Does "Making It" Still Require Big Cities?
The question came up recently: Do you need to be in a big city to have a successful music career anymore? If music can be made anywhere, by anyone, then does it matter where you make your music? New York, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, San Francisco, New Orleans, Nashville, Austin; these are all musical cities. These are the musical epicenters, where bands and musicians flock to try and break into the music industry, to be noticed. But how important is it to b
Technology and Music
“Technologies progress has merely provided us with more efficient ways for going backwards” – Aldous Huxley When I first read this quote I took it as a negative. The more advanced technology gets the more backwards we become? Then I started to realize there are plenty of examples of this, such as; with so much knowledge at our fingertips we don’t have to memorize facts and spend time learning from books. You don’t know how to change a tire? Just pull it up on YouTube. But the
Musical Evolution
I’m a believer in evolution. Specifically, my personal evolution in how I relate to music. Growing up in the ‘70’s it started with records, which were great when you were at home. Then came the 8 track, which was portable and we could listen to them in our car. They sounded good, although you sometimes got 8 tracks with different track listings from the LP to make the songs fit the tracks (if you’re lucky), or else, sometimes in the middle of a song it would end abruptly as i
Music Production and Gender Equality
"#MeToo" spread virally in October 2017 as a hashtag used on social media to help demonstrate the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. Variety reported that when it asked The Recording Academy president Neil Portnow about the lack of female winners at this year’s Grammys (best new artist Alessia Cara was the only woman who received a solo trophy on the main telecast), he said this: “It has to begin with … women who have the crea