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| The Gorillaz sit somewhere in the middle of a Bermuda Triangle formed by music, marketing, and straight-up media mayhem, and woe betide any music journalist foolish enough to try to describe them. A band made up of four cartoon characters who both are and aren't alter egos for famous real-life rockers, they're equal parts vanity project, performance art, practical joke, and promotional juggernaut. |
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DARKEST HOUR
Easily one of the best bands doing the melodic metal by way of hardcore thing, Darkest Hour are set to unleash their new opus on the world, Undoing Ruin. With Victory Records solidly behind them, album production from the in-demand Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad, and an energy that just can't be held back, Darkest Hour's time could well be nigh. READ MORE |
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EELS
Mark Oliver Everett knows suffering. He had a self-proclaimed "non-relationship" with his renowned quantum physicist father, who passed away when the singer was 19; he subsequently led a troubled teenage existence, comprised of run-ins with the law and expulsions from school. He lost his sister to suicide and his mother to a terminal disease two years later. READ MORE |
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A LIFE ONCE LOST
A Life Once Lost know. They know what you think about them. They know that most hardcore scenesters and metal fans think they sound like a baby Meshuggah. They know people think they swing from Meshuggah's short hairs, and they don't care.
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WEIRD WAR
"I'm sorry," says an out-of-breath Ian Svenonius by phone from D.C. "I was out for a minute, and I was late so I ran home, but we can get into real interview mode now." Um, I'm a little confused. Haven't we been talking for the last ten minutes? Wasn't I, uh, interviewing you already? READ MORE |
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| Other Issue Features availiable in June/July 2005 Issue: • Architecture in Helsinki
• Life of Agony
• Throwdown
• Steven Malkmus
• Gang of Four
• Single Frame
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