- Dan Oestreich has launched Superglue Music, a new artist management and touring company, after 20 years working nearly every side of New York's punk and hardcore scene.
- The company, quietly established in 2025, publicly debuted this week with two divisions: management and Superglue Touring.
- Management roster: Tim Heidecker, Angel Du$t, Dillinger Four, Home Front, Poison Ruïn, Béton Armé, and STERÖID.
- Touring roster: Gorilla Biscuits, Cold World, Bold, CIV, Dark Thoughts, Judge, and Straight Ahead.
- Greg Benedetto (Not Dead Yet) and agent John Scanlon co-lead the touring division; Holly Cartwright joins as General Manager.
Dan Oestreich, a two-decade fixture of New York’s punk and hardcore community, has launched Superglue Music, a new artist management and touring company based in New York and Toronto. The company was quietly established in 2025 and made its public debut this week.
Oestreich’s résumé spans nearly every corner of the independent music business. He’s promoted hundreds of shows, co-owned the now-shuttered Brooklyn venue The Acheron, partnered in a van-and-backline rental company, and served as production manager at Saint Vitus from 2018 to 2023.
He spent five years at Another Management Company, working with artists including Mdou Moctar, Snail Mail, Chelsea Wolfe, and Tim Heidecker.
Superglue’s management roster launches with Heidecker, Angel Du$t, Dillinger Four, Home Front, Poison Ruïn, Béton Armé and STERÖID. Its booking arm, Superglue Touring, represents Gorilla Biscuits, Cold World, Bold, CIV, Dark Thoughts, Judge and Straight Ahead.
That division is co-led by Toronto promoter Greg Benedetto of Not Dead Yet and New York agent John Scanlon, who brings his own hardcore booking roster into the fold.
Holly Cartwright, most recently of New Community Management and previously of Level Group and Another Management Company, joins as General Manager.
“The artists I work with aren’t just clients; they’re people I’ve known, respected and believed in for years,” Oestreich said in a statement announcing the launch, adding that Superglue is about applying two decades of lessons toward helping artists build sustainable careers.
Superglue arrives amid a broader wave of independent management startups this year. In June, publicist Jennie Church-Cooper launched Hello Sailor Media Management, and tour veteran Michael Bryan started Southern Drift.
Superglue joins that momentum, but with a roster built almost entirely from relationships Oestreich has cultivated over 20 years rather than a wave of cold signings.
Takeaways
Superglue isn’t a story about outside capital chasing hardcore’s growing festival economy; it’s a founder converting two decades of trust into a company.
That’s notable in a year where several new management shops have launched from operators who built relationships long before they built a letterhead, echoing the trajectories of ventures like Hello Sailor and Southern Drift.
Heidecker’s move from New Community Management is the clearest signal of how personal these relationships are: he’s essentially following Oestreich and Cartwright, not the brand name on the door.
Will Superglue’s roster stay rooted in punk/hardcore, or expand into adjacent genres the way Heidecker’s comedy-and-music career already does? Could Not Dead Yet’s Toronto festival ties give Superglue an edge in cross-border booking?
