Within Temptation Biography
Within Temptation have come a long way in the last ten years. From their humble beginnings, the Dutch band have now sold over 1.2 million CDs and DVDs world-wide, making them not only Holland’s biggest selling musical export but also one of the fastest growing new rock acts internationally. Formed in 1996 around [...]

Photo: Anna Victoria Best
Have you ever come across a time where one or more of you just can’t seem to come up with anything?
To write a good song is such a hard thing to do. If you’re doomed to write songs then you have to write songs but you’re not going to be able to [...]

The Rounder Records Story: The 1980s By Geoffrey Himes
“After George Thorogood’s success, every blues artist in the world thought we had the magic touch and approached us about doing an album,” recalls Rounder producer Scott Billington. Thorogood’s second Rounder album, 1979’s Move It on Over, had cracked the top 40 on Billboard’s pop charts and [...]

The new album is very instrumental; does the band have a passion for classical music perhaps more so over modern genres?
As a band we love all types of instrumental music and we like to use a lot of different instruments when making our album. The classical range of bowed and brass have always been our [...]

‘My Kind Of Girl’ sounds like a single to me. Do you think so?
Yeah. Joe was trying to make me go back and write a different chorus because that sounded too commercial. That song is seriously a great lyric and that chorus is the best chorus I’ve ever been involved with in writing, and that [...]

‘My Kind Of Girl’ sounds like a single to me. Do you think so?
Yeah. Joe was trying to make me go back and write a different chorus because that sounded too commercial. That song is seriously a great lyric and that chorus is the best chorus I’ve ever been involved with in writing, and that [...]