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Interview with Glen Phillips: The Secrets of Secrets Of The New Explorers

Josh Hathaway — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:16:22 EDT

"It's the reason the word is 'play' when you're talking about working with instruments"
It's not a Bolivian polka album, but Secrets Of The New Explorers stands pretty far apart from the records Glen Phillips made with Toad The Wet Sprocket and those he's made as a solo artist. The non-commercial sounds of Abulum, the bare bone songs of Mr. Lemons, and even the pop sounds of Winter Pays For Summer are all pretty far removed...

Music Review: Glen Phillips - Secrets of the New Explorers

Josh Hathaway — Mon, 12 May 2008 10:08:58 EDT

Secrets reveals another side of Phillips' record collection.
I've got a very serious cynical streak that runs through me and that mindset has turned words like "diversity" into code for some of the sillier sides of political correctness. In the past few days I've realized that's not entirely good because diversity can be a powerful tool for perspective, something society, our culture,...

Former Toad The Wet Sprocket Singer Glen Phillips Interview Part 1: "Indie Music Has Never Been Better"

Josh Hathaway — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:08:55 EDT

Part 1 of my interview with Glen Phillips...
Glen Phillips has seen the music world through a prism that has broken down the industry into a vast rainbow of colors of confusion. He helped found Toad The Wet Sprocket at age 14 while still in high school and the band was signed by Columbia Records by the time he was 18. More than a dozen years later, he was a solo artist and was on his own...

Former Toad The Wet Sprocket Frontman Glen Phillips Guests On B-Sides Concept Album Program Tonight

Josh Hathaway — Thu, 8 May 2008 17:42:27 EDT

A critical piece of the soundtrack of my life...
I went through a huge Tom Petty phase two years ago and I haven't completely recovered from it. While obsessing over all of those great songs and records, I discovered that he did a book of sorts. It wasn't an autobiography, per se. Instead, he agreed to a series of interviews with Paul Zollo in which the two of them discussed pretty...