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Nothing Good About Goodbye

Simply Beautiful (Jim Roach / Brad Hooks)

If I Made You Up (Jim Roach / Brad Hooks)

View From An Airport

Gold Eyes

Open Up Your Eyes

From The Rooftop

Right Where I Belong

Life In Bloom

It Gets Better

That's What You Get M1

We're Not Gonna Go Down

New single from Jake Walker on Santa Monica Recordings. www.santamonicarecordings.com

Rolling Stones

Jim Roach is an Emmy award winning writer, producer, and owner of Red Parade Music Group based in Los Angeles, California.

After several years of being on the road and in the studio as a drummer, bass player, guitar player, and songwriter for major label bands, Jim switched gears in 2004 to work exclusively in the studio both with artists and for the film, commercial, trailer and television world.Having spent time on the other side of the glass, his ability to relate to what the writer is going through while recording informs his approach to making records. 

“I like to earn the trust and respect of the artist / writer to develop a friendship – I feel like that’s how we get the best music made. I know what it’s like to put your art in the hands of someone who can take further or totally destroy it, and it can be very nerve wracking. My job is to find out who they are as a person and an artist – find out what makes them tick – and put all of that back into their music and hopefully help them make the best and most honest record they can.”

Today he uses his musical and studio background to write and produce with artists and songwriters at his studio in Los Angeles. He also operates his label Red Parade Music. which finds and develops artists.

Additionally, Jim writes and produces music for film, television, trailers and commercials. From 2011 – 2015 Jim co-owned Kung Fu Culture Publishing with major motion picture music supervisor Dave Jordan. Dave and his company Format are known for his music supervision in films like Guardians of The Galaxy, The Avengers, Iron Man I and II, The Bourne Identity, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle, Mr and Mrs. Smith, Swingers, and Pitch Perfect to name a few. Jim’s songs have been featured in many major motion pictures, trailers, commercials and television shows.

In 2015 Jim won an Emmy for “Outstanding Music & Lyrics” for the song “Girl You Don’t Need Makeup” which was written for Inside Amy Schumer with Kyle Dunnigan and Amy Schumer. That same year he took a job as executive producer for Apple Music working under Jimmy Iovine, Ian Rogers, Zane Lowe and Julie Pilat. Jim currently produces Joshua Homme’s (Queens of the Stone Age) show The Alligator Hour, St. Vincent’s Mixtape Delivery Service, Ezra Koenig’s (of Vampire Weekend) Time Crisis, and Haim’s show Haim Time.

Jim is currently a writer at Secret Road Music

www.jimroachmusic.com

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