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| THE ROOTS |
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| The Roots have long been Planet Earth's most challenging hip-hop act. Its most important band. Exciting experimentalists in sound and lyric, the Philadelphians can kick pretty much any band's ass when it comes to endurance, particularly on the live stage. |
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TV ON THE RADIO
Gerard Smith came into his current job via subway busking. Curious training program or no, while keeping his chops up and earning some extra cash playing classical guitar next to the underground trains of New York City, Smith began noticing a recurring spectator.
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M. WARD
"The images that are springing to mind, when I think about making this record," says M. Ward of the sessions that produced the spectacular new Post-War, "are mostly of being at my friends' houses, and experimenting with ideas, and listening to, um ... old records, you know? For inspiration, and direction. The best songs are the ones that, well ... I have no idea where they were written, when they were written, why they were written.
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MEWITHOUTYOU
mewithoutYou frontman Aaron Weiss is sort of homeless. The 27-year-old singer moved out of his parent's house a couple months ago, saying, "I didn't move into a new place, since many of my friends have houses or are renting, so there's always a couch to sleep on. I kinda live in Kensington, which is the poorest part of Pennsylvania.
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VOIVOD
Lots of bands endure struggles to put out an album. But for legendary Canadian metallers Voivod, the release of Katorz, their 14th disc, marks the end of a very trying chapter in the group's career.
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| Other Issue Features availiable in Aug/Sept 2006 Issue: • Darker My Love
• The Black Maria
• Strapping Young Lad
• Strike Anywhere
• The Velvet Teen
• The Archie Bronson Outfit
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