Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With The B-52s’ Kate Pierson
Kate Pierson released her debut solo album, Guitars And Microphones, in February. You can’t help but wonder what took her

Can’t Hardly Wait: Superchunk On Opening For The Replacements
On Sept. 25, 1990, the Replacements released their final record, All Shook Down—the same day Superchunk released their self-titled

Best Of 2014: A Conversation With Ex Hex
If we’re handing out superlatives, we have to award Best Phone Skills to Mary Timony for the rather hilarious way

The Brian Jonestown Massacre: Book Of Revelation
The Brian Jonestown Massacre’s Anton Newcombe finds himself in a healthy space The best thing you can do when Anton

Q&A With Robert Pollard
It's gonna be all GBV, all day, kids. This is from 2007. To nobody’s surprise, neither age nor the dissolution

My Impression Now: Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney Briefs Us On Guided By Voices
It's gonna be all GBV, all day, kids. This is from 2012. Back in the spring, MAGNET’s collective jaw dropped

Guided By Voices: Robert Pollard, Who Are You?
It's gonna be all GBV, all day, kids. This is from 1996. Bob Pollard is a rock 'n' roll traditionalist. And

A Conversation With The Psycho Sisters
I've had really good luck interviewing women in a writing career that's gone on for 25 years. Unlike chatting with

A Conversation With Doug Gillard
Doug Gillard is known (rightly so) for his guitar wizardry in bands such as Guided By Voices, Cobra Verde, Death

Q&A With Josh Kantor
Fenway Park organist Josh Kantor is a utilityman of sorts, playing keyboards for a number of outfits in addition to entertaining

A Conversation With The Faint
Nearly six years after the release of strangely desiccated 2008 album Fasciinatiion and one lengthy stroll down wait-is-this-a-hiatus-or-a-break-up? lane, the

Q&A With Jason Narducy
Since having formed a punk quartet (Chicago’s Verbӧten, featuring Dave Grohl’s cousin Tracey Bradford on vocals) as a precocious 10-year-old,

Q&A With Steve Wynn
On Sept. 5, 1982, Paisley Underground legends (well, not at the time but certainly soon after) the Dream Syndicate played

MAGNET Exclusive: GBV’s Bob Pollard Deals On Decades-Old Diamond Dominance
For reasons unknown, except that it's the internet, news of Guided By Voices' Robert Pollard tossing a no-hitter as a