Interview: A look at music licensing and copyright clearance

A while back, I contacted my friend Annie Lin about doing an interview for one of my Saturday posts on NAP. She was a law school classmate of mine, concentrating on entertainment law. Before law school, I had known her as a local songwriter and solo performer in Houston. Back when I was doing a [...]

Cryptacize Interview

Here is my interview with 66.6(repeating)% of Cryptacize, who I mentioned in my last post, and who are still on tour. This interview took place 2008-10-24 Fri in a car motoring from Oakland to San Francisco over the San Francisco Bay, by way of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. I rode shotgun while Chris Cohen (guitar, [...]

Bailter Space Interview

While on summer vacation in 1995, I interviewed Kiwi (via NYC) space/noise/drone rock band Bailter Space before their show at a coffee house in Moorhead (across the river from Fargo). The text of the interview has had a lonely outpost on my website since that time, but I’m moving it here for greater exposure, and [...]

Curious Jorge

(photo by Lars Knudson)

Like me, Jorge Boehringer moved from Texas to California late last century to pursue graduate studies in music at Mills College. He composes under his given name, but usually performs as Core of the Coalman, producing a potent sonic brew that is the result of the mangling and manipulation of viola, keyboards, and [...]