Posts Tagged: barack obama

AUDIO: That Time Adam Levine He’d Rather Me Be President Than Romney

Reading a President Trump tweet about Adam Levine recalled a few of my conversations with the Maroon 5 lead singer (whom Trump was not referring to; the President was quoting a columnist with media outlet The Federalist). I believe my first interview with Levine was in the fall of 2008; the artist was in Mexico… Read more »

INTERVIEW: That Time Niall Horan Proclaimed His Fandom For President Obama

It definitely came as no surprise to long-time fans of One Direction and long-time listeners of my radio show that Niall Horan is a “massive” fan of President Barack Obama. Horan revealed his admiration for the First Family during a chat on my show back in 2012; the aforementioned quote attributed to the singer became… Read more »

VIDEO: Sandy, 3 Years Later

Thursday marked the three year anniversary of Sandy devastating the tri-state area. Many people were affected in a number of different ways; some are still experiencing the aftermath. We remember. Watch the full video here. A video posted by 95.5 PLJ (@955plj) on Oct 29, 2015 at 5:34pm PDT

INTERVIEW: David Plouffe On Uber’s Similarities To ’08 Obama Campaign

Perhaps it was not merely a coincidence that on the week I turn the big 3-0, I interviewed a gentleman that gave me one of the biggest breaks of my young career. Of course at the time, he wasn’t trying to throw some 20 year-old know-it-all living in Scranton, Penn. a bone; rather he was… Read more »

INTERVIEW: fun. Avoids ‘Sandy,’ Performs ‘SNL,’ Celebrates Election in Crazy 8 Day Span

They did not face the destruction, or the heartbreak, that many in the tri-state area dealt with. But, it has still been an eventful week and a half by almost anyone’s standards for the band fun. The group spent a day in the UK, and was supposed to land back in New York the night… Read more »

INTERVIEW: Adam Levine Insists He Has ‘Nothing But Love’ for Christina Aguilera

Adam Levine seems pleased with Maroon 5’s journey – from breaking out with 2002’s Songs About Jane to gaining more momentum in 2007’s It Won’t Be Soon Before Long and then almost losing it all on the 2010 release of Hands All Over. Certainly thanks to the success of “Moves Like Jagger” and this year’s… Read more »

INTERVIEW: Steve Aoki Thinks Mitt Romney Doesn’t Support Dance Music

Steve Aoki is using his platform as one of the world’s biggest DJs for a greater cause: to help get out the vote. But while Aoki did travel to the Republican National Convention to spread this message, he pulls no punches as to who he’d like people to vote for in this year’s presidential election…. Read more »

INTERVIEW: One Direction’s Niall Horan Finds Out First Hand How Popular Band is in U.S.

After a recent trip near our nation’s capital, the fellas from the UK boy-band One Direction found out just how big of a deal they are. “When we met (Malia and Sasha Obama) at the ‘Kids Choice Awards,’ they said that if we can’t come to the White House, they would come to us,” singer… Read more »