History:

From it’s 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 it's 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.

business full time. Since then Killbeat has also become the exclusive publicist for Vancouver labels Black Hen Music, Jericho Beach Music, Endearing Records, Anniedale, DDG (Vancouver), Saved By Radio (Calgary), Aporia (Toronto) and more, working in genres from Folk to Jazz, Indie Rock to Hip Hop, Pop to Blues and Electronica to Country. In 2004
Killbeat added radio tracking to its list of services and has more than a dozen albums reach #1 nationally in the last 3 years along with close to countless national top 10 positions. Killbeat has had close to 20 albums on the roster nominated for Juno Awards in the past 3 years along with many other award nominated and winning artists and Ken Beattie himself has thrice been nominated as publicist of the year @ The Western Canadian Music Awards, taking home the award in 2006. Killbeat is western Canada’s most active national publicity company working with almost every Canadian label and distributor imaginable as well as US and UK labels with over 100 different acts represented in the last three years alone and 24 releases scheduled up to the end of August 07.

The rest is future history.