Category: INTERVIEWS

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

Best Of 2013: Q&A With Okkervil River’s Will Sheff
The Silver Gymnasium is Okkervil River’s best album so far. It marks a return to expansive conceptual works like Black

Q&A With RJD2
RJD2—Ramble John Krohn to his mom and dad—has had quite the curious career. The Eugene, Ore., native lives in West

A Conversation With Richard Barone
Richard Barone is an example to all of us who get trapped in our daily grind. He seems to be

A Conversation With Jon Wurster
To call Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster “Superchunk drummer Jon Wurster,” while true, is a bit limiting. He also keeps time

A Conversation With Fitz And The Tantrums
In 2010, Fitz And The Tantrums made their debut album with Pickin’ Up The Pieces. Whether the modern R&B album

A Conversation With The Waterboys’ Mike Scott
Mike Scott is pop’s only literate lyricist who would dare take on the stately iconography of William Butler Yeats. Forget

Q&A With Chris Stamey
Although Chris Stamey is best known as being part of the original dB's, the legendary jangle-pop combo from Winston Salem,

Q&A With David Chase
MAGNET's Jonathan Valania recently sat down with Sopranos creator David Chase to talk about his new movie, Not Fade Away,