Ben Lazar

• Age: 39
• Gender: Male
• Astrological Sign: Scorpio
• Zodiac Year: Dog
• Industry: Arts
• Occupation: Music
• Location: New York : New York : United States

About Me

Music writer, producer, A&R man, obsessive and artist development guru extraordinaire. I consult and write for music and media companies large and small. My label, Tenth Avenue Music, will be releasing its first album in 2009. I am a former A&R executive at Island Def Jam, Elektra Records and EMI Records and am in immersed in creating what's next for music and the industry. And of course, I'm a soul man...

Interests

• Music
• Literature
• Film
• Arguing The World
• My Family
• Politics
• DJ'ing
• Road Trips
• Food
• Wine
• Cats
• Baseball
• Decadence
• Italy
• American History
• Wilderness
• Blogging
• Guitar
• Writing
• Travel
• Photography
• The Yankees
• Drinking
• Experimenting
• Transformation
• Women in high heels

Favorite Movies

• The Godfather (of course)
• La Dolce Vita
• The Producers (original version)
• Annie Hall
• Manhattan
• Volver
• Citizen Kane
• The Searchers
• The Young Ones
• The Great Dictator
• The Killers
• Gimme Shelter

Favorite Music

• Bruce Springsteen
• Al Green
• Rolling Stones
• Aretha Franklin
• Coleman Hawkins
• Nirvana
• Neil Young
• Cannoball Adderley
• Otis Redding
• Stooges
• James Brown
• classic Def Jam
• Hank Williams
• Duke Ellington
• Television
• Steely Dan
• Flaming Lips
• Lee Scratch Perry
• Sex Pistols
• Sinatra
• Grateful Dead
• Dylan
• Candi Staton
• Freddie King
• Roxy Music
• Chuck Berry
• DFA 1979
• Count Basie
• Stax/Volt
• Everything But The Girl
• Paul Simon
• Elmore James
• Jerry Lee Lewis
• Johnny Cash
• Kruder & Dorfmeister

Favorite Books

• The Fixer - Bernard Malamud
• The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
• The Human Stain - Philip Roth
• Mystery Train - Greil Marcus

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