July 2012
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The Shape of Things To Come
We are ridiculously excited and deeply humbled to announce that Rexly has been acquired by Live Nation Labs, an innovation group inside Live Nation Entertainment that is building a portfolio of digital products from scratch and overhauling the Fortune 500 company’s brand. Team Rexly will open a San Francisco office for Live Nation Labs and focus primarily on mobile. The Rexly iOS App will remain...
March 2012
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The Song That Changed My Life: Kyle Bylin
Kyle Bylin (@kbylin) is a former Hypebot editor and Billboard chart manager, and he now serves as a content manager at LiveNation.com.
I discovered the song “Beautifully” by Jay Brannan on a Pandora a year or two ago. I don’t relate to the lyrics on a personal level, but I love the psychology they display.
When something cuts to the center of us, we bleed in public and often cry alone. We have...
February 2012
11 posts
The Song That Changed My Life: Tom Pitts
Tom Pitts (@MrTomPitts) is a San Francisco writer. Find more of his work at http://tom-pitts.blogspot.com/
In 1992, I was 25 and stuck in rehab. Well, not really a rehab, but an Arizona ranch posing to be a rehab where we baked under the merciless sun outside of Tucson, cut off from the real world and our lives. I was told that there’d be music up there, that there were musicians—even the old...
The Song That Changed My Life: Matt Rosoff
Matt Rosoff (@mattrosoff) is the West Coast Editor of Business Insider SAI. He used to blog about digital music for CNET.com and play bass in lots of bands you’ve never heard of.
Perry Farrell pouring Rosoff a drink in 2011
They’re a sad joke now, a washed-up sold-out Los Angelized imitation of their former selves, but Jane’s Addiction changed my life. In high school, I was...
The Song That Changed My Life: Joe Clifford
Joe Clifford’s a writer. He’s been to jail, but never prison. www.joeclifford.com
MTV’s 120 Minutes started airing around the time I turned 18, and I was introduced to this new brand of music. Up until then I’d been raised on a steady musical diet of mainstream radio, classic rock, Springsteen, the Stones, the Who, shit you can find on the dial just about any time of day,...
The Song That Changed My Life: Graham Nash
By Graham Nash: Los Angeles, CA / September 15, 2011
My best friend Allan Clarke and I were 15 years old in 1957, living in Salford, which is very close to Manchester in the North of England…
It was a Saturday night and we were going to the local school dance….
I remember going down the stairs to the dance and handing over our tickets….
You Send Me by the great Sam Cooke had just finished...
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The Song That Changed My Life: Steve Silberman
By Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman): Investigative reporter for Wired & other magazines; Writing a book about autism/neurodiversity for Avery/Penguin 2013; One of @Time’s selected science tweeters. NeuroTribes Blog.
In 1970 or so, when I was about 12, I walked into a sandal shop in Provincetown, Massachusetts and heard music more strange and beautiful than any I had ever heard...
The Song That Changed My Life: Davis Webster
Davis Webster is an early Rexly power user and all around great guy. He’s got excellent taste in music, so follow him!
In the summer between fourth and fifth grade, my family was making our annual pilgrimage to Missouri to visit my mother’s side of the family, a trip not only miserable because you spend two days driving there, but once you get there you have to spend a week in Missouri...
The Song That Changed My Life: Parth Shah
Parth Shah (@parth16) hacks the cloud with @VMWare. He’s a Carnegie Mellon alum, and ex-Yahoo. He’s passionate about consumer web, mobile, e-commerce & public clouds: http://about.me/parth
For me the greatest power of music lies in its ability to create a deep emotional attachment. It is remarkable how music can bring back memories about people and places in a powerful way. There is...
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The Song That Changed My Life: Jarod Reyes
Jarod Reyes (@jreyesdesign) is a designer with Voxy. http://jarodreyes.tumblr.com
The formative moments sometime happen when you’re passed out, when the musical gods plant a seed that changes your life. I was a freshman at college, in a dorm full of guys whose musical epiphanies usually involved rebellious teenage-angst rock… or at the time every post-punk piece of garbage on the radio. I...
The Song That Changed My Life: James Bailey
James (@jameshbailey) is a full-time husband and father, part-time venture capitalist with GRP Partners, surfing and active lifestyle enthusiast, amateur foodie and style connoisseur.
Instead of really dating myself and telling the story of when I bought a Kriss Kross tape, I’ll tell the story of the first music that moved me. When I was 11 I bought the Led Zeppelin 4-disc box set with the...
The Song That Changed My Life: Jeff Morris
Jeff Morris (@jmj) works at Zaarly: http://about.me/jeffmorrisjr
I was the only student in my high school class with a CD burner. In the early 2000’s, this was a very big deal. When one of my dude friends needed to be romantic, I was the first person to get the call. “Hey Jeff, my girlfriend is mad at me. Can you burn her a CD? I think she likes Goo Goo Dolls.” “Yo, Morris. We’ve been dating...
The Song That Changed My Life: Semil Shah
Semil Shah works on operations at Votizen and is a contributor to Techcrunch. He is also a super awesome advisor to Rexly.
I don’t think of my formative musical experiences as tied to a specific song, or a live show, or some experience — for me, it’s about the full length album. Albums that we all remember, first to last song, and have played over and over again. For me, those albums...
December 2011
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The Song That Changed My Life: Ethan Kaplan
By Ethan Kaplan (@ethank): owner of Murmurs.com and former SVP Emerging Technology At Warner Music Group. www.blackrimglasses.com/
I grew up on music. My dad is a Los Angeles born baby boomer and grew up in the Buddy Holly world we all see in Rob Reiner films and Stephen King books. Where everyone listens to “Everyday” walking down railroad tracks. My mom came of age in the early 70′s in Orange...
The Song That Changed My Life: Waynn Lue
By Waynn Lue (@waynnlue): Xoogler, Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor/Investor
The first CD I ever received was the first Backstreet Boys album. A friend of mine gave it to me as a birthday present and said, “I know you like hiphop, so I got you this album.”
From those inauspicious beginnings, I started building up the biggest collection of video game music albums I could find, from Yasunori...
The Song That Changed My Life: Jane Hu
Jane Hu is the head of Programming Strategy at YouTube’s Next Lab
Okay I have a confession to make. Somewhere on my laptop is a spreadsheet where, for the past decade, I’ve kept track of every concert I’ve attended. It’s the music geek’s equivalent to notches on the bedpost. And in true geeky form, it includes not just the name of the band and the date, but also the venue, city, genre, who...
The Song That Changed My Life: Joel Resnicow
What follows is the first post in Rexly’s new “Formative Musical Experiences” series, which will include contributions from Team Rexly, digital media peers, and anyone else who has a story to tell. All contributions welcome (send to hello@rexly.com).
It’s the emotional power that has always drawn me to music.
From my first concert (Billy Joel Storm Front tour at Yankee Stadium!), to my first...
