Music Department
From KDHX Production
===Overview=== The Music Department is supervised by Nick Acquisito, Music Director - nick [at] kdhx.org
KDHX DJs are volunteers who are given complete creative control over their own shows - the music department does not make decisions about what the DJs will play. The primary role of the music department is to maintain a library of releases, new and old, for DJs to use for their programs, to facilitate in-studio performances and interviews, generate web content, and to improve the servicing we get from record labels.
Contents
Tasks Performed
- Label Relations
- Enter new contacts into the database
- Send introductory emails to new contacts
- Assess one sheets and new releases
- Assist music directors with tracking phone calls and emails
- Assist music director in making and responding to in-studio performance, interview and airplay requests
- Assist in compiling weekly music charts (FMQB, CMJ, AMA) and “adds” based on airplay data
- Help represent KDHX at conferences and events
- Generate Web Content
- Write articles on new music releases for kdhx.org under supervision of kdhx.org web editor
- Update music charts on the KDHX website weekly
- New Music Processing
- Open packages and sort new releases by genre
- Assist music director with screening cds before putting into library
- Track CD passes
- Pull older new releases and check for airplay
- Process albums serviced digitally
- Assist music director in ripping CDs to digital library
- Supervise volunteer tasks - entering new releases into digital library, entering new releases into music library database, and labeling and shelving new releases
Library Maintenance
- Keep CD library and digital library up to date-- check cds for airplay, change listings in database to be removed from the library if there are little or no on-air spins
- Sort shelves, re-alphabetize cds, and check for missing CDs
- Supervise volunteer tasks - sorting new releases by airplay, updating music library database, reshelving releases and ripping older cds to digital library
DJ Relations
- Review Programmer play lists, track new release spins and missed play lists, and correct problems
- Distribute promotional copies
- How do I get my music played on KDHX? - KDHX Answers Portal
Music Department General Procedure
Music Department General Procedure
New Release Processing
- Opening and sorting mail
- KDHX Digital Music Library Input Instructions for CDs
- KDHX Digital Music Library Input Instructions for Live Performances
- Handling digital releases
- Entering new releases into database
Library Maintenance
- Removing new releases from the shelf
- Clearing space in the library
- Creating replacement copies
- Theft check
Charts and Adds
- Chart data reconciliation
- Entering FMQB charts
- Enter CMJ Top 30 Charts
- Entering CMJ Specialty Charts
- Entering AMA Charts
- Updating Adds to GoogleDoc
- Emailing Chart
- Posting Charts Online
Charting the music guidelines
Label and Artist Relations
- Overview
- Weekly Email Newsletter
- Responding to email
- Phone messages
- Tracking calls, emails and meetings
- Add accounts and contacts
- Add email addresses
- Tracking requests
Upcoming Shows
- How to Book, Prepare and Conduct a Live Performance Session on KDHX - Booking in-studio sessions
- Email Template for Booking a Live Performance
- Coordination with DJs
- Coordination with photographers
- Coordination with videographers
- Concert calendar maintenance in GoogleDocs
- This area handled by Ed Vigil
DJ Support
- Finding DJ Subs
- DJ Music Recommendations
- Email weekly suggestions
KDHX.org Music Features
- Upload albums to SoundCloud
- Song of the Day
- Hear and Now Streams