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Clinic Get Tropical on New Album

Liverpool's Clinic isn't exactly the most easily identifiable band, given its members' penchant for hiding behind surgical masks and scrubs. That won't change but singer Ade Blackburn tells Spinner that the band is making some tweaks as they get ready to tour in support of their April 8-due album, 'Do It!.' "We've got a tropical theme for the gigs ...

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With Cloud Cult's New Eco-Friendly Album, Green Means Go

For Cloud Cult's Craig Minowa, saving the environment is just as important as the quirky indie rock he writes and records in the basement studio of the northern Minnesota organic farm he lives on with his wife, Connie. He runs his own eco-friendly label, Earthology Records, there and manufactures Cloud Cult's CDs in as an environmentally friendly ...

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Z-Trip Puts Politics Aside for the Troops

Mash-up kingpin and turntablist DJ Z-Trip headed to a military base in Kuwait this past Friday to perform in a special concert for American troops called Operation MySpace on March 10, sponsored by the ubiquitous social networking site. Other artists participating include Jessica Simpson, Disturbed, Filter and comedian Carlos Mencia, but Z-Trip has ...

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Del Tha Funky Homosapien Enters the '11th Hour'

It's been eight years since Del Tha Funky Homosapien's last solo album, but the video game-obsessed member of Oakland's Hieroglyphics crew has kept himself pretty busy in the interim. Besides running the Hiero Imperium label with artists like Pep Love and Souls of Mischief and appearing on Gorillaz' hit single, 'Clint Eastwood,' Del has spent the ...

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Constantines Keep Canada on Their Mind

Canadian indie rockoers the Constantines may have suffered a bit of a setback when guitar player Steve Lambke recently broke his hand after slipping on some ice near his home in Montreal, but lead singer/guitarist Bryan Webb seems fairly positive the promotion of the new album, 'Kensington Heights,' won't suffer too much. "We've had a couple of ...

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