Who is AEMMP Records?????

So as the first little bit of AEMMP information that we have we wanted to take a few minutes and introduce some information on AEMMP. You heard the boring history of AEMMP but we thought you might be more interested in learning more about who is in charge of running the revamped AEMMP records so that it will become better then ever!!!! Keep checking this posting. These people are busy and we had to hunt for them to get what we could from them.

First off it is run by two teachers (advisors or whatever you wanna call them)

Martin Atkins-
Maybe you heard of a band called Public Image Limited??? (or maybe not) Anyway this man has been in bands for years. He is has run his Chicago based record label Invisible Records for more then 20 years. Martin wrote the book Tour:Smart which is the bible on touring. He is revamping the label this year with his experience and an amazing team.
"20 is the number of years before i can have a legal drink with my youngest son Cole Vincent.....if i have re-started drinking by then"

David Lewis-
Ever been to the portfolio center? You might know him from there. He is specifically the Creative Industry Liaison...
David has spent the last 10-years of his life pinching himself -- not in a weird masochistic way -- but rather because he has had the honor of working with such a variety of talented people. As a teenager he began programming arts events and concerts. Before long he found himself knee-deep either marketing, booking, or running PR campaigns for some of the nation's biggest underground comedians and musicians: Death Cab For Cutie, Bright Eyes, Blur, The Blood Brothers, Brian Posen, Ted Leo, Dr Dog, Patton Oswalt and Jawbreaker to name a few. Upon finishing his degree at the Art Institute Of Chicago Lewis founded Riot Act Media, to offer proactive, scalable, artist-friendly campaigns for the arts & music community.

Lewis has spent time in the trenches as a writer (Time Out Chicago, Planet, Thrasher, Play), a film maker / editor, and most recently as a father of his son, Harper, whom enjoys throwing food, waking up at 4 am, and yelling nonsense .... much like his dad.



The Student team


Mark Kucera
- 26
- senior
- AEMM/AEMMP
- Emmis marketing/promotions dept (Q101.1/The Loop 97.9)
- WKQK programming dept (Q101.1)
- WKDI on-air DJ (NIU radio)
- I like walking on the beach for a while. Not too long









Matthew Baker
Works A&R and am in charge of developing the Emerging Artist Showcases for Platform One Entertainment.













Nicholas Terry
Inspired by the ever-changing melodies that paint his world Nicholas Terry is a songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and artist developer. Having worked in Jazz, R&B, Pop, Acoustic and Folk music among other genre's Nicholas has crafted a diverse background in the music industry. After pursuing many routes in the music industry he has found his home in Chicago, where he's in his final year at Columbia College.

To me 20 is important because it's the age when the last two genius's in soul music were as they created the first of many classic albums. Stevie Wonder with Music of My Mind the first of his self produced, self written classic albums in the 70's. And Prince with his self-titled album which was also the first of his completely self-produced and self-written classic albums.



Zak Jablow
Although we are missing a bio from Zack he sent us a great video of what 20 means to him