Finn McKenty
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Born | Finnegan McKenty[1] September 7, 1978 | ||||||
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Last updated: May 8, 2024 |
Finnegan "Finn" McKenty (born September 7, 1978)[2] is an American marketing strategist, music commentator, writer and graphic designer who currently runs the YouTube channel The Punk Rock MBA and is director of marketing at the online education platform URM Academy. Previously, he was executive producer at CreativeLive's "Music & Audio" channel and, under the persona Sergeant D, wrote articles in MetalSucks and Stuff You Will Hate.[3]
Early life
Finn McKenty grew up in
Career
After graduating, McKenty did
CreativeLive
In May 2013, McKenty co-launched and became the executive producer of the "Music & Audio" channel at CreativeLive, an online education platform which broadcasts courses by artists.
URM Academy
For around a year and a half, McKenty was a collaborator of URM Academy, an online education platform which focuses on producers, and in September 2017 joined them as director of marketing.[19][20] URM Academy offers multitracks from albums by diverse heavy bands such as A Day to Remember, Meshuggah, Opeth, Lamb of God and Bring Me the Horizon, and at the end of every month the producers of those albums do livestream sessions teaching how they mixed them.[21]
The Punk Rock MBA
In June 2015, McKenty established the website The Punk Rock MBA whose objective is to promote "career, business + life advice for the
Stuff You Will Hate
In March 2009, under the persona Sergeant D, McKenty launched the comedy website Stuff You Will Hate which focused on satires of the heavy metal and hardcore punk subcultures and their trends.[23] It became an "internet phenomenon among metal and hardcore fans".[24] He also began to collaborate with comedy website Something Awful[25] and heavy metal outlet MetalSucks.[26] His writing alternated between comic and serious articles, the former, on occasions, featuring a deliberately provocative style.[26]
Stuff You Will Hate was praised by the
References
- ^ a b c d McKenty, Finn (September 18, 2023). "Exposing My Wikipedia Page". YouTube. Retrieved September 18, 2023.
- ^ McKenty, Finn (September 9, 2022). "THE KINGS OF CRINGE!! (Nickelback "San Quentin" reaction)". YouTube.
- ^ a b Wright, Sean (November 16, 2016). "How To Get Totally Banned From Metalsucks Comment Section. A step-by-step look into their own Liberal hypocrisy". Esoterica Codex. Archived from the original on June 8, 2019. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- ^ a b Harkins 2018, 5:24-5:31, 5:51-5:55 and 7:39-7:45.
- ^ a b Narvaja, Norm (July 2015). "Know Your Lifer". Alternative Press. p. 16. Archived from the original on May 25, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- Maximumrocknroll. No. 159. Internet Archive. August 1996. p. 153. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- Maximumrocknroll. No. 168. Internet Archive. May 1997. p. 153. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- HeartattaCk. No. 18. p. 59. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ Conell, Jim (March–April 1998). "Fanzine Reviews". Punk Planet. No. 23. p. 138. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ a b Murphy 2019, 5:09-5:16 and 5:27-5:38.
- ^ Murphy 2019, 25:16-25:34.
- ^ Murphy 2019, 7:39-7:45 and 8:22-8:46.
- ^ a b c Glaser, Anthony (April 3, 2014). "CreativeLive's Experts Educate Thousands with Web-Based Technology (Company Profile)". Substream Magazine. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Murphy 2019, 24:01-24:11.
- Partysmasherinc.com. Archivedfrom the original on January 12, 2016. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ Murphy 2019, 5:43-5:50.
- ^ a b Alfano, Chris (December 17, 2014). ""There's no such thing as 'too detailed'" – an Interview with CreativeLive's Finn McKenty". Gear Gods. Archived from the original on December 28, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Kinzie, Angela (June 6, 2014). "Spotlight: CreativeLive And Their Online Classroom". New Noise Magazine. Archived from the original on August 9, 2014. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
- ^ Harkins 2018, 47:06-47:28.
- ^ Billboard.com. Archivedfrom the original on June 8, 2019. Retrieved June 8, 2019.
- ^ Murphy 2019, 9:00-10:21.
- ^ "IN EFFECT CATCHES UP WITH DUTCH HARDCORE BAND VITAMIN X... 20 PLUS YEARS IN THE GAME AND SOME GOOD STORIES ALONG THE WAY!". In Effect. July 28, 2018. Archived from the original on July 13, 2019. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ Rosenberg, Axl (June 23, 2009). "OTHER WEBERNET GOODNESS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT". MetalSucks. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved June 29, 2019.
- ^ Noisey. Vice Media. Archivedfrom the original on June 15, 2019. Retrieved June 15, 2019.
- ^ "Andrew "Garbage Day" Miller". Something Awful. 2010. Archived from the original on December 30, 2013. Retrieved July 13, 2019.
- ^ a b c Gotrich, Lars (December 30, 2010). "The Year In Music: 2010's Best Writing About Metal". NPR. Archived from the original on September 24, 2015. Retrieved June 17, 2019.
- ^ Raymer, Miles (November 5, 2009). "Why I Love Stuff You Will Hate". Chicago Reader. Archived from the original on September 6, 2011. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
- ^ Frank, Max (December 16, 2015). "R.I.P. Stuff You Will Hate (sad post)". MetalSucks. Archived from the original on December 19, 2015. Retrieved June 16, 2019.
Works cited
- Harkins, Ray (February 21, 2018). "Finn McKenty from URM Academy". 100 Words Or Less (Podcast). No. 294. Podtail.com. Retrieved July 11, 2019.[permanent dead link]
- Murphy, James (February 27, 2019). "FINN "THE PUNK ROCK MBA" MCKENTY". Modern Day Podcast (Podcast). 2. No. 4. Buzzsprout.com. Archived from the original on July 11, 2019. Retrieved July 10, 2019.
External links
- Official website
- URM Academy
- The Punk Rock MBA
- The Punk Rock MBA Podcast Archived 2021-05-20 at the Wayback Machine