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Hosted by Backing The Barricade · 🇺🇸 US · EN · 25 episodes
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We're taking you beyond the barricade and sitting down with your favorite artists and music industry professionals to talk about their early days growing up as a music fan, the artists that had the biggest impact on them, and how that evolved into seeking out a career in the music industry themselves. We're telling fan stories, but this time from the other side of the barricade...
Backing The Barricade hosts BEYOND THE BARRICADE, a music show with 25 episodes published.
This week on Beyond the Barricade, Madi and Lor sit down with rising artist Ezra backstage before his Dallas show on the Braden Bales tour. With only minutes before taking the stage, Ezra opens up about his unconventiona
In part two of Madi and Lor’s conversation with James Coffman, the three dive even deeper into what it actually takes to build a career in the music industry as a creative and life on the road. James shares how genuine r
In this first part of a two episode conversation, Madi and Lor are sitting down with their good friend and fellow concert photographer James Coffman for a conversation that feels equal parts origin story, industry deep d
Kevin Lyman is on Beyond the Barricade! Yep, THAT Kevin Lyman, the founder of Warped Tour and one of the people responsible for shaping the music scene so many of us grew up in. Madi and Lor sit down with the “pop punk p
After a several month break, Beyond the Barricade is back for its first episode of 2026, and Madi and Lor are catching everyone up on where life has taken them since the last time they hit record. Starting off, the two b
This week we had the chance to talk to Walker Robinson of Your Neighbors during the Dallas date of their ‘The American Hedonism Tour’. This episode in particular is thanks to Nate Sirotta with Impulse Artists who first i
IT’S A GREAT YEAR TO BE A MAYDAY PARADE FAN! This week we had the chance to sit down with Derek Sander of Mayday Parade ahead of their ‘Three Cheers for 20 Years’ Tour and the release of the first album off of their new
This week we are sitting down and chatting with Ari Abdul! We ask Ari about her entry into the music scene, how she has developed her own style, and what life is like on tour supporting Nessa Barrett. She shows off her i
This week on Beyond the Barricade we sit down for the final time in 2024 and take a look back at the past year. We share some of our favorite memories, mistakes (or learning moments), and fan encounters that we have had
This week we are sitting down with Gabe Pietrafesa and Alex Magnan of Young Culture! We dive right into how Alex and Gabe have been playing music together since they were young teenagers who connected in high school, and
This week we are sitting down with Chase Huddy and talking about his rise from social media stardom to his current musical journey. Huddy tells us about being a teen who was deeply into the soundcloud rappers of the time
This week we are sitting down with Tyler Szalkowski of State Champs! We dive into what his musical influences growing up were and how pivotal his Mom was in developing his taste. Tyler talks about the founding of State C
This week we are chatting with Slow Joy, (Esteban Flores), who is an incredible alt rock artist from Dallas. As he discusses the significance of the name 'Slow Joy' from the confines of his tour van in our first truly “m
This week we are sitting down and chatting with Tour Manager Victoria Haft and Photographer/Videographer Ellie White of Taylor Acorn's team! We jump into how we all met and know each other and how our connections brought
This week we are sitting down and chatting with Collin Walsh, the lead singer of Grayscale. We dive right into Collin’s personal musical influences growing up such as Led Zeppelin and Third Eye Blind, and how Bruce Sprin
This week on Beyond the Barricade we sit down for our monthly recap of everything that went down in August. It was a month of rolling with the punches and not letting the uncontrollable slow us down. We dive into some of
This week on Beyond the Barricade we sat down for our first remote interview with Rowan Drake. Despite the challenges of getting this interview recorded, as you will hear in the episode, we managed to have a great talk w
This week on Beyond the Barricade we got to sit down and chat with Jordan Shepherd, aka Jshep, of the band City of Auburn. We dive right into the friendship origin of Lor and Jordan, which leads to some uncoverings and r
This week on the podcast we get to sit down with Alex Garcia of Mayday Parade! We first dive into the full recap of the “Lor’s Lore” trip to New Jersey and New York, and all the fun activities that ensued with Lor’s brot
This week on Beyond the Barricade we are sitting down for our monthly roundup of everything that has been going on with the show and Backing the Barricade during July. We chatted about being recognized “in the wild” duri
Kevin Lyman
Founder of Warped Tour · Vans Warped Tour
1 appearance on this show
Derek Sanders
Sheriff · Thurston County Sheriff's Office
1 appearance on this show
Ellie White
North East Author · House Of Fools
1 appearance on this show
Alex Garcia
Community Engagement Coordinator · Ennube Solutions
1 appearance on this show
Alex Magnan
Young Culture
1 appearance on this show
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