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Getting Stuck In "Traffic" With Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee Dave Mason (Founding Member Of SuperGroup "Traffic")

Dave Mason is considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time, having helped found one of the great Rock Bands in history, “Traffic”, and Mason has played and recorded with many of the era’s most notable rock musicians, including Jimi Hendrix (Who he played acoustic guitar with on “All Along The Watchtower”), Delaney Bramlett, Michael Jackson, The Rolling Stones, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Fleetwood Mac and Cass [...]

 

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Making "The Pursuit Of Happiness" With Bestselling Author And Illustrator Maira Kalman (The New Yorker/The New York Times)

Maira Kalman is one of the true treasures of the literary and art community of NYC, having written and illustrated 13 children’s books, with her most recent being a collaboration called “13 Words” with Lemony Snicket (This is the pen name of Daniel Handler who authored the second most popular children’s book saga with “A Series Of Unfortunate Events” behind Harry Potter which was made into a blockbuster movie starring [...]

 

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Sitting Down For A "Fantastick" Interview With Pop Star Aaron Carter (Multi-Platinum Artist/Dancing With The Stars)

Few Artists have come out with a bigger bang at an earlier age then Aaron Carter (Who’s brother is also music superstar Nick Carter from The BackStreet Boys), who by the time he was a teenager had become a Multi-Platinum recording artist, heartthrob to millions and millions of pre-teens and teenagers, Disney Star, and “Mega-Brand”.  It all began when he left his first “Boy Band” at nine years old, and [...]

 

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Matt The Producer Makes "The Powerless Rise" With Tim Lambesis Of As I Lay Dying (Grammy Nominated Band)

California has long been a hot-bed for metal. The SoCal tradition continues with As I Lay Dying. I caught up with founder and frontman Tim Lambesis on the other side of the country at the legendary  Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ. The band was on their “Decade of Destruction” Tour, the final leg of a long tour in support of 2010′s The Powerless Rise, and celebrating the band’s 10th anniversary. It [...]

 

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Becoming A "Monk" With Tom Scharpling (Executive Producer Of Emmy Award Winning TV Show "Monk")

I have to admit that this was one of my favorite interviews that I’ve ever done!  Not just because Tom Scharpling is the executive producer and head writer of a little TV Show named “Monk” that helped win actor Tony Shalhoub an Emmy, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Series. The show itself, Tony, and several other characters were all also nominated for [...]

 

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Matt The Producer Goes "Under Cover" with Alejandro Manzano of Boyce Avenue (500 Million Views On YouTube)

Technology is a wonderful thing. This day in age, what would we do without it? Just ask Boyce Avenue. The internet (YouTube, specifically) has turned Boyce Avenue from 3 brothers jamming at their house in Florida into one of the most popular bands in the world. If numbers speak volumes, Boyce Avenue’s story is The Library of Congress. All the music videos on their YouTube page have received a combined 500 [...]

 

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Finding My "Sanctuary" With The Incomparable Air Supply (Multi-Platinum Rock Music Icons)

After 35 years of making incredible music, 9 Billboard Top 5 hits (Seven top-five singles in a row, which at that time had equaled The Beatles’ run of consecutive top five singles), an endless slew of consecutive Multi-Platinum Albums, songs like “All Out Of Love”, “Lost In Love”, and “Making Love Out Of Nothing At All” (“Making Love Out Of Nothing At All” was released on The Greatest Hits album [...]

 

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"Conquering" The Television World With Bert Kreischer (Travel Channel's "Bert The Conqueror")

Anytime you have a movie like “National Lampoon’s Van Wilder” (One of the greatest and legendary college movies of all time!) made about your life because of a 6 page feature article done about you in Rolling Stone Magazine called “The Undergraduate”, about being “The Number One Partier In The Nation” as a 6th year senior at Florida State University (Rated “The Top Party School In The US”), you probably [...]

 

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Getting A Royal Flush With The "Queen Of Clubs" Nadia Ali (Grammy Nominated Recording Star)

Over the last decade, there has been no brighter voice for dance music then the “Queen Of Clubs” (The name of her new album trilogy which has been lighting up the charts and helped earn her a first Grammy Nomination for her song “Fantasy”), the one and only Nadia Ali. Her career exploded as a member of “iiO” with the massive 2001 hit, “Rapture” (One of my favorite songs of [...]

 

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Sitting Down With The Greatest Philadelphia Flyer Of All Time: My Interview With Hall Of Fame Goalie Bernie Parent (2-Time Stanley Cup Champion)

There are certain moments in your life that put goose bumps on your arms, because of the unique and unbelievable fashion in which a certain event occurs, and you will always remember where you were when that moment happened, so to see Bernie Parent, the 66 year old, Hall Of Fame, 2-Time Stanley Cup Champion Goalie, and greatest Philadelphia Flyer of All Time, suit up one last time and skate [...]