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1. Going It Alone

    In the spring, before it gets too humid and buggy, I like to work on my patio. When the oppressive heat of Georgia summer arrives, I retreat to my studio to await the blessed fall.  The only two things in summer I care about are tomato sandwiches and air conditioning.   After pitching songs in Nashville […]

2. Jack Irons Finds His Way Back With ‘Iridescence’

   Jack Irons on survival, memory and making peace with a different future behind the drums.

3. Tank and the Bangas Are Popping ‘The Last Balloon’

   It’s been nearly 10 years, but Tank and the Bangas still can’t escape the events of March 10, 2017. “It doesn’t matter that we were on the ‘Today Show’ with Michelle Obama or that we were on Barack’s playlists or Jimmy Fallon’s show, or all these other amazing milestones in our career. They just want […]

4. Indie Rock Band Channels Indie Nostalgia in Single “Does Her Worst”

   Far away from the indie music hubs of Los Angeles and Seattle, the early version of the band, Poems, was founded by its original members, who were heavily inspired by classic indie bands. After years of evolution and a move to California, Poems has carved out a distinctive sound that blends “yesterday’s indie sound” with […]

5. How Hrishikesh Hirway Stopped Comparing Himself to His Own Podcast Guests and Made an Album

   Late for my interview with Hrishikesh Hirway, I make a highly illegal U-turn in the middle of Sunset Boulevard to snatch the parking space directly in front of the coffee place where we’re meeting, which, fortuitously, has 86 minutes of time left. He steps into the sidewalk to greet me, and I ask if he […]

6. The Art of Protoje

   There’s a calmness to Protoje’s voice. When he speaks, his distinct Jamaican accent cuts straight to the soul, suggesting he’s wise beyond his 44 years. Days removed from releasing his tenth solo album, The Art of Acceptance, the Saint Elizabeth native is on the road in support of the project. Produced by Winta James, it’s […]

7. Tommy Lee: “Quantity Over Quality. Everything’s Getting Fucking Stupid.”

   “What’s he like?” is always the first question whenever anyone hears that I’ve had contact with Tommy Lee. My response is, “He’s like what you would expect, but even friendlier and goofier with lots of youthful energy.” This is the third time I’ve had the opportunity to interview him in the last two years. He’s […]

8. For Edgehill’s Chris Kelly, the Pressure Is On. Sort Of

   “It’s time to work on the second album,” says Chris Kelly, singer and guitarist of the Nashville-based alternative band Edgehill.  On the heels of the band’s debut album, Ode to the Greyhouse—released in February—and their 2025 single, “Doubletake,” which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Alternative Airplay chart in April, Kelly says he doesn’t feel […]

9. “They were the Unfab Four”: ‘Ramones’ Turns 50

   “They were the Unfab Four,” Craig Leon laughs. Co-producing the Ramones’ 1976 debut album was like stepping into a strange Bizarro World-meets-the-Beatles for the producer. Co-produced with the Ramones drummer Tommy Ramone (Tommy Erdelyi), the sessions were close to entering that alternate DC Comics universe that ran from the late 1950s through the late...

10. Jethro Tull’s 1984 Album ‘Under Wraps’ Gets a Lavish Reissue

    “Melodies and lyrics arrive from a mysterious place, almost as if I’m channeling something else,” says Jethro Tull frontman Ian Anderson. “I always liken it to sitting in a quiet place when a little butterfly comes into your orbit. It flutters by and you want to catch it and not let it escape. You’ve got […]