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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 [...]
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 [...]
posted 3 August 2009 in Archives, Unpublished.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 [...]
posted 14 July 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Lately, it’s been reported that Val Kilmer is considering running for governor of New Mexico. Far be it from me to meddle in the internal affairs of another state, and I suppose Kilmer would be a step up from the guy on the corner shouting at the passing traffic, but hey, Land of Enchantment: I [...]
posted 23 June 2009 in Archives, Articles. 6 comments
Trolling through my hard disk yesterday, I stumbled on this short but thoroughly entertaining interview I did with Keira Knightley four years ago. It was pegged to the forgettable Domino movie, but we touched on a variety of other topics (Pirates of the Caribbean, the drinking age, detention slips) and she was much funnier than [...]
posted 15 June 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
Back in 2005, before The Colbert Report started, I was lucky enough to spend several days trailing Stephen Colbert as he put together the show with his staff. Colbert’s in the news this week–well, he’s always in the news, but this week he’s broadcasting from Iraq–and since the show is now a pillar of late-night [...]
posted 8 June 2009 in Archives, Articles. no comments yet
I had hoped to return to the 1988 countdown today, but it looks like that’ll be delayed another week; my apologies. In the meantime, since Phil Spector is in the news this week, having been convicted of the murder of Lana Clarkson, may I direct you to this long, fascinating email I got from him [...]
posted 15 April 2009 in Archives, News. no comments yet
Kurt Cobain died fifteen years ago this week. When I heard the news, I bolted from the office of Details magazine (my then-employer) and went home to Brooklyn to find my Nirvana notebooks. I had toured around Germany with Nirvana in 1991, as Nevermind was becoming a blockbuster hit, and done another extensive interview with [...]
posted 8 April 2009 in Archives, Articles. 2 comments
You’ve probably heard that Blender ceased publication last week; I’m sorry to see it go, and not just because I know a lot of people who worked there. I wrote exactly one article for Blender: it was the cover story of their second issue, early enough in the game that Craig Marks wasn’t yet running [...]
posted 1 April 2009 in Archives, Articles. 2 comments
