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Linda Perry Interview: "Men Will Always Discriminate Because Most Are Intimidated by Women"

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Linda Perry

Singer-songwriter and producer Linda Perry joined the band 4 Non Blondes in 1989, and their debut album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More! spawned a hit single, the Perry-penned “What’s Up?” She left the band in 1994, and in the years afterward founded two record labels, composing and producing hit songs for several other successful female singers including Christina Aquilera (who had a worldwide hit with Perry’s “Beautiful”), Gwen Stefani, Pink, Joan Jett, Alicia Keys, Celine Dion and Grace Slick, just to name a few.

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May 2015

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Jonathan Jackson Interview: Emmy Award-Winning Actor Talks Enation Music, "Nashville" and "General Hospital"

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Jonathan Jackson

Five-time Emmy Award-winning actor, author and musician, Jonathan Jackson is known for playing the character of Lucky Spencer on the ABC daytime drama General Hospital from 1993 until 1999 and again in 2009-2011. He can currently be seen on ABC’s musical drama series Nashville as Avery Barkley, an up and coming singer-songwriter trying to make it in Music City.

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April 2015

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Alan Wilkis Interview: Big Data's "2.0" Offers a Satirical Look at Internet-Age Anxieties

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Alan Wilkis

Alan Wilkis is the music producer and composer behind the electronic music project called Big Data. They are best known for their single “Dangerous” featuring Joywave, which reached number one on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in August 2014. Big Data’s first EP, 1.0, was released October 1, 2013, on Wilkis’ own label, in December of that same year, a remix EP, 1.5, came out which included eight remixes of the song “Dangerous,” and another remix EP, 1.6, was released in September 2014.

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March 2015

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Steve Lukather Interview: Talks "Toto XIV" and Reflects on the Passing of Bandmate Mike Porcaro

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Toto

With over thirty-eight years together and thousands of credits and accolades to their names, Toto remains one of the top-selling tour and recording acts in the world. The band, not afraid to take chances and stretch their songwriting abilities, will release their thirteenth studio album and first since Falling In Between (2006), titled Toto XIV on March 23, 2015.

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