Retrofuturista: In-depth interviews with today’s leading artists. Hear their stories, their influences, and their unique perspectives on the creative world.
Conversations with artists, musicians, and thinkers from post-punk, krautrock, psychedelic folklore, and more. These dialogues cover their work in fields like psychology, ecology, comics, horror, and science fiction. Each interview presents an unfiltered view of their creative paths and the ideas driving their projects.
Alphabetical Index of Interviews on Retrofuturista
Interview with Chris Connelly on Doo Wop In The Dark and Lou Reed
The Chicago-based singer discusses Doo Wop In The Dark: A Portrait of Lou Reed, out October 16 on Shipwrecked Industries ...
Matt Devine on Ventilator’s Reseda Spleen, Thirty Years Later: An Interview
The Ventilator mastermind on Bar/None's October 9 reissue of his 1996 debut Transmission 426: Interview with Ventilator There's a particular ...
Interview with Light Conductor: Stephen Ramsay on Vintage Synths and the End of a Trilogy
Stephen Ramsay Talks Sequence Three Ahead of the Constellation Records Release Transmission 425: Interview with Light Conductor Light Conductor complete ...
Jim Woodring Talks Ink, Instinct, and the Logic of the Unifactor
An interview on Quacky, Manhog's freedom, and the rules that govern his world Transmission 424: Interview with Jim Woodring Jim ...
Steve Bates on Static, Radio Dials and His New Album An Infinite Antenna: Interview
The Montreal sound artist on punk beginnings, field recordings and his second Constellation album Transmission 423: Interview with Steve Bates ...
Interview: Jacqui Hunt on Her First Solo Album in 18 Years
An interview on the making of "Desiderium," out now on QUSP Transmission 422: Interview with Jacqui Hunt Jacqui Hunt is ...
Raw Electronics Without Compromise: Portion Control on 47 Years of Industrial Synthesis
South London Industrial Pioneers Portion Control Break Down Their 77-Track Retrospective Transmission 421: Interview with Portion Control Formed in South ...
Lawrence English On Acid Nostalgia In The Rest Is My Ghost
De-Contouring History Through Sound With Lawrence English Transmission 420: Interview with Lawrence English Lawrence English released The Rest Is My ...
Cor de Lux Talk Politics, the Outer Banks and the Year Of The Horse
Cor de Lux's Tim Lusk and Dawn Moraga on Year Of The Horse Transmission 419: Interview with Cor de Lux ...
Interview with Sweeping Promises About ‘You Say I Romanticize’
Caufield Schnug and Lira Mondal on eighteen years of making music together Transmission 418: Interview with Sweeping Promises Sweeping Promises ...
Fling ii Interview: Brad Gowland Discusses 3, Modular Gear, and Motorik Grooves
Brad Gowland reflects on group dynamics, Ann Arbor basements, and rejecting algorithmic art. Transmission 417: Interview with Fling II Fling ...
An Interview with Blake Fleming on Dazzling Killmen’s Second Act
Ahead of the Face of Collapse deluxe reissue on SKiN GRAFT Records, the drummer looks back and forward. Transmission 416: ...
Koichi Yamamoto on Repetition, Registration, and Revelation
On Unseen Imprints and Sensory and Tactile Memory of Printmaking: Interview with Koichi Yamamoto Transmission 415: Interview with Koichi Yamamoto ...
Jon Spencer on Personal Loss, Protest and Rock and Roll’s Fighting Spirit
The garage rock veteran discusses his new Shove Records album, out June 12, 2026 Transmission 414: Interview with Jon Spencer ...
Gussie Larkin of Earth Tongue Talks Dungeon Vision and Its Escapist World
Gussie Larkin of Earth Tongue Talks New Zealand Roots and Dungeon Vision Transmission 413: Interview with Earth Tongue There is ...
Interview with Noumier Tawilah: On Creative Evolution & Challenges of Visual Storytelling
Noumier Tawilah Reimagining Icons of Pop Culture through a Distinct Artistic Lens Transmission 412: Interview with Noumier Tawilah Noumier Tawilah ...
Ecce Shnak Interview: David Roush on Psychotherapy, Songwriting and Dandy Variances
Ecce Shnak Talk New Album Dandy Variances, Out 2026 on Records, Man Records Transmission 411: Interview with Ecce Shnak There ...
EbE404 Talks “Grass Time,” CARTHAGE Remix, and Three Years of Silence
EbE404 Premieres CARTHAGE Remix Ahead of Cortisol LP Transmission 410: Interview with EbE404 EbE404 is a Minneapolis-based post-industrial and dark ...
Glenn Morrow’s Cry For Help Talk Our Final Album Vol. 1, Out Now on Bar/None
Eleven songs, several genres, one Hoboken band still going at twelve years Transmission 409: Interview with Glenn Morrow Glenn Morrow's ...
Katie Skelly on Heaven: A Neon Desert Noir Set in Places That Can’t Exist
"Heaven": Katie Skelly's New Hypnotic Graphic Novel, Breaking Out of the "Cool Girl" Archetype, and Exploring Horror in a Supernatural ...
Jérôme Trëz Oudot: Surrealist Portraits That Autopsy the Human Condition
Interview with Jérôme "Trëz" Oudot On Identity, Distortion of the Body and Digital vs Physical Creation Transmission 407: Interview with ...
Darius Puia on Music, Silence, and the Making of Sci-Fi Landscapes
Art as an Escape and Art as a Mirror: Philosophy Emotion & Human Element in Darius Puia BakaArts Aesthetic Transmission ...
Martin Bisi Talks Dancing On The Power Lines: An Interview From Inside BC Studio
Dancing On The Power Lines: Martin Bisi on Songwriting After Four Decades Behind the Glass Transmission 405: Interview with Martin ...
The Impossible Pen and Ink Universes of Benjamin Sack
How Renaissance structural ideals and ancient Greek symmetry form a blueprint for mythological urbanism. Transmission 404: Interview with Benjamin Sack ...
Punk Pop Pioneers Shonen Knife on Reworking a Lost Classic
Naoko Yamano remembers Osaka's punk beginnings and the tribute album that reached Redd Kross Transmission 403: Interview with Shonen Knife ...
Beautiful Splatter: the World of Ralph Steadman and the Visceral Nature of his Ink
Ralph Steadman: The Art of Resistance The Gonzo Legacy and Beyond Transmission 402: Interview with Ralph Steadman Ralph Steadman is ...
Problem Addict Turn Their Own Chaos Into A Debut Album
Al Denté, Hunny, Icky Radneck and Edley O'Dowd talk about the record and what led to it Transmission 401: Interview ...
Christiane Cegavske on Movement, Collaboration, and Working With Puppets That Feel Alive
Painter, sculptor, and stop motion animator Christiane Cegavske discusses the making of her cult film and what comes next Transmission ...
The “Genius Loci”: Ed Fairburn’s Philosophy and Coexistence Anatomy on Found Landscapes
The Paradox of Distance: Psychogeography, Home, and Why a Map Is More Than a Tool in the Art of Ed ...
Pieter M. van Hattem: The Eye Behind The Strokes, Interpol and The White Stripes
Through the Lens of Pieter M. van Hattem the Graphic Composition of Sound and the Style of a Generation Transmission ...
Maryam Qudus Interview: Recording Spacemoth’s Inward Eye on the Road
Maryam Qudus discusses the transient composition of her second Spacemoth LP Transmission 397: Interview with Spacemoth The trajectory of Maryam ...
Chris Leib Reimagines Progress Through Bonobos and Infant Astronauts
Painting Like the Renaissance, Thinking Like an Anthropologist Transmission 396: Interview with Chris Leib Chris Leib is a contemporary artist ...
Downtown Boys Interview: Victoria Marie and Joey La Neve DeFrancesco on Public Luxury
Victoria Marie and Joey La Neve DeFrancesco on recording at Machines With Magnets and the making of Public Luxury Transmission ...
Diego Moreno on Sitting Where Saints Usually Sit: Painting Over Childhood’s Wounds
On Ghost of the Living, Religion and "Disobedient" Imagery: Interview with Diego Moreno Transmission 394: Interview with Diego Moreno Diego ...
Modesty Blaise’s “Melancholia” at 25: An Interview with Jonny Collins
PREMIERE - Jonny Collins talks about baking old master tapes, broken cello strings and the sessions behind a baroque pop ...
Gabrielle Marin Interview: The Things Humans Carry Inside That Can’t Always be Seen
Dark Botanical Surrealist Vibe: Sophisticated but Raw Art of Gabrielle Marin Transmission 392: Interview with Gabrielle Marin Gabrielle Marin is ...
Interview with Liz Hysen: Dissonance, Erasure, and the Ghost of Sonny Liston
On Double On Time, Picastro abandons traditional rock frameworks for mutilated audio loops and percussive weight. Transmission 391: Interview with ...
Kush Arora Interview: Only Now, Jaijiu, and the Making of Rebel Cry
Only Now and Jaijiu Talk Rebel Cry, Congolese Production, and Making Records Without Meeting Transmission 390: Interview with Only Now + ...
Pulp, Ink, Organized Chaos: Interview with Benjamin Marra on Making What We Mean by Yesterday
Benjamin Marra on Why He Hates Redemption Stories (and What He Does Instead) Transmission 389: Interview with Benjiamin Marra Benjamin ...
Henry Rollins on Gravest Gravy: The Cramps Record That Waited 37 Years to Exist
"It Was Like a Monster Movie With a Beat": Henry Rollins Interviewed on the Cramps' Lost Album Transmission 388: Interview ...
BIG|BRAVE Interview: Building Biomes Out of Distortion
Robin Wattie and Mathieu Ball on their tenth album for Thrill Jockey, out 12 June 2026 Transmission 387: Interview with ...
hackedepicciotto on LICHTUNG: Settlement, Liberation, and the Language of Madness
Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto on settlement, German poetry, and the emotional weight of departure Transmission 386: Interview with ...
Dwarves on Jenkem: “Straight Forward No Nonsense Music”
Blag Dahlia on Dwarves' New Album, Chicago Punk, and Never Slowing Down Transmission 385: Interview with Dwarves The Dwarves formed ...
The Claudettes Interview: Writing a Rock Opera from a Blackmail Letter
Johnny Iguana on writing for different singers, recording with producer Steve Berkowitz and what happens when a voice memo becomes ...
The Art of Cosmic Terror: John Coulthart on Magick, Occult Diagrams and Impossible Cities
The Alchemist of the Sigils and Shadowless: Esoterica and the Future of Non-Euclidean Horror Transmission 383: Interview with John Coulthart ...
Nick Carlisle on The Mad Decades, Asimov, and the Return of Barbarism
On populism, AI, and what remains when the songwriters who once stood on pedestals are gone Transmission 382: Interview with ...
Dowser Interview, Inside the Unconscious Sound Collective
Hiroyuki Nagashima on Dowser and Schema 1+2 Transmission 381: Interview with Dowser Hiroyuki Nagashima formed Dowser in the late 1980s, ...
Slift Interview: Writing Fantasia as a City in Collapse
The Toulouse trio discuss their fourth album, recorded live at Daft Studio in Belgium with no overdubs, out June 5 ...
Elephant Stone on ASHA, Tenth Album Out August 28 on Little Cloud Records
Rishi Dhir speaks about Sacred Sound, the sitar, and why ASHA is the most personal record Elephant Stone have made ...
Nobuyuki Kobayashi: Photographing the Gods Hidden in Japan’s Ancient Wilderness
Platinum, Washi, and the Divine: The Sacred Photography of Nobuyuki Kobayashi Transmission 378: Interview with Nobuyuki Kobayashi Nobuyuki Kobayashi was ...
Charles Peterson, the Photographer Who Made Grunge Visible, Interview
The Sub Pop years, when one photographer handled the label's entire visual identity Transmission 377: Interview with Charles Peterson Charles ...
Andrew Mayer on Empty Socket Productions, Eric Fournier and the Making of Shaye Saint John
The Shaye Saint John Archive: How a VHS Character Became an Internet Art Landmark Transmission 376: Interview with Empty Socket ...
The Noise Who Runs Interview: Ian Pickering on Brexit, Populism, and Re: GenX
The Sneaker Pimps co-writer on Kurt Vonnegut, Bill Hicks, and Slaughterhouse-Five as lyrical compass Transmission 375: Interview with The Noise ...
DEAFKIDS Interview: CICATRIZES DO FUTURO and the Politics of Rhythm
Douglas Leal and Marian Sarine discuss CICATRIZES DO FUTURO, out May 29 on Neurot Recordings Transmission 374: Interview with DEAFKIDS ...
Hypnolovewheel Parallel Universe Interview: CBGB, Marvel Comics, and Lost Master Tapes
An interview detailing early CBGB auditions, Marvel Comics cameos, and the June 19 2026 digital release on Bandcamp Transmission 373: ...
Blake Watt Talks Family Stereo Debut Album The Thread on Bella Union
Family Stereo Interview: Blake Watt on Drums, Drama, and Folk Songwriting Transmission 372: Interview with Family Stereo Family Stereo is ...
Jules Peters on Mike Peters, Rock and Roll, and Keeping The Alarm Alive
Twenty First Century Recordings and Virgin Music Group release Transformation on May 29, 2026; the album Mike Peters recorded between ...
Big Cats, Sacred Geometry, and Pop Ghosts: Interview with Johannah O’Donnell
The master of the acrylic medium, known for her 'Neon Mysticism' style that combines nature, pop culture, and the cosmos ...
Hush Interview: On Consciousness, Liminal Space and Their Debut Album
Paige Barlow and Miles Dupire-Gagnon Talk For Dolly, Their Debut Album Due in 2026 Transmission 369: Interview with Hush Hush ...
Alex Tillbrook on Why Great Design Tells a Story and How He Makes That Happen
From music aesthetics to streaming giants: how Alex Tillbrook keeps his work personal across radically different contexts Transmission 368: Interview ...
Magic Wands Interview: Wishing Well, Sacred Mirrors, and Writing on the Road
Magic Wands Talk Cascades, Their John Ashton Collaboration, and What Comes Next Transmission 367: Interview with Magic Wands Magic Wands ...
Wooden Overcoat on Hello Sunbeam, Recording Alone, and the Portland Scene
Brant Hajek Talks Wooden Overcoat's Debut EP Hello Sunbeam Transmission 366: Interview with Wooden Overcoat Wooden Overcoat is the project ...
Roger Ballen on Repression, Chaos, and the Limits of Consciousness
On Psychology, the Subconscious & Meaning on the “Ballenesque” World Transmission 365: Interview with Roger Ballen Roger Ballen is one ...
Genre Is Death on Attractive People: Noise, Disgust, and Life in Queens
Tayler Lee and Ty Varesi on the frustration, instinct, and community behind their In The Red Records debut Transmission 364: ...
Joan As Police Woman: “Creation Is Forever a Mystery”, Interview with Joan Wasser
The New York musician discusses Real Life Evolution, out June 12 on Reveal Records, and what it means to cover ...
From Trauma to Tenderness: Anthony Hurd Paints the Queer Representation He Never Got to See
Correcting the Mirror: On Trauma, Healing & Queer Life Joy Transmission 362: Interview with Anthony Hurd Anthony Hurd is a ...
Wheelchair Sports Camp Interview: Kalyn Heffernan on Perfectionism, Prisons, and Oh Imperfecta
Kalyn Rose Heffernan speaks about osteogenesis imperfecta, abolitionist politics, and ten years of songs finally finished Transmission 361: Interview with ...
Waring Abbott: How a Jazz Musician Became the Visual Archivist of Rock’s Loudest Decade
Waring Abbott, the photographer who always wanted something new, on small clubs, civilians, and the pictures that still matter Transmission ...
The Evolution of Rafael Silveira, Cartographer of the Mind’s Garden: From Ink to Oil
The Aesthetic of Retro Pop Psychedelic Surrealism: 'Picturesque Hallucinations' of Rafael Silveira Transmission 359: Interview with Rafael Silveira Rafael Silveira ...
Mia van Wyk on Synchronicity, Astral Visions and the Paradise Lost
Hunter as a Horse speaks about automatic writing, Jungian individuation and the loss of innocence Transmission 358: Interview with Hunter ...
HYPER GAL Interview: Osaka Noise Duo on Our Hyper, Ritual and the Logic of Two
Noise, Photography and No Wave: HYPER GAL Talk Our Hyper on SKiN GRAFT Records Transmission 357: Interview with HYPER GAL ...
Allan Tannenbaum on SoHo in the 70s, John Lennon’s Final Days, and What Happened to New York’s Creative Soul
How a small downtown paper gave one photographer unrestricted access to the most documented decade in New York history Transmission ...
Ian Gamache on Emotional Camouflage, Masks, and the Messy Honesty of Paint
A conversation about layering, obscuring, and letting collage elements grow into something new Transmission 355: Interview with Ian Gamache Ian ...
Albert Watson: Half a Century of Precision, Cinematic Soul and Presence
A conversation with Albert Watson on discipline, and the dynamics between photographer and subject. Transmission 354: Interview with Albert Watson ...
CYRNAI Interview: From Tape Theatre to Echo Language
CYRNAI on Working in Isolation, Building Archives, and Releasing Echo Language Remix One Transmission 353: Interview with CYRNAI Carolyn Fok ...
NYCHOS and the Art of Dissection: Bones, Spray Paint, and Metaphysical Consciousness
How NYCHOS Turned Anatomical Observation into One of Street Art's Most Recognizable Styles Transmission 352: Interview with Nychos NYCHOS is ...
Those Who Walk Away: Matthew Patton on Afterlife Requiem
Disaster audio, string quintets, and the long process of subtracting meaning from music Transmission 351: Interview with Those Who Walk ...
Barbara Mendes Interview: The Queen of Cosmos and the Sacred Female
The Fantagraphics trilogy Queen of Cosmos Comix collects over fifty years of psychedelic, womanist, and spiritually charged artwork Transmission 350: ...
Bob Bert on His Debut Album, New York Scene and Forty years of Noise
Bob Bert on how a flyer, a bar stage and a junkyard trip defined four decades of underground music Transmission ...
Max Vadukul on Asymmetry, and Why Black and White Is Not a Style Choice but a Way of Thinking
On staying present, stubbornness, creative independence and treating everyone with the same dignity Transmission 348: Interview with Max Vadukul Official ...
Point Line Plane Interview: Portland’s Synth and Drums Duo Reopens the File
Nate Carson and Joshua Blanchard on two decades away, Haunters outtakes, and the Skin Graft pressing. Transmission 347: Interview with ...
Architect of Dark Surrealism: Andrey Skull, Artist and Tattooist
Welcome to the darker side of the craft: Interview with Andrey Skull Transmission 347: Interview with Andrey Skull Andrey Skull ...
Chris Connelly on Fini Tribe, Sampling, and Setting Glasgow’s Third Eye Centre on Fire
Chris Connelly recalls the early years of Edinburgh's most combustible post-punk unit Transmission 346: Interview with Chris Connelly/Fini Tribe Fini ...
Chicago Industrialists The Joy Thieves on Hip Hop Breakbeats and Political Chaos
The Joy Thieves' Apocalypse Pending Out June 5 on Armalyte Industries Transmission 345: Interview with The Joy Thieves The Joy ...
Imperfection as Intention: How George Manta Translates Music into Hand-Crafted Visual Language
George Manta's Posters Turn Concert Energy into Lasting Analog Memories Transmission 344: Interview with George Manta George Manta is a ...
Rock ‘n’ Roll as Seen from the Inner Circle: Bob Gruen Interview
From the Mercer Arts Center chaos of the New York Dolls to John Lennon's New York City T-shirt, the moments ...
Jon MacNair’s India Ink World Where Archetypes Haunt the Permanent Twilight
One Frame from a Film That Was Never Shot: Narrative Strategy in Jon MacNair's Illustrations Transmission 342: Interview with Jon ...
Before the Legends Were Legends: Ebet Roberts on the New York Punk Years
Ebet Roberts, a painter turned photographer, captured intimate musical moments before they faded. Transmission 341: Interview with Ebet Roberts Ebet ...
Erik Kessels on Found Photography, Family Loss, and the Images Nobody Notices
Modern Anthropologist: Erik Kessels on the "Ecology" of Images and the Philosophy of Mistakes Transmission 340: Interview with Erik Kessels ...
Interview with Micko Westmoreland on the Making of The Trinity
The Leeds musician discusses grief, guitar, and the long road to his third album, out 12th June Transmission 339: Interview ...
dälek on Brilliance of a Falling Moon, and Writing Music as Therapy
MC dälek and Mike Mare discuss the new album on Ipecac Recordings Transmission 338: Interview with dälek Featured image: © ...
Alan Moore Interview: Magical Consciousness, Disowned Works, and the Long London Quintet
Moore explains why nostalgia is literally an illness and how authoritarianism has always weaponised it Transmission 337: Interview with Alan ...
Martin Atkins on PIL, Killing Joke, Pigface and Five Decades of Drumming
From the Metal Box to a Chicago museum: drumming, label-running, teaching, and what ties it all together Transmission 336: Interview ...
Bye Parula on Something Out of Nothing; Pandemic Friendships and Montreal Frequencies (Interview)
Sergio D'Isanto on the band's second album, cinematic instincts, and life as immigrants in Montreal Transmission 336: Interview with Bye ...
Taming the Static: Holy Fuck on Event Beat, Casios, and Recording in a Nova Scotia Village Hall
Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh on two decades of accidental decisions and deliberate noise Transmission 335: Interview with Holy Fuck ...
The Shits Interview: Leeds Noise-Rock and the Making of Diet of Worms on Rocket Recordings
On Tarrare, pathological consumption, and lyrics written intuitively Transmission 334: Interview with The Shits The Shits formed in Leeds in ...
Billy Fuller on Fragments: The Beak> Bassist’s Debut Solo Album
Billy Fuller's Fragments: Nine Years of Home Recordings Finally Surface on Invada Records Transmission 333: Interview with Billy Fuller Billy ...
Mathias Kom and Michael Cloud Duguay on Cold War Ghost Towns and Experimental Metal
Mathias Kom and Michael Cloud Duguay Return After a Decade with Experimental Album Closed City Transmission 332: Interview with Closed ...
Craig Dunsmuir and Sandro Perri Talk Glissandro 70’s Long-Delayed Second Album
The Toronto duo's second LP reconstructs sessions recorded between 2005 and 2015, recovered after an accidental deletion and released on ...
Imaad Wasif Talks Superconsciousness, Voidist Records, and Taking Back Control
How the 2025 Altadena wildfires, a Yeah Yeah Yeahs tour, and 34 discarded songs shaped one record Transmission 330: Interview ...
Nick Hinman Talks Fast Money Music, the Self-Titled LP Out April 17
Nick Hinman Interview: How a Polish Divination Deck Became the Visual DNA of Fast Money Music's Debut Transmission 329: Interview ...
The Dandy Warhols’ Courtney Taylor-Taylor on New Covers Album, Pin Ups
Courtney Taylor-Taylor Talks Pin Ups, The Dandy Warhols' Origins, and Offers a Glimpse at Their Future Album Transmission 328: Interview ...
Interview: Jah Wobble & Jon Klein on AI, Social Collapse, and Making Post-Punk Fast
"First We Play, Then We Talk": Jah Wobble & Jon Klein on Their New Album Automated Paradise Transmission 327: Interview ...
Keith Carne on Magenta Light: Drumming, Psychedelic Visions, and the Moon as a Love Letter
The We Are Scientists drummer talks the emotional weight of touring, and finishing songs alone Transmission 326: Interview with Keith ...
