• ON PROMOTION

    There are a lot of things that artists have to do that don’t feel like things artists have to do. Posting funny quips on twitter & filming promo & renewing your passport don’t feel like artist things, but you bet your bottom dollar they are. Currently, I’m in the song presave cycle, and I’m about…

  • SONGS THAT FIT TOGETHER vol. 1

    Some songs fit together really nicely, and it’s hard to tell why. Here are four songs that fit together nicely. Let’s Make Love And Listen To Death From Above – CSS, Spank Rock I don’t know how I found this song, and that might be my favorite part of it. The song came out in…

  • ON THINGS THAT HAVEN’T WORKED

    I plan on making this an ongoing series, hopefully updating it every few months, because inevitably I’m going to run into a lot more things that will & will not work. Maybe, this will prove useful to someone out there that is planning on trying similar things, but more likely, everyone’s road map and set…

  • ON WELLS

    People in non-creative fields tend to over-estimate the percent of time artists are being fueled by inspiration. It is a nice idea, but in reality (or at least my reality), that happens very rarely. If you want to make art regularly, you need to rely on something else. I like to think of songwriting (and…

  • ON BEGINNING THINGS

    Carter, you’re already a media mogul, a titan of industry. You are to half-funny Indie Music on TikTok as Cornelius Vanderbilt was to the railroads. Why, then, do you feel like you need to start a music blog? Are you not spread too thin as it is? Yes, my dear reader (whoever you may be),…