| |
 Contributors
|
To guarantee that our offerings are of
the highest possible quality, each section of StarPolish is written, edited, and designed by music
industry experts active in their respective fields, or by artists who have been there and done that.
|
| | Anonymous
|
| Peter Finestone
|
| Max McAndrew
House Of Blues |
| | Jamie Abzug
|
| Tracie Galinski
StarPolish, TEG |
| Joseph McCombs
freelance writer |
| | Dave Allen
Business Development, Intel |
| Paul Geller
|
| Kristina Mondo
|
| | Kevin Anthony
Control-One Studios / electro-land |
| Sara Gibson
sonicnet.com |
| David J. Moser, Esq.
|
| | Bruce Armstrong
|
| Michael Goldberg
Co-Founder/Editor in Chief, Neumu |
| Chris Mugno
|
| | Moses Avalon
mosesavalon.com |
| Andrea Goode Barber
|
| Rozz Nash
Artist |
| | Carolyn Ballen
The Indie Music Forum |
| Billy Gould
|
| Dan Ostrowski
Alive! with the Arts |
| | Andrea Benvenuto
|
| Danny Hest
|
| Bruce Pollock
|
| | Ben Berkman
Principal, Octone |
| John Hipple, Ph.D
|
| Jeff Rabhan
|
| | J Bills
StarPolish, TEG |
| William Hochberg
|
| Madelyn Scarpulla
Atlantic Records |
| | Rishon Blumberg
Brick Wall Management |
| Alee Hoffman
Contributor, StarPolish.com |
| Rob Siano
Spinning Images |
| | Mike Bobbitt
BOHA Entertainment |
| Greg Johnson
The Blue Door |
| Joseph Siprut, Esq.
|
| | Greg Boggs
A&R, Columbia |
| Gary L. Kaplan, Esq.
StarPolish, TEG |
| Janine Small, Esq.
Partner, Carroll, Guido & Groffman |
| | Dan Brown
womanrock.com |
| Tom Kitt
Artist |
| Michael Solomon
Brick Wall Management |
| | Steve Brown
|
| Carrie Klein
Nasty Little Man |
| Vivek J. Tiwary
StarPolish, TEG |
| | Richard James Burgess
Burgess Worldco |
| Nick Krewen
|
| Liquid Todd
DJ, 92.3 K-Rock NYC |
| | Edie Carey
Artist |
| Jonathan Leeder
Starpolish |
| Ron Wasserman
Fisher |
| | Devon Copley
The Animators |
| Meredith LeVande
Artist |
| Tina Whelski
|
| | Dino Covelli
SonicNet.com |
| Marisa Lowenstein
freelance writer |
| James K. Willcox
StarPolish |
| | Scotty Crowe
|
| Mary Lyn Maiscott
|
| John Williams
The Clarks |
| | D2 Media
D2 Media |
| Lynne Margolis
Freelance Writer |
| Gail Worley
Freelance Rock Critic |
| | Robert L Doerschuk
StarPolish |
| Dave Marsh
Music Critic/Historian |
| Rebecca Wright
Creative Director, Universal Publishing |
| | David Fagin
The Rosenbergs |
| Mark H. Maxwell, Esq.
|
Anonymous
|
| |
Political Beat is written by an anonymous author who has worked at a high level in the political, media and entertainment sectors. Anonymous has a BA in History from an Ivy League university and recently graduated from a New York law school. Although Anonymous is not a member of any political party, the Political Beat will tackle the political issues which influence and shape the entertainment community and seeks to change the community's views -- and reveal its biases -- on the government and the political process, issue by issue, person by person.
Current Issues:
|
|
Dave Allen Business Development, Intel
|
| |
StarPolish contributor Dave Allen has had a varied career in the music business as a performer, a record label executive and pioneer in the digital music space. Allen played bass with seminal post-punk band Gang of Four, joined XTC’s Barry Andrews in Shriekback, and co-founded World Domination Recordings with the Gold Mountain Management team of Ron Stone and Danny Goldberg. Allen has also served as director of Internet strategy for Koch International, and as Emusic’s general manager. Currently, Allen is content services business development director at Intel, and will release a second solo album this spring.
Current Issues:
|
|
Kevin Anthony Control-One Studios / electro-land
|
| |
Kevin Anthony is one half of the electronic duo known as electro-land and along with musical partner Gene Harper they also own and operate their multimedia facility called Control-One Studios in NYC. Electro-land is the creative musical outlet for their releases in the electronic music genre while Control-One Studios is the commercial outlet for web/multimedia audio, with clients such as the United States Navy, Rapp-Collins Worldwide, Fashion500.com, Cyber-NY, Fuji Film North America, Act-Trade Capital, Starpolish.com, Absolut Vodka and TBWA Chiat Day. Kevin has performed with several bands throughout his musical career that started in Galveston, Texas. During his time in Texas he performed in several acts that had the privilege of opening for large touring bands such as New Order, Book of Love, Faith No More, Curve and Cracker. He attended the Art Institute of Houston and graduated with a degree in Commercial Advertising in 1989.
Sections:
|
|
Bruce Armstrong
|
| |
Bruce Armstrong writes StarPolish's "MUSIC IS MY BUSINESS” column. Bruce has shared the stage as a working musician in the 1970’s with names such as Steppenwolfe, Patti Labelle, Rod Stewart, The Coasters, The Kingsmen and other notables of the time. In the 80’s and 90’s, he decided to get a real job, advising millionaires on investing and financial planning. Getting bored with that during the dotcom heydays, he started a media company and nationally syndicated radio feature, interviewing artists and players as diverse as rock stars and label presidents. He now lives in both worlds, and is currently receiving treatment and therapy. Email your questions and comments to him at bruce@dejamuse.com
Current Issues:
|
|
Moses Avalon mosesavalon.com
|
| |
Moses Avalon is author of "Confessions of a Record Producer: How to Survive
the Scams and Scams of the Music Business," and "Secrets of Negotiating a
Record Contract: The Musician's Guide to Understanding and Avoiding Sneaky
Lawyer Tricks." A music industry consultant and advocate, he has produced and
engineered records for Warner Bros. and BMG. Avalon’s work with Grammy
award-winning artists has earned him five Platinum records and several
Billboard and Ampex Golden Reel awards.
|
|
Carolyn Ballen The Indie Music Forum
|
| |
My career in the music industry started at Disc Makers, where I was introduced to the independent side of the music business. I worked in every department of the company, eventually landing in the marketing department where I was a marketing manager for five years. My responsibilities included media buying, merchandising, and coordination of our music conference involvement, including sponsorships and production of the necessary marketing materials.
I've traveled all over the country planning, moderating and speaking on panels at various music related events such as The Philadelphia Music Conference, Nemo, LMNOP, The Folk Alliance, Kanahwhapalooza, The Songwriters Hall of Fame, Millennium Music Conference, Women In Music, The RockrGrl Music Conference and many more. I believe it was after the third panel I put together that I knew I had found my calling. With my business and marketing experience in hand, I created The Indie Music Forum . I'm proud to have an event where I can provide interested knowledgeable speakers and information to musicians, managers or small record labels just starting out in the music business. It’s also a rich environment for those looking to network and to find new ideas to expand on their current music business endeavors.
In January of this year, I also managed a tour from L.A. to Philadelphia for the band Sonny Bones. Finally, I do live and candid photography and am currently teaching an 8-week course on Event Planning & Promotion for the Continuing Education program at Baruch College in New York City.
Sections:
|
|
Ben Berkman Principal, Octone
|
| |
Ben Berkman has spent the majority of his young career working on developing artist projects at Columbia Records and Warner Bros. Among these acts are System of A Down, Our Lady Peace, The Lo-Fidelity Allstars, Train and most recently Wheatus. As a journalist, he periodically writes for The Fader, a monthly music and pop culture review. Currently, Ben is a partner in Octone Records, a New York City based independent label. Distributed by BMG, Octone has a joint venture deal with J Records (Clive Davis' new label). Ben got his start in the music business working as an intern to Sony CEO Tommy Mottola.
Sections:
|
|
J Bills StarPolish, TEG
|
| |
J Bills joined the StarPolish team in June 2000. Currently J directs the marketing and design of SP, including managing day to day operations. J came to Manhattan from Kansas City, having previously worked as a Graphic Designer for ABC and later CBS. Coupled with his design experience and computer skills, J also has a strong marketing background, having been the Mercury Records Alternative Marketing Representative for the Kansas City market for 2 years. While with Mercury, J provided radio, retail, video, press, lifestyle, and campus marketing as well as tour support. J worked with a diverse group of bands, from drum n bass pioneer Roni Size to alternative rockers 311 to rapper LL Cool J to teen sensation Hanson. J is also a musician himself, playing drums, bass, guitar and keyboards/programming. J has performed with several bands and also has compiled a considerable DJ resume, spinning clubs/opening for bands and hosting KUJH's weekly music video show from 1997-1999. J received his B.A. in Film from the University of Kansas.
Current Issues:
|
|
Rishon Blumberg Brick Wall Management
|
| |
Rishon began his career in the music business while in college as the talent buyer for the University of Pennsylvania, where he booked shows with Living Colour, De La Soul, BluesTraveler, Cypress Hill, The Indigo Girls, and others. He then had short stints at Major Music (artist management: G-Love & Special Sauce, Fun Lovin' Criminals), at Susan Blond PR, and in the Epic Records marketing department. He then went on tour with Natalie Merchant, handling her merchandising and acting as
assistant tour manager. After this, he worked in concert promotion at Nederlander Concerts and then SFX/DelsenerSlater Ent. (now owned by Clear Channel Entertainment), where he worked on the promotion, sales, and marketing of shows for artists as diverse as Smashing Pumpkins, Soul Coughing, Sonic Youth, Alanis Morrisette, Hole, Rancid, and others. In 1995 he and Michael Solomon formed Brick Wall Management, an artist management and entertainment consulting firm. As a partner in Brick Wall, Rishon co-manages all of the company's artists and is on the board of advisors for Musicians On Call. Current Brick Wall clients include John Mayer, The Clarks and Marc Broussard, and past clients have included Velocity
Girl, Marcy Playground, Tuscadero, Cinnamon, and others. Brick Wall Management also consults for Jon Landau Management (Bruce Springsteen, Shania Twain) and StarPolish and administers The Kristen Ann Carr Fund.
Sections:
|
|
Mike Bobbitt BOHA Entertainment
|
| |
Mike Bobbitt holds a BA in Urban Studies from Harvard University. As a former A&R, business affairs, video production and marketing person for StepSun Music (a joint venture with Tommy Boy Music), Mike has seen the recording industry from various capacities. Mike's marketing ideas helped to promote StepSun as an "eclectic" full service label, while the videos for which he served as Executive Producer enjoyed play on major national outlets like Black Entertainment Television (BET). Following StepSun, Mike worked at Chris Rock Entertainment Inc., and then served as the Vice President of Marketing and Promotions at Mouth Almighty/Mercury Records. Mike has directed the promotion, marketing and production of projects as diverse as Allen Ginsberg, Chris Rock, Timothy Leary, The Last Poets, Mr. Paul Mooney, Miss Jones and others. His experience spans various genre of music, including spoken-word, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, acid jazz, rap and reggae. Mike has also served as panelist and lecturer, book reviewer, seminar director, music video director's representative and member of the Board of Directors for an artists' writing and producing collective (Inner-City University). Mike is currently a partner in BOHA Entertainment Inc., an artist management/development and strategic consultation company.
Contact Info:
Email: BOHAENTINC@aol.com
Sections:
|
|
Greg Boggs A&R, Columbia
|
| |
Boggs graduated with a Marketing degree from Richard Stockton College of New Jersey, and began his career in the marketing department at performing rights organization BMI. He left BMI for a position signing artists to BMI competitor SESAC. After three years at SESAC, Boggs re-joined BMI's Writer Publisher Relations staff, signing various artists from Creed to Kid Rock. He then took a job as East Coast A&R for Time Bomb Recordings (Arista/BMG). Since mid-2000, Boggs has been A&R for Columbia Records in New York, where he works w/various artists including lostprophets, Aqualung, Acceptance, Elkland, & The Lashes.
Sections:
|
|
Steve Brown
|
| |
Steve Brown is the lead singer and songwriter for the Philadelphia-based band The Rigbees (www.rigbees.com), who have received national airplay on PRI’s World Café and are currently booking a regional tour of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic in support of their debut release AM Radio Companion. Steve runs his own publishing and management company (Flare Gun Music) and is also a self-proclaimed music scholar/freak, freelance music writer and photographer.
Current Issues:
|
|
Richard Burgess Burgess Worldco
|
| |
Richard James Burgess has achieved chart success as a studio drummer, programmer, signed major label artist, record producer, published author and most recently as an artist manager. He helped define the computer programmers’ and samplers’ role in modern music with Fairlight CMI (the world's first digital sampling machine) firsts such as Kate Bush’s Never Forever album and Visage’s Fade To Grey. With Dave Simmons, he designed the first electronic drums, the famous hexagonal shaped SDS5. Richard’s reputation for being ahead of his time began with three appearances on the BBC TV program Tomorrows’ World: the first featuring his own electronic drum invention, then his innovative use of computers in pop music, and finally as one of the first users of the Fairlight CMI. This was in the seventies when the “staples to be” of the eighties and nineties-- electronic drums, computers and samplers-- were virtually unknown in the music business. In the early eighties, Richard emerged as a pre-eminent producer of what was later dubbed the “New Romantic” movement by producing Spandau Ballet’s first two gold albums and first five hit singles, a compilation of which is double platinum. Other productions include: Adam Ant, King, New Edition, Melba Moore, America, Kim Wilde, Five Star, Tony Banks (of Genesis), Fish (of Marillion), Living In A Box, Princess, Virginia Astley, Errol Brown (of Hot Chocolate fame), When In Rome, Shriekback, and a pioneering ambient album by the award-wining British group Praise. Richard’s NYC productions of Colonel Abram’s “Trapped” and “I'm Not Gonna Let” are widely considered to have been influential in the beginnings of the House Music phenomenon. Richard’s mixes include tracks for the movies 9 1/2 Weeks, About Last Night and artistes Thomas Dolby, Lou Reed, Yossour N'dour and many others. His compositions and productions have appeared in many TV shows and movies. His book “The Art of Record Production” has become required reading in many colleges that have music production courses, and he has written many articles for technical and music magazines. Richard also wrote and presented the program “Let There Be Drums” for the BBC World Service. As a producer he has created 24 hit singles and 14 hit albums. Many major-label artists have recorded his songs. He has won a Music Week sales award for biggest selling singles producer in Great Britain. Richard currently runs his own Independent Label, Booking Agency and Management Company on the East Coast of the US.
Sections:
|
|
Edie Carey
|
| |
Edie Carey's musical career began the moment she stuck her two-year-old head between the green, sticky seats of her baby-sitter Grace's car and belted out "Love lift us up where we belong!" Since then, Carey has attempted Aretha, growled to Sam and Dave, and even embraced her puritan side as a singing Hester Prynne, but somewhere around fifteen she accidentally fell into the world of folk music. However, though she considers folk her real home, she has never forgotten the day that someone told her she had "white girl soul." (Needless to say, she was relieved to discover that there was a special soul category for privileged white girls from Boston with cousins named Flip, Skip, Trip, and Nip.)
Regular New York venues include Fez, The Bitter End, The Living Room, CB's Gallery, and The Postcrypt. Carey has also headlined prestigious folk rooms such as Club Passim in Cambridge, Fire and Water in Northampton, The Mercury Cafe in Denver, The Rich Forum in Stamford, and The Met Cafe in Providence. She has performed the streets of Telluride during its annual Bluegrass Festival, and stolen the smaller stages at the Newport Folk Festival, earning friends and fans from across the country. Carey recently began a series of tours around the U.S. to promote her first album, "The Falling Places."
Along with Ani Difranco, Sandra Bernhard, and Rufus Wainwright, Carey was recently nominated for a 1998 GLAMA award in the Acoustic/Folk category for her song, "If I Were You."
Carey's debut CD, "The Falling Places," recently released through Accidental Poet Productions, can be heard on several folk-friendly radio stations, including WBOS and WUMB in Boston, KOTO and KGNU in Colorado, WPKN, WRTC, and WSHU in Connecticut, WJFF in New York, and WYMS in Wisconsin.
She has appeared with such artists as Leo Kottke, Cliff Eberhardt, Luka Bloom, Brooks Williams, Lucy Kaplansky, Dee Carstensen, Melissa Ferrick, and Sandra Bernhard.
Edie’s second album, entitled “Call Me Home,” was released on August 22nd, 2000 as a follow up to her critically-acclaimed 1998 debut, “The Falling Places.” “Call Me Home” features such acclaimed musicians as drummer Shawn Pelton (Saturday Night Live, Shawn Colvin), bassist T-Bone Wolk (Shawn Colvin, Carly Simon, Saturday Night Live), and Red House Records Recording Artist, Cliff Eberhardt.
Sections:
Current Issues:
|
|
Dino Covelli SonicNet.com
|
| |
Dino currently works with the MTV Interactive Group as an Audio Engineer, where he creates both streaming and downloadable audio content for sonicnet.com and is responsible for attaining, editing, encoding, and publishing media. But more importantly, Dino is a musician. Kicking to the beat in the womb was a pretty good foreshadowing of Dino becoming a musician. In fact, had they made wireless handheld computers and had there been an Internet back in 1975, Covelli would have promoted his Placenta Rock Beats online. Dino graduated in 1997 from the State University of New York College at Oneonta with a Bachelor of the Arts Degree in Music. He has been performing with rock outfits since the late 80's, and continues to perform and back-up different musical acts. Two cover bands, Rock Culture and Jake And The Mountain Men, keep Dino grounded in the current rock/pop scene. His main project is Mad Machinery, a pseudonym for his solo works. Covelli promotes this and all of his other projects on his website .
Sections:
|
|
D2 Media D2 Media
|
| |
D2 Media was formed in 1998 to provide leading edge technology and creative design solutions for the Internet. We pride ourselves on the energy we bring to the entire solution development process. It’s this energy that has allowed us to work with not only StarPolish, but also companies from diverse industries including non-profit, manufacturing, and publishing. D2 strives to be a boundary less organization of visionaries who aren’t afraid to challenge existing standards in creating revolutionary technology products and solutions. Please visit us at D2Media.com or reach us at 888-865-4321.
|
|
Robert Doerschuk StarPolish
|
| |
Robert L. Doerschuk spent seventeen years on staff at Keyboard magazine, where he won two ASCAP Deems Taylor Awards for excellence in music journalism. From 1995 through '99 he served as editor-in-chief of the late and lamented Musician magazine. In the years since Musician's demise Doerschuk has concentrated on Internet publication, holding staff positions with Sonicnet, Allmusic.com, Music Player Network, and Harmony Central, in each case abandoning ship as investors bailed out. Currently on relatively solid ground as a freelancer, he contributes to StarPolish, Launch, CD-Now, and other publications. In addition, he has edited several books, including Rough Guide's Tipbook series on musical instruments and an upcoming volume of classic artist interviews from GPI. Doerschuk's second book, 88: The Great Jazz Pianists, will be published by Backbeat Books in January. He lives in Nashville, where he is looking for gigs as a piano player; his first Music City session was on legendary songwriter Fred Koller's latest album, No Song Left to Sell.
|
|
David Fagin The Rosenbergs
|
| |
David Fagin: singer, songwriter, music activist, writer. David is the guitarist/vocalist for, The Rosenbergs: The New York City "Power Popsters" whose legacy is tied to both music and how the music industry shall forever treat its performers. The Rosenbergs signed a deal with King Crimson founder and music maverick, Robert Fripp's label, DGM. The deal is unique in its design to provide an alternative to the major label stranglehold on rights and earnings, by allowing the band to retain ownership of their masters while still receiving tour support, marketing and distribution. In cooperation with Napster, DGM and The Rosenbergs released 10,000 copies of their record, MISSION:YOU, with a free, full length, extra "Napster copy". Almost as integral to their rise to prominence in the music industry as their music was their face off with "Jimmy and Doug’s Farmclub.com". Invited to star on the show in exchange for a record contract which David and the band viewed as perpetuating the industry’s imbalance, they soundly refused to relinquish control of their art, or destiny. Ultimately it was Farmclub which folded under the pressure of artist versus industry, largely due to the well publicized battle with The Rosenbergs. Being poster children for artists' rights, David speaks to students at universities around the country. He’s spoken at Harvard Law School, Georgetown University, the Washington Area Lawyer's Association, and was the keynote speaker Feb. 22 at a joint venture between Emory University Law School and Georgia State Law School. He recently appeared on the Howard Stern show with Gene Simmons from, Kiss and, along with Alanis Morissette, testified on behalf of the Webcasters at the Copyright Arbitration Royalty hearings in Washington, which resulted in an appearance on the cover of the Hollywood Reporter. His recent appearance with Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Amy Ray (Indigo Girls), Krist Novoselic(Nirvana,Jampac), and Tim Bierman (Pearl Jam) at the Future of Music Conference in Georgetown, landed him on the front page of the "Arts" section in the NY Times . The band just supported Echo and The Bunnymen on their North American tour. The band's most recent video, "After All", was directed by Anna Gabriel and Adria Petty, the offspring of Tom and Peter, and is airing on Much Music as well as MTV Japan. David is not fearful for the band to me more well known for what they say rather than what they play, as president Bush just signed a bill proclaiming their music more important.
Current Issues:
|
|
Peter Finestone
|
| |
Peter Finestone began his musical education at the age of fifteen as drum roadie for seminal LA punk band the Circle Jerks. After being introduced to fellow San Fernando Valley misfits, Bad Religion, Peter began a relationship that lasted over 13 years.
Starting as a roadie, Finestone ultimately graduated to full-time drummer with the band, and over the next two decades recorded on such ground-breaking albums as Suffer, No Control, Against the Grain, and others. Today Bad Religion’s influence can be heard in the music of Pennywise, Nofx, Offspring and Blink 182. Finestone’s whipsaw, memorial drumming has influenced many of today’s stellar players.
Since leaving Bad Religion, Peter has continued his drumming duties with local bands, and he has widened his musical involvement by writing profiles and reviews for Music.com, Riffage.com and currently, Starpolish. We also hear that he has a wicked left-hook.
Current Issues:
|
|
Sara Gibson sonicnet.com
|
| |
Sara Gibson is currently Director of Publishing at sonicnet.com, a division of the MTV Interactive Group. She oversees the All Music Directory-- sonicnet's comprehensive database of artists, genres, labels, magazines, stores, newsgroups, concerts, radio stations and web events. She also supervises the digital downloads process, in which sonicnet procures free, legal MP3s for its users. Sara produced VH1's first-ever online auction-- The 1999 Bruce Springsteen Charity Ticket Auction, which eventually raised over $190,000 for Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization that uses music and entertainment to promote and complement the healing process. Additionally, Sara has designed, produced and promoted giveaways, sweepstakes and contests on sonicnet proper, including online promotions with record labels such as Artemis, Atomic Pop, Astralwerks, Beggars' Banquet, Capitol, Columbia, Elektra, Epic, Grand Royal, Interscope, Mammoth, Mercury, Risk, Sire, TVT, Virgin and Warner Brothers; and with a host of companies as diverse as Amuznet, Chevy, DVD Express, Electric Artists, Kappa Clothing, Kik Wear, K2, Manic Panic, Milky Way, Technics and more. Prior to her work in the online space, Sara held positions at both Mercury Records and Interscope/Nothing Records in alternative marketing, video promotion, product management, and A&R. Sara graduated from UC Berkeley in 1997.
Contact Info:
Email: sonicsara@aol.com
Sections:
|
|
Michael Goldberg Co-Founder/Editor in Chief, Neumu
|
| |
Michael Goldberg is Co-Founder and Editor in Chief of Neumu, an online pop culture magazine; and president/CEO of insiderone.net, a consulting and production company serving the online and offline entertainment business. He is a distinguished pioneer in the online music space; Newsweek magazine called him an "Internet visionary." In 1994 Goldberg founded Addicted To Noise (ATN), a highly influential music Web site and the first with original content. At ATN, Goldberg created and oversaw the Addicted To Noise Music News of the World. This well-respected round-the-clock music news service developed a global reach into over 40 million homes. Goldberg's other innovations included the world's first online album review with audio samples, as well as Cinemachine, the movie-review search engine. In 1997, Addicted To Noise merged with SonicNet, and Goldberg was named Senior Vice President and Editorial Director of SonicNet. MTV Networks acquired SonicNet in July 1999 and Goldberg was named Editor in Chief, SonicNet. While Goldberg was at SonicNet, the company won Webby awards for best music site in 1998 and 1999, and also won Yahoo Internet Life! awards for three years running as best music site in 1998, 1999 and 2000. At SonicNet, Goldberg co-created SonicNet's FlashRadio, a service that pioneered the convergence of music and Flash animation. He created MTVi's first download area, D-Rev 2000, which combined digital music news with a multi-genre annotated download section. Also at SonicNet he wrote, produced and directed "rrrebel.com," a futuristic, sci-fi Flash animation serial. Prior to starting Addicted To Noise, Goldberg was an editor and senior writer at Rolling Stone magazine for 10 years. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Esquire, Vibe, Details, Downbeat, the New Musical Express and numerous other publications. The Bay Area native began his professional career — for which he prepared by running a poster business in junior high school, promoting concerts at his high school and publishing local rock magazine Hard Road — as a columnist for director Francis Ford Coppola'sCity of San Francisco magazine in 1975. Goldberg's weekly music column, "The Drama You've Been Craving," appears in StarPolish's "Current Events" area. It also runs on the ARTISTdirect network of music sites and on neumu.net.
Current Issues:
| |
