Category: FIVE QUESTIONS

Five Questions With Mike Scott (Waterboys)
Leave it to Mike Scott to fashion an entire song cycle around the misadventures of one of Hollywood’s most rebellious

Five Questions With Miki Berenyi (Miki Berenyi Trio, Lush, Piroshka)
These days, it’s back to basics for Miki Berenyi. Best known for her work with ’90s shoegaze/dream-pop pioneers Lush, the

Five Questions With Craig Finn (Hold Steady)
If a collaboration between the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn and the War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel seems strange in theory,

Five Questions With Dean Wareham (Luna, Dean & Britta, Galaxie 500)
That’s The Price Of Loving Me (Carpark), Dean Wareham’s fourth solo album, marks the first time he’s worked with Shimmy

Five Questions With Nels Cline (Wilco, Consentrik Quartet)
With Wilco on hiatus, Nels Cline has been making the most of his so-called downtime. The guitarist is currently prepping

Five Questions With Coyote Theory
Orlando, Fla.’s Coyote Theory is the perfect poster band for the digital age. Friends since childhood, the jazz-tinged, indie-pop quartet

Five Questions With Colin Newman And Malka Spigel
Wire’s Colin Newman has found a late-life resurgence of creative energy with Immersion, the Brighton, England, electronic duo he formed

Five Questions With Lauren Mayberry (Chvrches)
Chvrches frontwoman Lauren Mayberry is currently on an extensive tour in support her first solo album, Vicious Creature (EMI/Island). Its

Five Questions With Cymande
Back in 1973, Cymande (pronounced “sah-mahn-day”) was poised to make a sustained international splash. The U.K. band’s debut single, “The

Five Questions With Susan Cowsill (Cowsills, Continental Drifters)
Anyone who thinks of the Cowsills solely as the eternally sunny harmonists behind ’60s hits such as “The Rain, The

Five Questions With Adam Weiner (Low Cut Connie)
When I met Adam Weiner in 2007, the slicked-back singer and pianist was moving between New York City gay bars

Five Questions With Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes)
Dawes has seen some attrition in the two years since the release of Misadventures Of Doomscroller, the consummate band album

Five Questions With Doug Gillard (And Exclusive Premiere Of Children’s Crusade’s “Lurker On The Threshold”)
The second release from Robert Pollard’s Splendid Research imprint throws a little love in the direction of Guided By Voices

Five Questions With Robyn Hitchcock
Composer, vocalist and author Robyn Hitchcock has long been devoted to the past of psychedelia without ever being devoured by