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Creative Commons
If you want to know about IP law - this is the place. CC is defining the cutting edge of music licensing. -
David Byrne Journal
Stop making sense David Byrne. Seriously, you make too much sense to us - it's scary. When are you coming by to hang out? -
Create Digital Music
Fairly relevant to Indaba :) -
Hypebot
If you want to know what's happening in the new music world... -
Wired Epicenter
Wired + Music + Eliot = amazing -
Underrated Magazine
Our favorite NYC music-scene blog from our favorite CMJer. -
StereoGum.com
Super-hip music blog. A must for anyone serious about the NYC scene. -
The Daily Swarm
ll the news that fit to print ... about music, that is. -
Idolator
Gawker Media's music blog. Perfect if you like a little snark with your music news. -
Lefsetz Letter
In his own words - "First in music analysis"
Monday June 29, 2009 at 08:00 AM |
Hey Indaba, welcome to another week! It's Monday and that means it's time to talk shop. This week I want to talk abut something we don't often cover on here (which is strange, given what Indaba is): song writing. There are thousands - maybe hundreds of thousands - of song writers on Indaba and I want to pose a question to all of them. It's a chicken-or-the-egg scenario, really, so there is bound to be some disagreement, but what comes first when composing a song: the lyrics or the music? When you sit down to pen a tune do you come to the table - or keyboard or guitar or whatever - with a melody in your head or with some lyrics on your brain? Do you write out lyrics blindly and then wrap a tune around them or vice versa? Do you find one way easier than the other? Or are any of you lucky enough to have the two always come together at once? So let fly in the comments and have a great week Indaba!



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