In Conversation: Craig Wedren of Shudder to Think
On the 30th anniversary of Pony Express Record, Craig Wedren looks back on the era with more wonder than regret. To say he simply "survived" the nineties would be a literal understatement.
If you’re asking Craig Wedren to take stock of his own life in 2024, he’d tell you it would be difficult to imagine a better outcome: He is a happy family man, a proud father, and perhaps the most successful he’s ever been as an artist and musician—an in-demand composer for film and television projects, whose most recent work includes scoring for the Emmy-nominated Yellowjackets. The road to now, however, has not been linear. And it sure as hell hasn’t been easy.
When Craig and I first met for an Anti-Matter interview in 1995, he was the loveably eccentric singer for Shudder to Think, whose fifth album, Pony Express Record, boldly expanded the language and possibilities of post-hardcore. It also, quite plainly, almost kill…