interview Archive
02 Sep 2024
Samantha Fish: Good Music is Good Music (Part 1 of 2)
At a mere 35 years old, Samantha Fish is a musical icon. Though she came to fame as a blues guitars, there’s much more to the Kansas City-born musician. Her […]
30 Aug 2024
38 Special: Rockin’ Into the Future (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… The band’s peak began and sustained once you started writing with Jim Peterik. How did that relationship come about? Our label at the time was A&M […]
29 Aug 2024
38 Special: Rockin’ Into the Future (Part 1 of 2)
38 Special started out like many other bands in and around Jacksonville, Florida in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, with a Southern rock sound and attitude to match. But […]
22 Aug 2024
The Aristocrats: No Words to Describe Them
Like the boundary-pushing and scandalously vulgar joke for which they’re named, The Aristocrats aren’t for everyone. But their brand of genre-blurring music – combining jazz, hard rock, fusion, prog and […]
21 Aug 2024
The Family Stone: All in the Family
Roaring out of Vallejo in the mid ‘60s with a look and sound that set them apart from their contemporaries, Sly and the Family Stone quickly became music superstars. The […]
20 Aug 2024
Sean Mason: Eight Arms to Hug You
A protégé of jazz/classical luminary Branford Marsalis, Sean Mason first came to wide attention with his 2023 release, The Southern Suite. But the Juilliard-trained pianist, composer and band leader had […]
19 Aug 2024
Ayo Brame: Bay Area to Brazil and Back
Ayo Brame picked up the saxophone for the first time in 2021, but in a remarkably short time he has established himself as a force in the jazz world. A […]
09 Aug 2024
The Philharmonik: Lessons from the Tiny Desk
Even before he first picked up an instrument, The Philharmonik (born Christian Gates) was a serious music lover. “I was listening to a lot of ‘70s music, he says. “But […]
08 Aug 2024
For the Beach Boys, the Summer Never Ends (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Created with a briefly returning Brian Wilson, the group’s last new studio album of all-original music, That’s Why God Made the Radio, was released in 2012. […]
07 Aug 2024
For the Beach Boys, the Summer Never Ends (Part 1 of 2)
The Beach Boys came on the scene in 1961, straight outta Hawthorne, California. The group’s songs embodied the myth of a youthful and carefree Southern California existence, one filled with […]