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I’m super excited to share the launch of the first in Espresso‘s series of thought leadership pieces I’m helping research and co-write: “Connect or Die: How to survive in a Music 2.0 world.” Having worked in the music industry for the better part of my career, with concert promoters, music festivals, and musicians, this is [...]

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(photo: Mick O ) . “They say the music business is in trouble. No! The business of selling CDs is in trouble; this is a religion.” – Michael Rapino, CEO, Live Nation I was in the weekly Southern California marketing meeting at House of Blues the morning it was announced that Tower Records was going [...]

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During their New Moon promo tour a couple of months back, the Twilight Trio was on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and at the end of the show Kimmel let a few people from the audience ask questions of the cast. A girl came up to the mic with a question for Taylor Lautner. “I really like [...]

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Can’t believe I didn’t realize this before. Lady Gaga’s “Bad Romance” (2009): Marilyn Manson’s “The Beautiful People” (1996): Well, she ain’t no Britney when it comes to the dancing, so…. Also, people have kept making the Madonna connection, but I just don’t think that’s accurate. Madonna was never trying for creepy. Shocking, sensational, yes, but [...]

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Do you like Reggaeton? This was a question an old friend asked me while visiting in L.A. We’re both from Boston, where most people have never heard of Reggaeton. And I hadn’t either, until I moved to Southern California. If you don’t know what Reggaeton is, it’s: A form of urban music that became popular [...]

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A quick interview with the Podcast Asylum done at AdWeek’s  Social Media Strategies 2009 conference a few weeks back. Hilary Read, EWI‘s VP of Creative adds her thoughts as well. [wpaudio url="http://social-creature.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Jenka-Gurfinkel.mp3" text="Jenka Gurfinkel Interview on the Podcast Asylum" dl="0"] Like this? Share it: Tweet

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If, sometime circa 2004, you were out and about at certain underground parties in the Los Angeles Circus scene, and saw someone wearing a particularly striking pair of pants (male or female), created from asymmetrical strips of leather sewn in a twisted, impeccably tailored way, like the trappings of some Mad Max forest nymph biker [...]

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. Amanda Palmer performs “I Google You”: . Kate Miller-Heidke performs “Are You F*cking Kidding Me? (Facebook Song)”: . Like this? Share it: Tweet

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Just getting around to some bits of music housekeeping I’ve been meaning to mention: 1. Mos Def Sells New Album on T-shirt About a year and a half ago I wrote a post called Sell Music On ANYTHING! where I suggested that since digital technology had recently liberated music from its previously contrived confinement on [...]

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Adam Freeland’s got a new video (below) for a new track (Undercontrol) off a new album (Cope) with a new band (Freeland). Check it out. And Relax. Nothing is under control: Plus, check out the accompanying site: unitedwecope.com, which offers a forum for coping with modern life’s tricky dilemmas, such as: I want to buy [...]

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