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David Crosby, Jimi Hendrix, The Monkees, Otis Redding, The Who: Monterey Pop Festival: Inside Looking Out

Interview by uncredited writer, KRLA Beat, 15 July 1967

BEAT: Just wanted to get your comments on what's happening here in Monterey this weekend. ...

James "Blood" Ulmer: Blood Sounds

Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 10 January 1982

Funk Guitarist James "Blood" Ulmer: Harmolodic Karma ...

James Blood Ulmer: The 'Harmolodics' Of James Ulmer

Interview by Don Snowden, Los Angeles Times, 10 May 1985

NEUTRAL GROUND doesn't seem to exist when it comes to James (Blood) Ulmer's music. ...

Patti Smith

Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, September 2004

BY FRONTING her own rock band – issuing lyrical missives from the depths of her fertile unconscious that rivalled anything that Bob Dylan ever scribbled ...

The Move: Disgusting, That's Our Stage Act

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 February 1968

"IS OUR stage act sexy? It's disgusting! There's no doubt about it, it's vulgar and obscene, and if I was a father I wouldn't let ...

Randy Newman: The Man They All Dig Doesn't Dig Himself

Interview by Royston Eldridge, Melody Maker, 25 January 1969

BEATLE PAUL McCartney phoned to say how much he likes his work; Frank Sinatra wants him to write an album but the man himself doesn't ...

Plasmatics, The: Plasmatics Play It For Kicks

Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 21 March 1981

A COUPLE OF years ago the Damned decided to poke a little fun at their own limited musicality and came up with the refrain, "Noise ...

Fleetwood Mac: How to Upset the Blues Purists

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 March 1968

AMONG BRITAIN'S young blues fans Eric Clapton was once hailed as a god, then discarded by the ethnics when he left John Mayall's Bluesbreakers for ...

James Last: Top Band Man ISN'T Saying 'Big Bands are Coming Back'

Interview by Peter Jones, Record Mirror, 6 May 1967

JAMES LAST sounds rather a British name. In fact, this talented musician, composer, arranger and orchestra-leader is German and it shows through in his struggles ...

Robert Cray: Blues Pour L'Homme

Interview by Don Waller, MOJO, July 1995

MOJO catches up with handsome devil Robert Cray in that traditional milieu of the blues hero: on the road in Anchorage, Alaska… ...

Mahmoud Guinia, James Holden: Moroccan gnawa: "It's a healing sound"

Interview by John Lewis, Uncut, August 2018

Why Moroccan gnawa music continues to seduce Western artists, from Hendrix to Holden ...

Howe Gelb, Giant Sand: Howe Gelb: Enter Sandman

Interview by Everett True, The Guardian, 5 November 2008

"GIANT SAND is a mood," remarks singer Howe Gelb on the back of my promo copy of the new Giant Sand album, proVISIONS — what ...

Cream Cut Loose

Interview by Keith Altham, NME, 4 February 1967

THIS IS THE Cream interview which got loose in London – ran wild over their publicists' office – finally plunging from the depths of Mao ...

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 ...

Jimi Hendrix: Mitch Mitchell: 'We're Only Friendly Little Gnomes After All'

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 9 September 1967

MITCH MITCHELL TALKS ABOUT HIS IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA ...

Tenacious D: D-linquent, d-generate and d-praved!

Interview by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 16 November 2002

Leaders of the satanic rock revolution, cult spunk guzzlers Tenacious D have already lured Dave Grohl, Weezer and Tool into their sleaze-sodden underworld where orgies ...

Ellen McIlwaine: Honky Tonk Angel

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 1 June 1974

ELLEN McILWAINE is probably the finest female guitarist to emerge in ages, says ROBIN KATZ. She handles her guitar with the expertise of a super-cool ...

Bobby Womack: The Soundtrack of My Life

Interview by Jude Rogers, The Observer, 25 November 2012

BOBBY WOMACK'S career began in his teens in Cleveland, Ohio, when Sam Cooke mentored his family band, the Valentinos. In 1964 he wrote 'It's All ...

Blind Faith, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic, Steve Winwood: Steve Winwood says — Groups must play much much softer

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 4 January 1969

"FREAKING OUT with volume is over. Everybody seemed to think volume was the revolution of the music. That's okay theatrically, but not musically." ...

Move, The: The Move: New Moves and Good Vibrations

Interview by Dawn James, Rave, October 1968

Where has all the fury gone?... the answer is it's never been there, says Dawn James, after talking to pop's controversial group, the MOVE. ...