SDC OmniMedia Group Magazine

AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our sponsor for the October edition of our Radio Programmers

Newsletter, Aleven Creatives.  Aleven Creatives is an Atlanta based graphic and multimedia design

studio that caters to the entertainment industry.

AirPlay Direct’s digital delivery services are always free of charge thanks to wonderful sponsors like

Aleven Creatives.  If you are an Indie artist, record label or an entertainment services firm and are looking

for a reputable and creative graphic and multimedia design firm, we highly recommend Aleven Creatives.

www.aleven.com

A little about Aleven Creatives:

Aleven Creatives www.aleven.com specializes in creating energetic graphic and multimedia design

solutions that elicit memorable responses, which is why we play well with the entertainment industry. Here’s

what we do best: logo design, Web site design and development, package design, e-mail marketing, custom illustration, marketing collateral design, and interpretive dance.  Our national client list includes musicians,

record labels, restaurants, clothing companies, festivals, venues, stage shows, motion pictures and video

games.

Throughout the months of September and October, AirPlay Direct will be running our first FREE

“All Things Digital Reggae / World” artist contest.  The Grand Prize package will include:

• An Artist Development / Promotion package from the KRucial Agency ($3,000 value)
• A 12 week global PR / Media campaign from Fly On The Wall Media ($6,000 value)
• A custom flash artist web site and SEO package from Positronic Design ($5,300 value)
• A song remix package from Many Moods of Music ($4,000 value)
• An advertising and promotion package from BigUp Radio ($3,000 value)
• A custom band t-shirt package from the Artshirt Company ($1,000 value)
• A “Featured Artist” advertising package from AirPlay Direct ($1,500 value)

The Grand Prize Package is valued at $23,800.00…!

This contest is FREE TO ENTER and very simple… the best song wins.  The only three requirements to

enter are that you must be an AirPlay Direct artist / label member (free to join), your music must fall into

the Reggae / World genre and you must submit your AirPlay Direct DPK to office@airplaydirect.com

prior to the official entry deadline of October 25th.  Whether you are an indie artist or a well established

record label with a roster, pick your best songs, you can submit from 1 to 3 tracks per artist.  Please make

sure to note that you are submitting for the Reggae / World artist contest.  Deadline for submissions is

October 25th.  The winner will be announced and “Featured” in the November Radio Programmers Newsletter,

as well as in a company press release to all media outlets.

A little about the KRucial Agency:

  

We all need a team to move forward, and a head on our efforts to coordinate what we’ve got to get where we

want.  The KRucial Agency www.reggae4i.com can help.  With 17 years in the music industry, our extensive

network of contacts are continuously engaged by phone or online (through our web site, personal emails and

content-rich newsletters).  Few artists can (or want to) devote their time to the non-musical needs of their

career.  We’re ready to work with you on converting the best of what you’ve got into more.  Give us a call or

drop us a line at KRucialAgency@AOL.com and let’s discuss where to get started.

 

A little about the Fly On The Wall Media:

  

Fly On The Wall Media www.flyonthewallmedia.com specializes in print media.  We pitch newspapers,

magazines, editors and freelancers, radio with kick and any other media that will help make your CD a

success.  Review contacts receive a mailed Press Kit with the press release and CD/Multimedia.

Fly On The Wall then arranges interviews and compiles media guest lists while securing previews, features,

articles, listings and reviews.  We also help arrange airplay, interviews and live appearances on national radio

and along the tour route.

FlyOnTheWallMedia.com provides an online resource for journalists (and fans) to find releases, songs,

downloadable pictures, media successes and web links.  The homepage shows our diverse roster, while

revealing a propensity toward rhythm including ’specialty’ genres of Reggae, World, and all things Americana.

The Skatalites, Cubanismo, Marva Wright, Terrance Simien, David Grisman, John Jorgensen and Frank

Vignola currently.

 

  

A little about the Positronic Design:

Positronic Design www.positronicdesign.com is a full service Graphic Design, Printing and Web Development

company serving the music industry since 1984.  Our clients have included Phish, Rakim, Everlast, Dar

Williams, Cash Money Millionaires, Xanax25, New Man, Archie Shepp, Yousef Lateef and many others.  We

have been involved in all aspects of the music promotion and marketing business from independent concert

production to CD Cover Design to full artist web sites.

We also manufacture CDs and DVDs, create all the print collateral you could possibly need, and optimize our

client’s web sites to come up very highly in the search engines.  For all the web design, printing and marketing

services you need in one friendly and convenient location, call Positronic Design. 

A little about the BigUp Radio:

BigUp Radio www.bigupradio.com was founded out of a love for Reggae music and a desire to share the

greatest in Reggae music with fans around the world. For the past seven years BigUp’s Dancehall and

Roots radio stations have been among the most listened to Reggae stations online. In October of 2005, BigUp

added stations for Dub, Soca, Ska, Reggaeton, Dub & Gospel to meet listener requests for the full spectrum

of Reggae music.  At one and a half million tune-ins each month, these stations are available using iTunes,

WinAmp or Windows Media via internet and cell phones using MBN (Mobile Broadcast Network) and

SpodRadio (Europe).  BigUp Radio’s web site features one of the largest catalogs of Reggae CDs, DVDs

and vinyl as well as the latest in Reggae news, reviews and event listings. 

 

A little about the Artshirt Company:

“Merch with a face” - and a conscience - that’s how we see ourselves. Because it’s not just an online order

form or a head-phoned receptionist you’ll be dealing with. Artshirt walks you through the whole process,

helping you with design, going above and beyond the call of duty to provide you the best in pricing, image

quality and project branding. Whether you’re screen printing, doing embroidery, or building signs and

banners, we’ve worked with the likes of popular band ‘311′ and audio aficionados ‘Bose’ - so we know the

industry’s needs and interests. Visit our web site and give us a call, let us show you the ArtShirtCo

difference.  www.artshirtco.com

A little about the Many Moods of Music:

  

Many Moods of Music offers complete music production and audio services.  While working with Producer,

Musician and Engineer Trevor Sugar, there are great vibes in the studio just north of Ft. Lauderdale.

Composing, arranging, recording, remixing a finished piece, or scoring a film is where you’ll find the crew.

  

Many Moods of Music has helped developed several roots and dancehall artists, including Alkebulan,

receiving heavy airplay on JA and UK radio. Clients, including the AirPlay Direct contest winner, need only

place a studio mix of the winning song in the hands of MMM for the remix treatment to begin.

Contact Trevor Sugar, studio@manymoodsofmusic.com 

   

AIRPLAY DIRECT FEATURED ARTISTS

FOR OCTOBER

 

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DeanaCarter

Award-winning singer/songwriter/performer Deana Carter unveils The Chain, her fifth studio record October

9th on Vanguard Records.

Each of the 12 songs on The Chain has a special importance to Deana, who personally chose material

that had a great impact on her early life. She took the same care in recruiting collaborators for the project, assembling a group of musicians who influenced her as an artist — none more greatly than her father,

legendary session player Fred Carter, Jr, who performs throughout the album. “Ever since I knew that music

was going to be my life’s path, I’ve wanted to pay tribute to my dad and to the artists who were so good to

me and my family. The camaraderie between them, and the way they took our family and made it part of

their families, was so unique that I wanted to recapture it for a little while,” states Deana.

The Chain features duets with Deana and some of country music’s royalty: Kris Kristofferson (Help Me

Make It Through The Night), Dolly Parton (Love Is Like A Butterfly), Jessi Colter (I’m Not Lisa), Willie

Nelson (On The Road Again), George Jones (He Thinks I Still Care) and John Anderson (Swingin’). The

CD also includes two of music’s rising stars, Shooter Jennings on “Good Hearted Woman”, the song

made famous by his father, the great Waylon Jennings, and Harper Simon on “The Boxer,” a nod to his

Dad, Paul Simon who plays guitar on this track. The Chain also features stunning solo recordings of

Deana performing such classics as “Lay Lady Lay”, “The Weight”, “Crying” and “Old Man”.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/1rko

In our current landscape singers don’t sing, they lip-sync and players don’t play, they pantomime to backing tracks. Many artists act as if it’s an imposition to perform to their fans, and it shows. Enter First Round

Knockout aka 1RKO, with over 100,000 hits on their website, 1RKO is proving that authenticity does matter.

With raw musicality, infectious energy and the purpose to headline stadiums this band is at the peak of their expression staking out the territory where talent does make a difference.

The name 1RKO comes from the notion and the mission of re-creating the original larger than life experience

that rock n roll is supposed to bring, an explosion of strength, and emotion. When asked to describe their approach to their work they see it as a process of discovery where you are naked, authentic, ignore trends

and take the bull by the horns. Whether it’s Simon belting one of his scorching melodic vocals or furiously

playing lead guitar, Brian shaking the ground with his larger than life bass, Derek making your hair stand up

with his tone from hell or Rich banging the hell out of his drum kit, 1RKO is the real deal. A band that can

really play with chops to bring the house down.

 

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DubStationReggaeArtists

  

Dub Station is both long established (over a decade) and up-and-coming (still broadening its global support

base).

Having won awards, performed internationally (including twice this year in Jamaica) - backed dozens of

regional & touring acts (including Abijah, Everton Blender + many more) - as well as having hosted or acted

as support for most of the big names in the business (Jimmy Cliff to the Wailers, Toots to Buju Banton and

Beres Hammond), Dub Station is a club & Festival favorite.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/CaliforniaTransitAuthority

California Transit Authority (CTA) is drummer Danny Seraphine’s trip back to the future, effectively tipping his

hat to his past with his feet firmly planted in the here and now. Aptly titled ‘Full Circle’, CTA’s debut album

brings Seraphine back to his roots.

While CTA revisits early Chicago classics “I’m A Man,” “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” on FULL CIRCLE, CTA isn’t just a nostalgia trip. For example, “Make Me Smile” has been transformed into an instrumental, with Bonilla recreating the vocal lines on guitar. In addition, the guitarist has also re-imagined

many of Chicago’s classic horn parts on his guitar. Another twist is vocalist Braggs, the voice of Tower of

Power since 2000.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/CountRidicula

Romance is what’s on this vampire’s mind. A once-a-year occurrence for this guy, the character Count

Ridicula is induced annually by the practice of dressing as a vampire for Halloween. This unsuspecting

everyday Joe undergoes a total transformation and goes trick-or-treating … one night every year.

AirPlay Direct… go straight to the source!

  

For more information on KRucial Agency please visit www.reggae4i.com

  

For more information on Fly On The Wall Media please contact www.flyonthewallmedia.com

  

For more information on the Positronic Design please visit www.positronicdesign.com 

  

For more information on Many Moods of Music please write to studio@manymoodsofmusic.com 

  

For more information on BigUp Radio please visit www.bigupradio.com 

  

For more information on Artshirt Company please visit www.artshirtco.com 

  

For more information on AirPlay Direct please visit www.AirPlayDirect.com

AirPlay Direct is pleased to announce our sponsor for the September edition of our Radio Programmers

Newsletter, Aleven Creatives.  Aleven Creatives is an Atlanta based graphic and multimedia design

studio that caters to the entertainment industry.

AirPlay Direct’s digital delivery services are always free of charge thanks to wonderful sponsors like

Aleven Creatives.  If you are an Indie artist, record label or an entertainment services firm and are looking

for a reputable and creative graphic and multimedia design firm, we highly recommend Aleven Creatives.

www.aleven.com

A little about Aleven Creatives:

Aleven Creatives www.aleven.com specializes in creating energetic graphic and multimedia design

solutions that elicit memorable responses, which is why we play well with the entertainment industry. Here’s

what we do best: logo design, Web site design and development, package design, e-mail marketing, custom illustration, marketing collateral design, and interpretive dance.  Our national client list includes musicians,

record labels, restaurants, clothing companies, festivals, venues, stage shows, motion pictures and video

games.

Throughout the months of September and October, AirPlay Direct will be running our first FREE

“All Things Digital Reggae / World” artist contest.  The Grand Prize package will include:

• An Artist Development / Promotion package from the KRucial Agency ($3,000 value)
• A 12 week global PR / Media campaign from Fly On The Wall Media ($6,000 value)
• A custom flash artist web site and SEO package from Positronic Design ($5,300 value)
• A song remix package from Many Moods of Music ($4,000 value)
• An advertising and promotion package from BigUp Radio ($3,000 value)
• A custom band t-shirt package from the Artshirt Company ($1,000 value)
• A “Featured Artist” advertising package from AirPlay Direct ($1,500 value)

The Grand Prize Package is valued at $23,800.00…!

This contest is FREE TO ENTER and very simple… the best song wins.  The only three requirements to

enter are that you must be an AirPlay Direct artist / label member (free to join), your music must fall into

the Reggae / World genre and you must submit your AirPlay Direct DPK to office@airplaydirect.com

prior to the official entry deadline of October 25th.  Whether you are an indie artist or a well established

record label with a roster, pick your best songs, you can submit from 1 to 3 tracks per artist.  Please make

sure to note that you are submitting for the Reggae / World artist contest.  Deadline for submissions is

October 25th.  The winner will be announced and “Featured” in the November Radio Programmers Newsletter,

as well as in a company press release to all media outlets.

A little about the KRucial Agency:

  

We all need a team to move forward, and a head on our efforts to coordinate what we’ve got to get where we

want.  The KRucial Agency www.reggae4i.com can help.  With 17 years in the music industry, our extensive

network of contacts are continuously engaged by phone or online (through our web site, personal emails and

content-rich newsletters).  Few artists can (or want to) devote their time to the non-musical needs of their

career.  We’re ready to work with you on converting the best of what you’ve got into more.  Give us a call or

drop us a line at KRucialAgency@AOL.com and let’s discuss where to get started.

 

A little about the Fly On The Wall Media:

  

Fly On The Wall Media www.flyonthewallmedia.com specializes in print media.  We pitch newspapers,

magazines, editors and freelancers, radio with kick and any other media that will help make your CD a

success.  Review contacts receive a mailed Press Kit with the press release and CD/Multimedia.

Fly On The Wall then arranges interviews and compiles media guest lists while securing previews, features,

articles, listings and reviews.  We also help arrange airplay, interviews and live appearances on national radio

and along the tour route.

FlyOnTheWallMedia.com provides an online resource for journalists (and fans) to find releases, songs,

downloadable pictures, media successes and web links.  The homepage shows our diverse roster, while

revealing a propensity toward rhythm including ’specialty’ genres of Reggae, World, and all things Americana.

The Skatalites, Cubanismo, Marva Wright, Terrance Simien, David Grisman, John Jorgensen and Frank

Vignola currently.

 

  

A little about the Positronic Design:

Positronic Design www.positronicdesign.com is a full service Graphic Design, Printing and Web Development

company serving the music industry since 1984.  Our clients have included Phish, Rakim, Everlast, Dar

Williams, Cash Money Millionaires, Xanax25, New Man, Archie Shepp, Yousef Lateef and many others.  We

have been involved in all aspects of the music promotion and marketing business from independent concert

production to CD Cover Design to full artist web sites.

We also manufacture CDs and DVDs, create all the print collateral you could possibly need, and optimize our

client’s web sites to come up very highly in the search engines.  For all the web design, printing and marketing

services you need in one friendly and convenient location, call Positronic Design. 

A little about the BigUp Radio:

BigUp Radio www.bigupradio.com was founded out of a love for Reggae music and a desire to share the

greatest in Reggae music with fans around the world. For the past seven years BigUp’s Dancehall and

Roots radio stations have been among the most listened to Reggae stations online. In October of 2005, BigUp

added stations for Dub, Soca, Ska, Reggaeton, Dub & Gospel to meet listener requests for the full spectrum

of Reggae music.  At one and a half million tune-ins each month, these stations are available using iTunes,

WinAmp or Windows Media via internet and cell phones using MBN (Mobile Broadcast Network) and

SpodRadio (Europe).  BigUp Radio’s web site features one of the largest catalogs of Reggae CDs, DVDs

and vinyl as well as the latest in Reggae news, reviews and event listings. 

 

A little about the Artshirt Company:

“Merch with a face” - and a conscience - that’s how we see ourselves. Because it’s not just an online order

form or a head-phoned receptionist you’ll be dealing with. Artshirt walks you through the whole process,

helping you with design, going above and beyond the call of duty to provide you the best in pricing, image

quality and project branding. Whether you’re screen printing, doing embroidery, or building signs and

banners, we’ve worked with the likes of popular band ‘311′ and audio aficionados ‘Bose’ - so we know the

industry’s needs and interests. Visit our web site and give us a call, let us show you the ArtShirtCo

difference.  www.artshirtco.com

A little about the Many Moods of Music:

  

Many Moods of Music offers complete music production and audio services.  While working with Producer,

Musician and Engineer Trevor Sugar, there are great vibes in the studio just north of Ft. Lauderdale.

Composing, arranging, recording, remixing a finished piece, or scoring a film is where you’ll find the crew.

  

Many Moods of Music has helped developed several roots and dancehall artists, including Alkebulan,

receiving heavy airplay on JA and UK radio. Clients, including the AirPlay Direct contest winner, need only

place a studio mix of the winning song in the hands of MMM for the remix treatment to begin.

Contact Trevor Sugar, studio@manymoodsofmusic.com 

The winner of the AirPlay Direct “All Things Digital

College / Alt. Rock” contest is Modico! 

 

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/Modico

  

With cannon fire bass, bullet time drums, and guitars that will coax you to sleep before bombarding your

senses, Modico take the stage as if it were a battlefield.  Steadfast and ready for action, this band has an

objective that exceeds superficial stardom.  Modico is concerned with the world they see, and passionately

try to do their part to facilitate its improvement.  They see a lot of fear in the world today and an

overabundance of depression.  Hopelessness plagues many people and deceives them into believing that

this life is pain.  Modico is at war with that mentality.  Hope does exist; that’s the message the band wants

to share with anyone who is willing to listen.  Modico recently finished recording its debut full length album,

Axe At My Feet.  The band hopes to produce art that the ear begs to hear and the soul yearns to feel.

  

“Modico is a perfect example of Indie Rock at its best.  They are a smart, relevant, engaging and explosive

force that has the talent and dedication to step easily onto the national stage.  I expect that you will be

hearing a lot about this band in the coming months.  Record labels would be wise to take a very serious look

at this act if they are currently looking for new artists.”  Robert Weingartz, CEO - AirPlay Direct

  

Throughout the month of August, AirPlay Direct and our Sponsors Gorgeous PR, Arketype Film,

Apples and Cats Media and CDman ran our first ”All Things Digital College / Alt. Rock” artist contest

for our members.  The winning band Modico will receive the Grand Prize package which will include:

• An 8 week national PR / media relations campaign (print and online) and an internet radio campaign from Gorgeous PR ($10,000 value)
• Arketype Film, Inc. will produce a music video for the winning band in a completely custom and tailored

  manner ($12,000 value)
• A 12 week national radio promotions campaign to 500 College radio stations from Apples And Cats Media

  ($3,600 value)
• A merchandise package from CDman that includes 500 professionally replicated CDs in jewel boxes, 100

  full color posters and 25 digitally printed t-shirts ($1,000 value)
• A premier “Featured Artist” advertising package from AirPlay Direct ($1,500 value)

The Grand Prize Package is valued at $28,000.00…!

  

AIRPLAY DIRECT FEATURED ARTISTS

FOR SEPTEMBER

  

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/atris

a’tris is a band that seems to never rest.  Following the completion of their national tour in 2006, the band

immediately began working on new material.  They digitally released the single ‘Orion’ in January and the

EP ‘Of the Commons’ was released on Mark Records in August.  This is the bands second release on Mark

Records.  Mason Taylor, who is a’tris’ front man, keyboardist and primary songwriter, said the band is “very

fortunate to be able to release their debut and follow-up EP” on Mark Records.  Mark Records has worked

with such musical icons as the Goo Goo Dolls, 10,000 Maniacs, and countless others.  The company has

been awarded over sixty (60) Grammy Entry List appearances, and two Grammy Nominations.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.annwilson.com/

Hope & Glory - Ann Wilson’s first solo album ever - is a singularly powerful and altogether timely song cycle

that speaks eloquently to our troubled times.

The world has long known Heart’s Ann Wilson as one of the greatest and most enduring vocalists of her

generation.  Yet on her ultimately hopeful and glorious solo debut for Zoë/ Rounder Records to be released

on September 11, 2007, Wilson is likely to stun even her lifelong fans with what could fairly be called the

mother of all cover albums.

On Hope & Glory, Wilson manages to reinterpret and reinvent some of the greatest songs of the past forty

years that powerfully and poignantly reflect the here and now, including classics from the Sixties (Bob

Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Bad Moon Rising”, The Animals’

“We’ve Gotta Get Out Of This Place”, and The Youngbloods’ “Get Together”), and Seventies (Led Zeppelin’s

“Immigrant Song”, John Lennon’s “Isolation”, and Elton John’s “Where To Now, St. Peter”) to gems of a

more recent vintage like “War Of Man” by Neil Young and “Jackson” by Lucinda Williams.  Hope & Glory

concludes with one heartbreakingly moving new song written by Ann herself, “Little Problems, Little Lies”,

yet one listen to the album demonstrates that Wilson has made each of the songs here very much her own

and utterly relevant to our world today.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/DOTMIG

It’s been quite a year for DOTMIG in the music biz, with a 16 track double album that is just being released

& many accolades picked up on this road to emerging as an artist that has the consistency of delivering

diversified sound, with his passion & integrity towards his valuable music from his repertoire. Working

together with Latin Grammy Award Winner Guido Diaz, has made DOTMIG the musician, singer, songwriter

& performer who he is today.  Last but not least the beautiful & talented muse of DOTMIG’S family, singer,

songwriter, musician, Diana Pabon (aka SEXY-N-LEAN), diagramed the perfect blueprint for Mig Fighter

Missions Music to take off.

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.shotgunhoneymoon.com

Shotgun Honeymoon’s debut album Foregone Conclusion, produced by Jeff Trott (Sheryl Crow) is being

released September 11, 2007 on Broken Halo Records.

“The chance to express emotions and give them a visual through lyrics and music is the best feeling in

the world. The only thing better than that is when people stop what they are thinking, stop what they are

doing and get lost in your world as well as you can portray it, with a simple melody and a little poetry…

and understand it.”  Shotgun Honeymoon

Listen to and download “broadcast-quality” tracks at http://www.airplaydirect.com/WilliamSteffey

William Steffey continues to be at the forefront of the “post-modern rock” movement: effortlessly integrating

honest rock, pop sensibility, and edgy electronica with distant echoes of jazz.  Atop the music ride engaging

yet intelligent lyrics, tagging the listener at unexpected depths.

Steffey’s latest release, “Romance of the Spaceways”, has been spinning in commercial rotation in the U.S.

and has quickly become a favorite of several UK college heads of music-resulting in recent adds across the

pond.  WS is also hot in Central America, where the album is playing on an archipelago of stations across

Costa Rica and Nicaragua.  The 12 song CD, propelled by its ethereal-pop single ‘Sanctuary’, will be serviced

to college stations in the United States with an add date of September 4th.
 

AirPlay Direct… go straight to the source!

  

For more information on KRucial Agency please visit www.reggae4i.com

  

For more information on Fly On The Wall Media please contact www.flyonthewallmedia.com

  

For more information on the Positronic Design please visit www.positronicdesign.com 

  

For more information on Many Moods of Music please write to studio@manymoodsofmusic.com 

  

For more information on BigUp Radio please visit www.bigupradio.com 

  

For more information on Artshirt Company please visit www.artshirtco.com 

  

For more information on AirPlay Direct please visit www.AirPlayDirect.com