Submit Your Music

Want to submit your music to KUTX for airplay consideration? Here’s how to do it:

First, listen to KUTX 98.9 FM and take a look at our playlist, and make sure your music will fit with our station before submitting it. In addition to submitting your music for on-air play, you might consider submitting your music to our KUTX features and specialty hosts. More on specialty shows/features and who to contact can be found below.

Music should be the final mastering (no demos or works-in-progress) and your music should be available (or soon to be available) commercially – that is, either downloadable or for sale on the Internet and/or in stores.

Please include info about your music! This includes information such as artist bio, release dates, press release, press quotes or reviews, and contact information. If any of your songs have lyrics considered FCC violations, please note which tracks or better yet, send a “radio” edit. Also note which songs you think are your strongest.

Submissions should be sent to KUTX’s Music Director, Rick McNulty at music@kutx.org. If you are an Austin artist please include ATX in the subject line.

In order to be considered, please include a link to your Bandcamp, SoundCloud, Spotify, etc. page as well as a link to download WAV files (no mp3s or file attachments please).

Electronic is preferred to physical submissions but if you send a physical copy, address it to:

KUTX 98.9
attn: Rick McNulty
300 W. Dean Keeton (A0704)
Austin, TX 78712-1061

Please understand that we receive a large amount of music and do not have the resources to provide feedback on submissions.

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About our rotation: KUTX strives to be a platform for emerging artists, particularly Austin and Texas acts. To help an unfamiliar track or emerging artist become a listener’s new favorite, we do two things: 1) we play the song alongside more recognizable tracks and 2) we play the song often. Though looser than that of our commercial and Top-40 counterparts, KUTX’s regular rotation is still tight, by design. A tight rotation means limited real estate for new music. That said, if your music doesn’t make it into our regular rotation, there are other places for which it may still be a good fit.

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On-Air & Online Features:
If you have a new release coming out, you may wish to also submit your music or video to these features.

Specialty Shows: KUTX produces a number of specialty shows. If your music falls into one of these categories, you might consider submitting it via the appropriate contact, below:

The Breaks Saturdays 10p-1a (hip-hop, rap, and R&B): Confucius Jones & Fresh Knight, hosts
Horizontes Sundays, 7p-9p (Latin music): Alex Marrero, host
Left of the Dial Fridays, 7p-11p: Rick McNulty, host
Sunday Morning Jazz Sundays, 7p-10p: Jay Trachtenberg, host
Soundfounder Wednesdays, 8p-10p (electronic/experimental): Soundfounder, host
Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child Sundays, 6p-7p (“indie music for indie kids”): Bill Childs, host
What’s Next Thursdays, 8p-11p (new music): Jeff McCord, host

Shows/events: KUTX supports shows and events in a number of ways – from our daily show update, The Austin Music Minute, to Public Service Announcements for benefit shows, to in-kind event sponsorship. (Please note that we do not provide financial sponsorship for events.) Our promotional inventory fills up quickly – please submit your information 3-4 weeks out from the event date.

Show/Event Promotion
Public Service Announcement (for events associated with or benefiting charitable organizations)

There is also the option of advertising your event on KUTX (and/or KUT) via paid sponsorship.

Thanks for thinking of KUTX!