Category: Artists

“It was a great experience,” says Trey Anastasio. “It actually surpassed my expectations,” admits Les Claypool. “We got together and magic happened,” professes Stewart Copeland. The principals behind Oysterhead unanimously express excitement as they recall the making of their debut album, The Grand Pecking Order. Oysterhead is a combustible union of three extraordinary musicians —…

Within the chaos that is the city of Los Angeles, a beautiful thing happened. Erupting out of the insanity came Ozomatli, a ten piece band who’ve managed to tweak people’s consciousness with their highly politicized amalgamation of hip-hop, salsa, ska, funk and jazz. People who live in LA are tired of gang violence and guns.…

The roots of The Other Ones go back, in fact, to a day in 1964 when Ron “Pigpen” McKernan talked Jerry Garcia into starting an electric blues band, but we’ll pass over the next few years. In the aftermath of Jerry Garcia’s death in 1995, Dead members Bob Weir and Mickey Hart joined their now-separate…

“There are a lot of people out there who think music isn’t speaking to them anymore,” says James Otto. “People who grew up on Bob Seger, James Taylor, The Allman Brothers Band or Hank Williams Jr. — those are the artists I love, so I hope what I’m doing speaks to their audience.” His remedy…

Several years in the making, the creation of Healthy In Paranoid Times—Our Lady Peace’s sixth studio album–was at once invigorating and at other moments nearly tore the band apart. The 13 songs OLP eventually assembled for the album are some of their strongest, most infectious and most poignant to date. “When you’re a brand new…

William rbit, the ambient-house pioneer/U.K. beat master who took home a Grammy Award for his co-producing work on Madonna’s multi-platinum Ray of Light, will release a solo album, entitled Pieces in a Modern Style, on Maverick in early 2000. Pieces In A Modern Style features rbit’s stunning interpretation of classical arrangements written by the likes…

“Initializing vapor-transmission sequence. Engaging vapor… engaging vapor…. Three… two… one…. “Welcome to the Odyssey.” Your watch reads 1:07, a.m. or p.m., who knows? And you’ve just escaped through a black hole to the Andrio System with gender-swapping Dramatica. You had to get away from the Bomb-Bomb Boys and the Jockstrap Girls somehow. But now you’re…

Brooklyn, ten years ago, an 8-year old Puerto Rican girl was determined to make it. She penned a song called “Shine Like Me,” that became her first step towards a singing career that she would ultimately pursue. Jeannie Ortega had to travel through serious hardships before reaching her ultimate destination. “I went through a lot…

Do we admit to the Ten Year Syndrome? Conventional wisdom suggests that with many singers and bands it’s more often than not their earlier work that carries the most weight. Every now and then, however, a few artists spectacularly explode the theory by producing something startling and special around the ten-year mark of their careers,…

Kelly Osbourne is no quitter. The recording artist/reality TV star/rebel with a cause has just come off the best and worst year of her 19 on the planet so far. Consider this: Kelly make her debut on the MTV Video Music Awards singing her punked-up cover of Madonna’s “Papa Don’t Preach.” She scored a hit…