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Craig Lambert and Tommy Nast, owners of Rock Band Entertainment, bring your company
nearly 70 years of front line executive experience in the music and entertainment industries.
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CRAIG LAMBERT
Craig boasts a luminous career in which he has overseen and driven the domestic radio promotion on dozens of artists, guiding a great number of them to multi-platinum sales status in a variety of musical genres.
Throughout Mr. Lamberts impressive career, he has held several prestigious positions, including stints at Universal Music Records Group as President of MCA Records, at Dreamworks Records as Senior VP/Promotion & Marketing, at Sony Music as Senior Vice President/Epic Records, at Elektra/WMG as EVP, and at ATCO/EastWest as EVP. Lambert has also served in various positions at A&M Records, Arista Records, Capitol Records and Warner Brothers, in addition to having founded New Avenues Music, an independent music and marketing firm, which was based in Chicago.
Over the years, Craig has worked closely with a plethora of successful artists, including Nelly Furtado, Papa Roach, Live, Blink 182, KC & JoJo, Mary J. Blige, Common, The Roots, Shaggy, Oasis, Pearl Jam, Korn, Michael Jakson, Luther Vandross, Gloria Estefan, Natalie Merchant, Metallica, Simply Red, 10,000 Maniacs, Anita Baker, Bad Company, AC/DC, Bryan Adams, Styx, Sting, Suzanne Vega, and many more.
Mr. Lambert is currently a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, of the Kayne-Eras Foundation (Lambert was the groups 2001 honoree), and serves as Chairperson for the City of Hope.
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TOMMY NAST
Tommy Nast has enjoyed a wide-ranging career in the music industry. Before joining Craig Lambert in the foundation of Rock Band Entertainment, Tommy served as Executive Vice President Business Development for CenterStaging Musical Productions, Inc., and rehearsals.com. There, Mr. Nast was integral in putting partnerships in place with numerous media companies, and was responsible for securing talent such as Tom Petty, John Mellencamp, Norah Jones, Michael Buble, and many more.
He previously served as EVP Business Development for AEG Live, where he was an instrumental leader in the launch of Network Live, and where he produced the global radio broadcast of the historic and landmark Live 8 concert, among many other special events.
Earlier, Nast held the positions of Executive Vice President of Music & Media for the Clear Channel Multimedia Group, and as Executive Vice President /General Manager of SFX Entertainment, Inc. From 1982 to 2002, Nast led The Album Networks ascent to becoming the music industrys leading trade publication for rock music. The company also spawned a syndication arm, which produced over 200 special event worldwide radio broadcasts, and was the #1 source for syndicated rock programming.
Artists whom Nast has worked with over the years include: Van Halen, Guns N Roses, Quiet Riot, Melissa Etheridge, Bryan Adams, Michael Bolton, Alice N Chains, Aerosmith, The Black Crowes, Backstreet Boys, WASP, Night Ranger, Bruce Hornsby, The Outlaws, Brian Setzer, Vince Neil, Damn Yankees, and the list goes on.
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