A Life In Love With Music
I spent two days on the road in Seattle and Vancouver with Dinosaur Jr as they toured and played their 1988 classic “Bug” in its entirety, and were interviewed on stage by former Black Flag…
Read more →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…
Read more →Gothlings of all ages gathered to witness the return of Bauhaus high-priest Peter Murphy, and a dull band called She Wants Revenge, on their co-headlining tour. Aside from utterly being…
Read more →So, yeah, two nights of beautiful shows by the National were capped off by meeting 3/5ths of them, touching Matt Berninger, listening to him say “penis” a lot, and being in the front row…
Read more →Winnipeg’s The Watchmen returned to Vancouver after a nearly 9 year absence, for Grey Cup (that’s football) celebrations, and the BackstageRider is thrown back through time. Check out the…
Read more →Husband and wife team of awesome Neil Gaiman (the author) and Amanda Palmer (the singer) put on a rather unique and exceptional three-hour show in Vancouver at the Vogue Theatre recently…
Read more →Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer performed in Vancouver on November 6 at the Vogue Theatre. Here’s the exclusive BackstageRider “An Evening with Neil and Amanda” photo shoot with pics by Wayne…
Read more →Death from Above 1979 rebuilt their Wall of Sound and brought it crashing down on Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom on November 20 & 21. We survived, did you? Pics by Ashely Tanasiychuk.
Read more →Oh look! Another hyped UK band makes the rounds of North American on its first tour! How did WU LYF fare? Pretty good, if you ask me. And you have. Read the epic review, see the video and…
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