Welcome!
My name is Peter Arko (although you probably know this by now) and I’m a certified music geek. Most of my experience is based in social media, event production and marketing & promotions - although I’ve successfully taken on other challenges like booking, sponsor recruitment, video production, music licensing and copywriting. If you’re looking for a creative, passionate and hard-working person then I encourage you to get in touch with me: earsofthebeholder@gmail.com.
In August of 2008, I founded a music blog called Ears of the Beholder that features songs and videos from emerging artists in the independent music scene. The first sign that I was doing something right was in February 2009, when Mashable named EOTB in their list of “18 of the Best Music Tumblelogs.” Since then my projects have been featured on Pitchfork, Gorilla vs. Bear, Yours Truly, SF Weekly’s All Shook Down, SF Bay Guardian’s Noise, The Bay Citizen, Scoutmob and Yvynyl’s prestigious “Best Music Tumblr Blogs.”
This past year, I extended my brand to the live music scene, producing shows in San Francisco at venues like Rickshaw Stop, Café Du Nord, Public Works, Milk Bar, El Rio and Noise Pop Festival’s Pop-Up Shop. This year, I also co-founded #MEGABLAAG which hosted it’s first blogger/tech party at SXSW this year. These endeavors blossomed out of my experience working for event production companies like Noise Pop and Superfly Presents.
This spring I also co-founded City Limits Records. A unique record label that organizes blogger-curated compilations highlighting the music scenes of different cities. Listen to our first compilation here.
In case that wasn’t enough for you, please take a moment to check out some of my other projects featured on this page. Thanks for visiting!
Peter Arko
