Discography
Releases from my years in artist management, from the Velvet Hammer roster to my own imprint.
01 / Velvet Hammer Music & Management Group 2010–2014
Deftones
Diamond Eyes
- Released
- 4 May 2010 · Album · Reprise · 511922-1 (US white LP)
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #6
Germany #8
New Zealand #8
Switzerland #11
Austria #13
Australia #22
France #23
UK #26 - Recognition
- Kerrang! Album of the Year 2010
iTunes Store Rock Album of the Year 2010
Revolver: Best Album of the Decade (#1)
MetalSucks: #4, 25 Best Metal Albums of 2010–2019
Loudwire: Best Hard Rock Album of 2010 - Credits
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Touché Amoré
Parting the Sea Between Brightness and Me
- Released
- 7 Jun 2011 · Album · Deathwish · DWI121
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Recognition
- Metacritic 81 (universal acclaim)
Rock Sound 9/10 - Credits
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Hot Water Music
Exister
- Released
- 15 May 2012 · Album · Rise Records · RISE158-1
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #34
US Hard Rock #3
US Independent #8
UK Rock & Metal #11 - Recognition
- Metacritic 74
- Videos
- Drag My Body
- Credits
- Management: Velvet Hammer Music And Management Group
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Coheed and Cambria
The Afterman: Ascension
- Released
- 9 Oct 2012 · Album · Hundred Handed / Everything Evil · HH1001
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #5
UK Rock #5
Canada #11 - Credits
- Management: Velvet Hammer Music And Management Group
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Deftones
Koi No Yokan
- Released
- 12 Nov 2012 · Album · Reprise · 2-532460
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #11
US Hard Rock #2
UK Rock & Metal #3
New Zealand #8
Canada #13
Australia #16
UK #30 - Recognition
- Revolver Golden Gods 2013: Album of the Year
Metacritic: one of the 8 best-reviewed albums of 2012
Loudwire: Best Hard Rock Album of 2012 - Credits
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Coheed and Cambria
The Afterman: Descension
- Released
- 5 Feb 2013 · Album · Hundred Handed / Everything Evil · VVR25557 (UK/EU)
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #9
US Independent #3
UK Rock #3
UK #64 - Videos
- Dark Side of Me
- Credits
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Alice In Chains
The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
- Released
- 28 May 2013 · Album · Capitol
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #2
Canada #2
UK Rock & Metal #1
US Rock / Hard Rock / Alternative #1
Australia #10
UK #22
Singles: "Hollow" #1 and "Stone" #1, Mainstream Rock; "Voices" #3 - Recognition
- Grammy nomination: Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical (Randy Staub), 56th Grammys
Juno nomination: Recording Engineer of the Year (Randy Staub, "Hollow")
Loudwire Best Rock Albums of 2013: #1
Loudwire Best Rock Albums of the Decade: #4
Revolver Golden Gods 2014 nominations: Song of the Year ("Hollow"), Best Guitarist (Jerry Cantrell)
Loudwire Music Awards nominations: Rock Album, Song, Video ("Hollow"), Guitarist - Credits
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Touché Amoré
Is Survived By
- Released
- 24 Sep 2013 · Album · Deathwish · DW151
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Recognition
- AbsolutePunk Top Albums of 2013: #8
Metacritic 87 (universal acclaim)
Pitchfork 8.0
Exclaim! 9/10 - Videos
- Harbor
- Credits
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AFI
Burials
- Released
- 22 Oct 2013 · Album · Republic · 602537585847
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #9
US Hard Rock #2
US Alternative #3
Australia #10
UK #59 - Recognition
- Loudwire Best Rock Albums of 2013: #6
Loudwire Music Awards 2013: Best Rock Album nominee - Credits
- Management: Velvet Hammer Music And Management Group
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Seahaven
Reverie Lagoon: Music for Escapism Only
- Released
- 25 Mar 2014 · Album · Run For Cover Records · RFC098
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Credits
- See full credits
Battle Lines
Colonies
- Released
- 15 Apr 2014 · 7" single · No Sleep Records
- Role
- Junior Manager
- Recognition
- SXSW 2014 showcase
US premiere: BrooklynVegan - Credits
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Code Orange
I Am King
- Released
- 2 Sep 2014 · Album · Deathwish
- Role
- Junior Manager, A&R
- Charts
- US Billboard 200 #96 (band's first chart entry)
US Hard Rock #10
US Indie Store #14 - Recognition
- Metacritic 87 (universal acclaim)
Pitchfork: most forward-thinking post-hardcore record of 2014 (Ian Cohen)
Revolver: 12 great heavy albums of 2014 (retrospective) - Credits
- A&R: Griffin McCabe
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XTRMST
XTRMST
- Released
- 18 Nov 2014 · Album · Dim Mak
- Role
- Junior Manager, Visual Identity Design
- Videos
- Conformist
- Credits
- See full credits
02 / Roll Call → Lucky Artists (own imprint) 2015–2021
Tigercub
Blue Blood
- Released
- 2014 · Single · Raygun Records
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Charts
- UK Physical Singles #19
- Recognition
- Clash premiere
UK tour supporting Royal Blood (2014) - Credits
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Tigercub
Centrefold
- Released
- 1 Dec 2014 · 7" single · Jazz Life / Raygun · BLAME001D (Discogs) · JAZZLIFE04
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- First Jazz Life release (Blood Red Shoes' label)
European tour with Blood Red Shoes (Nov 2014) - Videos
- Centrefold
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Tigercub
Destroy / You
- Released
- 9 Jul 2015 · Single + Too Pure Singles Club 7" · Cannibal Hymns · Too Pure · HYMNS001 · Pure320s
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- Too Pure Singles Club 7", limited, numbered (11 Aug 2015)
- Videos
- Destroy (lyric video)
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Tigercub
Meet Tigercub
- Released
- 19 Aug 2015 · Mini-album (Japan) · P-Vine Records · PCD-18796
- Role
- Management, A&R, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- Japanese release
- Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Wax Idols
American Tragic
- Released
- 16 Oct 2015 · Album · Collect Records · CLTD-1016
- Role
- Management
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Tigercub
Repressed Semantics
- Released
- 27 Nov 2015 · EP · Venn Records · VENN #016
- Role
- Management, A&R, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- Crack premiere: "one of Brighton's most promising up-and-coming bands"
The Guardian (7 Dec 2015)
First UK headline tour; European dates with Dilly Dally - Videos
- Pictures of You
- Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Fear Of Men
Fall Forever
- Released
- 3 Jun 2016 · Album · Kanine Records · KR152
- Role
- Management
- Recognition
- Stereogum: 50 Best Albums of 2016 So Far (#46)
- Videos
- Trauma
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Tigercub
Abstract Figures in the Dark
- Released
- 11 Nov 2016 · Album · Alcopop! Records · ALCOPOP146
- Role
- Management, A&R, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Charts
- Record Store Chart #8
- Recognition
- Clash 8/10
- Videos
- Control
Memory Boy
Omen - Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Wax Idols
Everybody Gets What They Want
- Released
- 7 Dec 2016 · Single · Etruscan Gold Records
- Role
- Management
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Estrons
Strobe Lights
- Released
- 28 Apr 2017 · Single · Digital; 7" double A-side with "Glasgow Kisses" via Flying Vinyl (Aug 2017)
- Recognition
- Video premiere: DIY (6 Jun 2017)
- Videos
- Strobe Lights
El Ten Eleven
Unusable Love EP
- Released
- 18 Aug 2017 · 10" EP · Fake Record Label (UK vinyl: Alcopop!) · FRL012L
- Role
- Management
- Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe, Rob Abelow
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Tigercub
Evolve or Die
- Released
- 29 Sep 2017 · EP · Alcopop! Records · ALCOPOP 164
- Role
- Management, A&R, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- Dork ★★★★
Reading Festival 2017 (The Pit) - Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Estrons
You Say I'm Too Much, I Say You're Not Enough
- Released
- 5 Oct 2018 · Album · Gofod Records (US: Roll Call Records) · GFD001LPX
- Role
- Management
- Charts
- Scottish Albums #96
- Recognition
- Welsh Music Prize 2019: shortlisted
UK Music Video Awards 2019: "Body" nominated, Best Editing
Huw Stephens (BBC Radio 1) Tune of the Week: "Lilac"
NME, DIY, The Independent, Dork, Upset: 4/5 - Credits
- Management: Griffin McCabe
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Nancy
Mysterious Visions
- Released
- 9 Nov 2018 · EP · B3SCI Records / Cannibal Hymns · B3SR 075 · HYMS 017
- Role
- Management, A&R
- Recognition
- DIY ★★★★
- Press
I do not recommend that combination, you better get more sober when you get older, but it doesn't matter what I think… I've never seen Nancy live at all, but it sure sounds fun. I wanna keep it going.
Iggy Pop, BBC Radio 6 Music, on air after playing "I'm Not Getting Sober, I'm Just Getting Older (Helluva Guy)"- Press
It sounds like a standard-issue pop song that's been dragged backwards through a hedge.
Michael Stipe (R.E.M.), Michael Stipe's podcast- Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Nancy
Happy Oddities
- Released
- 7 Aug 2020 · 7" flexi EP · B3SCI Records
- Role
- Management, A&R
- Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Nancy
7 Foot Tall Post-Suicidal Feel Good Blues
- Released
- 15 Jan 2021 · Mini-album · B3SCI Records
- Role
- Management, A&R
- Recognition
- Clash 8/10
Pitchfork review - Videos
- Pleasure Pen
- Credits
- Management, A&R: Griffin McCabe
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Tigercub
Beauty
- Released
- 29 Jan 2021 · Single · BLAME Recordings
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- Spotify editorial: Totally Alt
- Videos
- Beauty
Tigercub
Stop Beating on My Heart (Like a Bass Drum)
- Released
- 26 Feb 2021 · Single · BLAME Recordings
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- US radio adds: KPNT, KXXR
- Videos
- Stop Beating on My Heart
Tigercub
As Blue as Indigo
- Released
- 18 Jun 2021 · Album · BLAME Recordings · BLAME004
- Role
- Management, A&R, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Charts
- UK Independent Album Breakers #1
UK Rock & Metal #5
UK Independent Albums #11
UK Vinyl #12
UK Physical Albums #30 - Recognition
- Kerrang! KKKK
Amazon Music billboards, Leicester Square + Euston (18 Jun 2021)
Toured with Royal Blood (2021)
"Overload" recorded as an Amazon Original (Aug 2021) - Credits
- A&R: Griffin McCabe, James Moodie
Management: Griffin McCabe
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03 / Opera Ghost 2021–2022
Tigercub
I.W.G.F.U.
- Released
- 24 Nov 2021 · Single · BLAME Recordings
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction
- Recognition
- BBC Radio 1 + 6 Music plays
Kerrang! Radio C-list - Videos
- I.W.G.F.U.
Tigercub
The Perfume of Decay
- Released
- 12 Oct 2022 · Single · Loosegroove Records
- Role
- Management, Creative Strategy, Art Direction (signed Loosegroove deal, Feb 2022)
- Charts
- US Billboard Mainstream Rock #28 (chart dated 20 May 2023)
- Recognition
- First single on Stone Gossard's Loosegroove label
Nancy
English Leather
- Released
- 28 Oct 2022 · Album · BLAME Recordings · BLAME011 · BLAME11LPX (vinyl, 2023-01-27)
- Recognition
- Rough Trade "On The Rise"
- Credits
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Tours
| Artist | Tour | Dates | Shows | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| System of a Down | Europe 2011 | 2 Jun 2011 – 21 Jun 2011 | 12 | Download, Rock am Ring, Bercy, Moscow Olympic Stadium |
| System of a Down | Europe 2013 | 7 Aug 2013 – 27 Aug 2013 | 14 | Reading & Leeds, Rock en Seine, Ziggo Dome |
| System of a Down | Wake Up The Souls | 10 Apr 2015 – 23 Apr 2015 | 7 | Wembley; free show at Republic Square, Yerevan |