Side Hustle
How to find auxiliary jobs that expand your music career. Make ends meet while adding relevant skills, expanding your network, and developing yourself as an artist.
Wednesday, April 10th at 1:30 p.m. — Love Song Bar
Panelists
Wednesday, April 10th at 1:30 p.m. — Love Song Bar
Panelists
Singer / Producer / Multi-instrumentalist
St. Panther's debut EP ‘These Days' (released in 2020 via Ricky Reed’s Nice Life Recording Company & Nate Mercereau’s How So Records) has garnered support from radio, sync, and DSPs. Humbly beginning to receive nods from the likes of Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhmmad of A Tribe Called Quest, they closed out 2020 as KCRW's Best New Artist and included in the lineup of LA Times “50 best songs of 2020”. Their debut single “Infrastructure” went on to become the lead single for the Insecure HBO’s Season 4 Soundtrack. St. Panther's music can since be heard in episodes of The L Word, And Just Like That, Gossip Girl, Genera+ion, Harlem, Slip, and across campaigns for Apple Keynote, Amazon Music (receiving billboards in Times Square & Beverly Center), Journeys, and on the runway opening Givenchy's Womenswear Fall Winter 2023 show.
Low End Theory Founder
Elvin Estela, better known by his stage name Nobody, is an American hip-hop producer and was a resident DJ and co-founder of Low End Theory. He has collaborated with 2Mex, Abstract Rude, Freestyle Fellowship, Busdriver, and Mystic Chords of Memory. In addition to his musical career, he is a successful full-time mortgage consultant based in Los Angeles.
Musician / Event Producer Zebulon
Emily Rose is an LA musician and event producer- known for curating both new and legend-status acts in the indie, folk, blues, and country scenes. Having booked for The Ford, Zebulon, and The Love Song Bar- Emily is known for cultivating communities and producing shows that truly exhibit LA's DIY spirit. She also plays in her band- Emily Rose & The Rounders, which can be seen playing throughout the city's ever expanding country stages.
Performer / Producer / Composer
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith is a classically-trained American composer, performer, and producer from the Pacific Northwest. Her music is a form of auditory interpretation, powered by curiosity and her toolkit of modular, analogue, and rare synthesizers (including her signature Buchla), orchestral textures, and voice. Since her first self-releases in 2012, she has explored the endless possibilities of electronic instruments and the relationship between sound, shape, color, body movement, and expression. Spanning releases on Western Vinyl, RVNG Intl., Ghostly International, and her own multidisciplinary project, Touchtheplants, her work has drawn acclaim from all reaches of the experimental music world, including NPR, The New York Times, The Wire, and Rolling Stone. The latter named Smith’s 2017 LP The Kid their avant-garde album of the year. Her collaborations include projects with Danny Elfman, Emile Mosseri, Suzanne Ciani, and commissions for Apple, BBC Orchestra, Epcot Center, Google, and others.
Artist De Lux
Sean Guerin is 1/2 of the band De Lux. From Los Angeles, concocting a mix of new wave, disco, punk and funk. Debuted with their first album Voyage in 2014 which landed them spots at festivals such as Coachella, Bonnaroo, Best Kept Secret and more. Since then have released 4 albums on the local label Innovative Leisure