Rockcritics Interview Archives
2007
Douglas Wolk: Dean of American Comics Critics (By Steven Ward, Sept. 2007)
2006
The music writer and the damage done: Interview with Jon Wiederhorn (By Steven Ward, July 2006)
Greil Marcus (By Nate Seltenrich, May 2006) (Interview from 2004, printed here for the first time)
Entertaining weekly: Interview with movie critic Lisa Schwarzbaum (By Aaron Aradillas, March 2006)
The voice of RJ Smith (By Steven Ward, January 2006)
2005
Matt Resnicoff: A Musician's musician (By Steven Ward, October 2005)
Reel time with David Edelstein (By Aaron Aradillas, August 2005)
The only looming boy in New York City: movie critic Glenn Kenny (By Aaron Aradillas, June 2005)
She's something else: Janet Maslin interview (By Aaron Aradillas, May 2005)
The amazing adventures of movie Mike: Mike Clark interview (By Aaron Aradillas, March 2005)
Toronto's Star: Ben Rayner in a rockcritics.com interview (By Cameron Gordon, March 2005)
2004
History of a hipster: Interview with John Leland (By Joe Estes, November 2004)
Editor-in-chief of the world's loudest rock magazine: Revolver's Tom Beaujour (By Steven Ward, September 2004)
The girl can't help it: Jami Bernard of the New York Daily News (By Aaron Aradillas, August 2004)
Owen Gleiberman takes the long way home in a rockcritics.com interview (By Aaron Aradillas, May 2004)
The Zen of John Kordosh: Inside the hallowed halls of '80s Creem (By Anthe Rhodes, May 2004)
2003
Andy Secher, Hit Parader (By Steven Ward, November 2003)
Kandia Crazy Horse rips it up in a rockcritics.com interview (By Scott Woods, November 2003)
Steven Rosen gets his byline on (By Steven Ward, September 2003)
All Music Guy, Michael Erlewine (By Barbara Flaska, July 2003)
Geoff Barton, behind the wheel: Former Kerrang! editor discovers a different kind of speed (By Steven Ward, March 2003)
Critiquing the critics: Steve Jones on the value of rock journalism (By Simon Warner, February 2003)
Waking up to what's possible: A conversation with Ben Ratliff (By Steven Ward, February 2003)
Chuck Eddy & the Holy Greil. A reprint of Phil Dellio's 1986 double-feature interview, originally published in Nerve magazine. (January 2003)
2002
Michael Azerrad in person (By Jeanne Fury, December 2002)
His book could be your life: Michael Azerrad by E-Mail (By Scott Woods, December 2002)
Making it up as we go along: Interview with John Morthland (By William Crain, December 2002)
Online exchange with Simon Frith (September 2002)
Out of his pen: The words of Richard Williams (By Simon Warner, September 2002)
L.A.Times Kinda Guy: Interview with Steve Hochman (By Steven Ward, September 2002)
Online exchange with Robert Christgau (August 2002)
Rick Johnson is alive and well and living in Macomb (By Andrew Lapointe, July 2002)
The Goldberg Variations: Neumu editor addicted to criticism (By Barbara Flaska, July 2002)
Rolling Stone editor Nathan Brackett snubs breakfast reviews, predicts Klezmer kraze (By Jason Gross, June 2002)
Rock Criticism as brain surgery: Deborah Frost looks back (By Steven Ward, June 2002)
"It's the greatest beat in the world..." says Chicago Tribune music critic, Greg Kot (By Andrew Lapointe, June 2002)
True Stories: Interview with Everett True (By Matthew Fritch, June 2002)
Why pop matters... e-mail interview with Sarah Zupko (By Barbara Flaska, May 2002)
Jaan Uhelszki: Confessions of a former subscription kid (By Scott Woods, April 2002)
Creem's Canadian connection: Interview with Alan Niester (Interview by Andrew Lapointe, April 2002)
Sorry ma, forgot to bring in the trash... Tom Carson talks straight (By Scott Woods and Steven Ward, April 2002)
Online exchange with Greil Marcus (April 2002)
Chuck E... so addictive: Voice editor gets his freak on (By Steven Ward, March 2002)
A spontaneous explosion of personality: Jim DeRogatis (Interview by Andrew Lapointe, March 2002) + DeRogatis takes aim at rockcritics! (with Steven Ward and Scott Woods)
From hard rock to rock of ages: former Hit Parader writer Father Charley Crespo (By Steven Ward, February 2002)
Still able to see the Light: Spin editor Alan Light (By Steven Ward and Scott Woods, January 2002)
Losin' his mind in Detroit Rock City: Interview with Gary Graff (By Steven Ward, January 2002)
2001
Covering the dirty, nasty, offensive, and (occasionally) stupid: Metal critic, Don Kaye (By Steven Ward, October 2001)
Cum on read The Noise: Interview with former Creem writer, Robert Duncan (By Steven Ward, October 2001)
Flaubert on the off days: Interview with Fred Schruers (By Steven Ward, September 2001)
Some Smiles With Miles: Milo Miles in Conversation (By Steven Ward, September 2001)
The Godfather of Rock Criticism, Paul Williams (By Pat Thomas & Christoph Gurk, August 2001)
San Franciscan Nights: Music writer Joel Selvin (By Barbara Flaska, August 2001)
Man On the Moon: Interview with Tom Moon (By Steven Ward, August 2001)
The Grey Lady's pop music man: Jon Pareles in conversation (By Steven Ward, July 2001)
Metal Guru: Inside Mike Saunders's brain (By Scott Woods, July 2001)
glenn mcdonald's war against rock criticism (By Steven Ward, June 2001)
Caught with his trousers down: The Ira Robbins interview (By Steven Ward, May 2001)
El David: Saint Dalton shoots his mouth off (By Steven Ward, May 2001)
Gina Arnold in the present tense (By Steven Ward, April 2001)
A rousing interview of self-affirmation with John Mendelssohn, King of L.A. (By Steven Ward, March 2001)
Richard Riegel: From Jester to Lester (By Steven Ward, March 2001)
Everyone's a rock critic: The lost Lester Bangs interview (By anonymous, 1980 - first posted in March 2001)
A meaty, beaty, big, and bouncy interview with Dave Marsh (By Scott Woods, February 2001)
The Rev. Charles M. Young calms down, grows up, and sings the joys of middle age (By Steven Ward, February 2001)
10,000 Reasons to never leave home: Barney Hoskyns (By Gary Robertson and Scott Woods, February 2001)
David McGee: He will never be the editor of a rock magazine again (By Steven Ward, January 2001)
2000
He got a TV Eye on you: The Ken Tucker Interview (By Steven Ward, December 2000)
Anthony DeCurtis: Populist at large (By Steven Ward, November 2000)
Part-time writer: Tom Smucker keeps us hangin' by the telephone (By Steven Ward, October 2000)
The true adventures of Stanley Booth: Interview with the Stones' greatest chronicler (By Steven Ward, August 2000)
Kicks just keep getting harder to find: Richard Meltzer (By Scott Woods, August 2000)
Martin Popoff... On heavy metal, rock criticism, and carpal tunnel syndrome (By Steven Ward, July 2000)
The not-so-hip J.D. Considine: A Music Critic Who Writes About Music (By Steven Ward, May 2000)
Whatever happened to rock critic Paul Nelson (By Steven Ward, March 2000)
1990s
Nowhere to run, nowhere to hide: Interview with Bob Dobbs (By Scott Woods, 1999)
Talk Eddy to me: The World's Most Iconoclastic Rock Critic Speaks Out (By Scott Woods)
(+ Phil Dellio wades through Chuck Eddy's theories) (1998)
Concrete Jungle: Interview with Darren Wershler-Henry (By Scott Woods, 1997)
Pushin' too hard: Frank Kogan Dances Wit' Choo (and you and you and you) (By Scott Woods, 1997)
Snapshots of a pop obsessive: Interview with photographer Chris Buck (By Scott Woods, 1996)
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