Press: Spalding Rockwell in ANIMAL magazine Summer 2004

Spalding Rockwell was featured in the Summer 2004 issue of Animal Magazine.

Animal Magazine Summer 2004 cover.

The collaboration with Armand Van Helden ("Hear My Name") was released as the single for van Helden's album "New York: A Mix Odyssey" in 2004 (Sony Southern Fried Records), ML and Nicole were invited to open Winter Music Conference / Ultra Music Festival in Miami, FL live on Pete Tong's BBC Radio 1 livestream. Later in 2005, Spalding Rockwell collaborated again with van Helden for the song "Jenny" (released on Ultra Records).

Defend Music released Spalding Rockwell's full-length LP Kate in 2004. The album was written, performed, produced, engineered by ML and Nicole in their New York City recording studio. Later the same year, Defend Music released Spalding Rockwell's Kate: The Remixes album in 2005.

Mary Louise "ML" Platt Perlman and Nicole Lombardi in Summer 2004 Issue of Animal Magazine photo by Ellen Stagg

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Full transcript below...

SPALDING ROCKWELL, MUSICIANS

Paradise exists when ones environment presses pleasantly against ones skin and mind... for us, paradise is playing music on stage. It is a two-fold satisfaction of both experiencing bliss and recognizing that paradise found is the rarest of gifts.

PHOTOGRAPHY: ELLEN STAGG