Category: INTERVIEWS
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
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