Results for The Fall-Outs

  • Rick Danko: Infectious Joy and Non-Showbiz Charisma

    by Jeff WilsonApril 30, 2008Comments (17)

    Smiling so hard his face must have hurt, Danko had a boyish, wide-eyed, let’s-get-this-party-started look in his eyes as he approached the mic. And he was dressed to impress, wearing black dress slacks, shiny hard-soled shoes, and a bright red button-down shirt (read more)

  • Barack Obama and the Indie Rock Constituency

    by Jocelyn HoppaFebruary 6, 2008Comments (16)

    Yesterday was Super Tuesday. In a year that’s probably seen more musicians come out to raise their voice on behalf of a presidential candidate, the question we want to explore here is: do musicians backing a political candidate have an impact on a voter’s choice? (read more)

  • Eric Clapton: The Word of God

    by Braden TowneDecember 19, 2007Comments (1)

    Among the most recent additions to this latter cadre is Eric Clapton, an artist whose accessible music and wise countenance belie the utter chaos that defined his personal life for much of the ‘70s and ‘80s. Suffering at different points, though often concurrently, from unrequited love, drug and alcohol (read more)

  • The Wit & Wisdom of Ozzy Osbourne

    by Harold BronsonNovember 28, 2007Comments (5)

    "For the best coke, just ring three-eight-nine-oh-nine-eight, only one hundred dollars!" exclaimed a very stoned Ozzy Osbourne as he grinned stupidly from behind a microphone in studio "B" at Hollywood's Record Plant, where Black Sabbath were finishing up their fourth LP. "I'm so stoned," Ozzy moaned while gesturing like Frank Sinatra. (read more)

  • The Fall: 15 Years Of Fame

    by Carol ClerkOctober 3, 2007Comments (1)

    There’s something tremendously reassuring about the fact that the Fall, and Mark E Smith, exist. The days go by, and while, all around us, television personalities and wobble board-wielding painters are making records, computer engineers are producing albums, rich young men in pony tails are running record labels (read more)