Category: Interviews

Who or what is Lucy Pearl, you might ask. Well, here is a quick rundown, followed by an interview with Ali. Lucy Pearl is Raphael Saadiq, the lead vocalist and songwriting core of Tony Toni Tone; Dawn Robinson, one of the four signature vocalists from En Vogue; Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the turntable master, producer, and…

Larry, what’s up? How you doing? Good, Jimi! What’s up with you? I hear you have a busy schedule today. Hey, man, I’m sorry we got to you late. It’s just been a crazy ass day! Where you at right now? Right now I’m in Indiana, Pennsylvania. I hear the traffic was a little crazy.…

‘Uh Huh Her’ is the seventh album from PJ Harvey and the follow-up to the hugely successful ‘Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea’ which won the 2001 Mercury Music Prize. After a summer of live dates – including appearances at the V Festival, the Eden Project and the first rock concert at Tate…

G. Love began playing guitar at age eight and wrote his first song in ninth grade. It was at this time that G. Love, aka Crazy G., aka Garrett, began listening to the hip-hop sounds of Run-DMC and the Beastie Boys. While in high school he began playing on the streets of his hometown by…

One on one with drummer jon lee Hey, Jon. Where are you now? New York.By the way, if we lose each other, I can’t help it. It’s just cell phone communa-technology. You know? (laughs) Yeah. So where you at? I’m in London stuck in a traffic jam. I’ll tell you what, the traffic is nearly…

The void that’s been left in the heavy music world since Tool’s disappearing act in 1998 has been a big one. It’s safe to say that Maynard James Keenan’s new project, A Perfect Circle , can fill that void and do even more with a versatile sound and grainy Brit-pop textures. The band also includes…

Starsailor return with their third album, ‘On The Outside’. Both their previous two albums have now sold in excess of 1.5 million copies worldwide and on the last campaign they hit number one in the French singles chart with ‘Four To The Floor’. Starsailor never stopped working, they continuously toured, only pausing to write and…

Black Eyed Peas are keeping it real, real. Real how they see it. With hip hop music influenced by soul, jazz and Latin rhythms. With a live band. With pumpin’ live shows that inspire Black Eyed Peas to bust into acrobatic movements and that drive audiences to a frenzy. “Just cuz we dress the way…

Platinum Weird is a musical collaboration formed in 2004 between Dave Stewart and Kara DioGuardi. It is also the subject of an elaborate hoax placing the band in 1974, including a half hour mockumentary produced for television network VH1 and a series of bogus World Wide Web fan sites and related false documents for the…

In an age when everything from fashion to furniture reeks of prefabrication, it is rare to find a genuine realness even in soul music. As the one genre of music that should send shivers through ones body while still managing to touch your heart, much of today’s R&B feels as though more thought has gone…