Word: smashly
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...This all-female band continues to redefine its sound, which ranges from hip-hop rap to melancholy grunge ballads, in a changing music world. These rocking New Yorkers, on tour since the release of Electric Honey, are in Boston for the Yahoo! Out Loud Tour, a nationwide tour with Smash Mouth coupled with local bands, like Captain Audio, at the Orpheum on Feb 19. Kate Schellenbach, one of the major female drummers of the decade (and former Beastie Boy drummer), took the time to answer a few questions about the band, touring, aging and the gentrification of New York City...
...Harvard Crimson: So you are here for the Out Loud Tour. How does touring with Smash Mouth compare to touring with the band during Lilith Fair...
...Kate Schellenbach: It's really a lot of fun to play with Smash Mouth. They have a lot of energy and the tour is a good production in general. Touring is becoming more and more expensive, and Yahoo! paid for the production, sound and lights, which means it's going to be really good quality. But touring has just gotten so expensive lately. It's harder to make it now because the band has to pay for everything. There's so much competition from video games to music. It used to be easier to book at clubs...
What a difference a few years make. In the mid-1980s, a group of five "performers" attempted to do their best rendition of the Jackson Five's smash hit "Whatever you got, I want." But while the Jackson Five made a cameo on SNL during the seventies, this group, known as the "Keating Five" made a cameo in S&L--the savings and loan scandal. Yes, only about 10 years ago John McCain was brought before the Senate Disciplinary Committee for his role in the "Keating Five" scandal. McCain accepted about $112,000 from convicted white-collar felon Charles Keating...
Cornelia Parker is already a smash hit in her native Britain. Her current show at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston is the first real survey of her work in America, our first chance to take a good look...