Releasing a Digital Album feels at first like a promise: a chance for an independent musician to reach listeners anywhere in the world. No labels, no gatekeepers—just upload, distribute, and wait for the music to travel. That was the dream the streaming services and digital distributors sold us. But once you step into that world, another […]
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Usually, I write reviews about music composed by other musicians. This time, though, I’ll be writing about my own music—not a review, of course, but rather a guide on how to listen to Elegy Sonata. The main trigger for composing this sonata was the passing of my father. But I don’t want to paint a
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A mini-adventure, For those with itchy feet in motion at all times. With backpacks half-full for whatever the road might bring and an appetite for midnight gas station stories, we bring you Hard Sun by Eddie Vedder. A hitchhiker journey across the 50 states in the form of a song, Hard Sun transcends its musical
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It all started as a fun trip to a new country back in January of 2022. As soon as the year had changed, my new bride and I would begin a new life in the Republic of Estonia. We’d arrived on January 1 and were completely primed to make this new world every bit as
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Despite a rather intense desire for music that often feels more like a love affair than anything else, the connection between music and drugs wasn’t explained to me until I had become much older. The very idea that my favorite pastime could be so related to substances I’d never tried before was mind-blowing to me.
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One of the most amazing things to happen to me is that after almost 20 years since college graduation, I do more studying now than I ever did as a student. Rather than learn the ins and outs of being a lawyer or an accountant, I used my time to get better at delivering new
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I’ve led up to it in other ways, but April 1st is the first anniversary date of my brain surgery. It was the day when I laid myself open-brained at the table, and let an Estonian doctor do what he needed to do inside my head. It’s the day I sang the Spice Girls to
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Legend has it that karaoke started in 1961 with the arrival of an American sing-along show called Sing Along With Mitch. They were the ones who placed the lyrics at the bottom of the screen and used the bouncing little ball invented in 1924 to discern what and when which words should be said. In
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Playing with your best self across your entire life For some people, playing music is as old for them as breathing as if they come out of the womb simply doing it. For the rest of us, it takes a long battle against the self before we ever truly ever get to that brilliant new
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