Posts by Toni Mercia
Music Tour Managers in Phoenix
Picture this: the blazing desert sun sets over downtown Phoenix as your band sets out on a wild, unpredictable adventure. The music is ...
How to Write Lyrics About Unmaking
Unmaking is a mood and a ritual. It is the slow ruin of a thing you once loved and the tiny brave acts that follow. It can be a breakup...
Publishing vs Master: Who Owns What and Who Gets Paid
If you write songs and record them you are sitting on two separate gold mines and they are not the same mine. One mine is the song itse...
How to Write Hellbilly Lyrics
You want songs that smell like whiskey, burn like ghost stories, and still make people tap their boots in the pit. Hellbilly is the mus...
Record Label Numbers
Picture this: you’re deep into your ceiling-jam sessions, headphones clutched tight, as you scribble out lyrics destined to be the next...
How to Write Jewish Hip Hop Songs
You want beats that hit and lyrics that mean something. You want to fold tradition into a modern pocket and make people laugh cry and n...
Post-Britpop Songwriting Advice
You love big guitars, cheeky lyrics, and choruses that feel like a pub full of friends singing back at you. You also want your songs to...
Dallas Martin, A&R Consultant at Warner Bros. (GA) Contact Details
Dallas Martin is a renowned A&R Consultant at Warner Bros. Records, Georgia (GA) branch. As an A&R (Artists and Repertoire) con...
Nu Jazz Songwriting Advice
Welcome to the weird and gorgeous intersection of jazz and whatever your laptop learned to do last night. Nu Jazz is the cool cousin wh...
How to Write Funky House Lyrics
You want lyrics that make the dance floor grin, sweat, and sing along at 4 a.m. Funky house is not just about the bass and the beat. Th...