About Us
Mission and Functions
Razor & Tie Music Publishing represents high quality writer, publisher, and music copyrights across a diverse spectrum of musical genres. Our focused approach, combined with our company's market position and assets, enables us to offer distinctive services and opportunities, achieve substantial commercial success, and generate significant revenues. Our affiliation with Razor & Tie Entertainment, including its thriving record label, distributed labels, direct response TV and online marketing operations, as well as the Kidz Bop brand and family entertainment business, presents many unique music publishing platforms. Our reach as a music publisher extends well beyond this scope as Razor & Tie Music Publishing fulfills all the vital music publisher functions" pursuing talented producers, writers, and artists; pitching and placing clients and songs for co-writes; new recordings; and placements in film, TV, ads, video games and other channels. Razor & Tie Music Publishing also has a dedicated and thorough in-house administration system set-up for North America and selected sub-publishers throughout the rest of the world. The result is a dynamic, energetic, fast-growing and attractive music publishing business.
Writer/Publisher Clients/Copyrights
In less than 3 years of active operation, Razor & Tie Music Publishing has exponentially developed, grown and amassed a roster of talented and accomplished roster of writers/publishers as well as a lucrative catalog of songs. The publishing roster includes such writers as recording artists Matisyahu (Epic Records), Drive-By Truckers (ATO), reigning Dove Awards Female Vocalist of the Year Natalie Grant (Curb), and Phillip LaRue (EMI/Tooth&Nail). In 2009 alone, Razor & Tie Music Publishing has expanded its roster to include rock acts Day of Fire (Razor & Tie), Just Surrender (Razor & Tie), Sherwood (MySpace Records), and The Summer Set (Razor & Tie).
Our Team
Razor & Tie Music Publishing is part of Razor & Tie Entertainment. New York-based Razor & Tie Entertainment is one of the fastest growing independent entertainment companies in the United States and is the parent company of Kidz Bop, LLC. Razor & Tie successfully sells audio and video products through traditional retail distribution, a wide variety of digital outlets, and direct response television advertising. The company successfully markets audio and video content through digital and physical distribution, placement in film, television, advertising, video games and other media, direct response marketing, and ecommerce based websites. Founded by co-owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam, Razor & Tie is a vertically-integrated company that includes a music company with major label distribution, a music publishing business, a media buying company, a home video company, a direct marketing operation and a growing database of entertainment consumers.
Razor & Tie Music Publishing has seasoned representatives in the New York, Los Angeles and Nashville markets. The company is led by an experienced and energetic executive team, supported by an administration and finance and business affairs staff. The dynamic Razor & Tie Music Publishing team is overseen by Razor & Tie VP of A&R and Publishing Beka Tischker and Razor & Tie Executive VP Business and Legal Dan Hoffman.
