Category: INTERVIEWS

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

A Conversation With Meat Puppets
Now is as good a time as any for an official Meat Puppets reunion. Brothers Curt and Cris Kirkwood are

And Now For Something Completely Different: U.K. Comedian And Podcaster Andy Zaltzman Hits The U.S.
Andy Zaltzman might be a new face to comedy audiences in the U.S. But his verbal dexterity and his literary

A Conversation With Bob Mould
The last time I saw Bob Mould, he was as fit as he’s ever been—almost unrecognizably so. It was 2002,

A Conversation With Guster’s Ryan Miller
The last time we checked in with Guster for a MAGNET cover story four years ago, the quartet was dipping

A Conversation With Old 97’s Frontman Rhett Miller
Rhett Miller didn’t have to go far to find the catharsis that informs his latest release, The Messenger (ATO). Triggered

Ringo Starr: I Feel Fine
Once upon a time in Liverpool, the former Richard Starkey played drums in a local quartet called the Beatles, earning

A Conversation With Fastball’s Miles Zuniga And Tony Scalzo
There really couldn’t have been a more unlikely hit single than Fastball's “The Way”—especially in the post-grunge cesspool that was

A Conversation With Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
A half-century later, does Jethro Tull warrant some reassessment? Most of the pre-1979 evidence points to the affirmative. Murky production