November 30, 2010
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…
Read more →November 29, 2010
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.
Read more →November 28, 2010
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…
Read more →November 24, 2010
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.
Read more →November 23, 2010
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…
Read more →November 22, 2010
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…
Read more →November 18, 2010
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…
Read more →November 16, 2010
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…
Read more →November 15, 2010
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?
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