7/25/2023 0 Comments Roxanne radio silence![]() We recorded the basic tracks on two-inch analog tape. Tell me about your decision to record this album analog. The actual record, from beginning to end, from the day we started to the day it will come out took three years to create, so it’s been a long process. It’s exciting! It’s a nervous thing at times, but we enjoyed the process. What does it feel like to be back, releasing new music decades later? ![]() Roxanne frontman Jamie Brown spoke with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio about the new album and how music has changed since Roxanne first got together.Ĭongrats on the new album, “Radio Silence.” You released your first album in the ‘80s. The album packs a musical punch with crunchy guitars, catchy melodies and guest appearances from George Lynch, King’s X frontman dUg Pinnick and Korn drummer Ray Luzier. Los Angeles-based Roxanne came on the scene in the late-‘80s with hard-rocking tunes such as “Cherry Bay” and “Sweet Maria,” but their timing came right before grunge turned the rock world upside down, and pretty soon, the airwaves made way for the “Smells Like Teen Spirits” of the time.įast-forward to today, and Roxanne is back with their sophomore album, “Radio Silence,” out Friday (Oct. 26 on Rat Pak Records) is an unadulterated sonic confirmation that good things do indeed come to those who wait Roxanne’s new album, “Radio Silence,” (released Oct.Jamie Brown chats with Anne Erickson about Roxanne’s new album and more It’s been a few years (30, to be exact) since frontman Jamie Brown and bandmates Joe Infante (bass), John Butler (guitar) and Dave Landry (drums) delivered their self-titled debut album to an eager listening public at the apex of Sunset Strip-era hard rock. But the cracks in an already-overcrowded scene were beginning to show. “There were things popping up, and you could see on the horizon that it was going to be over for Sunset Strip metal.” “Our record came out in ’88, and it was on the chopping block by then,” said Brown of the West Coast music scene in a phone interview. He was right, and soon thereafter Roxanne went into a self-imposed 30-year slumber exactly one record in.īrown kept himself and his bandmates busy, however, by putting together his Perfect World Entertainment company, a world leader in the production of musical-era tributes. Roxanne was sleeping, but she wasn’t dead.Īnd now, three decades later, the time is right for a reawakening. The band’s brand of blues-based music, with its no-frills muscle and Queen-esque vocal harmonies is not only still there on “Radio Silence,” it’s there in spades, aged like a fine wine as is evidenced by the album’s uber-catchy “Someone To Kill” and “Broken Chandeliers,” as well as the closer, “First Mistake,” a winding 7-minute montage of 4-part vocal harmonies set amongst a classic Bad Company/Aerosmith-tinged riff before breaking into a beautiful acoustic guitar part and outro. With “Radio Silence,” it truly is better late than never. ![]() ListenIowa caught up with Brown recently to discuss the new album, and the long road that led to “Radio Silence” and the harmonies that lie within.ĭid you grow up wanting to front a rock band? I have two older brothers, and my whole family was into music and singing and playing it was always around the house. But I actually got into filmmaking, and I was supposed to go to college for that. I was also playing in bands, though, so I had to choose more school or more rock n’ roll, and I took the rock n’ roll route. (laughs)Īnything in particular that tilted you in that direction? Females and laziness. ![]() What was it about filmmaking that intrigued you? I don’t know. I got interested in it as a kid, we made little movies, and any money I could scrape together, I would buy better camera equipment. ![]() I actually had a full scholarship to the Pasadena College or Art and Design that I bailed on to do music instead. How did Roxanne get rolling initially? Joe and I were in the market for a new guitar player and drummer, and there was a local Battle of the Bands in Riverside, California. We were on the judging panel, and we liked one of the bands. So they won - thanks to us - and then they joined our band. We wrote some songs, found a manager who lived in L.A., did a few showcases, and signed a deal with Scotti Brothers. Our name made it sound like we were (part of the Strip scene), but we were desert rats. We almost had a punk rock attitude during our shows. You put out the self-titled debut in 1988. ![]()
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