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Here's the poster for our next show, with the Februarys and Hejira.

posted by John @ 10/27/2004 02:44:00 PM 0 Comments

WHY VICE SUCKS
I'm sure everyone is already aware of what a sad rag Vice magazine is. It's full of racist and sexist garbage and right-wing political babble, and its target audience seems to be sub-fratboy troglodytes who think pictures of porn stars and first-person articles about drugs count as "cutting-edge". But what really turns me off is the out-of-control ego of Vice's Gavin McInnes. Check out this thread on the Exclaim message board, in which McInnes uses his rapier-like wit to call his opponents such names as "fucking idiot", "douchebag", and "fucking pathetic fag". Clever. Too bad he doesn't make a point coherent enough to justify his vitriol.

My advice? Don't read Vice.

posted by John @ 10/24/2004 08:08:00 PM 0 Comments

LIP-SYNCHING IS BAD
Watch this clip of Ashlee Simpson from Saturday Night Live. In the first song, everything seems fine. But in the second one, someone starts playing the pre-recorded vocal track from the wrong song, leaving poor lil' Ashlee to jump around like the marionette that she is. The band tries to cover up the mistake by launching into the first song again, but by then it's too late, as the vocal track has been faded out and Simpson has fled the scene. At the end of the show, she has the gall to blame her band for the error. It is a truly sad world we live in, folks.

Oh, and here's a quote (obviously pre-dating this fiasco) from the "singer" herself, taken from Lucky Magazine:

LM: What are your takes on lip-synching?

AS: I'm totally against it and offended by it. I'm going out to let my real talent show, not to just stand there and dance around. Personally, I'd never lip-synch. It's just not me.

posted by John @ 10/24/2004 05:22:00 PM 0 Comments

Well, Zookeeper seems to have disappeared, but I have now become pathetically addicted to this game. It's devilishly difficult. I think I have only managed to get the monkey across the water three times so far. You don't want to know how long I've spent playing it.

posted by John @ 10/23/2004 04:30:00 PM 0 Comments

From this week's CBC Radio 3 playlist:

| 2:00 am

ARTIST | Track Title | Album | Label
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RUN CHICO RUN | Jacques and Madeline | Shashbo | Boompa!
CAMOFLAGE NIGHTS | It Could Be Love | Camouflage Nights in the Summer of 2004 | 1.7 Publications
LAKE HOLIDAY | American Summer | American Summer EP | indie
MOLASSES | Insomnia | A Slow Messe | Alien 8
HINTERLAND | Divebomb | Under the Waterline | HybridElectric
INTERSTELLAR | The Sun | ToSleepToDreamToWake | Plan Eleven
LOSCIL | Brittle | First Narrows | Kranky
GAVIN FROOME | After the Rain | Underground Heroes | Nordic Trax
TRACTILE | Out of Site/Mind | unreleased | Moodgadget
LUCID AND JERIKO | Circumstances Remix | unreleased | Version
RHYTMICRU | The Renaissance Will Happen | Open Canvas | After Midnight
SUECA | Vamos Jogar | Vamos Jogar EP | indie
TIJUANA BIBLES | Cage of Love | Fists of Fury | Tear It Up
MILLION DOLLAR MARXISTS | Perfect Balance | unreleased | indie

Some day we'll be considered worthy of airplay before 2 a.m. Oh well, at least you'll have plenty of time to get home and turn on your radio after checking out Windows '78 at the Railway Club on Saturday night. The Salteens and Leeroy Stagger are also on the bill.

posted by John @ 10/08/2004 02:20:00 PM 0 Comments

I'm not big on music videos, but this is one of the most beautiful ones I have ever seen. What do you think of it?

posted by John @ 10/08/2004 01:07:00 AM 0 Comments

Well, our ZeD appearance turned out quite well, I thought, despite the fact that they forgot to mix any of Cam's fine guitar work into "Tiger Tiger". Oh well, mistakes happen. I guess with flute, two keyboards, EBow, etc. to deal with, Cam's part just got lost in the shuffle. C'est dommage. For anyone who missed it, you can watch our performances here:

Tiger Tiger
Inside-Outside

posted by John @ 10/07/2004 02:12:00 PM 0 Comments

The October issue of DiSCORDER features an ad for Under the Waterline on page 19. Check it out! In the same issue, I noticed that something called Solaris is number 9 on the "Indie Homejobs" chart. I am pretty sure this is actually a misspelling of Solarists. On the same chart, Hinterland's pal the Tomster is at number 3. Is this a good time to mention that Under the Waterline, which has been out for almost a year, has never appeared on any CiTR chart? Never. Not once. It's really inexplicable, as we've been interviewed on the station twice, we've played live there once, our album got a glowing review in the station's magazine, and we are are currently one of their advertisers. I don't get it. What happened to supporting local indie artists? But, hey, why not request Hinterland on CiTR? And if you live elsewhere, request us on your local campus station.

Speaking of charts, I can't help but notice that our song "Tiger Tiger" has been on New Music Canada's Space Pop Top Ten for a very long time. Why not help us out by giving our other tracks a listen?

posted by John @ 10/06/2004 02:24:00 PM 0 Comments

Our song "Divebomb" is featured on the CBC Radio 3 site this week (it's the fifth track, four down from the Run Chico Run song). Maybe this means we'll be played on the radio show on Saturday night.

posted by John @ 10/05/2004 01:44:00 PM 0 Comments