Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With ANOHNI
Antony didn’t become ANOHNI because it was convenient. The lushly forlorn composer and quietly operatic vocalist with pop’s richest other-worldly

Exclusive Cover Story Excerpt: The Julie Ruin Interviewed By Amy Poehler
Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the current MAGNET cover story. It’s been almost three years since the last album by

Exclusive Cover Story Excerpt: The Kills Interviewed By Reggie Watts
Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the current MAGNET cover story. With Ash & Ice, the Kills have once again pushed

Q&A With The Figgs’ Mike Gent
The prolific Figgs’ 13th album, On The Slide (Stomper), arrives just more than a year after 2015’s Other Planes Of Here and is

A Conversation With Andrew Bird
Along with congratulating Andrew Bird on being married and having a son, the first notion you consider when talking to

Exclusive Cover Story Excerpt: Les Claypool And Sean Lennon Interviewed By Wilco’s Nels Cline
Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the current MAGNET cover story. Les Claypool and Sean Lennon team up for some crazy

A Conversation With The Cars’ Ric Ocasek
With his lean frame and leaner musicality, Ric Ocasek led the Cars through the testiest, most experimental but hit-making music

A Conversation With Violent Femmes’ Gordon Gano
Violent Femmes, left to right: Brian Ritchie, Gordon Gano, Brian Viglione. With the 2015 EP Happy New Year and 2016

Q&A With The Vulgar Boatmen’s Dale Lawrence
It’s a powerful thing, having a band that feels like your personal secret. As I’ve read other writers on the

Exclusive Cover Story Excerpt: Savages Interviewed By Queens Of The Stone Age’s Josh Homme
Here’s an exclusive excerpt of the current MAGNET cover story. Three years ago, London’s Savages materialized seemingly out of nowhere,

A Conversation With John Cale
If John Cale’s new album M:FANS sounds hauntingly familiar, you are both correct and obviously a Cale aficionado. The legendary

A Conversation With Roger Waters
Roger Waters is not a man to shy from aggressive questions focusing on the personal or the geopolitical, especially if

A Conversation With Peaches
When soft-spoken Merrill Nisker—a.k.a. nasty electro queen Peaches—asks the robotic musical question, “Whose jizz is this?” on “Dick In The

A Conversation With John Lydon
John Lydon doesn’t need an introduction. A wind-up works, as the iconic punk (Rotten, late of the Sex Pistols) and