Category: INTERVIEWS

“Average” has pretty much been standard operating procedure for the Connells over the past 36 years. Average dudes in average

Native Sons (New West) is an atypical covers album from an atypical band. A diverse tribute to Los Lobos’ Angelino

In 1997, when Bob Dylan was cheating death and threatening yet another comeback, his youngest son was making mainstream radio

Quietly Blowing It (Merge) is Hiss Golden Messenger’s funkiest album to date. It also may be M.C. Taylor’s most joyful—which

Hard to believe, but Jump For Joy (Sham) is just the second Gary Louris solo album in 25 years. At

Is there anyone red-hot Nashville producer Dave Cobb hasn’t produced? His latest in a long list of recent clients: Smyrna,

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