Industry Ink (7-2-13)

Sketch of Artisan on 18th Apartments

The Music Row area is set to get yet another apartment building. The Nashville-based Stonehenge Real Estate Group will soon break ground on a 153-unit project. Artisan on 18th will be located at the intersection of 18th Ave. S. and Chet Atkins Place, with plans to open by summer 2014. According to the Nashville Post, five buildings that currently house music businesses will be razed in order to construct the apartments.

Stonehenge also developed Music Row’s Note 16 apartments and Eleven North in the Gulch.

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ole has acquired a music publishing catalog comprised of music from Sony Pictures Entertainment’s film and television releases between 1993 and 2012.

The catalog includes compositions from a variety of TV shows such as Wheel of Fortune, Breaking Bad, Dawson’s Creek, The Nanny, Rescue Me, and films including Angels & Demons, The Da Vinci Code, Groundhog Day, Rudy, Jumanji, Legends of the Fall, Moneyball, Mr. Deeds, The Patriot, The Quick and the Dead, Superbad, Step Brothers, Stuart Little, and Hotel Transylvania, among others.

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ASCAP songwriters Jessi Alexander, Brandy Clark, Josh Osborne and Trevor Rosen were the featured writers-in-the-round at The Circle Sessions, held at Joe’s Bar in Chicago on Wednesday, June 26. The Circle Sessions is a semi-monthly acoustic showcase, presented by Joe’s Bar and Black Label Booking, that unites some of Nashville’s most talented country music songwriters to share the stories behind their hit songs and perform them acoustically in an intimate setting. The unique event serves to bring the in-the-round concept to new audiences outside of Music City.

Pictured (L-R): ASCAP’s Evyn Mustoe, Jessi Alexander, Trevor Rosen, Brandy Clark, Josh Osborne, Black Label Booking’s Mike Abramson, Joe’s Bar’s Montse Azmani, Black Label Booking’s Ryan Allen and ASCAP’s Robert Filhart.

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Skillet, a Christian rock band that formed in Memphis, Tenn. in 1996, celebrated the release of their project Rise last week in New York. Atlantic Records hosted a party at New York’s Hudson Hotel to commemorate the band’s new project and the RIAA Platinum certification of their 2009 release Awake and their hit single “Monster.” Attending the event festivities included Atlantic Records’ Craig Kallman (Chairman/CEO), Julie Greenwald (Chairman/COO) and Pete Ganbarg (EVP/Head of A&R). Adding to the platinum honors were the RIAA Gold certifications for the band’s singles “Hero” and “Awake & Alive.”

Pictured (L to R): Zachary Kelm (Q Management), Seth Morrison, Jen Ledger, Korey Cooper, Craig Kallman (Atlantic Records Chairman/CEO ), Julie Greenwald (Atlantic Records Chairman/COO), John Cooper and Pete Ganbarg (Atlantic Records EVP and Head of A&R).

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Moe Bandy

Third Coast Talent Agency has signed on to represent artist Moe Bandy. Bandy’s singles include “Bandy The Rodeo Clown,” “Till I’m Too Old To Die Young,” “Americana,” “Hank Williams You Wrote My Life,” “It’s a Cheatin’ Situation,” “Just Good Ol’ Boys,” “Barstool Mountain,” “I Cheated Me Right Out of You,” and more.

Third Coast also represents Jeannie Seely, Gene Watson, Janie Fricke, Little Jimmy Dickens and Johnny Rodriquez.