Aimee Mann
18 articles
Audio interviews
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 18 April 1994
Ms. Mann talks about her first band Til Tuesday; record company indifference; songwriting collaborations past and future (but not Ray Davies!); and working with Jon Brion on Whatever.
File format: mp3; file size: 18mb, interview length: 19' 41" sound quality: ****
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Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, April 1993
"WE'VE HAD a joke going recently," Aimee Mann says, "that the new album has three themes: despair, defeat and revenge." ...
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, August 1993
THE ONLY 1980s musician with a teased hairdo who was actually forgiven for it, Aimee Mann started the 1990s staring up from the dumper. ...
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, 25 September 1993
American singer-songwriter Aimee Mann, is "better than just about everyone", but she's only now clawing her way to success. Nick Coleman takes her to dinner ...
Aimee Mann (1994) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 18 April 1994
This is a transcript of Ian's audio interview with Aimee. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Aimee Mann: the Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 February 1996
Mann's Stylized Concert Leaves No Room for Intimacy ...
Interview by Erik Himmelsbach, Rolling Stone, 31 March 2000
In which two of L.A.’s best songwriters get dumped by their labels, get married and live happily ever after. ...
Aimee Mann: Catcher In The Wry
Interview by RJ Smith, Spin, May 2000
She scored with the heartbreaking Magnolia soundtrack, but Aimee Mann isn't gloating just yet ...
Drowning in Genius: Surveying this season's mountain of greatest-hits albums
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2000
SO, WHAT'LL IT BE: Tears for Fears? .38 Special? Whitesnake? It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits ...
Key Largo: A Catchup Chat with Aimee Mann
Interview by Alvaro Costa, Rock's Backpages, September 2001
AC: So you haven't become a "Lady of The Canyon" after all... ...
Review by Terry Staunton, Record Collector, June 2005
FILM DIRECTOR Paul Thomas Anderson used Aimee Mann's music as the starting point and inspiration for his Oscar-nominated Magnolia, about the intertwining, desperate lives of ...
Aimee Mann: Avalon Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
Live Review by Steven R Rosen, Harp, 9 December 2006
LIKE HER voice itself, Aimee Mann's Christmas concert – her first of what promises to be an annual event – in L.A. was winningly straightforward ...
Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, November 2007
AIMEE MANN reckons she could take Bob Dylan in a boxing bout. It would be a close run thing but age and height advantage would, ...
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 13 June 2008
PERHAPS HEARTENED BY the (artistic) success of 2006's One More Drifter in the Snow — the only serious addition to the ranks of Christmas albums ...
Aimee Mann: Cover Me – Aimee, Gail and the illustrators
Special Feature by Martin Colyer, Varoom!, Winter 2009
Video promos and downloads have diminished the value of sleeve art in the eyes of music companies, and illustration doesn't fit their brand-building approach to ...
The Discreet Charm of Aimee Mann: An Interview
Interview by Martin Colyer, Rock's Backpages, September 2012
A freewheeling chat, taking in Mann's new Charmer, her talented collaborators, reality TV, turning up the treble, Laura Linney's focus, Jack Kerouac's drying-out and women's ...
Review by Steve LaBate, Paste, 19 September 2012
THIS ALBUM is full of horrible, heartbreaking things. Things that happen not just to bad people but good people, too. Of course, by the time ...
Aimee Mann: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, The Guardian, 29 January 2013
"WOW, THERE ARE people in here all of the way to the back!" marvels Aimee Mann two songs in, shielding her eyes to gaze deep ...
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