You are a badass! You divine inspiration from the ethos, and document it in lyric and melody and music for other people's enjoyment....

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Sorry for the visual… but haven’t we all been there. You sit there… obsess about it… wait patiently… but nothing comes out. It’s torture…...

Take the most sensitive and creative people, and put them in the most critical profession. Welcome to the Music Business. 60000 songs are...

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We are the Smartphone generation. Don’t you LOVE it (sarcasm) when you get the weekly notifications of your mobile device usage. “Your...

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