This is for any artist / musician / band out there that are creating original material.
Are you aware of the service provided by The National Campus and Community Radio Association Inc.?
In conjunction with Canadian campus and community radio stations, and the Canadian music industry (record labels, distributors, independent artists, etc.), they all have come together to develop the !earshot Digital Distribution System.
!earshot-Distro is an online platform that will allow the Canadian music industry to upload musical recordings to be searched, reviewed, and downloaded by campus and community radio stations to be broadcast across Canada.
There’s a lot of reading on their site but essentially it seems that:
(a) you pay them about $50 (or $7 if you just have song)
(b) you upload your album
(c) about 100 college / campus / community radio stations can then have access to your music and (maybe) play it …
So, I guess it’s all about exposure. Give it a read and see if it’s for you.
!earshot send out an email to all these radio stations every Monday.
Here’s a list of the radio stations feeding off this system:
102.7 CHOP FM, Ontario (Newmarket)
91X, Ontario (Belleville)
92.1 FM (French), Cornwall (Ontario)
93.3 CFMU-FM, Ontario (Hamilton)
Amherst Island Radio, Ontario (Stella)
Bay of Islands Radio 100.1 FM, Newfoundland and Labrador (Corner Brook)
Bluewater Radio, Ontario (Hanover)
Brock University Student Radio, Ontario (St. Catharines)
Canadian Homegrown Community Radio, Ontario (Killaloe)
Canoe FM, Ontario (Haliburton)
Caper Radio, Nova Scotia (Sydney)
Carlsbad Vars Radio, Ontario (Carlsbad Spring)
CFBX 92.5 FM, British Columbia (Kamloops)
CFIS, British Columbia (Prince George)
CFRC, Ontario (Kingston)
CFUR Radio, British Columbia (Prince George)
CFUV 101.9 FM, British Columbia (Victoria)
CHFR-FM, British Columbia (Hornby Island)
CHMA-FM, New Brunswick (Sackville)
CHMR-FM, Newfoundland and Labrador (St. John’s)
CHOQ FM 105.1, Ontario (Toronto)
CHRI-FM, British Columbia (Saltspring Island)
CHSR, New Brunswick (Fredericton)
CHUO 89.1 FM, Ontario (Ottawa)
CHYZ 94.3 FM, Quebec (Quebec City)
CIDI 99.1 FM, Quebec (Brome Lake)
CITR Discorder, British Columbia (Vancouver)
CIUT-FM 89.5 FM, Ontario (Toronto)
CIVL Radio, British Columbia (Abbotsford)
CJAM FM, Ontario (Windsor)
CJLO, Montreal (Quebec)
CJMQ-FM 88.9 FM, Quebec (Sherbrooke)
CJSE Country 89, New Brunswick (Shediac)
CJSR 88.5 FM, Alberta (Edmonton)
CJSW Radio, Alberta (Calgery)
CJUC, Yukon (Whitehorse)
CKCU FM, Ontario (Ottawa)
CKDJ 107.9 Ottawa’s New Music, Ontario (Ottawa)
CKDU 88.1 FM, Nova Scotia (Halifax)
CKLU 96.7FM, Ontario (Sudbury)
CKMS 102.7 FM, Ontario (Waterloo)
CKUA Radio Network, Alberta (Various)
CKUT 90.3fm, Quebec (Montreal)
CKUW FM, Manitoba (Winnipeg)
CKXU 88.3 FM, Alberta (Lethridge)
Cortes Community Radio, British Columbia (Manons Landing)
Cove FM, Nova Scotia (Hubbards)
Creek FM, Saskatchewan (Okanese First Nation)
Dolphin Radio WXDR-LP, Louisiana (Orleans)
Durham Flavour Community Radio, Ontario (Region of Durham)
ELMNT FM, Ontario (Toronto & Ottawa)
Erin Community Radio, Ontario (Erin)
euroRADIO, Alberta (Nanton)
Evolution 107.9, British Columbia (Burnaby)
Free 99, Texas (Big Sandy)
Funky Moose Radio, n/a (n/a)
Global Community Radio, New York (Geneva)
Golden Coop Radio, British Columbia (Golden)
Heatwave Radio, British Columbia (Kelowna)
KMRE FM, Washington (Bellingham)
Kootenay Co-op Radio, British Columbia (Nelson)
Local 107.3 FM, New Brunswick (Saint John)
LU Radio, Ontario (Thunder Bay)
Nostalgia Broadcasting Cooperative, Manitoba (Winnipeg)
Paqtnkek Radio Society, Nova Scotia (Paqtnkek Mi’kmaw Nation)
Peace FM, British Columbia (Chetwynd)
Peach City Radio, British Columbia (Penticton)
Powel River Community Radio, British Columbia (Powel River)
Queens Country Community Radio, Nova Scotia (Liverpool)
Radio CjRc, Ontario (Clarence Rockland)
Radio County FM, Ontario (Picton)
Radio Malaspina Society, British Columbia (Nanaimo)
Radio Regent, Ontario (Toronto)
Radio Sidney, British Columbia (Sidney)
Radio Webphré, Québec (Magog)
Radio Western, Ontario (London)
Regina Community Radio, Saskatchewan (Regina)
San Lorenzo Community Radio AM, Ontario (Toronto)
Saskatoon Community Radio, Saskatchewan (Saskatoon)
Seaside FM, Nova Scotia (Halifax)
Sheridan Life Radio, Ontario (Mississauga)
Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society, British Columbia (Burnaby)
Small Town Radio, Ontario (Port Hope)
Smithers Community Radio Society, British Columbia (Smithers)
Stoke FM, British Columbia (Revelstoke)
The Bay 88.7 FM, Ontario (Huntsville)
The Cave, Ontario (Kingston)
The Coast, Nova Scotia (Glace Bay)
The Fox, Antigonish (Nova Scotia)
The Scope at Ryerson, Ontario (Toronto)
The Spirit of Dawson, Yukon (Dawson)
The X, Ontario (London)
Trent Radio, Ontario (Peterborough)
U Radio Canada, Manitoba (Winnipeg)
UMFM, Manitoba (Winnipeg)
University of Guelph Radio, Ontario (Guelph)
Valley Heritage Radio, Ontario (Renfrew)
Valley Radio 94.5 FM, Newfoundland (Grand Falls-Windsor)
Vancouver CO-OP Radio, British Columbia (Vancouver)
Vernon Community Radio Society, British Columbia (Vernon)
Vibe 105, Ontario (Toronto)
Voice of Bonnie Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador (Norris Point)
Voice of the Shuswap, British Columbia (Salmon Arm)
Whistle FM, Ontario (Witchchurch – Stouffville)
WXYC 89.3 FM, Chapel Hill (North Carolina)