They might have called their new album Sticks and Stones so that if critics trashed it they could retort by sneering, sticking out their tongues and saying, “names will never hurt me.” But that’s not the reason. For New Found Glory, names are as dangerous as flung fists, and throughout the record they reveal how damaged they’ve been by barbed words. “On the cover of the record we have a little girl beating up a guy,” guitarist Steve Klein explained recently. “When we were younger, relationships with girls were a lot easier. You could hit each other and it would… Read more »
With the passing of Layne Staley, those who knew him best remember him as deeply troubled yet immensely talented. Described as a caring person, he made great strides to elevate an underground genre to the mainstream. In the early ’90s, Alice in Chains, along with Pearl Jam and Soundgarden, were directly behind Nirvana on the grunge wave that began in Seattle and cascaded throughout the country. The singer’s Alice in Chains bandmates – guitarist Jerry Cantrell, bassist Mike Inez, drummer Sean Kinney and former bassist Mike Starr – their manager and Soundgarden’s Chris Cornell gathered Saturday, a day after police… Read more »
First, there was “Survivor.” Then came “Fear Factor.” Now, reality television watchers can follow the daily activities of rock musician Ozzy Osbourne and his family on MTV in “The Osbournes.” “What you see on the show is absolutely us,” Osbourne says in the Feb. 23 issue of TV Guide. “None of it’s been doctored or manufactured. It’s real. It’s the Ozzy Osbourne “Real World.” In one episode, his 17-year-old daughter has a birthday party and he spends the evening wagging his finger at her friends, yelling “Don’t smoke!” and trying to be heard over thumping techno music. “What is this?”… Read more »
The track listing for Sheryl Crow’s follow-up to 1998’s The Globe Sessions has been firmed up, and the album is now slated for March. Crow spent time in New York City last year working on the record, popping up for star-studded surprise gigs that included appearances by the likes of Keith Richards, Stevie Nicks, Gwyneth Paltrow and Kid Rock. And while Rock and Paltrow were initially rumored to be singing on the upcoming album, Nicks is the only one from those performances confirmed for the album. Nicks lends backing vocals to “You’re Not the One.” But Crow has enlisted a… Read more »
Willa Ford is still friends with her ex-boyfriend, Nick Carter of the Backstreet Boys. After all, they share five dogs; Ford has the teacup Pomeranian, a miniature Maltese and a pug, and Carter has another pug and a boxer. The 20-year-old pop singer said she and the 21-year-old Carter, who dated for three years, didn’t talk at first after breaking up in October, but now they’re friends again. “We learned a lot together. We went through so much at such a young age,” Ford told The Associated Press. “We were put in front of all these people so quickly and… Read more »
Earlier this year, the rap magazine XXL raved about Cormega’s Mega 2001 bootleg, and Vibe magazine gave the Queens rapper props in its article on the infamous Queensbridge housing projects called home. None of these accolades, however, has erased the fact that Cormega – who has recently appeared on albums by rhymers such as Prodigy, Screwball and Tragedy – had a falling-out with former friend Nas and was replaced by fellow Queensbridge rapper Nature in the Firm, the ill-fated supergroup that also featured Nas, Foxy Brown and AZ. Yet Cormega hopes his first legitimate album, The Realness, scheduled to arrive… Read more »
Marlo The Barbarian almost gave up. The singer/songwriter struggled for years to find the right people who believed in her and her vision. But now, with several EPs under her belt, Marlo The Barbarian has arrived. Her candid and infectious songs have reached fans all over the internet. The single “Real Friends, Fake Friends’ struck a chord with anyone who struggled at home during the pandemic and had to re-examine where they spend their energy. And this is just the beginning.
I hope you enjoy our conversation and check out all her work.
This week I have Efrem who sings for the band Death By Stereo and more recently Voodoo Glow Skulls, he was one of the first real friends I made when I moved to California and I knew no one out there. I got to do Warped Tour with him in 2002, and we’ve been friends and have kept in touch ever since. Hear how Efrem got his start in music as well as us catching up!
idobi photographer Audrey Lew photographed The AP Tour featuring Mayday Parade, Real Friends, This Wild Life, and As It Is in New York.
idobi photographer Gaëlle Pitrel covered the All Time Low European tour with Neck Deep and Real Friends at Le Batacian in Paris.
