“Four Winds” Saddles The Charts

I was listening to Indie 1031 Los Angeles the other day when a song came on the air that had more than just a slight country twang to it… After 20 seconds of listening it was pretty obvious that it was new single, “Four Winds” from the infamous Bright Eyes AKA Conor Obherst. The single is off the brilliant Bright Eyes EP, Four Winds on uber-indie Saddle Creek records which makes an amazing debut this week at #1 (Mediaguide Songs Chart) with new music show support from Bill Hanson (WQXA York, PA), Elliott Garstin (WNNX Atlanta) & Ryan Manno (WKQX Chicago) among a slew of others. However, Four Winds gets beat down on the Album chart by The Arcade Fire’s Neon Bible which is seeing support from almost the entire new music show panel. Changing dials a bit, it was such a nice surprise to hear Peter Bjorn and John’s “Young Folks” on KROQ Los Angeles this morning… So far the world famous stick has spun PB&J a total of 37 times, but decreases play on the single from 11 to 10 spins this past week. After five weeks, both PB&J’s full-length Writer’s Block & “Young Folks” hang on both Mediaguide charts in the Top 10. Speaking of KROQ…. Operation’s Director Spud from Live 105 will be joining me on Friday for Rodney Bingemheimer’s AKA Rodney on The ROQ’s big day in Hollywood (11:30am) as he finally gets his well deserved star on the Walk of Fame. We’ll also be attending Rodney’s ROQ of Fame with The Donna’s & Red Kross at the Henry Fonda Theatre in Hollywood later that night… Check out details here. Until next week…

Record of the Week: !!!

MEET:
Name: JOSHUA MANCUSO
Job Title: Music Publisher
Favorite dance: The Worm
Favorite song of the week: The Arcade Fire’s "Keep the Car Running"
The Last thing You ate: Caeser Salad & a Veggie Corn Dog
Fun tidbit: Member of the LA band Black Palms, Josh will be helping his pals out from Bloodcat Love, filling in on guitars for their SXSW dates.
Check it out!

Jeff Marks

Jeff Marks – Regional Director Promotion - Hollywood Records
"From Vons To Riches"

After completing his BA in History, Jeff Marks AKA The Godfather began earning his teaching credential, but was abruptly pulled over to the dark side by college buddy Mark Chotiner. Mark was interning at KROQ Los Angeles & Poylgram and convinced Mark to give the music business a shot. Hiss then boss Kyle Wong set Jeff up with an internship at the now defunct Album Network working under Brian Boyd who was running the “EXPANDO” (Alternative) Department.

It was this internship that introduced Jeff to label Promo Reps. and allowed him to attend all of the major music conventions and hotly tipped shows. With seven months of trade experience under his belt, The Godfather segued into the fast paced world of the Polygram college promo department under the watchful eyes of Kyle Wong, Howie “Pink Straw” Miura & Steve Leeds. Howie eventually set up an interview for Jeff with Lynn McDonnell, Dave “Rambo” Darus & Michael Papale at Interscope records for the college and metal department position. In no time, Jeff was on the Interscope firing lines slinging records to arrogant college music directors and making a name for himself. In 1995 Jeff got an offer he couldn’t refuse. Hollywood Records’ John Fagot gave him the opportunity to run the college and specialty departments as well overseeing National Commercial Radio in 12 markets (all formats). 3 years later Dan Hubbert replaced Fagot as Sr. VP Promotion and Marks was shipped off to Miami to do regional promotion in the south. Since 2002 Jeff has been handling regional duties in Los Angeles under the guidance of Justin Fontaine, his current SR. VP. That’s 12 years of promo life and Jeff still has a full head of hair! (Editors Note: Wikipedia shows that Jeff Marks and Sat Bisla got their real start in the music business listening to elevator music at Vons in Fresno)

hhA!: Who are some of the people you came up with in the business? 

JM: “Mark Chotiner, Mike Lieberman, Rob Goldklang, Xavior Ramos, Joel Habbashaw, Lenny Lasalandra, Alex Cook, Pete Rosenbloom, Tommy Daley, Paul Pontius, Steve Rothman, Rose Braunstein,  Scott Emerson, Larry Tull & Jimmy Barnes”

hhA!: What acts are you currently working at radio? 

JM: “Plain White T's, Breaking Benjamin, Hilary Duff, Sparta & Gran Bel Fisher”  

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Albert Hammond Jr.

“Feel My Heat”
w/ Brent Bolthouse & Danny Masterson
KDLD Los Angeles, CA
Mondays 10pm-Midnight
February 27^th with in studio guest Albert Hammond Jr.

arcade fire - this must be the place (talking heads cover)
albert hammond jr. - holiday
beatles - cry baby
blonde redhead - i still get my rocks off
clap your hands say yeah - upon this tidalwave of young blood
clarence carter - patches
we are molecules - silk and venom
dirt nasty - dropping names
electric six - gay bar
grafitti - what is the problem
final fantasy - the cn tower belongs to the dead
janis joplin - down on me
le tigre - decepticon
the grates - 19-20 20 (performed live on FMH)
morrissey - interesting drug