About Josh Bloom

Since the inception of Fanatic Promotion in 1997, founder Josh Bloom has established a reputation as a passionate artist advocate, and Fanatic as a taste making and sales driving agency.

Josh's music industry experiences in that time have helped keep him true to his conviction that nothing has as much meaning as the relationship between the listener and the song.

Today, Fanatic and its official consultancy service Industry By The Hour® continue to be strategized and administered top down by Josh, who has had pleasure of seeing so many talented artists, including the following, appear on the Fanatic roster over the years.

The Avett Brothers
Mark Bryan (founder of Hootie and The Blowfish) [Grammy®-winner]
The Decemberists
Steve Earle
David Klotz (of Dream System 8) [Emmy®-winner]
Jóhann Jóhannsson [Oscar®-nominee]
Miranda July
My Morning Jacket
Mark Pellington (MTV Video Music Award “Video of The Year”-winning Director)
Portugal. The Man
Sleater-Kinney
Sufjan Stevens [Oscar®-nominee]

We all know how much just one song can affect us. It continues to be Josh's aim to create those moments, as a fan and as a Fanatic.

MORE ABOUT JOSH

As a creative, and not only a marketer of creatives, Josh works daily to fulfill goals he set for himself in the same way that he encourage you to do. Since late 2023, Josh has developed short-form videos that have organically amassed nearly 10K followers, over 250K likes on TikTok, and dozens of long and short-form videos with over 1M views on YouTube.

He has workshoped dozens of poems with a book in development edited by an esteemed Cooper Union graduate, published many deep-dive think pieces of 3-6K words on his growing Substack account, and released 20 episodes and counting of the Josh Bloom Podcast since it’s launch in mid-2024.

Josh has also been assigned and composed long-form record reviews as a freelance critic, and recently contracted to write his first book (a TBA band bio) to be published in 2026 by J-Card Press. Visit Josh everywhere for everything at iamjoshbloom.com.

Josh occasionally writes songs, and was honored when Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney and “Portlandia” fame wrote about his song “Cancel My Subscription,” which he composed hoping Katy Perry would sing it. (The song eventually got all the way to her “people!”) Read about and hear it here.

In 2010, Josh co-founded Fanatic Records, a boutique record label distributed by Caroline / EMI (now branded as Virgin Music under Universal.) To date, Fanatic Records has released albums and EPs by Lachi, The Shondes, Shunda K (of Yo! Majesty), Red Wanting Blue, Charlie Belle, and Matt Bennett. Learn more about the label here.