AirPlay Direct Celebrates Two-Year Anniversary
Cutting edge online company streamlines and defines industry standards for independent artist promotion in a digital world.
Atlanta, GA - In just 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 includes over 7,600 artist and label members, and over 1,700 radio station members. AirPlay Direct’s professional membership now spans 87 countries globally.
It is no secret that the Music Industry paradigm is rapidly changing; more and more, industry professionals and content providers alike rely upon digital methods of obtaining and distributing music, especially in the business -to-business realm.
Each day artists and record labels turn to AirPlay Direct to get advice and guidance on how to improve their professional growth. The company’s loyal and growing member base is the result of personal recommendations and personal relationships. Each month over 30,000 unique visitors view more than 1,900,000 artist pages and are responsible for over 2,700,000 hits on AirPlayDirect.com.
To date AirPlay Direct has delivered over 700,000 digital packages to music industry professionals on behalf of their artist and label members; including over 37,000 new tracks to radio. With the average cost of a hard copy artist package set at $10, AirPlay Direct has saved their members over $7,000,000 in hard costs and has become the #1 free electronic press kit service in the world.
“As I look back over the past two years I am filled with a deep sense of pride at what we have accomplished as a company. We have helped to shape and define the current landscape of the newly emerging digital music industry, and we will continue to strive earnestly towards our goals of true independent artist advocacy, education and empowerment” said Robert Weingartz, CEO and Founder of AirPlay Direct. “I am also very proud of AirPlay Direct’s eco-friendly solution to the issue of CD waste in our industry. By utilizing AirPlay Direct’s digital platform artists, record labels and music industry professionals can cut costs, increase their speed to market and contribute to the health and well being of our planet.”
For more information on AirPlay Direct’s free digital delivery services and how you can start putting more money on your bottom line please visit www.AirPlayDirect.com
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News from Chavis Records
FREE the first track from REHAB, the explosive new effort from vocalist Kevin DuBrow, drummer Frankie Banali, bassist Tony Franklin, and guitarist Neil Citron, is being released to radio stations worldwide via AirPlay Direct.
“Radio servicing is a major cost. Servicing can run into major dollars and just adds to the overall expenses for a project. AirPlay Direct eliminates those expenses by delivering radio ready material FREE at an instant” says CEO Bill Chavis.
QUIET RIOT is a featured artist at AirPlay Direct and radio program directors can easily access QUIET RIOT material at: http://www.airplaydirect.com/music/bands/2668/index.php
REHAB is distributed by BCD Music Group and is available in the US nationwide. QUIET RIOT will be embarking on a tour in support of REHAB. Visit www.frankie-banali.com or Pollstar.com for tour dates.
REHAB is currently creating a positive vibe in the industry as well as with fans. QUIET RIOT’s latest effort is once again at the forefront of the remergence of rock n’ roll!
Visit www.chavisrecords.net for more information.
Radio Programmers Newsletter: October 4, 2007
AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our sponsor for the October 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
Airplay Direct Featured Artists for October
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DeanaCarter
Award-winning singer/songwriter/performer Deana Carter unveils The Chain, her fifth studio record October 9th on Vanguard Records.
Each of the 12 songs on The Chain has a special importance to Deana, who personally chose material that had a great impact on her early life. She took the same care in recruiting collaborators for the project, assembling a group of musicians who influenced her as an artist — none more greatly than her father, legendary session player Fred Carter, Jr, who performs throughout the album. “Ever since I knew that music was going to be my life’s path, I’ve wanted to pay tribute to my dad and to the artists who were so good to me and my family. The camaraderie between them, and the way they took our family and made it part of their families, was so unique that I wanted to recapture it for a little while,” states Deana.
The Chain features duets with Deana and some of country music’s royalty: Kris Kristofferson (Help Me Make It Through The Night), Dolly Parton (Love Is Like A Butterfly), Jessi Colter (I’m Not Lisa), Willie Nelson (On The Road Again), George Jones (He Thinks I Still Care) and John Anderson (Swingin’). The CD also includes two of music’s rising stars, Shooter Jennings on “Good Hearted Woman”, the song made famous by his father, the great Waylon Jennings, and Harper Simon on “The Boxer,” a nod to his Dad, Paul Simon who plays guitar on this track. The Chain also features stunning solo recordings of Deana performing such classics as “Lay Lady Lay”, “The Weight”, “Crying” and “Old Man”.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/1rko
In our current landscape singers don’t sing, they lip-sync and players don’t play, they pantomime to backing tracks. Many artists act as if it’s an imposition to perform to their fans, and it shows. Enter First Round Knockout aka 1RKO, with over 100,000 hits on their website, 1RKO is proving that authenticity does matter. With raw musicality, infectious energy and the purpose to headline stadiums this band is at the peak of their expression staking out the territory where talent does make a difference.
The name 1RKO comes from the notion and the mission of re-creating the original larger than life experience that rock n roll is supposed to bring, an explosion of strength, and emotion. When asked to describe their approach to their work they see it as a process of discovery where you are naked, authentic, ignore trends and take the bull by the horns. Whether it’s Simon belting one of his scorching melodic vocals or furiously playing lead guitar, Brian shaking the ground with his larger than life bass, Derek making your hair stand up with his tone from hell or Rich banging the hell out of his drum kit, 1RKO
is the real deal. A band that can really play with chops to bring the house down.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DubStationReggaeArtists
Dub Station is both long established (over a decade) and up-and-coming (still broadening its global support base).
Having won awards, performed internationally (including twice this year in Jamaica) - backed dozens of regional & touring acts (including Abijah, Everton Blender + many more) - as well as having hosted or acted as support for most of the big names in the business (Jimmy Cliff to the Wailers, Toots to Buju Banton and Beres Hammond), Dub Station is a club & Festival favorite.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/CaliforniaTransitAuthority
California Transit Authority (CTA) is drummer Danny Seraphine’s trip back to the future, effectively tipping his hat to his past with his feet firmly planted in the here and now. Aptly titled ‘Full Circle’, CTA’s debut album brings Seraphine back to his roots.
While CTA revisits early Chicago classics “I’m A Man,” “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” on FULL CIRCLE, CTA isn’t just a nostalgia trip. For example, “Make Me Smile” has been transformed into an instrumental, with Bonilla recreating the vocal lines on guitar. In addition, the guitarist has also reimagined many of Chicago’s classic horn parts on his guitar. Another twist is vocalist Braggs, the voice of Tower of Power since 2000.
Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/CountRidicula
Romance is what’s on this vampire’s mind. A once-a-year occurrence for this guy, the character Count Ridicula is induced annually by the practice of dressing as a vampire for Halloween. This unsuspecting everyday Joe undergoes a total transformation and goes trick-or-treating … one night every year.
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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.comOlde
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