Ilka Pardiñas 

¥ Public Relations Consultant, Owner, Fly PR, Los Angeles, California .

Handling public relations and consultation to music and entertainment accounts for regional, national, and international consumer press, as well as trade press with special emphasis on grassroots publicity. Creating print media foundations for up and coming music acts and labels, expanding visibility and overall industry credibility. Working with known acts on releases, tour press and projects. 

Retainer and project accounts:

Queen of Silverlake Pageant (Silverlake Chamber of Commerce): Susan and The SurfTones; The Briefs (Interscope); Lost Goat, Boulder, Hermano (Tee Pee); Crosstops, Nearvana V/A comp. (Tinnitus); David Bridie (Nettwerk America); Vinnie Santino (Pacific Force); The Hangmen, The SuperBees (Acetate); Ophelia Rising (ORP); Electric Wizard, The Sabians, Supersuckers/Electric Frankenstein, Brant Bjork, Codeseven, Mammoth Volume, Sea of Green, Orange Goblin, sHEAVY, all releases and label (The Music Cartel); Slojack (SilverLake); Frank Lenz (Northern); Variac (Rustbelt); Girly Freak Show featuring Slymenstra Hyman of GWAR; Toilet Boys (Masterplan); The Dragons, Texas Terri + The Stiff Ones, B-Movie Rats (Junk); Hector Zazou-Sandy Dillon (First World); Plea For Peace/Take Action Tour featuring Hot Water Music-Alkaline Trio-Cave in and more (Hopeless/Sub City, Asian Man); Emissions Festival (Tone Deaf); Stoner Hands of Doom Festival (SHOD); EC8OR (Digital Hardcore); The Living End (Reprise/Warner Bros.); Stretch Arm Strong, Zao, Living Sacrifice (Solid State); Stinking Lizaveta, Spirit Caravan, The Obsessed, Dead Meadow (Tolotta); Eyehategod (Century Media); Fireball Ministry, Fivehorse Johnson, Halfway To Gone, etc. (Small Stone Records); Nocturne, Gene Loves Jezebel (Triple X); smoother (Nettwerk America); Buckfast Superbee (Walking); elliott (Revelation); eX-Girl, The Lucky Stars (Ipecac Recordings); Backyard Babies (Scooch Pooch); Critters Buggin (Loosegroove); Chevelle (Squint Entertainment); Revelation: Book II (Which?); davis waits (Underhill); Snake Charmers, Heads Will Roll CD, Let's Go Bowling (The Trust Label Group: Liberation and Sonic Tone Records); Sub City/Hopeless Records Launch; Jason Rubenstein (Gearhead); Chevelle (Squint Entertainment); earthlings? (Crippled Dick Hot Wax); 17 Reasons Why, Xing, Sharon America (Laundry Room Records); Knowledge (Asian Man); Doppelganger (Radio  Mafia); Abby Travis Foundation (YSLANWAP Records); World Artists For Tibet: Human Rights Months at Sta. Monica Museum of Art; Space Adventure Cobra, Tekkaman series, The Professional (Urban Vision, Japanimation); Ska Against Racism Tour (Asian Man/Moon Ska/Tahoe Agency); LA Independent Film Festival and SXSW Promotions (Moon Ska Records); The Toasters, Bang Soundtrack, Bad Manners, Let's Go Bowling, Scofflaws, Isaac Green and the Skalars, Skavoovie and the Epitones (Moon Ska Records); Dissidenten (Exil Music); Blue Meanies, Commander Venus (Thick Records); Big Six (Hepcat Records); Texas Terri and the Stiffones (Burning Tree); Goatsnake (Man's Ruin/Prosthetic); Shine, Spirit Caravan (Tolotta Records); Go! Dog! Go! (Risk Records); Salmon (Red Ant Records); Sages Of Memphis (MT/Dead On Records); Bobsled (Tacklebox/Cargo Records); Brutal Juice (Interscope Records); Automatic Head Detonator (Lo-Fi Records/Sony Music Publishing); M.C. Schneeberger (Producer/Audio Engineer); Chester Copperpot, The Wedding Present (Manifesto Records); Kreator (Noise Records); Jud (Nois-o-lution, Germany); The Walkabouts (Creativeman/Cargo Records); Amorphis, Exit-13 (Relapse); The Obsessed (Hellhound/Columbia); Rene Cigler, Tank Girl, The Movie (MGM/UA) August 1994 - Present.  

¥ Director, Contemporary Communications, Los Angeles, California.

Public Relations consultation to music, film, and video accounts for trade and national and international consumer press. Primary responsibility for grassroots coverage in genre-specific publications, regional press, fanzines, and college papers as part of over-all, image-building campaigns for labels, groups and product. 

Company's retainer and project accounts included: A*Vision Entertainment Inc.; Atico Records (Tidal Force); Body Vision (Tammy Lee Webb); FRE Records (April Wine); Mann-Made Records; MusicSource U.S.A. Inc. (NASDAQ: MUSE); Relapse/NBA (Pungent Stench); Skydoor Records; Streamline Pictures; and the Women's Image Network. June 1993 - July 1994. 

¥ Independent freelance publicist, S.R.O. Marketing, Los Angeles, California.

Working with signed and unsigned acts to develop press packages and build a promotional foundation. February 1993 - August 1994. 

¥ Agency Assistant, E-Talent International, a music booking agency, Los Angeles, California.

Assisted three booking agents (head agent Bruce Eisenberg), coordinating all booked dates, tracking ticket sales, and serving as office manager. June 1992 - January 1993. 

¥ Director, Public Relations, Star Communications, a promotion and management division of the New Renaissance and Colossal labels, Los Angeles, CA.

Held primary responsibility for generating media coverage of approximately 50 bands. Oversaw staff of three. September 1991 - June 1992.