Jamie Coletta’s “boutique PR and music consulting company” No Earbuds turns 5 this year, and they’re celebrating with the first-ever No Earbuds Fest on June 15 at The Glasshouse in Pomona, CA. The lineup includes glass beach, We Are The Union, Jhariah, Dollar Signs, Teens In Trouble, JR Slayer (aka The Blood Brothers’ Cody Votolato), La Fonda, and more TBA. Tickets are on presale now, and the general public on-sale begins Friday (3/29) at 9 AM Pacific (noon Eastern).
For more on No Earbuds, here’s an excerpt of their bio by Luke Ottenhof:
Jamie Coletta started No Earbuds five years ago. You could quickly describe it as a boutique public relations and consulting powerhouse, but it’s much more than that, because Jamie Coletta is much more than just a publicist. She’s her artists’ biggest fan.
Over the last decade, she has helped break careers for Jeff Rosenstock, PUP, Microwave, Bartees Strange, and a long list of successful and venerated independent artists and bands—like The Wonder Years, Foxing, Oso Oso, Circa Survive, Thursday, Prince Daddy and the Hyena, Softcult, Pool Kids, Cheekface, glass beach, and more— have since trusted No Earbuds to promote their work and get it in front of people who care. Because Coletta cares, and she makes a point of connecting with other people who care, too.
Caring works: thanks to Coletta’s approach, her clients have received widespread media coverage with influential music publications like Rolling Stone, SPIN, Stereogum, Consequence, Alternative Press, and more; garnered Best New Music nods and feature profiles from Pitchfork; booked slots on Late Night with Seth Meyers, KEXP, Audiotree and NPR’s Tiny Desk; grown from local openers to headlining their own tours; and even helped get artists signed to labels and publishing deals. In 2021, BrooklynVegan wrote “Jamie Coletta dedicate her life to hyping up awesome musicians, no matter how big or small.” Endless Scroll called her “music’s cheerleader.”
Coletta has built No Earbuds into a flexible, one-stop shop for independent, creative underdogs, offering marketing, publicity, consulting, and virtually whatever other service or help an independent musician might need. She describes No Earbuds as a “support system” for artists figuring out how to tell their story, navigate the music industry, and do it all in a way that’s strategic, smart, and sticks to their own principles and values.
[…] “At the end of the day, I’m still just a fan,” [Coletta] says, “and I haven’t let it kill me yet.”
Read more here and stay tuned for more on No Earbuds Fest.
