Brennan Carley is an entertainment editor, writer, producer, and talent booker who's contributed to GQ Magazine, Billboard, SPIN, and more. He's a GLAAD Award and James Beard Award nominee whose primary interests are pop music and traveling the world with his partner. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. (Photo credit: Matt Martin)
In late June, Ariel Rechtshaid scored a Hot 100 Number One in the unlikeliest of ways, he says. "It was another random phenomenon in a series of random phenomena that I've witnessed in my life—and another thing you couldn't possibly control or cook up." The 41-year-old songwriter and producer is talking about "Trollz," a splashy chart-topping collaboration by New York meme-turned-rapper…
It’s late afternoon in Stockholm, but the songwriter and producer Oscar Görres is as animated as a fresh cup of coffee. Gesticulating to get his points across and making faces more colorful than the rust-colored studio walls that surround him, the 34-year-old Swedish star is flanked on all sides by guitars, keyboards, synthesizers and a couch—the very same couch that’s been…
When Los Angeles-based producer and songwriter Ricky Reed appears on Zoom in early August, it feels no different than his new normal pandemic routine. The GRAMMY-winning musician has, since the early days of quarantine here in the U.S., invited fans to take a magnifying glass to his process in regular live streams (cheekily called "Nice Live" in a wink to the…
It’s late May, months deep into the country’s extended period of self isolation, but Justin Tranter—coming to me live via Zoom from their Hollywood home—says they’ve just written one of the best songs of their career. Considering that the veteran songwriter has helped pen some of the biggest hits of the past decade—including Justin Bieber’s "Sorry," Imagine Dragons' "Believer" and Selena Gomez’s 2019…
