Having had the good fortune to speak to The Cult’s lead singer, Ian Astbury, earlier this afternoon (I’d originally been scheduled to talk with guitarist Billy Duffy, but, what, like talking to Astbury instead is complaint-worthy?), I thought I’d favor ESDM’s readers with a video from the album he declares to be his favorite of all the band’s works. As is so often the case, it turned out to be one of their least successful, but one should always be true to oneself. I mean, the label won’t buy into it, but, still, you’ll feel better in the long run.
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Dave Matthews Band fans are still in full force, especially among college age kids. But recently the US Army beat out more than 100 colleges to win the World’s Largest Pep Rally contest, bringing DMB in for a pair of shows for the Army cadets next month.
The second annual Rock To Roll charity event spearheaded by SideOneDummy Records is set for December 11 at the Avalon Theatre in Hollywood. Headlining the event will be Flogging Molly and Bouncing Souls. Rock To Roll benefits Wheels For Humanity, which provides increased self-sufficiency and mobility to people with disabilities throughout the world.
After a four-year hiatus, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones are back with their Hometown Throwdown again, which will be held in Boston at The Middle East from December 26 to December 30 (five shows). Unannounced special guests will also be on hand, and the band has said that you never know who is going to show up.
San Diego band My American Heart spent this past summer on the Vans Warped Tour and hit the road again last night for its Pure Volume/Rise From The Ashes club tour in support of their latest album, Hiding Inside The Horrible Weather. Here are the confirmed Continue reading »
Picture the Lightning Seeds if they covered a Buzzcocks record. Can U Dig it?
Talk about star-crossed bands. Ft. Worth quintet Sugarbomb freaking rocked, dude. They could sing, they could play, and most importantly, they could write. The only thing they couldn’t do, it appears, was win the love of their label, RCA. After receiving instructions from the label to dumb their music down, Sugarbomb singer and main songwriter Les Farrington gave them “Hello,” a Vertical Horizon-ish slice of generic pop/rock. “You want dumb? Here you go!” Les said.
The label loved it. Uh oh.
The song was a minor hit, popping up on a couple soundtracks, but it was not at all indicative of how talented Sugarbomb really were. Worse, the song gave RCA an idea of how to sell the band, but it would mean turning Sugarbomb into something they were most decidedly not: a generic pop band. Soon after the album was released, RCA dropped the band (the album came out two weeks after 9/11, so RCA was cleaning house). Infighting soon followed, and a few months later, Sugarbomb were finished. Tragic.
Submitted for your approval is “After All,” the final track on the band’s fabulous album Bully (you can find it for a couple bucks on Half.com) and as grand a tribute to Queen as you’re likely to find outside of “Knights of Cydonia.” The last I heard, Sugarbomb singer Les Farrington was playing at piano bars. Why he doesn’t have a MySpace page, I’ll never understand.
I count myself fortunate that, in my two decades as a journalist, I’ve had precious few interviews that were just really, really bad…although, for the record, whenever anyone asks me about my personal worst, however, I invariably cite a conversation that I had with Juliana Hatfield:
It started two hours later than I’d been told that it’d been scheduled, no-one had told her that it had been scheduled at all, and she clearly had no interest in talking to me at all, based on her general indifference to every question I had to offer and the constant stream of one-word answers that served as her responses. And to top it off, the most memorable part of the entire conversation – such as it was – came about only because I dared to close by asking the God-awful question, “If you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be, and why?” Her horrified response: “I don’t want to be a tree!” (Okay, keep your cool, Juliana. It was hypothetical.)
Still, as excruciating as that experience was for me…and the fact that it occurred in 1992 and it’s still tops on my list speaks volumes as to the level of excruciation, I think…it still doesn’t come anywhere close to this:
Luke Burbank’s recent conversation with Sigur Ros.
Wow.
Luke, brother, I feel for you.
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