Aimee Mann: Lost In Space
Me: So I assume that this call finds you somewhere in L.A. today? How's the weather? How're you feelin'?
Aimee: Yeah, I'm in L.A. It's a little overcast today. I was up a little bit late last night because it was my husband's birthday. We had some friends in for dinner.
Me: So I understand you cobbled "Lost In Space" together between touring?
Aimee: My touring schedule is usually a couple of weeks on and a week or so off and a couple a weeks off so depending what's going on most ...
Aimee Mann Finds Herself Lost In Space
Aimee Mann's had a hell of a run lately.
The Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter's "Magnolia" soundtrack was nominated for Grammy and Oscar awards. Her self-released Bachelor No. 2 broke a 10-year cycle of label frustrations and established her as the poster girl for independent artists. And her Acoustic Vaudeville tour with husband Michael Penn and a rotating cast of comedians providing color between songs was lauded by critics and fans alike.
So why is Mann's new album, Lost in Space, ...
Peter Buck Arrested For Busting Up First Class
R.E.M guitarist Peter Buck was arrested Saturday for allegedly assaulting two British Airways cabin crew members in the first class section of flight BA48 from Seattle to London, Scotland Yard spokesman Chris Cairns said.
Buck was met by police at Heathrow Airport Saturday morning around 11 a.m. after the British Airways flight crew radioed ahead that a first class passenger had assaulted members of the cabin crew and upended a trolley.
Buck, 44, was detained at the Heathrow police ...
David Gray Nimbly Climbs White Ladder At Private Show
NEW YORK — It was billed simply as a private performance, but for the industry-only audience assembled at Joe's Pub in New York City on Friday night, it was a coming-out party for singer/songwriter David Gray.
On the strength of the single "Babylon," Gray's 1998 album, White Ladder, has steadily climbed into Billboard's top 40, yielding the Dave Matthews signee massive success in the U.K. and his first gold record Stateside. And if the assemblage of label heavyweights, including newly ...
Michael Stipe: Man On The Moon
Listening to R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe discuss the comedian Andy Kaufman, one can't help imagining that the singer is, at least in part, also describing himself. "I copped a lot of his moves," Stipe concedes. Coming from a man who has been saddled since early in his career with the quasi-complimentary "eccentric" tag, that's no small admission.
Andy Kaufman rose to fame through early "Saturday Night Live" performances, and reached an even larger, more mainstream audience playing the ...
Ani Difranco’s Wake Up Call: Battered-Eyed Crooner Is Ready To Kill
It's still morning when Rolling Stone Online correspondent Benjamin Wagner puts a call in to folk-punkster Ani DiFranco. The 25-year-old singer/songwriter -- asleep somewhere in Connecticut -- is touring in support of her seventh independent release in five years, Not A Pretty Girl. While DiFranco's confrontational songs have drawn criticism for their incisive edge, she has steadily built a dedicated, largely female following through relentless touring.
Rolling Stone Online: I didn't wake ...
Moonpools & Caterpillars: The Peak Of Nothingness
The married half of L.A.'s Moonpools and Caterpillars -- singer Kimi and guitarist Jay Jay -- are lounging in their label's Manhattan offices. Fresh from a massive spread of Indian cuisine, the fledgling popsters, whose debut Elektra release "Lucky Dumpling" is moving steadily up Billboard's Heat Seekers chart, chart the course of their new careers with Rolling Stone Online correspondant Benjamin Wagner.
RSO: What's going on with Moonpools at the moment?
Kimmi: We're right at the peak of ...
Ben Folds Five: Wonder Bread Alternative To Alternative
Heavy skies are falling onto gray concrete outside as members of Ben Folds Five loiter unnoticed in their Midtown Manhattan hotel lobby. Though tired and haggered from their sold-out, industry-packed Irving Plaza performance the previous evening, the Chapel Hill-based trio is heavily caffinated and anxious to move onto their next gig in Philadelphia.
Since forming nearly two years ago when singer/pianist Ben Folds recruited punk bassist Robert Sledge and drummer Darren Jesse to slesh out his ...
J. Mascis Unplugs The Dinosaur
With sarcastic stops and stutters, coughs, hoops and hollers, Dinosaur Jr. leader J. Mascis held the would-be moshers at bay, charging haphazardly through an hour's worth of solo acoustic material at SoHo's dingy Mercury Lounge Thursday night.
Best known for pioneering the garage-rock jet set with the distortion-soaked Bug and Green Mind, Mascis production for seminal grunge-popsters like Buffalo Tom (Bird Brain) and Tad (Inhaler) shaped a sonic aesthetic. But alone with nary a distortion ...
Edwin McCain: ‘Mr. 100,000 Units’ 10 Year Plan
Edwin McCain's whispy blonde hair smothered the singer/ guitarists' swollen, sleep-stained face. Jarred from a much needed couch-bound slumber, the South Carolinian -- whose debut release, Honor Among Thieves, is cruising up the charts on the strength of "Solitude," his duet with Hootie and the Blowfish's Darius Rucker -- gained consciousness slowly. Speaking in a patient, gutteral drawl with Rolling Stone Online Correspondant Benjamin Wagner, McCain covered everything from falling from ...
