Chris Alscher AKA Chris-A-Riffic played with the band They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? and has performed as a solo artist for several decades. He is a radio host on CiTR, the University of British Columbia radio station, with his show Parts Unknown which has been on the air for over two decades. We walk down Main Street from 29th avenue to 22nd avenue, discussing Little Mountain Gallery, Chroma Books, Blim and more. Chroma Books was a bookstore upstairs at 4424 Main Street which opened in 2002 and occasionally had shows of experimental and lo-fi music. They Live Video, at 4340 Main St, hosted bands in the 2010s. Little Mountain Gallery was at 195 E 26th Ave built in 1930. It became an art space known as the Butchershop Collective in 2001 and Little Mountain Gallery was established in 2006. After music shows, it became an underground comedy club. It was demolished in 2023 despite the attempts of arts groups to preserve it. Lucky’s Comics was a comic and bookstore at 3972 Main Street which has now relocated eight blocks north. Other venues mentioned are The Regional Assembly of Text (3934 Main Street), Blim (opened in 2003 in the old BC Electric Building at 23 W Pender, then at 197 East 17th Ave and now at 115 E Pender St, an art shop, no longer a venue) Solder and Sons (247 Main Street), Chris’s shed, the Java Joint (Surrey), the New York Theatre now the York Theatre (639 Commercial Dr). Bands mentioned include Apollo Ghosts, Chain and the Gang, Charlamides, Fanshaw (Olivia Fetherstonhaugh), Kellarissa (Larissa Loyva), Tygh Runyan (Beans), crys cole, Nicholas Krgovich, connect_icut, Collapsing Opposites, the Diskettes, Tough Age, Darto, Weed, Hemogoblin, Cascadia, Smithy Ramone, Kidnap Kids (formerly Beggars & Chairs), Better Friends than Lovers, Marta McKeever, the Unicorns, Swamp Camp, Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo), Gal Gracen. Rose Melberg, Leah Abramson, Search Parties, Holtzkopf, Cub, Gob, Sparkmarker, NoMeansNo, All State Champion, Tricky Woo, Ahna.  Huge thank you to Kellarissa for the original theme music. Music clips used with artist permission. Chris-a-riffic: Late Night Vietnamese Restaurant from Treats (2019) Apollo Ghosts: Things You Go Through from Mount Benson (2010) Kidnap Kids: Kids from You Would Run from Ratboy Grave (2009) This conversation was recorded on September 24 2023. Our unexpected audio guests were Jarrett Evan Samson  and Lauren Smith of the band Tough Age.

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