episode 2: Deborah Newman

When no one else at Columbia Records believed that MTV or the music video format would be anything more than a passing fad, Deborah Newman embraced them both, becoming responsible for executive producing music videos and live television performances for the label.  She soon found herself spearheading a new division of CBS Records, creating long-form music programming for television and home video.

Listen to the latest interview on Between the Liner Notes as Deborah tells stories about touring the USSR with Billy Joel while producing his “Live From Leningrad” HBO special and home video and working on the Peabody award winning documentary “John Hammond: From Bessie Smith to Bruce Springsteen,” an American Masters PBS special.  Always the trailblazer, Deborah began working with music internet companies like N2K’s Music Boulevard, PressPlay and Muze.  Also a licensed attorney, she talks in depth about how outdated copyright law and new methods of digital music distribution have created hurdles for music technology startup companies.  She founded her consulting company MusicStrat to help startups like turntable.fm navigate the treacherous waters of music licensing in the digital age.  Listen to these tales from a music pioneer exclusively on Between the Liner Notes.

episode 1: Richard Barone

Richard Barone began his long career in the music industry while in Florida at age sixteen when a chance meeting with Tiny Tim led to his first job producing a major act.  He eventually made his way to Hoboken, New Jersey where he convinced the owner of Maxwell’s Pub to allow his newly formed band the Bongos to be the first act ever to perform there.  Soon, the Bongos were discovered in Hoboken and signed to a record label which led to the recording of their first album and first international tour.  Since that moment Richard’s career has taken many fascinating turns on both major and independent labels allowing him to work with many legends of the music world as songwriter, performer, record producer and concert promoter. Listen to this exclusive interview on Between the Liner Notes

episode 18: The Founders of Jamplify.com

It’s no secret that word-of-mouth advertising is still an extremely effective marketing force for musicians, and nothing has been more potent than the traditional street team. The music technology company Jamplify developed a platform that allows artists to harness that power on the internet by rewarding fans who most actively spread the word with “Scratchbacks,” premiums unique to each artist.

Listen as founders Andy Pickens and Moses Soyoola talk about how they first met while surreptitiously watching an Olympic Soccer game on Moses’s laptop while in economics class. Months later they began creating a platform that focuses on the gamification of sharing an artist’s content online. They discuss how clients like Lynard Skynard and Bruno Mars have leveraged their platform, and of their plans to expand Jamplify beyond one-off marketing campaigns and into a database of influential fans that can be capitalized on time and time again. Exclusively on Between the Liner Notes.