interview Archive
06 Jul 2017
Jessica Hernandez: Evoking Emotions in Two Languages
Detroit-based vocalist Jessica Hernandez and her band the Deltas earned their first big break when chosen to appear as a musical guest on a November 2014 episode of Late Show […]
05 Jul 2017
The Spellbinding Psychedelic Blues of All Them Witches
Nashville-based All Them Witches play a modern variety of psychedelic blues. The four-piece group’s heavy music has caught on with audiences in a big way; like the four albums that […]
04 Jul 2017
Jean-Michel Jarre: Embracing — Yet Remaining Wary of — Technology
A pioneer in electronic music, French composer-performer Jean-Michel Jarre is as well-known for his stage spectaculars as for his innovations in ambient and new age music. Though he has always […]
30 Jun 2017
The Black Angels: Slow Death (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… The Black Angels have never been what one would call a commercially-minded group. That said, a few years back Alex told me that “Telephone” off Phosphene […]
29 Jun 2017
The Black Angels: Slow Death (part 1)
The Black Angels are reliable purveyors of a modern rethink of 60s psychedelia. The Austin group’s updated approach is a kind of tribal psych, heavy on droning, hypnotic and irresistible […]
28 Jun 2017
Up Close and Personal with The Damned’s Captain Sensible
Among the most irreverently good-natured bands to come out of the mid 1970s London punk rock scene, the Damned made their indelible mark on music with their debut album, 1977’s […]
27 Jun 2017
Class Reunion: The Damned, Stars of Punk’s ‘Class of ’77’ Tour America
Note: I recently had the pleasure of interviewing not one but two members of the Damned. Here’s Dave Vanian; tomorrow it’s Captain Sensible. — bk The Damned were part of […]
23 Jun 2017
Adrian Belew: Twang Bar King in a Trio Format
Guitarist Adrian Belew has had a long and staggeringly impressive career. With one foot in the progressive world and the other firmly planted in mainstream pop, he’s played and toured […]
22 Jun 2017
The Allah-Las: Record Store Days
The Allah-Las make original music that evokes the shimmering, melodic end of mid-to-late 1960s psychedelic scene. But because the members of the Los Angeles-based group write and perform their own […]
20 Jun 2017
Resonant Rogues’ Musical Welcome Mat
Led by the duo of Sparrow and Keith Smith, Asheville-based band Resonant Rogues combines flavors of Appalachian old-time, early jazz, and Eastern European folk to create a distinctive and original […]