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AF PROMO LIST COMPILED BY ANDREW CLIFFORD AND SAM STEPHENS FROM POSTMODERNCORE


If you’re pressing thousands of CDs, then you’ll want to circulate it as widely as possible to be sure of trying every potential outlet for some free promotion. More likely you’ll be doing a small run of around a 100 or so, so you’ll want to be more selective, sending copies only to the people you’d most like to impress and/or are more likely to give you some exposure.
Bigger is not necessarily better. Having your release played to a small but appreciative target audience on a low-power FM station could be more useful than having it reviewed by an indifferent mainstream publication with an uninterested readership. On the other hand, don’t just preach to the converted and give all your promo allocation to the few people who would’ve brought a copy – you’d be surprised how many people out there might be interested in buying your CD or going to your gig if they actually knew about it.

Radio:
In theory, sending one CD to a station should mean that the programme director gets to consider it for playlisting and it should go into some sort of library that all the DJs have access to. The reality is that you’ll need to send a disk to each person you think might play it, or at least let them know about it so they can go find whose desk it has ended up sitting on. If there are only one or two spots on the station likely to play your stuff anyway, then just send it to those people.

Radio New Zealand, PO Box 123, Wellington www.radionz.co.nz
ConcertFM – Kate Mead produces The Sound Lounge soundlounge@[no_spam]radionz.co.nz
National Radio – Music Features/Library – Kirsten Johnstone
Homegrown, produced by Sam Wicks Homegrown@[no_spam]radionz.co.nz
The Music Mix, produced by Richard Wain, Andrew Clifford is a contributor
Themix@[no_spam]radionz.co.nz
The Sampler, produced by Nick Bollinger thesampler@[no_spam]radionz.co.nz
Fleet FM – Auckland and Wellington www.fleetfm.co.nz
bNet – www.b-net.co.nz
National network of ‘student/alternative’ stations, including:
95bFM – Auckland www.95bfm.com
PO Box 4560, Shortland Street, Auckland 1001, New Zealand
If it’s got a groove, it might go on Tuesday’s Stinky Grooves
If there’s an improv factor, it could sneak into the Sunday Jazz show
Or maybe Freak the Sheep, the NZ music show is feeling brave…
Most FM – Nelson www.mostfm.co.nz
Radio Active – Wellington www.radioactive.fm agency@[no_spam]radioactive.co.nz
PO Box 11-971, Wellington, New Zealand
RDU 98.5FM – Christchurch www.rdu.org.nz station@[no_spam]rdu.org.nz
P.O. Box 31-311, Ilam, Christchurch, New Zealand
Radio Control – Palmerston North www.radiocontrol.org.nz
Private bag 11222, Massey University 5301, Palmerston North, New Zealand
pd@[no_spam]radiocontrol.org.nz
Radio One – Dunedin www.r1.co.nz
PO Box 1436, Dunedin, New Zealand
The Sound Mine with Stanier Black-Five – alternate Mondays on RDU?
PO Box 2, Oxford, 8253, New Zealand stanier_black5@[no_spam]hotmail.com
KiwiFM – 100% NZ music – dunno if there’s any interesting stuff though.
The Beach – Barry Jenkin’s new station on Waiheke – anyone tried it or on it?
Australia
I’ve heard some good community stations, similar to Fleet, but can’t find all exact details right now. Here’s a few.
FBI – Sydney www.fbi.org.au Sunday Night at the Movies has good stuff
2SER FM – Sydney www.2ser.com Saturdays 3-5pm recommended
4ZzZ FM - Brisbane NZ Music Show (Graeme) and AudioPollen (Lloyd)
c/ 4ZzZ FM, PO Box 509, Fortitude Valley QLD 4006, Australia
? - Melbourne

United Kingdom
Resonance FM – London www.resonancefm.com info@[no_spam]resonancefm.com
Resonance104.4fm, 9 Denmark Street, London WC2H 8LS, UK
ATTN: Adventures in Modern Music
United States
WFMU – www.wfmu.org
c/o Brian Turner (Music/Program Director)
PO Box 5101, Hoboken, NJ 07030, USA

WCBN-FM – www.wcbn.org music@[no_spam]wcbn.org
530 Student Activities Building, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1316, USAPrint:


Like radio, in theory you should only have to send a CD to the editor and it will find its way to the appropriate person. But, if you can get a contact, it can help if you send stuff directly to the writer who will be most interested.
NZ Herald – Auckland-based newspaper; Entertainment editor Russell Bailie.
Other music writers Scott Kara, Graeme Reid and William Dart

www.nzherald.co.nz
Sunday Star-Times – Sunday paper; Kiran Dass/Grant Smithies
Dominion Post –John Kennedy does some reviews
Otago Daily Times ?
Christchurch Press ?
NZ Listener – weekly magazine www.nzlistener.co.nz
Music reviews from Jon Bywater, Stinky Jim and Nick Bollinger
Metro – monthly magazine; Gary Steel does reviews
Rip It Up – bi-monthly Apr/May, Jun/Jul
Real Groove – monthly mag www.realgroove.co.nz
NZ Musician – bi-monthly mag plus website
PO Box 99-315, Newmarket, Auckland, New Zealand
www.nzmusician.co.nz info@[no_spam]nzmusician.co.nz
Citymix – Marty Duda does music
Groove Guide – weekly national get-out guide with reviews
Fink – weekly Dunedin get-out guide (with reviews?)
The Fix – weekly Auckland get out guide with reviews
Pavement – quarterly magazine; Editor Bernard McDonald
Pulp Magazine – frequency?
Remix magazine – frequency?
Drill – occasional zine for powertool records (still going?)
Natural Selection – digital (pdf) publication of NZ/Oz arts and stuff
Australia
CYCLIC DEFROST – www.cyclicdefrost.com info@[no_spam]cyclicdefrost,com
P.O.Box A2073, Sydney South, NSW, 1235, Australia

International
THE WIRE – www.thewire.co.uk david@[no_spam]thewire.co.uk
23 Jack's Place, 6 Corbet Place, London E1 6NN, UK
BLASTITUDE – www.blastitude.com larry@[no_spam]blastitude.com
1517 W. Fullerton Ave, Chicago, IL 60614, USA

DUSTED – www.dustedmagazine.com dusted@[no_spam]dustedmagazine.com
P.O. Box 1232, New York, NY 10018-9998, USA

VITAL WEEKLY – c/o Frans de Waard
Acaciastraat 11, 6521 NE Nijmegen, The Netherlands
contact@[no_spam]staalplaat.com

Web places:
Good places to put gig notices and release info. Some do music reviews.
www.audiofoundation.org.nz
www.thebigidea.co.nz – general arts website
www.amplifier.co.nz – mp3 distribution
www.nzmusician.co.nz
www.cheeseontoast – gig listings
www.loudmouth.co.nz – gig listings
www.exportgold.co.nz – gig listings
www.aucklandevents.co.nz – gig listings
http://thebigcity.co.nz/
www.artscalendar.co.nz
www.scoop.co.nz
www.bands.co.nz
www.nzmusic.co.nz
www.muzic.net.nz
www.noizyland.com
www.nzmusic.com

PARIS TRANSATLANTIC – www.paristransatlantic.com
Dan Warburton, Editor in Chief, Paris Transatlantic Media
47 rue Richer, 75009 PARIS, France PTEditor@[no_spam]aol.com

PITCHFORK MEDIA – www.pitchforkmedia.com mail@[no_spam]pitchforkmedia.com
3147 W. Logan Blvd. #5E, Chicago, IL 60647, USA

PERFECT SOUND FOREVER – www.furious.com
ALL MUSIC GUIDE – www.allmusic.com
Product Submissions, All Media Guide, 1168 Oak Valley Drive
Ann Arbor, MI 48108 Product_Submissions@[no_spam]allmusic.com

Labels/ distributors/stores:

There's tons more I could add here but it kinda goes on forever. Best thing is probably to look at a comparable (NZ) artist/label's website and see who they're distributing through in each territory/country. That way you've already got a proven track record of them being into similar stuff and/or from NZ. CMR has a good distribution list on their site and FatCat has a great resource for DIY people with labels, manufacturers etc.

Acroma – monthly Auckland gigs, store and mail order
www.cmr.co.nz/acroma mpfaudio@[no_spam]hotmail.com
PO Box 911135, Auckland Mail Centre, New Zealand
Celebrate Psi Phenomenon – www.birchville.sphosting.com/label.htm
NZ
Smoke CDs – online retail www.smokecds.co.nz
NZ
Corpus Hermeticum - www.noise.as
PO Box 124, Lyttelton, New Zealand
Inertia – Australian distributors
www.inertia-music.com info@[no_spam]inertia-music.com
Po Box 84, Surry Hills, NSW 2010, Australia
Postmoderncore - www.postmoderncore.com
NZ
Pseudoarcana - www.sphosting.com/pseudoarcana/pseudo.htm
NZ
Synaesthesia Records – Melbourne store and distributors
http://www.synrecords.com mail@[no_spam]synrecords.com
GPO BOX 1117, Melbourne, VIC 3001, Australia
Teledu Records
PO Box 2028, Lygon St North, Brunswick East, VIC 3057
Australia paul@[no_spam]teledurecords.com
Cold Spring – www.coldspring.co.uk demos@[no_spam]coldspring.co.uk
Po Box 40, Long Buckby, Northants, NN6 7PT, England, UK
FatCat Records – www.fat-cat.co.uk info@[no_spam]fat-cat.co.uk
PO Box 3400, Brighton, BN1 4WG UK
Has a great DIY resource section of labels etc. on their website.
ReR Megacorp - Megacorp@[no_spam]dial.pipex.com
79 Beulah Rd, Thornton Heath, Surrey CR7 8JG, UK
muze mail order
3 princess parade, bury BL9 0QL, UK
Sound 323 – sound.323@[no_spam]virgin.net
323 Achway Road, Highgate, London N6 5AA, UK
Touch - www.touchmusic.org.uk
UK
Metamkine – www.metamkine.com info@[no_spam]metamkine.com
50 Passage des Ateliers, 38140 Rives, France
NaniNani – http://naninanicorp.free.fr naninanicorp@[no_spam]free.fre
11 rue du relais de la poste, 27550 Nassandres, France
A-Musik – www.a-musik.com mail@[no_spam]a-musik.com
Kleiner Griechenmarkt 28-30, 50676 Cologne, Germany
Drone Records – www.dronerecords.de drone@[no_spam]dronerecords.de
Stefan Knappe, Gertrudenstrasse 32, 28203, Bremen, Germany
Staalplaat – www.staalplaat.com mailorder@[no_spam]staalplaat.com
PO Box 540 205, D-10042 Berlin, Germany
White Noise Records – www.whitenoiserecords.org whitenoise@[no_spam]netvigator.com
1/F, 4 Canal Road East, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
Fringes Recordings – www.fringesrecordings.com ielasi@[no_spam]fringesrecordings.com
c/o Giuseppe Ielasi, Piazza S. Francesco 2, 20059 Oreno di Vimercate (MI), Italy
MSBR Records – www.msbr.com mail@[no_spam]msbr.com
Koji Tano, 2-8-4 Ohara Setagaya, Tokyo 156-0041, Japan
Arsonal – www.arsonal.net arsenal@[no_spam]arsonal.net
Centre per a la difusio de les arts sonores
Apartat de Correus 9500, 08080 Barcelona, Spain
Scratch – www.scratchrecords.com
Canada
Aquarius Records – San Francisco store and mail-order
www.aquariusrecords.org store@[no_spam]aquariusrecords.org
1055 Valencia Street, San Francisco, California 94110, USA
Carbon Records – www.carbonrecords.com joe@[no_spam]carbonrecords.com
PO Box 10718, Rochester, NY 14610, USA
CDemusic – International new music distribution (USA)
http://www.cdemusic.org/
Drag City
Eclipse Records - ed@[no_spam]eclipse-records.com
2172 Sierra Santiago, Bullhead City, AZ 86442, USA
ecstatic peace – www.ecstaticpeace.com andrew@[no_spam]ecstaticpeace.com
116 Pleasant Street suite 3406, Easthampton, MA 0102, USA
Flipped Out Records – flipped@[no_spam]nycap.rr.com
PO Box 8656, Albany, New York 12208, USA
www.forcedexposure.com
PO Box 1611, Waltham, MA 02254, USA
mailorder@[no_spam]forcedexposure.com
Fusetron Records – www.fusetronsound.com orders@[no_spam]fusetronsound.com
284 Graham Ave #3, Brooklyn, NY11211-4903, USA
Last Visible Dog – www.lastvisibledog.com lastvisibledog@[no_spam]gmail.com
PO Box 2631, Providence RI 02906, USA
Specialises in NZ underground stuff
Neptune Records – www.neptunerecords.com info@[no_spam]neptuneRecords.com
12 E. 4th Street, Royal Oak, MI 48067, USA
Self Abuse Records – www.selfabuserecords.net selfabuse@[no_spam]selfabuserecords.net
26 S. Main Street #277, Concord, NH 03301, USA
Surefire distribution – www.surefiredistribution.com
Unit A 256, 74 Cotton Mill Hill, Brattleboro, VT 05301, USA
surefire@[no_spam]surefiredistribution.com
attn: Bobo
2745 16th Street, San Francisco, California 94103, USA
bobo@[no_spam]midheaven.com
David Keenan volcanictongue@[no_spam]yahoo.co.uk
Flat 3/2, 2 Yarrow Gardens, North Kelvinside, Glasgow, Scotland G20 6DY

Promoters and festival organisers:
Alt.Music – biennial Auckland international festival www.artspace.org.nz until further notice
Bomb the Space – annual Wellington-based touring festival www.happy.net.nz
Lines of Flight – biennial Dunedin Festival
Peter Stapleton "metonymic."@[no_spam]clear.net.nz [use all punctuation in email address]
Alleluya and Tumbling Strains – Auckland gigs
Sam Hamilton samukun@[no_spam]gmail.com
Acroma – monthly Auckland gigs (and store) www.cmr.co.nz/acroma
mpfaudio@[no_spam]hotmail.com
Liquid Architecture – annual Melbourne-based Australian touring festival
www.liquidarchitecture.org.au
What is Music? – Australian festival
http://www.whatismusic.com/whatismusic_content.html
NowNow Festival – Australian festival
http://www.thenownow.net/festival/