Category: Music
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Rusted Root – Interview
Jim DiSpirito, percussionist and hand drummer for platinum-selling Rusted Root, shook my hand warmly. In two hours he would play for the sold out crowd at Salt Lake City’s Kingsbury Hall, but he seemed perfectly at ease. He looked like the boy next door with his friendly eyes, green plaid jacket, jeans, and brown boots. […]
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Silverchair – Interview [1999]
Friends since primary school, silverchair began their musical career as Short Elvis. It was 1994 when the band, renamed the Innocent Criminals, submitted a demo-tape to a contest called ‘Pick Me’, run by Nomad, a cultural pop-music TV show. It is then that their career truly began. Their four-song demo was chosen from eight hundred […]
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Silk – Interview
Well, it looks like Silk is back and smoother than ever. The five member R&B group featuring Gary Glenn, Gary Jenkins, Timothy Cameron, Jimmy Gates Jr., and Johnathen Rasboro were determined to set it off like never before on their upcoming album, Tonight. This third album for the group, scheduled for release March 23rd 1999 […]
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Platypus – Interview
Pulling together talented musicians for a small project can sometimes be a difficult task. However, this was not the case when members from Dream Theater, Dixie Dregs, and King’s X joined forces to be a part of something new and fresh in the progressive rock market: Platypus. Platypus’ sound falls somewhere in between the heaviness […]
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Videodrone – Interview
So, I guess you’ve got me to start off your day. Yeah. We played last night with Orgy and I’m a little hung over (laughs), but we’ll do fine. I’ve actually got to go to practice pretty quick. Does it feel like starting with a whole new band with the name change and new album? […]
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The Tragically Hip – Interview [1999]
If you’re not familiar with The Tragically Hip, you soon will be. The five-piece band formed back in 1985 in small, but beautiful, Kingston, Ontario. Known as ‘The Hip’ to their loyal and dedicated fans north of the border, they are not extremely well known elsewhere, but have opened for the likes of Page and […]
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Trinket – Trinket
Artist: Trinket Title: Trinket Label: RCA Rating: 4/10 In the course of listening to Trinket’s self-titled album, I was repeatedly struck by an overwhelming sense of deja vu. Track after track sounded like something I was sure I had heard before, but as I listened again and again, I realized that these songs just sound […]
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TQ – Interview
“Like protons and neutrons, life is about positives and negatives, little pluses and minuses. If you cover up the minuses, then the pluses don’t mean shit.” For Terrance “TQ” Quaites, life these days seems to be all about pluses. His Clockwork/Epic single, “Westside”, continues to climb to the top of the charts. As TQ walks […]
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The Black Crowes – Interview
Where have the Black Crowes been? What’s going on with their new album? Who’s idea was it to play at the Super Bowl? I recently had the opportunity to chat with their drummer, Steve Gorman, and he offered all kinds of insight into the “most rock n’ roll rock n’ roll band in the world” […]
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Julian Lennon – Interview
As the phone rang, my anxiety rose. “hip online.” “Yes, Charles Craine please.” The voice on the other end sounded so much like his father’s that I found myself momentarily dazed, though still able to nervously reply, “This is Charles.” “Charles, this is Julian,” rang the voice. We exchanged hellos and Julian went on to […]