Category: Music
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Who Is This – Christmas Song
My new original Christmas song is now available! We are a couple weeks early for me to start listening to Christmas music but I know some of you get started early! With that in mind, Who Is This is now available wherever you listen to music! So much went into making this song happen and…
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Only The Good Lord Knows
Youtube MusicApple MusicAmazon MusicSpotify It’s been a minute since I released music under my own name, having spent the past seven years in Brave Machine. Brave Machine in many ways feels like an extension of my old band crewmannumber7. It’s often loud and fast but still has those more polished pop moments. Even had one…
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2024 And I’m Still Not Quitting
“I want to be a scientist when I grow up.” I said with all the enthusiasm of a six year old. “Scientists are geniuses,” was the reply. “You’re smart, but you’re not a genius.” And so ended my desire to be a scientist. I was in music college where I was attending as a vocal…
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Consumption Versus Creation: The Ongoing Battle
Consume Less, Create More A couple months ago I was asked to do an interview for the Why Is That Important podcast to discuss Therapeutic Creativity. I had great time talking with hosts Joe Wenger and Andrew Martin about how creativity can be used as a means of personal therapy whether that creativity take the…
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Why Taylor Swift’s Return To Spotify Was Inevitable
Where It All Began When Taylor Swift announced in 2014 that she was pulling all of her music from streaming services I had mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it made sense. Streaming revenues in and of themselves in 2014 were not great and by making a big public spectacle out of her…
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New Music Tools
For Christmas some nice folks had given me a $100 gift card to Amazon and I knew right away what I wanted to use it for: A pair of studio monitors. If you aren’t familiar with what studio monitors are, they are essentially just speakers that are intended to produce a flat “untainted” sound. This…