Billy Ray Cyrus – (We Weren’t Allowed to Ask Any Miley Questions)
Shrewd, self aware and a relentless self-promoter, Billy Ray Cyrus is a man far separated from the mullet-clad “Achy Breaky Heart” singer of 1992. When Cyrus burst onto the country music scene with...
View ArticleLaurie Anderson as Fenway Bergamot on Punctuation, God and Kierkegaard
The centerpiece of Laurie Anderson’s latest album, Homeland, is a ten-minute track featuring a spoken-word monologue by her alter ego, Fenway Bergamot. Fenway, who was born in the late 1970s when...
View ArticleDarius Rucker – The Country Music Interview
Darius Rucker has always loved country music. He cut his teeth on Buck Owens, and later fell in love with the music of Radney Foster. But while studying at the University of South Carolina, his musical...
View ArticleIntroducing Emily West
Armed with a powerful voice and big-time songwriting talent, new Capitol Records artist Emily West is currently soldiering up the charts with her debut single “Rocks In Your Shoes,” co-written with...
View ArticleDeer Tick Digs Deep on new Record the Black Dirt Sessions
“South by Southwest as a whole just seemed different to me this year,” says John McCauley, lead singer/songwriter for Rhode Island’s best rock band Deer Tick. “It wasn’t as exciting, and we didn’t have...
View ArticleCatching up with Chris Hillman of The Byrds & The Desert Rose Band
Chris Hillman wants a Kindle. Schlepping a stack of books around when he goes on tour with longtime friend and collaborator Herb Pedersen or The Desert Rose Band is getting a little old. Though he...
View ArticleJohn Rich – The Interview
John Rich may be contemporary country music’s most enigmatic figure, both a larger-than-life symbol of excess and a purveyor of heartland populism. Once an unheralded member of the band Lonestar (catch...
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Honeyhoney on Hiatus: Revisit our 2008 Interview with Suzanne Santo
According to lead singer, fiddler and banjoist Suzanne Santo, Honeyhoney isn’t country. But on the Venice CA duo’s debut album First Rodeo, the powerful vocalist and her musical partner Ben Jaffe have...
View ArticleBlake Shelton: New Album, New Format, Newfound Focus
Country superstar Blake Shelton recently released Hillbilly Bone, the first in a planned series of two six-song records dubbed “Six Paks.” The second, as-yet untitled Six Pak is tentatively scheduled...
View ArticleInterview with Vince DiFiore of Cake
It would be an understatement to say that 2011 is going pretty well for Cake: the sardonic rock band’s newest album, Showroom of Compassion, debuted at #1 on the Billboard charts, and they’re about to...
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