MTV turned 30 last month. Last week AD’s J Neas looked back at the legacy of network and its place in pop culture. He also spoke with one of the more recognizable faces of MTV’s news department, former MTV News anchor and reporter John Norris. Having spent close to two decades with the network, Norris [...]

It’s hard to believe, in some ways, that it’s been 25 years since Matthew Sweet’s solo debut. Possibly even harder to believe it’s been 20 since his career-breaking album, Girlfriend. Regardless, the perennial high priest of power pop returns September 27th with his eleventh LP, Modern Art. AD spoke with Sweet over the phone about [...]

(In 2009, with news of a long awaited Circulatory System lp follow-up, I asked Athens, GA’s Lucas Jensen to catch up with and interview Will Cullen Hart. Now, two years later, The Olivia Tremor Control are once again a working unit with a variety of tours, reissue projects and an album on the horizon. Below, [...]

This October Henry Rollins adds yet another feather to an already impressive professional cap, that of photographer. The musician/writer/actor and DJ’s new photo-essay book, Occupants, spans eight years of the artist’s lens from various points of the globe including Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Asia. We caught up with Rollins last week to [...]

Punk rock changed Mike Watt’s life, and then he kept changing. Along with guitarist D. Boon and drummer George Hurley, Watt was a member of the Minutemen, one of the earliest signees to Greg Ginn’s SST Records, the legendary hardcore label that served as breeding grounds not only for Minutemen and Ginn’s Black Flag, but [...]

The Rosebuds just released their fifth studio album, Loud Planes Fly Low; their most inventive, inspired, and honest record to date. Following their fourth release, 2008’s Life Like, the relationship that inspired the group in the first place came to an end and the couple chose divorce in order to save themselves and their music. [...]

In 2008 Centro-matic, along with their alter-ego South San Gabriel, released the sprawling double LP, Dual Hawks. In the Fall of last year the band released the Eyas EP along with a note stating it would “serve as an apt farewell to that phase of our bands, leading us down a new path.” The culmination [...]