At a walled villa in Jeddah, young men were tuning guitars and tapping drums. Ahmad, who is half-Lebanese and half-Saudi, is the lead singer of a band known as Grieving Age. He introduced me around. A few of the musicians, including Ahmad, had long hair and beards, but most did not...
Akron/Family are four guys from non-Brooklyn who have been in Brooklyn long enough to grow Rip Van Winkle beards, record three LP’s worth of banjo-‘n-incense fax-n-friction electro-acoustic folk-wave campfire songs and capture the attention of ex-Swan Michael Gira. Initially the self-...
The guys in Mott the Hoople were absorbing every fine detail. “We’d always got a murky, dirty sound without much clarity,” Hunter told theLowell Sunin 1974. “We didn’t know how to do it properly. We had wanted to be a classy band. When David took over, the sound got clear. ...
I was really obsessed with that… […] I had a goal, I wanted to be big. And I became big! […] The ideal (body) was… yes, the goal was to attain a body like that of those guys we see around the place, in those magazines, I don’t know, all well-built… […] Like ...