interview Archive
11 Aug 2021
How Joe Bonamassa Spent His (Pandemic) Vacation
When touring musicians were forced off the road in March 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic, few thought the disruption would last more than a few months. More than 16 months […]
05 Aug 2021
Virtuosity on display: Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers
In the classic music idiom, concert violinist Anne Akiko Meyers is the equivalent of a rock star. Debuting onstage when she was only 7 years old, she has gone onto […]
04 Aug 2021
Thirty Years with the Mother Hips (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two … “We started in Wisconsin and ended near San Francisco at the Shoreline Amphitheater,” Tim Bluhm recalls. “And by that time, we were headlining the side […]
03 Aug 2021
Thirty Years with the Mother Hips (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Tim Bluhm concedes that the Mother Hips fan base isn’t as large as the following of some other groups, but he believes that their followers’ […]
02 Aug 2021
Thirty Years with the Mother Hips (Part One)
Popular West Coast Band reissues its entire studio catalog, on vinyl for the first time Some artists have made a successful career out of establishing a signature sound and then […]
31 Jul 2021
Troubadour Rory Jagdeo: Hanging On, Coming Home
Rory Jagdeo’s musical journey has taken him from his native Guyana to Canada and Belize, from New York City to Houston and finally to Western North Carolina. Though he had […]
30 Jul 2021
The Jenny Thing: Still Indie After All These Years
The Jenny Thing returns, and things are different Thanks in no small part to upstart record labels like San Francisco’s own 415 Records — home to The Red Rockers, Romeo […]
28 Jul 2021
Remembering Roky Erickson, Part Three
Continued from Part Two… But Luckin “couldn’t find any commercial American label that wanted to put this guy out,” says Chris Knab, co-founder of San Francisco-based independent label 415 Records. […]
27 Jul 2021
Remembering Roky Erickson, Part Two
Continued from Part One… Bill Miller would play amplified autoharp in Roky’s late ‘70s band, The Aliens, but by that time he had been a fan for years. He says […]
26 Jul 2021
Remembering Roky Erickson, Part One
The Bay Area’s rich psychedelic music tradition has its roots in familiar places: Jefferson Airplane, Big Brother and the Holding Company and The Grateful Dead laid the groundwork and built […]