Contact: ryanhadlock@7smgmt.com

Ryan Hadlock is a producer, engineer, and mixer based in Seattle, WA. While best known for his Grammy-nominated work with The Lumineers, Brandi Carlile, and ARIA-winner Vance Joy, he has worked on hundreds of recordings in the past two decades. Ryan frequently travels to Los Angeles, New York, and London to work with various artists, though Bear Creek Studio in suburban Woodinville remains his home base and creative haven. Ryan grew up on the Bear Creek property, which was developed into a studio by his parents in 1978. As a teenager, he assisted in sessions with producers Dave Steward, Gill Norton, and Terry Date, recording artists such as Heart, Lionel Richie, Eric Clapton, Soundgarden, and the Foo Fighters.

Ryan started recording and producing independently in 1998, working with indie rock icons The Black Heart Procession, Blonde Redhead, The Afghan Whigs, and Stephen Malkmus. He received critical acclaim for producing The Gossip, Johnny Flynn, Ra Ra Riot, and Milo Greene. Ryan enjoys working with diverse bands and genres and with clients from both indie and major labels. What draws him to a project is the energy his clients have and their passion for songwriting. “Though you ultimately work for the band,” he says, “above all, you have a responsibility to capture the power of a great song. That’s what I seek to do—make sure the recording itself serves the song, as well as the band.”

In 2014 Ryan won the “Best Roots & Traditional Album of the Year” JUNO Award for producing The Strumbella’s “We Still Move On Dance Floors.” Success continued with Vance Joy’s “Dream Your Life Away,” recognized by Rolling Stone as an engaging follow-up to the viral single “Riptide.” Recent releases include Brandi Carlile’s Grammy-nominated album “The Firewatcher’s Daughter” on ATO, Catherine Britt’s “Boneshaker” on Lost Highway, and Vance Joy’s single “Fire and Flood” on Atlantic. Ra Ra Riot returned to Bear Creek and worked with Ryan on their new album “Need Your Light” on Barsuk.

Contact: karenkosowki@7smgmt.com

Karen Kosowski is a versatile multi-genre writer and producer based in Nashville, TN. Raised on a wide variety of pop, rock, classical and country music in the Canadian prairie city of Winnipeg, in the early 2000’s she packed up her car and drove herself, her instruments and her recording gear to Toronto where she spent many years creating both pop and country music before following her heart and relocating her studio to Nashville, Tennessee. With her formal musical training, traditional songwriting background, multi-instrumentalist abilities, varied influences and two decades of producing, pop programming and engineering skills, she is a virtual Swiss army knife in both the writing room and recording studio. As such, she has contributed to a wide resume of hits - sometimes as a producer, sometimes as a writer, sometimes as a mixer, and sometimes all three at once.

Karen produced the majority of Mickey Guyton’s 3x Grammy nominated album “Remember Her Name” (Capitol Records Nashville), and is a co-writer on several of the album’s tracks. The album received a 2022 Grammy nomination for “Best Country Album”, and the title track (one of nine that Karen produced) was nominated for “Best Country Solo Performance” and “Best Country Song”. She also mixed two of the album’s tracks, including the critically acclaimed “What Are You Gonna Tell Her”. The album has received massive critical praise and was hailed by NPR as “one of the standout country-pop works of the modern era”.

Previously Karen produced and co-wrote several tracks on Guyton’s “Bridges” EP (Capitol Records Nashville), which was hailed as one of the top country albums of 2020 by Billboard Magazine, American Songwriter Magazine and many more. Karen continues to collaborate on a variety of recording projects with Mickey as both producer and co-writer, including producing and mixing “Black Like Me (Our Voices)”, which Mickey performed at the 2021 Grammy Awards, and producing a cover of “Nothing Else Matters” for Metallica’s “The Metallica Blacklist” album. For Mickey’s performance of the Star Spangled Banner at Super Bowl LVI, Karen arranged the instrumentation and choir, and played piano in the final performance. She has accompanied Mickey on stage for many special occasions, including performances on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon”, the 2021 American Music Awards, and the 2021 Grammy Awards.

Other recent highlights include co-writing the Gold Certified, #1 Canadian and Australian country single “What A Song Should Do” for Tim Hicks, co-writing the Platinum certified single "She Drives Me Crazy" and Gold certified single "Anthem" for Brett Kissel, and producing, mixing and co-writing the six-week #1 Australian Country Single “Memphis T-Shirt” for Melanie Dyer (Universal Music Australia). She produced and co-wrote the Gold Certified, #2 Canadian Country Single "Country Thunder" for the Washboard Union (for which she received a nomination for "Producer Of The Year" at the 2020 Canadian Country Music Awards), and went on to produce 6 tracks on their new album "Everbound", which won the 2020 CCMA award for "Roots Album Of The Year” and garnered Karen a second “Producer of the Year” nomination at the 2021 CCMA’s. Karen produced/co-wrote/mixed the single "Home To Me" for Sony Nashville recording artist Ross Ellis, which charted top 10 on Sirius XM's The Highway, and produced/co-wrote Ryan Langdon's swagger-filled new EP "Lit In The Sticks" (Hidden Pony Records).

While her recent work has been primarily focused in the country music genre, pop music is close to Karen’s heart, and she produced/co-wrote the US Top 40 pop hit “Somebody To Love Me” for Tryon, and produced/mixed/co-wrote the Billboard AC Radio Top 5 “It Won’t Be Christmas” for Emma-Lee, which has become a perennial radio favorite in Canada, topping the recurrent charts every Christmas season since it’s release.

Karen loves collaborating on original tracks for feature films. “Hold On” (co-written with and produced/mixed for Mickey Guyton), was created specially for a heartbreaking scene in the Oscar-nominated movie “Breakthrough”, and “Where The Light Used To Be” (co-written with and produced/mixed for Peter Katz) was created for another emotional wrought scene, this time in Wangofilms’ action movie “88” (starring Christopher Lloyd), and it garnered her a 2016 Canadian Screen Awards nomination in the category of Achievement in Music - Best Original Song. She also produced/mixed “Without A Net”, a newly-written song by Diane Warren performed by Mickey Guyton, for the 2020 feature film “Stuntwomen: The Untold Hollywood Story”.

Contact: tedhutt@7smgmt.com

Ted Hutt is a British GRAMMY® Award-winning record producer, musician, songwriter and mixer residing in Los Angeles, California.

Hutt came to America as a musician to work with producer Jimmy Iovine, who he credits for inspiring his own shift from performer to producer. The most important lesson Iovine imparted on Hutt is that it’s about the musician, not just the song. The goal should be to sustain a career rather than just a series of singles. The producer’s aim should be to build and promote an overall project as opposed to only focusing on the song. Hutt’s key to cracking the creative code with an artist is to build a working relationship based on trust, and a musician himself, Hutt easily relates to the rewards and challenges of touring, recording and promoting an album. His diverse skills as a musician allow him to pick up an instrument and dig into songs with the artist, and because of this unique skill set, multiple acts have returned time and again to Hutt as producer.

Hutt was a founding member and the original guitar player for Flogging Molly but found it more gratifying to work on multiple projects as producer. “I wanted to make records that I’d want to have in my own collection,” said Hutt. After his departure from the band, he was enlisted to produce, mix and co-write their RIAA Gold-selling recording Drunken Lullabies, its follow up Within a Mile of Home and the RIAA Platinum-selling Whisky on a Sunday.

Other artists that Hutt has worked with multiple times include the Bouncing Souls, with whom he made two albums. Lucero recorded a trilogy of albums with Ted at the legendary Ardent studios in Memphis. Hutt has also worked repeatedly with the Gaslight Anthem, producing their critically acclaimed, BPI Gold-certified breakthrough record The 59 Sound and the follow up American Slang (BPI certified silver). Frontman Brian Fallon also tapped Hutt’s expertise for his subsequent work with Horrible Crowes and for his solo record Sleepwalkers.

One of Hutt’s longest standing relationships is with Dropkick Murphys who have come back to him across six albums, three of them making Top 10 in Billboard 200, including duets with Bruce Springsteen, Nikki Lane, Turnpike Troubadours, Evan Felker and Jaime Wyatt.

Hutt also produced Old Crow Medicine Show on their GRAMMY® winning/Billboard Top 20 record, Remedy, as well as albums for Violent Femmes, Tiger Army, The Devil Makes Three, Audra Mae, Go Betty Go, Dustbowl Revival and Nahko and Medicine for the People (Hoka won the Native American Music Awards (NAMA) Album of the Year) and Dom Flemons record for Smithsonian Folkways. Hutt teamed up with The Mighty Mighty Bosstones for four albums, including a co-production with Tim Armstrong that featured contributions from Interrupters, Fishbone and Stranger Cole.

Always keeping his musical chops fresh, Hutt also writes and plays in Walker Roaders, a band he shares with James Fearnley (Pogues) Marc Orrell (Dropkick Murphys) and fellow producer Brad Wood.

Contact: jamesiha@7smgmt.com

James Iha began his career as a co-founder of The Smashing Pumpkins in Chicago in 1987. He recorded and toured with the group until 2000, during which time they released ten albums and became one of the biggest bands of the era, selling millions of albums and filling arenas worldwide. In addition to his guitar playing and singing, James was also a contributing songwriter.

In 2002, James joined the acclaimed progressive rock band A Perfect Circle (featuring members of Tool and Marilyn Manson). He continues to tour with the band, most recently headlining amphitheaters and arenas in the US in 2016.

James released his first solo album, LET IT COME DOWN, in 1998. It was an intimate, acoustic guitar-driven record that focused on the more personal side of his songwriting. During this period, he also co-founded indie label Scratchie Records, releasing albums by The Sounds, The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr., Robbers On High Street and others. In the late 90′s James relocated to New York, where he opened Stratosphere Sound Recording Studios along with friends Adam Schlesinger (Fountains Of Wayne/Ivy) and Andy Chase (Ivy).

In 2012 James completed his second solo record entitled LOOK TO THE SKY. The album features such guests as Shudder to Think’s Nathan Larson, Karen O and Nick Zinner of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sara Quin of Tegan and Sara and Tom Verlaine of Television.

James joined Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson, and Cheap Trick’s Bun E. Carlos to form the power-pop group Tinted Windows whose critically acclaimed, self-titled debut album featured several Iha-penned songs. They toured throughout the US and Japan.

James is as producer and studio owner. He has produced and guested on records by the likes of Michael Stipe, Cat Power, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Annie, Ladytron, Whiskeytown, Fountains Of Wayne among many others.

In 2012 James moved to Los Angeles to concentrate on scoring film and television. Building on his previous indie film score credits he landed jobs composing for the television series Dead Beat (Lionsgate/Hulu), The Arrangement (E!/NBC), A History of Radness (Amazon) and the James Franco film Mother May I Sleep With Danger (Lifetime).

Contact: Alex@7smgmt.com

www.tennis-music.com

Tennis’ husband-and-wife team Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore began writing music together as a way to document the history of their time voyaging and living aboard a sailboat. The result was their first release, Cape Dory. Moore and Riley followed Cape Dory with Young and Old, which The New Yorker described as “winsome as it is ebullient” and debuted #1 on Billboard’s Heatseeker Chart and #1 on CMJ Top 200, where it remained for three straight weeks. The album also debuted on Soundscan’s “New Artist Chart” at #1, remaining there for nine consecutive weeks. Their third record, 2014’s Ritual in Repeat, received rave reviews from The New York Times, NPR’s “All Things Considered” and “Fresh Air,” TIME, Vogue, Pitchfork, The FADER, Entertainment Weekly and many more. Yours Conditionally is Tennis’ greatest commercial success, selling over 24,000 copies of vinyl alone, placing them at #9 on Billboard’s mid-year vinyl chart. The album’s lead single My Emotions Are Blinding peaked at #1 on Friday Morning Quarterback Submodern charts. The album has received praise from NPR’s “Weekend Edition”, Vice/Noisey, and was chosen as the Vinyl Me Please record of the month. The band has performed on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “Conan” and “Last Call with Carson Daly.”

Contact: DAS@7smgmt.com 

Dave Schools is a critically acclaimed bass player and founding member of American rock band Widespread Panic. He is also an accomplished producer, songwriter and journalist with articles published in a wide variety of music magazines. Schools lives in Sonoma County, California with his wife and two dogs; when not on tour he likes to garden.

Schools is an innovator on the bass with a non-traditional approach that has given him a unique voice on the instrument. With his primary band, Widespread Panic, he plays a six-string Modulus Quantum 6 bass that affords him a wide range of sounds that are further enhanced by an array of effects pedals. Influenced by an early desire to play drums and childhood piano lessons, Schools has deviated from, though not abandoned, the established rhythm role of the bass and created a more melodic, improvisational style that has been referred to as “lead bass.”

Contact: walkerlukens@7smgmt.com

Austin, TX-based songwriter has become well known for embracing contradiction, "blending genres and techniques" (Billboard) into a sound that's hard to pin down. NPR's All Songs Considered described him as a "rhythmic sound effect master" who creates "curious, textured music," while World Cafe called it "wonderfully inventive."

“I’ve never wanted to be one of those songwriters who compartmentalizes what part of their lives comes out in their songs," he says. "I wanted to deal with Trump, and Charlottesville, and the 'Me Too' movement alongside things like breaking up and falling in love." Lukens took creative inspiration from work like Bob Dylan's famously wide-ranging double LP 'Blonde on Blonde' as well as Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' while writing and recording ADULT.

"That, to me, is the trick - making something personal and political that doesn't try to make sense of itself," he says. 'ADULT' was produced by Spoon drummer Jim Eno, and features new tracks along with the previously released singles "Baby" and "Tear It Out My Heart."