interview

Folk Rock 

Going from Ship to Shore with Richard Thompson

June 3, 2024June 3, 2024 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2024, David Bowie, interview, Kate Bush, Martha Wainwright, New West Records, Richard Thompson, Rufus Wainwright, Ship to Shore, Warren Zevon

A frank chat about the guitar legend’s new album (and ex-wife Linda’s as well!)

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Rock 

Stranger Than Fiction: A Conversation with Ian Hunter

April 29, 2024May 25, 2024 Dave Steinfeld 0 Comments 2024, CHEAP TRICK, Defiance Part 2: Fiction, Fiction, Ian Hunter, interview, Lucinda Williams, Mick Ronson, Mott the Hoople, Rick Nielsen, Trudi Hunter

The British rock legend talks about his new album Defiance Part 2 and what the future holds

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Alternative Rock Pop Power Pop Rock 

Wonder Why: The Connells Revisit Ring

August 25, 2023August 25, 2023 Ryan Maffei 0 Comments 1993, 2023, 30th Anniversary, David Connell, Deluxe Edition, Dinosaur Jr., Doug MacMillan, Dusty Springfield, interview, Mike Connell, reissue, Ring, The Connells

Frontman Doug MacMillan talks about the deluxe edition of their classic 1993 LP

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Alternative Rock Britpop Pop Rock 

How Tim Burgess Crafted An Opus

November 18, 2022November 18, 2022 Lee Zimmerman 0 Comments Coil, COVID, COVID-19, interview, Julian Cope, King Crimson, Pink Floyd, Spiritualized, The Beatles, The Charlatans, The Moody Blues, Thighpaulsandra, Tim Burgess, Typical Music

The Charlatans frontman talks about his new solo double LP Typical Music

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Indie Rock Progressive Rock Rock Synth Uncategorized 

Blessed Be Thy Name of Canada’s Best Modern Band

October 31, 2022October 31, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, Blessed, Circuitous, Deftones, Drew Riekman, Greg Obis, interview, John Congleton, The 1975, The Mars Volta

Singer/guitarist Drew Riekman talks about the Vancouver group’s excellent new album Circuitous

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Rock 

Rhett Miller Walks Among Us

September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments ATO Records, Hudson Valley, interview, Rhett Miller, Sam Cohen, The Misfit, The Old 97's

The Old 97’s excellent new solo LP, The Misfit, in stores this Friday

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Punk Rock 

Tijuana Panthers: Long Beach Punks Growing Old Gracefully

September 3, 2022 j. poet 0 Comments 2022, California, Chad Wachtel, Dan Michicoff, Halfway to Eighty, Innovative Leisure, interview, Long Beach, Phil Shaheen, Tijuana Panthers

The band’s new album, Halfway to Eighty, out now on Innovative Leisure

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adblock Alternative Rock New Wave Pop Rock 

Glenn Tilbrook Squeezes Into 65

August 31, 2022September 1, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments 2015, 2022, 65th birthday, Argybargy, Babylon and On, Chris Difford, Cool For Cats, Cradle to the Grave, Glenn Tilbrook, interview, New Wave, Paul McCartney, Squeeze, The Beatles, The Deathray Davies, The Kinks

Read a previously unpublished interview with the New Wave legend

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Art Pop Indie Rock 

Fredrik Saroea: Several Strings Attached

June 27, 2022June 27, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments 2022, BIT20 Ensemble, DATAROCK, Fredrik Saroea, interview, Norway, Rona Diaries: The Chamber Versions Live at the Grieg Hall Bergen, Strings, YAP Records

An interview about chamber music with the man from DATAROCK

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North Americana Pop Rock 

WATCH: Buick Audra Learns To Fly

June 16, 2022June 16, 2022 Ron Hart 0 Comments Afraid of Flying, Audra Buick, interview, Joss Stone

The first single off her forthcoming LP addresses conflict and change

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Alternative Rock New Wave Rock 

One Thing Leads to Another: The Return of The Fixx

June 7, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 1 Comment 2022, Cy Curnin, Every Five Seconds, interview, London, One Thing Leads To Another, Stand Or Fall, T.S. Eliot, The Fixx, The Portraits

Lead vocalist Cy Curnin talks about the group’s first new album in a decade, Every Five Seconds

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Blues Hard Rock Rock 

Robin Trower: Guitar Conqueror

April 20, 2022April 20, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Bridge of Sighs, For Earth Below, guitar, In City Dreams, interview, Long Misty Days, No More Worlds to Conquer, Provogue Records, Robin Trower

The legendary British axe icon has nothing left to prove

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Rock 

Rob Clores Goes Big Game Hunting

February 13, 2022February 14, 2022 Katherine Yeske Taylor 0 Comments Big Game Hunting, Charli XCX, Colin Hay, interview, Jesse Malin, Rob Clores, session musician, The Black Crowes, Tom Jones

Prolific New York session musician returns to rock on crunchy new single

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Music Journalism 

A Brief History of the Beef Between Meat Loaf and the Music Press

January 31, 2022January 31, 2022 Jim Sullivan 0 Comments Chicago Sun Times, Fox Pass, interview, Jim Steinman, John Macey, Julie Panebianco, Meat Loaf, Music Journalism, Rock Critics, U2, WBCN

What rock critics’ coverage of Meat says about the art of rock criticism

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Music Journalism Rock 

Editing Jim Morrison

January 30, 2022January 30, 2022 Gillian G. Gaar 0 Comments Danny Sugerman, Feast of Friends, Frank Lisciandro, Grand Central Publishing, interview, Jim Morrison, No One Here Gets Out Alive, Oliver Stone, poetry, The Collected Works, The Doors, Wilderness

Talking with the man who smoothed out the poetry and prose of The Lizard King

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