About GoldVE
GoldVE is a music-based artist management company owned and operated by industry veteran Danny Goldberg. GoldVE’s clients include The Hives, Steve Earle, Tom Morello, David Broza, The Cranberries, Peaches, Old 97s, Ben Lee, School of Seven Bells, Allison Moorer, Care Bears on Fire, Rhett Miller, Simone Felice, The Duke and the King, Teddy Thompson, Martha Wainwright and Dolores O’Riordan.
Danny Goldberg most recently was CEO of Air America Radio and was previously the President of Atlantic Records, Warner Brothers Records, Mercury Records and Artemis Records, which he founded. Getting his start in the music industry as a music journalist, Goldberg reported on the Woodstock Festival for Billboard Magazine in 1969. From 1974-76 he was Vice President of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records (Goldberg also served as Zeppelin’s publicist in the early 70s.) In the early 80s, he founded Modern Records which released the first solo recordings of Stevie Nicks, after which he founded Gold Mountain Management and managed or co-managed the careers of Nirvana, Roy Orbison, Bonnie Raitt, The Allman Brothers, Hole and many more. In the spring of 2008, Goldberg was named the Chair of the Board of Directors for the American Symphony Orchestra. Goldberg is also the author of the book How The Left Lost Teen Spirit, published by Miramax and RDV Books. In September 2008, his memoir about the rock and roll business, Bumping Into Geniuses, was released by Gotham Books.
Cyndy Villano, who previously worked for Interscope Records and Dave Stewart’s Weapons of Mass Entertainment, has joined GoldVE as Vice President. Jesse Bauer, who previously worked for Artemis Records, has joined GoldVE as Vice President as well. Brady Brock, who previously worked for Island Def Jam, Artemis and Wind-up Records, is the Vice President of Media. Sara Truedson oversees New Media and Social Networking for GoldVE.
About Danny Goldberg
Danny Goldberg, formerly of Gold Village Entertainment, President of GoldVE, has worked in the music business as a personal manager, record company President, public relations man and journalist since the late nineteen sixties. GoldVE, formed in July 2006 manages the careers of Steve Earle, Allison Moorer, David Broza, The Hives, Tom Morello, Street Sweeper Social Club, Dolores O’Riordan, Martha Wainwright, Peaches, Care Bears on Fire, The Cranberries, Ben Lee, Teddy Thompson, Rhett Miller, and Old 97s.
This marks a return to personal management for Goldberg. From 1983-1992, Goldberg was the founder and President of Gold Mountain Entertainment, a personal management firm whose clients included Nirvana, Hole, Sonic Youth, Bonnie Raitt, The Allman Brothers, Rickie Lee Jones, Allanah Myles, Tom Cochrane and the Beastie Boys.
Directly prior to the creation of GoldVE, Goldberg had been CEO of Air America Radio from 2005 until mid 2006.
Goldberg formed the indie label Artemis Records in 1999 and ran until January of 2005. Artemis was the number one U.S. indie label in terms of market share form 2001-2003. It released the last three albums of Warren Zevon’s career including the Grammy winning “The Wind,”, five albums by Steve Earle including his Grammy winner “The Revolution Starts Now,” as well as gold albums by Kittie, Kurupt and Khia. Artemis also released the multi-platinum album by the Baha Men, “Who Let The Dogs Out,” as well as albums by The Pretenders, Rickie Lee Jones and Jimmy Vaughn.
Prior to forming Artemis and prior to the acquisition of Polygram by Universal in 1998, Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of the Mercury Records Group, which was the number one U.S. label group in terms of market share in 1998. The Mercury Records Group included music form virtually all major genres, pop, R&B, hip-hop, country, jazz and rock and roll via its labels Deutsche Gramophone, Verve, Motown, Def-Jam, Mercury and Mercury Nashville all of which reported to and were supervised by Goldberg.
Prior to coming to Mercury, Goldberg was Chairman and CEO of Warner Bros. Records in 1995, during which time Warner Bros. was the number one U.S. record label. In 1993-94, he was President of Atlantic Records, also a division of the Warner Music Group, which likewise attained the number one ranking among U.S. companies during Goldberg’s tenure.
Earlier in his career, Goldberg formed and co-owned Modern Records, which released Stevie Nicks’ solo albums including her number one album “Bella Donna”. Prior to that Goldberg was Vice-President of Led Zeppelin’s Swan Song Records.
In 1980, Goldberg co-produced and co-directed the rock documentary feature, “No Nukes”, starring Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, and Jackson Browne. In 2004 he was the Executive Producer of the documentary about Steve Earle, “Just An American Boy.” He was the Executive Producer of the multi-platinum soundtrack of music form the TV series “Miami Vice” and was the Music Supervisor on numerous feature films including “Dirty Dancing.”
Goldberg began his career as a music journalist having written for, among others, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice and Billboard (for whom he reviewed the 1969 Woodstock Festival). He is author of the books “How The Left Lost Teen Spirit” and “Bumping Into Geniuses: My Life Inside The Rock and Roll Business.” Danny is also executive producer of the film “The Gits Movie.” He is on the Board of Directors of The Nation Institute, The ACLU Foundation of Southern California, Americans for Peace Now, Brave New Films and is Chair of the Board of the American Symphony Orchestra.
