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Business & Technology Episodes

April 28, 2022

Carrie Kania

Carrie Kania chats with LP about life, music, art, publishing and her life leading up to moving to London.
Guest: Carrie Kania
March 31, 2022

Cynthia Parsons

Cynthia Parsons has lived a rock n' roll life. She started with Bill Graham Presents, managed VIP ticketing for the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and others, has been the day-to-day manager for artists including Aaron Neville and Eddie Money.
March 24, 2022

Vito Iaia

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Guest: Vito Iaia
March 17, 2022

Lawrence Peryer

Our one hundredth episode! To mark this milestone, the tables get turned — host Lawrence Peryer becomes the interviewee as his old friend David Marcus grills him on his history, his first musical loves, how he stumbled into the business, etc
March 3, 2022

Theresa Vibberts

Theresa Vibberts, Executive Vice President at CAMI talks about booking classical music and her roots working with rock photographer Danny Clinch.
Feb. 17, 2022

Mike Butera

Mike Butera, founder and CEO of Artiphon, is reimagining the musical instrument, changing the way we think about who plays music and how. Artiphon instruments adapt and scale with players, letting people enjoy every note.
Guest: Mike Butera
Jan. 27, 2022

Jordy Freed

Jordy Freed, head of partner marketing & strategy at SONY recently worked on SONY 360 album releases for David Bowie's most recent albums including Blackstar, Heathen, Reality, and The Next Day with LP.
Guest: Jordy Freed
Jan. 20, 2022

Scott Register

Scott Register head of A&R at ThinkIndie talks about independent record shops, distribution and his life in broadcasting.
Jan. 13, 2022

Angus Hayes

Angus Hayes stops by to talk about Harvest Media and the problems they are solving with music distribution
Guest: Angus Hayes
Sept. 23, 2021

Dre Wallace

Dre Wallace joins LP to talk about her company opnr and the music scenes in Michigan.
Guest: Dre Wallace
Sept. 2, 2021

Scotty Stoughton

Scotty Stoughton founder of Bonfire Entertainment joins LP on this week's episode.
Aug. 19, 2021

John Raso

John Raso, SVP of Client Services from Harry Fox Agency joins LP to talk about his company and the role they play in the music industry. You'll also hear two old friends debate music.
Guest: John Raso
Aug. 12, 2021

Jim Rondinelli and JJ Johnston

Jim Rondinelli and JJ Johnston from Immersion Networks stop by the podcast to give LP a lesson in immersive audio. They take a step back and talk through sound file innovation over the years (JJ was one of the folks involved with inventing the MP3.)
July 29, 2021

Sally Lidinsky

Sally Lidinsky from Intellitix and Back of House joins LP on this episode to talk about live events, ticketing, event access control and hot air ballooning.
July 22, 2021

Ola Sars

Ola Sars, CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand joins LP to talk about using music to create great in-store experiences for consumers.
Guest: Ola Sars
July 1, 2021

Eli Ball and David Boxenbaum

Eli Ball and David Boxenbaum from LYRIC Financial, the leader in artist financing, joins today's episode to talk about their roots and the artist royalty landscape in 2021 and beyond.
June 24, 2021

Incub8next

Paul Hershenson and AJ Kang join LP on this episode to talk about their tech incubator that they launched with Arabian Prince, founding member of NWA and few other partners.
June 10, 2021

Jeremy Sirota

Jeremy Sirota, CEO of Merlin, the independent’s digital music licensing partner, joins LP for a chat about the company and his non-traditional career path to leading the 4th major.
Guest: Jeremy Sirota
April 27, 2021

Jason Davis

Jason Davis, founder of Noble Management and manager to Austin French and Anne Wilson joins LP for this episode.
Guest: Jason Davis
March 30, 2021

Faisel Durrani

Faisel Durrani stops by to talk about his company Looped, a state-of-the-art virtual venue that is innovating the live experience for both creators and fans.
March 16, 2021

Jonathan Stone

Jonathan Stone, co-founder of Rocket Songs stops by to give a lesson on music publishing and discuss how his company helps artists find great songs.
March 9, 2021

Florian Richling

Florian Richling, CEO of ForTunes stops by to talk about the importance of good data for artists and labels. ForTunes is a Music Data Analytics platform.
Feb. 2, 2021

Tyler Pinckard

Tyler joins LP to talk about Coffee Shift, a Silicon Valley start up that is focused on applying technology to shift the balance of power from corporations, back to the growers.
Jan. 19, 2021

David Whitehead

David Whitehead is a music manager who has worked with David Byrne, David Bowie, Helmet, Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Luna, Hugh Laurie, and many others.