Chemistry may be difficult to define, but that unseen spark that creates an electric attraction between elements is undeniably crucial to a band's sound and, ultimately, its success. Semisonic has… By ...

The success of Semisonic's Feeling Strangely Fine, and its ubiquitous single "Closing Time," was one of 1998's most encouraging musical success stories: It brought overdue recognition to a band that ...

Leaving a community chorus practice, Dan Wilson was approached by a fellow singer about a Chicks concert she attended the previous year. “She said they played one of her favorite songs by anybody, ...

After Train’s “Meet Virginia” and Semisonic’s “Closing Time” stormed the charts two years ago, the task facing these two relatively faceless multiplatinum bands was clear as they crafted follow-up ...

Wilson has maintained a forward-facing ethos over the past decade-plus: After the band’s 2001 record, All About Chemistry, he developed a second career as a Grammy-winning songwriter and producer, ...

In a recent MTV interview, Dan Wilson contested Semisonic's status as a "one-hit wonder," asserting that his band couldn't possibly fall under that label. How could the public be so quick to label a ...

Semisonic, a 1990s band best known for giving us “Closing Time,” haven’t released an album since 2001’s All About Chemistry. Lead singer Dan Wilson has become a writing/producing powerhouse, though, ...

Semisonic reunited for a handful of shows back in 2017, but the Twin Cities trio went their separate ways following the release of their third album, All About Chemistry, back in 2001 and haven’t ...

Semisonic? The Minneapolis trio was more like Supersonic at the House of Blues on Tuesday, delivering a deceptively casual, bar-rocking set of carefully crafted melodic gems about the ups and downs of ...

is ‘Everybody Hurts’, they’re on support band terms with Stereophonics and they wrote the music for [I]American Pie[/I]. If these aren’t reasons enough to swerve Semisonic’s third album like you would ...

Good pop music walks a line between being pleasing to the ear and being emotionally substantial. On “All About Chemistry,” Semisonic’s follow-up to its platinum-selling debut, “Feeling Strangely Fine” ...