NPR / GPB “MORNING EDITION”: Keane’s Tom Chaplin on success, ‘Somewhere Only We Know’ and the band’s return to Atlanta
SOURCE September 6, 2024 7:00 AM By: Kristi York Wooten The British rock band Keane is famous for its 2004 worldwide hit “Somewhere Only We Know,” which recently achieved more than 1.5 billion streams in addition to countless YouTube covers and a viral Northern Ireland children’s choir’s 2017 performance still making the rounds on TikTok and Instagram. Keane got […]
GUITAR WORLD: “We didn’t expect to be playing gay pride festivals, but drag queens and DJs took to us… a great song is great, no matter who plays it”: How GayC/DC took AC/DC classics and “turned up the volume on the sex and aggression”
SOURCE By Andrew Daly Save for a massive appearance at Power Trip Festival in October 2023, Aussie legends AC/DC have been mostly dormant since they came off the road in 2016. But one of the world’s leading tribute bands, GayC/DC, are picking up the slack. Of course, the cover group’s motivation is different from the original, […]
Nathan Gray and the Iron Roses
“It is wildly more vulnerable and nerve-wracking to sing these lyrics as opposed to screaming them – there’s no place to hide the words,” explains songwriter Nathan Gray about his noticeable shift from his past hardcore roots with its breakneck rhythms and vocal delivery toward a more melodic alt-rock approach to his message-driven music. While […]