Category: INTERVIEWS

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

A Conversation With The Early November’s Ace Enders
The first line that Ace Enders sings on Lilac, the new album from the Early November, is, “I will always

TakeMeBack Tuesday: A Previously Print-Only Conversation With Ric Ocasek, 2005
It certainly seems like there’s a full-fledged Cars renaissance going on right now. Flip on the TV and you’ll hear

A Conversation With Pete Yorn
After almost 20 years on various major labels, Pete Yorn is finally doing things for himself. It’s quite the feat

A Conversation With MIYAVI
As a guitarist, vocalist, actor, model and humanitarian, Japanese artist Takamasa "MIYAVI" Ishihara is a hyphenate extraordinaire, thrilling audiences worldwide

A Conversation With Travis’ Fran Healy
Looking back, Travis frontman Fran Healy is still in awe of the enormous U.K. love fest touched off by 1999’s

A Conversation With Craig Finn
With his new album, I Need A New War (Partisan), the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn wraps up a solo trilogy

A Conversation With Larry “Ratso” Sloman
Very few rock ’n’ roll artists release their first album on the cusp of turning 70. Even fewer of this

A Conversation With Robert Forster
News travels fast in the digital age, but back in the middle 1970s it took months for a British or