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Interview: Davey Havok of Blaqk Audio After toiling in relative obscurity through the '90s, AFI have found platinum success in recent years, crossing over from cult band to mainstream juggernaut on 2003's
	Published: 2007-08-14 Provider: Artist Direct

What Are You Listening To? This Week: AFI, Beastie Boys, Maroon 5, KT Tunstall and Blake Lewis

What’s playing on AFI’s tour bus? We knew you wanted to know; click through the jump for Mike D., Adam Levine and more. Davey Havok “Nick Cave, Grinderman [the self titled debut from Cave’s newest side project]. I love Nick Cave. This record is fantastic. It really reminds me of Birthday Party. The reason I love it so much — and I was thinking about this last night when I recommended this album to a friend — is that Nick Cave doesn’t give up a fuck. He really, truly doesn’t. He’s doing what he wants because he loves it. That sentiment is overriding in Grinderman. It’s gritty, it’s raw, it’s dark, it’s bluesy. And he’s such a great storyteller.” Mike D “All the songs that M.I.A. has released, she’s put a bunch out there on the Internet prior to her album release. I like all of them, especially “Bird Flu.” I’m a big fan of that one.” KT Tunstall Cat Power, The Greatest. “I was so impressed. It’s so much more accessible than I expected. In a brilliant way. It’s a really fantastic episode that really grew on me. She’s got an absolutely inimitable voice.” Adam Levine “I was listening to the new Kings of Leon record yesterday, and I like it a lot. I didn’t know what it was, a friend of mine was playing it, and I was like, ‘That’s really great, what is that?’ ‘Kings of Leon,’ [Levine’s friend replied]. I said, ‘Okay, good. Download.’ They’ve got something really special happening.” Blake Lewis “I could name 10 bands right now that should be signed to a major label,” the singer said of the plethora of talented acts back home in Seattle. Lewis listed his current favorites: Mob Law, Doxology, and Common Market. “Hopefully, some people are going to come out to Seattle and take some good notes, because there’s a lot of talent. I’m very lucky and fortunate that I got to get on this show and I try and rep my homies as much as possible.R

Published: 2007-06-02
Provider: Rolling Stone
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