Category: Music

Ever since the Clash called it a day in 1985 there have been wishful rumours that the band are to re-form and play gigs, make records and take over where they left off. Every time the press published such rumours the band, via manager Tricia Ronane (who had been responsible for the existence of both…

It’s been said that you can tell a lot about people by looking at the company they keep. So what, then, could you say about a band that’s collaborated with members of Kiss, Fountains of Wayne and The Cars, opened for Alanis Morissette and Ashlee Simpson and honed their craft at Berklee School of Music?…

James Skelly – guitar / vocals – age 22 Ian Skelly – drums / percussion – age 19 Nick Power – organ / vocals – age 20 Bill Ryder-Jones – guitar / trumpet – age 19 Lee Southall – guitar / vocals – age 19 Paul Duffy – bass / sax – age 19 “The…

Andrea Corr: lead vocals, tin whistle * Caroline Corr: drums, bodhran, piano, vocals * Sharon Corr: violin, vocals * Jim Corr: keyboards, guitars, vocals With the Corrs new 143/Lava/Atlantic release, IN BLUE, the Irish group has perfected their trademark melding of modern pop and traditional Celtic sounds, a diverse and original sonic approach that has…

Ian Astbury – vocals Billy Duffy – guitars Matt Sorum – drums Billy Morrison – bass “It’s okay. No one is watching anymore. You now have permission to rock again.” – Ian Astbury on stage in Austin, Texas, March 17, 2001 Darkness and light; peace and war; sex and transcendence. These are the corner stones…

It takes a singular mind to sustain a personal vision through nineteen years. A mind that is, perhaps, a mass of contradictions, but one that is certainly fueled by endless determination. Robert Smith, creator of the strange, delirious world of The Cure, has kept true to the 14 year-old boy who wore velvet dresses to…

There is something strangely familiar about the Bomb Shelter. While it has all the regular trappings of a high-end Los Angeles recording studio, first-time visitors to the room the Crystal Method have used to create their music over the past decade are more likely to think they’ve just wandered into a NASA mission control center.…

Few New Wave groups were as popular as Culture Club. During the early ’80s, the group racked up seven straight Top 10 hits in the UK and six Top 10 singles in the US with their light, infectious pop-soul. Though their music was radio-ready, what brought the band stardom was Boy George, the group’s charismatic,…

Raised in Rincon, Ga., about 30 minutes outside of Savannah, Billy Currington notices fewer dirt roads every time he goes back. “I used to call it a small town,” he says, “but now it’s growing. It’s really rich in pine trees, so they stuck a paper plant in Rincon, which brought a lot of jobs,…

Custom is a difficult person to summarize in “25 words or less.” He’s an unusual dichotomy – at first glance, he’s a low-key, twenty-something, 6-foot-8 skater replete with the pants hanging at half mast. Yet on closer inspection, especially when delving into the lyrics of his record “Fast,” one finds a complex, crazy, multitalented artist.…