Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With The Pogues’ Spider Stacy
The Pogues on record are never short of inspirational, and in person, they might be a life-changing experience. This hackle-raising

A Conversation With The Soundtrack Of Our Lives
We assume most MAGNET readers are already under the magical, musical spell of the Soundtrack Of Our Lives, but if

Q&A With Kristian Hoffman
Kristian Hoffman always has so much to say, we might have edited the hell out of his interview—and his voluminous

A Conversation With The Goldberg Sisters’ Adam Goldberg
The Goldberg Sisters is the new musical project from Adam Goldberg, the always entertaining actor/filmmaker whose impressive resume includes the

A Conversation With Wye Oak
Over the course of three surprise-filled albums, Wye Oak has artistically come of age in the public eye. Singer/guitarist Jenn

Q&A With Smoking Popes
Aside from having the coolest name of any punk-leaning Chicago-area band since Big Black, Smoking Popes have been blessed with

A Conversation With Bruce Cockburn
Small Source Of Comfort (True North) is the latest LP from legendary Canadian singer/songwriter Bruce Cockburn. It's also his 31st

Q&A With Over The Rhine
It's hard to believe that it's been 20 years since Over The Rhine issued its debut album. The Ohio-based husband-and-wife duo

Q&A With Buffalo Tom
Nothing if not a model of consistency, Buffalo Tom has been making the same decent-to-great music since 1992’s Let Me

Q&A With KORT’s Kurt Wagner And Cortney Tidwell
KORT is Lambchop frontman Kurt Wagner and solo singer/songwriter Cortney Tidwell, and with covers album Invariable Heartache (City Slang), the

A Conversation With With The Jayhawks’ Gary Louris
Gary Louris and Mark Olson left Jayhawks fans in a lurch when they parted ways rather abruptly in 1995. Turns

A Conversation With East River Pipe
Stoutly refusing to record his passionate songs under anything less than his own terms (in his New Jersey home on

A Conversation With John Vanderslice
White Wilderness (Dead Oceans) is the latest album from the San Francisco-based John Vanderslice, and he's joined on it by

A Conversation With White Lies
British trio White Lies—guitarist/vocalist Harry McVeigh, bassist Charles Cave and drummer Jack Lawrence-Brown—just released Ritual (Geffen/Fiction), which follows up To