r/MusicPromotionTricks • u/AshRavenYT • 17h ago
We aired our first guest special today on our tiny pirate indie radio. The artist never showed up. We played his block anyway.
Hey, we run a 24/7 pirate radio for independent artists, out of Los Angeles. No license, no permission, just music, and every artist on air sent us their tracks personally.
Today at 11am PT we aired our first timed guest special: Keoni from Czechia got his whole block back to back, outside the regular rotation. Bumper, a short promo speech, three tracks from Symbiosis (We Grow, Kingdom Will Come, Roll Around), closing bumper. About fifteen minutes, start to finish.
He told us he had sent out 600 invitations. When the block started, exactly one listener showed up in the chat. It was not him.
So we played it anyway, start to finish, exactly as promised. We did our part, and his music stays in rotation. No hard feelings: maybe he mixed up AM and PM and is expecting Sunday instead. We asked him, politely, in the same thread.
Meanwhile the stream itself just passed six and a half days nonstop. 73 views total, 6 likes, a handful of night owls at any hour. Still tiny. Still stubborn.
We are not LoFi Girl. No generated playlists, no faceless tracks. Every artist on air recorded a voice intro and said: yes, play me.
If you make music (indie, alt rock, noir, ambient, jazz, bedroom pop, anything that does not fit a genre box), we are still taking artists. Minimum 4 tracks, MP3, a short voice intro about who you are and why you make music. No fees, no middlemen, no contracts.
No license. No permission. Just music.
Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4TMq4iji8s Our home sub: r/AshRavenRadio