Archive for December, 2005
Kevin Bacon Q&A
HELLO, MY NAME IS KEVIN BACON IE: This is more of an informal thing. We’re not gonna ask you any technical things, like recording techniques. So, how did you decide where to place the microphones? Kevin Bacon: We tried to put the mikes close enough to hear the music, but not so close that they […]
Hawthorne Heights
Victory Is Ours When Hawthorne Heights drummer Eron Bucciarelli admits touring is starting to take its toll on him, you can’t help but sympathize. After all, since his band released its Victory Records debut, The Silence In Black And White, in June 2004, free time has been scarce. That year the band had about four […]
Super Furry Animals
SpongeBob-A-Lu-Bop It seems unthinkable in 2005, but by the time Pink Floyd released Dark Side Of The Moon, the disc that made them international superstars and rock legends, the band had eight albums to their credit and a career that had already spanned nine years. Although theirs is a singular tale, in the late ’60s […]
Broken Social Scene
Superconected Given all the means through which one can communicate these days — land lines, cell phones, faxes, email — you’d think reaching one another would be a simple task. Not so it seems, as the actual act of connecting is quickly becoming an elusive art. For Broken Social Scene, a collective comprising some 17 […]
Calexico Vs. Iron & Wine
The Quiet Men Calexico have worked with nearly everyone. While four albums in eight years displays a modest pace, the way principal players Joey Burns and John Convertino hog space in liner notes at your local Sam Goody is borderline embarrassing. For a time it seemed they would keep to their own circle of friends […]
Green Day DVD!
Green Day: Bullet In A Bible Reprise Records O.K., raise your hand if a couple of wholesale jerseys years ago you thought that Green Day were dead and buried. Perhaps you thought that they were a band that would never be able to match the success of the billion-selling Dookie, and whose lasting impression on […]
December “File”
FOR THOSE ABOUT TO ROCK . . . The Chicago Park District salutes Jerseys you! As long as you are making them a bunch of dough. The Chicago Sun-Times reported last month city officials have decided not to hit Chicagoans with a park district property tax increase in 2006, partly because they plan to raise […]
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