Category: Music
Out With ‘Old’ Marina, In with Fresh Beats | Interview with 2Carats Shayna Rose, Liz Shea
I’m so excited that I had the opportunity to chat with Shayna Rose (Fresh Beat Band’s original Marina and Stephanie of Days of Our Lives) and her music partner Liz Shea of 2Carats. This was genuinely one of my favorite interviews (EVER!) with two very funny and talented ladies. Shayna talks about why she left [...]
Ask Fresh Beat’s ‘Old’ Marina and Learn About Her Sparkly New Band
Updated: Check out the interview! Okay everyone. I’ve been hinting at some big news that I have for you … and here it is: Prime Parents Club has scored an interview with Shayna Rose, better known to most of you as the “old Marina” from Fresh Beat Band. That’s right, take a moment to let [...]
Music Retrospective Review | Let’s Active’s ‘Cypress’
Musicians say clearance bins are where records go to die, but I disagree. There are some records in clearance bins that have never really lived – at least not in the headspace of the record-buying public. Eleven years ago, I happened upon an antiquated analog album – a cassette, of all dead media formats – [...]
Music Review | ‘Obscurities’ by Stephin Merritt
Stephin Merritt has a way of clinging to my brainstem as though it’s a vine in a jungle, and he’s a monkey bent on boosting all of the bananas in my brain. Since I am completely and totally bananas – my wife will freely attest to my apelike nature – my brain is a place where Merritt [...]
Music Review | Sam Phillips’s ‘Solid State’
The most common ailment amongst music critics is fifth Beatle syndrome. Sure, there were people like Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe, who were actually the fifth and sixth members of the Beatles, historically speaking. But this is not what I mean. No, music critics have long made a party pastime of pinning the fifth-member tail [...]
