interview Archive
25 Oct 2021
Bob Mould Wears ‘Blue Hearts’ on His Sleeve
Listening to Bob Mould’s music – his more than a dozen solo albums, his releases leading Sugar in the ’90s, and especially the run of six albums he made with […]
22 Oct 2021
Sugar Candy Mountain Makes a Good ‘Impression’
Hypnotic psychedelia with a deep groove is the musical stock in trade of Oakland’s Sugar Candy Mountain. Led by multi-instrumentalists Will Halsey and Ash Reiter, the group debuted with a […]
14 Oct 2021
Mdou Moctar Plays By His Own Rules
The digital age brought with it some fundamental shifts in music industry paradigms. Tuareg guitarist and songwriter Mdou Moctar was a beneficiary of those changes, leveraging them to catapult himself […]
13 Oct 2021
Combo Chimbita: The Music Tells the Stories
It was five years ago when the four Colombia-born members of Combo Chimbita released their debut EP, El Corredor del Jaguar. At the time — and for a couple of […]
12 Oct 2021
For Destroy Boys, The Personal is Political
Co-led by guitarist Violet Mayugba and singer Alexia Roditis, Sacramento punk band Destroy Boys debuted with the 2015 studio EP Sorry Mom. The band’s profile got an early boost when […]
11 Oct 2021
Don’t Fret: Banjoist Nora Brown
Nora Brown is a celebrated roots musician. She released her debut album, Cinnamon Tree, in 2019. That album showcases Brown’s facility on the banjo, as well as her keen understanding […]
06 Oct 2021
A Conversation with The Residents’ Spokesman Homer Flynn (Part 2 of 2)
Continued from Part One… Bill Kopp: The Residents’ Ralph Records was launched in ’72, and the label always existed well outside of what could be considered the ‘commercial sphere.’ In […]
05 Oct 2021
A Conversation with The Residents’ Spokesman Homer Flynn (Part 1 of 2)
I recently interviewed Homer Flynn of The Cryptic Corporation, discussing the Residents, the anonymous avant garde group of which Flynn may or may not be a founding member. The conversation […]
04 Oct 2021
Permanent Residents: SF’s Notorious Avant Garde Collective Looks to the Future
Few in the early 1970s might have predicted that one of music’s strangest (and most original) acts would continue to tour and release new music well into the 21st century. […]
03 Oct 2021
Flights Are Back on Schedule for Travers Brothership
Brothers Kyle and Eric Travers launched their band, Travers Brothership, nearly a decade ago in Black Mountain. After a few years of honing their approach, they recorded and released their […]