Category: INTERVIEWS

A Conversation With M.C. Taylor (Hiss Golden Messenger)
Quietly Blowing It (Merge) is Hiss Golden Messenger’s funkiest album to date. It also may be M.C. Taylor’s most joyful—which

A Conversation With Gary Louris
Hard to believe, but Jump For Joy (Sham) is just the second Gary Louris solo album in 25 years. At

A Conversation With Charlie Starr (Blackberry Smoke)
Is there anyone red-hot Nashville producer Dave Cobb hasn’t produced? His latest in a long list of recent clients: Smyrna,

A Conversation With “Sisters With Transistors” Director Lisa Rovner
Forbidden Planet is considered a science-fiction classic for many reasons. Not least because the 1956 movie’s groundbreaking electronic score by

A Conversation With Norman Blake (Teenage Fanclub)
“I sometimes wonder if I’ll ever be home again,” Norman Blake sings on “Home,” the seven-minute opener to Teenage Fanclub’s

A Conversation With Heather Baron-Gracie (Pale Waves)
Pale Waves make the kind of shimmery, challenging pop music that draws you in after one listen and that nails

A Conversation With BAND-MAID
The best rock ‘n’ roll bands combine inventive songwriting, skillful playing and the understanding that, above all, rock ‘n’ roll

A Conversation With Matthew Sweet
It took Matthew Sweet 30 years and 15 studio albums to conjure the cojones to play lead guitar on record.