Marc Broussard Tour Diary - Chapter Three
Read Marc Broussard tour diary as he makes his way across the Southern United States. read more
Marc Broussard Tour Diary - Chapter Three
Read Marc Broussard tour diary as he makes his way across the Southern United States. read more
Marc Broussard Tour Diary - Chapter Two
For part two of his tour diary, Marc Broussard documents the first leg of his summer tour. read more
The Chain Gang of 1974 Tour Diary - Chapter Two
On part two of The Chain Gang of 1974's tour diary, Kamtin Mohager and company continue along their stretch of West Coast shows. Watch them as they try on some free shoes, load in and out of shows and more in the video below. read more
Marc Broussard Tour Diary - Chapter One
As Marc Broussard kicks off his summer tour, he shares with us some initial thoughts on playing Lopez Tonight, his opening acts and summer plans. read more
The Chain Gang of 1974 Tour Diary - Chapter One
As Kamtin Mohager tours throughout the first part of June, watch him experience the road as he heads to Reno, Nev. playing in support of Foster The People. read more
The Lonely Forest Tour Diary - Chapter Three
In part three of The Lonely Forest's account of their current tour with Death Cab For Cutie, the band films themselves behind the scenes goofing off on the road. read more
The Lonely Forest Tour Diary - Chapter Two
For me touring with Death Cab For Cutie is similar to going down my first big waterslide. At first, I was kind of terrified: scared of the crowds, the strict regulations backstage and the pressure to be professional. However, I quickly realized I have nothing to worry about. In fact, I’m really enjoying being a long for the ride.... read more
Lonely Forest Tour Diary - Chapter One
Watch The Lonely Forest document their ongoing tour with their longtime heroes Death Cab For Cutie. read more
Dinosaur Bones' Food Tour Diary
On the way to Austin for SXSW, the members of Canadian band Dinosaur Bones kept a food diary for Paste. Listen to their track “Royalty” from the band’s new album My Divider (and download it hereRoyalty.mp3) while their restaurant diary makes your mouth water.... read more
Tumbledown Tour Diary - Chapter Three
When we were in Chicago, we heard that Minneapolis had just gotten their first big snow of the year. On our way there we began seeing snow on the ground as soon as Wisconsin, but the roads were all salted and plowed and were no trouble at all. ... read more
Tumbledown Tour Diary: Chapter Two
In 2007, Mike Herrera of pop-punk band MxPx joined guitarist Jack Parker, bassist Marshall Trotland and drummer Harley Trotland in an alt-country side project called Tumbledown. The band recently finished a tour in support of their second LP, Empty Bottle. Parker recounts the second part of that tour for us below: Deep in the heart of Texas is like a second home for Tumbledown. We’ve played more there than in our hometown, and the shows are almost always packed full of enthusiastic Texans. Frisco, Dallas, Austin and Houston were no exception for our Empty Bottle tour. Over the past three years,... read more
Tumbledown Tour Diary - Chapter One
In 2007, Mike Herrera of pop-punk band MxPx joined guitarist Jack Parker, bassist Marshall Trotland and drummer Harley Trotland in an alt-country side project called Tumbledown. The band recently finished a tour in support of their second LP, Empty Bottle. Parker recounts the first part of that tour for us below:... read more
Titus Andronicus Tour Diary - Chapel Hill, NC - 4/18/2010
"Did you know that if the heads on Mount Rushmore had bodies which were built to scale, they could step over the statue of liberty as easily as a human could step over a dog? Shit, that is so awesome..." read more
Titus Andronicus Tour Diary - Sacramento, CA - 3/24/10
In his first tour-diary entry for Paste, Titus frontman Patrick Stickles has fun in Ohio, gets angry at a St. Louis policeman and trashes Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland a lot... read more
Joshua James Tour Diary - Tokyo/Baton Rouge - 11/19/09
Tokyo Every time that I get on a plane I accept the fact that I might die. I say to myself “this might be the day that you die”. And then I board the plane.... read more
Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Tempe/Solana Beach - 11/3-4/09
Tempe, AZ 11/3 8 am flight to Phoenix from the Burbank, Bob Hope Airport, the perfect airport: small, boarding planes off the tarmac up a staircase always feels romantic, somehow. Though the feelings I have leaving home again are far from wistful. Phoenix is in the Desert; it makes Los Angeles look like a rain forest.... read more
Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Boulder/Fort Collins/Halloween - 10/29-31/09
Boulder 10/29 Dinosaur Jr’s very complicated history somehow all comes together here, in Boulder, Colorado. It’s interesting that it is virtually halfway between Massachusetts and my new home in California. Blee Music, Dino’s management, has masterminded each step of our reunion career: when to record a new record, when to tour. It has brokered nearly every band discussion. As the designated parent, it also absorbs all the ambivalence and occasional yelling. So our appearance at the Boulder Theater is fraught with expectations and concern. Boulder is where the smoking ban began—the ban that has now spread to Italy, of... read more
Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Boulder, CO - 10/29/09
Wake to a bus disturbance. It seems a wheel nearly shimmed off while we were in route. We are on the side of the highway (I-76), it is sleeting and the smokers are out smoking in the breakdown lane. Murph is wandering on the frontage road attached to his cell phone (I worry that he’ll be hit by a speeding pickup truck; he’s occasionally oblivious to traffic.) We congregate in the front lounge and have a pretty good time considering we are stranded. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch film with Johnny Depp) is on the DVD player and we appreciate Neil... read more
Lou Barlow and Dinosaur Jr. Tour Diary - Omaha, NE - 10/27/09
The building complex for the club (The Slowdown) contains an Urban Outfitters, an American Apparel and the offices of Saddle Creek records, among other left of the dial businesses. A testament to how well Bright Eyes and his compatriots have done? I don’t know and don’t ask anyone about it.... read more
