“Structure is really important to me,” the Shins’ James Mercer said about his approach to writing and recording. […]
Category Archive: Interviews
Jeff Pearlman writes about sports really well. Author of the definitive Walter Payton bio Sweetness, it was his book Showtime, about the […]
“I don’t wanna do 20-minute solos, though I can,” guitarist DeWayne “Blackbyrd” McKnight says to me, in reference to […]
I first heard of Eli “Paperboy” Reed in 2010 after reading a feature on him in MOJO. I […]
George Clinton beatboxed to me. We were talking about generational changes and how the language of musical expression […]
“You probably won’t remember this show, but I saw you live, like it must have been 2007, 2008? […]
I love NPR. Its news reportage is top-notch and NPR Music is a great source to find burgeoning […]
The Neighborhood That Disappeared is a documentary every Capital Region resident should watch, sooner rather than later. As the […]
Rolling Stone isn’t good for much these days, but it did turn me onto a great band with possibly […]
Life is interesting. Ten or so years ago, I was a seasonal maintenance staffer at Thacher State Park […]
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