Wednesday, February 8, 2012

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Double Barrel Rock and Roll

SALUTE

Nicholas Pell discusses crossover, thrash and d-beat and the boundaries of how heavy rock can get and still swing.

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21 Questions with Nick 13

A&C INTERVIEWS

Please explain what just happened.

I awoke to the feeling that the dream I’d just been having was still going, and then I ate breakfast.

What is your earliest memory?

Lying in my crib, staring at a complex pattern on brightly colored wallpaper. I remember feeling irritated – whether it was the wallpaper or because I wanted to get up and move around, I don’t know.

If you weren’t a musician, what other profession would you choose?

It would have to be writing in some capacity, it’s the only thing outside of music that I could picture myself doing.

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Excerpt from I’m in the Band

MEMOIR

How many people can credit their nickname to Beavis and Butthead? Sean Yseult, “The Chick in White Zombie,” can.

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Little Bit Country, Little Bit Rock ‘n Roll: An Interview with the Avett Brothers

SALUTE

Jeffrey Pillow talks with the Avett Brothers about their new album, tour, and whether or not there was beard envy with Rick Rubin.

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First Look: Subversia, by D.R. Haney

THE FEED

   Behold SUBVERSIA, the new nonfiction collection by D.R. Haney. This is the first official look at the first official copy of the first official book ever published on the new TNB Books imprint. SUBVERSIA will be available for purchase very soon. We’ll keep you posted here on The Feed, as well as on our [...]

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The Better You Do, The More They Expect: An Excerpt from From the Graveyard of the Arousal Industry

MEMOIR

Punk rocker Justin Pearson will rip you apart in a spitting contest.

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Anatomy of a Supergroup

NOTES

Joe Daly looks back on some of rock and roll’s greatest all-star groups and wonders why two great tastes don’t always taste great together.

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The Worst Crime

ESSAY

On the shotgun blast heard around the world, and the difficult subject it raises.

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The Virgin Interview: D.R. Haney on Banned for Life

INTERVIEW

“It all began with a fuck,” goes the brash opening line of D.R. Haney’s first novel Banned for Life, and the strange seduction begins. For those who haven’t read Haney’s sprawling debut, it follows Jason Maddox’s serio-comic adventures in the underground punk scene, stretching beyond mosh pit mayhem and barroom brawls to explore death and [...]

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