For as long as I’ve been a songwriter, I have often heard the old advice that one way to improve your writing is to…
The reasons for the need for band contracts are wide-ranging and varied, but perhaps the best way to illustrate just how important they are is to look at examples of bands with unfavorable contracts or, worse, no contracts.
As Craig Finn, lead singer of the Hold Steady sings on “Positive Jam,” the first song on the band’s first album, we live in a world that is “wired and well connected.” And needless to say, [...]
It’s no secret that one of the hardest things about keeping a band together is learning how to manage the personal relationships within the band. There are countless legendary bands throughout history that either broke up or [...]
Not too many years ago, through a series of those chance encounters that so often occur in the music business, I was asked to join a band that had already been together for about five years. Not [...]
