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Music Moments of Super Bowl LV 🏈🎶

Super Bowl LV weekend has passed. This one was definitely different. I wasn’t chancing it at a Super Spreader Sunday event. We are nearing the end of this thing and it would be a shame to get Covid now. I’m imagining a magical Summer and “the new normal” soon thereafter. Watching from the comfort of […]

The Memes of Wall Street

The most exciting thing in culture this week is…the stock market? It’s obviously more complicated than “Reddit is wreaking havoc on Wall Street,” but it’s also true. There has been major disruption in the finance industry thanks to a relatively small group of savvy users who discovered weaknesses in the market and exploited them using […]

Tech’s Newest Unicorn 🦄

One of the biggest success stories of the pandemic has been an app called Clubhouse. Clubhouse, which officially launched in February 2020, took off in late Spring and has since become the place to hangout, network, and connect. All day and night there are conversations taking place on a wide range of topics from crypto […]

The HeART & Soul of 🇺🇸

Welp, well made it to Inauguration Day. President Biden has declared his top priorities to be Covid, Covid, and Covid! He has vowed to deliver 100 million vaccines in his first 100 days. I’m hopeful that an expedited, coherent vaccine rollout will take place in America and that herd immunity will be achieved by year’s […]

America Is Growing

After another crazy week in America, the world is beginning to transform. The Democrats won both seats in Georgia and took the Senate, so the direction of the country is becoming clearer. Nothing is guaranteed, of course, but having a little stability is exciting, especially as we business plan 2021 and look for new, cutting […]

New Year, New Goals for Beats + Bytes

I’m excited to leave last year in the past. 2020 is truly just hindsight now. Although there aren’t any surefire signs of rapid change, all roads point to the return of events, parties, conferences, and live music by the end of the year. At worst we will be back on by 2022. Will we ever […]

Jesse Kirshbaum’s 2021 Music Business’s Predictions & Rising Trends

It goes without saying that the music business started the year in a very different spot than it finished. After serious declines in recorded music for most of my career, the business was seeing unprecedented, double-digit growth going into 2020. The live business was booming and more artists were touring, resulting in higher ticket sales. […]

Beats, Bytes, and Brands: The Series

In this time of quarantine and hardship, music is more important than ever. It’s the universal language and the great connector. In a world where there is so much noise online, music is also an undervalued asset when it comes to marketing products and embedding them in culture. Brands often have social media and sports […]

Post MusicGamingCon Glow

Hot off the back of MusicGamingCon, we’re finishing the year as strong as possible. The next few weeks will be about reflection, insight, and making the most of the holidays in Covid times. That said, a lot of things are taking shape for 2021, which we’ll touch on in the coming weeks. Today, though, I’m […]

Is Holiday Season Cancelled?

Is the holiday season cancelled? Thanksgiving weekend is my favorite weekend of the year. Although turkey day itself is based on an idea I’m questioning more than ever, the weekend is always filled with the people and things we love the most. Sure, it’s tough to embrace the holiday spirit with the pandemic’s second wave […]