interview Archive
30 May 2016
Q&A With The Delondes’ John James Tourville
New Orleans-based group The Deslondes effortlessly mix up genres: their music has clear antecedents in country, zydeco, jazz, soul, and even rock ‘n’ roll. They’re currently in pre-production on a […]
26 May 2016
The Sonics: Still Going for the Throat (Part 2)
Continued from Part One… The Sonics‘ song titles were pretty provocative, too. “Those totally came from the fevered mind of Gerry Roslie,” chuckles Rob Lind. “He wrote all those things. […]
25 May 2016
The Sonics: Still Going for the Throat (Part 1)
“We sometimes get questions in interviews,” saxophonist Rob Lind says with a chuckle. “Well-meaning questions. People ask, ‘So when did you guys in The Sonics decide to invent garage rock?’ […]
20 May 2016
Five Years in the Wilderness: The Return of Black Mountain
Nearly six years elapsed between Vancouver-based Black Mountain‘s 2011 album Wilderness Heart and their latest, the straightforwardly-named IV (like all their, albums, released on Jagjaguwar). “We sort of cautiously took […]
19 May 2016
Asheville Electro Music Festival: High Technology, Human Scale
In his influential 1982 book Megatrends, author John Naisbitt observed that “whenever new technology is introduced into society, there must be a counterbalancing human response, or the technology is rejected.” […]
18 May 2016
Martin Barre: Clever and Complicated
“The thing that pleases me is melody,” says Martin Barre, lead guitarist for British folk-progressive rockers Jethro Tull from their 1969 Stand Up LP through the group’s dissolution. “If I […]
17 May 2016
The New Mastersounds Schedule Residency at Brooklyn Bowl
Dynamic funk/jazz fusion quartet The New Mastersounds recently came to Brooklyn Bowl for a three-day, four-show residency April 14-16. The group, founded in 1999 in Leeds, England, has been doing […]
16 May 2016
Blues Vocalist Janiva Magness Opens Up on ‘Love Wins Again’
Though award-winning blues vocalist Janiva Magness has recorded a dozen albums to date (her latest, Love Wins Again, was released April 8), she came to songwriting long after her career […]
13 May 2016
Roomful of Teeth: Putting Music Where Their Mouths Are
“It’s all about the voice,” says Brad Wells, founder of Grammy Award-winning Roomful of Teeth, a nine-person modern classical vocal ensemble dedicated to “min[ing] the expressive potential of the human […]
06 May 2016
Margaret Glaspy Moves Up to the Majors
“I think that human experience is pretty universal,” says guitarist Margaret Glaspy. “So whether I’m writing objectively or writing from my own point of view, it applies to pretty much […]