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Stephen Malkmus Doesn't Think He Was a Jerk

Interview by Rob Tannenbaum, The New York Times, 14 May 2018

"I HATE BEING TAN," Stephen Malkmus said almost immediately, standing in the lobby of a Midtown hotel. His olive complexion, the unwanted result of a ...

Petula Clark: An Interview

Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 4 July 2013

PETULA CLARK WAS 80 years old when she released her 2013 album Lost In You, an elegant and contemporary set produced by John Williams – ...

James Talley: Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love

Review by John Morthland, No Depression, 28 February 2006

FIRST RELEASED in 1975, at a time when the Outlaw movement was opening Nashville up to all manner of previously unimaginable sounds, James Talley's debut ...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Abbatoir Blues/The Lyre Of Orpheus

Review by Sylvie Simmons, MOJO, January 2005

"THE WORK," Cave told MOJO, "of a genius." Though his tongue was presumably not too many miles from his cheek, he was spot on. This ...

Harry Nilsson: Nilsson Ratings: Injured, Brilliant

Interview by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 April 1975

NOTE: The interview had to wait until we watched the latest episode of the PBS series, The Ascent of Man. I asked Harry about the ...

Lindsey Buckingham: Town Hall, NYC

Live Review by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 29 September 2011

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011 (New York, NY) – Most of the over-55 rocker set are phoning it in these days, playing it all too safe amidst ...

George Michael: Twentyfive (Sony/BMG)

Review by Paul Elliott, Q, December 2006

THIS WAS SUPPOSED to be part of George Michael's big comeback: a greatest hits album to follow a sell-out European tour. And, fleetingly, it was ...

John Fullbright

Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2013

AN OKLAHOMAN FARMBOY joining the dots between Woody Guthrie and Townes Van Zandt. ...

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 ...

Leonard Cohen, Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor: Nine Inch Nails: Reading Festival / Leonard Cohen: The Brighton Centre

Live Review by Simon Price, The Independent, 31 August 2013

The Nine Inch Nails frontman is still furious after all these years. But, at 78, Leonard Cohen knows it's better to be a lover than ...

Steve Goodman: After A Bout Of Leukemia, Steve Goodman Hits The Road

Interview by David Gans, Record, July 1983

LOS ANGELES — Red Pajamas Records is a one-act label with a one-title catalogue. But Steve Goodman, proprietor and Red Pajamas recording artist, doesn't mind ...

Tom Waits: Franks Wild Years (Island)

Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 30 August 1987

WAITS: DREAMLIKE, DISTANT ...

K.T. Oslin: Making Smart Moves

Interview by John Morthland, Country Music, March 1992

The independent singer/songwriter has to wear many hats in her career. While she finds life on the road difficult, she's aware of its pitfalls and ...

Leiber and Stoller: Jerry Leiber And Mike Stoller: By Royal Appointment

Interview by Roger St. Pierre, NME, 15 February 1975

THE SCENE IS the Dorchester Hotel, one of the last vestiges of Britain's Imperial splendour and we've just been refused admission to the restaurant for ...

Bruce Springsteen: The Ties That Bind – The River Collection

Review by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, November 2015

ON HIS FIFTH E Street Band album, Springsteen still struggled "to gain the knowledge of how to make records". But this sense of technical difficulty ...

Leonard Cohen: The Songwriter: Lenny Plays It Cool

Interview by Bud Scoppa, Music Connection, 6 April 1987

The Various Positions of a Pop Guru ...

Public Service Broadcasting

Report and Interview by Jude Rogers, The Guardian, 17 June 2017

The band's new album, Every Valley, chronicles the destruction of the Welsh coal industry and how its legacy still resonates in these uncertain times. ...

Joni Mitchell: David Yaffe: Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell

Book Review by Clinton Heylin, unpublished, Fall 2017

WARREN ZEVON, a Laurel Canyon contemporary of Joni Mitchell, once wrote a song called 'Accidentally Like A Martyr'. Taking a leaf from Zevon, David Yaffe's ...

Beck, Guero and Scientology

Interview by Stephen Dalton, Scotland on Sunday, 26 March 2005

ON THE SURFACE, nothing is wrong with Beck Hansen. No wires protrude from his dirty-blond moptop. No glazed expressions, no shifty answers, no sense of ...

Janis Ian: The Ugly Duckling That Laid A Golden Egg

Interview by Robin Katz, Sounds, 5 June 1976

'I am a swan!' sez Janis Ian. 'Right!' sez Robin Katz. ...