Industry Insights

The Glossary: Lara McAlister | Growth Marketing Lead, Resident Advisor

Mar 11, 2026

What is your role in music and what does your day to day look like? I’m the Growth Marketing Lead at Resident Advisor. My focus is on user acquisition and retention - bringing new people onto the platform and making sure they keep coming back. Day to day, that means understanding what matters to our audience and making sure we’re showing up in the right places, in the right way. I work across paid media, SEO, CRM and product journeys,...

The Glossary: John Cleary | Distribution Manager & Junior Label Manager, Juno Records

Feb 13, 2026

In the run up to Dig Deep - RA's pop-up charity record fair raising money for War Child - this special Glossary series explores the many facets of record label management and distribution through the eyes of label workers and founders from across the scene. Next up its John Cleary - Distribution Manager & Junior Label Manager at Juno Record s What is your name and job title? My name is John Cleary, and I am the...

The Glossary: Peter Adarkwah | Company Director & Founder, BBE Music Ltd

Feb 12, 2026

In the run up to Dig Deep - RA's pop-up charity record fair raising money for War Child - this special Glossary series explores the many facets of record label management and distribution through the eyes of label workers and founders from across the scene. Next up is Peter Adarkwah, Company Director and founder of BBE Music Ltd. What is your name and job title? Peter Adarkwah Company Director and founder of BBE Music Ltd...

The Glossary: Patrick Gibin | Founder, Mother Tongue Records

Feb 11, 2026

In the run up to Dig Deep - RA's pop-up charity record fair raising money for War Child - this special Glossary series explores the many facets of record label management and distribution through the eyes of label workers and founders from across the scene. First up is Mother Tongue Records founder Patrick Gibin. What is your name and job title? Patrick Gibin, founder of Mother Tongue Records. What is your role at your...

The Glossary: A.Fruit | Music Producer & Sound Designer

Jan 22, 2026

Our first run of 2026 Glossary interviews features the insights of workshop leaders and speakers from our recently announced programme - Doors Open UNLOCKED: Creating sound worlds with Ableton. You can read more about the programme and apply for a place here. Meet A.Fruit. Anna Fruit is the alias of Anna Derlemenko, an artist, sound designer, and DJ who was born and raised in Moscow in a Ukrainian family. Standing in solidarity with...

The Glossary: Sam Slater | Composer & Music Producer

Jan 20, 2026

Our first run of 2026 Glossary interviews features the insights of workshop leaders and speakers from our recently announced programme - Doors Open UNLOCKED: Creating sound worlds with Ableton. You can read more about the programme and apply for a place here. Sam Slater is a Berlin-based composer, producer, and artist working across film, games, live performance, and recorded media. His work spans commissioned scores, collaborative...

The Glossary: Mel Uye-Parker | Music Producer & Ableton Certified Trainer

Jan 16, 2026

Our first run of 2026 Glossary interviews features the insights of workshop leaders and speakers from our recently announced programme - Doors Open UNLOCKED: Creating sound worlds with Ableton. You can read more about the programme and apply for a place here. Mel Uye-Parker is a songwriter, vocalist, DJ, and electronic music producer from Nottingham, though she spent her formative years in Manchester immersed in both academic study and...

Doors Open UNLOCKED: Pathways into the Music Industry at Dekmantel

Nov 26, 2025

During Dekmantel Festival in August, Doors Open hosted a panel discussion with Katty Lange, booking agent, artist manager, and co-founder of Triangle Agency, and David Cornelissen, Dekmantel’s Head of Creative. In this one hour conversation, they shared insights into what a workday looks like in their roles, how their collaborative process as agent and promoter works, their own career paths, and some of the lessons they learned along the way....

The Glossary: Sharri Morris | Strategic Brand & Partnerships Creative Consultant

Nov 25, 2025

Introducing Sharri Morris. Sharri Morris is a Strategic Brand & Partnerships Consultant who builds culture-driven partnership ecosystems across music and technology, leading upstream brand strategy and shaping client narratives through meaningful connections between creative communities and organisations. With over twelve years of experience spanning brand leadership at Ableton, Primephonic (now Apple Music Classical), 7digital,...

The Glossary: Michelle Erfer | Booking Agent, The Bunker

Sep 30, 2025

Michelle Erfer (she/her) is the Program Director of the Artist Representation program at Beyond Booking , The Bunker's in-house booking agency. She is a cultural producer, music curator, and veteran booking agent with 10 years of international artist management experience (as well as being an author and non-profit administrator) who works at the intersections of music, future technology, art, holographics and computers, giving her the...

The Glossary: Ma Sha | Kindergarten Records founder & !K7 Digital Sales Manager

Sep 22, 2025

Ma Sha is a New York-based producer and DJ who has made significant waves in the electronic music scene since co-founding Kindergarten in 2017. What began as an event series quickly evolved into a NYC institution, expanding to include both a monthly residency on The Lot Radio and an award-winning record label that received "Best Breakthrough Label" honors at the 2022 DJ Mag North America Awards. Beyond her label work, Ma Sha balances solo...

The Glossary: Steven Klavier | Booker, Signal & Paragon

Sep 18, 2025

With over 15 years of experience, Steven Klavier has been a driving force in New York City’s nightlife scene since the late 2000s. He began his career as a promoter, hosting his own parties in downtown Manhattan at venues such as Le Bain, The Griffin, Gallery Bar, and Hotel Chantelle. During this time, he also worked as an assistant to singer-songwriter MNDR and as a booking agent for DJ Cosmo Baker. Steven soon became a central figure in...

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