Kat Gardiner
Irrelevant Interviews - TacocaT
This past week, everyone in Portland, Oregon, (including myself) has been experiencing the best thing in the world: extreme global warming. True, in a few years, April and May will probably yield 100-degree weather and cancer. But it's been sunny and a...
Irrelevant Interviews: 'Adult World' Director Scott Coffey
Scott Coffey’s latest film, 'Adult World,' is opening at the TriBeCa Film Festival today. It stars Emma Roberts as a recent college graduate who wants to be a poet and John Cusack as a grouchy bard named Rat Billings who influenced a generation. She...
Olympia’s Grand Jury Resistors Speak
In a rather harrowing act of modern civil disobedience, Matt Duran and Katherine "Kteeo" Oleknik refused to rat on their friends' political beliefs after being scooped up by the FBI after May Day protests last year in Seattle. They spent five months in...
Irrelevant Interviews: Greer McGettrick of the Mallard
We met up at a park. The sun was out, and Greer McGettrick squinted into it as I circled her, taking photos. She lamented wearing sunglasses. “I hate pictures of musicians in sunglasses,” she said. I suggested we stand in front of a brick wall, or...
Irrelevant Interviews - James Jackson Toth of Wooden Wand
I hope Wooden Wand is remembered for a long time as being one of the best lyricists of this era of music. I hope from reading this you check out his ghostly melodies and heart-wrenching lyrical delivery. He doesn’t have a pretty voice in a traditional...
Irrelevant Interviews - John Baccigallupi of 'Tape Op' Magazine
John Baccigallupi has been a huge influence on the side of goodness in music for nearly three decades now: as publisher and one half of 'Tape Op' magazine (the monthly bible for the home recorder and audiophile), as engineer and producer of many...
Irrelevant Interviews - Jeffrey Lewis
Irrelevant Interviews is a new column by Portland-based writer and director, Kat Gardiner. Kat used to do this column for the Pacific Northwest weekly, 'Willamette Week,' but now she's doing it for us because we're cooler. Her first interview is with...