Tegan and Sara is a Canadian indie pop/indie rock/New Wave band led by identical twins Tegan Rain Quin and Sara Keirsten Quin. Both Tegan and Sara play guitar and keyboard and write songs, most often separately. Whoever writes each song typically sings the lead vocals for it. The band has released six studio albums since […]
Continue readingChu is an alumni of the USC School of Cinema-Television. There, he won the Princess Grace Award, the Dore Schary Award presented by the Anti-Defamation league, the Jack Nicholson directing award, and recognized as an honoree for the IFP/West program Project: Involve. After making his student short, “When the Kids Are Away”, Jon was scooped […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: With more and more artists taking responsibility for the marketing and distribution of their projects, fan funding has become a more obvious route. For The Day After Everything Changed, you raised over $100,000, right? Ellis Paul: Yes. MR: How did you do it? EP: Well, we set up a tier system on the website […]
Continue reading[Note: These quotes are taken from my interview with Ellis Paul in 2010 and contain some interesting information for new artists.] Mike Ragogna: With more and more artists taking responsibility for the marketing and distribution of their projects, fan funding has become a more obvious route. For The Day After Everything Changed, you raised over $100,000, […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What advice do you have for new acts? Mark Oliver Everett: Well, I think the best advice I could give a young act is to try not to be tentative about anything that you do. Even if you’re unsure about yourself or what you’re doing, do it like you know what you’re doing. […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What have you been up to since Hombre Lobo? Mark Oliver Everett: It’s funny, we last spoke before Hombre Lobo came out, and that was only last April or May. That’s weird to me because it seems like it must have been five years ago. MR: Yeah, it seems like a long time. MOE: I’ve been […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Beyond the Step Up movies, you’ve been working on webisodes for Legion of Extraordinary Dancers. Can you go into what those are? Jon Chu: Yeah, we’ve met so many amazing dancers over the years since Step Up 2. Underground dancers that hadn’t really been seen — what they do is so incredible that it reminded me […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: You’ve got a really good sense of pop songwriting — who are your influences? Stacy Jones: Well, I grew up listening to pop rock music. My parents were really into The Rolling Stones and The Beatles, and they had Fleetwood Mac albums and The Eagles. You know, the first concert I ever saw […]
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