Category Archives for "Entertainment Interviews"
April 30, 2012
A Conversation with The Hard Rock’s Brian Klein – HuffPost 4.30.12
Mike Ragogna: Brian, can you go into the history of the association between music and the Hard Rock, especially with the hotels? Brian Klein: Hard Rock has a very unique relationship with music and our goal is to rock the world. From a hotel level, we really wanted to take it to the next level […]
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April 27, 2012
A Conversation with Haley Reinhart – HuffPost 4.27.12
Mike Ragogna: Hello, Haley! Let’s jump right into this. Listen Up! your new album, is on 19 Records and Interscope? Haley Reinhart: Yes, 19, and Interscope Records, you got it! MR: Your track “Free” is a breakup song. Can you go into the details? HR: Actually, this is the only tune that I picked up while I […]
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April 27, 2012
A Conversation with Early Morning Rebel’s Nathan Blumenfeld-James – HuffPost 4.27.12
Mike Ragogna: Nathan let’s get the backstory on Early Morning Rebel. Nathan Blumenfeld-James: My partner and I, Dustin Bath, we’ve been playing music together here in Los Angeles and producing other bands and other records for a while now, and about eight months ago, we decided to start a new project and kind of the […]
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April 27, 2012
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A Conversation with JD McPherson and Jimmy Sutton – HuffPost 4.27.12
Mike Ragogna: JD, your new album is titled Signs & Signifiers. JD McPherson: It’s a little bit of a tongue in cheek nod to art school pretentiousness I guess. MR: (laughs) You were an art school student? JDM: Yeah, I got a Bachelors Degree in Media Art and graduate Masters of Fine Art in Open Media, […]
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April 25, 2012
A Conversation with Curtis Stigers – HuffPost 4.25.12
Mike Ragogna: Curtis, you have a new album, Let’s Go Out Tonight. But first, it seems you made a certain person named Nick Lowe quite a bit of money by performing his original song “(What’s So Funny About) Peace, Love, And Understanding,” on The Bodyguard Soundtrack. Curtis Stigers: Yeah, it was all by accident. I’d been a fan […]
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April 25, 2012
A Conversation with Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s Paul O’Neill – HuffPost 4.25.12
Mike Ragogna: Paul, how are you? Paul O’Neill: I’m doing so well, Mike. Thanks for having me. MR: My pleasure. Paul what are you up to these days? PO: Well, we’re out on the road again even though the Winter tour just ended. This is our third year of touring. Last year, we hit all […]
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April 23, 2012
A Conversation with Terence P. Minogue – HuffPost 4.23.12
Mike Ragogna: Terence, you’ve arranged Jim Croce recordings, produced rockers like Crack The Sky and the cult favorite Spider-Man: Rock Reflections Of A Superhero, created an orchestral version of reggae music as Orchestra Montego, and scored the movie with Melanie Griffith and Tippi Hedren, Roar, among other musical adventures. Now you are writing symphonic music, most recently […]
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April 23, 2012
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A Conversation with Fanfarlo’s Leon Beckenham – HuffPost 4.23.12
Mike Ragogna: Let’s start out with the latest album. “Replicate” was a song that you released as a download for the project. What’s the story behind “Replicate?” Leon Beckenham: Mostly to reflect the sort of music that we had been listening too, really. We slowly shifted away from that sort of folky, orchestral sound into […]
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