Dec 23, 2021

Before Tyler Duncan was a Grammy-nominated multi-instrumentalist producer/composer with credits including Carly Rae Jepsen, Vulfpeck, Lake Street Dive, Theo Katzman, Scary Pockets and Antwaun Stanley, he was just a kid from Michigan who was obsessed with bagpipes. 

Tyler is still based in his hometown Ann Arbor,...

Nov 27, 2021

Advice from friends and family ranging in age from 10 to 93 about how to stay young, what makes a meaningful life, ambition, desire, fear, success and music. 

With 

Sol Sidran, age 10
Zelta Sils, age 10
Zane Gruber Baruth, age 21
Michael Thurber, age 34
Michael Leonhart, age 47
Jorge Drexler, age 57
Daniel Levitin, age 63
Gil...

Nov 20, 2021

30 years ago Martin Sexton made a record called In The Journey. It wasn’t so much a record as it was a glorified demo tape that he sold while busking on the streets of Boston. He had moved there from his hometown of Syracuse, New York where he grew up in a large family (he was the 10th of 12 siblings).

From the very...

Nov 6, 2021

Mike Errico’s new book Music, Lyrics, and Life: A Field Guide for the Advancing Songwriter is about songwriting, and the life of the songwriter. 

Errico teaches songwriting at NYU, Yale and Wesleyan. He’s a serious thinker, and a serious talker. But he’s also a musician - he came of age in a music business that no...

Oct 19, 2021

Madison McFerrin says she’s “Shedding the narrative about what it means to be an artist in the music industry.” In fact, she says she’s had to learn to shed a lot of things. Like her “identity”. 

She calls herself an independent singer-songwriter, which is both true and also not entirely the whole story....