Jump to content

Your Ad Could Be Here

Blogs

Featured Entries

  • Songstuff Writer and Artist Development Challenges

    By john

    Independent writers and artists face several large disadvantages when they are compared to signed, mainstream writers and artists.  Disadvantages that add up to making it a competition that indies can’t win. Hell they can’t even compete.   Lack of budget and poor contacts are fairly obvious disadvantages. Lack of experience and a lack of knowledge restricts songwriters and artists alike. Lack of an overall strategy, and a limited set of incomplete tactics, makes for a critical problem
    • 0 comments
    • 1,547 views
The Writer's Blog

Making Tools For The Street Team...

Let’s say—because it actually might happen—I get asked to do an out-of-town concert, for pay, with another musician. Other musician isn’t well-known in the area where we’re going (and I’m not known at all), but the people putting on the concert (who don’t know me, but do know the other musician) constitute a decent “street team” that can theoretically do promotional legwork. I’m told I’m being invited because (1) I’m a better guitarist (at least I’m not afraid of jumping in and playing l

roxhythe

0
FinnArild's Blog

Spring update

In the pine right outside my balcony two magpies has started building their spiky nest. Last year they had 3 little ones, and I wonder if these are the same ones - they probably are - but more importantly: it's a sure sign spring is just around the corner. An especially long, cold and snowy winter looses it's grip, and to celebrate me and my wife will be off tomorrow for a week of R&R in lovely Prague. If you have followed me on my Facebook or Twitter pages you will have known that I ha

FinnArild

0
The Writer's Blog

More For The Puppets...

“Selling Off My Body Parts” is up. Link is http://www.soundclick.com/share?songid=10473026. Two songs in a week is a little out of the ordinary, but I was already working on this one when the “pole dancing for Jesus” news clip was brought to my attention, and I just had to say something about that. The Garibaldi Library wants to book another performance by the Great Intergalactic Puppet Show—for mid-June, to kick off their summer reading program. Noonish, on the Dance Floor at City Hall

roxhythe

0
Songstuff Stuff

Nab Show - Register Via Songstuff For $150 Of Access For Free!

The NAB Show is coming up April 9‐14, 2011 in Las Vegas – it's the essential destination for professionals who share a passion for bringing content to life on any platform. Want to go? We have a code that will get you in for FREE! Just register for the NAB Show here with the code SM05 for FREE ACCESS to the exhibit floor, the Opening Keynote and State of the Industry Address, Info Sessions, Content Theater, Exhibits and PITS - $150 in value!

john

0
The Writer's Blog

Selling Off Body Parts (&c.)...

The “Southern Hospitality” play is going well (opening night is April 1); I took cast photos, and they did come out fairly well—chalk that up as something else I can do (or that people now know I can do). The little camera is living up to the reviews I saw of it a while back: “These things are really old, but they’re really good.” Mine is seven years old now. A news story (one of two) to cover for the paper Thursday night, instead of playing music. I don’t mind a bit if paying work gets

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

"pole Dancin' For Jesus" (&c.)...

I now know what I’m doing almost every day and night next week (I am developing the kind of rigid schedule I had as an employed person). Sunday is “beta” rehearsal for the play (I think that’s one step below dress rehearsal), practice in the evening with “the impromptus” (we don’t have a name yet), and I need to do the press release for the music publisher; Monday, I have a Garibaldi Days meeting (one more pitch to have Deathgrass play) and I’ll do my first shooting for the video class’s docume

roxhythe

1
Fluffy's Blog

Doom Day

(1st Verse-Rapping) The world's changing,it's only getting worse/ And one day humanity's bubble will burst,the truth bound by a terrible curse/ Nothin' can save us from our fate, spittin'this verse won't let time reverse/ There's no point preparing for our doom day, 'coz' we're doomed anyway/ It's set in stone so you can weep and moan all you want,nothin'will change/ And it's sad that we're living lives of pain, waitin' for the day it all ends in a terrible way/ I bet when we're in

Fluffy

0
The Writer's Blog

Podcast?

(Yes, I really should be working. I do have things to do.) I watched garbage being picked up this morning by a “pup.” A “pup” is a miniature garbage truck, that retrieves trash from mostly residential neighborhoods, and rendezvouses periodically with the big garbage truck, which has only to compact the trash and haul it to the dump. In our town, the “pup” is mostly used where there are steep hills. When I was city manager in Vale (not the rich place in Colorado), we considered buying a

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Preparing For The Cd...

Accomplished something, for a change. I figured out the reason why “Ben,” our 1999-vintage PC at the Arts Center, wasn’t playing music any more was the onboard sound thingie had died (it’s one of the first things to go on older computers). Installed a soundcard from my Endless Stash of Computer Parts, and Ben has sound again. I miss being the IT Guy… Got the master for the Deathgrass album. Yes, it is good. Very good. These guys (band and sound engineer both) do impressive work. I ne

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Video Work...

I finish one blog and start another one almost immediately. It’s because it’s early, video class is over for the evening, and I don’t plan on doing anything productive until tomorrow. I have been assembling the list of media people and DJs to get advance copies of the Deathgrass CD, and contacting them one by one; that’s about it for work tonight. There will be plenty to do tomorrow. “Alice” the computer’s part that will let her DVD-recordable drive finally work has apparently arrived at

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Finishing The Album...

Back in the studio Sunday afternoon just past to finish up the album. Recorded vocals for “The Dog’s Song,” “Tillamook Railroad Blues” and the Southern Pigfish anthem, “For Their Own Ends”—everywhere else, we’re actually using the “scratch” vocal, which came out just fine. Touched up the vocals in a couple of places on “Free-Range Person” and “Crosses by the Roadside,” recorded the Raps (about half the songs will have Raps), and recorded a simple lead guitar part on the Strat for “No Good Song

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Album (&c.) Update...

Listening—repeatedly, which is a good sign—to the two “final” (thus far) tracks from the Deathgrass album, “Armadillo on the Interstate” and “She Ain’t Starvin’ Herself.” It strikes one partway through the latter that “OMG, this was recorded LIVE?” Yes, and in one take, too. Good musicians, good sound engineer—what can I say? I know a number of other writers who will have an album out this year. I’ve suggested that the Southern Oregon Songwriters Assn. do a seminar at which the album-

roxhythe

0
Hecticity

First Song In A Couple Years.

My life is hectic… Always feeling like I’m on the grind but I’m never working. I’ve always tried to get ahead but someone is on my behind, tuggin, pullin, jerking. My life was screwed up since I was a child, from abuse to the neglection… you could say I’d rather choose the abuse as my overall attention. You never heard anything so real until you’ve seen it with your own eyes. Picturing the sounds of someone screaming your name, stuck behind a door that don’t exist and holding back, m

RayJ

0
kisswithguns' Blog

Talkin', Swearin', Spellin'

talking, swearing, spelling, flowning away ya keep me say by this hip lines rewrite defines to count lines by lined out signs - enemies were fine in fatasy so we greet our mornings thru these neverending stories closing up on suns, by blurring these shades of guns you cant see - me - be where you can fleet, cause i take thee at thy words, no sotorylines deferred, as for a gurgling voice moulding the choices of your soul's beings to unfold shieldings, wie

kisswithguns

0
Fluffy's Blog

Random Rap Verse

I wrote a masterpiece about the Libyan uprising, but it got deleted/my patience depleted after that, it really got on my non existent tits/sometimes life can be a bitch, a lesson I didn't need to learn again/so I'm rapping about it, I said rapping, not screamin' and shoutin' about it/lets's hope I continue to spit these words well so that haterz shit themselves/'coz' I rhyme all the time with my poetic mind and voice, are you with me or against me? f*ckin' make your choice/so if you're with me r

Fluffy

0
The Writer's Blog

Puppet Show Post-Mortem...

The puppet show went well, I think (hard to tell from behind the stage); some folks have said they liked it. And some folks are sorry they missed it (which means they might come to the next one). We did have a packed house, but that was deliberate: we had the parents of the elementary-school kids whose work was in the Art Show, and the parents and friends of the school kids performing in the Open Mike—a captive audience. Helped, I think, to spend a little time behind the stage earlier in t

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Pre-Puppet Show Thoughts...

Two days until the “Sleeping Piggy” performance—and word does seem to have gotten around a lot. I suppose we better make sure we’re good. “Puppet perfect,” so to speak. Still a few things to do: I’ve got to make a new bass guitar for Luke, to match the miniature Gibson Les Paul that Kathryn loaned for Hansolo to play (it’s really a telephone—and it’s the perfect size for a sock puppet); Princess Leah’s pretty yellow helmet (for after she joins the Dark Side) needs its Barbie-flower and “P

roxhythe

0
John Moxey's Blog

John Moxey On Songwriting And Music

In addition to this blog, which will be more focused on my own writings and my experience in creating my own works, I have created a new blog which will focus on Songwriting and Music in general. It will cover music and lyrics writing, and the combined creative process of creating a song, music technology, music production and the business aspects of the music industry: John Moxey On Songwriting and Music To start with I will be adding articles on topics of interest to songwriters and

john

1
Fluffy's Blog

Always Hope

(Intro- talking) I have ups and downs, pretty f*cked up mood swings, I'm goin' crazy and this is my rap. (1st Verse) I can rap but I'm not a rapper, I'm a lyricist fightin' off demonic attackers/and if Satan joins in and tries to face me, I'll destroy him and make a bigger mess of that ugly face his mother made for him, a metal mace slammed into his brain/ demons beware 'coz when I get enraged I'm a burning flame holding a blazing cane ready for a gladiator game that could scar anyones

Fluffy

0
The Writer's Blog

Ce Release Party Thoughts...

So… the CD isn’t done yet, but I’m already scheduling the CD Release Party—have a date, have the hall, &c. The experts say I shouldn’t be doing that. HAVE THE CDS IN HAND FIRST, they said. Apparently a lot of bands and musicians end up scrambling at the last minute to have “product” for an already-scheduled CD release party because something happened to delay production of the CDs. It could happen to us, too. There is a lot of advice online about how to throw a CD release party (and

roxhythe

0
The Writer's Blog

Recording The Album...

Recording session went good. Base tracks for all 11 songs are done; despite spending about four hours in the studio, we did manage to do nearly every song in one take—which was the idea. The lesson (which I already knew): practice saves money. Once the levels were set, things moved pretty fast. Vocals on all the songs were “scratch” vocals, intended to be re-done, but Mike says he’ll keep the one on “She Ain’t Starvin’ Herself” because it’s about perfect. Need to record Doc’s harmonica,

roxhythe

0

Your Ad Could Be Here



×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By continuing to use our site you indicate acceptance of our Terms Of Service: Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy: Privacy Policy, our Community Guidelines: Guidelines and our use of Cookies We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.