Interviews

Brian Fallon had a good March this year. He released his first solo album Painkillers and played some shows, with more in the near future. Coming from a band with a good-sized fanbase, doing something ...

There are any number of bands that tout their allegiance to the heartland these days, but far fewer that can claim to have actually had their roots planted in those fertile environs. However, for those ...

Elephant Revival is having a good year and they aren’t taking it for granted. The humble, multi-instrumental quintet from Nederland Colorado just wrapped a long stretch with Josh Ritter opening for his “Sermon On The Rocks” ...

Vivian Campbell has been talking most of the day. He’s been talking about Dio and Def Leppard, touring and guitar playing, the new Last In Line record and the death of his bandmate Jimmy Bain. ...

A band’s second album is often harder to conceive than their first, especially if that debut caught a lot of people’s attention. The pressure is on – should they keep metamorphosing or stay the same, write ...

If exceptional accomplishment alone were enough to inspire widespread recognition, then Derek Trucks would likely have several government buildings and national monuments bearing his name. Considering his lineage alone, it would seem he was destined ...

“We were on tour in Germany and a girl said to me, ‘Can you teach me how to sing like you?’ I said, ‘Girl, you got to get butt naked’ and she said, ‘What!’ (laughs) ...

Actor/director Don Cheadle discusses his powerful new Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead from the red carpet at SXSW.

For a band that’s always espoused the simple joys of growing up in idyllic innocence, surrounded by surf, sand, girls, hotrods, and any other means of getting on with fun, fun, fun, the Beach Boys ...

You can’t really do the same thing over and over again,” vocalist Chad Cherry of The Last Vegas told me during an interview a few weeks ago, “because personally it would be boring.” For a ...