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Metromix's music interviews archive
May 16, 2008Death Cab for Cutie will possess you
Ben Gibbard talks about eight-minute singles, headlining festivals and outlasting ‘The O.C.’
Be Your Own Pet: bruised, gross and underage
A rowdy quartet keeps old-school punk alive—even though they’re too young to remember it
Sing for the Submarines
How does this husband-wife team make such catchy indie pop? It’s not as easy as it looks
Augustana’s rock star moment
The band behind the hit ‘Boston’ isn’t quite living in the fast lane...yet
Mixing metaphors with My Brightest Diamond
Shara Worden explains the many layers behind her group’s latest, ‘A Thousand Shark’s Teeth’
Getting sloppy with Los Campesinos!
Welsh rockers earn their exclamation point with drunken live shows
David Ford, the polite rocker
Meet the British singer who’s a one-man band—and a one-man cleaning crew
A Mindless interview
Jimmy Urine of Mindless Self Indulgence isn’t letting marriage dull his group’s dance-metal edge
DeVotchKa: tubas, accordions and sexy acrobats
Denver’s global pop band brings their circus-like show to town
The Robyn revolution
Sweden’s hottest export this side of IKEA is here to jumpstart modern pop music
Alicia Keys, as she is
After a sore throat and some cancelled shows, the R&B superstar's tour is back on track
Roots on the rise
Hip-hop’s leading live act likes to keep them guessing
Catching up with the Kooks
Luke Pritchard and his bandmates want to be the Beatles—and what's wrong with that?
Next stop: ‘Everywhere’
Asian-American rapper Lyrics Born doesn’t let airport security slow him down
Cute and delicious
Singer Kate Nash invents her own flavor of Brit-pop
Keeping it real
Tapes 'n' Tapes take time off of work to be rock stars
Lemony fresh
Indie hip-hop duo Atmosphere’s rhymes—and jokes—are pretty damned juicy
Troubadours of metal
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine leads his latest troupe of headbangers out on the third Gigantour
Pedal to the metal
R.E.M. is back and louder than ever. Michael Stipe explains why his band needed to ‘Accelerate.’
Earning their stripes
Midwest rockers the Republic Tigers prepare for their mainstream close-up
Catching fire
Pop-punk underdogs the Matches broaden their fan base, with a little help from...Ashley Dupré?
Welcome to his nightmare
Destroyer’s Dan Bejar talks about his feverish new album, ‘Trouble in Dreams’
Moby: video interview
Electronic music's favorite bald man talks about his uptempo new album, 'Last Night'
A Spirited discussion
Talking Pixies, art school and desert meth heads with the Duke Spirit
Panic breeds clarity
Ex-emo poster boys Panic at the Disco are cool if they don’t hang on your wall
