Fresh off of a five-week tour of the UK and Europe, These Are Powers singer and guitarist Anna Barie relaxes with the band in their Chicago attic space by watching a dog show on TV with the sound off and the new TV on the Radio album booming.
Sounding more like an artist than a musician, Barie explains why she and her band mates initially described their band as ghost punk. “We created ‘ghost punk’ because we wanted to create something like a situationist movement, where we say what we are and then creatively dismiss it.”
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Jello Biafra, Ministry, and Nine Inch Nails are all connected. See why at MOTHER JONES.
A film about the Clash frontman includes all the little people that Strummer befriended, inspired, and pissed off along the way. My motherjones.com review of the film lives HERE.
Henry Rollins is best known as the frontman for the hardcore punk band Black Flag and later for his solo project the Rollins Band.
He performs regularly as a spoken word artist and a comedian, and has written and published books of prose and poetry. Rollins is a radio and TV personality, actor, and voice-over artist. He’s done several USO tours to Iraq since the war began.
I spoke with Henry Rollins about his USO tours, punk rock, the newest season of his television show, and the art of storytelling. My interview (and full audio of the interview) was posted on motherjones.com in July of 2007 and can be found HERE.
