Mike Ragogna: So, what are you up to these days? Kristian Bush: Well, we are in the middle of a tour. We just finished the first leg of the Lilith Tour and the Lilith Fair, and we are about to go and finish out the rest of the year with the headlining tour. MR: The […]
Continue readingMike speaks with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers of the Indigo Girls about their new album Staring Down the Brilliant Dream, released on June 29th, and much more. That’s Mike Ragogna’s 2.0. Community radio at its finest. Note that Mike Ragogna’s web archives do not contain the music from the originally aired program in […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Your new albumPraise & Blame has a very stripped-down sound. What was your philosophy going into making this record? Tom Jones: Well, I’ve been wanting to do something like this for a long time, and some of the albums I’ve done in the past, one or two tracks sometimes have been like this–stripped down. […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: For those starting out today wanting to have a great pop music career, what is your advice? Tom Jones: Well, when you start off, you have to try and get as much experience as possible. I don’t think you can make records in the front room of your house and then go on […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What advice would you give to an up-and-coming act, indie or otherwise? Simon Balthazar: It’s bizarre because, at least here in London, it doesn’t seem like anybody really needs any advice. When we first started, we didn’t have a game plan. I was just writing songs for the fun of it, and we […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What is your advice for young artists coming up now? Adam Levine: It’s hard to give advice because we’ve been doing this now for eight years. It’s really difficult to give advice in our position because there has been such a revolution in the way this business works since we entered it, basically. […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: Your song “Atlas” is one of the strongest cuts on the Twilight: Eclipsesoundtrack. Let’s catch everyone up on how you got involved with the franchise. Simon Balthazar: These things tend to be a bit of a mystery in terms of what the mechanics are. But this bedroom recording of the song is a demo […]
Continue readingMike Ragogna: What’s up with your new album Hands All Over? Are you still working on it? Adam Levine: Well, I guess we’re done… more or less we’ve finished it. Hands All Over is our record. We went to Switzerland and made it with “Mutt” Lange, and we had an incredible, inspiring experience that we will never forget. […]
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