Susanna Hoffs
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Susanna Hoffs
Name Susanna Hoffs Best known for Being a founding member of The Bangles. Current city Los Angeles, but mostly I live in my head. Really want to be in Paris. The instant I arrive, I hit play on my beloved Paris playlist— Francoise Hardy, Jacques Dutronc, Johnny Hallyday, Serge Gainsbourg. They are my soundtrack while strolling, seeing, feeling, drinking in art and coffee. Excited about Making music and writing fiction. My current music collection has a lot of Anything from the 1600s to 60s, 70s, 80s…and all the way to the present. And a little bit of Quincy Jones film soundtracks from the ‘60s. You wouldn’t expect me to listen to Beethoven. Preferred format Streaming, because it’s anywhere, everywhere, all the time. [embedded content][emb...
30 Overlooked 1991 Albums Turning 30 This Year
1991 was a transformative year for rock music, a time when alternative rock and heavy metal entered a new era of commercial dominance. Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden ushered in the explosion of Seattle grunge alongside blockbuster albums by Metallica, R.E.M. and Red Hot Chili Peppers, to say nothing of influential indie classics by My Bloody Valentine, Primal Scream and Slint, or SPIN’s album of the year, Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque. But while 1991’s hits set the agenda for alternative rock for the rest of the decade, the year was brimming over with fascinating career footnotes and debuts from other promising new bands. In England, the music press was excitedly hyping up genres like shoegaze, baggy, and whatever “grebo” was, while American indie bands like fIREHOSE, the Meat Puppe...
The Postal Service Audition Slash, Duff McKagan, Rick Springfield and More to Join Band
The Postal Service auditioned “band member” hopefuls, including actress Anne Hathaway, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and Duff McKagan, Rick Springfield, Huey Lewis, Soundgarden’s Kim Thayil, and many more for a public service announcement for HeadCount’s “Make Your Vote Count” campaign. The Postal Service’s Benjamin Gibbard, Jimmy Tamborello, and Jenny Lewis (with assistance from a faux Sub Pop’s employee named “Dave” who was really comedian Jon Daly) hold Zoom auditions in the long-form PSA from director Tom Scharpling (who directed 2013’s The Postal Service Auditions). Check out the nearly 20-minute video below: [embedded content] The list of celebs also includes Bret McKenzie (of Flight of the Conchords), Susannah Hoffs, Japanese Breakfast, Vanessa Bayer, Tim...
