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I’m in London this week to catch a show by Ride’s Andy Bell’s side-project which has been dug out of mothballs after many years. No, not that one. Or that one. In any case, being abroad will keep posting brief for the duration, but I am reminded that I’ve never posted – or even seen […]
“Steve Queralt featuring Emma Anderson” is a little more of a mouthful than, say, “Ride featuring Lush“, but when the first preview of the Ride bassist’s debut solo album comes with vocals from Lush’s co-frontwoman – truly a confluence of OG shoegazers – you pay attention. And when that preview slaps – in the millennial […]
One of the first questions after the Oasis reunion tour was announced last Fall was, “who’s in the band?” and many/most assumed that Andy Bell would pick up his bass guitar and resume the low-end duties he held with the band for a decade, up until their break-up in 2009 – a dissolution which, of […]
Ride have had a busy year touring their new record Interplay since it dropped at the end of March, so far covering the UK, North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia, and with another run of UK and US dates coming this Fall – and that’s not covering another North American run at the very start […]
Just to send the week out on an old-school note, here’s the complete performance by Ride at the 2017 edition of Pitchfork Music Fest in Chicago. This was part of their Weather Diaries tour, so kick back for an hour and watch as the boys as they transition from a legacy act to a current […]
I’m still a bit high from Tuesday night’s superb Ride show here in Toronto – pics here – my first time seeing them in seven years, having missed their last two visits due to a conflict with a Massive Attack show and my son’s birthday. Sufficed to say, I didn’t want to miss this one. […]
On paper, this should have been a huge deal – a collaborative album between the musical mastermind behind alternative godheads Cocteau Twins and frontman for shoegaze legends Ride – but Universal Road, the 2015 release from Robin Guthrie and Mark Gardener, didn’t seem to make much of an impression on anyone. Part of it was […]
To celebrate today’s release of Interplay – Ride’s seventh studio album and third since reuniting – let’s go back to that first reunion tour in 2015, which we fondly call “the fedora era”. the band’s all-classics set from the Best Kept Secret festival at Hilvarenbeek in The Netherlands, professionally shot by 3voor12, just four months […]
We’re two weeks out from the release of Ride’s new album Interplay, which means it’s time for another sneak peak. This time, it’s “Monaco”, which further affirms the new record will be upbeat and synthy and I am here for it. Mark Gardener recently gave an expansive interview to Under The Radar about the coming […]
That Ride have been sitting on a finished new album for some time isn’t a secret; it’s been in the can since at least early Fall. But perhaps they wanted to wait until the attention around Slowdive’s new record had crested – at least initially – before raising their hand. In any case, they’re welcoming […]
