I may have interviewed The Residents the other day, but one can never be sure. I spoke to Hardy Fox who is a founding member of The Cryptic Corporation, a company created in 1976 to help the band. He may or may not be a member of The Residents, but the people of earth will never know. One thing we do know is that the Residents have always broken new ground and continue to do the same in the 21st century with podcasting. You can now purchase The Residents serial radio drama, called River of Crime, on CD.
“Oh shit, I accidentally jumped on a bandwagon.” – Isaac Marion
Warm Bodies is a new zombie movie in production with Teresa Palmer and Nicolas Hoult. It is based on the book by Isaac Marion, told from the point of view of a zombie named R (Hoult.) Summit Entertainment is really putting their weight behind up and coming authors. Bodies is one of three new books they green lit as movies, along with Veronica Roth’s Divergent and Erin Morgenstern’s The Night Circus. Bodies even has a quote from Twilight author Stephenie Meyer endorsing it on the cover.
Marion got a taste of the big time when he joined Summit’s panel of authors at San Diego Comic-Con. With his first book published, he got to face press and fans curious about the latest story in the zombie apocalypse genre. We got to sit down with Marion, and as a die hard apocalypse fan, I had some very probing questions before I devote my kindle space to Warm Bodies.
This Sunday (September 11th) our special in-studio guests will be singer/songwriter Daniel Ahearn, who’ll be premiering some brand new tracks on the show, and Alexia Rodriguez of the Arizona-based band Eyes Set To Kill, who have just released a new album, White Lotus.
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I’ve covered a good deal of up-and-coming bands in this column, some of my recent favorites being Talkative, Forest Park, and The Woolen Men. This week, I’m happy to throw support behind one of the most promising new bands I’ve heard in the Portland scene this year – Youth.
A new band with only a few tracks available, Youth have cultivated a sound that draws from the best in surf, lo-fi, and chill-wave to play a brand of northwest beach pop that is as familiar as it is surprisingly fresh.
Plus, Youth is hopefully getting ready to tour with Wild Ones and, yet again another band I’ve talked about, Typhoon. With any luck and a bit of hard work, you’ll start to see Youth in more and more places.
“I was sober for this one.”
– Chi Cheng of the Deftones
It was truly an honor to get to talk with Chi Cheng of the Deftones. I have been a fan of theirs for many years. The Deftones may be hanging out with the kids on the Family Values Tour, but that hasn’t made them any less awesome.
I’ve done about 800 original interviews for SuicideGirls and probably a couple thousand more for other venues, so I think it’s fair to say that I’ve gotten pretty good at working around people’s tertiary expressions like, “oh man” and “yeah.” But when you’ve got a legend like Bootsy Collins saying “yeah mama, baby and man,” it would be sacrilegious to delete it.
Collins is best known as one of the co-founders of the seminal 1970s funk group Parliament Funkadelic, but I really got into his work in the early ’90s when he teamed up with Bill Laswell and Buckethead. As Collins and I discuss in this interview, that was a golden era — and it’s still going on today. Bootsy’s latest album, Christmas is 4 Ever, features many new songs by Bootsy and his crew.
