SubPop noisepop from London, UK’s Male Bonding as they took over the Electric Owl in Vancouver on October 21. Bring on the fuzzy hookiness!

The news that the Stone Roses were reuniting moved me to bash out an ENORMOUS column pondering the complexities of this decision. What do you think? Good idea or bad? Have you never heard of the Stone Roses and are now curious? Let me know what you reckon.

Yuck wrapped their North American tour at the Music Hall in Williamsburg, NYC on October 14 and our roving New York photographer and Fucking Nostalgic friend Chris was there to catalog the event. Yummy Yuck!

Cumbria, England’s Wild Beasts leave the Lake District, end up in Vancouver for the first time at the Biltmore on October 8 and discover – to their surprise – that they’re so well-loved some girl wants to have their babies. Not me. Another girl. Enjoy the pics.

Here’s a play by play of San Francisco’s GIRLS show in Vancouver at the Biltmore Cabaret on September 26. Contains flowers, pregnant woman and a lotta stoners.

Twin Shadow and his amazin’ stylin’ headfuck of an ’80s sound was in Vancouver on September 28th at the Biltmore Cabaret and so was my camera. Check out the pics and hear his latest track “Changes”.

Diamond Rings talks guilty pleasures, his ideal collaborators, what he’d like on his backstagerider, and oh, answers 8 more questions. Here is the first-ever, on-camera BackstageRider Top 11 Questions With…Diamond Rings. Includes moccasins.

Darkly brilliant electro pioneers Death in Vegas return after a seven-year gap between albums with something strange and wonderful. Here, we celebrate their arrival by throwing in a few old stories of our own.

DC’s dub-electro-smoothies Thievery Corporation had folks shuffling their feet in the grass on September 13 at Malkin Bowl in Vancouver. But was it good enough? Magic 8 Ball says “Meh”.