Curtis Smith currently is working with a handful of artists on the Die Laughing Records label for tour and album publicity.  Mr Smith is also contributing to the Die Laughing Records Radio Podcast showcasing artists with the "Maelstrom Minute" and is also working with Robert Trisler on the "What Is PR?" segment with target focus of helping bands with quick tips and reality checks on how PR works and how to avoid timely and costly mistakes.

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His daily gig is running Maelstrom PR which is an entertainment public relations firm that specializes in working with indie music artists and non profit organizations to help build awareness for their projects.

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The following are a handful of the bands and labels that Curtis Smith has been involved with both past and present, at the independent and major label level.

Labels PR Firms:
A&R Records
AFIRM Records
American Recordings
Aphotic Records
Artificial Music Machine
Awaken Records
Backyard/Scotti Bros Records
Blood and Guts records
Brain Heart Music
Criterion Records
Day 51 Records
Etherean Music
Falling Mountain Music
FEA Entertainment
Finger Records
Fortune Records
Giant Records
Gonzo Records
Ill Legal Records
Inner works Music Group
Interscope Records
McTrax International
Millman Heavy Industries (MHI)
Music For Mankind
Naked In Public
Nasty Cactus Music
Onset Records
Orange Peal Records
Punk Rock for Recovery
Rich ID Records
Rise Records
Risk Records
Round 3 Records
Scenery Records
Soulmine Records
Street Release Ent
Sublevel
Tank Farm Records
The Music Industry Hour Artistfirst
Tomato Head Records
TPRF
Triple X Records
Windham Hill Records

Artists:
A Week In July
Academy
Amy Scruggs
Anagram
Andy Fraser
Aquabats
Asa Cruz
Automatic Head Detonator
Behold
Berlin Project
Bo Bud Greene
Bottom 12
Black Water Mountain
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Brock Pytel
Brother
Bullets and Octane
Cell Block 5
Celtic Mystique (Women of Song)
Charles Law and Jagged!
Chicago
Code Name Rocky
Coretta Scott
Crash Cart
Creative Waste
Dan Exactly
Dave Sprenger
Dexter Danger
Disclaimer
DJ Doc Martin
Djate'
Doobious Distinction
downset.
Dryspell
Dynamo Hum
El Centro
El Nada
Fallen Sleepless
Firebird Band
Freddie Jackson
Gift Culture
Goodfellas
Graffiti 61
Groove Foundation
Gun & Doll Show
Happy Campers
Headfirst
Hellbound Hayride
Helmet
Immortal Dominion
Jack Off Jill
Jah Works
James Brown
James Intveld
Jane Jensen
Janet Bates
Jim Greer
Johnny Cash
Johnny Indovina/Sound of the Blue Heart
Jonathan Goldman
Jussy
Kelly Moore & Emerald Dreams
Khoiba
Kilowatts
Last Amanda
Laughing Us
Les Claypool
Lethal Rejection
Lifter
Limp Bizkit (3 Dollar Bill Y'All)
Low & Sweet Orchestra
Lowlite Kirra
Luckie Strike
Mantrica
Marilyn Manson
Matchless
Matt Ender
Methrone
Mion
Morgan DeLA Croix
Motion Picture Demise
Mugg Mann
Music For Mankind
Music for our Mother Ocean (MOM)
Music For Our Mother Ocean Vol. 1&2 Magic Brook
My Superhero
New Mexican Erection
Nice
No Direction
No Doubt (Tragic Kingdom)
Omni
Painface (Former singer of Slipknot)
Penny's Pet Dragonfly
Polara
Possum Dixon
Primus
Pseudo Star
Red Five
Reverend Horton Heat 
Ric Sandler
Ricky Lee Robinson
Rita Coolidge
Rocket From The Crypt
Ron Sexsmith
Ronan Chris Murphy (Producer)
Ronny Coolcat Band
SALT
Sharp Practise
Skee-Lo
Slab
Sloppy Meateaters
Smashmouth
Spigga
Steadman
Stryker's Club
Sugar Spun
Superjaded
T-Virus
tb5
The Autumns
The Black Marbles
The Gurus

The Nerv
The Secret City
The Spins
The Telegenic
The Vladimirs
TME
Toadies
Tom Racer
Transistor
Truck Stop Love
Tsunami Bomb
Under The Weather
Underwater
Union Underground
Unit F
Wade Love
Weird Al Yankovic
White Trash Debutantes
Wild Carrot 
Without End
Yaatri