Category: INTERVIEWS

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.

A Conversation With Michael Astley-Brown (Maebe)
You might not know it by looking at today’s pop charts, but instrumental rock music has a long and storied

A Conversation With Chris Butler (Waitresses)
For a brief time in the early ’80s, tomorrow, to paraphrase the title of their debut album, was wonderful for

A Conversation With Van Duren
If Big Star was one of rock history’s great oversights, it’s a bit easier to understand the plight of one

A Conversation With Ed Robertson (Barenaked Ladies)
Back in 2000, Barenaked Ladies’ Maroon was its own sort of panacea for America’s millennium blues. The Toronto quintet’s fifth

A Conversation With Dave Faulkner (Hoodoo Gurus)
Many bands have used 1960s garage punk as a jumping off point for their sound, but few have done so

A Conversation With Joey Molland (Badfinger)
Joey Molland is the last one standing in Badfinger, a band whose horrific hard-luck story is one of rock’s great

A Conversation With Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes)
Dawes has been nothing if not consistent, releasing an album every two years (or less) since its 2009 debut. And