Biography

Welcome to DEAD Famous International and of course the home of the DEAD ARMY which is a boutique style of new record label, licensing, artist management and distribution entity from the Astral Records & Music team. Here is the new face of simple and no-fuss artist development and management, with both physical and digital distribution that creates the ultimate testing platform for new artists that are trying to make the cut and get to the pinnacle of the new music economy today.

The DEAD Famous team is made up of (5) industry professionals that include Mike Puskas (CEO Astral Records & Music and MPM Artist Management), Tony Boswell (CEO of Play It For The Labels), James Lucente (CEO of Lucki Entertainment in Florida), Phil Haywood (CEO of Flashpoint Media in the UK) and Dennis Rowehl (MD of Autona Media in Germany). We have recently brought on Joel Wanasek of JTW Studios in the US to handle Mid West A&R for the label and also David Todd, ex-front man for the UK band Existend and a journalism major to handle UK A&R for the label. We have also recruited Freddy King in Milwakee to handle all US Street Team promotions for our releases in the DEAD Army. All of the players are respected and well established A&R professionals with proven track records in the international music industry and know a great, commercially viable act when they hear one.

The label and management team are growing leaps and bounds, and we have just signed a (3) year label output and release deal in the US with Nightmare Records and distribution by KOCH International. In Canada we have a release and distribution deal with Fontana North and Universal Distribution for all hard rock and metal releases. We are currently in negotiations with other major players in the UK and Europe including a label release deal with NetzoneMusic through Rough Trade in the GSA and all PR and marketing handled by the proactive Autona Media and EMP Online in both Cologne and Berlin in Germany for the GSA market.

The new digital deal with MMD (Modern Media Distribution) and IODA, will see all DEAD Famous record releases distributed into over 150+ digital retail outlets around the world which include I Tunes, Burnlounge, MSN, CD Baby, Rhapsody, CD Plus, Napster, Yahoo Music, AOL now, E Music, Audio Lunchbox etc. All these releases will be effectively marketed through a strong promotional campaign which includes all mobile and PDA wireless delivery networks and international licensing and a slate of major rewards-style programs around the globe through our third party global affiliates.

We are currently looking to sign (6) new acts in 2008 and have already picked up three quality artists which include Cuush (UK), Black Bikini Alpha (UK) and Citizen Charlie (Norway). These are artists along with our top tier of the roster which include, Garrett Ramquist (Wisconsin), DoubleEverything (New York), Drift Effect (Minneapolis), The Vaine (Australia), Sex and Patriotism (Michigan), Janice Doll (Brazil), Damnzal (Australia), Domenica (Canada), New Self High (Florida), Ripped (Canada), Fyrefly (UK) and Sam Lombardi (Australia)

You can send demo submissions to the label by following the process below.

Michael Puskas - Head of A&R
DEAD Famous Artists
122 Dorking Road
Box Hill
Melbourne, Victoria 3129
Australia
Code: Greenlight DF2008

Please put the above code on your package so it gets straight to the executive team for review and not lost in our fodder and filler package pile, which we basically get to when and if time permits.

With the massive popularity of the first (12) DEAD Famous Artist compilations now available at all good digital retailers, including I Tunes in the US, E Music and Burnlounge we have needed to enlist the support of our partners at Sonicbids to help us streamline the process and from the first week of July 2007, all artists will have to submit from the promoter boxes at Sonicbids listed just below.

Go for it...the hottest new solution to worldwide effective artist management and non exclusive global release is here, all you need to do is DIE trying to get DEAD Famous....

Cheers,
Mike
CEO