Eminem
ROLLING STONE COVER BOY EMINEM IS exhausted after a busy day of doing press in Toronto. Everyone wants a word with the guy whose album, The Slim Shady LP (Aftermath/ Interscope), casually details rapes and murders. It is warped, vulgar,…
Molotov
STARTING IN JUNE, U.S. AUDIENCES WILL GET to experience the driving sounds of one of the most successful Mexican hip-hop bands to venture north of the border. Molotov is no run-of-the-mill hip-hop act, however. Its controversial lyrics and aggressive sound…
Sara Evans
TRADITIONAL COUNTRY MUSIC IS SARA EVANS’ first love. Her retro-sounding debut on RCA won her critical acclaim in Nashville and an Academy of Country Music nomination for top new female vocalist. One reviewer even boasted, she’s “so good, she’s scary.”…
Orgy
DIALING UP ORGY FRONTMAN JAY GORDON, THE reporter on the phone looks forward to outrageous stories of sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. The band’s name is Orgy, after all. Plus, band members Jay Gordon, Amir Derakh, Ryan Shuck, Paige…
Eagle-Eye Cherry
SOME PERFORMERS SHY AWAY FROM THEIR musical pedigree. Not Eagle-Eye Cherry. He embraces the heritage he shares with his father, jazz legend Don Cherry, and his hit- maker sister, Neneh. He’s not boastful, though. His conversations – nearly all of…
Kid Rock
THERE ARE TWO SIDES TO KID ROCK. On the one hand, the 28-year-old rapper/ rocker is a self-described “crazy pimp [and] whisky-drinkin’ f**k” — what he refers to as his on-the-road personality. His occasionally foul-mouthed lyrics convey his wild and…
Dave Alvin
DAVE ALVIN FIGURES HE’S BEEN AN UP-AND-COMING artist for about 18 years now. Those who look to mainstream radio for new music may have never heard his California-inspired Americana folk rock stylings. But critics who have are mentioning Alvin’s name…
Placebo
BRIAN MOLKO, FLAMBOYANT FRONTMAN FOR inventive London psyche-rockers Placebo, swears that North America is safe from his band’s reported debauchery. His agent, Rob Prinz of Creative Artists Agency, need not worry about his client. Despite U.K. press reports of excessive…
Britney Spears
IN THE QUIET TOWN OF KENTWOOD, LA., WITH its population of less than 3,000 residents, two events marked the middle of 1998: State lottery records revealed Swifty’s gas station was the top seller of Powerball tickets for the second quarter,…
Shawn Mullins
LIFE HAS CERTAINLY CHANGED RADICALLY for Shawn Mullins. Not too long ago, he was pulling his van into a city, finding a campground, spending the day checking out the town with his dog, Roadie, and then wandering down to the…
New Radicals
NEW RADICALS’ MASTERMIND GREGG Alexander is on a mission. The Michigan-born singer, songwriter and producer is determined to use music as a platform from which to speak his mind, air his grievances, shake up the system and talk some sense…
Maceo Parker
WHEN FANS HEAR JAMES BROWN — IN THAT distinctive, soulful voice — call out during one of his grooving tunes “Come on Maceo! Play your horn,” they know exactly what’s on the horizon. To some, it’s that in-the-pocket style of…
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