(Lady Gaga manager) Troy Carter’s music management group Atom Factory will launch a new electronic music division. This division, Atom Empire, will be led by veteran music manager Stephanie LaFera, who will run the division representing DJs in the electronic genre. Talent already signed to the brand includes major players, including Kaskade, Ming, Le Castle Vania, Late Night Alumni, Haley and Digital LAB. Atom Factory’s management roster includes Greyson Chance and Mindless Behavior as well as Gaga herself. LaFera most recently ran her own music venture Little Empire Music, managing a wide range of international recording artists such as Kaskade. Prior to Little Empire Music, LaFera was an artist manager at MCT Management, where she worked with Moby, Rufus Wainwright and Taylor McFerrin, among others. Watch out for more.
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Habitat Music founding producer, Aaron Albano, has partnered with Ben Jastatt of Matchless Music, and Malcolm Francis or Popular Beat Combo to create Afire Music LLC. Afire Music specializes in licensing music for film, television and commercials. With this strategic partnership, Habitat Music completes its client service offerings as a full-service music house with Afire as a one-stop licensing arm. Afire not only offers great production music for all applications but also an awesome roster of indie bands and artists. Afire is now also able to provide material for full productions in broadcast and serial Internet. Habitat is excited to provide not only high quality original music, but also offer clients an A-level catalog, representing great artists and bands for licensing.
The Songwriters Hall of Fame celebrates and honors great pop songwriters while developing new writing talent through workshops, showcases, scholarships and digital initiatives. Taylor Swift, Phil Collins, Earth Wind and Fire and Leonard Cohen were among this years award recipients at the 2010 Induction Ceremony on June 17th. In addition to an amazing evening of live performances, attendees look forward to taking home a goody bag with the The Songwriters Hall of Fame New Writers Showcase CD. Since its inception in 2003, Habitat Composer/Producer/Engineer Harold Stephan has been mastering the New Writers Showcase CD and was featured as a songwriter in 2006 with his band Amelia’s Dream for their song “
A native New Yorker, the city’s musical culture has always been a part of Abe’s identity. From Hip Hop to House, Freestyle to Funk, Salsa to Scratching – it’s in his DNA. Abe’s musical aspirations originate in the old school when, as a kid on the Lower East Side, after piano lessons at the Henry Street Settlement, he initially tried his hand at DJ’ing with a single turntable and a cassette deck. The journey has since taken him from the infamous pioneering rave “NASA” in the early ‘90s to A&R duties at Kinetic Records and later, Music Editor for UGO.com and other digital entities.