Category Archives for "Advice for New Artists"
December 14, 2011
Raul Malo – HuffPost 12.14.11
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Raul Malo: It’s a cliché, but I think it’s about as solid advice you can give to anybody that is going to do this, that is to just be yourself. Be as honest as you can with your art, whatever your art is, whether it’s […]
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December 14, 2011
Jay Jay French – HuffPost 12.14.11
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Jay Jay French: Stay in school, and get a law degree. Get out of the music business as fast as you can, it’s a sinking ship and it’s a mess. When I started out I was twenty years old, gasoline was 39 cents a gallon, […]
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December 13, 2011
MTV World’s Nusrat Durrani – HuffPost 12.13.11
Mike Ragogna: Nusrat, what advice do you have for new artists? Nusrat Durrani: What advice? MR: Yeah. ND: (laughs) Oh, Michael, that’s a good question. I would just stay stick to whatever you believe in. The world has a tendency to try and shape your music and your art in a certain way that we […]
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December 12, 2011
John Medeski – HuffPost 12.12.11
Mike Ragogna: Do you have any advice to new artists? John Medeski: Oh god, that’s a hard one. I don’t have any career advice because the music business is moving and shifting and I have no idea what it is. My advice is to be true to yourself and really find practices in your life, […]
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December 12, 2011
Emperor X (aka Chad Matheny) – HuffPost 12.12.11
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Chad Matheny: That’s a really good question. I think, first of all, that that’s what you want to do, here’s a lot of really great music and other art stuff in the world and there’s a lot more awful music and art in the world. […]
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December 12, 2011
Naughty By Nature’s Treach & Kay Gee – HuffPost 12.12.11
Mike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists? Treach: Man, you’ve got to keep your day job until you get a deal. You’ve got to work hard. Don’t think you can get rich and famous overnight. It’s a job way more than a nine to five. Come in knowing that you have to […]
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December 12, 2011
A Conversation with Emperor X (aka Chad Matheny) – HuffPost 12.12.11
Mike Ragogna: All hail Emperor X! Hi, Chad Matheny. Chad Matheny: Hello, it’s nice to talk to you. MR: It’s nice to talk to you too, especially with you’re being the son of Pat Metheny. CM: Probably more like seventh or eighth cousin would be my guess. We spell our names differently, and I don’t […]
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December 9, 2011
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JB Baretsky – HuffPost 12.9.11
[Note: This is a segment of my interview with JB that might be helpful to new artists.] Mike Ragogna: What are your some of your favorite jazz standards that you are performing? JB Baretsky: One of my favorites is “Mack The Knife” and I’m always surprised about how many people love that song when I […]
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