Better Noise Music promotes Tim McLean Smith in Australia & NZ

Hard rock music and film company Better Noise Music has named Tim McLean Smith as label director and director of catalogue marketing for Australia and New Zealand, based in Sydney.

Smith, one time executive at Sony Music Australia, has more recently been label head at E7LG and CEO of TGMS where he managed music and sports events and consulted with rising talent in music and acting.

The Better Noise Music roster include Mötley Crüe (as distributor of Motley Records), Five Finger Death Punch, AWOLNATION, LA-based Adelaide band Atlas Genius, All That Remains, Hellyeah, In Flames, Hyro The Hero, Sixx AM, Tommy Lee, The Hu, Nelly Furtado and Papa Roach.

This year marks the 40^th anniversary of Mötley Crüe, and Better Noise will celebrate the event with special packages of music and merch yet to be announced.

Smith’s new role is part of a simultaneous wider range of hires and promotions across its global audiences covering social media, streaming, production, marketing and promotion.

“We are a strategic, forward-thinking company, and I am pleased to have a team with a wealth of knowledge and diverse set of skills to help drive that,” president Dan Waite said.

“These new additions bring another level of creativity and experience to move us through our exciting projects ahead while still keeping us focused on Better Noise Music’s founder Allen Kovac’s primary mission: artist development via data-driven engagement.”

Kovac is a record producer and artist manager who worked with Blondie, the Bee Gees and Mötley Crüe, and founded Better Noise in 2006 as Eleven Seven Music.

Last year Better Noise was the #1 label on the Mediabase Active Rock Chart for a third consecutive year, and ranked by Billboard as the #1 Mainstream Rock Label of 2020.

In recent years, Kovac produced the Netflix biopic The Dirt, based on the best-selling autobiography of Mötley Crüe, and the Hired Gun documentary about session and touring musicians hired by famous names like Metallica, KISS and Billy Joel.

Last year he launched Better Noise Films, with projects including Sno Babies about drug addition, horror-thriller The Retaliators, Nikki Sixx’s The Heroin Diaries and sci-fi adventure Perfect New World.