Billig Rich was the musical supervisor of Netflix's 2016 film, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead,[2] and the documentary STEP from Fox Searchlight released in Summer 2017, and more recently the series "Surviving Death," "Sisters on Track" and "Found.
[7] After Caroline, she worked at Gold Mountain Entertainment, where she managed Nirvana,[5] The Breeders,[5] The Lemonheads,[1] Hole,[6] Walt Mink,[8] and Dinosaur Jr.[7] She became the youngest senior executive at Atlantic Records in the mid-1990s,[9] where she developed artists such as Sugar Ray, Matchbox 20, and Jewel.
[6] After joining the Manhattan-based Gold Mountain Entertainment in the early 1990s, she served as a manager for bands such as Hole,[6] Nirvana,[6] The Breeders,[6] The Lemonheads,[1] Walt Mink,[8] and Dinosaur Jr.[7] In 1995, New York Magazine named her one of the "100 Smartest New Yorkers.
[9] While at Atlantic as VP for a year, she ran the A&R department and helped develop artists such as Sugar Ray, Matchbox 20, and Jewel,[7] and by 2000 she was running her own music management company in New York City, with clients including Bijou Phillips, T-Bone Burnett, and Lisa Loeb.
[12][13] Beginning in 1986, Billig Rich served as publicist and manager for a slew of America's leading rock bands, including Pussy Galore, Primus, White Zombie,[7] Smashing Pumpkins, and Hole, during her three-year tenure.
In 1989, Billig Rich joined the team of Gold Mountain Entertainment, founded just six years prior by Ron Stone, Danny Goldberg, and Burt Stein, and later with John Silva as partner.
she has worked extensively with roster artists like Lisa Loeb, Courtney Love, Hole, Guided By Voices, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Kim Deal, Cibo Matto, and a number of others.
[7][17] Billig Rich has also provided music clearance for movies such as "Knuckleball!," "Rock of Ages," "Jiro Dreams of Sushi," Adam Duritz's "Freeloaders," Steven Cantor-directed films "Twyla Moves," "Dancer," "Ballet Now," and "Reporter," as well as a number of TV series, such as 10 episodes of NBC's "Perfect Harmony," "Hood River," The Fashionista Diaries, 12 episodes of Kimora: Life in the Fab Lane.
Working with producer Matt Weaver, Billig Rich was the music supervisor of the 2016 Netflix documentary, I'll Sleep When I'm Dead, the story of DJ Aoki.
[2] In addition, she was the music supervisor for the Amanda Lipitz-directed documentary film, STEP, featured at Sundance in January 2017, and subsequently sold to Fox Searchlight for distribution.
Around 2003, Matt Weaver asked Billig Rich[19][20] and a number of collaborators to help him develop and pitch the concept of a musical based on 1980s rock hits.
[10][9] Billig Rich is Executive Producer of the film version of Rock of Ages, which was released in June 2012 and stars Tom Cruise, Alec Baldwin, and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
[21] In 2020, Billig Rich helped launch Los Angeles' The Bourbon Room, an all-new, specially-built 4,000-square-foot completely immersive performance venue, with bar and restaurant, which serves as the permanent home of Rock of Ages Hollywood.