A3 Artists Agency Promotes Three To Agent

EXCLUSIVE: Jeff Lamont, a partner and longtime president of creative advertising at leading Hollywood entertainment marketing agency Mob Scene, is exiting his post to launch a new venture, Brand X Productions, that will promote environmentally conscious companies and organizations.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFacebook is making it easier for independent artists and creators to share their music across the company’s different products — and get paid.For the Facebook Independent Artist Program, the company teamed with third-party music distribution companies DistroKid and TuneCore to help artists get their music on Facebook and Instagram quickly and at no cost to the artists.

In a stunning and unanimous judgment, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a city requiring that its contractors obey an ordinance prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation when the contractors claim a religious belief to do so violates the Free Exercise Clause of the First Amendment.

a case against the City of Philadelphia that had ended its contract because the adoption organization refused to serve same-sex couples and LGBTQ parents.“Not a green light for other organizations” to violate anti-discrimination laws, NBC News’ Pete Williams said.Catholic Social Services and the religious right groups supporting this lawsuit were seeking to revoke non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ people, along with minority religious groups like Jews and Muslims in an attempt to hand

GFRIEND singer Yerin has become the first member of the girl group to sign with a new agency.Sublime Artist Agency announced earlier today (June 17) that Yerin had signed a contract with the company, which is home to fellow K-pop acts like Rain and ex-T-ara member Hyomin.

Chris Willman Music WriterWith almost no tours having been undertaken in the past year, the Pollstar Awards pivoted in two different directions for the 31st annual edition of the show held Wednesday night at the Beverly Hilton Hotel ballroom. One shift in focus was to deliver awards to the top touring artists of the last decade, instead of the year, in different genres.

UTA this week became the first of the major agencies and one of the first entertainment companies to reopen its offices after 15 months, inviting back agents and support staff that have been vaccinated against Covid. The offices re-opened yesterday, this coming two weeks after the agency reopened refurbished offices in Nashville. Plans are to reopen in London August 31 and New York on September 7.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorExceptional Minds, a not-for-profit professional training academy and studio designed to prepare individuals on the autism spectrum for careers in the digital arts, hosted its eighth annual graduation ceremony June 11.

Playboi Carti, Architects, Machine Gun Kelly, Lil Yachty and Princess Nokia on their bill for 2021.The festival has today (June 16) confirmed that Chase Atlantic, Wargasm, Finn Askew, BVDLVD and Macca Wiles have all joined the line-up for this year’s event.

Dua Lipa, Coldplay and The Beatles have all played a major role in the British record industry earning £519.7 million in overseas earnings last year, the highest figure on record.New data from the BPI reveals that music export revenues in 2020 grew by 6 per cent on 2019, helped along by the “explosive growth of music streaming”.It has also been confirmed that one in 10 tracks streamed across the globe are by a UK artist, with 300 British artists notching up 100 million streams or more.But it was

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorIn what is described as a major tactical restructuring of the national and regional staffs of the Epic Records Urban Promotion Department, Cynthia Johnson and Cory “Sparks” Johnson have been promoted to Vice Presidents of Urban Promotion, it was announced today by the company’s EVP of promotion, Traci Adams, to whom both will report.According to the announcement, in their new positions, the two will devise and execute Urban Radio promotion campaigns to obtain

Mike & Molly alum Reno Wilson, who currently stars in NBC’s Good Girls, has signed with A3 Artists Agency for representation.

Angelique Jackson A3 Artists Agency announced on Friday that Alexis Cooper will now serve as vice president of HR, while Ulisses Rivera was promoted to director of communications. Both Cooper and Rivera will continue reporting to Chief Operating Officer Todd Quinn.“Alexis and Ulisses have been key to helping us take the agency to the next level,” said A3 Chief Executive Officer Robert Attermann.

A3 Artists Agency has promoted its human resources and communications heads, elevating Alexis Elisha Cooper to VP of human resources and Ulisses Rivera to director of communications.

EXCLUSIVE: French actor and composer Stephen Manas, known for his role on Apple’s hit comedy Ted Lasso, has signed with Defining Artists Agency for representation.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVIn the two versions of “The Mosquito Coast” that came before the Apple TV Plus drama (the 1981 novel and the 1986 film adaptation), the character of Allie Fox’s wife and mother to his children was just that and that alone: a wife and mother.

Danielle Turchiano Senior Features Editor, TVHaving her nonfiction book of essays, “Shrill: Notes From a Loud Woman,” turned into a streaming scripted comedy in 2019 checked many boxes for Lindy West.

B.I‘s management agency, IOK Company, has issued a statement following the singer’s recent indictment on charges of alleged narcotics purchases in 2016.On June 8, the company released a statement to South Korean news outlet Sports Chosun addressing the singer’s recent indictment. The agency noted that the recent change was for an “allegation from 2019 that he purchased narcotics”, as translated by Soompi.

MAMAMOO’s Wheein has reportedly decided to leave her longtime agency RBW Entertainment.This is according to a new report by South Korean news outlet Sports Kyunghyang, which claimed that the singer has decided not to renew her contract with the music label.