A Conversation With American Hi-Fi's Stacy Jones Mike Ragogna: Would it be fair to call you a pop-rock? Stacy Jones: Yeah, sure. I'll take that. Mr: You have a new album called Fight The Frequency. But first, you were the drummer for Veruca Salt and also Letters To Cleo, right? Sj: That's right, back in the 90s, indeed. You know, I'm a drummer by trade. So, I grew up playing drums, and I sort of got my start professionally playing drums. I was lucky enough to be in Letters To Cleo and Veruca Salt, and I got to play with Aimee Mann and Juliana Hatfield. I played with all the chick rockers in the '90s, basically. I guess, at a certain point, I thought I might give singing and playing the guitar a try, and that's how American Hi-Fi was born. Mr: Kind of worked,...
- 8/19/2010
- by Mike Ragogna
- Huffington Post
San Diego Comic-Con comes but once a year, and when it does, it delivers with a vengeance. Much more than just a gathering of comic book geeks, it brings together thousands of fans, creators, executives, journalists and enthusiasts to reveal details and share previews of some of the biggest properties in movies, television and interactive media. You can follow all of the action over at MTV's Movies Blog and at MTV News' Splash Page, both of which will have up-to-the-minute updates on all of the most hotly-anticipated titles in the film universe, from "Thor" to "Scott Pilgrim vs. The World" to "The Expendables" to "Green Lantern" to whatever else happens to show up. It should be an incredible long weekend of interviews, previews and exclusives, and MTV News will be live on site and on the pulse for the duration.
In order to prepare yourself for all of this awesomeness,...
In order to prepare yourself for all of this awesomeness,...
- 7/22/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
A decade ago, one of the finest bands from Boston's eclectic '90s rock community decided to call it quits. On this day in 2000, Letters to Cleo took the stage for what ended up being their final show (they officially announced their break-up about a month later). Though they had sold hundreds of thousands of records, had videos in heavy rotation on MTV and had achieved international success, Letters to Cleo went out the way they began, playing a small Boston club as part of a multi-act bill that helped to raise money for longtime friend and scene fixture Mikey D.
It was a poetic end for the group, who first got together in 1990 when singer Kay Hanley and guitarist Greg McKenna changed the name of their group ("Cleo" was an actual pen pal that Hanley had when she was younger). They became a fixture in the local rock scene...
It was a poetic end for the group, who first got together in 1990 when singer Kay Hanley and guitarist Greg McKenna changed the name of their group ("Cleo" was an actual pen pal that Hanley had when she was younger). They became a fixture in the local rock scene...
- 5/4/2010
- by Kyle Anderson
- MTV Newsroom
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