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Career Strategy & Development
The long arc. Positioning, narrative, three-year plans and the decisions that shape the next decade — not the next quarter.
We build the team around the artist.
Management for artists who want to build a legacy that lasts. We assemble agents, lawyers, publicists, producers and business managers — and we make them work together.
Five things we believe, written down.
Short enough to print. Long enough to argue with.
- 01 Love the music. Actually love it.
- 02 Aligned vision, or no deal.
- 03 Trust runs both ways.
- 04 Honest conversations over comfortable ones.
- 05 Relationships are the real currency.
Six disciplines. One spine.
Engagements scoped per artist. Nothing sold that isn't needed.
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Team Building & Representation
We assemble the people around you — agents, lawyers, publicists, business managers, producers. Auditioned, vetted, negotiated.
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Release Strategy
From single cycle to album campaign. Rollout calendars, DSP partnerships, sync, vinyl, visual identity — shipped as a system, not a guess.
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Audience & Marketing
Owned channels first. Paid where it works. We build fan infrastructure that survives an algorithm change and compounds across releases.
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Business Operations
Entities, accounting, publishing admin, touring P&L, merch ops. The unglamorous plumbing that keeps the lights on and the cheques cashing.
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Artist Development for Labels
Partner work for labels who need senior-level artist development without adding headcount. Scoped engagements, frontline to catalog.
A curated collection of artists we believe in.
We stay small so the work stays good. Selective intake, quarterly.
Artists and industry, quoted.
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They built my team around me in six weeks. Agent, publicist, BM — people I actually talk to. Before that I was the agency.
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When a manager calls with a roster like this attached, you pick up. The work gets done and the artist actually shows up prepared.
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I came in signed to a major, confused about my own deal. I left three months later with a strategy and an answer for every question.
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Honest about what they can and cannot do. We co-developed two frontline artists with them last cycle — they'll be back for the next.
Apply for Management.
We read every submission. Selective intake, quarterly — expect a reply within 14 days.
ARTISTS
Submit music, press, touring history and where you believe you'll be in three years. Unvarnished is better.
INDUSTRY
Labels, agents, lawyers and supervisors — reach out for co-dev, sync and partnership work.
industry@maelstrommusic.com ↗OFFICE
ROCKFORD, IL— 42.3° N
EST.— 2026