Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 15, 2022
Motor Sister, the project featuring Jim Wilson (Mother Superior), Scott Ian (Anthrax), Pearl Aday, Joey Vera (Armored Saint, Fates Warning) and John Tempesta (The Cult), released their new album, Get Off, on May 6th via Metal Blade Records. We caught up with Wilson and Ian to discuss their latest full-length effort. How did […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 4, 2016
Jason Mackenroth, who played drums in both the Rollins band and Mother Superior, has died from prostate cancer. A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help his family. Marcus Blake, who played in both bands with Mackenroth, confirmed his passing via a post on his Facebook page: “Today, I lost a great friend, Jason Mackenroth to […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on March 10, 2015
[youtube]http://youtu.be/prvB0DlzLEc[/youtube] With their debut album, Ride, out in stores today, supergroup Motor Sister have unveiled a video for “A Hole.” While it’s their debut video from the first album, the song will sound familiar to some. Singer/guitarist Jim Wilson led the band Mother Superior for ten albums, but the band never gained more than a cult […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 19, 2015
A lot of supergroups come off like they were created in a record label board room or lawyer’s offices. That’s not the case at all with Motor Sister, a band featuring Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian, his wife Pearl Aday, Armored Saint’s Joey Vera, and drummer John Tempesta. The singer and guitarist of the band, Jim […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 13, 2015
What to do when your favorite band breaks up? Most people mourn a bit, then respect the band’s legacy by letting their influence live on via their music. Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian isn’t most people though. Mother Superior was a Los Angeles trio that broke up in the early 2000s after releasing eight albums. The […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 7, 2015
Last year for Scott Ian’s birthday, the Anthrax guitarist assembled an all-star lineup to play music by one of his favorite bands, Mother Superior. The little-known band served as the Rollins Band’s backing musicians from 1997-2003. Scott got the band’s singer/guitarist Jim Wilson, John Tempesta of The Cult, his wife Pearl Aday (aka Meatloaf’s daughter), […]
