- Trevor
Tanner - Trevor
Tanner (The Bolshoi) spoke Dec., 12 2004 with Outsight
about the three-CD solo release
Bullish, Bellyache &
Belch (Emperor Penguin Recordings). Tanner also
clued is on his beach living and wilderness years as
a construction worker and more.
- Jenn
Taranto is a singer interviewed 10 December 2006
at this early point in her career. Her music is mellow and
ambient and relies heavily on violins and vocal harmonies.
Jenn's debut album, Move on from Me, released in May 2006,
was recorded in her apartment and reflects the serious and
obsessive part of Jenn's personality. Most songs explore
common themes such as her behavior in relationships and
her inability to let things go. Dan MacIntosh from
Indie-Music.com wrote, "There is a sadness and a beauty to
Jenn Taranto's music, and it's not always clear which of
these two distinct descriptions will have the final say."
The album is part of the focus of her interview as well
her current activities, future plans, and past influences.
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Vienna Teng is a talented Asian-American. She
turned from a career in engineering to one in music and
has not looked back. Her intelligent, sophisticated pop
music got her a spot on the Letterman show. Here she talks
about her career and the album Walking Hour.
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John Terlesky, a.k.a. Brother JT discovers the
trippy lo-fi psychedelia of "Maybe We Should Take Some
More?" (Birdman). This peronal collage of drug experience
documentation and islands of pop hooks is an addition to
his length solo discography that is very little like his
garage pop as a memeber of the Original Sins.
Read more...
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"Terminal 4 is the most recent and long-lived
of a series of bandscreated by Lonberg-Holm seeking to
explore and expand the parameters of pop music as we know
them. In Fred's own words: 'Since the early 80's, i have
been creating a body of work that has incorporated or
synthesized aspects of popular music with more organic
forms and materials. I continue to write and study more
flexible approaches to pop music.'"
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Third
Grade Teacher - Are
you hot for teacher? Sabrina Stevenson really is a third
grade teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District,
but is also hot to take over the world fronting her
dramatic post-punk rock band. In this chat, Sabrina
enthusiastically discusses going from fan to musician and
exciting ride of a band steadily gaining in popularity,
the inimitable Third Grade Teacher.
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Thirsty
Ear, Peter Gordon,
head of Thirsty Ear, discusses the beginnings and business
of that label including the influential jazz Blue Series
headed by Matthew Shipp, the Pere Ubu reissues and other
aspects of this leading alternative music company.
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Jonathan Thomas:
Jonathan Thomas returns in this
8 October 2006 interview to catch us up on what is the
latest with Septimania and who The Coachmen are/were.
Listen to hear ancient Roman history and the architecture
of music that is zany and creative.
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Jonathan Thomas:
Septimania is Jonathan
Thomas & friends including Rick Brown (V-Effect-Run On),
Angel Dean, Chris Nelson (The Scene is Now) and various
members of the Amoebic Ensemble - which Jonathan was a
member of. Thomas plays mostly kitchenware percussion and
keyboards and put together this eclectic CD.
Instrumentation ranges from pedal steel ot contrabassoon
and bazouki to musical saw. In this interview, Jonathan
discusses the genesis of the project as well as future
plans.
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THOR
- Heavy metal warrior Thor discusses exercise advice, his
new tour, the album "Thor Against the Word" and the DVD
compendium "An-Thor-Ology", the Smog Veil vision and
films.
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J.G. Thrilwell -
Post-Industrial beatmaster
Foetus analyzes the years of self-abuse that led to the
flowstate that gave us Flow and the re-mix follow-up Blow
in this interview.
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Phil Tippin - In this interview the bass player
for Bellwether touches on the varied roots of this
alt-country group, their affinity for that Canadian sound
and why their live shows have a punk edge.
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Touch & Go/Quarterstick Records, Scott
Giampino, drummer
for Cash Audio and Touch & Go/Quarterstick Records
publicist
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Allen Towbin
of
Plexus,
Plexus is a New York trio that performs live the
electronic dance music that is now identified with DJs.
Producer/guitarist
Allen Towbin
brings into the live mix samples, loops and synthesizers
while drummer Tobias Ralph imitates breakbeats and bassist
Ernie Adzentoivich through in the deep, subsonic tone
coloring. In this chat, Allen talks about how it all works
and how it all came to be.
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Trance to the
Sun -
sonic alchemist Ashkelon Sain and ethereal
vocalist Ingrid Blue discuss their Contemporary Goth group
Trance to the Sun and its strong ties to the early, Syd
Barrett-era Pink Floyd sound.
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Thomas
Truax is a
musician of many talents including making his how
sound-makers, like the "hornicator". His
eccentric and eclectics sounds are bold, bright and
beautiful. This 10 July 2005 interview includes chatter
about his instrument making, animation talents and more.
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Abby Travis -
Travis gives us an overview of her eclectic career from
KMFDM nurse-bassist to Lovedoll cult member to
Botanica
to her new album Glitter Mouth. In this 27 August 2006
interview hear Abby's interesting
anecdotes and clarifications on a varied career.
-
Chandler Travis
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on his long and
checkered career and the diverse musical influences and
non-influences leading up to the strange and productive
"alternative dixieland" project the Chandler Travis
Philharmonic.
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Nap Turner - Song stylist Nap "Don't Foget the
Blues" Turner considers the Washington D.C. blues scene
and his own use of Percy Mayfield tunes and Langston
Hughes lyrics.
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Twisterbait
-
Once upon a time there was a vast suburban trailer park,
where daytime soaps were the only form of education.
This resulted in unimaginable stupidity, but gave the
population a light to follow in the futile,
self-oppressed vacuum of their lives. They dressed,
spoke and behaved like soap opera characters, discussing
their world in episodes and storylines, and adapting
their lifestyles to conform as closely as possible to
the plot broadcast to them. This helped blank out the
lack of genuine romance and adventure in their own
world, for it was shameful and forbidden to act with any
kind of spontaneous honesty in the confines of their
self-imposed cage. All communication was carefully
monitored to prevent unscripted self-expression, for in
this and beyond lay the dark world of the unknown, which
was feared more than
anything else... Hear the rest of this story in this
interview with Brendan Fitchew turned Twisterbait
member. Connections with storm chasers and Death In
Vegas' Simon Hanson produces weird electro-rock.
