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Samuel Joseph Fogarino
Fogarino performing at Rock Werchter, 2007. Fogarino performing at Rock Werchter, 2007.
Background information
Born	(1968-08-09) 9 August 1968 (age 43) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Instruments	Drums, guitar, keyboards
Years active	1991–present
Labels	Matador, Soft Limit
Associated acts	Interpol, Magnetic Morning
Website	www.interpolnyc.com

Samuel Joseph Fogarino (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, August 9, 1968) is the drummer of New York City-based band Interpol.^[1] He has played in bands The Holy Terrors, Gus, The Wahoos, Napoleon Solo, The Ton-ups and The Last Night.

Fogarino began to play the drums at the age of 13. In the early 1990s Fogarino played with the South Florida act, The Holy Terrors as part of a music scene that also produced Marilyn Manson, Jack Off Jill, Saigon Kick and The Mavericks. Manson asked him to join his band at one point, but Fogarino turned him down.^[2]

In 1996, Fogarino left South Florida to move to Gainesville (played in a band called Gus, with Jason Lederman), then finally settled in New York City in 1997. He first met guitarist Daniel Kessler in 1998 when he was selling vinyl in Beacon's Closet, a clothing store in Brooklyn. With more than 10 years playing experience, he joined Interpol in 2000 after original drummer Greg Drudy left the band. Fogarino played his first show for Interpol on May 20, 2000 at the Mercury Lounge.

Fogarino is considered the elder statesman of the group, and is generally considered the most friendly and approachable member. He is also very proud of his talents as a chef, with his specialty being pasta. He is married to photographer Christy Bush and lives in Athens, GA.

In early 2007, Fogarino joined with former Swervedriver frontman Adam Franklin to form a side-project band called The Setting Suns. Since then, the duo have changed their name to Magnetic Morning^[3] and released a six-track EP on iTunes.

In May 2010, Fogarino composed an accompanying soundtrack to Athens, GA Canopy Studio's "Fractured Fairy Tales" aerial dance performance.

Personal life[link]

• Fogarino has been married twice. He and first wife Cindy Wheeler (from the bands Pee Shy and the Caulfield Sisters) divorced in 2003. He married his second wife, photographer Christy Bush on February 14, 2006. The couple have a daughter, Francesca, born in August 2009.
• Graduated The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale in 1989 with an Associate of Science degree in the music and video business.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official blog
• Pitchfork Media article on The Setting Suns
• Magnetic Morning website

Alan Cross
[Alan Cross]
Background information
Occupations	Radio
Website	AlanCross.ca

Alan Cross is a Canadian radio broadcaster and a writer on music. Formerly the host of 102.1 The Edge's program The Ongoing History of New Music and the ExploreMusic radio show and the curator of the ExploreMusic website, he also served as program director of the station from 2004 to 2008. Alan now works for Astral on his new show The Secret History of Rock and can be heard in Edmonton, Fredericton, Halifax, Kingston, London, Ottawa-Hull, St. Catharines, Toronto, Victoria and Winnipeg.

Originally from the small prairie town of Stonewall, Manitoba, Cross began his radio career with the University of Winnipeg's campus radio station, CKUW, in 1980. He subsequently joined radio stations in Selkirk, Kenora and Brandon before returning to Winnipeg's CHIQ. He then joined CFNY on October 3, 1986 as an overnight announcer.

In 1989, Cross became the station's afternoon drive time host. The following year, he moved to the 10 a.m.-2 p.m. slot; in 1993, he returned to afternoon drive and remained there until 2001. Beginning in February, 1993, he also became host of The Ongoing History of New Music which has been running continuously ever since.

Cross left CFNY in 2001 to become program director of CJXY in Hamilton (then known as Y95 and subsequently as Y108), although he continued to host The Ongoing History of New Music. He subsequently returned to CFNY as program director in mid-January 2004, remaining in that role until moving to Corus Entertainment's interactive media division, Splice Media (now called Corus Interactive And Integrated Solutions), in 2008 to launch the ExploreMusic project— although CFNY still airs The Ongoing History of New Music. He also hosted the television program Explore Music on aux.tv. Alan now concentrates his efforts on The Secret History of Rock, www.AlanCross.ca and speaking engagements and appearances.

He married Mary Ellen Beninger, a CFNY colleague, in 1990. She is currently a morning newscaster at CFTR in Toronto.

Books[link]

• The Alternative Music Almanac (1995)
• The Making of Pretty Hate Machine and The Downward Spiral (1996)
• Over the Edge: The Revolution and Evolution of New Rock (1997)
• 20th Century Rock and Roll: Alternative Rock (2000)

Television[link]

Cross was the host and quizmaster, for one year, of a regional broadcast of Reach For the Top. The show was broadcast on CHCH-TV in Hamilton during the 1990/91 school year and included teams from Hamilton, Niagara, Toronto, Peel & Halton. Ancaster High and Vocational School was the winner of the tournament in that year.

External links[link]

• Alan Cross's Website
• Alan Cross at SpiritOfRadio
• Alan's YouTube page
• Alan's FaceBook page.
• Alan Cross Metro Column
• Alan Cross's Twitter account

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Daniel Alexander Kessler
Kessler performing with Interpol at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.
Background information
Birth name	Daniel Alexander Kessler
Born	(1974-09-25) 25 September 1974 (age 37) [citation needed] London, England
Genres	Indie rock Post-punk revival
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals, Bass Guitar, Piano
Years active	1997–present
Labels	Capitol EMI
Associated acts	Interpol
Notable instruments
Epiphone Casino Gibson ES-330 Rickenbacker 330 Jetglo

Daniel Alexander Kessler (born 25 September 1974, London, England) is the guitarist and backing vocalist for the New York City-based band Interpol. He was raised in the United States.

It was Kessler's desire to play in a real band which made him approach Carlos Dengler, with whom he attended a history class in New York University. Kessler knew lead singer Paul Banks from a summer program in Paris, France, and asked him to join the band when he ran into him in New York. Kessler's dormmate Greg Drudy was Interpol's first drummer. When Drudy left the band, Kessler asked his friend Sam Fogarino to replace him.^[1]

Kessler had prior experience in the music industry while working for Domino Records, and his knowledge of the business was very helpful to the band in their early years. He brought all the members together, and has said that he was looking mostly for specific personal qualities each member could bring to the group rather than just musical talent. He is a graduate of New York University's (NYU) Gallatin School of Individualized Study in French, film and literature. Kessler has been known as the member of the band who has been the most active in the New York underground rock scene, which included his jobs at multiple record labels, such as Domino Records and trading their early demo tape around to various bands and labels. Since 2006, Kessler resides in a loft in Lower East Side, Manhattan and is the only band member who is a vegetarian and does not smoke. He also is fluent in French.

Gear[link]

In the band's early days, he was seen playing a red Rickenbacker and a sunburst Telecaster, but has since performed with a sunburst Epiphone Casino and a cherry Gibson ES-330 as his main onstage guitars. The red Rickenbacker apparently belonged to Interpol's first keyboardist. He also owned another Casino in a cherry red, that was stolen from their green room alongside one of Banks' guitars by a drug addict in Vancouver while the band was touring in support of Turn on the Bright Lights. Following Interpol's third album, Daniel has also been seen on stage playing a sunburst Gretsch 6117-TH Anniversary on the track 'The Lighthouse' and also on their new self titled album 'Interpol'.

He states in an interview around 2006, following the release of Antics, that he plays through an old Fender Twin combined with a Fender Pro Reverb.

His pedalboard includes:

• BOSS TU-2 Tuner
• BOSS TR-2 Tremolo
• BOSS DD-5 Delay (Only for Evil)
• MXR Carbon Copy
• Tech 21 Comptortion
• Vox V810
• Z.vex Super Duper 2-in-1
• Keeley Fuzz Head
• Z.vex Super Hard-On
• EHX Holy Grail

References[link]

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Bob Mould
Bob Mould at McCarren Park Pool, July 2007.
Background information
Birth name	Robert Arthur Mould
Born	(1960-10-16) October 16, 1960 (age 51)
Origin	Malone, New York, United States
Genres	Alternative rock, punk rock
Occupations	Musician, producer, singer-songwriter, dramatist, disc jockey
Instruments	Guitar, Vocals, keyboards, bass, percussion
Years active	1979?–present
Labels	Creation, Granary Music, Full Frequency, New Alliance, Reflex, Restless, Rhino, Rough Trade, Rykodisc, SOL, SST, Virgin, Warner Bros., Yep Roc
Associated acts	Blowoff, Hüsker Dü, Loud Bomb, Sugar, Deep Dish, remix: Depeche Mode, Interpol, The Killers, Low, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, No Age, The Pretenders, Rammstein, Seal, Foo Fighters, VHS or Beta
Website	Bob Mould Boblog Granary Music

Robert Arthur “Bob” Mould (born October 16, 1960) is an American musician, principally known for his work as guitarist, vocalist and songwriter for alternative rock bands Hüsker Dü in the 1980s and Sugar in the 1990s.

Early years[link]

Born in Malone, New York, Mould lived in several places, including the Minneapolis-St. Paul area where he then attended Macalester College. There, he formed Hüsker Dü in the late 1970s, with drummer/singer Grant Hart and bass guitarist Greg Norton.

Musical career[link]

Hüsker Dü[link]

Hüsker Dü first gained notice as a punk rock group with a series of recordings on the independent label SST Records. One of the first 1980s underground bands to sign a contract with a major record label (Warner Bros. Records), Hüsker Dü found only moderate commercial success, but were later often cited as one of the key influences on 1990s alternative rock.

In the late 1980s, Hüsker Dü broke up acrimoniously amid members' drug abuse and personal problems. Mould and Grant Hart, the band's other songwriter and vocalist, still take occasional jabs at each other in the press, though the two revisited their Hüsker Dü back catalog together at a 2004 benefit concert for an ailing friend, the late Karl Mueller of Soul Asylum.

Solo works[link]

After Hüsker Dü broke up in 1988, Mould sequestered himself in a remote farmhouse in Pine City, Minnesota, quit drinking and drugs, and wrote the songs that would make up his first solo album. Signing to the newly-formed Virgin Records America label, 1989's Workbook eschewed Mould's trademark wall-of-noise guitar for a stripped-down, atmospheric sound featuring acoustic guitars and cellos. 1990's jagged Black Sheets of Rain put Mould in more familiar territory, recalling Hüsker Dü's loudest, angriest moments.

In 1993, he contributed the track "Can't Fight It" to the AIDS-Benefit Album No Alternative produced by the Red Hot Organization.

In 1994, he recorded "The Turning Of The Tide" for Beat The Retreat, a tribute album to the English guitarist and songwriter Richard Thompson.

Mould also started a record label, Singles Only Label, which released singles from up and coming bands such as Grant Lee Buffalo and R. Stevie Moore.

Sugar years and afterwards[link]

Mould then formed the group Sugar, a college/alternative radio favorite in the mid-1990s. Along with extensive touring, Sugar released two albums, an EP and a B-sides collection before breaking up.

Mould returned to solo recording, releasing a self-titled album in 1996 (which is often referred to as Hubcap because of the cover photo) and 1998's The Last Dog and Pony Show.

During a stint living in New York City in the late-1990s, Mould's tastes took a detour into dance music and electronica. Those influences were clear on his 2002 release Modulate, which featured a strong electronica influence to mixed critical reviews. To pursue this sound, Mould also began recording under the pseudonym LoudBomb (an anagram of his name). He has released one CD so far under this name.

Mould took a brief break from the music world to get involved with another passion of his, professional wrestling, when he joined WCW as a scriptwriter in 1999 for a brief period.^[1] Creative differences with some of the other writers led to Mould leaving the company and returning to music. The liner notes for Modulate thank some of the wrestlers he associated with, most notably Kevin Nash and Kevin Sullivan.

In addition to his solo work, Mould is also a live DJ in collaboration with Washington DC-area dance music artist Richard Morel, under the collective banner Blowoff (frequently staged at the 9:30 Club in Washington, DC). A recording under that banner was released in September 2006. Mould has been asked to do remixes for a variety of dance and alternative rock artists. A recent remix of the Interpol song "Length of Love" has led to more critical acclaim for the veteran artist.

Bob Mould live in 2005.

For much of the 1990s, Mould toured playing solo acoustic renditions of his catalog (occasionally switching to electric guitar midway through his set). In 2005 his solo album Body of Song was cross-announced with his first band tour since 1998. Brendan Canty, best known as the drummer for Fugazi, and Mould's Blowoff collaborator, Morel, played drums and keyboards, respectively, for the 2005 tour.

District Line, was released February 5, 2008. Little over a year later on April 7, 2009, Mould released his next album entitled Life and Times.^[2]

Mould wrote a memoir with Michael Azerrad, the author of Our Band Could Be Your Life and Come as You Are: The Story of Nirvana. The book, See a Little Light: The Trail of Rage and Melody, was released in June 2011.^[3]

Mould performs on the Foo Fighters 2011 album Wasting Light, contributing guitar and vocals to the track "Dear Rosemary." He has made sporadic appearances with the band during their Wasting Light tour to perform the song on stage.

On November 21, 2011, musicians such as Dave Grohl, Britt Daniel of Spoon, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Randy Randall and Dean Allen Spunt of No Age, Margaret Cho, Jason Narducy of Telekinesis, Jon Wurster of Superchunk, and Ryan Adams came together at the Walt Disney Concert Hall and played songs from Bob Mould's career. During the concert, Bob discussed a new solo album involving Jason Narducy and Jon Wurster due in 2012 and an extremely limited tour of Sugar's debut album Copper Blue.

Personal life[link]

Though Mould's sexual orientation was previously something of an open secret, he was outed in the early 1990s; he is now openly gay.^[4][5]

In April 2004, Mould was a co-organizer of the WEDRock benefit concert for Freedom to Marry. "WedRock" was a play on the word "wedlock". The event raised an estimated US$30,000. Mould also contributed the song "See a Little Light" to the 2006 album Wed-Rock: A Benefit for Freedom to Marry, an album to support in the legalization of same-sex marriage.^[6]

Pop culture[link]

Mould's song "Dog on Fire" is the theme song for The Daily Show. They Might Be Giants perform the current version. On December 19, 1996, Mould made a cameo appearance on The Daily Show Holiday Spectacular in an homage duet of "The Little Drummer Boy" with Mould playing the part of David Bowie to Craig Kilborn's "Bing Crosby".

The song "See a Little Light" has been used more than once in various television applications: It was used in the closing scene of the original un-aired test pilot episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, it became one of the principal theme songs for the HBO series The Mind of the Married Man and was also used in a television commercial for TIAA-CREF (August 2007). Mould also composed the theme for the TLC program, In a Fix.

Mould also played lead guitar in the house band for the film of John Cameron Mitchell's Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Mould also participated in a Hedwig tribute album, Wig in a Box, on which he covered the song "Nailed."

In 2000, Mould sang "He Didn't" (written by Stephin Merritt) on The 6ths' album Hyacinths and Thistles.

On September 29, 2005, Mould's song "Circles" was included on The OC.

Mould appeared on an episode of Independent Film Channel's The Henry Rollins Show on June 15, 2007.

Mould contributed vocals to the song "Dear Rosemary" on the Foo Fighters album Wasting Light.

Discography[link]

Studio albums

• Workbook (1989)
• Black Sheets of Rain (1990)
• Bob Mould (1996)
• The Last Dog and Pony Show (1998)
• Modulate (2002)
• Long Playing Grooves (2002) (Granary Music)
• Body of Song (2005)
• District Line (2008)
• Life And Times (2009)

Compilations

• Poison Years (1994)
• No Alternative (1994)
• Wig in a Box (2003)
• Wed-Rock: A Benefit for Freedom To Marry (2006)

Singles and EPs

• See a Little Light (1989)
• Wishing Well + Four Live Tracks (1989)
• Egøverride (1995)

Live albums

• Live Dog `98 (2002)
• Live At ATP 2008 (2009) - Released under the name "Bob Mould Band"

Videos;

• Circle of Friends (2007)

Bands produced[link]

• Man Sized Action, Claustrophobia
• Soul Asylum, Made to Be Broken
• Articles of Faith, Give Thanks and In This Life
• Magnapop, Hot Boxing
• Verbow, Chronicles
• The Zulus, Down on the Floor
• Friction Wheel, Something Tells Me/Won't Fall Down — SOL
• Impaler, If We Had Brains... We'd Be Dangerous
• Low, Tonight the Monkeys Die Remixes EP
• Half a Chicken, Food for Thought

References[link]

External links[link]

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	Music portal
	Biography portal

• Interview with The Onion A.V. Club
• Official Bob Mould Granary Music artist page
• Boblog (Bob Mould's personal weblog)
• Blowoff nightclub events
• PopMatters interview (7/2005)
• Metro Weekly interview series
• Bob Mould on MySpace
• Wishing Well: A Small Web Site About the Music of Bob Mould
• Bob Mould on 3RRR MP3 extract of interview
• Bob Mould on Colbernista MP3 extract of interview
• Bob Mould in conversation with Michael Azzerad
• Bob Mould Soundcheck (3:16) published on the Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine @ Ubuweb
• Bob Mould - Life and Times - Album Review at Citizen Dick

Paul Banks
Paul Banks, Roskilde Festival 2005
Background information
Birth name	Paul Julian Banks
Also known as	Julian Plenti DJ Fancypants
Born	(1978-05-03) 3 May 1978 (age 34) Essex, England
Genres	Indie rock, alternative rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, piano, drums
Years active	1997–present
Labels	Capitol, EMI, Matador
Associated acts	Interpol Julian Plenti[1]
Website	Interpol official Julian Plenti official
Notable instruments
Gibson Les Paul Custom Fender Jaguar Gibson Flying V Gibson ES-175

Paul Julian Banks (born 3 May 1978) is an English American musician, best known as the lead singer, lyricist and guitarist of the rock band Interpol. He is also a solo artist under the name Julian Plenti. As a singer, Banks' voice lies in the baritone range.

Early life[link]

Banks was born in Clacton-on-Sea, Essex, England. His family left England when he was three years old, moving to Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and then to Spain where he attended the American School of Madrid.^[2] His father was later transferred to Mexico, where Banks finished high school at the American School Foundation.^[3] There he attended the American School Foundation, where he was involved in theatre productions, and played the lead role in the musical South Pacific.^{[citation needed]} He speaks fluent Spanish with a Castilian and Mexican accent.

After high school, Banks attended New York University where he studied English and Comparative Literature,^[4] and after graduating, he worked at magazines such as Gotham and Interview.^{[citation needed]} Banks later took a job in data entry,^[5] and then in a café,^[6] in order to devote more of his time to music. Banks was inspired to become a musician by the group Nirvana.^[7]

In contrast to Interpol's smooth and melancholic sound Paul Banks has been a fan of hip hop music since he was in seventh grade.^[8] He has worked as a hip-hop DJ, under the pseudonym DJ Fancypants.^[8]

Interpol[link]

Banks joined the band in the Summer of 1997 when he ran into Daniel Kessler, whom he had met on a study abroad program in Paris. When first asked to join Interpol, Banks initially refused, but after listening to the type of music they were writing, Banks joined.

Banks' voice, singing style and lyrics have been strongly compared to, most notably, Ian Curtis of Joy Division. A journalist from NME magazine even staged a joke at one of Interpol's concerts, trying to summon the spirit of Ian Curtis with a ouija board and make him say that Banks owed him.^[9] But Banks protests that the comparison merely forces influences onto the band in an effort to describe their music style. He has also stated that he does not try to emulate his greatest influences because he thinks he cannot live up to them ("I would never try to sing like Frank Black or Kurt Cobain because you just can't do it").^[10]

Solo project[link]

Banks released a solo album under the name Julian Plenti on August 4, 2009 entitled Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper. Banks claims to have multiple solo projects and monikers in mind. He intends to release a five song EP entitled Julian Plenti Lives..., on June 22, 2012.^[11][12][13]

• Julian Plenti Is... Skyscraper (2009)

Instruments[link]

During Interpol's early years Banks typically played a black Les Paul Custom guitar. He then started using a Fender Jaguar and a Gibson Flying V (for a time with the word "breasts" spelled out in white tape on it ^[14][15]) for songs from Our Love to Admire and his Les Paul for songs from Antics and Turn on the Bright Lights, although some songs like "Obstacle 1" were played with Banks' Fender Jaguar because of the impracticality of switching and songs like "Mammoth" were used by his Les Paul for the same reason. Paul Banks did use his Fender Jaguar as his primary guitar for the end leg of the Our Love to Admire tour and was also seen using a Gibson ES-135 for songs such as "Not Even Jail", but since the 2010 tour leg, he has not been since using the Jaguar or Gibson ES-135 and has only been since using his traditional Les Paul, though the Flying V can be seen in the music video for Barricade with the tape no longer present. His Gibson ES-135 however, was his primary guitar during his live performances as his alter-ego Julian Plenti.

His pedalboard includes:

• BOSS TU-2
• Z.Vex Super Duper 2 in 1
• EHX Micro POG
• MXR Micro Amp
• MXR Bass Octave Deluxe
• Way Huge Swollen Pickle
• Ibanez TS9DX
• BOSS DN-2
• 2 MXR Carbon Copy Analog Delay (one set at higher repeats)

His pedalboard on the Julian Plenti tour:

• BOSS TU-2
• Way Huge Aqua-Puss
• BOSS DN-2
• EHX POG 2
• Blackstar HT Dual Tube Distortion
• MXR Carbon Copy

Since Antics (2004) he uses two Fender Pro Reverb amplifiers.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Interpol
• Julian Plenti
• Julian Plenti on Vimeo