Clayton Stroope

City Wolf was born in a small downtown Los Angeles apartment in the summer of 2018. Clayton Stroope, a former VH1 You Oughta Know artist and the lead singer/songwriter of the US Gold selling, and Top 40 charting band Thriving Ivory wanted to take a departure from the familiar. Clayton grew up listening to the harsh programmed drum samples of Lincoln Park, Nine Inch Nails, and Depeche Mode, but absorbed vocal influences from emotive pop singers like Rob Thomas, George Michael, and Prince. His desire to combine these ingredients onto one musical canvas led him to the door of veteran Los Angeles producer TheUnder. The two immediately hit the ground running and recorded a six song EP which was released by Los Angeles based publishing house and licensing firm Riptide Music Group. This self-titled City Wolf EP gained wider distribution into the sync licensing market gaining placements with Hulu, Marvel, Activision, Netflix, Fox Sports, HBO, Taco Bell, and Amazon Prime, solidifying City Wolf’s unique hybrid rock sound as a mainstay in the music licensing market. This elevated exposure would eventually push City Wolf’s monthly Spotify listener base to over 500K, and his overall catalogue has amassed over 30 million streams. City Wolf continues to write new music at a frenetic pace, having already released two full length albums and two EPs in 2022 totaling more than 30 new tracks. He hit the studio again in the Fall of 2022 and has already completed a new EP and full-length album slated for release in early 2023. City Wolf has also branched out to form new musical partnerships with sync licensing/publishing juggernaut Position Music, as well as Silverside Music Group, Koze Music, NorthStar Media, and Lava Publishing.

BSD Productions

Although the trio see no limits to their sonic excursions, they like to put an emphasis on pop-rock fusion into a majority of their works. All three individuals have a successful track record in their songwriting capabilities with cuts ranging from Red bull records artist Gavin Haley, to 3X Grammy-nominated band Highly Suspect, internet superstar Loren Grey and chart breaking sensations Royal & The Serpent & Trevor Daniel.

James “Jimbo” Barton

PRODUCED RECORDED & MIXED LIVE PERFORMANCES

KORN – KID ROCK – GODSMACK – SYSTEM OF A DOWN – POWERMAN 5000 – RED HOT CHILLI PEPPERS – HOLE – METALLICA – SMASHING PUMPKINS – MARYLYN MANSON – SLIPKNOT – SEVENDUST – ICE HOUSE – ERIC CLAPTON – RUSH -HATEBREED – MUDVAYNE – SLAYER – QUEENSRYCHE – HED PE – SEPULTURA – MATCHBOX TWENTY – COOLIO – ALICIA KEYS – MARY J BLIDGE – SHANICE – LL COOL J – WHITNEY HOUSTON – DAVID BOWIE – AEROSMITH – INXS – GEORGE MICHAEL – SANTANA – MICHAEL JACKSON – KISS – COLD CHISEL – JOE COCKER – TESLER – VAN HALEN – DEF LEPPARD – DIVYNILS – FLEETWOOD MAC – THE POLICE – JO JO ZEP & THE FALCONS – SKYHOOKS – ROD STEWART – MIDNIGHT OIL – KISS – THE TORIES – QUEEN – DESTINY’S CHILD – RITCHIE SAMBORA – HOOTIE – DAN BAND – ROB THOMAS – BLACK EYED PEAS – MACY GRAY – JAMES BROWN – JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE – MAROON 5 – THE DAN BAND – MTV / VH1 NETWORKS “LIVE” TELECAST P/E/M

Featuring:

AEROSMITH “Dream On” with Michael Kamin and the Boston Philharmonic
MICHAEL JACKSON “Will You Be There”
MICHAEL JACKSON / SLASH “Black & White”
GEORGE MICHAEL “Freedom”
R.E.M. “Losing My Religion”

Nellee Hooper

Nellee Hooper has produced tracks for Gwen Stefani’s multi-platinum album, “Love Angel Music Baby” and U2’s Numerous Grammy winning “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” album. Nellee Produced the No Doubt song entitled “it’s My Life” for their Greatest Hit’s CD, and was a 2003 Grammy nominee for Producer of the Year, for the 5 tracks produced on NO DOUBT’S Rock Steady album, which included mega hits “Hella Good” and title hit “Rock Steady”. He Produced three tracks for HOLLY VALANCE’S debut album “Footprints” on London Records. Also remixed a track for LAMB titled “Gabriel” for Mercury UK.

Nellee has put his signature style producing, mixing, and remixing other hits for LAMYA, SINEAD O’CONNOR, SEAL, ZIGGY MARLEY, SNEAKER PIMPS, JANET JACKSON, DEPECHE MODE, WHITNEY HOUSTON, AND MAXI PRIEST. He produced BJORK’S debut album “Debut” and on “Post”, MASSIVE ATTACKS album “Protection”, co-wrote and co-produced 5 tracks on MADONNA’S “Bedtime Stories”. He has had several brilliant successes working on soundtrack hits such as U2’s “Hold Me, Thrill Me” for the BATMAN FOREVER film soundtrack, produced several songs for SMASHING PUMPKINS for the “BATMAN AND ROBIN” film soundtrack, and produced TINA TURNER’S “Golden eye” for the film soundtrack GOLDENEYE. He produced and scored the film soundtrack for ROMEO AND JULIET for 20th Century Fox which included the hit single “#1Crush” by GARBAGE. He did an edit version of his original hit “6 Underground” for THE SAINT soundtrack. Nellee was executive music producer for THE BIG TEASE film soundtrack. Nellee was awarded the UK PRODUCER OF THE YEAR in 1995, a heady achievement for a young talent.

NELLEE WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER AND MAJOR CREATIVE INFLUENCE OF THE BAND SOUL II SOUL

Ron Nevison

Ron’s production talent is tied to names that are ever popular with the rock enthusiast: THE ROLLING STONES, OZZY OSBORNE, LED ZEPPELIN, MEAT LOAF, KISS, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, and HEART are a few of the bands that Ron helped create music with that perpetually sell strong.
Ron’s production mastery can be experienced in the albums of THE WHO, CANDLEBOX, STARSHIP, CHICAGO, THIN LIZZY, VINCE NEIL, DAVE MASON, CHER, BAD ENGLISH, DAMN YANKEES, NEVER THE BRIDE, and BAD COMPANY.

Ron’s production talent is tied to names that are ever popular with the rock enthusiast: THE ROLLING STONES, OZZY OSBORNE, LED ZEPPELIN, MEAT LOAF, KISS, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, and HEART are a few of the bands that Ron helped create music with that perpetually sell strong.
Ron’s production mastery can be experienced in the albums of THE WHO, CANDLEBOX, STARSHIP, CHICAGO, THIN LIZZY, VINCE NEIL, DAVE MASON, CHER, BAD ENGLISH, DAMN YANKEES, NEVER THE BRIDE, and BAD COMPANY.

Steven Rinkoff

Steven has spent much of his career engaged in the works of composer Jim Steinman, having co-produced and engineered BAT OUT OF HELL 2 album (incl. #1 single: I’dd Do Anything For Love (But I Won’t Do That) for Meat Loaf and three tracks on Celine Dion’s FALLING INTO YOU (incl. single: I’s All Coming Back To Me Now). The latter album earning him 1997’s Album Of The Year Grammy as a Producer.

Steven has also recorded and mixed for ERIC CLAPTON (Journeyman, Layla 20th Anniv. Box set), PAUL McCARTNEY, THE BANGLES, BONNIE TYLER, MARC ANTHONY, BILLY IDOL (Rebel Yell) among others.

Beyond recording and producing rock, opera, pop, jazz and cast albums, Steven has consulted on theatrical productions and has collaborated with w/Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Roman Polanski. Film work includes: music production for Married To The Mob, Mask Of Zorro (w/James Horner), The Shadow and MTV’s Wuthering Heights.

Currently Steven is developing the group, THE DREAM ENGINE. The project brings new songs, new lyrics, and soaring new voices to the rock operatic imagination of Jim Steinman. 2006 will launch the live shows and a much anticipated CD.