Attorney Joe Bellanca is as familiar with country music as with courtrooms, with bands as with bailiffs, with rap as with recusals, and with hip hop as with hearsay.

Bellanca, principal of Bellanca & Associates in Birmingham, has teamed with fellow Michigan State alumnus Mike Riccobono to run PULSE, a full-service music and film management and consulting firm. The two advise clients on personal and career management, touring, licensing, merchandising and sponsorship, and represent Detroit country band Annabelle Road, the Rochester-based band Bear Lake; hip hop artist Vito Polizzi who goes by the moniker V.P; and the Troy-based soul/rock/R&B band Greenstreet.

PULSE also has formed a strategic alliance and is now joining forces with Grand Circus Media, owned by Grosse Pointer Joe Choma and the company encompassing Bellanca, Riccobono and Choma will be known as Grand Circus Media. As a first priority, GCM has signed Ann Arbor-based rock quintet The Juliets to its roster.

“We’re excited about the new addition of this unique and incredible band,” Bellanca says. “They’ve already blown away fans in the United States in Europe with their last album and we look forward to continued success with them. They’ve already blown away fans in the United States and in Europe with their last album, and we look forward to increasing their buzz internationally.”