Tim Devine is an award-winning news and editorial writer, as well as a former music, entertainment and technology executive and a Political Science and Media graduate from the University of California, Berkeley. In his music career he has signed such gold and platimum artists as Katy Perry, Bonnie Raitt, Brandi Carlile, Blind Melon, Mazzy Star, Switchfoot and Train and worked with Paul McCartney, the Beastie Boys and produced or co-produced over a dozen major motion picture soundtracks from Rainman to Clueless. As a journalist he has written for Rolling Stone, Billboard, the LA Free Press and the Los Angeles Times. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lynn.