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ABOUT
US
PROGRAM & SERVICE In
conjunction with record companies, we send high school student
organizations free records from current artists. In return,you
let us know how you used the music (did you review it, play
it, etc?) & what you thought of it via feedback forms
we provide. You are NEVER under any obligation to use
it, but it is expected that you tell us whether you did or
not. And, if you're a newspaper, we get mighty grateful when
we receive articles &/or the paper they were in on any
music you have covered. We like reading it, and the record
companies and bands that provide it like seeing it.
What you do: Listen to/view what is sent. Consider writing about it, airing it, or playing it. Let us know whether you did or not. Go to FAQ if you want to learn more about some of these offerings. Some artists we have worked with: All American Rejects, Lifehouse, Jimmy Eat World, Switchfoot, Usher, Will Smtih, Gwen Stefani, Pepper's Ghost, U2-and many many more.
OUR CREDO & PHILOSPHY-or why we get out of bed every day
MOXIE began life as SHAGG in 1996, & was started by a couple of record industry burn-outs. I can say that because I was one of them & thus have permission to speak about myself in that way. Why were we burned out? We got into the business out of a love of music, and it was frustrating to constantly see great artists and records getting overlooked because they weren't able to get in front of people who might have liked them. Why? Well, most people never even get to hear a lot of artists because most music exposure is determined by the unholy trinity of media gatekeepers called radio, MTV, and press. If radio didn't want to play it (there's NO HIT!!), MTV wouldn't air it, press rarely covered it and so on and so on and so on. As a result, we felt that one of the most active and aware segments of music lovers-teens-were being massively underserved by much of the mainstream media and not being given much opportunity to be active participants in their own culture. MOXIE was started to be a bridge between these two realities. By sending you music, we hopefully enable you to hear & discover some artists you may not have known about otherwise. In turn, YOU can decide whether you want to make them a part of your paper, radio station, or other school activities. You may or may not. But we hope that, at the very least, the music we send can be a conduit to further learning, exploration, and critical analysis of your culture. And that in doing so, we create opportunities to apply some of the classroom skills you are learning to real-world settings by exposing you to music and situations through writing reviews, doing interviews, participating in essay contests, reviewing a concert-that you would not have had access to otherwise. You know-like Almost Famous. POLICY-rules and stuff like that
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MOXIE
provides free record service to high school student organizations
that are interested in using music as part of what they do.
We primarily work with high school newspapers, radio/TV stations,
and Student Government/ASBs. CDS, videos and other materials
(stickers, bios, photos, etc) are sent to you and you decide
if you want to review/write about it in your school paper,
give it airplay on your radio station, show the video as part
of your broadcast, or play the music at school dances and
events. In addition, we also do ad campaigns, run contests,
set up interviews with artists, provide tickets for you to
review concerts, and bring artists to play at/visit schools.
In
order for us to continue to send you free music, we HAVE to
let the record companies know how you used it. They MUST have
this information-if only to be assured that all the stuff they
send isn't ending up in the school dumpster. SO: