interview Archive
30 Nov 2018
The Mommyheads: Chill About Everything … Except Global Warming
Sweden has made important contributions to music. Stockholm-based 1970s pop juggernaut ABBA is so revered at home that the band has its own museum. So when Swedish fans take a […]
29 Nov 2018
Ranky Tanky: Preserving Gullah Culture Through Music
Gullah is a Creole language spoken in a concentrated geographical area, the low-country region along the Atlantic coastal islands in Georgia and the Carolinas. The Gullah people are descendants of […]
26 Nov 2018
Holly Golightly: The Country-punk-blues One-take wonder
British-born Holly Golightly was an important part of the UK garage-punk scene of the 1990s. Today her music effectively combines that foundation with a sound that draws equally from classic […]
25 Nov 2018
Jonathan Scales’ Structural Integrity
Composer, band leader and steel drum player Jonathan Scales maintains a busy and challenging schedule. In just the last two years or so, he’s toured internationally as part of the […]
22 Nov 2018
Blitzen Trapper’s Earley Years, Part Two
Continued from Part One… When the Black River Killer EP came out, I assumed that it consisted of the leftovers from the Furr sessions. But as the new deluxe edition […]
21 Nov 2018
Blitzen Trapper’s Earley Years, Part One
Songwriter, guitarist and singer Eric Earley founded an experimental group, Garmonbozia, in Portland, Oregon in 2000. The group’s material shows a band grasping for its signature style; free-form psychedelic excursions […]
20 Nov 2018
Jamie McLean: Flexing the Songwriting Muscle
Throughout the first decade of the new century, Jamie McLean played guitar in beloved New Orleans institution the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. For the last several years, McLean has served […]
19 Nov 2018
Carry That Weight: The Heavy Mountain Festival
For many years, Asheville, N.C. has been an important part of the thriving folk/roots music scene. But in recent years the city has also become an incubator for many other […]
18 Nov 2018
Todd Cecil: Have a Cigar
Cigar box guitars are very much in vogue now; it’s not at all unusual to see a nationally touring act take the stage with a hand-fashioned instrument featuring a body […]
17 Nov 2018
A Few Moments with Aaron Burdett
North Carolina-born Aaron Burdett is an award-winning singer-songwriter with an impressive back catalog; he released his first official album in 2005. Burdett’s latest is Refuge, and it explores an even […]