Fresh Ink: The Black Keys Join Vector Management, Jon Bellion Teams Up With Make Wake

ROSTR & NIF track thousands of artist signings every year - Fresh Ink helps you keep track of some of the highlights over the past week. Let's dive into some of the signings you should know about in this week's edition.

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GRAMMY award-winning rock group The Black Keys, who were previously with Red Light Management, have now joined Jason Murray at Vector Management. The duo just dropped their most recent album Peaches! via Warner Records in coordination with a six-month haul across NA & EU for tour dates with support from the likes of Miles Kane, Fai Laci, Eddie 9V & more.

Make Wake Artists has signed Jon Bellion for management, with Founder Chris Kappy - alongside Bellion's longtime collaborators Louis Coppola and Matt Maschi - heading up the deal. The GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter-producer behind Justin Bieber's 'Holy,' 'Girls' with The Kid LAROI, and the official 2026 FIFA World Cup song 'Dai Dai' heads into a Hollywood Bowl headline date in September with 4.7B career streams behind him.

ACM new male artist of the year Tucker Wetmore has tapped Sandbox Entertainment Founder/CEO Jason Owen as his new manager. Wetmore's debut What Not To hit No. 4 on Top Country Albums and No. 15 on the Billboard 200, anchored by four charting singles including first No. 1 'Brunette'; he kicked off the Brunette World Tour's second leg June 21, joining a Sandbox roster that includes Billie Eilish, Kacey Musgraves, and Kelsea Ballerini.

Southern rock & blues artist Marcus King has now landed with new managers Nick Palmacci, Andrew McInnes & Kyle Wilensky of TMWRK. Currently headlining his Waltz Across Texas tour and fresh off a CMA Fest appearance, King recently joined Dan Auerbach at Easy Eye Sound to re-create Gregg Allman's iconic 1981 TV performance of 'Come and Go Blues' - a nod to the blues lineage he's fast becoming custodian of.

Bilingual indie rock duo feel trip. has signed with Boom.Records and Jbeau Lewis & Carlos Abreu at UTA for booking worldwide, a year after forming. Juan Mallorca and Joseph Zapinski built the project around a single question - "What if The Strokes sang in Spanish?" - and their social-media-driven rise quickly turned a side experiment into a full-force pursuit.

British afro-swing artist Kojo Funds has signed a global partnership deal with Amuse which will see them providing funding and full-service strategic support while still releasing independently. The East London artist, a defining voice in UK afro-swing with cuts including 'Fine Wine,' 'Dun Talkin,' and 'Warning,' marks a decade since his first releases helped break the genre; the deal supports his forthcoming EP Hello It's Me Again.

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