Steve Baltin
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Steve Baltin has written for Rolling Stone, L.A. Times, Mojo, and many other publications, as well as 'From The Inside: Linkin Park's Meteora' and the liner notes to the recent Jane's Addiction box set.
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With more than four decades of chart-topping success, Tom Jones has rubbed elbows with the titans of music. Few men still alive today can tell tales of hanging in a Las Vegas hotel suite singing gospel tunes with Elvis Presley or grabbing a drink with Frank Sinatra at Caesar's Palace, but the 70-year-old Jones can. Even after all ...
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Sophie Muller
After an eight-year detour that saw him front the side project Institute and release a solo album, Gavin Rossdale is returning to Bush, hitting the stage at California's Epicenter Festival in September and releasing a new album, 'Everything Always Now,' this fall. Like many fans, Rossdale has been waiting for this moment for some ...
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Tim Barber
We're sure musicians everywhere would like to know the answer to this question: how do you get Paul McCartney to play bass on your album, as Travis frontman Fran Healy did? For starters, it helps that Healy has known McCartney for some time, even if their first meeting wasn't an auspicious one.
"I've known Paul since 2000. We did ...
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In advance of this Friday's protest concert against Arizona's controversial new immigration law, Rage Against the Machine's Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello and singer-songwriter Conor Oberst held at a press conference Wednesday morning at the Hollywood Palladium, the venue that will host the concert. The musicians were ...
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Mitch Schneider Organization
For years, Gary Numan has fought his past as the electronic and New Wave pioneer who hit the top 10 with the 1980 smash 'Cars.' "I'm overly obsessed perhaps about being seen as a retro or nostalgia act and so I've tended to avoid it completely," Numan tells Spinner of why he didn't perform his early material for so ...
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Rage Against the Machine are getting a lot of attention for headlining a benefit in L.A. this Friday at the Hollywood Palladium as part of frontman Zack de la Rocha's Soundstrike campaign to protest Arizona's controversial immigration law, SB 1070. But De la Rocha's other band, One Day as a Lion, which teams him with former ...
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Tim Barber
After 15-plus years as the frontman of Scottish rockers Travis, Fran Healy is making his solo debut with 'Wreckorder,' due out in North America October 5. While it's nerve-wracking for many artists to step out on their own, Healy is very calm about having his name alone on the marquees. "This album, compared to all the other albums, I ...
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