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  • PASSION PIT Live + Pics: “Uh, wait. Hold up. I’ve forgotten the words…”

    Here’s what happens when happy electropop up-and-comers Passion Pit forget the lyrics to their own song…and still put on a great little show in Vancouver. Complete with a big-arse photo gallery, verbs AND nouns.

    November 30, 2010
  • SEBADOH – West Coast Tour Dates Announced!

    Received from Lou Barlow hisself less than 20 minutes ago, I present Sebadoh’s West Coast Tour Dates for February. Read them and weep with joy. I am.

    November 29, 2010
  • GRINDERMAN Review/Gallery – Nick Cave Blows Minds, Eardrums

    Nick Cave and his Bad Seeds – in the shape of Grinderman – were in Vancouver on November 26 at the Commodore Ballroom. They powered through evil rock with the intensity of a jet engine. Photographic proof by the ever-wonderful Kris Krüg, and comparisons to a graphic novel by me.

    November 28, 2010
  • Introducing: HUMANS – With Pics By Kris Krüg

    Presenting Humans – slinky party music for puppets and uh, us humans. Check out some ridiculously sexy photos by KK and cast your ears on some new choons.

    November 24, 2010
  • Win A Pair of Tickets to Ariel Pink Live in VANCOUVER on November 26 (+ see his new trippy Wayne Coyne iPhone video)

    Wanna go see Ariel Pink live in Vancouver on Friday? I’ve got a pair of tickets to give away, and a really spazzy new video for “Round & Round” for you to watch. Sometimes, I amaze even myself.

    November 23, 2010
  • DIAMOND RINGS – Exclusive Pictures and Story, Photos by Kris Krüg

    Boys love him. Girls love him. Gays love him. Straights love him. Unicorns, not so much. Glam synthpopster Diamond Rings is on a trajectory into the stratosphere of awesome. So of course Backstage Rider and photog extraordinaire Kris Krüg followed John O and his rising star…into the men’s bathroom.

    November 22, 2010
  • The Brandon Flowers/Fran Healy Gallery – What’s the Story Mormon Glory?

    You roll the dice, you takes your chances. In this case, the Backstage Rider rolled snake eyes and had to be somewheres else (Dean Wareham) the night that (The Killers’) Brandon Flowers and (Travis’) Fran Healy came to town on November 15. So she dispatched her Wing Man Peter Leung to collect photographic proof just…

    November 18, 2010
  • Dean Wareham & Britta Phillips Do Galaxie 500: Gallery/Words/Setlist

    BACKSTAGERIDER POST #100: Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips brought their version of Galaxie 500 to Vancouver on November 15 at the Biltmore Cabaret. I gots the photographic evidence, an old story AND the setlist, pop pickers!

    November 16, 2010
  • Download Girl Talk’s New Album “All Day” For Free

    You want 373 NEW samples from Gregg Gillis’ Girl Talk? Download the new album All Day, for FREE, all day today. And tomorrow. And for the forseeable future. Which is cool, right?

    November 15, 2010
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