I've been in contact with Bryan Farrish Promotions, and while they look great and I'm sure they're very good at what they do I can't quite afford them yet.

I've also been in contact with Loggins Promotions, but I haven't gotten their price list yet.

I found a web site that was supposedly a resource for record labels and they listed a bunch of radio promotion companies. All but the above two were out of business.

Are there any other companies out there? Maybe a small indie company in the NY/NJ area?

Thanks.

PLEASE don't use any promotions company unless you are really in the business and marketing position to do so.

We hired Loggins Promotions at $400. a week, (with them knowing we were not a band, not going to be band, but told them we wanted exposure to the music biz folks, (thinking that publushers or producers would hear our songs on the radio and summon us to their doors)....See how dumb that sounds? We were very dumb about that sort of thing, YET, Loggin's Promotions, who claimes to know about how the music industry works glady took our money to do worthless promotion. (Later, I contacted two reputable indie radio promoters given to me by ASCAP and they both said they would not take us on for obvious reasons of us not having all the needed items in order,,,,,like a "performing band that tours!)

BUT, that's just the start of it. The chart we were in, (AND climbing past Paul McCartney of all people in spins,(yeah right), was not a chart anybody within the music business even heard of! Yet, week after week, we would get faxes showing of our incredible climb through the charts! I called some of the stations we were supposed to be on, and they didn't even know my artist name, or the song that was supposed to be on their play list! WHAT? How could that be? One did however say that have the CD, and that it looks like it will played around 3 in the morning. Wow! For 400 dollars a week, that's a bargain. Well, they had an online si te for their station and said to log in if we wanted to hear it. We did, and it never was played. We called back and they whoever i talked to then said they didn't have it on the play list, and couldn't even find the CD. I was actually told that most of those CD's are thrown in the trash. HUH? 4$00 a week for trash food?

You get the idea, right? The chart was "New Music Weekly", and we found out through our sudden open eyes that it was published with a partner of Loggins. How convienent!

This is all my experience as I remember it. It is not opinion, but rather real occurances. I was emailed from even some artist that use them that said the exact same things, (from when I first posted about all this, back around 2000).

Contact ASCAP or BMI, and music lawyers like Larry Bray and Fred Davis, (NY).

Be very warned,
John Daubert

I'll contact ASCAP and see who they recommend.

CDbaby gives them a thums up!