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PEOPLE & ARTS Saturday 23 March 2019
After a decade, Wallows finally releases band’s first album

By ALICIA RANCILIO like a nerd for “Guitar Hero”
Associated Press and posted my high scores
NEW YORK (AP) — In their online. Minnette: You did?
early days, the Beatles Preston: Scorehero.com.
were called Johnny and I’m sure they’re still up
the Moondogs and Cold- there. Drumbum1096 was
play went by Pectoralz. The my handle.
rock band Wallows is no dif- Minnette: My dad was also
ferent. a musician so we’d sit at
Over the years, the trio has dinner and he’d be like,
had a number of names, “Who’s this again, Dylan?”
from the Feaver to The Nar- ‘’Stevie Wonder.” Then I
whals. Now they’re taking started discovering my own
a big step to help people music like Kings of Leon.
remember the band: A full- Also from streaming music.
length album. I know a lot of people can
Wallows is made up of say a lot about the digital
“13 Reasons Why” star age of music, but I feel like
Dylan Minnette, fellow ac- This March 20, 2019 photo shows Braeden Lemasters, left, Cole Preston, center, and Dylan Minnette it’s so easy, in the best way,
tor Braeden Lemasters (his of the indie rock band Wallows posing for a portrait at SIR Studios in Los Angeles. to discover music now. You
credits include Amazon’s Associated Press can discover incredible art-
“The Romanoffs”) and Cole said Preston. Preston: We were way Lemasters: For me, it was ists all day long.
Preston. They’ve released The trio talked to The As- more confident then. my dad. He was in bands AP: Your album cover looks
singles independently, sociated Press about their AP: What does it feel like when I was growing up and like a simple piece of fab-
toured, and recorded an intro to music, choosing to have what you’ve been I would go to his gigs. And ric. Talk about that.
EP in 2018, but their de- an album cover and finally working toward finally he showed me the Beatles Lemasters: Album covers
but, 11-track studio album, releasing their album. An- come out? when I was like 9 and it and band names are the
called “Nothing Hap- swers have been edited for Minnette: We’ve always blew my mind. It just kind of hardest thing to think of.
pens,” is out Friday. They’re clarity and brevity. known, we’re going to be happened. I started play- We reached out to a lot of
launching a tour through AP: You’ve been together an album band. We want- ing guitar for eight hours a artists and they sent us re-
North America and parts of since you were kids. When ed our records to be co- day in my room at around ally good stuff but it didn’t
Europe beginning in April at you think back to those hesive, make a lot of sense 10 and then formed (this) connect. And our man-
the Coachella Valley Music early days, do you feel like and be projects that stand band. That was it. ager was texting us like,
and Arts Festival. It’s been you were good from the on their own. And I feel like Preston: I remember when “Guys, where’s the album
a long time coming for the start? we definitely reveal a lot “Guitar Hero” and “Rock cover? This is two days late.
trio but they agree the tim- Minnette: Oh, we’ve defi- more than we ever have Band” were really big and You’re not going to have a
ing is right. “Had we been nitely gotten better over in our songs. AP: How did I became obsessed. I de- vinyl for the release.” And
doing well when we were time but I’d say we were you get this knowledge of cided I wanted to play a I took out my phone and
kids, it would’ve been a pretty badass when we music as kids to even start real instrument so started took a picture of the back
completely different thing,” were 13. a band? playing the drums. But I was of Dylan’s shirt jokingly.q

‘Thrones’ actress Emilia Clarke says she’s had 2 aneurysms

Associated Press I’d respond, ‘How many
NEW YORK (AP) — “Game men do I need to kill to
of Thrones” actress Emilia prove myself?’”
Clarke revealed Thursday She said she suffered a sub-
that she has had two life- arachnoid hemorrhage,
threatening aneurysms, which can very easily be
and two brain surgeries, fatal. She was unable to
since the show began. speak her full name even
An unknown actress before weeks later.
landing the role, Clarke The second surgery, which
had just finished filming her was more invasive and in-
first season as Daenerys volved opening her skull,
Targaryen, the “Mother of came after Clarke finished
Dragons,” on the HBO fan- shooting the third season.
tasy series when she had “I looked as though I had
the first aneurysm in 2011 at been through a war more
age 24 while working out at gruesome than any that
a London gym. Daenerys experienced,”
“Just when all my child- Clarke writes. “I emerged
hood dreams seemed to from the operation with
have come true, I nearly This Feb. 24, 2019 file photo, Emilia Clarke arrives at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party in Beverly Hills, a drain coming out of my
lost my mind and then my Calif. head. Bits of my skull had
life,” Clarke writes in a first- Associated Press been replaced by titanium.
person story in The New healthy all her life, but was tions about the nudity of question: some variation These days, you can’t see
Yorker . “I’ve never told this suffering from serious stress her character, a conquer- of ‘You play such a strong the scar that curves from
story publicly, but now it’s when the artery burst in ing queen, in the show’s woman, and yet you take my scalp to my ear, but I
time.” her brain. Much of it came first episode. off your clothes. Why?’” didn’t know at first that it
Clarke said she had been from constant press ques- “I always got the same Clarke writes. “In my head, wouldn’t be visible.” q