Listen Alaskan,
Play Alaskan

Many of our playlists are designed to keep growing indefinitely, which means there’s room for more artists and new work.

We also release new playlists regularly, and we have plans for more. Suggest a theme, or, better yet, make your own playlist featuring Alaskan artists!

Yes, yes, YES! Build your own playlist of your favorite Alaskan songs on any platform, and be sure to use the word “Alaska” — or the city name — in the playlist or description. This is how we all train the algorithm that Alaskan artists belong in the spotlight.

If you’re proud of your playlist, share it with us (playlistproject@musicalaska.org). We follow other Alaskan playlists and sometimes boost them on social media!

If you’re a contributor to the Alaska music scene, past or present, we want to hear you. Submit a few of your songs on Spotify or Deezer to the appropriate playlists, and we’ll add your work! See the FAQ’s for details.

(The process can take a couple weeks, so give it a minute.)

If your music’s not on Spotify or Deezer and you don’t want it to be, we support you! Join our newsletter, and we’ll let you know when we’re able to branch out to more platforms, like Apple Music and Bandcamp.

We only have room to playlist each artist a couple times, so submitting dozens of tracks is not helpful. Instead, choose “lead singles,” two or three representative songs per record, showing off your range. We can spread some of those songs out across different playlists.

Spotify was first to make playlisting and sharing easy, so that was an obvious phase one. But we are operating on Deezer now, and have plans to expand to Apple Music, Bandcamp, and even Youtube when we have capacity.

We’re also busy building directories of ALL Alaskan bands and artists, independent of any one company or streaming platform.

Community and volunteer energy will get us there sooner, so if you want to see all of that happen, submit some songs and contact us to volunteer!

We dream of hearing more Alaskan music everywhere, but especially here at home. Tourists should be listening to it on buses and in hotel lobbies, cafes should be able to turn on the local talent, and DJ’s should have an easy time discovering bands from around the state to play on the radio and podcasts.

The crew at MusicAlaska & AKIMI looks at music advocacy in places like Iceland, Greenland, Canada, and New Zealand, where boosting local music is a point of pride. Step one is making it easy for listeners to FIND local artists, and that’s a step we’re taking here.

To escape the cliques and geographic silos of the music scene, we’re inviting the public to chime in. Help us out by submitting a song!

MusicAlaska is a statewide organization working on promoting Alaska music and creating opportunities for Alaskan musicians — every age, every genre, everywhere. We also put on the Alaska Music Summit and develop the festival and venue directories coming soon to MusicAK.org.