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The Most Recent stories by Lily Moayeri
- Inside Neon Neon’s Random Rhythms April 2008
Neon Neon’s debut album, Stainless Style [Lex/Fontana], is a shameless homage to the radio-friendly synth-pop hits of the ’80s, but written as a pseudo-concept album that mirrors the tumultuous life and times of carmaker John ...
- Just Jack’s Home Recording Ethos Explored March 2008
As the stage name indicates, Just Jack is a one-man operation. Working out of a bedroom studio centered around an Akai S950 sampler, triggering beats lifted from funk, jazz, and ’70s and ’80s pop music, Jack Allsopp is a king of lo-fi ...
- Tracking Rooney’s 'Calling The World' December 2007
Rooney guitarist Taylor Locke’s head spins right around every time a female walks past his outdoor table in the busy Hollywood eatery he is having an afternoon drink in, but it snaps right back to center—as does his attention—when the ...
- Plan B July 2007
Ben Drew describes his life as if it were a film: a graphic, violent, sexually explicit, and disturbing film with very strong language. Under the nom de plume Plan B, Drew turns the events in his life and those of his friends ...
- Young Love July 2007
Put Dan Keyes on a stage fronting his band Young Love, or solo behind an acoustic guitar performing songs from their album, Too Young To Fight It, and he’s fine. Try talking to Keyes without those defenses and you might get ...
- Incredible Bongo Band June 2007
Spending inordinate amounts of time in record stores, searching through bins in a quest for that one special piece of vinyl that will contain the sample your heart has been aching for — also known as “crate-digging”— has been a primary ...
- Zero 7 June 2007
Henry Binns, one half of Zero 7, packed up and moved his family to the hippie capital of Glastonbury in the Somerset countryside of England because, “London was doing my nut in.” But when it came time for Binns and his musical partner, ...
- Fort Knox Five June 2007
The word “family” is thrown about a lot when talking to any of the members of Fort Knox Five. Drawing members from Thievery Corporation and their Eighteenth Street Lounge Music label (which touts other contributors Thunderball), as ...
- The FRESH Approach June 2007
DJ Fresh has production abilities that have been cemented for a long while in the global drum ‘n’ bass community, but for the last couple of years, he has been forging a solo path— resulting in the recent release Escape From Planet ...
- Charlatans June 2007
Until recently, the UK’s own Charlatans had worked separately, employing a bi-continental recording strategy. But with Simpatico, their ninth album proper, the group decided to merge at Big Mushroom, their Cheshire, England-based ...