Music Marketing for LA Bands
Davy Agency builds release campaigns, music videos, brand identity, and creative direction for LA's independent artists. Not the major-label machine — the alternative, industrial, and indie acts who make records that don't sound like radio. We're Portland-based but we work with LA artists across every cycle.
What we do
LA is saturated with music marketing agencies. Most of them are working the major-label and commercial-pop side of the city. We're not for that.
We're for: the artists touring Echo, Echoplex, Zebulon, the Smell, Lodge Room. The indie labels working out of converted warehouses. The bands whose visual identity matters as much as the music.
Recent roster (touring through LA + working with LA-adjacent labels):
- A Place To Bury Strangers
- Bootblacks
- Pixel Grip
- fcukers
- Kevin Moan + The Howling
- Cold Waves bills
Services for LA artists
- Release campaigns — concept, content, paid, PR — $5K to $40K
- Music video production — single videos, multi-video album cycles
- Photography — press, album cover, EPK, lookbook
- Merch design + in-house screen printing — apparel, posters, vinyl jackets
- Artist Discovery — industry list of 8K+ A&Rs, sync supes, booking agents
How we work with LA artists
Remote-first execution. Brand work, web, paid ads, email, release calendar — all built and run remotely.
Travel for shoots. PDX → LAX is a 2-hour flight. Photography day, music video shoot, or label meeting — fly down, shoot, fly back. We bring our own gear and crew.
LA studio rentals + locations. When you need a specific look (industrial East-LA warehouse, Highland Park bungalow, beach exterior), we book the location. Our crew flies in.
What we don't do
We don't take on major-label commercial pop, country, or radio rap. The kind of marketing the big LA agencies do — synced TV placements, festival sponsorship deals, programmatic ad spends with $50K minimums — isn't us. We're indie-scale, full-stack, and the artists we work with want creative that doesn't read like every other release.
Pricing
2026 Release Campaign Pricing Guide $5K / $15K / $40K tiers. Sample timelines. Real case-study numbers. Travel quoted separately as actual pass-through.
LA scenes we know
Echo Park / Highland Park / DTLA arts district / Eagle Rock / Glendale industrial corridors. The basement DIY rooms, the converted-warehouse residencies. Cold Waves, Substance, the goth-industrial circuit when it travels through.
Want to talk?
Book a 15-min call Capabilities Refer an LA band, earn 10%
Davy Agency · Portland, OR · serving LA artists, labels, and managers.