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Interviews Archive
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Songwriting Series: The Airborne Toxic Event’s Mikel Jollet
Welcome to Sonic Weekly’s Songwriters Series. Over the course of the next several weeks, we’ll be publishing in-depth interviews with…
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Songwriter Series: Mystic Shares Her Beautiful Resistance
Emcee, lyricist, poet, philosopher, Mystic discusses the proper care and feeding of a song, an audience, and of the songwriter’s…
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KCRW Veteran DJ, Tom Schnabel, Part II
This is the second of a two-part interview with well-known Los Angeles radio DJ Tom Schnabel of Santa Monica College-based…
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KCRW Veteran DJ, Tom Schnabel, Part I
Tom Schnabel is one of Los Angeles’ most legendary DJs—not only has he been spinning here forever, but he’s also…
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VJ Surya Buchwald, a.k.a. Momo the Monster
From the Tent at Coachella – Sonic Weekly Talks to VJ Surya Buchwald Coachella 2009. A seething mass of sweating…
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John Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange
Interview with John Simson, Executive Director of SoundExchange Next up in our investigation of the webcasting royalty rate debate, we…
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Tim Westergren, founder/CEO of Pandora Radio
Recently, we produced a series of articles here at Sonic Weekly on new music distribution channels, like web radio, and…
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John Vanderslice – Analog Auteur (Pt. II)
A true indie rock renaissance man, John Vanderslice creates albums the way they used to be made—elaborately produced, at a…
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John Vanderslice – Analog Auteur (Pt. I)
A true indie rock renaissance man, turning out a meticulously-layered sonic opus every 18 months, John Vanderslice is a pop…
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You’re Never Too Young to Make Winning Music
Music composer Mark Oates lives to write music. 26-year-old Oates, who is studying music composition at University of New Mexico…
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DJ Forest Green Heats Up the Dance Floor
DJ Forest Green calls herself a healer. That may sound lofty coming from a disc-jockey, but once you’ve listened to…
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Carl Verheyen: Guitar Virtuoso & Musical Legend (Part II)
Welcome to Part 2 of Sonic Weekly’s in-depth discussion with Carl Verheyen; guitar deity, Supertramp member, and musical industry guru….
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Carl Verheyen: Guitar Virtuoso & Musical Legend (Part I)
What does it take to be a hugely successful guitar god, studio musician, and all around industry hot shot? Carl…
