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 want to [...]
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 [...]
BMI presents:
Cliff Goldmacher’s Demo Production for Songwriters
This 2 1/2 hour discussion will cover:
Demo production and pre-production
Streamlining the demo process
Keeping budgets in check
Preparing of and pitching of finished demos
Cliff Goldmacher has recorded and produced over forty album projects and worked with artists from Emmylou Harris to Chris Barron of the Spin Doctors. Cliff has also served [...]
Another month and another look back at songwriting one year ago.
We Can All Take A Songwriting Lesson From Toby Keith
We can all learn a lesson from Toby, and not just about songwriting. Toby has confidence, and yeah, he has a reason to have it - but so do all of us. We all excel in [...]
Ryan Adams writes 3-5 albums per year. He speaks to his prolific nature in an interview with the Vancouver Sun:
“I think that, if anything, if I’m prolific then I think that says more about the work ethic or the expectations of work in this day and age, in society. Because I certainly don’t, in my [...]
From Yahoo News. By NEKESA MUMBI MOODY, AP Music Writer
Singer-Songwriters, or just Singers?
NEW YORK - Of all the names in music, Chantal Kreviazuk may be the least likely to appear in a headline. Though she recently released her own album, the songwriter usually stays behind the scenes to pen hits with artists such as Kelly [...]
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First it was Avril Lavigne, now it’s James Blunt - the next in line for plagiarism charges by disgruntled ex-producers/co-writers.
According to Lukas Burton, he helped write several songs on James Blunt’s multi-platinum album Back To Bedlam. The songs in question include, ‘Goodbye My Lover’, ‘No Bravery’, ‘Cry’, ‘I Don’t Believe’, ‘I Really Want You’ and [...]
Promote your band on a $500 budget. Hometracked interviews Andrew Dubber - author of the new eBook “The 20 Things You Must Know About Music Online” and asks the following question:
HomeTracked: A band tells you they have $500 to spend on promotion. How would you recommend they spend that money?
New Music Strategies: $500 is branding [...]
At the time of this writing, there is an unfamiliar face at the top of the iTunes Albums list - a songstress named Sara Bareilles and her album “Little Voice”. Some have said she sounds reminiscent of Fiona Apple.
The Wall Street Journal seemed to notice and did an article on her. The success point - [...]
