interviews
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...
The New Arab
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...
The New Arab
Slash is all good with technology. But he’s seen the negative side of it creeping into how albums are made these days. “You’ve got a lot of bands that don’t even actually go to the studio to record a record,” he tells UCR. “I can name a dozen of them.” But he’s not naming names today. Instead, he’s celebrating the fact that Orgy of the Damned, his first blues album, recently made its debut at No. 1 on the blues album charts in both the U.S. and the U.K. It landed in the Top 10 in five other countries around the world. Even after all of his successes, this latest milestone caught him off guard....
Ultimate Classic Rock
On Oct. 11, the Offspring will celebrate the release of their latest studio album, Supercharged. Ahead of that day, longtime guitarist Noodles joined Loudwire Nights to discuss the record and reflect on the band’s last 40 years. “I wonder where all the time went,” Noodles admitted to Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong. “I don’t feel 40 years older than I did back then, you know? I haven’t matured much, I’ll tell you that.” As far as Supercharged goes, Noodles is ready for fans to hear it. “I want to get the rest of it out. This is always a really nervous time, a frustrating time in a lot of ...
Loudwire
Back in the 70s part of takin’ care of business for Bachman-Turner Overdrive meant performing underneath a large steel replica of the band’s gear-shaped logo, with flashing lights — a visual gimmick as heavy as the opening chords of “Not Fragile” or “Four Wheel Drive.” The quartet used the prop throughout its arena-filling heyday, when it had three albums in the Top 50 of the Billboard 200 chart (BTO II, Not Fragile, Four Wheel Drive) and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” lodged at No. 1. “that thing weighed tons,” Randy Bachman tells UCR. It was tonnage. It was built on one-inch plywood all bolted...
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What are your earliest memories of food? For chef Ayesha Kalaji, she recalls sitting at her grandmother’s kitchen table eating shish barak surrounded by jars of bright pink pickles. “I’ve always adored food – there are pictures of me when I was younger with my head in a mixing bowl,” she remembers. These days, you’ll find Ayesha serving grilled Nabulsi cheese with Persian black lime honey at Queen of Cups, her Glastonbury restaurant that serves unique and delicious dishes taking influence from her Jordanian roots. From Iraqi pitas to black tahini and black cardamom ice cream, Queen of Cup’s go...
The New Arab
“It was like a completely new thing,” Melvins singer Buzz Osborne tells Full Metal Jackie on her weekly radio show about the band’s Tarantula Heart album, adding “It’s very odd.” Indeed, Osborne did come up with a very unique approach to recording the band’s latest record. revealing that two of the band’s members for this album were surprised when they heard the final album. He details how it all went down in the chat below. Osborne also delves into what passes the muster for him when it comes to creating their new music, details what’s on the horizon for both himself and Melvins and he also t...
Loudwire
Country music is in the DNA of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ catalog. Decades ago, before the Heartbreakers even existed in their full form, Petty was playing country songs in what he would later describe as “real redneck country” Floridian bars, trying to earn a living as a burgeoning performer. “[The crowd was] always kind of weirded out by us because we had long hair, playing country music,” Petty said in 2005’s *[Conversations With Tom Petty](https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-Tom-Petty-Paul-Zollo/dp/1787601625). “And that was completely unheard of in those days.”* Petty’s country inf...
Ultimate Classic Rock
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