Danny McCloskey

Journalist · United States
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Bio

I can provide promotion for music in the Roots community - Americana, Alt Country, Rock'n'Roll, Soul, Blues, Folk, Zydeco, and World music. I prefer to promote new music and will not promote music over 3 years old. A thirty-year-plus veteran of the music industry, Danny runs the operations for The Alternate Root magazine. From 1979 to 1985 he wrote and developed radio shows, programming and organized the yearly local music event ‘The Rock and Roll Rumble’ for legendary radio station WBCN in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1985, Danny joined Atlantic Records, and handling services for Island and Virgin Records when under the Atlantic umbrella, as promotion manager for the Boston / New England region where he remained until 1990. Moving on to San Francisco in 1990, Danny managed a publicity firm, before starting his own firm in 1996, Next Step Music Management, handling artist management, music supervision, publishing and artist development. Songs With Vision began operating in 2002 focusing on film and television music placement for labels and independent artists and acting as a Music Supervisor for a number of film projects as well as in-house for Hallmark Films. The Alternate Root magazine opened for business in 2011. Danny became CEO for JTMMUSIC in 2019 and began his own label, Doolittle Distro, in 2024.
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Genres accepted most often

Singer songwriter
Country music
Indie folk
Americana
Blues
They want to receive...
  • Genres
    Americana
    Blues
    Garage rock
    Psychedelic rock
    Singer songwriter
    Soul
    Surf rock
They are also open to receiving...
  • Genres
    Funk
    Indie folk
    New wave
    Reggae
    Traditional music
  • Attributes
    Acoustic guitar
    Live recording
    Low fidelity
    Strings
    On stage experience
    International potential
    Unsigned artist
    Young talent
They don't want to receive...
  • Genres
    Alternative rock
    Ambient
    Classical music
    Commercial / Mainstream
    Dance pop
    Death / Thrash
    Dream pop
    Electronic rock
    Electro Jazz / Nu Jazz
    Electropop
    Experimental electronic
    Experimental jazz
    Jazz fusion
    Grime
    Hard rock
    Hip-hop
    Indie pop
    International rap
    Metal / Heavy metal
    Minimal
    Modern jazz
    Pop Punk
    Pop rock
    Pop soul
    Rap in English
    French rap
    Shoegaze
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Services

I can review for The Alternate Root magazine, giving them an international platform for promotion. It will be also shared Facebook, X, and Instagram.
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  • Artists from any country/region
  • Unreleased tracks and released tracks

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