Share Coast 2 Coast New Music Industry Convention Announced for August 27th-29th in Miami, FL Coast 2 Coast Mixtapes & Magazine announce the 2nd Annual Coast 2 Coast Convention to take place in Miami, FL August 27th-29th. The conference will be attended by a large list of music industry guests and sponsors such as iStandardProducers.com, [...]

Share For all those out there that have always dreamed of having their own radio station we have found the easiest solution, Live365.  The internet radio service has over 6000 stations run by independent programmers like yourselves, not preprogrammed commercial garbage.  The ease of access allows real people to play real music 24/7 to a [...]

Share Unless you have worked for the radio department of a label, or else you have worked for an independent promoter or radio magazine, you probably have never heard of an “add date”. But the “add date” is probably the most basic building block of both commercial and college airplay, and it is used in [...]

Share Many people, when planning the date that their radio campaign will start, think that starting the campaign at a certain time of the year will make a huge difference in the outcome of the project. It won’t. There are many other factors which are far more important, and these factors will determine what happens [...]

Share When working with the mass media (radio, TV, papers, magazines), one thing to keep in mind is that they are just that… MASS… and anything you can do to let radio know that you are building a mass story for your artist will help tremendously in your ability to get airplay. A special note [...]

Share A specialty show or a mixshow is a one or two hour show on a commercial station, usually late at night, and many times on the weekends, which plays music that the station normally does not play. A disadvantage of these shows is that you get only one or two spins per week on [...]