Selective Hearing is a radio promotion and music marketing company covering alternative/modern rock, CBC/non-commercial, satellite/online and campus/community radio in Canada

We promoted the #1 most played song at Canadian commercial alternative radio in 2023:

"Burning" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs for Secretly Canadian which spent an incredible 11 weeks at #1

In 2022, we promoted the most played song on CBC Music, 

"Still Life" by Carson McHone for Merge Records

We've promoted multiple Top 5 albums on campus/community radio over the years with the most recent being a 5-week run at #1 on the Earshot National Top 50 for Dan's Boogie by Destroyer in 2025

We create and execute campaigns both large and small, from indie to roots to jazz to hip hop, 

targeting the radio stations and formats best suited to the needs of your artist or band!

At Radio Now

Bon Iver (Jagjaguwar)

The Dears (Next Door / Outside)

Destroyer (Merge Records)

Kestrels (Darla Records / Noyes Records)

Carson McHone (Merge Records)

Other Recent Projects

Cigarettes After Sex (Partisan Records)

Hillsboro (Play Dead)

Mitski (Dead Oceans / Secretly Group)

Poor Nameless Boy (Chronograph Records)

Winona Forever (Acrophase Records)

Sunset Rubdown (Pronounced Kroog)

Winnipeg Jazz Orchestra (Chronograph Records)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Secretly Canadian)

Other Past Projects
Ace of Wands || Apollo Suns || Autogramm || Greg Ball || Jenny Banai || Rayland Baxter || Blood Wine or Honey || By Divine Right || The Dears || Destroyer || Diamondtown || Fucked Up || Goldfrapp || Grizzly Coast || HotKid || Kacy & Clayton w/Marlon Williams || Garrett Kato || Taylor Knox || Kuri || The Luvmenauts || Murray A Lightburn || Lightning Dust || Norma MacDonald || Carson McHone || JD McPherson || Mad Ones || The New Pornographers || The Pack a.d. || Daniel Romano || Slow Down Molasses || Smaller Hearts || The Souljazz Orchestra || The Soul Motivators || Allen Stone || Cayley Thomas || Maylee Todd || Adyn Townes || Tush || Unknown Mortal Orchestra || Syd Warwick || Washing Machine

Past Jazz Clients
Chris Andrew || Apollo Suns || Aimee-Jo Benoit || Baritone Madness || Laila Biali || Holly Blazina || Marie-Veronique Bourque || BPM Trio/Phil Dwyer || The Cookers Quintet || Sandro Dominelli || Fawn Fritzen || Antonina Grover || Joy Lapps || Deanne Matley || Al Muirhead || David Restivo Trio || Audrey Ochoa || Keith O'Rourke || Prime Time Big Band (Calgary) || Erin Propp & Larry Roy || Ryan Oliver Quartet || Saskatchewan All Star Big Band || Saxophone Legacy || Johanna Sillanpaa || Andrea Superstein || Luis Tovar || The Way Back Whens || Sheldon Zandboer

Want to work together?

Email us: justin (at) selectiveradio.ca