Al Damashek Email & Phone Number

Brooklyn, New York, United States

We Break Artists. We Build Brands. We Impact Culture. Move Forward Music is a Brooklyn-based music events and content production agency. We connect artists and brands with audiences by creating unique experiences based around music, art and live performance. Our reputation for breaking artists and introducing them to market via their debut concert is unmatched in the industry. In 2020, we made a strategic pivot to digital via an exclusive content streaming partnership with Twitch, launching our o&o channel with the virtual Move Forward Fest, which ultimately became a successful hybrid in-person/live-streamed music festival in 2021. Following the pandemic, Move Forward Music reemerged as a leading artist tastemaker in NYC, continuing to produce impactful event activations and concerts. In recent years, we've thrown the debut shows of breakout stars such as Tems, Tommy Richman, Shaboozy and more. We've also produced notable concerts such as Jack Harlow at Barclays Center, 'Palmwine Festival' at Central Park Summerstage, and Andre 3000 at the historic St. Ann & The Holy Trinity, while spearheading branded and experiential events for Spotify, Heineken, NFT.NYC, Red Bull, Maison Kitsuné, and Places + Faces.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Lead the talent booking at famed punk and counter culture venue, Market Hotel, while introducing and establishing the room as a home for emerging rap artists such as Babytron, Cash Cobain, Hardcore, Kaniii, Bashfortheworld, and Benny the Butcher.

Brooklyn, New York, United States

Managing a $500,000 budget as an official paid Twitch content partner, I produced exclusive and original live music content on my owned & operated Move Forward Music Twitch channel, which was often broadcast to the front page of the streaming platform, garnering over 4 million views and thousands of hours of content watched during a partnership that spanned the time period where venues were closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, and live music in person was not an option. In a few months time, we reinvented the company core functions, learned new skills and built a team to produce and execute over 200 hours of original streaming content.

125 E 11Th St, New York, Ny 10003

Curating talent for the storied NYC music venue Webster Hall; producing, booking, and marketing Thursday night's "House Party", the largest weekly hip-hop event in the world. www.websterhall.com/houseparty. Responsibilities include producing a 2,500+ person weekly party that takes over all four floors of Webster Hall every Thursday night, booking talent, directing artistic vision of advertising materials, executing an on-going, fully integrated marketing campaign, securing brand partnerships, advancing production, keeping artists on schedule and taking care of talent needs at the venue each week.

204 Varick Street, Nyc

Worked closely with the onwer and top management staff to build brand awarness, improve public image and attract a new, younger customer base. Responsible for strengthening the S.O.B.'s brand, upholding the company's public image and the marketing of every live music production at S.O.B.'s during my tenure there, which included - on average - six shows per week (Media successes include features, listings and concert reviews in New York Times, NY Post, NY Daily News, Time Out New York, Village Voice, El Diario, NY Metro, NPR, among others).

Greater Los Angeles Area

Handled product marketing through the greater Los Angeles area for major label album releases, including poster sniping, retail promotions, nightlife and street team flyering.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Assisted with the preparation and distribution of promotional materials to retail stores throughout the West Coast and Midwest.

Greater Boston Area

As one of the hosts of WERS' nightly hip-hop program, 889@Night, I held down the Friday night slot as Al Dirty, hosting on-air, mixing the shows live, programming playlists, cleaning/preparing tracks for clean radio play, even answering phones in the studio during the show.

Greater New York City Area

Assisted account executives with data research and sales calls, helped cultivate sales leads and accompanied execs to pitch meetings. Learned about the day to day tasks and inner-workings of a corporate radio sales office.

Communications, Audio/Radio Production, Marketing, Music Busniess

Activities and Societies: WERS Radio host, producerAt Emerson College, I studied communications, radio production and broadcasting.

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