College Radio Promotion.

Shut Eye Records & Agency has been proudly promoting the best new music to terrestrial, internet and satellite college format radio in Canada and the United States since 1996. These days our main focus is Americana radio promotion, but we keep this page on our site as a historical reference. We have worked with such esteemed artists as Matt Pond PA, The Fiery Furnaces, Ambulance LTD, Mary Lou Lord, Kaki King, Brian Jonestown Massacre, White Light Motorcade, The D4, Atomsplit, Soundtrack Mind, Nillah, Michael Franti (Spearhead), Hot Lava Monster, Orion, ps, Boetz (featuring Motorhead's Lemmy Kilmister), Poleposition, X-Impossibles, 6X, the Stimulants, Midnight Oil, Noam Weinstein (featuring Norah Jones) and many hundreds more.

In addition to our college radio promotion campaigns, we have an all-college radio series of compilation CDs called Buzzlighter that has helped hundreds of artists (including some of the ones pictured here) gain a lot of clout among college radio listeners.

College radio emerged during the 1980s as a major force in discovering and breaking new talent. By providing initial exposure for such artists as R.E.M., The Smiths, Midnight Oil, and The B-52's, to name a few, disc jockeys at hundreds of college radio stations successfully identified and supported new music that has gone on to capture a mainstream audience. (Nirvana's "Nevermind" sat on the college charts almost a full year before receiving commercial success.) In addition, college radio has always been and continues to be a home to music heard nowhere else on the airwaves -- from experimental jazz to defiantly loud rock to electronica to scholarly, post-modern rock. We miss working with college radio, but we're glad that we've found our home in Americana radio.