Justin Bieber’s sixth album released on March 19, 2021, in collaboration with Freddy Wexler (Principal and CEO of The Brain Music) as a songwriter. The album debuted atop the Billboard 200 chart, selling 154,000 equivalent album units in the United States in its first week and becoming Bieber’s eight number one album on the chart. At 27 years old, […]
In the summer of 2020, Sony/ATV Music Publishing announced it has signed a global publishing administration agreement with the multi-platinum, award-winning songwriter and producer Freddy Wexler (Principal and CEO of The Brain Music). Sony is where Freddy got his start when he was only 19 years old, leading to his prolific career in songwriting and continuing […]
The collaboration between American music producer Marshmello and singer Halsey reached number 29 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the U.S. and and went on to chart within the top 20 in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Lithuania, Malaysia, and Singapore. The song appears in Halsey’s sixth extended play (EP), Collabs (2020), serving as its lead single, and also appears on the expanded version […]
Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber have released a new song, “Stuck With U,” and an accompanying music video early Friday morning. The song is a fundraiser for the First Responders Children’s Foundation, which provides grants and scholarships to the children of medical workers, emergency medical technicians, firefighters and police officers, according to the video’s description […]
Principal and CEO of The Brain, Freddy Wexler, breaks down how the Jonas Brothers’ hit song ‘Like it’s Christmas’ was written and how it almost didn’t make it into the hands of the band. Read more >
Cara Delevingne stars in the music video for “River Water” by The Spencer Lee Band, which you can watch now! The music video finds Cara waking up homeless and begging for change, based on the band’s frontman, Spencer Lee, and his experience when he was homeless in Los Angeles. He was discovered by Scooter Braun who signed him to Republic Records in 2017. Read […]
Well before Cara Delevingne made her big-screen debut, in 2012’s Anna Karenina, she was a music video star: She made her tiny-screen debut in 2010, in Bryan Ferry’s “You Can Dance.” But not since her turn in the Taylor Swift revenge fantasy “Bad Blood,” in 2015, had Delevingne lent her talents to another musician’s song (her own […]
Before Spencer Lee got his big break as the frontman of his eponymous band, signing with superstar manager Scooter Braun, he was homeless. Sleeping on a blown up mattress in the back of his car, Lee wrote the lyrics to his song “River Water,” when he was living on the streets of LA. “Fuck being […]
Cara Delevingne brings awareness to homelessness in The Spencer Lee Band’s new music video for their song “River Water,” released Wednesday. The video stars Delevingne, 26, as a homeless drug addict fighting her inner-demons on the streets and struggling to reclaim her life. “River Water” is extremely personal for the band’s frontman Spencer Lee, who wrote […]
The Spencer Lee Band is painting a vivid picture of frontman Spencer Lee’s past days of living on the streets of Los Angeles in their new music video for their single “River Water,” where his experience is portrayed by model-actress Cara Delevingne. “I was homeless in these L.A. streets when I wrote ‘River Water,’” he […]
After co-writing songs for the likes of Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Kanye West, Lil Wayne, Post Malone, DNCE and others, Freddy Wexler is introducing the world to another artist — Jackson Penn. Who also happens to be Wexler himself. Penn — whose new single “Babylon” is premiering exclusively below via its video — is the artist […]
Spencer Lee has a big voice out of little Fort Scott, Kansas, and the major backing that will get it heard. We spoke on the phone last week — now 25, he was raised in a small town and literally scouted as a teen: after someone saw him perform at a local talent show, they called up […]
Jackson Penn is the pen name for songwriter Freddy Wexler, one of pop’s true hidden talents. Freddy has co-written songs for, Selena Gomez, Lil Wayne, Wyclef Jean, Kanye West, Demi Lovato, Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki and more, a dexterous but instantly recognisable voice. Working on solo material as Jackson Penn, he refuses to be hemmed in, with […]
L.A.’s Jackson Penn, aka successful songwriter/producer Freddy Wexler, manages to capture a pretty magical love story in the video for his song “Streetlights on Mars.” It features the singer and his real life wife Olivia on a cozy L.A. date featuring some weed, burgers, and — plot twist — a stolen car. The video, which […]
Watch on YouTube Join us behind the scenes with piano virtuoso Eric Wortham at his Yamaha All Access photo shoot! Check out Eric’s artist spotlight feature in the new All Access Summer 2017 issue: http://bit.ly/2uGj51j
Eric Wortham is a piano virtuoso of the highest order, skilled in both classical and jazz playing. Yet he feels no musical limitations performing pure pop on tour with Adele. Continue on yamahaentertainmentgroup.com
Chance the Rapper’s Coloring Book is one of the strongest rap albums released this year, an uplifting mix of spiritual and grounded that even an atheist can catch the Spirit to. Continue on Pitchfork
Kanye West has partnered with fashion house Balmain for the video for “Wolves,” a track off the rapper’s forever project, The Life of Pablo. Unlike West’s controversial “Famous” video, which starred waxy models of Taylor Swift, Donald Trump and others… Continue on Rolling Stone
On her most political album to date, Alicia Keys sings from the perspective of a black everywoman with undiminished optimism. Her subjects on Here are many: the angry, struggling woman at the center of the heartbreaking “Illusion of Bliss,”… Continue on Rolling Stone
Pitchfork: Justin Bieber ‘Justice’ Album ReviewApril 25, 2021 - 1:46 pm
Cision: Sony/ATV Signs Worldwide Publishing Deal with Freddy WexlerApril 25, 2021 - 1:38 pm
Rolling Stone: Watch Halsey and Marshmello’s Colorful ‘Be Kind’ VideoApril 25, 2021 - 1:19 pm
NPR: Ariana Grande and Justin Bieber Team Up for Fundraising Single ‘Stuck With U’April 25, 2021 - 1:09 pm
Songwriter Universe: Freddy Wexler Talks About Co-Writing Hits For Ariana Grande & Justin Bieber (“Stuck with U”), Marshmello & Halsey (“Be Kind”) And His Other ProjectsApril 24, 2021 - 6:41 pm
