Penalty Office - Music Business 101
Penalty Office - Music Business 101 presented by industry veterans Neil Levine and Warren Schatz. The Podcast interviews music industry executives and artists that details the way they have navigated and persevered in an industry that is incredibly hard and tell their journey and lessons learned. The Podcasts outlines the inspirational stories of both industry heavyweights as well as newbies.
Episodes
Bill Hein began in the independent record scene and went on to found Enigma Records and later Restless Records, signing and developing artists such as Mötley Crüe, Poison, The Smithereens, Stryper, and Mojo Nixon. His work helped define the rise of indie labels in the ’80s and ’90s through innovative marketing and distribution. He is now active in the vinyl pressing business, continuing his lifelong commitment to music.
Mitchell is an Emmy, 2x Clio Award, and Film Festival -winning director, storyteller, composer, and consulting Chief Creative Officer. With more than 100 domestic and international industry honors spanning advertising, film, and music, Mitchell has built a career defined by innovation, authenticity, and global impact.
As the co-founder of HQ Creative (alongside Nobel Peace Prize nominee Cheryl Halpern) and Looking 4 Larry (wit...
Bo Crane is a trailblazer in Miami’s music scene, best known as the founder of Pandisc Records—one of the most influential independent labels to emerge from South Florida. With a career rooted in the heartbeat of Miami’s evolving sound, Bo played a pivotal role in shaping the city's musical identity, from the rise of Miami bass and freestyle to electro-funk and early hip-hop.
Before launching Pandisc, Bo made his mark as the fo...
Starting with humble working class background, Al Gorgoni has been a major force in the music business in the middle 60’s. He has worked with Simon and Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Evie Sands, Barry Man and has had his song recorded by Frank Sinatra and others. He arranged many of the advertising commercials we’ve all heard.
Kurt Woodley is a one of a kind music man. While at Uptown records he was responsible for artists finding and developing artists like Mary J Blige, Tim Dogg, Heavy D and later at Sony music he found Cypress Hill, Kriss Kross among others.
His joy is infectious
Scott Rubin has over 25 years experience in the music industry with a focus on music publishing and rights management. He has worked closely with artists such as Chuck D, Ice-T, Nate Dogg, Lisa Loeb, Maino, Fat Joe, Remy Ma and numerous others.
Monica Lynch is one of the most respected and knowledgeable record executives in the music business.
She talks about her arrival in New York from Chicago as a teenager, becoming Tom Silverman's first hire at TommyBoy and her rising quickly to ultimately become president at TommyBoy. She talks about her relationships with everyone from Afrika Bambaata, Queen Latifah, Naughty By Nature, Whizz Kidd, De La Soul, House Of Pain, Cool...
Growing up in rural Northeast North Carolina, Shane joined the 82nd Airborne Army unit and came out with the amazing gift of discipline and appreciation of hard work. With his love of music he went to College in LA and trained in music production and has since produced and released over 600 titles. During that time he got a degree from Full Sail and has become the go-to guy for all things digital marketing. He has also added a real...
Angel is the go-to guy for everything in Latin music and media. He has a 40 year successful track record in Latin music and media. A very active part of the Latin Grammys, Billboard Latin Music Awards, He has produced many TV shows for Telemundo and Univison as well as guiding the current reintroduction of Menudo. If it’s Latin he’s done it successfully.
Richard is the promotion man’s promotion man. His 40 year run in the ever shifting music business has been nothing short of astounding. Starting with little to no experience, he rose to executive positions at Atlantic, Elektra and Capitol, while remaining humble and always hard working. Richard talks about his journey in detail and is a true inspiration to this day as he works on the ever changing radio promotion and streaming land...
Eddie has been a fixture in the music business since the mid-sixties. Most well know for producing the number one record “Doctors Orders” by Carol Douglas and for Salt N Pepa on his Next Plateau Records label to his Joint Venture with Republic Records. Eddie also signed and developed Crazy Frog his his 9.66 Billion YouTube view with over 16.4 Million YouTube subscribers. Eddie talks about his life in music and his feelings about t...
Larry Talks about his pivot to managing TV and Film Actors and directors,
Starting his journey as a songwriter/producer in South Central LA and moving from a 4 track to a full 24 track tape deck at his Avatar Entertainment. Larry got his big break producers 4 songs on Venessa Williams debut album. He has produced or remixed some of the most iconic R&B and Hip Hop records including Prince, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran...
Starting his journey as a songwriter/producer in South Central LA and moving from a 4 track to a full 24 track tape deck at his Avatar Entertainment. Larry got his big break producers 4 songs on Venessa Williams debut album. He has produced or remixed some of the most iconic R&B and Hip Hop records including Prince, Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, Whitney Houston to name a few. We follow Larry pivot to TV and films morphing into...
Veteran record executive and Superstar PR guru, Fiona Bloom, talks about her journey from Classical music in London to becoming the go-to person in the Hip-Hop world and her world class agency, The Bloom Effect.
Jonathan Finegold is a music licensing expert and music supervisor for film and advertising. He talks about the many aspects of what it takes to get sync licenses for music.
Ira Kessler is a true music business legend in the area of distribution and fulfilment. He shares his various jobs and the power of networking in finding new job opportunities.
Right after we did this, he started a new position at Warner.
David Borgstrom is a master of Crypto & NFTs. He explains the basics and how it could affect the future of the music business.
Andrew Krents is a veteran entertainment lawyer and all around great guy, with a big history of making great deals. A must listen.
Earn Money is the head of Scream Ent, an independent label specializing in Hip-Hop. Earn introduced the world to Noochie, an upcoming artist from DelMArVa, who's building a strong following from his base. They talk about the journey they're on and where they want to get to.
Growing up in the streets of St. Louis, Diego Fresh is a new artist but has been grinding for years. Military veteran and entrepreneur Diego has used his military discipline to be successful in the legalized cannabis business with his Red Line brand. Now Diego is ready to take over the music business with his first single featuring the one and only Boosie Badazz.
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