CALLING ALL #SONGWRITERS: thrilled to announce that the website SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase to the World - is now live.
BUT we need original content.
Classical. Ethnic. Country. Pop. Anything.
Write. Record. Post. SIMPLE. This Is SoundScribe.
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@davidsylvian58 Your recommendations are hugely welcome. But we don’t believe ‘not for me’ is any less valid than ‘Love this’. What we need is qualification. I know there is music you have not enjoyed and you have expressed why. Openness to opinions for or against accompanied by comment is key.
@Stutweeets @davidsylvian58 The make-up may still be a bit glam but he had cut his hair by then and there's that Quiet Life red leather jacket. 1979 and a period of Japan to be incredibly proud of.
Good luck to retired postie Phil Mitten who is in the @uksongwriting Contest final with his John Prine @JohnPrineMusic-inspired 'Never', says Will Payne @WillPayneKM on @Kent_Online. Find the piece via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF24isWN
The Trump administration commissions a White House statue of left-winger @WoodyGuthrie - who wrote a song calling out Trump's father (his landlord) for racism. Find David Moye @dmoyeweirdnews's Huffington Post @HuffPost piece on this via SoundScribe https://t.co/U5KgtESIN7
A former co-writer's wife is suing @bobdylan over the sale of his back catalogue, says @evanminsker on @pitchfork. Find the piece via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f
Interesting interview with David Crosby @thedavidcrosby by @AFP, discussing #songwriting, the current political climate and that US President chap. Find the piece via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f
Hats off and Congrats to @Olivia_Rodrigo for the remarkable success of her debut single 'Driver's Licence', with 10.9 million streams in a week. Find Mark Savage @mrdiscopop's @BBCNews piece on this via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f
Good piece by Friedemann Findeisen @FFindeisen in American Songwriter @AmerSongwriter on his pursuit of Max Martin @MaxMartinM's #songwriting formula and where it led him. Find the article via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f
This week's music catalogue acquisition by Merck Mercuriadis @MMercuriadis's @HipgnosisSongs Fund: only the entire works by @shakira... Find Mark Savage @mrdiscopop's @BBCNews piece on this via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/U5KgtESIN7
Interesting piece by @jamesshotwell_ of @Haulix on @hypebot on how short attention span is altering #songwriting. Although @thebeatles' first 8 singles were all under 3 mins (one was under 2), just saying... Find the piece via SoundScribe https://t.co/nItF240S5f
A look back at the career of Livingston & Evans, the #songwriting duo behind 'Que Sera Sera' and other standards, by Paul Zollo @PaulSZollo (who interviewed them in '87) in American Songwriter @AmerSongwriter. Find the piece via SoundScribe https://t.co/nItF240S5f
Country singer-#songwriter Ed Bruce has died at the age of 81. Find the @RollingStone obituary by Jon Freeman @freemanjm via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f
Sad to hear the news that Grammy @RecordingAcad-winning singer-#songwriter Jamie O'Hara has died from cancer at the age of 70. Find Sterling Whitaker @sterlingwit's piece in @TasteOfCountry via SoundScribe - Where Songwriters Showcase To The World https://t.co/nItF240S5f