Jon Whitney (DJ)
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Jon Whitney founded and created Brainwashed (an online music publication, record label, and host of the Brainwaves Music Festival) and operates the record label Killer Pimp. He currently lives in Arlington, MA.
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[edit] Musical Background
By the time he was 13, he had his own radio show on UMass Amherst's radio station, WMUA, interned for Virgin and Caroline, and worked for Capitol and Sony in NY and Boston while in his late teens/early twenties. He founded Brainwashed in 1996. He has been creating (interviewing/taping/editing) short mini-documentaries of bands for The Eye since 2003.
He has been a DJ at Boston College's radio station, WZBC, since 1995, tour managed Fridge on their first North American tour, helped book some The Dresden Dolls shows in the time before their debut album, launched a weekly Brainwashed Radio Podcast in late 2004, and curated and organized the Brainwaves Festival in 2006, to celebrate ten years of Brainwashed.
Whitney currently VJs a music video night around in and around the Boston area, The Sound Your Eyes Can Follow, plays in the band Blood Money, operates the record label Killer Pimp (a small division of Brainwashed), and continues to host the Brainwashed Podcast.
[edit] Videography
[edit] Relatives
Daniel Lawrence Whitney[verification needed]
[edit] External links
- His Personal Site
- Brainwashed
- August 2005 Article in the Boston Phoenix
- Feb 2004 interview in Afterimage
- Interview in Creme Brulee
- Interview in the Weekly Dig
- Interview in FakeJazz
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