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ZULU REPORT: All The Awesome Sounds That You Should Be Listening To This Week

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by Nic Bragg | From Kitsilano’s Zulu Records, we once again present our weekly Scout feature, the Zulu Report. Within, we provide The Track – the song that is on heavy rotation in the shop this week; The Playlist – which is pretty self-explanatory; The Gig – the ‘must see’ show of the week; and The Glance – which details the best live acts that are on the immediate horizon. From our ears to yours, enjoy…

THE TRACK

TY SEGALL The Man Man

Is it too early to start thinking about your favourite records of the year? November is the time when the dust starts to settle in the new release schedule and all the bigwig critics pour a glass of wine and sit down to mull over the year that was. I think it is a safe bet that the 2013 Ty Segall release ‘Sleeper’ will get some critical nods and crack some year-end ‘best of’ lists. Ty took a chance on this album. After a steady stream of heavy post-grunge rock records, he went into the studio with just a limited back of tricks and focused on writing songs on his favourite beat-up acoustic guitar. Working completely alone – solo – in the studio, he recorded all of Sleeper in the early morning hours between 3am and dawn. His mind was tired, blown, and fried. The result is a deeply enthralling album that captures burnout, a fragile mental state and the damaged visions of an artist who has spent the better part of the last five years travelling across the indie rock party landscape. For The Man Man video, Segall croons softly on his way home from a late night session and a trip to the store for milk, before being ventilated by bullets shot by a gruesome trio of faceless evil on his front stoop. Enjoy.

THE PLAYLIST

KRONOS QUARTET with BRYCE DRESSNER – TOUR EIFFEL

They say music takes you to other places. It animates a story, captures emotions, and speaks to the human condition. Take one of America’s leading new music quartets and let them collaborate with one of the leading creative forces in America’s rock music pantheon and you know that the results will be majestic, dramatic and entirely mesmerizing.

DESTROYER Bye bye

Up in the Similkameen Valley the chickens run wild and free. They eat peaches in the fields. Closer to home, Dan Bejar of Destroyer has free range, roaming his Strathcona pastures. But look, there is a snake in the grass! Bye bye is the first visual accompaniment for Destroyer’s forthcoming Spanish language record – a collection of Antonio Luque covers, of the band Sr. Chinarro.

STEPHEN MALKMUS AND THE JICKS Lariat

If you haven’t heard, Stephen Malkmus has moved back to Portland and has been frequenting the Poler concept store. Imagine his lumberjack look! His days of digging the Berlin art crawl are over. His style is wasted in Kreuzberg, anyway. In January, we can all look forward to a new Jicks album. In the meantime, pull out your Groundhogs LPs and Dead boots and relax.

BRASSTRONAUT The Grove

In school I really liked the surreal films of Maya Deren and Bunuel – the dream state as the ultimate distraction. This Brasstronaut clip takes me back. You have to search the shadows, piece together the narrative and enter the dreams of the main protagonist. Cool. I am a sucker for treated trumpet intros, too.

MUM Candlestick

Did any of your friends spam you with texts and images from their vacation to Iceland’s recent Airwaves festival? I had to block them. It was so hard to endure the constant barrage of majestic landscapes, awesome music and cultural collaborations and, of course…Mum! Get your freak on now, as post-glitch electronics is returning.

SERGE GAINSBOURG & BRIGITTE BARDOT Bonnie and Clyde

Blast from the past. We recently had a long discussion in the store about Serge…is this quintessential French pop? Either way, you have to dig Gainsbourg in full-on outlaw mode.

WOODEN SHJIPS Back to Land

Ok, back to the present. What is the relationship between Geography and Music? I’m not sure, but I just read three PhD dissertations on the subject. Some people say San Fran’s fuzz rockers Wooden Shjips embody the regional ‘San Francisco sound’. I never really thought of it like that, but they do have copious freaky clowns – so make of it what you will.

THE GIG

SUICIDAL TENDENCIES | December 4th at The Vogue Theatre

Mike Muir and his Suicidal Tendencies crew have come a long way since this clip for 1983 epic skate rock jam ‘Institutionalized’. The song really leapt off the Repo Man soundtrack and propelled the entire LA trash scene, Venice beach skate scene, and of course the metal crossover that followed. In the last 30 years, the band has taken a number of hiatuses and undergone numerous line-up changes, but like their punk peers of the day in Bad Religion and Black Flag, they still intend to continue to thrash! The idea of the Vogue Theatre – with its ornate deco restoration – housing a band this ferocious live is riveting. Grab your vintage Caballero deck and check this out! Just don’t say ‘All I wanted was a Pespi…’ at the bar. Take a deeper look at Vancouver’s gig landscape for the rest of November and into December after the jump…

THE GLANCE

Fri Nov 15 ALVARO – CELEBRITIES
Fri Nov 15 JULY TALK – MEDIA – WE’RE SOLD OUT
Fri Nov 15 AIDAN KNIGHT & JUSTIN RUTLEDGE – RIO
Fri Nov 15 THE FLESHTONES – PATS PUB
Sat Nov 16 CULTS – RIO
Sat Nov 16 JOHN DAHLBACK – CELEBRITIES
Sat Nov 16 THUNDERCAT – FORTUNE
Mon Nov 18 PHIDEL – CBC
Mon Nov 18 PROTEST THE HERO & THE ARCHITECT – VOGUE
Tue Nov 19 JAMES BLAKE – VOGUE THEATRE – BILTMORE – WE’RE SOLD OUT
Tue Nov 19 GREG MACPHERSON – BILTMORE
Tue Nov 19 MELLOWHIGH – RIO THEATRE
Wed Nov 20 BIG FREEDIA – BILTMORE
Thu Nov 21 QUASI – BILTMORE
Fri Nov 22 BLITZEN TRAPPER – BILTMORE
Fri Nov 22 PETE TONG – CELEBRITIES
Fri Nov 23 MARK FARINA – IMPERIAL – WE’RE SOLD OUT
Fri Nov 23 ALEX KENJI – GINGER 62
Sat Nov 24 AARON CARTER – FORTUNE
Mon Nov 25 JON HOPKINS & CLARK – FORTUNE SOUND CLUB
Wed Nov 27 LIGHTNING DUST – BILTMORE
Thu Nov 28 BASS COAST LAUNCH PARTY 6 – FORTUNE
Thu Nov 28 THE FUGITIVES – BILTMORE
Thu Nov 28 PAUL VAN DYK – VENUE
Thu Nov 28 PARTY NEXT DOOR – BAR NONE
Fri Nov 29 LIONS IN THE STREET – RICKSHAW
Fri Nov 29 NITIN – GINGER 62
Fri Nov 29 WAXAHATCHEE + SWEARIN’ – BILTMORE
Fri Nov 29 SUPER 8 TAB – CELEBRITIES
Fri Nov 29 THE REASON + THEE ATTACKS – VENUE
Sat Nov 30 MINT RECORDS XMAS PARTY – UKRANIAN HALL
Sat Nov 30 BLACK JOE LEWIS – RICKSHAW
Sat Nov 30 DYRO – CELEBRITIES

DECEMBER

Mon Dec 01 THE REBIRTH: FATAL INSTINCT, BLOODY BETTY & CAULK – RICKSHAW
Tue Dec 02 CRASH KINGS – ELECTRIC OWL
Tue Dec 02 ESCONDIDO – MEDIA
Wed Dec 04 SUICIDAL TENDENCIES – VOGUE
Thu Dec 05 KOOL GRAP & AZ – VENUE
Thu Dec 05 LAUGH YOUR ASS OFF 20! – RICKSHAW
Thu Dec 05 MACHINEDRUM – FORTUNE
Thu Dec 05 BASIA BULAT – RIO – WE’RE SOLD OUT
Thu Dec 05 EL TEN ELEVEN – ELECTRIC OWL
Sat Dec 07 LEE RANALDO and THE DUST – BILTMORE – early show
Mon Dec 09 JAGWAR MA – FORTUNE
Tue Dec 10 THE WHITE BUFFALO – BILTMORE
Wed Dec 11 FLATLINERS – BILTMORE
Thu Dec 12 TOP LESS GAY LOVE TEKNO PARTY – VENUE
Thu Dec 12 THE MOONDOGGIES – BILTMORE
Thu Dec 12 SUB FOCUS – FORTUNE
Fri Dec 13 BIG K.R.I.T. – VENUE
Fri Dec 13 KING KRULE – FORTUNE
Fri Dec 13 JON AND ROY HOLIDAY SPECIAL w/ BUCK 65 – VOGUE
Fri Dec 13 CLANCEY’S ANGELS – WISE HALL
Sat Dec 14 CLANCEY’S ANGELS – WISE HALL
Dec 13-14 DIECEMBER FEST – RICKSHAW / FUNKY W.
Sat Dec 14 MIDLAKE – FORTUNE
Sat Dec 14 GOOD FOR GRAPES – VOGUE
Sat Dec 14 PERE UBU – BILTMORE
Sun Dec 15 HOLOGRAMS – ELECTRIC OWL
Thu Dec 19 RUSTIE – ELECTRIC OWL