Songwriting Advice
How to Write Songs About Journey
You want a song that makes people want to pack a bag or text their ex or both. Journey songs are emotional road maps. They can be liter...
How to Write Lyrics About Family Dynamics
Family is messy, loud, sacred, and comedic all at once. It is the original reality show. It is the place you learned your best shrug an...
Chris Allen, Partner at The Collective Contact Details
Chris Allen is a renowned music industry professional who serves as a partner at The Collective, a prominent music management company. ...
How to Write a Song About Personal Growth
You want a song that feels like a therapy session with bass. You want lyrics that do not sound like fortune cookie lines. You want a me...
How to Write a Song About Gratitude
Gratitude songs do not have to be saccharine or preachy. They can be messy, true, funny, vulnerable, triumphant, petty in a charming wa...
The Indie Artist Biz Bible (PROs MLC ISRC UPC EPK)
If you are an indie artist who wants money, credit, and fewer headaches, read this. The music business loves to hand out checks only af...
How to Write Sega Lyrics
You want lyrics that make feet move and heads nod while telling a story that smells like the ocean and old sugar cane smoke. Sega is a ...
Free Improvisation Songwriting Advice
You want to jam without fear and leave with a song you can actually finish. Free improvisation is the sonic equivalent of stealing the ...
How to Write Industrial And Post-Industrial Songs
Want to make music that sounds like a factory fist bumping a freight train? Good. Industrial and post industrial music are the safe spa...
How to Write Outsider Music Lyrics
You want lyrics that make people pause, laugh, cringe, and then play the song again at 2 a.m. Outsider music lyrics are the stuff of la...