Featuring former members of Tempe jangle-pop kings The Pistoleros, Dead Hot Workshop, The Gin Blossoms, and Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, The Persuaders debuted earlier this year, cranking out the ...

We recently caught you up on The Persuaders, a local band comprised of veteran Valley musicians whose influence of 90’s sounds can be heard in their music today. Zubia says, “I knew a girl who had ...

In 1957 Vance Packard published The Hidden Persuaders. The book sold over a million copies. Its sensationalist claim was that a small group of ad men (later Mad Men) had devised nefarious techniques ...

Most people in advertising know George Parker as the cantankerous author of the blog Adscam. Every day, Adscam brings forth another curse-laden Parker post about the state of Big Dumb Agencies, Martin ...

As marketers, retailers and governments map your desires in ever-greater detail, your purchasing decisions, your lifestyle choices, even your political preferences are influenced in ways you barely ...

Special musical guest Lt. Gov. Brian Calley joined the Jackson-based band the Persuaders at its latest gig. Calley played keyboard with the Persuaders Friday at a party on Mackinac Island during the ...

In a subject near and dear to Gothamist's heart, the PBS show Frontline looks at the advertising-marketing-branding machine in a 90-minute program, The Persuaders. With Douglas Rushkoff corresponding, ...

Richard Poindexter’s Persuaders will headline a concert Friday at The Dochiki Social Club in Newport News. Also performing will be Amber, Stan the Man, Charlie Lockhart and En-Ovation. Showtime is 9 p ...

The writer Anand Giridharadas says he needed to persuade himself that there's still some point in persuasion. ANAND GIRIDHARADAS: I think if you look at our political debate, it's so easy to be ...