In his interview tonight on 60 minutes with Anderson Cooper, Marshal Mathers (aka Eminem) talked about how his sobriety and recovery process has impacted his live show. Digg Digg
The Chance To Be Who I Am: An Interview with Mishon
August 17, 2010 By Leave a Comment
You already know how good Prince’s tribute during the BET awards was. And we all know the creative development that Prince went through over the course of his career. Now, I’d like to introduce you to Mishon. The 17-year-old R&B/Rap artist and actor has been wowing audiences since he was seven years old and 10 [...]
Interview with Chicago's FM Supreme
August 21, 2009 By Leave a Comment
As promised here’s my interview with Chicago emcee/poet/activist FM Supreme. A link to the full interview on Popmatters is below. A chilly drizzle begins to fall and soak the sidewalk as I speak with Chicago emcee Jessica Disu—aka FM Supreme—outside and under awning at the Wicker Well on Chicago’s North Side. It’s an hour [...]
Recalling the Sounds and Smells of Aerosmith Live
July 12, 2009 By Leave a Comment
How do you remember your favorite concerts? Was it how the concert venue smelled, or was it how the music sounded? When I heard that one of my friends and colleagues was going to an Aerosmith concert a few weeks ago, I asked her to take some pictures and let me know, when the concert was over, what sense [...]
Popmatters: Interview with Danny!
April 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
So what does a hip hop artist/producer who loves creating lushly layered albums do when he can’t create the same feel live? He relies on his rhyming and storytelling talent. Those two combined can reveal to the crowd a deeper dimension of the music that can’t be conveyed on record. Such was the intended approach explained to me by [...]
Popmatters Now Hear This! Interview: Chicago Beatmaker, Producer Radius
February 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This interview originally appeared in Popmatters. For Chicago-native beat-maker/producer Ramon Norwood (aka Radius), the city’s neighborhoods are more than just secondary landscape to his music-making. The nine neighborhoods and two interlude roadway tracks are the music, a vividly real sonic canvas he used on his debut album, Neighborhood Suicide, expressing all aspects of the [...]
Alarm Interview:Polysics
November 30, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This interview first appeared in Alarm Magazine Japanese new-wave quartet Polysics can fry synapses with its sequenced vibrations, surges of thousand-gigawatt melodies, and Devo-influenced punk rock. Front man Hiro Hayashi, 30, formed the band in 1998, endured constant lineup changes, and in 2007, caught the eye of Tom Anderson, who signed them to MySpace Records [...]
Interview: Ant (of Atmosphere)
November 8, 2008 By Leave a Comment
This interview originally appeared in Ink 19 The relationship between the DJ and the emcee has always been one of hip hop’s give and takes. How they balance the respect and create the chemistry between them can make the music legendary. But when the emcee thinks he no longer needs his DJ or vice versa, [...]
Interview: Tim Fite
October 2, 2008 By 1 Comment
This interview originally appeared in Ink19. He gave out free watermelons and rocked the show. During his performance at this year’s Hideout Block Party in Chicago, Brooklyn-based hip hop/folk artist Tim Fite made his set a little sweeter — with the help of his DJ, Dr. Leisure — by handing, flinging, and tossing out watermelons [...]
Popmatters Interview: Michelle Shocked
September 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This interview originally appeared on Popmatters. You can go ahead and try to find a moment in the 21-year career of Michelle Shocked when she bowed to conventionality or predictability, but you’re really wasting your time because those are moments don’t exist. The Dallas native singer/songwriter has never had much interest in pursuing. Ever. Her [...]
Popmatters Interview: Plan B
August 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This article originally appeared in Popmatters. UK acoustic guitar slinger/cinematic rapper Ben Drew (aka Plan B) traces the planting of the seed for what you hear on his debut record Who Needs Actions When You Got Words to the desire to be real about the world he grew up in and plainly tell it like [...]
More Than One Story Out There: Popmatters Interview with Henry Rollins
July 7, 2007 By Leave a Comment
This interview originally appeared in Popmatters. When talking with Henry Rollins, anything is fair game and you better be ready to keep up. The former Black Flag frontman has made a living out of continually reinventing himself. He’s overcome a challenging childhood, was a driving force for one of hardcore punk rock’s seminal bands, and [...]
