by Mark Duggan | Aug 2, 2020
Listen to the Interview http://openrangenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Art-Bots-Web-Mix.mp3 Social media can be a minefield of human ugliness. Especially in the age of COVID. Political attack ads and conspiracy theories fill social feeds. Much of it is posted...
by Mark Duggan | Jun 12, 2016
Listen to the interview: Eileen Ivers adopted a love for the fiddle at an early age. Fiddle music filled the air of her New York City home as a young child, so she took up the instrument herself at age nine. She’s now an accomplished solo artist, Cherish the Ladies...
by Mark Duggan | May 22, 2016
Listen to the interview: A.J. Croce appeared on the music scene in the early 1990s with a seemingly anachronistic mix of classic songwriting and boogie-woogie-style piano playing. But he’s enjoyed modest success over a career of eight albums. He’s also collaborated...
by Mark Duggan | Apr 26, 2016
Musician Johnny Clegg passed away July 16, 2019. Here’s an archive interview I conducted with him in 2016. Listen: There are some who call South African musician Johnny Clegg Le Zoulou Blanc, or The White Zulu. Clegg has been mixing English lyrics with African and...
by Mark Duggan | Mar 2, 2014
Listen to the interview and an in-studio performance: Tucson, Ariz. – Os Mutantes may be one of the best bands few people know. They have a rich history but in another hemisphere. The band formed in Brazil in 1966, playing instruments they made themselves and...
