If you’ve been in the music industry for a while, then you’ve come across the “starving artist” stereotype. It is the notion that most artists…

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As both a dealer and appraiser of vintage fretted instruments I am faced with the daily necessity of placing dollar values on instruments. Any appraisal…

If music is your career, it’s perfectly normal to want the masses to hear and love your music. The more accessible your music is to…

In some cases, isolation is a luxury and a desirable condition for a musician. There are many stories of how conscious retreat led to creative…

The most important thing that drives us when we pick up an instrument and put together a group is the love of music and the…

If what the lyrics say were 100 percent real, the music we know would probably be far less interesting. Fiction in music empowers songwriters and…

Believe it or not, many influential music organizations started with a couple of tortured musicians who at one point decided to take matters into their…