This August 2 profile of Ryan Adams provides a taste of the eccentric interview the singer-songwriter recently conducted with Westword. Below, find the whole meal – a sumptuous spread of conversation and contradictions, complete with a serving of metaphysical hippie-isms that concludes the chat in a suitably peculiar manner. Examples?…
Westword’s article about country music pioneer Charlie Louvin, of Louvin Brothers fame, appeared in our April 5 issue — but somehow, the interview that formed the foundation of that profile never wound up online. Allow us to correct this oversight by posting the entire dialogue here. A lot of fascinating…
The July 26 Backbeat section contains a profile of Lordi, a ghoul-garbed Finnish group that’s one of the odder acts on this year’s Ozzfest bill — a proud achievement if there ever was one. The following Q&A with group leader Mr. Lordi covers more ground even more amusingly. Topics include…
It would be nice to say that our July 19 profile of acoustic guitar wizard Leo Kottke was filled with the endless, witty and off-kilter diatribes that act as between-song banter during his concerts. But that’s the trouble with email interviews; the interviewee is less compelled to ramble. Still, as…
In lieu of the usual Q&A connected to a Backbeat profile, here’s something different, and more than a little crazoid: an audio interview conducted with O.G. rapper Ice-T by his manager, Jorge Hinojosa. What the hell? As noted in this article, from Westword’s July 19 edition, Hinojosa initially told yours…
For the record, Keller Williams does not sell real estate. He does, however, tour regularly on the jam band circuit, where he routinely impresses audiences with his one-man band approach. With the help of looping technology, Williams constructs his crowd pleasing grooves right on stage, layer by layer, all with…
In Westword’s July 12 profile of Chris Cornell, the erstwhile lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave proves to be an energetic conversationalist, and those qualities come through even more clearly in the complete transcript of the interview, which is reproduced below. Indeed, he has a tendency toward filibustering — quite…
Westword’s July 5 profile of Yellowcard frontman Ryan Key only scrapes the surface of the wide-ranging interview that forms the backbone of the article. Key has a lot to say, as you can see below. Among the major topics: Speculation that Paper Walls, the latest Yellowcard CD, was rushed into…
In a profile from Westword’s June 28 edition, Mavis Staples speaks her mind in a notably feisty manner — and in the following Q&A, which encompasses the entire text of the interview that formed the basis of the article, her undimmed passion comes through even more clearly. Topics include her…
This June 21 profile of Cephalic Carnage only scratches the surface of Westword’s wide-ranging interview with the band’s guitarist, Zac Joe. The Q&A below expands on virtually every topic in the article, and adds plenty more. Subjects include the studio Cephalic built in “an undisclosed location within the Denver area,”…
J Mascis is a lot better guitarist, singer and songwriter than he is a conversationalist. As noted in the June 14 profile of the reunited Dinosaur Jr., which headlines the June 16 Westword Music Showcase, I quizzed Mascis back in 1991, when a group called Nirvana was opening for his…
As noted in this June 7 profile, Bloc Party has ridden the hype rollercoaster over the past few years. The band’s 2005 disc, Silent Alarm, was greeted with so many hosannas by British music journalists that their American counterparts reflexively portrayed the group as something of a letdown. Hence, the…
Norah Jones thinks her musical evolution is moving forward more rapidly than do many reviewers. Still, her latest disc, Not Too Late, is a modest step toward greater self-expression — she wrote or co-wrote all of the material on it — and other projects suggest that she’s interested in doing…
Ethan Iverson, keyboardist for the Bad Plus, had a lot more to say than could be squeezed into the profile that appears in the May 24 edition of Westword. But the web has plenty of room — so here’s the full Q&A. The topics discussed include the reasons behind the…
May 17’s Westword features a profile of Dimmu Borgir, Norway’s premier practitioners of symphonic black metal — but there’s a lot more mayhem where that came from. Below, find the entire Q&A with Erkekjetter Silenoz, the band’s guitarist, lyric writer and all-around conceptualist. Along the way, he discusses the narrative…
Westword’s May 10 profile of Ramble John Krohn, known to the music world as RJD2, finds the hip-hop producer turned pop-music maker complaining about the press taking comments out of context. There’s no danger of that here. Below, find the entire transcript of our RJD2 interview. The conversation touches upon…
As interview subjects, musicians tend to fall into a handful of predictable categories: the kind that offer canned answers, the sort who fall back on cliches, the ones just waiting for something to offend them, those who actually listen to each question and try to answer in a fresh way…
Here’s a bonus for fans of Joseph Arthur, who’s profiled in the April 26 edition of Westword. The published piece was based on an extensive Q&A reproduced below. Among the topics Arthur touches upon: his risky new solo album, Let’s Just Be, and why at least one song on it…
Andrew Whiteman of Apostle of Hustle, the subject of this profile in the April 19 Westword, is among the brighter singer-songwriters on the current scene, as the complete text of his interview indicates. Below, read about his first musical influences, a little-known poetry album that didn’t exactly fly off the…
This week’s Westword contains a profile of Goes Cube, a surprisingly heavy Brooklyn band on the rise. But the print edition only allowed a small portion of guitarist/vocalist David Obuchowski’s funny, incisive and revealing comments to be included. Below, find the entire interview, conducted while Obuchowski was throwing T-shirts in…
When a band has a name like Wicked Grin, you expect to see burned-out relics from the Revlon era rockin’ the spandex and skullets, churning out half-baked versions of everyone’s favorite cock-rock anthems. The material this act has chosen to replicate hails from a later decade but is no less…
