Hits
Hits was a bi-weekly trade magazine published in Los Angeles, California, aimed at entertainment lawyers, agents, managers, and radio and label execs. It now operates via a website hitsdailydouble.com
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Lou Reed: New York State of Mind
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 6 February 1989
Lou Reed's Sire/WB debut, New York, marks a welcome return to the wild side for the veteran Velvet Underground founder and street bard. It is ...
Interview by Michael Azerrad, Hits, 19 March 1990
NO DOUBT about it, the musical flavor of the week is Latin/Brazilian — even Paul Simon's recording an album of Brazilian music. It figures that ...
Interview by Holly Gleason, Hits, 9 July 1990
AN EXCLUSIVE HITS INTERVIEW WITH TRAVIS TRITT BY HOLLY GLEASON ...
Interview by Amy Linden, Hits, 20 May 1991
Time for a cup of joe and a doughnut with Phranc ...
Interview by Amy Linden, Hits, 25 May 1992
They're young, they're cute and they're selling more records than the law should allow. It's Kris Kross, straight outta Atlanta... and puberty. Thirteen-year-olds Chris Smith ...
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Hits, 22 May 1998
AN EXCLUSIVE HITS DIALOGUE WITH ICE CUBE ...
Tupac Shakur: Jailhouse Rap: An Exclusive Conversation With Suge Knight
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 19 July 2000
MULE CREEK State Prison is the fourth jail rap entrepreneur Marion "Suge" Knight has been locked up in since he was given a nine-year sentence ...
Elvis Costello: Elvis Gets His Groove Back
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 2002
THE ONCE-ANGRY young man of punk-rock is now practically a pop music singer-songwriting icon. It's been more than 25 years since a bespectacled nerd with ...
Phil Collins: His Turn to Testify: An Exclusive HITS dialogue with Phil Collins
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 2002
JUST WHEN IT SEEMED like Phil Collins was ready to kick back and relax with his new wife Orianne and his 14-month-old son Nicholas in ...
Stan Cornyn: It's A Warner-Ful Life
Interview by Todd Everett, Hits, 10 April 2002
FOR MORE THAN 30 years, Stan Cornyn was the "voice" of Warner Bros. and Reprise Records. The company's image-setting print advertisements – offering free Topanga ...
Holland-Dozier-Holland: They Wrote The Songs
Profile and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, May 2003
An exclusive HITS dialogue with Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland by Roy Trakin ...
Kurt Cobain, Nirvana: In Utero: Kurt Cobain Speaks
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, 14 April 2004
NIRVANA'S ALBUM NEVERMIND was out about two weeks on Oct. 9, 1991, when I conducted the following phone interview with Kurt Cobain. ...
The Beach Boys, Brian Wilson: SMiLE When Your Heart Is Breaking: Brian Wilson
Interview by Roy Trakin, Hits, October 2004
"Come about hard and joinThe young and often spring you gaveI heard the wordWonderful thingA children's song" ('Surf’s Up') ...
Kings of Leon: Only by the Night
Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, 17 October 2008
IT'S NO MISTAKE that two of America's most promising rock groups are from the South, steeped in the area's blend of goth, ghosts and guilt. ...
Coldplay: Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Irvine
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, July 2009
WHY DO PEOPLE CONTINUE to hate on these guys? Is it a corollary of the Sting Effect, where there's just outright jealousy over a handsome ...
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, July 2009
MAYBE THIS IS the future of the record business. On a balmy summer evening in L.A., we're gathered in a suburban backyard, twinkling lights strung ...
Lady Gaga: Staples Center, Los Angeles
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, August 2010
I'VE HAD MY eye on the artist formerly known as Stefani Joanne Germanotta since May 2008, when I wrote about a local Hollywood showcase. ...
Lindsey Buckingham goes his own way
Interview by Bud Scoppa, Hits, 8 September 2011
Inside the Head — and the Home — of the Mainstream Rock Star Who's Conducted a Parallel Career as a Radical Solo Artist ...
Jonathan Richman: The Echo, Los Angeles
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, 13 July 2012
IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME since I've seen the legendary founder of the Modern Lovers, the man-child my fellow companion at a show once showered ...
Mumford & Sons: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles
Live Review by Roy Trakin, Hits, November 2012
"CAUSE I KNOW my weakness, know my voice," sings Marcus Mumford on the title track of Babel, the spectacularly successful U.K. folk-rockers' second album. "And ...
Neil Young: After The Gold Rush: The Legacy of Elliot Roberts
Obituary by Bud Scoppa, Hits, 22 June 2019
THE DICTIONARY definition of the word manager should have Elliot Roberts' picture alongside it. Roberts, who died on Friday, June 21, at the age of ...
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