Author Archive
Q+A
"The warning lights were flashing 50 years ago and we failed to engage with those challenges formidably enough and hence we’re in the situation we’re in now."
Art
"[Joan Jett] is a fierce woman making no apologies, showing females they have a place in rock!”
Album Release
"I don’t need to answer all the world’s problems in one song lyric. I just wanted to write this happy sounding tune and let it be, and that’s how ['Same Boat'] came about."
Beer
“Iron Maiden, like BrewDog, have maintained their spirit of independence throughout their stellar career."
Album Release
"I hope you dance, vibe, shower, and chill to these remixes! I hope you make a lasagna or an eggplant parmesan while you listen to them, too!!!"
Album Release
“I am the guy who tours; this is who I've been since I was 16. This is the longest period of time I've slept in the same bed continuously since I was 7.”
Album Release
"I’m trying to poke myself throughout this record and ask, ‘Hey, are you still alive?"
Books
"Over a prolific 40-year career, the Fall created a world that was influential, idiosyncratic and fiercely original; it was an education."
Album Release
“We’d put blankets down and Leroy would bring out a keyboard and his acoustic guitar, and we’d just hang out in the grass and work on the songs in this very traditional way — completely detached from the internet and lit-up scr...
Album Release
"I grew up listening to Bonnie Raitt and Joni Mitchell and Paul Simon. I wanted to reflect that a little more, so I started writing songs that were trying to be like them. I’m sure the first 100 of them sucked, but it definitel...