Talkin’ Aesthetics
A mere eleven-and-a-half years ago I had an idea about The Aesthetics of Rock—see this post here–which I finally, a few months ago, got around to pursuing, for real. See my series on YouTube, Rock ‘n’...
View ArticleInterview with Don Armstrong, author of ‘The Life and Writings of Ralph J....
Don Armstrong’s The Life and Writings of Ralph J. Gleason: Dispatches from the Front is long overdue. Unique among music writers, Gleason is the only critic from the pre-rock era (born in 1917, his...
View ArticleNever Known as a Nonbeliever: Tom Smucker on Disco and The Beach Boys
Interview by Vic Perry Tom Smucker is a major first-generation rock critic with an unusual career trajectory. By choice never a fulltime critic, he still wrote for The Village Voice, placed an essay in...
View ArticleMusic and Portrait Photographers, Chris Buck & Rick McGinnis
Chris Buck, an old friend, was the first person I ever interviewed at length, in 1996. That is to say, he was the first person I sat down with, and after pressing record on a cheap mini-recorder,...
View ArticleKandia Crazy Horse: Native Americana from a former rock critic
Twenty years ago on this site I email-interviewed music critic, Kandia Crazy Horse. Based in Manhattan, and with her byline then appearing regularly in The Village Voice and PopMatters.com (she also...
View ArticleThe Aesthetics of Prince: Interview with C. Liegh McInnis
C. Liegh McInnis, who hails from Clarksdale, Mississippi, is a poet, critic, author, and educator, and one sizable portion of his life’s work includes expounding on the aesthetics, life, politics, and...
View ArticleCritical Storyteller: Interview with Michael A. Gonzales
I’ve been dipping a lot into Michael A. Gonzales’s writing in recent months, particularly his stories about growing up, discovering the music that would carry him through to adulthood, working at...
View ArticleTurning the tables: Interview with rockcritics.com’s very own Steven Ward
Happy to welcome back (not that he ever really went away) Steven Ward. In the first several years of this site’s run, Steven conducted roughly 80% of the interviews that were posted here, starting with...
View ArticleHe’s got the Beats (interview with Simon Warner)
On his frequently updated Substack newsletter, Rock and the Beat Generation, Simon Warner doggedly traces the connections inherent in his title, through interviews and correspondences, reviews,...
View ArticleBangs Radio Interview 1980 (audio version)
In 2001 we posted a transcribed version of a “lost” Lester Bangs interview from 1980 (transcript is here, along with the back story); the audio version, sans anyone’s permission (I will take it down if...
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Passing Thru Fire (and Hurricane Annie)
Tim Powis: My Interview With Lou Reed It wasn’t supposed to be me. Or, considering how things turned out, maybe it was. At any rate, the original plan was that my boss, Alida, would go to New York to...
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Interview with Jason Gross (Perfect Sound Forever)
By Scott Woods Jason Gross is the founder and editor of Perfect Sound Forever, the longest-running internet music publication, with its monthly schedule dating back to 1993 (roughly three years before...
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From the Archives: Interview with Matt Resnicoff (2005)
(Originally posted in 2005) By Steven Ward Matt Resnicoff crossed a line. The former Musician Senior Editor and Guitar Player and Guitar World writer is now a professional guitarist and record...
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Interview with Mark Sinker, Editor of ‘A Hidden Landscape Once a Week,’ a...
Mark Sinker is the editor of A Hidden Landscape Once a Week, a critical history of the UK music press “in the words of those who were there.” With the bulk of its pages transcribed verbatim from a...
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Rock Critic Bill Wyman in Conversation with Chris Buck
Rock critic Bill Wyman Bill Wyman has been a music critic and arts editor for over 30 years but his ranking stories for New York Magazine’s “Vulture” section has recently raised his profile. In these...
View ArticleChuck Eddy interview, Oct 2017 (link)
But at the same time, you told me when we talked last week that this is yet another clichéd sentiment, that music was at one time the center of the culture and that the internet has ruined that. You...
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podcast interview with jeff pike (@ new digs)
As I slowly step away from this site (…), I have decided to start hosting my podcasts and audio excursions in a new WordPress space: and you can dance to it. How active this mostly-talk site becomes...
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Dave Marsh radio interview, 1987
A good (albeit brief) interview with Dave Marsh, conducted by Kevin Courier in 1987, re: Glory Days. (Original link here.) Dave Marsh on Springsteen, Interview with Kevin Courrier (1987) by...
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Pop as Self-denial
“I’ve long suspected that those who rail most vehemently against the banalities of mainstream pop do so because they can’t stand the fact that they react to the music. It drives them crazy to hear a...
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From the Archives: Andy Secher (2003)
Andy Secher, Hit Parader By Steven Ward (November 2003) Steven: How long have you been working at Hit Parader and what was your job title when you were first hired? Andy: As amazing as it may...
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