A Life In Love With Music
Cult hero and wondernutter Daniel Johnston played the Rio Theatre in Vancouver on August 27, to a supportive and beer-drunk crowd. It was surreal, odd, and heartbreaking and kinda…
Read more →What do you get when you cram punk rock legend Keith Morris’ band OFF! into a tiny bar in Copenhagen and fill it with the city’s hardcore…and then put me on the guestlist? Sweat. Chaos…
Read more →New Sebadoh tourdates? It’s raining indie rock, hallelujah! Jason, Bob and Lou are touring the US AGAIN. Get the info here, exclusively and first on BackstageRider.com
Read more →An epic end to an epic tale…BackstageRider hops into the Sebadoh van to travel from Hamburg, to Köln, via Dortmund in which Lou loses his pants, the guys test out new gear and I wander…
Read more →Canned hummus, soundcheckin’ with Two Years Two Days, snare replacement and hangin’ backstage. THIS is Sebadoh in Hamburg…with pics, video and running commentary. I present: Part 2 of the…
Read more →…in which our heroine The BackstageRider goes out on tour again with her heroes and friends, Sebadoh, as they traipse across Germany. This three-parter of photos, videos and words starts in…
Read more →Wandered out into das Berlin night to check out Vancouver’s Destroyer to see if Dan Bejar was any more lively. Nope. But still sounded lush. Also met a new band, Zulu Pearls. Here are the…
Read more →Is it just me or are the really good bands getting younger these days? Oh it’s just me. Getting older. Here’s to London’s Yuck and Portland’s Unknown Mortal Orchestra, the newish kids on…
Read more →On a night when Vancouver was home to four really good gig choices at the same time. Photog hero Kris Krüg and I “settled” on Kurt Vile and Thurston Moore. Good choice. Great mumblerock…
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