Radio

 

Looking for radio spins, interviews, and on-air performances to promote a new album, show, or tour?…Well you’ve come to the right place.

Welcome to Indie on the Move’s compiled listing of radio stations and media contacts for bands and musicians looking to better promote and expose their music to the masses (click on a state name for city by city radio listings and contact links).

We did our best to include a thorough and comprehensive listing for all of the 50 states (including College, Commercial, and Online radio stations), but if for some reason we’ve overlooked a station that you believe belongs on the site, please let us know through the contact page located HERE so that we can add it ASAP.

If you’re seeking further insight into radio airplay and general radio promotion, we recommend the following posts:

+Radio Airplay 101 – Which Stations to Choose

+Radio Promo Exec, Dale Connone, Talks Finding Radio Promotion for Indie Artists!

+Radio Promo Tips

And by all means, while you’re visiting us please take a look around the site. Indie on the Move is THE independent music community’s home for show and tour booking. From music venues, show availabilities, and press and radio contacts to booking agents, band managers, and record labels, we’ve got it all right here for you to take advantage of.

– See more at: http://www.indieonthemove.com/radio#sthash.HLyfPPmr.dpuf

The President of Virgin Records said to one of our associates who has recently toured the world with Red Jump Suit Apparatus and Paramore, “You cannot tour without radio airplay”.  Thats a fact because no one will know who you are. This does not mean you have to have a charted hit to tour a specific area of the world.

First, you need to hire a radio promotions company who gets your music to the world, not just a few stations in the US. You can do all the data research you want, but until you release your music to the world, you will not know what areas of the world will play you.   Contact the stations that are playing you and thank them. Offer them radio liners, radio interviews and offer to send them a dozen promo give- away cds. Radio likes to offer their listening audience give- aways. To give your cds away, they play you more, mention who you are more and increase your exposure.

Once you have done this you are that radio stations friend. So ask the stations that are playing you who their advertising venues are. Get their contact information. Call, email those venues. Tell them you are playing on xyz radio station in their town and want to come to their town to perform. Let the radio stations know you are going to do this and they will back you because if the venue hires you the venue will hire them to advertise the performance. This will get you even more exposure on that radio station.

Radio will love you because they got the venues advertising dollars because of you. You get a performance date that is well advertised and a radio station that is playing your music and supporting you. Most likely when you go to perform you will have a full house of people who came to see you. You will sell merchandise, gain fans and if you do a good performance be asked to come back again. Everyone wins.

Odds are you will not become a superstar overnight and it will take several releases, but it will build your business and allow you to tour.

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Google “radio airplay” – the pages come up one after another: Guaranteed Airplay, We will get you played on the internet, We’ll make you a star. The list goes on and on. Who do you go to?  What do you do? Your an indie artist with a great song. You don’t have much money so you go to the cheap site –  Yes, 150 bucks we will get you played. Played on what?

OK, so they are gonna let you load up one song on their website and radio is going to sign into their site and listen to thousands of songs and they are going to find yours and get you played worldwide. If you buy that one I have a bridge in Brooklyn I will sell cheap.

An average radio station gets 300 to 500 submissions a week and that is from legitimate radio promoters plus the CDs they get from indie bands. Now you’re supposed to believe that the one person in that radio station is going to have time after they listen to 500 new artists submissions to go sign into a radio site and wade through a few thousand other songs? Don’t think so.

You have heard the old expression “pay peanuts and you get elephants”. You spared no expense creating and recording it. Now you’re out of money and you think this song is so good everyone is gonna’ want to play it. You just have to get it to them.

Bottom line is if you want radio airplay you have to get it heard by the decision makers. That’s the radio programmers and station music directors.

Stephen WrenchPresident, Musik Radio Promotions

Singer/Songwriter/Producer

The biggest problem independent artists’ face is obscurity. You can have extraordinary songs, but if nobody is listening
to them you will never achieve major success. It’s more than just having a great product or a catchy tune, you need to
promote your brand. People need to get to know you, and they need to be inspired by you. As an artist, you need to
connect with your audience in a personal way.
The good news is we are living in amazing times where technology has made this process so much easier than in the
past. The barriers to entry have been lowered so that you don’t have to rely on a producer or a major label to reach an
audience.   www.songwritingpodcast.com

Musik and Film Records is proud to announce the label’s 2nd release by Bryce Wastney, the hit single, ‘You Got Me’.

The release of  “You Got Me”, co-produced with Musik and Film productions, coincides with Wastney’s national tour of New Zealand on the ‘Songbook and Six String’ tour with fellow singer-songwriter, the internationally acclaimed Paul Ubana Jones.

It was one short year ago that New Zealander, Wastney began a fruitful relationship with Stephen Wrench and Musik and Film.“Bryce cut through the hundreds of demos that come across my desk with a talent that hit me between the eyes”. He has a knack for story-telling and the honesty he projects in his music draws in the listener,” says Wrench of working with Wastney.

It has seemed to be a match made in heaven.  Wastney, working with  Musik and Film Productions, released his new single “Dead Man Walking” in May 2013.   A  campaign began with Musik Radio Promotions and the single is now playing on 20,000+ stations around the world. The single also reached #2 on New Zealand’s iTunes country charts and led to a guitar endorsement from Martin guitars.

Bryce’s music traverses folk, country, rock and pop – always soulful whatever the genre. It’s the ideal soundtrack for the traveler and free spirit in us all.

For more information visit Bryce on the wall of success or go to www.brycewastney.com.

With the premise of being transmitted from a derelict space station in the far reaches of the galaxy using instruments salvaged from a cargo bay and corroding electrical terminals, ‘A Day in the Life of a Universal Wanderer’ is the latest Prog-Rock offering  from Gandalf’s Fist.

Musik and Film Records and affiliate company, Musik Radio Promotions, will be promoting the album in a global radio campaign with the potential of reaching 150,000+ stations.

Those lucky enough to intercept the signal on their primitive terrestrial audio-decoders will be treated to a cosmic jam across space and time exploring a mythical figure from the 26th Century – ‘The Universal Wanderer’ – whose legend tells of a figure who has wandered the cosmos from the birth of existence to the end of time.

Even when caught out of time and stranded beyond the borders of a decaying Black Hole, you can still expect Gandalf’s Fist to deliver the goods with their unique brand of Medieval Space Rock! Tracks such as the epic doom-laden jazz of “The Nine Billion Names of God” fit perfectly alongside the anthemic choruses of “Stowaway to the Mushroom Planet” and the renaissance-whimsy of “The Battle for Tannhäuser Gate”, creating one of the most engaging albums to be recorded from the far side of the solar system.

Based in Cumbria UK, Gandalf’s Fist is the creative collaboration between Dean Marsh and Luke Severn. Having receiving fantastic reception for their previous two releases, both of which received the ‘album of the year’ award from Music Street Journal, the duo are now joined by a host of guest musicians from around the world with tracks from the release already being picked up by national radio stations.

Released via US Label Musik & Film, for more information and preview samples of the record can be found at www.gandalfsfist.com.