by Downtown Magazine | Sep 16, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
There is no band like Motörhead. No one sounds like them. No one commands universal respect from rock, punk and metal listeners like them. And I can’t think of a band that has toured and recorded as regularly as them over the past 40 years. Led by frontman Ian “Lemmy”...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 15, 2015 | Music
When Downtown Magazine publisher and owner Grace A. Capobianco found herself with some backstage passes to Chicago’s recent Atlantic City performance, she also landed the opportunity to ask some questions to Lee Loughnane, founding trumpeter. A member of Chicago for...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 14, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
I first learned about Bob Forrest when I received a press kit for The Bicycle Thief’s You Come And Go Like A Pop Song in 1999. The bio largely talked about how Bicycle Thief leader Bob Forrest was an influential musician and integral to the Red Hot Chili Peppers in...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 11, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
There are a few things that you probably know Austin Scaggs from. First, he’s an important journalist who’s been with Rolling Stone for over 15 years, much of which as a Contributing Editor. Second, he’s an accomplished bassist and producer, and has been putting...
by Jackie Hart | Sep 10, 2015 | Culture, Events, Music
French producer Tchami will be kicking off his North American After Life tour, starting in New York tomorrow, Sept. 11, at the the Brooklyn Mirage at 10 p.m., and at Irving Plaza on Sept. 12. The tour is in support of his upcoming EP release, After Life. Tchami has...
by Downtown Magazine | Sep 9, 2015 | Culture, Music
I first met Steve Schiltz in the early 2000s when I was selling t-shirts for Nada Surf at The Middle East in Cambridge. I pestered him with questions about his band, Longwave, having recently signed to RCA Records alongside their friends, The Strokes. Some years later...
