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Gene Simmons has always been one of rock’s leading pitchmen: during the Super Bowl yesterday, he just happened to be pushing Dr. Pepper instead of a variety of Kiss-related merchandise. I was reminded of a “Rites of Passage” back-page interview I did with him for Details back in 1998, where he displayed his intelligence and […]
posted 8 February 2010 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Snowboarder Shaun White continues to kick ass, having just won a gold medal at the X Games on superpipe, and is considered a leading contender at the Winter Olympics later this month in Vancouver. So it seemed like an opportune moment to remind you of this Rolling Stone cover story in my archives–I got the […]
posted 1 February 2010 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Before I traversed eleven time zones to reach China, I didn’t know much about the Great Wall. I had seen it meandering over most of northern China on just about every world map ever, so I knew it was large (and Chinese, I suppose). I knew that contrary to general opinion, you can’t see it […]
posted 25 January 2010 in Archives, Articles, Unpublished. no comments yet
Ethan Hawke’s got a new vampire movie, Daybreakers, which looks like one of Hawke’s periodic stabs at doing a smarter version of an action movie. (Those efforts don’t usually pan out the way anyone involved had hoped for.)
But it seemed like a good excuse for adding this article to the archives, detailing a late-night interview […]
posted 11 January 2010 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
HBO’s Rome only lasted two seasons–around now, with the schedule relatively bare, I bet the network regrets they canceled it. But before the second season started, I got the show’s historical consultant, Jonathan Stamp, on the phone so we could discuss the show’s more prurient aspects and how they gibed with reality. It proved to […]
posted 15 December 2009 in Archives. no comments yet
Earlier this year, I promised to add this article to the archives of this site: my 1993 cover story for Details on Nirvana. I delayed for a variety of reasons–first among them that I find it a hard article to put in context. Reading the piece now, I’m acutely aware of my own youth and […]
posted 23 November 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
I didn’t want to write this Depeche Mode article. It was spring 1997, and I had recently profiled Everclear, Nirvana, and Sublime–I wanted to get off the heroin beat, which I found sad and monotonous (albeit reliably good copy). Joe Dolce, then the Details editor-in-chief, talked me into it, saying I could use the article […]
posted 26 October 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
As promised a couple of months ago, I’ve added my 1997 Q&A with Aerosmith lead singer Steven Tyler to the archives; you can read it here.
This interview was the first installment in the “Rites of Passage” column found on the back page of Details; we both had a lot of fun with it. Tyler called […]
posted 12 October 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Part two of my two-part “Where Are They Now?” series is Right Said Fred. As with the Spin Doctors, this is up-to-date as of 2004.
WHERE ARE THEY NOW?: RIGHT SAID FRED
By Gavin Edwards
A detailed yet incomplete list of the things Right Said Fred were too sexy for: their shirt, their car, their hat, your party, […]
posted 3 August 2009 in Archives, Unpublished. no comments yet
In the archives today: a 2005 profile of the mighty Paul Giamatti, recounting how we discussed his life over an extremely long Mexican lunch in Brooklyn.
Not discussed in the article: that Giamatti and I went to Yale at the same time. We didn’t know each other, but he was generally recognized as the best actor […]
posted 14 July 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
