Senior music editor Chris Rolls analyzed, aided, and abetted many a musical mind in 2007.

In addition to hosting artists and bands at our studios in San Francisco, and catching them at local venues, Rolls headed out to Chicago in August for Lollapalooza, hit up NYC in October for the CMJ Music Marathon, and did his thing at the Treasure Island Music Festival in between. He also flew to LA for a visit with Mandy Moore.

Check out his top 10 interviews of 2007.

TV on the Radio

MP3.com caught up with Kyp Malone and Gerard Smith of TV on the Radio at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, where they discuss performing at the historical venue, touring Brazil, and performing before larger audiences.

Marilyn Manson: Divorcing the Symbol

Pop-culture enigma Marilyn Manson discusses the vampirism of modern media, Eat Me, Drink Me, the Christ myth, and so much more.

Liars in a fortunate position

Liars' Aaron Hemphill discusses Liars, working with concepts and distance, as well as touring with Interpol.

Ministry: One Last Hurrah

Alain Jourgensen comes clean about putting Ministry to rest, 13th Planet Records, and buying the public off with cheap trinkets.

Queens of the Stone Age feel frequency freakish

Troy Van Leeuwen of QOTSA discusses the group's latest album, Era Vulgaris, performance-enhancing surgeries, and drawing and quartering lazy journalists.

Blixa Bargeld: Gentleman and Scholar

Blixa Bargeld of Einsturzende Neubauten discusses the group's latest album, Alles Wieder Offen, the music industry, and much more in this three-part interview.

XBXRX: Moving Forward

Vice Cooler dives into the daily realities that inspire XBXRX and its latest release, Wars.

Money Mark - SXSW 2007 Interview

The honorary fourth Beastie Boy drops by the MP3.com studios in Austin, Texas, to talk music and hygiene during the 2007 South by Southwest Music Festival.

Clinical Visitations

Ade Blackburn of Clinic speaks about Visitations, lazy journalists, and homogeneous modern music.

The Pipettes: Measure of Success

British concept group The Pipettes chat backstage in San Francisco about themselves and their successes.