Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100826 – Paul McCartney’s Guitarist Brian Ray

Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100826 – Creed’s Scott Stapp & Mark Tremonti

Hailing from Tallahassee, Florida, Creed became popular in the late 1990s and early 2000s. The band disbanded in 2004 after three multi-platinum albums, selling 26 million records in the United States   and an estimated 35 million records worldwide. The original members of Creed reunited in 2009 for a tour and a new album called […]

Tegan and Sara – HuffPost 8.26.10

Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Tegan Quin: When we started playing music, our mom kept saying “go to the University and have a back up plan,” and we probably should have done that but we didn’t. I’m glad we didn’t because I think what we had going for us is […]

A Conversation with Tegan and Sara – HuffPost 8.26.10

Mike Ragogna: What’s up in the world of Tegan and Sara? Tegan Quin: Currently, we are on our tour until the end of September. Closer to home, we are working on a DVD and just released a vinyl box set. We released a music video and are sort of constantly writing and have these little […]

A Conversation with Hayley Taylor – HuffPost 8.26.10

Mike Ragogna: Your new album is titled One Foot In Front Of The Other. Can you tell us about it? Hayley Taylor: Sure, I started making it about three years ago. I didn’t know if I was going to make an EP or a record at first. In the beginning, I wasn’t working with a label, […]

Hayley Taylor – HuffPost 8.26.10

[Note: This is n excerpt of my interview with Haley Taylor that contains information that might be useful for new artists.] Mike Ragogna: There are a lot of singer-songwriters out there. How do you–especially when you have an independent album–cut through the din? Haley Taylor: I think the first thing is really having passion for […]

Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100825 – Tegan & Sara

Tegan and Sara is a Canadian indie pop/indie rock/New Wave band led by identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin. Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs, most often separately. Whoever writes each song typically sings the lead vocals for it. The band has released six studio albums since […]

Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100825 – Director Jon Chu

Chu is an alumni of the USC School of Cinema-Television. There, he won the Princess Grace Award, the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation league, the Jack Nicholson directing award, and recognized as an honoree for the IFP/West program Project: Involve. After making his student short, “When the Kids Are Away”, Jon was scooped […]