Fort Apache Studios News Today

The English folk-rock troubadour chats with Vanyaland ahead of Fort Nights: A Celebration of Gary Smith & the Music of Fort Apache Studios.

Lou Barlow and John Davis made tracks for the 1995 cultural flashpoint. They split after a 1999 LP, but reunited during the pandemic, and made plans to release more songs.

In this interview on Sebadoh's Bakesale, Lou Barlow reflects on Eric Gaffney's departure from the band, Bakesale's lasting legacy, and how nothing would ever be as simple for Sebadoh again.

Sandman, who died in 1999, left behind a trove of recordings being released for the first time by his former musical collaborators on April 16.

  Prior to Treat Her Right and Morphine, Mark Sandman, the father of “low rock,” formed Hypnosonics. Often referred to as his “secret band,” Hypnosonics remained a favorite side project until his untimely death in 1999.  On April 6, Modern Harmonic will release two never-before-heard Hypnosonics albums: Drums Were Beating: Fort Apache 1996 and Someone Stole My Shoes: Beyond The Q Division Sessions available on CD, LP and digital. In 1996, the same year that Morphine recorded Like S...

Blameless Blameless were a rock quartet formed in Sheffield, England in 1993/94. The band consisted of singer Jared Daley, guitarist Matt Pirt, bassist Jason Leggatt and drummer Jon Dodd. Although coming from the UK during a "British Invasion" headed by Oasis, the band have been more-often compared to American bands such as Pearl Jam and R.E.M.. Their inclusion of the song "Town Clowns" in the Rough Trade Singles Club caught the attention of several labels, and the band finally signed to China ...