Swervedriver Release First Album In Nearly A Decade

Date: 3/19/2005
Author: Larry Queen

"When England's Swervedriver released it's first single in 1990, "Son Of A Mustang Ford" (Creation), the band was automatically lumped into the Shoegazing movement coming out of the UK at the time. read more >>

Jump: Between The Dim and The Dark

Date: 6/19/2004
Author: Larry Queen

"I heard Joseph Campbell talking about this; it's all about leaning closer to the light," posits Jump frontman, Jay Clifford, referring to the title track from his band's new album...read more >>

Grillin'' with Grandaddy

Date: 6/17/2004
Author: Larry Queen

"We're pretty assiduous about keeping this as fun as possible - particularly when it comes to touring," says Jim Fairchild, guitarist for Modesto, Calif. - based Grandaddy.read more >>

DJ Spooky And The Rebirth of A Nation  

Date: 6/01/2004
Author: Larry Queen

Released in 1915, Birth of A Nation elicited furious outcries in response to
the film's derisive portrayal of African-Americans and the valiant light
cast on the knights in white...read more >>

KMFDM Celebrates 20th Anniversary

Date: 4/28/2004
Author: Caroline Saffer

The band that coined the infamous lyric, "It was 20 years ago today," is not the only musical group celebrating a significant anniversary this year. read more >>

Fountains Of Wayne Have Got It Goin' On

Date: 4/20/2004
Author: Larry Queen

Fountains of Wayne lead singer, Chris Collingwood, has spent the entire weekend trying to wrap up some loose ends before embarking on a tour of the US on Monday, April 19...read more>>

Rasputina Find Vitality In Cello

Date: 4/09/2004
Author: Caroline Saffer

When Melora Creager made it her mission to "make funny, depressing music with nothing more than cellos, singing and electricity," she opened up the door to an entire world of auditory possibility...read more>>

The Strokes Set The World On Fire
 

Date: 3/11/2004
Author: Larry Queen

It's late in the afternoon in Manhattan and The Strokes' Nikolai Fraiture is trying to relax between a photo shoot for an upcoming cover for Magnet magazine, and band rehearsal...read more>>

John Prine: In Spite Of Himself

Date: April 1, 1999
Author: Larry Queen

Folk-country songwriting legend, John Prine, who was once a postman in his native Maywood, Ill., is currently on tour in support of his latest Grammy-nominated release In Spite Of Ourselves - a collection of duets with a few of his favorite female singers...read more>>

Drivin' N' Cryin' Frontman Starts New Project

Date: Dec. 20, 2002
Author: Larry Queen

Touring 52 weeks per year, Kinney especially relishes the time he can spend with the kids.....read more>>

KISS: Rock's Superheroes

Date: March 2, 2000
Author: Larry Queen

Back in 1971 in a drafty practice space tucked away in a nondescript corner of New York City, two minds came together with an idea that would change the future of music....read more>>

Queens Of The Stone Age Subvert The Clones

Date: 3/11/2004
Author: Larry Queen

It only took two minutes, forty-three seconds for "Feel Good Hit of the Summer," the first track off the Queens of the Stone Age's (QOTSA) sophomore album, Rated R, to remind the world that rock's primary mission is, as WW II journalist Ernie Pyle said, to comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable..read more>>

Outside Looking In With The Misfits

Date: June 4, 1999
Author: Larry Queen

Despite claims otherwise, 1977 was really "the year punk broke." No doubt Sonic Youth's mid-'90s film, The Year Punk Broke, showcased the explosion of the underground quasi-punk scene that, in 1991, swept millions of "disaffected" youth into the milky white crest of the Teen Spirit wave, but punk rock had started raging nearly 20 years beforehand...read more>>

 

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