The Hard Rock’s Brian Klein – HuffPost 4.30.12
Mike Ragogna: We talked a little bit earlier off-mic about some of the artists that you’ve been associated with. What about new artists?
Brian Klein: Hard Rock loves emerging artists. Last year, across all the Hard Rock venues, we hosted 15,000 live music events. It’s truly a spectacular time and we love people, whether you’re the Bruce Springsteens coming into a Hard Rock Live, or people like Kat Graham who’s getting ready to play on our Hard Rock Sound of Your Stay music stage here at the music lounge, but we love them all. (NOTE: This is interview was conducted during SXSW)
Additionally, we are launching a brand new program called Hard Rock Records, where we’re actually looking for that next great artist and take them to the next level. So we’re actually going to go sign them to the Hard Rock record label, help them get their start, help them do their PR, help them produce their album, help them create the artwork and actually film their videos, and then, once our year contract is done, we send them on their way to become that next great band. It’s an exciting new time for us.
MR: This is your new music, new band development process?
BK: It’s a brand new process. We actually just signed a band called Rosco Bandana out of Biloxi, Mississippi, of all places. They’re getting ready to go into the studio to start working with one of the top remixers to bring their album to life.