Phil Harrell

4 weeks ago | nhpr.org | Phil Harrell |A Martínez

Jesse Armstrong has been thinking a lot about billionaires. The creator of HBO's Succession has written and directed a new movie — Mountainhead — about four uber-rich leaders of tech. They've assembled at a mountaintop chateau for what's supposed to be a weekend of poker and conversation — an "intellectual salon," as Jason Schwartzman's character Hugo Van Yalk puts it. Meanwhile, the world below them is falling into chaos.

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Phil Harrell |Leila Fadel

More than 30 years ago, Adam Duritz and his band Counting Crows debuted with "Mr. Jones," a song about longing for fame in the music industry. Little did he know that fame was going to be immediate — and a bit scary. Counting Crows' first album, August and Everything After, eventually sold more than 7 million copies in the U.S. alone and catapulted Duritz into the pantheon of rock 'n' roll storytellers. He's since tried to manage that fame as best he can.

2 months ago | ksut.org | A Martínez |Phil Harrell

Almost as soon as Elton John began recording his latest album, he started blowing the whole thing up. In 2023, he and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin reached out to singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile and proposed making an album together — in just 20 days. "We went in with Andrew Watt (the producer), Brandi, Bernie Taupin and myself," Elton John told Morning Edition host A Martínez. "We had nothing. But that's what excited me. I didn't want to know what was going to happen.

2 months ago | m.kuow.org | A Martínez |Phil Harrell

Singer/songwriters Brandi Carlile and Elton John Universal Music Group Almost as soon as Elton John began recording his latest album, he started blowing the whole thing up. In 2023, he and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin reached out to singer/songwriter Brandi Carlile and proposed making an album together — in just 20 days. "We went in with Andrew Watt (the producer), Brandi, Bernie Taupin and myself," Elton John told Morning Edition host A Martínez. "We had nothing.

Mar 9, 2025 | laist.com | Phil Harrell |A Martínez

Sometimes life can get so weird that it almost feels like a comedy. That exact thought occurred to Jeanie Buss as her own brothers were trying to get her fired. Buss is the president of the Los Angeles Lakers, and her life is parodied in the new Netflix comedy Running Point, starring Kate Hudson. Before his death in 2013, Jeanie's father, Jerry Buss, owned the Lakers. "I was 17, 18 years old, just doing whatever my dad asked me to," Jeanie Buss told Morning Edition host A Martínez.