Atlanta · Est. 2008
Coalition DJs
We are the Atlanta crew that decides what gets played. Eighteen years of New Music Mondays, a chapter network across the country, and a résumé of broken records the trades keep writing about.
How we work
WE ARE THE ROOMTHAT BREAKS RECORDS.
The Wall Street Journal's own arithmetic on us, 2013.
We came together in 2008 out of the rooms where Atlanta actually tests music: Jazzy T's, Strokers, Magic City. The method the Wall Street Journal documented in 2013 has not changed since. A record goes into rotation across our rooms, night after night, and the spins get counted, printed and handed back as proof.
What comes out the other side is the thing our hashtag turned into a brand: a record the room has certified. The trades wrote down what happened next, from Jeezy and T.I. to Future, 2 Chainz and Migos.
- 01
We spin it
Five new songs a night, two to three plays each, in rotation across our rooms for eight weeks. The WSJ's own arithmetic.
- 02
We prove it
Spin data comes back on paper. Our product has always been proof, not promises.
- 03
We certify it
“We are the starting point. Once it gets started in the strip clubs in Atlanta, it goes to the radio.” Nick Love, Complex, 2015.
Coalition Certified
OUR RÉSUMÉ
Both lists are published: our own About names them, and the AJC printed them again on our 17th anniversary. Records we broke for:
- JEEZY
- T.I.
- FUTURE
- 2 CHAINZ
- MIGOS
- RICH HOMIE QUAN
- CA$H OUT
- TRAVIS PORTER
On their own accounts
THE NAMES, LIVE
Every artist above who keeps a verified Instagram is on this page on their own account. Tap a handle and check us.
We broke his early records out of Atlanta.
We broke his early records, and he came back to our stage in 2026.
We broke his early records out of Atlanta.
We broke his early records out of Atlanta.
We broke their early records out of Atlanta.
We broke his early records out of Atlanta.
On our list of broken records, and back on our anniversary stage in 2025.
Our founders
WE ASSEMBLED IN 2008
DJ Big X
Xavier Hargrove
The Atlanta music exec whose brainchild we were, and the voice still fronting our anniversaries.
DJ Funky
Founding DJ
One of our three original founding DJs, who built our name in Atlanta's gentlemen's clubs.
DJ X-Rated
Founding DJ
“People come from all across the country to get feedback. Sometimes you need that.” Complex, 2015.
DJ Nando
Long live DJ Nando
Founding DJ, killed January 14, 2014. Our biggest moments still carry his name, from Monday nights to the airport exhibit.
We do not link an account under his name. The one that spells it belongs to somebody else, and he deserves better than a stranger's page.
Home of New Music Mondays
EVERYMONDAY.
It is the longest-running door into the Atlanta industry: bring us a record you believe in and perform it for a room of fifteen-plus Coalition DJs, the people who decide what gets played that week. Over seventeen years of Mondays, and artists still come to us from across the country.
- Where
- Stankonia Studios, 677 Antone St NW, Atlanta
- When
- Every Monday, 7 PM
- The room
- 15+ of our DJs, feedback on the spot
- Running since
- 2008, over 17 years of Mondays
What our New Music Mondays is
Reel · @coalitiondjsatl
Our own DJs
THE NAMES ON OUR FLYERS
The DJs we bill for Back In The Booth and The Listening Room, plus the night Too Short pulled up. Every one of them on their own account.
Runs Back In The Booth with us, every Monday.
On our Listening Room decks, Tuesdays at Smith's Olde Bar.
On our Listening Room decks, in from Milwaukee.
Held our Listening Room room down, from the selections to the technique.
Pulled up to our New Music Mondays.
Our run
EIGHTEEN YEARS OF RECEIPTS
Every row is carried by the page that published it, so you can check any of it in one tap: the trades, the loss, the anniversaries, the exhibit.
The streak800+ MONDAYS AND COUNTINGSeventeen-plus years of New Music Mondays without letting go of the room: our own flyer does the arithmetic. Artists from across the country, heard by the DJs who move Atlanta.
- 2008We assembleAtlanta music exec Xavier Hargrove, DJ Big X, builds us around DJ Funky, DJ X-Rated and DJ Nando, out of Jazzy T's, Strokers and Magic City.
- 2013The Wall Street Journal takes notesThe WSJ profiles us as the gatekeepers deciding which underground Atlanta artists break: five songs a night, eight-week runs, spin data delivered on paper.
- 2014We lose DJ NandoOur founding member DJ Nando is shot and killed outside his home on January 14. The case is never solved. We go dark for six months, then rebuild carrying his name.
- 2015Complex documents our machine“Beats, Booties, and Business” maps how we run Atlanta's scene from the strip clubs up, with records broken for Jeezy, Future, 2 Chainz and Rich Homie Quan.
- 2018Ten years of breakingOur 10-year anniversary lands at Masquerade while Creative Loafing calls us the most important curators in Atlanta hip-hop.
- 2019Our chapters go nationalOur DMV chapter celebrates its first year under Byron “Sleep” Stevenson, running New Music Wednesdays. Our network is real and growing.
- 2025Our 17th anniversary, MLK DayBelieve Music Hall, with Ralo, Travis Porter, Sean Garrett, OJ Da Juice Man and ATL Jacob. The AJC covers it and cites our reach across 17 major markets.
- 2026We run our own conferenceDJ Power Summit, January 17 and 18 in Atlanta: 1,500+ expected attendees and 20+ invited guest DJs, linked from our own site.
Our 17th anniversary stage
WHO WE PUT ON IT
The MLK Day 2025 stage the AJC wrote up. Every artist on it whose account we have confirmed is here on that account, and the rest go up as we confirm them.
On our 17th anniversary stage, MLK Day 2025.
On our list of broken records, and back on our anniversary stage in 2025.
On our 17th anniversary stage, MLK Day 2025.
On our 17th anniversary stage, MLK Day 2025.
Our network
ONE CREW, SEVENTEEN MARKETS
The AJC cites our reach across 17 major markets. These are our chapters with public doors of their own; the full directory goes up as we confirm it.
The markets our own Linktree lists
- ATL
- ALABAMA
- TENNESSEE
- DETROIT
- CAROLINA
- DMV
- TRI-STATE
- STL
- MIDWEST
- HOUSTON
- DALLAS
Our sound
THE PLAYLISTS WE RUN
Coalition Picks and The Blast are our own playlists, linked from our own site, where a certified record lands on Spotify and Tidal.
Coalition Picks
Linked from coalitiondjs.com
The Blast
Coalition Music Service, linked from coalitiondjs.com
The We Outside Show, Ep. 520
Our weekly industry podcast
New Music Monday ATL
A session, from our own channel
Both playlists are linked from our own site. Our podcast, The We Outside Show, runs weekly.
Straight from our account
SEE IT FOR YOURSELF
Live embeds off @coalitiondjsatl, so you can watch our rooms without leaving this page.
Our rooms
MONDAY NIGHT IN ATLANTA
Our bio, as we wrote it
@coalitiondjsatlHome of New Music MondaysCoalition DJs • Est. 2008Book New Music Mondays through your Coalition DJ, DM this page, or call: 404-707-0408@coalitiondjsatl, our own Instagram bioOur story
We are the starting point of Atlanta records.
We are an Atlanta institution with the receipts of one: assembled in 2008 by Xavier Hargrove around DJ Funky, DJ X-Rated and DJ Nando, profiled by the Wall Street Journal by 2013, mapped by Complex by 2015, and enshrined in the Hartsfield-Jackson hip-hop exhibit by 2025.
Our engine is still Monday night. Artists come from across the country to play us a record in the room that broke Jeezy, T.I., Future, 2 Chainz and Migos, and our certification still travels: through the chapters, through the playlists, through the We Outside Show, and through eighteen anniversary stages, the last of which put T.I. back on the mic.
And through all of it runs one name. Long live DJ Nando.
Bookings
GET IN THE ROOM
Book New Music Mondays through your Coalition DJ, DM us, or call. These are the routes we publish ourselves.
DM us
@coalitiondjsatl, the account our bio points at. 17,765 posts deep.
Phone
404-707-0408
The one number our own bio publishes.
newmusicmondaysatl@gmail.com
Published on our own New Music Mondays booking page.
The phone number is the one our own Instagram bio gives out. The email is published on our SimplyBook booking page. No other route on this site is invented, and we publish no pricing anywhere.
Eighteen years. One room. Every Monday.
Book New Music Mondays through your Coalition DJ, DM us, or call. These are the routes we publish ourselves.