I was born and raised in New York City where a minute goes by so fast that a "New York Minute" is actually about 17 seconds. OK, that was a little joke, but it is a fast-paced place to live.

I started young. Clubs at 15, bars at 16, yadda yadda yadda. It was great growing up there. Ever read "Bright Lights Big City"? It was really like that. Very decadent, very art-damaged. Very Sonic Youth-inspired. I read "Less Than Zero" and "Catcher in the Rye" around this time & that was that. I knew that the life of adventure was the path for me. Started collecting records and became obsessed with music; punk & new wave being the staples in my diet.

So, I graduate high school and decide its time to seek out new frontiers. "Go West, young man." I figured if Los Angeles was anything like it was depicted in the book "Less than Zero," I'd really enjoy it there. Lo and behold... it was! Of course it took me a couple years to get used to the 180-degree lifestyle change from my cosmopolitan Manhattan ways, but once I got into it, it was all good.

I've been here ever since. And now that I live up in the hills, it really is "One more day up in the Canyon, and one more night in Hollywood."

I started working for this little record company in 1995 called Interscope Records. They were just getting off the ground back then. A few years and a couple of corporate mergers later they become “Interscope Geffen A&M”-- one of the biggest labels in the world. I had a hand in breaking many of the bands on IGA: Primus, Nine Inch Nails, Marilyn Manson, Limp Bizkit, Puddle of Mudd, Queens of the Stone Age, Jurassic 5, the Black Eyed Peas, Trail of Dead, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol. And also helped in the recent promotions of bands we inherited through corporate mergers: Beck, Bloodhound Gang, Sonic Youth, Weezer.

In March of 2004, I started Combat Rock Promotion where I plan to make many fine up-and-coming bands out there as big as the ones I worked with at Interscope.