interview Archive
10 Aug 2015
Shuggie Otis: The Music Keeps Calling Him Back (Part 1)
“I look back now,” says Shuggie Otis, “and I think, ‘Wow. I must have a lot of patience!’” The multi-instrumentalist is reflecting on the curious arc of his career so […]
07 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: Paul Revere and the Raiders
I had been fortunate to score a few magazine cover stories in the early years of my music journo career (Thrice, Fall Out Boy, KT Tunstall). But the feature that […]
06 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: Garage Rock Heroes
I make no secret of my deep and abiding love for mid 1960s-styled garagepunkpsych. You know the stuff: The Seeds, The Chocolate Watchband; that kind of thing. And I love […]
05 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: The Pre-blog Days
In the years before I launched the Musoscribe blog (celebrating its six-year anniversary this week), I wrote for a number of other outlets. Music journalism hero Ira Robbins gave me […]
04 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: The Early Interviews
All last week (and all this week) I’m celebrating the six-year anniversary of launching the Musoscribe blog. Every business day since July 2009, I’ve posted new content – interviews, essays, […]
03 Aug 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: The British Invasion
In February 1964, The Beatles landed in America. And everything changed. In the wake of the Beatles’ Stateside success – from the launchpad of The Ed Sullivan Show – the […]
31 Jul 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: Power Pop
One of my abiding musical loves – and not a guilty pleasure, not at all – is the style known as power pop. At present I even play in a […]
30 Jul 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: Jazz
Other than a copy of Weather Report‘s Heavy Weather purchased back in the 80s, I never paid attention to jazz until the last couple of decades. And even then, my […]
29 Jul 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: Frank Zappa
Another musical figure whose work I discovered during my college years is Frank Zappa. I was fortunate enough to see him in concert not once but twice; the first was […]
28 Jul 2015
Six Years of Musoscribe: King Crimson
My retrospective continues on this, the sixth anniversary of my Musoscribe blog. One of my favorite groups – like so many others, I discovered ’em during my college years – […]