Last month Jim was approached by Adrianne Gonzales of The Rescues to work on a unique project inspired by the recent purchase of the publishing to five Beatles songs by her publishing company PEN. The idea was to take what would normally be seen as untouchable (Beatles songs!) and make them nearly indistinguishable from the original recordings. The project is now being mixed and will be likely popping ...

On March 20th, The Young Romans released their new record "Tiger Child" on Red Parade Music, Jim Roach's label. In the first week the album was featured in the #1 slot on iTunes Indie Spolight and New Independent Releases categories. The album's release coincided with the film "Salmon Fishing In The Yemen," starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. The band co-wrote the end credit track to the movie ...

Jesse Thomas' record "War Dancer" which was produced by Jim Roach and put out on his label Red Parade Music has entered the Billboard charts. #25 in the 'New Artist' category and #14 in the 'Folk' category. This is the first full length record released by Red Parade Music. Jesse's record will be followed up in March by another Red Parade release from The Young Romans. They will ...

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Coming this March, 2012, CBS pictures is releasing the talked about film "Salmon Fishing In The Yemen," starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt. Teaming up with the film's music supervisor (Dave Jordan and his company Format Entertainment), Jim and writing partner Brad Hooks (of The Young Romans) wrote the end title track for the film, while Jim produced and mixed it. The song is called "Where You Go" ...

Jim has produced and co-written a song called "The Uprising" that is the end title song in the upcoming Emile Hirsch movie The Darkest Hour. He co-wrote the song with good friend and collaborator Brad Hooks from The Young Romans. The movie comes out at Christmas! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUznviXV-U8 UPDATE - Due to lots of emails asking for lyrics, here they are: The Uprising - Lyrics We will rise againstEven though we don't know ...

This week Red Parade Music, Jim's music company, partnered with Primary Wave Talent Management to take over management duties for Red Parade artists The Young Romans. Manager and industry veteran Scott Frazier and Manbir Sodhia will be helping steer the future of the band with the help of Red Parade. Primary Wave is known for managing the careers of CeeLo Green, Steven Tyler and the catalog of Kurt ...

This summer Jim's label Red Parade Music signed singer JJ Worthen and his project Kingvolt. The two began pre-production in July and plan on finishing JJ's first round of new music by the end of August. JJ has recently relocated from his hometown of Houston TX, and is now playing venues around L.A. while making his first record. Like fellow Red Parade artist Jesse Thomas, JJ's voice is ...

This month  Jesse Thomas got started on pre-production and basic tracking with Jim on her first full length record "War Dancers." Jim found Jesse Thomas nearly two years ago. Since the two teamed up Jesse has been the Starbucks "Pick of the Week" in February 2011 with free download cards in all U.S. and Canada locations, opened for John Mayer, charted at #10 on iTunes singer/songwriter charts, and ...

Jim Roach and writing partner Brad Hooks recently wrote, produced, and mixed the song "Fill In The Blank" for Disney's "Prom."