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kkk Neko Case & Her
Boyfriends — The
Virginian, Mint Records
1997

If scorching hootenanny
be your pleasure this one’s for
you.

Neku Cuoc, front gal tor
Vancouver’s fabulous all-girl
frolic Maow, shares her coun-
trified rockabilly heart with a
strong supporting cast.

Cheers to Mint Records for backing this unusual
roject. Case is both feral honky tonk car and heart-
reak queenic, In cither case she’s refreshingly out of

time and definitely not of this place.

Case hits the stage tonight with Toronto’s The
Sadies at the Starfish Room for what pronaiscs to be a
barn blazer.

Catch her live today at an all-ages appearance at the

Virgin Megastore, 5
p.m. in Vancouver if
you can’t make the gig.
Next week she’s off to
perforn, at the influen-
tial South By Southwest
Convention in Austin,
Texas on March 21.

keke Wild
Strawberries —
Quiver. Nettwerk
Eroductions 1998
Mucho waw.
Trippy digiral sound
manipulations and a
dreamy female voice
with just the right mix of ennui and innocence define
this super disc from Roberta Carter Harrison on vocals
and Ken Harrison on synthesizers.
The Harrison’s also host a smart website at
(www.strawberrics.com).
Avery cool feature there is the track sheet, a blow

~ Enter to win tickets to (ap musical

Tell us what band Neko Case performs with
(Hint: see Michael Becker's review above) and you
could be the winner of two tickets to Quikers.

+5 Deadline for the'contest is Wiirsdapy March 19, 5:
p.m. Winners will be notified by phone. Address
your answers to North Shore News Quilters
Contest, 1139 Lonsdale Ave., Nort Vancouver,
B.C. Or you can fax them to us at
sure to include your phone number,

We have tickets to give away to the Capilano

College Performing Arts Theatre's production

of the musical Quilters.

«The story isa series of vignettes centred «.
"around a homesteading woman and her six daugh-

ters. Quitters runs Thursdays to Saturdzys from

March.9 to March 28, at 8 p.m. and stars a stellar
east of women from the Advanced Certificate in

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by blow account of
the moody layers of
instrumentation and
vocals hidden beneath
the stereo master of
cach song. ihe secrets
of snare hat, loop
swells, and “pet gui
tar are mapped out for
eyberberryphiles look-
ing to dissect the
tracks.

There’s also a frame
called Weasels We've
Met that comes with a
Neat animation of a
woman whese head
explodes and bady gets
squished. It anchors
choice idiotic quotes
from music writers.
Much fun.

Wild Strawberries
play Richards on April
3.

Meanwhile,
Nettwerk has picked up the band’s 1993 disc, Bet You
Think Din Lonely. Their release Carving Wooden
Spectacles is only available on cassette. The band is
looking to press s limited rua of CDs of the taped
release somecime in J998.

tkkee Metalwood, 1997

Groovacious fusion deluxe frem four fantastic
young Canadian players. Capilano College music pro-
gram’s calented supremo Brad Turner (keyboards,
trumpet, fugelhorn) joins Mike Murtey (sax), C hris
‘Tarry (bass} and Ian Froman (drums) fora fiery, funky
outing

Think Miles Davis circa lace 1960s through to the
early 1970s and ycu'll get a sense of the t impravisa-
tional spirit. This disc bubbles and cooks. it's up fora
1998 Juno award for best Contemporary Jazz Album.

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