Category: INTERVIEWS

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,

A Conversation With Scott Walker
Some think of Scott Walker as an enigmatic artist whose every block of sound rings with dissonance, and every lyric

Best Of 2012: Q&A With The Walkmen
When they’re not touring, the Walkmen are scattered, with two guys in Brooklyn, two in Philly and one in New

Q&A With Firewater’s Tod A
Firewater frontman Tod A likes to travel. The ex-Cop Shoot Cop leader and longtime New Yorker spent almost three years on

A Conversation With Eric Drew Feldman
For someone with so many famous heads stuck on poles outside his jungle hut, you'd expect he'd put a little

My Impression Now: Obama Press Secretary Jay Carney Briefs Us On Guided By Voices
Back in the spring, MAGNET’s collective jaw dropped when we learned that White House Press Secretary Jay Carney declared, in

A Conversation With John Lydon
In his time as a writer, be it as a Sex Pistol or a PiL head, John Lydon has certainly

Q&A With Garrison Starr
Not long before the major-label landscape collapsed in a heap, only to morph into a crud formation of reissue-happy conglomerates,

A Conversation With Times New Viking’s Elizabeth Murphy
Times New Viking is an Ohio rock trio that delivers raw rock 'n' roll. Jumping from different labels over the