with various musicians, mostly through
my job at audiogalaxy.com.
Other critical writing by Will Robinson Sheff can be found here.
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Other critical writing by Will Robinson Sheff can be found here. |
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Centro-Matic A talk with Will Johnson, one of Texas' most prolific and affecting indie songwriters, about writing, recording, and whether or not you should listen to your own music. |
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Richard
Davies In his solo career as with his tenure in the Moles and Cardinal, Aussie Richard Davies has approached pop songcraft with the seriousness of a latter-day Brian Wilson. I called him and we talked about writing, becoming an American, and Celebrity Lifestlyes ™. |
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The
Bill Doss Bill Doss is co-writer for the wonderful Olivia Tremor Control, the whole of the band called a Sunshine Fix, and a founding member of the Elephant 6 recording company. Fuckin' A. We had a great conversation about recording, the Elephant 6 media assault, and the wonder that is Sly and the Family Stone. |
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The
Gunga Din An email interview. Bill Bronson, the guitarist for this New York avant-rock band talks about touring, film soundtracks, and the personal nature of songwriting. |
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Kindercore
Records Not content with merely interviewing half their roster, I decide to take on the entire Kindercore label, represented here by co-founder Dan Geller. We talk about the definition of pop, the ever-important CC. DeVille vs. the Soup Dragons debate, and Kindercore's mad flight from the word "twee." |
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Ladytron |
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Lois Riot-Grrrl foremother and consummate songwriter Lois Maffeo of the Lois entertains some e-mailed questions. I ask her some out-of-left field questions about S.U.V.s and Britney Spears, which she answers with aplomb. |
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Tom
Maxwell Maxwell wrote that song "Hell," and a lot of others, as frontman of the Squirrel Nut Zippers. During the horrible "Swing Revival" Maxwell was feted, interviewed about martinis, hated, handed over to Disney by his record label, and then handed a lifetime of debt shortly before he quit the band. An interview of almost undiluted bile. |
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The
Turtle Island String Quartet David Balakrishnan, the founder of this celebrated avant-garde classical group, showed me my own ignorance while talking about topics like the death of improvisation and the role of notation in classical music, the power of acoustic bluegrass, and the lure of playing electric violin with his hair down to his ass. |
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John
Vanderslice Vanderslice is not only the ex-frontman of MK Ultra, he's also and the current director of San Franscisco's Tiny Telephone analog studio and the author of a hilarious media hoax in which he had scads of national publications believing he was being sued and spied on by Bill Gates. He also has a great solo record out. We talked about all that stuff and more. |
