John Lucas
I work with words.
Category: interviews
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An old favourite of mine, the Icelandic “weird pop” collective múm, has a new album slated for release on the same day. I interviewed founding member Örvar Þóreyjarson Smárason for the Georgia Straight back in 2009.
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Just to keep you, my faithful readers/fans/stalkers up to date, I thought I would share a roundup of my recently published work, including two arts features for Stir and a piece I wrote just for fun and posted on Medium.
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I recently interviewed Loverboy guitarist Paul Dean for an upcoming Montecristo feature on the 45th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. It reminded me of the time I interviewed Dean on the eve of Loverboy’s induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame.
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The impending release of Jehnny Beth’s latest solo album, You Heartbreaker, You, reminded me that I once interviewed her for the Georgia Straight ahead of a Vancouver performance by her band Savages. Savages bemused by Mercury nod (This article originally appeared in The Georgia Straight.) It’s arguably the most prestigious honour in British music, so…
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I recently interviewed Canadian improv-comedy great Colin Mochrie, of Whose Line Is It Anyway? fame, for Montecristo magazine’s website.
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“I’m just trying to spread some positivity, because life is real fucked-up,” A$AP Rocky says. “You’ve just got to make the best of this shit, you know what I’m saying?”
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“I’m always trying to find the craziest sound, you know—the thing that sounds the least like it comes from Earth,” says Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker.
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Digging through the archives, I discovered that I have actually written about Mother Mother quite a lot over the years, so I have decided to split this blog post into two installments. This is the second.
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Mother Mother released its 10th album, Nostalgia, earlier this month. With the group spending its summer touring across Europe, it seemed timely to revisit my past interviews with frontman Ryan Guldemond. I have actually written about Mother Mother quite a lot over the years, so I have decided to split this blog post into two…
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Inspired by the recent release of Something Better Change, Scott Crawford’s documentary about D.O.A.’s Joe Keithley and his evolution form punk rocker to politician, I dug through the Georgia Straight archives and unearthed all the times I have interviewed Keithley over the years.
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