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Going "GrassROOTS" With Questlove and Black Thought Of The Roots (Grammy Winning Hip Hop Band)

When you think Philadelphia, one of the first things that comes to mind is “The Roots”.  It’s that simple.  They are one of the most well known, critically acclaimed, and admired musical artists that have ever come out of my home town, having won Grammys, been nominated for countless other awards, and serving as Cultural Global Ambassadors for a generation, and have cemented themselves as one of the true pioneers [...]

 

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Going "All In" With NY Times Bestselling Author Paula Broadwell ("All In: The Education Of General David Petraeus")

After reading “All In”, and more importantly, after meeting NY Times Bestselling Author of the latest book about the extraordinary General David Petraeus, Paula Broadwell, I have to say that it was one of the most extensive, most enjoyable, and most thorough portraits into the life, career, strategies, and struggles of any person that I have ever experienced. In this book (Which Paula had told me the day of our [...]

 

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Bringing It with John Laux of Warbringer

For all those in doubt, heavy metal is alive and well. The torch of thrash is being carried on by the one and only Warbringer. Largely inspired by Bay-Area predecessors Metallica and Slayer, Warbringer does not sacrifice riffs for speed; they embrace both. I caught up with lead guitarist John Laux, and he told me the band prefers to be called a “heavy metal” band, despite their obvious thrash influences. The band exploded onto [...]

 

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Going Into The Mind And Kitchen Of A Pastry Genius: Cooking With Christina Tosi Of Momofuko Milk Bar (TV Personality/Bestselling Author)

Christina Tosi is the hottest and most inventive pastry chef in America right now! She is the head of the hottest budding empire in NYC, Momofuko Milk Bar, and has recently appeared on Conan, The Today Show (I interviewed her right after she had come back from Rock Center that morning cooking Valentine’s Day cookies), Regis and Kelly, and even cooked with Martha Stewart on her show, and her new [...]

 

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Finding A Touch Of Soul With Allen Stone (Appearing On Jimmy Kimmel On March 13th)

If you haven’t heard of Allen Stone yet, then get ready because he’s on an upward trajectory with one of the most soulful voices in all of music!  His last album, which was independently released last year rocketed to #2 on the I-Tunes Charts, with media all over the country singing his praises, including USA Today calling him a “pitch-perfect powerhouse” – all without any support of a label, publisher, [...]

 

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Making Waves with Matt Heafy of Trivium

Back in October, I got a chance to sit down with one of my favorite rock frontmen, Matt Heafy, at the legendary Crocodile Rock Cafe in Allentown, PA (my hometown, I might add). Heafy is the lead singer and lead/rhythm guitarist of Trivium. Trivium is with Roadrunner Records and is one of the biggest bands in the world right now. Their new album, In Waves, debuted at #1 on The Billboard Top 200 and #1 on the Billboard [...]

 

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Staying Out Of "Trouble" With Tony Lucca (Breakout Star On NBC's "The Voice")

Tony Lucca is an “Overnight Success” that was 20 years in the making because while much of America has learned about his absolutely incredible voice and remarkable story through this season of NBC’s Number 1 Show “The Voice”, Lucca has been a growing recording artist since he was a teenager.  Anyone who watched his audition saw that it was possibly the best in the show’s history with all 4 judges [...]

 

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Unto The Percussion - Interview with Dave McClain of Machine Head

Few bands on this planet unleash a fury like Machine Head when they play live. Credit for much of the band’s trademark sound must given to drummer Dave McClain. One of the premier drummers in metal today, I got a chance to sit down with Dave to talk about the band’s latest triumph, Unto The Locust. With their latest record and its predecessor, The Blackening, Machine Head have separated themselves from the [...]

 

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Thirty Five Years Of Glamour And Excellence: Sitting Down With Jewelry Icon Steven Lagos

The hardest thing in any industry or profession is creating longevity.  We live in a “Hot Today, Gone Tomorrow” generation, where movie stars and Grammy winners are practically homeless overnight, and businesses that are considered “The Wave Of The Future” are bankrupt within minutes, and there is no world that this is more applicable to then Fashion.  Designers are made and broken season by season, and one can go from [...]

 

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Discovering "The Voice" Of Javier Colon (Winner Of NBC's "The Voice")

One of the biggest and most fun shows on TV right now is NBC’s “The Voice”, and who can forget the magnificent voice of it’s inaugural winner, Javier Colon, who went from the brink of giving up his musical career to overnight musical sensation, and  who had millions of people around America, and most of Hollywood, tweeting, Facebooking, texting, and whatever else “Team Javier!! sending him to a $100,000 grand [...]