Occasionally I take it upon myself to introduce you to new music that has not yet been discovered by Pitchfork. Presenting: The Top 11 Things You Should Know about BESTIE

Rejoice, folks. The Grapes of Wrath have returned with their first album as Hooper-Kane-Hooper, in 22 years. And history’s important; so I asked Chris Hooper for his favourite memories of time in the band. Here they are. Lordy.

In which I dissect the year in a painstaking, list-like fashion. The last few months may have sucked, but overall, this was a ROCKTACULAR year for the BSR.

Because our lists go right to 11, here’s the Top 11 Reasons Why Kristine Flaherty, aka K.Flay, is rad, and was awesome on April 20 at the Media Club in Vancouver.

What’s the point of looking back? Here’s the BackstageRider Top 11 Things to Look Forward to in 2012 (so far) with a bit of back-looking, I admit, in the form of musicks I did very much enjoy as well as some guesses about what might be awesome next year.

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.

Vancouver’s alt-pop, robot-lovin’, future-livin’ Sex With Strangers release their third album “Frontier Justice” today, so to celebrate, we asked the band for some hot list action. I present to you, friends, some useful advice: Top 11 Clues Your Girlfriend is a Robot. Oh yes.

Stupid cupid. Valentine’s Day should be about gettin’ jiggy, not buying roses and chocolates. Here’s former Suicide Girl and BackstageRider’s favourite alt-porn model Apnea with the Top 11 (bonkers) songs that make her feel, you know, hot.

Been a while since we’ve had a Top 11 (because our lists go right to 11). But this one’s from Toronto oddball Gregory Pepper/Common Grackle. The BackstageRider loves her some oddballs. So here’s an introduction, as well as his Top 11 TV Show Theme Songs.