Carrie Underwood
UPDATE: Because AOL Music Blog is RIP this story can now be found in full HERE.
Carrie Underwood‘s mostly known as a perky blonde country singing reality tv superstar, but she also has a not-quite-secret rocker past.
When Sarah interviewed her recently for The Boot Underwood told her that she was all about Pearl Jam, Alice In Chains and Nirvana and had a secret hair metal phase, too.
Rock on, Carrie. \m/
Click here to read the story.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Katy Perry
Pretty much every successful musician has a “dark” period, which often results in some of their best music.
For a certain segment of pop starlets, however, their dark periods are more often characterized not by dark music, but by dark clothes.
This phenomenon of pop-ettes “going goth” isn’t a new one and Sarah collected some examples of this game of gloomy dress-up for AOL Music Blog.
Click here to read all about Madonna, Katy Perry and Christina Aguilera‘s “goth” phases.
Filed under Culture, Music, Shameless Promotion
You can take the girl out of the Star Trek conventions, but you can’t take the Trekkie out of the girl. There’s really no other reason that Sarah started talking to Hanson about Star Trek and Star Wars when they were in town to promote their new album, Shout It Out.
In honour of May The Fourth, she shared their conversation with AOL Music Blog. You can check it out here.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion, Television
Hanson
Some of you will be unbelieving of this, but Hanson, they of that song “MMMbop” from about 15 years ago, are still at it and are rather legit.
So legit, in fact, that one of the brothers is in a side-project band with one of the guys who used to be in the Smashing Pumpkins.
But when Sarah talked to the brothers recently that wasn’t what they were talking about. No, they were more into talking about soul music and Canada and how they make music according to something called the “Michael Jackson theory” — it apparently involves sleepovers, elephant man bones and setting your hair on fire (kidding). It’s mostly about rhythm and melody.
Anyway, to read the resulting story that ran on AOL Music Blog, click here.
Filed under Music, Shameless Promotion
Kevin Costner
Kevin Costner, known throughout the world as Lieutenant Dunbar in Dances With Wolves and the Mariner in Waterworld, also happens to be a bit of determined country musician.
He’s been at it for years touring about and trying to, y’know, make it.
Sarah recently spoke to Costner when he was in Toronto to promote the forthcoming Boots And Hearts country music festival.
The resulting conversation ended up as a story double-shot.
The first story, about how Costner was the catalyst in getting Whitney Houston recording the song “I Will Always Love You” for The Bodyguard ran on AOL Music Blog. Click here for that.
The second story ran on country music site The Boot and went deeper into his country music career. Click here to read that one.
Filed under Films, Music, Shameless Promotion
I Overcame My Autism And All I Got Was This Lousy Anxiety Disorder: A Memoir
Risky Fuel 