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Business & Technology Episodes

Jan. 19, 2021

David Whitehead

David Whitehead is a music manager who has worked with David Byrne, David Bowie, Helmet, Joe Jackson, Laurie Anderson, Luna, Hugh Laurie, and many others.
Dec. 21, 2020

Austin Arthouse Film Festival

Check out this BONUS episode featuring Giselle Marie Muñoz and Elizabeth Tabish, cofounders of the Austin Arthouse Film Festival.
Nov. 24, 2020

Ethan Clift - Tonic Labs

Ethan Clift chat with LP about Tonic Audio Lab's new songwriting companion, Lumos. Lumos helps songwriters capture more new song ideas than ever before and finish that list of partially-completed music riffs you've had for y…
Guest: Ethan Clift
Nov. 10, 2020

Marc Brown - Byta

LP chats with Co-founder of Byta, Marc Brown. They talk about music consumption, recommendations, platforms they dig and how Byta is trying to solve pain points around "sharing music before it's on streaming services."
Guest: Marc Brown
Oct. 27, 2020

Phil Messier - Bopper

Phil Messier, founder of Bopper, joins LP to discuss the formation of his company, talking Montreal and their jazz roots.
Guest: Phil Messier
Oct. 20, 2020

David Gorman

David Gorman, Cofounder of 1021 Creative, discusses growing up in Detroit, record collecting, the roots of soul music, his time working with Rhino Records, and what makes a good album cover.
Guest: David Gorman
Oct. 14, 2020

Isabella Kelly - Kingdom of Mind

Isabella Kelly, founder of concert and live experience production company, Kingdom of Mind chats with LP about her start with events, how she was awarded Live Nation's Women Nation Fund, and launching Kingdom of Mind.
Oct. 6, 2020

Marco Collins - Radio Personality

Marco Collins joins LP to talk about music discovery, the Cocteau Twins, breaking artists like Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Beck in the 90s, the British electronic scene, and more.
Guest: Marco Collins
Sept. 29, 2020

Dmitri Vietze - Music Tectonics

Dmitri Vietze stops to talk about growing up in Nashville and NYC, getting his start with music pr, launching rock paper scissors, and what to expect with year two of the Music Tectonics Conference taking place Oct 27-28, 20…
Guest: Dmitri Vietze
Sept. 15, 2020

Ari Rosner, Erick Beavers and Brad Robertson

What did you do with your summer? Learn how Caltech college senior, Ari Rosner developed an algorithm to help compute the proper social distancing layout for schools and other spaces. And how Erick Beavers and Brad Robertson…
Guest: Ari Rosner
Sept. 8, 2020

Lyte, Prism.fm, VEEPS.com, Antone's and Disco Donnie

Prism.fm hosted a panel featuring folks from Lyte, VEEPS.com, promoter Disco Donnie and legendary music venue Antone's discussing how the live music community is being supported by tech coming our out COVID.
Aug. 18, 2020

Erin Barra

LP sits down with the multi-faceted teacher and performer, Erin Barra to talk about her new role as Director of Popular Music at Arizona State University, Beats by Girlz, and how to build a modern studio.
Guest: Erin Barra
Aug. 11, 2020

Ronnie Schneider

On this episode, LP chats with Ronnie Schneider about his days on the road managing tour finances with the Rolling Stones, standardizing modern artist tour economics with their 1969 tour, working for ABKCO, and the Altamont …
Aug. 4, 2020

Ted Cohen

In this conversation, LP discusses Ted's history, the early days of CES, the early days of the digital music industry, and more.
Guest: Ted Cohen
July 9, 2020

Andrew Loog Oldham

LP catches up with Andrew Loog Oldham. Andrew managed and produced the Rolling Stones until 1967, started Immediate Records, and then went out to lunch for many years.