For a guy who once wrote a song called “One-Hit Wonder,” Art Alexakis sure as hell isn’t living like one.
The 63-year-old main creative force behind Everclear has had to endure some major changes in the last few years, including adjusting to a Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis. But he hasn’t let it deter him in the least. “I have an immediacy, a sense of urgency to work, just to put things down, to create,” he told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay during a recent phone call.
Alexakis revealed that he’s been working on a long-awaited memoir with his friend, after years of publishing talks, and there are even hopes to go full steam ahead on a new Everclear album (its first since 2015’s Black Is The New Black), which he wants to get out by summertime so he can do a fall tour behind it this time next year…