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Fiery Furnaces, The, Pete Townshend, Who, The: The iJamming! interview: Fiery Furnaces' Matt Friedberger

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, January 2005

FOR A Q magazine Special Edition on Icons, published in November 2004, I was commissioned to write profiles on Pete Townshend and Joe Strummer. To ...

Flamin' Groovies, The, Roy Loney: Roy Loney

Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005

Funny story... Though I had spoken to Flamin' Groovies founder in 1998, I held the article all this time hoping to speak to Cyril A. ...

Kraftwerk

Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, June 2005

FEW BANDS in pop history are quite as mysterious, elusive and maddeningly eccentric as Kraftwerk. But few remain as enduringly influential either. In 2005, even ...

Iggy Pop, Stooges, The: The Stooges: Raw Power Revisited

Interview by Fred Mills, Detroit Metro Times, 10 August 2005

Warning: The following article does not constitute an endorsement of current phonographic products. – Editor ...

Electric Six: Where There's Smoke There's Fire

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), 20 October 2005

HAVING BEEN introduced to live rock music through an Aussie double bill over 20 years ago on the outskirts of his hometown Detroit, it seems ...

Alice Cooper: American Excess

Interview by Mark Paytress, MOJO, December 2005

Leading a band of blood-thirsty long-haired crazies, Alice Cooper ruled '70s rock'n'roll, surviving hangings and electrocution, before booze, madness and global fame destroyed the beast. ...

Flaming Lips: The Flaming Lips: Loose Lips

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, May 2006

WAYNE COYNE is the Flaming Lips' major domo, lead vocalist and ringmaster for the Oklahoma-based art provocateurs. ...

Flaming Lips: Steven Drozd of The Flaming Lips

Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 14 June 2006

STEVEN DROZD, guitarist for The Flaming Lips, plays guitar, keyboards, drums, sings, writes, entertains and philosophizes. He does a lot of different things. And that's ...

Lemmy: Speed kills...

Interview by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, July 2006

… but not when you have the constitution of a warthog and you're the Lewis gun of the bass guitar. Cue tales of Sid Vicious, ...

Primal Scream: Gary "Mani" Mounfield of Primal Scream

Interview by Steven Rosen, ultimate-guitar.com, 26 July 2006

TWENTY MINUTES before this interview was about to take place, an e-mail from the label said that singer Bobby Gillespie, singer for Primal Scream and ...

Radio Birdman: Blood Brothers: The Return Of Radio Birdman

Interview by Jenny Valentish, The Australian Times, 15 August 2006

Radio Birdman guitarist Deniz Tek always had chiselled good looks, but over the last few years he's become the James Bond of garage rock. He ...

Patti Smith: The Lady's For Returning

Interview by Mark Paytress, The Guardian, 9 September 2006

PATTI SMITH knows a thing or two about rock'n'roll heroes. Emerging in a blaze of controversy with her epochal 1975 debut album, Horses, she wrapped ...

George Clinton: An Interview with George Clinton

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, October 2006

Mix Motown, acid, Jethro Tull and a guitarist in a nappy and you get George Clinton. But where now for the sage of Parliament/Funkadelic? "The ...

Patti Smith

Interview by Robert Sandall, Sunday Times, 8 April 2007

Nearly 30 years ago, Patti Smith turned her back on rock'n'roll. The woman they called the female Bob Dylan quit, choosing obscurity and her family ...

MC5, John Sinclair, Wayne Kramer: MC5: The making of Kick Out The Jams

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Uncut, May 2007

How Wayne Kramer and his Detroit proto punks turned a stage heckle into a battle cry to herald the death of the hippy dream ...

Ornette Coleman

Interview by Andrew Purcell, The Guardian, 29 June 2007

THIS AFTERNOON I will meet Ornette Coleman, the world's greatest living jazz musician. Coleman is an iconoclast's iconoclast, Lou Reed's hero, a saxophonist who plays ...

Suicide: The Marty Thau Interview

Interview by Jeremy Gluck, Bucketful of Brains, March 2009

"I've always believed there is a fine line between abstract and pure accessibility and that is what I've always looked for ... an artist who ...

The Ramones: Ramones Forever

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Shindig, March 2010

Note: The interview with Joey and Dee Dee Ramone took place in July 1985 at their favourite East Village dive. "The world knew in '76 ...

Elektra's Jac Holzman (2010)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, November 2010

In conversation at Rough Trade East – the legendary record man on all things Elektra: folk to folk-rock; signing Love and the Doors, Paul Rothchild, the lunacy of Paxton Lodge, the MC5 and the Stooges, and through to leaving the business...

File format: mp3; file size: 61.8mb, interview length: 1h 04' 20" sound quality: ****

Primal Scream: Carry on Screaming

Interview by Rob Fitzpatrick, The Sunday Times, 6 March 2011

Primal Scream’s classic Screamadelica album is 20 this year. They talk about the agonies, the ecstasy, and doing the school run to PiL ...