SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2012 ISSUE MMUSICMAG.COM SPOTLIGHT Chris Crisman John Clark cOrIN tUckEr baND the indie rocker chooses musical Seth lorinczi, Sara lund, democracy for her new album Corin tucker, Mike Clark

aftEr WritinG all thE SonGS despite the group effort, Kill My working parent, she’s searching for balance on her 2010 solo debut, 1,000 Years, Blues is still defined by tucker’s voice and between job and family. “that perspective Corin tucker took a more collaborative her perspective. Backed by volatile riffs comes through on certain songs,” she approach on her latest. Kill My Blues and hooky melodies, she sounds more explains. “‘Constance’ is definitely a song was very much a team effort, as tucker assured than on her previous release. about being a parent and watching your and her backing musicians jammed out “Making a record after Sleater-Kinney was children grow up and move on. the whole the tunes in their rehearsal space. “We hard,” she says. “it was a real emotional record is really about moving on, and how needed to open more doors for the band challenge.” having locked in a sense of good that is, and how hard that is.” to evolve,” tucker says. “that meant writing confidence, tucker drew inspiration from not all the tunes are autobiographical. all the songs together and not having it be recent social and political developments with tucker’s coy about which ones are about just my solo project.” the women’s movement, and from stories her, but whatever their origin the singer tucker, 39, spent a dozen years writing from her own life and those around her. and guitarist strives to make them her with her bandmates in the punk trio Sleater- “i see this record as a statement of who own. “there are a lot of people’s stories Kinney before the group broke up in 2006, i am today,” she says. “it’s got elements of on this record, but i put them into my own and three years before that doing the same the way i have written over the years, but i point of view because i think that makes thing in the riot-grrrl band — feel like it’s drawing on the strengths i have them more gripping,” she says. “a good so working collectively is second nature. “it today as a writer and the experiences i’ve writer is a sponge, and a good writer is an just makes sense,” says the native. had as a grownup.” observer who picks up not only the storyline “the whole idea of the indie-rock band is one of those experiences is of what is happening around you, but the collaborative and democratic. that’s the motherhood. tucker and filmmaker husband emotional weight of it.” musical community we all came out of.” lance Bangs have two children, and like any –Eric R. Danton

ELLIE GOULDING Global success scores the singer more creative control on her latest

ElliE GouldinG hit thE Ground runninG aftEr she released her debut album, Lights, two years ago, and she hasn’t slowed down one bit. in her native England, she won a coveted Brit award and was invited to play at the royal Wedding. in the u.S., she scored an unexpected hit with “lights”—which has been downloaded SEPT/OCTa whopping 2012 3 million M times.MUSIC now Goulding,& MUSICIANS 25, is ready to MAGAZINE show a new side with her sophomore effort, Halcyon. “Even though people keep saying the second album is supposed to be the difficult one, i feel like Lights prepared me for a lot,” says Goulding. “it really paved the way. halcyon feels like my first album in a way.”

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