10 years ago The End nightclub in London closed its doors for the final time. It’s hard to overstate the impact The End (along with close neighbour fabric) had on the electronic music landscape in the late 90s and early 2000s. Over the venue’s 14 years, the crew led by…
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What the music industry’s people need next
As the music industry’s resurgence continues, its people need support now more than ever. There’s opportunity to further embrace a contributor to success in tech, sports, and other industries. We’re now living in a world that’s more prosperous than at any time in history. Standards of living are increasing. Extreme…
LA Story: Get to The Hour
Touch down in Los Angeles for the first time in a while and you’ll be struck by the casual vibe. Hoodies; flip flops; black sweatpants with ridiculously low crotches and sky high prices. You’ll also soon be reminded that everyone’s here to find something. In NYC there are the hyphenates…
Avicii: True Stories: A tale of tragedy, excess, indifference, and home truths
Originally released in 2017, the documentary film ‘Avicii: True Stories’, charting the career and personal life of Swedish DJ and music producer Tim Bergling aka Avicii, reappeared just before Christmas 2018 after a few months off screens following his death. For me its return to screens was timely. In the…
My Podcast Gear: recording, editing, and publishing
I’ve learned a lot from creating a podcast series: from asking good questions and improving my spoken delivery; to sales, marketing, and audio engineering. As much as podcasts are a hot trend right now and plenty of people are jumping on podcasting in part because of that, I do genuinely…
Music Business: How to choose an agent
I recently met with an artist manager who was looking for a new agent for his client, an electronic music producer and DJ. This manager isn’t a music industry lifer, in fact he’s spent more of his career in adjacent fields. So whilst he brings a lot of very useful skills,…
7 lessons from the story of CAA
CAA’s founding team in the mid 1970s A few months ago, James Andrew Miller released his new book telling the tale of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of Hollywood’s most renowned and powerful companies. Coming in at 707 pages, it’s a pretty hefty read. There are definitely a few flaws and…
How one club night became the turning point for my business
In February 2009 I left a promising career in advertising to build a music company. My vision, albeit partially formed, was to offer a new way of serving exciting independent artists by simultaneously growing their prowess and profile across touring, promotion and publishing. We’d do business in unconventional ways, use…
The rise of the remixer
Why remixing is going to become more and more important in the future of content and creativity. Remixing has been around for a while now, but it’s still somewhat under-appreciated both as an art form and commercial tool. Music remixing started with the musique concrete era in 1930s France merging…