Andy has over 20 years experience shepherding multi-million dollar media brands in the US and the UK.

In the UK:

• Andy has edited Q, Europe's biggest and most respected music magazine. He has presented the Q Awards and has been a regular talking head on BBC and Channel Four.

• He has written for The Guardian, The Observer, Q, Mojo, Esquire and many more.

• While at Mixmag in the 1990s he coined the term "trip hop" (see Oxford English Dictionary) and popularized the term "Superclub".

In the US:

• Andy launched Blender magazine, the approximately one million-selling competitor to Rolling Stone in the US in 2000.

• At Blender, Andy won Ad Age's Launch of the Year in 2002 and became a regular on US TV including appearances on VH1, CNN and ABC.

• He edited Spin magazine and re-launched Spin.com.

• Andy has written for The New York Times and GQ.

Blog Entries by Andy Pemberton

Why Do Musicians Mistreat Their Pets?

2 Comments | Posted January 15, 2009 | 06:32 AM (EST)


What kind of dog you prefer, they say, speaks volumes. Pit bulls are favoured by the insecure, teacup dogs by those frilly enough to name their pets Lord Foo Foo D'Amour.

But how you treat those animals says a lot more.

Yesterday, Musictoob, the website I edit, was...

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Frank Sinatra is a singer we should check out, says Bono in the New York Times. Thanks Bono

1 Comments | Posted January 10, 2009 | 09:52 PM (EST)


In the op-ed section of tomorrow's New York Times, U2's Bono writes with urgency about a musical titan that sums up today's difficult times. A collosal talent that has much to tell us about this recessionary year we are about to live through. And it's not a piece about Bono....

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