February 2012 kicked off the 0th anniversary of Innocent Words Magazine. With that in mind, we have decided to write one retrospective feature each issue documenting our biggest moments, good, bad or otherwise. “You CANNOT make friends with the rock stars. That's what's important. If you're a rock journalist - first, you will never get [...]
In the fourth or fifth grade I took up the drums as my first instrument. I wanted to be like Peter Criss. That dream died after one lesson. I didn’t know I had to learn notes and hold the sticks a certain way. I hated it and took up guitar a year later. To this [...]
The first rock ‘n’ roll movie I ever saw was “Kiss Meets the Phantom of the Park” on Halloween. Though the movie sucked, it cemented my love for not only music but movies about music. I especially love music documentaries aka “rock docs” where the film maker takes you behind the stage to see the [...]
February 2012 kicked off the 0th anniversary of Innocent Words Magazine. With that in mind, we have decided to write one retrospective feature each issue documenting our biggest moments, good, bad or otherwise. The Chicago band Local H had a pretty good following where I am from because they’d often make the 2-plus hour trek [...]
I am kind of indifferent when it comes to bass. I am glad it’s there in the band, but I don’t obsess over it like a guitarist. I know the bass is important and there are hundreds of bass players that should be on this list rather than the ones I have, but these are [...]
I had a really tough time with this list to only have 10. In fact, I had to have 12. I broke up the singers in to male and female, even after that there were still too many names. So I cut it down to just have rock singers. Jeff Buckley It might sound a [...]
