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ALEX WONG Joins TWENTY FIRST REPUBLIC

ALEX WONG, the New York based producer, has joined Twenty First Republic.

Alex just finished producing Delta Rae, the Durham-based folk-rock sextet band, that has just signed to Sire Records. He has also produced Vienna Teng, Ari Hest, Elizabeth and the Catapult and Warner artist Ximena Sarinana.

Alex is based in Brooklyn where he has a studio, and is about to release his own album as an artist.

STEPHEN HAGUE Joins Twenty First Republic

Producer STEPHEN HAGUE has joined Twenty First Republic for representation.

Known for producing hits with artists such as Public Image Ltd., New Order, Peter Gabriel, and Siouxsie and the Banshees, Hague's recent work includes collaborations with Joseph Arthur, Robbie Williams and forthcoming material from Canadian pop-rock band Creature.

TOM BILLER Produces New Liars Album

TOM BILLER has produced the new Liars album. The album will be released by Mute Records later this year.

Tom is currently producing the new Chapel Club album for Polydor.

Elizaveta Album Featuring JOEL MCNEELY Arrangements Out Now!

Yesterday's release of 'Beatrix Runs' by Elizaveta features arrangements written by TFR client JOEL MCNEELY.

Check out the video for "Dreamer" off of the album below.

PETER STENGAARD Signs With Imagem Publishing

Imagem Music USA, home to the Elvis Presley catalogue as well as such talent as Ludacris, Phil Collins, Genesis, Anna Nalick, Steve Robson, Jens Gad, The Temper Trap and more, has signed a worldwide, multi-year co-publishing agreement with songwriter/producer Peter Stengaard.

Since moving to Los Angeles from Denmark, Peter Stengaard has been busy producing for artists such as The Pussycat Dolls, JoJo and Donna Summer, as well as writing and developing talent. In the summer of 2011, his artist N.I.N.A. was signed to Warner Bros. Records by Rob Cavallo and they're currently in the studio writing the last few songs for her debut album. Peter also has several songs and themes placed in TV shows and upcoming movies. His latest work "Back For More" can be found on James Durbin’s debut album Memories of a Beautiful Disaster.

Most recently, Peter joined Twenty First Republic producer management for representation.

DAVID BENDETH Heading Into The Studio With Picture Me Broken

Picture Me Broken the 5 piece rock band from Redwood City California are starting work on a new album with DAVID BENDETH.

Feist Albums Tops NY Times Pareles List

"Metals" the new Feist album co-produced by MOCKY has topped the New York Times critic Jon Pareles list for 2011.

STEPHEN LIPSON Producing Ronan Keating

STEPHEN LIPSON will head into the studio next week with Ronan Keating.

TOM BILLER Heads Into The Studio With Chapel Club

TOM BILLER heads into the studio this week to produce the new album by UK band Chapel Club.

David Bendeth Joins Twenty First Republic

The multi-platinum award-winning record producer who has worked with such acts as Paramore, Papa Roach, Killswitch Engage, The Red Jumpsuit Appaaratus, Breaking Benjamin, Taking Back Sunday, Hawthorne Heights, etc. has joined Twenty First Republic for representation.

The London Sunday Times Best Pop, Rock & New Artists of 2011

1. PJ Harvey - Let England Shake (Island) Polly Harvey searched back in history — lyrically referencing the Gallipoli campaign, musically citing Eddie Cochran’s Summertime Blues — to create this examination of England today, and humanity’s apparently endless appetite for military conflict. A masterpiece.

2. Laura Marling - A Creature I Don’t Know (Virgin) The Hampshire songwriter continued to compel with a record of much greater muscularity and experimentalism than her two previous albums. Inspired by John Steinbeck, Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell, Marling moved in a jazzier, rockier direction, her singing assertive and strident.

3. Tom Waits - Bad as Me (Anti-) Seventeen albums into his career, Waits has never sounded better. From Rolling Stones references on Satisfied to simple lessons in economics (“Everybody knows umbrellas will cost more in the rain”), almost every line is memorable.

4. Feist - Metals (Polydor) Propelled to success after the use of her song 1234 in an iPod ad, the Canadian responded with an album that, far from being a celebration, sounded like a wake, its subject matter — the failure of a relationship — set to music and vocals of incredible beauty, one minute raw, the next bursting with warmth and colour.

5. Gillian Welch - The Harrow and the Harvest (Acony) On her first album for eight years, Welch and her permanent collaborator, Dave Rawlings, conjure up the kind of timeless two-voices-and-two-guitars music that you might expect to hear coming from a Tennessee front porch.

6. The Antlers - Burst Apart (Transgressive) Fans of the Brooklyn band wondered if they would be able to equal 2009’s Hospice concept album, a record of astonishing power and haunting dynamics. Their fears were misplaced: Burst Apart is a bruised and wincingly honest tour de force.

7. Lykke Li - Wounded Rhymes (LL/Warner) The Swedish alt-pop singer borrows from the Velvet Underground, Laura Nyro, 1950s doo-wop, Glasvegas and, most of all, 1960s girl groups, on tracks such as the stunning Sadness Is a Blessing (“Sadness is my boyfriend/Oh sadness, I’m your girl”).

8. Wild Beasts - Smother (Domino) Why is it that so few bands have anything like the ambition on display here? The Kendal band reached album three with a reputation for songs of finely wrought sonic complexity, yet direct communicative power. Smother enhanced it, unanswerably.

9. King Creosote & Jon Hopkins - Diamond Mine (Domino) We associate King Creosote with rough home-made recordings, but this collaboration with the Brian Eno protégé has been seven years in the making. An utterly gorgeous album, it paints an evocative portrait of a Scottish coastal village.

10. ST Vincent - Strange Mercy (4AD) Annie Clark is one of those artists about whom you can genuinely say that there is nobody doing what she does. She writes and sings songs that conceal, behind their velveteen sonics and cherry-red-lipstick smile, a degree of indifferent brutality. Riveting and absorbing.

11. Glen Campbell - Ghost on the Canvas (Surfdog) Having covered the work of younger songwriters on 2008’s Meet Glen Campbell, the old stager brought some of them in to help write his swan song. Jakob Dylan, Robert Pollard and Paul Westerberg all supplied great material, ensuring that a majestic career finished on another high.

12. Atlas Sound - Parallax (4AD) The ever-prolific lead singer of the Atlanta band Deerhunter, Bradford Cox remains one of indie rock’s most intriguing mavericks, nowhere more thrillingly than here. He veers between swampy blues, airy, Blue Nile-like expansiveness, early Lennon introspection and straight-up college rock.

13. Radiohead - The King of Limbs (XL) The novel release strategies that once attracted attention now seem in danger of marginalising a band who still deserve our undivided attention. Bringing together their wibbly-wobbly electronica and their more traditional melodic rock, this is one of their best.

14. Adele - 21 (XL) Her stratospheric, record-breaking sales figures have become the headline news about Adele Adkins, but the most important thing about the south Londoner is that she sings with an emotional directness, beauty and honesty that few of her peers can match. Her fans recognise this.

15. Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu (Vertigo) OMG! This none-heavier collaboration could have gone either way. In the end, it led to both participants raising their game. Metallica discovered space and restraint, Reed rediscovered focus. Iced Honey will get you hooked.

16. Noah & The Whale - Last Night on Earth (Mercury) Charlie Fink emerged from the post-Laura Marling self-absorption of his previous album and looked west to America, and to its musical and literary icons. Recovery has never sounded so much fun.

17. Low - C’Mon (Sub Pop) Their profile raised by Robert Plant on his Band of Joy album, the Duluth trio delivered some of their sweetest, most buoyant songs yet — Nightingale and Try to Sleep — then matched these with the more typical values of sheer intensity ($20) and slow-building raw emotion (Nothing but Heart).

18. Bombay Bicycle Club - A Different Kind of Fix (Island) The schoolmates’ first album gave a London slant to American alt-rock; their second was infused with acoustic pastoralia. This combines the two, adding a dash of electronica. A triumph.

19. Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds - Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds (Sour Mash) The third best album Gallagher has been associated with is a hugely likeable return to what the man does best — conjuring the spirits of great 1960s and 1970s pop and rock, and making sure everything comes with a guaranteed sing-along chorus.

20. Mara Carlyle - Floreat (Ancient & Modern) Running the gamut from folk to jazz, and Weimar cabaret to hip-hop, with lyrics of jaw-dropping candour, this made a compelling case for Carlyle as one of Britain’s most original singer-songwriters.


Twenty First Republic client MOCKY co-produced Feist's album and client HOWARD WILLING mixed, engineered and co-produced the Glen Campbell album.

PETER STENGAARD JOINS TWENTY FIRST REPUBLIC

Danish writer and producer PETER STENGAARD joins Twenty First Republic. He's worked with The Pussycat Dolls and The Benefits to name a few. He also works closely with Diane Warren.

Peter develops new talent and just got N.I.N.A signed to Warner Bros. He now resides in Los Angeles. Welcome Peter !

REBECCA FERGUSON Album Enters UK Chart at #3

Rebecca Ferguson's debut album "Heaven" entered the UK chart today Dec 12th at #3.

STEVE BOOKER produced the track "Run Free" on the album.

DAVID BENDETH in the Studio Producing OUR LAST NIGHT

DAVID BENDETH is currently in the studio producing the forthcoming album for Our Last Night.

The band are signed to Epitaph Records.

JASON NEVINS Mixes Amy Winehouse Mega Mix

Top Mixer JASON NEVINS has mixed a mega mix of 4 of Amy Winehouse's best known tracks including her new single "Our Day Will Come".

The mega mix will be on your local radio shortly. JASON has also just produced 2 tracks on the debut album of Voice contestant Vicci Martinez.

Seth MacFarlane's 'Music Is Better Than Words' Gets a Grammy Nomination

"Music Is Better Than Words" is up for the Grammy for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.

The record was produced and arranged by Twenty First Republic client JOEL McNEELY.

The Lonely Island's 'Turtleneck & Chain' Gets a Grammy Nomination

The Lonely Island's Album "Turtleneck & Chain" gets a Grammy nomination for Best Comedy Album.
The Lonely Island are a comedic and musical trio comprising SNL actors and writers Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone.

The album was mixed by Twenty First Republic client JASON GOLDSTEIN. Good Luck !

BRIAN SPERBER Producing Sonic Cult

BRIAN SPERBER heads into the studio this week to produce an album with Sonic Cult.

HOWARD WILLING Joins Twenty First Republic

HOWARD WILLING who was on staff at Capitol and has enjoyed a great career mixing and producing many artists including Glen Campbell, Smashing Pumpkins, OK GO, Skye Sweetnam, Sheryl Crow has joined Twenty First Republic as a client.

He is currently working with new band "Instant People" and the Australian singer "Katie Cole".

JOHN ALAGIA Producing and Mixing New Bodeans Album

The Bodeans are in the studio working with JOHN ALAGIA on their new album.

The band are heading out on the road next year and look for the album to be released on May 8th.