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Volume 2-2012

 

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IN THIS EDITION

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Learning from Jimmy Iovine

Interscope Records CEO Jimmy Iovine was featured in a recent piece in Rolling Stone, and it was one of those rare celebrity interviews that actually yield insight and useful information for people interested in music production and engineering. READ MORE...

On Selling Songs Through TAXI

Occasionally, as an amateur songwriter, I will open the account I have with TAXI, the Web-based Artists & Repertoire service, check out the listings, usually for those calling for Film & TV soundtrack music, and if I have something that seems like a possible match I will upload an MP3 mix and submit it for consideration. I never get anywhere with this past-time... READ MORE...

 

RARADIO

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New Releases on RARadio: "Last Call" by Jay; "Darkness" by Leonard Cohen; "Sweetbread" by Simian Mobile Disco and "Keep You" from Actress off the Chronicle movie soundtrack; "Goodbye to Love" from October Dawn; Trouble in Mind 2011 label sampler; Black Box Revelation Live on Minnesota Public Radio; Apteka "Striking Violet"; Mikal Cronin's "Apathy" and "Get Along"; Dana deChaby's progressive rock

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RICK ROBERTS

 

 

Rick Roberts Interview

 

New Audience

Q11:  Who do you perceive your audience to be for the new music you are releasing?
Songwriting

Q12: How do your songwriting skills match up these days against those you exhibited in the 1970s with chart-topping hits? Are you a different writer now?

Musicianship

Q13: I am always interested in the relationship between a songwriter and his or her instrument(s). How much of your focus do you apply to your musicianship? How does it impact the way you write? And has this changed over time?

Historical Constraints

Q14: As a guy who was there at the birth of "Country Rock", and by virtue of repeated airplay on classic rock stations is forever associated with that sound, do you feel constrained by your history? Are you able to stretch out into other types of music, or is that of interest to you? What would you like to do as a songwriter that perhaps you haven't to date?

 

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