Neverblu, a local band, is now on iTunes, a platform that gets them closer to their goal – making a career out of the music industry.
“If we play the cards right, and think of it business wise, we can get profit and tour or get another album or both,” Don Stalling, lead singer and WT Business and Finance major, said.
Eric Brown, drummer and WT Broadcasting major, said that he and Stalling went to cdbaby.com and filled out the necessary paperwork.
“That [cdbaby.com] put it on Amazon, iTunes and CDbaby,” Brown said.
The band currently has two albums, Angels and Joshua. The album found on iTunes came from both.
“‘Only if it kills me’ [the album found in iTunes], is a collaboration of our two albums and our EP,” Stalling said.
The members said that it is nice to have the ability to get paid and get profit for their songs.
“They [iTunes] let you withdraw funds,” Carlos Mireles, guitarist and WT Broadcasting major, said. “We are trying to pay the producer with that money.”
Stalling said that the producer was generous to them by giving them their last album for a quarter of the general cost.
“He pretty much gave us the last album for free,” Stalling said.
Brown explained that he never thought that putting their songs on iTunes would be easy and it is something that gets them closer to their goal, travelling.
“I want to travel, get to different places,” he said. “Even if I don’t get paid, I want to do it.”
For Brown, being in iTunes makes his decision easier.
“It is hard to figure out if I should follow my degree, follow plan [of the band] or both,” he said. “Being in iTunes, we are one step ahead.”
Mireles said that before, they had to carry CD’s in order to show people their music, but now being available on iTunes makes it easier to reach the audience.
“I didn’t think it was a big deal,” he said. “It is odd because I can get our music to people and out there no matter where you are in the country.”
Stalling is also the band’s song writer and said that his lyrics will not sound good without the company of the rest of the band.
“It is easier for me to put feelings into words,” he said. “[The rest of the band] put their feelings in there through their instruments.”
