A Life In Love With Music
UK electroambient duo Lamb are back after a six-year break. This is worth celebrating. In this exclusive interview, Lamb’s Lou Rhodes talks about what caused the split, what brought her and…
Read more →What do you get when a former highschool bandmate of J. Mascis and Lou Barlow gets in touch and has a concept for some original rockhand artwork? Well, yer gonna have to click to find out.
Read more →Saw, met, interviewed and flirted with about 100 bands in 2010, The (First) Year of the BackstageRider. Here’s a recap of the highlights, because no music websites anywhere are doing recaps…
Read more →Trawling the Interwebs since 7am this morning, so you don’t have to. Here’s some free, new music from London lads Gorillaz, as well as those capuchins in The Klaxons, plus Brooklyn baboons…
Read more →Track by track breakdown of the new Duran Duran album “All You Need Is Now”, released today on iTunes. I also digress heavily and talk about Simon Le Bon and John Taylor on Twitter, and…
Read more →‘Tis the season to get cranky. When is it okay to talk really loudly and piss off all the people around you AND the band at a gig? Try never. Here’s a selection of some of my favourite Shut…
Read more →New indie band alert! True Womanhood: oddball young things from Washington, DC, playing eerie, rhythmic new wave music. And they like banging on stuff and playing with reel-to-reels. I’d…
Read more →“There are some men who should have mountains to bear their names to time”…here’s my ode to Mr. Leonard Cohen, who performed in Vancouver last week. Included with the ambient review, is a…
Read more →All hail the return of really good, trippy modern psychedelia. Here’s an introduction to Austin, Texas’ Black Angels, by way of a 70s gonzo journalist and some pins in a map. Oh and an…
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