Archive For The “Music” Category

Americana Music Festival Wrap Up

By | September 18, 2012

I owe a big thanks to Wayne Leeloy from Topspin Media, who invited me to lead a panel on best practices with social media during the Americana Music Festival in Nashville. The panel kicked off the conference to a packed room filled with musicians, song writers, producers, agents, and the like. The feedback from folks in [...]

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How to find new music

By | October 5, 2010

I had a blast at Next BIG Nashville at the Eventbrite party on Friday evening. Griffin (my employer) was a sponsor, so we got to have lots of fun handing out some goodies and meeting lots of people. The definite highlight was meeting Eventbrite‘s Tamara Mendelsohn, Tyler Petersen with Freya. All amazing people you should [...]

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How do you discover new music?

By | November 22, 2009

One thing I miss about my youth and my friends back home in Toronto is being introduced to new music. It all started years ago when I would buy albums based on the band name or album art, usually sticking to the punk rock genre of records shops like the Record Peddlar in Toronto. As [...]

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Let Them Know

By | September 18, 2009

I just got home from watching a free screening of Let Them Know : The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The director, Jeff Alulis, was in the house to do a Q & A and enjoy some punch (I’m not kidding, punch!) with us after the screening. This [...]

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