The Hold Steady – Tad (Lead Guitarist) 1.) What aspect of Latitude Festival interests you the most and why? It’s always fun to meet other bands. And you can drink all day. And then they’ll pay us. 2.) What can people expect you to bring to the festival and do you have anything special planned? […]
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Latitude Festival interview with Tad from The Hold Steady
May 18th, 2007
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Tom Waits on Late Night with Conan O’Brien 05.04.2007
May 6th, 2007
[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/AR3RlTBGK24″ width=”425″ height=”350″ wmode=”transparent” /] A rare Tom Waits performance and interview on this past Friday night’s Conan in San Francisco. During the performance, Waits stomps stone powder along with his version of a human beatbox, and the effect with the minimal light is amazing. Such a bad ass performer. And during the interview […]
Actress Martha Plimpton interviews Feist
May 2nd, 2007
Former Goonie and current star of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast of Utopia”, actress Martha Plimpton is an admitted “phillistine and an ignoramus with an irrational aversion to reading liner notes”, but she took some time out recently to interview current indie ‘It’ girl, Feist, for MTV News. Feist’s response to an admittedly “ludicrous” question of […]
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Of Montreal already working on follow-up
March 29th, 2007
Impressive, in-depth piece on Of Montreal mastermind and resident freak Kevin Barnes over at Australia’s Wireless Bollinger. In it he discusses how anti-depressants saved his life but screwed up his marriage (thus, creating the thematic groundwork for Hissing Fauna…), his affinity for Syd Barret’s pop complexities, and his work on the next Of Montreal record, […]
Idlewild stubbornly continuing decline
March 8th, 2007
Full steam ahead for Idlewild in its quest to continue sucking on Make Another World (even the title reeks of fey self-importance). The downward spiral since 100 Broken Windows has been so steep and slippery I can barely even listen to the early stuff anymore. Vocalist Roddy Woomble’s Michael Stipe impersonation has devolved into a […]
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Orgone Accumulator
July 23rd, 2006
When I sat down this past Saturday at Adriana’s with bassist Lauren Andino and guitarist Willie May from Orgone Accumulator (which also features Andy Woodward and Josh Smith on drums and electronics, respectively) to talk about their final show as a band, they were sort of thrown off by my hand-held cassette recorder. I told […]