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  • REWIND: A letter from Wayne Coyne, Flaming Lips, 1997. Posters, Spider Bites and the Birth of Zaireeka

    The Flaming Lips announced they’d be re-releasing their quardrophonic album Zaireeka for Record Store Day 2013, which reminded me of a package Wayne Coyne once sent. Take a look, in this special BSR REWIND.

    January 27, 2013
  • FOALS: Too Much on the Subject of New Album “Holy Fire” and a Band I Love (+ new video!)

    The first post of 2013 and I’m laying it out. My name’s Mikala and I’m a Foals-a-holic. And I’m also now trying to wrap my head around their new album “Holy Fire.”

    January 23, 2013
  • The BackstageRider Definitive TOP 11 “THINGS” OF 2012

    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.

    December 25, 2012
  • ROCKHANDS of the month: PENN & TELLER

    Every once in a while, several rockhands of such brilliance MAGICALLY appear in your inbox, from another Rockhands Soldier out there in the trenches. That someone so awesome, like Braden Deans of Vancouver, would take the time to corner the awesomely weird magicians, both Penn AND Teller, and get them to conjure goats for the…

    December 9, 2012
  • SIMIAN MOBILE DISCO live: It’s the Beat (and the knobs)

    “Hello? Please patch me through to Simian Mobile Disco please, kthxbai”. Photos and words about SMD’s Dec 4 gig at Venue. This time without blindness.

    December 6, 2012
  • Dancing with DIAMOND RINGS (Photos/Review)

    Kind of rad to see the evolution of a pop star unfold before your very eyes. Here’s my take on Diamond Rings now, versus then. Includes some dancing, Red Bull, Deee-Lite and an enormous photo gallery.

    November 20, 2012
  • AFGHAN WHIGS Deafen and Destroy in Seattle

    The Pacific Northwest gathered in preparation for the rapture, rather the return of the Afghan Whigs, which was bigger, louder and more satisfying. Here’s what went down at the Showbox on November 3rd.

    November 16, 2012
  • CAT POWER Live in Vancouver – Weird. Beautiful. Weirdly Beautiful.

    Just days before she cancelled her European tour, Chan Marshall’s Cat Power performs at Vancouver’s Vogue Theatre and it’s a wild, utterly compelling combination of weird and beautiful.

    November 13, 2012
  • Introducing METZ: I Love Them. You Should Love Them, Too

    In which you are introduced to a nice trio of Canadian boys who are putting out the best metallicky fuzz-punk of the moment. They are called METZ and you should love them.

    November 12, 2012
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