Jeff Oxenford has been blogging his experience recording demos for the first time. It’s very interesting first-hand experience and worth a read.

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Lou Reed is interviewed by Pitchfork: Pitchfork: As a songwriter in 1975, what kinds of contextual or personal cues made you want to experiment with things like drone, volume, and sustained sound? Reed: In the Velvet Underground, my guitar solos were always feedback solos, so it wasn’t that big of a leap to say I [...]

Group Project: Songwriting Tips We started our popular Group Songwriting Tips Project last September. I can’t believe it’s been a year already! Songwriters, Get Out Of Town (Part II) “Then I started poking around on www.OpenMikes.org, the site that Don suggested we all use to book our “open mike tour.” To recap from Don’s article, [...]