The Fray are waiting for you.
The hits just keep on comin'.
Today in Backbeat Online:
• The Fray is previewing new songs live at Snow Daze in Vail.
• Talking golf and rock in a Q&A with Dead Confederate's Hardy Morris.
• Apollo Sunshine's Sam Cohen gets the Backbeat Q&A treatment, too.
• Checking out A Shoreline Dream's video short.
• Guns N' Roses' Chinese Democracy album leaks. Axl Rose can't be stoked.
• Speaking of Chinese Democracy, Chuck Klosterman votes "yes."
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In a year worthy of your rage, metal delivered in spades. What with the economy circling the drain and Sarah Palin coming down from the tundra and then refusing to go back, 2008's been the kind of year that really makes you want to smash your head into walls or punch random strangers in the face. Good thing there were so many awesome records available to serve as a soundtrack for exactly that kind of behavior. The following ten discs are just the tip of a very big, very heavy iceberg. Metal seem
Photo by Denny DoesKevin Devine.
Singer-songwriter Kevin Devine, the subject of a profile in this week's Westword advancing his Sunday, May 24 gig at the Marquis Theatre with Miniature Tigers, The Rouge and Brian Bonz, is the rarest of interview subjects: a guy who listeners carefully to every question and answers each as completely and honestly as he can, without regard to self-promotion or vanity. The result, accessible after the jump, is probably the longest and most extensive Q&A published
