Mike Ragogna: Do you have any advice for young, new artists coming on the scene now? Pete Yorn: Don’t believe anything anybody says about you [laughs]. MR: [laughs] Care to elaborate? PY: As an artist, in general, that’s my advice to any young artist, whatever you’re doing.
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Pete, you have a new, self-titled album, but I’m a little confused about its timeline. You recorded it with Frank Black, right? Pete Yorn: Correct. MR: Of course, we know Frank Black from the Pixies and his many projects on and off camera. Pete Yorn was recorded somewhere around the time of the Mike Mogis […]
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Continue readingMike Ragogna: Tony, what is your advice to up and coming artists? Tony Lunn: What would I say to a new artist right now? I’d just say keep doing what you’re doing and be persistent. If you want to make music, be persistent and just keep at it. I would also say be diligent about […]
Continue reading[Note: This interview excerpt from my interviews with Gin Blossom’s Robin Wilson and Jesse Valenzuela offers a couple of insights new artists might want to check out.] Mike Ragogna: New Miserable Experience is full of hits. You have “Hey Jealousy,” “Until I Fall Away,” “Hold Me Down,” “Found Out About You,” plus “Lost Horizons” and what I […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new artists right now? Luke Doucet: Well, you have to spread yourself thin, and I don’t care how talented you are because that’s not going to get you very far. You have to work really hard. Here’s the advice I would give: If you can be something […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: You have a new album, Reckoning, and we’ll get to that. But we should start by catching people up on your past. You started out as part of the Chicago scene, right? Tony Lunn: Yeah, I started playing music in Chicago. I had a band called Brennantown which was a bluegrass rock band back […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: So, Luke Doucet’s on tour? Luke Doucet: Yes I am. I’m just in Nashville, Tennessee, heading to the airport to fly to Atlanta, Georgia. MR: You have a new record, Steel City Trawler, and it’s a little complicated in that it follows a theme, doesn’t it? The press release says that it’s about “A […]
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