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Guided By Voices: Fading Captain: Guided by Voices Head Into The Sunset

Interview by Stevie Chick, The Stranger, 11 November 2004

GEARING UP FOR what will be his last tour with the band that won him his unlikely fame, Robert Pollard is in a reflective mood. ...

Andrew Gold

Interview by Joe Matera, International Songwriter, 2000

Joe Matera: Tell me a bit about your background. You started writing songs at 13?Andrew Gold: Yeah, I started around then (13). My first song ...

Tom Waits Undercover

Interview by Dave Zimmer, BAM, 26 February 1982

Everybody looked like a broken-down movie extra; a withered starlet, disenchanted stuntmen, midget auto racers, poignant California characters with their end-of-the-continent sadness, handsome, decadent, Casanova-ish ...

The Triffids

Interview by Mat Snow, Q, December 1987

The Triffids, authors of the greatest Australian country and western album, address the darker undercurrents beneath the sparkling antipodean surf. ...

Ian Dury: Body Language

Interview by Mike Stand, Smash Hits, 3 September 1981

"HAVEN'T YOU heard? I'm a Fifth Columnist for the Year Of Disabled People. They've bribed me massively." ...

Supertramp On a Bum Trip

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 15 May 1976

SUPERTRAMP HORNMAN and funnyman John Helliwell gazed longingly out the A&M Records publicity office window at the burgundy Dino Ferrari. ...

Kelly Clarkson is going from strength to strength — and doesn't care if people think she's a lesbian

Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 27 January 2012

The American Idol winner on her family upbringing and why she's happy to be single ...

Flaco Jimenez, Ry Cooder: Flaco Jimenez: In Search Of The Polka-Rock Fusion

Interview by Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 10 February 1977

IF THE ACCORDION ever manages to rise from the underground of ethnic music as rock's undiscovered lead instrument, Flaco Jimenez will at long last be ...

Steve Winwood Grows His Own

Interview by Paul Gambaccini, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1977

LONDON — AFTER an extended period of getting together whatever one gets together in the English countryside, Stevie Winwood, 29, has emerged with his first ...

Daphne and Celeste: Daphne & Celeste: "If you stick your tongue out, after a while it tastes like a condom!"

Interview by Steven Wells, New Musical Express, 2 September 2000

Daphne & Celeste — social commentators, teen girls bringing a breath of fresh air to the testosterone-charged air of the Carling Weekend. Of course not ...

Pat Metheny Shrugs Off Success

Interview by Laura Fissinger, Rolling Stone, 17 September 1981

NEW YORK CITY — In his salad days as a (barely) postadolescent college instructor, Pat Metheny should have been teaching Healthy Attitudes 101 in addition ...

Dusty Springfield: I Just Look For A Song That Suits Me

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 April 1966

"YOU PUT a smell on me!" sang Dusty Springfield and Madeline Bell to an audience consisting of a monkey in a box. ...

Leo Kottke: An Interview

Interview by Colin Harper, The Irish News, 29 May 1998

Author's Note: I often had a chance to preview touring artists, soon to be playing in Northern Ireland, in the Irish News, a Belfast-based daily ...

King Kobra: Snakes Alive

Interview by Steffan Chirazi, Sounds, 8 June 1985

King Kobra: one big boa, or more bite than venom? Steffan Chirazi bares his fangs and finds these ...

John's Children At $3.00 A Minute

Interview by Rochelle Reed, KRLA Beat, 14 January 1967

THE INGREDIENTS for a typical day of work at The BEAT usually consists of six jabbering PR men, five screaming reporters, four clicking typewriters, three ringing telephones, ...

The The: Matt Johnson: A Master Of All Trades

Interview by Fiona Russell Powell, Time Out, December 1983

WHAT DO YOU DO when you're a brilliantly talented songwriter and musician but have no locks, pretty frocks or "weird" image, an uncooperative record company ...

Fall, The: The Fall: "You Can't Knock It, Can You?"

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 23 December 1990

GIVEN HIS curmudgeonly image, you might expect Mark E. Smith to regard Christmas as a time to endure rather than enjoy. ...

Grateful Dead: Dead Grateful

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 27 May 1972

PERHAPS MORE than anything else the recent appearances of the Grateful Dead in this country at Wembley and Bickershaw and more currently the Lyceum, have ...

Vivian Stanshall: The Urban Submarine Man

Interview by David Hancock, Evening News, London, 7 October 1978

I WAS JUST about to plunge fully clothed into the swimming pool, notebook and pencil in hand, when it crossed my mind that it might ...

Saint Etienne: St Etienne: Debut That's Alpha Oscar Kilo

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 20 October 1991

ON THEIR delightful debut album, Foxbase Alpha, St Etienne mix contemporary house rhythms with the string-swept melodrama of Sixties pop. Amazingly, the creators of this ...