Liz Phair Does ‘Fashion Rocks’ Magazine
Liz Phair, amazing musician and sexpot, is featured in the new issue of Fashion Rocks magazine which came as a supplement to the September issue of Details magazine. The magazine which marries music and fashion showcases the lovely Ms. Phair in a short piece on her new album and offers some new insight about her previous work that I was unaware of:
In the piece, entitled Dirty Pretty Thing, Liz gushes a bit about her new boyfriend for the early part of the article without offering too much information about him … which I thought was kinda cute. She talks about her debut album Exile in Guyville but it’s pretty much the same sort of stuff that we’ve heard her say over the years … I was more interested in learning that her last album Somebody’s Miracle (which I love) did not feature her on guitar. She wrote all of the music but she claims that higher-ups at her record label (Capitol) insisted on having the guitarist in her band play all of her guitar parts for her:
The album was then barely promoted and ultimately flopped, yet Phair says label president Andy Slater made it as difficult as possible for her to get out of her contract.
The final portion of the article talks about her upcoming return to her “indie roots” by releasing an album on Dave Matthews’s ATO Records label:
On her upcoming album, she’s happily preserving the “messy, sloppy Liz Phair core of passion” by reinstating spontaneity as the key ingredient. Every sound will be genuine Phair, not just her vocals and guitars but sounds from her everyday life, like the thundering horse hooves of her corral and the waves crashing outside her Manhattan Beach, CA home … “Everything I’ve been doing is coming from a really right place, like I’ve never been this happy …”
To which I say, Hallelujah. Unlike a bitchy group of indie snobs who cast her out and basically spit upon her — metaphorically, of course — after she released her “mainstream” album Liz Phair, I have been a huge fan of hers from the start. Getting to see her perform 2 nights at the Hiro Ballroom earlier this summer was such a treat … I am so ready for new Liz Phair music. I’m excited at the prospect of a totally Phair album … all her, entirely. She is an amazing talent and I know the best is yet to come. If you’re not familiar with her work, I highly suggest you seek it out. She is one of my fave artists ever, I think y’all may love her, too.
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August 14th, 2008 at 3:46 pm
Awww thanks for putting up Liz Phair info!!! I’ve been in love with her music FOREVER from EIG through the rockier bits of Somebody’s Miracle. I can’t wait for the new album and I hope that her music reflects the new happiness and peace she’s finding in life…. and of course some of the raunchier bits that we always expect from Phair :-P
August 14th, 2008 at 5:04 pm
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August 14th, 2008 at 9:05 pm
Thanks so much!! i was wondering where she went i LOVE liz <3
August 15th, 2008 at 4:42 pm
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August 15th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
Thank you from the Netherlands, Amsterdam, where Liz Phair news is very very welcome since there is so little!!! I am a fan from waaaay back, her first album and I actually discovered THIS site cus you wrote a little blog about her some years ago! So thanks Liz and Thank you!
I saw her 5 (!!) years ago performing here in amsterdam and I could almost touch her, I was standing so close to her :) she was awesome
cheers
August 20th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
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