Indie Pulse Music Submission Rules – The Human Version

Effective: 1 February 2026

Hey artist! If you send us your track for Indie Pulse (the show on Radio Hawkes Bay and our mate stations around NZ), you’re basically saying “yep, I’m cool with these rules”. If you’re not cool with them… just don’t hit send. Easy.

We’re Indie Pulse (that’s “we/us/our”). We might tweak these rules later. If you keep sending tracks after we do, we’ll take that as a cheerful thumbs-up.

1. Who can send stuff in?

• You gotta be 18+ (or whatever the grown-up age is where you live).
• We love indie / independent artists best. If you’re signed to a major label or locked in an exclusive deal, maybe check with your manager first so we don’t accidentally start World War III with a record company.
• The song has to be yours (or you have to have permission from everyone who owns bits of it). No sneaky uncleared samples or “I’ll sort it later” covers.
• Kiwis get extra warm fuzzies from us, but we’ll happily listen to overseas stuff as long as it behaves under NZ law.

2. How to send your baby to us

• Use the form here: https://indiepulse.woo.co/artists
• Tell us: your name, artist name, track name, a proper link to the WAV file (not a 96kbps MP3 from 2009 thanks), a decent cover image link, and fill out your full artist profile at https://indiepulse.woo.co/manage-profile.
• WAV only, high quality please – we’re not trying to broadcast it through a baked potato.
• It’s free. We’re not that kind of radio show.
• Once you send it we can keep it to decide if we love it, but you still own the song – we’re not secretly planning to sell your masters on Trade Me.
• We might say “thanks”… or we might ghost you. It’s radio, not a relationship app.

3. No promises, sorry

Sending ≠ playing. We pick what fits the vibe, sounds good, and doesn’t make the playlist look like a war crime against indie music. If we do play it, we’ll try to give you a heads-up… but sometimes the stars align at 2 a.m. and it just happens. No hard feelings.

4. What you’re actually giving us permission to do

You’re giving us a forever, free, worldwide, “please don’t sue us” ticket to:

• play your song on air, online streams, podcasts, wee social media clips
• chop little bits out for promos, ads, website hero sections, etc.
• keep a copy in our dusty server graveyard just in case

You still own everything and can shop it around to Spotify, other stations, your mum’s book club — whatever.

If your track has samples, a cheeky cover, or features your mate’s vocals, you swear you’ve already sorted all the paperwork (APRA AMCOS etc.). We’re not your lawyer.

5. The bit where you promise you’re not lying

You pinky-swear that:

• you own (or control) the song, words, recording, everything
• it doesn’t nick anyone else’s copyright, photo, nan’s diary entry, etc.
• it’s not rude enough to get us fined by the authorities
• everything you told us is true (no “I’m the next Lorde” if you’re actually a guy called Dave from Levin doing bedroom beats)
• anyone else on the track said “yep, cool” in writing

6. If someone gets stroppy

If some third party comes after us because you sent us a track that wasn’t fully yours, you promise to step in front of the bus and handle it (lawyers, costs, apologies, the lot). We might even take over the fight… but you’re still paying for the snacks.

7. Your info

We’ll store your name, email, bio etc. the way NZ’s Privacy Act says we’re allowed to. We use it to talk to you, maybe big you up on air/socials, and share with other stations we work with. Full details in our privacy policy: https://indiepulse.woo.co/privacy-policy You can fix or delete your stuff anytime at https://indiepulse.woo.co/your-info or just email us.

8. If something goes wrong, we’re only $100 sorry

We’re not insuring your dreams. If the stream cuts out, your song gets played at the wrong speed, or aliens abduct our transmitter, tough. Our maximum “oops” payout is NZ$100. That’s it.

9. Changing your mind

You can email us and say “actually nah” up to 7 days before we were going to play it. After that, if it’s already aired or sitting in the archive, it stays. We can also kick your track out anytime if we feel like it (especially if you’ve been fibbing in section 5).

10. The boring lawyer stuff

• NZ law rules everything. Disputes go to Hawke’s Bay courts (bring snacks).
• If one sentence here is rubbish, the rest still stand.
• These are the full rules. No secret handshakes or side DMs change them.
• If the internet dies, the power goes out, or a volcano erupts on the studio – we’re not liable. Acts of God get a free pass.

By uploading your track you’re basically nodding and saying “yep, read it, get it, I’m in”.

Questions? Hit terrence.bull@gmail.com – we don’t bite (unless the track is really bad… then maybe just a gentle nibble).

Cheers & good luck, The Indie Pulse crew