How to Write Songs
How to Write Japanoise Songs
Japanoise is loud, proud, and unapologetically messy. If you imagine music as a polite dinner party, Japanoise is the friend who smashe...
How to Write Medieval Folk Rock Songs
You want songs that smell like old taverns and stadium lights at the same time. Medieval folk rock mixes the dusty romance of ancient m...
How to Write Soft Grunge Songs
You want songs that feel like a bruised diary entry and a worn sweater at the same time. Soft grunge is that awkward perfect combo of q...
How to Write Afrobeat Songs
You want rhythm that smiles and a hook that makes strangers become a choir. You want verses that feel like a sunny street. You want mel...
How to Write Red Dirt Songs
Red Dirt music smells like gasoline, coffee, and honest crying with a guitar as backup. If you are picturing a dusty bar, a busted pick...
How to Write Splittercore Songs
Splittercore is the kind of music that slaps you awake at 3 a.m. and asks for your rent money. If you like music that sounds like a ble...
How to Write Bongo Flava Songs
You want a Bongo Flava song that makes people shout the chorus at boda boda stops. You want lines that sound like they were stolen from...
How to Write Porro Songs
You want a Porro that makes people drop whatever they are doing and dance like they just remembered how to have fun. Porro is not backg...
How to Write Marabi Songs
You want a marabi song that makes feet tap and shoulders shrug even when the room is full of people who have heard it a hundred times. ...
How to Write Free Tekno Songs
You want raw energy that rattles the floor and makes necks move. You want loops that feel illegal in the best way. You want a track tha...