FutureRiff Music is the record label for my music. I'm a studio artist, ie I produce music in my home studio, but I don't perform. I like to think I'm like a painter. I paint in my studio and then hang my pieces in galleries to be looked at and sold.
Let's face it, most independent bands will only perform in their local area, state and country, depending on how successful they become and probably never travel overseas. Thus, in a world of global marketing and sales, most fans will never see the band/artist they support live. So, since I'm not performing live, I have to find other ways of attracting fans.
One way is to create videos for several of the songs off my first album, Wrong End Of The Dial, which is due for release on 3rd December,2012 in a whole variety of stores, including itunes, and for streaming from such sites as spotify.
I've released it worldwide through Ditto Music (in the UK), but if they have done anything, I can't tell, so Monday might be a fizzer. I'll only know, if it appears in the itunes Australia store. I had purchased pre-release, where the album or its songs can be purchased beforehand, but only downloaded after the release date. However nothing has shown up in itunes and Ditto haven't replied to my email. That's the trouble with these independent distributors, they can be great one moment and then like a complete ripoff the next.
So, over the coming months I will be trying to get radio airplay, putting music videos up on youtube and elsewhere and trying to get tv and internet airplay of those videos, all while trying to build a fan base through social networking. There are sites that offer this for a fee, but it usually involves them sending out emails to radio stations etc, containing little else but urls to where your music can be accessed from, and your link is perhaps just one of a hundred or more.
But I have to start somewhere. Check out my first video for my song I Hate The Banks,
