Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With Brendan Benson
It’s been almost seven years since Brendan Benson’s last solo album, which makes the release of Dear Life (Third Man)

A Conversation With SAVAK
Rotting Teeth In The Horse’s Mouth (Ernest Jenning) is SAVAK’s fourth LP of jittery, yet insanely catchy, post-punk-inflected rock. As

A Conversation With Kim Richey
The fact that Kim Richey felt impelled to completely rework 2000’s Glimmer would imply that she was never happy with

A Conversation With Patterson Hood (Drive-By Truckers)
Drive-By Truckers’ American Band arrived at the perfect time in the fall of 2016. A celebration of the actual core

A Conversation With Richard Lowenstein (“Mystify: Michael Hutchence”)
To say that Mystify: Michael Hutchence was a labor of love for director Richard Lowenstein is sort of an understatement.

A Conversation With Soft Glas
Listening to music by singer/multi-instrumentalist Joao Gonzalez, who records as Soft Glas, conjures images of lazy, hazy summer days spent

A Conversation With Jason Hill
Rock ’n’ roll is no longer a make-or-break proposition for Jason Hill—not even close. That urgency effectively came to an

A Conversation With Shoes
Whether you call them rock, pop or (that much-maligned label) power pop, Shoes have made some of the most crunchy-yet-melodic

A Conversation With Dave Schramm (Schramms, Yo La Tengo)
The main man behind the Schramms, Dave Schramm has a career spanning 40 years. His band's latest (and seventh overall)

A Conversation With Allison Moorer
Once you write a memoir, all bets are off when it comes interviews. Allison Moorer is finding that out right

A Convesation With Juliana Hatfield
Following up on last year's Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John, the songstress has another album’s worth of cover tunes on

A Conversation With Joe Pernice (Pernice Brothers)
Spread The Feeling (Ashmont) is the most accessible Pernice Brothers album in decades—not that it matters much at this point.

A Conversation With Jody Stephens (Big Star, Those Pretty Wrongs)
Jody Stephens has always thrived on collaboration, whether it was with his bandmates in Big Star (one of rock’s great

A Conversation With Tony Visconti
Much like “criminally underrated,” the term "legendary" gets tossed around too easily in the music realm, but it certainly fits