by Downtown Magazine | Jun 20, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Music
Seven years after forming in Glasgow in 1990, the quartet known as Travis got a lot of attention with 1997’s Good Feeling. However, the group’s second major label release, 1999’s The Man Who, was the rare critical and commercial success that most...
by Downtown Magazine | Jun 16, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Music
When Ben Watt first hit it big in the States as one-half of Everything But The Girl — whose hit “Missing” was inescapable in 1995 — the majority of music listeners thought of Ben as being new on the scene. Quite the opposite was truth as...
by Downtown Magazine | Jun 16, 2016 | Culture, Featured, Music
There are many notable guitar heroes in the world, but absolutely none like Paul Gilbert. Paul first achieved critical acclaim as the guitarist of neoclassically-influenced metal band Racer X, then commercial success as the axeman of Mr. Big. While Mr. Big is...
by Downtown Magazine | Jun 15, 2016 | Entertainment, Featured, Music
With mega-hits like “More Human Than Human” and “Thunderkiss ’65,” White Zombie was one of the definitive hard rock bands of the 1990s. But one thing that many fans of White Zombie do not realize is that the band had formed in 1985, and...
by Downtown Magazine | Jun 13, 2016 | Culture, Entertainment, Events, Featured, Music
It’s been 24 years since Barenaked Ladies first made waves with the album Gordon, bringing hit singles like “Brian Wilson” and “If I Had $1000000.” Or fast-forwarding a bit, it’s been 18 years since the band commonly-known as “BNL” achieved international...
by Downtown Magazine | Jun 11, 2016 | Culture, Music
On the strength of its first single “The Message,” Cymande first toured the United States in the early 1970s alongside Al Green. That tour took the band through a show at Harlem’s Apollo Theater and an appearance on “Soul Train.” While...
