From its modest start out of an east Vancouver basement in the late 90’s Killbeat Music was founded when Ken Beattie, a critically acclaimed Vancouver singer songwriter began looking for an audience for his latest project, Radiogram. It has since become one of Canada’s premiere and most recognizable national publicity and media companies.

After taking Radiogram to an internationally acclaimed profile on its debut album (Unbetween 2000) Beattie found himself being asked by various bands and labels to work as their publicist. With the release of Radiogram's second album (All The Way Home – Endearing 2002), Beattie found his band on the cover of the Vancouver entertainment weekly The Georgia Straight, the cover of the college monthly Discorder, and in the cover story of the mainstream Vancouver Sun entertainment pullout Queue - all in the same week. An unprecedented feat that was even more impressive considering this was the same week as the yearly Vancouver music festival New Music West. In a week when close to 400 bands, labels, lawyers, agents and management companies from all over the world were scrambling to get even one sentence written about their projects Beattie pulled off a huge publicity coup.
Since then Killbeat has nationally launched over 300 albums from artists from every corner of Canada and in between as well as the US, UK and Europe.  Killbeat has grown to a team of 3 experienced media savvy music lovers that work in print, radio, visual and online/digital media outlets to create a well rounded media strategy that leaves no stone unturned and no note unlistened.

Working in genres from Folk to Jazz, Indie Rock to Hip Hop, Pop to Blues and Electronica to Country, Killbeat is an award winning national media company that has more than 4 dozen albums reach #1 in the last 3 years on the national college/campus chart including the # 1 album of the year in 2007 and 7 of the year end top 20 on the national Folk/Roots Chart. The CBC Radio 3 Chart is almost never without 4 or 5 Killbeat albums in their top 30 and 1 or 2 in the top 10. In one week in October 2008, Killbeat claimed every one of the top 3 albums, 4 of the top 5 and 6 of the top 10 on the CBC Radio3 chart. There are very few street weeklies in Canada that a Killbeat artist has not graced the cover of while all of the cross Canada dailies have run full page features on KB artists at one point or another. Killbeat has had an artist on the Polaris Music Prize shortlist the last 2 years running as well as dozens and dozens of albums that have won or been nominated for Junos, ECMA’s, WCMA’s, NSMA’s and more.  Killbeat continues to Canada’s most active national publicity company working with almost every Canadian label and distributor there is to work with as well as US and UK labels with over 200 different acts represented in the last three years alone and national launches scheduled anywhere from 6 to 9 months ahead of time the year round.

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