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The Rheostatics, The Buttless Chaps

For more than two decades, THE RHEOSTATICS have mapped new frontiers across Cana...
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Thu. October 21st 2004 + Add to Calendar The Media Club (No Minors)
8:00pm - 2:00am $16 advance

Artists

The Rheostatics
from Toronto Ontario
Unknown
The Buttless Chaps
Alternative from Vancouver BC
circa 1998 - circa 2009

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Upstream Entertainment

303 East 6th Street Vancouver BC

Event Description

For more than two decades, THE RHEOSTATICS have mapped new frontiers across Canada, embracing the nation that bore them and reinterpreting its sea-to-shining-sea grandeur in music of startling variety and indisputable beauty. The band has remained fiercely loyal to a unique vision that is entirely dependent upon the alchemical interaction of its members, the catalyzing friction that renders gold from lesser metals - and that distinguishes the Rheostatics from bands of lesser mettle. Their music has been described variously as "prog-rock," "art-rock," "orchestral psychedelia" and "a loosely organized cacophony of sound," all of which reveal the frustrating limits of language, especially as employed in the service of music journalism. As the irrepressible court jesters of culture insist, wr... more...

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The Media Club

695 Cambie Street Vancouver BC

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