Radio Programmers Newsletter July 8, 2008

July 8, 2008 · Filed Under Radio Programmers Newsletter 

AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our Sponsor for the July edition of our Radio Programmers Newsletter, Pres Pak Public Relations www.MySpace.com/prespakpr

AirPlay Direct’s digital delivery services are always FREE to our members thanks to wonderful Sponsors like Pres Pak Public Relations. Pres Pak Public Relations is a full-service marketing and public relations company driven by journalist and publicist Tom Kidd.

Tom Kidd has been instrumental in the Oscar nomination campaigns for the scores to “The Passion of the Christ” and “March of the Penguins.” “In addition, I have helped drive the successful Grammy nomination campaign for Chris Walden’s “Home of my Heart.” Through the years, I have had the honor to work with clients including Sixties acid guru Dr. Timothy Leary and Eighties Grammy winners Men At Work. In addition, Pres Pak has been honored to work with a diverse group of Indie artists ranging from Hermosa Beach-based hair rockers Too Loose to singer/songwriter Debra Davis and rocking blues group Kelly’s Lot’s, the National Spokesband for HepCAware.org.”

www.MySpace.com/prespakpr

Throughout the month of July, AirPlay Direct will be running our FREE to enter “All Things Digital Jazz / Latin Jazz / World” artist contest.  The Grand Prize package will include:

  • A 12 week national radio promotion package from Lisa Reedy Promotions (a $2,250 value)
  • A professional microphone package from SHURE Microphones (a $1,600 value)
  • A “Featured Artist” advertising and interview package from Lizard Lounge Radio (a $2,750 value)
  • A “Featured Artist” advertising and PR campaign from Mi2N (a $750 value)
  • An international PR / Marketing campaign from Anesa (a $3,000 value)
  • A career “evaluation and consultation” with Shele Sondheim (a $5,000 value)
  • 8 vocal lessons and a copy of Jeannie’s vocal enhancement materials “The Contemporary Vocalist” Series from Jeannie Deva Voice Studios (a $1,000 value)
  • A “Featured Artist” promotion package from Beyond Bop Radio (a $250 value)
  • A “Featured Artist” advertising / promotion package from AirPlay Direct (a $1,500 value)

The Grand Prize Package is valued at over $18,000…!

This contest is FREE TO ENTER and very simple.  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 Jazz / Latin Jazz / World genre and you must submit your AirPlay Direct DPK to office@airplaydirect.com prior to the official entry deadline of July 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 Jazz / Latin Jazz / World artist contest.  Deadline for submissions is July 25th.  The winner will be announced and “Featured” in the August Radio Programmers Newsletter, as well as in a company press release to all media outlets.

A little about Lisa Reedy Promotions: www.jazzpromotion.com

Lisa Reedy works with 500+ radio stations throughout the United States and Internationally on a weekly basis to solicit radio airplay, interviews to promote new releases & artist tour-dates, Charting at JazzWeek, CMJ, !Earshot, Chart Attack, Roots Music Report and other applicable music industry charts; obtains special promotions such as station IDs, CD giveaways, special program features and quotes from radio personalities.  Stations include NPR affiliates, college & community stations, satellite radio, cable music stations, syndicated programs, select international stations, The Weather Channel, and airplay in hotels, in stores and on airlines.  Lisa Reedy Promotions has a consistent, proven track record in obtaining airplay and charting success for her clients and provides each with a weekly progress report.  In addition, print publicity services are available.

A little about SHURE: www.shure.com

Founded in 1925, SHURE Incorporated www.shure.com is widely acknowledged as the leading manufacturer of microphones and audio electronics. Over the years, the Company has designed and produced many high-quality professional and consumer audio products that have become legendary for performance, reliability, and value.

SHURE’s diverse product line includes world-class wired microphones and wireless microphone systems for performers including the legendary 55SH Elvis mic and the industry standard SM58, award-winning earphones and headsets for MP3 players and smart phones, and top-rated phonograph cartridges for professional DJs. Today, SHURE products are the first choice wherever audio performance is a top priority: on concert stages, in recording studios, at radio and television networks, and in public address systems in houses of worship, meeting facilities, and other venues.

A little about Lizard Lounge Radio: www.lizardloungemusic.com

Lizard Lounge Radio (LLR) is a 24/7 broadcaster of Independent  International Music artists.

A little about Mi2N.com: www.mi2n.com

Leveraging its decade-long leadership role in the music news sector, Music Industry News Network (Mi2N) now offers a broad array of PR marketing and advertising services meant to meet the specific needs of the music community. Utilizing multiple channels, from its syndicated newswires to social networks and 30,000 subsciber base, Mi2N places your press release in front of your desired audience.

A little about Anesa: www.anesa.tv

We combine techniques used in Marketing and Public Relations to guarantee a successful campaign, event or product. We edit and distribute invitations, bulletins, and press releases to the Hispanic Media, news and entertainment using our database of radio stations, T.V., magazines, Weekly Publications or Monthly newspaper. We also specialize in preparing promotional sales and Media Kits.

SHELE SONDHEIM

A little about Shele Sondheim: www.csmwordsandmusic.com

Shele’s recording and performing credits include Phil Collins, Natalie Cole, Little Richard, Billy Preston, Lola Falana, Wayne Newton, Flip Wilson and Roy Clark as well as extensive worldwide TV & Film credits.

Most recently, Phil Collins’ Little Dreams Band, penning their title track Donne Le Moi on Capitol/EMI followed by the Phil Collins Limited Edition Swatch Watch campaign, with proceeds going to Little Dreams Foundation in Geneva. Currently, Shele functions in dual capacity as a successful songwriter/music producer and music entrepreneur. His company is engaged in the development of competitive materials and artists in pop, r&b, rock and dance. Their work includes the discover, development and representation of young emerging artists both domestic and international, including growing sponsorship alliances with music industry leaders and brand manufacturers. The company participates annually at atll the major music trade events whereby Shele facilitates unique opportunities for presenting original materials and artist to global industry contacts at record labels, TV & film, fashion music branding sponsors and multi-media cross platforms.

A little about Jeannie Deva: www.JeannieDeva.com

Jeannie Deva is an international celebrity vocal coach, published author, clinician, recording studio vocal producer, trainer of voice teachers and originator of The Deva Method® - Complete Voice Training for Stage and Studio. Thousands of singers world-wide have been trained by Jeannie and her expanding network of certified Deva Method

teachers. Clients: Grammy Award Winner, Aimee Mann, Grammy Nominee Harriet Schock, members of the J. Geils Band, Foghat, #1 Billboard Dance Chart Samantha James, Idol Finalist Mikalah Gordon (#11 of Season 4), Leads in Broadway’s “Wicked” and “Grease”, members of the touring cast of Fame, Dar Williams, Charolote Jorgensen (Dancing with the Stars partner to John Hurley), Singers for Pink, Elton John, Celine Dion, Julio Iglesias and Stevie Wonder.

A little about Beyond Bop: www.beyondbop.com

Beyond Bop is an internet jazz radio station created for musicians by musicians showcasing some of the best kept secrets in jazz.

A little about AirPlay Direct: www.AirPlayDirect.com

AirPlay Direct www.AirPlayDirect.com is a new revolutionary, efficient and very cost effective way (FREE) to securely deliver your “broadcast-quality” music and electronic press kits to radio programmers and music industry professionals around the world.

AirPlay Direct is an easy to use digital file transfer system that was developed to streamline radio / artist promotion activities for today’s music industry. AirPlay Direct’s FREE digital services replace the unnecessary time and expense of putting together and sending out costly traditional artist packages and press kits via snail mail.

The winner of the AirPlay Direct “All Things Digital

Folk / Americana” artist contest is

Anne McCue!

Anne McCue has recently been included along with Bob Dylan, the Byrds, Patty Griffin and other great artists in the collection ‘4 Decades of Folk Rock’ and was a special guest at the International Guitar Festival.

She will be releasing a new album “East Of Electric” in August 2008. McCue recorded and produced the album at her own Flying Machine Studio in Nashville. It was mixed by Mike Esser at 16 Ton Studio and was mastered by Ray Kennedy at Zen Masters.

McCue recorded the album whilst waiting to record a new electric album. Inspired by the golden era of folk pop music which took place in the late sixties with such albums as Rubber Soul, Aftermath, bands like The Byrds and artists like Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, Anne set about recording, playing every instrument she could get her hands on - guitars, mandolin, banjo, piano, bass guitar, ukulele, shaker, tambourine, organ, drum, etc.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/AnneMcCue

Throughout the month of June, AirPlay Direct ran our FREE to enter “All Things Digital Folk / Americana” artist contest.  The winner Anne McCue will receive the Grand Prize package which is worth over $30,000 and includes:

  • A 16 week national radio promotion package fromBillWence Promotions(a $3,500 value)
  • A 12 weekdigital radio promotion package from 1617 Virtual(a $4,500 value)
  • A 12 week national publicity / marketing package from Press Pak Public Relations (a $9,000 value)
  • An official Folk Alliance National Conference 2009 live performance showcase (value priceless)
  • A recording studio package for a master quality EP (5 songs) from Slot-1 Studios (a $5,000 value)
  • A song on The Sin City Social Club Sampler Vol. # 10 / distributed during AMA Conf. and SXSW (a $750 value)
  • Placement to digital downloads via download page at VirtualMusicMarket.com for one year (value priceless)
  • Placement on the True Talent Management film & TV placement compilation (a $150 value)
  • An on-air “feature artist” interview on Big Kev’s syndicated radioshow “It’s Motel Time Again” (valuepriceless)
  • An on-air “feature artist” interview with Rick Star from Texas Rebel Radio (value priceless)
  • A on-air “feature artist” interview on the Billy Block Show (value priceless)
  • A feature artist interview with Big Kev in the Artist Development Co-op’s Media Guide magazine (value priceless)
  • A live performance slot at Billy Block’s showcase in Nashville (value priceless)
  • A live performance slot at Famous Dave’s BBQ inMinneapolis (a $500 value)
  • A live performance slot at The Berkeley Cafe in Raleigh, NC (value priceless)
  • A “Featured Artist” advertising / promotion package from AirPlay Direct (a $1,500 value)

AIRPLAY DIRECT’S FEATURED ARTISTS

FOR JULY

Manda just finished her first full-length studio album with Israeli producer Guy Erez. The album entitled “Keeps On Turning” is a precious work, one of those rare gems coming from the independent artist world. The album was mastered on February 15th, 2008 by GRAMMY Award wining mastering engineer Gavin Lurssen. When listening to the record, one will certainly feel the influence of Tom Petty, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Bruce Springsteen. With distinctive Hammond B3 parts, jangly guitars, comfortable grooves, haunting harmonica, and sultry vocals layered with delicate understated harmonies, Manda delivers a female vocal of unique expression and an album that’s destined to “Keep On Turning”. Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/Manda

In 2006, John Tracy launched his music career with the CD release “Slow Down”. Songs from this CD have received recognition in the 16th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards, 2006 Great American Song Contest, 2007 Dallas GMA Academy, 11th Annual Unisong International Song Contest, 2007 UK Songwriting Contest, 2007 West Coast Songwriters Contest, placement in the PBS documentary “Roadtrip Nation” and on 2 compilation CDs. His second CD, “Break The Chain” was released on SoundCafé Records in February 2008, with songs from this CD already garnering a nomination in the 17th Annual Los Angeles Music Awards.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/JohnTracy

Lorraine Reid is perhaps best known as the former powerhouse vocalist of Temprance, where she earned 7 Juno Award nominations. In 1996, the Canadian Euro dance group released a cover version of the song, “Forever Young”, which reached #8 on the Canadian Dance Chart. Their debut album featured 6 consecutive National Top Ten charting dance singles, and 4 MuchMusic Video Award nominations, which resulted in a 1994 MuchMusic Video Award.

Lorraine’s debut solo album “Lessons Learned” unveils a more soulful and established vocalist, as she provides a window into her heart and the experiences that have made her the vocalist she is today.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/lorrainereid

“Agua Noir” means “Dark Waters” and describes where this music came from. This 45 minutes of music explores the deepest places in the human soul and experience and while somewhat dark is just plain fun and refreshing to listen to.

It contains 11 tracks written and performed by Paul Evans Pederson, Jr. (acoustic guitar, vocals), with help from Jim Hefferman (steel guitar, dobro, electric lead and rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, bass, banjo, and drum programming), Bill Corvino (electric lead and rhythm guitar, gut string acoustic), and Chester Ferguson (sax).

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/PaulEvansPedersenJr

Ask Heather Waters what inspired the songs on her new record, Propeller and she’ll offer a genial wisecrack: ‘Love & murder, baby.’ But it’s no joke that she is fascinated by the magic and the minefields of the human heart.

At a time when pop music is ruled by dance divas who phone in their vocal performances, Waters is a bracing anomaly: an artist whose singing is a visceral, deeply soulful experience, for her as well as audiences. Waters can belt and growl with abandon, but she truly proves her mettle with sorrowful, melodically spacious ballads that give her burning contralto room to set off the trip wires of the heart. In another era, she might have been heralded as a torch singer with the phrasing of Billie Holiday or Peggy Lee and explosive passion akin to Edith Piaf.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/HeatherWaters

If you’ve always pigeonholed folk and electronica as polar opposites, Computer Vs. Banjo will make you rethink everything you thought about both. Hatched in the musical crucible of Nashville, the genre-bending band fuses fingerpicked folk with experimental beats to create such a full, original sound, it’s hard to believe CVB is just a duo.

What shines through on all these songs are Mann and Stapleton’s incredible skills as songwriters and multi-instumentalists. The two trade off on lead vocals and play and program everything from synths to the dobro, to of course, the computer and banjo, pioneering a sound that is truly their own.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/computervsbanjo

Singer-songwriter Kama  Linden is TRULY UNINBITIED, and just WAIT until you hear.  This gutsy lyricist catches you with her edgy, yet well trained voice: emotional when necessary to drive home a ballad, and makes you do a double take when you listen to her biting lyrics (she said WHAT?!). A former musical theater baby, she does All her harmonies, and not only has a wide vocal range, but a diversity of styles to suit many listener’s tastes.

Her newest CD BETTER LATE THAN NEVER is an upgraded, uplifting follow-up to her first CD UNINHIBITED. Depicting the Single woman’s journey and race against the clock, her music comes alive thanks to the help of her former Producer Paul Snook of Night Owl Studios, NYC, and Kieran Pardias of Cove City Sound Studios. The production quality is high caliber: Ranging from pop/rock/hot ac, to simple acoustic with an emphasis on the lyric and simplicity of the voice. Ms. Linden has already been licensing her tunes to Music Libraries for Film and TV Placement.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/KamaLinden

Laura Roppé is a passionate singer/songwriter who was selected as runner up in Kenny Chesney’s Next Big Star Competition in May 2008 in San Diego. Laura is best known for her grass roots anthem, “Mama Needs A Girls Night Out,” but the twelve original songs on Laura’s full length debut CD “Girl Like This” reflect a range of songs and musical styles from country rock, folk rock, Americana to southern rock. Each song is unique — alternatively showcasing rockers, anthems, mid-tempo grooves, and ballads –but all songs are written by Laura from the heart, with catchy choruses, infectious melodies, and clever lyrics. Add to the mix Laura’s sultry, confident vocal delivery and impeccable back up harmonies, and you’ve got a debut album that commands your attention. As the title track says, “You’ve never seen a girl like this.”

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/LauraRoppe

Talent, beauty and intrigue come in many forms, but you can find all three in Minneapolis native, Breanna. With a compelling voice as natural and soulful as she is unassuming and alluring, the young artist from the Twin Cities suburb of Eagan makes quite an impression whenever she performs.

“There’s something very special about her voice,” says Grammy-nominated producer, Jud Friedman, recalling the first time he heard her sing, “…she’s got this sound in her that is so soulful and emotional. Breanna’s voice stands out; it has power and passion.”

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at www.airplaydirect.com/breanna

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