It was the kind of song you danced to when you were positive no one else would dance with you. “Everything Is Embarrassing” was so good it suggested that many more songs like it were possible, and it helped write the blueprint for a decade of downbeat, emotionally complex pop. A...
You obviously don’t need to rely exclusively on loops to write your tracks either—recordingsome guitar, keys, bass or vocals of your own is the best way to put yourself into the track. Loops are great for forming the basis of your song and getting your creative juices flowing—but neve...
always on time. There’s bandleader Charlie on sax, always encouraging, engaging, jaw-dropping on occasion in his fluency and verve, a worthy leader. The two-minute segment when he and Michael (violin) step to the front and – shorn of the rest of the band – give us an avant-garde...
The 1953 novelty hit, written by John Rox, rocketed up the pop charts and led to a fundraising campaign to buy Peevey an actual hippo for Christmas. Children donated their dimes to the cause, and the Oklahoma City native got her hippo, named Mathilda, which she donated to the ...
The cathartic indie rock track wishes a hopeless flame well after denying theirqueer identity: "When you wake up next to him in the middle of the night/ With your head in your hands, you're nothing more than this wife/ And when you think about me, all of those years ago/ You...
If you're an indie artist and you're trying to put your music out, I encourage you to get set up on Bandcamp regardless of whether you're also doing Digital Distribution! Heads Up! A common frustration with being new to Bandcamp is that in order to collect the money you make on Bandc...
A screenplay is story prepared in a visual form, either for movie scripts or television or streaming shows. It's a way to format and write story for an audience to watch. But what is the process of writing a screenplay? How do you even begin? And why is it important to know how wri...
Today lo-fi music refers to a jazzy genre of hip-hop beat that's popular on YouTube. Here's what inspires and enables producers to write lo-fi tracks.
It’s also super-helpful to be able to prepare the written music for sessions. Since session musicians tend to read well, having written parts could save a lot of time, when “time is money” in a recording session. You don’t need toknow how to read and write sheet music, you can...
ThoughMark Ronsonwas already a fairly successful artist and producer in his own right before he teamed with Winehouse to write and co-produce much ofBack To Black,his cred was positively stratospheric after the album's release. Though portions ofBack To Blackwere actually produced bySalaam Re...