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RIO THEATRE 1660 EAST BROADWAY SEPTEMBER SEPTEMBER 6 SEPTEMBER 7 SEPTEMBER 8 SEPTEMBER 11 SEPTEMBER 13 SEPTEMBER 14 SEPTEMBER 16 SEPTEMBER 17 ONE CUT OF THE DEAD SEPTEMBER 18 SEPTEMBER 21 SEPTEMBER 22 SEPTEMBER 24 SEPTEMBER 25 Patrick Maliha’s BIG BIRTHDAY BASH Jim Jarmusch’s THE DEAD DON’T DIE Friday Late Night Movie April O’Peel’s DYSFUNCTIONAL DISNEY CABARET WILLOW SMITH With Guests FREAKS Filmmakers in Attendance! The Gentlemen Hecklers Present PREDATOR THE HAPPIEST DISNEY BIG BAND ON EARTH 17-Piece Big Band Jazz Ensemble FRIDAY THE 13 TH Part V Friday Late Night Movie WIZARDS UNDRESS A Harry Potter Burlesque Fantasy ANIME! UTA NO PRINCE-SAMA: Maji Love Kingdom Movie TOM GREEN Live! Japanese Horror-Comedy The Fictionals Comedy Co. Presents IMPROV AGAINST HUMANITY Back to Class Special THE ROLLING STONES LIVE BAND BURLESQUE PIGS Canada’s Pink Floyd Canadian Premiere Sam Raimi’s EVIL DEAD 4K Remaster with New Score! THE CRITICAL HIT SHOW A #DNDLive Improvised Epic Adventure SEPTEMBER 26 - OCTOBER 12 The Vancouver International Film Festival See www.viff.org for details *www.riotheatre.ca for additional times COMPLETE LISTINGS AT WWW.RIOTHEATRE.CA S 20 BEATROUTE SEPTEMBER <strong>2019</strong> MUSiC CONCERT PREVIEWS RHYE: INSIDE THE SUREAL MIND OF MICHAEL MILOSH By JOEY LOPEZ M ichael Milosh, the driving force behind silky smooth, melancholic alternative R&B outfit Rhye, knows a thing or two about “do it yourself.” “I direct the music videos myself. Sometimes I edit. I find editing is a lot like making music, but it’s easier since you’re not dealing with a hundred tracks,” says Milosh, who not only writes, produces and performs all of Rhye’s music, but is also in charge of creative direction. Rhye’s music videos in particular are known for their arthouse cinema flair; and usually come in the form of three-to-four minute short films with a moody, surrealist take on love and relationships. The dark aesthetics go hand-in-hand with the atmospheric soundscapes and androgynous vocals that feel like the soundtrack to reoccuring dreams of lost love, or an alternative score for Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Before Rhye, Milosh worked as a professional photographer—a career that began as a teenager developing photos with his father in his own break-up record. Milosh sees it RHYE darkroom. Every album cover differently: “If you listen to a lot for Rhye’s albums have been shot by himself except for the first, Woman. Monday, Sept. 23 Vogue Theatre (Van) Tix: $26.50, eventbrite.ca of the lyrics they’re actually not that sad. It’s a lot more charged than that. There’s a lot being “That was something that said in there and you either has always bothered me,” have to know me more or really Milosh shares. “I had some disagreements try to decode stuff to figure out what’s with the label I was on at the time, really going on.” Polydor, and they ended up choosing a With Rhye, Milosh wants us to listen different photographer. That’s not something closely and understand him on a deeper I like and it’s something that really level. For the next record, Milosh is taking irks me. I felt like a phony because that inspiration from the state of his family, in was one aspect of the album that wasn’t particular his parents’ illnesses, getting completely me.” older, and not taking life for granted. The birth of Rhye was the result of Milosh’s Instead of taking the opportunity to speak frustrations with Berlin’s electronic on the woes of life, Milosh chooses to music scene. As iconic as it may be to see things more optimistically and aims others looking in, Milosh felt the scene to make a groovier, dancier record to never expanded outward and stayed interpret life’s beauty, rather than the within a very confined box. His desire to inevitable toll time takes on everybody. break out of electronic music and sing “I’m just realizing the importance of his heart out is what brought about the experiencing joy and happiness with the incredibly unique album Woman. Loved people you love. I also think that my role for its heartfelt and sultry sounds, many in my family is to bring smiles to everyone. listeners associated it with their own I really try to bring humor and something heartbreak, often interpreting it as a positive to everyone around me.” , DARROLE PALMER
CARLY RAE JEPSEN A POP STAR FOR THE PEOPLE By BEN BODDEZ A near-decade and two critically acclaimed albums about the type of pop music was really nice to start thinking after the hit single, “Call I wanted to make. E•MO•- Me Maybe,” there are TION was my first step into still a surprising number that, and I’ve learned even of people who view British Columbia’s Carly Rae For all the talk of pic- more with Dedicated.” Jepsen as a pop-culture ture-perfect romance punchline. But take a look at any in Jepsen’s music, it’s online pop music forum and Jepsen easy to miss that she stands tall as the reigning monarch, exists in many of her complete with tongue-in-cheek adulations proclaiming her as the genre’s er wishing for the euphoric fantasies narratives as more of a lonely outsid- holy saviour. she sings about to come true. This Jepsen is still taken aback by the message of escape that Jepsen presents is universally appealing. Mem- shift her career’s taken from massive overnight sensation to the cult-like bers of the LGBTQ community hail figure she is now. “I felt a different her as an icon, describing her jubilant kind of good, to be embraced finally live shows as a place to fully step into for something that was a lot more their identity — something Jepsen real and a lot more of myself,” the has noticed. singer admits. Through more personal, heartfelt and emotional mate- opener “Run Away With Me” as her See points to her E•MO•TION rial, she has made a deeper connection with her fans. “‘Call Me Maybe’ reason. favourite track to perform for that was the gift of my life in so many “I’m trying to say to the audience, ways, but I think the main thing was let’s forget everything tonight and I saw it as a platform to show other escape into this feeling. And it feels sides of who I am as an artist.” like I surrender myself too,” she says. The song’s massive success was “I’m always amazed at the beautiful what prompted her to take a step back crowd that we have. People are just and reconsider what she really wanted. “Chasing after the same thing crowds so full of love. How did we nice to each other. I’ve never seen didn’t even really seem possible, so it get so lucky?” To emphasize just how much you can discover when looking below the surface level of Jepsen’s music, a viral 150-page essay titled A Scar No One Else Can See attempted to showcase how profoundly sad her music can be, highlighting how Jepsen almost always returns to the same themes of obsession and longing. In fact, “longing” is how she would describe her album in a single word. “When I listen to Billie Holiday, she makes ‘My Man’ sound so beautiful, and yet it’s the saddest song in the world. I think I like the contradictions of those things sometimes — really milking melancholy in a way where it becomes poetic.” While writing, Jepsen plans for her music to be much more somber — “very Lykke Li, Cat Power type stuff” that reflects her real-life romantic experiences — before everything changes in the recording studio. “When I go into the room, I naturally want to find joy. And I don’t know why that happens, but I stopped questioning it too much.” Still, she values every moment in the studio and on stage that she gets choked up, reliving her lowest points through her songs. “‘Real Love’ hits me every night that I play it now. It’s good because it reconnects you.” The emotion that comes up reminds her she is creating art that comes from a real place. “Oth- erwise you become like a Broadway show where you go through the motions of it and it’s like, ‘hit this spot at this point.’ Anytime you’re kind of shaken out of that on stage, it gets across better to the audience,” she says. “So I always treasure those moments, even though sometimes it’s like,” — here, Jepsen mimes a tearful voice — “‘alright, I’m going to say it again, all I want is real, real love!’” To balance out those tearful moments, Jepsen indulges in a little bit of laughter. She emphasizes how lucky she is to have found a kindred sense of humour in both her fans and her romantic partners. Despite seeming confused and slightly embarrassed whenever one of the many memes comparing her to a pop music heroine is brought up in conversation, Jepsen appreciates the nonsensical viral movement to give her a (blow-up, non-dangerous) sword, a weapon she now receives nightly at her concerts. “I still don’t understand it, but it’s adorable,” she says. “I think it’s what I love about our community, it feels like everyone has a good sense of humour and wants to have a joke together.” While debuting her breakup song “For Sure” for an ex-partner just before they were separated by distance, Jepsen says their eventual falling out became something of a joke. “We could laugh at anything. His hands were up doing the happy dance, and then he did a joking, slow sad dance as he realized the words. But it was meant to be funny, and we both chuckled.” Perhaps it is the perfect balance between the two — the “happy dance” and the “sad dance” — that lifted Jepsen beyond “Call Me Maybe” and landed her, “For Sure,” at the top of pop music today. , SEPTEMBER <strong>2019</strong> BEATROUTE 21
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