Amid the increasingly incendiary debate over Islam in America, here’s a look back at a related interview I conducted with Steve Earle in 2004. In the article, now online for the first time, he admitted his previous ignorance about the religion and stressed the importance of understanding it, particularly in the wake of 9/11. He also criticized then-President George W. Bush – but admitted that Condoleeza Rice was “kinda hot.” Continue reading
Here is my recent Herald-Tribune interview with the remarkably down-to-earth frontman.
I recently gabbed with Earth, Wind & Fire drummer Ralph Johnson about music … and karate … and flying airplanes … and …
Go here for the Herald-Tribune piece.
Here’s something hot off the press: My recent interview with Nikki Monniger, bassist for the Silversun Pickups. She spoke with me about touring with Against Me! and Snow Patrol, playing a gig on St. Patrick’s Day a few years back – and how life hasn’t really changed for her, despite the band’s huge (and hugely unanticipated) success.
The piece just went up on the Sarasota Herald-Tribune site – right here.
Naturally, yesterday’s post about Geronimo! – a new band out of Rockford, Illinois – brought back fond memories of the city’s principal rock export: Cheap Trick. Seems like a good-enough time to dust off a years-old interview with Bun E. Carlos. Continue reading
So the B-52s, Lady Gaga and an alien named Mel Moron walk into a cosmic cantina …
Welcome to Fred Schneider’s universe. In an interview conducted with the Bad Penny, he also spoke – at times humorously, at times seriously – about bloody Christmas songs, shoplifting a ham, avoiding cancer and, maybe equally important, avoiding the tour bus. Continue reading
Concert audiences are dwindling – but not at Porcupine Tree shows. Find out in my recent interview with drummer Gavin Harrison why, more than 20 years into their prog-tastic career, the British bulldogs’ fanbase is more rabid than ever.
Yes, John Oates is that sweet. I’ve got the tape to prove it.
Pop over to my recently published interview with the pop god and find out why Hall & Oates have more than just hits in common with the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
My recent interview with OK Go frontman Damian Kulash, published in Sarasota, Florida’s Herald-Tribune, is here.
Go here for a just-published interview I did with AFI bassist Hunter Burgan. The piece is a concert preview for Florida’s Sarasota Herald-Tribune.
