interview Archive
04 Nov 2025
Reno’s OffBeat Music Festival: Small-scale and Curated by Design
Reno’s OffBeat Music Festival celebrated its 10th year this October. With a wide array of artists gracing multiple stages in a concentrated, walkable area, the festival presents local, regional and […]
23 Oct 2025
Blue Öyster Cult: A 50-plus Year Career of Evil
Combining muscle, malevolence, sarcasm and sophistication, Blue Öyster Cult became one of the hottest live attractions of the 1970s and beyond. The Long Island rock band’s earliest years found them […]
21 Oct 2025
Shonen Knife: Girls (Still) Rock
Four decades-plus after their start, Japanese pop-punkers are in their ‘Best Place’ When Shonen Knife broke through to an American audience in 1981, the trio from Osaka, Japan had already […]
20 Oct 2025
LaMP is Burning Brightly
Three esteemed players have joined forces almost by chance, and the result is one of music’s more dynamic and vital outfits. Combining a melodic jazz sensibility with the unpredictability of […]
17 Oct 2025
Three Days Grace: The Best of Both Worlds (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… How do you handle the lead vocals live? Does Adam sing lead on material from the first four albums with Matt taking the lead on the […]
16 Oct 2025
Three Days Grace: The Best of Both Worlds (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Transit of Venus came out in 2012. Adam, the band was set to go on a major tour when you left the band with little if […]
15 Oct 2025
Three Days Grace: The Best of Both Worlds (Part 1 of 3)
An edited version of this feature appeared previously in Goldmine Magazine. Hit-making rockers Three Days Grace are having it both ways: the band’s long-gone original lead vocalist has returned, now […]
10 Oct 2025
John Fogerty’s Turn to Revisit Creedence (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… Is it your hope that these new versions will be used for sync in film, television and the like? Perhaps even in place of the original […]
09 Oct 2025
John Fogerty’s Turn to Revisit Creedence (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… You created the album Fogerty’s Factory in 2020, during the pandemic. That album was a rethink of the 1970 Creedence Clearwater Revival album Cosmo’s Factory, made […]
08 Oct 2025
John Fogerty’s Turn to Revisit Creedence (Part 1 of 3)
An edited version of this feature first appeared in Goldmine Magazine. Widely acclaimed as the Great American Singles Band – and recipient of countless other well-deserved kudos – Creedence Clearwater […]