The Superjesus
BACK HOME IN AUSTRAILIA, THE SUPERJESUS represents the creme of the new rock crop. The band is a big headlining act with two ARIA awards, a smash hit album and radio airplay galore. In the U.S., The Superjesus opens for…
MxPx
WASHINGTON-BASED MXPX EMBRACES ITS early ’80s punk roots. Take bassist/vocalist Mike Herrera’s view of the band’s recent European outing on the Vans Warped Tour: “It was pretty much a punk rock tour; we only took a couple of showers in…
Eve 6
HERE TODAY GONE TODAY. IT COULD EASILY be the motto for emerging bands in today’s world of pop music. Scoring a couple of hit songs on radio and MTV drives sales in the morning and afternoon, but when dusk settles,…
Whiskeytown
WHISKEYTOWN DOES NOT CARE TO BE LABLED alternative country because the North Carolina quintet likes country music. Maybe the band’s singer/songwriter, Ryan Adams, would be better described as a country music rebel. As he says in the melancholy, fiddle-adorned title…
Rammstein
THE MOMENT RAMMSTEIN HITS ITS FIRST notes in concert, igniting a rowdy crowd into a head-banging frenzy, so too does frontman Till Lindemann — ignite, that is. The singer of the German band, donning a fire-proof trenchcoat plated with steel,…
Dreams Come True
AFTER 10 YEARS OF SUCCESS AT HOME Japanese pop band Dreams Come True is trying to make a go of it in America. DCT has established itself as Japan’s flagship superstar pop music act with nine albums on Sony Japan…
Plastilina Mosh
WELCOME TO THE WORLD OF Plastilina Mosh, a place where hip hop beats collide with lounge keyboards and jazz stylings meet electronic grooves. There’s some punk rock, too, justifying the Mosh half of the name. Alejandro Rosso and his partner…
Newsboys
THIRTY-THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE PACK THE Astrodome for one band. What they’re about to see is a spiritual, energy-filled concert accompanied by a huge production — the kind of showmanship and special effects expected of huge stars. But the act that’s…
Grant Lee Buffalo
AFEW WEEKS BEFORE THE RELEASE OF THEIR fourth album, Grant Lee Buffalo took a little tour across the U.S., playing intimate venues and spending some quality time with fans. In Pontiac, Mich., it got a little crowded down front so…
Bernstein (aka Dan Bern)
ON THE MOST SUFERFICIAL LEVEL, DAN BERN can be called a folk singer. But the man who writes lyrics like, “We need more nose jobs, we need more hair relaxers, more magazines telling us there’s something wrong with your face,”…
Jazz Is Dead
IT’S THE LATE ’70s. ROCKEFELLER CENTER IN New York City is bustling. The Grateful Dead is in town playing a week’s worth of dates at Radio City Music Hall. Around the corner is Studio G, where Saturday Night Live is…
Sevendust
WHEN THE MEMBERS OF SEVENDUST SAY they’ve been on the road non-stop, they are not exaggerating. These guys from Atlanta hit the road in April 1997 and in the last. 15 months, have only been home 19 days. Some members…
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