interview

Smallpools talks band names, power outages, and their new sound
By Lisa Laffend
September 12, 2017 - 8:49am
Juice Jam Artist Interview: As they tour the country, Smallpools discusses their latest EP and its themes.

When looking for a good band name, pop/rock band and Juice Jam artist Smallpools turned to artists like Green Day and Coldplay for inspiration. They wanted a brand new compound word that their music would give meaning to. Unfortunately, they said, people still get very hung up on the whole “pool” thing.

Preview: Jukebox the Ghost to play in Schine Underground March 19
By Megan Paolone
March 19, 2013 - 8:06am
Vocalist/pianist Ben Thornewill talked to The NewsHouse in February about Czech bakeries, touring and new music.

Ben Thornewill is standing on the sidewalk outside Czech bakery-gas station hybrid in the middle of Texas in February, on his way to a show in Dallas.

“We always stop here on tour,” Thornewill says. “It’s just so doughy and good.”

Q&A with singer Aaron Carter: The After Party stops in Syracuse
By Megan Paolone
February 18, 2013 - 9:46pm
After seven years off the road, Mr. Aaron's Party himself is officially back in business.

Aaron Carter is back, without adult supervision.

The 25-year-old singer known for hits like "Aaron's Party" and "How I Beat Shaq" will embark on his After Party Tour later this week after a nearly seven-year hiatus, and he's stopping at Syracuse's Westcott Theater on Sunday Feb. 24. It's possible he was shirtless the entire time, but Carter spoke to The NewsHouse recently about getting back on the road, dealing with female fans and his pet...

Jeffrey Katzenberg provides thoughts on business, life philosophies at SU forum
By Nick DeSantis
October 17, 2012 - 11:50pm
The DreamWorks CEO and co-founder muses on media distribution, film innovation and success at the USA Today CEO Forum.

Once all the seats in the Hergenhan Auditorium were filled, the enormous level of interest in USA Today’s CEO Forum was apparent when students unsuccessfully attempted to sit on the aisle stairs to view the session.

A conversation with Lights
By Chris Ballard
January 30, 2012 - 4:40pm
NewsHouse sits down with Canadian pop star Lights to talk superheroes, black metal and bloodsucking moths.

NewsHouse: So you said you’ve been to Syracuse before. Do you have any memories from when you played here last?

Lights: It always seems like one of those stops we make on tour for some reason. It’s cool, there’s always been a little something. When we first came down here in 2008, we played the same venue a couple times. When we first started there were maybe like 80 people that showed up. It’s fun, there’s always people that show up. There’s definitely a special vibe.

10 minutes with B.o.B
By Chris Ballard
September 12, 2011 - 9:56am
The hip-hop newcomer talks about college shows, 9/11, his kazoo and his next album

Last year was busy for B.o.B, aka Bobby Ray Simmons, Jr. Between releasing his debut album and two mixtapes and appearing on songs by Eminem, Kesha, Big Boi, Lupe Fiasco and The Roots, the 22-year-old has firmly cemented his spot as a newcoming force to be reckoned with. Even MTV says so.

The most trusted stranger in America
By Jillian Anthony
October 20, 2010 - 3:10pm
The creator of PostSecret, Frank Warren, talks with The NewsHouse about why people trust him so much, his work with suicide prevention and his all-time favorite secret.

Since Frank Warren founded PostSecret.com on Jan. 1, 2005, he has received hundreds of thousands of postcards from complete strangers all over the world bearing their deepest secrets, never before spoken to another human being.

Tucker Max proves that jerks do finish first
By Jillian Anthony
October 5, 2010 - 11:26am
Tucker Max talks about his new book, how girls come to him now and his final sexual frontier.

An hour before Tucker Max is scheduled to appear at Follett's Orange Bookstore at 2 p.m. on Sunday, a few eager young men have already lined up to meet him. They all hold Assholes Finish First, Max's second book, which was released Sept. 28.

10 minutes with the next big thing
By Eric Vilas-Boas
September 12, 2010 - 9:57pm
The NewsHouse talks Pokémon and Passion Pit with eclectic Syracuse University hip-hop duo Mouth's Cradle.

It's been a whirlwind year for Syracuse's own Mouth's Cradle: In between recording their first full-length, The Next Big Thing, and jumping to the "New and Noteworthy" page on iTunes, the genre-morphing hip-hop duo somehow found time to open Juice Jam for Super Smash Bros., Passion Pit and Lupe Fiasco.

Brandon Linn (BLinn) and Kevin Hegedus (Mouf) were busy at Skytop on Sunday, as well, but The NewsHouse managed to snag a few minutes with them after their set.

Striking a balance: An interview with Seamus Heaney
By Tiago Moura
April 13, 2010 - 6:59pm
The Northern Irish poet and Nobel Prize winner went to college and began writing 'to make sense of a life in that time.'

Tensions between past and present, rural and urban life, the individual and the community dominated the early life of poet Seamus Heaney who grew up in the ethnically torn Northern Ireland countryside.

Heaney, 71, came from a place where he and his family “still plowed with horses, lit the fire in the morning, carried water from wells.”

“In very quick time all that changed," Heaney said.

Rapid industrialization in the 1950s pushed his family to a more urban lifestyle.

Soon afterward, Heaney went to college and began writing “to make sense of a life in that time...