RRT - Key Persons

Having released seven solo albums in eight years Adam Green is already renowned around the globe as one of music's most unique and prolific song writing talents. A New York native, Green was just 17-years old when he recorded and released his first album. As part of the downtown antifolk scene at the end of the nineties he made up one-half of The Moldy Peaches, the acclaimed duo with Kimya Dawson that enjoyed belated mainstream success via the Grammy-winning soundtrack of the 2007 Academy Award-winning movie Juno. As a skinny and effervescently articulate teenager he was a regular fixture at East Village music clubs. His poignant and idiosyncratic song writing was matched by a contagious excitement and enthusiasm for his craft. Since then, the former troubadour wunderkind has become a notable figure to indie-pop fans around the world, making regular appearances in arts and culture magazines, television shows, music clubs and festivals. In Europe he established himself as a bone fide pop star with chart hits like "Jessica", "Emily" and "Morning After Midnight". When The Moldy Peaches belatedly found their place at #1 on the Billboard Charts, via the Juno soundtrack, Green had already enjoyed a string of successful albums under his own name and was deep into the creation of his films and visual art. Recently his almost eruptive bursts of creativity have led him into the world of movies and visual arts, with writing/producing/directing and acting in The Wrong Ferarri,- a feature length "screwball tragedy" shot entirely on the iPhone and starring Macaulay Culkin, Alia Shawkat, Devendra Banhart, BP Fallon and Sky Ferreira - as well as the staging of four visual art exhibitions in New York City. While on tour for his album Gemstones in 2005 Green exhibited a series of drawings called Animal Dreams at Loyal Gallery in Stockholm, Sweden. Following his debut NYC art show Teen Tech in 2010 Green became the first artist to show at Dustin Yellin's Red Hook space, The Intercourse, with his Cartoon And Complaint exhibition. Cartoon And Complaint, inspired by such disparate characters as Garfield and Aladdin, was quickly followed by another solo exhibition, Houseface, at The Hole gallery in downtown NYC in August 2012. Exhibition A will be releasing a print from that show at the end of October 2012. Most recently he has formed an art collective 3MB with Macaulay Culkin and Toby Goodshank. Their first exhibit Leisure Inferno opened at Le Poisson Rouge Gallery in October 2012. While creating visual art and film has become a fully realized passion for Green, his boundless energy for creative arts has most recently resulted in a brand new musical project. Adam Green & Binki Shapiro's debut eponymous album will be released in January 2013. The bi-coastal friendship-turned-musical-partnership is one of tender duets, written by the pair in the wake of coincidentally simultaneous romantic disappointments. Of his now multifaceted career Green, says: "You know how people are always looking for a unifying theory? I was looking for a unifying theory of artistic expression. I was trying to create some kind of fluidity within my music, art, writing. If you listen to my songs, you see they're kind of cartoonish. I try to make songs like my paintings. When creating my movie, I tried to create more of a song."

Andrew Harper joined the agency in 2011, bringing many years of experience in the US live market. Originally from Houston TX, he began promoting shows in 1997 at age 16 in DIY recreation centers and all ages venues. After relocating to Los Angeles in 2002, he worked in various sectors of the music industry including - booking agent, artist management, producer management, writer/columnist for HITS Daily Double, and music consultant for Fox TV series - Fringe - including various other Film and TV projects. He now has over 20 years experience as a booking agent.

Dana McDonald honed her skills booking ,and immersing herself in live music while moonlighting as a cocktail waitress for the Tam in Boston in the 90s. At the time, she was straight out of UMASS-Amherst and by day, working for BMG in Boston as a liaison with Tower Records. She quickly started bringing in artists to the Tam whom she met along her travels at Tower and BMG, and the rest is history. After successfully booking the Tam, she very soon went on to book the famous TT The Bears in Boston.Two years later, she was invited to move to NYC to take the position as Exclusive Talent Buyer for the legendary, Coney Island High. The list of artists whom she booked and promoted at this point is an innovative, exciting, and very diverse roster including The Damned, Modest Mouse, John Cale, Incubus, Alan Vega, 311, Queens of the Stone Age, The Ramones ( last NYC show ) and the list goes on. Around the year 2000, Coney Island High closed due to the gentrification of the neighborhood and lots of her beloved artists came to her directly asking her to book them a NYC show. She ended up booking them tours rather, and also separately, managing artists, and her agency, DNA Artists was born. She also continued her career as an independent promoter in NYC cultivating weekly and annual events such as Small Beast and The Official ,Annual, Lou Reed Birthday celebration which she continues to co-produce and curate.

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• Rocky Rocky Touring in 2019 As an Assistant and Junior Agent

Jack Long joined Rocky Rocky Touring in 2019 as an assistant and junior agent. Originally from Colorado, he attended college in New Orleans at Loyola University and received a degree in music business. He's the vocalist for punk band- Waste Man.

Joady Harper created Rocky Road Touring in 2010 while based in Brooklyn NY. Her career began in England, while known by her maiden name - Joady Thornton, beginning in PR and then moving on to work as a promoter for the Mean Fiddler now Festival Republic. While booking the London venue - The Garage - she soon became the only female tour promoter in the UK with sold out Brixton Academy shows for Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Babyshambles. Thereafter graduating to booking stages for Reading/Leeds and Homelands Festivals. In 2006, she set off to live in New York to become the talent buyer for Studio B in Brooklyn and then subsequently The Annex in the lower east side. After doing a stint in artist management, Joady worked for Entourage Talent Agency before founding Rocky Road Touring. The agency's home base is now in St Paul MN.

Martin Atkins has been on the forefront of innovation in music for four decades now. His 40+ years in the music business spans across genres and borders and industries. He was a member of Public Image Ltd and Killing Joke. He founded industrial supergroup Pigface, The Damage Manual, and Murder Inc., and has contributed to Nine Inch Nails (for which he has a Grammy) and Ministry. He is the owner of Invisible Records and Mattress Factory Recording Studios (est. 1988). He is the author of Tour:Smart, Welcome To The Music Business….You're F*cked! and Band:Smart. Martin is a producer, drummer, documentary filmmaker, DJ, and father of four. Whatever the future of music is, you can pretty much bet that he'll be in the middle of it. Martin is anything but mediocre, and not for the squeamish. He has co-written, co-produced, and performed on the largest selling single to date for Public Image Ltd., helped to resurrect iconic Killing Joke after their disastrous fifth album by co-producing and co-writing a return to form with the Extremities album. He helped Ogre from Skinny Puppy craft his first solo endeavor Rx, transformed Meg Lee Chin's debut into a more music supervisor friendly album (Witchblade, Queer As Folk), crafted remixes for Sister Machine Gun, Cleopatra Records, and helped G/Z/R create their contribution to the Mortal Kombat soundtrack with "Outworld." He's no stranger to difficult situations traveling to China twice to sign and produce the critically acclaimed debut from Snapline. Martin's sound palette is such that he produced a signature sound library for Cakewalk (Beatfetish). All while steering his own iconic creation, Pigface, through 7 studio albums and a touring lineup that defies comprehension.