A Life In Love With Music
I quite fancy me some Foals. I like their guitars. I like their bass and drums. I like the intensity of singer Yannis. And I really like their latest album Total Life Forever. I also really…
Read more →Check out the most amazing rockhand, Maloik, by artist Mark Atomos Pilon. Inspired by and drawn for the BackstageRider’s very own Devil’s Horn Corner: the Rockhands Gallery, this is some…
Read more →Grandaddy + Earlimart = Admiral Radley, the new sideprojecty goodness from Jason and Aaron from Grandaddy and Aaron and Ariana from Earlimart. The album’s called I Heart California and it’s…
Read more →WIN! WIN! WIN! Snap, crackle and jazz. Iceland’s perfect pixie Jónsi and partner Alex pick their favourite old scratchy tracks in “Rain Down My Favorite Songs”. We’ve got 10 copies to give…
Read more →Teenage Fanclub were in town. And despite my bronchitis and having seen 4 gigs in 5 nights, I kinda went all geeky, did some shots of Jager, got really excited and ended up backstage…
Read more →The 43,000 members (okay, not really) of Toronto’s “hip” “collective” Broken Social Scene managed two nights on the Wet Coast on October 13 and 14 at the Commodore Ballroom. We were there…
Read more →Chapel Hill returned to Vancouver after a “what? 9 year? 11 year? Let’s just round it out and say 10 year” absence. It was those slack motherfuckers, Superchunk. Energy was great. Lights…
Read more →South Africa’s biggest export since District 9, Die Antwoord launched its world tour in support of new album $0$ in Vancouver on October 12 at the Commodore Ballroom. Yep, Ninja and…
Read more →Exclusive interview and silliness, news about the new album and music, PLUS pics from the studio from London, England’s sexy The Duke Spirit. All thanks to the lovely Luke Spirit…and me…
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