Category: INTERVIEWS

Forbidden Planet is considered a science-fiction classic for many reasons. Not least because the 1956 movie’s groundbreaking electronic score by

“I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be home again,” Norman Blake sings on “Home,” the seven-minute opener to Teenage Fanclub’s

Pale Waves make the kind of shimmery, challenging pop music that draws you in after one listen and that nails

The best rock ‘n’ roll bands combine inventive songwriting, skillful playing and the understanding that, above all, rock ‘n’ roll

It took Matthew Sweet 30 years and 15 studio albums to conjure the cojones to play lead guitar on record.

You might not know it by looking at today’s pop charts, but instrumental rock music has a long and storied

For a brief time in the early ’80s, tomorrow, to paraphrase the title of their debut album, was wonderful for

If Big Star was one of rock history’s great oversights, it’s a bit easier to understand the plight of one

Back in 2000, Barenaked Ladies’ Maroon was its own sort of panacea for America’s millennium blues. The Toronto quintet’s fifth

Many bands have used 1960s garage punk as a jumping off point for their sound, but few have done so

Joey Molland is the last one standing in Badfinger, a band whose horrific hard-luck story is one of rock’s great

Dawes has been nothing if not consistent, releasing an album every two years (or less) since its 2009 debut. And

Singer, songwriter, bassist, mandolin/guitar player. Chris Hillman has worn many hats in his long musical career as a solo artist

Chris Stamey, founder of wonderfully off-kilter pop mavens the dB’s, has had a wide-ranging and fruitful career with numerous solo

Any band that was big in the ’80s has a lot to answer for when it chooses to mount a

While rolling through the small town of Waller, Texas, singer/songwriter Jack Gibson watched his hero Daniel Johnston start to fall

With the new, self-released Moon Shot, singer/songwriter/guitarist John Davis and his Lees Of Memory cohorts (guitarist Brandon Fisher and drummer

Tim O’Reagan is about as unassuming as they come. You might even call him the “quiet Jayhawk” (not that anyone