Pretty But Wicked Presents
“Pretty But Wicked” was founded in 2018 and is the moniker for Sammie Pearson. As “Pretty but Wicked” Sammie is an independent promoter who partners with event spaces and major venues to bring shows and provide creative, marketing, and artist liaison support. PBW prides itself on eclectic and intentional curation, compassionate artist-centered advocacy and hospitality, and executing everything in between to bring PBW’s special touch to events across Los Angeles and US.
Pretty But Wicked is rooted in uplifting underrepresented, non-mainstream emerging artists and bands with a focus on; gender and genre-bendy, alternative, avant-garde, experimental musical acts with memorable live performances. At PBW we believe music and parties are a radical act of rebellious togetherness. We are rooted in the DIY scene, the rave scene, and the punk scene.
And Always Forever Festival
Born with the intention to provide space for both the budding and the long-established musical pioneers of the shoegaze and electro-clash persuasion, And Always Forever is the moment to bask in the accumulated influences that have birthed this eclectic zeitgeist. Witness the reminiscent Swirlies, whose “Two Girls Kissing” is tattooed across the hearts of our collective adolescence. Between harmony and distortion stands Loveliescrushing, and beside them, chosen family Astrobite, blinking and purring among all things lovely.But like everything worthwhile, AAF is dissonant, fast and hard, sexy. It exhales a puff of smoke then inhales the breath of a nearby stranger to the sounds of Schwefelgelb and MGNA Crrrta. Electroclash juxtaposes the soft sparkle of shoegaze, the marriage of the two genres creating soundwaves mimicking death and rebirth, and gifting us with Croatian Amor, returning to the US ten years later on our stage. *tears* In the flurry of these clustered genres' modernities, there is the very intersection that has influenced genre innovators such as Touching Ice, Purest Form, Juggler, Urika’s Bedroom. All in the heart of Los Angeles, where select thousands worship shoegaze, techno, electroclash, and the flutters and pulses in between. Where we have been lucky to find each other. And Always Forever is a single-day love letter whose ink is the showcase of versatility and all-enveloping magic manifested within the artists on its stage. Join us for our inaugural year ;) November 8th, 2024.
INDUSTRY OFFERINGS
Selective booking + curation within the PBW brand
Consulting/ advising on strategic show decisions
Established industry relationships, venue partnerships, and sponsorship partnerships
Targeted marketing campaigns + customized promotion strategies + creative direction for marketing materials, street team, etc
Day of coordination + hospitality, show running
In-depth artist support, artist liaison
Full service event production when needed
Sourcing of quality DJs, photographers, merch sellers, and production when needed
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A
Alice Longyu Gao
Alison’s Halo
Auragraph
Automatic
Astrobrite
Aurat
AVALON
B
Bambina
Black Water Holy Light
The Berries
Bleached
Body of Light
Boan
Brutus VIII
Bugg
Bustie
C
Cecile Believe
CFCF
The C.I.A.
CLARITY
Cody Wyoming
Color Green
Cold Showers
Cosmonauts
Croatian Amor
Cryogeyser
Cupid & Psyche
cumgirl8
D
Dark Tea
Deathchant
DIIV
D.I.N
Diode
Dove Armitage
Downside
Draag
Dumb Fucks
Dummy
E
Eera
Empath
Earth Girl Helen Brown
Enemy
Entrance
Emily Yacina
Emily Rose & The Blue Rose Rounders
Ex Wiish
F
Fashion Club
Faux Real
FEELS
French Vanilla
Froth
G
Gal Pal
Geneva Jacuzzi
Gel Set
Gina Kuhn (DJ)
Girl Pusher
Gold Cage
Grave Flowers Bongo Band
Gunn
Gum Country
H
Habibi
High Functioning Flesh
Hooveriii
Holy Wave
I
IAN SWEET
Izzy Spears
J
Janelane
J.R.C.G.
Justus Profit
K
L
Launder
Lauren Early
Lionmilk
Los Bitchos
LUCY (Cooper B. Handy)
LustSickPuppy
M
Madeline Goldstein
Margo XS
Marbled Eye
Marie Davidson
MGNA Crrrta
Milly
Miserable
MMDA
Momma
MoodKiller
Moonily
Mother Mary
ML Buch
N
Nailah Hunter
Negashi Armada
Newboy
NIIS
NGHTCRWLR
No Swoon
Nuovo Testamento
Numb.er
O
Oog Bogo
Orchin
Okay Kaya
P
Panther Modern
Pangea
Pardoner
Part Time
The Paranoyds
Patriarchy
Pelada
Pearl and The Oysters
Perfection
Pink Trash Can
Pixel Grip
Purest Form
R
Raven Artson
Richard Rose
Riki
Rare DM
Reckling
Rolex
Rose Dorn
S
Safe Mind
Sam Austins
Sasami
Sedona
Schwefelgelb
Shana Sarett
Slugs
Smut
Sneaks
Soltera
Some Ember
Sour Widows
Somewhere Special
Spike Ellis
Stonefield
Swirlies
SurfBort
T
Traps PS
Tess Parks
Total Heat
Touching Ice
Trash World
U
The Umbrellas
Upchuck
Untitled Halo
Uni Boys
UNIITY
Urika’s Bedroom
V
Vinyl Williams
Versing
VOWWS
VR SEX
W
Warm Drag
X
Y
Your Angel
Young Jesus