Category: Interviews

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club doesn’t propose to save music, but they don’t think that would be bad either. With hybrids of music changing the face of genres and blurring the lines between headbangers and popsters, BRMC hopes to make rock real once again. The days of rock being exactly what it was when the term…

Kings Of Convenience aren’t some new breed acoustic duo. Acoustic music has been around for decades, but they still feel like something new, like a warm spring breeze coming in after a long cold winter. These two average guys have struck a chord the world around and now they are reaping the wares of their…

In Myrtle Beach with Richard Lugo! I know you just started touring with O-Town. How many shows have you done with them? About four shows. Have you been doing shows before that? Before that I was on tour with BBMAK. I didn’t know that. How was that? It was a lot of fun. Those guys…

Our Lady Peace: Operation Raine! Spiritual Machines may explore human spirituality and tinker with the ideologies of man against machine from Ray Kurzweil’s book The Age of Spiritual Machines – When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence, but after talking to lead singer Raine Maida of Our Lady Peace, I discovered something deeper about the new record.…

At the time I got to speak with the amazing R&B group 112, their album debuted at the number two spot on Billboard. Pretty amazing for a group that started out just around the time when they were as concerned about the eye chart for their drivers license test as they were about the chart…

Does it get annoying constantly getting the REM comparisons? Not annoying, it does get tiring, however. But I can understand it too. I mean, if I ask a friend what a certain group is like and he’ll say, ‘They’re a bit like Blur, REM, or Nirvana,’ then I get a good understanding of what they…

The biggest impact a heavy band can make now is in Mtv or radio picking them up, being heard amongst the Limp-Korn-Roach mass that has washed out any hope of talented metal bands truly making it. Factory 81 knows what they’re up against, and they don’t really give a shit. They’re not planning on becoming…

What’s up, dog? How are you? Busy! I know, you’ve been nothing but busy. Busy day, busy week, busy year. (laughs) But How do you react to people saying that for your age you are singing pretty mature songs? There is no such thing as being young and not learning from your experiences. I see…

Still a lunatic. Get inside this St. Louis hip-hopper Ali! Heard you’re out on the road? Yeah I’m out with Nas. How’s that going? It’s all good. It’s going real good. He’s showing me much love and allows me to tap into an audience I might not be able to. Are you alone while everyone…

What is it like waking up in the morning reading a glowing review in Billboard and then going back to a somewhat normal life? It’s really weird. I’m tutored but I’m enrolled in a public school, but it’s hard to go all the time with traveling and other demands. And the demands on your time…