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The New Music Food Truck is New Scotland Radio’s newest syndicated Radio Show serving up new Indie and Alt-rock tunes for your devouring pleasure.

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New Scotland Radio is Halifax’s Alternative rock station. We play Alt-Rock & 90s Rock. Plus we add in a nice healthy dose of east coast rock, a few specialty shows and voila. Stay tuned.

X Weekdays: Alt-rock, 90’s rock, infused w/great local rock.

X Weekends: Like X Weekdays but more… weekendy.

Modern Rock 4 Metro: Modern rock and hard rock for Halifax, including local rock.

Throwback Thursdays: 90’s Alternative Rock all day long.

Sunday Alternative: Alt-rock + Local rock mix.

New Scotland Radio

SYNDICATED SHOWS

The East Coast Countdown

The East Coast Countdown features the Top Ten hottest songs from Atlantic Canadian artists as voted by the public at www.eastcoastcountdown.com.

The New Music Food Truck

The New Music Food Truck is New Scotland Radio’s newest syndicated Radio Show serving up new Indie and Alt-rock tunes for your devouring pleasure.

Sunday Coffee House

A weekly radio program hosted by Greg Schatzmann, featuring music from the genres of folk, acoustic, singer-songwriter, Celtic, roots and beyond.

We are temporarily NOT accepting music submissions at this time.

Thank you for your interest in submitting music to New Scotland Radio: Halifax’s alternative rock station. The response to our latest show (rotation) “The indie Hour” has been huge. With that we’ve seen an explosion of submissions in the last 4 months to the extent that we have fallen behind in reading, reviewing and therefore responding to these submissions.

Once we have caught up, we will resume accepting music submissions once again.

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Frequently asked questions

1) Are you in Scotland?

No. We are in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Nova Scotia is Latin for New Scotland. There are multiple places called New Scotland that aren’t actually in Scotland, including one in New York, USA and another in South Africa.

2) Are you on the FM dial?

Nope. Getting on the FM dial is difficult to say the least. It costs a lot of money and would take a lot of time and lawyers, and court proceedings.

3) What's the difference between alt-rock and Modern Rock? Why do you separate them.

I feel alt-rock needs a sub-genre. For me that sub-genre is Modern Rock. I want to play heavier stuff like Avenge Sevenfold, while also playing bands like The Plain White T’s. Each of these seems like a great idea to me and other alt-rock stations tend to pick one end of the spectrum or the other, but I want both. I think the listeners want both. Plus I think it would be terrible to play these two bands one after another. Other than that, I get to play Metallica, Megadeth, and other modern rockers from the 90s.

4) Do you play Indie music?

We’ve always played Indie music but since hooking up with the Indie music bus, we’ve begun to expand the amount of Indie music we play. We’ve even started a new rotation called “The Indie Hour” which plays nothing but Indie music. We love supporting independent artists and therefore are proud to play Indie music.

5) Are you really licensed?

Yes. We are licensed by the Canadian body known as The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN)

http://www.socan.com/

6) Who picks the songs that are played?

Artificial Intelligence. Our Automation system picks the songs based on a set of rules we’ve given it.

7) How many staff members do you have?

Zero. Staff generally get paid, and we don’t have any of that since we don’t make any money from the station. Since we started our station we have had people recording shows for our station (Currently none). We’ve also had people who go to events and take pictures, or report on the event. Lastly, we’ve had people who have managed our social media accounts. Most of this was to be able to add to their portfolio to get themselves a job in Radio, TV, News, Social media, etc.

8) Are you hiring? What about Volunteers?

Well we aren’t making money so we aren’t hiring anyone. We welcome anyone who wants to volunteer with our station to help build their portfolio. This doesn’t mean you have to be a graduate of a college or university program to volunteer and contribute to our station. If you are passionate and feel like you can contribute something to our station, let us know.

9) I’m a graduate of the radio broadcasting course (or other media related course), can I use your station to get experience for my portfolio?

I think the previous question answers this one but the short answer is yes.

10) I run a small syndicated show. How do I get my show on NScR?

Short answer: Let us know. We currently have 3 syndicated radio shows on our station, including Sunday Coffee House, The East Coast Countdown, and The New Music Food Truck. We are always looking for more, because our listeners want more.

11) I'd love to advertise my business with your station. Do you do advertising?

Not at this time. To be able to advertise we would need some sort of staff. At the very least we would require voices for the ads. That’s just the start. We have a list of 80+ businesses in Halifax who want to advertise on New Scotland Radio. If we tried to do this without staff, it would take a long time; time I do not have. We have recently started experimenting with Google Adsense so that’s about the only advertising we currently have.