Lifestyle Jason Schwartzman’s earliest musical memories are his mom playing the tape of the musical ‘Into the Woods’ in the car, and listening to Michael Jackson’s thriller on his Boombox; the first album he bought with his own $ was Nirvana’s ‘Nevermind’. Read More » Alicia Tebar December 20, 2023
Lifestyle Alexi Lalas played hockey before soccer. His love of music came from his mom, who was in a group of madrigal singers, and sent him to piano lessons and taught him basic guitar chords. His first live music experience? Pat Benatar. Read More » Spark Editor December 7, 2023
Lifestyle Grace Potter’s first instrument was piano (her mom taught piano). Before she made money from her music she installed sheet rock and painted houses. Ace of Base are her musical guilty pleasure and Esquivel’s Mucha Muchacha is her dance jam. Read More » Spark Editor November 16, 2023
Lifestyle Johnny Marr’s first musical memory is of his mum and aunt playing and dancing to ‘Walk Right Back’ by The Everly Brothers. His first music purchase was ‘Jeepster’ by T.Rex and his first concert was Slaughter & the Dogs at the Manchester Forum in 1976 Read More » Spark Editor November 1, 2023
Lifestyle Ghanaian/Australian musician Genesis Owusu’s earliest musical memories are the Kriss Kross song ‘Jump’ & watching the Michael Jackson ‘HIStory’ DVD and trying to learn the dance moves to the ‘Thriller’ video with his cousins. His first concert? Kanye Read More » Spark Editor October 19, 2023
Lifestyle Emily Haines is the lead singer, keyboardist & songwriter of the band Metric, and a member of the musical collective Broken Social Scene. Her first concert was seeing Corey Hart & her favorite video is The Strokes’ ‘Ode To The Mets’ (Dir. Warren Fu) Read More » Spark Editor October 5, 2023
Lifestyle 14 year old Natalie Merchant spent her babysitting money on 8 track cartridges of ‘cut out’ albums by Brian Eno, Roxy Music and David Bowie from her local drugstore and her first live show was seeing the Styx Grand Illusion tour at Buffalo Auditorium Read More » Spark Editor September 14, 2023
Lifestyle Roger Bennett’s first musical purchase was Simon & Garfunkel’s ‘Sounds of Silence’, his first live show was Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark at the Liverpool Empire and his favorite video is for the Talking Heads song ‘Once in a Lifetime’. Read More » Spark Editor August 31, 2023
Lifestyle Lyle Lovett thinks The Milk Carton Kids are a modern day Smothers Brothers, his first musical memory is seeing Nat King Cole on TV, his first album was ‘The Monkees’ and he found his first backing band in Luxembourg! Read More » Spark Editor July 21, 2023
Lifestyle Noel Gallagher’s first musical memory is Elvis’ death. His first show? the Damned at Manchester Apollo in 1980; 88-90 Acid House is his dance jam, he digs U2’s ‘Joshua Tree’ videos and he likes routine! Read More » Spark Editor July 10, 2023
