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Zeppelin or Not, No Quarter Doesn’t Just Preach to the Choirnew
The stage is their pulpit. And on it, in long, curly wigs, bell-bottomed jeans and chest-baring shirts, they become what they preach, mimicking note-for-note “Stairway to Heaven” and “When the Levee Breaks” the way Led Zeppelin would have played it.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
01-29-2010 |
Profiles & Interviews
Romani Music and Punk Rock? Together? Yup. Meet Gogol Bordellonew
Under the balls-out direction of the band's founder, Eugene Hütz, Gogol Bordello has redefined punk rock ethics and brought traditional Romanian music to the headphones of popular music fans around the globe.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
10-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Gogol Bordello
Sunny Day Real Estate's Dan Hoerner Leaves a Quiet Life to Play Rock Star Againnew
For Hoerner, a Spokane resident and native, this isn't just a reunion tour. It's a visit to a past life -- a life buried under births and deaths, under 9-to-5 jobs, long-gone fame and quiet anonymity.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
10-08-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Husband-and-Wife Duo Jucifer Are no Sonny and Chernew
At every Jucifer show, a very tall and very, very loud wall of amps stand sentinel behind the band, floor to ceiling -- stacked neatly at some shows, haphazardly arranged on top of each other at others. That wall of amps is not simply loud -- it's practically the third member of the band.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
10-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Jucifer, heavy metal
Onstage, the Demure Sallie Ford Becomes a Brassy, Magnetic Sirennew
Before and after a song, Sallie Ford is just a 22-year-old girl from North Carolina who likes music. The person Sallie Ford becomes in between -- in the full speed and inertia of a song -- is remarkable.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
10-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Rosewood Thieves' Revivalist Sound is Earning Them Lots of New Fansnew
Whether or not the Rosewood Thieves intend to do it, their music leans heavily on musical eras long passed: the tra-la-la of mid-'60s American pop-folk and the drone of experimental music from that same era.
The Inlander |
Leah Sottile |
10-07-2009 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: The Rosewood Thieves
More of Mr. Nice Guy
Nashville’s nicest guy shows he can’t be taken for granted with his new four-CD set of original music, These Days.
The Inlander |
Ted McGregor Jr. |
11-21-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
The Mysterious Production of Songs
Everybody knows he can play the fiddle, but where, exactly, do Andrew bird’s trippy lyrics come from?
The Inlander |
Luke Baumgarten |
11-30-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Andrew Bird
Anatomy of a Fabulist
Decemberists frontman Colin Meloy wants pop’s rulebook to include everything in our vast imaginations -- except pirates.
The Inlander |
Luke Baumgarten |
10-20-2005 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Colin Meloy, Decemberists
Hello, Starlingnew
Everyone comes from somewhere. That's especially true for songwriters because while most of us regular folk could set up shop in another corner of the globe without drawing too much attention to our roots, songwriters can't stow their formative pasts away so casually.
The Inlander |
Mike Corrigan |
10-07-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: Josh Ritter
