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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

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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,

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College Performing Arts Theatre's production

of the musical Quilters.

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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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