If what I am seeing is any indication, the kids coming up in PR need to work on their writing. Fuck social media, fuck video production, if you wanna work in PR you need to be able to write. And well. It is the baseline skill. This means understanding how…
April 19th marks the first anniversary of Guru’s death. What a tremendous loss for Hip Hop. He embodied the best of the genre and culture. In Guru’s life and music there are a myriad of lessons for PR pros. Here’s a cursory list of four, culled from my favourite Guru/Gangstarr songs: It’s mostly tha voice: Guru’s self-described…
My friend Dave is a superb house DJ/producer. A few weeks ago, he asked me about what I do and why I blog. I explained my working life as best I could (lots of people are confounded by exactly what the PR profession entails, so I find myself doing this a lot)….
The dance music community’s bender extraordinaire, “The Winter Music Conference” (WMC), is now in full swing in Miami. Several friends are there, one of whom is throwing a party. I love House music. Very little surpasses being on a dancefloor with a DJ who knows how to mix beats and…