FISTFULAYEN

I first met Rio Caraeff in 1999 via Rob Lord. We’ve remained friends over the years and I wish I saw Rio more than our current schedules and geography allow; he’s one of the smartest thinkers in the space. But not only can Rio work through the problems and opportunities of the future media landscape, [...]

Thanks to Mark Suster for having me on his show, This Week In Venture Capital, yesterday. Fun time. Could have talked for hours more. Would have loved to talk more about venture investment in the digital music space (or the lack thereof). ian

Zoe, Happy 21st! You were 3 already when I turned 21 and now here we are 17 eventful years later… It wouldn’t be possible to be any more proud of you. In the face of parents with their own problems who were learning on the job, you’ve turned out to be a hard-working, thoughtful, empathetic [...]

I’d had a dinner date with manager Andy Gould on the schedule for a while, since before I knew we’d be shooting episodes of This Week In Music. The plan was to film the show with Nathan Hubbard then head out to dinner with Andy in Venice. Since he’d be coming west anyway, I asked [...]

Back somewhere around the turn of the century, Nigo from Bathing Ape made these incredible foot-tall likenesses of MCA, King Adrock, and Mike D, pka The Beastie Boys. But the dolls weren’t cheap to produce and the boys just couldn’t bear the thought of charging collector prices for pint-size versions of themselves, even if they [...]