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Maelstrom Music PR is a music publicity firm based in Seal Beach, California. Founded in 1998 by A&R and publicity veteran Curtis Smith, the firm specializes in music placement, song plugging, online music marketing, public relations, and music A&R. They work almost exclusively with independent record labels and musicians, such as Matt Farr and Wild Carrot.

Overview
In October of 1998, Curtis Smith decided to leave his A&R / publicity work at labels such as Interscope Records to work on publicity for independent bands. He founded Maelstrom Music PR and began running the company full time. They have recently grown into a source for A&R representatives from record labels, also working as a network of booking agents, band managers, radio promoters, manufacturers, and distributors. They specialize in music placement, song plugging, online music marketing, public relations, and music A&R.

Ron Laureano, a public relations graduate of California State University, Fullerton, also works at the firm.

Location
The company is located at Seal Beach, California in the greater Los Angeles area.

Clients
The company promotes music labels and musicians of all genres. Current clients include the thrash metal band K626, Detroit nerdcore hip-hop group Sample The Martian, , 2Mile (the band creation of Jeremy Kerns), the musician Magic Brook, and singer-songwriter Matt Farr for Farr's 2010 album. They've also handled publicity for the musician Veneto West, Deb Cowan, Wild Carrot, Oklahoma artist Malan Darras, producer Ronan Chris Murphy, the rock, punk, and metal band named SiX, and the band Voodoo Monkey Child on Little Pond Records. Further clients have included Dust Recordings, an independent record company in Morton, IL, Little Pond Records, Travis Manning, Chris "Willie" Williams (i.e. Disclaimer), Roger Len Smith, Brett Johnson, Kingfield/ Blue Worm Records, Kelly Moore of Awaken Records, Todd Walthall (President of Galco Music Group), Emaximus, Alyssa Suede Campbell, and Patrick Cornell of Circus Diablo.

They handled public relations for contemporary folk musician and composer Kelly Moore. Moore also helps run the non-profit organization "Music for Mankind" and was selected in 2009 to be a United States Delegate to Peru.