Paul Cashmere
Paul Cashmere is a music journalist and media executive who leads Noise11 as its executive producer and CEO. He focuses on music news and artist interviews that track both new releases and the long arc of musicians’ careers, linking day-to-day announcements to the wider stories behind the artists. His coverage centres on rock and pop, with a strong emphasis on veteran performers, archival projects and live touring.
Release news for global pop and rock acts
Cashmere covers new singles, videos and campaigns with a news-first approach, detailing what has been released, how it fits into an artist’s catalogue, and where fans can find it. In his story on Katy Perry’s “Watch It Burn,” he frames the song within a fiery new visual chapter that completes the Bandaids story arc, showing how he treats individual tracks as episodes in a broader narrative rather than isolated drops. His archive includes pieces on Prince uploading the song “Same Page Different Book” to YouTube, highlighting both the track and the decision to share it directly with fans via digital platforms. He reports when Stan Ridgway offers four free songs through the Metropolis Touring website, foregrounding the mechanics of distribution and fan access alongside the artist’s name.
Touring and live schedules are a recurring thread in his release coverage. Cashmere writes on Neil Young’s Archives website documenting a Love Earth tour featuring 11 live shows, connecting new performances to the artist’s long-running archival project. He covers Mark Seymour’s latest release in tandem with the Red Hot Summer Tour, blending song news with the realities of the live circuit. Articles on initiatives such as Joseph Wooten hosting the Opening Act Competition for the We Can Survive concert show his interest in how opportunities around major events are structured and promoted. Across these stories, he keeps the format tight and factual, focusing on dates, platforms, and the role each release or tour plays in the ongoing story of the artist.
Interviews and deep artist conversations
Alongside news pieces, Cashmere conducts interviews that give artists room to explain their work and careers in their own words. In a Noise11 interview with David Duchovny, he talks through Duchovny’s music, acting and books, exploring how different strands of his creative life fit together. He hosts Isabella Manfredi for her first Noise11 interview, marking ten years since the release of Blue Planet Eyes and using the anniversary to look back over her trajectory and the album’s legacy. Earlier in his career he spoke with Brian Wilson, an interview now preserved in the Noise11 archives, which underlines the long-standing nature of his relationships with major figures in rock.
These conversations tend to situate current projects—albums, tours, books or crossovers—within a broader personal and artistic narrative. An Instagram post from a musician describing his work as an “incredibly thoughtful feature” and calling him a well-respected music journalist at Noise11 reinforces that his interview pieces are valued for depth as well as exposure. The mix of high-profile international names and long-term recording artists shows that his interview beat extends across generations and genres, always anchored in how the music is made and how careers evolve around it.
Archival perspective and legacy coverage
Cashmere’s reporting often looks beyond immediate headlines to the archival and historical dimensions of music. He writes about Neil Young opening his entire music and film archive to the people of Greenland for free, emphasizing access to past work and the artist’s relationship with his catalogue. In another piece he covers a recording that has never been released or leaked and exists only in the archives of Abbey Road Studios, highlighting the tension between official history and the material that remains out of public view.
Tribute and remembrance features sit within the same frame. A Facebook post thanking Paul Cashmere and Noise11 in the context of a tribute to Paul Hester points to his role in marking anniversaries and memorials for significant musicians. His long-running work with archival interviews, unreleased recordings and legacy projects gives Noise11 a continuity that spans decades, and his news pieces frequently draw on that context even when they are reporting on current releases or tours.
Leadership role and editorial focus at Noise11
Cashmere co-founds The Noise Network, which includes Noise11, and continues to serve as CEO and executive producer while maintaining an active writing and interviewing schedule. That dual role means his journalism sits close to the editorial direction of the masthead: a steady stream of concise music news items supported by deeper interviews and archival stories. The repeated credit “executive producer and CEO of Noise11” across his author archives underlines that he is both a key voice and a central decision-maker for the outlet.
His body of work shows a consistent focus on rock and pop artists with substantial histories, from Neil Young and Brian Wilson to Mark Seymour and other long-running performers, alongside coverage of globally recognised contemporary acts such as Katy Perry. Whether he is announcing a new single, unpacking a tour, or revisiting material from an archive, Cashmere writes in a direct, news-oriented style that privileges clear facts and the long view of an artist’s career over commentary or critique. That combination of current updates, deep catalogue awareness and sustained interview work is what distinguishes his coverage within the music beat.
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