interviews
Amid her European comedy tour, The Diversity Fire Tour, I caught up with Iraqi-American sensation Reem Edan at a coffee shop in Portobello, London, on a rainy day. Contrasting this with her sunny Italian holiday the previous week, Reem remarked, “Is it freaking cold? Yes… But I love London; it reminds me a lot of New York, which is my favourite city on earth. The comedy here is great, the people are awesome.” A viral clip from her debut comedy set, titled I’m Muslim Unless Trump Gets Elected, led to Reem being invited to host a London comedy show in 2017. Seven years later, she has become the ...
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It's midday on a Sunday, and I'm seated, ready to meet rapper and producer Oddisee. Just as I settle in, an email arrives from his agent, suggesting he might be a few minutes late because he has just completed a half-marathon. Intrigued by this unexpected turn of events, I frantically searched for 'London half marathon June' in various ways, but found no relevant results. Oddisee arrives only a few minutes later than our scheduled meeting time and shows no sign of having broken even the slightest sweat. He explains that after his morning run, he still felt good after several miles and decided ...
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The night before the Exies released their new EP, Closure, frontman Scott Stevens walked the Loudwire Nights audience through it, track-by-track. “These are six songs that all have meaning to them,” Stevens told host Chuck Armstrong on Thursday night (June 27). “It’s just crazy. I mean, I’m talking to the guys [in the band] and everybody’s just kind of scratching their head a little bit. How did we get here?” The Exies haven’t released a collection of new songs since 2007’s full-length, A Modern Way of Living With the Truth, their fourth album. Since then, Stevens has remained busy as a songwr...
Loudwire
When Aerosmith released “Head First” as a free digital download on June 27, 1994, the fledgling technology team at the band’s label, Geffen, just wanted to prove that it could be done. But it was an important moment in the developing landscape of the World Wide Web which ultimately helped carve a solid path for a new distribution method in the music industry. “It was proof of life for digital music,” Jim Griffin tells UCR now. Growing up as a hard rock fan outside of Chicago in Park Forest, Illinois, he was thrilled to join the label in 1992 as their first Chief Technology Officer, because the...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Former Motley Crue vocalist John Corabi could easily coast on his past glories. Instead, he’s been very intentional in recent years about the things that he does career-wise. “I’m trying to be my own person, not the guy that sang with Motley 30 years ago,” he tells UCR. The same philosophy carries over to the Dead Daisies, the all-star collective that Corabi been part of off and on for close to a decade. As he details in the below conversation, while they could easily lean on music from the work they’ve all done collectively with bands and artists like Whitesnake, Ozzy Osbourne, Ratt, Dio and ...
Ultimate Classic Rock
“It really was like my first solo record — I just kind of did it to see if I could do it.” Lamb of God founding member and guitarist Mark Morton recently hung out with Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (June 25) and dove deep into his new book, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir. “I didn’t know if I could do it or not, but I was willing to see if I could do it.” Morton admitted that writing Desolation was a lot harder than putting together an album — something System of a Down’s Serj Tankian also recently revealed. “It’s just very, very time-consuming,” Morton said. “It’s more difficult than ma...
Loudwire
It has been a jam-packed few months for 23-year-old British Palestinian human rights activist, Leanne Mohamad. In addition to tirelessly speaking up about Israel’s indiscriminate attacks on Gaza at protests, universities, conferences and local and international events, Mohamad has been leading her election campaign. On July 4 2024, she will run as Ilford North’s independent parliamentary candidate. "Our current government and MP's refusal to call for a ceasefire in Gaza amid Israel's actions demonstrates a disconnect between political leaders and the people's views" Mohamad was selected as the...
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Tom Petty’s songwriting output could make any artist or band quite jealous. But for all of the things that did make it to the radio, many compositions just sat on the shelf. Then there were the tracks Petty and his band, the Heartbreakers, recorded numerous times, searching to capture the right feel. “Lazarus songs,” was the term that guitarist Mike Campbell applied to that segment of the results of their working relationship — the ones which always seemed to resurface. But Petty, who died in 2017, also had an unfailing creative vision, as producer George Drakoulias explained to UCR during a r...
Ultimate Classic Rock
Dennis DeYoung has been out of Styx for 25 years. The band chose to replace him as they prepared to tour in support of 1999’s Brave New World. The singer, as he shares, found himself unexpectedly ill and unable to go on the road immediately, felt helpless. “I was begging for my life and for my job when this happened,” he tells UCR now. “As sick as I was, I didn’t really feel I could fight back.” Both sides eventually carried on with their separate careers. But when Styx began performing “The Best of Times” earlier this year for the first time since 2007, DeYoung felt a fresh twinge of pain and...
Ultimate Classic Rock
For some, being a comedian is a lifelong ambition, with dreams of headline performances, sold-out shows, and standing ovations. But for Esther Manito, comedy was just a way to get out of the house. Taking up a six-week writing course while on maternity leave, Esther thought it would be fun to do something creative. “I never intended to do stand-up, but I got bitten by the bug,” she remembers, leaving her teaching career to pursue comedy full-time during the pandemic. "People can see the impact that being a woman of a certain ethnicity – who’s also a mother – has and how you have to navigate yo...
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