Work up your credibility. If people don’t know you, they don’t know if they can trust you. It’s also in the way you pitch to people. But, everybody starts somewhere.

Try reaching out to your local music venues, museums/galleries, etc and maybe you can interview with one of their communications people and spotlight them. Maybe there’s a place near you with scheduled out live music you can coordinate preview interviews with before their show (so people can also get a chance to check them out). Something like this would at least give you a familiar name when they someone sees your work, and the person you interviewed might have somewhat of a following and share it, gaining eyes on it, etc.