One of Planetary's founding members, Adam Lewis has demonstrated commitment to music promotion from the get-go. While at college, Adam acted as the Chairman of the Activities Board, as well as the Music Director & Arts Editor of the radio station and newspaper. Adam also produced and promoted an independent EP, which charted on CMJ for 9 weeks.
The Summer of 1990 found Adam with yet another task -- tour managing the Aquanettas (IRS) on their North American tour opening for Nine Inch Nails and Meat Beat Manifesto. Upon graduating he worked for Harris Goldberg at Concert Ideas in Woodstock, NY, and opened a satellite office of Concert Ideas here in Boston. In between the move from Woodstock to Boston, Adam hit the road again -- this time as Tour Manager for Alien Sex Fiend (Mechanic).
So, what's Adam been up to these days? Besides leading Planetary into the new millennium, he spent five years as the New England Sales Manager for TVT Records, where he played an integral part in the promotion of such acts as Sevendust, Guided By Voices, and Snoop Doggy Dogg. Adam also does all of the publicity, promotion, and media buying for Great Northeast Productions. Great Northeast produces over 50 (club level to stadium-sized) shows a year throughout New England. They have also been responsible for all of the large-scale Phish shows for the last few years, including The Clifford Ball, The Great Went, Lemonwheel, Oswego, It, Coventry, and the 2000 New Year's Eve show in Florida, which was the largest millennium rock show in the world. For several years, Adam also managed Blackbird/Atlantic recording artists, Angry Salad.
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Chris Davies, while still in high school and a rookie in the business, managed bands such as The Disturbed and Blues Traveler. In college, Chris worked as the Assistant to the Music Director of the University of Rhode Island's WRIU, as well as acting as an independent concert promoter. In Boston, while working with local juice heroes Tom and Tom of Nantucket Nectars, Chris submerged himself in the local music scene. In joining forces with Adam and Concert Ideas he directed the founding of Planetary. Now Chris directs Planetary's general Business affairs as well as being the General Manager of the Radio Promotion Dept. He is also instrumental in Planetary's Commercial & Specialty show promotion.
Originally from Connecticut, Ben got his start in the music industry putting on shows in his hometown. While attending Manhattanville College from 1999-2003, Ben helped run WMVL the college radio station while interning at various record labels and marketing firms in NYC. Ben also founded a club in college who set out to bring upcoming independent acts to perform at Manhattanville including Coheed & Cambria, Dashboard Confessional & Bigwig among others.
Starting in at The Planetary Group in 2004, Ben has helped promote acts including The Decemberists, Interpol, The Beastie Boys, Ween, Sun Kil Moon, Bob Mould, Jens Lekman and countless other college radio staples. Ben is also an avid baseball fan and enjoys making anagrams when he has spare time.
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Getting his start in college radio at WXAC while still a high school student, Dany immersed himself in music by holding down a DJ slot and interviewing bands for his zine. In college, he quickly took the reins as music director at WCUR and then as an intern at AAM. He has also seen time writing reviews and interviews for Rockpile, Pitchfork, Rocket Fuel and Prefix.
Since joining the company in 2005, Dany has been part of the college and commercial department, spoke on a number of panels, been nominated for two CMJ college radio rewards and since since relocated to our Los Angeles office to handle marketing duties and Stranded in Stereo (CD/DVD compilation, website and club night). Dany will always be a die-hard Philly sports fan, and as well, he enjoys travelling, his now defunct blog (Exitfare) and the Arsenal football club. A part of him wishes he were in London.
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Growing up in Upstate, NY made pursuing a career in the music industry challenging, yet not impossible. Determined to make the most of it, Jess Pye found herself spending countless hours in the car, driving from city to city in order to catch bands performing on the big and small stage. In the summer of 2000, Jess interned as a production assistant on the #1 Rated "Keeler in the Morning" Show on 107 WRCK, performing numerous on-air stunts and bits. After high school, it was time to flee the farm, so she packed her bags for the big city (or the suburbs around it) and found herself at Manhattanville College, where she immediately began working at WMVL Radio. While at WMVL, Jess wore many hats, including Sports Director, Music Director, Station Manager and purchaser of candy. When she wasn't in the station office or studying 19th Century Music History, she was booking shows on campus with the Punk Rock Appreciation Society and interning at Virgin Records and Joe D'Ambrosio Talent Management in White Plains. A passion for history brought her to Beantown where she joined Team Planetary in 2006. When not working with great bands, Jess can be found taking pictures of the ocean, cooking somewhat fanciful meals and trying to decide her position on JFK assassination theories.
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Growing up in the small tourist town of Cape May, NJ, Christine lived quite the sheltered life until she became music director at WYBF. Divided between journalism and the love of music, she decided to pursue both in college. She landed a job at FMQB writing the “Submodern Valedictorian,” part of a weekly column geared towards commercial specialty radio. To further appease her writing addiction, Christine also served as arts and entertainment editor of her college newspaper and wrote for publications such as The Philadelphia Business Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Press of Atlantic City. Upon graduation, Christine decided she’d rather start a career in the music industry than sit in newsrooms and read the AP Stylebook over and over again. So she moved up to Boston and now devotes her time to the press department at Planetary and perfecting her cooking skills.
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"My only drug is the music," one Rusty A Roberts Jr. has been known to say. Growing up in Hanover, PA, Rusty raised himself a huge fan of undiscovered and underground music. While in junior high, when his friends were listening to Metallica and the Backstreet Boys, people would look at him funny for breaking out the new record from The Dandy Warhols, or Superdrag's Head Trip In Every Key. He finally found a home for his musical appreciation when he attended Shippensburg University, and became a member of WSYC-FM. There, he was Music Director for two and a half years, and curator of the universally ignored program, The Largehearted Rust Radio Show. He was also the General Manager, too. Today, Rusty enjoys a healthy dose of great music from his faves (Guided By Voices, Yo La Tengo, Sonic Youth,) and always enjoying new tunes (such as The Good The Bad & The Queen, and hey, that new Brand New album isn't bad either!) He currently resides in Jamaica Plain, MA, and is excited to be Planetary's new exploit!
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Growing up an aspiring musician, Pete first started branching out at the unknown high school radio station WLER, where he wielded air wave power over nearly a whole city block. On graduating and relinquishing his massive power, he began playing in bands and booking shows in the musical mecca of New London, Connecticut. After college, Pete moved to New York and made a living as studio musician and bartender as he worked on developing promotion departments for different companies and music venues. This led to a full time position at an indie marketing company, as well as the chance to run the indie retail coalition The Uber Indie Program. Pete struck out on his own with Uber Indie Marketing, before joining up with Planetary to create the world's greatest new media team ever. Seriously. Ever.
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While still a fresh young teen, and still being called names like "Scene" Moran or Sean "Moron" by the oh so eloquent Amesbury High School population, Sean Moran was in a band. As the guitarist in Falling Abel (né A Long Walk Home) he played his fair share of churches, VFW's and Knights of Columbus halls, once locking the band's equipment in his mom's station wagon. Of course, like most teen rockers, he grew out of that phase—though not before dying his hair blue and growing a borderline amazing beard—and went off to Roger Williams University. At RWU he spent most of his time being a professional mischief spectator to his destructive friends, going to shows, plotting the downfall of his 'yeah college' classmates, accidentally earning a marine biology minor and assuming the role of Music Director and DJ at WQRI, with a show called "Forget-Me-Nows". During the summers he worked at the cleverly-named Cinemagic movie theatre and interned at Pirate. Someday he will find a job that requires degrees in both ichthyology and public relations, but, for now, he is happy to be working in the radio department at Planetary. Sean will soon be a resident of Allston Rock City where there is a waiter at Sunset Grill who looks creepily like him.
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Becca grew up right outside of Boston and bought her first CD at age 11 - a brand-new copy of Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection'. Many years later she found herself at Smith College, where she interned at WOZQ, spent long hours working in the Sylvia Plath Collection, and took altogether too many French classes. She eventually majored in Film Studies and, most importantly, wrote her thesis on Madonna's work in the 80s. While at Smith, she met Amanda Palmer and began working as Media Coordinator for her band, The Dresden Dolls. She also worked as a production assistant for their DVD, filmed live at the Paradise, and in the summer of 2007 she was asked to sell merch for the Dolls on the True Colors tour. So she spent a month traveling the country with Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry, selling CDs and T-shirts, meeting a lot of famous people, and wearing impractical shoes while carrying boxes of merch. Now she is pleased to be doing publicity at Planetary. In her spare time she thinks about postmodernism, leopard print, and Lesley Gore. She can occasionally be spotted in music videos, wearing a pink dress and the most deadpan of expressions.
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Brian got his college education from the California Institute of the Arts, joining the proud alumni list of Tim Burton, Pee-Wee Herman, Danny Elfman and the actress who played Peg Bundy. During his senior year at Cal Arts Brian worked as stage manager at The Troubadour in Hollywood, putting together epic light shows and coma inducing riders for bands like Interpol, Rilo Kiley, The Kills and The Streets. After graduating in 2003 with an “incredibly useless” bachelors degree in Music Technology, Brian immediately moved to Brooklyn, NY. He started the band Lola Ray and they were quickly signed by the Epic/Sony imprint DC Flag. The band released two albums and, with the help of a radio promotions campaign by Planetary Group, they spent four years touring with The Buzzcocks, Phantom Planet, Sparta, Bayside, Hawthorne Heights, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Sound Team and The Oohlas. Brian served as tour manager for these years and he has never been the same since. Tired of sleeping in a van, Brian now lives in Long Beach, CA and works with Planetary in the LA office.
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After escaping from the womb in 1983, Rob spent the first eighteen years of his life growing up in Naugatuck, CT. (It's near the ocean). As a young lad he had dreams of one day growing up to be Indiana Jones (or sometimes a Ninja Turtle). It wasn't until his taped from TV video copy of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" finally died that he decided to venture north to the mysterious town known as Boston. Originally arriving to attend Emerson College, he found himself surrounded by more musical culture than he had ever thought possible. He found himself going to shows and clubs on a constant basis, unable to resist the siren song that echoed though those tiny venues. During this time Rob managed to get himself an internship working for WFNX. Starting out as a lowly coffee mule he eventually worked his way into every other department he could find (serves them right for not locking their doors). Working late nights broadcasting his voice over the airwaves, as well as long days grueling over a computer doing audio production eventually led to finally settling himself in the promotions department with his own desk, they even threw in a pencil holder. As time went by Rob decided to start picking up a few extra hours at the local Newbury Comics records store. Eventually Rob decided to take a complete step down and work in a record store full time. After years of talking, listening, and buying music five days a week, he decided to jump back into the world of promotion. With that he found himself here at The Planetary Group. Rob's favorite band is the Mountain Goats and in his spare time he enjoys playing the ukulele.
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D.J. found his way to Boston via Maryland after being beckoned by the sound of an alpenhorn. He has always thought it an underrated instrument. It's ballsy declarations like this that have defined his young life, first serving as assistant music director and general manager at WSUR (now-WXSU) in Salisbury, MD. He got his start in the industry by interning twice at Fata Booking Agency in Philadelphia, PA. Since college, D.J. has had forays in both public relations and journalism, penning for a pittance with Philadelphia City Paper, Chord Magazine, Wonka Vision Magazine, Tiny Mix Tapes and Sentimentalist, among others. Most recently, he went underground as a narc in marketing and promotions at a commercial radio station in the Greater Philadelphia region. He regularly kills time by watching Mets games, chasing buses and crushing skulls.
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Greg got an early start in the music industry, while only in high school Greg promoted DIY shows all over his home town of Albany, as well as releasing several compilation CDs as well. While studying Music Business and Recording at the University Of New Haven, Greg was music director of WNHU for four years and in addition to programming the alternative department at the station, he helped to bring the station to a new era of greatness. After graduation in May of 2004, Greg joined the ranks of past WNHU music directors who have gone on to careers in the music industry by taking a job at the Planetary Group after several months of interning.
Greg is well versed in many aspects of the music industry, including booking, radio promotion, online promotions, management (as Passion Pit’s first manager), and as an artist (he was an original member of Bridge 9 / Abacus recording artist The Distance).
After 4 years of working in the radio and new media departments, Greg took a brief sabbatical in artist management but in Jan 2009, Greg returned to Planetary Radio to kick ass and chew bubblegum, and he’s all outta bubblegum.
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One of Planetary's founding members, Adam Lewis has demonstrated commitment to music promotion from the get-go. While at college, Adam acted as the Chairman of the Activities Board, as well as the Music Director & Arts Editor of the radio station and newspaper. Adam also produced and promoted an independent EP, which charted on CMJ for 9 weeks.
Chris Davies, while still in high school and a rookie in the business, managed bands such as The Disturbed and Blues Traveler. In college, Chris worked as the Assistant to the Music Director of the University of Rhode Island's WRIU, as well as acting as an independent concert promoter. In Boston, while working with local juice heroes Tom and Tom of Nantucket Nectars, Chris submerged himself in the local music scene. In joining forces with Adam and Concert Ideas he directed the founding of Planetary. Now Chris directs Planetary's general Business affairs as well as being the General Manager of the Radio Promotion Dept. He is also instrumental in Planetary's Commercial & Specialty show promotion. 
Getting his start in college radio at WXAC while still a high school student, Dany immersed himself in music by holding down a DJ slot and interviewing bands for his zine. In college, he quickly took the reins as music director at WCUR and then as an intern at AAM. He has also seen time writing reviews and interviews for Rockpile, Pitchfork, Rocket Fuel and Prefix.
Growing up in the small tourist town of Cape May, NJ, Christine lived quite the sheltered life until she became music director at WYBF. Divided between journalism and the love of music, she decided to pursue both in college. She landed a job at FMQB writing the “Submodern Valedictorian,” part of a weekly column geared towards commercial specialty radio. To further appease her writing addiction, Christine also served as arts and entertainment editor of her college newspaper and wrote for publications such as The Philadelphia Business Journal, The Philadelphia Inquirer and The Press of Atlantic City. Upon graduation, Christine decided she’d rather start a career in the music industry than sit in newsrooms and read the AP Stylebook over and over again. So she moved up to Boston and now devotes her time to the press department at Planetary and perfecting her cooking skills. 
Growing up an aspiring musician, Pete first started branching out at the unknown high school radio station WLER, where he wielded air wave power over nearly a whole city block. On graduating and relinquishing his massive power, he began playing in bands and booking shows in the musical mecca of New London, Connecticut. After college, Pete moved to New York and made a living as studio musician and bartender as he worked on developing promotion departments for different companies and music venues. This led to a full time position at an indie marketing company, as well as the chance to run the indie retail coalition The Uber Indie Program. Pete struck out on his own with Uber Indie Marketing, before joining up with Planetary to create the world's greatest new media team ever. Seriously. Ever. 
While still a fresh young teen, and still being called names like "Scene" Moran or Sean "Moron" by the oh so eloquent Amesbury High School population, Sean Moran was in a band. As the guitarist in Falling Abel (né A Long Walk Home) he played his fair share of churches, VFW's and Knights of Columbus halls, once locking the band's equipment in his mom's station wagon. Of course, like most teen rockers, he grew out of that phase—though not before dying his hair blue and growing a borderline amazing beard—and went off to Roger Williams University. At RWU he spent most of his time being a professional mischief spectator to his destructive friends, going to shows, plotting the downfall of his 'yeah college' classmates, accidentally earning a marine biology minor and assuming the role of Music Director and DJ at WQRI, with a show called "Forget-Me-Nows". During the summers he worked at the cleverly-named Cinemagic movie theatre and interned at Pirate. Someday he will find a job that requires degrees in both ichthyology and public relations, but, for now, he is happy to be working in the radio department at Planetary. Sean will soon be a resident of Allston Rock City where there is a waiter at Sunset Grill who looks creepily like him. 
Becca grew up right outside of Boston and bought her first CD at age 11 - a brand-new copy of Madonna's 'Immaculate Collection'. Many years later she found herself at Smith College, where she interned at WOZQ, spent long hours working in the Sylvia Plath Collection, and took altogether too many French classes. She eventually majored in Film Studies and, most importantly, wrote her thesis on Madonna's work in the 80s. While at Smith, she met Amanda Palmer and began working as Media Coordinator for her band, The Dresden Dolls. She also worked as a production assistant for their DVD, filmed live at the Paradise, and in the summer of 2007 she was asked to sell merch for the Dolls on the True Colors tour. So she spent a month traveling the country with Cyndi Lauper and Debbie Harry, selling CDs and T-shirts, meeting a lot of famous people, and wearing impractical shoes while carrying boxes of merch. Now she is pleased to be doing publicity at Planetary. In her spare time she thinks about postmodernism, leopard print, and Lesley Gore. She can occasionally be spotted in music videos, wearing a pink dress and the most deadpan of expressions. 
Brian got his college education from the California Institute of the Arts, joining the proud alumni list of Tim Burton, Pee-Wee Herman, Danny Elfman and the actress who played Peg Bundy. During his senior year at Cal Arts Brian worked as stage manager at The Troubadour in Hollywood, putting together epic light shows and coma inducing riders for bands like Interpol, Rilo Kiley, The Kills and The Streets. After graduating in 2003 with an “incredibly useless” bachelors degree in Music Technology, Brian immediately moved to Brooklyn, NY. He started the band Lola Ray and they were quickly signed by the Epic/Sony imprint DC Flag. The band released two albums and, with the help of a radio promotions campaign by Planetary Group, they spent four years touring with The Buzzcocks, Phantom Planet, Sparta, Bayside, Hawthorne Heights, Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Sound Team and The Oohlas. Brian served as tour manager for these years and he has never been the same since. Tired of sleeping in a van, Brian now lives in Long Beach, CA and works with Planetary in the LA office.
After escaping from the womb in 1983, Rob spent the first eighteen years of his life growing up in Naugatuck, CT. (It's near the ocean). As a young lad he had dreams of one day growing up to be Indiana Jones (or sometimes a Ninja Turtle). It wasn't until his taped from TV video copy of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" finally died that he decided to venture north to the mysterious town known as Boston. Originally arriving to attend Emerson College, he found himself surrounded by more musical culture than he had ever thought possible. He found himself going to shows and clubs on a constant basis, unable to resist the siren song that echoed though those tiny venues. During this time Rob managed to get himself an internship working for WFNX. Starting out as a lowly coffee mule he eventually worked his way into every other department he could find (serves them right for not locking their doors). Working late nights broadcasting his voice over the airwaves, as well as long days grueling over a computer doing audio production eventually led to finally settling himself in the promotions department with his own desk, they even threw in a pencil holder. As time went by Rob decided to start picking up a few extra hours at the local Newbury Comics records store. Eventually Rob decided to take a complete step down and work in a record store full time. After years of talking, listening, and buying music five days a week, he decided to jump back into the world of promotion. With that he found himself here at The Planetary Group. Rob's favorite band is the Mountain Goats and in his spare time he enjoys playing the ukulele. 
D.J. found his way to Boston via Maryland after being beckoned by the sound of an alpenhorn. He has always thought it an underrated instrument. It's ballsy declarations like this that have defined his young life, first serving as assistant music director and general manager at WSUR (now-WXSU) in Salisbury, MD. He got his start in the industry by interning twice at Fata Booking Agency in Philadelphia, PA. Since college, D.J. has had forays in both public relations and journalism, penning for a pittance with Philadelphia City Paper, Chord Magazine, Wonka Vision Magazine, Tiny Mix Tapes and Sentimentalist, among others. Most recently, he went underground as a narc in marketing and promotions at a commercial radio station in the Greater Philadelphia region. He regularly kills time by watching Mets games, chasing buses and crushing skulls. 
Greg got an early start in the music industry, while only in high school Greg promoted DIY shows all over his home town of Albany, as well as releasing several compilation CDs as well. While studying Music Business and Recording at the University Of New Haven, Greg was music director of WNHU for four years and in addition to programming the alternative department at the station, he helped to bring the station to a new era of greatness. After graduation in May of 2004, Greg joined the ranks of past WNHU music directors who have gone on to careers in the music industry by taking a job at the Planetary Group after several months of interning.