Why do you make music? Write books? Make films? You might know, you might not. Either way, you do it for a specific reason. Maybe it’s to explore. Maybe it’s to affect other people. Maybe it’s to inject a little fun and excitement into your life. That reason gives your creative work context. So does...

As a contemporary songwriter, are you focused on making albums? Or just singles? Or are you emphasizing your live show, where you can reach your audience more regularly, with greater immediacy? Is creating “proper” albums still a part of your artistic plan? While the album has undergone dramatic change in recent years — the “devaluation”...

Wampus Multimedia introduces Lincoln Signal, the debut album from Waterslide. Songwriter-producer Mark Doyon previously released albums as Arms of Kismet and Wampeters, and published the short-story collection Bonneville Stories. Lincoln Signal tells the story of Dick Drake, an overeducated, middle-aged historian and political scientist living in a remote shack in western Montana. Banished by...

Does Facebook help you in your marketing efforts? Sure it does. If you’re a recording artist or author, Facebook gives you some of the most useful and powerful tools available for communicating with your audience. It allows you to connect with people in all the ways you need to. And it’s free, to boot....

Nashville guitar legend Vince Gill recently spoke out on the impact of music downloads on recording artists. His comments have been flying around the Interwebs, fanning dissension. Here is some of what he had to say: “The devaluation of music and what it’s now deemed to be worth is laughable to me. My single costs...