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Chip Adams serves as the Director of the Texas Music Office. In his role, Chip is responsible for leading the office?s efforts to support and grow the Texas commercial music industry. During his years at the TMO, Chip has played a key role in enhancing the office?s community engagement and outreach initiatives, fostering relationships with music stakeholders and city governments. Under his leadership, the Texas Music Office continues to strengthen our great state?s industry by working with musicians, businesses, government entities and trade organizations.?
He began his career promoting Texas music over twenty years ago in Dallas as a radio DJ, hosting weeknights on the now defunct commercial AAA station KKMR Merge Radio 93.3fm.
With a desire to work directly with artists to help their careers, his next stop was a move to NYC to work for the Cornerstone Agency, handling radio promotion and editing the tastemaker website TheTripwire.com. Chip worked with emerging artists including Frightened Rabbit, Arctic Monkeys, and Gorillaz, successfully launching them to the commercial alternative specialty radio format. While editing The Tripwire, he coordinated features with Henry Rollins, Saul Williams, Brett Anderson and music industry icon Tony Wilson.
After returning to Texas, Chip handled radio and marketing for the Los Angeles independent label Dangerbird Records. During that time he worked the Grammy nominated album "Swoon" from Silversun Pickups, as well as artists including Minus The Bear, Sea Wolf, and Fitz & The Tantrums.
In 2010 he co-founded Modern Outsider, an internationally distributed independent record label and artist management company, working with a variety of acts from Texas and around the globe. Modern Outsider?s roster included the Texas-based acts The Bright Light Social Hour, Walker Lukens, Moving Panoramas, Star Parks, Ume, and many more. Modern Outsider was voted Austin's Best Record Label in the 2016 & 2017 Austin Chronicle Music Awards.
Additionally, Chip has served as a Governor on the Board of the Texas Chapter of the Recording Academy since 2014.
Chip and the Texas Music Office team are proud to serve as the voice of the Texas music industry.
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TEXAS MUSIC OFFICE MAY ACTIVATIONS
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TMO Marketing & Communications Specialist Jenny Perkins attended the Music Business Association's Music Biz 2024 Conference in Nashville, TN from May 13-16, an annual gathering of 2,100+ attendees from more than 800 companies across 30 countries. While present, she connected with the Directors of fellow State Music Offices, Jeanette Stanton of the Oklahoma Film and Music Office, and Jimmy Wheeler of the Tennessee Entertainment Commission, as well as Sharon Tapper, Executive Director of Music Managers Forum-US (MMF-US), and many more.?
Jenny also represented the TMO on May 29th at the Women in Music Austin Chapter panel event, "Thriving in Austin: Cultivating Community for Women in Music" alongside fellow Women in Music Austin Chairs Amanda Garcia Davenport (GRAMMYs), RIkki Hardy (HAAM), and M?lat. In addition, she travelled to Glen Rose, TX, where she presented their Music Friendly Texas Certification to Mayor Joe Boles and CVB Director Rita Smith.?
TMO's Steve Ray presented letters from Governor Greg Abbott honoring inductees to the Conjunto Music Hall of Fame Juan Santos and Jose Morante as part of the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center?s Tejano Conjunto Festival.
May 2024 Music Friendly Texas Certifications and Workshops
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May 1 - The Texas Music Office (TMO), the City of Killeen, and Visit Killeen co-hosted an in-person and virtual Music Friendly Texas Community workshop on Wednesday, May 1.?
May 2 - The City of Chandler became the 60th Music Friendly Texas Certified Community to receive the designation from the Texas Music Office (TMO) after completing the multi-step certification process.?
May 14 - The Texas Music Office and the City of League City co-hosted an in-person and virtual Music Friendly Texas Community workshop on Tuesday, May 14.?
May 16 - The City of Alvin was designated by the Texas Music Office (TMO) as the 61st Music Friendly Texas Certified Community at the Historic Alvin Train Depot.
May 31 - The City of Glen Rose was designated as the 62nd Music Friendly Texas Certified Community after completing the multi-step certification process during the Paluxy Music Festival.?
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Music Friendly Texas Program Regional Office East/South Meeting in Bryan/College Station
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The Texas Music Office?s (TMO) Music Friendly Texas (MFT) Program (the first of its kind in the nation since 2016) has successfully grown so much, that we?ve now been able to establish a Regional Office Program. Christopher Ortegon and Casey Barone co-hosted the first-ever Regional Meeting for our East/South MFT Liaisons in the cities of City of Bryan and City of College Station and TMO Director Chip Adams was in attendance.
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Join The Mechanical Licensing Collective (The MLC) on Thursday, June 20th, from 6-9PM at Antone's Nightclub in Austin, as they explore the different revenue streams that are generated and paid to creators, and find out if you need to become a member of The MLC to ensure you receive all your mechanical streaming royalties! Come learn about royalty collection and stay to mix and mingle with fellow creators and industry professionals, making sure no money is left on the table.
Co-Hosted by the Texas Music Office and Austin Texas Musicians, and supported by the Austin Chapter of Women in Music.
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First Panel: ?All About The MLC and What This Means for YOU!?
Presented by Jamie Dominguez (The MLC)
Second Panel: ?Show Me The Money: Strategies to Maximize Royalty Collection?
Presented by Jamie Dominguez (The MLC), Mitch Ballard (BMI), and Alyssa Byrne (TuneCore).
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The MLC Panel Event and Mixer in Austin
Thursday, June 20 from 6-9PM
Antone?s Nightclub Upstairs
305 E 5th St.
Austin, TX 78701
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Fifteen cities in Texas will join forces to present hundreds of free outdoor musical events on Friday, June 21st for?Make Music Day, a global music celebration on the summer solstice each year that brings people of all ages and skill levels together to make music. This year, multiple Music Friendly Texas Certified Communities including College Station, Dallas, Denton, Frisco, Houston, Hutto, Laredo, McKinney, Odessa, Salado, San Antonio, San Marcos, Sugar Land, Tyler,?and?Waxahachie are some of the 150+ U.S. cities hosting thousands of Make Music Day performances nationwide, as part of the world?s largest annual music event.
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UPCOMING EVENTS ON THE TMO CALENDAR
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