(To win a personalized 8×10 Michelle Phillips autograph, keep reading.) During Part 3 of this without-precedent 16-hour interview, the legendary singer and actress from The Mamas & The Papas tells it exactly like it is, in between rating everything the band’s ever released.   In Part 3, Michelle reveals… A fascinating account of her participation…

(To win a personalized 8×10 Michelle Phillips autograph, keep reading.) During Part 2 of this without-precedent 16-hour interview, the legendary singer and actress from The Mamas & The Papas tells it exactly like it is, in between rating everything the band’s ever released.   In Part 2, we cover:  An in-depth analysis of their first…

(To win a personalized 8×10 Michelle Phillips autograph, keep reading.) Simply put, this is the best interview I’ve done to date.  It helps that band biographer Richard Campbell and I were faced with a woman who was ready to come clean, to be so vulnerable, so funny….and SO RAW.  During Part 1 of this without-precedent…

There’s no disputing that Phil Manzanera is an art-rock genius. Dovetailing with the imminent release of his incredible memoir, “Revolucion To Roxy,” we cast a glance back at the Roxy Music guitarist and songwriter’s early days in the band. In this episode, Phil & I discuss: The real story behind how Phil acquired that bug-eyed…

Britpop seekers Kula Shaker are so much more than the sum of their influences…but what a wondrous pot of soil from which they took sprout. Singer-songwriter-guitarist Crispian Mills & drummer Paul Winter-Hart excitedly lay out the 15 super-cool albums that made them who they are today. In this episode, we discuss: The ace up Crispian’s…

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👇🏼GENRE-BRIDGING BADASSES OR BRASSHOLE COUNTERCULTURAL BACKWASH? VOTE BELOW!👇🏼 TO ENTER OUR CONTEST & WIN 1 OF 5 FERNANDO PERDOMO CDs, RE-POST OUR PROMO AD AND TAG BOTH DISCOGRAFFITI & FERNANDO PERDOMO WITHIN 2 WEEKS OF THIS EPISODE'S MARCH 6th PREMIERE! In this episode, Fernando & I reveal: The very surprising and well-known female vocalist who…

Welcome to the final installment of Discograffiti’s 16-hour-long, definitive Mark Robinson interview. In this episode, Mark spills the beans on: The unending flood of new bands, projects, name changes, and bemusing detours that’ve characterized his work since Air Miami’s dissolution; The ballsy recording rules he utilizes to create material under the monikers Fang Wizard, Party…

Welcome to Part 3 of the 16-HOUR-LONG, most definitive (every single release covered), and objectively the greatest interview ever conducted with Unrest/Grenadine/Air Miami/Flin Flon man and Teenbeat label head Mark Robinson.   Amongst so much else, here’s what goes down In this very special episode of Discograffiti: A forensic, track-by-track rundown of Unrest’s classic final…

Ever wondered what the hell Bob Mould, The Mountain Goats, Superchunk, Tom Scharpling, The Pretenders, Jay Farrar, Katy Perry, The New Pornographers, Margaret Cho, Rocket From The Crypt, Aimee Mann, Dave Grohl, Nick Cave, Guided By Voices, & R.E.M. could possibly have in common? His name is Jon Wurster.  To paraphrase Public Enemy: “Sound of…