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There have always been more books in the library than you could ever read. There have always been more magazines than you would ever be able to keep up with, and more newspapers than could ever be relevant to you. There has never been a point in modern history where there weren’t more bands on […]

…To live, to eat, to visit, to shop, to see a concert or to walk around in. They might not always be where we want or expect them to be, and they will rarely be in the same places they were a decade ago. But they’re always there. Likewise, there will always be places that […]

Why is your song seven minutes long? Is it because it’s your song? If so, re-evaluate. What are you saying in seven minutes that you couldn’t say in six or five or two? If a song is long because you keep on adding verses and choruses, it’s probably longer than it has to be. Sometimes, […]

One thing that we can learn from history is that the strategies that worked the last time around are unlikely to be the strategies that are going to work this time around. And yet still, so many of us get caught up “fighting the last war.” Want to make a debut album? Maybe the best […]

Has music ceased being cool? These days, when someone tells me about some cool new thing that just came out that I absolutely have to experience, it’s almost always been a TV show: Breaking Bad. House of Cards. The Wire. Dexter. Mad Men. Girls. Game of Thrones. When was the last time someone told you […]

Why did you want to be my Facebook friend? Why did you want to connect with me on LinkedIn? When people seek me out and add me on social networking sites, I do something that is apparently quite strange: I try to engage them. As long as we appear to have a handful of real […]

…Only to realize that there are exceptionally few of them to be found, please rest assured that this is normal. In general, every locale will already be at filled to its saturation point with recording studios that specialize in music. This will be more or less true whether your town has 0 studios or 500 […]

Earlier today, a good friend of mine casually derided a neighborhood for being “filled with yuppies,” who were assumed to be “douchebags.” I’ve done the same kind of thing in the past. But more recently, I’ve begun to question it. This started happening when I decided to stop what I was doing for a moment […]

There comes a time in every young musician’s life when, after a great day spent practicing, performing, or just jamming with friends, he or she thinks: “This is so incredible. I wish I could become a professional musician so that I could do this every day.” This is easily understandable, endlessly relatable, and almost completely […]

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Recording studios do not operate on an “if you build it they will come” basis. With that in mind, here is one dumb and all-too-common approach to starting up your own recording studio: 1) Go around coveting other people’s studios for a while. 2) Start off […]