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EAST PALESTINE — Eight months after the Norfolk Southern train derailment and nearly one year after former City Manager Mark McTrustry announced his resignation, East Palestine council announced Monday that Chad Edwards will be the next village administrator. During its regular meeting, Council approved a resolution to hire Edwards as well as a resolution to […]
EAST PALESTINE — Eight months after the Norfolk Southern train derailment and nearly one year after former City Manager Mark McTrustry announced his resignati
It couldn’t have happened any other way. In true Vancouver fashion, N0V3L wrote and recorded their debut full-length album NON-FICTION in a since-demolished rental home — likely featuring rusty nails through the floorboards and decorated with a tinge of West Coast black mould. If one scraped some of that rust off those nails, sprinkled in some of that illustrious black mould, and for the hell of it, threw in some Red Bull and cigarette butts, you would get NON-FICTION — an anti-capitalist potion come to life, dissecting modern existence and the perverse parameters through whi...
Published May 26, 2021 7 First and foremost, BC post-punk outfit N0V3L fiercely identify as anti-capitalists. It's a personal statement that extends to the artistic intentions contained in their debut full-length record, NON-FICTION — a functionalist, stony political excursion that parses through manifestations of injustice, inequity and broken systems. With NON-FICTION, vocalist Jon Varley has largely ditched the shrill, new-wave bravado vocal stylings that accented the group's tightly-wound 2019 self-titled EP in favour of a more brutalist, deadpan delivery. Backed by understated, slug...