Interviews

Mental health is always an important topic. However, mental health issues are heightened in May, which is Mental Health Awareness Month. Brian Mackey is an artist for whom mental health issues are very important. He wrote “Saturday Night Sleeping” for his son who died of a heroin overdose. With the release of the song, Mackey […]

Singer, model, author, muse, mentor, mother, grandmother…these are just a few words to describe the legendary Bebe Buell. With a voice that packs a punch with its soaring and powerful vibrato, bringing to mind the likes of Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, and Debbie Harry, Buell has carved a niche for herself with gripping albums like […]

On May 21st, German Thrash band Vulture delivers their next full-length album via Metal Blade, and this time it’s a return to classic forms and vibes drawing on the Thrash Metal that has always inspired them and the classic horror imagery that originally galvanized their desire to create their band. With 2019’s Ghastly Waves and […]

The Rumjacks is a Celtic punk band whose members live in five different countries. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the band was able to gather in Milan to record the new album Hestia (named after the Greek goddess of home and hearth), which was released earlier this year. It is the fifth studio album from the […]

Violent Femmes singer/guitarist Gordon Gano is friendly when he gets on the line – but when asked where he’s calling from, he quips that he’s in “an undisclosed location.” Then he relents a little: “I’m in the United States,” he says, adding with a laugh, “I’m sorry, I’m going to have to hang up – […]

“Everything’s good, no complaints,” Myles Kennedy tells me as we start our fourth interview together since 2011. “Just enjoying the new lifestyle for a guy used to being on the road (laughs). But I’m not complaining.” As with everyone else in the world, Kennedy had to readjust his life due to a worldwide pandemic that […]

The last of the shipments for the month of April is out and, arguably, one of the Mother Hips’ best records, Later Days, has now been fully re-released both in streaming format and now on vinyl as Blue Rose Music and the Hips continue the re-release roll of the band’s thirtieth anniversary. Greg Loiacono sat […]

Brett Newski is a singer-songwriter from Wisconsin who has supported artists such as Pixies and Violent Femmes. He is also the host of the Dirt from the Road podcast, which has seen guests such as Dashboard Confessional and Frank Turner. If that weren’t enough, he has also written a book called It’s Hard to Be […]

Swedish Punk band Rotten Mind put out their latest album, Rat City Dog Boy in February of 2020, and the band’s vocalist and guitarist, Jakob Mind (aka Jakob Arvidsson), has followed that with his debut solo album, The One Who Got Away, from Lovely Music. It is currently available digitally and arrives on vinyl on […]

The never-before released debut album of Seattle Early Punk band, The Living, has been released as The Living: 1982 by Loosgroove Records (run by Stone Gossard of Pearl Jam and Regan Hagar of Satchel and Brad). The release is remarkable for a number of reasons. First of all, members of the short-lived band The Living […]

Since co-founding the legendary jam-grass act Leftover Salmon over 30 years ago, Drew Emmitt has been one of the most influential trailblazers of the modern progressive-bluegrass movement which has taken the country’s fertile live-music scene by storm.  As the lead mandolinist/guitarist for the Colorado-based jam-band veterans, Emmitt has taken his myriad musical influences and harnessed […]

In May of last year, at what now could be considered the beginning of the pandemic, Mythic Quest released a stand-alone episode, aptly titled “Quarantine.” Written, filmed, and edited in just three weeks, and shot entirely on iPhones, it became the first truly great pop culture monument to what life was like in 2020. It also […]

The working relationship between Megan Ganz and Danny Pudi goes back to the second season of Community, when Ganz penned the episode “Cooperative Calligraphy,” which trapped Pudi’s socially awkward Abed and his six co-stars in their library study room for a classic sitcom bottle episode. Years later, Ganz and Pudi are together again for AppleTV+’s […]

New York-based band Combo Lulo moves side to side from effortless Jamaican foundation rhythms into the further reaches of Caribbean influence. Incorporating a natural transition between Jamaican classics and the essence of Afro-Latin ritmo and finding a common thread between styles like cumbia, rocksteady, dub, ethiojazz and afrobeat. Their debut album Neotropic Dream is out […]

Any fan of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia who tuned into Mythic Quest’s first season were treated to more than the familiar sense of humor of co-creator Rob McElhenney. Actor David Hornsby, who plays the long-suffering Cricket on Always Sunny, also stars in Mythic Quest as David Brittlesbee. As the executive producer of the eponymous […]

Elizabeth King has been singing gospel music for her entire life, with less of a focus on the traditional paths to success and more of a focus on what success means in the eyes of the lord. For this 78-year old Memphis artist, that has meant dedicating her life and her talent to spreading messages […]

While Mythic Quest may be set in the behind-the-scenes world of a video game company, its characters each have varied interest in the medium. Co-created and starring It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Rob McElhenney, who plays the game’s visionary creator, Ian (pronounced eye-in, to help clue you into his insufferable personality), the show manages to […]

Well, it’s about darn time country music outlaw Travis Tritt got down off the stage to record some new music. It’s been over ten years since the Georgia native put out an album of songs he wrote or co-wrote. Electing to keep moving and keep playing, Tritt sold out concerts on the laurels of great […]

For the newest adaptation of The Mosquito Coast, initially a 1981 novel that was adapted for the silver screen by director Peter Weir in 1986, star and EP Justin Theroux allows for a new interpretation on the perennially relevant character of Allie Fox. Of course, anywhere Allie Fox goes is certain to be an erratic, […]

‘The Mosquito Coast’ producer and star Justin Theroux talks about the upcoming series adaptation, and what was appealing about portraying Allie Fox