Think Today’s Music Sucks? Here’s What You Do About It.
If you’ve ever said “But today’s music sucks”, you wouldn’t be the first and you won’t be the last. There are basically two ways of looking at this. One: maybe you’re right. Maybe music today is far more about image and marketing than music. Maybe music today is more...
Five Reasons Why Being a Songwriter Sucks (And Five Why It’s Awesome)
Sometimes being a songwriter sucks. Sometimes it’s awesome. Let me try to explain why. — Five Reasons Why Being a Songwriter Sucks — 1. You never feel good enough You’re too close to the thing you’re working on. You’re the last person on...
How to Finish a Song
The trouble with finishing a song is that songwriting is hard. Possible, manageable, achievable. But hard. It’s hard because songwriting, like any kind of creativity, means making something that doesn’t exist yet. And the trouble with making something that doesn’t...