The second and final stop on Musexpo 2008’s whirlwind, “three-hour tour” of Asia was China, the country with the world’s largest population, and one which is still only just beginning to open up to the West. Safta Jaffrey (Owner/Managing Director, SJP/Taste Music UK), who had already served as co-moderator on the previous panel (Market Focus: [...]
Market Focus: India
The first of today’s “Market Focus” spotlights was all about India. Co-moderated by Aarti Tandon (Partner, Law Offices of Aarti Tandon) and Safta Jaffrey (Owner/Managing Director, SJP/Taste Music UK), the panel featured Atul Churamani (VP A&R, Publishing & New Media, Saregama, India); Mark Strippel (Head of Music, BBC Asian Network); Oum Pradutt (Managing Director, Phase [...]
Tuesday Night Music Preview
It’s absolutely gorgeous in Los Angeles today, with temperatures topping out at a pleasant 77 degrees–a full 20 degrees lower than it’s been for the initial two days of MUSEXPO 2008. I played hooky from the morning panels after last night’s debauchery, wherein I didn’t arrive back at my Hollywood home until 3:30am and staggered [...]
Global Live Entertainment Forum
This year’s MUSEXPO Global Live Entertainment Forum was moderated by the one and only Tommy Nast (Music & Media Consultant/MUSEXPO Advisor), who has been doing a fabulous job as Master of Ceremonies for most of the panels, and who did a terrific job of keeping the conversation lively and interesting–no uncomfortable silences when “The Nasty [...]
Global A&R Forum
Tuesday’s morning’s first panel was the always much-anticipated Global A&R Forum, which was co-moderated this year by our good friends Andrew Phillips (Media Consultant, Channel 4 UK) and John Alexander (Sr. VP Creative Affairs/Membership US, ASCAP).
This year’s featured panelists included David Vodicka (President, Rubber Records Australia); Kenny Gates (Co-President, PIAS Entertainment Group Worldwide); Martin Kierszenbaum [...]
Monday Night Music Review
Tonight’s musical entertainment at the House of Blues was commenced at the cocktail party by Limelife, the winners of the Uber.com “Battle of the Bands” competition. The South Bay Los Angeles natives beat out over 2,000 other acts to gain the coveted designation and you could tell the crowd was impressed by the trio’s melodic [...]
