by Jay Hathaway
“People love heroes. Nerd heroes.”
– MC Frontalot
MC Frontalot first coined the phrase nerdcore hip-hop in the late ’90s to describe tracks laid down over homemade beats, featuring lyrics about everything from Star Wars to Nigerian e-mail scams. This year, hes been on tour with a full band in support of his second full-length album, Secrets from the Future. While on the road, he was the subject of a documentary film, also entitled Nerdcore Rising.
SG had the chance to talk with MC Frontalot about the life of a professional rapper and the growing buzz around nerdcore hip-hop.
Read our exclusive interview with MC Frontalot on SuicideGirls.com.
by Blogbot
This Sunday (May 15th) our very special in-studio guests are love experts Marni Kinrys a.k.a. Wing Girl and Michael Des Barres. Wing Girl has developed her own pro-female method for success to help men with dating and relationships. Meanwhile, Michael Des Barres is known for his erotic poetry and his ‘hands on’ work in the field. This week’s show will therefore be a roundtable discussion of love, sex and relationships from both the male and female perspectives.
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by Erin Broadley
“It’s an exciting time to be in entertainment”
– Billy Morrison
Billy Morrison has always wanted to be part of a rock & roll circus. He may have forgone the greasy handlebar moustache, top hat and striped pantaloons, but with his new band Circus Diablo – quite literally “the devil’s circus” – Morrison seems to have found himself a group of misfit musicians that share his taste for all things sweaty, dirty and flashy…or in other words, all things rock & roll. “This band thrives when placed on a very thin tightrope,” Morrison says. “Fuck the safety nets.”
With a collective resume that includes bands The Cult, Fuel, the Almighty and Camp Freddy, the members of Circus Diablo know all about getting down and dirty with their music. Completed by Billy Duffy (guitar), Ricky Warwick (guitar), Brett Scallions (bass), and Charles Ruggiero (drums), the band released its self-titled debut on July 3rd and have kept busy touring the country and recruiting fans for what they’ve dubbed the “Church of Diablo.”
SuicideGirls caught up with Billy Morrison before a recent Ozzfest gig to chat…
Read our exclusive interview with Billy Morrison on SuicideGirls.com.
by Arlan Hamilton
“Its a different life with great adventures. I wouldnt trade it for anything.”
– Jenn Alva, Girl in a Coma
I find the band Girl in a Coma fascinating for several reasons: First – lead singer/guitarist Nina Diaz has a voice thats so powerful and seasoned, sometimes its easy to forget shes only 19-years-old. Second – bassist Jenn Alva is an out and proud lesbian. And third – Phanie Diaz has a name that reads like fanny but sounds like fawn-ie. To say the ladies are charming is an understatement – they have beauty, brains and all the gumption one would expect from a sassy Texas trio. Still, its their music – loud and clear alternative rock that has been compared to The Smiths, The Pixies, and the Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs – that takes center stage.
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by Jay Hathaway
“Sometimes being onstage is better than sex.”
– Brian Molko
Brian Molko, the always-engaging frontman of Placebo, has been around the world twice since SuicideGirls last checked in with him. Although Placebo has had a successful decade-long career in the UK and Europe, they’ve never managed a full-on conquest of America. This summer’s Projekt Revolution tour, headlined by Linkin Park, might be the Trojan Horse that finally gets them through the gate. Did Placebo take their new audience by surprise, or was it the other way around? I got a chance to talk to Brian as he was getting ready for one of the last shows of a year and a half of touring.
Read our exclusive interview with Brian Molko on SuicideGirls.com.
by Aaron Colter
Hope you liked last week’s column about graffiti, it was probably the best post since the one about pirates. I was going to write something really great this week, I swear. But, drinks were had, songs were sung, and I have a stack of photo booth prints I can’t shown anyone. Fuck.
So, you’re going to have to settle for some music recommendations and that’s about it.
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by Keith Daniels
“If you’re creating something you want to see it through to the end.”
– Glenn Mercer
New Jersey’s The Feelies formed in the late ‘70s around the core of guitarists Glenn Mercer and Bill Million. Between their seminal first record, 1980’s Crazy Rhythms, and 1991’s Time for a Witness, their post-punk, Velvet Underground and Jonathan Richman-inspired sound evolved from their twitchy, polyrhythmic debut to more atmospheric, complex guitar pop, leading critic Robert Christgau to say of the final record of their original run, “the minimalism of Crazy Rhythms was always misleading.”
Post-Feelies, Mercer worked on several other projects, including the band Wake Ooloo and a solo record. Million left music entirely and for nearly twenty years, reportedly, didn’t touch his guitar, leading previous attempts to reunite the band to stall without his involvement. Now, Million is back, and for the first time since 1991, The Feelies have a new record called Here Before. Despite its self-referential lyrical winks to their past, the new record would sound right in their discography next to The Good Earth or Only Life.
I spoke with Glenn Mercer recently about the new record, his relationship with Bill, and how one band becomes R.E.M. while another unfairly disappears into semi-obscurity.
Read our exclusive interview with Glenn Mercer on SuicideGirls.com.
