Posts by Toni Mercia
How to Write Lyrics About First Kiss
First kisses are emotional land mines that smell like gum and possibility. They are tiny nuclear events that rewrite a relationship tim...
Post-Grunge Songwriting Advice
You want the dirt under your nails and a chorus that sneaks onto mainstream radio. Post-grunge lives at the meeting point of raw emotio...
North Carolina Music Managers
Welcome to the groove zone of North Carolina, where the dreams of every aspiring musician and songwriter vibe with the energy of the Ta...
Britpop Songwriting Advice
You want a guitar riff that makes people lift their pints and a chorus that gets shouted in cramped venues the next weekend. You want l...
How to Write Songs About Time
Time is the most relatable subject on the planet. Everyone has too much of it and not enough of it at the same time. Musicians write ab...
How to Write Songs About Realism
You want your song to feel true enough to bruise. You want listeners to point at the lyrics and say that is literally me or that is som...
How to Write Noisegrind Lyrics
Noisegrind is loud, messy, and honest in a way polite music rarely gets to be. If you want lyrics that sound like a chainsaw argument w...
How to Write Chinese Hip Hop Songs
You want bars that slap in Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, or a sick mashup of all of them. You want rhyme schemes that feel natural...
Bruce E. Colfin, Founder & Owner at Bruce Colfin Law, PC
Bruce E. Colfin is the Founder and Owner of Bruce Colfin Law, PC, a reputable law firm specializing in entertainment, intellectual prop...
How to Write Lyrics About Identity
You want a song that feels like you and also feels like everyone you hope will listen. Writing about identity means navigating memory, ...