Loving the Washington Post’s review of the new Kate Bush album, especially its description of the song Pi:
For those about to math-rock, Kate Bush salutes you.
I mean, who else could actually sing pi to 100 decimal places?

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And he’s right.
The founder of Death Cab for Cutie’s original record label tells The Stranger about the disconnects that you’re already aware of.
Because so many bands submit music to editors and music supervisors at television shows like The O.C., Grey’s Anatomy, and The Real World, the amount that bands and songwriters earn from soundtrack placement [...]

More and more of our clients and members ask me how to get songs placed in television or film. Because directors and music supervisors need songs that “fit” a scene or a series, they’re not so concerned about whether an artist or a songwriter has a built-in audience. In fact, many music supervisors like to [...]

If you’ve been listening to any of my recent teleclasses, you’ll know that I’m big on the idea that the centuries-old concept of direct patronage is coming back in a huge way. And here’s another example: commissioned songs for special life events.

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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. [...]

Great question in today’s inbox… a reader wanted to know what to do about a song that was co-written with a session player:
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This Slate article has got some bulletin board posters’ panties in a bunch elsewhere, but it makes a good point. Here in the States, we have used “singer-songwriter” as a filter to winnow down the number of folks who can potentially enjoy a lucrative music career. However, in Europe, “behind the scenes” songwriting lets creative [...]

Folks in the members area have been talking about songwriting, which is simply the most challenging part of anything you will do in your music career. So it was neat to stumble on a post about Eno on the Microsoft Sound.
By letting go of some bigger songwriting challenges and focusing on a very curious exercise [...]

Snopes chimes in on the status of “poor man’s copyright,” the practice of mailing materials to oneself to assert a date of creation in case you ever find yourself in dispute over ownership of a song or any other creative work.
Anecdotally, we have all run into someone that has used this technique in the [...]

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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