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Crowe's life is now significantly calmer. In the study of his vast apartment, where we lunch on calamari and ginger beer, there is a picture of Danielle Spencer, the Australian singer and actress he married this past April. Spencer is pregnant with Crowe's first child, a son, due in January. I ask if domesticity has calmed him, and he raises a hand: Eat, then interview. When lunch is over, he says, "I'm sure regardless of my marriage and impending fatherhood, certain things shift just because of age." One of those things is that he no longer goes...
...working on his 800-acre farm near Coffs Harbor, six hours north of Sydney. He also loves playing with his band, 30 Odd Foot of Grunts. The actor-band is an unfortunate cliche of celebrity culture, but TOFOG, as Crowe's group is known, existed well before its lead singer became a household name. (Crowe and guitarist Dean Cochran have been playing together since their teens.) Nevertheless, the six-man group, essentially a very good bar band, has become an easy target and now exists almost in spite of Crowe's fame. "The vast majority of people who talk about...
...Crowe. He's a good singer, and he savors the every-dude camaraderie shown on the band's DVD, Texas, in which the members of TOFOG drink, fart and strum their way through the Lone Star State. But TOFOG is not Crowe's reality so much as his escape from reality. "The subject of his celebrity never really comes up," says Kelly. "Like that kidnapping thing: I don't think we found out about it until we heard about it on the news. He tends to keep those kinds of troubles to himself...
Luckily, The Distillers are sufficiently supple and catchy enough to make it work. Lead singer Brody Dalle’s voice is a wonder, flitting from brooding gravelly tones to chainsaw howls in the blinking of an eye, as on the semi-acoustic “The Hunger?...
...songs themselves are unremittingly grim in subject matter. Dalle just separated from her husband Tim Armstrong, lead singer of Rancid, and the lyrics (and blood-and-razor soaked album art) are full of pain...