Interviews and Reviews of Ben Folds Five

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Songs for Summer, a benefit compilation which features "Where's Summer B" as its leadoff track, is the subject of an article in Sonicnet, the online music news web-zine.
Article about the Fall 1999 German tour, by Alan Maimon, in the Raleigh (N.C.) News and Observer.
Show review of the Indiana University show October 19, 1999, in the Indiana Daily Student newspaper.
Review of Pontiac, Michigan show October 17, 1999, in the State News, the daily newspaper of Michigan State University, by Dan Austin.
Article about the band in the October 1999 issue of Smug Magazine, a ska/punk/metal/hiphop-flavored music magazine from New York.
Interview with Ben and article on the band in the September 1999 issue of Keyboard magazine.
Interview with Darren Jessee, by David John Farinella, in the September 1999 issue of Modern Drummer magazine.
Interview with Ben Folds, by Paul Zollo, in The Oxford American, Southern Music Issue #2 (Double Issue #21-22, issued July 1998). The issue includes a bound-in CD containing 19 tracks including "Tom & Mary" as well as a new song by R.E.M. and a wide range of southern music from Rosemary Clooney to Vic Chesnutt. The Oxford American does not have a website but you can send them e-mail at oxam@watervalley.net or call 800-269-6926 for subscription information.
Interview with Robert Sledge in the June 1998 issue of Bass Player magazine.
Review of "Ben Folds Five" in The Music Critic, a little late but very positive nonetheless.
Article by James K. Cribb in Amplifier Magazine, Vol 3, #1, April 1998. Read an excerpt on the magazine's website.
National Public Radio's "Fresh Air", Thursday, April 9, 1998, available via RealAudio.
Ben Folds Five is the cover story on the March 1998 issue of CMJ New Music Magazine. The magazine comes with a CD which contains a previously-unreleased live recording of "Smoke".
Article in Rolling Stone, March 5, 1998
Articles from the Raleigh, N.C. News and Observer:
- Five Live, a review of the band's January 10, 1998 appearance on Saturday Night Live, by David Menconi (Jan. 12, 1998)
- Stealing the Scene, exploring how Ben Folds Five and the Squirrel Nut Zippers have become the two most popular Triangle-area bands, by David Menconi (Apr. 27, 1997)
Article on Ben Folds Five written by Scott Hess of Chicago's JamTV, with photos and Real Audio clips from the TV interview
Wall of Sound article on Naked Baby Photos and "Brick", Jan. 8, 1998
Another Wall of Sound article on The Late Show appearance and Ben's remarks on having to collapse "Brick" to meet the show's time constraints
Cover Story and interview with Ben Folds Five from 9X, published by Plan 9 Music, a Virginia regional music store chain
Interview with Ben Folds Five in Not For Hire 'Zine, issue #5, which is available for $1.01 to cover postage from
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Interview with Ben Folds on Radiosonic, CBC Radio Two (formerly CBC Stereo), Saturday, Sept. 6, 1997. At their site, listen to a RealAudio recording of the interview.
The Piano Man, article by Eric Broome in Mean Street Magazine, July 1997
Review of "Whatever and Ever Amen" by Gavin McNett in Sharps and Flats, an online section of Salon Magazine sponsored by Borders Books and Music.
Ben Folds interview from The Onion's AV Club, the Internet's entertainment guide
Interview with Darren Jessee by Dave Holloway in Personality Crisis (UK)
Ben Folds Five article by John Chumbris in Music Monitor, a weblication of The Record Exchange, a group of record stores in North Carolina and Virginia.
Article in The Winston-Salem Journal, August 9, 1996
Benjy Portnoy's interview in Night Times Magazine, July 1996.
Will Jones' article in RASP!, the UK's national student magazine, May 30, 1996
Michael Gribble's article in the YoPage of the Gaston Gazette, Gastonia, N.C., September 1996
Article in Q Magazine, July 1996
Articles in the Sydney Morning Herald Tempo Section, June 28, 1996:
- Article about the band
- Review of the album
reviews:
- Review of Fear of Pop Volume 1 by Daniel Aloi, December 7, 1998
- Review of Naked Baby Photos by Bob Gajarsky, January 20, 1998
- Interview by Lang Whitaker on Ben Folds Five, from the October 29, 1997 issue, with the band's impressions of the 1997 Australia tour
- Whatever and Ever Amen Review, April 21, 1997
- Interview with Chapel Hill's The Gladhands, April 21, 1997. BFF bassist Robert Sledge is a former roommate of Gladhands guitar/vocalist Jeff Carlson and plays on six tracks from the new Gladhands album.
- Ben Folds Interview, July 25, 1996
- "The Truth About Cats & Dogs", May 29, 1996
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Article in Drum Media, the Australian music magazine, from June 11, 1996
AJ Metz interview from the Madison Badger Herald
Cleveland Scene Magazine article, Feb. 29, 1996
Minneapolis review, Jan. 31, 1996
The Turntable online magazine article, February 1996
Buzzard Bone article, January 1996
Ears 2 U presents Dave Tolar's Top 10 of 1995. "Ben Folds Five" is #2.
Austin Chronicle article
Chicago Tribune article, Jan. 30, 1996
NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday interview, Jan. 28, 1996
eye WEEKLY, Toronto's arts newspaper, Jan. 4, 1996
Macintosh New York Music Festival
CMJ Magazine, September 1995
Pulse Magazine, September 1995

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