As reported last week, musician Andrew Gold passed away on Friday, June 3, 2011 in his home in Encino, Calif. Thanks to a contribution by Robert Pally, I can present this interview with Andrew posthumously. It was done after release of The Fraternal Order of The All, read the interview here or visit our Artist interviews section.
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On a lighter note, Google has a cute “guitar” tribute in honor of Les Paul’s 96th Birthday. Play and record on this neat-o widget!
Bowling For Soup are a punky power pop band with staying power. The group gained national fame for the Grammy nominated single “Girl All the Bad Guys Want
It’s been over 4 years since I last interviewed Richard X. Heyman, so I felt with his new release “Tiers and Other Stories,” it would be helpful to dig into his story here. This was an informative and relaxed conversation about Richard’s experiences on making the album and his brief experience as drummer for The Left Banke (during the 1980’s at an aborted attempt at a reunion).
I finally was able to get in touch with one of my favorite artists, XTC’s Andy Partridge and get to him some questions that I have been itching to ask for a while now. We talk about his own label Ape House and was there another Dukes of The Stratosphere album in the works? Click on our artist interviews section to find out or view the Andy Partridge interview here.
Last July I reviewed ‘The Distance Calls’, the debut album of Neil Nathan, and really enjoyed it. I interviewed Neil and the lost the transcript in my ever-growing pile of computer files. I thought it was gone forever, but I recently discovered it and now it’s finally posted in our new and improved interviews section. Read it here or click the navigation on the right.