Choler catches up with Dresden Dolls frontwoman / piano torturer Amanda Palmer to ponder the band’s imminent voyage from play time to big time. Let’s face it: if you’re a rock band based in Beantown, you’ve got more than one pair of skin-tight leather trousers to fill. If the bar band-turned-stadium-filling paleontology exhibit on wheels [...]
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Burlesque Breakthrough: An Interview with Amanda Palmer of The Dresden Dolls
Posted: June 22, 2004 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: alternative music, Amanda Palmer, Dresden Dolls
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Scaling Felt Mountain: An Interview with Will Gregory of Goldfrapp
Posted: January 25, 2002 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Downtempo, Electronic Music, Goldfrapp, Mute Records
If Marlene Dietrich were alive today, she’d be the world’s sexiest 100-year-old. She might also have something to croak about Alison Goldfrapp, the namesake of the British duo whose 2000 album, Felt Mountain, conjures up all of the mystique, class and modernist boudoir beckoning of Dietrich’s cabaret classics. There’s a good bit more in there [...]
The Groop Played … Well, Whatever The Hell It Wanted: An Interview with Stereolab’s Tim Gane
Posted: January 4, 2002 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: duophonic, Electronic Music, indie rock, stereolab
I’m sitting backstage at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, Calif. with Tim Gane, Stereolab’s founding songwriter, guitar player and main ideologue, and we’re lying to one another. Gane is pretending to give me direct, concrete answers to my questions about his band’s work methods, its history, its fondness for certain producers, and I’m [...]
Orbiting the Altogether: An Interview with Orbital
Posted: November 5, 2001 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Electronic Music, Orbital
Despite its multi-national impact, electronic dance music has proffered only a few widely recognizable faces from out of the great bumping masses of DJs, producers and performers – and a pair of those faces belong to the brothers Hartnoll — Paul and Phil. Actually, “faces” is probably a poor word choice there; with the exception [...]
Foetal Flow: An Interview with Jim Thirlwell of Foetus
Posted: June 29, 2001 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Foetus, industrial, Jim Thirlwell, Thirsty Ear Records
He isn’t at all the bastard you expect him to be. He’d disagree with that – he’d be the first to call himself difficult or surly, every bit the man his infamously uncompromising music has made him out to be. But for Jim G. Thirlwell, best know to the world as … well, not best [...]
