There’s a particular kind of frustration that comes with being a songwriter who isn’t finishing songs. It’s not that you don’t care. It’s not that you’re lazy. It’s that somewhere between the idea and the finished track, something stalls. You…
There’s a story most songwriters tell themselves, and it goes something like this: the best songs arrive fully formed. A melody appears in the shower. A lyric drops into your head on the drive home. The song writes itself in…
Ok, let’s set the scene here… You’ve got the chorus. Or at least the feeling of one, turning over in your head. You know what the song wants to say at its peak. You can hear it. Then you sit…
There’s a version of this conversation that happens in every generation of musicians. The details change, but the shape of it is always remains the same: the industry is in chaos, the money is drying up, the old rules don’t…