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Songwriter Profile: Lucy Isabel
Lucy Isabel Sign Posts of the Soul with Rambling Stranger Bolstered by a whirling Hammond organ and a lacerating slide guitar, Lucy Isabel arrives with ... -
YouTube: Worldwide Open Mic
A successful producer-songwriter tells you how, using YouTube, he and his creative partner discovered an unknown singer-songwriter halfway around the world, launching her music career ... -
CD Baby––A History of Artists Helping Artists
According to their website, CD Baby represents over 650,000 artists and is responsible for streaming more than 7 million tracks. Currently serving musicians in a ... -
Masters of Mastering: Words of Wisdom from 4 Mastering Engineers
Feature photo: Colin Leonard's mastering suite at SING Mastering with custom-built Egglestonworks Ivy monitors. Colin Leonard Company: SING Mastering Clientele: Cardi B, Beyoncé, Justin Bieber ... -
Film/TV Composing: Strategies for Getting Hired
Becoming a successful media composer takes more than sheer talent. It requires a number of non-musical skills, too, not to mention good timing and a ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Joe Chiccarelli
Music Connection first spoke with producer, engineer and 10-time Grammy winner Joe Chiccarelli for our February 2012 Producer Crosstalk. In the intervening years, the Bostonian’s ... -
How to Get the Most Out of Your Rehearsal for Better Performances
Rehearsals can make the difference between a disastrous performance from which people leave early, and a rock solid and riveting performance that brings people to ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Steve Vai
Legendary guitar wizard and three-time Grammy-winner Steve Vai is recognized primarily for three phases of his career: his time with Frank Zappa when he was ... -
Golden Age of the DAW: Tools for Our Trade
No one has ever accused me of being the most talented person in the world. In fact, they are absolutely correct to withhold such praise ... -
Songwriter Profile: Nick Furlong - Hits with Diplo, Steve Aoki, Avicii & Papa Roach
Unlike a conventional recording artist whose creations are tightly contained by style and genre, songwriter and producer Nick Furlong is able to create across a ... -
Out Take: Beau Black - Composer/Songwriter/Instrumentalist
As the son of Jay Black of the 1960s group Jay and the Americans, Beau Black was practically raised onstage, but he quickly learned that ... -
Industry Profile: Sound Royalties
Music makes the world go round, but so does money. And fittingly, it takes money to keep an artist’s career chugging. Sound Royalties is in ... -
How to Create Your Personal Brand
BRANDING… We’ve all heard that word applied to artists for years now. Every artist is supposed to be a brand, almost like a company. It’s ... -
Executive Profile: Tommy Stalknecht, CEO of Single Music
While working on digital storefronts for major artists at an agency in Nashville, Tommy Stalknecht noticed the unnecessary separation between music sales and ancillary artist ... -
Songwriter Profile: Sarah Burton - Tumbleweeds, Truth and Terlingua, Texas
While Canadian-born singer-songwriter Sarah Burton originally relocated to the US for expanded career opportunities, she says she had an ulterior motive. “All of us Canadians ... -
Producer Crosstalk: Rob Jaczko and Daniel M. Thompson from Berklee College of Music
Together, Rob Jaczko and Daniel M. Thompson oversee the Music Production and Engineering Department at Boston's Berklee College of Music. Both are alumni of the ... -
Elton John: 50 Years On
Rocketman is an epic musical fantasy about the incredible human story of Elton John’s breakthrough years. The film follows the fantastical journey of transformation from ... -
Expert Advice: The Hidden Economic Consequences In Private Music Education
An expert in the field of private music education, Tim Guille owns a successful private lesson company in Los Angeles (All Play Music) and is ... -
Expert Advice: How to Practice - a Guide by Musicians, for Musicians
There’s a picture of me, when I was about six years old, sitting down to play the piano for the first time… I’m sitting on ... -
Singers Sound Off! 2019
It is that time of the year again when we celebrate the diversity of vocalists from all shades of the musical spectrum. We always aim ...
