Radio Programmers Newsletter: December 3, 2007
AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our sponsor for the December edition of our Radio Programmers Newsletter, Artshirt Company. Artshirt Company is a national screen printing and embroidery company that caters to the music industry.
AirPlay Direct’s digital delivery services are always free to our members thanks to wonderful sponsors like Artshirt Company. If you are an Indie artist, record label or an entertainment services firm and are looking for a reputable screen printing and embroidery company, we highly recommend Artshirt Company.
“Merch with a face” - and a conscience - that’s how we see ourselves. Because it’s not just an online order form or a head-phoned receptionist you’ll be dealing with. Artshirt walks you through the whole process, helping you with design, going above and beyond the call of duty to provide you the best in pricing, image quality and project branding. Whether you’re screen printing, doing embroidery, or building signs and banners, we’ve worked with the likes of popular band ‘311′ and audio aficionados ‘Bose’ - so we know the industry’s needs and interests. Visit our web site and give us a call, let us show you the Artshirt Company difference. www.artshirtco.com
2007 - AIRPLAY DIRECT’S YEAR IN REVEIW
2007 has been a long year of de-centralized evolution for the music industry, and a year of tremendous growth for AirPlay Direct and our members. In just over two short years, AirPlay Direct has become the global leader in digital music delivery services to radio for Indie artists and record labels around the world. The AirPlay Direct community has grown exponentially over the past year and now includes over 8,600 artist and label members, and over 1,800 radio station members. AirPlay Direct’s professional membership currently spans 90 countries globally.
The company’s loyal and growing member base is the result of personal recommendations and personal relationships. Each month over 35,000 unique visitors view more than 2,700,000 artist pages and are responsible for over 3,600,000 hits on AirPlayDirect.com.
To date AirPlay Direct has now delivered over over 1,000,000 DPKs / Digital Press Kits on behalf of our members, saving them over $10,000,000 in hard costs in the process. By utilizing AirPlay Direct’s digital platform artists, record labels and music industry professionals have cut costs, increased their speed to market and contributed to the health and well being of our planet by eliminating hard copy package waste.
AirPlay Direct’s on-going commitment and service to the global Indie music community is what we are most proud of. AirPlay Direct is the only company in the world providing this suite of digital “smart-tools” free of charge to artists, record labels and radio stations around the world.
AirPlay Direct would like to extend a professional acknowledgement and thank you to all of the sponsors that made our “All Things Digital” artist contests possible this year.
AirPlay Direct sponsored five FREE “All Things Digital” artist contests this year. Together with our sponsors, AirPlay Direct awarded over $70,000 in promotional prize packages to our members this year…! We would like to again acknowledge the winners of our contests this year, starting with our most recent winner:
Reggae/World artist contest winner Abijah - http://www.airplaydirect.com/Abijah
Indie/Alt. Rock artist contest winner Modico - http://www.airplaydirect.com/Modico
Heavy Metal artist contest winner Shadowside - http://www.airplaydirect.com/Shadowside
Country artist contest winner Leslie Satcher - http://www.airplaydirect.com/LeslieSatcher
Rock artist contest winner The New - http://www.airplaydirect.com/TheNew
Airplay Direct Featured Artists For December
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/KristaDetor
..A small miracle… wonderful, intensive music.. she would be good on every stage in the world.. Rolling Stone
Enjoy a world class singer, songwriter and performer, with advance tracks from Krista’s 2008 USA releases:
Cover “Their Eyes” this spring, and “The Silver Wood”, fall, 2008.
Recently opening for Suzanne Vega, Eliza Gilkyson and Joan Armatrading, Hoosier Krista Detor is a remarkable and distinctive talent. Krista’s Producer and touring musical partner is Dave Weber of Airtime Studios. A former trapeze artist, Dave catches Krista’s exquisite, rich compositions perfectly as they swing to musical spaces previously unheard.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/BadBobJimmy
The BadBob and Jimmy project is a redneck hunting comedy/parody GRANDSLAM! It was created, produced and recorded by country music artist, Kevin Blake Weldon (www.kevinblakeweldon.com), and features parodies and original songs about the fictional deer and turkey hunters, BadBob Underbrush and Jimmy Huckleberry. Songs such as the first single, “I HUNT DEER IN POSTED PLACES”, a parody of “Friends in Low Places”, “JIMMY WENT DOWN TO GEORGIA”, parody of “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and “REDNECK HUNTER”, parody of “Redneck Woman” are perfect for this time of year with the onset of deer hunting season and are assured to generate massive phone calls to stations playing them.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/BrittneyElizabeth
I’ve got stacks of books filled with dreams, but they collect dust on my shelf.
- Brittney Elizabeth, “Don’t Let Me Let Me Down”
Many a dream may be laying dormant in waiting, but for Brittney Elizabeth, being a recording artist on the brink of stardom is not one of them. The 20-year-old singer/songwriter is poised to take the music world’s breath away with her debut album, Breath In, a heartfelt collection of tunes documenting a young woman’s introspective look back on the heartbreaking journey of first love. It’s a well-worn path covered in song, though rarely with the purity of voice and confidence of an artist confessing she’s still not ready to exhale.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/StevieTombstone
STEVIE TOMBSTONE Singer/Songwriter/Guitarist Born in rural Georgia, Stevie learned the ropes playing Country Blues and then Punk/Rock n Roll as a youth in Atlanta. In the twenty-odd years since has become an accomplished performer, both solo and with his band. Stevie currently sports 2 full-length solo releases besides his published work with The Tombstones (Stevie’s 1980’s Gothabilly Band).
His full-length debut CD “7:30 am”(2003/Saustex) showcased his singing ability and continuing growth as a songwriter. The CD spent 6 weeks in the top ten of XM Radio’s Channel 12 (X-Country) charts, including 2 weeks at 1.
Stevie’s bandmates over the years have been a veritable who’s who of underground and nationally recognized players, featuring members of Circus of Power, Wilco, the Georgia Satelites, Black Crowes, Jason & The Scorchers and Faster Pussycat. He has also had the honor of sharing the bill with the likes of Leon Russell, the Stray Cats, the Ramones, and Texacala Jones just to name a few.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/WinifredAdams
Singing the “National Anthem” and “God Bless America” are near and dear to her heart. Winifred made her debut to an audience of 50,000 people in 1999at a Colorado Rockies Baseball game, singing the National Anthem. Since that time she has sung these patriotic songs for countless professional and minor league sports and racing events, as well as opening for concerts. And in the fall of 2003, Winifred gave a dynamic and moving performance of “God Bless America” to a wonderful crowd in Shea Stadium at a NY Mets vs. Montreal baseball game, and went on to repeat it in 2004. And each holiday season, Winifred’s version of Santa Baby hits radio!
AirPlay Direct… go straight to the source!