Tim King: Is There Any Hope For Rock Music?
By: Tim King / SOiL For those of you who are not familiar with me, I have been in the music business since I was 16 years old. I’ve played in bands, worked at labels, distributors, booking agents and dabbled in everything in between. Most notably, people know me from...
The Legacy Of The 9:30 Club
photo by John Shore By: Roger Gastman — 9:30 Book Author Background I grew up in Bethesda, MD, right outside Washington DC. Early on I got hooked on hair metal, punk rock and hardcore. At a young age, I started going to shows. 1990 was the first the year I went to...
Chris Kemp: How I Turn The NFL Into Art
By: Chris Kemp, Artist My Background: Three years back, my girlfriend and I found ourselves looking for a sport we’d both be interested in. We heard the NFL would be playing in Wembley again and thought it’ll be a good opportunity to give it a watch. After securing...
Why The Temple Of The Dog Reunion Really Matters
Photo by: Paul Lorkowski Tour Starts Today, After 25 Years *written November 2016 April 16, 2016 marked the 25th anniversary of Temple of the Dog — a record that saw the members of Soundgarden and Pearl Jam join forces in their hometown of Seattle, to craft what...
Jonathan Ulman: My Journey To Becoming A Professional Drummer
By: Jonathan Ulman Over the last 25 years of playing drums, there have been so many adventures, people and places along the way, but when you strip it all back, some of my fondest memories came from the very early days when I got my first drum set pieces. When I first...
Emerson Hart: 20 Things I’ve Learned From 20 Years of Tonic
By: Emerson Hart / lead singer of Tonic 20 years ago, my band, Tonic, released Lemon Parade. Recently, I’ve spent a considerable amount of time revisiting that record and that time in my life. Perhaps it was something like how parents feel when their kids graduate...
Fantastic Negrito: The Excitement Of Opening For Temple Of The Dog
By: Fantastic Negrito It is very surreal opening up for Temple of the Dog. I wouldn’t have imagined it in a million years. I feel like we are a small part of something historic. I remember the movement out of Seattle, and how it redefined rock music. Temple of the Dog...
Richard Christy: What Being A Drummer Means To Me
By: Richard Christy — from The Howard Stern Show My passion for drumming began, from what my beer soaked memory can earliest recall, when I was four-years-old, all thanks to my Aunt Theresa. I remember seeing KISS on TV and being fascinated with them just like every...
40 Years One Time. By Nancy Wilson of Heart
By Nancy Wilson: Heart I’m sitting by a pretty beach in southern California on a brief break from all the hot humid insanity of summer. Winding down. Watching the evening shadows slanting sooner than later on these few last lovely evenings. Feeling fall. The sweetest...
Brandon Boyd: When I Make Music vs. When I Make Art
photo by: Justin Wysong Brandon Boyd — Incubus frontman/Artist Background: Expressing myself visually was my introduction to the arts. As long as I can remember, I have been drawing things and writing things down and externalizing emotional circumstances. When I was a...
Drew Gurian: Behind The Lens -Three Favorite Photos Of Mine
By: Pro Photographer Drew Gurian. Featuring The New Basement Tapes, Brian Fallon and Kendrick Lamar I find most of my best work occurs when things aren’t planned. When and where there’s the unexpected, is usually where I find success. A lot of my work revolves around...
Darryl DMC McDaniels: Behind The Scenes Of My New Song “Flames”
By: Darryl DMC McDaniels of RUN DMC I’m working on my new music project called DMC: Dynamic Music Collaborations, and I’ve been privileged to work with some of the greatest musicians and singers ever! So far I’ve recorded songs with Joan Jett, Rome from Sublime, Mick...
Bruce Leddy: My Experience Producing MTV Unplugged
By Bruce Leddy — Writer, Director, Producer I was an in-house producer at MTV in the late ’80s when Unplugged came along. I worked on the pilot and first seven episodes. I had been producing acoustic performances at the MTV studio where we built a set out of a school...
Interview: BRIAN FALLON — Behind The Songs On Painkillers
Gaslight Anthem Frontman talks new music “But here I go, like a stone, baby, back out on my own” Brian Fallon has a way with words. In fact, there’s a mutual respect — where Fallon thinks deeply about each lyric he writes and in turn, the words allow for malleable...
The In Between Is Mine
A Tribute To Pearl Jam’s “I Am Mine” “I know I was born and I know that I’ll die. The in between is mine. I am mine.” — pearl jam, “i am mine.” eddie vedder I vividly remember sitting in a focus group in college where we discussed in detail — the girl who dyed her...
Interview: 311 Reflect On 25 Years Strong
Featuring: Nix Hexum, Pnut & Chad Sexton of 311 How 311 became a way of life “Reside west coast from the Midwest, take what ya like and fuck all the rest man. We only enter in one contest that we made up ourselves that’s to be the 311-est.” Those two lines, a nine...
Publication Makeover
Artist Waves Coming soon…! I am excited to relay, this publication is undergoing a complete makeover. Deep Cuts is transforming into — Artist Waves. In this, each article featured will be directly from the artist themselves in an effort to both share their personal...
Why Watching Chris Cornell Sing “When I’m Down” Is Like Watching Picasso Paint
art by Chris FigatSeptember 2016: On June 23, 2016 I tweeted, “Watching Chris Cornell sing “When I’m Down” is like watching Picasso paint.” I wrote that just as Cornell was belting out, “and I’ll fly so far away. Until the night blurs my vision and I have nowhere to...
Why Jack White Is One Of Today’s Most Inspiring Artists
Because he sees his passions through. This past September, a visibly emotional Jack White, held back tears as he delivered a heartfelt, solo acoustic medley of the White Stripes songs, “Love Is the Truth” and “You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket” on The Tonight Show...
Interview: MYLES KENNEDY — The Power Of Writing Optimistic Songs
& How the Frontman Balances Alter Bridge With Slash “Sometimes you fall before you rise. Sometimes you lose it all to find, you’ve gotta keep fighting and get back up again.” — “My Champion.” — Alter Bridge A hero is defined as: 1.) a person noted for courageous...
Bronson Arroyo: Why Playing With Pearl Jam At Fenway Park Was One Of The Greatest Nights Of My Life
By: Bronson Arroyo August 5, 2016 marks one of the greatest days of my life, one which has been filled with great things. I’ve played baseball and I’ve played music, but the collision of life-long dreams and places made this experience altogether incredible. To know...
Kevin Martin: Stop Apologizing: Can The Spirit of Rock & Roll Be Revived? (Me Thinks So)
By Kevin Martin of Candlebox When I was asked to sit down and write an essay for this publication I had a shit ton of ideas. I thought to myself, ‘maybe Gun Control?’ Maybe I’ll write about the second amendment rights argument and how one-sided it is? Then I quickly...
What Pearl Jam’s ‘Ten’ Did To Me
25 Years Later It changed my life. Ten introduced me to the fact that music can be emotional, it can be expressive, it can be an outlet, it is heeling, it is comforting, it is art. Up until Pearl Jam’s debut, I was of the mind that music was simply fun. And it...
How Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino Influenced My Life
August 2008: I became infatuated by how Live Nation, this three-year-old company with a cool name and hip branding, had taken the live music industry by storm. I didn’t know much about their dynamics, but I knew they had a courageous and fearless leader. To keep in...
5 Highlights From Pearl Jam’s Fenway Doubleheader
photo by kevin mazur Pearl Jam stepped up to the plate at the iconic Fenway Park this past weekend; dug their spikes into the batter’s box, tapped home plate and did their best “Big Papi,” hitting the ball out of the park on Friday and Sunday night. Bringing the...
Why Foo Fighters Are The Perfect Rock Band
photo by harlandgirlBecause they are imperfect. They are a garage band that refuse to leave the garage. When they do have to physically leave, they simply take the garage with them — sometimes to other people’s garage (literally!). Foo Fighters are in the midst of...
The Legacy of the Vedder Cup
illustration by rich cando / dudestudios.com Why The Mariners vs. Padres Has Become The Most Intriguing Inter-League Series The Seattle Mariners took three out of four games from their bitter rival — the San Diego Padres during their 2016 inter-league showdown. What?...
The Power Of A Setlist — On Stage And In Life
How One Piece of Paper Can Rule the Day What song did they play last night? I wonder what they will play tonight? I have always been fascinated by “the setlist.” What a musician selects to perform on any given night. The order, the flow, the opener and the...
Laird Hamilton: How Music Has Driven The Legendary Big Wave Surfer
Interview with surfing legend, Laird Hamilton Laird Hamilton is one of the world’s greatest athletes and a big-wave surfing legend. His wife, Gabrielle Reece, considers him to be in the 1% of the 1% — in a league of his own when it comes to ability. Physically built...
Tim Commerford: Behind The Scenes Of Audioslave
Featuring Audioslave/RATM/Prophets of Rage Bassist — Tim Commerford If you look closely at the liner notes of each Audioslave album you will notice the sentence — all sounds made by guitar, bass, drums and vocals. So what exactly was Audioslave? My response — a...
To Those that Say Rock n’ Roll is Dead
Let’s just take a look at the first few months of 2016, shall we? For starters, hell froze over and Guns N’ Roses is back. Rumored to be reuniting for quite some time, the band officially announced they would be playing April’s Coachella festival, preceded by two...
Bob Marley’s True Passion: Football
2018 marks 37 years since the death of legendary reggae pioneer, Bob Marley. Gone too soon at the age of 36. Known as one of the most prolific songwriters of all-time, Marley’s art lives on forever. You can certainly make the argument that his music was perhaps ahead...
Interview: ROB ZOMBIE — Discusses His New Album, 31 and Why Howard Stern is the Greatest
For Rob Zombie, the rest of 2016 looks like this; his new record, The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser was released this past Friday, a 46 date tour kicked off on Saturday and then the theatrical release of his new film, 31 is scheduled...
Pearl Jam and Philadelphia, A Winning Combination
A historical week in the collision of music and sports Pearl Jam is in the midst of playing two nights at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia– aka the home of the Philadelphia Flyer and 76ers. Exactly five and a half years ago, Pearl Jam was half way through a four...
A Great Playlist is to a Workout as Flavor Flav is to Public Enemy
The ultimate hype men. A podcast is great for a long run, a casual conversation does the trick on a hike with your boo, but there’s no substitute for a good playlist while you’re raging against life’s misgivings with a kettle bell. Here’s my list, maybe you’ll find it...
Dave Rusan: The Story Behind Prince’s Infamous Purple Rain Guitar
Featuring The Guy Who Made It, Dave Rusan Prince has one guitar in the Smithsonian. Aside from his “prince symbol” guitar there is one that is perhaps the most famous of his axes. It’s what’s referred to as the Cloud Guitar and was originally requested for the film...
Interview: SHIRLEY MANSON — on the bands new record and the influence of Madison, WI
In-depth with Garbage Lead Singer — Shirley Manson “It’s a privilege to have another record come out and I’m really proud of it.” Shirley Manson is excited. Garbage’s new record, Strange Little Birds, will be released on June 10th via the bands Stunvolume Records. As...
Why Howard Stern is the Greatest Interviewer of All Time
Because he cares and prepares like no one else. And at 62 years old, the ink still drying on his newly signed five year deal with SiriusXM, he’s better than ever before. Listen to a Howard Stern interview intently and you will notice two things — you don’t want the...
Why Rocky Balboa is the greatest American “fictional” icon of all time.
“See this guy here? That’s the toughest opponent you’re ever going to have to face. I believe that’s true in the ring and I think that’s true in life.” Rocky to Donnie Johnson “Creed” (Creed) When I was five years old, there was a particular summer weekend where my...
Washed In Black: A Tribute to Pearl Jam at ATL’s Fox Theater
April 3, 1994. The Most Stunning Version of “Black” Welcome to Artist Waves’ Pearl Jam week. Leading up to their Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction on Friday, we will have one unique feature per day as a small token of our appreciation, and in effort to give back...
Reflections of a Sound: 20 Years of Silverchair
silverchair 1995Featuring: Good Charlotte, Seether, Nina Diaz, Powderfinger & more March 1995: a record entitled Frogstomp was released by Murmur records. An initial recording of the lead single, “Tomorrow,” first hit Australian airwaves a few months prior and...
