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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Tim McIlrath of Rise Against
Name Tim McIlrath Best known for Rise Against Current city Chicago Really want to be in Chicago Excited about Our new album Nowhere Generation and the Nowhere Generation tour rolling on for an upcoming spring tour with Pennywise and a Canadian tour with Billy Talent. My current music collection has a lot of I’m listening to a lot of female fronted bands like Wolf Alice, War on Women, Sincere Engineer and Dead Sara. And a little bit of Shoegaze like Jesus & Mary Chain or newer stuff like Teenage Wrist. You wouldn’t expect me to listen to Growing up in Chicago, I was in close proximity to the ‘90s industrial scene, so I have a love for things like Ministry, Pailhead, or KMFDM. Preferred format I usually put a record on every morning when I walk i...
Watch Ted Leo with Members of Rise Against and Converge Cover the Replacements
If there’s anyone who knows how to get a group of musicians (in different places) to play an elaborately crafted cover, it’s Jordan Olds. And in his latest edition of Two Minutes to Late Night, he recruited Ted Leo to lead a cover of the Replacements’ “Kids Don’t Follow,” off their 1982 EP Stink. Dressed as a priest, Leo is joined by a powerhouse set of other musicians, including guitarist Zach Blair of Rise Against and former member of Hagfish and Gwar, bassist Nate Newton (Converge and Cave In and Doomriders and Old Man Gloom), drummer Thomas Cantwell (Gouge Away and Hesitation Wounds). Backup vocals include Long Neck’s Lily Mastrodimos along with Answering Machine’s J.D. Fetcho and Samantha Campanile. Olds also joins (as per usual) in his Gwarsenio Ha...
