Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With Heather Baron-Gracie (Pale Waves)
Pale Waves make the kind of shimmery, challenging pop music that draws you in after one listen and that nails

A Conversation With BAND-MAID
The best rock ‘n’ roll bands combine inventive songwriting, skillful playing and the understanding that, above all, rock ‘n’ roll

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

A Conversation With Michael Astley-Brown (Maebe)
You might not know it by looking at today’s pop charts, but instrumental rock music has a long and storied

A Conversation With Chris Butler (Waitresses)
For a brief time in the early ’80s, tomorrow, to paraphrase the title of their debut album, was wonderful for

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

A Conversation With Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies)
Back in 2000, Barenaked Ladies’ Maroon was its own sort of panacea for America’s millennium blues. The Toronto quintet’s fifth

A Conversation With Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus)
Many bands have used 1960s garage punk as a jumping off point for their sound, but few have done so

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

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

A Conversation With Chris Hillman (Byrds, Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Desert Rose Band)
Singer, songwriter, bassist, mandolin/guitar player. Chris Hillman has worn many hats in his long musical career as a solo artist

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

A Conversation With Richard Butler (Psychedelic Furs)
Any band that was big in the ’80s has a lot to answer for when it chooses to mount a

A Conversation With Jack Gibson (Tenlons Fort)
While rolling through the small town of Waller, Texas, singer/songwriter Jack Gibson watched his hero Daniel Johnston start to fall

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

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

A Conversation With David Gordon (FUNKILLER)
While sitting at his home in Gainesville, Fla., David Gordon apprehensively chats about his forthcoming FUNKILLER record. Talking about his

A Conversation With Dennis DeYoung (Styx)
Inside most indie rockers of a certain age there’s a closet Styx lover. The group may never have been a