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May 23, 2011
- in Advice for New Artists , Danny Elfman by Mike
Danny Elfman – HuffPost 5.23.11
Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for new artists, composers or musicians coming onto the scene right now? Danny Elfman: I do give talks to composing classes every year. I will be giving a talk to a class in Chicago in a few weeks. I never really know what to tell them and I don’t […]
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May 23, 2011
Devo’s Gerald Casale – HuffPost 5.23.11
Mike Ragogna: Do you have any advice for new artists? Gerald Casale: Uh, yeah. Wear some “No Rear Entry” shorts because you gotta get ready for the way the corporate world works. (laughs)
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May 20, 2011
A Conversation with My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way – HuffPost 5.20.11
Mike Ragogna: Gerard, Danger Days: The True Lives Of The Fabulous Killjoys is your fourth studio album? Gerard Way: Yeah, that’s right. MR: The first couple of songs on the album seem to arc the material back to your first few albums. GW: Yeah! A lot of this album feels like we went back to the original […]
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May 20, 2011
A Conversation with Matt Nathanson – HuffPost 5.20.11
Mike Ragogna: Hi, Matt. Matt Nathanson: Hello. MR: You were a blast at SXSW (South By Southwest), let’s just get that out of the way. MN: Oh man, that was a fun time. I was starting to see imaginary elephants and stuff by that time. We did like three shows a day and I was […]
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May 20, 2011
My Chemical Romance’s Gerard Way – HuffPost 5.20.11
Mike Ragogna: Do you have any advice for new artists? Gerard Way: Yeah, the thing that we say most, based on personal experience, is that starting a band for the right reasons is really important because the music industry, they say, is doing so poorly that you really have to love doing it and you […]
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May 20, 2011
- in Advice for New Artists , Matt Nathanson by Mike
Matt Nathanson – HuffPost 5.20.11
Mike Ragogna: Matt, what is your advice for new artists? Matt Nathanson: My favorite thing is this idea that I’m realizing that as I progress through my career, I wish somebody had said to me its all about listening to people’s advice but not taking it as gospel. Art and your expression of art–everybody tries […]
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May 20, 2011
A Conversation with Roger McGuinn – HuffPost 5.20.11
Mike Ragogna: Roger, are you there? Roger McGuinn: I’m here, Mike. How are you? MR: I’m doing well. How are you, sir? RM: Fine, thank you. MR: I’m so glad that you could join us here at solar powered KRUU-FM. RM: That’s cool. We’re solar powered at home too. We have a 6.2 kilowatt system, […]
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May 18, 2011
A Conversation with Manchester Orchestra’s Andy Hull – HuffPost 5.18.11
Mike Ragogna: Andy, let’s get into your new album, Simple Math. This is sort of a concept album, isn’t it? Andy Hull: It definitely is, yeah. MR: Can you go into what the thinking was behind that? AH: I think with all the writing that Manchester was doing before, it was far more abstract when it […]
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