About: Lyric Financial

We’re so pleased to introduce everyone to the newest member of our team, Kathryn Graham. Kathryn comes to us from Bluewater Music, where she worked as a royalty analyst as well as artist manager and creative development guru.

Here we ask Kathryn a few questions so you guys can better get to know her (and a few questions that are sort of our secret hazing ritual – I mean, your favorite records are important, you know?)

When INgrooves, one of the U.S.’s largest digital distributors, purchased Fontana Distribution from Universal Music Group last year, nobody was quite sure what to make of it. With physical music on the decline, and digital on its way up, it seemed a counterintuitive acquisition. Bryan Mead didn’t think so. INgrooves Senior Vice President of Artist…

Lyric Financial: Many of our readers might be unfamiliar with Kingdom Records, so give us a brief history of the label, its mission, and its artists. Michael Towns: Kingdom Records has been in the music production, marketing and distribution business since 2001. In that time, Kingdom has become a bedrock in the Gospel genre. We…

Whether he’s playing with his longtime band Everclear, producing and writing with other artists, or working on the Musician’s Assistance Program with MusiCares, Art Alexakis is a busy man with a storied past. Here we chat with him about the future: his upcoming work, the music landscape he works within every day, and the new…

One of the most amazing things about working with artists and songwriters is to see their visions become reality, to see the fruits of their labor manifested in song. Recently, Lyric Financial has also begun advancing to labels, and along with it comes an entirely new set of rewarding clients. While labels have a tough…