April 26, 2011
Keith Morris from Circle Jerks/Black Flag? Present and accounted for members of Redd Kross, Burning Brides and Rocket From the Crypt? Oh, that’d just be OFF! then, playing a free show in…
Read more →April 25, 2011
RAGING CRUSH ALERT! I really dig Yuck. I dig all their slacker 90s US musical reference points. I dig lead singer boychild Daniel Blumberg. I dig their drummer’s afro hair. Mostly I dig…
Read more →April 24, 2011
And the crowds, they danced and spliffed…and the band, Tame Impala, they bent their strings and played some marginally trippy fayre…some raved about it, others were merely adequately…
Read more →April 22, 2011
YOU asked. THEY answered. Bob Nastanovich from Pavement and Mike Doughty (formerly of Soul Coughing) got together, on my Facebook page, and agreed to help the youth of today by answering…
Read more →April 19, 2011
What does Canada’s Boyfriend, George “Strombo” Stroumboulopoulos, want on his BackstageRider? Well, let’s ask him, shall we? WE HAVE VIDEO.
Read more →April 16, 2011
Colin! Graham! Robert GoToBed! Some young kid who looks like Evan Dando! Collectively they were and are called WIRE and the UK post-punk heroes were in town on April 14. Peep the pics. Read…
Read more →April 16, 2011
Superstar DJ Trentemøller from Denmark launched himself, his band, and a theremin player on the giddy, gleeful, dancin’ Vancouver fans this week as prep for his new tour. And it was…
Read more →April 14, 2011
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…
Read more →April 11, 2011
Stagediving, amp-climbing, mic-destroying, stage-demolishing, spit-hocking….The Foals ripped themselves and Vancouver a new one in a feral live show at the Commodore Ballroom. Read on, then…
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