Rock%20Music%20Interviews
Listen Jack Black: On Music, Mayhem And Murder
January 1, 2013 – Actor Jack Black plays a funeral director who murders his live-in companion in Bernie.
Listen Beck Explains 'Song Reader,' An Album Fans Perform Themselves
December 29, 2012 – The shape-shifting musician's latest release is less an album than a blueprint.
Listen Johnny Cash's Boyhood Home Tells The Story Of A Town
December 29, 2012 – With guidance from Cash's siblings, the tiny, dilapidated house is being painstakingly restored.
Watch Perfume Genius: A 'Creepy, Beautiful Mix'
December 26, 2012 – The songwriter covers unsettling topics, like suicide and his mother's experience with sexual abuse.
Watch Rod Stewart: Big Dreams, Bigger Hair
December 16, 2012 – At 67, Stewart is finally tackling two rock-star milestones: a memoir and a Christmas album.
Watch 'Mellon Collie' Mystery Girl
December 7, 2012 – The visual icon of the Smashing Pumpkins' landmark 1995 album is a woman of multiple personalities.
Listen For One Day, NPR Gets A House Band: Los Straitjackets
December 5, 2012 – The surf-rock band spends a day hanging out at NPR and providing All Things Considered's soundtrack.
Watch A $100 Guitar Makes A 30,000-Mile Odyssey
December 4, 2012 – Nels Cline, Fred Frith and Elliott Sharp are among the 65 guitarists who recorded for the project.
Listen The Evens: The Power Of Turning Down The Volume
December 2, 2012 – Ian MacKaye and Amy Farina, punk veterans and a married couple, discuss their new album, The Odds.
Watch Dozens Of Covers Later, 'Hallelujah' Endures
December 2, 2012 – Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" is a popular power anthem now, but almost never saw light of day.
Listen A Trove Of Chats With Music Icons, Now Online
December 1, 2012 – As a record executive in the 1980s, Joe Smith recorded dozens of informal interviews with musicians.
Watch Armed With Age And Experience, Soundgarden Returns
November 18, 2012 – Singer Chris Cornell discusses the band's breakup, reunion and the new album, King Animal.
Listen Vintage Trouble: Rock 'N' Roll Finds Its Soul
November 17, 2012 – On tour with The Who, the retro R&B outfit has risen swiftly since forming just two years ago.
Watch Mick Jagger On The Apocalyptic 'Gimme Shelter'
November 16, 2012 – The 1969 song is about a "world closing in on you" — and it still speaks to us today.
Watch Ron Wood's Funky Contribution To The Stones Canon
November 15, 2012 – Wood says the disco-inflected "Dance (Pt. 1)," which he helped write, always gets people moving.
