Posts tagged with "Fleetwood Mac"
GRACE PETTIS “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW” Video & Web-Exclusive Interview
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: GRACE PETTIS
Video Premiere: “I TAKE CARE OF ME NOW”
DOWN TO THE LETTER
WITH AMERICANA’S WORKING WOMAN GRACE PETTIS
by Rodeo Marie Hanson
An American juvenile cinéma vérité, reminiscent of 1985’s The Breakfast Club, unfolds within every school’s granite and brick corridors, monochromatic carpeted classrooms and institutionalized cafeterias. In this microcosm,...
Video & Interview Willa Amai
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: WILLA AMAI
Video: “Unorganized Crime”
ICONIC PRODUCER LINDA PERRY PRESENTS YOUNG SINGER-SONGWRITER WILLA AMAI
At 12-1/2 years old, Willa Amai won Linda Perry over with a voice that sounded emotionally beyond her years and songs that carried both depth and heart. After years of development, the 16-year-old is ready to share her music with the world. She has already garnered the attention...
GUY FORSYTH & JESKA BAILEY
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: GUY FORSYTH & JESKA BAILEY
Video: “The Things That Matter”
GUY FORSYTH & JESKA BAILEY FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! COOL NIGHTS 2020 VIRTUAL CONCERT SERIES
Guy Forsyth & Jeska Bailey will be featured at the Blue Rock aLive! Cool Nights 2020 virtual concert series this Thursday, November 5. The series features iconic Austin-based artists—“for the songs, for the artists,...
Video Feature & Exclusive Interview KATIE BOECK
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: KATIE BOECK
Video: “Making Some Room”
KATIE BOECK RELEASES EMOTIONALLY INTUITIVE “MAKING SOME ROOM”
Katie Boeck has careened through several musical careers in the past decade. Shortly after graduating from UCLA with a degree in Musical Theater, Boeck formed a band and began playing open mic nights on Sunset Boulevard and LA’s West Side. This led to a surreal gig as the lead...
Video Feature & Interview TERRI HENDRIX
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Artist: TERRI HENDRIX (with LLOYD MAINES)
Video: “Talk to a Human”
TERRI HENDRIX WITH LLOYD MAINES FEATURED AT BLUE ROCK ALIVE! IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL CONCERT
Terri Hendrix and legendary steel guitar player Lloyd Maines will be the featured artists this Thursday (August 27) at Blue Rock aLIVE!—a unique virtual summer concert series—featuring iconic Austin-based artists every Thursday this summer....
Video + Web Exclusive Interview INDIA RAMEY
Video Feature & Web-Exclusive Interview
Musician: INDIA RAMEY
Video: “Snake Handler”
Blasting twin barrels of Americana noire and southern-gothic songwriting, India Ramey fires on all cylinders with her national debut, Snake Handler. Pentecostal churches, broken households, crooked family trees, forgotten pockets of the Deep South and domestic violence—all fill the album’s 10 songs, whose autobiographical lyrics pull from Ramey’s...
VIDEO PREMIERE & INTERVIEW DOM KELLY
VIDEO PREMIERE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: DOM KELLY
Music Video: “12” (featuring Emily Saliers)
Dancer: Erika Leeds
Directed by: Zak Washburn
DOM KELLY’S MOODY, ELEGANT VIDEO “12” EXPLORES THE UNSPOKEN JOURNEY OF STRUGGLE, HEARTACHE AND ULTIMATELY—FINDING HOME WITHIN THE FIRE
As the drummer, vocalist and co-founding member of the power-pop band A Fragile Tomorrow, Dom Kelly has released 5 critically-acclaimed studio albums...
SAVANNAH LYNNE
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: SAVANNAH LYNNE
Music Video: “Melted Candle”
Songwriters: Savannah Lynne (SESAC) and Jackson Nance (BMI)
Video Producer: Ryan Clo and Tennille Melcher
Savannah Lynne is a bright new 17 year old singer-songwriter from Nashville who has been Indie Music Channel’s “Female Country Teen Artist of the Year” for three consecutive years (2012-2015). Her new video, “Melted Candle,” was released...
Video Feature & Interview: JANET ROBIN
VIDEO FEATURE & WEB-EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Musician: JANET ROBIN
Music Video: “View From Above”
JANET ROBIN Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
How did the idea of “View from Above” come to you?
I was feeling a little depressed at the time I wrote it, and instead of doing something negative—I put it into a song, trying to lift myself up and look at things from a positive...
Video Feature & Interview: MONICA LIONHEART
VIDEO FEATURE & INTERVIEW
Artist: MONICA LIONHEART
Song: “Sure Fire”
MONICA LIONHEART Web-Exclusive Interview
with M Music & Musicians magazine publisher, Merlin David
How did the idea of “Sure Fire” come to you?
“Sure Fire” is a story about hindsight. In this case, it’s highlighted regrets inside the mind of a person arguing with him/herself. When writing it, a particularly close friend of mine was...
FLEETWOOD MAC
FLEETWOOD MAC
These days the road has never been smoother for the Hall of Fame rockers
Fleetwood Mac has been virtually synonymous with two things—classic songs and internal drama. Both aspects were epitomized on the group’s 1977 multiplatinum album Rumours, but only recently has their legendary volatility been stripped away.
“If you go back to 2003, when we were coming off the making of Say You Will, there was still a bit of tension between...
GOO GOO DOLLS
GOO GOO DOLLS
The moody alternative rockers look at the brighter side on their new set
“I’m an artist as much as anybody’s an artist,” says Goo Goo Dolls frontman John Rzeznik, placing air quotes around the word artist. “Sometimes I can be a bit of a precious little bitch about my work. But not being precious about it, digging in and putting the sweat into it, is where the really good stuff comes from. And being determined to not...
STEPH MACPHERSON
STEPH MACPHERSON
HOMETOWN: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
INFLUENCES: Bob Dylan, Fleetwood Mac, Joni Mitchell ALBUM: Bells & Whistles, out now
WEBSITE: stephmacpherson.com
As a child in British Columbia, Steph Macpherson entertained family and friends by singing along with pop divas Madonna and Tiffany and Disney movies like The Little Mermaid. Soon she began taking piano...
MICHELLE RENE
MICHELLE RENE
HOMETOWN: Phoenix, Ariz.
INFLUENCES: Fleetwood Mac, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline
ALBUM: As yet untitled EP, out 2013
WEBSITE: michellerene.com
As a teen, Michelle Rene performed at county fairs, music festivals and sports arenas in her hometown of Phoenix. She even hosted her own weekly live concert event, but a crowning moment came when she was named the best new act in country music’s largest talent competition, Country Showdown,...
Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
Photographer norman seeff rented a beautiful Malibu home overlooking the Pacific to shoot Fleetwood Mac for their 1979 album, Tusk. “They were like kids in a sandbox, having fun,” Seeff recalls. “But they also knew exactly what they were doing. They understood that by being spontaneous they would capture something they wouldn’t get if they were more controlled.” As the wine began to flow, the band became more rambunctious....