Darren Paltrowitz is a New York resident and licensed Private Investigator with over 20 years of entertainment industry experience. He began working around the music business as a teenager, interning for the manager of his then-favorite band Superdrag. Since then, he has worked with a wide array of artists including OK Go, They Might Be Giants, Mike Viola, Tracy Bonham, Loudness, Rachael Yamagata, and Amanda Palmer. Darren's writing has appeared in dozens of outlets including the New York Daily News, Inquisitr, The Daily Meal, The Hype Magazine, All Music Guide, Guitar World, TheStreet.com, Businessweek, Chicago Tribune, L.A. Times, and the Jewish Journal. Beyond being "Editor At Large" for The Hype Magazine, Darren is also the host of weekly "Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz" series, which airs on 50+ television stations weekly, plus key podcast and digital networks. He has also co-authored 2 published books, 2018's "Pocket Change: Your Happy Money" (Book Web Publishing) and 2019's "Good Advice From Professional Wrestling" (6623 Press), and co-hosts the world's only known podcast about David Lee Roth, "The DLR Cast." His third book is slated for a 2023 release via Backbeat Books.
All tagged Heavy Metal
For this edition of the Paltrocast, Darren spoke with 3 entertainers from very different walks of life, professional wrestler MJF (AEW and MLW star Maxwell Jacob Friedman, singer/songwriter Imani Coppola, and Dragonforce guitarist Herman Li.
Points of discussion include heavy metal, music industry survival, Long Island, Judaism, martial arts, video games, and finding long-term success as an entertainer.
For this edition of the Paltrocast, Darren spoke with drummer Hunt Sales (David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Todd Rundgren), John Davis (The Lees Of Memory, Superdrag) and Slipknot’s Sid Wilson (a.k.a. Sid The 3rd, DJ Starscream). Points of discussion include Nada Surf, Transformers, Soupy Sales, Judaism and motorcycles.
More information on this episode’s artists can be found online at www.biglegalmessrecords.com, www.theleesofmemory.com and www.sidthe3rd.com.
Paltrocast Episode #013: Diamond Dallas Page, Emigrate's Richard Z. Kruspe & Marci Zaroff
