As part of your listening and online experience with Radio Free Americana, you may be supplying us with certain personal information. RFA does not sell or provide such information to third parties for commercial gain. Following are applications where you may supply information to us:
Contact Forms
When you submit a question or comment to RFA using the contact form on either (1) our contact web page or (2) our mobile app, we require that you provide certain information necessary for us to respond. We use the contact form information for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. We will not share the information you supply on the contact form with another party without your express permission and, in that event, for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. (For example, if you need help with a technology issue related to the RFA listening experience, it may be helpful to share relevant technical information you supply with a third party to resolve your issue.)
Music Submission
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if you use the contact form (or any other means of providing information) for the purpose of submitting your music for airplay consideration, you agree that RFA may play your music on our broadcast subject to all regulations governing music licensing. You further agree that RFA may publish information about your music for the purpose of informing and providing access for the legal purchase of your music by our audience.
Weekly Airplay Email Newsletter
Published on Fridays, this newsletter includes the weekly RFA Airplay Chart and related info. Subscribers include radio promoters, music publicists, label representatives, artists, listeners, and anyone wanting to learn about new music releases. This newsletter is managed by MailChimp and to subscribe you must provide your email address, name and company name (optional) using our signup form. This information is used to provide you a weekly airplay update. RFA will not sell or give your personal information collected using this form to marketers or vendors. MailChimp’s privacy policy can be viewed HERE.
RFA Listener Newsletter
Published and distributed on a very limited, irregular basis, this newsletter is managed by MailChimp and to subscribe you must provide your email address and name using our signup form. This is used to provide you information to enhance your listening and online experience with RFA. You may also be notified of opportunities to support RFA. We will never sell or give your personal information collected using this form to marketers or vendors. MailChimp’s privacy policy can be viewed HERE.
Fractured Atlas Fundraising
Radio Free Americana is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions are made to Fractured Atlas in order to be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Accordingly, systems and processes managed by Fractured Atlas are used for fundraising purposes. If you make a charitable contribution using these systems and processes, you may be required to provide certain personal information to Fractured Atlas necessary to make payment, comply with regulatory and tax requirements, and related purposes. To the extent that RFA has access to any of this information, we will only use it for the intended purpose and will not share it with any third party for any reason; provided, however, that we may publicly acknowledge you as a supporter using only your first name (or company name) and city/state. (Please advise if you prefer not to be publicly acknowledged.) View Fractured Atlas’ privacy policy HERE.
Mobile App
Our mobile app developer, autopo.st, provides RFA the capability to send messages for receipt by everyone with the app installed. (RFA has no knowledge of who has installed the app, nor do we collect any information about who has installed the app.) This messaging capability will be used sparingly, for the purpose of notifying users of updates that may be available for the app or related technical issues.
Twang meets Pop
From pure pop for now people to pure slop for cow people; from three chords and the truth to two chords and a sack of lies; Radio Free Americana is non-discriminating free-form radio for the discriminating listener.
RFA is not focus-group tested.
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Preliminary financial results for the first 6 months of 2025 show a 15% decrease in listener donations (our only source of revenue) and a 34% increase in expenses compared to the same period last year. Please note that RFA’s expenses include zero salaries and wages, with the majority of expenses comprising royalties paid to artists/rights holders and the infrastructure (network, computers, etc.) required to deliver the music. Please support RFA by donating at https://fundraising.fracturedatlas.org/radio-free-americana. With no corporate overlords, a little bit goes a long way.
Thanks, cat
HURRICANE HELENE RELIEF EFFORT
Please support Asheville, North Carolina-based MANNA FoodBank with your donation at https://mannafoodbank.org. The fine folks of western Carolina really need our help. (It’s no triviality that the region contributes mightily to the music we love.) Thank you.
