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# QUICK HITS: Rounder founders return • Horus offers publishing • BandLab adds AI exec • Splice launches Create
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/quick-hits-rounder-founders-return-horus-offers-publishing-bandlab-adds-ai-exec-splice-launches-create/
- Published: 2023-10-13T13:48:42.000Z
- Updated: 2023-10-13T13:48:46.000Z
- Description: Exceleration Music has partnered with the founders of the legendary Rounder Records – Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, Bill Nowlin, and John Virant – on a new label. Down The. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/10/quick-hits-rounder-founders-return-horus-offers-publishing-bandlab
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Indie Music, Music Business, Music Tech, music, music industry, musician, musicians, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:44

**Exceleration Music** has partnered with the founders of the legendary **Rounder Records** – **Ken Irwin, Marian Leighton Levy, Bill Nowlin**, and **John Virant** – on a new label. **Down The Road** will launch with releases from **Tony Trischka** (including a single with Billy Strings), **Blue Highway**, and **Dervish**.

Exceleration recently purchased independent distributor **Redeye**, whose founders, **Glenn Dicker** and **Tor** **Hansen**, got their start at Rounder.

• Indie music distributor **Horus** has launched **Horus Music Publishing** as a “simple and easy platform where you can handle your distribution and publishing needs alongside our existing distribution service.”

Sister company **Anara Publishing** will continue to offer boutique music publishing services for a select roster while the new Horus Music Publishing is available to all artists, with no submission process required.

• **BandLab Technologies** has added **Drew Silverstein** as Senior Advisor, AI, Innovation, and Strategy, BandLab Technologies is the parent company of **Cakewalk, Airbit, ReverbNation**, and social music creation platform, **BandLab.**

In his new role, Silverstein will drive the company’s initiatives to empower creators with next-generation music-making technology. He joins with experience as the Co-founder and former CEO of Amper Music and former VP of Music at Shutterstock.

• Music creation platform **Splice** has expanded its AI capabilities with **Create**, which can generate sophisticated musical arrangements in seconds.

**Splice Sounds** is a library of loops and sounds featuring more than 300 instruments from 130+ unique genres of music. “The combination of Splice Sounds and Create delivers premium sonic building blocks that can lead to new creative exploration.”

**Bruce Houghton* is the Founder and Editor of [Hypebot](https://www.hypebot.com/), a Senior Advisor at [Bandsintown](https://www.bandsintown.com/?ref=hypebot.com), President of the[ Skyline Artists Agency](https://skylineonline.com/?ref=hypebot.com), and a [Berklee College Of Music](https://online.berklee.edu/courses/touring-101?ref=hypebot.com) professor.*