interview Archive
18 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Four
Continued from Part Three… Bill Kopp: There’s a track of yours on Yellow Pills Volume 2, “Saying Sorry to Myself.” To my ears it has all the hallmarks of the […]
17 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… Ken Stringfellow: Listening to Failure, it would be hard to tell what we were listening to. Because the album has a very sixties vibe to it, […]
16 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: I thought it was a nice bit of contextualization to include Veronika Kalmar‘s snarky and negative review in the liner notes of the Failure […]
15 Sep 2014
Boots by George Harrison, Hair by Robert Smith: The Posies Interview, Part One
While grunge or alternative might be the first rock genres that spring to mind when one thinks of the 1990s, an unlikely group from the Pacific Northwest had already gained […]
12 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… The album that would become Inner Sunset was announced in 2013, but the project’s gestation was a lengthy process, especially when compared to the quick, DIY […]
11 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Speaking of the process of songwriting, the songs on The Paul & John‘s Inner Sunset are truly the product of a collaborative approach between Paul Myers […]
10 Sep 2014
Everything Comes Together: The Paul & John Interview, Part One
Music lovers who appreciate highly melodic and memorable rock-based songs – the kind of instantly hummable tunes that stick in your head long after the song is over – should […]
26 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: In 2012 I wrote a blog entry in which I suggested that Syd Barrett may have – consciously or otherwise – nicked the intro […]
25 Aug 2014
Never Had It Better: A Chat with James Lowe of The Electric Prunes (Part One)
In that heady summer of 1967, one of the songs that captured and embodied the zeitgeist was “I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night),” a fuzzed-out psychedelic miniature masterpiece […]
21 Aug 2014
“How did we get where we are right now?” A Conversation with Todd Cochran (Part 3)
Continued from Part Two… Bill Kopp: We’ve touched on this a bit already: there’s absolutely no guitar on the album. Was that a conscious decision on your part, to arrange […]