Interview with Travis Stever, November 6, 2007
Coheed & Cambria recently released the final chapter in the Co&Ca saga. Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow debuted with critical acclaim as well as impressive sales numbers. This band is arguably the greatest band in modern music. Music has been seriously lacking when it comes to genuine rockstars with an innovative sound, but there is no denying that Coheed and Cambria fit the description. I was curious as not not only their perspective on their success, but how they've managed to maintain mystery while dominating in the transparent world of the internet. I caught guitarist and co-founder, Travis Stever, while shopping for tour bus DVDs...  |
Juliette Lewis, the actress who shot to stardom with such movies as Cape Fear, Kalifornia and her most notable role to date as a demented serial Killer in Natural Born Killers has now endeavored as a gutsy and outspoken front-woman for her band Juliette and the Licks. The licks have just recently embarked on their first US tour and I had the opportunity to interview Juliette to discuss her views about the band and the music industry.
Flavia1334: Who are your musical influences?
Juliette: There's a lot, and its funny. Because the challenge of the band is creating this chemistry, where we can think the same thoughts at the same time. Like when the guitar player writes a riff and it matches a feeling that i have had or a lyric. I get inspired by the musicians in my band. For this record I put together a CD of rock and roll that is akin to my band, everything from Thin Lizzie to Joe Walsh, the Doobie Brothers, Iggy and the Stooges and Led Zeppelin. Really classic rock with a bit |
Since The Last Time releases in the US Oct 30. In stores now everywhere else.
Speech, the outspoken frontman for the positive hip hop collective, Arrested Development, takes out some time to discuss black america, the music industry, politics, and their first US release in 12 years. |
Milwaukee, August 7, 2007
Mike Portnoy, drummer for legendary prog band Dream Theater, sits with fans to discuss everything from DVD releases to side projects to Alcoholics Anonymous. |
Levon Sultanian (Onesidezero) tells us about the songs that changed his life.
Music and playing music has always been in the family. I started
playing piano at the age of 7. All the kids in the family had to play
the piano. Our Grandpa Charles was the maestro. He knew the piano back
and fourth, upside down, in his sleep and on the back of his hands. We
all got pretty good due to the strict lessons with the Maestro. One day
my father put on his collection of beta video tapes in the living room
of our apartment in Hollywood. That was it! After I saw Ritchie
Blackmore(Deep Purple), Jimmy Page(Led Zeppelin), Tony Iommi(Black
Sabbath, Eric Clapton(Cream), Jimi Hendrex, all do what they were doing
to this other instrument called the guitar, that was it for me! I  |
Find out about music, life and fairys.
1. Who are you and what do you do?
I am Dia Frampton and I am a musician.
2. Album or band you are currently obsessed with?
I am always listening to Cursive.
3. One single album that you could not imagine being part of your music collection?
Anything that had derogatory or racial lyrics in it. |
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW FOR ALTSOUNDS
The boys from Set Your Goals took a little bit of time out from the massive euro tour to come to Altsounds HQ for a chat with us.
We had video cameras at the ready to capture all the action and words of wisdom as they happend.
We will have the entire interview and pictures from tonights show aswell up for you to see soon.
Its the first of many more exclusive and exciting interviews to come your way from us.
Keep them peeled and you will be treted to a nice little suprise every now and then. |
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Toronto's latest rising star, takes time out of his busy schedule to jibber in my ear. |
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Three of Five sit and talk. |
Here's what I knew about Rooney before today:
1. They had a single on the radio 4 years ago
2. They were on The OC
That didn't seem like enough information to conduct an interview, so I pulled up their Wikipedia to get the low down. There really wasn't TOO much more than the 2 things listed above. They got their name from Ferris Bueller...don't care. They were on the Herbie Fully Loaded soundtrack...still don't care. Video game soundtracks and soap operas...ugh.
Oh here we |
Cake has a killer new record coming out called B-Sides and Rarities which they are self-releasing. Support independent music...buy Cake! I got the chance to talk to Vince DiFiore from the band (for 15 whole minutes) and ask him some questions about the new albums, leaving the major labels, their video content, and much more. I hope you enj |
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A lil jibber with Miikka |
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Caught up with Locksley for a sit down during their stop in Toronto for CMW. These group of buds finish eachother's sentences, rock out together definitely like brothers. |
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I had the chance to have a sit down chit chat with ANTI-HERO as they rocked during Canadian Music Week. |
Altsounds caught up with Senses Fail in the basement of Cardiff’s tiny Barfly venue on a cold snowy day in early February. The band has been touring the UK for the past week or so in the company of The Sleeping. We asked guitarist Heath Saraceno a few quick questions prior to the show, on how the band thought things were going so far; their expectations for the rest of the year and just how happy they are with their current album ‘Still Searching’, here are the results.
Altsounds: Your first UK headlining tour, how’s it going so far?
Heath Saraceno: It’s going great, this is the fourth of five shows and they’ve all been really good. This one I think has been sold out for a couple of weeks and we wanted to keep it nice and small instead of moving it up to another venue we just wanted to have this one packed.
A couple of years ago we did a bunch of shows like this around our area; like little, they weren’t even bars most of them, in like elk lodges. We kind of miss playing real |
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I had the chance to get an emailer done with Jason..This is what he has to say. |
Written by: Lucas Wright
New Beginnings: the story of Sparta
After a whirlwind of speculation on the band’s demise, Sparta recently put forth their third full-length album to dispel the speculation and the gossip. This latest musical effort, Threes, was released on October 10th and I had a chance to speak with drummer Tony Hajjar about the new album and the near end of Sparta. Of course everyone is familiar with the split-up of At the Drive In that eventually formed Mars Volta and Sparta (a subject Hajjar was rather tight-lipped about) but not everyone is as quite familiar with the near dissolution of Sparta.
In April of 2005 front man Jim Ward walked away from the band to take some time to himself. The band was under heavy criticism about the record sales of then new album Porcelain and it was uncertain whether the band would ever get back together. With the defection of Paul Hinojos to Mars Volta, Keeley Davis took his place as ghost guitarist in a band that didn’t really exist.
“It was a real |
![My interview with the good ol’ boys of The Silent Years, the next pending indie rock sensation…err, next great band you should hear.
During the Socal stint of their latest tour, I had the marvelous chance of speaking with Pat among others…in a sense] of The Silent Years. We mostly me] rambled on about Spinal Tap, Mexican food and making some great sounds.
J: So your 30 shows into your tour now?
P: Uh, I think somewhere around there. We started in the second week of September, out in New York, up through Canada, spent a couple days home in Detroit. The through the Midwest, Texas, Arizona, and now we’re heading out to California now this weekend then back across the middle of the US to the CMJ thing in November. And then back across the top of the country.
J: Back home?](http://altsounds.info/geek/gars/images/2/7/silentyears.jpg "My interview with the good ol’ boys of The Silent Years, the next pending indie rock sensation…err, next great band you should hear.
During the Socal stint of their latest tour, I had the marvelous chance of speaking with Pat among others…in a sense] of The Silent Years. We mostly me] rambled on about Spinal Tap, Mexican food and making some great sounds.
J: So your 30 shows into your tour now?
P: Uh, I think somewhere around there. We started in the second week of September, out in New York, up through Canada, spent a couple days home in Detroit. The through the Midwest, Texas, Arizona, and now we’re heading out to California now this weekend then back across the middle of the US to the CMJ thing in November. And then back across the top of the country.
J: Back home?")
Interview: The Silent Years, OCT.2006 |
Last Friday I had the distinct pleasure of speaking with Locksley guitarist/vocalist Jesse Laz. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Locksley you soon will be. They are one of the biggest unsigned acts in the country and things certainly aren’t slowing down for them. Jesse called in while I was in Chicago and we talked about the bands move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York as well as the upcoming album. I’d like to thank Jesse for his seemingly endless patience as a few incidents culminated in his having to answer these via email.
Me: You guys set up shop in New York and went through some pretty tough incidents. Can you discuss what the band went through?
Jesse: We all moved into a loft together after we got out here. In fact, the trip to NY was harrowing in itself. What should have taken 14 hours ended up as a 46 hour saga, culminating in our trailer breaking off on the New Jersey turnpike. Not to mention, the rain that started when we hit Pennsylvania settled over New Yo |
"We're barely getting started," says Elias Reidy of The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus. With their major label debut released a little over a month ago, RJA have already started making waves in modern music, selling over 17 thousand copies of their album and maintaining a frantic touring schedule. They're being included in numerous television shows and online features, the video for their first single 'Face Down' is in heavy rotation and their hold on radio is growing stronger every day. RJA also landed a spot on the coveted Madden 2007 soundtrack, a huge accomplishment for any band, especially one as new as they are. If this is 'barely getting started' I can only imagine where they will be a year from now.
I spoke with Elias Reidy, guitarist for Jumpsuit to discuss the success they've been having so far and see how it feels to be one of the most promising new bands out now.
Me: How is the touring going?
Elias: Great! We just finished up Warped Tour without any problems, and now we’ |
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