Re: Sloan Lyrics-Medium Rare
american groove is an MC5 song. don't mean to be picky but...american ruse is an MC5 song. New York Groove is an Ace Frehely song. Groove is in the Heart is a Deeelite song. We're an American Band is a Grand Funk Railroad song. I don't know any American Groove, though it would be in good company as a song title...
Re: Shaken By Spee
I just talked to Courtney Love about all this and she said it looks like you have been taken in... There's no new Sloan record (unless you guys are talking about a bootleg). But Kurdt is alive and well and living in Brampton working at a Coffee Time.
Tragically Hip Club Groove
Gord Downie's rap project...nyuck nyuck nyuck. But seriously, folks, what are HCG doing these days? Are they still doing a 2nd murder record? What about 6-Too, Jo-Run, Universal Soul, etc? Are there any new Hfx MC's? Ruffneck any good?
Re: SFZ elvis
It was a cool show. Elvis Mondays is kind of like an open mic night at the El Mocambo in T.O., so it was cool to see the Superfriendz there. The crowd was pretty good for a monday night, at least 150 or so people (I'm bad at judging crowd size, though). The set was pretty short, since 6 bands played. The new songs sound better every time I hear them. The new drummer, Lonnie James, has played in a lot of hardcore bands, so they're a lot faster and tougher sounding now than ever before. Sometimes it was great - the end of Rescue Us from Boredom was a great rave-up - but others, like It's Up and Running might've benefitted from a lighter touch...The Sinisters, a totally over the top leather-pants-with-laces-up-the-side-wearin' stooges wannabe band played right after the Superfriendz, and Son of Bronto, a speedmetal-punk crossover band circa 1982, played right before 'em. T.O. is so oldschool, it's almost cute.
Superfriendz in T.O. tonight
In case anybody missed it, the Superfriendz are playing at the Elm Mocambo tonight for Elvis Mondays, which means it's free and it hasn't gotten a ton of publicity, so it should be a fun show. I hear that they played a show at a roller rink in Sault Ste. Marie (or was it Thunder Bay?) complete with people skating in circles around them. I wonder if they had couples only and ladies' choice songs... God bless North Ontario and Roller Rink Rock shows. -ct
Much East
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 22 Nov 1995 16:13:13 -0500 (EST) From: C. Trowbridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: You kids are spoiled! Mucheast doesn't play enough cool music? boo hoo...If you look to mainstream media to legitimize underground culture you're only gonna lose. If you want draw attention to bands you like why not get involved in grass-roots media yourself. Start a zine, promote an all ages show, do community radio or cable-access tv, put out a tape or 7...( and I know most of you are already doing these things) Don't whine about how Mike Campbell isn't hip to every band on the East Coast - surprise surprise! Why let Muchmusic set the agenda for what's cool - set it yourself. Ever since Nirvana there's been a paradoxical attitude in the scene that a) Indie bands are owed some kind of media attention and financial success. ( while most of the bands who inspired the whole indie/punkrock thing were ignored or despised [velvet underground, husker du, big star, stooges, ny dolls]) b) If bands do get media attention and financial success, they get branded as sell-outs by the very same hipsters who moan about how the mainstream neglects their insular little scenes. If new people come to shows, the hipsters get all uptight about the jocks and posers... Much is obviously advertiser-driven and wants to appeal to as broad an audience as possible, therefore it's always going to be mundane. Maybe our energies could be put to better use creating media sources over which we have total control than whining about those over which we have no control. Dischord-antly yours, ct
