Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"
September 28, 2009
- in Entertainment Interviews , Jason Mraz by Mike
An Interview with Jason Mraz – HuffPost 9.28.09
In the few short years following the release of Jason Mraz’s 2002 debut album Waiting For My Rocket To Come, the young San Diego singer-songwriter has had the longest running hit onBillboard‘s Pop Singles chart (“I’m Yours,” 70 weeks), has become a Grammy award-winner, has earned a Songwriters Hall Of Fame trophy, has opened for The […]
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September 25, 2009
- in Dan Zanes , Entertainment Interviews by Mike
Interviewing Dan Zanes – HuffPost 9.25.09
Mike Ragogna: Unlike a lot of children’s music that talks down to kids, dumbs-out the topics, or is so corporately-synthesized that all the honesty and joy is sucked out, your recordings do the opposite. Didn’t you get the memo? Dan Zanes: We’re making music for everybody. At our shows, kids are only half the audience. […]
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September 21, 2009
- in David Gray , Entertainment Interviews by Mike
An Interview with David Gray – HuffPost 9.21.09
Mike Ragogna: Draw The Line seems like a return to the sound of your earlier recordings. Was that a conscious decision? David Gray: I think it’s a degree of going backwards in order to go forwards. The music has been quite inward looking for a while with the last few records anyway. Suddenly, that’s changed, and rather […]
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September 17, 2009
- in Entertainment Interviews , Vic Chesnutt by Mike
An Interview with Vic Chesnutt on At The Cut and the Healthcare Debate – HuffPost 9.17.09
Mike Ragogna: It’s obvious this was a very special record for you to make, both from the quality of the songs and the packaging. What’s at the heart of At the Cut? Vic Chesnutt: Well, I didn’t come at it thinking it would be an album about childhood or introspection or hallucinated memoirs. In fact, I […]
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September 14, 2009
An Interview with Bruce Hornsby – HuffPost 9.14.09
Beyond calling Bruce Hornsby “a remarkable pianist,” the New York Times added, “The America in his music is one of countless connections and intersections…that’s still wide open and welcoming.” That’s a pretty good introduction to Hornsby’s latest album, Levitate, his Verve Forecast debut and first “solo” (kind of) project since 2004’s Halcyon Days. His two more recent, critically acclaimed […]
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September 14, 2009
Interview with Big Star’s Jody Stephens and Rock Journalist Rob Kemp, Plus Comments by The Posies’ Jon Auer & Ken Stringfellow – HuffPost 9.14.09
At the time of its release, Big Star’s album #1 Record was supposed to fulfill the prophecy of its title, it being cleverly dubbed so for marketing purposes while revealing a tad of the foursome’s humor. But Big Star’s debut — starring former Box Top member Alex Chilton, Chris Bell, Jody Stephens, and Andy Hummel — never […]
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September 8, 2009
- in Entertainment Interviews , John Leckie by Mike
An Interview with Producer John Leckie on The Stone Roses – HuffPost 9.8.09
In the U.S., The Stone Roses is remembered as one of those critically acclaimed U.K. rock acts that almost achieved superstardom in the States but mysteriously never did. In England, the Manchester lads rose from the late ’80s pub scene to become critics’ picks, pop chart conquerors, and heroes of the “Baggy” movement; but the […]
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August 23, 2009
- in Entertainment Interviews , Janis Ian by Mike
An Interview with Janis Ian – HuffPost 8.23.09
Mike Ragogna: What is the story behind your writing “Society’s Child”? Janis Ian: As best as I remember, I was on a bus headed to school, and I saw a black and white couple necking, totally oblivious to everyone else on the bus. They were very happy, but nobody else on the bus was, and […]
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