Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With Peach Pit
Peach Pit is an indie surf-rock band that’s already played major festivals including Bumbershoot, Shaky Knees and Bonnaroo. The Vancouver

A Conversation With Moviola
Columbus, Ohio-based Moviola’s first record, 1995’s Frantic, was certainly representative of its era, featuring melodic, occasionally noisy rock, and while

A Conversation With Jay Farrar (Son Volt)
For those inclined to notice amid the shitshow that was 2020, last year marked the 25th anniversary of Son Volt’s

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

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

A Conversation With Jakob Dylan (The Wallflowers)
In 1997, when Bob Dylan was cheating death and threatening yet another comeback, his youngest son was making mainstream radio

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

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

A Conversation With Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke)
Is there anyone red-hot Nashville producer Dave Cobb hasn’t produced? His latest in a long list of recent clients: Smyrna,

A Conversation With “Sisters With Transistors” Director Lisa Rovner
Forbidden Planet is considered a science-fiction classic for many reasons. Not least because the 1956 movie’s groundbreaking electronic score by

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

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