach from Lightning Swords of Death about LSD

C: Hey this is Chainsaw from Skinny Mag. How did you get the band name Lightning Swords of Death? A: The band name, initially it was a favorite movie. But then later it became a kind of acid we were all fond of. C: Hence the initials...
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Author: Chainsaw

History 101 with Vancouver’s first punk band the Furies

History 101 with Vancouver’s first punk band the Furies By Kristina Mameli, the Skinny In anticipation of the Skinny Magazine’s second annual Xmas party, (an event for which there are absolutely no valid excuses for missing), t...
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Author: Kristina Mameli

Tony Dallas!!

Tony Dallas GETS LUCKY An interview with the luckiest drummer in Vancouver, Tony Dallas by Tanya Harding Getting asked to go on tour to Europe and then to the States with one of Canada's fastest shooting stars of a band, Fan Death, is...
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Author: Tanya Harding

Apology to Sahota

SKINNY MAG WENDY 13 INTERVIEW 1. HOW HAS THE MUSIC SCENE CHANGED SINCE THE CLOSURE OF THE COBALT? TOTALLY BLEAK.....ALL LIKEMINDED SHOWS ARE NOW MOVED TO OTHER VENUES WITH INADEQUATE SOUND CAPABILITIES....GAWD I MISS JOHNS SOUNDSYS...
Author: wendy thirteen
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The Furniture

Interview with the 2 cofounding members:Lana Ryma(Drummer)&Aramis Starfish(Vocals & Bass)@Bamboo Cafe,Gastown Darren: how did "The Furniture" get started? Lana:I had been with "Ten Days Late for many years followed by"The No No Spot...
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Author: Darren Lulka

Transmission from Planet Devo-an interview with Gerry Casale

Believe me, we were as shocked as you are that our intrepid reporter/notorious rocker Billy Hopeless somehow wangled a phone interview with Devo co-founder Gerry Casales. Without further ado, Hopeless does Devo: BH - The first thing I’...
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Author: Billy Hopeless

Things Are Getting Hairy: Bison BC prepares for Dark Ages

“We weren’t necessarily going for an animal name,” Bison BC co-guitarist/ co-vocalist James Farwell tells me when I ask about the name Bison. “We’d tossed around these Godawful made up words - ‘what looks good in a good metal fo...
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Author: Allan MacInnis

The Beige Album Review

The Beige El Ángel Exterminador by Nathan Stafford Sophomore release from local exploratory jazz/pop project El Ángel Exterminador is a CD I can listen to all day long. The vocals are nice, but not in-your-face, and not really use...
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Author: Nathan Stafford

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