Rolling Stone : Self http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self?source=self_rssfeed Rolling Stone gives you total Self coverage including free music, videos, photos, music news and exclusive Rolling Stone articles. http://i.rollingstone.com/rs/images/rs_logo.gif RollingStone http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self?source=self_rssfeed 140 37 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en-us © Copyright 2008 Rolling Stone Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:05:45 PDT Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:05:45 PDT Article : Self Find Pop Magic in Toy Box http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5919456/self_find_pop_magic_in_toy_box http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5919456/self_find_pop_magic_in_toy_box?source=self_rssfeed Wed, 13 Dec 2000 12:00:00 PST As he was growing up in East Tennessee, Matt Mahaffey was never like the other kids. Instead of wasting those precious hours of his youth in front of a television playing the latest video game systems, Mahaffey, with the help of his older brother Mike, was writing songs about those games his young peers couldn't get enough of. "I had a Mattel Star Guitar," he remembers. "It had one knob and one string. It was red, shaped like a star and had distortion. We would write songs about Bezerk and all... ]]> Article : Self Find Pop Magic in Toy Box http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5919085/self_find_pop_magic_in_toy_box http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5919085/self_find_pop_magic_in_toy_box?source=self_rssfeed Fri, 08 Dec 2000 12:00:00 PST As he was growing up in East Tennessee, Matt Mahaffey was never like the other kids. Instead of wasting those precious hours of his youth in front of a television playing the latest video game systems, Mahaffey, with the help of his older brother Mike, was writing songs about those games his young peers couldn't get enough of. "I had a Mattel Star Guitar," he remembers. "It had one knob and one string. It was red, shaped like a star and had distortion. We would write songs about Bezerk and all... ]]> Article : Self Begin a Childish Experience http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5923106/self_begin_a_childish_experience http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5923106/self_begin_a_childish_experience?source=self_rssfeed Sat, 09 Jan 1999 12:00:00 PST Matt Mahaffey is teeming with creative energy, and for a man-child with the dexterity to shred on all manner of musical instruments and a whole lotta free time on his hands, anything's possible. So, it wasn't especially strange when Mahaffey, frontman of the industrial pop band Self, abandoned all elements of rock conventionality, summoned his inner child and started recording with instruments he purchased from Toys "R" Us. |


Seriously.


Taking a cue from an unknown indie band called Pianosaurus,...

]]> Article : Toy Soldiers http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5922807/toy_soldiers http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/self/articles/story/5922807/toy_soldiers?source=self_rssfeed Fri, 08 Jan 1999 12:00:00 PST Matt Mahaffey is teeming with creative energy, and for a man-child with the dexterity to shred on all manner of musical instruments and a whole lotta free time on his hands, anything's possible. So, it wasn't especially strange when Mahaffey, frontman of the industrial pop band Self, abandoned all elements of rock conventionality, summoned his inner child and started recording with instruments he purchased from Toys "R" Us.

Seriously.

Taking a cue from an unknown indie band called Pianosa...

]]>