Get Iggy Pop talking and the time just flies. A living legend in his own right, he’s also as well-versed as anybody on classic and contemporary music. And with a frankness and candor you’re not apt to find from just about anyone else, he’s one of the record industry’s most critical – even prophetic – commentators. Continue reading
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Iggy Pop Transcript, 7.18.03: ‘I Was Shooting Dope At The RIAA Awards When It Wasn’t Chic’
Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags David Bowie, Death in Vegas, Green Day, Iggy Pop, Jack White, Peaches, Queens of the Stone Age, Slipknot, the Stooges, the Trolls, White Stripes on 01/19/2010 by Kurt Orzeck3 Inches Of Blood’s Cam Pipes Geeks Out On Tolkien, ‘Dungeons & Dragons’
Posted in Features, Interviews, What You Readin' For? with tags 3 Inches of Blood, Black Dahlia Murder, Brian Posehn, Cam Pipes, Judas Priest on 01/13/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
It’s Wednesday, September 9, 2009. Or, better put, “9.9.09.” Some 3 years, 3 months and 3 days ago, metalheads were having a collective kanipshin over 6.6.06, terrorizing their neighbors’ pets and carving satanic shit into their skin.
So how did the gritty falsetto belter behind 3 Inches of Blood bide his time that day? Scouting the Shire, perhaps. Or maybe slaying some dragons.
Welcome to the imaginarium of Dr. Pipes.
These Arms Are Snakes Bite The Dust; ’03 Interview Rises From The Grave
Posted in Interviews with tags Axl Rose, Black Sabbath, Botch, Brian Cook, Minus the Bear, Pretty Gifts Make Graves, Steve Snere, the Blood Brothers, Themselves, These Arms Are Snakes on 01/12/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Well, poo. These Arms Are Snakes broke up today – or made the announcement, at least. Continue reading
Quasi’s Sam Coomes In ’01: ‘There Isn’t Any Point In Us Rushing’ Albums
Posted in Interviews with tags Elliott Smith, Janet Weiss, Quasi, Sam Coomes, Sleater-Kinney on 01/11/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Way back on October 4, 2001 – with the horror of 9/11 still damp in everyone’s minds – Quasi’s Sam Coomes took a few to talk with me about his band’s then-new album, The Sword of God.
“There isn’t any point in us rushing to get albums out quickly anymore,” he confessed at the time. Continue reading
Quasi’s Sam Coomes Transcript, 10.4.01: ‘I’d Still Play Music Even [If] Nobody Cared’
Posted in Interview Transcripts, Interviews with tags Janet Weiss, Quasi, Sam Coomes, Sleater-Kinney on 01/11/2010 by Kurt OrzeckAs I noted after chatting with Quasi’s Sam Coomes on October 4, 2001, “It’s impossible to do an interview these days and not have at least of it consist of war talk.” Continue reading
Meet And Greet: Cassettes Won’t Listen
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags Aesop Rock, Cassettes Won't Listen, El-P, INXS, Liz Phair, Mr. Lif, Pavement, the Cure, the Dears on 01/10/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Jason Drake is having a hard time concentrating.
It’s late July 2009, and he’s chatting with me on his cell from a Whole Foods parking lot somewhere in L.A. Continue reading
Isis’ Aaron Turner In ’02: Oceanic Is ‘The Best Material We’ve Ever Written’
Posted in Interviews with tags Aaron Turner, Bad Wizard, Cable, Cast Iron Hike, Cave In, Dälek, Fugazi, Isis, Mike Patton, Mogwai, Neurosis, Scissorfight, Sonic Youth, the Cancer Conspiracy, Thrones, Tool on 01/08/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Last week saw the publish of a post drawing possible connections between what many consider to be Isis’ ultimate masterpiece, Oceanic, and one of the most important novels to come out of the 20th century, Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon.” Keeping the Oceanic momentum going, here’s an interview I conducted with the band in October 2002, just weeks after the album came out. Continue reading
Cave In: ‘The Longer We’re Around, The More People Don’t Like Us’
Posted in Interviews with tags Apples in Stereo, Cave In, Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, Giant's Chair, Piebald, Sparta, Stephen Brodsky, the Icarus Line, the Ramones, the Vines on 01/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
With Cave In’s new EP, Planets of Old, seeing a proper release – with a bonus DVD – on January 26, here’s a vintage interview with the guys when they had Antenna on the brain. Continue reading
Meet And Greet: Imaad Wasif Goes Into The Voidist
Posted in Features, Interviews, Meet And Greet with tags alaska!, Dale Crover, Dinosaur Jr., Dwarves, Imaad Wasif, Josh Homme, Kyuss, Lou Barlow, lowercase, Melvins, Minutemen, Red Sparowes, Sebadoh, Yeah Yeah Yeahs on 01/07/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
Contrary to what ProTools fanatics might tell you, visionaries are hard to come by these days. During an era in which it’s incumbent upon artists to market and promote themselves. During an era in which selling out has become something of a moot point. Continue reading
Nick Cave: Saint Nicholas And The Nocturnal Muse
Posted in Interviews with tags Bad Seeds, Bob Dylan, Dirty Three, Grinderman, Ian Dury, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Saints, the Beatles, the Birthday Party, the Blockheads on 01/06/2010 by Kurt Orzeck
“Will someone give this guy an Oscar already?” It’s a question Nick Cave fans must be asking these days. No, not in regards to the wiry legend’s acting skills, although he has popped up on the big screen a few times. Rather, what many argue Cave merits is at least a nomination for the ace work he’s done crafting soundtracks, especially in recent years. Continue reading
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