STEVE MOLITZ (PARTICLE, PHIL LESH & FRIENDS)
What will you remember most about 2009?
Globally: Barack Obama’s entrance, and Michael Jackson’s exit
Personally: The Playing For Change Fall U.S. Tour
What albums appeared most often in your iTunes?
Paul F. Tompkins Impersonal The Raconteurs Broken Boy Soldier, Patton Oswalt, My Weakness Is Strong, Eminem Relapse, Bill Hicks Rant In E Minor,
Eric McFadden Our Revels Now Are Ended and Who’s Laughing Now Joe Rogan Shiny Happy Jihad Michael Jackson Bad
What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?
Jamie Cullum -Antibes, France, Juan Les Pins – Jazz au Juan, 7/17/09
What emerging bands should readers watch out for in 2010?
Heatbox, The Heavy Pets, Roster McCabe, The Everyone Orchestra- It’s really inspiring to see someone (Matt Butler) with such a unique musical vision taking risks instead of falling in line with the more homogenized and predictable trends of the jam scene. He truly is one of a kind, and I respect the fact that he’s essentially inventing his own genre of music.
Also, any project with Charlie Hitchcock on guitar. He’s one of the most talented guitarists I’ve ever had the opportunity to play with, and I hope to see him back on the scene in 2010.
What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?
Barack Obama. He’s probably the dopest rapper to come out of the underground D.C. hip hop scene in a long time. You can check him out on YouTube
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ED ANDERSON (BACKYARD TIRE FIRE)
What will you remember most about 2009?
We flew out to Portland and made a record produced by Steve Berlin of Los Lobos to be released 2.13.10! We also toured with folks like Gov’t Mule, Rev. Horton Heat and Cracker.
What album or albums appeared most often in your iTunes?
The records that were/are on my turntable most are Neil Young & Crazy Horse Tonight’s the Night, Stones Exile on Main St., Beatles “White Album,” Warren Zevon Stand in the Fire, Allmans Fillmore East-, etc.
What was your favorite show or tour in 2009?
Cracker. Great people and an amazing rock & roll band at the top of their game for sure.
What emerging band should readers watch out for in 2010?
Backyard Tire Fire
What artist or artists will be most synonymous with the past decade?
That’s a tough one. Honestly? It’ll probably be somebody like Fall Out Boy, Black Eyed Peas or Kenny Chesney. Right? Isn’t that what the kids love these days?
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