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Got a problem? Ask Bob (from PAVEMENT) and Mike (DOUGHTY)!
Indie rock emergency? Hipster crisis? Relationship problem? General concern about a rash? Don’t know what to make for dinner? ASK BOB NASTANOVICH FROM PAVEMENT AND MIKE DOUGHTY! (From, uh, Mike Doughty...
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ASK BOB (from Pavement) and MIKE (Doughty): Your Questions…ANSWERED!
A couple of weeks back, I was tipsily type-thinking out loud on the BackstageRider Facebook page about how cool it would be if we had a column in which you asked questions and cool indie rockers...
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MIKE DOUGHTY Tour & New Album Release Dates (with bonus! avant-garde poetry)
At first I thought I dreamt it (I tend to check Tweets at around 3am when I’m trying to give the Piledriver and People’s Elbow to my insomnia, so I can never be too sure) but the other night, poet,...
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A Lot On The Subject of The Surreally Wonderful DANIEL JOHNSTON Live (Plus...
“Wooooweeelooveyoudaniel”. The sound around us as Daniel Johnston shlumpfs on stage in a hockey jerseything tied with a rope belt, is the sound of support. It’s also the sound of a small and weird...
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Interview: MIKE DOUGHTY on new album Yes and Also Yes –“I thought this was...
The email came a full three months before the scheduled release date. Mike Doughty wanted to know if I wouldn’t mind having a listen to the master of his new album Yes And Also Yes. When I picked my...
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Top 11 of 2012: Why Look Back When You Can Look Forward?
By this time o’ year, every man, woman, blog and hipster dog have put out their Top Whatever Lists for 2011. This year was good for music, sure, but there wasn’t a ton that blew me away to the point of...
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Timbre Concerts and BackstageRider.com Present: Mike Doughty Live in...
Regular readers to BSR will know that I’ve been on my friend Mike Doughty’s side since the early 90s. Which is why I’m excited to announce that BackstageRider.com and Timbre Concerts are co-presenting:...
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MIKE DOUGHTY Reads and Plays and Eats Cake in Vancouver
Mike Doughty isn’t the only one who can write about his past. In 1996, a lot of my diaries included references to the guy that just went by the name Doughty. We used to email a bit, and hang out. Hang...
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Win a pair of tickets to see MIKE DOUGHTY playing SOUL COUGHING in Vancouver
THIS COMPETITION IS NOW CLOSED, THANKS TO ALL! Mr. Mike Doughty is a man who used to be in Soul Coughing, but split with them, wrote a book about it, as a solo artist hated playing those songs so...
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Old is new (and better) again: a tale of MIKE DOUGHTY Playing SOUL COUGHING...
It used to be that it wasn’t cool to talk about Old Mike Doughty Stories. If you liked Mike, you’d leave them behind, like he had. You’d respect that he didn’t want to play THOSE songs, that he was now...
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MIKE DOUGHTY brings 25 years of SOUL COUGHING “Ruby Vroom” Memories
I’ve got 25 years worth of stories about Mike Doughty. And most of them came flooding back into my head when, after six years away, Doughty returned to Vancouver to play through his 1994 Soul Coughing...
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