• Ramen Records, John Janick - on Fueled by Ramen Records, the Gainsville, Florida indie rock label he started in 1996 with Vinnie, drummer for Less Than Jake.
      

• Random Touch - This 8 April 2007 chat with Random Touch's Christopher Brown was the culmination of a great musical discovery, for me. The 2-CD album from the group on Token Boy Records is the type of progressive space music headphones were made for. Listen in for an overview of the group's long career and found why it has recorded so little and its artistic connection to early surrealist readymades and other visual arts  Christopher Brown / Random Touch feature >>>
      

• Rascal Reporters - Seeking new music and interviewing musicians is a constant journey of discovery for me. Along the way there is the rare and special joy of discovering a previously unknown gem in my own back yard, as it were. I was previously oblivious to the groundbreaking zaniness of The Rascal Reporters, operating since the '70s local to me. In this interview I discuss with Steve Gore about the group; would-be jesters of the RIO movement. This talk includes how working with Fred Frith, Tim Hodgkinson, and other came about. Of course we also discuss the release
  to CD of Ridin' On A Bummer: Twentieth Anniversary Edition of "daring Avant-Prog in the tradition of Frank Zappa, Henry Cow, & The Residents".
      

• Paul Reddick  and company dig into the pre-World War II rural blues repertoire on Paul Reddick & The Sidemen's Rattlebag (Northern Blues). They come up with Delta gems for their tough, electric blues sound. They use studio effects and unexpected equipment to achieve raw, analog visitations of the past blues masters on almost every track. Colin Linden produced and adds signature guitar to this exquisite example of visceral urban blues with clear juke joint roots featuring Reddick's harmonica. In this interview, Reddick discusses how medieval poetry and Lomax's field recordings were equal inspiration to this rough and rooted blues album.
   

• J. C. Reeves, is one of four guitarist in the 8-member experimental rock band The Warlocks. J. C. discusses "Rise and Fall..." (Bomp) their album that references the entire spectrum of heavy art rock.
       

• Gary Reichel - For over 20 years, Cinecyde has made great garage pop from the Motor City. In this Spring 2005 interview with Gary Reichel we found out how a song about the Me 262 jet fighter made it onto the new album Like a U.F.O. and what is like being bootlegged as one of the first Detroit punk bands of all time.
      
• The Residents - Homer Flynn of the Cryptic Corporation, official "babysitter" to The Residents, talks about the Icky Flicks project and possible future projects for the group
      

• Revolutionary Snake Ensemble  - Ken Field (Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Sesame Street) leaves behind his Apollonian cerebral music to revel in the funkiness of a New Orleans brass band. Ken Field's Revolutionary Snake Ensemble is a New Orleans brass band that plays Sun Ra ("Calling All Demons"), James Brown ("Soul Power") as well as Scofield ("Some Nerve") besides its own Big Easy- inspired originals. It is interesting because this masterful sax man with a talent for the edgy and progressive avant-garde music here subsumes his particular side to incarnate a Mardi Gras mood with rhythm music. Throughout there is a strong second-line style in the tradition of Rebirth Brass Band and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band. This is a party band with a great horn section. The all-star Boston band includes members of Either/Orchestra, Hot Tamale Brass Band, Binary System, Clem Snide and more. In this interview Field discusses RSE and other projects.
      

• Greg Ribot, Multi-instrumentalist and arranger, differentiates between authentic cumbia, New York cumbia and the special fusion of these sands and jazz on his album International Conspiracy (Cathexis).
        

• Robin Rimbuad, Eclectic minimalist, aka Scanner, talks from England about his album 'Wave of Light by Wave of Light,' musical influences, upcoming American tour and more.
       

• Terry "Tezz" Roberts, Discharge singer, heads a new, reformed Discharge. Looking to get back to its punk roots and reclaim the band's integrity for the purists, Discharge was in the middle of a thinly planned U.S. tour that included burning copies of its album on Sanctuary to prevent people from paying high, import prices for the CD.
      

• Rocket From the Tombs - Producer and guitarist Richard Lloyd touches on his involvement with Television and Mattew Sweet in this interview on the new studio album from Rocket From the Tombs, "Rocket Redux" (Smog Veil)
      

• Bobby Rondinelli - The Lizards - Journeyman drummer Bobby Rondinelli has been in the traps behind Quiet Riot, Black Sabbath, and more. Rondinelli recounts much of that while telling us about the band he gave up membership in Blue Oyster Cult for: The Lizards. This interview happened 17 September, 2006.
      

• Ropstyle - Wolfcentric (5 Rue Christine Records) is an infectious blend of rugged beats and deconstructed hard rock. The electro-punk album from the Brooklyn group has a timely social commentary in the terrorism-affected "This Place Does not Exist" and the tongue-in-cheek call for a Marion Barry presidency "Marion Barry". Two standout dub tracks feature Ari Up of The Slits: "Stushpuss" and "Execution". In this interview, both Akiko Carver and Ropstyle from Semiautomatic talk about the album.
      

• Sam Rosenthal  Sam Rosenthal - Easter Sunday 2000 interview with the head of Projekt records, architect of the darkwave genre and member of Black Tape for a Blue Girl.
       

• Charles Roseny - director of Beatles tours in Liverpool and Halloween tours in Transylvania
   

• The Ruiners is a deliriously infectious punk-pop band from Detroit. The group's album How's That Grab Ya? co- produced by Mick Collins (Dirt Bombs and Gories ) and Jim Diamond is out on Disaster Records. It is an exquisite blend of raucous punk energy and witty humor. Most everyone in the band takes part in this interview.

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