A+L Innovation Central Podcast: David Lowery
Chris Castle chats with musician/teacher David Lowery about fan outreach, and his students.
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – David Lowery
David Lowery is the founder of two commercially successful and critically acclaimed bands, Cracker and Camper Van Beethoven. Originally trained as a mathematician, Lowery has long been interested in the intersection of technology, finance and music. In 2008, while serving on the board of advisors for a website called thepoint.com, he created a tipping point “campaign” to get his fans to commit to buying tickets for a proposed music festival. The campaign was a success. The Point later became Groupon. Lowery also teaches music business finance at the University of Georgia. Follow David on Twitter: @davidclowery
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – Brian McNelis of Lakeshore Records
Chris Castle talks with Brian McNelis of Lakeshore Entertainment
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – Brian McNellis
Brian McNelis is the Senior Vice President of Music and Soundtracks for Lakeshore Entertainment, the four time Academy Award winning film production company. Brian is a Grammy Award Nominated Soundtrack Album Producer, is the Co-Producer of the Lakeshore/MGM feature film remake of Fame, and has provided Executive Music Services to CBS Films first slate of releases.
During 2011 Brian music supervised the critically acclaimed films Drive and The Lincoln Lawyer both of which received critical praise for their use of music in film.
Some of Brian’s soundtrack and score album productions include Napoleon Dynamite, Fame, The Last Kiss and Underworld Awakening. He has Executive Produced the albums fromsuch Academy Award nominated and winning films as Little Miss Sunshine, City Of God, Into The Wild and The Hurt Locker.
In addition to his music supervisor and album producer responsibilities, Brian is principally responsible for Lakeshore Records, the company’s indie label. During 2011, Lakeshore Records released five iTunes Top 10 soundtrack albums, Drive, The Lincoln Lawyer, Blue Valentine, Beastly and No Strings Attached. Lakeshore Records has two Grammy Nominations, one each for Napoleon Dynamite and Little Miss Sunshine. Drive was recognized on over 50 Top 10 Best lists for music including The Boston Society Of Film Critics “Best Use of Music In A Film” Award.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – Leslie Lewis of Grammy Recordings
Chris Castle talks with Leslie Lewis of Grammy Recordings
A+L Innovation Central Podcast – Leslie Lewis
Leslie Lewis has been an active professional in music, television, and film for over two decades. Her vast experience has been the culmination of her active roles as a record executive, producer, manager, recording artist, marketing executive, artists & repertoire executive, advocate, motion picture music studio executive, soundtrack music executive, and as The Recording Academy’s Director of the Producers & Engineers Wing.
She co-founded and continues to produce the successful GRAMMY® Nominees album series – which has achieved gold certified sales nearly ever year since inception in 1995. The albums have continued their success, with the 2011 and 2012 GRAMMY Nominees debuting at #4, tying the highest debut in the history of the series. In addition to producing the Nominees records, Leslie oversees marketing and promotion for the series and launched a variety of web-based initiatives with The Recording Academy® and its sponsors to promote the GRAMMY brand through innovative online marketing.
In addition to the Nominees recordings, Leslie served as a 19 Entertainment consultant for the contestants on American Idol Season Six, and the lead in the development and implementation of marketing campaigns for GRAMMY® Award Winners Radiohead, Dave Matthews Band, Third Day, Switchfoot, Corinne Bailey Rae and the Oscar-winning soundtrack, Once.
Leslie is actively consulting for a variety of projects including producing the original motion picture soundtrack for Seth MacFarlane’s first feature film Ted on Universal Republic Records.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast: Chris Castle Talks with Jay Frank CEO of DigSin, Part 3
Innovation Central Podcast – Jay Frank, Part 3
Jay Frank is the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional methods.
Frank is also the author of two books. His first book, Futurehit.DNA, is a #1 Songwriting book on Amazon and part of the college curriculum at a number of colleges and universities. The book explores how digital technology has changed the way people discover music and examines what an artist needs to make their song more hitworthy in the digital age. Frank’s second book, Hack Your Hit, is a how-to guide for musicians filled with free and cheap marketing tips.
Prior to forming DigSin, Frank was the Senior Vice President of Music Strategy for CMT, an MTV Network. Under Frank’s leadership, music video ratings reached all-time highs thanks to an aggressive multi-platform promotional strategy. Frank was also Vice President of Music Programming and Label Relations for Yahoo! Music, responsible for all the company’s music programming. He was instrumental in the exponential growth of Yahoo’s audience bringing in approximately 25 million people a month. He was also senior music director at The Box Music Network, worked in marketing and A&R for Ignition Records, managed a live music venue, programmed broadcast radio stations and created two local music video shows.
Frank holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY and sits on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and Leadership Music. Frank also serves on the Tennessee Film, Entertainement and Music Commission, is a co-chair of Leadership Music Digital Summit, and is a consultant at FLO (Thinkery). A respected leader in the music and digital communities, Frank has spoken at such conferences as MIDEM, South By Southwest, Canadian Music Week, ASCAP Expo, MusExpo, Digital Music Forum, CMJ, SF Music Tech Summit, New Music Seminar and Mobile Entertainment Summit, among others.
Frank resides in Nashville with his wife and daughter.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast: Chris Castle Talks with Jay Frank CEO of DigSin, Part 2
Innovation Central Podcast – Jay Frank, Part 2
Jay Frank is the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional methods.
Frank is also the author of two books. His first book, Futurehit.DNA, is a #1 Songwriting book on Amazon and part of the college curriculum at a number of colleges and universities. The book explores how digital technology has changed the way people discover music and examines what an artist needs to make their song more hitworthy in the digital age. Frank’s second book, Hack Your Hit, is a how-to guide for musicians filled with free and cheap marketing tips.
Prior to forming DigSin, Frank was the Senior Vice President of Music Strategy for CMT, an MTV Network. Under Frank’s leadership, music video ratings reached all-time highs thanks to an aggressive multi-platform promotional strategy. Frank was also Vice President of Music Programming and Label Relations for Yahoo! Music, responsible for all the company’s music programming. He was instrumental in the exponential growth of Yahoo’s audience bringing in approximately 25 million people a month. He was also senior music director at The Box Music Network, worked in marketing and A&R for Ignition Records, managed a live music venue, programmed broadcast radio stations and created two local music video shows.
Frank holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY and sits on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and Leadership Music. Frank also serves on the Tennessee Film, Entertainement and Music Commission, is a co-chair of Leadership Music Digital Summit, and is a consultant at FLO (Thinkery). A respected leader in the music and digital communities, Frank has spoken at such conferences as MIDEM, South By Southwest, Canadian Music Week, ASCAP Expo, MusExpo, Digital Music Forum, CMJ, SF Music Tech Summit, New Music Seminar and Mobile Entertainment Summit, among others.
Frank resides in Nashville with his wife and daughter.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
A+L Innovation Central Podcast: Chris Castle Talks with Jay Frank CEO of DigSin, Part 1
Innovation Central Podcast – Jay Frank, Part 1
Jay Frank is the Owner and CEO of DigSin, a new singles-focused music company that allows subscribing fans to obtain music for free. DigSin signs new artists to deals that leverage new platforms, social networks and analytics that expose music to a wider audience, building popularity outside of traditional methods.
Frank is also the author of two books. His first book, Futurehit.DNA, is a #1 Songwriting book on Amazon and part of the college curriculum at a number of colleges and universities. The book explores how digital technology has changed the way people discover music and examines what an artist needs to make their song more hitworthy in the digital age. Frank’s second book, Hack Your Hit, is a how-to guide for musicians filled with free and cheap marketing tips.
Prior to forming DigSin, Frank was the Senior Vice President of Music Strategy for CMT, an MTV Network. Under Frank’s leadership, music video ratings reached all-time highs thanks to an aggressive multi-platform promotional strategy. Frank was also Vice President of Music Programming and Label Relations for Yahoo! Music, responsible for all the company’s music programming. He was instrumental in the exponential growth of Yahoo’s audience bringing in approximately 25 million people a month. He was also senior music director at The Box Music Network, worked in marketing and A&R for Ignition Records, managed a live music venue, programmed broadcast radio stations and created two local music video shows.
Frank holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY and sits on the Board of Directors of the Academy of Country Music, The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee and Leadership Music. Frank also serves on the Tennessee Film, Entertainement and Music Commission, is a co-chair of Leadership Music Digital Summit, and is a consultant at FLO (Thinkery). A respected leader in the music and digital communities, Frank has spoken at such conferences as MIDEM, South By Southwest, Canadian Music Week, ASCAP Expo, MusExpo, Digital Music Forum, CMJ, SF Music Tech Summit, New Music Seminar and Mobile Entertainment Summit, among others.
Frank resides in Nashville with his wife and daughter.
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
Arts+Labs Innovation Central Podcast – Michael Huppe of SoundExchange, Part 2
Chris Castle Talks with Michael Huppe of SoundExhange
Michael J. Huppe
Innovation Central Podcast – Michael Huppe, part 2
Michael Huppe is responsible for the strategic direction of SoundExchange, the nonprofit organization that collects digital music royalties paid by internet radio, satellite radio and other digital media services on behalf of recording artists and record labels. SoundExchange represents one the music industry’s fastest growing segments including more than 48,000 payable performer accounts and over20,000 rights owners and label accounts.
Michael has devoted the past 12 years of his career to protecting the value of music. Prior to being appointed to SoundExchange’s top position in 2011, he most recently served as organization’s executive vice president and general counsel.
Michael holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. His optimism helped to place SoundExchange among Forbes Magazine’s “Top Names You Need to Know for 2011.”
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
Arts+Labs Innovation Central Podcast – Michael Huppe of SoundExchange, Part 1
Chris Castle Talks with Michael Huppe of SoundExhange
Michael J. Huppe
Innovation Central Podcast – Michael Huppe, part 1
Michael Huppe is responsible for the strategic direction of SoundExchange, the nonprofit organization that collects digital music royalties paid by internet radio, satellite radio and other digital media services on behalf of recording artists and record labels. SoundExchange represents one the music industry’s fastest growing segments including more than 48,000 payable performer accounts and over20,000 rights owners and label accounts.
Michael has devoted the past 12 years of his career to protecting the value of music. Prior to being appointed to SoundExchange’s top position in 2011, he most recently served as organization’s executive vice president and general counsel.
Michael holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a JD from Harvard Law School. He is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. His optimism helped to place SoundExchange among Forbes Magazine’s “Top Names You Need to Know for 2011.”
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
Arts+Labs Innovation Central Podcast – Evan Lowenstein of StageIt, Part 2
Chris Castle talks with Evan Lowenstein of StageIt
Evan Lowenstein, StageIt
Innovation Central Podcast – Evan Lowenstein, part 2
A music industry veteran with over 15 years experience, Evan Lowenstein founded StageIt in 2009. As the CEO of the new, web-based platform created for artists by artists to enable them to deliver and monetize the ultimate, interactive live experience, Lowenstein oversees all aspects of the expansion strategy of the company.
Most recently, Lowenstein founded and served as President of HookUp Feed, a premier social networking and mobile marketing company whose clients include The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, American Airlines, Domino’s Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery. Lowenstein has been an advisor to the company since November 2010.
Previously, he hosted USA Network’s Character Road Trip, a weekly series providing viewers with a peek into the greatest “characters” the country has to offer. Lowenstein was also a recording and touring artist with pop/rock band Evan and Jaron who scored three Top 40 hits, including the Top 10 song ”Crazy For This Girl”.
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“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
Arts+Labs Innovation Central Podcast: Evan Lowenstein of StageIt, Part 1
Chris Castle talks with Evan Lowenstein of StageIt
Evan Lowenstein, StageIt
Innovation Central Podcast – Evan Lowenstein, part 1
A music industry veteran with over 15 years experience, Evan Lowenstein founded StageIt in 2009. As the CEO of the new, web-based platform created for artists by artists to enable them to deliver and monetize the ultimate, interactive live experience, Lowenstein oversees all aspects of the expansion strategy of the company.
Most recently, Lowenstein founded and served as President of HookUp Feed, a premier social networking and mobile marketing company whose clients include The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, American Airlines, Domino’s Pizza and Cold Stone Creamery. Lowenstein has been an advisor to the company since November 2010.
Previously, he hosted USA Network’s Character Road Trip, a weekly series providing viewers with a peek into the greatest “characters” the country has to offer. Lowenstein was also a recording and touring artist with pop/rock band Evan and Jaron who scored three Top 40 hits, including the Top 10 song ”Crazy For This Girl”.
Visit the Innovation Central archive
“Jabberwocky” performed by Gardening, Not Architecture. Written by Sarah Saturday, Copyright 2012 Principiis Obsta Music (ASCAP), All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of SemaphoreMusic.com
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