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Hello, My Name Is George
Hello, My Name Is George Q&A With Catfish Haven’s George Hunter IE: For the first album and EP, I gather most of those songs had been brewing. Was Devastator a more direct, sitdown writing session? George Hunter: With all the touring we had time. We started listening to all this blues-oriented stuff, getting into Band […]
File: October 2008
The Human Fund As summer closed out in Chicago, Fall Out Boy came home to Soldier Field to participate in the local version of Nike’s nationwide Human Race event. Prior to a performance on the north end of the field, the group attended an overly brief press conference in a room underneath the stadium. The […]
Hello, My Name Is Susan
Hello, My Name Is Susan Q&A With Susan Carr IE: So how did you get into this area, screaming, of vocal training? Susan Carr: When I was going to school for my degree — I have a degree in vocal performance and also in vocal pedagogy, which is the study of voice — I started […]
File: September 2008
Mr. Poularity This just in from Atlantic Records: Rapper T.I. now has more than 2 million Myspace friends! In an unprecedented, “record-breaking” accomplishment, the Atlanta rapper blew past the milepost, prompting his label to tell press the news. It really is amazing, if you think about it, because it’s not like just anyone can be […]
Hello, My Name Is Scott
Hello, My Name Is Scott Q&A with “Rebel Radio”‘s Scott Davidson IE: You’ve done “Rebel Radio” for 14 years, you book shows, you do a TV Show [“Rebel Access”], you play in five bands, how much of your time on any given day is devoted to heavy metal? Scott Davidson: Probably the whole day except […]
File: August 2008
Metal Issue II In November 2006, we dropped our first true metal issue since the days IE used to pump out its CAMM sister publication (Chicago Area Metal Monthly). We aren’t looking to make it an annual date, but sometimes, like Trevor Fisher says on his festival-preview page, the time picks us.
Hello, My Name Is Nash
Hello My Name Is Nash Q&A with Nash Kato of Urge Overkill IE: Is this a show for Bottom Lounge instead of Urge Overkill? Nash Kato: Well, we just did an East Coast leg and we were gonna bury the tour in Chicago because our pal’s opening a new venue. We’ve played every shithole in […]
File: July 2008
Together Again The spark is back for Hawthorne Heights and Victory Records. Though the Ohio band and their Chicago label have an incredibly successful track record together — 2004’s The Silence In Black & White went platinum, and 2006’s If Only You Were Lonely reached gold — the last few years have been messy.
Hello, My Name Is Dave
Hello, My Name Is Dave Q&A With Iron Maiden’s Dave Murray IE: Talk about milestones: Vans has actually made official Iron Maiden skate shoes, featuring the “Killers” and “Trooper” Eddie artwork by Derek Riggs. Dave Murray: I know! I’ve seen ’em walking around at our shows. Sometimes by themselves! But it’s something that teenagers tend […]
File: June 2008
I Got Down On My Knees And I Began To Shoot Annie Leibovitz was rock’s best-known photographer long before the Miley Cyrus incident, with Linda McCartney running a close second. Still, many musicians from the mid-’60s on have posed for Henry Diltz. His accomplishments have been given an epic treatment via a limited-edition, leather-and-denim-bound book […]
Hello, My Name Is Dennis
Q&A With Dennis DeYoung IE: What have you been up to since appearing on these very pages two years ago? Dennis DeYoung: I’ve been on the road, including some extensive touring in Canada, and I saw the double disc [The Music of Styx: Live With Symphony Orchestra] go platinum and the DVD triple platinum in […]
File: May 2008
Nacht Nacht — Who’s There Shoot, we’ve already got a Dimmu Borgir feature in this issue, might as well keep the black metal ball rolling with some Nachtmystium news. Actually, the Chicagoans don’t want to be coined “black metal” anymore, but we’re doing it anyway, otherwise it screws up the whole intro.
File: April 2008
A Festivus For The Rest Of Us If Lollapalooza packs ’em in with the rumored announcement of Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails as headliners, us Chicago folk might be crowded out of our own festival. Pitchfork Music Fest has already squashed the one that gave it birth (Intonation) — you’ll have to excuse us if […]
Hello, My Name Is Andy
Hello, My Name Is Andy Q&A With Andy McKee IE: What first attracted you to playing the guitar and how old were you? Andy McKee: I was 13 when I got my first guitar and I asked for a guitar for my birthday that year because I heard Eric Johnson on the radio. They played […]
Hello, My Name Is Dick
Hello My Name Is Dick IE: Seeing Electric Six at Double Door was how I spent my very first New Years Eve in Chicago. That’s not a question, obviously, just a fun fact. Dick Valentine: The thing I remember about that show is that we thought it might be our last show ever, since we […]
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