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.

Woman at Work
Liz Berlin
Why Sleep?

The musicians seated around Liz Berlin are not those of Rusted  Root, the band she co-founded in the early 1990s, nor are they those who performed on Berlin’s solo debut, AudioBioGraphical. No, Berlin’s companions today are of a decidedly different ilk: The teenaged members of a punk band, they are four of the students at Berlin’s Real Life Music Camp, at which the singer attempts to teach budding musicians some of what she’s learned about navigating the music biz since Rusted Root’s platinum-selling major-label debut, When I Woke.

The camp is just one of the heads on the hydra of Berlin’s Pittsburghbased Creative Life Support empire, which includes the label on which AudioBioGraphical has recently found national release. But the launch of her own label and solo career has also helped reconnect Berlin to her original band. 

My Page - Jim James of My Morning Jacket

 Photo Wes Orshoski

Hello. This is my page, so the topic I want to  talk about for this piece is food that is good and easy to keep frozen or preserved for long periods of time—like cavemen or dynosaurz—and perfect for when you come home after a long vacation, absence or tour. First things first: Before leaving on your trip, take a trip to your local grocer’s freezer section. You’re going to want to stock up on some fine frozen foods.

Here are some things I enjoy seein’ in my deep freeze
when I come on home: 

Caveman lawyer (still frozen), Hamsters (gerbils), Bread , Veggie burgers, Cheese, Butter , Edamame, Stem Cells, Geese, Toilet Paper rolls, Beans, Veggies (corn and brocolli and mushrooms).