interview Archive
12 Dec 2020
Virginia and the Slims: Push on Through
Sporting a name inspired by ‘70s era cigarettes marketed to women, Asheville-based Virginia and the Slims have endured a convoluted history. Musicians have come and gone – to the point […]
06 Dec 2020
Keller Williams Has Some (Musical) Property He’d Like to Sell You
This featured appeared previously in the December 2019 issue of Bold Life Magazine. — bk Keller Williams can do it all, and he’s astoundingly productive. The Virginia-based multi-genre guitarist has […]
05 Dec 2020
One from the Archives: Jamie Laval’s Celtic Christmas
2020 has been an unusual year .. to put it mildly. Pretty much nothing anywhere has gone as planned. Normally, by this time of year we’d all be gearing up […]
03 Dec 2020
Truly Fine Citizen: Citizen Vinyl Launches in the Blue Ridge Mountains (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … Ragland’s facility is set up to provide full, turnkey service. Some tasks are subcontracted – sleeve printing, and electroplating (the latter to be done at […]
02 Dec 2020
Truly Fine Citizen: Citizen Vinyl Launches in the Blue Ridge Mountains (Part One)
The heyday of vinyl records – the so-called “album era” – spanned from 1964 to the mid ‘90s. But the advent of CDs and then the internet seemed to spell […]
29 Nov 2020
Sing Along with the Society
This feature appeared previously in the (pre-pandemic) December 2019 issue of Bold Life. In the early years of the 20th century, New York City socialite Florence Foster Jennings earned a […]
26 Nov 2020
Rad Lab: Doug McKechnie and the Moog Model III (Part Three)
Continued from Part Two … You’ve said – only half joking, I’d guess — that the main goal of the San Francisco Radical Lab was attracting women. Well, it wasn’t […]
25 Nov 2020
Rad Lab: Doug McKechnie and the Moog Model III (Part Two)
Continued from Part One … The Moog Model III didn’t come with a manual. How much was it hit-or-miss to develop the sounds that you wanted? Well, I pretty much […]
24 Nov 2020
Rad Lab: Doug McKechnie and the Moog Model III (Part One)
In the late 1960s, Doug McKechnie and his roommate launched the San Francisco Radical Lab, an experimental endeavor launched (in part, as you’ll read) to explore the capabilities of the […]
23 Nov 2020
Doug McKechnie’s ‘San Francisco Moog: 1968-1972’
In the late ’60s, the Moog modular synthesizer was still very much an experimental tool. While there had been some ambitious attempts to use the Moog as the centerpiece of […]