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Most bands have an enormous hit and they have all kinds of trouble writing a song for their follow-up album. 311 has twenty-one, count ’em, TWENTY-ONE on their second Capricorn Records release, Transistor, and there were others they couldn’t fit on a CD. What?! Them worry about what to do next??!! 311, the rage ofContinue reading “Long Island Entertainment: September 1997”

Blurring the lines is something that 311 does quite well. Since the debut album, Music, the Omaha-born quintet – vocalists Nick Hexum and SA Martinez, bassist P-nut, drummer Chad Sexton and guitarist Timothy J Mahoney — have created a home-brewed amalgam of funk, rock, reggae and hip-hop that has propelled them, slowly, but steadily, intoContinue reading “The Island Ear: August 1997 issue”