Jason Lytle made his name fusing colourful synths and guitar drones into near-orchestral gentle pop perfection with Californian four-piece Grandaddy. The band (sometimes just Jason under the Grandaddy ...

“I don’t want to be a fucking tragic, pathetic artist,” Jason Lytle tells me by phone from his current residence in Montrose, at the mountainous edge of Los Angeles. The Sophtware Slump took elements ...

“The idea, specifically,” Lytle says, “it turns out was not even mine. Jim Fairchild, the guitar player in Grandaddy, he reminded me that at some point back around the time of Sophtware Slump twenty ...

In part two of DiS's epic interview with ex-Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle, we turn away from his old band's glory days and move on to his current career, as a solo artist touring debut album Yours ...

Alienation is fickle. There’s a moment on Pavement’s 1997 song ‘Shady Lane’ where frontman Stephen Malkmus sings, “You’ve been chosen as an extra in the movie adaptation of the sequel to your life”.

It was an album created in isolation and, 20 years later, rerecorded under quarantine: The Sophtware Slump — the sophomore album by Modesto, California alt-rockers Grandaddy — arrived in 2000; the ...

On this week's +1 podcast, Grandaddy frontman Jason Lytle talks with All Songs Considered's Robin Hilton about getting back in the studio with his old bandmates, the pressure of producing songs worthy ...

Eleven years later, Grandaddy is back with Last Place, a resurgent album Lytle and fans alike never thought would happen. When Grandaddy put out Just Like the Fambly Cat in 2006, Jason Lytle believed ...

Turn-of-the-millennium indie favorites Grandaddy have announced their first North American tour in 20 years. Pedro the Lion will provide support for most of the first half of the tour, while Greg ...

As part of our 20th anniversary coverage we thought it would be interesting to conduct brand new interviews with some of the artists interviewed in our very first issue way back in December 2001. We ...

Artists “People said, ‘Hey, I saw you’re on that Avril Lavigne record.’ I went, ‘Nah!'”: The drummer who’s played on 400 albums Artists We speak with Lily Allen’s co-songwriter and executive producer ...