but you shouldn’t overlook the film’s soundtrack. It features a killer cover of Fleetwood Mac’s “Gold Dust Woman” by Hole, and standout songs from Korn, Deftones, Filter, White Zombie, Bush and Toadies among others.
When we think of the quintessential rock 'n' roll drummer, we usually think of John Bonham, Keith Moon or Neil Peart. But Viola Smith did it first. One of the very first women drummers, Smith was dubbed the "fastest girl drummer in the world" due to her ferocious ability on a 12-p...
In 2005, we had on a 14-year-old Taylor Swift. She had moved to Nashville to make it, and we had profiled her as a small part of a “somebody to watch” package. She came into my conference room and said, “Maybe one day you’ll book me,” and played her guitar f...
It’s impossible to untangle Fleetwood Mac’s dense web of drama, but let’s just say you probably can’t pin everything on one person. The band’s undisputed classic quintet lineup — Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie, Mick Fleetwood — has reformed multiple t...
I’m always caught out by a couple of songs I don’t expect to pull at my heart-strings so much, and that was the first tonight. Sublime. Speaking of which, we then got the whole of the Teenage Kicks EP, the iconic title track followed by ‘True Confessions’, ‘Smarter Than You...
Fleetwood Mac Striking a blow for the bass player and the drummer, workhorses who always get short shrift in a rock band, Fleetwood Mac were named for Mick Fleetwood and John McVie – basically as a ploy on guitar player Peter Green’s part to keep them in the band. It apparently worke...