Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal THE WHITE STRIPES – ELEPHANT (APRIL 25, 2023) In the early 1990’s, a teenage Jack Gilles and Meg White met while she was working at Memphis Smoke in Detroit, Michigan. By 1996, they were married, with Jack taking Meg’s last name. While Jack had been playing in bands around …
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Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal Origins: Meeting at Abington public school in Oxford. Jonny and Colin Greenwood, Ed O’Brien, Thom Yorke and Philip Selway, started a band, who’s Original name was On A Friday. After signing with Parlophone, they were urged to change their name. So they did, taking the name from a 1986 …
Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal Welcome to TURN IT UP TUESDAY! Read on or watch the video above about this weeks album pick. A year after forming, Pearl Jam released their debut album, 1991’s TEN. The name comes from NBA player Baron Oshay Blaylock. Or “Mookie Blaylock” which was the bands name, before they …
If you were to stand outside the Hollywood Theatre tonight on the sleepy Broadway street it resides, you’d never know that a dance party was raging inside. When I walked in to the Theatre, at 8:45, the DJ up on stage was pumping up the crowd, who danced collectively to the beat. Some watching the …
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March is a busy month here in Vancouver. Not a ton of big guns coming to town, but your choice of just about everything else. COMMODORE BALLROOM April 1 – The Worship Tour April 4 – Theo Katzman April 6 – Yaeji April 7 – Dr. Fresch April 10 – Spirit Box April 11 – Drama April 13 – …
Who needs green beer and an overcrowded bar, on St. Patrick’s Day, when you could be at the Commodore Ballroom with Alvvays, and their openers, Big Rig (who are locals, to boot)? I don’t think a single person at the show was green with envy (see what I did there) at those partying it up …
https://youtu.be/cWP7-iQyU_Q This interview has been edited for clarity and flow. On March 14, for episode 3 of the Backline Beat Podcast, I had a quick chat with up-and-coming pop artist, Alexis Lynn. In the interview we talked about her influences, using music as a way of opening up, and some of her favourite things. You can …
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Instagram Youtube Facebook Twitter Patreon Paypal Hey, Jade here. Thanks for visiting Backline Beat. If you like the site and would like to help support it, I’d be very grateful. Every little bit helps. Right now I’m an army of one, and would like at some point to be able to bring on other …
The Flaming Lips played the first of two sold out shows at the Commodore Ballroom, on February 28, 2023. It was a night of only the Flaming Lips, as there was no opener.The shooting experience was one of the most fun I’ve had in the pit. Not only did we get to shoot the first …
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