Radio Programmers Newsletter: September 3, 2007
AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our sponsor for the September edition of our Radio Programmers Newsletter, Aleven Creatives. Aleven Creatives is an Atlanta based graphic and multimedia design studio that caters to the entertainment industry.
AirPlay Direct’s digital delivery services are always free of charge thanks to wonderful sponsors like Aleven Creatives. If you are an Indie artist, record label or an entertainment services firm and are looking for a reputable and creative graphic and multimedia design firm, we highly recommend Aleven Creatives. www.aleven.com
A little about Aleven Creatives:
Aleven Creatives www.aleven.com specializes in creating energetic graphic and multimedia design solutions that elicit memorable responses, which is why we play well with the entertainment industry. Here’s what we do best: logo design, Web site design and development, package design, e-mail marketing, custom illustration, marketing collateral design, and interpretive dance. Our national client list includes musicians, record labels, restaurants, clothing companies, festivals, venues, stage shows, motion pictures and video games.
Throughout the months of September and October, AirPlay Direct will be running our first FREE “All Things Digital Reggae/World” artist contest. The Grand Prize package will include:
• An Artist Development / Promotion package from the KRucial Agency ($3,000 value)
• A 12 week global PR / Media campaign from Fly On The Wall Media ($6,000 value)
• A custom flash artist web site and SEO package from Positronic Design ($5,300 value)
• A song remix package from Many Moods of Music ($4,000 value)
• An advertising and promotion package from BigUp Radio ($3,000 value)
• A custom band t-shirt package from the Artshirt Company ($1,000 value)
• A “Featured Artist” advertising package from AirPlay Direct ($1,500 value)
The Grand Prize Package is valued at $23,800.00…!
This contest is FREE TO ENTER and very simple… the best song wins. The only three requirements to enter are that you must be an AirPlay Direct artist/label member (free to join), your music must fall into the Reggae/World genre and you must submit your AirPlay Direct DPK to office@airplaydirect.com prior to the official entry deadline of October 25th. Whether you are an indie artist or a well established record label with a roster, pick your best songs, you can submit from 1 to 3 tracks per artist. Please make sure to note that you are submitting for the Reggae / World artist contest. Deadline for submissions is October 25th. The winner will be announced and “Featured” in the November Radio Programmers Newsletter, as well as in a company press release to all media outlets.
A little about the KRucial Agency:
We all need a team to move forward, and a head on our efforts to coordinate what we’ve got to get where we want. The KRucial Agency www.reggae4i.com can help. With 17 years in the music industry, our extensive network of contacts are continuously engaged by phone or online (through our web site, personal emails and content-rich newsletters). Few artists can (or want to) devote their time to the nonmusical needs of their career. We’re ready to work with you on converting the best of what you’ve got into more. Give us a call or drop us a line at KRucialAgency@AOL.com and let’s discuss where to get started.
A little about the Fly On The Wall Media:
Fly On The Wall Media www.flyonthewallmedia.com specializes in print media. We pitch newspapers, magazines, editors and freelancers, radio with kick and any other media that will help make your CD a success. Review contacts receive a mailed Press Kit with the press release and CD/Multimedia. Fly On The Wall then arranges interviews and compiles media guest lists while securing previews, features, articles, listings and reviews. We also help arrange airplay, interviews and live appearances on national radio and along the tour route.
FlyOnTheWallMedia.com provides an online resource for journalists (and fans) to find releases, songs, downloadable pictures, media successes and web links. The homepage shows our diverse roster, while revealing a propensity toward rhythm including ’specialty’ genres of Reggae, World, and all things Americana. The Skatalites, Cubanismo, Marva Wright, Terrance Simien, David Grisman, John Jorgensen and Frank Vignola currently.
A little about the Positronic Design:
Positronic Design www.positronicdesign.com is a full service Graphic Design, Printing and Web Development company serving the music industry since 1984. Our clients have included Phish, Rakim, Everlast, Dar Williams, Cash Money Millionaires, Xanax25, New Man, Archie Shepp, Yousef Lateef and many others. We have been involved in all aspects of the music promotion and marketing business from independent concert production to CD Cover Design to full artist web sites.
We also manufacture CDs and DVDs, create all the print collateral you could possibly need, and optimize our client’s web sites to come up very highly in the search engines. For all the web design, printing and marketing services you need in one friendly and convenient location, call Positronic Design.
A little about the BigUp Radio:
BigUp Radio www.bigupradio.com was founded out of a love for Reggae music and a desire to share the greatest in Reggae music with fans around the world. For the past seven years BigUp’s Dancehall and Roots radio stations have been among the most listened to Reggae stations online. In October of 2005, BigUp added stations for Dub, Soca, Ska, Reggaeton, Dub & Gospel to meet listener requests for the full spectrum of Reggae music. At one and a half million tune-ins each month, these stations are available using iTunes, WinAmp or Windows Media via internet and cell phones using MBN (Mobile Broadcast Network) and SpodRadio (Europe). BigUp Radio’s web site features one of the largest catalogs of
Reggae CDs, DVDs and vinyl as well as the latest in Reggae news, reviews and event listings.
A little about the 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 ArtShirtCo difference. www.artshirtco.com
A little about the Many Moods of Music:
Many Moods of Music offers complete music production and audio services. While working with Producer, Musician and Engineer Trevor Sugar, there are great vibes in the studio just north of Ft. Lauderdale. Composing, arranging, recording, remixing a finished piece, or scoring a film is where you’ll find the crew.
Many Moods of Music has helped developed several roots and dancehall artists, including Alkebulan, receiving heavy airplay on JA and UK radio. Clients, including the AirPlay Direct contest winner, need only place a studio mix of the winning song in the hands of MMM for the remix treatment to begin. Contact Trevor Sugar, studio@manymoodsofmusic.com
The winner of the AirPlay Direct “All Things Digital College/Alt. Rock” contest is Modico!
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/Modico
With cannon fire bass, bullet time drums, and guitars that will coax you to sleep before bombarding your senses, Modico take the stage as if it were a battlefield. Steadfast and ready for action, this band has an objective that exceeds superficial stardom. Modico is concerned with the world they see, and passionately try to do their part to facilitate its improvement. They see a lot of fear in the world today and an overabundance of depression. Hopelessness plagues many people and deceives them into believing that this life is pain. Modico is at war with that mentality. Hope does exist; that’s the message the band wants to share with anyone who is willing to listen. Modico recently finished recording its debut full length album, Axe At My Feet. The band hopes to produce art that the ear begs to hear and the soul yearns to feel.
“Modico is a perfect example of Indie Rock at its best. They are a smart, relevant, engaging and explosive force that has the talent and dedication to step easily onto the national stage. I expect that you will be hearing a lot about this band in the coming months. Record labels would be wise to take a very serious look at this act if they are currently looking for new artists.” Robert Weingartz, CEO - AirPlay Direct
Throughout the month of August, AirPlay Direct and our Sponsors Gorgeous PR, Arketype Film, Apples and Cats Media and CDman ran our first “All Things Digital College / Alt. Rock” artist contest for our members. The winning band Modico will receive the Grand Prize package which will include:
• An 8 week national PR / media relations campaign (print and online) and an internet radio campaign from Gorgeous PR ($10,000 value)
• Arketype Film, Inc. will produce a music video for the winning band in a completely custom and tailored manner ($12,000 value)
• A 12 week national radio promotions campaign to 500 College radio stations from Apples And Cats Media ($3,600 value)
• A merchandise package from CDman that includes 500 professionally replicated CDs in jewel boxes, 100 full color posters and 25 digitally printed t-shirts ($1,000 value)
• A premier “Featured Artist” advertising package from AirPlay Direct ($1,500 value)
The Grand Prize Package is valued at $28,000.00…!
AirPlay Direct Featured Artists for September
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/atris
a’tris is a band that seems to never rest. Following the completion of their national tour in 2006, the band immediately began working on new material. They digitally released the single ‘Orion’ in January and the EP ‘Of the Commons’ was released on Mark Records in August. This is the bands second release on Mark Records. Mason Taylor, who is a’tris’ front man, keyboardist and primary songwriter, said the band is “very fortunate to be able to release their debut and follow-up EP” on Mark Records. Mark Records has worked with such musical icons as the Goo Goo Dolls, 10,000 Maniacs, and countless others. The company has been awarded over sixty (60) Grammy Entry List appearances, and two Grammy
Nominations.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.annwilson.com/
Hope & Glory - Ann Wilson’s first solo album ever - is a singularly powerful and altogether timely song cycle that speaks eloquently to our troubled times.
The world has long known Heart’s Ann Wilson as one of the greatest and most enduring vocalists of her generation. Yet on her ultimately hopeful and glorious solo debut for Zoë/ Rounder Records to be released on September 11, 2007, Wilson is likely to stun even her lifelong fans with what could fairly be called the mother of all cover albums.
On Hope & Glory, Wilson manages to reinterpret and reinvent some of the greatest songs of the past forty years that powerfully and poignantly reflect the here and now, including classics from the Sixties (Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”, The Animals’ “We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place”, and The Youngbloods’ “Get Together”), and Seventies (Led Zeppelin’s “Immigrant Song”, John Lennon’s “Isolation”, and Elton John’s “Where To Now, St. Peter”) to gems of a more recent vintage like “War Of Man” by Neil Young and “Jackson” by Lucinda Williams. Hope & Glory concludes with one heartbreakingly moving new song written by Ann herself, “Little Problems, Little Lies”, yet one listen to the album demonstrates that Wilson has made each of the songs here very much her own and utterly relevant to our world today.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DOTMIG
It’s been quite a year for DOTMIG in the music biz, with a 16 track double album that is just being released & many accolades picked up on this road to emerging as an artist that has the consistency of delivering diversified sound, with his passion & integrity towards his valuable music from his repertoire. Working together with Latin Grammy Award Winner Guido Diaz, has made DOTMIG the musician, singer, songwriter & performer who he is today. Last but not least the beautiful & talented muse of DOTMIG’S family, singer, songwriter, musician, Diana Pabon (aka SEXY-N-LEAN), diagramed the perfect blueprint for Mig Fighter Missions Music to take off.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.shotgunhoneymoon.com
Shotgun Honeymoon’s debut album Foregone Conclusion, produced by Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow) is being released September 11, 2007 on Broken Halo Records.
“The chance to express emotions and give them a visual through lyrics and music is the best feeling in the world. The only thing better than that is when people stop what they are thinking, stop what they are doing and get lost in your world as well as you can portray it, with a simple melody and a little poetry… and understand it.” Shotgun Honeymoon
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/WilliamSteffey
William Steffey continues to be at the forefront of the “post-modern rock” movement: effortlessly integrating honest rock, pop sensibility, and edgy electronica with distant echoes of jazz. Atop the music ride engaging yet intelligent lyrics, tagging the listener at unexpected depths.
Steffey’s latest release, “Romance of the Spaceways”, has been spinning in commercial rotation in the U.S. and has quickly become a favorite of several UK college heads of music-resulting in recent adds across the pond. WS is also hot in Central America, where the album is playing on an archipelago of stations across Costa Rica and Nicaragua. The 12 song CD, propelled by its ethereal-pop single ‘Sanctuary’, will be serviced to college stations in the United States with an add date of September 4th.
AirPlay Direct… go straight to the source!
For more information on KRucial Agency please visit www.reggae4i.com
For more information on Fly On The Wall Media please contact www.flyonthewallmedia.com
For more information on the Positronic Design please visit www.positronicdesign.com
For more information on Many Moods of Music please write to studio@manymoodsofmusic.com
For more information on BigUp Radio please visit www.bigupradio.com
For more information on Artshirt Company please visit www.artshirtco.com
For more information on AirPlay Direct please visit www.AirPlayDirect.com