interview Archive
04 Oct 2024
Audio Bonus: My David Gilmour Interview
If you haven’t read my Spin feature on David Gilmour, allow me to recommend it. As a bonus, I’ve prepared an edited audio excerpt of part of our conversation. David […]
02 Oct 2024
Time Well Spent: The Fray Return From a Five-Year Hiatus
This feature appeared previously in SPIN. Early ‘00s hitmakers turn the page and begin a new chapter In the short space of just a few years, Denver-based pop-rock group the […]
30 Sep 2024
David Gilmour: The Right Place to Be Sure
This feature first appeared in SPIN. A personal note: not only was this interview a bucket list item for me, its appearance here marks entry #5000 on Musoscribe. That represents […]
27 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 3 of 3)
Continued from Part Two… In Perfect Harmonia (continued) A subsequent performance would yield more positive results. “We once played in Hamburg,” he recalls. “That was 1974, and there was a […]
26 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 2 of 3)
Continued from Part One… Something Neu! (continued) For his part, Rother played multilayered electric guitar parts that skittered around, over and under a repetitive, often one-chord musical structure. The meter […]
25 Sep 2024
What Was Old is Neu! Again (Part 1 of 3)
A pair of 2024 releases on vinyl refocuses a well-earned spotlight on an important corner of modern music. A deluxe version of Musik von Harmonia, the 1973 debut album from […]
23 Sep 2024
Audio Interviews
I conducted my first artist interview more than 20 years ago. Since then I’ve conducted more than 1,500 interviews. And save for some unfortunate technical mishaps, today I still have […]
23 Sep 2024
Audio: Interview with Kavus Torabi and Dave Sturt of Gong
Since its founding in Paris in 1967, Gong has been more than a band. With its signature style of psychedelic space rock, the group launched by Soft Machine guitarist David […]
19 Sep 2024
Jewel’s Journey to Now (Part 4 of 4)
Continued from Part Three… Early on, you began co producing and then producing your own albums. What did that mean to the kind of music that you were able to […]
18 Sep 2024
Jewel’s Journey to Now (Part 3 of 4)
Continued from Part Two… Did the success – even belated success – of your first album put pressure on you when making Spirit? By the time my second album came […]