InterMixx • Independent Music Magazine • • InterMixx • Independent Music Magazine InterMixx • Independent Music Magazine • Officer Roseland: Rock Juggernaut WHY THE BAND SIMPLY CANNOT BE STOPPED Officer Roseland has been a rock band for 5 R o s e l a n d the Independent film festival, we rented a van and drove out years. However, it has taken them that long claims with Music Conference to Park City, Utah to promote our asses off. to find a “stable” (I use this term loosely) certitude that in August and lineup. Two of three original members they cannot be S e p t e m b e r InterMixx: Did you already make the music remain with the band: Dan Daidone and stopped. Read of ‘06, the band video, what song is it for, when can we Brian Jones. When the band started out on for even was asked expect it, and where will it be available? as a 3 piece with Daidone on vocals and more proof... a few quick OR: We are in pre-production right now bass, Jones was playing keyboards and questions... and it will be for the song “Wrist Bizness.” guitars and Matt Pone played drums. While Over the next We’d like to have it available by late recording their first release, they decided two and one half I n t e r M i x x : winter or early spring, depending on what that in order to put on a great, energetic, years the band What did you Punxatawny Phil has to report. We’ll have live performance, they would need Dan to would audition think about the it on our website, on Youtube, MySpace, focus exclusively on vocals and therefore thirty-seven IMC? What and hopefully DirecTV. needed a bass player. different bass c l a s s e s / players, none experiences InterMixx: I saw that you played at Philly The search was on... After holding various of whom stayed did you find Stir Fry, What are your thoughts on what tryouts, they finally found a bass player with the band for beneficial? they are doing? and quickly felt ready to start booking longer than two OR: We certainly had OR: PSF has a really cool thing going on. gigs. Unfortunately, before the first show months. Some a positive experience. We were fortunate The guys that run it are super supportive was even booked, their drummer left for of the reasons the aforementioned enough to meet a lot of great people. and the venue is great. All you can eat and personal reasons. Though saddened, they bass players left or were asked to leave are I personally learned some new vocal drink for $10 is a steal. They also have would not be deterred. The juggernaut as follows: ineptitude, narcolepsy, Igoritis/ exercises from one of them. local artists there which makes it a unique rolled on. Geppettoism, stupidity, forgetfulness, atmosphere and experience. technological hindrance, payment or InterMixx: Has your podcast been a good OK, so now they had to find a new drummer. lack thereof, hyper-excitability, chemical promotional tool for you? InterMixx: What are some other positive The search was on... again. Luckily, the dependency and... baseball practice. OR: Well, they’re free. People are more things you see coming out of the Philly very first drummer to audition was the inclined to check out free stuff, which is music scene? only one they needed to see. John Ilisco Despite the revolving door on their practice probably the main reason why podcasts OR: Thanks to the internet, bands have Jr. joined the band soon after and then room, Officer Roseland rolled on. Thirty- are as popular as they are. been given immediate exposure beyond they were REALLY ready to book some seven separate times, they just kept rolling their home town. Because of this, the local gigs. Their first opportunity was a live in- on and on. InterMixx: How did you get hooked up music scene seems to blur together with studio performance on Philadelphia’s 94.1 with Billy Blob for Sundance 2003? other areas creating a massive world wide WYSP, and immediately thereafter they In July 2005, Harry McCafferty joined OR: I came across his artwork and bought music scene. were selected as the rock station’s “Local Officer Roseland to play bass and guitar. a piece which graces the wall of my living Rock Stars of the Month” for April of 2003. Their first show together happened to be room as we speak. At the time we were With a juggernaut like Officer Then they got another gig! Unfortunately, while on a U.K. tour in August of that year. finishing up our self titled album, and I Roseland, the world wide scene may after just the one more live show, the bass It took an international jaunt, but finally, with asked if he would be interested in creating still not be big enough. If they run out player announced that he would be leaving a “stable” lineup intact, Officer Roseland the cover. At first he declined but after of room here on Earth, look for them the group. wrote and recorded their third record, sending him some of the songs he really up on Kicksville. Blast-off for Kicksville, which was released liked what he heard, changed his mind, Allrighty then, Officer Roseland needed on January 2, 2007 on their self-owned and created the cover. A few months later, www.officerroseland.com to find another bass player. The search independent label, Code 3 Records. Billy was developing an animated short, http://myspace.com/officerroseland was on... ummm... AGAIN. If you’ve seen and wanted to use 2 of our songs (Fiero, the obvious pattern developing here, you After Officer Roseland tore the roof off at and Apple Zip Zaps). When we heard the YOU CANNOT STOP OFFICER ROSELAND! may be starting to understand why Officer not just one, but two performances during animation was accepted into the sundance InterMixx • Independent Music Magazine • 3 Thomas Dolby: The Sole Inhabitant Story and Photos by John Voket Thomas Dolby Returns he wants for the rest of his natural life. Talk but putting out a DVD and CD without any New York’s Canal Room, where InterMixx From Exploring The Vast about the ultimate independent musician record label help is a lot more work than I was invited to check out the set. - heck, Thomas Dolby is anticipated.” Expanse Of Technology’s practically the definition of Along with the release of ‘The Sole Fertile Wastelands independent musician. Inhabitant,’ came another wave of touring which culminated in a grand finale show, New Independent CD/DVD Appropriately Maybe he’ll never eat again invading the cool confines of the Entitled: The Sole Inhabitant. Ramen noodles again, Canal Room on December 22. and if independence, An entire generation of music fans has financial or otherwise, Following the recent New York show, Dolby spoken: “She Blinded Me With Science,” means revisiting the sat down with InterMixx for a chat, in which the playful and funky electronic pop hit was musical material he he discussed another very interesting gig recently declared one of VH1’s top 100 has produced so far, T h e he was gearing up for, the backstory on his best songs of the 80s. But legions of fans so be it. project technological exploits and a bit more about around the globe will queue up to tell you w a s ‘The Sole Inhabitant.’ that almost every Thomas Dolby song is one Neither Dolby, nor actually of his greatest hits. Partly because he offers his small army of produced InterMixx: Because you are an independent comparatively slim pickins when it comes to rabid fans, seem earlier this performer you can basically pick and what might be called a body of work. to mind at all. This year taking choose the shows you want to play, whether is evidenced in a carbon they are private gigs, benefits and even While Dolby, aka Thomas Morgan t h e g r o w i n g copy setlist these few mini-tours you’ve done in recent Robertson, has dabbled in diverse musical b u z z a c r o s s f r o m t w o months to capture material for ‘The Sole projects from commercial soundtracks for the Internet g i g s a n d Inhabitant.’ But I understand you’re gearing Howard the Duck, Gothic and the Robin and the music putting up to headline the “Exotic Erotic Ball,” in San Williams filmToys , to a computer animated world as Dolby Francisco...what’s that all about? 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More like a and DVD dump truck full of cash sitting on the deck of c o n c e r t Dolby pioneered the synthesizer microchip that delivers musical ring tones to over 100 million cell phones worldwide... an aircraft carrier full of gold bars! compilation of existing material appropriately entitled, ‘The Sole Inhabitant.’ After turning out just five original projects between his debut, The Golden Age of Weeks before its November 21 release, Wireless in 1982 and Astronauts and Dolby already had a deal in the works with Heretics almost exactly a decade later, Apple and its iTunes subsidiary to offer a Dolby blinded the scientific world - more pay-per-download of the full-length concert, precisely the computer science community so by the time you read this feature, it has - by combining his love of music and undoubtedly taken up residence in a fair TDolby: Y e a h , well I did o n e i n New York earlier this y e a r, b u t the Nonstop Erotic Ball I think has been going on in San Francisco for about 15 years.