Jordan Kurland (born 1972) is a founding partner of Brilliant Corners Management, a music and artist management company with offices in San Francisco, New York, and Seattle. He is the co-founder of the

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and a partner in the independent music festival,

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Career

Music management and festivals Kurland moved to San Francisco in 1995 to work at David Lefkowitz/Figurehead Management where he assisted with Charlie Hunter, the

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, and Primus. Kurland’s Treasure Island Music Festival ran from 2007 to 2018 and was nominated several times as the Music Festival of the Year by Pollstar magazine. The Noise Pop festival has featured many musicians including,

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, The White Stripes, Spoon and

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. Political activism In 2004, helped to curate and produce the Future Soundtrack of America CD and “Future Dictionary of America” with author

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featuring REM, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and

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. In 2012, Kurland and Eggers founded the website ''90 Days, 90 Reasons'', which featured opinion pieces from contributors including Anne Hathaway, Shepard Fairey, and Ben Stiller who gave their opinions on why they thought President Obama should be re-elected. Using a similar idea, he and Eggers collaborated during the

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to organize the ''30 Days, 30 Songs'' campaign, which was an effort to bring together musicians to produce protest songs against

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. A new song was released each day in the last month before the election. In 2020, Kurland and Eggers organized two digital fundraising albums, ''Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy - Volumes 1 & 2'', that raised over $550k for Voter’s Rights organizations. During the 2020 presidential election, Kurland collaborated with Nick Stern for an online concert series called Team Joe Sings in support for Joe Biden. Kurland was a member of the entertainment advisory committee for Barack Obama's 2012 and Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaigns.

Boards

Kurland currently sits on the boards of the Stern Grove Festival,

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’s and The Lab. He previously served on the boards of the Independent On-Line Distribution Alliance (IODA), 826 National, Marin Headlands Center for the Arts, and the Bay Area chapter of NARAS.

Representation

Brilliant Corners represents

, The Postal Service, She & Him, Toro Y Moi, Pup, Soccer Mommy, The

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, Best Coast, Real Estate, Josh Ritter, Squirrel Flower, Jimmy Tamborello, and Gilligan Moss. Past clients that Kurland's company has worked with include the Estate of Elliott Smith, Bob Mould, The Head and the Heart, John Doe, Feist, Dan Deacon, Rogue Wave & Grizzly Bear.

References

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