Def Leppard has always been a favourite band of mine since I first heard Hysteria and Pyromania back in the day.
In 2002, they released their 8th studio album called ‘X’. There is a ballad on there called ‘Long Long Way To Go‘ which I always thought was a great sentimental pop song which deserved to [...]

Have you ever listened to a song you loved from yester-year just to have its meaning click now and you can fully relate to it?
For me, especially when I was younger, it was the melodies and hooks that drew me into a song and at times I’d just sing along without really understanding what the [...]

John Mellencamp’s perspective on the current climate of the music industry is very interesting to say the least. He recently made a blog post over at the Huffington Post where he goes into great detail on how the music industry has progressively dug itself into the current state.
As an artist for 35 years, he’s seen [...]

Here is a very interesting video of a recent music industry debate where rock star Gene Simmons of KISS fame takes on online music industry critic Bob Lefsetz.
Old school music promotion thinking versus new school? You decide.

As musicians, we strive to make a career from music, to earn money from our art form and to live off what we love doing.
So what happens if a musician then performs strictly motivated by the money?
Hmmmmm.

When I was in Wellington recently, I came across this building with the following across the front, ‘Christian Science Church’.
I thought about how that could possibly be since in my mind, Christianity and science contradict one another!
I’m glad I got shown the following video interview. In it, James Hetfield from Metallica explains how his family [...]

I have really fallen back in love with Twitter again after finding a whole lot of known artists on Twitter and following them.
Some of their tweets are inspiring, some are just plain silly but either way it’s a really cool way of feeling more closely connected with these people, which I guess is the main [...]