Who We Are

Written by sb

SARAH BENNETT, a.k.a. SB, founded Black Top Street Hockey, a rollerblade-less, skill-negative streethockey league in the summer of 2000 in East River Park, which is how she stumbled upon the idea for the ERMP. She freelances in the fields of writing, crochet teaching, heavy lifting, etc.

SHIRLEY BRAHA is the producer of New York Noise on NYC TV, which is not public access, but a station funded by/for the City of New York. This means Shirley gets paid by the government to make a TV show about bands she likes, which makes her the perfect addition to the ERMP team.

DAPHNE CARR is a music journalist, critic, and ethnomusicologist who edits the Best Music Writing series and runs a listserv for women music writers, Girl Group. She is the author of Nine Inch Nails Pretty Hate
Machine (Continuum 2008). And yes, she was a chair of the NYU Program Board.

TOBIAS CARROLL is a freelance writer and a survivor of the NYU program board, which trained him perfectly for the booking-by-committee atmosphere of ERMP. He writes fiction and nonfiction, edited the zine Eventide, and was co-owner of the now-defunct Your Best Guess Records.

JON HART is known to most as Punkrockjonhart, the only engineer on the Triboro Bridge who once roadied on the Warped Tour with the band All. After years of working on New York parklands with his job, Jon has adapted those finely-honed skills rather enthusiastically to his role in the ERMP.

LOLA PHONPADITH spends her 9 to 5 doing fashion PR, but her good taste extends beyond fashion to rock, and her booking input is invaluable. In her downtime, when not gutting fish or cultivating her backyard, she donates her PR skills to ERMP and other nonprofits.

ASHRITA REDDY has independently booked shows around Brooklyn and Manhattan and has worked record label jobs from Mammoth to Matador. A Florida native, Ashrita does her part with the ERMP to promote local NYC rock as to put her days with Mickey Mouse Club cast-members behind her.

ADDITIONAL KEY PLAYERS WHO ARE BIO-LESS AT PRESENT:
MAYSAN HAYDAR, SARA DEMPSEY, ANDREA WACHNER and SARAH NIERSBACH.

THE LEGAL TEAM:
QUINN HERATY / Heraty Law

SOUND:
JON HILTZ