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On the Bus, and Off It: The Initiation of a Young Rock Impresario

Whatever changes the music business has undergone, one truism remains: Concert promoters still operate on razor-thin margins and highly unbalanced risk-to-reward ratios, said Gary Bongiovanni, the editor in chief of Pollstar, the industry journal. “I tell concert promoters, Are you willing to take $50,000 in cash in your driveway and burn it, and then come back to work the next day? Then maybe you’re cut out to be a concert promoter,” he said.

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It’s Been Quite a Pool Party, but the Days Grow Short

Nowhere else does a quadruple-Olympic-size swimming pool fill with music usually heard in dark nightclubs where hula hoopers fear to tread. Nowhere else do water-sport squeals serve as auxiliary percussion. And for better or worse, no other stage has so definitively established itself as the preferred strolling grounds for the latest and most bizarre hipster plumage.

“This is the coolest place to people-watch,” said Bryan Murphy, 20, a University of Connecticut student who commutes to the pool on the 85-minute Metro North train from Bridgeport. “People in Brooklyn are different than people anywhere else. They just look different.”