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The Academy Is interview
The Academy Is Practicing Santi-Ria When The Academy Is started cranking out its sugary sweet pop punk recipe during the early 2000s, its goals didn’t include the grandeur of a record deal, touring world arenas, or collaborations with musical heroes. Though each scenario would eventually come to pass anyway, the suburbanites’ humble dream was simply […]
The Great Crusades interview
The Great Crusades Teutons Of Fun Picture the scene: Los Angeles’ Sunset Strip just as the burgeoning, glittery hard rock scene is shining a national spotlight on bands intent on making a case for Aqua Net stock to surge. Fresh faced 17-year-old Brian Leach, with the approval of his high-school teacher father, leaves the hearty […]
Cover Story: Battle Of The Bands
What’s Going On? Seeing Change In The Sea Change: The Music Industry In Flux About six weeks before the music world descended upon Lower Manhattan for the 2007 CMJ New Music Marathon, one of the punk era’s great icons, CBGB founder Hilly Kristal, died at age 75. His club, which closed in 2006 after a […]
Billy Bob Thornton interview
Billy Bob Thornton Been There A handful of diehard fans wander around outside the club-parked tour bus like Dawn Of The Dead shopping-mall zombies. They don’t seem to know what to do, only that they’re supposed to be here for some reason, since something they crave might be lurking within. And it is.
Holiday CD Gift Guide 2007
Holiday Gift Guide Get your gift on with these megasets: An 11-minute remix of “Let Me Ride?” Merry Christmas indeed! The Death Row Records empire crumbled long, long ago, but that hasn’t stopped Suge Knight from digging up every half-ass remix, freestyle, and D-side in the vaults to make a few bucks. Snoop Dogg, Dr. […]
Little Brother interview
Little Brother The Return When hip-hop’s golden era died down in the mid-’90s, so did many of the greatest groups responsible for that renaissance.
Old Town School’s 50th
50 Folkin’ Years Of The Old Town School Of Folk Frank Hamilton phones in for this interview about 45 minutes late. Seems the 73-year-old folk singer/teacher and his wife are running behind schedule due to a late night singing at a Democratic Socialists Of America labor rally in their homebase of Atlanta. Appearing: Saturday December […]
Scotland Yard Gospel Choir interview
Scottland Yard Gospel Choir Welcome To Splitsville Elia Einhorn, the man behind Chicago collective Scotland Yard Gospel Choir, warns you should always know exactly who you plan on serenading. After leaving rehearsal recently with a few of his bandmates, Einhorn had the spontaneous idea of playing a song for a couple that happened to be […]
Cover Story: Maynard James Keenan
Puscifer The Escape Of Maynard James Keenan Maynard James Keenan doesn’t want to talk about Tool, and if anyone deserves some slack, it’s probably him. In the midst of rock’s declining presence in amphitheaters and arenas alike, Tool has achieved the unfathomable, pushing its international 10,000 Days tour past the year-and-a-half mark, selling out huge […]
Coheed And Cambria interview
Coheed & Cambria Alertante Ending For Coheed And Cambria, it was the end of the world. For most bands, such a statement would easily qualify as hyperbole or, at the very least, exaggeration. Yet for emo/prog rock stars Coheed And Cambria — vocalist and guitarist Claudio Sanchez, guitarist Travis Stever, bassist Mic Todd, and new […]
Avenged Sevenfold interview
Avenged Sevenfold Got The Time It’s 4:15 p.m. and still no word from Johnny Christ. The Avenged Sevenfold bassist was supposed to call Illinois Entertainer at 3:30 Central time, 1:30 at the band’s Huntington Beach, California homebase. Forty-five minutes later, though, still nothing. Appearing: November 8th at Congress Theatre in Chicago.
The 1900s interview
The 1900s Panit The Town Red Whoever said blondes have more fun never met redheaded kindred spirits Jeanine O’Toole and Caroline Donovan. The duo are better known as “The Murphs” to their five comrades in Chicago-based and South Side-representing, ’70s-influenced band The 1900s.
Chaka Khan interview
Chaka Khan “This” Is Not A Test Getting on the phone with Chaka Khan for even a few minutes is an arduous planning process, but that’s only because the famed funk diva is currently being pulled in a million different directions.
Dark Wave Disco feature
Dark Wave Disco Redefining Partying In Chicago Two Years At A Time For every party, club night, or DJ event that launches in Chicago with any level of staying power, there are countless more that vanish into the night, leaving behind nothing more than a trail of desperate, screaming flyers strewn outside Crobar at 5 […]
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