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David Lowery, center, says Camper Van Beethoven (pictured) is the easier band to be in each night. Lowery is in two bands touring together: Camper and the alt-rock act Cracker. They visit the ...
David Lowery is the lead singer and chief lyricist for two well-known rock bands: Camper Van Beethoven, which he co-founded in 1983, and Cracker, which he co-founded in 1991. Ever since the first ...
‘When we started, we were complete iconoclasts,” says David Lowery, lead singer and songwriter for Camper Van Beethoven, “and we still are.” Many a band might make the same claim; Camper ...
Combing elements of rock, Celtic, ska, punk, raga, blues, country, experimental and just about every eccentrically-matched genre, Camper Van Beethoven played a blistering, tight and dynamic 45 ...
FAIRFIELD >> Just how much essential Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven can you cram onto one stage with the fewest amount of performers involved? We’ll find out Tuesday. That’s when the Cracker ...
Camper Van Beethoven celebrated the 30th anniversary of its first gig at the Troubadour by playing old and new music and did so with the pride and confidence of master artisans surveying their ...
Less than a month after the release of his latest solo album, Camper Van Beethoven’s fiddler, Jonathan Segel, is keeping busy—from individual projects to Camper reunions, new recordings and ...
Not so with Camper Van Beethoven, the '80s indie-folkie-worldie anti-punk combo that embodied the slacker aesthetic before anyone had heard of Pavement. Although an early version of the group ...
That’s when the unplugged Cracker / Camper Van Beethoven Acoustic Apothecary Tour comes to Fairfield Theatre Company’s StageOne, featuring Camper Van Beethoven lead guitarist Greg Lisher ...
Hear the band recorded live in concert from Washington, D.C.'s 9:30 Club, with Camper Van Beethoven. December 27, 2005 • In the burgeoning indie-rock scene of the 1980s, Camper Van Beethoven ...
Camper Van Beethoven is an alternative rock band that was founded in 1983 in Redlands, California, though the band soon moved to Santa Cruz, California. Camper Van Beethoven mixed elements of pop, ska ...
Camper Van Beethoven's prominence on college radio during its mid-'80s heyday stemmed in large part from its hazy hodgepodge of folk, world-beat, psychedelia, and brat-punk. Student DJs could spin ...