Songwriting Advice
Music Managers and Agent Organizations
Picture this: you're a budding musician with a fire in your belly and lyrics swirling in your head, but navigating the music industry's...
Olympic Hymn Songwriting Advice
You want a song that makes a stadium hold its breath and a TV audience cry at the same time. You want phrases that people can sing on t...
How to Write Progressive Pop Songs
Progressive pop sounds like a contradiction at first. Pop wants the chorus to slap hard and fast. Progressive music wants to take you o...
How to Write Lyrics About Fashion Trends
You want a lyric that smells like a runway but hits like a hook. You want clothing and culture to feel alive on the mic. You want liste...
How to Write Neoclassical New-Age Songs
You want music that feels like a quiet cathedral inside your headphones. You want intimate piano, slow-moving strings, ambient textures...
Ben Berkman, Exec VP at A&M Records Records / Octone Contact Details
Ben Berkman is an accomplished music industry executive who currently serves as the Executive Vice President at A&M Records/Octone ...
Dance-Punk Songwriting Advice
Dance-punk is a subgenre of punk rock that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s, characterized by its fusion of punk's energy and ...
How to Write Lyrics About Nature’s beauty
You want listeners to smell pine needles through earbuds. You want a line that makes someone pause their doomscroll and stare at a sunb...
A&R Manager
Ever wondered who holds the backstage pass to the music industry’s hottest discoveries? Meet the A&R Manager, a savvy, trendsetting...
How To Write A Song About Someone You Love A Lot
You want to write a song that makes them cry in a good way. Or laugh. Or blush. Or call you weird and then text you later at two in the...