INTERVIEW: All Natural Revisit the Making of Their Underground Classic, ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’

January 6, 2019 Jesse Ducker

All Natural take a no frills, strictly skills approach to their music throughout their debut album ‘No Additives, No Preservatives’ (1998).

INTERVIEW: Vanessa Daou Revisits ‘Zipless,’ Her Dynamic Declaration of Independence, 25 Years Later

January 5, 2019 Quentin Harrison

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“‘Zipless’ is a philosophical act couched as a sexual one, a statement of creative independence,” Daou explains. “Why should I—or anyone—be compromised as an artist, especially as a woman?”

INTERVIEW: Savannah Conley Navigates the High Stakes of a Career on the Cusp

December 30, 2018 Grant Walters

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“My words are the only thing I can absolutely, one-hundred percent control at all times,” Conley confides. “It’s coming out of my mouth, and it’s happening solely in my control.”

INTERVIEW: Liela Moss Evinces and Embraces Another Side of Her Musical Muse

December 21, 2018 Justin Chadwick

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“Writing and recording most of the album in rural Somerset was extremely special,” Moss confides. “The elements, trees and moon cycle became the brightest, loudest companions.”

INTERVIEW: Nicolay Revisits All That The Foreign Exchange Left Behind and the Legacy That Endures

December 8, 2018 Jesse Ducker

“We have a responsibility to not look back, to get outside of our comfort zones,” Nicolay confides. “And I think we’ve always made music that we want to make.”

INTERVIEW: Dubstar Rediscover Their Creative Muse and Reclaim Their Artistic Power

November 24, 2018 Quentin Harrison

“I always felt like we were on the outside looking in,” Sarah Blackwood says of the Britpop scene in the ‘90s. “But, this time around, I’m happy being the outsider looking in.”

Waxing Poetic: KT Tunstall Traverses the Soul, Body & Mind | Interview

October 26, 2018 Quentin Harrison

“I want to challenge how you feel and how you respond,” Tunstall explains. “I want a record to shift you, where you get on the ride and it takes you somewhere.”

Resilient & Resolute: A Candid Conversation with Michael Timmins of Cowboy Junkies | Interview

October 26, 2018 Grant Walters

Photo: Heather Pollock

Cowboy Junkies latest album ‘All That Reckoning’ is an outstanding set that underscores the band’s singularity it’s achieved over a thirty-plus-year career trajectory.

INTERVIEW: Stephen Lee Naish Digs Deep Into Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Know Your Enemy’ with ‘Riffs & Meaning’

October 4, 2018 Justin Chadwick

“’Know Your Enemy’ is an example of the Manics’ iconoclast tendencies,” Naish explains. “But very little has been written about it and its obtuseness has mostly been forgotten or dismissed.”

INTERVIEW: Quentin Harrison Delves Deep Into Madonna’s Discography with New ‘Record Redux’ Installment

September 4, 2018 Justin Chadwick

‘Record Redux: Madonna’ is the fourth installment of Harrison’s “Record Redux” series following the previous Spice Girls, Carly Simon and Donna Summer volumes.

INTERVIEW: Bobby Brown Exercises His Prerogative & Embraces His Truth

August 30, 2018 Christopher A. Daniel

“You go through ups and downs, challenges, trials and tribulations,” Brown explains. “But you have to be able to be strong for the ones that you love and for yourself.”