My guest today is Benji Rogers, the Founder of Pledgemusic and Co-Founder of the Dot Blockchain Music Project. Digital music is a mutation. Like a virus, it adapts, looking for new ways to be consumed, defying efforts to be fixed in some predic

Peak Vinyl or Peak Stupid With Billy Fields of WEA

Nov 11th, 2016 50m 43s

Vinyl junkies - I’m one of them. Possessing an opiate-like addiction for our preferred musical format, we tolerate, no we embrace it's inherent limitations and inconveniences. Pulling a treasure from our Ikea Expedit shelves (actually Kallax is

Spotify Playlist Secrets with Justin Barker of Slice Music

Nov 3rd, 2016 57m 56s

My guest on the show this episode is Justin Barker, Founder/Director of Slice Music, a UK based streaming and content consultancy. He is also the Director of Streaming Strategy, Global Artist & Label Services for PIAS, and previously held curat

More Coffee Please With NYU's Larry Miller, Director of the NYU Steinhardt Music Business Program

Oct 16th, 2016 45m 21s

My guest on the show today is one of the original gangstas of the digital music business: Larry Miller. Half a decade before Apple launched iTunes, Larry was carving a path. In 1998, he co-founded a2b music, one of the first digital music distr

Sheryl Crow Guitarist Peter Stroud Goes Platinum

Aug 30th, 2016 57m 30s

My guest on the show today is Sheryl Crow's Music Director & guitarist Peter Stroud. Peter Stroud gets around. It’s funny how often I am flipping around the channels late at night and see Peter on stage somewhere. He’s played with Pete Droge, S

Streaming For Beggars With Simon Wheeler Of Beggars Group

Aug 24th, 2016 37m 44s

These days, success in the music business is about survival. Major labels can lose millions and still stand because they’re owned by giant corporations. A couple of consecutive bad years for a major and there’s usually a purge, new management b

The Beautiful Contradiction of Vinyl with Cameron Schaefer of Vinyl Me, Please

Aug 12th, 2016 1h 4m

They say you can’t sell music as a product anymore. Nobody wants CDs. Download sales are tanking as streaming grows in popularity. People don’t have the attention span to listen to a whole album, we’re in singles world now. Cherry pick my favor

An Afternoon with Rusty Anderson, Guitarist for Paul McCartney

Aug 8th, 2016 39m 22s

It’s a well worn music industry cliche - a kid sees The Beatles' debut American performance on the Ed Sullivan show on February 9th, 1964 and right then and there, they decide that rock and roll is what they want to do with their life. People f

How Patronage Is Transforming Music Creation Into A Shared Experience With Kickstarter's Hayley Rosenblum

Jul 25th, 2016 54m 25s

In this episode, we talk with Hayley Rosenblum, Music Campaign Stategist for Kickstarter, the global crowdfunding community platform. She shares advice about how to create experiences that will engage fans and win their support, lessons she lea

SPOTIFRIED! with Sandy Smallens, Former Head Of Artist Marketing & Original Content at Spotify

Jul 18th, 2016 52m 2s

Spotify rules the streaming music world, although not everyone agrees that's a good thing. Has Spotify made it impossible for artists to make a living, or is the best thing to ever happen to them? In the episode, we talk with Sandy Smallens, wh

Thoughtful Affinity with Tim Bierman, GM of Pearl Jam's Ten Club

Jul 13th, 2016 48m 14s

Tim Bierman has worked with Pearl Jam for nearly 20 years, managing their highly successful direct-to-fan platform Ten Club. Years before the music business realized how important direct-to-fan was, Pearl Jam was cultivating a unique relationsh