Loren Israel

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Loren Israel is a music producer in Hollywood, CA who specilizes in developing independent artists.

[edit] Biography

Loren Israel grew up in Hollywood, California, and later moved to the San Fernando Valley. His start in the music industry began when he played in several bands starting at the age of 15. He went on tour, he opened for every band from Bad Religion, to the Sugarcubes, to Soul Asylum, Social Distortion, the Damned, and the Smithereens. One of the bands he was in that did pretty well was called One Day, where he played guitar and wrote songs. Then he switched gears, went to college. However, he could not stay away from music and put on several benefit concerts because he enjoyed it. This led to him being scouted by an A&R executive who saw him at these shows, and ended up offering Loren an internship at Capitol Records. A few years later, Loren was offered a permanent job at Capitol as an A&R executive.

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As an A&R executive for Capitol, Loren brought Less Than Jake, Jimmy Eat World, and Annie Stella. He independently produced and signed The Hippos to Interscope Records, Automatic 7 to A&M / Vagrant Records and Jason Morphew to Sony Music. He was as an A&R consultant to Jimmy Eat World's self-titled CD for DreamWorks.

Outside of Capitol Records, Loren began developing independent artists in 2001. He worked extensively with Rock Kills Kid from 2001-2004 and produced and managed the band's first EP release on Fearless Records in 2003. This led to the band being signed to Reprise Records and in 2006 released their first major record label record, Are You Nervous.

Loren also scouted and developed the Plain White T's. He produced and managed the bands first two albums Stop (2001) and All That We Needed(2005). He was directly responsible for the band establishing a marketing presence on Myspace with 200,000+ friends. The popularity of the band garnered them a deal with Hollywood Records in 2006 and released Every Second Counts September, 2006.

In addition, Loren worked on Sugarcult's 2006 Album Lights Out released in September.

Loren currently does A&R consulting for Virgin Records, Epic Records, and Warner Bros. Records, and also runs two companies. The first, Band Boot Camp, is where Loren personally assists artists in the areas of songwriting, stage presence, and self marketing in a one-day workshop in a studio in Hollywood. Second, his Music Mentor Program, allows him to work with emerging artists on a longer basis.

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