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TERMINAL CITY CONFIDENTIAL

FEBRUARY 2014 – THE STORY OF LUV-A-FAIR AND THE DEATH OF DISCO IN VANCOUVER Terminal City Confidential is a column to introduce stories and people who are either untold or overlooked in Vancouver’s...

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TERMINAL CITY CONFIDENTIAL – MARCH 2014

STILL FLYIN: THE END AND THE BEGINNING OF RON REYES (AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW) Ron Reyes is not sorry. Not just anyone gets to sing in Black Flag, gets fired mid-show and then sandbagged in Rolling...

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TERMINAL CITY CONFIDENTIAL: TOMMY CHONG

A HIGHER STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS In the ‘70s, millions ‘lit up’ as a right of passage while listening to Cheech & Chong vinyl or watching Up in Smoke. Before Tommy Chong became the rock star stoner...

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Terminal City Confidential: A look back at Vancouver’s first festivals

By Susanne Tabata Jerry Kruz.Photo: Susanne Tabata VANCOUVER — It’s not easy to get a reading on the flash points of early outdoor music festival history in Vancouver when a lot of its earliest...

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Art Bergmann: ‘Desperate times call for desperate songs’

By Susanne Tabata i·con·o·clast īˈkänəˌklast/ noun noun: iconoclast; plural noun: iconoclasts 1. a person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions. Photo: Kenneth Locke VANCOUVER — It’s been 19...

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Peter Hook: A day in the light

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Stefano Masselli VANCOUVER — When Joy Division released the 1980 single “Love Will Tear Us Apart,” the alternative music world was still in shock over singer Ian Curtis’...

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Protopunk pioneer Martin Rev keeps the experimental age alive

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Divine Enfant VANCOUVER — Time is still writing the story of Martin Rev. Over 40 years have passed since he and Alan Vega formed the protopunk electronic duo Suicide. Their...

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Review: Discotext Magazine: Vancouver Club Culture and the History of EDM...

By Susanne Tabata VANCOUVER — Have you ever wanted to know what the first DJs played in their dance sets at the onset of house music in the late ’80s? Early house DJ Robert Shea has just published...

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Terminal City Confidential: Gerry Hannah

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Rick Collins A man with a plan in the right time and place for politics VANCOUVER — Gerry Hannah a.k.a. Gerry Useless of The Subhumans has just released Coming Home, an album...

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Terminal City Confidential: Tales from the alleyway of Vancouver’s black history

By Susanne Tabata Vancouver filmmaker Anthony Brown.Photo: Courtesy of Anthony Brown VANCOUVER — It’s Black History Month and the perfect occasion to trash official narratives of the city in favour of...

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Terminal City Confidential: ‘Prince of Pot’ Marc Emery returns to his sticky...

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Courtesy of Marc Emery Protesters outside of Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s constituency office.Photo: Courtesy of Marc Emery VANCOUVER — When Canada extradited Marc Emery to...

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Terminal City Confidential: Tall Tree Festival

By Susanne Tabata VANCOUVER — Tall Tree Festival is in its sixth year, and runs June 26-28 in Port Renfrew, B.C. This is a boutique festival set in a rain forest atop a mountain overlooking an inlet –...

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Canadian rock legend Bryan Adams stays sharp on his way back up

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Courtesy of Bryan Adams VANCOUVER — “It’s the same ethic. You sit down with a guitar and hope for the best.” So begins a conversation with Bryan Adams about his music, then and...

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Terminal City Confidential: Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan reflects on the...

By Susanne Tabata Presented by Bomber Brewing From left to right: Zippy Pinhead, Duff McKagan and Randy Rampage. VANCOUVER — Read no further if you are looking for salacious details on the Guns N’...

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Terminal City Confidential: The history of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival

By Susanne Tabata Photo: Courtesy of the Vancouver Folk Music Festival VANCOUVER — The Vancouver Folk Music Festival is in its 39th year. Success follows a format, but for co-founder Gary Cristall, the...

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Terminal City Confidential: Celebrating 40 years of the Powell Street Festival

By Susanne Tabata Powell Street Festival circa 1977.Photo: Courtesy of the Powell Street Festival VANCOUVER — Forget the fact that the first official punk concert in Vancouver took place at the...

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I Survived DOA: A conversation with Randy Rampage and author Chris Walter

By Susanne Tabata Photo: SHIMON VANCOUVER — With the closing of punk music venue Funky’s on Hastings, Chris Walter moves east to launch his latest book I Survived DOA by Randy Rampage at Pat’s Pub. Not...

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Punk: A Movement in Four Parts Elevates Early Roots of Punk Rock and Its Long...

By Brendan Lee Whoever you are, wherever you hail from, we all at the very least, have a vague understanding of Punk music as both a genre and an evolving movement. But when viewed from afar, the...

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