interview Archive
05 Apr 2022
Shining On with Interstellar Echoes
While the music world is filled with singer-songwriters – artists who write their own material and record and perform it for audiences – there’s a long and proud tradition of […]
04 Apr 2022
The ‘British Invasion Years’ Are Now
There’s an old saying – attribution unknown – that asserts, “if you remember the ‘60, you weren’t really there.” But a quartet of musicians from Edison, New Jersey does remember. […]
03 Apr 2022
A Chat with Chatham Rabbits
Chatham Rabbits is the wife-and-husband duo of Sarah and Austin McCombie. Sarah came up in music as a member of old-time group The South Carolina Broadcasters, and Austin has played […]
02 Apr 2022
Q&A with Myron Hyman
Guitarist, singer and songwriter plays both original songs and arrangements of rock, blues and country classics. After years living in Venice, California – where he split his time between playing […]
14 Feb 2022
A Conversation With Corey Harris
(An edited version of this Q&A was published in Living Blues. ) Corey Harris has a well-earned reputation as an authentic modern-day practitioner of Delta blues in its acoustic form. […]
10 Feb 2022
Bonus Q&A: The Supersuckers’ Eddie Spaghetti
Supersuckers bassist/front man Eddie Spaghetti is a great interview. I recently wrote a Supersuckers feature for Metro Silicon Valley, and an extended version of that piece is online here. But […]
09 Feb 2022
Supersuckers: Still Playing That Killer Rock ‘n’ Roll
Irreverent trio the Supersuckers have made a career out of not being serious. How else to explain a body of work that includes songs like “Pretty Fucked Up,” “Born With […]
08 Feb 2022
Bonus Q&A with Hipgnosis Co-founder Aubrey Powell (Part Two)
Continued from Part One… We’ve talked about Hipgnosis rarely having a brief from most artists. Specific to Pink Floyd, there seems to be an undercurrent of melancholy, and themes of […]
07 Feb 2022
Bonus Q&A with Hipgnosis Co-founder Aubrey Powell (Part One)
Recently, I interviewed Hipgnosis co-founder Aubrey Powell for a Goldmine magazine feature. That story can be found here. But our talk was so interesting – and got into so many […]
03 Feb 2022
The Gem of the Idea: Hipgnosis’ Aubrey Powell Looks Back at His Iconic Album Designs (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two… That happened when Powell was asked to design a cover for XTC’s 1978 LP, Go 2. “Andy Partridge came to Hipgnosis’ studio,” he recalls. “We showed […]