Amrap (the Australian Music Radio Airplay Project) has launched a new Australian music blog, Amrap Discovered,  to showcase emerging, unsigned and established artists to the public. As of July 14,  two Northern Territory acts were featured on the blog: band Wildflower (above) from Mamadawerre, Arnhem Land, and musician Gambirra, also from Arnhem Land.
Amrap Discovered features videos and artist biographies from the most popular Australian music artists on community radio’s music catalogue – AirIt. A weekly chart is blogged,  listing the tracks that have been most ordered by the 150 stations and 700 broadcasters who source music from AirIt for airplay.

Amrap Discovered also showcases AirIt releases recommended by the music departments of leading community radio stations, providing further motivation for Unsigned Artists (and Labels) to apply for the free AirIt service.

“Since AirIt went live in October over 10,000 tracks from over 1000 Artists have been ordered for airplay by community radio stations” said Amrap Manager, Chris Johnson. “The Amrap Discovered blog is a unique online Australian music space where the public can discover great Australian music as it gains traction on community radio.” Artists posted on Amrap Discovered also receive coverage on Amrap’s entire online social network via Amrap’s existing Twitter feed and brand new Myspace and Facebook pages.

Check out AirIT here, and more about Amrap Discovered here.

Words: Megan Spencer