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...