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Even for a band known for quirky indie rock, Camper Van Beethoven's determination to "Take the Skinheads Bowling" made for an offbeat song, the band jovially inserting lyrics about forgetting ...
‘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 … ...
Camper Van Beethoven is regarded as one of the most influential bands of the alternative ... Songs like “Take the Skinheads Bowling” and “Pictures of Matchstick Men” were critically ...
Custard have shared a cover of Camper Van Beethoven’s 1985 one-hit wonder ‘Take the Skinheads Bowling’, as the latest single from their forthcoming album ‘Respect All Lifeforms’.
On Thursday, Camper Van Beethoven performed at the House of Blues in Hollywood as part of the Sunset Strip Music Festival (SSMF). On the same bill that night was Soul Asylum and Everclear.
"If somebody had told me I'd be on stage singing 'Take the Skinheads Bowling' 30 years from now at a sold-out show somewhere, I would have said you're totally high," says singer David Lowery. Yet ...
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 ...
Part of the South by Southwest experience comes from embracing the unexpected. That’s exactly what I did after watching a set by Brooklyn’s Caveman at a daytime party. I wandered out back and ...
During one of their recent winter shows at the Middle East, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven frontman David Lowery accurately sized up his audience: “We’re still a college band. Only now our ...
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 ...