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Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan: Bob Johnston on Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, and Nashville Skyline

Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, May 2009

JUNE 17th MARKS the 40th anniversary of the original Columbia Records release of Bob Dylan's Nashville Skyline album, produced by Bob Johnston. ...

Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt: Steve Van Zandt: "We said we'd walk together, come what may…"

Interview by Andrew Mueller, Uncut, June 2009

Forty years of friendship: Miami Steve Van Zandt on Bruce Springsteen ...

Pink: Inside Pink's Funhouse

Interview by Greg Phillips, Australian Musician, September 2009

Greg Phillips speaks with the Pink band ...

Levon Helm (2009)

Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, September 2009

Together with his co-conspiritor Larry Campbell, the great Band drummer looks back over his recent solo activities, the people he works with, and his unique take on American music.

File format: mp3; file size: 31.5mb, interview length: 34' 27" sound quality: ****

William Basinski: Invisible Jukebox: William Basinski

Interview by David Stubbs, The Wire, September 2009

Each month we play a musician a series of records which they are asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of ...

Yoko Ono: Naked Ambition

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, October 2009

THERE'S SOMETHING to be said for delayed gratification. There's no small amount of tortoise versus hare enjoyment to listening to Yoko Ono's new album. ...

Kraftwerk: Album By Album

Interview by Stephen Dalton, Uncut, October 2009

HE MIGHT have spent most of the past two decades cocooned in the Kubrickian perfectionism of his secret Kling Klang studio in Düsseldorf, but Kraftwerk's ...

Beatles, The, Rolling Stones, The, Who, The: Naked Eye: An Interview with Ethan Russell

Interview by Steve Matteo, Long Island Pulse, 26 October 2009

PHOTOGRAPHER ETHAN Russell prefers to let his pictures do his talking. In a rare interview, the only photographer to do an album cover for the ...

Paolo Nutini's album is now the third-best seller of the year

Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 30 October 2009

HIS TRANSFORMATION from coffee table crooner into a genre-crossing folk 'n' soul-charged free spirit has been one of the most slyly successful rebranding exercises of ...

Pretenders, The, Chrissie Hynde: The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (2010)

Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages Audio, 22 January 2010

The Pretenders frontwoman on songwriting and songs; being a band member, and an extended exposition on her vegetarianism and the brutality of the meat business.

File format: mp3; file size: 70.8mb, interview length: 1h 17' 22" sound quality: *** (phoner)

Sade Emerges From Her Country Retreat

Interview by Robert Sandall, The Times, 31 January 2010

She's Britain's most successful female solo artist but has remained a glamorous enigma — until now. Sade emerges from her country retreat to tell how ...

Midlake: In Tune with the Times of Others

Interview by Andy Gill, The Independent, 5 February 2010

IN THE RUSSIAN visionary film-maker Andrei Tarkovsky's long, prismatic biopic of the great 15th-century icon painter Andrei Rublev, the monk Rublev strives to sustain the ...

The Ramones: Ramones Forever

Interview by Larry Jaffee, Shindig, March 2010

Note: The interview with Joey and Dee Dee Ramone took place in July 1985 at their favourite East Village dive. "The world knew in '76 ...

Marina and the Diamonds: Marina & The Diamonds: Inside the Outsider

Interview by Scott McLennan, Rip It Up (Australia), March 2010

AS FAR AS revelatory points in music history go, the moment Marina Diamandis points to as her breakthrough seems impossibly inane. In late 2007 the ...

Courtney Love: Damage Limitation

Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 1 April 2010

Courtney Love has declared her image ripe for rebranding, and with her drug addiction under control and her band reinvigorated, she is heading in the ...

Foo Fighters, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders: Taylor Hawkins (2010)

Interview by Steven Rosen, Rock's Backpages Audio, 5 April 2010

The Foo Fighters drummer talks about his solo project, Taylor Hawkins & the Coattail Riders, and their new album Red Light Fever: working with guitarist Gannin Arnold; having members of Queen contribute; the album song-by-song; working with guitarists; his favourite British producers; singing on Slash's album; Chris Chaney's bass playing; using Gretsch drums; the family that is the Foo Fighters, and having his own band.

File format: mp3; file size: 26.1mb, interview length: 27' 12" sound quality: ** (phoner)

Paul Weller: Sins Of The Modfather: Paul Weller Speaks About Leaving His Comfort Zone

Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 April 2010

After running into Paul Weller at a Sunn O))) gig last year, The Quietus have been obsessed with finding out exactly how deep Paul Weller's ...

MGMT: Coming Up

Interview by Dorian Lynskey, Q, June 2010

They're the button-pushing psychedelic pranksters who count Paul McCartney and Jay-Z among their admirers. Step into the weird, wired world of MGMT. ...

John Hiatt, Little Village: Hello Goodbye: John Hiatt and Little Village

Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, June 2010

WE CONVENED at Ry [Cooder]'s house in Santa Monica. Set up some amps in a ground-floor room which opened out on to his garden. ...

Van Dyke Parks (2010)

Interview by Holger Petersen, Rock's Backpages audio, 7 August 2010

The amiable producer/arranger/artist looks back on his involvement with Ry Cooder; his friendship with Little Feat's Lowell George; the golden years at Warner Bros.; the march of technology from four to 24-tracks; being a fast worker, and his return to his folk roots with the Mississippi Sheiks Tribute Project.

File format: mp3; file size: 26.1mb, interview length: 28' 27" sound quality: *****