Music interviews!
February 4, 2008
Dashboard Confessional's happy 'Ending'
Chris Carrabba talks about DC's latest, 'Alter the Ending'
Can Perez Hilton save the music biz?
With a new label and tour, the gossip blogger is giving it a shot
The Minus 5, plus baseball
Scott McCaughey combines his love of twangy bar rock and America's pastime
Get Up Kids: no apologies
Matt Pryor talks about breaking up, reuniting and the current state of emo
Amazing Baby grows up fast
Brooklyn's latest buzz band tries to survive the hype
The Breeders splash back
Kim and Kelley Deal remain rock's most wonderfully weird sister act
The Airborne Toxic Event: 'Midnight' massive
An unlikely hit and non-stop touring put TATE on top
Asher Roth's dirty laundry
The college-loving MC talks about wild times in Vegas and shaking up hip-hop
Serious fun with the Honey Brothers
Adrian Grenier's band proves banjos and ukuleles don't have to be silly
Jeff Tweedy (the interview)
The Wilco frontman talks about his band's new album and Jay Bennett's death
Paul van Dyk is not a trance DJ
With a new tour and career retrospective CD, PvD tries to lose the labels
Metric's dark 'Fantasies'
Emily Haines talks about her band's latest—and why she's a strange dinner guest
The Field: another kind of trance
Sweden's Axel Willner makes music you can dance to or zone out to—or both
Run, White Rabbits, run
New York indie rockers take it to the next level—with a little help from Britt Daniel
St. Vincent acts out
Art-pop 'it' girl Annie Clark is breaking out the lasers for her latest tour
The Offspring come out and play
California's other punk veterans (no, not Green Day) are still going strong
Andrew McMahon: still fighting it
The Jack's Mannequin frontman talks about his battle with leukemia
Tom Morello's 'Social' experiment
Rage guitarist teams up with rapper Boots Riley for Street Sweeper Social Club
Dex Romweber: the Jack White touch
The original guitar/drums blues-rocker works with his most famous fan
The Gaslight Anthem: punk Springsteens?
A Jersey band fights van robbers and stereotypes
Fischerspooner: from Hamlet to sweat pants
The bizarre odyssey of electro-pop's flashiest duo
Lady Sovereign pieces it together
With her new album, 'Jigsaw,' the U.K. rapper is back on top of her game
Patience rocks!
More than three decades after forming, Canadian metalheads Anvil finally capture America's hearts and ears
Peter Bjorn and John: no whistling!
The Swedish pop trio proves there’s life after 'Young Folks'
Love, death and the Thermals
Portland's lo-fi indie rockers tackle big themes on their latest
Life on the bus with Lady Antebellum
Country hottie Hillary Scott reveals her rock star crush—and inner nerd
The Kills are coming!
It's the garage-goth duo's last tour before Jack White borrows their lead singer
Jenny Lewis abides
Indie rock’s 'it' girl reveals her 'Big Lebowski' connection
Lif to the fullest
Indie rapper Mr. Lif wants hip-hop to get serious
Kevin Rudolf lets it rock
The rap world’s favorite guitarist headlines his own tour
Third Eye Blind: semi-charmed kind of band
The ‘90s alt-rockers are back (actually, they never left)
Chris Cornell screams back
The former Soundgarden singer answers critics of his new album
Say 'ciao' to Lacuna Coil
Cristina Scabbia and her band put Italy on the heavy metal map
Elvis Perkins' journey to Dearland
An NYC folkie debuts his new band and a (slightly) sunnier outlook
Less Than Jake: ska-punk stalwarts
Chris Demakes shares the secrets of his band's success
Back to the future with Max Tundra
A London producer uses '80s technology to make cutting-edge music
Dan Deacon goes deep
Wham City’s electro hero returns—with a 15-piece band
Busta Rhymes: gambling with 'Arab Money'
The veteran rapper is back, still courting controversy
Ne-Yo: a gentleman for the ladies
The world's most dapper R&B star sets the record straight
Raphael Saadiq: R&B's old soul
The singer-producer talks about his new tour and vintage sound
Katy Perry: out of the kiddy pool
The infamous girl-kisser is seizing her superstar moment
Sam Roberts wants you to dance
This Canadian rocker has a message for 'Them Kids' in America
A heart-to-heart with Heartless Bastards
Erika Wennerstrom discusses the turmoil behind her band's latest
Chairlift: band of 'Bruises'
Meet the electro-indie trio that does handstands for iPods
Adele: chasing pavements and Grammys
A soulful British newcomer explodes onto the scene
Wild times for Wild Light
Are these New England rockers the next Arcade Fire?
Passion Pit: from Boston with love
A Valentine's Day gift spawns one of 2009's most hyped bands
Big drunken mess
That could be you--but not Jay Reatard at this New Year's Eve Show
T-Pain: Lord of the Ringz
The robot-voiced superstar is bringing a hip-hop circus to town
School of Seven Bells is in session
Ex-Secret Machines guitarist Ben Curtis talks about his new dream-pop band
The Hold Steady: the ultimate bar band
Talking townie culture and monster riffs with indie rock’s unlikely heroes
Yelle out loud
France’s hottest pop export is hard to understand, but impossible to ignore
Don’t worry about Frightened Rabbit
Things are looking up for these bittersweet Scottish pop-rockers
Metallica: some kind of comeback
Kirk Hammett talks about getting back to solos on the metal gods’ latest
Alanis untangled
The angry young woman of the ‘90s reveals a happier side on a new album and tour
The radical sounds of Stereolab
The world's greatest 'Marxist pop' band lets the music speak for itself
Rolling with Okkervil River
Will Sheff talks about his band's new tour and an unusual video project
Dan Deacon gets a 'Round'
Baltimore bands hit the road with Dan Deacon's Round Robin tour
Ben Folds: ‘Normal’ guy
The piano man talks about writing fake songs and ripping off Elton John
Weezer: in the ‘Red’ zone
Rivers Cuomo talks about his band's latest risk-taking album
Kings of Leon on fire
Southern rock’s rising stars ditch the mumbling (but not the booze)
House on fire
Gentleman Auction House turns heads with a rambunctious pop sound
Cut Copy likes it both ways
Electro meets jagged rock in this Australian trio’s club-ready sound
The Presets: Down Under dance party
A Sydney duo leads the charge in Australia's synth-rock craze
The Great Big Sea sing-along
For these Canadian Celtic rockers, folk music is a participatory event
Wildly wordy
These United States’ frontman “can’t keep his vocabulary in his pants,” and he’s fine with that
The buzz about Shwayze
The laid-back stars of MTV’s ‘Buzzin’’ talk about bringing their SoCal sound to the masses
Kate Voegele goes for the gold
You know her as Mia on ‘One Tree Hill,’ but this singer-actress is making her own name for herself
They are American
We Are Scientists' Brit-rock is a hit in England--despite coming from New York
Stage dive? D'oh!
Frontman for New York indie outfit Takka Takka takes a leap into the unknown
Two Adams for the price of one
Friends and fellow rockers Maroon 5 and Counting Crows team up for a summer tour
Zooey sings!
Actress Zooey Deschanel is turning heads as one-half of breakout folk-rockers She & Him
Vanessa Carlton, piano girl
She’s signed to a hip-hop label and loves Gershwin. Meet the future of piano-pop.
We’re feeling the Faint
Todd Fink talks about his synth-rock crew’s new album—and why he changed his name to ‘Fink’
Q-Tip: ‘Renaissance’ man
An interview with the legendary rapper from A Tribe Called Quest
'Not Motley Crue'
Members of local outfit Bound Stems embrace their geeky sides and their day jobs
The Kid Sister smackdown
Chicago’s hottest female rapper calls us out for our lack of wrestling knowledge
Talkin’ ‘bout a Revolution
Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution tour promises plenty of hard rock and (maybe) flying surfboards
No Age doesn't want your money
Los Angeles art-punk duo wants to launch a vegan-friendly empire—one free party at a time
Wolf Parade drives us crazy
Canada's indie supergroup explains its Fine Young Cannibals connection
Alkaline Trio: transcendental punks
Meditation, ‘The Hills’—have these Chicago punks gone totally L.A.?
'Venues beware'
Unassuming singer-songwriter Samantha Crain destroyed one local bar, and she’d do it again
Katy Perry crashes the boys’ club
Is Warped Tour ready for the girl-kissing pop provocateur?
Crying it out
No matter how sunny Maria Taylor sounds, her tunes still make Mom tear up
Keeping it faux
Catching up with New York’s original fake French band, Les Sans Culottes
So you wanna be an air guitar star
Bjorn Turoque explains the joys of rockin’ out on an invisible six-string
Earning their stripes
Midwest rockers the Republic Tigers prepare for their mainstream close-up
Jamie Lidell rises and shines
To be the world’s most soulful Englishman, you have to get up early
Sloppy on purpose
Welsh indie rockers Los Campesinos! prefer drunken fun to coherent live performances
Panic breeds clarity
Ex-emo poster boys Panic at the Disco are cool if they don’t hang on your wall
The Submarines break the surface
Meet the husband-wife duo behind that catchy iPhone song
'Cue up the blues
Blues musician and barbecue vet Jimmy Burns really knows how to cook
Death Cab for Cutie will possess you
Ben Gibbard talks about eight-minute singles and outlasting ‘The O.C.’
Augustana’s rock star moment
The band behind the hit ‘Boston’ isn’t quite living in the fast lane...yet
The Robyn revolution
Sweden’s hottest export this side of IKEA is here to jumpstart modern pop music
DeVotchKa: tubas, accordions and sexy acrobats
Denver’s global pop band brings their circus-like show to town
David Ford, the polite rocker
Meet the British singer who’s a one-man band—and a one-man cleaning crew
Roots on the rise
Hip-hop’s leading live act likes to keep them guessing
Cute and delicious
Singer Kate Nash invents her own flavor of Brit-pop
‘The option to zigzag’
The Mars Volta provides the soundtrack to your wild, swerving road trip
Freedom fighter
Rapper-poet Saul Williams and his ‘Niggy Tardust’ alter ego tackle some tough issues
Lemony fresh
Indie hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s rhymes—and jokes—are pretty damned juicy
Troubadours of metal
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine leads his latest troupe of headbangers out on the third Gigantour
So sue him!
If Bon Iver’s music literally bowls you over, singer Justin Vernon will take the blame
Pedal to the metal
R.E.M. is back and louder than ever. Michael Stipe explains why his band needed to ‘Accelerate.’
Catching fire
Pop-punk underdogs the Matches broaden their fan base, with a little help from...Ashley Dupré?
‘Old people’ target me
That and other quirky confessions from Swedish pop master Jens Lekman
Anti-aging advice
Canadian rockers Black Mountain suggest screaming
Beer-guzzling prog-rock
Protest the Hero brings humor and hangovers to metal’s most serious offshoot
Song and dance girl
Avril Lavigne livens up her latest tour with uptempo songs and—backup dancers?
The ‘Forest Whitaker’ of hip-hop?
Brother Ali is not your average rapper—in more ways than one
‘Distortion,’ unplugged
Magnetic Fields are doing quiet shows to promote one very noisy album
Less than literal
British band Working for a Nuclear Free City is not working for a nuclear-free city
'Not just a bunch of drunks'
Bang Camaro’s 20-member dude choir is taking sing-along rock to new extremes
Sia's colorful world
Why we want to get invited to the Starbucks-backed singer’s next party
‘Superstar’ in the making?
Lupe Fiasco collaborator Matthew Santos breaks out on his own
The Irish are coming!
It's always St. Patrick’s Day with Celtic folk-punks Flogging Molly
Heidi sings!
Heidi Montag, foxy villainess of ‘The Hills,’ makes a bid for pop music stardom
‘A great sleeping pill’
Keren Ann doesn’t mind if her often-quiet folk-pop makes you pass out
Friendship bracelets for all!
Brooklyn up-and-comers Yeasayer will buy you jewelry if you buy their album
The Whigs: Alive and kicking
Knocking over amps with Georgia's premiere garage rock trio
London calling...again
Gallows are putting U.K. punk rock back on the map
Enough with the comparisons!
Editors are not ‘the British version’ of your favorite band
Ready to reciprocate
If you send the love, Ra Ra Riot will crank the crazy
'The greatest show ever'
Steel Train frontman Jack Antonoff loves 'Sex and the City'
He wants Candy
White Williams puts a personal touch on a much-covered tune
Silently swearing
Jazz-pop duo The Bird and the Bee says their colleagues are also profane—but in secret
Stolen moments
The Dresden Dolls’ Amanda Palmer seeks youth, balance, a solo career and a new bike
No blimps needed
Spoon has arrived—without any flashy New Year’s Eve promotions
Risk, reward and records
Thrill Jockey founder Bettina Richards puts her "life on the line" to release albums
This band will be huge!
Well, maybe. Indie rockers Vampire Weekend handle the hype
A foolproof Plan
Injuries and lineup changes can’t slow down metal cult heroes Dillinger Escape Plan
Soulja of fortune
Hip-hop upstart Soulja Boy makes the most of the “Crank That” craze
A killer Soundtrack
Motion City’s Justin Pierre talks relationships, sort-of duets and natural hair products
Story time!
Identical twin pop-rockers Tegan and Sara prefer onstage banter to backstage booze
Half-naked ambition
Chicago’s The Academy Is confronts success and clothes-devouring fans
Deck the Hall & Oates
John Oates tells us why he and Daryl Hall like singing holiday tunes
Let Sondre open the door
Meet Sondre Lerche, ‘Dan in Real Life’ composer and incurable romantic
Getting into character
Polka dots help British pop gals the Pipettes turn back the clock
Who’s Winehouse?
Sharon Jones had the old-school soul long before Amy arrived
Don't call them sellouts
Against Me! are more punk and political than ever, major labels be damned
Your granddaddy’s homeboy
Down home, dirty history lessons from rapper Buck 65
Ghost, the machine
Is Wu-Tang’s Ghostface the hardest working man in hip-hop?
The human touch
Some call them futuristic, but Battles' frontman insists they’re not robots
All in his head
Forget scary movies--thoughtful Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco scares himself
There’s a 'Riot!' going on
Paramore is young, crush-worthy and taking the pop-punk world by storm
Coming clean
Dashboard Confessional's Chris Carrabba opens up about his new album, Counting Crows and Hilary Duff
Grease is the ... cure
The Weakerthans frontman discusses hangover relief and, uh, sonnets
House, techno or disco?
Whatever they are, Justice will make you move it
Back off, Blunt!
Josh Rouse is a laid-back guy, but his fans are up in arms over James Blunt’s latest
Patrick Wolf: magic man
Brit-pop’s enfant terrible makes noise and meets his idols
Size doesn't matter
Seven-piece Chicago pop group The 1900s can squeeze onto any stage
Promotion time!
Chicago popsters Office pursue stardom like it’s their job
Ex marks the spot
No longer a couple, New Zealand pop duo the Brunettes pushes on
Renaissance man
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner moonlights as a juggler and scarecrow
Safety first!
Bloc Party looks out for Beyonce—and seeks protection from Madonna
What's so funny?
Eccentric rockers Minus the Bear ditch the jokes and get serious—sort of
Mustaches and lipstick
Despite his love for 'Magnum, P.I.,' Marilyn Manson says a ’stache just wouldn’t work for him
No more cupcakes!
Brooklyn pop trio Au Revoir Simone gets its priorities in line
'A ridiculous idea'
The Swell Season has a hit musical on its hands, despite one star's doubts
The Secret Machines: don't call it a comeback
Label and lineup woes haven’t slowed these New York rockers
Natural born rocker
Years after 'Natural Born Killers,' actress Juliette Lewis gets even wilder
