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A&R
News April 2009
On
the A&R front, there has been quite a lot of activity
over the last few months. Starting with A&R moves, Keith
Naftaly joined RCA from Epic and Daniel Werner joined Mercury,
also from Epic. Continuing with Mercury hires, Vlad Bar
joined David Massey's A&R team and over at Epic, Ian
Dench joined Epic's A&R team while A&R Veteran Kaye
Hyman joined Warner Bros. as an A&R Consultant. There's
also been a lot of A&R activity in the UK. Triss Penna,
previously with Andrew Lloyd Weber's Really Useful Group,
joined Epic as Director of A&R while Shabs Jobanputra
became the new President of Virgin. Steve Allen joined Warner
Bros. UK, Ollie Slaney joined Parlophone and Chris McCort
and Annie Christensen joined Island. Briony Turner joined
A&M and Jordan Jay joined Geffen-UK from Polydor.
We're always sad to report exits from the A&R world,
but Craig Winkler has left Columbia, Brian Postelle and
Josh Sarubin have left Island, Donna Pearce has left RCA,
and A&R Executives Cliff Cultreri, David Wilkes and
Shawn Barron have left E1 (formerly Koch). Over in the UK,
Steve Sasse left Atlantic, Dan Keeling left Island and Guy
Langley left Warner Bros. Also, please note that all of
the EMI labels in the UK have moved (EMI, EMI Classics,
Virgin, Positiva and Parlophone).
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"People
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question is: How can I make a career for myself as a musician?"
Andy Karp is Vice President of A&R at Lava/Atlantic
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Rock (10 million copies sold in the US of his first Lava
release "Devil Without A Cause" in 1998, and
Uncle Kracker (US Double Platinum Debut in 2001). Click
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"I
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no matter what. I'm a nose-to-the-grindstone kind of person".
Dianne Warren is one of the world's most successful songwriters.
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" Regarding mechanicals, I would like to see it made
illegal that labels can even offer 75% stat. It HAS to
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"What's Fair In A Record Deal" by Chris Standring. Click
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"I
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“For three and a half years, I spent every day
with Linkin Park…”
Jeff Blue is VP of A&R at Warner California. Linkin
Park, Beautiful Creatures and Impur are some of the
rock acts for whom he is A&R. Click
here to read this interview.
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