I’ve told you before that it’s easy to get inspiration from your day job. I don’t know if I meant that in the literal way that mortgage advisor Billy Shakes raps about mutual funds, though.
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Here’s a great interview with Ben Gibbard from Death Cab for Cutie that addresses the only way you should consider getting signed by a major label — once you’ve got enough audience to know that you’ll make good on the deal, and you can get what you want in the contract.
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For everybody that gripes at me about how long it takes to make a recording for an EP or for a full length, check out the session log that Pale Beneath the Blue racked up this weekend. That’s thirteen songs tracked — which shows you what you can accomplish when you put a lot of [...]
Here’s exactly the kind of story that I wish I could tell more often. Catching today’s Oprah with Faith Hill, the show opened up the songwriting process and laid it bare as Lori McKenna played a song on the cream sofa that left Oprah in tears. She actually had to command Lori to stop playing. [...]
Bob Baker asks that question of independent musicians in today’s insightful blog post.
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Has your favorite venue gone karaoke? No worries… make a karaoke track from your original recording, and sing it on karaoke night while barhoppers sing along!
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As usual, Curt’s got some great ideas to spark some creative ideas…
Jumping out of the brainrut by Curt Rosengren in Creativity
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I’m imagining the kind of cold fusion that would break out if Derek Sivers and Phil Keoghan had lunch together. Derek’s got a great little inspirational post that illustrates the kind of mail he and I get all the time…
“My band does _____(any-genre-here)______ music, but we are ______(some-limitation-here)_____. Do you think we have any chance [...]
