Message: Keith Cahoon was born and raised in Northern California, and began buying records obsessively from the fourth grade. He first entered the music business as a clerk at Tower Records in Stockton, California in 1977, and moved through the company ranks until landing as CEO of Tower Records Japan in 1984. Under his leadership the Japanese company grew to a chain of 58 stores with annual sales of over 50 billion yen. While at Tower he established their free paper Bounce, online retail, record label and music publishing divisions. In October, 2003 Keith founded Hotwire Inc., a Tokyo based music publishing company and consultancy, where he works with a wide range of artists and companies. He has written about music for CD liner notes, and for variety of publications, including Pulse and Rolling Stone....

Keith Cahoon was born and raised in Northern California, and began buying records obsessively from the fourth grade. He first entered the music business as a clerk at Tower Records in Stockton, California in 1977, and moved through the company ranks until landing as CEO of Tower Records Japan in 1984. Under his leadership the Japanese company grew to a chain of 58 stores with annual sales of over 50 billion yen. While at Tower he established their free paper Bounce, online retail, record label and music publishing divisions. In October, 2003 Keith founded Hotwire Inc., a Tokyo based music publishing company and consultancy, where he works with a wide range of artists and companies. He has written about music for CD liner notes, and for variety of publications, including Pulse and Rolling Stone. Keith currently maintains a music news website in Japanese at www.hotwirejapan.com.