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Force Field PR Turns 10 Years Old! Celebrate w/ 2 Events in LA!

  • December 30, 2015
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Los Angeles based boutique publicity firm Force Field PR will celebrate its 10th Anniversary in March with two events in LA and NYC. The first will take place on March 3 at Baby’s All Right (tickets avail. here) and the second on March 12 at The Echo & Echoplex in Los Angeles (tickets avail. here). The line-ups for both of these events will be announced at a later date, but you can check here for some clues as to who might be performing. The events will feature live sets from several past and present Force Field artists as well as DJ sets, collaborations and surprise special guests. 

Force Field PR was started by Daniel Gill out of his home in the Highland Park neighborhood of Los Angeles in March of 2006. Eventually the company shared office space with Stones Throw Records, another Highland Park mainstay, and is now sharing space with the Friends of Friends label. The company has become known for discovering and breaking new talent, the list of artists whose careers have been launched by working with Force Field is somewhat staggering for a company that has never had more than eight people on staff. Here’s an abbreviated list of artists Force Field has had the pleasure of working with: Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Toro y Moi, Ariel Pink, Real Estate, Dan Deacon, St. Vincent, Dirty Projectors, Ty Segall, Neon Indian, YACHT, Panda Bear, Tune-Yards, White Fence, Youth Lagoon, Wild Nothing, Lightning Bolt, John Maus, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Beach Fossils, Tennis, Wavves, Joanna Gruesome, Screaming Females, Woods, Deer Tick, Cloud Nothings, Lord Huron, Yuck, Chelsea Wolfe, Lone, The Avett Brothers, Langhorne Slim, WHY?, Vivian Girls, The Blow, Wax Idols, Field Music, Craft Spells, Smith Westerns, Cate Le Bon, Ducktails, Little Wings, Dent May, Mount Eerie, Black Dice, Wolf Eyes, TOBACCO, La Sera, Frankie Rose, Tony Molina, Willis Earl Beal, Diane Coffee, Kevin Morby, Anamanaguchi, Bully, Vetiver, Blitzen Trapper, Papercuts, Max Tundra, Telefon Tel Aviv, Rodrigo Amarante, Reigning Sound, Young Galaxy, Fresh & Onlys, Generationals, Painted Palms, Sonny & The Sunsets, Nite Jewel, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Lower Dens, Weekend, Bowerbirds, Black Bananas, White Reaper, Frog Eyes, Crystal Stilts, Widowspeak, Thee Oh Sees, I Break Horses and many, many more. A few other artists that have worked with Force Field at later points in their career or on reissue campaigns include The Jesus and Mary Chain, Daniel Johnston, Marianne Faithfull, Young Marble Giants, Sebadoh, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Big Star, Danielson, Cap’n Jazz, Swirlies, The Ocean Blue, Josef K, etc.                

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Chris Ryan is an accomplished promoter, event planner, producer, activist, counselor, poet and blogger. Within the course of two and a half years Chris Ryan has worked with some of NYC's most established promoters/event planners, been named 2007′s GaySocialite of the year, granted a promoter of the year award from NYC's most famous gay establishment, Splash. He's worked in some of NYC's top venues including; Avalon, Capitale, Cipriani, Cielo, Pacha, Element, Le Poisson Rouge, XL, G Lounge, Plumm, Hilton Hotel, Indigo Hotel, Spirit, Myst/Quo, Splash, The Ritz, Vlada, Roseland Ballroom, Heaven, etc. In 2008, Chris Ryan has begun to unveil some of the most innovative & unique parties New York City has ever seen. The Fusion events "fuse" together all disciplines of art into an event that remains diverse yet cohesive at the same time. ChrisRyanNYC.com won best gay promotions website from NYC Event Patrons in 2008 & he was granted an award from the Jim Owles Liberal Democratic Club, Gov. Patterson & Michelle Clunie (QAF) saluting him for his hard work in nightlife. Chris Ryan has also begun working with many renown companies, including; doctors, lawyers, physicians, modeling agencies & more. Chris Ryan has been responsible for wide-scale promotions for all these companies & generating tremendous business. Chris Ryan has even started to become National with events taking place in LA & Miami this year. In May of 2009 Chris Ryan received the very prestigious honor of being named a "40 Under 40″ Gays in America by the Advocate Magazine. He also created three successful parties that generated over 1,500 patrons each. In January of 2010 Chris Ryan was featured as one of the top promoters to look out for in Noize Magazine Chris Ryan joined forces with legendary promoter/event producer, Lee Chappell and created one of the most talked about events of all 2010, Desire @ Capitale. Chris Ryan and Lee featured one of the most outstanding artists NYC has ever seen, "Oh Land." Her performance coupled with an exquisite and unforgettable set design added to this extravagant event that held over 1,000 patrons in one of NYC's most successful PRIDE events! Chris Ryan then joined forces with legendary Pacha promoter, Rob Fernandez in addition to Jake Resnicow and Tommy Marinelli to bring one of the largest and most successful parties worldwide to NYC, MATINEE. The event on Governor's Island saw over 2,000+ attendees and one of the most ambitious productions ever. In 2011 Chris Ryan started Emerge Music Promotions with business partner Darren Melchiorre. Emerge Music promotions began signing artists with plans to develop and market the artists to the community at large. Emerge Music promotions has big events planned for 2012 and 2013. Chris Ryan debuted the IMAGE events which took place on top of two of NYC's most beautiful rooftop venues, Rare View and Indigo Hotel. The events were blogged everywhere and featured the fashion designs of several clothing designers, artists and photographers. Chris Ryan felt that fashion and art should be displayed at every event and attracted the likes of Malan Breton, Calvin Klein and even Katy Perry. Chris Ryan began an extremely successful event which incorporated the concept of a house party into a nightclub atmosphere. The event Twist'D at G Lounge has been one of the most talked about events in NYC and allows it's audience to play nearly-naked Twister, beer pong, flip cup & more with other attendees. Chris Ryan was granted an excellence in volunteering award from AVP (Anti-Violence Project) for all his efforts in supporting the organization. 2013 has a very promising landscape on the horizon and Chris Ryan is complacent in saying "you haven't seen anything yet!"

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