Kelly Willis
MUSIC CITY WANTED TO MAKE A STAR OF Kelly Willis but she didn’t want to be a Music City kind of star. It’s true, she tried for a while. She released three albums on MCA Nashville in the early ‘90s…
Godsmack
DARK EYES AND HEAVILY PIERCED EYEBROWS frame his tattooed body. A pentagram hangs around his neck. And he’s a practicing witch in the Celtic tradition. Godsmack founder Sully Erna seems to be the perfect frontman for a heavy metal band.…
Bare Jr.
THE LAND THAT PLAYS BOTH KINDS OF MUSIC – country and western – has spawned its bastard child. Bare Jr. has shown Nashville what a dulcimer sounds like through a distortion pedal. And if support for its tongue-in-cheek Immortal/Epic debut,…
Marvelous 3
MARVELOUS 3’s FRONTMAN, BUTCH WALKER, may not compare to Jim Carrey, but he has one of the most expressive faces around when he’s onstage: widening his eyes and mouth as he sings, emphasizing certain words to the point where you’d…
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…
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