Artist hours
The day is divided into twenty-four hours, and each one is handed to an artist. They decide what goes in it and in what order. Nobody programs it for them.
Independent radio usually runs the other way round. You send in a track, someone decides whether it fits and where it lands. That works, but the artist has no say over any of it, and everything ends up sounding like whoever picked it. Here the hour is the unit, not the song, and the person who made the music is the one sequencing it.
You get an hour
We give you a slot on the schedule and tell you when it's airing. Slots aren't owned. The lineup moves around as more artists come in, so yours may shift or come back around rather than sitting in the same place forever.
You build the set
An hour of your own music, in the order you want it heard. Pull from what's already out or send files directly. Unreleased is welcome, and often the point.
It plays
Anyone tuning in during your hour hears your set, in your sequence, start to finish. No shuffle, no edits, nothing dropped for time.
How slots actually work
We keep your set on file, so once it's in you can be scheduled again without doing anything. If you'd rather each airing be different, send a new set and we'll use that instead. New material, a different sequence, something built for a late slot.
How often an hour comes round depends on how many artists are on the station and what's going on. Early on that means often. As more artists join, hours get shared out rather than held. You'll always know when you're next.
What we need from you
- The music is yours: your recordings, your writing, or you have the rights to it.
- Any samples or interpolations are cleared before the hour airs.
- A one-page agreement confirming both of those.
What you keep
- Everything. Birds Radio takes no rights in your music.
- No exclusivity. Play it anywhere else you like, at the same time.
- Your set comes off the station whenever you ask, no notice and no reason needed.