Songwriting Advice
How to Write Songs About Landscapes
You want listeners to feel the wind, the grit, the light, and the small stupid detail that makes a place unforgettable. Writing songs a...
How to Write Sampledelia Songs
Sampledelia is the art of making music from other music. It is a collage of found sounds, looped grooves, and weird sonic glue that tur...
How to Write Lyrics About Contrast
You want to write lyrics that feel like a slap and a hug at the same time. Contrast gives your lines teeth. It makes listeners tilt the...
How to Write a Song About Sunrises And Sunsets
You want a song that smells like coffee in the morning and tastes like the last warm breath of a summer night. You want lines that make...
How to Write Lyrics About Activism
You want to write songs that do more than play on a playlist. You want lyrics that make people march, sign a petition, share a post, hu...
How to Write Lyrics About Natural disasters
Want to write a song about a hurricane, earthquake, wildfire, tsunami, or freak weather event without sounding like a tabloid poem or a...
How to Contact Music Producers
Ever wondered how to slide into the DMs, or rather, the inboxes, of your favorite music producers without coming off as a lost intern a...
How to Write Red Dirt Lyrics
You want lyrics that smell like diesel, taste like cheap whiskey, and feel like a Saturday main street in a town that never shrugs off ...
How to Write Apala Songs
You want an Apala song that hits like a grandmother telling you to stop wasting your life and to call your mama now. You want percussio...
How to Write New Wave Lyrics
You want lyrics that sound like neon light on wet asphalt. You want lines that feel detached and intimate at the same time. You want ph...