Earlier this month, The Bad Penny caught up with Toadies bassist Doni Blair (who is a very cool dude, wouldn’t ya know) while the band was on tour with fellow ’90s-era alternative rock bands Local H and Sparta. The consummately down-to-earth bassist regaled us with a story about Steve Albini, who engineered the most recent Toadies record (The Charmer) – and that was just one of many jaw-dropping war stories he told in our freewheeling conversation.
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Steve Albini Didn’t Give a Shit About Tambourines, Toadies Bassist Doni Blair Attests
Posted in Interviews, Videos with tags Doni Blair, Local H, Scott Lucas, Sparta, Steve Albini, Toadies on 06/26/2026 by Kurt OrzeckSpencer Moody On Murder City Devils’ Breakup: ‘Everyone Was Ready For A Change’
Posted in Interviews with tags Big Business, Dead Low Tide, Enemymine, godheadSilo, Melvins, Murder City Devils, Rabbit Ears, Smoke and Smoke, Sparta, Spencer Moody, the Jesus Lizard, the John & Spencer Booze Explosion, Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death on 02/03/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
After unearthing an ultra-hard-to-find interview with Dead Meadow yesterday, today it seemed fitting to trudge up an even rarer one with Dead Low Tide. This piece is so obscure, in fact, that only two eyeballs have seen it thus far: Shortly before it was due to run, Dead Low Tide bit the dust, and the article was scrapped. Continue reading
Best Albums Of 2002
Posted in Lists with tags Bill Hicks, David Cross, Fugazi, Interpol, Isis, Liars, Melvins, Pentagram, Queens of the Stone Age, Sparta, System of a Down, the Flaming Lips, the Icarus Line, the Reigning Sound on 02/03/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
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1. Queens of the Stone Age – Songs for the Deaf (Interscope)
2. Bill Hicks – Flying Saucer Tour Vol. 1 – Pittsburgh ’91 and Love, Laughter & Truth reissues (Rykodisc) Continue reading
Cave In: ‘The Longer We’re Around, The More People Don’t Like Us’
Posted in Interviews with tags Apples in Stereo, Cave In, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Giant's Chair, Piebald, Sparta, Stephen Brodsky, the Icarus Line, the Ramones, the Vines on 01/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
With Cave In’s new EP, Planets of Old, seeing a proper release – with a bonus DVD – on January 26, here’s a vintage interview with the guys when they had Antenna on the brain. Continue reading
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