Ethan is an entrepreneur in his own right who has turned his natural talents to elevating women and minorities. Founder of Girl Empire, Parlor Shows, Lean Crafting and Checklet, he’s a start-up super-connector. He’s played a critical role in countless business launches and partnerships. It’s no surprise he sits on…
Marc’s deep music business background and digital audio knowledge has helped him deliver unique insights to audiences from Tallinn to Toronto. Marc is the founder of Byta / byta.com “the platform for music before it’s on streaming services”. Run as a distributed team across 3 continents, Byta enables everyone to…
For almost two decades, Phil built a thriving career at the crossroads of music and media. As the co-founder of Apollo Studios, a globally-recognized music production house boasting an all-star team of composers, producers, and engineers, he was involved in every aspect of the work, earning recognition at the Cannes…
Equally comfortable working with artists and algorithms, David Gorman has made a career of cooking up new ways to connect folks to things they’ll love. Whether that means rolling up his sleeves to create Grammy-winning packages and click-worthy posts himself or commanding an army of creators and curators to put…
Kingdom of Mind, founded by Isabella Kelly, is an event production and promotions business. Kelly's past promotions work has focused on secondary/tertiary markets in California and will be expanding moving forward to the Pacific Northwest. Kelly has produced benefit concerts as well as events for universities and colleges. The focus…
This is a two-part episode where LP chats with Caltech student, Ari Rosner and high school buddies, Erick Beavers and Brad Robertson. Ari Rosner was recently featured in Forbes for the algorithm he developed to help determine the proper socially distant layout for a classroom. LP got the scoop about…
Born in Nashville, Dmitri moved to NYC as a teen where he busked in the subways while studying music at “the Fame High School” for Music and the Arts. After earning his business degree, he leaned into his entrepreneurial bent and launched rock paper scissors in 1999. His vision was…
Listen into this panel that took place September 2nd that featured 3 music tech companies, a promoter and a venue. Juan Torres moderated this panel. He's the VP of Business Operations at Prism a company that is revolutionizing how live music events are managed. Here are the panelists: Matt Ford…
Jeff Slate is an ASCAP award winning singer-songwriter from New York City. He co-founded the 1980’s mod/punk band the Mindless Thinkers, and in the mid-90’s released The Townshend Tapes, on which The Who’s Pete Townshend acted as executive producer. He later opened for Sheryl Crow on her “Tuesday Night Music…
Self-described as "soaring-ambient-dreampop- experimental-folk", Constant Follower is the band formed around Scottish songwriter Stephen McAll. As a teenager, McAll survived an attack by a gang that left him with a catastrophic head injury, and every memory of his childhood gone. The next decade was spent in a cabin on Scotland’s…
Lauren A. Spalding graduated from high school on a Thursday afternoon and started working as a publicity intern at Capitol Records the next morning. That was over fifteen years ago, and she hasn’t worked a “real” job since. As an artist management consultant for her own shop, The Spalding Company,…
In a time when the entire world is more starved of human connectivity than maybe anytime in history, Australian artist MANE has penned perfect, booming, beautiful anthems that celebrates the people that mean the most to us and the love that those relationships represent. Her breakout hit ‘Chasing Butterflies’ clocked…
With over 15 years of classical violin training, and her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the New England Conservatory of Music, Marissa proved her natural versatility on her very first audition for Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull – winning the lead violin position on his 2006 US tour. She would…
Michael F. Schein is the author of The Hype Handbook: 12 Indispensable Success Secrets From the World’s Greatest Propagandists, Self-Promoters, Cult Leaders, Mischief Makers, and Boundary Breakers (McGraw Hill, January 12, 2021). His articles have appeared in Fortune, Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, and Psychology Today.. He speaks to international audiences…
Check out the latest episode of Spotlight On! Listen to the full podcast here https://play.headliner.app/podcast/a1ea7c97e7c94e11a4dbdcad56dd5ffe/episode/7140e43d-a614-4456-a676-6ffb8cf17087?utm_source=youtube (video made with https://www.headliner.app)Dimitri was raised on a macrobiotic commune. He has studied Tibetan Buddhism and Chinese martial arts for more than 25 years. He has jammed with Prince and the Beastie Boys, gotten drunk…
J. Scott Christianson is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Management Department at the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business, University of Missouri - Columbia. Prior to joining the Trulaske College of Business, Scott was a business owner with more than 21 years of experience in video-conferencing technology, project…
Alan Goldfarb, a veteran wine journalist, began his career as a sportswriter for Newsday in New York, the San Francisco Examiner, and the Associated Press. Alan has been writing about wine for decades now. He’s been the wine editor at the St. Helena Star, and his work has also appeared…
In this clip from the latest episode of Spotlight On, bass player extraordinaire Christian McBride discusses his focus on nurturing young jazz talents, having fulfilled his own musical dreams. He aims to boost the profiles of emerging artists through collaborations and mentorship. Hear more of this in-depth conversation with Christian…
In this excerpt from the new episode of Spotlight On, Christian McBride discusses parallels between #baseball roles and band members, emphasizing the critical role of bass players, comparing them to catchers, and shares insights on playing with Sting. For the full conversation, be sure not to miss this fascinating installment…
Today, the spotlight shines on the wildly influential post-punk group, That Petrol Emotion. Guitarist and songwriter Raymond Gorman and lead singer Steve Mack joined Spotlight On host Lawrence Peryer to mark the release of the band’s career-spanning box set, Every Beginning Has a Future: An Anthology 1984-1994. Spawned from the…
Today, the spotlight shines on musicians Bart Wirtz and Emiel van Rijthoven who perform and record together under the name WAAN (Dutch for ‘Craze’). WAAN have a new record, Echo Echo, out on February 24 through the Sonar Kollektiv label. As of this recording three tracks have already appeared on…
Today, the spotlight shines on the German electronic jazz collective Conic Rose. Their new, self-released debut album Heller Tag (or, Bright Day, in English), is out tomorrow, February 17, worldwide. Members of the group who joined our talk included Trumpeter Konstantin Döben, keyboardist Johannes Arzberger, bassist Franziska Aller and guitarist…
Today’s episode is a live recording of a conversation Spotlight On host Lawrence Peryer had in Santa Barbara, at the FestForums conference, with American musical treasure, Jesse Colin Young. Jesse Colin Young has been a pioneer of American roots music for more than half a century and has left his…
Welcome to Season 7 of Spotlight On! We’re excited to be partnering with our friends at Osiris, the leading storyteller in music, for this season. The first episode is a conversation between LP and Steve Kimock, once touted by Jerry Garcia as his “favorite unknown guitar player.” Now Steve is…