Critical 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 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 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 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 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 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 ArticleTalkin’ 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’...
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