Category Archives: interviews

Got bass? DJ Kid Kameleon rocks the after-party

photo courtesy of Kelly Koehler
http://www.myspace.com/kidkameleon
We recently caught up with DJ Kid Kameleon, who’ll be spinning an eclectic mix for us at the SVR after-party—from breakcore to b-more, dubstep to dancehall, club, pop, and maybe even a little rock.
SVR: Who are your major musical influences?
Kid Kameleon: DJ Singe and MC Verb of Soundlab, DJ Spooky, DJ [...]

The Open Source Band is now available to the general public.

http://www.jonahmatranga.com/
Band Members: Jonah Matranga, Tim Chang, Andrew Stess, Larry Marcus
Special Guests: Alison Murdock, Terence Swee
Tech Industry Affiliations: Tim Chang is with Norwest Venture Partners; Andrew Stess is with Music IP; Larry Marcus is with Walden Venture Capital; Terence Swee is with muvee; and Alison Murdock founded Silicon Valley Rocks!
SVR: Tell us about your band. How [...]

blacKMahal: bringing people together through music (and tech industry connections)

http://www.myspace.com/BLACKMAHALSF
Band Members: Lal Singh Bhatti, Jon Cook, Satish Pillai, Mandeep Sethi, Vijay Chattha
Special Guest: Tim Chang
Tech Industry Affiliations: Vijay Chattha is Chief Talker of VSC Consulting, a PR boutique focused on mobile and Web 2.0 clients ranging from start-ups to blue-chip players. Tim Chang is a partner at Norwest Venture Partners, where he concentrates on [...]

Paragon’s Erica Levin on serving your community: “Just get started”

We recently spoke with Erica Levin, a realtor with SVR sponsor Paragon Real Estate Group, about her work, her non-profit involvement, and Paragon’s commitment to community service.
SVR: Tell us about your job as a realtor.
Erica: My work allows me to be a therapist, financial adviser, designer, concierge, and overall life helper and confidant. I [...]

Hey, Ray Davies. You really got Minks!

HTTP://WWW.MYSPACE.COM/THEMINKS
Band Members: Jennifer Michalski, Cherie Lebow, Kristina Vukic, Linda Keys, Marie Drennan
Tech Industry Affiliations: Jaman, Autodesk
All Day and All of the Night

Set Me Free

SVR: Tell us about your band. How did you get started? How long have you been playing?
The Minks: Marie started the band after taking up drums and getting hooked. She recruited Jen [...]

The Music Lovers Just Want You to Get It

http://www.myspace.com/THEMUSICLOVERS
Band Members: Matthew “Ted” Edwards, Ping Chu, Kate Weeks, Jon Brooder, Bryan Cain
Tech Industry Affiliation: Drummer Ping Chu is the Software Developer for Flixster.com.
Bobbie Gentry

Saturday

SVR: Tell us about your band. How did you get started? How long have you been playing?
The Music Lovers: Ted started the group in 2003 and we signed with Detroit indie [...]

Kevin Maney & His Briefs will play for (Google’s) food

HTTP://CDBABY.COM/CD/KEVINMANEY
Band Members: Kevin Maney, John Given, Bill Coats, Andy Stack
Tech Industry Affiliations: Kevin writes about tech for Conde Nast
Portfolio magazine; John is legal counsel for Digidesign; Bill is managing partner at White & Case in Palo Alto; Andy co-founded Oortle and other tech start-ups.
Privacy

Found It On Google

Wouldn’t Want to Be (Bill Gates)

SVR: Tell us about [...]

Spin Control joins forces for music in the schools

Band Members: Don Clark, Paul Bergevin, Tom Waldrop, George Alfs
Tech Industry Affiliations: Don works for the Wall Street Journal. Paul, George, and Tom work for Intel.
Friend of the Devil

SVR: Tell us about your band. How did you get started? How long have you been playing?
Spin Control: All of us have been in various bands [...]

fONKSQUISh brings da funk—online and off

HTTP://WWW.LAST.FM/MUSIC/FONKSQUISH
Band Members: Chuck Fishman, Neal Landauer, Jason Fifield—and too many others to mention. fONKSQUISh features members of P-Funk, and jazz legends like Byard Lancaster, Prince Lasha, as well as new school producers like G Koop and DJ Zeph.
Tech Industry Affiliation: Chuck is Manager of Media and Entertainment at Cisco.
Calling Me Back (with DJ Zeph and [...]

Marshall Lamm supports music in the schools, and whatever MC Hammer wants

In addition to being a longtime board member of Music in Schools Today, Marshall Lamm was the publicist of the renowned west coast jazz club Yoshi’s for eight years before launching Marshall Lamm Promotions and Public Relations in January of 2006.
Prior to Yoshi’s, he founded Astor Place Recordings in New York, an imprint of Profile [...]