April 9, 2012
New video of Lou performing Weed Forestin’ tracks at Origami Vinyl a few weeks back, sent to the BSR by filmmaker Adam Harding! A round up of Sebadoh-recording-new-music news! It’s all…
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Readin’, singin’, talkin’ about the past and future, and eatin’ cake. Such was the wonderful of Mike Doughty’s recent gig at the Media Club in Vancouver on April 5. Yeah, I said CAKE. Read…
Read more →April 1, 2012
Nothing like a bunch of fuzzy shoegaze from a legend to help usher in the early hours of a Thursday morning. Pete Kember/Sonic Boom performed at the Waldorf Hotel as part of their electro…
Read more →March 26, 2012
Exclusive interview with Tim Burgess from the Charlatans on the subject of his new memoir “Telling Stories”, plus a few lines from that time from the BSR diaries. “It should have been a…
Read more →March 19, 2012
Songwriter extraordinaire(ily grumpy) Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields arrived in Vancouver and played for an audience rife with record store clerks and and swooning nerds. They were…
Read more →March 16, 2012
I’m too cool for Austin and SXSW. (Truth: too broke, not enough holiday.) But BackstageRider has its spies down there, and one of them has come back with GOLD. Here’s the radtacular K Flay…
Read more →March 8, 2012
Gather round for a short tale about why Thee Oh Sees (ably supported by Pets With Pets and Magnetix) played one of my fave shows thus far this year, and how it all happened in San…
Read more →March 3, 2012
A lot of blogger chatter this week when news that Grandaddy would be reuniting again for a few shows this summer, but nothing from the actual horses’ mouths. UNTIL NOW. Here’s the quick…
Read more →February 22, 2012
Bombay Bicycle Club played Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on Feb 21st and were alright, thanks. Then I ran into Yannis from UK band Foals, randomly. Which was better. Here’s the full…
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