PRACTICE Your ability to play exceeds social networking. Your chops are more important than your social skills. Frequently the best musicians are near mute, they speak through their music, which brings adoring fans to them. First learn how to play. Everything else comes next. WRITE You can make it with other people’s songs, but it’s […]

It was a show. It was entertaining. You got your money’s worth. I oftentimes don’t want to go anymore. Because it’s an endurance test. Unless you know the songs by heart, it can be positively brutal as you sit there, too often stand there, as the act plays its music at a deafening volume one […]

1. They can’t make any money on it. It’s show business, not show art. The bottom line is the bottom line. Major labels don’t care if you’re the new Mozart Beatles, if they can’t make any money on you they’re not interested, now more than ever, where recordings render less cash than ever. 2. Radio […]

I don’t care that you made it. I don’t care that your mother and girlfriend like it. I don’t care that you funded it through Kickstarter. Why does everybody think just because you did it I should be interested? Parents are interested in their kids’ Little League games, but I don’t want to go. I […]