A Conversation with Haley Reinhart – HuffPost 4.27.12

Mike Ragogna: Hello, Haley! Let’s jump right into this. Listen Up! your new album, is on 19 Records and Interscope? Haley Reinhart: Yes, 19, and Interscope Records, you got it! MR: Your track “Free” is a breakup song. Can you go into the details? HR: Actually, this is the only tune that I picked up while I […]

A Conversation with Early Morning Rebel’s Nathan Blumenfeld-James – HuffPost 4.27.12

Mike Ragogna: Nathan let’s get the backstory on Early Morning Rebel. Nathan Blumenfeld-James: My partner and I, Dustin Bath, we’ve been playing music together here in Los Angeles and producing other bands and other records for a while now, and about eight months ago, we decided to start a new project and kind of the […]

A Conversation with JD McPherson and Jimmy Sutton – HuffPost 4.27.12

Mike Ragogna: JD, your new album is titled Signs & Signifiers. JD McPherson: It’s a little bit of a tongue in cheek nod to art school pretentiousness I guess. MR: (laughs) You were an art school student? JDM: Yeah, I got a Bachelors Degree in Media Art and graduate Masters of Fine Art in Open Media, […]

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A Conversation with Curtis Stigers – HuffPost 4.25.12

Mike Ragogna: Curtis, you have a new album, Let’s Go Out Tonight. But first, it seems you made a certain person named Nick Lowe quite a bit of money by performing his original song “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love, And Understanding,” on The Bodyguard Soundtrack. Curtis Stigers: Yeah, it was all by accident. I’d been a fan […]