The Table Ep. 35 - Management and A&R - Sarah Stickle

Sarah and Vic sit down with Management and A&R at Born & Raised Entertainment and TwentySeven Music Publishing Sarah Stickle to discuss:

• Finding your niche and using varied experience to your advantage
• The satisfaction of seeing things through start to finish, and celebrating your wins!
• Diversity in the industry and how it varies from location, genre, and area of the industry
• How underpaying songwriters is a feminist issue
• How gender roles and capitalism make it harder to create change
• Performative allyship - Are the changes we’re seeing long-term?
• Being a queer woman in the music industry 
• The intersection of gender, race, and sexuality 
• Advocating for your peers and creators, and helping others do the same
• The difference in community and creativity between Nashville and LA
• The importance of having peers and a team that fights for you

 

Notes:

Jason Bernard - https://variety.com/2018/music/news/pulse-music-group-jason-bernard-1203021768/ 

Kobalt - https://www.kobaltmusic.com/ 

 

Some of Sarah’s recent wins and artists/songs discussed:

• Signing Brian Brundage for management (Tai Verdes' "A-O-K", Rhys Lewis, Maddie Zahm)
• Cuts she helped to secure:
  • 44Phantom ft. Machine Gun Kelly single "don't sleep, repeat"
  • Hayley Kiyoko's "for the girls" - which was also featured in the new Netflix film Do Revenge 
  • Sofia Carson's "Loud"
• Procured the mix for Kane Brown's single "Grand" (mixed by Adam Hawkins)
• Ryan Daly - The new John Legend single "Wonder Woman", the forthcoming Fitz & The Tantrums album, and the current DNCE single