“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.
This Sunday hosts Nicole Powers (SG’s Managing Editor) and Lacey Conner (our resident recovering reality TV star from VH1’s Rock of Love and Charm School) will be joined by the utterly rocking LA bands 9 Electric and Butcher Babies, who’ll be in-studio ahead of their joint show at the Roxy on Monday night (Dec 5th).
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“It’s tough not having more people to relate to you as a women.”
– Karen O
The Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs have just released Show Your Bones, the follow up to their hugely successful 2003 album Fever to Tell. Born out of the New York garage scene, the single “Maps” put them on the map and they havent looked back since. I caught up with the incredible Karen O before the band embarked on their latest tour.
“On my radio show I just play what I want. With my band I just do what I want. On the talk show I just want to talk about what I want. Isn’t that what the whole idea is, live and uncut.”
– Henry Rollins
A lot of people out there think that it’s not a good idea for these ranting and raving pundit types to have their own TV shows. Well now we’ve got our very own incensed host on TV, Henry Rollins with the aptly named Henry Rollins Show. For those who may not know of Henry, both of you, Rollins cuts an imposing figure in the hardest of rock concerts as a seminal member of Black Flag and founder of Rollins Band. A man covered in as many famous tattoos might seem an unlikely candidate for a talk show until you hear Rollins speak. Whatever comes out of his mouth is the truth. Rollins is an astonishingly well read man who is at just as much at home acting alongside Al Pacino as he is vomiting in a Siberian train bathroom.
