For a certain type of musician whatever they can do isn’t good enough. New people to piano have difficulty playing hands together. One forgets how real a complication that is […]

It’s like the music business is a machine with an invisible door and people try to locate the knob. They go to school hoping someone can tell them where that handle […]

Teacher: Try to figure out why these three songs are grouped together?   (Teacher projects lyrics onto projection screen & plays songs)   Pusher Man by Curtis Mayfield, Free Man […]

Line up of cars at the Canadian side of the Detroit border. Inside a clunker van the driver is carefully rehearsing. Canadian.. Toronto.. 101 Major street.. Chicago.. my friend Matt.. […]

and the Juno for venue that most often convinces bands that $100 is fair when they made 20 times that after expenses goes to… and the Juno for greatest solo […]

For a split second sometime around 1989 Stanley Clarke made a pop band with Stuart Copeland. It was called Animal Logic. They played the El Mocambo and when I got […]

There is an idea out there in the world that when recording you should forget about the fact that you are being recorded. That to get the real you you […]

Singer: Let’s start with Mona people get into it off the top.   Drummer: Mona’s too fast to start with we need to build.   Bassist: Tomorrow We Hide would […]

The Grant pt 3

Seasoned Staff: Thank you all for being jurors. Here’s your own thank-you-baseball-hat and are any of you interested in being on the next juries which are September 14th and October […]