Warm Fuzzy Publicity began in April of 2001. Founder and publicist, Jerry Graham has been working in publicity for over six years. Prior to Warm Fuzzy Publicity, he handled publicity at Some Records, home to such artists as Hot Water Music, Error Type 11 and J. Majesty. Jerry also assisted at Blue Ghost Publicity, working on the tour campaigns of such artists as Boy Sets Fire, Rainer Maria and At The Drive In. Going to school at night, Jerry obtained a Certificate of Public Relations from NYU as well as studied corporate public relations working as an assistant at Patrice Tanaka & Co. After that was a lengthy employment at V Entertainment Network, working on national campaigns and tour campaigns of such noted artists as Burning Spear, Megadeth and The Misfits.Taking his experience from these organizations as well as his passion for underground music and artists, Jerry opened Warm Fuzzy Publicity.
Among the early clients was working with Scissorfight (Tortuga Recordings) on their highly acclaimed Mantrapping For Sport & Profit album, which was covered on MTV, Revolver, BW&BK and Alternative Press. Warm Fuzzy's first project with Equal Vision Records was a young unknown band called Coheed & Cambria on their debut The Second Stage Turbine Blade hammering press over and over to check out this unusual band who was not as easily digestable as other popular artists paid off in a big way. The campaign lasted over a year and a half and Coheed was featured in publications such as Spin, MTV.com, Metal Edge, Alternative Press and a ton of others.
Conquering a place in the worlds of metal, hardcore and punk, Warm Fuzzy's creative approach to publicity has landed them as the publicist for Rise Records, Ferret Records, Tragic Hero Records, Sumerian Records, and multiple campaigns with Hopeless Records, Solid State Records, Tooth and Nail Records, Uprising Records, and many more.
In addition to their work with heavy music Warm Fuzzy has worked with such non-heavy artists such as the prog, post-rock instrumental trio, The Cancer Conspiracy (Big Wheel Recreation), sludge blues boogie heroes, Dead Meadow (who are now on Matador Records), avante trip-rock like The Gathering (The End Records) and electronic mash up outfit NamelessNumberHeadman (The Record Machine).
Branching out into hip-hop, Warm Fuzzy Publicity will be handling underground legends The Juggaknots (Indeliable MC's, Prince Paul's "A Prince Among Thieves"), Not For Nothin (Embedded Music) and Nasa from Def Jux's new label, Uncommon Records. In addition Warm Fuzzy Publicity regular clients includes labels such as Equal Vision, Ferret, Initial, Level Plane, Triple Crown and Five One Inc Records.
