Photo - Josh Baron

Grateful Dead drummer thinks globally 

Perhaps more than any other band, the Grateful Dead was a melting  pot, combining a myriad of musical influences (some American, many not) into a kaleidoscope of sound. Powering those experiments was Mickey Hart, forming one-half of the group’s fabled percussion duo, alongside Bill Kreutzmann. Also known as the Rhythm Devils, the duo is prepared to hit the road with guitarist Steve Kimock, Phish bassist Mike Gordon and others. Talking with GR, Hart reminisced about when foreign rhythms first cast their spell on him.

Photo Credit - Susana Millman

 Boris Garcia’s Mythical Creations

Boris Garcia doesn’t really exist or, at least, that’s what songwriter Bob Stirner would have you believe. “Boris Garcia is this outlaw figure we created,” Stirner says with a grin. “He is our persona, our Panama Red. He skirts the law and gets in trouble, but not serious trouble. He’s just bad enough to make it interesting.”    

Spotlight - Wolfmother

Photo Credits (in order of appearance) : Michael Weintrob, Chris Strong, Michael Weintrob, David Vann, Michael Weintrob

A quote by William Blake once inspired Jim Morrison, and decades later the surrealistic prose of another author has summed up the vision of a new group of psychedelic messengers. From the inner city of Sydney, Australia comes Wolfmother, a heavy power trio whose debut album harkens back to the days of spatial rock anthems. 

Brad Barr on Eisenhower, label logistics and how playing in Surprise Me Mr. Davis saved The Slip

Fresh Sound, Familiar Songs 

We started working on Eisenhower in early 2004, passing  around a demo which had “Children of December,” “Suffocation Keep”and a few other songs on it. Songs come and go annually, so we wanted to make sure we captured the material we were playing live. We ended up spending a long time just figuring out what songs were going to make the cut and how to make the different parts  sound cool. In March of 2005, we finally went into the studio for real with Matthew Ellard, and  that’s how this record took shape. It was recorded the way we felt a record should be made, meaning that we couldn’t go back and  make the same record again.