• Marilyn Carino - In this interview, Marilyn Carino speaks of Mudville's new CD "The Glory of Man is Not in Vogue" and keeps her pre-interview promise to "talk about all kinds of things and make it sparky!"
      

• Akiko Carver - Wolfcentric (5 Rue Christine Records) is an infectious blend of rugged beats and deconstructed hard rock. The electro-punk album from the Brooklyn group has a timely social commentary in the terrorism-affected "This Place Does not Exist" and the tongue-in-cheek call for a Marion Barry presidency "Marion Barry". Two standout dub tracks feature Ari Up of The Slits: "Stushpuss" and "Execution". In this interview, both Akiko Carver and Ropstyle from Semiautomatic talk about the album.
      

• Nikki Corvette - Interviewed 20 years to the day after the release of "Nikkie & The Corvettes" (Bomp!)
       

• Josie Cotton - In this 30 July 2006 interview, Josie Cotton talks about a quick taste of fame in the '80s with "Johnny Are You Queer?" and how reaction by big music to that song caused her to become a songwriting recluse. Now back with Movie Disaster Music this chat introduces a
  positive and forward-looking Cotton.
    

• Curved Air - Sonja Kristina, formerly of Curved Air, gives an overview of her career in this 22 October 2006 interview. We hear about  the years in Curved Air, the more recent project Mask and the distinctive vocalists thought about her self-titled solo album only now re-issued to CD.
      

• Beth Custer - In this interview, Beth Custer discusses her quartet's Dona Luz 30 Besos album and it's jazz, rock and pop sounds. As the conversation goes to the subject of Custer's long career we hear about living in the same building as The Residents.

• In this 2nd (May 22, 2005) interview with Beth Custer, we catch up with her on two new releases on her BC Records. The first is a Clarinet Thing retrospective pulling together live material spanning 15 years on "Agony Pipes and Misery Sticks."  Beth elaborates more on her philosophical take on her main instrument, the clarinet: "There is nothing like blowing a horn. It oxygenates the body, clears the mind, and causes mood responses from meditative to giddy, ecstatic, to contemplative."   We also discuss the "funky disk of political tirades" that is the The Beth Custer Ensemble album "Respect As A Religion."  Beth describes the ensemble as "a veritable crème de la crème of Bay Area musicians including long time collaborator Jan Jackson on drums, Sila, Coup and Spearhead guitarist David James, iconic pianist Graham Connah, bassists Tennessee transplant Scott Alexander and the highly sought after Devin Hoff, Charming Hostess Marika Hughes on hot 'cello licks, and a horn section to die for in Ralph Carney, Ben Goldberg and Marty Wehner." Finally, we hear a little about an upcoming DVD project for Georgian director Kote Mikaberidze's scathing satire of Soviet bureaucracy. "My Grandmother" is a genuine piece of slapstick-expressionism from the eccentric cinema of the Twenties. Beth has created a soundtrack of a quick-paced pastiche of American folk and blues, contemporary classical, and jazz, with a nod to Georgian music, for an upcomoing DVD edition.
      

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