Acrpost: A Project of the Pacific Association of Artist Run Centres

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VILA Presents Jo Passed with Wide Eyed, Layten Kramer Friday, July 5th Doors at 7pm // 19+ Lucky Bar (517 Yates St.) $12 adv / door Advance tickets available here: http://bit.ly/JOPASSEDVIC ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jo Passed || Vancouver, BC || WEB: http://www.jopassed.com/ FB: https://www.facebook.com/pg/jopassed/ BC: https://jopassed.bandcamp.com/ The nicest thing anyone has ever – ever – said to Jo Hirabayashi, frontman of Jo Passed, is that his band’s debut album sounds like “fucked-up Beatles”. Titled Their Prime, the LP does sound like fucked-up Beatles. It sounds like, somewhere across an ‘80s universe, Lennon and McCartney discovered Can and Neu!, and maybe a little Sonic Youth and XTC along the way. Opening with “Left,” it demonstrates that timeless knack ... more...