Industry Partners

Tinderbox is a music promotions and distribution company.  We work with unsigned, indie label, and major label artists across the country by obtaining press and radio airplay in appropriate markets and formats. We specialize in college radio and the artists that fit the CMJ (College Music Journal) and secondary FM and community formats. We also provide local and national distribution for artists as well as publishing and music licensing opportunities. www.tinderboxmusic.com

As a company dedicated to helping musical artists and their career development, NOTeNEF Promotions knowledge comes from experience as a venue talent buyer, festival organizer, concert emcee, artist and tour manager, booking agent, production coordinator, artist promoter, and graphic designer. NOTeNEF Promotions truly believes in constant growth, creativity, and knowledge in order to aide in artist success. Therefore, we are attentive and will continue to learn the several facets of the music business. Engaging promotion and high quality visual art are an every day importance to music and what we believe is a key to building your fanbase. Besides…why be bashful about it? As every music lover knows, “There’s never enough music…” www.NOTeNEFPromotions.com

BIG PICTURE MEDIA is a forward thinking full service public relations agency based in Manhattan, New York.  Their carefully selected clients receive the individual attention, enthusiasm and promise they deserve from this boutique agency.  Specializing in national television, print magazines and newspapers, syndicated radio and new media, they are the firm that breaks through traditional walls; hand crafting each campaign to fit the clients’ needs.   www.bigpicturemediaonline.com

hushhush ATTACK! is a full-service marketing company with a strong focus on alternative methods of exposing music to the marketplace.With the state of the industry today, most record companies are signing fewer artists. At hushhush ATTACK!, we organically build a solid foundation for you by planting the seeds and creating tangible awareness. We seek to help you grow naturally and properly so that you can achieve the next steps of your musical destination.  www.hushhushattack.com

In December of 2000, Broadjam Inc. launched broadjam.com, the most inclusive internet community dedicated solely to the success of independent musicians. Over 85,000 artists have signed-on to connect with peers and use broadjam.com’s web-based promotional tools. Here, songwriters, bands, and other artists can get feedback from fans, review each other’s work, participate in contests and deliver their songs to various music-related industries. For original independent music, there is no better source than www.broadjam.com.

GoGirlsMusic.com is a unique organization that focuses on advancing the careers of independent female artists. Founded by Madalyn Sklar in early 1996, the organization works tirelessly to help artists through education, networking, and events like the GoGirlsMusicFest, Invasion of the GoGirls @ SXSW, Battle of the GoGirls, and more. Artists who become involved have the opportunity to perform, have their work reviewed, and get involved with a hardworking group of women who “get things done” in the music scene. The mission of GoGirlsMusic.com is to promote, support and empower its members. For more info please visit www.gogirlsmusic.com.

OurStage is a pioneering web platform dedicated to new music and new artist discovery. On OurStage, artists, fans, & industry professionals all come together – to discover, judge, & enjoy the best new music and the best new artists online – as ranked by the fans – in the company’s proprietary, game-proof judging engine. Visitors are able to discover top ranked, already sorted, music without having to hunt through hundreds of songs to find the quality. Top-ranked artists receive significant career-building promotion and support from established artists, industry professionals, and a broad assortment of partners, including AOL Music, Bonnaroo, Bumbershoot, PLUG Awards, Newport Folk Festival, JVC Jazz Festival Newport, Paste Magazine, CMJ, Noise Pop, and many others. Founded in 2007, OurStage delivers music and related content to over 1.5 million fans in 140 countries each month – and has attracted over 45,000 artist-members and hundreds of thousands of registered Fans in its short history.  www.OurStage.com

Royal Flush is the BEST F@#$%ing Underground Music & Arts magazine you ever got your grubby lil’ paws on. Royal Flush regularly features the finest artists in underground comics, the talents of many top writers, photographers, illustrators and interviews with bands both legendary and obscure. You can’t lose with a Royal Flush! “I wish they had ROYAL FLUSH when I was a kid–I would have stood in front of the mailbox waiting for it.” -Mike Shinoda, LINKIN PARK Royal Flush Magazine is available all over this great country and even in some remote parts outside U.S. borders. Look for us in Borders Books, Barnes & Noble’s, Hot Topic, Virgin Megastores, Newberry Comics, and many other independent record and comic shops. www.royalflushmagazine.com

We Are Listening was founded in 2004 to provide professional prospects for independent artists. We initiate unique artist development campaigns in the form of songwriting, lyric writing, music video, music production, and performance contests, and assemble distinguished music professionals to lend their expertise as contest panelists and promoters. Our professional networking opportunities, marketing savvy and attractive contest prizes – including studio recording sessions, network television sync placements, college radio campaigns, tour and booking support, press coverage, and major festival appearances – draw artists in every musical genre from all over the world.  www.wearelistening.org