Word: frontman
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...real life, the key connection is Julian Cope, the rocker turned author and mythographer who makes his home near the 5,000 - year - old circle of standing stones at Avebury in Wiltshire, England. "I've been traveling for 13 years just looking at stones," says Cope, once the frontman for postpunk stars the Teardrop Explodes. "To understand them is to understand a way of thinking that goes back at least 6,000 years. They're the antidote to our neuroses...
...Madchester Rave On, but their next full-length Pills ’n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, my pick for all-time greatest drug album, blew it open as Britain seemed to slowly turn into one non-stop party. Though soon the party ended—frontman Shaun Rider’s heroin problems finally caused their 1993 breakup—the musical document they leave is a rich testament to the chemical glories and corresponding dementias of the rave scene. “God rains the Es down on me,” Ryder declares...
Fans of The Smashing Pumpkins may blink at seeing former frontman Billy Corgan’s name amidst a bizarre depiction of a bear robbing a coyote at gunpoint on the back cover of his new book, Blinking with Fists, which he will be signing at Harvard Book Store this afternoon...
...opens with a Weezer-esque upbeat chord progression beneath a few bars of catchy background vocals. Its elated chorus, “If you’re happy and you know it turn the volume up and blow it out,” makes it difficult not to smile. Frontman Matt Pelham is also not afraid to showcase his personal side. with the love song lyrics of “The Idea of Growing Old,” is a love song written about his kids. While they aren’t as bad-ass or original as Franz Ferdinand...
...Johnny Cash is the father of country-fried rock-and-roll, Jeff Tweedy is his bastard son. The music of both artists inspires a mystical allure and hardcore following that tags them as true pioneers. Emerging from his distinctly twangy Uncle Tupelo past, Wilco’s frontman still carries something distinctly country in his weathered face and immortal voice...