by James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
Looking at it from a technical point-of-view, the musician is like a musicologist. The word musicology “is used in narrow, broad and intermediate senses”. “In the intermediate [...]

by Duke
When I saw the new Music Think Tank article from Bruce Warila this morning, my first natural response was shock, closely followed by anger. That’s what happens when you start reading these things before getting a coffee.
I gotta stop taking satire at face value. But it’s a tightrope. After all, when [...]

Collected by James Pew
1. Top Ten Internet Moments of 2009
2. Top Ten indie albums of 2009
3. Quick Before it Melts is Defining a Decade with Ten album picks from 2000 to 2009 (Still in progress)
4. Ten Tips that Every Musician Should Apply to Their Career
5. Top Ten Tips for Email Newsletters
6. Top Ten [...]

By James Pew
Recently I had the chance to sit down and talk shop with Terry Kerr, program director at the Nimbus School of Recording Arts. A school founded by legendary Canadian producer Bob Ezrin, GGGarth Richardson, Mike McCarty and Kevin Williams. This is part 1 of 6. Topics covered are everything from the economics of [...]

By James Pew
Here is another excerpt from my book Studio Manifesto: Exploring the Possibilities of Indie. As always please leave your thoughts in the comments section. Thanks for reading.
“Even specialist learning in higher education proceeds by ignoring interrelationships; for such complex awareness slows down the achieving of expertness.” – Marshall Mcluhan
Great musicians do not ignore [...]