@corlin no cost for promotion, I'm looking more to eventually build a bandcamp alternative. With BC being acquired by a larger company over a year ago, and then being sold again within a year, I expect their service will eventually degrade and no longer be as favorable for artists.

But starting small. I need to build a strong, scalable platform.

@Mshockley
Ok very good to hear.
Ask around hear. We have folks with years of music promotion, and musicians, with years of experience promoting their own work.

@corlin that's great to hear. It will be important to get feedback and industry knowledge. I've built massive systems before but I also know better than assume I don't need people with in-the-trenches experience.

@John_Downey thanks, I hope so.

@Mshockley
a lot of our music discoveries (ok my music discoveries) have been plague driven; time on line shot up in brief wfh, then stayed up and expanded/exploded. So, unless you have 3 or 4 college stations and all day to surf them, a source of breaking bands would be handy. It took a year for me to see Coral Moons live, and they had Little Fuss open, who I would not know at all but now will try to catch in Boston in January
exposure now is too random for anyone to make a living performing

@John_Downey good thought, currently I'm tracking a few hundred #music blogs but I need to figure out how to track college radio stations.

@Mshockley
my limited exposure (being an adult gets in the way of living way too much) to that scene suggests it's vast
three examples
Emerson radio (WERS) plays a lot of what WFNX did 40 years ago in addition to new locals like Moons and Alisa Amador
WUMB (UMass) is the folk side of that new wave scene, and my car radio home for several years now
WZBC (Boston College radio) is everything commercial radio wouldn't play at gunpoint
and its ALL excellent
maybe those stations report to you?

@John_Downey I think I'd have to work with the stations or figure out the playlists/artists they were playing. As you know, college radio is a wide range, with each student/DJ playing a variety. I'll need to hone it down to '#music that isn't being played everywhere else'.

@Mshockley
exactly
a survey sent to college stations
with a hunch those responding will likely be those with the more eclectic playlists
I Heart Radio is probably not going to open your email (thankfully)
maybe the survey has only a couple of questions- are you playing local? are you playing new?
and who's "new"? Madison Cunningham and Margo Price are "new" to me, but I wonder how many know their work? Jackie Venson another example. She's terrific. And different.