A rundown of music industry hires, promotions and more this week.
Warner Music Group (WMG) has announced several hires and promotions within the company’s global catalog team. Except where noted, all join the company as senior vps of catalog development & marketing, with each heading up an area of the business and representing the catalog division’s global leadership under
Kevin Gore, WMG’s president, global catalog, recorded music & arts music.
Blake Foster re-joins WMG from Skrillex’s label OWSLA, where he served as general manager. Prior to that, he was vp of marketing at Atlantic Records and concurrently served as head of marketing for Big Beat Records, where he worked with David Guetta, Clean Bandit, DRAM, Jess Glynne and more.
Even though they broke up over 10-years-ago, and the chances of a Ragweed reunion are about as high as Koe coming out of lock down dropping a Christian-Polka album on us, to this day Cross Canadian Ragweed remain the epitome of Red Dirt. They are and will forever be the scale on which bands from Oklahoma are measured.
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To help satiate our Ragweed reunion desires, That MusicFest tribute album is out now. It was recorded in January 20 and was arguably the last good thing to happen that year. Cody Canada and Cross Canadian Ragweed were honored in Steamboat Springs, Colo with the MusicFest Tribute to Cody Canada & The Music of Cross Canadian Ragweed.
I’ve been listening to a ton of
Cody Jinks lately, and when I do, I can’t help but come back to this warm July night in 2018.
At a show in Peoria, Illinois, Cody sounded off on the state of country music, particularly, the corporate country music machine. As one of the most successful independent artists in country music in recent years, Cody has proved that you don’t need to be part of the Nashville scene to be successful. You just have to make damn good country music.
“Ain’t this shit fun? See this is shit you used to see back in the 70’s when all those motherfuckers were out there singing and playing together, playing and singing and recording each other’s songs. We’re bringing that back!
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