Monthly Archive:: July 2009
31 Jul 2009
Interview Teaser: Ian Anderson
Several months ago I was fortunate to score a phone interview with Jethro Tull‘s legendary leader/founder, Ian Anderson. Our talk came at the tail-end of long day for the UK-based […]
31 Jul 2009
Porcupine Tree: The Incident
This is big. UK progressive rock quartet Porcupine Tree will release their latest album — a 2CD set called The Incident on September 15. A sampler from the album is […]
31 Jul 2009
Progressive Nation Act III: Zappa Plays Zappa
As mentioned previously, I’m something of a Zappa fanatic. I was lucky enough to see the man onstage twice in the 80s; his peculiar hybrid of obscenely-complicated art/jazz/rock/whatever crossed with […]
30 Jul 2009
Progressive Nation Act II: Bigelf
Second to take the stage was Bigelf. Like Scale the Summit, these guys were unknown to me. I was totally unfamiliar with their music, so I did a quick bit […]
30 Jul 2009
Progressive Nation Act I: Scale the Summit
First up was Scale the Summit. This four-piece (two guitars trading leads, plus bass and drums) trades in the modern instro-metal-prog genre. A really young lot (not Hanson “Mm-bop” young, […]
30 Jul 2009
Progressive Nation 2009
So awhile back I bought a ticket to the local date of the Progressive Nation tour. My buddy and band mate Jeff talked me into it. On one level, I […]
27 Jul 2009
Marshall Crenshaw in Jaggedland
I just spoke with Marshall Crenshaw. Our interview was nearly two years to the day after our first meeting, an in-person conversation in the lobby of Asheville NC’s Grey Eagle. […]
22 Jul 2009
Peter Holsapple & Chris Stamey
My interview with / feature on Holsapple and Stamey was published in the July 8 issue of Mountain Xpress. Now that the publisher’s two-week embargo has passed, here’s a link […]
15 Jul 2009
Dungen Interview/feature Coming
Today I interviewed Gustav Estjes, leader of Swedish modern-psych group Dungen. I was turned onto these guys a few years back by my friend (and former bandmate in the Echoes […]
03 Jul 2009
Preview Review: Moby Grape – The Place and The Time
I’ve written extensively about the travails of Moby Grape, the best 60s group most people have never heard. Some of my words on the subject are yet to be published, […]
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