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Former Big Machine money man launches services agency

By Chris Cooke | Published on Friday 10 April 2015

The former finance chief of US independent record company Big Machine (which you might always prefix with “Taylor Swift’s label”, but the machine is bigger than that, and anyway, this story isn’t even about Big Machine, making these parenthesis way longer than was necessary or desirable) has set up a new management and services company.

Amongst the services 7th Wave Entertainment will be offering artists, producers, songwriters, publishers and labels will be royalty processing, audit support, business management and other consultancy on music matters and big machines. Possibly. But this is nothing to do with Big Machine. Brad Kash is ex-Big Machine remember.

And he’s previously worked in a variety of other roles across the music industry, as he’s going to say right now while announcing his new company. “I’ve been fortunate to have gained hands on executive level experience actually working on the inside of record labels and publishing companies”, he says. “As well as within the areas of artist management, agency representation and tour support management”.

He went on: “That background, coupled with over 25 years of accounting and finance management knowledge, provides an insight of the full music industry cycle that I believe is unique to the leadership of most business management first. Additionally, our goal at 7th Wave is to remain boutique and highly focused on our clients’ needs, building the business on quality rather than quantity with client profitability and longevity being key”.

A small but well formed machine then. I told you this story wasn’t about big machines. I win.