Beach House talks songwriting This band came through town recently and I was blown away by their songwriting prowes. Check out this article and then go download some songs to get an idea of how great they are. [Full Article] How to setup a songwriting group Andrea Stolpe at Berklee Music Blogs has another great [...]
Steve Jobs summoned the spirit of Pablo Picasso when he said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” Reuters reports that on Thursday Joe Satriani filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the British rock quartet Coldplay, contending that the Coldplay song “Viva la Vida” makes use of “substantial original portions” of his composition “If I Could [...]
Songwriting for Rockers Musician’s Notebook has a post “The 5 Rockers You Can Learn Songwriting From”. Despite ending their blog post with a preposition, the author has posted examples from Guns and Roses, Alice In Chains, and others that have inspired him when looking for songwriting inspiration. [Read More] How is your website? Smashing Magazine [...]
Got an idea for a song? Record a track. Upload it. Then invite others to add drums, bass, vocals or anything else. That’s pretty much the concept of Kompoz, an online songwriting collaboration community. It’s simple concepts like this that are moving online collaboration in new and exciting directions. If there was ever a good [...]
The Philosophies of Work: A Conversation with Derek Sivers of CD Baby While this is primarily a business conversation at the San Fran MusicTech Summit between Derek and Tim Ferris (author of the famed “The 4-Hour Workweek“) there are many points in the discussion for songwriters looking for success on the business side of the [...]
The 5th Annual IAMA (International Acoustic Music Awards) is now accepting entries. IAMA promotes excellence in Acoustic Music Performance and Artistry. Acoustic artists in various genres can gain exciting radio and web exposure through this competition. Participating sponsors include D’Addario Strings, New Music Weekly, Loggins Promotion, AirplayAccess.com,Sonicbids.com, Acoustic Cafe Radio Show and XM Satellite Radio. [...]
Amie Street Lands Big Content Deal With Orchard Amie Street, the music store that features dynamic pricing that varies according to a song’s popularity, has secured a deal with digital music distributor The Orchard, which holds a catalog of over 1 million songs. For the time being not all of The Orchard’s music labels will [...]
Even just the last few months has seen a meteoric rise in the number of great songwriting blogs and sites around the web. So many that I can hardly keep up. I used to cover many of the popular songwriting sites quite regularly and nowadays I just stockpile articles in my STARRED newsreader folder for [...]
Press Release NASHVILLE, TENN. – Close your eyes and imagine you are in Nashville. What do you see? More importantly, what do you hear? For many it is the sounds of Music City that draw them in, and it’s not just the steel guitar and fiddle they hear either. Nashville’s music scene is turning heads [...]
American Idol Songwriting Contest is not what it seems?: An amazing amount of research on CyberMidi about the intricate network of connections between American Idol performers, FOX, and actual contestants. “On the eve of the 2008 American Idol finale, there is a growing conspiracy theory about the songwriting contest. Last year’s winner had relationships with [...]
