Allison Crutchfield is best known as a musician, both under her own name and with the bands P.S. Eliot, Swearin‘ and Snocaps. But seven years ago, she began working at the indie label ANTI- Records, where she headed the A&R department and signed artists including MJ Lenderman, Death Cab For Cutie, The Beths and Waxahatchee, the recording project of her twin sister (and P.S. Eliot and Snocaps bandmate), Katie.
Today (May 1), Another Management Company, the boutique management firm that’s home to artists including Kurt Vile, Waxahatchee and Alvvays, announced Crutchfield’s next chapter as an artist manager for the company.
“I wound up being at [ANTI-] for so long and having such a great run there, and really loving it,” Crutchfield says, but “a couple years ago, I really started to think about, just spiritually, what I loved about that work. And I feel like [it was] the advocacy for artists element. I realized at a certain point that the best way for me to get to really tune in to that part of the work, to really get to advocate for the artists that I work with, was to move over to the management side. I’ve been ambiently thinking about that for years.”
Rennie Jaffe and Eric Dimenstein founded AMC in 2017, and Crutchfield’s relationship with them goes back even further than that, through their work with Waxahatchee via Ground Control Touring, the agency co-founded by Dimenstein that has represented both Crutchfield sisters throughout their careers.
“Eric has been such a guiding light for both of us, Katie and me,” Crutchfield says. “I trust them so much, I feel so aligned with them, the way that they interface with the rest of the business, that it was a no-brainer that [AMC] is where I would want to go.”
Based in Los Angeles, Crutchfield will immediately begin co-managing AMC clients Twisted Teens, Brennan Wedl and Ryan Davis, three rising indie artists whose careers she is excited to guide under what she describes as the firm’s “inherent bird’s-eye view approach.”
“[AMC] really wants to grow with their artists’ careers; they really want to build sustainability for them,” she explains. “They really care about their artists’ longevity and lives as humans. That’s something I know firsthand working with them — they’re really focused on just development, which is the thing that is the most exciting to me about being in the business, just being someone who can help advocate and support artists.”
As for what this means for Crutchfield’s career as an artist: “To be determined.” She most recently hit the road in late 2025 with Snocaps, her supergroup with Katie, Lenderman and Brad Cook, for a short tour in support of its surprise album from last year. “I would love to do another Snocaps record; I think we all would,” she says, though she notes that the easygoing, limited-engagement aspect of the Snocaps campaign is part of what made it so fun — and that she and her three bandmates have such busy schedules that getting those stars to align again would be tough.
“As things pop up, we’ll see. It was always tricky for me to write and work on music as an A&R, and I feel like that will remain true as a manager,” she admits. “It’s not that I don’t miss it. I just find this work more fulfilling, and it’s something that feels a little more exciting for me at this point in my life.”
Plus, she says, her perspective as someone with an artist background “has always been a little bit of a superpower” when it comes to her ability to advise active artists.
Crutchfield’s hiring wasn’t the only personnel addition AMC announced Friday. The firm is also adding Hannah McElroy as a Nashville-based day-to-day manager, where she will support clients including Youth Lagoon and Twisted Teens. McElroy previously logged time as a digital strategist at Venture Music and iHeartMedia, and she started her management career at Left Right Management.
“Joining AMC feels like a really natural next step for me,” McElroy said in a statement. “I’ve always been a fan of the way they support and develop their artists, and I’m excited to bring my experience across artist management and digital strategy, as well as a perspective shaped by years in Nashville’s music community, into such a creatively aligned environment.”
