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Are you guys getting burned out from touring so much? – Jay from Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada Yes and no. I think that there is always a burn out factor, but I enjoy playing live and the band does as well. There are days when you are down, but most of the time it is…

As we made our way into Rochester, New York for our interview with Vanilla Ice, we began reminiscing about his heyday in the early ’90’s when he was truly the king of pop. Although his days on top were numbered, it was strange to think about how this one individual who sold over thirteen million…

A sexy male voice boomed through the open auditorium doors, “Yes! Yes! Yeeesss!” That sounded interesting. I stepped into Salt Lake City’s Kingsbury Hall. Preparing to headline for Rusted Root, Bob Khaleel, a former rapper once known as Bronx Style Bob and Rolling Stone’s 1992 artist of the year, stood on stage with his band…

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.…

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…

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…

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…