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About Me

I'm Jen, the owner of STRATOSPHERE FANZINE music YAHOO GROUP, and contributing writer at Delusions Of Adequacy (http://www.adequacy.net/author/stratosphere/), Tasty Fanzine, and Junk Media at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Stratosphere_Fanzine/
a website where I've put all the BAND AND SINGER INTERVIEWS I've done over the years (1990's to now) for my once-paper fanzine, Stratosphere - plus loads more.
FEEL FREE TO JOIN AND PROMOTE YOUR MUSIC, LABEL, BAND, RECORD LABEL, AND/OR MUSICAL INTERESTS AT MY GROUP!
I've INTERVIEWED MIKI OF LUSH, THE CHURCH, KATHLEEN HANNA (ex-BIKINI KILL and Julie Ruin), CRANES, CATHERINE WHEEL, SECRET SHINE, BIS, CUB, HYDROPLANE, ALISON'S HALO, SLOAN, loveliescrushing, SKINNED TEEN, b'ehl, Faith & Disease, SOME VELVET SIDEWALK, Geir of BIOSPHERE, Seana (ex-SWIRLIES), and BRITTA PHILLIPS (ex-Belltower, now LUNA) -
and more recently, all 7 members of PROLAPSE, STEVEN of BLOOD RED SHOES, SCOTT of SONS AND DAUGHTERS, MICHAEL of THERAPY?, INGER LORRE of The Nymphs, SCOTT of SECRET SHINE, AMY DUNCAN, Christian (SLOWDIVE) and Sean of MONSTER MOVIE, LOVESPIRALS, MALORY, kaRIN of COLLIDE, Dustin of DEVICS, Liam of COUSTEAU, Amber of JUCIFER, members of MIRA, Emma (LUSH) and Lisa of SING-SING, MARIJNE of SALAD and COWBOY RACER, and SIMON RAYMONDE (COCTEAU TWINS and BELLA UNION record label)!
Plus, check out lots of PHOTOS of bands/singers - like MIKI Berenyi and LUSH, STEVE KILBEY and THE CHURCH, BJORK of THE SUGARCUBES, CHARLOTTE GAINSGOURG, DEPECHE MODE, SONIC YOUTH, MORRISSEY of THE SMITHS, TORI AMOS, KURT COBAIN and NIRVANA, MUSE, BRETT ANDERSON and SUEDE, ALISON SHAW and CRANES, PORTISHEAD, JESUS AND MARY CHAIN, SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, ROBERT SMITH of THE CURE, PJ HARVEY, THERAPY?, TONI HALLIDAY and CURVE, KATIE JANE GARSIDE AND QUEEN ADREENA, and much more.
The MESSAGE BOARD is active, with various music-related TOP 10 LISTS and other MUSIC MUSINGS, as well as addition of BAND AND SINGER REPLIES to a QUESTION LIST I sent around - so far I'VE POSTED ANSWERS from TOM of THURSDAY, KIM of THE MUFFS, DEAN&BRITTA, CLIENT, ADAM of ALISON'S HALO, TREMBLING BLUE STARS, SCOTT of SECRET SHINE, Ben of Miranda Sex Garden, Kristy Thirsk, Sleepthief, The Duke Spirit, Glider, Televise, OLIVER of DULCESKY, DEAN GARCIA of CURVE, Rickey of SCARLING, MARIJNE of SALAD and COWBOY RACER, and CAMERA OBSCURA.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Pretty much all the bands and singers I admire, plus a select few actors and actresses...

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My Blog

My Album Review - Era Vulgaris / Queens of the Stone Age

Josh Homme, the mastermind and mainstay of Queens Of The Stone Age, is back with the next incarnation of the band's revolving-door line-up, which includes Chris Goss, Troy van Leeuwen, Joey Castillo, ...
Posted by on Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:31:00 GMT

My Review of My Milky Way Arms EP / My Milky Way Arms

My Milky Way Arms is a collaboration between Houston, Texas-based MilkMan and Tim2K.  They formed the band in the summer of 2007 and recently released this self-titled, resplendent 5-song EP that...
Posted by on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 11:33:00 GMT

My Album Review: Mantaray / Siouxsie

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />The iconic and inimitable Siouxsie Sioux is back with a solo album titled Mantaray and, this time around her lyrics and vocal ...
Posted by on Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:10:00 GMT

My Album Review - All of the Stars / Secret Shine

The 1990s shoegazer band returns with a stellar album high on swirling, distorted guitars and sweet, sky-gazing male and female harmonies...:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:40:00 GMT

My Album Review - You and I in the Kaleidoscope / Kites

The band Kites is, in actuality, one-man maestro Jean-Philip Grobler who, over a three year period, created this finely detailed, richly layered, but immediately catchy, four-song EP, writing the song...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Aug 2008 15:38:00 GMT

My Guide to the Recordings of... Lush

My article about Lush's recordings originally appeared at Delusions Of Adequacy with the title "DOA's Guide to the Recordings of& Lush" and credited to me, "Jen Stratsophere Fanzine".  My article...
Posted by on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:51:00 GMT

My Album Review: In Our Bedroom After The War / Stars

Canadian quintet Stars boast three members who are also in the band Broken Social Scene (vocalists Torquil Campbell and Amy Millan and bassist Evan Cranley) and they fit snugly amid those many-member ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:39:00 GMT

My Album Review: Hideout / Film School

Most of the songs on five-piece ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Film School's junior album (sophomore album on record label Beggars Banquet) pass with fly...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:38:00 GMT

My Album Review: April / Sun Kil Moon

Mark Kozelek returns this April under the Sun Kil Moon moniker, releasing the aptly-titled April (the follow-up to his critically-lauded Ghosts Of The Great Highway album from 2003) on his own Caldo V...
Posted by on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:37:00 GMT

My Album Review: Hvarf/Heim / Sigur Ros

Sigur Ros are the second most famous band to come out of Iceland (the first being The Sugarcubes, which featured Bjork as a prominent member of the artistic collective, before she went her own way), a...
Posted by on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:17:00 GMT