by Mike Errico | Jun 3, 2015 | Text Journalism
London’s The Independent is running my article on technology and songwriting on the front page of its arts section. They added a lovely infographic and everything. Check it out. The future of songwriting: How streaming is changing everything we know about making music Here’s the online...
by Mike Errico | May 26, 2015 | Teaching, Text Journalism
Outside my songwriting classroom at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, the industry is in full disruption mode. This semester alone, publishers continued to weigh new methods to take back control of their copyrights; a controversial judgment regarding “Blurred Lines” spurred debate on what copyright even is; Congress heard arguments regarding how artists and songwriters are getting paid; Pandora and Spotify and Grooveshark and Rdio all made headlines; Tidal launched (Jay-Z even came to Clive to talk about it); Apple readied a new streaming service… friggin’ Starbucks jumped in, and I’m just going to stop there, because you get the point. At times, I’ve wanted to triple-lock the classroom door for the brief fourteen-week period so we can focus on the art. But that hasn’t been easy, and in our final meeting, I left my students with a series of rhetorical questions, all of which added up to: With all this going on, what is the future of this thing — songwriting — we’ve been talking about all semester? And is it time for a disruptor to change what songs look and sound like? Read on at...
by Mike Errico | Apr 23, 2015 | audio, Stories, Text Journalism, The Solo Show
[Every other week, I’m releasing a new story that comes with music, playlists, podcasts, and photos. The whole archive is being collected right here. Check it out, and if you liked it, I’d appreciate it if you’d hit the RECOMMEND button at the bottom to let others know about it. (It’s just like a Facebook like.)] Gigging for God: My Time in the Church Folk Group I was an “at-risk” tween rock guitarist, so my parents sent me to a halfway house to play Dylan songs for God. Here’s how it...
by Mike Errico | Apr 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
People in the San Francisco area: Join me and Paul Leo as we hit the Paramount Theater with authors David Brooks, Anna Quindlen, Daniel Handler and Kelly Corrigan at the brilliant Notes and Words benefit for UCSF Benihoff Children’s Hospital in Oakland....
by Mike Errico | Apr 3, 2015 | Uncategorized
…and it’s made it onto her site, too. It’s always great to see Joni on the charts, and my piece, “Joni Mitchell Is Not a ’60s Songwriter,'” is now #3 on Medium. I’m so glad so many have responded to it. If you could do me a solid, would you go there and click the RECOMMEND button on the bottom of the page? It’s just like a Facebook like, and it helps other Joni fans find it. LINK:...
