Matt Fink is a Pittsburgh-based journalist who is a frequent contributor to music magazines Paste and Under the Radar. Over the past six years he has interviewed artists ranging from Yoko Ono and Beck to Franz Ferdinand and the White Stripes.

Busted: Wanda Jackson

Nearly 60 years after its birth, rock and roll remains American music’s most successful illegitimate offspring, with everyone from Bo Diddley and Little Richard to…

Busted: David Bazan

Last week, we published a piece by Matt Fink about former Pedro the Lion leader David Bazan’s career and latest album. After a four-year hiatus…

Busted: Charlie Louvin

One of country music’s great survivors, Charlie Louvin has a career that reads like a Southern gothic novel. He grew up singing sacred harp music…

The State of the Danielson

Though he’d never want to take credit for it, the extent to which there is a Christian presence in indie rock — a scene generally…

Busted: Mavis Staples

Lost among the hoopla of the Inauguration of Barack Obama — among the celebrity sightings, the musical guests, and the soaring rhetoric — was the…

Busted: me without You

Hang around the Christian music festival circuit for very long, and you’ll invariably hear about mewithoutYou‘s Aaron Weiss. Everyone has a story. Some have seen…

Busted: Underoath

Though self-identified Christian bands have been slowly breaking down the distinctions between the music that appears on the mainstream music charts and the albums that…

Busted: Andrew Beaujon

Though much has changed in recent years to allow openly Christian musicians to move out of the Christian rock ghetto, it is still rare to…

Busted: Sufjan Stevens

In the world of popular music there is perhaps no genre that is more suspicious of Christian faith than indie rock. Having grown out the…