Noise of the World: Artists in Their Own Words

"Leonard was like a father ... he did look out. None of the artists wanted for anything...He was like our slave master."

Before a live webcast of music from Lifehouse, The Who’s unmade film that spawned Who’s Next, Peter Townshend talks about his web prescience. “One thing I did predict, which really went down very, very badly … I gave a lecture at the Royal College of Art … I talked about … that music would be […]

It was a free concert from the start because there were no gates. We got the site so late in the game that the gates never went up.

"... I knew it was Pro Tools throwing a spanner in the works...I put it in the cupboard until they got their $#!* together."

"Run-DMC set rap back ten years."

I had Ornette Coleman in my band for a couple of weeks.

"Elvis was a workhorse. If you asked him to do 38 takes, he would do that...he could sing all night. He loved it." Jerry Leiber.

A conversation with all of the members of Jane’s Addiction on the eve of their major label debut.

Hanging in Manhattan with Donald Fagen at a time of many momentous beginnings in his life: A new album, a Steely Dan reunion, and an even bigger life change than that.

Rick Allen rolls his own.