Christopher Simmons (now professionally known as CHRISTOPHER LAIRD SIMMONS) has been a working journalist since 1984 when he sold his first music industry article to POLYPHONY magazine (purchased by MIX and became Electronic Musician). Later writing for diverse pubs including Computer Player, Digital Imaging, Micro Publishing News, Spazz, the Graphic Artist’s Guild newspaper, among many others. He has been widely interviewed on topics related to technology, marketing, health and entertainment.
His full-time gig is acting as CEO and founder of NEOTROPE® and Send2Press®.
As a musician he played in several bands in the ‘80s including PROJECT 11 and PETS GONE WILD (featured in the LA Times “Calendar” section and an LA Weekly “Band Name of the Week”). His music has been played on late night space radio stations, and positively reviewed in Electronic Musician and ‘zines like SYNE. A CD of his music from the mid ‘80s was released on Neotrope® Records in 2000, “BESERKER” available on most streaming platforms.
His music has been used for two cable TV productions in the late 1980s in California: the award-winning “VIDKIDCO” and “Viewpoints on Video” from the Long Beach Museum of Art.
He is quoted in two music books: “Music Business For Dummies” (ISBN: 978-1119049654) and “The Artist’s Guide to Success in the Music Business” (ISBN: 978-1608325788; Greenleaf Book Group Press), both by industry veteran Loren Weisman.
He is no relation to a Canadian keyboardist of the same name, nor a graphic artist based in San Francisco, also of same name.
