• Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Tomas Kalnoky of Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution discusses the initial concept of the pro-acoustic but non-Luddite music collective that is using a wide spectrum of musicians in ad hoc recording ensembles to perform exciting hot jazz and ska.
    

• Ryan Bartek - Ryan Bartek's writing is like a welding of Alan Ginsberg and Bukowski. In this April 2005 interview, we hear Ryan read from his latest work, the inflammatory The Silent Burning, as well as discuss his art and technique.
    
• Jock Bartley - In this 17 December 2006 interview, Jock Bartley recalls his past with Firefall and the band's current activities. We also discuss the books and art of Jock Bartley and many wonderful special guest appearances on his newly released CD, "Blindside".
      
• Yellow Thunder Woman of The Bastard Fairies - In this 29 July 2007 interview. We meet Yellow Thunder Woman. That is a real Native American name and that is part of her rich experience, very little of which has been involved in music. Nevertheless, with her partner she has made an unforgettable, quirky, and beguiling album called Memento Mori as The Bastard Fairies.   Yellow Thunder Woman of The Bastard Fairies feature >>>
      
• Lullaby Baxter - In this 21 January 2007 interview, Lullaby Baxter takes us from waiting tables at Jello Bar in Montreal in 1997 to she and friend Lutwidge Sedgwick writing songs to Baxter's jazz-singer sister Anna-Lisa meeting with Atlantic Records staff producer Yves Beauvais (Madeline Peyroux, Olu Dara) and a demo leading to Baxter recording her debut with Tom Waits's session players Oranj Symphonette. Atlantic Records released Baxter's debut album, "Capable Egg", in 2000. Baxter fills in the gaps from there and brings up to her current release, "Garden Cities of To-morrow."  Lullaby Baxter feature >>>
      
• Bazza - Raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan and residing in Portland, Oregon Bazza is a prolific artist (15 albums recorded last year) with a music career that began in progressive garage rock and now finds him in literature-based "folk opera". This 2 July 2006 interview covers Bazza recorded works based on the fiction of Joe R. Landsdale ("Freeze") as well as bucolic poetry ("Bazza Goes 'Up North'").
      
• Gary Bear - Gary Bear elucidates the difference between space ducks and space bears while warning of the evil threat of unknown mathematics and hipping us to the layout of the Tucson scene in this interview of March 20, 2005.
          

• Beatallica  - This interview is with Jaymz OH!NOOO! Lennfield from the Beatles-Metallica tribute project Beatallica.
      

• Bob Becker, the Fearless Records boss-man, chats about running a busy indie rock and punk label and what it means to make the difference in the life of a young record collector.
       

• Vocalist Anji Bee discusses Windblown Kiss, the Projekt album that will mostly likely remain a unique and nostalgic jazz-folk vocal album in the Lovespirals discography.
      

• Alessandra Belloni,  Tarantella artist
   

• Bellwether, Phil Tippin - In this interview the bass player for Bellwether touches on the varied roots of this alt-country group, their affinity for that Canadian sound and why their live shows have a punk edge.
       

• Sid Bernstein,  A conversation with the legendary impressario that brought the Beatles to America, on his autobiography "Not Just the Beatles..."
       

• Robert Berry - In this 21 May 2006 interview, journeyman musician Robert Berry (Hush, Alliance, etc.) and recording engineer (Tempest, The Clinton Administration, etc.) discusses work at his Soundtek Studios, his new Magna Carta release "Prime Cuts" and what it was like meeting Keith Emerson for the first time.
      

• Monique Berry,  an emerging talent of song in the tradition of Gladys Knight and Elton John
      

• Bionic Chronic & Hobert Europe - In this January 24, 2006 encounter with Detroit's jesters of the digital hardcore scene, Bionic Chronic and Hobert Europe erupt into the studio to promote an event. In the course of the goofing we hear about their international feud with Duran Duran and the very liberal policies of their record label Pedophobic Records.
      

• Alan Bishop (Sun City Girls) discusses a whole rash of 2004 releases on the Sublime Frequencies label.  This interview was recorded during a special edition of Outsight Radio Hours devoted to the fascinating ethnic field recordings and radio collages that Bishop releases on the Sublime Frequencies label.
      

• Alan Bishop is in Sun City Girls and has played on two Eugene Chadbourne albums, but none of that comes up in the exotic interview about scouring the tropical regions for source material for Sublime Frequencies. Bishop discusses music- and film-getting adventures in Burma, Java, Bali and more for fascinating field recordings, DVDs and radio collages.
      

• Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Sam Rosenthal  Sam Rosenthal - Easter Sunday 2000 interview with the head of Projekt records, architect of the darkwave genre and member of Black Tape for a Blue Girl.
       

• The Black Watch Guitarist/vocalist/songwriter John Andrew Frederick  has kept the flame of intelligent indie pop alive in The Black Watch since 1987. In this talk on the release of Very Mary Beth (Stone Garden) John discusses the path through the pop underground that led to the tireless band's current position of ten plus years of artistic acclaim but not the matching commercial success. Very Mary Beth is a record well worth enjoying and John is candid and revealing in this engaging interview.
      

• Phillip Blackburn, Harry Partch scholar and owner of
  Innova Records, home of fascinating Twentieth Century Music and Third Stream sounds by American composers and performers.
   

• Ingrid Blue, Trance to the Sun - sonic alchemist Ashkelon Sain and ethereal vocalist Ingrid Blue discuss their Contemporary Goth group Trance to the Sun and its strong ties to the early, Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd sound.
       

• Blue Skies For Black Hearts - This interview on 6 May 2007 is with guitarist Pat Kearns of indie pop band Blue Skies For Black Hearts. We speak of making accessible pop music from the underside of the music beast and the importance of John Lennon.
      

• Boss Martians - "The Set-Up" (MuSick Recordings) is a melodic indie rock album that strays into Elvis Costello-like territory on "Walk Away" and "He'll Be Around". So, this is pretty accessible stuff. This may be garage punk, but the garage has a new automatic door, is heated and freshly painted with everything in ship-shape order. This group has left its surf-rock roots behind for something like polished Joe Jackson, witness the steppin' out on "Oh, Angela". In this interview, Evan Foster discusses this album, the Boss Martians orbit so far, his solo record and connections to the Angry Young Man movement.
      

• Botanica,  Underground supergroup
      

• (Botanica) Abby Travis - Travis gives us an overview of her eclectic career from KMFDM nurse-bassist to Lovedoll cult member to Botanica to her new album Glitter Mouth. In this 27 August 2006 interview hear Abby's interesting anecdotes and clarifications on a varied career.
      

• Brazzaville, David Brown,  (Brazzaville, Beck)
      

• Napoleon Murphy Brock - Reflecting on his years with Frank Zappa, this is a revealing and enlightening interview with saxophonist and Frank Zappa vocalist Napoleon Murphy Brock. Brock delivers the skinny on the Zappa Plays Zappa project and his own empowering philosophy and regimental approach to health.
      

• Brother JT, John Terlesky, a.k.a. Brother JT discovers the trippy lo-fi psychedelia of "Maybe We Should Take Some More?" (Birdman). This peronal collage of drug experience documentation and islands of pop hooks is an addition to his length solo discography that is very little like his garage pop as a memeber of the Original Sins.   Read more...
       

• Bill Brovold  - This 18 March 2007 interview with Bill Brovold explores the fluid nature of the group's definition over time and the protean nature of its organic sound. This interview just followed release of the 2-CD set Surviving Death / Alive Why? (Cuneiform Rune 248 / 249). The creative principal behind the walls-of-sound approach is guitarist, composer, producer, and visual artist Bill Brovold. Larval’s fifth release is a studio recording, Surviving Death, and a live CD, Alive Why?. Disc 1: Surviving Death is Larval’s newest studio recording, is one of the most diverse Larval CD to date. Disc 2: Alive Why?, documents Larval’s legendary live show.  The CD contains live recordings made between 1999 and 2006 at four different concerts, including a 2006 gig at the Ferndale, Michigan club, Xhedos; a 2002 show at Ann Arbor’s Kerrytown Concert House; and concerts in 1999 and 2001 at Cleveland, Ohio’s Beachland Ballroom. It features performances by Brovold, Gregg Courtney, and Toby Summerfield on guitar; Thor Brovold, James Ilgenfritz III, and Alfred Turner on bass; Gus Brovold, Luke Mcauley, and Jason Shearer on saxes; Ryan Kush, Scott Olzak, and Marko Smith on drums; and Kurt Zimmerman on violin.
      

• Bill Brovold's new Larval album, Obedience (Cuneiform), is an artful and avant blend of progressive rock featuring strings and horns in mournful and moody dirges with melodic themes. This trance rock is cathartic and patient in delivery. Brovold discusses the project and other Larval happenings in this talk.
      

• Christopher Brown - This 8 April 2007 chat with Random Touch's Christopher Brown was the culmination of a great musical discovery, for me. The 2-CD album from the group on Token Boy Records is the type of progressive space music headphones were made for. Listen in for an overview of the group's long career and found why it has recorded so little and its artistic connection to early surrealist readymades and other visual arts  Christopher Brown / Random Touch feature >>>
      

• David Brown,  (Brazzaville, Beck)
     

• Dean Budnick - coined "jamband" and is founder and editor of Jambands.com. He is also a contributing editor of Relix magazine; co-host of nationally syndicated radio show Jam Nation and is a co-founder and producer of The Jammys award show. This interview focuses on his encyclopedic reference book Jambands: The Complete Guide to the Players, Music & Scene (Backbeat Books).
      

• Burn Witch Burn, Rodney Linderman alt-folk rocker of Burn Witch Burn and formerly of Dead Milkmen
       

• Bianca Butthole (Betty Blowtorch) talks about the path from Butt Trumpet to Betty Blowtorch and their upcoming tour with Nashville Pussy to support 'Are You Man Enough Yet?' (Foodchain Records). This interview was recorded live with Bianca less than two months before her unfortunate death in a New Orleans car accident on Dec. 14, 2001. From Bulimia Banquet to Betty Blowtorch, Bianca was a hard-rocking, pioneering leader for vital punk and hard rock from female groups. Outsight Radio Hours acknowledges her sad, sudden passing as a great loss to underground rock.
   

• BYO Records, Shawn Stern  - of seminal American punk band Youth Brigade and BYO records, a label that pioneered the indie scene and jump-started the swing revival
      

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