As Craig Finn, lead singer of the Hold Steady sings on “Positive Jam,” the first song on the band’s first album, we live in a world that is “wired and well connected.” And needless to say, […]
It’s no secret that one of the hardest things about keeping a band together is learning how to manage the personal relationships within the band. There are countless legendary bands throughout history that either broke up or […]
Not too many years ago, through a series of those chance encounters that so often occur in the music business, I was asked to join a band that had already been together for about five years. Not […]
It’s all too easy to picture a songwriter as a lonely and tortured soul sitting alone in a dark basement pouring his feelings onto a page, but the fact is that many of the most popular (and […]
I am constantly stopped in the street by ordinary people who see my armful of tattoos and my rather shabby appearance, and who want to know if I am in a band. It seems like a […]