This past Halloween season was the biggest ever. I’m sure you felt it too. It’s moved beyond a simple night into weeks of build up and days of parties. According …
Beats & Bytes – Quality Festivals, Quality Brand Activations
I saw a lot of great festivals this year. Besides quality music, a common theme was quality brand activations. You can read all about my top five that I saw …
Beats & Bytes – Share Your Tech Ideas
Six months ago we started incubating a new content series for the hip hop tech space called Hot In Tech.You may have seen it in Beats + Bytes before and …
Beats & Bytes – San Francisco Spirit
Traveling always helps bring about a change for your mind. New people, new experiences, and new conversations allow us to grow and be inspired and this past weekend in San …
Two New NYC Festivals
With great risk comes great reward and this weekend two new festivals launched in NYC. It almost felt a little greedy. After all of the amazing festival music this summer was …
Beats & Bytes: Global Citizen Fest
What a weekend! Global Citizen Festival was the most fun I’ve had all month. Doing good feels good! The Global Citizen Festival is so unique because it combines actionable social …
The streaming wars continue to intensify
The streaming wars continue to intensify. Spotify is gearing up for their IPO. Pandora announced a new streaming service rate of $4.95 per month and Questlove as their artist in …
Beats & Bytes: Artist Curated Festivals Work
In two weeks Chance The Rapper will launch the first ever Magnificent Coloring Day Festival at U.S. Cellular Field on Chicago’s Southside. The show has a great lineup and is breaking …
Beats & Bytes: 2016 MTV VMAs
This weekend I was invited to my third VMAs. My first one was when I signed and represented the Clipse and Justin Timberlake for his world premiere of his first single …
Beats & Bytes: VMEGA Joins Nike
While I was out in LA last week, Nike announce that it purchased a New York based Tech company called VIRGIN MEGA (VMEGA). VMEGA is the brainchild of Ron Faris …