Mar 10, 2017
Welcome to a new Department of Tangents Minicast with Georg Altziebler, singer/songwriter behind Son of the Velvet Rat. In February, Son of the Velvet Rat released Dorado, a spare but shimmering album produced by Joe Henry. In 2013, Altziebler moved the band from Austria where they had already established themselves...
Dec 7, 2016
Sam Phillips fans have reason to celebrate this fall. She has a new mini-album out, called Human Contact Is Never Easy, which includes four songs that may wind up on a new album, called World On Sticks, she expects to release in 2017. You can read my review of the mini-album in the New Release Roundup from November 25,...
Nov 30, 2016
When I interviewed <a href="http://www.alejandroescovedo.com/" target="_blank">Alejandro Escovedo</a> for this episode, we were sitting in the green room upstairs at the Brighton Music Hall in Boston. He’d just spent ten hours on the road from Toronto on the day after Thanksgiving to get there. You can hear the...
Aug 15, 2016
A conversation with musician Ruby Rose Fox. Fox released her debut album, Domestic, in May. It's soulful, it rocks, and it has something to say (you can read the review on the Department of Tangents Blog). It's an impressive statement from a songwriter who knows her own voice, even more impressive considering Fox really...
Apr 28, 2016
Some of my most enjoyable interviews have happened when I don't ask too many questions. The subject has so much to say, it just pours out and I have to time the pauses like an American Ninja Warrior leaping across an obstacle course to ask a question. It was such with guitarist Richard Lloyd, best known for his...