Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
September 14, 2009
Big Star’s Jody Stephens – HuffPost 9.14.09
Mike Ragogna: Do you have any advice for new bands as they try to have a life in music? Jody Stephens: I’d say play the music that strikes your fancy. Play stuff that comes out of you without a whole lot of thought about it…that just comes naturally. And have a good time with it, […]
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September 8, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , John Leckie by Mike
John Leckie – HuffPost 9.8.09
[Note: This is taken from my interview with producer John Leckie who worked with The Stone Roses among others, and it offers some insight into the recording process he used.] Mike Ragogna: How did you separate The Stone Roses’ sound from all the other acts you were producing? John Leckie: For the time, it wasn’t […]
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August 23, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Janis Ian by Mike
Janis Ian – HuffPost 8.23.09
[Note: This was taken from my interview with Janis Ian and might be inspirational for new artists.] Mike Ragogna: You were so young when you had that hit, and apparently, your teachers at New York’s High School of Music & Art were belligerent towards you because of it. What was it like having to endure […]
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August 20, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Jonah Smith by Mike
Jonah Smith – HuffPost 8.20.09
[Note: This is taken from my 2009 interview with Jonah Smith and contains some useful information new artists.] Mike Ragogna: Sometimes people think, because you’re using Pro Tools, it costs almost nothing to record an album. Jonah Smith: Yeah, well, I had a producer on board plus strings and horns and a lot of musicians, […]
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August 17, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Raphael Saadiq by Mike
Raphael Saadiq – HuffPost 8.17.09
[Note: This is taken from my interview with Raphael Saadiq since concepts like what inspires artists and of really “listening” to music are discussed briefly.] Mike Ragogna: …The Way I See It really isn’t a tribute album as much an application of classic soul elements to your music, right? Raphael Saadiq: I think every artist pays […]
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August 13, 2009
Buffy Sainte-Marie – HuffPost 8.13.09
Mike Ragogna: Buffy, you’ve always been associated with a class of folk artists that includes Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Tom Rush, Eric Andersen, Fred Neil, and many other mid- to late-sixties troubadours. But your influence reaches beyond that genre, to those acoustic artists that later became pop music’s “singer-songwriters,” many of them moved by the […]
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August 10, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Matisyahu by Mike
Matisyahu – HuffPost 8.10.09
[Note: This part of my interview with Matisyahu contains some inspirational information.] Mike Ragogna: When you perform in front of audiences, do you feel that connection between you and them? Matisyahu: The other night, I went to see this band called Tortoise. While I was watching, I had this experience of myself watching them play. […]
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June 11, 2009
- in Advice for New Artists , Lamont Dozier by Mike
Lamont Dozier – HuffPost 6.11.09
[Note: These are sections taken from my interview with Lamont Dozier who co-wrote many hits with brothers Brian and Eddie Holland, and is presented here to be inspiring for new artists.] Mike Ragogna: What was the creative process like? Did you get into a room together and just write songs or did you craft them […]
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