Jamie Coletta

Education

BA, Performing Arts Management, University of Hartford, 2009

Jamie Coletta is a music industry professional and founder of No Earbuds, an independent publicity and consulting company. Coletta has worked in music since graduating from The Hartt School in 2009, with experience spanning marketing, management, A&R, record labels, social media, and artist development. Over the course of her career, she has helped develop campaigns for artists including Pitbull, Tool, Kesha, Creed Bratton, Daughtry, Jeff Rosenstock, PUP, The Wonder Years, Origami Angel, Hudson Freeman, The Bouncing Souls, Balance and Composure, Bartees Strange, and many others. Her work has directly contributed to media coverage in outlets including Rolling Stone, Pitchfork, SPIN, Stereogum, Pigeons & Planes, The Needle Drop, and NPR, as well as opportunities ranging from late-night TV and Tiny Desk performances to record and publishing deals. 

In 2020, Coletta was named to shesaid.so’s Alternative Power 100, an inclusive initiative highlighting trailblazers and future thinkers in the music industry. She is also one of the scene figures featured in former Billboard editor Chris Payne’s book, Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008, documenting the artists, labels, media, and industry of the time. A natural follow-up, she served as a featured consultant for BrooklynVegan editor Andrew Sacher’s upcoming book, Emo Revival: Community, DIY, and Rebirth in Post-Hardcore and Emo (2008-2018). 

Across nearly two decades in music, she has helped coordinate tours, booked and produced her own No Earbuds Fest (which sold out in Los Angeles two years in a row), managed budgets, hired crews, planned album rollouts, media trained artists and executives, and solved countless problems that come with building a music career.

Today, alongside running No Earbuds, Coletta brings that real-world experience back to the same Hartt program where her career first started.