Circa July 2007 – Fazer Magazine Ulrich Schnauss is not really a name that gets thrown about when radio stations are pushing about the latest top 40 pablum – most of which is bottom-dredged from reality TV shows these days. I’d challenge most of this aforementioned pablum to take the ‘Pepsi-challenge’ against the musical merits…
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Buffalo Tom Interview with Bill Janovitz & Chris Colbourn – June 2007
Circa June 2007 – Fazer Magazine Buffalo Tom hail from Boston, Massachusetts. They formed in the 1980s and have recorded numerous albums. Nothing in the past eight years though.Buffalo Tom’s principal members are guitarist Bill Janovitz, bassist Chris Colbourn, and drummer Tom Maginnis. Chris and Bill took the time to sit with me for a…
Lacuna Coil Interview with Andrea Ferro – May 2007
Circa May 2007 – Fazer Magazine Hottest Chicks In Metal tour While he’s NOT one of the hottest chicks in Metal, Andrea Ferro is 50% of the vocals in Lacuna Coil, and he took some time to chat with me a few hours before going onstage at the May 16th Opera House show. We were…
Jesse Malin Interview – June 2007
Circa June 2007 – Fazer Magazine I sat down with Jesse Malin in a reception room at the hotel he was staying at for day two of NXNE 2007. He’s a great guy, and really likes to talk. He tends to keep adding onto his sentences when he gets going. Rather than edit it all…
Say Anything – Jake Turner Interview – Feb 7th 2008
Jake Turner enters the back room of Cowboy’s Ranch in London. It’s close to 5 pm. He’s just gotten up and looks a little groggy. He’s telling me about not being able to sleep after some gigs, and how last night he stayed up with Jacob and Max listening to tunes all night. Jake (and…
Billy Talent Interview with Jon Gallant – December 2006
Circa October 2006 – Fazer Magazine Jon was Interviewed December ‘06 by phone. Thanks to Warner Music Canada for setting everything up. Mike: So your band’s name is derived from a character from Bruce Macdonald’s film ‘Hard Core Logo’, right? Jon: Yes. Mike: Now that you’ve achieved a pretty high level of success for Billy…
Ash Interview w Mark Hamilton – December 2006
Circa October 2006 – Fazer Magazine Ash is another band I owe a debt of gratitude to the Cornerstone Player for. A year before the US would see the release of Meltdown, the video for ‘Clones’ appeared on a Cornerstone Player I had nabbed off of the net. I remember sitting forward on my couch…
Strip Music Interview October 2006
Circa October 2006 – Fazer Magazine Before I get into this article, I must first admit to how much I like this band. They are pretty much unknown in North America. So how the hell did I find about them, you ask? Read on… There is a marketing vehicle in the United States called Cornerstone…
Manual Interview with Jonas Munk – July 2007
Circa July 2007 – Fazer Magazine Meet Jonas Munk – the brains behind the Denmark based band Manual. While his music may not be everyone’s cup of tea, I find his musical stylings hugely addictive, and was thrilled to get some of his rants and raves for the pages of Fazer. Jonas has just released…
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