Mac Randall
Mac Randall has written about music and musicians for numerous publications, including The New York Times, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Details, The New York Daily News, Interview, Guitar World, The New York Observer, Harp, Newsday, CMJ New Music Monthly, Blender, Time Out New York, Mojo, and Guitar Aficionado. He is editor-in-chief of Music Alive!, a music magazine for middle and high school students and teachers, and Teaching Music, the member magazine of Americas National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Previously, he was senior editor of Guitar One, East Coast features editor for Launch.com (now Yahoo! Music), and senior editor of Musician. His book Exit Music: The Radiohead Story, originally published in 2000, is now available in four languages and three revised editions. Also a guitarist and composer, he has worked most recently with the New York-based band Bedsit Poets.
24 articles
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The Beach Boys, The High Llamas: Pet Sounds and High Llamas
Review by Mac Randall, The Boston Phoenix, 6 April 1998
THERE CAN'T BE MANY classic rock albums that rock less than the Beach Boys' 1966 opus Pet Sounds. The fruity orchestral arrangements are about as ...
Robert Wyatt: Deep Shleep: Robert Wyatt Gets Personal
Interview by Mac Randall, The Boston Phoenix, 20 January 1998
"THE BIG PROBLEM I have with rock and roll is the rock end of it," says Robert Wyatt. "But I love the rolling. I'm into ...
Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris: Elvis Costello with Emmylou Harris: SummerStage, Central Park, NYC
Live Review by Mac Randall, New York Daily News, 20 July 2005
"PITY ABOUT IT BEING so cold and all," Elvis Costello cracked toward the beginning of his Central Park SummerStage concert last night. ...
Linda Thompson: Miserable Old Sod Linda Thompson Returns as Exquisitely Sad as Ever
Interview by Mac Randall, New York Observer, 29 July 2002
THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE who say that Linda Thompson is the greatest female rock singer alive. I'm not one of them-partly because I think her ...
The Posies: Blooming In The Afterlife: The Posies
Retrospective and Interview by Mac Randall, launch.com, 16 August 2000
IF YOU MEASURE a band's activity by the complexity of its release schedule, then you'd have to conclude that the year 2000 has been an ...
Interview by Mac Randall, Harp, March 2005
PREDICTING BECK Hansen's next artistic move is a game for fools and rock pundits only. Any sane person gave up trying long ago. Plot this ...
Radiohead: The Golden Age of Radiohead
Profile and Interview by Mac Randall, Guitar World, 1 April 1998
ON A FRIDAY RELAUNCHED itself in the summer and autumn of 1991, playing a series of gigs at Oxford's Jericho Tavern and circulating its first ...
The Slits: The Distaff Side of Punk - The Slits Re-Released at Last
Retrospective by Mac Randall, New York Observer, 14 February 2005
IF YOU ASK PEOPLE to name the most influential punk-rock bands of all time – even people who boast scarily high levels of pop-culture awareness ...
Annie Lennox, Eurythmics: Annie Lennox: Front Woman
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, March 1993
CONGRATULATIONS ON your Grammy nominations. Are you making any bets on how you'll do? ...
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." ...
Bill Nelson, Robert Wyatt: Robert Wyatt & Bill Nelson: Tough Guys Don't Dance
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, August 1992
Bill Nelson meets Robert Wyatt. For 20 years they've bucked the system and made music at the edge of rock. Two vets discuss the never-ending ...
Dinosaur Jr: J Mascis' Big Step
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, June 1993
WHEN DINOSAUR JR comes to your town, get ready for a unique event: the Dance of the 17 Footswitches. ...
Radiohead: Radiohead Get The Details
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, September 1997
On tour in Spain with five musicians for whom the little things mean a lot ...
LL Cool J: Beacon Theatre, New York
Live Review by Mac Randall, New York Daily News, 23 June 2003
At Beacon, everybody loves Cool James ...
Pat Metheny Keeps the Story Going
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, February 1998
A Master of Improv Stresses the Importance of Narrative ...
Review by Mac Randall, Rolling Stone, 27 November 2003
Al Green reunites with his partner from his greatest records, producer Willie Mitchell. ...
Pavement: Brighten the Corners (Matador)
Review by Mac Randall, Musician, April 1997
INDIE CRED. It's tough to acquire, but it's even harder to hang onto. Take the case of Pavement, a band boasting a distinctive guitar-based sound ...
Mark Lanegan: Scraps at Midnight (Sub Pop)
Review by Mac Randall, Musician, October 1998
THINK BROWN. Brown clouds of dust hanging on the horizon. Big brown rocks catching the last rays at sunset. Warm brown whiskey in a hip ...
Review by Mac Randall, Musician, January 1999
THIRTY-TWO years ago, Bob Dylan got into a little disagreement with his audience during a tour of England. A lot of his English fans at ...
David Bowie, Brian Eno: David Bowie & Brian Eno: The Outside Story
Interview by Mac Randall, Mark Rowland, Musician, November 1995
DAVID BOWIE AND BRIAN ENO EXPLAIN IT ALL FOR YOU — by Mark Rowland ...
Sonic Youth: The Importance of being Sonic Youth
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, December 1995
Sonic Youth take the Lollapalooza caravan to The Zone ...
Evan Dando, The Lemonheads: Evan Dando's New Traditionalism
Interview by Mac Randall, Musician, January 1997
A Lemonhead's Personal History of Song ...
Bernard Butler: People Move On (Creation/Columbia)
Review by Mac Randall, Rolling Stone, 9 July 1998
SULKY GUITARIST Bernard Butler was a major creative force behind leading Brit-poppers Suede, but when he quit in 1994, nobody expected the guy to start ...
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