Category Archives: Interviews

SURROUNDED BY WILDFLOWERS: AN INTERVIEW WITH TONY HARNELL

Posted on Aug 5, 2013

interview by Michael McCarthy If you grew up in the ‘80’s or early ‘90’s then you probably fancied heavy metal and you likely had at least a hundred cassette tapes to prove it. Your collection was surely populated by bands like Poison, Twisted Sister and Motley Crue. But there was probably one tape...

EXCLUSIVE: APRIL KAE: THE LOVE IS POP INTERVIEW

Posted on Aug 5, 2013

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April Kae Love Bomb single album cover art

INTERVIEW BY MICHAEL MCCARTHY, PHOTOS BY KIMBERLY METZ Last week I profiled the lovely April Kae, a charismatic rising star who can apparently do anything that she sets her mind to, having already successfully tackled pop, dance and R&B with her first three singles, “The Writings on the Wall,” “Runnin’ (Let Me Go...

INTERVIEW: VALERIE RENAY OF NOBLESSE OBLIGE

Posted on May 23, 2013

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Noblesse Oblige Affair of the Heart album cover

By now you’ve probably read my entirely positive review of Noblesse Oblige’s amazing, new, genre-bending album Affair of the Heart. (If you haven’t read it, here it is: https://loveispop.com/reviews/review-noblesse-oblige-affair-of-the-heart/) I was so intrigued by the album that I was naturally curious about the duo who made it. Fortunately, I was lucky enough that...

Sarah Factor: “I wanted to learn how to be great at being myself and create that way.”

Posted on May 9, 2013

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New York City is a place filled with unfulfilled dreams, unrealised hopes, and infinite potential. It is both exhausting and exhilarating. It’s difficult to find who sounds best and who matters in the general cacophony of the city, from open mics in the West Village to that one amazing once-in-a-lifetime concert at the...

FRANK DISCUSSION WITH BEN AFFLECK

Posted on Feb 13, 2012

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This round table interview was done when Ben was promoting Chasing Amy, though he talks a lot about Good Will Hunting, which they were about to start filming shortly. Actor Ben Affleck recently held court (press day, that is) in Boston to promote Kevin Smith’s new film Chasing Amy, in which he stars...

Butch Vig Speaks: Talking With The World’s Most Famous Garbage Man

Posted on Jan 29, 2012

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The following interview was conducted in 1999 and originally published by Lollipop magazine during Winter ’99. Due to the length of the interview, they published half of it in the magazine and the other half on their website. Here, the interview has been posted in full for the first time. You’re going on...

A Conversation With Dee Snider

Posted on Jan 29, 2012

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This interview was originally published in Lollipop magazine issue 46, Winter ’99. Some 15 years ago, Dee Snider wrote the Twisted Sister album that would make him a legendary rock god seemingly overnight, though he’d actually worked long and hard for that achievement. The album was entitled Stay Hungry, and among such anthems...

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