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A Conversation with Tom Jones – HuffPost 7.27.10
Mike Ragogna: Your new albumPraise & Blame has a very stripped-down sound. What was your philosophy going into making this record? Tom Jones: Well, I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a long time, and some of the albums I’ve done in the past, one or two tracks sometimes have been like this–stripped down. […]
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July 27, 2010
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Tom Jones – HuffPost 7.27.10
Mike Ragogna: For those starting out today wanting to have a great pop music career, what is your advice? Tom Jones: Well, when you start off, you have to try and get as much experience as possible. I don’t think you can make records in the front room of your house and then go on […]
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July 23, 2010
Fanfarlo’s Simon Balthazar – HuffPost – 7.23.10
Mike Ragogna: What advice would you give to an up-and-coming act, indie or otherwise? Simon Balthazar: It’s bizarre because, at least here in London, it doesn’t seem like anybody really needs any advice. When we first started, we didn’t have a game plan. I was just writing songs for the fun of it, and we […]
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July 23, 2010
Maroon 5’s Adam Levine – HuffPost 7.23.10
Mike Ragogna: What is your advice for young artists coming up now? Adam Levine: It’s hard to give advice because we’ve been doing this now for eight years. It’s really difficult to give advice in our position because there has been such a revolution in the way this business works since we entered it, basically. […]
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July 23, 2010
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A Conversation with Fanfarlo’s Simon Balthazar – HuffPost – 7.23.10
Mike Ragogna: Your song “Atlas” is one of the strongest cuts on the Twilight: Eclipsesoundtrack. Let’s catch everyone up on how you got involved with the franchise. Simon Balthazar: These things tend to be a bit of a mystery in terms of what the mechanics are. But this bedroom recording of the song is a demo […]
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July 23, 2010
A Conversation with Maroon 5’s Adam Levine – HuffPost 7.23.10
Mike Ragogna: What’s up with your new album Hands All Over? Are you still working on it? Adam Levine: Well, I guess we’re done… more or less we’ve finished it. Hands All Over is our record. We went to Switzerland and made it with “Mutt” Lange, and we had an incredible, inspiring experience that we will never forget. […]
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July 22, 2010
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Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100722 – Squeeze’s Glenn Tilbrook & Chris Difford
Join Mike Ragogna Tuesday, July 27th at 8am CST for interviews with Chris Difford & Glen Tilbrook of Squeeze about their new album Spot the Difference, debuting 8/3/10. Also stay tuned for talk with OK Go’s Damien Kulash. The show will be rebroadcast Tusday at 8:00am. Note that Mike Ragogna’s web archives do not […]
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July 21, 2010
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Mike Ragogna’s 2.0 – 20100721 – Devo’s Mark Mothersbaugh
Note that Mike Ragogna’s web archives do not contain the music from the originally aired program in order to comply with copyright laws.
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