Red Rider Rolls Along The Rock Video Route
When Tom Cochrane, lead singer-songwriter for Red Rider, was running along the sand at Vancouver’s Wreck Beach earlier this week, it wasn’t because he needed…
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Red Rider Right At Home In West
The rock group Red Rider is making a stop in Red Deer Tuesday as part of their tour of Western Canada, a region which has…
Band’s New Wave Of Popularity
When Tom Cochrane, lead singer-songwriter for Red Rider, was running along the sand at Vancouver’s Wreck Beach earlier this week, it wasn’t because he needed…
Proud Pushers Of All-Canuck Rock
It all occurred quite subtly. No one was really aware of the secret society known as Friends of the Beaver, a society dedicated to the…
Red Rider Rides Into Sacramento For Concert
“They were a lot better than I thought they would be” said Greg Cannon of Orangeville as a rock group Red Rider was leaving the…
Red Rider Beginning To Carve An Identity
It’s ironic that a band such as Red Rider should have the same problem as the hard-core punk rock group Dead Kennedys trying to make…
Rider Of The Storm
Tom Cochrane’s songs tell of struggle and justice – not at all your usual rock lyrics. A note to Wreck beach nudists: No, that wasn’t…
I’m Just Snapping A Musical Picture
Tom Cochrane’s living room is a small, cosy niche located at the heart of Cabbagetown. The furniture is neat and looks recently purchases – a…
Red Rider’s Folk Music For The Masses
This is an occasion as rare as a lunar eclipse for Music Express writers to express unanimous approval of a new record.
Red Rider’s Neruda Packs Punch
Toronto’s Red Rider, who topped record charts two years ago with White Hot and Lunatic Fringe, remain an industry enigma with the release of their…
Themes For The Eighties Individual
“I miss the snow,” Tom Cochrane, Red Rider’s lead vocalist and songwriter says via telephone from his hotel room in sunny Tallahassee, Florida. “Like hell…
Red Rider Pays Homage To Poet
When Pablo Neruda was offered a high-ranking government position by his good friend Salvadore Allende, president of Chile, the South American poet could not accept.