Interviewed by Jann Wenner of Rolling Stone magazine, 8 December 1970
INTRODUCTION
In this material and turbulent age, where much of the music that surrounds us is over-hyped, over-played, over-sold and mediocre, I find myself wandering back to my younger days when I awaited impatiently for the next Beatles album. Then I ask myself the question: which [...]

To celebrate Roger Waters’ moving and highly relevant album AMUSED TO DEATH, we are revisiting a rare Roger Waters interview where he talks about the album - one of my best 100 of all time. The interview and music are particularly relevant at this time…

The title of the album reminds me of Neil Postman’s book. So, was [...]

Back in 1999 I received Moby’s PLAY album for review and was impressed and inspired by it. However, it seemed to me that the rest of the music media had overlooked or ignored it. Shortly after receiving it I was lucky enough to interview Moby in a bijou London hotel as he was packing to [...]

With the recent release of her latest record I’m reprising an interview from a few years ago. Di Franco remains one of the greatest and most adventurous singer/songwriters anywhere, and her latest release UNPRECENTED SHIT proves that, like wine, Di Franco keeps getting better with age.
Do you feel uneasy about being labelled a poet? ‘Poet’ [...]

Back in 2010 I had the pleasure of hearing Beth Nielsen Chapman for the first time and ultimately witnessed a live performance.
Much of Beth Nielsen Chapman’s new album is about love. It’s called BACK TO LOVE and six of the song titles feature the word “love” or “loving”, so it’s fitting that her upcoming tour starts on [...]

2010 Interview: Since 1999, we have written about Ireland’s Frames and Glen Hansard who we firmly believe are up there with the very best rock musicians and song writers in the world. In more recent years, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s first Swell Season record has at last generated the level of worldwide recognition Hansard and [...]