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Songwriting and surviving in an age of social media and industry collapse. Ben Walker’s vision of the future of songwriting and the future of music.

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Twitter song update: Radio 5 tonight and a new video!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYP-wBaqQAI
The Twitter song I wrote last week has been getting some serious and much appreciated Twitter love and even a blog mention. And within a couple of days I got a message from the BBC (delivered by a mustachioed messenger on horseback) asking if I would give them an interview for the Pods and Blogs [...]

Niche songwriting: the Twitter song

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Jonathan Coulton became an internet superstar by writing songs about computer games, programmers, Flickr, the internet and associated themes (mostly zombies). That’s what he cares about and that’s what his audience cares about. He’s being authentic and connecting with like minds. He doesn’t try to get the rest of the world to listen. There are [...]

The ultimate musician’s blog

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The latest redesign of ihatemornings.com incorporated some fundamental changes under the hood, most obviously a switch from Textpattern (a trusted friend) to Wordpress (the popular kid in the class). Wordpress is fast becoming the standard blogging platform for music types (and many others), so the switch had to be made. I have built a dozen [...]

“Who do you write songs for?”

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Good question. Not anyone you’ve heard of, that’s for sure. In fact, although I fully intend to get my songs covered by big names, to cowrite with rising stars and to make a fortune in royalties from random Japanese TV ads, for the moment I’m writing for me.
Who am I?
Andrea Stolpe wrote about authenticity of [...]

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