It’s Fall and we know what that means for the industry: the CMJ Music Marathon. CMJ will host a series of events from October 16th to 20th in NYC. These events will bring everyone from music reps and artists to college radios, college students, and professional radio (basically everyone) together.
Amid all this excitement, Pirate! will be broadcasting LIVE from Fontana’s on October 17th, starting at 12PM all the way through to 6PM. What is Pirate! you ask? Pirate! (I really like saying that) is an independent marketing and management agency from Boston that promotes music to radio stations, college students and websites in North America. Pirate! has promoted artists such as Matt & Kim, The Temper Trap, Wilco, Silversun Pickups, Tegan & Sara, Tom Waits, The Black Keys, The White Stripes and Mates of State. They work with labels such as Barsuk, RCA, Atlantic Records, Epic Records, Roadrunner, TKO, Warner Brothers and TVT [cough The Orchard]. Pirate! has also marketed products and events to tastemakers such as HBO, Target, Levi’s and provides the service to alert radio stations about ongoing tours while promoting ticket giveaways, interviews for emerging artists.
Next week, Pirate! will be broadcasting live music from the likes of Conveyor, Sean Rowe, Pretty & Nice, Mean Creek, Generationals, and Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes. In between artists, various speakers from CMJ, students from colleges and other radio professionals will be promoting music, talking about music, and radio and interviewing the featured artists live on the airwaves. It’s a great way for people to get together and talk about what everyone seems to have in common: their passion for the music industry.
See ya there!
The 2012 edition of the CMJ Music Marathon may still be a couple of weeks off but we’ve already been excitedly penciling in our (exhausting!) show schedules and RSVP’ing to every party invitation that comes through the ol’ digital transom.
We’ve also assembled Spotify and Rdio playlists for some of our favorite Orchard artists performing at this year’s festival. Hopefully it makes some of your decisions easier.
We here present you with CMJ 2012: The Bands, The Music, The City. Happy CMJ!
Happy Friday and Happy August, Freeloaders! We can’t believe how fast the summer has flown by already. So to start August off with a bang, we have a lot of free tracks and videos for you today from Beach Day, Conveyor, Lovely Bad Things, Menahan Street Band, Matthew Dear and TESTAMENT.
Happy listening!
Beach Day: “Beach Day” via SoundCloud or YouTube
Beach Day out now on Kanine Records
Conveyor: “Woolgatherer” via SoundCloud
Conveyor out now on Paper Garden Records
Lovely Bad Things: “I Just Want You To Go Away” and “Dinosaur Song” via YouTube
New Ghost/Old Waves out now on Volcom Entertainment
Menahan Street Band: “The Crossing” via RollingStone
The Crossing out October 30th via Dunham/Daptone Records
Matthew Dear: “Her Fantasy (Poolside Remix)” via Pitchfork
Beams out August 28th via Ghostly International
TESTAMENT: “Native Blood” via YouTube
Dark Roots of Earth out now via Nuclear Blast Records
Once upon a time, there were 4 kids from Florida passionate about music. Each one in turn headed North, from Gainesville to New York City, leading to the formation of a psychedelic Indie Rock Pop band named Conveyor.
After the release of Sun Ray, a debut EP in Spring 2011 and a handful of self-released EPs, the Brooklyn-based quartet officially released their full-length self-titled album with Brooklyn’s Paper Garden Records on July 17… And the results are very exciting!
Digital retail, physical, college radios, new sessions, in-stores, features, reviews, interviews… no ideas were spared to promote the new Conveyor album.
On the digital retail front, Conveyor by Conveyor has been performing really well, with features in various curated sections on iTunes (U.S. and Australia), Amazon and Rekiosk.com, a brand new retailer where fans, bloggers and tastemakers act as distributors, and everybody gets paid. It’s an exciting new venture and Conveyor is one of the first to set up shop there!
From Daytrotter, Grooveshark and Hipstamatic to Indie Rock Cafe, The Deli Magazine, Listen Before You Buy, and Buzz Bands LA to name a few, industry and press continue to love Conveyor as well. Need proof?
Not bad, right?
See what all the fuss is about and catch Conveyor on iTunes, listen to “Woolgatherer” on Soundcloud and/or purchase your colored 12″ vinyl or CD here.
Want to see them live? Catch them on one of their tour dates, below:
