Interviews with Music Critics
Elsewhere on the Web


  • Punk Rock City, U.S.A: An Interview with Gina Arnold (Stay Free)
  • Michael Azerrad interview (KindaMuzik)

  • Matt Johnson interviews Joe Carducci (Positive Affirmation of Creative Destructionism))
  • Interview with Joe Carducci (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • Jeff Chang can't stop, won't stop (Asia Pacific)
  • Jeff Chang (& Simon Reynolds) (Beatrice.com)
  • Jeff Chang Q+A (Can't Stop Won't Stop)
  • Chatting with Robert Christgau (Las Vegas Weekly)
  • My Tastes Don't Evolve; They Broaden: Interview with Robert Christgau (PopMatters)
  • A conversation with Robert Christgau (Salon)
  • Christgau: Talkin' Post-Modern Semi-Popular Blues(Perfect Sound Forever)
  • Conversation with Robert Christgau (Salon)
  • Christgau delivers new guide to consumers (CNN)
  • Robert Christgau's Consumer Guide rates the music of the '90s (River Front Times)
  • Library Journal Talks to Nik Cohn
  • Interview with pop critic J.D. Considine (LukeFord.com)

  • Interview with Phil Dellio (Everybody's a Critic)
  • Q&A: Jim DeRogatis (Media Bistro)
  • Interview With Jim Derogatis (Music Press Report)

  • Beck the System: Chuck Eddy (City Paper)

  • Q&A With Time magazine's Christopher John Farley (Journalism Jobs)
  • Ben Fong-Torres: More Than "Almost Famous" (Star Polish)
  • The 6X7 Interview: Sasha Frere-Jones (Gawker)
  • An Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones (92Y Blog)
  • Simon Frith (Perfect Sound Forever)

  • Gary Giddins on Comedy, Film, Music, and Books (Jerry Jazz Musician)
  • Interview with Michael Goldberg (Hybrid)

  • An interview with Barney Hoskyns (Clouds and Clocks)

  • Interview with Camden Joy (Glorious Noise)

  • Interview With Frank Kogan, Author of Real Punks Don't Wear Black (Blog Critics)

  • Spin awaits the next big music thing: Alan Light (Media Life)

  • An interview with Ian MacDonald (Clouds and Clocks)
  • Rock Hound Greil Marcus (Willamette Week Online)
  • Do politics rock? Greil Marcus (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • All These Inches Away From Where Greil Marcus Began (Powell's)
  • Greil Marcus and the Mad Parade (Austin Chronicle)
  • Interview with Greil Marcus (Jam Magazine)
  • An Interview with Dave Marsh (Counterpunch)
  • 33 1/3: a conversation with Michaelangelo Matos (Dock Ellis)
  • Legs McNeil on Sex, Drugs, and the Art of Being Punk (Lawgirl)
  • The Not Entirely Unbearable Writings of Richard Meltzer (12gauge.com)
  • Richard Meltzer interview (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • So What Do You Do, Sia Michel? (MediaBistro)
  • The Art of Noise: Paul Morley
  • Paul Morley interviewed by Laura Hird

  • Ask a Reporter: Jon Pareles answers questions from high school students (New York Times)
  • Punk turns new romantic: Tony Parsons (Guardian)
  • Bohemian Rhapsody: Ann Powers (Bitch Magazine)
  • Interview: Ann Powers (PBS)
  • Ann Powers: The Bohemian Girl comes homes (Pacific Northwest)

  • Simon Reynolds interview (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • Simon Reynolds on Postpunk (Repellent)
  • Simon Reynolds interview: Pop, politics, hip-hop and postpunk (Socialist Worker)
  • Bring the Noise: Simon Reynolds (Fact magazine)

  • Q and A with Mike Saunders (Hangnail)
  • Planet Clair: Green Day's number-one fan, Mike Saunders (East Bay Express)
  • London's Outrage: An Interview with Jon Savage (3 A.M.)

  • An interview with author and cultural theorist Greg Tate (AfroToronto.com))
  • Interview with David Toop (Perfect Sound Forever)
  • Wading Through the Ocean of Sound: David Toop
  • Nick Tosches, the man in the leopard-skin loafers (Salon)

  • Richie Unterberger (MarkPrindle.com)

  • An interview with Scott Woods (Clouds and Clocks)
  • Interview with Scott Woods (Music Press Report)

    [A work in progress... many more to come]