[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n Valentine’s Day 2014 we are launching VanyaRadio, an aural offshoot of this fast-growing online music magazine. While we’ve stocked the system already with hundreds of global artists, a huge part of the VanyaRadio playlist will be the sound of Boston.
I’m reprising my role of host of WFNX’s local music show, Boston Accents, and unveiling This Is 617, an hour-long program of homegrown music that will air thrice daily: at 6 a.m., 1 p.m., and 7 p.m.
I’ve uploaded my personal archive to the VanyaRadio catalog, but we don’t want to stop there. So we ask you, very kindly: SEND US YOUR FUCKING MUSIC.
Any genre, any band, any artist, any style — just be from Massachusetts. And we suppose bands from New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine are cool, too. We used to spin some of those on Boston Accents so we’ll raise a glass to all of New England here on Vanya as well.
Details are below (if you received the following via email earlier today, you know the deal):
Hello!
Congratulations — we’re totally into your band, and would love to add your songs to our digital library at VanyaRadio, the new online streaming station we’re launching through Vanyaland.
Thing is, we want this shit to sound as top-shelf as possible, so we’re asking for your help as we barrel towards our Valentine’s Day launch.
Can you send us TWO of your preferred songs via WeTransfer, as either a .wav file or high-quality mp3 or AAC (minimum 256 kbps)?
Please direct them to music@vanyaradio.com
We’ll get them loaded in and sounding fit, and play the tracks on-air. Most likely, they’ll be featured on our thrice daily one-hour local show, This Is 617, and if we’re really feeling it, we’ll upgrade it to regular rotation.
But we digress. Right now, we’re all about building our catalog. And don’t stress, we won’t host or post the tracks anywhere downloadable to a third party. This is just the updated, 2014 version of sending your CD to the building with the big antennae up top.
Cheers,
VanyaRadio