“I hate anything to do with nostalgia and retro.” – Gary Numan
Gary Numan is best known to American audiences as the creator of the classic song “Cars” back in the 1980s. But Numan has never stopped making his unique brand of electronic music. Powerful, deep, hot and cold at the same time, Numan revolutionizes music with every new album. His latest is Jagged which is produced by one of the best hard techno producers out there, Ade Fenton.
“The only thing thats hard to hear is techno unless I’m drunk, then it works.”
– Wyclef Jean
It seems that it is hard to be an extremely popular musician but still be a revolutionary at the same time. Certainly Wyclef Jean disproves that. After The Fugees became a monstrous music phenomenon they stopped making music and they all went on to solo projects with Wyclef being the most successful. Now he’s breaking into movies as the drug dealer in the cop film Dirty and reuniting with The Fugees in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.
“I wear makeup and I’m not afraid to wear womens clothes so I guess that definitely had an impact on me.”
– Derek Grant of Alkaline Trio
Alkaline Trio is the kickass band made up of Dan Andriano, Derek Grant and Matt Skiba. They just got the song, “We Can Never Break Up,” on an episode of the horror anthology series Masters of Horror. That song is included on the Masters of two disc CD soundtrack along with some amazing musicians as Buckethead, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, Matchbook Romance, and many more.
“I’ve always made my own way and then I saw somebody who was just going with the flow, it looked really attractive and nice.”
– Lisa Crystal Carver
Over the past decade or so Lisa Crystal Carver has made an industry out of Drugs Are Nice with an album, a DVD and now a book subtitled A Post-Punk Memoir. The book now out from Soft Skull Press chronicles Carver’s life in the band Suckdog, her major problems with her family and of course, lots and lots of drugs.
“Sometimes people think one type of artwork is different from another but anything that gets your juices flowing is the same.”
– Senon Williams of Dengue Fever
Dengue Fever is a band with a sound so wild you have to hear it to believe it. They are six person band with a native Cambodian singer named Chhom Nimol. Essentially they are a rock band with that bizarre foreign sound to it. It’s fucking great. I got a chance to talk with their bass guitarist Senon Williams about their album Escape from Dragon House.
“If you dont have pressure you’re not working hard enough.”
– Liam Howlett of The Prodigy
It’s hard to believe that it’s been ten years since The Prodigy broke into the mainstream with their catchy techno-like hits “Smack My Bitch Up” and “Firestarter.” Well now before The Prodigy releases new material on us later this year enjoy a collection of all their hits, Their Law: Singles 1990-2005.
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