100,000 Miles Flown This Year. Boy am I jetlagged.

For the first time ever, I’ve flown 100,000 miles before November. Back when we were aggressively growing the company in 2001, I barely hit 100K by the end of the year. This year has been ridiculous in regards to my travel and I still have a lot more to go.
So what makes [...]

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New York Times: Suburban Bands Stay Out of the City

Just a few weeks after I published my essay on the New Brunswick, NJ music scene in the 90’s, after I finished reading
“New Brunswick, New Jersey, Goodbye: Bands, Dirty Basements and the Search For Self” and after publishing my summary of NYC Music Venues in the 90’s, the New York Times published a piece on [...]

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New York City Area Concert Venues of the 1990’s

Thanks to our good friend, Google, I’ve been receiving some good feedback on my recent article about the New Brunswick, NJ Music Scene. One of the emails I received spawned an interesting conversation about the music venues of the mid-90s where many of the punk, ska and hardcore concerts took place in the NYC area. [...]

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NASDAQ Opening and Breakfast with Scott McNeally

Just a quick entry to document a fun time this morning. We were invited to breakfast with Sun Microsystems Chairman and Co-Founder, Scott McNeally during the opening of the NASDAQ market. Scott was an interesting fellow (as to be expected) and had some very interesting things to say about the future of [...]

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Evolution of a Town. Evolution of its Music. My Non-Role in the mid-90’s New Brunswick, NJ Music Scene

A note about this piece: This is the unedited version of an essay I prepared for a writer and an old college friend, who is starting down the long journey of trying to document the New Jersey and New York City indie music scene of the 90’s. Counting the number of bricks on [...]

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