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The Scott Campbell Group has been heard coast to coast on the CBC Radio
Network as well as BBC Radio's John Peel show and
countless college and public radio stations across the
U.S. and western Europe. Their music ranges from folky
ballads ("Stubby") to hard rock ("I'm Saving Myself For
Angela Cartwright").
"I Am An Accident Waiting To Happen" debuted on College
Media Joumal's "Certain Damage" CD (read
more ...)
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Can
- In this 13 December 2005 interview
Irmin Schmidt discusses
Can as modern art,
Masters of
Confusion, the
upcoming DVD release and what he feels his greatest
artistic accomplishment has been, up to this point.
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Candy
Butchers - Mike
Viola of the
Candy
Butchers discusses the album Hang on Mike, his long
career, prospects for the future and even deconstructs his
own music.
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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!"
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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.
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Cash Audio, Scott Giampino, drummer for Cash Audio and Touch &
Go/Quarterstick Records publicist
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Frank Casillas - vocalist for ska-core pioneers
Voodoo Glow Skulls and head of El Pocho Loco Records.
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Sergio Ch.
of Argentina's Los
Natas discusses the ideas behind Corsario Negro
(Smallstone, 2002) and how they came to be the the sole
and reigning hard psychedelic rock band from South
America.
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Chain
Reaction vocalist
and guitarist Eric
Harabadian discusses Chain Reaction's
1998 CD Out of the Dark in this interview. Topics range
from specific songs on the album as well as the current
direction for the band as they work on a new album.
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Chain
Reaction (2) -
This February '05
interview is with three members of Chain Reaction, a
Detroit hard rock band with a classic rock style.
They discuss their 2004 release Electric Playground, how
it helps Eric Clapton and why it was time to revisit
"Honey Child."
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Church of Gary
Numan, Jim Collins
- During the 2001 Gary Numan tour to support Pure,
Outsight speaks with Ohio Numan tribute artist
Jim Collins on his album of
Numan material, meeting Numan and jamming in a teenage
band with Trent Reznor.
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Chuck
Cleaver -
This is Chuck Cleaver's second interview. He graced us
with his presence on 26 February 2006 and Chuck comes out
of his shell a bit to give us the skinny on that whole
"Ass Ponys" name as well as the Ass Ponys reissues and his
new band Wussy. I'd climb over fifty AAA songwriter
successes to hear one Chuck Cleaver song, so check out
this interview.
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Chuck
Cleaver, Ass Ponys
front man, reminesces on a short career on the A&M roster,
touring with Throwing Muses and then hiding the unique
weirdness in their music with exquisite Americana on Lohio
(Checkered Past.
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Jim
Cifelli is a New
York trumpet/flugelhorn player that leads his New York
Nonet. The size of the group allows big band style with
the nimble agility of ensemble playing. In this interview,
Cifelli, via cell phone en route to a gig, discusses his
2003 release Tunnel Vision (Short Notice Music).
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Eddy
"the Chief" Clearwater - talks
about his new rockin' blues album with masked surfers Los
Straitjackets as well as the mystery of his Indian
headdress, how he got his stage name and his new blues
entertainment spot in Chicago. The album is "Rock 'n' Roll
City" and is available on Bullseye Blues & Jazz.
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Josh Cohen
- After a few years of
playing together and releasing local albums, Josh Cohen
discusses the new prospects for the decadent
blues-jazz-rock ensemble Morning 40 Federation with its
new, self-titled nationally distributed release on M80
Music. Josh ties together such disparate elements as the
mythological Muses and the rugged Crescent City bar scene
in explaining the impetus and direction of Morning 40
Federation.
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Jim Collins - During the 2001 Gary
Numan tour to support Pure, Outsight speaks with Ohio
Numan tribute artist Jim Collins
on his album of Numan material, meeting Numan and jamming
in a teenage band with Trent Reznor.
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Alice
Cooper Group - Neal Smith was the drummer for the original
Alice Cooper Group. In this 29 October 2006
interview he
discussed a recent jam with a 2006 version of the
Billion Dollar Babies and looks forward to a
mid-December one-show reunion of the original
Alice Cooper Group in Phoenix. Smith discusses the early
Alice
Cooper albums and his solo album, "Platinum God"
as well as hinting at the onset of an earthy solo
work that promises to hold some of the envelope-pushing
themes of the early Alice
Cooper albums.
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Nikki Corvette -
Interviewed 20 years to the
day after the release of "Nikkie & The Corvettes" (Bomp!)
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Billy Cote -
(Madder Rose, The Jazz Cannon)
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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.
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Cottonmouth Texas - After several years, it was nice to
catch up with spoken word/deep dub artist Cottonmouth,
Texas (Jeff Liles). Cottonmouth, Texas is Jeff's spoken
word project that is musically driven by hip-hop beats.
We speak of his early releases and major label (Virgin)
involvement, which was when I first encountered him. Not
only does he bring us up to the reissue of Anti-Social
Butterfly, but Jeff makes a cogent, if summary, analysis
of the state of the music industry.
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Country Bob & The Bloodfarmers - Country Bob has been putting gothic
horror and West-winning politics into bloodstained
country punk for years. In this 15 October 2006
interview he traces the history of his involvement
in Shock Therapy and the arc of Country Bob And The
Bloodfamers up to the imminent release of a new album on
Germany's
Impact Records.
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Andrew Courtney - one man head of punk and ska
lable Too Hep Records
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Robert Crenshaw -
Singer-songwriter, brother of Marshall
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The Cure former
member
Roger
O'Donnell - In this 19 March 2006 interview we meet
Roger O'Donnell, formerly of The Cure. Here the
keyboardist discusses his solo album The Truth In Me.
The album is composed entirely on Moog Voyager and is a
release on
O'Donnell's label 99 Times out of Ten. We hear about the
motivation for the album and future plans for the label.
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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.
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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.
