How effective are websites like MySpace.com and YouTube.com in marketing new artists?
I love them, and the others that are coming our way. We don’t have a video with Quincy Coleman yet so we got permission to use footage from a TV pilot she did with her band this spring. She had to be on YouTube. She had to have some sort of video on her web site and MySpace. That’s where the people are along with other areas of the Internet. We’re going to do a video ASAP, but the live footage is at least giving her some presence there. What type of acts do you look to sign? I just know when I love someone. I don’t look at types. Look at my background: Oingo Boingo, Bangles, Danny Elfman, Angelique Kidjo, Anne McCue and now Quincy Coleman — all very different, all very talented. I just get hit in the heart and go from there. I saw Quincy, who I’d known for a few years, at Hotel Cafe in Los Angeles last November, and I just sat there and smiled for 45 minutes. She just did it for me. I immediately told her she wasn’t going to be easy to get on the radio, but her audience would eventual
