In my Jason McEntire/Sawhorse Studios profile, the studio engineer mentioned he was in an high school incarnation of the St. Louis band Colony, which recorded for a major label in the '90s. McEntire has kept in touch with the band in the ensuing years -- and in fact recently collaborated with Colony's Ted Bruner via video for the Building Rome album.
Bruner, however, has found life after the music-industry wringer, though: He's now a well-respected pop songwriter in Los Angeles who's collabora
In my Jason McEntire/Sawhorse Studios profile, the studio engineer mentioned he was in an high school incarnation of the St. Louis band Colony, which recorded for a major label in the '90s. McEntire has kept in touch with the band in the ensuing years -- and in fact recently collaborated with Colony's Ted Bruner via video for the Building Rome album.
Bruner, however, has found life after the music-industry wringer, though: He's now a well-respected pop songwriter in Los Angeles who's collabor
In the RFT that's coming out later this week, our music writers will weigh in on what they liked -- and didn't like -- about music in the year 2008. Various writers from around the Village Voice Media chain also weighed in on their jams, lists we'll be rolling out over the next week or so. Here's a sneak preview of these, my list of top ten pop songs.BY ANNIE ZALESKIPop music often gets a bad rap for being disposable or vapid, and in many cases that's true. (Katy Perry, Danity Kane and the Pussy
In my profile of Jason McEntire, I observed him and producer Steven Haigler working with Building Rome on its new album, Nightmare. The band's been around for many years, but has matured greatly beyond its early work, which was heavily indebted to Jimmy Eat World. I caught up with BR vocalist/songwriter Jon Heisserer to talk about the album, working with Haigler, what he likes about McEntire.
Deborah Best
When did you first start working with Jason McEntire -- and how did you hear about him or
Because I'm on vacation, I'm writing this FROM THE PAST (ooh, spooky), and there won't be any live-blogging about Sunday's Grammy Awards broadcast from me this year. However, consider this post an open commenting thread for the show. According to Grammy.com, the list of performers is crazytown:Current GRAMMY nominees Adele, Chris Brown, and Sugarland; a special
performance with Miley Cyrus and Taylor Swift; and a Four Tops tribute
featuring Abdul "Duke" Fakir (2009 Lifetime Achievement Award hon
Last minute show addition! And it's a good one! Toronto electro act Woodhands is playing at Pop's Blue Moon tomorrow night, May 9. I know, I know, Asobi Seksu AND Centro-matic are in town, but this is going to be a cool show too. After all, the act is keytar and drums. How can you go wrong? Check out a few covers the duo has done below.MP3: Woodhands, "I Kissed a Girl" (Katy Perry)
MP3: Woodhands, "Electric Avenue" (Eddy Grant)
As part of its fifteenth anniversary celebration, the Vans Warped Tour is holding a one-night only, simultaneous screening of a movie featuring two hours of performances culled from its September 6 anniversary show in LA. Says this website:
Featuring larger-than-life performances on the big screen by 3oh!3, The All-American Rejects, The Aggrolites, Bad Religion, Blink 182, Ice-T, Katy Perry, NoFx, Ozomatli, Pennywise, The Decaydance All Stars, Rise Against and Underoath - many of whom are teami
