CMJ Cover Story

By 2002, I had fifteen years experience as a college radio promoter, with many #1s to my credit with indie rock, techno, trip hop, world, reggae, metal, americana and the general “Top 200.”  When CMJ decided to put me on their cover as the first non-artists, I had built a long career in the trenches of college promo.  

The interview is very FMQB. I praise all the bosses as big college radio supporters even though dozens of artists, labels, and releases had been dropped or cancelled in the Polygram/MCA merger prior to my cover appearance in 2002. There are obligatory Nirvana references and by then I had delivered Willie Nelson and Keith Richards to some college radio people too, so my ego was pretty healthy at that point. I compare myself to Eisenhower on D-day…not so good.