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Against Me interview
My Hometown Tom Gabel began Against Me as an acoustic, “anarcho-punk” solo project. It’s a fact endlessly repeated in magazine articles, and with good reason. In rock history, countless artists have taken a box knife to the walls put around them by fans and media, but few have so openly (and successfully) agitated hardcore, older […]
AM Taxi interview
The Town Krier Sitting at a nightclub bar, post soundcheck, Adam Krier was doing his damnedest to maintain the icy bohemian look that’s become his trademark. It wasn’t easy. His tall, angular, jean-jacketed frame was hunched mantis-awkward over his club-provided meal, and — without his customary Wayfarer shades perched beneath his shaggy black bangs — […]
Jimmie Vaughan interview
One More Time – With Feeling He doesn’t know it, but Texan guitarist Jimmie Vaughan is about to embark on the Summer Of Jimmie. “The ‘Summer Of’ what?” he laughs. The Summer Of Jimmie. Despite remaining active, Vaughan releases his first proper studio album in nine years this summer, and has the tour itinerary to […]
Hello, My Name Is Elia
Hello, My Name Is Elia Q&A with Scotland Yard Gospel Choir’s Elia Einhorn IE: The show on the 19th — that’s the first show back? Elia Einhorn: Yeah, that’s the Choir’s comeback show and, strangely enough, our record-release show after nine or 10 months. The only show we’d done was a private [gig] for fans where […]
Online Exclusive: Common
Finding A Balance It’s been a long road for Common to get to the point where he is today: superimposed on billboards embracing Queen Latifah on the poster for the new film, Just Wright.
Buddy Guy’s New Legends Is Open!
It’s official: Despite what you read in our new issue today, the new Buddy Guy’s location is open with about a week to spare for Blues Fest.
What A Long, Strange Weekend It’ll Be
Memorial Day Weekend Preview If you’ve been saving up all your rockin’ in May, now’s the time to let it out. Especially because we have a new issue out Tuesday.
So You Wanna Be A Rock ‘N’ Roll T-shirt Designer
Lollapalooza Shirt Contest Rock ‘n’ roll is a lot like sports, in that such a small minority of artists make it — and define those words at your own peril — the failure rate doesn’t justify the numbers in pursuit.
Carole King & James Taylor live!
Allstate Arena, Rosemont Monday, May 24, 2010 Forty years ago, right on the crest of the singer/songwriter movement, Carole King and James Taylor first shared the stage at West Hollywood’s now legendary Troubadour. Though their paths have crossed on the pop and rock charts repeatedly since (and they’ve also swapped album credits), the Troubadour Reunion […]
The Week In Preview 5/24
Week Of May 24th, 2010 Monday’s, um, gone with the wind, but there’s three more days to rockin’ consider before it’s Memorial Day weekend, remember?
Hello, My Name Is Eddie
Q&A with Montgomery Gentry’s Eddie Montgomery IE: What’s it like playing up north? How do you approach the crowd and set? Eddie Montgomery: Let me tell you first off, what you see with me and “T” [bandmate Troy Gentry] is what you get. A lot of people think they can fool country fans, but they […]
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