International music shop Butter Music + Sound has tapped Kayla Monetta as music supervisor and head of A&R. With over 10 years in the music industry, Monetta brings experience in music marketing and publicity, music licensing and supervision, creative direction, A&R, music journalism, and project management. She has worked on album campaigns for artists like The Strokes, Yacht, Miike Snow, Autre Ne Veut, White Denim, and many more.
Monetta is joining Butter Sound and Music from The Greater Goods Co., where she served as director of licensing and A&R. There, she signed artists like Angelica Garcia, TR/ST, Surf Curse, Bedouine, French Vanilla, and more–while successfully placing music in ad campaigns, television shows, films, trailers and video games. Monetta will be splitting her time between Butter’s Los Angeles and New York City offices, overseeing projects for brand clients such as Supercell, Tillamook, Absolut, Spotify, The North Face and many more.
A former college radio DJ, Monetta got her start writing about bands and doing digital marketing in New York at VICE’s Noisey. She went on to work for indie record labels such as Downtown Records and Cult Records. Monetta continued her career in Los Angeles, working as a music publicist while learning about the world of music licensing and supervision–a career she had always dreamed of pursuing. She landed a position at Third Side Music Publishing where she learned the ins and outs of creative licensing, before moving on to The Greater Goods Co. In her spare time, you can find her making mixes for her weekly East Side Radio show, "Nocturnal Transmissions."
