Strong Management founder and co-owner
Vaughn Lewis, along with Strong Management co-owner
Kenny Gabor, have joined Davis Entertainment Group founder
Steve Davis to form the new joint company
Unchained Management, Music & Media in New York City.
The Unchained roster will combine the trio’s clientele, which includes Cannibal Corpse, Queensryche, Ministry, Children of Bodom and Killswitch Engage. The company is planning to expand its activities beyond music management in the future.
Founded in 1996, Strong Management grew out of Lewis stint managing New York punk band H2O. Over 25 years, the company has represented a roster that also includes As I Lay Dying, William Elliott Whitmore, Oxymorrons and D Generation. Gabor joined the company in 1997.
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Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On this date:
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.
Almanacs are full of lists of global and national historic events. But “This Day in History” feature invites you to not just peruse a list, but to take a trip back in time to see how a significant event originally was reported in the Chicago Tribune.
This week we look back to our 33
rd anniversary show, recorded in 2016, with our Song of the Week by Iron & Wine. 1 of 5 Tift Merritt-2016 2 of 5 Andy Shauf-2016 3 of 5 Paper Bird 2016 4 of 5 Todd Burge 2016 5 of 5
With an ear for cinematic folk music, critically-acclaimed singer Sam Beam, who performs and records as Iron & Wine, does We Two Are A Moon as our Song of the Week. The tune was originally released on
Love Letter for Fire, a 2016 collaborative album by Iron & Wine and singer Jesca Hoop. The pair had toured earlier that year in support of the release, which was produced, recorded, and mixed by Tucker Martine.