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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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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 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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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...
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...
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 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 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 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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