Johannes Brahms v. Tony the Tiger

I know I’m well past the age of someone who should be doing this, but every once in a while I like to watch Saturday morning cartoons. Last weekend while watching “Jane and the Dragon” (great show, by the way), I saw a commercial for a new cereal called Raisin Brahms.
As in the 19th century [...]

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Turns Out Jill Sobule Was a Little Miffed, After All

We were quite taken with Jill Sobule when she came into the studio for a performance chat with Kurt earlier this summer:

Jill’s new record, California Years, has been getting great reviews – and she’s been hailed as a pioneer of truly independent music by getting her fans to finance the record. Still, the question she [...]

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Thao’s Story

Ever since we ran this piece about Thao Nguyen, we’ve been hooked on her music–”Bag of Hammers” is so catchy! Our reporter went to visit Thao at her mother’s Laundromat in Virginia, where she grew up practicing guitar and making change.
Earlier this week, the folks at the Rumpus posted a short memoir that Thao wrote [...]

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Satisfying Your Regina Fix

We’re big Regina Spektor fans here at Studio 360, and so we were psyched when she dropped by the studio last week to play some songs from her new album, Far. We would have loved to run the entire interview but, alas, some gems had to be cut for time. For example, we loved [...]

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Gael Goes Norteño

Back in 2006, I declared my love for Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal on our radio show. He was just starring in his first English role, and I was afraid he would be catapulted from indie brilliance into mainstream cheesiness, much in the way of Antonio Banderas. I’m thrilled that three years later, [...]

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Janelle Monáe at SXSW

The SXSW music festival in Austin has an absurd number of bands play every year — this time it was up to 1900. So to find the gems, needless to say, is challenging — and wonderfully refreshing if you succeed. I saw the amazingly inventive soul/funk singer Janelle Monáe play at a [...]

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New BLK JKS song! “Banna Ba Modimo”

When Studio 360 recently caught up with the up-and-coming BLK JKS in Los Angeles we stumbled onto a bit of a musical scoop. Hanging out “back-stage” with the South African band before their show at the LA Natural History Museum, we were fortunate enough to hear a brand new unreleased song from their forthcoming [...]

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