Archive for the ‘Music Interviews’ Category
[interview]: Taking Back Sunday
Cross-posted at: Tulsa Today
“So what’s going on?”
“Well, I woke up this morning, and brushed my teeth.”
“Great.”
“Yeah, now I’m driving to Dallas.”
That would explain why the cell phone reception is so lousy. I’m trying to interview Adam Lazzara, lead singer of Taking Back Sunday, the emo/alt-rock band playing Cain’s Tuesday night. Lazzara, however, is known as the member of the group who tends toward manic-depressive — and I clearly caught him in a manic moment.
[interview]: Back Porch Mary
Cross-posted at: Tulsa Today
In case anyone was worried, country music is alive and well. Thursday night at Cain’s Ballroom, the stage was taken by the Turnpike Troubadours (who could easily be a top-notch bluegrass band if they didn’t use electric instruments), the Brandon Clark Band (who combine great rock ‘n roll with a honky-tonk swagger), and Back Porch Mary, one of the most original bands to combine country with punk rock in recent memory. Before the show (which was excellent), I sat down with Back Porch Mary lead singer Mike Krug.
Tell me about Back Porch Mary. You guys have been together almost a decade now?
Well, we’ve been touring in our present form for about six years, but the band was always an idea I had in my head. Read the rest of this entry »
[interview]: Stars Go Dim
Those who still doubt the power of MySpace need to look no further than the Tulsa-based start-up band Stars Go Dim. The pop/rock group managed to build up a fanbase of over 10,000 people in early 2007 via the social networking site—even before they had released a single song.
“We started writing songs, and we knew it would be a long time before these songs came out, ‘cause we wanted to have professional recordings,” bassist Michael Wittig says. “So we came up with this idea, of building fans though from day one with no music. We started videotaping everything. These guys would be writing songs and I’d be in their face, annoying them, taking pictures and stuff. But we were releasing that stuff constantly, so all these people were watching the whole thing evolve, so when we posted our first songs in December of ’07—our first three released songs—we had like 10,000 MySpace friends, and 700 or so on our email list, ready to buy them the first day they were out.” Read the rest of this entry »
