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10,000 Maniacs

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10,000 Maniacs: 10,000 tensions relieved!!

Interview by David A. Keeps, New Musical Express, 8 September 1984

DAVID KEEPS finds 10,000 MANIACS happy at home. ...

10,000 Maniacs

Interview by Bill Black, Sounds, 6 October 1984

"MY UNCLE CHARLIE read somewhere that we were a cult band so he thought we were playing for the Moonies. He even confronted me with ...

10,000 Maniacs: Marquee, London

Live Review by David Quantick, New Musical Express, 6 October 1984

LOONIES FROZE MY BIRD-BATH!!! ...

10,000 Maniacs: Dingwalls, London

Live Review by Chris Roberts, Sounds, 20 April 1985

IT IS NOT generally known that the Sea Witch behind the last whirlpool in the north, who died for love, had a younger sister, and ...

10,000 Maniacs: At Least Six Are Not Insane

Profile and Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, February 1986

JAMESTOWN, NEW York, about 400 miles from NYC, is home for 10,000 Maniacs. ...

10,000 Maniacs: The Wishing Chair (Elektra)

Review by Ira Robbins, Rolling Stone, 27 March 1986

LEST 10,000 Maniacs be mistaken for members of the SoHo establishment, check your map: the sextet's home base, Jamestown, New York, is roughly the same ...

The Cure/10,000 Maniacs: The Pier, New York City

Live Review by Abby Weissman, East Coast Rocker, 23 July 1986

THE CURE do what they damn please; it is both their strength and their curse. During their ten years together, the band has changed attitude ...

10,000 Maniacs: In My Tribe (Elektra)

Review by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 5 September 1987

TRIBAL MAGIC ...

REM and 10,000 Maniacs: Rulers Of The Campus

Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 25 September 1987

College rock is alive and gigging in the US. MARK COOPER hears why from Michael Stipe of REM and Natalie Merchant of 10,000 Maniacs ...

10,000 Maniacs: Variety Arts Center, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Gerrie Lim, L.A. Weekly, 2 October 1987

THEY WERE 9,995 maniacs short on stage, but a winsome chanteuse compensated for the missing madmen, and no link was missed. Natalie Merchant is enchanting, ...

10,000 Maniacs: Mood Music

Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Q, January 1988

IN 10,000 MANIACS' native America, hotel operators hang up when friends ask for the band by name and nervous radio programmers assume that Elektra are ...

10,000 Maniacs: Merchant Banquet

Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 23 April 1988

WHILE 10,000 MANIACS ARE UP, UP, AND AWAY, SINGER NATALIE MERCHANT IS IMMERSED IN SOME GRAND DIVERSIONS OF HER OWN. SHE TAKES A SPRINGY STEP OFF THE UP ESCALATOR TO ...

Rock & Roll Acid Test: 10,000 Maniacs

Interview by Bruce Pollock, Guitar, May 1988

TURNING POINTS in the history of rock 'n' roll are moments frozen into the souls of those who witness them. Up in the Northeast Tundra ...

10,000 Maniacs: A Lioness's Share of Woe

Interview by Mark Cooper, The Guardian, 19 May 1989

Natalie Merchant is fighting the world's battles in her songs. Mark Cooper finds out why. ...

10,000 Maniacs: The Queen of Nostalgia Gets Real

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 13 August 1989

10,000 Maniacs' Natalie Merchant puts focus on the here and now ...

Paul Fox: College Rock Wizard

Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Musician, October 1992

PRODUCER PAUL Fox came up as a keyboard player in the skinny-tie era. "When I first moved to L.A., there was a big banner on ...

Natalie Merchant: Little Sister Syndrome

Interview by Andy Gill, MOJO, December 1993

MOJO: YOU'VE BEEN described as "interminably serious". Is that accurate? ...

see also Natalie Merchant

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