I have a non-musician acquaintance who unfriended me on Facebook a few years ago. In fact, I think it was for the best, because our interactions were becoming increasingly awkward and strained. Prominently featured amongst that awkwardness was their growing resentment that things were going well for me, socially speaking. Not that I’ve achieved anything […]

I was at a show last week at a popular local songwriter spot, and the performer was using live auto-tune on the vocals.  I’ve seen musicians at spots like this use live auto-tune over the years.  Sometimes when you move close to the singer, you can hear a second (de-tuned) pitch coming from the vocalist, […]

Many musicians who are just starting to put music out inevitably run into the solid brick wall of trying to promote it. This invariably leads them to look up e-mail addresses of bloggers, music journalists and editors, and send out an e-mail requesting some sort of publicity – usually in the form of a premiere […]