Riffage.com Opens Its Doors to Artists

Riffage.com is a new web-based music service (founded by Ken Wirt, previously of Diamond Multimedia, where he helped to bring the Rio portable MP3 player to market) that combines powerful community, communications, and e-commerce capabilities to deliver a comprehensive source for numerous music genres on the Internet.

For the music fan, Riffage.com provides a wide selection of music and merchandise from popular and new Indie bands. Riffage.com also offers unique personalization tools that enable users to quickly receive recommendations on music using individual preference profiles, as well as an online community where fans can converge to discover and discuss independent artists and their music.

For the musician, Riffage.com provides a direct marketing and distribution channel to the consumer through the Internet, replacing the traditional music industry paradigm of artist-label-distributor-retailer. Riffage.com enables artists to deliver their music using either direct downloads or through physical good fulfillment. Musicians utilizing the site can build fan awareness by publishing upcoming concert dates, music previews, news, doing live chats, and posting to discussion boards through their own personalized Riffage.com web page. Musicians can also make money by selling their music and merchandise on Riffage.com. It costs nothing to get started with Riffage.com, and as you sell music and merchandise from the site, Riffage.com takes only a 15% commission on sales - much less than sites offering similar services.

For a limited time, Riffage.com is also offering a free gift to artists that register on the site. Register now on Riffage.com and you can receive 500 cards, 100 postcards, and 100 stickers imprinted with your band name and web address absolutely free to promote yourself and start building traffic to your page on Riffage.com.