While doing research for Kaki King‘s Rehearsal Space interview last year, we came across many references to her inclusion on a list of “Guitar Gods” compiled by Rolling Stone Magazine. We decided to ask her what that accolade felt like from her perspective.
Most musicians, when asked a question like this with a big camera pointed at them, tend to respond with something polite or insist that they never read their own press. Fortunately, Kaki is not the type of interviewee to hold back.
In this week’s Deeper Dive, Kaki shares her reaction to the Rolling Stone piece – a reaction that many musicians have experienced after reading a journalist’s critique of their work.
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When we interviewed Andrew W.K. back in 2008 for the original video series Rehearsal Space, he detailed a number of ideas about life and music that we really liked, but ultimately couldn’t fit into the final episode. That footage remained offline and unseen. Until now.
Every Friday We All Make Music will publish a new episode of Deeper Dives featuring our favorite “lost” Rehearsal Space moments. The clips all relate to musicianship in some way, be it finding inspiration in unexpected places, overcoming professional setbacks, amusing stories from the road, technical shortcuts, and much, much more.
In our first installment, the always upbeat Andrew W.K. explains how imagination can play a key role in your success. [click to continue…]
Photo by Alice Wagstaffe
Two nights ago, the reunited Libertines held a press conference at North London pub The Boogaloo to two upcoming reunion shows at this summer’s Reading and Leeds festivals. and took questions from the press. The result was very different from what anyone expected.
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Band reunions are notoriously difficult to pull off well. The reunited musicians look and act older, and often have a good deal of baggage with each other; their original fans are older too, many years removed from their rose-tinted memories of the band, their music, and their own youth. The safest audience for a reunion show is probably younger fans who never got see them the first time around.
But above all these hurdles is the biggest one of all: Everybody (and I mean everybody) assumes that the band is getting back together for the money. Of course, this is usually an important part of their decision. So what’s a band in this situation to do?
Recently, two singers of beloved alternative rock bands did the unthinkable: They told the truth.
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