Posts tagged interview
An Interview with LIVVIA

Shortly after releasing her new single “Beautiful Escape,” LIVVIA joined in on a call with our very own DJ Boboy Alf. In this exclusive interview, LIVVIA goes in depth, discussing her time at UC Berkeley while balancing a full-time music career, as well as her rebrand over the past couple of years. LIVVIA also shares organizations that we can support in consideration of #BLM.

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KXSC's Exclusive Interview with The So So Glos

On Thursday, November 14th KXSC was joined on air by the Brooklyn-based punk band The So So Glos. After a high-powered performance at Tommy’s Place that evening, these Brooklyn boys joined our punk director Sam Hill and assistant music director Nick Arnold to discuss their band’s month-long sojourn in Los Angeles, Kurt Cobain’s apocalyptic prophecies, and the future of rock n’ roll in an off-the-cuff interview. What you're about to read is rated M for mature, so cover your ears, children!

Videos of this interview and their Tommy's Place performance coming soon!

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Interview with Anita Elberse on “Blockbusters”

Check out DJ Amar of The View from Nowhere's interview with Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse about her new book Blockbusters: Hit-making, Risk-taking, and the Big Business of Entertainment.

Find out what’s behind the phenomenal success of entertainment businesses such as Warner Bros., Marvel Enterprises, and the NFL, as well as stars such as as Jay-Z, Lady Gaga, and LeBron James. Anita Elberse discusses strategies that give leaders in film, television, music, publishing, and sports an edge over their rivals, and why the future of popular culture will revolve around ever bigger bets on entertainment products.

Listen to the interview on Soundcloud .

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Interview with Dirty Beaches

Check out Silas of Monstrous Wickedness' Interview with Dirty Beaches, real name Alex Zhang Hungtai. His music feels like an agglomerate of influences: Orbison, Presley, Reed, and Czukay jump to mind first, while further listens reveal moments reminiscent of Kid A and Angelo Badalmenti’s Twin Peaks. But Hungtai’s music is not pastiche. These elements are a vocabulary that is rearranged and subverted to reveal an attitude that his alone.

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