I need to give up on struggling. Struggling is a habit, an approach, a life philosophy. It’s the state of making tremendous, strenuous efforts that don’t return as much as you put in. Working too hard. Being over-fixated on the anguish and frustration. A point of view that some things …
Teen years are important time. I was living in Brazil, attending a Japanese-speaking school and I got exposed to rock music in English, probably around 14-years old. I was always good at music, but until then I thought nothing of it. My mother made me take piano lessons starting at …
When you survey the indie music industry, it’s littered with instructions on how to get noticed, create exposure, make money, go viral, and so on. It’s all driven from the perspective of how to reach wider audience. The bigger, the better. I am glad they are there, and I personally …
Music and the artist who created it aren’t the same thing. While it’s true that the musicians poured themselves into the music, at the point of being made into the form of a recording, their connection ends. The music will take on its own persona, its own life, linked but …