Welcome to the second-ever Archive Revision Roundup! Several posts didn’t make it—may they rest in pieces on the cutting room floor.
Here are some of the great articles that lived to tell the tale!
Rut-Buster: Stop Writing Such Depressing Songs
This post sprouted from a conversation my father and I had in March.
If you’re sick of writing about heartbreak, disappointment, bitterness, unhappiness, discontentedness, incontinence, misery, woe, and yawning gulfs of soul-swallowing despair, this is worth checking out.
Good Aural: an Introduction to Listening for Pleasure
Are you really listening? In this age of distraction, few of us slow down long enough to listen deeply to anything longer than a sound byte.
This article is the introduction to a series on listening that changed my life.
If you haven’t set aside the time to close your eyes and focus on perceiving what’s coming through your ears, you may not know what music means to you at all.
Tip Hat Curios
What weird things have you received in exchange for creative work?
In exchange for music, I’ve scored:
- A great massage
- A bottle of Shiraz
- A 6” whack of goat pepperoni
Click here to read the complete list.
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Nicholas Tozier is an independent singer, songwriter, private music instructor, blogger, and instructor at Ampersand Academy of Dance & the Performing arts centered in Gardiner, Maine. His first album, A Game with Shifting Mirrors, is slated for self-release in Fall 2010.