What Newport Folk Listen To

At Newport Folk Festival this past weekend, I had the opportunity to interview many of the musicians playing over the two days. While I could have asked pretty much anything, I find the most interesting question to be one that

Interview with @discographies

Two days ago I suddenly and unexpectedly stumbled onto the greatest Twitter account I’d ever seen. I can’t remember exactly how I was led there, but thirty seconds after landing on @discographies, I was smitten. The concept is as simple

Waverly Films on creating comedy, the return of Clip of the Week, and time travel.

For anyone out of the loop (you GOTS to get in it!), Waverly Films is a collection of super talented Brooklyn-based filmmakers, who have been churning out web content (including their Webby Award-winning series, Stickman Exodus) for years.  They were

An Interview with U.S. Air Guitar Competitor Windhammer

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the Air Guitar National Championships at Irving Plaza in New York City. I had previously attended smaller regional qualifiers, but this was definitely something else. Judged on technical merit, stage

Interview with Random aka Megaran on his new album Forever Famicom

Photo Credit: Kai Mudiwa Raheem Jarbo better known as Random or Random Beats or Mega Ran is an American underground rapper and record producer. He started making up rhymes when he was 16 years old, and got into producing a

Interview with Stan Bush: He’s Got the Touch. He’s Got the Power.

Like many, I can’t remember the first time I watched Transformers the Movie. Only that the animated bildungsroman-with-robots was pretty much the best movie I’d ever seen. Sure we’ve all gotten up and cheered during some amazing movie moments over

Interview with Pencils of Promise founder Adam Braun

I thought it was high time that Popten covered a new type of pop culture. Though this time the pop stands for Pencils of Promise, a New York-based non-profit focused on – amongst other things – early education and empowering

Interview with Justin Ringle: Ten Things You Didn’t Know about Horse Feathers

Horse Feathers. Another folk-tinged indie group solidifies Portland’s music chops. And it does so with the ease of a ballerina. This multi-instrumental band is heavy on strings, pulling off a sound that’s both old timey and hip, gloomy and moving.

Interview with the directors of Stonewall Uprising

I had the chance to chat with fellow filmmaker David Heilbroner about his latest picture “Stonewall Uprising”.  Its about the 1969 riots that began the Gay Rights Movement. The film premieres on June 16th at the Film Forum, and will

Interview with The New Pornographers’ Blaine Thurier

I met Blaine in that surreal, Zuckerberg-facilitated fashion that so many of us experience these days. I was doing my usual rounds on Facebook a few years ago, when I noticed a profile pic that perfectly parodied the latest New