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How to Produce Your Own Album (Part II)

(Ed.’s notes: We bring you the final installation of this ‘how-to’ series. Linda of Lunarin shares chapter 3 and 4, sound advice complete with all the gritty bits.)

Chapter 3: Releasing and Distributing the album
By jumping straight to the topic of releasing the album, I have effectively skipped the following topics:
1) mastering - which is by […]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

How to Produce Your Own Album (Part I)

(Ed.’s notes: So far we’ve had lessons on ‘How to be a live performer‘ from Rai of EIC and ‘How to do market my band?’ from Syed of West Grand Boulevard. Next up we have Linda from Lunarin to complete the series. Pens and papers out please!)
Chapter 1: the Art of Composition
I am in the […]

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

How to be a live performer (part II)

(Ed.’s notes: So now we all know Rai (if you dont already). Here are tips 2 and 3. Everybody grab your guitars now…)
2) Engaging your audience
One of the most important things a band should know before hitting the stage is why they are there in the first place. This has always been one of my […]

Monday, July 21st, 2008

How to be a live performer (part I)

(Ed.’s notes: SGEM Activist Syed Hyder of West Grand Boulevard gave us a little lesson on ’How do I market my band’ some time back. Here’s Rai from the duo of Jack & Rai (EIC) with ‘How to be a live performer’. At the end of these series, I’m pretty sure you’ll be inspired And soon we’ll […]

Monday, July 21st, 2008

Start of a new year

Ahh… 2008… Happy (belated) New Year! It also means the start of a new school year. My The December holidays seems so far away.
Some of you have probably started/are starting soon at a brand new school, being in Secondary 1 or JC 1 or 1st year at Poly/Uni. I remember it being a very scary […]

Sunday, January 13th, 2008