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Monday, April 2, 2012

Songwriting News--4.2.12

 
Songwriting on full display
The Province
By Chris Lackner, Postmedia News April 2, 2012 With the tradition established by the likes of Gordon Lightfoot, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen, songwriting is in the Canadian DNA. When it comes to our nation's pop-cultural gifts to the ...
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Nanuet's Scott Wittman is half of songwriting team for NBC's 'Smash'
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Does that theater look familiar? Composer Tom Levitt (Christian Borle) and his lyricist partner Julia Houston (Debra Messing) watch a production in episode 10 of the NBC drama "Smash," titled "Understudy" and airing on April 9.
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Vandy alumni return as Rites performers
InsideVandy
I got the opportunity to speak to Malcolm this past week about the band, songwriting and Rites, resulting in a much longer interview than can fit in The Hustler. Vanderbilt Hustler: How did you all start playing together and what's made it stick?
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New artist no more, Tomi Swick tries to get career back after serious injury
Winnipeg Free Press
He endured a difficult breakup and relocated to Los Angeles, where he focused with renewed energy on songwriting. He tried penning songs for other artists, but it wasn't a fit. So beginning about three years ago, he narrowed his gaze toward working on ...
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Madison-based networking site Broadjam improving lives of musicians
Appleton Post Crescent
"I had 1,000 or so songwriters on my site and we'd all be communicating and helping each other out. I never thought it would turn into 125,000 of them." A musician himself, Elkins understands the struggles of independent artists. "When it first launched, ...
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Todd Snider: Agnostic Hymns & Stoner Fables
PopMatters
The shadow being cast over Snider's songwriting conveniently dovetails into the Occupy movements of America, securing the album's future reputation as likely being more of its time than timeless. Then again, this is the guy who wrote "Talkin' Seattle ...
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SERJ TANKIAN Putting Finishing Touches On Third Solo Studio Album - Apr. 2, 2012
Blabbermouth.net
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, political activist and SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian is in his Serjical Strike Studios in Los Angeles putting the finishing touches on his third solo studio album, "Harakiri", the follow-up to ...
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Peggy Seeger to host songwriting workshop | HooplaNow
By Gazette Staff/SourceMedia
CSPS, 1103 Third St. SE, will host a songwriting workshop by the acclaimed folk singer Peggy Seeger from 2 to 4 p.m. on April 8. Seeger will share tips from her own experience and extensive knowledge of Anglo-American songs spanning ...
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Michael Marra - thoughts on song writing
Subject: Michael Marra - thoughts on the man and his songs? From: GUEST,Kirsty Law Date: 02 Apr 12 - 09:35 AM Hi everyone! I am currently writing a dissertation on Scottish songwriting and using Michael Marra as a case study. I am keen to ...
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