Old 97’s singer Rhett Miller has been making the interview rounds of late, promoting his new solo album and getting a lot of questions about his fellow alt-country front men. Miller mentioned recently that he didn’t like being labeled a “pretty boy teen folkie” in the early days, adding that Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy is more … Read more
Old 97’s frontman Rhett Miller spoke to PopMatters’ Drew Fortune recently about his fourth solo album and his struggle over the years to shake the Dallas Observer’s “pretty boy teen folkie” label. Miller, 38, insists that he demanded his face be blurred on the first Old 97’s album Hitchhike to Rome and he “wore huge … Read more
Even if you’ve never heard her name—yet you still pick up a glossy rock mag every so often—you’ve seen her work. Christian Joy, designer for Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O (and recently of the Klaxons), is now the subject of an upcoming documentary all about the spandex-loving Queen of Rock Sewing Machine. Well, she’s … Read more