Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"
October 25, 2010
- in Entertainment Interviews , Sarah Sample by Mike
A Conversation with Sarah Sample – HuffPost 10.25.10
Mike Ragogna: Sarah, let’s catch everyone up on your new album. Sarah Sample: So, I had released my third album, which was called Born To Fly, and that actually was just an EP that we put out with just five songs. Since then, I have gotten busy writing, touring, and other things, and I decided that […]
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October 22, 2010
- in Bleu , Entertainment Interviews by Mike
A Conversation with Bleu – HuffPost 10.22.10
Mike Ragogna: Hello, Bleu. So, your new album Four was fan-funded using a kick-starter campaign. You were looking for a few thousand dollars but had a surprising response. Would you go into story? Bleu: Well, it’s really just incredible, and I’m still flabbergasted by the thing. We set out to raise eight thousand dollars to do a […]
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October 22, 2010
A Conversation with BoDeans’ Kurt Neumann & Sam Llanas – HuffPost 10.22.10
A Conversation with BoDeans’ Kurt Neumann Mike Ragogna: So, you have a new album, Mr. Sad Clown, that just came out of 429 Records, right? Kurt Neumann: Yeah, we had about twenty-three songs and we narrowed it down to about the fourteen that got on there, and I think there’s a bonus track somewhere on Amazon […]
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October 22, 2010
A Conversation with The Chapin Sisters – HuffPost 10.22.10
A Conversation with The Chapin Sisters’ Abigail Chapin Mike Ragogna: Hello Abigail. Abigail Chapin: Hello, how’s it going? MR: It’s going pretty well. There is almost a spiritual vibe on your new album, Two. What went into its creation? AC: Well, I think each of the songs had a really specific process behind it, but […]
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October 20, 2010
- in Entertainment Interviews , Thomas Dolby by Mike
A Conversation with Thomas Dolby – HuffPost 10.20.10
Mike Ragogna: Hello, Thomas. As you know, this conversation will be in The Huffington Post, but it is also airing on solar-powered KRUU-FM, and you’re calling in from a “solar lifeboat,” right? Thomas Dolby: Yes, I am. I have a studio in a converted lifeboat in my garden, which is on the beach facing the North […]
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October 18, 2010
A Conversation with Branford Marsalis – HuffPost 10.18.10
Mike Ragogna: Branford, you’re celebrating a certain important event that happened recently. Can you tell us about your live performance at The Kennedy Center? Branford Marsalis: Oh yes, everybody was on tour. My dad wanted to do this concert, which was going to be a tribute to him at the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival in […]
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October 18, 2010
A Conversation with Peter Cincotti – HuffPost 10.18.10
Mike Ragogna: I personally believe your album East Of Angel Town is one of the best albums of ’09, and I really wanted the opportunity to talk to you about that and about yourself. You’re a New Yorker, right? Peter Cincotti: Yeah, born and raised in Manhattan. MR: And when you were growing up there, you played […]
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October 15, 2010
A Conversation with Massive Attack’s Robert Del Naja – HuffPost 10.15.10
Mike Ragogna: Usually your projects are almost like a song cycle. What was the approach while making your new album Heligoland? Robert Del Naja: This album started off, as usual, being somewhat of a sonic exercise, and then I realized halfway through that there were quite a lot of fights to be had between myself and […]
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