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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 […]
It’s the home stretch to the holidays, so it’s about time I get the festive fare I’ve been sitting on out into the world. We’ll start way back in 1991, when Ride, a couple months after the release of their debut album Nowhere, released a single-sided 7″ for sale at a fan club gig in […]
There’s a lot of good stuff in this just-published interview with Andy Bell in the ’90s issue of Guitar World – it covers his whole career from Ride through Hurricane #1 to Oasis, as well as new Happy Mondays spin-off Mantra of the Cosmos – including this bit on Graham Coxon of Blur encouraging him […]
My question last year of whether Ride would continue their back catalog remaster and reissue series to include the much-less beloved Carnival Of Light and Tarantula have been answered with a solid “yes” – new editions of the records will be out on August 4. There’s much less fanfare to be sure – an Instagram […]
I’m certain I’ve read more than one features where various members of Ride have offered their thoughts on various entries of their back catalog, but this one by Bandcamp is notable because it’s new, having been published just a couple weeks ago, and features commentary from all four band members. And as a bonus, it […]
